The Resurrection of the South Seas of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 615 Renting Instead of Buying (Subscribe)

He didn't have to watch his old mother starve to death, he couldn't even keep the whole body.

All the people around were chomping down on food, gobbling it up, and it looked a bit hideous.

After everyone registered, the food that the Ming official brought for relief was almost eaten.

The rest were divided among them according to their heads from house to house!

Holding a small bag of food in his arms, with his belly propped up, Li Xu had an unconcealable smile on his face.

With these grains, he will go to do some part-time jobs, or dig some wild vegetables, and his family should be able to survive this year's shortage of crops.

However, before Li Xu had time to be happy for a long time, the official of Daming gave another order to gather them together.

Just when the villagers in Li's shop thought that the imperial court was about to conscript or issue corvee.

The official opened his mouth and said that the imperial court would give them the land.

From the panic at the beginning, Li Xu and the others couldn't believe it when the Tian Qi was handed over to them at the end...

The mood changes are quite drastic!
That day, Li Xu hugged Tian Qi, knelt on his own ground and cried with a headache.

With snot and tears all over his face, he grabbed a handful of soil mixed with grass and stuffed it into his mouth.

The earthy smell and the bitterness of the grass fermented in his mouth, reminding him that everything in front of him was real.

Li Xu was not the only one who lost his composure. There were many villagers in Li's shop, and most of them looked the same.

The crying almost never stopped!

Li Xu will always remember what the official said that day.

"From now on, this field is yours!"

"However, there is no official seal of the imperial court on this land deed."

"You have to pay the rent for five years, and the imperial court's taxes must not be in arrears, so this land deed can be stamped with the imperial court's seal."

"This field really belongs to you! It belongs to your family!"

Zhu Hongyu knows the truth of promoting Mien and fighting Michou!
It is definitely not feasible to directly distribute the land to the people below. If Zhu Hongyu really does this, the army's morale will be most likely to be unstable.

The soldiers in the army can't help but think, why do we enlist in the army and follow you on the battlefield to get the land, and those common people can get it without doing anything?

Once such thoughts appeared in the army, Zhu Hongyu didn't even dare to think about the consequences!
Therefore, the solution given by Zhu Hongyu is not to divide the land, but to rent instead of buy.

Let those common people pay an extra rent to the imperial court while paying taxes.

After the rent has been paid for a certain number of years, the field will belong to the common people.

It is similar to the low-rent housing of later generations!

The only restriction in the future is that the land obtained by renting instead of buying has only the right to use and no ownership.

It is not allowed to be resold!

The reason for this is that Zhu Hongyu wants to curb land annexation from the root.

Zhu Hongyu felt that doing this would definitely kill multiple birds with one stone.

One is to appease the army.

The second is to increase a large amount of fiscal revenue for the court.

Three can also alleviate social conflicts!
Although the imperial court bought the land with rent instead, the rent collected would not be less.

But it is certainly not like those black-hearted landlords and gentry who often collect [-] to [-]% of the rent.

The rent set by Zhu Hongyu here is at most [-]%.

Even if the taxes that need to be paid to the court are added, the grain that the farmers need to hand over to the court will not use half of the harvest.

Compared with the past, the lives of these people will definitely undergo earth-shaking changes.

Within five years, at least half of their annual crops would be kept!
And after five years, the field will belong to them, no need to pay rent, and at least [-]% of the annual harvest will be kept!

These people will definitely be full of motivation when they plant the land!

If Zhu Hongyu's tax collection method is put in later generations, then a black-hearted capitalist will have no ass hole in having children.

But in this rotten era, no one can find any fault in Zhu Hongyu's actions.

Compared with those landowners and gentry who have exhausted their methods and exploited them to the fullest, Zhu Hongyu is an absolute benevolent monarch even if he is only a little bit better to the people at the bottom!

Absolutely wise and holy lord!
At least that's what Li Xu thought.

In his eyes, the Son of Heaven who gave them the land is the best emperor in the whole world.

If the imperial court wanted to conscript soldiers, he, Li Xu, would definitely go without saying a word!

If you don't go, you will be sorry for the land allocated to their family by the imperial court!

The common people are simple, they can tell who is good to them and who is bad to them.

I have been exploited for a long time before, and I have been in the dark for a long time.

What Zhu Hongyu released to them, this little bit represents the light of goodwill, enough for many people to remember him as good for a lifetime.

It can even be said that Zhu Hongyu's policy of renting instead of buying came out!
He has completely stood firm in Jiangnan!

The millions of low-level peasants in the south of the Yangtze River are his most loyal supporters.

……

Since Tianfen got his hands, the life of Li Xu's family has improved little by little.

Li Xu can bear hardships and stand hard work. While farming with his family, he also goes to Nanjing to do odd jobs in his spare time.

Make money to subsidize the family!

The imperial court is making a big effort to repair the official roads around Nanjing. Zhu Hongyu wants to rest with the people and is unwilling to conscript corvee.

Naturally, Gu Gong can only do it!

As long as you are willing to endure hardships, Nanjing is not afraid of not being able to find work.

Day by day, I watched the rice in the field grow up little by little, the heavy ears of rice bent the stalks, and the ears of rice were also a little bit, from emerald green to golden.

The smile on Li Xu's face never disappeared.

Whenever he is free every day, he likes to go for a walk in his own field.

Even if he didn't do anything, just looking at the heavy ears of rice, he felt extremely satisfied.

On this day, he just returned to the village from work on the construction site, and went to stroll in his own field again.

Sitting alone on the ground, silently counting the harvest time, the smile on his face gradually became uncontrollable.

It wasn't until dark that the ears of rice in the field could no longer be seen clearly with the naked eye, so Li Xu got up and patted the dust off his buttocks, and strolled back to his home.

The whole family sits around a small square table with all kinds of food on it.

White rice porridge, fried shredded cabbage, a pot of pancakes, and a few boiled eggs.

If these foods were kept in normal times, with the conditions of the Li family, they would not be able to eat them even during the Chinese New Year.

But now it can be eaten!
But it's not because the imperial court divided the fields for them. The fields haven't been harvested yet. Even if the land distribution has improved their lives, they won't be able to see it for a while.

The reason why the life of the Li family has improved is entirely because Li Xu went out to do odd jobs while farming.

Get a salary every month!
With money, it is natural to improve life.

(End of this chapter)