Emperor Sui Yang

Chapter 632 New Acre System
Since the beginning of the New Year, Yang Guang, who is in Jiangdu, has sent people to greet the county magistrates of various counties and ask them to prepare early. Starting from this year, the old Yangzhou general jurisdiction, the original 44 prefectures, except Jiangdu County , all others are taxed.

As the general person in charge, the prefect of each county must spread this information to the public early so that all taxpayers can be prepared.

This preparation is necessary, because if you go forward six years and you have not paid taxes, your daily expenses will be more generous. But you have to pay taxes this year, so you have to save some money and set aside the tax money for me.

Lest you say you have no money when I collect taxes.

This is mainly for the ideological work of common people. Rich families will not be short of tax money, but for ordinary people, tax is a very large expenditure in the family.

The reason is still insufficient land transfer.

But in Jiangnan, it is different. The entire Jiangnan is now full of wide countryside, which means there are few people and many fields. The acres of fields under the names of hundreds of people here can make the people in the north envious to death.

After thousands of years, and with the addition of the Grand Canal, the development of Jiangnan has entered its peak period, and the wealth here is astonishing.

Some people in a land of plenty have even as much as 70.00% of the land stipulated by law.

Where there are no meritorious officials, the phenomenon of land annexation is not that serious.

This is why Yang Guang likes to come to Jiangnan. The people here have more smiles on their faces than people in the north, and it feels like a prosperous age here.

The Jiangnan Canal from Jiangdu to Yuhang has been excavated. In fact, this canal existed in the Spring and Autumn Period, but it had long been blocked. Yang Guang recruited civilians to dredge it on the original basis.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs just goes through the process and makes an account. In fact, the money is in Jiangdu.

The money in the Yangzhou Mint was still being minted, and it did not cause any inflation. After all, the money of the nobles was almost not in circulation.

To be precise, the money you spend is seriously out of proportion to the money you have, and the money is concentrated in the hands of a few people, but the majority of consumption is always contributed by ordinary people.

The Lingnan West Road did not pay taxes last year, and there was no tribute. The court understands this, but starting from this year, you must pay me the full amount of taxes, otherwise you will be dismissed from office.

What Li Mi brought to Li Shimin was a set of farmland system that was modified and improved by the prince and officials in the East Palace to suit the situation of Lingnan West Road.

Li Shimin didn't take it out last year because the finishing work was too cumbersome. He and the county officials didn't have time to explore the new system of acres, and he was still preparing for the weaving workshop.

But now, he must prepare.

On this day, all the county officials were invited to the Shangshu Ling's mansion in Ningyue County.

This mansion is actually Ning Chun's home, and Li Shimin is the dove occupying the magpie's nest.

"The reserves of kapok are sufficient. Several of Ning Chun's weaving workshops in the city have been successfully renovated and are now weaving cotton cloth," Ning Hui Zaohui, Minister of Civil Affairs, reported.

The kapok here in Lingnan is not the same as the cotton grown in the Yellow River and Huaihe Rivers. It is short-fiber cotton, which is widely distributed in Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan and other places.

Short fibers can also be made into cotton, but they are a bit rough. Isn’t Feng Yuzhi’s piece of Jibei considered a treasure?
Good quality has a good price, and rough has a rough price. The goods on the market originally have three, six or nine grades. It is impossible to only have high-end and high-end goods without low-end goods. Furthermore, short-fiber kapok is used as filler. , is very suitable.

Li Shimin nodded and said with a smile: "I'll leave the weaving to you. I just want cloth and I won't listen to your nagging."

The main reason is that he doesn't understand it and doesn't have the time to study it.

Sitting next to him was Princess Yang Qi of Jinyang. The couple had a very good relationship. Yang Qi was no worse than Empress Changsun, it could be said that she was even better.

Li Shimin looked at Li Mi and said, "Xuansui, please tell them."

Li Mi nodded, unfolded the long files in front of him, and explained to everyone in detail:
"The land system that the prince proposed in the East Palace is based on our land system of the Great Sui Dynasty, and slightly modified according to the current situation in Lingnan. In the new system, men and women under three years old are called yellow, and men and women under ten are called small. Seventeen and under are called small. Among them, those who are above eighteen are Ding, and Ding is required to serve in class; those who are sixty and old are exempted from service; and those who are sixty-six and above are retired from the fields."

Service means taxation and military service. You are exempt from military service when you are 60 years old. If you are 66 or die, you must return the land given to you by the country to the country.

Qiu He raised his hand and frowned: "Does it count as a Ding? After three years?"

Li Mi smiled and explained: "Young Master Tian from Lingnan, this is the only way to give him. If he gives the land at the age of 15, he cannot keep up with the current speed of reclaiming wasteland."

Qiu He nodded: "It sounds reasonable, please continue."

Li Mi nodded and continued: "Change the open-air field into oral-divided land. The husband will be given 120 acres of land, the woman will be given [-] acres, and each man will be given [-] acres of Yongye mulberry field. In other words, a couple will be given [-] acres of oral-divided land. There are [-] acres of mulberry fields, and the family has oxen. An additional [-] acres of land are granted, with a limit of four oxen. This is the same as the equal land system and has not been modified. However, the prince said that although there are few fields in Lingnan, there are also few people, so we should try our best to Full amount of land will be granted."

Cen Mingxiu, the prefect of Yulin County, was stunned: "If we give it like this, the chiefs of the tribes will not agree. Isn't this just dividing the tribal people from the tribe on a household basis? I thought you would change it. This is completely It hasn’t been changed.” “This is the land equalization system of the Sui Dynasty. Do you know what steps need to be taken to change the system?” Li Mi smiled and said, “How can we make an exception for Lingnan.”

Cen Mingxiu shook his head and sighed: "I'm afraid something will happen."

"With such a good system, the tribesmen and common people must be happy. The only ones who are dissatisfied are the chiefs," Li Shimin said solemnly:
"I don't want to offend the people, but I am not afraid of offending them. As for how to make the people understand and accept the country's policies, this is a matter for the governors. Whoever causes civil unrest will be punished by losing the city and losing land."

Cen Mingxiu said nothing more, and Li Shimin motioned to Li Mi to continue.

Li Mi said: "The Yongye field among them is the mulberry field. If the person dies, the heir will inherit it. If the family is poor and cannot provide burial, the Yongye field can be sold. If the family is extinct, it will be taken back to the government and re-granted the land; Ding Nan Among them, the disabled are only given [-] acres of land and pay half tax; the crippled and terminally ill are given [-] acres of land, tax-free; among women, if they are widows and concubines, they are given [-] acres of land, and they also pay half tax. Children with small or medium-sized dependents are exempt from tax.”

Qiu He and others were dumbfounded when they heard this. It was such a discount. They really cared about the Lingnan slang people.

Li Mi looked at the crowd and said: "These policies are to widen the rural areas and follow the laws. The land allocation at the narrow entrance is halved, and the taxes are also halved. Those who have no land in the county will be granted by the other county. In addition, the fields are divided into three grades. It is difficult for those who farm every year to get to the fields. Those who are one year old are Yi Zhongtian, and those who are two years old are Yi Yi Xia Tian. When the land is granted, if it is a middle field, it needs to be doubled, that is, 160 acres. If it is a lower field, it is doubled again, that is, 320 acres."

Everyone looked at each other. In the original system, there was no such thing as three times the lower farmland. Instead, the lower farmland was doubled, and the middle farmland was given forty acres more.

In the middle field, you have to let the land rest for one year before you can cultivate it. Otherwise, if you plant food, it will not grow. When you go to the field, you have to rest for two years. This is called raising the field.

Later generations used various scientific and technological means and various chemical fertilizers to cultivate crops every year. This was not possible in ancient times. The land needed to be recuperated.

"As for your positions, they have also been revised," Li Mi said.

Official land means that local officials use public land as their salary. The land granted to them is actually their salary in the place where the official governs.

This is of great interest to everyone.

"The first grade has fifteen hectares, the second grade has twelve hectares, and the third grade has ten hectares." Li Mi said slowly.

One hectare is one hundred acres, so the salary is not low.

Qiu He and others were also very happy, because this salary was higher than the original salary. He was the founding county official, a second-grade official. His previous salary was ten hectares, but now it has increased by two hectares, which is not bad, it is two hundred acres.

Then, Li Mi explained in detail the number of acres in Gongsetian, which had increased compared with other places.

Therefore, Lingnan West Road has a high salary. After all, it is a poor place. If the salary is low, no one will really want to work.

There is also farming.

What is farming?Tuntian is an area of ​​land that supplies military supplies, and people are recruited to cultivate it. This thing originated from Cao Cao, and entered its heyday in the Northern Wei Dynasty. Later, it gradually changed to border areas or places that were difficult to govern, and then there were tuntian.

Because farming occupies people's land, and if there are more farming, people's land will be less. Therefore, in the Sui Dynasty, there are only a few places with farming. Hexi, the northern border, northeast Liaodong, and Lingnan must also implement it, because I have to Raise troops.

Generally speaking, farming is not done in the mainland. That is to compete with the people for profit.

In the early years, when the Chen Dynasty was just destroyed, the Sui Dynasty camped in the Jianghuai area for three years just to raise troops to suppress it, but it was later cancelled.

The same situation is happening in Lingnan now. Li Shimin still has 5000 people under his command. These people don't know how to farm here. They have to rely on local people to farm the land.

So how many farms were designated by Yang Ming? Each county could set up two to five villages according to the situation. One farm equals twenty hectares. A place like Shi'an County is relatively stable, so two villages can be set up, that is, four villages. Thousands of acres of land were used to raise soldiers.

But there is a premise: these farmlands cannot be allocated from existing acres, but must be newly reclaimed acres. This is tantamount to using the army to force the people and actively open up wasteland.

There is a camp in each camp, with people living in the barracks. Each camp has a camp number, with the captain as the camp leader.

This transformation of Lingnan by the East Palace, in addition to farming, is also Yang Ming's future reform of the land system in the Sui Dynasty, and Lingnan West Road is the experimental field of this system. The various problems exposed here will be summarized. Summarize and summarize it into a land-acre system suitable for all parts of the world.

The first step in granting land is to check the household registration. This is the matter of Wei Fusi, the Minister of War in Lingnan, and it is also the most difficult first step.

After passing this level, everything goes smoothly.

Li Shimin was very motivated and decided to fight in Lingnan in accordance with the system agreed by the East Palace.

(End of this chapter)