He Ting looked at the reed flowers in front of him and the weeds began to wither and yellow, and couldn't help but frown. He said to Duan Balang beside him: "How can you farm like this? Put us here, I think that Magistrate Wang is not kind."

Duan Balang said: "You should say less. At least these days, we have food every day, which is not better than the previous few days. Settling here early and bringing our wife and children, at least we have a place to settle down."

Huang Tongyuan said: "What we are talking about is that we have hands and feet, how can we rely on the government to distribute grain? As long as we have land, we can always grow grain."

He Ting shook his head, obviously disagreeing with what the two said. They have wives, children, and they are alone, so what's the same?

At this moment, Cui Zhi walked quickly and came to everyone and whispered: "The governor's order is to tell you all. Those of us who come to open up land shall be arranged at a unified arrangement of 50 households per village and 50 acres per household. Each village shall have at least 45 households, and at most 55 households. You are arranged in the village. Each household with two or more 20 acres must be divided into families. The land shall be reclaimed by the village, and the land shall be organized by the village, and they shall be cultivated together, planted together, and harvested together. After harvesting the grain, three parts shall be divided into taxes, five parts shall be given to the villagers, and two parts shall be stored in the village. Those who exist in the village shall be prepared for famines and the other shall be done for some public welfare."

Hearing this, Duan Balang whispered loudly: "People have birth, old age, sickness and death. In this way, some have children, and some have children, and some have elderly people, so what if they die? Some have children in their families, and some have elderly people in their families, which is different."

Cui Zhi said: "In addition to the land planted in the village, each family has another ten acres of private land. These ten acres of private land are not allowed to be bought and sold, and they can only be planted with grain, fruit trees, etc. In general, it is the one in the family who are not Ding Zhuang to cook. Therefore, if there is no one at home, you can sublet it to others and collect some interest. In addition, each village plans its own and needs an orchard, pasture, and pond."

After hearing this, everyone started to talk about it and found it funny. The farmers had the final say in the formation of the village and how to use the land, and the government rarely asked about it. It is unheard of for each village to be planned in this way.

Seeing that he had never listened to him again, Cui Zhi couldn't help but feel a little displeased. He said loudly: "This is the personal instructions of the magistrate, no one can violate it! How much food is paid next year is considered as the political achievements of the village chief, and there is no need to be ambiguous at all!"

He Ting said loudly: "You are the village chief, what do you have to do with us? As long as we have food to eat, why bother with the rest!"

Cui Zhi said: "Don't worry? If you pay more food, you will eat more and live a good life. My village is also going to farm in this village and work together, but you are exempt from labor service and some money and food."

"By the way, you only talk about farming, but you haven't mentioned corvee service yet!" There was a lot of emotion in this matter.

For farmers, taxation is naturally important, but what is more important is corvee labor. Most of the time, taxation is associated with land and cannot kill human lives. Different from corvee labor, it comes from the head of the human race, and real land can kill people.

In ancient Chinese society, taxes were generally not heavy. From thirty taxes to one ten taxes, land taxes were not much. But in addition to land taxes, one was miscellaneous taxes, and there was no accurate number. Not only were different at different times, but also in different places. The most serious one was corvee service. Due to the lack of unified standards, once the service was launched, it would bring great disasters to the farmers. In the early Northern Song Dynasty, the Lizheng Yaxian service often caused the people's families to be destroyed. Wang Anshi's reform and changed the recruitment system of Lizheng Yaxian to change this situation.

Cui Zhi said: "The governor also said this. Every male in the village has fifty workers a year. In addition, people are not allowed to be recruited. People are summoned at market prices. Fifty workers are not considered heavy service."

Every worker is the workload of a strong man who does a day's work, and this measurement is popular at this time. In other words, the villagers have to do fifty days of work for the government every year. As for what they do, I will talk about it later.

Huang Tongyuan said: "Although there are only fifty workers, the time is different, and it is different for us people. During the busy farming season, taking out work will affect the harvest. If it is just during the slack farming season, it will not be a big deal."

Cui Zhi said: "What are you saying? You are planting twenty acres of land for the village, planting and harvesting together. You will work in the busy farming process, what should you do if the village land? Don't worry, you must be working in the slack farming process."

Everyone was talking about it all, and they couldn't make up their minds for a while, not knowing whether the battle was light or heavy.

Corvée has been a heavy burden for farmers for thousands of years, no less than taxes. Even in New China, it was only after the 1990s that volunteer work was once a heavy burden for farmers in New China.

For the regime, in such an era, it is unrealistic to abolish corvee labor due to the limitations of productivity levels. Once it is cancelled, the government will not be able to do many things. Wang Xiaohuo set up fifty labor, which was just a reference to the previous corvee labor labor of the Song Dynasty and was deleted. Whether it is appropriate or not needs to be actually verified. For the people, many people cannot even count the numbers, so how can they calculate it clearly for a while?

Seeing everyone talking nonstop, Cui Zhi raised his hand and said, "Don't mess around first, listen to me! From today on, you and me are all from the same village, and from now on, you will be neighbors from the left and right corners. No matter what you did before, you must live a peaceful life."

He Ting said: "There is one more thing. Now in early autumn, you can't plant land, open up wasteland, and harvest food. What do we want to eat this winter? If the court gives food, how do you calculate it?"

Cui Zhi said: "You are all people with hands and feet, so how can you eat food for nothing? The government will lend us the grain this winter and pay it back within three years. The governor Renxin, the loaned food is not counted as your interest. How about it?"

After hearing this, everyone didn't say anything. Everyone understood that if you don't charge interest, Wang Xiaoli should be worthy of the word "ren". In this era, if you borrow money from others, you don't pay interest? The government still has 30% of the interest a year after lending grain.

Cui Zhi said: "You must understand that if you have food this winter, you can survive. Without food, you don't know how many people will not survive this winter. The magistrate asked everyone to reclaim the fields. To put it seriously, it will be a blessing to everyone for their survival."

It is the end of July now, and you can find anything outside in the wilderness and you will always have food. So the people sent to reclaim the fields are not very grateful to Wang Xiaowei. In their eyes, Wang Xiaowei is just greedy for everyone's labor and help reclaim the fields. If it is winter, when everyone is hungry and hungry, it will be another idea.

Wang Xiaoli also understood this truth. The so-called emergency rescue but not poverty, organizing manpower in winter can bring them a better impression. It’s just that Wang Xiaoliu thinks that he is doing big things and is disdainful to use small methods. Small methods have temporary benefits, but they can’t stand the test of time.

Seeing that everyone stopped talking, Cui Zhi sighed: "Everyone, before the Jin army came, I was just a accounting master in Kaifeng City, and I only knew a few words. The magistrate appreciated us, so we joined the army and gave us a bite of food. Now we need to reclaim the fields and arrange for us who are literate to come to the village to be a village chief. The magistrate explained it to us clearly, and if we do well, we will have a great future in the future. If we do not do well, the magistrate will change people to do it. In the future, we will live in the same village, and you will have many things to help."

Huang Tongyuan said: "Everyone is the same. If the Jin soldiers had not come south, we would have burned kilns in the mountains, so how could this be the case!"
Chapter completed!