Xinshun 1730

Chapter 172 The Reform of Inevitable People's Governance

It's like what Liu Yu instilled in Mantou on weekdays, or what Mantou told Du Feng's sister back then.

Dashun’s abolition of low status and world slaves was not due to the kindness of a certain emperor, but the bloody sacrifices of slaves in the south of the Yangtze River, which made the old system unable to continue to exist, and the continuous uprisings led to increased ruling costs.

Dashun made King Pingping vulgar and idolized, and turned it into a kind of tacit approval of obscenity, and finally there is no prohibition, which is considered an improvement to some extent.

The stories Bai Yunhang heard in his hometown, and the permanent tenancy rights he saw with his own eyes when he was a county magistrate in Fujian.The popularization of permanent tenancy rights is actually similar to the abolition of lowly status and slavery.

Although this concept had appeared as early as the Song Dynasty and developed in the Ming Dynasty, it was the Great Jiangnan Uprising in the Jiashen Year that really allowed Yongdianquan to take root in Jiangnan.

Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian...the places where permanent tenancy rights are the most popular are also the places where the Jiashen Rebellion was the most ferocious.

The criticism of weapons makes sense.

Although it is said that the gentry in some places in those days, with the help of the Manchu butcher knife, were triumphant: "The slaves said that slaves should not rest with the heaven and the earth, but they are true slaves. Husbands have heaven and earth, so there are monarchs and ministers, fathers and sons, and fathers and sons. Master and servant. Heaven and earth do not change, so do rulers and ministers, fathers and sons, masters and servants. The righteousness of masters and servants is open to heaven and earth."

But resistance is worthwhile after all.

The butcher knife of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was no better than that of Dashun. A large number of slaves, tenants, and remnants of the rebel army joined Dashun. Even if Dashun and the Jiangnan gentry compromised, they did not continue the too cruel and dark policy. At least it collapsed. The big landlord manor system in the south of the Yangtze River.

Nonsense things such as power and taboo in the late Ming Dynasty were also abolished.

In Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places, a wave of mosquito prisons similar to the "ban on red-maned horses" were set up.

I caught a group of big landlords and asked them what it meant to let their tenants "avoid taboo"?Taboo only exists in the monarch and relatives, tenants are not relatives, engage in taboo, are you planning to become emperor?

Dashun has compromised and did not engage in land equalization in Jiangnan.

The result of the compromise is that in some places where the resistance is the most serious, the perpetual tenancy rights are acquiesced: not only the fields of the rich households are not distributed, but also the interests of the tenants are properly guaranteed.

Coupled with the budding development of capitalism in the Jiangnan area, some industries such as "not for sale" school fields and sacrificial fields began to be permanently leased.

Some are called Tianpi and Tiangu; some are called Tiandi and Tianmian; some are called Damai and Xiaomai.

Shandong is not the south of the Yangtze River, the germination is not so strong, and it was on the front line of the Anti-Qing Dynasty, and suffered too many massacres, and the permanent tenancy system here is not very popular.

What Bai Yunhang meant was that the state government should come forward to force permanent tenancy.

Under the premise of not changing the "landlord land ownership system", appropriate reforms will be used to resolve contradictions in a way similar to rent reduction and interest reduction, and at the same time pave the way for his policy of dividing the land into acres.

This policy has not been announced yet, and only a few people such as Liu Yu know about it. They just completed the land inventory.

Bai Yunhang didn't want to engage in Juntian and Jingtian, because he knew that these things were simply nonsense and would not work now.

And if he did that, he would definitely die.

But he didn't want to have big problems in the implementation of the policy that he came up with with great difficulty, and the policy that could be promoted with great difficulty.

According to his calculations, if he can implement the policy of distributing income to the mu, and if he starts businesses as promised by Liu Yu, his Wendeng Prefecture can increase a lot of tax revenue.

Although Bai Yunhang did not dare to be as imaginative as Yan Yuan, he wanted to reduce the land rent to 40%, and let the tenants own the land ownership after 30 years.

But he made a compromise, keeping the original land rent of about 55%, and slightly reducing it to 50%.

Wealthy households are required to divide the fields into skin and bone, with rich households owning ownership and tenants having long-term use rights for a period of 30 years.

The yamen will guarantee and sign a contract to keep the original rent level unchanged, slightly lowered, and cannot be changed within 30 years.

If the landlord wants to sell the land, the tenant with permanent tenancy has priority.

The tenant has the absolute right to use the land within 30 years, but the tenant needs to pay the land tax by itself.After the abolition of the population tax, the comparison of the number of acres and the population curve, and the slightly lowered land rent made the tax plus land rent paid by the permanent tenant tenants basically the same as before.

Later generations have "50 rent reduction", which can be called "[-] rent reduction", which stipulates that the land rent shall not exceed [-]%.

If it can be practiced, no matter what the original intention is or what the purpose is, it can be regarded as a great good governance.

In addition, Liu Yu was also asked to contribute some of the grain as warehouse capital, and tried to reuse Wang Anshi's young crop method in Wendeng to lower interest rates, and tenants with permanent tenancy rights could receive low-interest loans.

Anyway, Liu Yu wants to engage in industry and commerce, not only needs money, but the disaster victims recruited by more than [-] people don't give money at all now, but people eat horse chews and consume a lot of food for a year. Return food.

Bai Yunhang settled a bill with the help of the farmland that Liu Yu helped to investigate.

If it can be implemented, the entire Wendeng Prefecture can have one-third of the self-cultivated farmers and one-half of the permanent tenant farmers. These people are the main force in paying taxes.

He doesn't care about the rest at all, those people can't collect money, and it's troublesome to manage.

If it is carried out, some big landlords will definitely be cheated.

But as long as the big landlord does not coerce his tenants into rebellion, he has no fear.What he was afraid of was that the big landlord would coerce the tenants into trouble, and if there was something like a tombstone of five people, then he would never even think about being promoted.

He also knew that although the idea was good, it would definitely be impossible to implement it only with people like the government office.If it relies on local gentry and scholars, if this can be promoted, it will be hell: let the gentry cut their own flesh?
After sharing the general idea with Liu Yu, Liu Yu thought about it for a moment, and said with a smile: "Master Bai, do you know that Wang Jinggong's reform has failed? You don't really think that the permanent tenancy law and the green crop law can be used in the whole country. Promote it?"

Bai Yunhang probably knew about Liu Yu's character, and said with a smile, "Master Liu thinks highly of me. If you are successful, you can also help the world. Now the lower officials have not yet reached the level, and they are still pursuing it."

"It is naturally impossible to promote it nationwide. But I promoted it in this state, and it was excellent in the assessment, and everyone praised it. I don't care if it can be promoted nationwide?"

"The so-called, if you are not in your position, you will not seek your own government. I am not a minister, nor is it a matter of peace in the Palace of Heavenly Blessing. I only care about the affairs of Wendeng Prefecture. There is nothing wrong with that, right?"

Liu Yu gave Bai Yunhang a thumbs up, and praised: "Master Bai has a great standard, I admire it. Well, I understand what Master Bai means, and you want to ask me to borrow someone to promote it, right?"

Bai Yunhang nodded, and observed Liu Yu's expression.

"Master Liu, you have to borrow your people for the permanent tenancy. As for the young crop law, you also need to worry about it. In fact, I also know that the interest on loans is extremely high nowadays. If it were someone else, I would naturally refuse. But Master Liu doesn't seem to care about it. Don't care about money?"

"Don't..." Liu Yu hurriedly waved his hand.

"Don't put a high hat on me. It's not that I don't care about money, I care about money very much. It's just that I have my own bottom line. When I was fighting in the north, I said that I have my own bottom line. After breaking the city, you are not allowed to insult women. .As for the local bottom line, I don’t engage in usurious loans.”

"One thing is the bottom line."

"Second, the interest rate on usury is so high, and the land rent is so high, gold and silver are profit-seeking. All the money flows to usury and land, so naturally no one pays for industry and commerce. Since you want to engage in young crop law here, it is also beneficial to me. The good thing is that in the future, the Young Crops Law will lower the interest rate, and there will naturally be wealthy households investing money in industry and commerce. The lower the interest rate, the more money will be invested in industry and commerce. I support this.”

"But there is one thing."

Bai Yunhang nodded and said, "My lord, please tell me."

"For the matter of the Young Crop Law, I will pay the share capital, and my people will take care of it. The people in the yamen should not get involved, and Mr. Bai should not take this as a merit, otherwise he will be criticized. It is good to just implement it in one place, or in other words, this It's not Mr. Bai's credit, but my business behavior."

Bai Yunhang was not prepared to regard the Green Crop Law as his own achievement, and Wang Anshi's example was set before him. If this thing was sent to the court, he would definitely be sprayed to death.

Implemented in Wendeng Prefecture, it can stabilize the region, increase taxes, curb mergers, and make it easier for the people to pay taxes, which is of great use to his political achievements.

If it is implemented well, the political achievements will be outstanding, and the dream of "being excellent in the assessment and becoming an official in Beijing" will be one step closer.

I was embarrassed to ask Liu Yu about this matter, but all fools know that the best way to make money is not to engage in business, but to buy land, rent land and lend usury.

Just thinking that Liu Yu is a fool who actually wants to engage in industry and commerce, and he is in need of food, so he wants to ask Liu Yu to borrow some food to start the green crop method.

Since Liu Yu took the initiative to take it over, it couldn't be better.Merchant behavior should naturally be greatly rewarded.

Furthermore, those loan sharks must be dissatisfied with the young crop law.

If Liu Yu did it, it would be much simpler.

Dissatisfied?If you are dissatisfied, you can hire desperadoes to attack the Liugong Island barracks.

Fearing that no one would block the gun on this matter, Liu Yu took the initiative to bring it up, and Bai Yunhang was 1 willing.

"Master Liu did this, and I really don't know how to thank you. To put it bluntly, I will be transferred to another place in the future, and my lord will not train troops on Liugong Island. These good governance will eventually come to an end. But even if it ends, at this time Doing something can be regarded as benefiting the people."

Liu Yu smiled slightly, and asked back: "If Master Bai is promoted to Jiedushi in the future, it will be the end of the day. Will he still implement such a policy of making great efforts but disproportionate rewards?"

"Uh... If you tell lies, you will. If you tell the truth, I'm afraid not necessarily. It's not that I don't have the slightest kindness to serve the people, but if I really get promoted to Jiedushi, I'll save you a lot. How many people are needed to carry out the matter? It must be done, but it cannot be done. Wendeng Prefecture was able to carry out the New Deal thanks to Master Liu's garrison here. Where can I find so many people? Besides, if I have so many capable people in my hands, I’m afraid that someone will refer to me and say that I keep officials and plot evil.”

What he said seems to be sincere, but in fact it is also true and false.

There is also a bit of reciprocity, secretly reminding Liu Yu not to make such a thing too big, so as not to be misunderstood or suspected by the higher authorities.

Liu Yu could hear that the last sentence of "conspiring to misbehave" was a reminder to him, so he nodded gratefully and said with a smile: "I will write down the words of Lord Bai. This matter is settled like this, wait for me Come back and deal with it."

Bai Yunhang knew that Liu Yu was acting strangely, and there were some things he shouldn't ask, but at this moment he couldn't help but ask, "Where does Master Liu want to go? When will he return?"

"Go to the night and don't accept it, investigate and investigate the terrain, hahahaha... Don't worry, Lord Bai, you can return in three to five months, and you won't delay the business. Lord Bai, let's say goodbye and say goodbye."

"Not at night?" Bai Yunhang stared at Liu Yuyuan's back, thinking that this was a strange thing to say.

(End of this chapter)