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Chapter 45 I Said This Is Borderlands This Is Borderlands

Shen Shuren was originally worried that he was too young, and suddenly he became a co-prefect, and a group of magistrates in their forties were under his control, and everyone would not be convinced.

However, after learning that he was the eldest son of the Shen family, the richest man in Suzhou, and was admitted to the Imperial Academy, but was still willing to send out to the front line to suppress thieves, all the grievances of his subordinates disappeared.

The trouble caused Shen Shuren to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger, and slap his face to stand up, but he didn't use any tricks.

That's good too, save the worry of internal fighting, and concentrate on farming and foreign enemies.

In the next half month, Shen Shuren inspected Qizhou County and Huangmei County to get a general idea of ​​the situation in Huangzhou.

As for the counties close to the front line and the villages and towns deep into the mountains, he didn't go there for the time being. Personal safety is always the most important thing, and the son of a daughter can't sit still.

Before coming here, he had read the archives of Huangzhou from the Ministry of Accounts. According to the books, there were a total of more than 20 people in the peaceful era (actually, according to the practice in the late Ming Dynasty, at least one-third of the hidden households contributed concealed reports) , distributed in nine counties.

Of the five counties that have not yet been occupied, Qizhou County has the largest population, with more than 6000 households and more than 4 people. The least is Luotian County, which has been reduced to an enclave behind enemy lines, with only 8000 to [-] people.

The other three counties each have 3 to 11 people, and the combined population of the five counties should theoretically be [-].

The actual number, according to the report of Zhao Yunfan, Jiangcheng and other county magistrates because of the war and fleeing into exile, is only more than 6.

If those hidden households and fugitives can be counted, it is estimated that they can still make up [-] to [-].But how to get them back to Qimin to register accounts is a big problem. If they are not handled properly, they will be forced to go to the thieves.

The entire Huangzhou government should pay more than 6 shi in the tax and food in the fish scale book of the household department, and has more than 1 mu of registered land (the positive amount of land tax in the late Ming Dynasty was reduced to 2 to [-] buckets per mu, with an average of [-] mu). One mu of land pays one shi tax).

According to the imperial court system, the mansions with tax and grain below 6 shi are inferior mansions, and Huangzhou only has more than [-] shi. There is no doubt that the lower mansions in the Huguang area are relatively poor.

Fortunately, of the more than 50 mu of land, 35 mu belonged to the five counties that were not occupied. Although Huanggang, the prefecture, has not yet been recovered, the most fertile plain in Huangzhou is not the Bashui River Valley where Huanggang is located, but Poyang in the south. The alluvial fan at the mouth of the lake on the other side of the lake is under the control of Shen Shuren, so there is still enough land for farming.

With fewer people now, the only good news is that the labor force can be fully utilized.If most people want to farm, they can have enough fields, as long as those landlords are willing to give them a reasonable rental price.

A total of less than 10 people planted 35 mu of land. Even including the elderly, children and women, each person can share four mu of arable land.

After Shen Shuren completed the overall survey, he immediately realized that the most important task at the moment is to stabilize and resume production, and use all the fields that temporarily escaped from the war.

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It was halfway through May when Shen Shuren arrived in Huangzhou, and it was already early June when the investigation was completed, and it was time for the summer grain harvest.

What he can do is to first persuade farmers to ensure that they will rush to harvest in various places, and then organize the cultivation of autumn grain for those fields that were abandoned during spring plowing.After the summer crops are harvested, they will also organize rush planting.

The double competition in the southern summer has always been the busiest time, and the bandits did not dare to harass them in the hot weather, and both sides organized production with peace of mind.

At the beginning of June, Shen Shuren first called several county magistrates and some local gentry, and asked them to identify which of the abandoned fields in Qizhou, Huangmei and other places were vacated by the fleeing landlords.

Zhao Yunfan and the local gentry were very cooperative when they saw that Mr. Tongzhi was just picking soft persimmons.Identify all the farms that were abandoned because the head of the household fled to Jiangxi on the other side.

Shen Shuren immediately assigned hundreds of tenant farmers from the Shen family brought from Suzhou, as well as thousands of newly organized landless farmers, to rush to grow potatoes, sweet potatoes and corn on these lands.

Rice is planted in some low-lying areas, and taro and lotus root are planted in really muddy and swampy areas.

In later generations, the Hubei area was originally an important production area of ​​lotus root, because there are many small lakes, depressions and swamps here.The Bashui lotus root of Huanggang and the lotus root of Wuchang are both famous in later generations.

Taro is considered to be a wetland crop that Hubei people plant relatively little, but there are many in Suzhou and Chongming. The Suzhou tenant farmers brought by Shen Shuren will grow taro, and they can teach local farmers.

Shen Shuren organized production according to the ratio of one tenant farmer of his confidant and five to ten households of local farmers.Although the local people don't want to be managed, they heard that the people brought by Master Tongzhi will teach them the techniques of growing these crops they have never seen before, and they are very active in learning, and there is no trouble.

However, the farmers are happy to see the results, which does not mean that there is no resistance from other aspects.

After Shen Shuren organized production, Zhao Yunfan reminded him: "My lord, I don't know if you have thought about it. These fields were temporarily abandoned because the old owner fled. It must be reasonable for those landless farmers not to dare to replant before you came.

Because of the gentry who occupy these fields, many forces are not limited to one township and one county.The boundary of Huangzhou has always been in a complicated situation, relying on Yinghuo Mountain, and it is also the junction of three provinces.Many noble gentry have manors in Jiangxi Hukou, Anqing Chizhou in Nanzhili, and old forces.

Now they see that Liu Xiyao is rampant, and they flee to Hukou and Chizhou because they are afraid that Jiangbei will not be safe.They were certain that the thieves had no sailors who could cross the Yangtze River, and there was Zuo Liangyu on the south bank of Wuchang, so they felt that they would be safe when they reached the south of the Yangtze River.

If it is learned that the fields in Huangzhou have been randomly distributed to the poor for cultivation, and they will come back to make troubles during the autumn harvest in the future, and the disputes will be unevenly distributed, how should we deal with it?You can't afford to offend those noble families whose power spans several provinces. "

When Zhao Yunfan said these words, he was sincerely doing well for Shen Shuren.He has been an official in the local area for many years, and he knows that those rich and famous families who avoided thieves during the war must come back to have a look after the autumn harvest, because it was like this last year.

Huangzhou is located in the Dabie Mountains. Once winter comes, it will be more difficult to travel by land, so there is no need to worry about thieves coming over the mountains in winter.As long as the counties and townships are not infested by thieves in autumn, winter will be absolutely complete.

Those noble gentry can go back to their hometown to see if anyone has secretly planted their abandoned fields, and if there is any, they will use their power to collect rent.

In the early winter of last year, Zhao Yunfan personally experienced several cases. Some poor people who stole seeds and abandoned their fields were arrested by the gentry of the Home Returning Corps to file a lawsuit. Because the lease contract was not signed in advance, the gentry almost opened their mouths as much as they wanted. No matter how big the mouth is, three-quarters of the harvest will be divided, and the poor peasants are powerless to resist.

And if the lease is signed in advance, then at most it will be "forty-sixty percent", the landlord gets [-]%, and the farmer gets [-]%. It is impossible to get [-]%.

At that time, the prefect of Huangzhou also supported the series of appeals of the gentry, which led to the occurrence of "after the spring, the gentry fled the war and went to Jiangxi, and the fields were abandoned, but the poor never dared to steal the seeds again", because the poor I suffered a loss once, knowing that the stolen planting will be liquidated by the Home Returning Group in winter, and it would be better to honestly plant the owner's land with complete procedures.

After listening to the series of cases reported by Zhao Yunfan, Shen Shuren couldn't help cursing: "It's ridiculous! Even if it's stealing the seeds, you can't just let the rich gentry charge the price randomly because there is no agreement in advance! The former magistrate and some of the following magistrates , Is that how the case was decided? Are they not afraid of arousing public anger?"

Zhao Yunfan sighed: "Hasn't this been aroused already, otherwise you will come here to take up the post in one round - that is, after the conclusion of those cases, many of the poor peasants who suffered losses last year have voted for Liu Xiyao. Many of them are in Fuzhi Huanggang.

Liu Xiyao heard that the prefect of Yan was unpopular, so he went to Huanggang. Originally, the bandits didn't have any siege equipment, so it is supposed that the cage city can hold on.

But chaos broke out in the city first. Those poor people who were sentenced to [-]% of the land rent set fires everywhere and opened the city gates in the chaos. The noble gentry in Huanggang killed their entire families.

However, those noble gentry were not all dead, many of them were not in Huanggang at the time, but were still in Jiangxi, so this year the poor still dare not cultivate unclaimed land until you come forward to preside over it.But even so, public opinion is obviously still waiting and watching, and it is not known whether it will be liquidated after the autumn harvest. "

After Shen Shuren heard this, he just sneered in his heart: "The magistrate Yan is begging for death, and dare to arouse public anger at such a critical point. Huh, he is afraid of those Jiangxi gentry, but I am not. Call me Qizhou and surrounding counties Officials and gentry, I want to declare my decision.

Anyone who abandons their fields and flees will not be allowed to come back within two years and claim to collect rent from farmers who are good at farming their own fields.These people fled their hometowns and abandoned their fields, which caused the court's tax sources to dry up, and the share of the grain that was not paid. If the official asked them to help them plant, they still have the face to come back and make trouble? "

Hearing this, Zhao Yunfan felt a little more admiration for the courage of this Shangguan, but he knew that things were not that simple, so he couldn't help but smiled wryly:
"Your Excellency's love for the people is far from being comparable to that of the former Yan Zhifu. But if this rhetoric is really criticized, it will not be tenable. Many people who fled famine have fame, and there are tax exemptions, and even a considerable part of them are A branch of the Jinshi family of Jiangxi origin.

They took advantage of the unclear accounts in the land and fish scale books of various provinces, exempted [-] acres of tax in Jiangxi, and then recklessly reduced it in Huguang, and even designed reductions and exemptions in Chizhou and Anqing in Southern Zhili.

Since these people don't have to pay taxes, if you insist on saying that they abandoned the land because they "drained the tax source of the court" and let outsiders cultivate it, I'm afraid it doesn't make sense, because there are people on them. "

When Shen Shuren heard this, he was also eye-opening, and thought to himself, it turns out that people in the Ming Dynasty had this kind of rubbish that spread across several provinces to cheat on subsidies and tax refunds.

Isn't this the same reason that later generations of college graduates use the subsidy policy for the introduction of talents from various places to cheat in multiple provinces?

How many people got subsidies for employment in Nanjing, and then found out that their company also had subsidiaries in Hangzhou or Hefei, so they operated to those subsidiaries to pay social security and personal tax, and then cheated the talent introduction subsidies in Hangzhou and Hefei.

The more typical ones are those who break through the multi-unit purchase restriction to take advantage of loopholes-although the country has introduced purchase restrictions, the national real estate big data has not been opened up!Limiting purchases in one city does not mean that you cannot buy them elsewhere.

The land registration of the Ming Dynasty will only be many times behind the real estate registration of the 21st century.In this kind of state capital at the junction of three provinces, the wealthy gentry deceived their fame and tax-free area in all three provinces, which is simply not too much.

Unfortunately, the dead magistrate Yan was afraid of them, but Shen Shuren was not.

Isn't it just that there are people above, in fact Jiang Dejing who is in charge of the work of the Minister of the Household Department is a member of our faction, are we afraid that these guys will cause waves?
Shen Shuren ordered firmly: "Don't worry about these people, I told you to treat me, you just invite me. If you dare not accept, I will deal with it myself at that time."

Zhao Yunfan saw that Shen Tongzhi was so confident, and guessed that there were people above him, so he took the order and left.

(End of this chapter)