Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1020
It is still unknown what the direction of the wind will be in the next few years.

But the current direction of the wind can be seen just by looking at this year's reform.

The county magistrate of Funing couldn't laugh or cry in his heart, and his face was still cautious with the look of a little daughter-in-law.

Everyone said a few more words, sorted out the ins and outs, and the rest of the matter was very simple.

very simple.

Just like Liu Yu thinks that Huaibei Salt Reform is not that troublesome at all.Things are really simple here too.

For example, the salt reform in Huaibei, as long as the emperor allows it, grasp the details of "turning the owl into a merchant", which makes the private salt dealers whitewashed and turned into a regular one, and the rest is bullshit. What ability does the salt merchant have to resist the will of the imperial power?If you really have this ability, you should prepare and train a model army to hold the emperor's head there, and change the monopoly of salt from rented ones to your own.

Renting other people's things is definitely better than owning them.

In the salt reform, the emperor agreed to this matter, which was the most difficult and complicated.That's why the foundation building of the previous 20 years gave the emperor another source of taxation and emergency financial options.

The salt reform seems to be just a few words from the court, but it is actually the accumulation of Dashun's reforms in the previous 20 years.

As for the rest, it's really bullshit.

Including Liu Yu's worry that the salt merchants would fight desperately to disrupt the salt market. That is because they need to kneel down and beg the imperial power not to use power to interfere, and pray that these salt merchants have some skills and capabilities.

It's the same thing here.

The real difficulty of this matter lies in the abolition of the canal, the construction of the Huaihe River, and the supporting wasteland reclamation policy system, so that the emperor had to kill these gentry in order to create a northern Jiangsu that does not need disaster relief every year.

The rest, whether it's conviction, arrest, ransacking of home, or snare charges, it's bullshit.

From a broad perspective, this matter, to put it bluntly, is to turn northern Jiangsu into an agricultural area, and to abandon the salt industry area and the water transport business system.

When it comes to small things, those are not a problem at all.

Regardless of whether it is Liu Yu or Huanghuai Governor and others, at this point, in fact, just sit here and rest.

The crimes of ensnaring, exhausting the bamboo of Nanshan, the crimes are not exhausted; the crimes of breaking the waves of the East China Sea, the crimes of inexhaustible poison, the county magistrate of Funing can handle it himself.

Soon, hundreds of people who were carefully selected came here weeping, knelt on the ground and shouted "Master Qingtian" and so on, telling about the suffering of the squires who abused them.

Actually nothing.

It is nothing more than bullying men and women, loan sharks, putting dogs in mourning, sleeping with new wives, selling women to pay rent, monks paying for tenants to marry wives and sharing with monks and other trivial matters.

Liu Yu has been numb to these things for a long time. If the issue of ownership of the means of production is not resolved, these moral problems emerge one after another. Is there any use for anger?It is possible not to let the daughter-in-law sleep, but if the rent is not allowed, she will starve to death. What can I do?The monks pay the tenants to marry their wives. If they don’t pay, they can’t marry a wife at all. It’s better to share it than nothing, isn’t it?

If you have time to be angry, it is better to solve it fundamentally.

Anger is pointless.

What matters is what to do after the anger.

However, as soon as this step was reached, the whole court pretended to be fools.

Since the emperor pretended to be stupid, he took the national class by himself, and pretended not to know if the grassroots had no money and needed to be sent more. Gentlemen stayed away from the kitchen.

The ministers, gentry and scholars all pretended to be stupid, pretending not to know that they did not solve the problem of ownership of the means of production, and these things happened endlessly.

So one by one was "shocked" and "furious" when they heard about these things, and then the moral condemnation was overwhelming, and they should do what they should do afterwards.

Repeating the anger of yesterday and the story of the day before yesterday is like a hundred years of lonely reincarnation.

Liu Yu's three views are different from theirs. He doesn't care whether morality is noble or corrupt. The reason for mobilizing the gentry is very clear. It is the land issue, which has nothing to do with morality. The highest is to reduce land rent, expand the domestic demand market, and promote the budding development of capital. Great righteousness is added to the body, and those morals are small righteousness.

There is great righteousness in the body, so what's the use of small righteousness?

But that's the problem, the righteousness he recognized is definitely not the mainstream righteousness of Dashun.That's why the emperor dared to use him, because he was a marginalized person, and those who were cut off were all marginalized people just like him.

As far as Liu Yu's policy of continuously supporting the budding of capital is concerned, and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, if you catch him, you have to kill him first.If he can't be Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, what is the emperor afraid of?

Now that everyone is pretending to be stupid, Liu Yu, who plays with muskets, now has to learn how to use bows and arrows.

So he still went through the process and pretended to slap the table in anger, and even performed a scene where he slapped his wrist and dislocated it in a fit of anger.

He even dislocated his wrist with a slap, and the rest of the people increased their weight even more.

If you don't shoot a dislocation, you will show that you are not a gentleman and have no compassion.

In just a few days, the compilation of the thick "Huai'an Evil Gentleman Records" with more than [-] words, "Huai'an Evil Gentry Records" was completed.

Once the booklet was compiled, the rest was simpler.

All the gentry contracting in partnership were reviewed in batches, and each of them was locked in a separate thatched shed to expose and report crimes, corruption, embezzlement, and reselling on the issue of river labor funds.

Including exchanging the white flour and rice of the imperial court for coarse grains and bad rice; The service money is deducted...

and many more.

After the trial here, Liu Yu looked at the thick roster, holding a pen, and almost didn't even read, ticking off the roster.

Draw a tick, and then write a line of words: execution by shooting, ransacking the house, returning the land to the government.His wives, concubines, sons, and daughters are counted according to their mouths, and they each leave ten mu of land, which is eleven of the floating property of the family.

It took most of a day to finish the list. Liu Yu stretched his fingers, stretched his waist, and handed the list to the officials next to him for a look.

After several people watched it, they all praised: "The Duke is kind-hearted. According to the rules of this dynasty, all wives and daughters should be sent to the Western Regions to be married to the frontier army. Those who have fourteen children will go to the Western Regions, Jinghai, and Yunnan. ,Tibet."

Liu Yu sighed and said, "Mencius said: Compassion is the root of benevolence. Although I don't study much, I know a little about the learning of sages."

After the audience praised him for his kindness, Liu Yu handed the list to the people below and said, "Go get the money, and send someone here to notify their family members to collect the corpse. I'll pay for the travel expenses myself."

"Don't worry about ransacking the house. Those who want to run can run, and those who want to hide can hide. Anyway... as long as Tian Mu doesn't have long legs."

"Furthermore, there is not enough professional manpower, and it is not convenient to search the house. After reporting back to the Holy Majesty, we will send enough officers and manpower to handle the rest."

Liu Yu made some calculations, and after the land was taken back, it was redistributed to the common people.If it's just a re-division, it's useless. My soft-hearted behavior of not confiscating the family or floating wealth for the time being will make these families rise again within a few years.

However, once the follow-up supporting measures are implemented, it can basically be controlled a little bit.

A total of two supporting means.

paper money.

Young crop loan.

The imperial court is the only financial institution in the land reform area in northern Jiangsu. Through the young crop loan, even if small farmers go bankrupt and lose their land again, the land will still flow back to the imperial court.

The role of paper currency issuance is to use the system of private ownership of land and the small farmers' thirst for land, and the farmers in northern Jiangsu act as a reservoir for over-issued currency.

They dare not spend in a short period of time, but they will definitely sell the grain to save money to buy land.

The land also used young crop loans and other means to ensure that the land of bankrupt small farmers would flow back to the imperial court.The imperial court accepts banknotes.

Therefore, these small farmers in northern Jiangsu can save at least 10 taels of banknotes to ensure that they will not appear in the market and circulate, but accumulate to buy land in a few years.

Their actions of selling grain, cotton, and oil in exchange for money, in turn, guaranteed the value of the banknotes.Currency, you can buy things, you can sell grain, cotton, oil, ironware, land, etc. This is already a fully qualified currency in northern Jiangsu.

And why did North Jiangsu dare to issue a youth loan?Don't you worry that the court's debt collection will affect the court's image?
Because the Huaihe River was repaired, the canal was abandoned, and the water level of Hongze Lake dropped, the speed of bankruptcy of small farmers here slowed down.

Second, the imperial court's lending and collection of money was of course accompanied by violence.But this is not a problem, because the bankrupt Zhang family was taken back by Qingmiaodai, the Li family will not be sad, but happily take out the money they saved to buy the Zhang family's auction land from the imperial court.

The purpose of the green crop loan is not to ask for interest, but to promote banknotes and ensure that the land flows back to the imperial court. This is completely different from the purpose of the young crop loan for interest.

If paper currency can be popularized, it will be much more profitable than asking for that little interest, which is only a few dollars.

Anyway, Liu Yu's purpose is paper money, in order to issue a certain amount of paper money to quickly complete the Huaihe irrigation project.

When issuing currency, sometimes we have to consider Dashun's own national conditions.

Considering that small farmers will not even think about consumption after being allocated land, but will definitely save up the currency in circulation to buy land.

Such a good opportunity, such a good reservoir, do not exceed the issuance of currency, increase investment and quickly invest in infrastructure, foreign textile factories, coal mines and coal transportation roads, irrigation areas and tidal embankments, what are you waiting for?
Through the paper currency - grain - engineering model.

It seems that silver is used to support the value of banknotes, but in fact, the value of banknotes is supported by the grain of farmers in northern Jiangsu after the land reform.

In the end, the super-issued banknotes were used to buy grain for farmers in northern Jiangsu, and these grains were used to provide farmers in northern Jiangsu with food to complete the construction of irrigation areas and seawalls.

At the same time, through banknote accumulation, mu tax reform, and young crop loans, the land price of reclaimed land in northern Jiangsu will be increased, which will reduce the profit margin of capital buying farmland for lease, forcing capital in southern Jiangsu to either reclaim wasteland or invest in business. Buying land, collecting rent and lending usury.

The main purpose of tax reform and water conservancy construction is to rely on the desire of a large number of new owner farmers for land to drive up land prices.

The more stable the self-cultivating farmers, the less easy it is to apportion taxes to the self-cultivating farmers. The higher the land price, the lower the rate of return for buying land and collecting rent.

At the same time, there is no need to worry about enclosing land to drive away small farmers, because self-cultivating farmers can drive up land prices, and the price of buying cultivated land is too high, and the capital is far inferior to enclosing wasteland to cultivate wasteland and grow cotton.

As for the economic vassal plan of southern Jiangsu in northern Jiangsu, what he valued was the wasteland reclamation companies with capital entering the enclosure, not these small farmers.

These small peasants are made for the emperor to see: You see, I am doing my best to protect the small peasant economy.Because I know that the small peasant economy is the foundation of your Li family dynasty, and I am a loyal minister.

Sometimes, if you take two steps forward, you must take a step back and show it to the emperor.

He didn't think it was a reform at all. As long as the land was still allowed to be bought and sold, wouldn't it be a cycle of land equalization and mergers?
It's just that in view of the harsh environment in northern Jiangsu, the speed of mergers was several times that of other places. It's only been a hundred years since the founding of the country, and it's just a manual leveling, a pure tinkerer's method.Without supporting policies, it will not last for 30 years, and there will be a new round of mergers.

Just do something that the emperor likes, and just show it to the emperor.

This is more like a transaction:
Liu Yu created 30 stable small farmers for the emperor, solved the over-merged northern Jiangsu, relieved the emperor's worry that the two Huaihe Rivers would become the cancer of the empire and became the king's pioneer, and healed the "fragile waist" of the empire in northern Jiangsu.If you have a bad waist, you can't die, but your legs, feet, and hands may take advantage of the opportunity to be numb and swollen.

The emperor supported Liu Yu's big salt administration reform plan, Huainan was desalted for reclamation, capital entered the field to reclaim wasteland, Lianyungang was sun-dried, Huainan was transformed into an agricultural area, and the economic structure adjustment of Huaihe River and Huaihe River was completed by taking the opportunity of abolishing the canal and building the Huaihe River.It seems that the emperor has made a lot of money, and continues the emperor's inner court extension plan.

(End of this chapter)