farmer's daughter

Chapter 710 New Land Regulations
Chapter 710 New Land Regulations

These people don't care whether mining salt is dangerous. Anyway, if it is really going to be collected, they are not allowed to do it by themselves, but the emperor has a new rule that makes them feel a bit difficult to start.

Now the emperor's new regulations are:
What is planted on the ground is yours and whoever harvests it, but what is underground, whether it is salt or mines, belongs to the imperial dynasty.Because this vast land belongs to the imperial dynasty, if anyone opens a mine without permission, the whole family will be sent to prison.

It was not like this in the past. Whoever bought the land in the past belonged to his family. If you are lucky, the mountain you bought has gold mines, and it is also yours.

But now the emperor has changed the saying: If you sell the land to you, what you are selling is the right to use that piece of land. The land is still owned by the imperial court. court.And the longer you buy it, the more money you get.

Those who have bought the land now will automatically count it as 100 years for you. After 100 years, the land will belong to the court.If you go to add money now, then calculate how much you need to make up.

As soon as this condition came out, everyone was talking about it. If this happened, some small landlords really couldn't keep their land.What to do if you can't keep it, don't worry, there is another one.From now on, except for tenants and slaves, each family will be given a little land.Let people have their fields to plow and their land to plant.This is not about buying and selling, it is divided according to the head, and when the person is gone, it will be returned to the court.

Of course, the tax that should be paid still has to be paid, but the tax rate is not high.

The ministers were all discussing this new policy, because the emperor said that this new policy would be implemented first in Qingyang and Suoyang counties of Li County.After two years of trial, it was implemented in the whole dynasty.Well, when everyone heard this, they were afraid that this rule would have something to do with Prince Rui.

Their guess was not entirely correct, it was just that Xue Jian had talked to Liang Shengyue before about a way to distribute the land to all people, and some details were only listed after Liang Shengyue thought about it and verified it. way.This can be regarded as the first political reform of his new prime minister after he took office.Because I was afraid that the one-time implementation would be opposed by everyone, so I went to the food town of Xuejian and the food town of the princess for the first time.

Because people in these two places have received more favors from Xuejian, it is easier to develop it.After a year or two, after the court and everyone have benefited, it will be even more popular in the whole dynasty.

This method is to touch the roots of some aristocratic families, because in order to become a family, in addition to great achievements or fame, it must have a strong economic power. In this dynasty, the largest economy is still only agriculture. Whoever has more land and a higher harvest will sell more money.

As it is now, those who have land and want to renew the year, they have to pay another sum of money.Because the emperor said, I gave you a time limit of 100 years. After a hundred years, will your children and grandchildren live up to expectations? They can’t always eat what you left, they have to eat what they earn.This is also a spur to your children and grandchildren.

All the movements in the court can't affect the enthusiasm of Xue Jian here. Now everyone knows that Li County produces salt!Salt is equivalent to gold, and now Li County has made a fortune.People everywhere are walking here. Those who do business come to inquire about the price of salt, and those who do business want to see it. I heard that Prince Rui is going to hire a lot of salt workers.

But when I arrived in Li County, I realized that the place where the salt was produced was surrounded by soldiers, and they couldn’t just go in and look at it. If they wanted to work, they had to recruit people from Li County first, and then people from Suoyang County. .Then there are people from Qingyang Mansion, everyone has their own guides, so they know where you are from.

After recruiting people from these places first, choose from people from other places.

Because if we want to take the salt industry as a matter now, we can't just open those two or three wells.What Xuejian needs to do is to expand the number of wells, which requires people.In this era when manpower or oxen are all used, they have helped the dynasty to support many people.

For a while, Li County was bustling with activity.People who do all kinds of business also come here, and this place has become the place where the floating population gathers the most.

But at the same time, some specific problems also emerged, because the water resources in Li County are not enough, and people who come here have to eat and drink.So, Xue Jian and old man Mo walked along the Qinghe River.

Qinghe is the river behind Xuejian Villa.Xue Jian intends to see how far the river is from the county after it goes down. If it is not far, then he can think of diverting it, so as to reduce the flooding of the downstream of the river every year.It can also supply drinking water and irrigation in Li County.

Old man Mo had traveled to these places before, but he never cared about these things. He never cared which rivers flowed. He knew that Li County was very poor.

This time, Xue Jian took the map and walked all the way to check it out, but found several places where the route could be diverted, but one of them might pass through the No. [-] well, which was definitely not an option.Xue Jian once again walked the entire Li county.This time, old man and Mo found a ditch that is suitable for diversion and will not cause too much land loss to drain. If this ditch is connected to the Qinghe River, it can flow about half of Li County. The place.

In fact, Xuejian was thinking to herself, is this a place where a river was originally, maybe because of the change of terrain tens of thousands of years ago, the position of Li County was elevated, so the river could not flow here.

After confirming the location, Xue Jian and old man Mo went directly to the county seat of Li County to find County Magistrate Yang, who is very busy every day.Not to mention that there are such and such things happening in the county every day, there are also officials in some neighboring counties or prefectures who want to come here to share in the profits, and they want to take charge of the county magistrate Yang. He was replaced by his brother-in-law as the county magistrate here, but later he was scolded by Xue Jian with a letter, and then reprimanded by the emperor.It stopped for a while.

But they also used other means to let some people come to Li County.These people didn't do anything in the first place, they just wanted to gain something, but they didn't think that Li County was rich.But the county government in Li County is still a Qingshui government office.

So these people go to the streets every day to find trouble, either to collect this kind of tax, or to ask for that kind of money, and some people use the name of the county government to go to various places to collect this and that kind of money, so that they can live better. Some poor people in China are also complaining constantly.But they are officials.Let the money have to be paid.If you don't pay, I'm afraid that my family will not be able to work in Yantian, and the family's income will be troublesome. Everyone knows that the family's living expenses can only be earned in Yantian.

Magistrate Yang and Xue Jian didn't know about these things because they were busy with other things.

(End of this chapter)