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"Your Majesty, in the past five years, our country has discovered more than 385 million hectares of hidden land in various provinces."

Zhang Youyu first reported the total number of hidden fields cleared across the country, and then began to report the status of cleared fields in each province one by one.

One hectare is equal to one hundred acres of land, and it really surprised many people that Damei was able to identify 340 million acres of hidden land.

Even Liu Sheng was a little surprised.

It should be noted that the Qian Ming Dynasty conducted a land clearing in the early years of Wanli, which was only sixty or seventy years ago.

Although Zhang Juzheng's reform of clearing farmland was not completely implemented in the local area, after all, more than two million hectares of land were cleared.

Da'ei, on the other hand, cleared the fields based on the previously published fish scale atlas, but was still able to identify nearly four million hectares of hidden fields.

In addition to showing that the clearing of land was not thorough during Zhang Juzheng's reforms, it also shows that in the past sixty or seventy years, due to the population explosion in the Ming Dynasty, a lot of wasteland was reclaimed.

For example, the southwestern provinces of Guizhou, Guanxi, Yunnan, and Sichuan.

It was precisely because there were so many more fields than at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty that the population could exceed 200 million by the end of the Ming Dynasty.

What is a pity for the Ming Dynasty is that the Ming court failed to receive the tax from nearly four million hectares of hidden land.

The Ming Dynasty could not collect much commercial tax, nor could it collect all the agricultural tax. It also had a huge army, bureaucrats, and vassals to support, so it is not difficult to understand that it had a financial crisis.

Today, although the proportion of agricultural taxes in Da'ei's total fiscal revenue is decreasing year by year, it is still a large revenue.

At the same time, it was also an important means for the Da'ei imperial court to control food, the lifeline of the country.

Therefore, everyone from Liu Sheng to the courtiers paid great attention to agricultural taxes.

It must be noted here that both the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty in history only exempted the gentry from service, but not from land tax.

Taking the Ming Dynasty as an example, farmers (regardless of landlords or small farmers) were mainly levied taxes, official servants, and miscellaneous servants.

The reason why the gentry's exemption from service later became exemption from grain is mainly because the Ming Dynasty continued to reform the tax policy.

The most representative one is Zhang Juzheng's "one whip method" during the reform, that is, using silver instead of grain, using silver and grain as labor, and so on.

But in fact, similar policies began to appear as early as the Chenghua and Hongzhi years.

For example, craftsmen who worked shifts according to the Ming system could pay for their replacements, which happened during the Hongzhi period.

The Ming court began to exempt gentry from military service simply because they were serving officials or reserve officials.

For example, if someone is serving as a county magistrate, but he is required to serve in his hometown, and he is asked to work as a county magistrate in the local county government, then should he serve as a county magistrate in a different place, or should he return to his hometown as a yamen servant?
Putting aside this paradox, it is understandable that the Ming court granted the gentry the right to be exempted from service simply out of consideration for the dignity of officials.

But when the service can be replenished with grain and silver, this kind of immunity will further change.

In order to pay less for labor, many people put their fields under the names of people who were exempted from labor in order to achieve the purpose of paying less for labor.

The corvee service in Da'ei was much less than that in Ming Dynasty. Many public facilities and projects were funded by the imperial court and paid by the government to hire people to do them.

Therefore, in order to avoid the large gentry group in the pre-Ming Dynasty from slowing down the progress of the gentry in the pre-Ming Dynasty, Da'ei recognized the exemption qualifications of the gentry in the pre-Ming Dynasty, but in fact it had little impact on the collection of land taxes.

In the pre-Ming Dynasty, the gentry groups affected the collection of land taxes not by exempting them from land taxes or servitude, but by colluding with local officials, concealing acres of land, and defaulting on regular taxes.

In the final analysis, this situation is caused by the imperial court's weak power and weak military strength.

The country was founded in Da'ei, the imperial court was in great power, and the army was even more prestigious. Naturally, the big families and wealthy families in the area did not dare to default on their taxes. Now that Damei has passed the land clearing order, nearly four million hectares of hidden land have been cleared, which will naturally increase the land tax by a large amount.

Of course, although corvee labor in Dawei is light, it is not non-existent, and at present, a comprehensive tax is still collected based on acres of land and head.

Therefore, in the future, it will still be necessary to implement the method of sharing the land between the peasants and the gentry, and the gentry working together as errands to pay the grain...
When Liu Sheng was thinking about the issues of taxation, taxation, and silver in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and using it as a reference to plan the relevant policies for Damei, Zhang Youyu, below, leisurely reported on the number of hidden fields that each province requested to find out, as well as some of the problems he encountered Special cases.

After listening, Liu Sheng asked Zhang Youyu to sit down and looked at Yuan Jixian, the left servant of the Ministry of Revenue.

"Yuan Qing, please report on the implementation of the census order in each province."

"Yes."

Yuan Jixian also stood up in response.

He also started with the total population.

"Through the implementation of the census order, the total registered population of our country has reached more than 2.3 million!"

Compared with two years ago, Da'ei's registered population has increased by tens of millions!
It's not that Da'ei has produced tens of millions more newborns in the past two years - newborns do account for a part of them, but more importantly, Da'ei has established two major provinces, Andong and Monan.

Although the population of Monan Mongolia is not large, it still has over one million people.

As for the population of Li's Korea in the past, although it has decreased a lot after the Qing invasion and the two rounds of wars in which Ta'ei invaded Korea, it still has a population of 10 to 20 million.

After Liu Sheng discussed with the Minister of Military Aircraft and the Ministers of the Government Affairs Council, Dayei planned to gradually move North Korea's large households and families to Liaodong, Liaoxi, Gansu, Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan, as well as Qiongzhou Island and Dongfan Island in the next few years. Settled in a remote place on the frontier.

At the same time, we will also guide large families to separate their families from provinces with large populations in mainland Da'ei, such as Nanzhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, etc., and settle down in Andong Province.

The implementation of this policy will be slowed down to a span of at least twenty years, so it will not be very violent. Under the shock of the Yi army, no big North Korean family will dare to rebel.

As for these Koreans, they are classified as Koreans, just like Dawei, in addition to Han people, also has Miao people, Mongolians and other ethnic minorities.

Of course, if a Korean agrees to change to a Han citizen, the household registration will directly change it for him.

Because this method can greatly promote the integration of North Koreans into Dawei.

In this era, North Korea was deeply influenced by Confucian culture, and official documents were mainly written in Chinese characters, so it was easy for North Koreans to integrate and there would be no worries.

This is also the reason why Liu Sheng dared to take over the Korean Peninsula less than ten years after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

Because he knew that Damei could not only capture the Korean Peninsula, but also possess everything there permanently.

But this is not necessarily the case in places like Vietnam. At least the conditions for permanent occupation are not yet mature...
After the meeting, Liu Sheng went directly back to the harem to have lunch with the Red Lady.

After several years, the red lady finally became pregnant again, and now she is pregnant. As expected, production will take place next spring and summer, in April or May.

Therefore, Liu Sheng has been more diligent in coming to Kunning Palace during this period.

After lunch, Liu Sheng returned to Qianqing Palace and rested for more than half an hour, then got up and went to Tianxin Palace.

Yu Chenglong and other secretariat staff are already working in the palace.

Before Liu Sheng could sit down, he asked: "Is there any new telegram coming over there?" (End of Chapter)