Chapter 662 Career Field

Song Shenzong agreed and finally issued the edict:

According to the status of the prefecture and the position of the official, the positions of foreign officials range from the highest vassal prefecture to the prefecture, such as Yizhou, Taiyuan Prefecture, Jiangning Prefecture, etc., with ten hectares of professional land, and the military commander-in-chief, fifteen hectares; all the way to the lowest

The two hectares for each county chief and county lieutenant vary.

In addition, no more shares of public land are allowed, otherwise once found out, they will be severely punished!

With this edict in hand, Su You immediately attacked the wealthy households in the sixteen counties of Kaifeng. No one should make an issue of the officials' job fields in their hands. Kaifeng Prefecture had no job fields except for those in the imperial edict.

If a person has a son who is an official outside the country, his job title will be in his office, so don't use it as an excuse to have a son in the family who is an official. All the taxes that should be paid will have to be paid.

However, when you knock a stick, you must also give a sweet date, that is, fixed assets such as mulberry forests, mules, horses, chickens, ducks, cattle, and sheep. They are not considered property, and taxes are only assessed based on the average output of the land in ten years. In addition,

In addition, tax is only collected during the purchase and sale process.

In other words, as long as you pay the local tax in full, even if your home is filled with mountains of food and you raise mountains and valleys with pigs and sheep, as long as you don’t sell it, you don’t have to pay taxes!

No buying and selling, no harm! The premise is that you can bear it!

This policy attracted a lot of attacks from the courtiers, and the revenue of the Shedin tax land must be greatly reduced!

Let’s just pay for the rest. Kaifeng is a tax-rich area, and Su You is causing chaos!

So Su You had to take out the statistical reports since Zhao Xu came to power, then separate commercial taxes and agricultural taxes, and then average the agricultural taxes - otherwise, we would use the average agricultural taxes in these years as the standard.

How about a guarantee? If there is any excess, I will take credit for it. If it is less than that amount, how about you hold me accountable?

Then someone impeached Su You as a show to a wealthy family, and its purpose was to encourage mergers.

The reason is very simple. Once the big households have money and food, they will naturally buy land.

Su You retorted that the sixteen counties were already being annexed violently, and the purpose of doing so was to stimulate farming and allow the annexed households to hire more people for intensive farming, which solved a large extent of the food problem of landless households.

Then when it comes to annexation, if the land tax that should be collected from each acre can be collected, the act of annexation will not affect the country's annual revenue. Under this premise, it can be slowly improved through other methods.

For example, wait until the landless households have some savings, and then tell them that the silt fields in Jingnan area only cost 500 to 600 cash to buy one acre, and they are harvested twice a year, and can produce more than 300 kilograms of rice in one season.

Someone is tempted...

The responsibility of the governor of Kaifeng is to ensure that everyone under his rule has food to eat first. Such a high-level matter as annexation is too far away from the hungry people.

Zhao Xu was moved by what he said, and finally decided to give it a try.

As soon as the news came out, Lu Huiqing's Sinong Temple and Zeng Bu's Sansi suddenly discovered that the enthusiasm of large households in Kaifeng's sixteen counties to lend money to young crops suddenly increased. The green crop loans that used to be apportioned have now become active loans.

In order to win over tenants, many large companies are even willing to repay the loans for their customers!

Then came the agricultural equipment. The market demand for livestock suddenly became strong, especially the new columbine invented by Su You, which was in short supply.

After these items are not counted as tax costs, the entire Kaifeng Prefecture’s procurement needs immediately doubled!

The originally half-dead countryside has suddenly undergone such a big change. It’s not that the wealthy households have no money, it’s that they have been pretending to be poor!

It’s different now. The more food the fields produce, the more money you pay for food remains the same. The extra money belongs to you!

Wang Anshi immediately reported to Zhao Xu, requesting that this policy be extended to the east and west roads of Beijing!

On the contrary, Su You wrote a letter to stop it, arguing that it should be implemented on a trial basis for one year. After all, the food issue is related to the fundamentals of the country and cannot be messed up.

However, in view of the expansion of the scale of agricultural machinery and livestock transactions, Zhao Xu was asked to set up a mule and horse market and an agricultural machinery seed market. Since the country encourages farming and breeding livestock, this market is easy to make money, so don't accept it, right?

Zhao Xu was still worried and sent his chamberlain out to inquire about the news. The chamberlain came back and reported that the farmers in Kaifeng were very happy and composed songs to praise the benevolence of the officials.

Zhao Xu finally made up his mind. Farming and mulberry are the foundation of the world. It is rare that the people of Kaifeng are so enthusiastic and accurate!

Su You took the opportunity to write again, stating that the Yongji Canal, Bian Canal, and the irrigation canals built by Wen Zao in the Tang Dynasty had fallen into disrepair, and asked the court for permission to repair them.

Zeng Bu was frightened by Su You's generosity. Ever since he came to Beijing, his money could be described as running like water. He hurriedly wrote to the court saying that it was not easy to accumulate money over the past few years. Your Majesty's money for sealing piles was for conquering the world.

I can't stand this kind of abuse.

Su You continued to quarrel - if the imperial court does not allocate funds, then please hand over the land of Kaifeng Prefecture to the ministers and use it for sale as capital for hiring civilian laborers. Is this request too much?

Indeed, it was not too much. Emperor Zhenzong built the Yongding Tomb, occupying 18 hectares of land, but it was only valued at 700,000 yuan. Emperor Renzong rewarded another 300,000 yuan, making up a million yuan.

On average, it’s only 400 yuan per acre.

The land for repelling brine is worse than the mountainous land for building mausoleums, with an average of one or two hundred cents per acre. On weekdays, we can collect some reeds and the like. There is quite a lot of land, between the Yellow River Embankment in the north of the city and Bianjing City, and in the south of Fengqiu County.

Fifty thousand hectares, although it is worth 500,000 guan, not one acre has ever been sold.

Because the Yellow River embankment cannot be moved! If water cannot be diverted from the Yellow River, the saline-alkali land will always remain saline-alkali land!

So Zhao Xu waved his hand, leaving it to you to do it!

…

In April and summer, Wen Yanbo's resignation was finally approved. After the old man tried to resist the market reform but failed, he began to engage in non-violent non-cooperation, refused to go to work, and insisted on supplementing the power.

Zhao Xu sent envoys several times to summon the old man into the palace, and then asked the inner squad to escort him to work in the Privy Council.

In the past, Han Jiang was the main force in squeezing out Wen Yanbo. "Every time there was a discussion, Han Jiang tried to suppress him in many ways, and he also set up four courts of judges to seize his power."

As a result, Han Jiang made such a big mistake in Shaanxi that not long after he was demoted, Wang Anshi used him to sentence Daming Mansion.

Wen Yanbo was furious and decided not to do it this time, not even to kidnapping the emperor.

In the end, Zhao Xu had no choice but to give the veteran minister the treatment of Situ and Shizhong, and sentenced Yanghe as the governor of Hedong.

Due to both emotion and reason, Su You wanted to see Old Man Wen off.

The farewell banquet was still held in the Zeng Garden in the north of the city.

Cups and plates were intertwined, and Wen Yanbo watched speechlessly as Su You held the flat can, tied a small bag around his neck, and then fed him vegetable and meat porridge.

What a busy day.

Wen Yanbo looked at the sturdy Su Biangu and couldn't help but wonder: "How did you raise this child..."

In the blink of an eye, he got angry again: "Are you sending me off or looking for an excuse to rest?"

Su You pushed a bowl of dairy products in front of Wen Yanbo: "This one is suitable for the elderly, with ginger and milk, a new dish."

Wen Yanbo picked up the small bowl and scooped out the taste with a small metal spoon: "You are such a noob...you have wiped their butts so many times, how can they miss you?"

Bian Guo grabbed the spoon without letting go and kept shouting: "I want it." Su You had no choice but to let go, gave him the spoon to play with, and continued feeding him with a different spoon: "It's not to wipe their butts, but to make life easier for the people.

The family and the country are one, and only when the people are better off can the country get better. If we say we are wiping it out, we are wiping it out for the whole world."

Wen Yanbo's words were directed at Wang Anshi's method of protecting horses.

In May of this year, Wang Anshi petitioned for the implementation of the Horse Protection Law within the Kaifeng Prefecture, allowing Baojia horses who are willing to feed official horses to be raised. At the same time, he ordered the Kaifeng Prefecture to appoint a criminal and prison department to buy official horses at Langduyuan on Shaanxi Road to eliminate good horses.

In addition, the rest can be fed by Baojia.

Kaifeng Prefecture issued a total of 3,000 horses for Baojia to raise. Each household could raise one, and those with a large family property could raise two. The horses were either allocated by the government's horse herding supervisor, or purchased by the horse farmers themselves with the government's money.

Baojia could ride the horses he kept to hunt down thieves, but the rides could not exceed three hundred miles. Horse owners within the Kaifeng Prefecture were exempted from paying 250 bundles of grain and grass, and the government also paid a certain amount of money in advance to the horse owners as remuneration.

If the policyholder raises the horse alone, the policyholder will be responsible for compensation after the official horse dies.

When an official horse raised by a social household dies, all households in the same social household will jointly compensate for the loss, but only half of the original price will be compensated.

The government conducts inspections once a year to check the fatness of horses raised by horse breeders.
Chapter completed!