Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1013 The Only Means
When Niu Congyun was working in other places, the most complicated land lease issues he encountered were "field skin", "field bone", "two-layer skin" and "three-layer skin".

That is, land ownership, long-term land use rights, secondary contracting rights under long-term land use rights...etc.

That's enough trouble.

For example, the land belonged to the Li family, and the land was sold by prodigal sons, but he didn't want to plant it himself, so he would lease it to the Sun family for a long-term, with the right to use it almost forever.After the Sun family transitioned from tenant farmers to small landlords, they leased the land they only had the right to use to the Zhao family... one layer after another.

But after all, the capitalization of land is elsewhere, after all, it is not as good as the salt production area in the prefectural capital of Syria, so those land problems that seem to be extremely troublesome elsewhere pale in comparison with this place.

There are many things that cannot be found anywhere else.Of course, future generations may find it very commonplace.

But in Dashun at this time, it was indeed what Niu Congyun said: the imperial court doesn’t even understand the affairs of the landlords and farmers, so how could it manage the affairs of the landlords and capitalists?

Before Niu Congyun made the regulations for enclosing the land, he carefully read many lease contracts here.

Variety.

Everything can be rented, and the capitalization of the land is simply played out.

For example, "Chu Dianhe Po dumping brine slag contract" refers to the fact that land such as Hepo has long been occupied by landlords, and the garbage brine produced by boiling salt is dumped on Hepo, and you have to pay to rent the land .

For example, "Path for Coal, Salt, People, Cattle, and Mud and Water to Be Exited" refers to the fact that the road has already been occupied by the landlord, who wants to transport coal and salt, walk, people come and go, beating and Mud also has to pay.

For example, the "Contract on the Yin and Yang Crossing Paths of the Chudianjian Road" refers to the brine transportation pipeline, and the place to go has already been occupied by the landlord.To build those brine pipelines, no matter how far you go, you have to pay money.

These, to put it nicely, are all manifestations of the "awakening of private consciousness" of the people of Dashun. The wind and rain can enter, and capital needs to be spent.

To put it bluntly, capitalism has gone too far, to the point of feudalism, which makes people experience what is called feudal lordship and land ownership.

From Liu Yu's perspective of "not a Dashun person at all", why should the river beach, river slope, open space, and wasteland belong to the landlord?

From the perspective of the current standard Dashun people, roads, land, rivers, and river beaches are privately owned, which is a matter of course.

In addition, there are also Yanjing's contracts, which are also various.There are permanent tenants for descendants, 20-year leases, follow-up dividends, land shares, land pledges for mountain silver, and so on.

Compared with the troublesome field skin and field bone in the southeast, it is really much more complicated.

And whether these kinds of factors affect the development of salt wells?Did it raise the cost of salt?

This is obvious.

This time Niu Congyun wants to directly withdraw the land enclosure regulations, what he wants is to simplify the lease of the land, and even use the imperial court to force the purchase of the right to use the land.

A hidden legal principle of his enclosure regulations is that land ownership belongs to the imperial court.

Therefore, the company spends money to buy land, but the imperial court can take it away in the future, because under this hidden legal principle, what the company buys is only the right to use the land.

However, this incident is tantamount to a change of customs.

All the people in the world have a general awareness in their hearts that the land is their own, private, not the imperial court's.

This is a way of thinking that has been cultivated for nearly a thousand years after the collapse of the land equalization system in the Tang Dynasty.

Before the collapse of the land equalization system, in the consciousness of the common people, the land belonged to the imperial court, and they only had the right to use it.

But after the collapse of the land equalization system, the land became private.

Even, including the separation of field skin and field bone, those who only own the field skin also consider the land as their own.

What supports the underlying laws of Dashun is not the written Dashun law, but customary law.

Give the simplest example.

We don't talk about the landlord's possession of barren beaches, forests, etc., but only about ordinary self-cultivating farmers.

Common people need firewood to cook.

It is unclear who owns the woods next to the village.The imperial court could not collect taxes, because it was an atrocity of King Li of Zhou to take advantage of the mountains and swamps.

But according to custom, the Zhang family cuts firewood in this area, and the Li family does that in that area.

Ten or 20 years later, it is agreed that this area belongs to the Zhang family and that area belongs to the Li family.

Then, from the perspective of the imperial court's statute law, this forest is actually owned by no one.

However, who among the people knows that the Da Shun Law of the statutory law is bullshit?

Naturally, custom and convention prevail.

A member of the Zhao family came from outside and went to the forest to cut firewood, saying that this wasteland has no owner and does not pay taxes. of.Let's see if the Zhang and Li families kill the Zhao family.

Therefore, the land issue here seems simple and easy to solve, but it is actually very troublesome.

Because of this, Niu Congyun was forced to be a cruel official, a dog official, and bear the infamy.

Because he can't solve it normally.

This is not to give money to make both parties happy, because how much money can the landlord be satisfied with?
According to the current rules, 50% of the company's salt production income, plus all the company's construction after 20 years, will be owned by the landlord. If such a contract is signed, Niu Congyun reckons that the emperor can directly let him retire.

And if he follows the decree, he can't even decide the decree of the entire Syrian state capital by himself.

This will involve a comprehensive land survey and inventory and confirmation of rights.

There is also the distribution of barren hills, the redistribution or confirmation of rights of river ponds, river beaches, reed marshes, firewood land, etc.

However, he is a small governor of Xuzhou, with a few birdmen under his command, how could he do it with the little funding from the court.

In Niu Congyun's view, there is only one thing that can surpass customary law, statutory law, and court orders and become the highest law.

That is, rebellion.

An earth-shaking rebellion re-established a new contract for the land in the world, and all previous contracts, whether they were officially stamped or customary, were all invalidated.

Only in this way can the problem of land expropriation be solved from the root, and he will have the opportunity not to be a cruel official or a dog official.

However, after Jiugongshan, Dashun gave up the means of destroying all the old contracts in the past in order to protect the world.

He doesn't even have the ability to tinker, because it involves the land ownership issue of the feudal dynasty, how can he, a small governor, do anything?

Only by using the characteristics of the feudal dynasty, using the identity of the governor and using violent means, to forcefully solve it.

Do not speak the law.

Unreasonable.

I can only talk about the muskets and bayonets of the soldiers under Ma Haochuan.

At the end of the enclosure regulations that Niu Congyun drafted for himself, he took up a pen and wrote a line to remind himself.

"There is nothing that can be done about the land."

Thinking of these troublesome things, Niu Congyun couldn't help being curious, thinking that he didn't know how to deal with these situations in Lianghuai at this time?

To build the Huaihe River would also occupy other people's land and other people's fields.

After the construction of the Huaihe River, after irrigation, the land has been promoted from low-grade to high-grade, and how is it calculated there?

In the future, if the imperial court really builds irrigation canals along the Xinhuai River, how should the irrigation canals be routed?Who will pay for the repair of the canal?

If the barren beach, grassland, woodland, etc. that the landlord has occupied, if it was owned by the owner before but the court did not recognize it, how should it be counted?
In the New Huaihe Irrigation District, if the wasteland is to be reclaimed, the firewood land of the Yanhu and Zaohu households is theoretically owned by the imperial court, but the Zaohu households think that it is their firewood land. How will they compensate?

"Maybe, with Duke Xingguo over there, he will find some way to look more gentle, courteous and thrifty, at least it doesn't look so cruel?"

He thought so.

However, as Niu Congyun thought, there is nothing that can be done about the land.

He also really looked up to Liu Yu.

He thought that Liu Yu would have a better, tender, gentle, courteous and thrifty way.

…………

Subei at this time.

The big silt point near the mouth of the Yellow River, Liu Yu's big tent is temporarily in this village.

This is not a big village, but it is an important home port for smugglers, and the construction is not bad.

Illegal salt from Huaibei and Shandong are all quietly transported here along the sea.

Although the Huainan Salt Field is not far away, these smugglers are still very capable and can create a smuggling distribution center so close to the Huainan Salt Field.

It can be seen that the salt administration in Dashun Huainan has become rotten.

The reason why this place was chosen as a smuggling distribution center is that this is the mouth of the Yellow River, and the navy's patrol boats generally don't run aground in muddy areas like the Yellow River estuary.

In the big tent, Liu Yu was looking at the whale oil lamp, looking at the map of northern Jiangsu that had just been surveyed and mapped.

A few confidantes are also counting some information.

Today is April 26, the first year of Weixin. Two days later, the newly built Huaihe River will officially open Gaojiayan to release water. This place is not far from the mouth of the sea. Two days later, all the gentry invited by Liu Yu will gather here to accept Court's award.

Reward, at least, that's what Liu Yu told those squires.

After looking at the statistical chart for a while, Liu Yu rubbed his forehead, and then turned his attention to the area from Yancheng north to Xinhuai River.

There is no rush for the company to enclose land for land reclamation.

The top priority is to deal with the squires here and use brutal means to take away the land in their hands.

He doesn't have any gentle, courteous and frugal means, the only thing he is a little bit stronger than Niu Congyun is that he puts the bait and pretends to have laws to follow.And this kind of method is something that a small government official like Niu Congyun can't use anyway.

His time is very tight, he will go to Haizhou soon after finishing the affairs here the day after tomorrow.

Because the dry season is over, this year's salt transportation time is coming soon. If we want to reform the salt administration, we must be stuck at this time, and it will not work if it is too late or too early.

If the emperor wants to carry out a sudden attack on the reform of the salt administration, he needs someone to hold the place there.

And here, the emperor also dispatched [-] soldiers to Liu Yu, nominally to support the reform of the salt administration, but in fact, the emperor acquiesced to Liu Yu's big case in northern Jiangsu, and these soldiers came to suppress the scene.

Although the emperor thought that Dashun hadn't yet reached the point of internal collapse, this kind of thing was actually enough for a jailer, and there was no need for soldiers to suppress the place.

But just in case, and for the convenience of catching people, the emperor dispatched a group of people.

And it is also a garrison drawn from Busan, Tsushima, and Satsuma Tanegashima.

The army is stationed outside, and will move south early tomorrow morning, heading for the mouth of the newly built Huaihe River.

(End of this chapter)