Three Kingdoms.

  Chapter 1608 Wealth and Pursuit

  Guanzhong, Chang'an.

While Liu Bei and others were working hard in western Sichuan, Fei Qian received a heavy brocade box from Pingyang in Chang'an. After opening it, he didn't feel any joy. It took quite a long time until Huang Xu came in to report that all the generals had arrived, so Fang covered the brocade box and walked to the front hall with his hands behind his back.

When Fei Qian was young, he also often felt that some people kept their hands behind their backs, their shape was not good-looking, and they didn’t have the aggressive intention to stride forward vigorously, and from a physiological point of view, they couldn’t swing from side to side with their hands behind their backs to maintain the body’s posture. Balance and coordination are really worthless poses.

  However, until now, Fei Qian has been walking with his hands behind his back.

  There are too many things to carry...

   Various invisible pressures are pressing on the back. It seems that only in this way can I relax and remind myself to keep my back straight.

   Entering the hall, Fei Qian has resumed his original gait, strode into the festival hall, and then sat down on the mat. Everyone bowed to Fei Qian, Fei Qian returned half of the salute, and then invited everyone to sit down.

  It is said to be sitting, but in fact it is kneeling on the mat, and at most there is one more brocade cushion.

   Stools and the like, Feiqian has actually asked craftsmen to make them long ago, but in such a formal occasion, Feiqian still maintains the meeting method of the Han Dynasty, adopting the sitting mode of one table and one seat.

This has a little advantage. Kneeling hurts your knees, so you have to speed up the pace. Just like many companies in later generations will use the golden rooster independent posture to hold meetings, and even choose to hold meetings on the rooftop. The meeting place is too comfortable. Sometimes it will make the participants unable to fully concentrate.

  Before officially starting the meeting, Fei Qian chatted for a few words, then smiled, saying that he would not deal with government affairs, but said: "Today there is another great sage here, waiting for a certain general to come in..."

After finishing speaking, he got up and walked out. Naturally, Pang Tong and Xun Chen understood, and they also walked out together after Fei Qian. The rest, like Du Ji, Zhang Liao, and others were a little confused, but they followed suit, so A mighty group of people came out of the front yard.

  Before the gate of the courtyard, there were Xun You and Xu Ding. The two of them thought they should be passed into the hall, but they didn't expect Fei Qian to come out to greet them in person.

   Fei Qian smiled, stepped forward a few steps, and helped Xun You and Xu Ding up. For some reason, he remembered the first time he met Liu Biao in Jingzhou, so he couldn't help using a little more strength in his hands.

  The essence of human beings is actually a repeater plus pigeons plus real fragrance...

   After Fei Qian led Xun You and Xu Ding to the left and right, entered the festival hall again, and introduced each other again, he sat down again and started to deal with the current government affairs.

  The most important thing at the moment is naturally Nongsang.

Although the climate of the Little Ice River in the Han Dynasty has gradually emerged, Guanzhong, which is covered by mountains, is still much milder and more humid than the north and north of Mobei. In particular, the Wei River runs across the east and west, bringing abundant irrigation. The water source, so the foundation of Guanzhong's agriculture, was originally better than Bingbei. After two or three years of recovery and adjustment, it is now about to usher in a period of explosion.

"In the middle of Guanzhong, there is yellow soil, eighty-five of the top, and black loam, two hundred and fifty-seven in the middle, and another one hundred and sixty-seven in Bo, La, and preserved fields. The number of newly cultivated fields is unknown... "As for farming and mulberry, Zaozhi is naturally the clearest, so he didn't need to look at the wooden tablet in his hand immediately, but said loudly, "...to build water canals, one hundred and ten miles, to build waterwheels, more than two hundred, to build fertilizers. , more than 400 places, there are 1,200 official cattle, and more than 5,000 carts..." (Note to this chapter)

   The numbers popped out of Zao Zhi's mouth, even the other people who didn't know much about Nongsang and Sang were refreshed, and felt that after hearing these numbers, they felt calm and comfortable.

   "Therefore, the pre-year Fu..." Zao only said at the end, subconsciously glanced at the number calculated earlier on the wooden tablet again, and then said in a deep voice, "Five million stones!"

  When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but smile with joy. In the past, Guanzhong had to rely on the food and grass imported from Hanzhong to live, but now it is not only self-sufficient, but also has a lot of surplus, which is naturally a joyful thing.

However, this is not the end of the joy, but just the beginning. After Pang Tong smelted steel and built the number of soldiers in the industry, and then Xun Chen described the profit surplus, money and utensils in commerce, etc. one by one, The mouths of the people in the hall couldn't be closed anymore, and they all laughed like flowers.

  Although Fei Qian was also listening, his mind was not on these numbers, but on other things...

  Nian Fu, that is, the amount of grain and grass that Fei can potentially harvest. As for the total amount of grain produced in Guanzhong, it should be about 13 million shi. Of course, such a high annual Fu also has the credit of many refugees.

  Under the rule of Feiqian Guanzhong, it is natural to implement the thirty-one tax that has lasted for a hundred years, but this so-called thirty-one tax sounds like a small amount, but in fact, it is not the case at all.

"Hanshu Shihuozhi" records: "Han Xing, according to the Qin Dynasty, the princes remembered that the people lost their jobs, and there was a great famine. Every meter and stone was five thousand, people ate each other, and more than half of the dead. Gaozu used the law to save money. Land rent is prohibited, and the tax is one for fifteen." From the time of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, the policy of "1 tax for 15 years" was implemented, and until the time of Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty, there was an edict of "half the land rent", that is, the policy of "1 tax for 30 years".

   has continued until now.

  However, these 15 taxes and 30 taxes are 1. It does not mean that the land property is divided into 15 or 30 shares, and then the state collects one of them, but has a special calculation method.

  “Fifteen taxes and one tax” means that after the landlord collects five-tenths of the land output from the tenant farmers, which is half of the output rent, the landlord then pays a tax of one-tenth of the land output to the state. That is to say, the land output is ten shares, and after the landlord and the tenant farmer split 50-50, the landlord will pay one share of tax to the state. That is, the rent rate is fifty percent and the tax rate is one-tenth. This is the real "Fifteen Tax One".

As vassals of landlords, tenant farmers do not have household registration, so naturally there is no channel for paying taxes to the state alone. Similarly, the so-called "thirtieth tax one" does not mean that the landlord pays one-thirtieth of the land output to the state. Instead, it should be understood that the land output is ten shares, and then 30 to 70 shares, tenant farmers get seven shares, and pay three shares to the landlord as land rent, and the landlord then pays one share to the state.

   That is, the land rent rate is 30%, and the tax rate is still one-tenth. "Fifteen tax one" and "thirty tax one" are not the meaning of tax rate "one-fifteenth" or "one-thirtieth". Or strictly speaking, it should be recorded as "ten, five, tax one" and "three, ten, tax one".

  In general, self-cultivating farmers who own land, that is, those who own land, pay one-tenth of the tax to the state. This is clearly written in "Han Shu Shihuo Zhi", "Today, one husband holds five families and manages a hundred fields. The annual income is one and a half stones, which is one hundred and fifty stones of millet. In addition to the tax of eleven, fifteen stones, the remaining one hundred and thirty Five stones."

It can be seen from this that in fact, the burden of the owner-peasants has not changed at all. The only thing that has changed is the land rent of the tenant farmers who are attached to the big landlords. Paying utilities, sanitation, property, etc., may be less than one-tenth of the salary, and renting a house...

In the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the tax rates of big landlords and self-cultivated farmers were the same, but it was obvious that big landlords reaped more, and the gap in the amount of wealth accumulated year after year was also constantly widening. The risk borne by self-cultivated farmers was obviously higher than that of landlords. In the event of natural disasters and man-made disasters, the landlord class will only rely on the balance in their hands to absorb more and more land assets that the self-cultivating farmers have to sell, so as to expand again.

Therefore, the emperor of the Han Dynasty felt that this would not work, so he reformed the tax system. "Tax" can reduce the burden on the tenant farmers and ease the suffering of the most basic people, and secondly, it can also restrain the speed at which these big landlords accumulate wealth. use…

  The so-called use of tax rate regulation is a mild placebo. Unless the land holding tax is ruthlessly collected, the poor will always be the grassroots.

Therefore, Fei Qian did not focus on the tax reform at the beginning, but slashed at its own roots, and established a hierarchical tax system based on juetian, forcing the big landlords to want to maintain more interests. It is necessary to make more contributions and obtain more meritorious service than ordinary people, otherwise it will decline in the process of passing on from generation to generation and become ordinary people.

  This may be another level of fairness.

  Regarding this point, in fact, many gentry in Guanzhong, including Hanzhong, are also very upset, but on the one hand, they are indeed unable to compete with Fei Qian now, and on the other hand, these gentry children are actually waiting to see...

  In the eyes of these gentry children, ten or eight years is not a long time at all, but who is the biggest landlord in Guanzhong and North?

   It is the big Han hussars general Fei Qian!

  The refugees are farming, and these refugees are equivalent to the tenant farmers of the Hussar General Feiqian of the Han Dynasty!

  After five or eight years of paying the high land rent, if Fei Qian, the Hussar General of the Han Dynasty, still survived, would he be willing to really give these lands to these refugees?

  It is easy to go from frugal to extravagant, but difficult to go from extravagant to frugal. Pursue wealth when there is no wealth, but often no pursuit after real contact with wealth, this is the normal state of human beings, and it is also a drawback of human nature.

  Even if Fei Qian’s generation can do it, what about Fei Qian’s next generation?

  So these gentry children are not in a hurry. Even though there are some opponents, many people are still waiting, watching, and watching. Sima Yi can sharpen his knife for 30 years, and the other gentry children are actually not bad.

  But now the old Sima is pursuing the victory in the scriptures, while the young Sima has not yet fully grown up. Do you want to make him fall in love with Brother Zhu sometime?

  In the festival hall, after hearing so many good things, everyone couldn’t restrain their excitement. Some admired it, and some praised it. Fei Qian smiled and nodded slightly.

Fei Qian looked at the smiling people in the hall. Among these people, can they gather here? Now, naturally they all have certain pursuits, even including the newcomers Xun You and Xu Ding, and these people have gained a certain amount of wealth After gaining authority, what else will one pursue?

  These are the problems that will be faced in the future, and these problems are far more difficult than the current problems...

After a while, Fei Qian's smile remained unchanged, as if it had been like this from the beginning, he stretched out his hand, and lightly tapped twice on the table, the voice in the hall suddenly stopped, and everyone agreed He straightened his back, folded his hands and listened quietly.

"At present, the military and civilian affairs in Guanzhong are both important..." Fei Qian said slowly, his voice was not loud, but he was very powerful. Or, you are in charge, and you will come up with a charter within three days... Ziping, for now, you will follow Wenyuan to help him train his troops..."

  Zhang Liao stood up and accepted his orders.

  Xu Ding quickly stood up and said yes together.

"Civilians..." Fei Qian signaled Zhang Liao and Xu Ding to sit down, and then continued, "There are many things... If there is hope for a good harvest this year, do you want to report...the amount is a little insufficient. Shi Yuan and Qinglong Temple have handled this matter together. Well...Hiufu, you will assist Shi Yuan to choose a site and establish a foundation, don't slack off...it's the same, give a charter within three days..." Qinglong Temple also needs to be rebuilt, so the civil engineering was also given to Pang Tong.

   There used to be a lot of warehouses in Guanzhong, but many were burned during the war. These rebellious soldiers just robbed the warehouse of food, and they often set fire to it habitually. Is this the instinct of human beings when they do evil? If you set it on fire and set it on fire, then you can leave no evidence and pretend that there is no such thing? So, rebuild again. Fortunately, the basic stone bars and everything are there, so it's not a fresh start.

  Pang Tong and Wei Duan looked at each other and took orders together.

"Someone wants to make cotton this year..." Fei Qian turned his head to look at Zao Zhi, then glanced at Du Ji again, "The number of acres of this kind of cotton needs to be expanded. In addition, the second school of agriculture and engineering will start after the tax this autumn. Accepting the award...Zijing still needs to put in a lot of thought, and Bohou also needs to help a lot...I read the detailed rules of agriculture, and there are some changes. I will take it later and revise it. It will be submitted within three days..." Fei Qian patted the scrolls of letters next to his hands, and then motioned for the guards to deliver the letters to Zaozhi.

  Zaozhi and Du Ji were originally together, so there is nothing wrong with it. Although I feel that the agricultural rules have not been passed at one time, it is still within the normal range, so I am ordered not to mention it.

Fei Qian nodded, and then said to Xun Chen and Xun You: "With the help of Gongda, You Ruodang can relax a little... The trade and goods are complicated. Although the business in Hebei and Henan is currently shrinking, there are still new places, but once you come to Sichuan Shu is newly attached, and the mountain roads are difficult to walk. Second, the Western Regions are newly opened, and the road is long, and you need to be careful... In addition, Chang'an City Square has been damaged and needs to be rebuilt. This matter is also entrusted to the two, within three days ..."

After thinking about it for two or three days, Xun You didn't have the stingy pettiness like some people, so he officially joined the political group under Xun Chen's leadership, but because of his original official position, he still needed to talk to Liu Xiehe Cao Cao said, go through a process...

Feiqian plans to separate a part of Bingbei’s business and trade to Chang’an, and Bingbei’s Pingyang will mainly keep things like workshops. Too much business will also lead to a complicated and unstable flow of people, so Chang’an, as a new business center, naturally It was mentioned on the agenda.

   Xun Chen, uncle and nephew naturally have no objection.

The main matters have been arranged. It is naturally impossible to finish the specific operation in a few sentences now. Instead, we have to wait for the person in charge to deliver the specific charter before studying it, and then specific to the detailed project. .

  Fei Qian looked around and said with a smile: "Today I have called everyone, apart from deciding on military and civilian matters, there is another person who I want you to meet..."

   After finishing speaking, Fei Qian clapped his hands and asked the guards to bring in a person from outside the hall. Everyone in the hall couldn't help but turned their heads together, their eyes widened in surprise...

   "It turned out to be him..."

   Latian, specifically refers to the fields plowed when there is no rain in autumn.

   Preserved field, specifically refers to the field plowed when the ground is frozen in severe winter and the land lacks nutrients.

  (end of this chapter)