Chapter 1428 Staking
The relocation of Zhechong’s mansion has another advantage, that is, land mergers in the Central Plains are serious now, and the imperial court does not establish a land system, does not suppress mergers, and even encourages mergers.
There are a large number of newly conquered lands in the frontier, but no one immigrates and cultivates them.
The Central Plains has less land and more people, the people have less land, and the income from farming is also low.
In recent years, the imperial court not only does not suppress mergers, but even encourages mergers. The fundamental reason is that the imperial court wants to drive the poor people from the Central Plains to the frontier to immigrate, and re-grant them land there, so that they can become landlords and guard the border for the country.
As for the fields in the Central Plains that were annexed by the royal family and aristocratic tyrants in large numbers, to engage in the manor economy, it is generally used to use Human captured by foreign wars as slaves to manage these lands. The manorial slave operation has high production efficiency.
Anyway, the Tang Dynasty completed the tax reform long ago, and it is no longer the tax system that used to be based on land grants and small taxes. After all, taxes are now based on acres of land, and taxes are levied on as much land as there is.
Whether the land is a manor model or a casual farming model for ordinary people, the total amount of land per mu has not changed, and the tax revenue has not decreased. Moreover, after a large number of people with little land and no land were encouraged to immigrate to the border areas, after the land in the newly conquered areas of the frontier was granted to the new immigrants, after the first few years of tax reduction and exemption, these lands became new sources of taxation.
The tax base has been greatly improved.
Therefore, it is also land mergers. The previous dynasties tried their best to prevent and combat them, because the mergers would bring a large number of farmers who lost their land. Under the tax system of the previous dynasties, the common people were important taxpayers and an important source of taxation for the country. Once they lost their land, It will also be unable to bear the national taxes, the national finances will go bankrupt, and even the people will go bankrupt, and finally the dynasty will be over.
But the New Deal since Zhenguan is not afraid of these things.
Because of the change of the previous mode of levying taxes by fen, the new two-tax law of levying land tax by mu and household tax by household and other properties, plus various industrial and commercial taxes, and indirect taxes in disguise such as salt, sugar, tea and wine, etc., therefore It doesn't matter whether the people plant land or not, and it doesn't matter whether they have land or not.
There is no land tax if there is no land, and the tax for households without money is less.
If you don’t have land, you don’t have to worry about having no income. After all, the industry and commerce are booming, and there are many opportunities to work in factories to make money. What’s more, there is the Tenancy Act. If you don’t have land, you can rent land for the landlord. , It is no longer the trilogy and tenants attached to the landlord as before. Not only can the landlord not even have the final say on the rent and tax, but he cannot even increase, change or refuse the rent at will.
Field rent is rented every six years, and the rent rate is subject to the highest limit of the imperial court. At the same time, the lease expires, and the tenant has the priority to renew the lease, etc.
To put it bluntly, in the Tang Dynasty, there was no dependence between the landlord and the tenant. The basic rights and interests of the tenants were guaranteed. Without their own land, there was no need to worry about being stuck by the landlord.
Besides, if it’s really not possible, you can still immigrate to the frontier. If you don’t want to be a tenant in the Central Plains, then go to the frontier to be a landlord.
If you have money, you can start your own business. Anyway, there is no discrimination against business.
Now the prime ministers in the court are also interested in this, and proposed to move the Zhechong Mansion outside. Now the military field of the Zhechong Mansion in the Mainland is taken back by the imperial court, which can be sold or rented out. This can get a lot of money, which can be used to supplement military expenses. .
Then re-adjust the deployment of Zhechongfu in the border area according to the needs. For example, the Western Regions belong to the first priority, so deploy a hundred Zhechongfu and deploy 100,000 soldiers. Then Liaodong North Korea in the northeast, the second priority, also deployed hundreds of Zhechong Mansions there, deploying 80,000 to 90,000 to 100,000 soldiers.
Followed by the southwestern region, places like Tonghai, Yongchang, Erhai, Lishui, Pyuyue, southern Tibet, and Xichang are full of barbarians, and transportation is inconvenient. A large number of Zhechong must be deployed.
After these three border towns, Saibei, Helong, Jiaozhou and other places must be secondary. Deploy 20 to 30 Zhechong prefectures, and 20 to 30 thousand people are enough.
And other places such as the two capitals only need to maintain a hundred or so Zhechong mansions each.
As for the places in the south of the mountains, the Jianghuai, the north and the south of the Lingnan, they are relatively prosperous and peaceful, so each deploys eight or nine, ten Zhechong prefectures, and ten thousand people is enough.
After readjusting the military focus, more than 70% of the Zhebufu moved out.
The most important thing in the frontier land is land, and the best land can be prioritized.
For example, in the Western Regions, Gaochang, Tingzhou, Suiye, Yili, Qinghai, Dawan, as well as Shule, Khotan, Qiuci, and Yanqi all have very fertile plains and oases, which are suitable for farming and animal husbandry. With 100,000 soldiers from the Western Regions, hundreds of Zhechong Mansions can give priority to delimiting military fields in these places, and granting Anxi Mansion soldiers to settle down.
In addition to the basic military fields, in order to encourage these soldiers to town, more land can be given to officers as job fields. hereditary.
Think about the King of Anguo Qi, Luzon, his overseas feudal territory, is the gold and silver island in the South China Sea, where gold and silver flow, it is his inner world fief, Wu'an Mansion, which also has a population of one million, and Qin Lang sits on it. One-third of the tax, which is at least equivalent to 100,000 households and 200,000 households.
Who can fail to understand the benefits of this kind of secular land, after all, it has been more than 30 years since Zhenguan, most of the secular lands, even if they are far inferior to the Qin family's, are still very good income.
Laiji and the others plan to use this method to adjust Datang's military focus.
Change the military situation in the frontier, increase the combat effectiveness of the frontier army, and even reduce the pressure on the military expenditure of the frontier army.
If the government soldiers move to the frontier, distribute the military land, confer the land of the Lord of Merit, and set up military settlements, the food for the frontier army will be self-sufficient, and if the frontier army is stable, the court will be able to move more new immigrants there. Only with a stable frontier situation can there be stable tax revenue and so on.
At that time, it is not expected that the frontiers will still have tax revenues turned over to the national treasury. As long as the military expenses of the frontier army can be maintained, or even most of them can be solved, it will already be a heavy burden for the imperial court. .
After all, over the years, the military expenditure of the imperial court has been increasing year by year.
"The princes of the court are really ruthless!"
Through these words, Qin Lang even smelled the smell of horse racing to enclose land. It was not the frontier army enclosing land, but the nobles and powerful people in the Luoyang Dynasty who wanted to enclose the land in the Central Plains.
The relocation of 600,000 to 700,000 government soldiers, plus their families and relatives, will free up a huge amount of land, especially the military land of Zhechong Prefecture in the Central Plains, but most of them are the largest areas in the Central Plains that have been occupied since the founding of the country. Fertile fields.
For example, beside the Baiqu on the Guanzhong Plain, the most fertile fields are irrigated fields. At the beginning of the founding of the country, Li Yuan used them to house Yuan Cong’s forbidden army who followed him from Taiyuan.
This involves millions of hectares of fertile land in the Central Plains. If it is vacated, it will be a huge cake, and it will definitely fall into the hands of nobles and powerful people.
At that time, the military farmland will be transformed into an aristocratic manor. They don't even need to rent out the land, but directly hold slaves for farming. Groups of manor farms are more efficient in planting.
Especially Qin Lang could imagine that these manors would only grow grain in the basic area according to the court law, and then the rest of the land would be used to grow cash crops, such as mulberry, cotton and even tea.
Once the new military system is adopted, in addition to the relocation of the government soldiers, the imperial court will also encourage many peasants with little land in the Central Plains to move to the border. Even though fewer and fewer people are willing to move now, as long as they work hard, they can always find a way.
After a new wave of border-moving is set off, how many new open spaces will be vacated in the Central Plains?
For these nobles and tyrants, their pursuit of land is never-ending, because investing money in business these days is still risky, but land is the safest investment despite low returns. Not to mention the income from the land every year, and the land itself is a good thing that keeps its value and can even be filled.
What's more, the manor economy is very hot these days. If you grow cash crops, do some processing, or do some supporting breeding, you will basically not lose money.
The more land, the greater the income.
Especially the land in the core areas of the Central Plains, because the land in these areas has more choices, such as growing cash crops, cotton, mulberry, hemp, or tea medicinal materials, and even developing aquaculture, raising pigs, ducks, cattle, and sheep, growing vegetables, etc. Backed by the huge population of the Central Plains, close to those cities, the land will have higher output benefits, which is difficult to own in the frontier wild areas.
Agricultural planting in border areas has little income, and it is even inconvenient to transport the output.
Wei Chang previously suggested that Qin Lang take advantage of the opportunity of the imperial court to develop border areas and use money to develop them. The model is to use the policy to grab land and occupy mines for almost free, and then use slaves to cultivate and mine. The colonial model, other It doesn't matter what it is, it saves trouble and money compared to the development of the Qin family's overseas colonial strongholds.
After all, if the Qin family wants to expand and develop the colony by themselves, they have to invest in infrastructure construction, social management, and maintain an army, all of which are very expensive. Now the Qin family ran to the frontier lands conquered by the imperial court to operate, and they didn't have to worry about anything else.
Now it seems that the aristocrats in the Central Plains are also shrewd, and they are promoting the reform of the new military system together.
This can not only occupy more fertile land in the Central Plains circle, but also promote the imperial court to continue to fight abroad, so that they can obtain more cheap sources of slaves, even frontier wars, and bring them more orders for military supplies Business.
It's become a business.
Sure enough, war is a continuation of politics, and politics is nothing but an exchange of interests.
(end of this chapter)