Chapter 299 299: Early baldness at a young age【Ask for a monthly ticket】
Gu Chi made a calculation for Shen Tang.
Based on the current output per mu, according to the minimum standard of living, three to four mu of bad land can support one person. This must be due to low taxes and uncomplicated tax items. If the accumulation of land rent, oral tax, calculation tax, corvee, etc., the pressure on the common people is quite heavy.
Basically jumping on the verge of starving to death or not starving to death.
Now ignoring other factors, only counting the average output of one mu of land, one head needs to plant four mu of land to live. Shen Tang brought common people from Sibao County, recruited soldiers, and Zhao Feng's 1,000 people, about 5,000 people , the minimum standard is to cultivate 20,000 mu!
In addition to these people, the original farmers in Fugu City, the tenant farmers who did not have their own fields... There are more than 10,000 people in total... These families in Fugu City joined forces and accounted for 60% of the land in Heyin, and many of them remained in the hands of the common people It is bad field.
If tax is added...
Don't say four acres of land, adding two acres is enough.
Looking at the calculation formula given by Gu Chi, Shen Tang was almost paralyzed—is she looking after Gu Chi to settle accounts?
No, she is looking at her own "poverty"!
Enduring his brain that was about to explode, he rubbed his forehead.
Gu Chi keenly noticed her discomfort.
concerned: "Is the lord listening?"
Shen Tang: "I'm listening, I'm listening... It's just that I have a headache from hearing it. The feeling is very subtle and indescribable. It's as if eight hundred Gong Xichou surrounded me and beat me up. Kick, beat me to the point of staring..."
The key is that these accounts are all recorded in words, and they are vertically arranged, from right to left, densely packed together. The reading experience can be called "cool" like ecstasy! Immediately to the extent of rolling the eyes and spitting white foam!
This kind of office conditions?
Hehe, the low work efficiency is really not her fishing!
The more you look at it, the more angry you get, the more you look at it, the more irritable!
Continue on, she is afraid that she will go bald at an early age.
The corner of Gu Chi's mouth twitched.
"...young...bald?"
"It's baldness! The midlife crisis that every middle-aged man and woman must face, but some people are lucky enough to experience it in advance."
For example, yourself.
Shen Tang can already foresee a future where he will lose a lot of hair! She was going to discuss with Gu Chi whether to reform the way of keeping accounts before reclaiming the wasteland.
Rely on word by word to record—for example, on XX day in XX, Fugu City XX place X ares, X acres, tax XX stone; or XX year XX day, Fugu City XX place X household X person, tax XX— What year and month did it have to be?
Writing is tiring, and reading is tiring.
Go back and check the account if something happened...
Hehe, checking accounts can also make you vomit blood.
If you don't engage in bookkeeping reform, you will be sorry for the shining heroine halo on her head! Well done, happy you and me!
Gu Chi: "..."
Shen Tang's inner voice has always been fast, urgent, numerous and complicated, one or two sentences of important information mixed with piles of nonsense, even Gu Chi couldn't fully figure out what she said.
But he understands one thing, the lord wants to change the accounting method.
He said gently: "I would like to hear more about it."
Shen Tang took some blank bamboo chips—although there is papermaking technology at present, the output of paper is not much, and it is still a relatively luxurious consumer product, which has something to do with labor costs, raw material costs, and technical levels. Shen Tang is just a poor sheriff.
Even if you get rich overnight by ransacking your home, there is still some distance from the freedom of paper, and the office is still dominated by bamboo slips.
As long as the thinking does not slip, there are more ways than difficulties. Shen Tang used the gaps between the bamboo slices as the "vertical" of the form, and then drew the "horizontal" with a carving knife, and finally a simple bamboo slip form.
There are many gestures in the text, so they are replaced by numbers.
Shen Tang listed the numbers corresponding to the text one by one.
"Look, isn't this clear?"
Gu Chi took a look and found that this kind of thing is not only a bit awkward in reading habits, but bookkeeping is indeed convenient and simple, not only convenient for recording but also convenient for future accounting, but—
His point is bloody: "It is easy to fake."
Inserting a number is also not easily detectable.
Shen Tang's expression froze: "Huh?"
Gu Chi changed the subject and praised with a smile: "Although it is so, it is indeed an ingenious method, and it is easy to use. As for the fraudulent accounts, it is not difficult to solve, and the settlement can still be done in the previous way. Know."
Shen Tang's eyes brightened several degrees.
"So, my method can be used?"
Gu Chi laughed and said: "Since it is easy to use, why not use it? But, this method should not be created by the lord himself, right?"
"Hey, how can I make my own, it's commonly used in my hometown."
Gu Chi heard the words and didn't go any further.
He has traveled in the Northwest countries in recent years, and he dare not say that he has visited every place and understood every custom, but this kind of strange symbols represent numbers and table-style account books... He has never seen it before, maybe...
Is he ignorant?
Or perhaps, the lord has something special.
As a smart person, Gu Chi naturally knows that there is a need for distance between people, especially when one of them is the lord. His way of literati has made the protagonist lose his "secret". If he is still curious, he will be killed sooner or later.
"Property" is also a compulsory course for literary scholars.
Furthermore, adopting this convenient bookkeeping method is also for the benefit of yourself, as long as you enjoy the benefits, why bother to dig into the origin of this method? Gu Chi changed the content of the previous calculation, allowing Shen Tang to see the current gap more intuitively.
It is imperative to reclaim wasteland.
And it is imminent.
Before spring plowing.
If spring plowing is missed, it means that the harvest will not be good in the second year. Without harvest tax, there will be no more capital to absorb refugees. At the same time, the construction of Fugu City should also be on the right track.
Otherwise, how can there be a place to house so many refugees?
Shen Tang was so sad that he put his hands on his face, and Gu Chi asked again: "What will my lord do with the confiscated fields? Divide or..."
"Rent it out."
It is impossible to divide.
Shen Tang didn't have so much to share.
She was so worried: "If you distribute the land in your hands to the common people and let them cultivate it, who can get the good land? Who can get the bad land? How many acres of good land? How many acres of bad land? It's too big... Besides, in the current world, it's hard for ordinary people to hold onto the fields in their hands. If there is a serious illness or disaster at home, they may sell the fields, either actively or passively..."
It would be better if it was in Shen Tang's hands.
The rent is incorporated into the land tax. They can farm, and they can harvest as much food as they cultivate. As long as they work hard, they can support their families. According to the quality of the farmland and the average yield per mu in an area, it is enough to collect a fixed percentage of land tax per mu.
If the harvest is good, charge more.
If the harvest is poor, take less.
There is also the index number of average yield per mu. It is relatively difficult to fake the harvest. As for other miscellaneous taxes, we will discuss it later.
There are hundreds of countries in the mainland, and the tax types and proportions of each country are different. Gu Chi made some calculations in his heart, and it was feasible.
"...Wait, there is one more thing." Shen Tang rubbed his brows and reflected on what he hadn't considered, "...I will trouble Wang Chao to work hard these few days, and personally take someone to measure the land, and judge the land according to the yield per mu in previous years. Pros and cons..."
It is best to leave this matter to Gu Chi.
The collected data is also relatively real.
Shen Tang made an estimate in his heart: "Try to finish this matter before the year, and then 'rent' the land to the common people during the Chinese New Year. The lease amount is mainly based on the number of men and women in each family and their age... Oh, speaking of This requires re-registration of the population.”
She covered her face with a painful expression.
I can't live through this day.
咱咕咱(╥╯^╰╥)
Shen Tang's eyes became dry and dizzy just thinking about the workload, so he recruited a blue bird to fly to Kang Shi.
Let Kang Shi take Lin Feng in charge of this matter.
Originally wanted Chu Yao to do it.
But considering Chu Yao's gray hair, and suffering so much in the early years, he was afraid that he would not be able to bear it before his body was fully recovered, so he let Kang Shi take over. He is young and can stay up late.
Kang Shi: “…”
Gu Chi asked again: "How much is the rent for men and women?"
Shen Tang said: "Let's discuss this later in a meeting. If there are warriors and farmers in the family, you can rent more."
She still didn't give up the idea of letting warriors farm the fields, and she was going to encourage them vigorously. Shen Tang discussed a lot of things with Gu Chi, and when she recovered, it was almost dark outside. He asked someone to light an oil lamp for himself.
Why not a room full of lights?
Because the five senses of Wenxin scholars are better than ordinary people, coupled with excellent night vision, a lamp is enough for office work.
Poor people can save as much as they can.
Shen Tang casually ate a meal, considered eating, and continued to work. The main thing is to check the prisoners who will be dealt with tomorrow. Although they have committed heinous crimes and few of them are clean, it cannot be ruled out that there are indeed clean water that come out of hibiscus and mud that are not stained.
There are still some crimes that are not worthy of death. Shen Tang is going to throw them to repair the city wall or pound rice. If they are shameless, restless and want to make trouble, then kill them!
There are also some innocent female family members, such as concubines who did no evil but were robbed by force, and their offspring...
Should it be punished?
How to punish?
Qishan’s opinion is to kill them all to avoid future troubles. According to the charges of the Yi tribe, these children will not survive, and keeping them will be a hidden danger. But Shen Tang felt a bit of compassion, these women and their children were innocent after all...
Being coerced is not their choice after all. As for the hidden dangers... it is nothing more than worrying that the offspring will be promising, and they will retaliate, cause trouble, or reverse the case for the family in the future, so they will vigorously grasp ideological education and cut off the possibility of three generations of officials.
Gu Chi and the others still disagreed on the surface.
But he also softened his attitude.
This matter really can't be too extreme.
He Yin is indeed only a small place, but there are quite a few lands in the same situation as He Yin, and there are also local snakes there—if Shen Tang does too much, it may arouse the strong vigilance and resistance of these local snakes, which will be bad for the future.
It is only a small profit now, and the future is the long-term.
During the day, Shen Tang killed all directions on the high platform, and at night she worked hard for the files. She felt that her life was gloomy. When she opened her eyes, she saw government affairs piled up to the ceiling. When she closed her eyes, she suffered inhumane suffering in the ocean of government affairs. Beat.
"grass (a type of plant)."
It would be better to fight with Gongxi Qiu before the battle.
For seven days in a row, dark circles appeared abruptly.
Roughly solve He Yin's seven local snakes.
The common people also watched the beheading trial for seven days around the high platform, watching the faces that made them gnash their teeth in their dreams, and they went to hell. Drinking two more bowls of water can fill them up for a day when they go home! Those who should be killed are not spared, and those who should not be killed have their own destinations.
Either throw it away to reclaim wasteland, build city walls and buildings, or pound rice to reform through labor to contribute to the construction of Fugu City.
As for the "legacy" of various families...
Shen Tang is not afraid of them causing trouble.
The government issued a reward order, and if you catch one, you will be rewarded or exempt from the seedling money for the next three years.
In today's world, common people mostly farm in spring and harvest in autumn. During the harvest, they live a little better, but after the long winter, they become poor again. They are so poor that they can't even afford to buy seedlings and can't hold on to them.
Often you can only borrow money at high interest rates. If the harvest is not good for a year, after deducting land taxes, miscellaneous taxes and other messy items, you still owe a whole lot of debt, and the previous debts are still compounding interest...
Shen Tang is also out of this consideration, and has made multiple preparations—it is borrowing money anyway, so it is better to borrow it from her.
The interest rate is extremely low and there will be no violent debt collection, let alone worry that the revolving interest will roll over and the family will be ruined. Why not do it?
Gu Chi and the others were worried that it would not work.
The interest rate is too low and you are not afraid of being borrowed into bankruptcy?
Even if he didn't go bankrupt, Shen Tang would be responsible for the loss of the bank and the midway loss of the seedlings, and sooner or later he would lose his fortune... But after listening to Shen Tang's idea, he temporarily dispelled his doubts.
As long as the harvest is good, the surplus grain in the hands of the common people is purchased at a low price, and when the harvest is not good, it is sold at a higher price than the purchase price, so as to balance the income and expenditure.
But the specific details still have to go back to the meeting.
The common people in Fugu City are poor now.
Anyone who catches anyone is in debt.
Even if Shen Tang rented them enough fertile land, it would be difficult for them to have enough seedlings. If reporting a "legacy" can be exchanged for three years of seedling money, who would not be tempted?
Anyway, the common people in Fugu City are already moved.
The government also released news that after the household registration is re-created, they will have land to cultivate, and the land tax is quite low.
One by one, they raised their heads and looked forward to it.
I can't wait for time to speed up.
It's just that no matter how much they hoped, Shen Tang only had so many people on his side, and it took seven days of overtime to clear up the bad debts of the seven local snakes. As the protagonist, Shen Tang was so tired that his expression was in a trance, and he devoured his meals every day...
Eat too fast and choke.
"Hic—"
Say whatever you want.
Shen Tang frowned and put down the bowl, picked up the soup at hand and took two mouthfuls, and finally swallowed the stuffed pancake.
Before she could catch her breath, there was a strong tremor under her feet, and the dust from the beams on the top of her head fell down on Shen Tang's head. .
"Damn it—did the ground shake?"
At this time, Dilong turned around? ? ?
Shen Tang seemed to have seen the maliciousness of the heavens towards him.
Not only Shen Tang thought so, but several old officials of the government also thought so, all of them were either pale or anxious. They muttered in their hearts - they have been in Fugu City for so many years, they have never heard of an earthquake here?
One by one, they were beating drums in their hearts.
Just when they were worried, the "earthquake" came again. Not only did the ground shake, they also saw two rays of martial energy light up in the distance—er, martial energy... light? ? ?
Shen Tang rushed up to the roof.
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For the sake of the title, where are the monthly tickets for the treasures?
Hey, the more monthly passes the better, we don’t refuse anyone.
By the way, let me promote the new book "After the Hero Goes Crazy" by my good friend Wan Er. Hey, this book is on the shelves this month, and it can be slaughtered with a knife.
PS: Regarding the conversion of mu and hectare in ancient times, I made a mistake before. Zhang’s setting of more than 600 hectares in Heyin is a bit outrageous, because the land boundary of Heyin is only so small, so it was changed to 100 hectares (in fact, it still feels a bit much).
(end of this chapter)