Chapter 395 Land and Statistics (3)

Song Jianming was waiting for the emperor to ask. He smiled slightly and said, "Your Majesty, Rong Chen stands up and asks you ministers a few questions."

The emperor still laughed and raised his hand: "Yes!"

Song Jianming patted his knees and stood up in a leisurely manner. The eyelids of several ministers who took the lead in naysaying in the hall were twitching, and they had an intuition that the fox named Song was holding back some bad tricks.

"Sir Cui." Song Jianming first bowed to Cui Shu, the Minister of War, and said with a smile: "Sir Cui, do you know, in the first year of Jingning, how many acres of taxable land were there in the country, excluding military villages?"

Cui Shu frowned, and Song Jianming looked at the many ministers present: "Does anyone here know?"

The ministers whispered to each other for a long time, but no one could answer. Several subordinates in the Ministry of Revenue lowered their eyes and remained silent in a tacit understanding. The emperor laughed: "I can guess a little bit about this."

Song Jianming handed over to the emperor, who said: "In the first year of Jingning, we collected a total of 25 million shi for summer grain and autumn grain, rice and wheat. Based on the average grain harvest of one shi for every four acres of land, there were about 100 million acres of cultivated land."

Song Jianming smiled and said: "Your Majesty has a good memory, I admire you! The actual area of ​​taxable farmland is 15576 acres. Counting the areas affected by drought and floods, the actual amount of grain paid is lower than every four acres of land."

Harvest one stone of grain."

The emperor nodded, indicating that he understood.

At this time, the ministers who opposed the land purchase tax, headed by Cui Shu, Minister of War, looked livid.

Song Jianming once again bowed his hand to the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, according to the information and calculations I have reviewed over the past few months, during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, the recorded cultivated area of ​​Naliang was about 120 million acres. By the Tianyou Dynasty, the recorded area was about 120 million acres.

The registered cultivated land area is less than 40 million acres; during the Chunhua period of the Song Dynasty, the area of ​​grain-receiving cultivated land was about 180 million acres, and by the Xuanhe 2nd year, there were only less than 40 million acres left!"

Song Jianming raised a finger and said: "It's 14576 acres of land. Everyone, where will the 10 million acres of less land go in ten years? Then let's take a guess.

In the 20th year of Jingning, how much arable land received grain? 123.18 million acres! In the 30th year of Jingning, the area of ​​cultivated land that received grain was only 104.69 million acres!"

At this time, Song Jianming spoke again: "Let me tell you another set of data. In the first year of Jingning, excluding military households, there were 10.68 million households with less than 20 acres of cultivated land, and the number of tenant households was 60,000;

In the 10th year of Jingning, there were 1,080,000 farmers with less than 20 acres of cultivated land, and the number of tenant households increased to 800,000. In the 20th year of Jingning, the number of farmers with less than 20 acres of cultivated land was

There were more than 97 million households, and the number of tenant households increased sharply to more than 9 million households. In the 30th year of Jingning, the number of self-cultivated households with less than 20 acres of cultivated land was more than 83 million households, and the number of tenant households was 2,100.

More than a million households.”

These data are easy to talk about, but actually calculating them is an extremely cumbersome process.

Everyone reads history, but no one has ever read it from such a tricky perspective.

Because in fact, each dynasty has a different tax system and tax rates. Especially at the end of the dynasty, there are countless exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes with clever names, and there are also various fake cultivated land areas. It takes three years and five years to calculate the actual cultivated land area for grain payment.

It is simply impossible. How long has this person named Song been counting?

At this time, everyone present had a vague premonition of something ominous, especially the ministers from the land tax abolition faction. Almost everyone looked unhappy.

There was silence in the main hall. In fact, the emperor had already known this set of data before. Hearing it again, he still found it very shocking.

"More than 38 million acres of land require at least 100 million acres of tax revenue. In this case, how can farmers survive? If they can't survive, how can they not fight back? Cui Shangshu, Mr. Cui, please tell me, what is the right?

It is a matter of causing chaos to the country, what is the way to cause trouble?!"

Song Jianming continued: "Then let me guess again, how many acres of taxed land will there be in the country in the tenth year of Jingning?"

At this time, the smile on Song Jianming's face disappeared, replaced by a serious and almost angry face. He continued: "Thirty years, just thirty years, everyone, more than 40 million acres of land have disappeared.

Where did it go? Sirs present, can anyone take a guess?!"

If this data is not shocking enough, the following is even more disturbing.

No matter how surprised these people were, Song Jianming continued: "Your Majesty, according to my calculations, from the first year of Jingning to the thirty-ninth year of Jingning, the average area of ​​farmland receiving grain decreased by 1.05 million acres per year, and the number of tenants increased by five per year on average.

More than 100,000 households; and since the implementation of the purchase tax reform, in the past six months or so, the area of ​​farmland subject to grain has only decreased by more than 60,000 acres, and the number of tenant households has declined instead of increasing, with a decrease of 40,000 households!"

The emperor really didn't expect this number! Hearing this, his breathing stopped.

The decrease in tenant households means that there are more people with land and property!

This is a great event!

Song Jianming knelt down again, kowtowed three times to the emperor solemnly, and then said loudly: "Your Majesty, this is the truth. I know that I did not think carefully in the past, which caused many people to lose all their property and even their families because of the land purchase tax.

"I am willing to apologize for my mistakes!" He took off the black gauze hat on his head, put it aside, and continued: "I don't have to be a minister or a secondary assistant, but the land purchase tax will benefit thousands of people and extend the country.

This is a good strategy! Your Majesty, please stick to it and don’t listen to the sophistry of a villain who is causing harm to the country in the court!"
Chapter completed!