Overlord!

Chapter 71 Create a method that Zhuxia has never had since ancient times

Gu Yong.

This name represents the most outstanding level of civil servants in the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms.

This is a famous minister who has been the prime minister for nearly 20 years from the end of Han Dynasty to the Three Kingdoms. He is already second only to Zhuge Kongming in the Three Kingdoms.

It can be said that the county magistrate of Wu County, a district of Wu County, is governed by this famous prime minister.

For this worthy minister, Sun Ce was not as arrogant as the other princes, but highly valued him, and invited him to attend the discussion.

After the two parties were seated, Sun Ce was very straightforward, and said straight to the point: "Mr. Gu, I plan to set up a government-run textile workshop in Wu County to accommodate people who fled from the north to the south of the Yangtze River. Raw materials are the most important thing in the operation of a textile workshop. I think I know, Wu County’s registered land registers can be counted clearly? How many fields of mulberry, hemp and ramie are there?”

Gu Yong was also very capable, and replied: "General, there are ten villages in Wu County: Nanchang, Geyang, Xiaoyuan, Guangling, Chiyang, Matsu, Dongling, Liangyu, Hetang, and Jiatang. I have thoroughly investigated six of them. For the remaining four townships of Dongling, Liangyu, Hetang, and Jiatang, officials such as stingy husbands have also reported the number of acres of land, but the county government has not yet completed the review and completed the details."

Although the size of Wuxian Shixiang is a large county, it still appears that the development progress is seriously insufficient.Only in the Eastern Wu period, Wu County had grown from ten townships to thirteen townships.

Township and Ting actually have similar areas of jurisdiction, the difference being that Township is an administrative unit and Ting is a security unit.If an analogy must be made, the township is similar to the Chengxuan Zhengshi of the later generations, while the Ting is the punishment and inspection department.

Therefore, there are three elders, cowards and wanderers in the township.The three elders are in charge of education, the miser is in charge of litigation and taxation, and the traveler is in charge of patrolling thieves.

For the pavilion, there are pavilion chiefs and pavilion soldiers, who are in charge of security guards, arresting the dead, and also taking care of the staying passengers.

In fact, the powers of these two units are highly overlapping. Generally, in places with good public security, the power of the township is heavier.Where the law and order is poor, the authority of the pavilion is heavier.

Compared with Shicheng County, Wu County is undoubtedly more peaceful and far away from war.

Sun Ce was quite pleasantly surprised by Gu Yong's answer, as expected, he was worthy of being a famous figure through the ages. With just one sentence, he had a clear understanding of the political situation, household registration and land registration of the entire Wu County.

To be reasonable, Sun Ce was at a loss as to how to manage the entire Wu County before. In such a strange land of Xinna, with so many disputes between powerful powers, trying to sort out the situation is simply a mess. Feel.

However, as Gu Yong divided the entire Wu County into ten townships, each township was led by the Sanlao, the stingy man, and You Yan to check the household registration and field registration, and then the county government officials recorded and summarized them, and the township supervisors Ting Yan went to check and recheck.Finally, there is the county magistrate to review the accounts.

This is not over yet, the county magistrate handed over the materials for the plan to the county, and there is also Tian Cao in the county who specializes in checking the land registration. Tian Cao is a Cao division, and there are a large number of officials in it who may inspect the statistics of the fields in each county on the spot.

Going through this set of procedures, if a tyrant wants to hide his fields, there are too many relationships to open up.

Sun Ce was still dissatisfied with this procedure, and said, "Acres of land statistics are related to tax planning. You can follow the example of the county government and set up a field cao in addition to the county government's meritorious officers to manage land mu transactions and statistics."

Having said that, Sun Ce couldn't help laughing.

Sun Ce's reform this time can be said to have brought about an earth-shaking change in the entire Han Dynasty's concept of governing the country.

But the entire Jiangdong, from the county government to the powerful people, were all overjoyed, thinking that Sun Ce was promoting the rule of Huang Lao, and governing by doing nothing.

Especially after the private minting of currency was allowed, the impression of the tyrants was further deepened.

The tyrants and powerful people in Wu County couldn't be more happy, and they all praised Sun Ce's name of generosity and benevolence.All support Sun Ce's rule of Jiangdong.Now even if anyone wants to oppose the expulsion of Sun Ce, they will fight desperately with the opponents.There was no need for Sun Ce to send troops, the heroes themselves led their troops to cut off the heads of the rebels and sent them to the army.

But in fact, Sun Ce is very clear that what he is promoting is definitely not the rule of Huang Lao.On the contrary, what he implemented was actually an extremely standardized and strict government taxation management system.

Not establishing the land system does not mean being indifferent to land ownership.He simply allowed the land to circulate freely.This is the path that economic development will inevitably choose.It wasn't the real change brought about by Sun Ce, the traverser.

What Sun Ce really strictly intervenes in is actually a strict taxation system. It is the opposite of governance by doing nothing. He wants to establish a top-down bureaucracy that strictly supervises, controls land transactions, and ownership, so as to further establish a sophisticated and complete taxation agency.

That's right, this taxation system did not exist in the feudal dynasties of the Central Plains.It is rooted in the strict control and understanding of the land by the Jiangdong government.

This kind of taxation subject is obviously different from the Song, Ming, Yuan, and Qing dynasties. It is a new system that is more in line with the current economic level, and it was completely designed by Sun Ce.

It not only absorbs the modern taxation theory and system, but also combines the development level of agriculture in the late Han Dynasty.An absolutely unique product.

Sun Ce never thought that copying the system of later generations could perfectly adapt to the current situation.

For example, the Song Dynasty did not establish a land system. If the system of the Song Dynasty was directly transferred, then Sun Ce might be directly overthrown by the tyrants.

The Song Dynasty was notoriously heavy on taxes. Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, he has preserved all the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.Then it relies heavily on industry and commerce. At its peak, industry and commerce tax accounted for [-]% of the country's tax revenue.

If this was applied to Wu County, the staunch and rebellious tyrants would directly raise their troops to rebel and unite to drive Sun Ce out of Jiangdong.At worst, they cut off the deal directly, closed production in Wubao, and resisted taxation with armed forces.

Gu Yong can probably see Sun Ce's planning strategy clearly. He nodded slowly and said, "The annual salary of a small official is no more than a hundred shi. According to the law of the Han Dynasty, the tax name is [-] and the tax is one, but in fact the tax is five or six. Raising one Famous farmer Cao Xiaoli, as long as he can count more than [-] acres of fertile land hidden by tyrants. And as long as there is a small official who is honest and honest, and thoroughly investigates a family of tyrants who are hiding, the fertile land won will not be less than hundreds of acres or even thousands of acres. Mu. Enough to pay for the entire Tian Cao Yousi."

Of course, this is relatively rough, and both the yield per mu and the taxation are the maximum.

But there is one point that Gu Yong said that there is absolutely no need to question it. As long as a small official finds out the land registration hidden by the powerful, a thousand acres of good land can support at least ten families.

Moreover, these ten households are all small landlords with a hundred acres of fertile land, and they belong to the families of wealthy tyrants and soldiers.The Liangjiazi of the Six Counties and the Knight of the Three Rivers are only of this level.

With these wealth, it is no problem to support a Tian Cao and dozens of petty officials.

Sun Ce still firmly believes in the idea that wealth is created, not saved.

If Emperor Chongzhen could have this point of view, he would set up one more professional taxation agency for wealthy businessmen in the southeast, and reduce one post system in the northwest.Daming will not collapse so quickly.

As long as one-tenth or even one percent more taxes can be collected from wealthy families in the southeast, countless bureaucrats and troops can be raised.

Sun Ce's office is located in the southeast, so it is bound to be able to exercise stronger control over the southeast. Naturally, it is necessary to establish a complete tax collection system for the powerful.

Land is a top priority in this regard.

Gu Yong introduced this aspect: "The total amount of land reported today is 41 mu. After the counties are verified and hidden, there will probably be a gap of [-]% to [-]%. The difference will not be too big."

Wu County is a large county with a population of nearly [-] households, including more than [-] households including soldiers and their families.

But the level of land development is extremely insufficient, even if calculated according to the current number of households, it is about [-] mu per household.

A family of [-] mu is simply destitute.On average, each person has three or four acres of land.

The land has to be rested in rotation, other crops have to be cultivated, and more importantly, various exorbitant taxes have to be paid.A person who can leave one or two acres of grain is considered a Toyota.

One or two acres of grain can be used for a year, so there is no need to buy clothes or the like.It's good to be full.

In the north, there are three stones of grain per mu of land, which is only [-] catties in total.So starvation is the norm.

Only when the land in Wu County is rich and fertile, and the yield per mu is close to ten stones, can the common people have a grain reserve of about two hundred catties a year.

But it's still average!

Sun Ce and Jack Ma are worth an average of 500 billion and [-] yuan.

And Gu Yong also talked about this issue: "Not all the land is in the hands of the common people, it is roughly divided into three parts, of which [-]% is in the hands of the powerful, [-]% is in the hands of the government, and about [-]% is in the hands of the common people."

"As the general stabilized the situation in Wu County and resumed production, the Hakkas competed with the people for land, the powerful and the government competed for land, and the disputes between the powerful and the Hakka became more intense every day, like a fire cooking oil."

Sun Ce frowned: "What's going on? Let me tell you the details." How could the situation intensify after he stabilized Wu County?
Gu Yongnai explained in detail: "This is mainly because of the official land."

"At the beginning of the general's expedition to the east, the common people lost their souls when they heard of Sun Lang's arrival. When the general defeated Liu Mu in Qu'a, the chief officials appointed the city and hid the mountains and grass. Until the general's troops marched to Wu County, the soldiers were ordered not to If you dare to be captured, you will be as good as chickens and dogs, and you will not offend anything, and the people will be happy."

"Before the common people were satisfied, a large number of tyrants, township party members, men and women fled southward with their families."

"The county government and the county government naturally couldn't abandon the fields and houses they abandoned. Instead, they took them as official land and rented them out to poor people and exiled Hakkas."

Guantian source, this is very simple.

But the name Hakka attracted Sun Ce's attention.

Did the name Hakka exist today?
He did know that Da Song called the household registration with land property the main household, and those without land property were called customers.And customers are exempted from many taxes.

Unexpectedly, in Jiangdong, there will also be a dispute between customers and hosts.

Sun Ce asked: "Where do these exiled people mainly come from? Why are there such fierce struggles?"

Gu Yong immediately said: "It can be roughly divided into two categories. One is Jianghuai heroes. Yuan Shu does not establish a virtuous government and relies on plundering. The army under his command not only plunders the people, but also focuses on plundering powerful manors. The people in Jianghuai may have Go up the mountain and build a stronghold to protect yourself. Or one after another crossed south and entered Jiangdong. These people are all organized into groups, and they use clans as tribes. Once settled, even the government and patriarchs cannot let them leave the whole clan."

"The tyrants who fled south from Wu County before heard that Wu County was safe and sound. After returning home, they fought fiercely with them for land, and often made troubles with the government. The disputes were the most intense."

That's right, Sun Ce nodded.

Sun Ce had also heard about this in his previous life.

Sun Ce's forces entered Jiangdong, in fact, the Jianghuai faction conquered the Jiangdong faction.

Including Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Jiang Qin, Lu Su and others are actually heroes of the Jianghuai Department.

Jiangdong's external development is insufficient, and under the grievances, there will naturally be disputes between the Jiangdong faction and the Jianghuai faction.After all, in this era, the township party and the clan will instinctively unite, and will definitely spontaneously divide into various factions politically.

Of course, this is a problem for Sun Quan, but it is just a trivial matter for Sun Ce.

As long as they can expand externally instead of staying in one place and fighting internally, this small conflict will soon be smoothed out with the benefits brought by the expansion.

On the contrary, Sun Ce was quite touched by the Jianghuai people going south.

For people like Yuan Shu, the people under his rule fled to Sun Ce one after another.But he didn't know it yet, his eyes were still high above the top, bossing around.

Just like that, he dared to call himself emperor.How dare Sun Ce support him?

"The other group is Xuzhou people. Due to the massacre of Xuzhou by Cao Cao and the chaos in Xufang, a large number of people went south. They are different from the people in Jianghuai. One is that they are more scattered, and the other is that they all go south with their family wealth. , especially like to contact him for business.”

These people who went south from Xuzhou were obviously the part headed by Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong, and Zhuge Jin.

From this point of view, Zhang Hong's proposal to focus on industry and commerce has his personal background.

After saying this, Gu Yong said solemnly: "General, from this alone, we can see that a large number of northerners are living in the south of the Yangtze River, and the population far exceeds that of Wu County when it was at its peak. It is only agricultural reclamation, and it is still urgent to provide food. It is necessary to change rice to grow mulberry , will exacerbate the food shortage.”

"Today, the mulberry field in the statistics is only [-] mu, the hemp field is [-] mu, and the total of kudzu and ramie is about [-] mu."

The question that Gu Yong asked also caught Sun Ce's attention.

It is indeed something worth thinking about.

The territory of Wu County is full of fertile land.It is a land of fish and rice!
Located on the Taihu Plain, a large number of fertile fields can produce ten stones per mu.If the 40 mu of fertile land were all grown with grain, even at the level of the fifteenth tax of the Han Dynasty, Sun Ce would be able to provide 20 shi of grain at the age of one.

20 stone grains.

This is enough for Sun Ce's army to fight for nearly a year.

This is indeed a very tempting result, but Sun Ce still does not agree with Gu Yong's final result.

Gu Yong is indeed a famous prime minister through the ages, and he is definitely second to none in handling government affairs.

But in terms of the concept of governing the country, Sun Ce is very different from him.

"Mr. Gu County, I don't think that the arrival of refugees and customers is a bad thing that causes disputes. On the contrary, this is the biggest opportunity for the further development of Wu County!"

"How can there be only 40 mu of land in such a big Wu County? I thought that as long as the government is in place, not only 40 mu, but 60 mu, the entire Wu County will be full of fertilization in a few years! Even every hill, every corner Trees are planted everywhere!"

In the end, Sun Ce said with great ambition: "I believe that there may be 10 families in Wu County!"

(End of this chapter)