His Royal Highness, he is plotting against me

Chapter 122
Dajing has a population of several million, but a land area of ​​nearly 4000 million hectares.

This is the arable area excluding the mountains, forests and lakes.

As it happens, there are still many people in Dajing who have no land to grow and no food to eat.

Because the arable land is in the hands of a few tyrants!
They did everything possible to prevent the people from having their own farmland.

After all, if the people had land to cultivate, there would be no one to cultivate their land.

Especially in the land where the aristocratic family stretches, land annexation is more common, and there are only a handful of ordinary people who own their own land.

They frequently hold tens of thousands of hectares of fertile land, and even drive the refugees to open up wasteland, without registering with the government. Both the refugees and the harvest are privately owned.

If those people who are unwilling to sell themselves as slaves want to live here, they have to rent their fields, and they need to pay high land rent, some as high as [-]%!
Survival has become difficult for many people, forced to leave their hometowns or become servants of aristocratic families due to helplessness.

Hermit, enclosure.

Do everything to extremes.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in Dajing, the trend of mergers has been killing for a long time, and even intensified.

Up to now, it has reached the point where it has to be contained.

Especially after this incident in the south of the Yangtze River, the people were displaced, and the court wanted to re-measure the land and return the land to the people.

Unfortunately, due to various reasons, this matter could not be put into practice.

Thanks to Cui Boyuan's going to the south of the Yangtze River, those victims, whether they returned to their original places or were resettled by the local government, can barely have land to plant, and the family will not starve to death.

But it is absolutely impossible to measure the land.

Unlike other places, in the fiefs of the kings and princesses, the land belongs to the imperial court.

The people in the fief rented the land of the imperial court, paid a certain amount of rent and taxes every year, and the rest of the harvest was owned by the tenant farmers.

"Nowadays, the imperial court's tax is [-]%, and the private rent is [-]% to [-]%. The upper-class fields yield two stones per mu, the middle-level fields yield one to one-and-a-half stones per mu, and the lower-grade fields yield less than one stone per mu..."

this day,

Several clan members, Duke Zhu, King Bingyi, King Jing and others were summoned by His Majesty and came to the Imperial Study Room, but the Prince told them about Dajing's land and taxes.

Some people were confused, while others seemed to catch something.

Only the prince continued:

"An adult man needs about five to six shi of grain a year. If he cultivates 24 mu of public land and [-] mu of mulberry fields, the annual output will be about [-] shi. This is enough for food and clothing, and even a little income from the yield of Sangtian."

"If it's private renting, [-]% to [-]% of the rent, [-] mu of land can have a dozen stones of grain to harvest, and the family will not starve to death."

"But as far as Gu knows, many gentry rent out land, and the rent is as high as [-]%..."

The prince was talking about a gentry, but someone already realized who he was talking about.

All the people present here are royal relatives who have fiefdoms, and the fields under their hands, even private fields, are also paid by the imperial court.

More than [-]%, no more than [-]%.

But those old aristocratic families who are entrenched in one side are different. They use various means to hold all the nearby land in their own hands.

He also used extremely high rents to force people step by step so that they could not survive and had to sell themselves as slaves.

These are all unspoken things, but I don't know what the prince's purpose is when he talks about it today.

A prince of the clan with a somewhat blunt temper asked directly: "His Royal Highness told me to come here, it's not just talking nonsense, just say it if you have any purpose!"

His Majesty coughed twice, and seemed a little helpless with this man's directness.

He said with emotion: "Sixth brother is still so impatient!"

The prince waved his hand when he heard the words, and didn't take it seriously: "I'm just like this, and it's not that the emperor doesn't know that I'm most annoyed by those people who go around in circles!"

Qin Ao, who was going around in circles, glanced at the emperor uncle with a smile, and decided not to go around in circles.

"Uncle Huang lives willfully, so happy!"

Being praised by his nephew, the sixth prince expressed that he was very happy: "People live a lifetime, so they naturally come to be so happy!"

Qin Ao is as good as a follower: "What the emperor said is true."

"It's just that, as the descendants of the Qin family, we have enjoyed honor beyond ordinary people since we were born. Naturally, we also carry the well-being of the people on our shoulders. After the floods in the south of the Yangtze River, although it is true that tens of thousands of people were displaced from their homes after the floods in the south of the Yangtze River. of."

Speaking of this, besides the crown prince, the one who has the most say is King Jing.

"What the emperor said is very true. If the emperor's brother hadn't made arrangements in advance and handled it properly, I am afraid that the Jiangnan matter would not be so easy to solve."

Half of the imperial court's grain and grass came from the south of the Yangtze River. When the south of the Yangtze River was hit by disasters, it was almost impossible to mobilize a large amount of grain and grass from other places to relieve the victims.

If a catastrophe like this is not handled properly, it will spark a civil uprising.

Everyone also nodded. They also knew that the prince had found a different way and played a trick on those people in Jiangnan.

Many people also secretly said that His Royal Highness looked at the scenery and the moon, and the things he did were worse than the ones he did.

When my teacher said he would take part in it, Mr. Lu fell down.

My uncle also said that he took part in it, and the Wang family also fell.

He also played around with the entire Jiangnan Chamber of Commerce and paid for himself.

Qin Ao looked at King Jing who had made great efforts, so naturally he didn't dare to take the credit, "This is also done by the fourth brother himself, and the method of disaster relief is appropriate."

The two brothers gave in to each other a bit, and it made Wang Yi, who was left alone, suffer from toothache.

Knowing that everyone was still waiting for the prince's next words, His Majesty the Emperor had to interrupt this, which made him a little bit unbearable to look directly at "Brothers and Brothers".

"You guys are all good guys, and you must work together in the future to create a bright future for Dajing!"

Prince Bingyi, Wang Jing and the others naturally responded.

Then he continued with the words above: "So since the incident in Jiangnan, I have seen the tragic situation of the people who lost their land, and I have been thinking about what to do for the people. In the past year, I, my father, and Mr. Cui have repeatedly considered , there is a plan that can be tried.”

Someone asked: "What is the way?"

"Kinda!"

Qin Ao explained: "Re-measure the land in the world, and distribute it to the common people for farming. The imperial court only collects [-]% of the tax. The more you work, the more you get, the less you work, the less you get."

When this statement came out, the whole audience was shocked.

"Remeasure the land? How?"

"All states and counties divide all land that is not suitable for cultivation except mountains, forests and lakes into three classes, upper, middle and lower, and record them."

"What about the private fields in everyone's hands?"

"If the private land has a contract filed with the government, it is still privately owned and [-]% of the tax is paid."

"..."

All of a sudden, discussions in the imperial study were in full swing.

The crowd put forward this suggestion around the prince, and asked for a long time.

Finally came to a conclusion:
This matter seems to have nothing to do with them, but it has something to do with it.

But with others...

That's a big deal!
This clearly targets those private fields that have been invaded, as well as private fields that have not been filed with the government after land reclamation.

tsk tsk!
This prince really dares to think and do it!

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(End of this chapter)