Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 320
Chapter 323

In fact, Ran Ming didn't notice at all that the emperor was the biggest landlord in the world, and all the self-cultivating farmers were regarded as the emperor's tenants.

From the moment Ran Ming was reborn, Ran Ming had been branded as a landlord on his body.

Whether he admits it or not, the facts are there.

Ran Ming couldn't help but smile, Huang Shiren left a deep impression on Ran Ming, he can be a landlord, but he definitely can't be a wicked landlord like Zhou Paipi and Huang Shiren.

Ran Ming returned to the inner hall, handed over the title deed to Liu Mo, and said with a smile, "You see, our family has become a landlord now!"

When Liu Wei looked at the land deed, the light in his eyes was brighter than seeing a house full of gold.

Liu Mo said: "Your Majesty, the land in Jin State is more expensive than our Wei State. The good farmland in Wei State is around 30 renminbi, but Jin State is different. Their cheapest thin land costs more than 50 renminbi. Good fertile land, breaking through [-] yuan!"

"So expensive?" Ran Ming was dumbfounded. He heard that Wang Xizhi had more than 40 mu of land. Wouldn't his net worth be at least hundreds of billions of dollars?
The currency of the Jin Dynasty depreciated due to its complexity. Compared with the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, Kaiyuan Tongbao five Wen coins in the Tang Dynasty could buy a bucket of rice, and a stone of rice cost fifty Wen.

In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, each stone of rice was almost more than 1000 yuan, which was more than 20 times that of the copper coins in the Tang Dynasty.
Ran Ming said: "We can't grow our 1 mu of land by ourselves. It's not cost-effective to grow food. Tell me, what should we grow?"

"I don't know!"

Ran Ming may be asking the wrong person now, Liu Mo probably doesn't know as much about farming as Ran Ming does!

Liu Mo thought for a while and said: "My son said that if three people walk together, there must be my teacher. Choose the good ones and follow them, and change the bad ones."

Ran Ming hesitated a little and said, "You mean, let's ask those old farmers who are farming?"

Ran Ming remembered that there seemed to be a sentence in the Analects of Confucius that I am not as good as an old farmer, but the specific source has been forgotten.

Liu Wei nodded.

Landlord Ran Ming waved his hand, "Let's go see our land tomorrow!"

In this way, Ran Ming went back to the study to discuss the financial war strategies with He Huan and Du Cong one by one.In the end, Ran Ming wrote down the established concept of financial warfare, and Ran Ming gave He Huan a pardon, and asked Wang Mengshi to grant him powers.

That night, He Huan officially embarked on his official career with the newly released "Financial Warfare".

In the famous Greek mythology, Pandora's Box.Ran Ming didn't know that he accidentally opened such a magic box and released He Huan, an absolutely perverted financial speculator in this time and space, making the war a different kind of war without gunpowder.

Early the next morning, Landlord Ran Ming started to go out to Yanziji to inspect his fields.

When Ran Ming went out, Du Cong didn't dare to be careless, and no longer hesitated, he quickly arranged for members of the sticky pole to secretly guard him.In order to ensure Ran Ming's safety and not give the Wang family a chance to retaliate, Du Cong also notified Sima Yu, the king of Kuaiji, and used Wang Jia, the king of Jiaodong in the state of Wei, for the first time.

Although the ceremonial guards of the feudal kings are not as majestic as the emperor's, they should not be underestimated. The guard of honor needs hundreds of people. In addition to the "protection" army arranged by King Sima Yu of Kuaiji, the number of the team exceeds a thousand.

More than [-] elite Jin troops held signs and gongs to clear the way, and [-] Qilin guards directly surrounded Ran Ming's carriage. Behind the carriage, there were even people holding various signs.

With thousands of people traveling, the yamen servants in Jiankang City were extremely busy, closing streets and clearing roads, sprinkling clean water on the ground, and maintaining law and order, so they traveled all the way.Ran Ming felt that he was very interested, but he didn't pay attention to other things.But Wang Ningzhi, the second son of Taiwang Xizhi, who was looking at each other in a restaurant far away, almost gritted his teeth in hatred.

The dignified Langya Wang family didn't even protect the plaque. Ran Ming slapped him in the face and swallowed his broken teeth. Afterwards, Wang Xizhi didn't punish him very much, but just scolded him like a dog. Shower.

"The little man succeeds!" Seeing Ran Ming traveling triumphantly, and going out of the city with great fanfare to inspect the land he had plundered from the Wang family, Wang Ningzhi's face turned red all of a sudden, and he gritted his teeth , He said bitterly: "How arrogant is this person? Even the emperor of Jin Dynasty has always gone out, and rarely has such a guard of honor. Unless it is a formal occasion, traveling is very simple. The proton King Jiaodong dares to do this, he is the emperor Pampering..."

The attendant was afraid that Wang Ningzhi would cause trouble again, so he had to remind him: "Erlang, be careful!"

Wang Ning's face seemed to be covered with a layer of carbon powder, black as a piece of charcoal, "I will not avenge this revenge, I will not be a human being."

Ran Ming didn't know that Wang Ningzhi had a distorted revenge mentality at this time, and in fact, he didn't find the reason from himself at all.

At this time, there is still half a month before the New Year. The weather in Jiankang during the Wei and Jin Dynasties was much colder than that in later generations. Since the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, the temperature has been below zero almost every day, and there are gusts of cold wind blowing. It seems that it will snow again. weather.

At this time, Ran Ming came to the field.

The fields are all bare, and there are still more than two months before the day of spring plowing.Now this land is actually no different from a wasteland.In ancient times, there was no chemical fertilizer, and the fertility of the land was barely enough for one season, that is, spring planting and autumn harvest.

When Ran Ming was worrying about what he would plant in the field next year, suddenly a large group of people approached in the distance, and at the end of his eyes, Ran Ming vaguely saw the outline of a village.Xu Mancang stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, these are the tenants of these fields under your name. I wonder if Your Highness wants to see them!"

"Tenants?" Ran Ming's real purpose today is to learn from the scriptures, of course he wants to know what is the most profitable plant today.Nowadays, the yield per mu in a good year is no more than one stone, and two or three stones are already as high as the sky.

Generally, landlords charge three dou per mu for rent, or five dou per mu. There are unscrupulous ones, and even seven dou per mu. Regardless of ten thousand mu of fertile land, it sounds like a lot.In fact, the income last year was very limited. Even with the highest land rent, seven buckets per mu could only reach 700 million yuan.

There is no comparison between the 700 million yuan in the Jin Dynasty and the Tang and Song Dynasties. With 700 million yuan, you can buy more than 200 catties of mellow liquor from the profiteer Ran Ming at most.

Unless the landlord has to pay the land rent, other corvees for the tenants are also quite heavy.Even if the harvest is five buckets per mu, they will not be able to survive when the harvest is reduced.Therefore, generally speaking, the land rent in the Jin Dynasty was not too high, and the average income was three buckets per mu.

In this way, Ran Ming's income from 300 mu of land is only 100 million yuan, which is more than [-] catties of liquor.

"See, why don't you see me!" Ran Ming said, "Let them come over!"

There were thousands of tenants, men, women and children, among whom a dozen or so were elected as representatives to meet Ran Ming.

But when Ran Ming saw these tenants, especially when he saw that the clothes on their bodies were also patched and patched, they looked not much better than beggars, but they were still clean and had no peculiar smell.

"Little old Peng Changhe pays homage to the proprietor!" The leader of the old man is five or sixty years old, and his body is fairly tough, but he is a disabled person, with his right arm broken and a hideous scar on his face.Ran Ming felt that this person had an aura of life and death.Ran Ming raised his eyes and looked back, and saw that among the thousands of people, there were at least thirty or forty old people who had the same imposing manner as this old man.

Seeing the old man kneeling on the frozen ground, Ran Ming hurriedly stood up to greet him: "Why does the old man need to be so courteous? I can't do it, I can't do it. Please hurry up!"

As a person of later generations, Ran Ming naturally knew how those officials on TV played the image of being close to the people, so Ran Ming kept alive and asked his followers to distribute the canned meat, fairy wine and some small snacks they brought to everyone. .This little thing is not very valuable, and it is easy to make all the tenants have a good impression of Ran Ming.

Of course Ran Ming knew the reason to strike while the iron was hot, so he took the opportunity to ask Peng Changhe: "Dare to ask my father, how much can this kind of land earn in a year?"

As soon as Peng Changhe heard it, he knew that the proprietor must have no experience in farming, and he might even have just taken over the family's property, so he didn't understand these things.However, he was also honest and said truthfully: "This land is a good field. As long as there is no major disaster, we can guarantee to harvest more than one stone and seven buckets of grain every year. When the weather is good, it is also possible to harvest three stones of grain. The former proprietor also Mercy, you only need to charge [-]% rent per mu per year. In addition to the [-] days of hard labor every year, there is enough food!"

Ran Ming learned some unspoken rules of this era through chatting. Free commoners have their own fields, and the taxes collected by the Jin Dynasty government are not too heavy. (16-60 years old) 50 mu of land for classes, 20 mu for Ding girls, and 13 mu for Ci Ding (ages 15-61, 65-[-] years old) male and half, and females do not take classes."

The land rent of Ketian is 50 mu and the rent is 4 hu, which is roughly 8 liters per mu, and one bucket of ten liters. Calculated in this way, the national tax per mu is less than one bucket.However, free people are often not as good as tenants who farm for the rich because of the layers of expropriation by officials sent by the government.Therefore, the common people would rather plant the land of the gentry, and pay nearly half of their income to the gentry every year, reaching more than seven buckets per mu, than plant the land of the government.

Ran Ming was dumbfounded, he never expected that at this time, the government would be so corrupt. If according to Sima Yan's original intention, the government would collect one-thirtieth of the farmers' income, such a burden would make the people very happy.

However, the government organization is bloated and the government affairs are chaotic, which makes it difficult for the common people to bear.

At this moment, Ran Ming remembered that Wei State's tax system collects tax on a household basis, which is one-thirtieth of the people's income.Ran Min formulated this law with good intentions, but no matter how good the law is, it still needs to be implemented. Once they encounter feudal bureaucrats like the Jin State, they will make clever excuses and extort money.

At this moment, Ran Ming decided to remind Ran Min that to reform Wei's tax system, he must either imitate the one-whip method of the later generations of the Ming Dynasty, or follow the example of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)