Chapter 595 Reform and Rebellion
It is too much to think that the lower households can spend money to buy land. In order to prevent the land from being annexed by the big landlords, Su You can only use zero interest.
The price of cattle in Shaanxi is the cheapest in the Song Dynasty, and it is about 2 guan. New agricultural tools such as hoes and sickles also cost about 2 guan.
There are also thatched houses, pig pens, livestock pens, etc., but these are cheap, and one family needs five guan.
So Su You combined with the implementation of the Baojia Law, and it was just right. The imperial court implemented the Baojia Law, and ten households jointly guaranteed it. They would use clans and fellow villagers as units to implement the township agreement, help each other, supervise each other, and live a good life!
Of course, the money in the bank must be repaid, but a feudal dynasty also has the benefits of a feudal dynasty.
In fact, land prices in the Song Dynasty were not high, and were equivalent to the price of grain produced on the land in a year.
It's just that today's plundering methods are too cruel.
After the construction of the water conservancy project was completed, the farming model was improved, and the management and supervision were centralized, Su You was confident that these farmers could save two years of savings after three years of farming.
This can pay off bank loans and bring hundreds of thousands of the poorest families in Shaanxi back to the line of food and clothing!
This is also the biggest difference between the Meishan Green Crops Law and the Wang Anshi Green Crops Law. They give farmers asset land and let them repay it in installments, instead of forcing them to lend money and collect interest, which cruelly increases their burden.
The biggest difference between relief and lending!
Such a virtuous government cannot be carried out by Suyou. The bank only has management and supervisory powers, and the principal required can only nominally come from the royal family.
Su You first set aside 400,000 yuan from the war profits and transferred it to the account of the Huangsong Charity Federation as a donation. Then the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager respectively issued decrees to transfer it from the Huangsong Charity Federation, and also added 200,000 yuan.
Wanguan, as the Shaanxi Poverty Alleviation Fund.
600,000 guan and 200,000 guan were used to buy cattle, which went into the pockets of Langdu Ranch;
200,000 yuan was spent on farm equipment, which went into the pockets of Shangzhou Zhoutan and Gaojia Workshop;
There are also 20 thatched cottages built, which went into the pockets of the Sitong Construction Company;
Divided up properly.
The money will be transferred again in three years and replenished into the account of the Shaanxi Branch of the Huangsong Charity Fund.
After the money is paid off, it will be the government's turn to recover the land sale money.
A total period of five years.
For this important event, even Zhao Xu, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, was only qualified to sign the edict. In order to show his presence and participation, Zhao Xu ordered Shaanxi Province to promote Changping Division and be responsible for Shaanxi Province with a wave of his hand.
Northern immigrants were given seeds, and new immigrants were exempted from paying and receiving food for the first three years.
This is the power of financial assistance. In just a few months, the northern Shaanxi region has truly been revitalized before spring sowing.
After a large-scale census, Shaanxi now has only 700,000 households and a population of 3 million. Compared with the peak period of more than 1 million households and a population of more than 4 million, Shaanxi has suffered huge losses over the past few decades.
Because poor families generally have one to three people, or two to five people, this grand population relocation project will be able to solve the food problem for one-sixth of the population in Shaanxi.
In order to encourage this part of the population to produce more and have more children, increase the population thickness of northern Shaanxi, and increase the overall strength to resist Xixia, Su You issued another memorial.
The tax system of the Song Dynasty was divided into ding yin and land tax. If the land tax exceeds ding yin, then the land tax will be paid. If the ding silver exceeds the land tax, then the land tax will be paid ding yin.
Now the land survey in Shaanxi has been completed, a large number of homeless people have been cleared out, the first phase of the Weibei immigration poverty alleviation project has been completed, and the second phase of land development is continuing.
The imperial court's method of protecting armor and the method of young crops have produced good results through the suggestions and suggestions of local gentry in the Shaanxi area, their brainstorming, and some attempts to improve them.
Under this great situation, I suggest that Zhongshu continue our efforts and agree that we will continue to extend our tentacles to change the economic situation of Shaanxi upwards - convert Shaanxi's Dingyin into acres of land, and collect it according to acres instead of paying per Ding, in order to stimulate
Shaanxi produces more population.
Taking Shaanxi Dingkou's most prosperous period as an upper limit of 1.2 million Ding, we will strive to increase it to this number within ten years.
Correspondingly, the Shaanxi Road tax will also increase to this amount, but it will no longer come from Ding Yin, but from land rent and other sources.
Su You focused on mentioning that there is a practice in various places that is extremely harmful to the harmony of the world - "The people must pay extra money to their children to make a living, and the annual income is millions. The people are poor and cannot afford to lose official positions, so all the children they have are drowned."
Infanticide is common in areas where taxes are too heavy. This matter is completely contrary to the benevolent government promoted by the Song Dynasty. Since Shaanxi now has the basis for implementing the Sheliang Law, it can be implemented.
In the Tang Dynasty, some officials tried to establish Sheding tax land. In today's Suzhou and Jinghu in the Northern Song Dynasty, there are also officials who are also trying to allocate the land into acres.
Its premise is that the government must fully grasp land measurement statistics to avoid the emergence of hidden fields. At the same time, it must also avoid the occurrence of too many tax-free acres.
In fact, the tax system has been explored for a long time in Chinese history, and many problems have appeared in the Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties. Until the two clauses of "sharing the land with the land" and "the government and the gentry paying the grain as one body" were established, although mergers were still prevalent,
It can no longer affect the most important tax in feudal countries - agricultural tax.
From then on, the country has money, and this is the basis for stability.
Hundreds of millions of taels of silver can be compensated, but in comparison, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver are not even a hair.
This move was implemented in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but the resistance was very huge, because the national policy of the Ming Dynasty was tax exemption for scholars, which led to the occurrence of a large number of investment mergers. Large landowners fully enjoyed the great benefits brought by tax exemption. In the end, all the national burden fell on the homesteaders who had little ability to resist risks.
In the end, the proportion of farmers became smaller and smaller, and the country went bankrupt.
The same was true in the early Qing Dynasty.
Today's Shaanxi has much less resistance.
First of all, scholars in the Northern Song Dynasty did not have tax exemption, only officials did.
Secondly, there are clear regulations on tax-free acres for officials. Although it is very common for officials to occupy more land and still be tax-free, there is no legal basis for it.
Third, the most advantageous point is that the proportion of commercial taxes in the Song Dynasty was quite large. The government encouraged industry and commerce, and even encouraged large-scale maritime trade.
When officials are promoted, it is normal for them to bring local products to Beijing to sell. They used to be in Daxiangguo Temple, but now they are in Wanhuoji, and there is even a special place opened for them to do this.
This allows knowledgeable people to focus on industries other than land, instead of just buying land as an investment channel.
As far as Shaanxi is concerned, the upper-class households have always paid land tax. Whether Ding Yin changes it or not has nothing to do with them.
For the lower-class and landless households, thanks to Su You's efforts, they are becoming homesteaders step by step. In the past, Ding Yin was like a shackle around their necks, but now,
The first batch of people who were allocated land also had the ability to pay taxes.
The remaining ones that have not yet been patronized have no land in their names, so they no longer need to pay taxes, and the burden is greatly reduced.
For medium-sized households, they already have land. After intensive farming and promotion, the problem of insufficient manpower has become prominent. As long as children are added without adding money, parents have a higher chance of surviving babies, regardless of male or female.
The increase in arable land area and the increase in output per unit area of land will enable the same area to feed more people.
Even if it cannot reach the level of "thousands of people cultivate and ten thousand people eat" in Sichuan, Su You believes that after various improvement measures are taken simultaneously, Shaanxi will enter a period of explosive growth as it did after the turmoil in later generations.
In March, Zhongshu's official letter arrived, and Su You formally took over Shaanxi's finance, military affairs, and assumed the real power of a feudal town in the Tang Dynasty.
This is the great trust that Zhao Xu and Wang Anshi have in him. The premise is that Su You's seventy guards are all personally appointed by Zhao Xu; all troops are stationed in the supervisory army; and the Shaanxi Transportation Department deprives his Guanghui warehouse of his accumulated achievements
Regarding the development of Jinghu Lake, we have remained silent.
Another exchange of interests.
As soon as Su You gained power, he immediately began to promote the deep processing of animal husbandry in Weizhou, the deep processing of agriculture, the Shangzhou coal and iron industrial base, the Qinzhou gold and copper mining base, and the expansion of salt production in Tubo and many other pillar industries.
The Guanzhong Plain is once again full of vitality.
The Hetao Plain outside Xiaoguan ushered in a man-made famine, and the Xixia people finally gave in at the negotiation table.
The Song Dynasty gained complete control of Shimenxia at the cost of restoring the Sui coins.
On the day the peace agreement was reached, a riot broke out in Tiandu Mountain.
The deputy general killed Sha Luosi, the governor of the capital, and started a melee with the troops loyal to the Liang family.
The great rebel Li Wenzhao, who had obtained a large number of Xixia regular army weapons and flag uniforms, disguised himself as reinforcements coming from the direction of Xiping Prefecture, entered the stronghold, and quickly resolved the battle.
Afterwards, Li Wenzhao released the generals and soldiers loyal to the Empress Dowager Liang and asked them to bring a copy of the "Request to the Liang Family" to the Xixia court.
In the letter, the Liang family was scolded bloody, saying that they were stealing the country.
Call on the military and civilians of Xixia to take immediate action to resist the tyranny. Xixia will eventually be the Xixia of Weiming Dangxiang!
Chapter completed!