In the eighth year of Jingming, midsummer.
The war in the South was in full swing.
The Zhou army drove straight in and took fifty cities in one go.
Yang Ji's prestige was in the limelight for a while, unmatched by anyone.
In order to cooperate with the overseas development plan, under the strong promotion of the emperor and queen, the imperial court promulgated a series of systems on land sales.
In the past, as long as you have money and power, you can buy land at will.
This is what is often referred to as land annexation.
The imperial court has almost no effective means to prevent it.
More than 90% of the incidents of forcing the good into slavery, forcing the good into prostitution, and killing people are all rooted in the land.
For example, during the years of natural disasters, wealthy families drove up food prices, suppressed land prices, and engaged in food hunger marketing.
Although they don't understand the theory of hunger marketing, it does not prevent local wealthy families from adopting such methods.
Moreover, natural disasters are often accompanied by epidemics.
On the one hand, there is no harvest in the fields, starvation, and various diseases on the other. If you have to pay taxes to complete the corvee, the degree of tragedy is a living tragedy in the world.
The result is that the rich become less rich, the less rich become poor, and the poor can only sell their sons and daughters.
As long as the natural disaster lasts for more than half a year, the land should be sold after selling off the children.
And the price is extremely low.
Local rich families will take the opportunity to buy up fields. A village, a pavilion, a township, and even a county, most of the land fell into the hands of one family.
The wealthy family is strong, and the small people are bankrupt.
The bankrupt commoners are better off as tenants, farming for the big family, to survive.
The second point is to sell yourself as a slave, or flee from famine to become a refugee.
As long as they do not return to the place of household registration, the government will have no way to collect taxes and collect corvee from them. This is why so many people choose to flee famine.
As for selling yourself, it's not that if you want to sell, someone will buy it.
When big families buy people, they usually only buy children. After a few years of training, they can work and be loyal.
Boys and girls are also fine, just buy it and use it.
Older people, such as men and women in their 30s and 40s, no big family would want them.
Even if you don't want money, just ask for a bowl of food and work for nothing, the rich people are not willing to ask for it.
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There is also a common situation that does not necessarily wait for natural disasters.
Natural disasters do not happen every year.
But every year there is a need to buy land.
At the beginning of the wealthy family's fortune, they usually bought dozens of acres of land here and a few hectares of land there.
The more you buy, the more you buy, but they are all east and west.
At this time, the Hao family wanted to connect the land under their name into one piece.
Think about that scene, when a guest came, he pointed to a large piece of land and said, "All the land here is mine."
Listen, how proud.
The land of other people's homes blocked in the middle of each piece of land is particularly obtrusive.
what to do
buy it!
But no one wants to sell.
The family is not so difficult that they can't afford food, and most people don't know how to sell land.
Even if there are difficulties, I will think of other ways first. As a last resort, no one will easily sell the fields in their hands.
The land saved by the ancestors, the land that has been carefully tended for decades, has finally turned the thin field into a fertile field, why should I sell it just because you want to buy it.
At this time, one wants to buy and the other does not want to sell, and a conflict arises.
what to do
The gangster raised by the wealthy family came in handy.
All kinds of shady means came into play, forcing people to sell the land.
This kind of strong buying and selling has been happening every day for thousands of years.
Hatred, poverty, clan conflicts, and all kinds of natural and man-made disasters are often rooted in the land.
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In the eighth year of Jingming, the new land system, which the emperor and the empress had been planning for many years, broke through many difficulties. After compromises by all parties, the terms were supplemented and revised, and finally came out.
From the first day of August in the eighth year of Jingming, all good people of the Great Zhou Dynasty, regardless of farmers, businessmen, and businessmen, can only have a maximum of 100 mu of land under their names.
Under the name of a servant, a person can only have ten acres of land.
Within this standard, ten taxes are one.
As long as the land purchased in the past does not exceed 100 mu, it can enjoy this tax rate.
Anything exceeding the number of acres will be taxed ten times and five times within the scope of one time.
More than double, the tax rate increases.
For example, a good citizen has 120 mu of land under his name. Among them, one hundred mu, one tax per ten.
The extra 20 mu will be taxed five times out of ten. Harvest a hundred catties of wheat, you have to pay fifty catties of grain tax.
Readers have other regulations.
With the fame of a scholar, the upper limit of the land under his name is 150 mu, and there are two cute people.
That is to say, except for the scholar himself, three members of the family can enjoy the benefits of owning 150 acres of land at the same time, ten taxes and one tax.
Juren, Jinshi, and gradually increase.
As an official, for example, Mr. Zhongshuling Lu, the head of a hundred officials, can own up to 25 hectares of land under his name, tax one for ten, and twenty-five people.
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Along with the promulgation of the land law, there is also a new servant law.
There are many rules and regulations, which are related to the vital interests of everyone. As soon as the announcement is made, the whole world is boiling instantly.
The streets and alleys, Qinlou Chuguan, teahouses and restaurants, are all discussing the new land law.
For the first time, the Press Department mobilized on a large scale, requiring all newspapers in the world to publish the Land Law and Servant Law regulations, and to publish the interpretation of the regulations.
At the same time, Sanhe Express, Shaofu Bank, Sihai Meat Shop, and other commercial organizations also joined the propaganda war.
They went deep into the backcountry, went deep into the valleys, and explained the new land law to the local villagers.
In order to avoid someone taking advantage of poor information to fish in troubled waters and mess around.
Every newspaper releases a special report, and it is not a problem to do a special report for three months.
This means that for the next three months, all the news will give way to the law of the land.
For thousands of years, what is the most cherished thing for people
Not life, but land.
From the emperor, the high officials of the court, down to the peasants in the village, they are all fighting for the land.
The emperor wants to expand the territory, occupy more land, or defend the territory laid down by the ancestors.
Senior officials of the imperial court want to endorse the family and buy land wantonly, the more the better.
A small family becomes a big family, a big family becomes a wealthy family, a wealthy family becomes a noble family, and the noble family influences the imperial court...
This is an infinitely rising channel, and no one is willing to give up.
Rural peasants, who go out early and return late, work hard, just want to buy a few acres of land and save a little property for their children.
Even the big merchants, who can't make enough money, don't just keep buying, buying, and buying enough land. Suddenly, he changed from a merchant to a landlord and gentry.
Now, Dazhou does not restrict the imperial examinations for the children of merchants.
As long as you are a good citizen, regardless of whether you are a scholar, a farmer, a businessman or a businessman, you can take the imperial examination.
Even the children of the clan can take the imperial examination. And after years of hard work, seven or eight scholars have been tested. In a few years, maybe a few more people can be admitted to Jinshi.
In other words, there is no need for businessmen to change their identity. The status of a merchant does not affect the child's imperial examination.
But there are still many businessmen who follow the customs of their ancestors and run wildly on the road of buying, buying, and buying.
With so many people buying land, there must be land of the same size to sell.
Where does the land come from
It can only be sold, seized, occupied, or forced from the hands of the small people...
In short, in the middle and late stages of each dynasty, it is inevitable that the land will be separated from the small people and concentrated to the powerful and rich.
Now the imperial court suddenly promulgated a land law, accompanied by the slave law, which immediately blocked the unscrupulous purchase of land.
buy it!
Just buy it!
Sorry, the new land law is not implemented by the Ministry of Household Affairs.
I bought a lot of land and wanted to be tax-free. Sorry, I found the wrong person. Go out and turn right to find Shaofu.
A group of weak chickens in the household department, colluded with interests, and had no clear ties with the local wealthy families. Letting them tax and measure the land means that half of the new land law has just been promulgated, and it has been abolished.
The emperor and the empress, through various means, plus a certain compromise of interests, the responsibility of the new land law, all belong to the Shaofu. The Jinwu Guard and the Ministry of Internal Affairs cooperated.
In the past, the Inspector, who was limited to the harem, has transformed into the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The standards have been improved and the establishment has been increased. The Ministry of Internal Affairs has recruited a large number of unemployed Jinshi candidates in advance, as well as scholars with outstanding skills.
Except for scholars, all the recruited Jinshi were formally assigned to the imperial court and received imperial salaries.
Ask about the mood of the Jinshi recruited by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
The mood is painful and happy, and it is very beautiful from time to time.
Why
Because of power, of course!
Cooperating with such a large project and involving the interests of all parties, it is conceivable that the Ministry of Internal Affairs will bear the biggest infamy in the world and become a veritable blame man.
The emperor and the empress launched the Ministry of Internal Affairs, presumably to take the blame, it is really far-sighted.
People in the Ministry of Internal Affairs are willing to take the blame.
Taking the blame for the emperor and empress is not an ordinary person, he has to win the eyes of the emperor and empress and have the power in his hands to be eligible to take the blame.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs is carrying such a big pot, and the power can be imagined, and it is also a little bit, at least a 30% increase. They dare to stretch out their fingers towards Shaofu.
Without saying a word, Deng Cunli of the Shaofu took the machete and chopped off the finger that the Ministry of Internal Affairs extended.
I'm fat!
Dare to reach out to Shaofu.
Let you know what is good or bad.
The Minister of Internal Affairs held his severed finger, ouch, ouch, it hurts, and he can only cry out in secret, not in front of others.
Aggrieved!
That also has to endure.
Followed behind Shaofu's ass, pointing and hitting that.
The most difficult thing about the new land laws is taxation!
The Ministry of Household Affairs and the local government are mostly a group of weak chickens in the face of local tyrants and aristocratic families.
The new land law, which you can understand with a pig's brain, mainly restricts local tyrants and aristocratic families.
Xiaomin simply does not have the strength to buy a hundred acres of land.
Let the local government ask the wealthy family to tax them, and they are afraid that they will be kicked out before they come to the door.
Therefore, the emperor and empress specially assigned the task of implementing the new land laws to the Shaofu, and asked the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Jinwu Guard to cooperate.
This configuration represents the determination of the emperor and empress to implement the new land laws.
If you want to buy land wantonly, a small family of 80 or 90 people can own hundreds of hectares of land, or even thousands of hectares of land. All right, double the tax, until it's nine out of ten.
When the land does not bring profit, but becomes a burden instead, we need to see who dares to buy land wantonly.
Dissatisfied
Let go of the Jinwu Guard!