Of course Zhao Ning knew that land prices had dropped, Gyeonggi Road was not that big, and the Imperial City Department's information was processed in a timely manner.

And some were confiscated from homes in various places.

Big families, rich families not only have money, but also fields!

"What you said makes sense."

Zhao Ning was quite surprised. Qin Hui was indeed capable. In addition to his ability to solve unjust cases and engage in criminal activities, he also had many opinions of his own in terms of government administration.

As far as he proposed to lend money to the people at this time, he just set up a bank and asked the people to pay back the money in installments.

However, Zhao Ning did not intend to brush the problem away so simply.

The imperial court can indeed provide loans to the people, and Zhao Ning has even begun to prepare for this.

But now it is not just the distribution of fields, but the nature of fields.

Whose field does it belong to?

Liu Che implemented the "Tianfa Order" to disintegrate the vassal states, but a large number of powerful people were born in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The powerful people trapped the population and raised them, and the court could not control them at all.

In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the land equalization system effectively curbed land annexation.

However, the land equalization system puts great pressure on administration, and an efficient administrative team must be in place to equalize land on a regular basis.

Song Dynasty just laid down and didn't care, you can annex it as much as you like.

The Song Dynasty implemented a policy of not inhibiting land annexation, which resulted in 90% of the land being in the hands of powerful people in just one hundred years.

These fields were owned by the powerful, and the free farmers became tenants in the hands of the powerful.

Several major harms like this:

First, the court did not know how many fields there were in the area, and the collection of land taxes was not transparent enough, leading to a lot of tax evasion.

Second, the imperial court did not know the local registered population. In order to evade the poll tax, tenants often paid their employers a sum of money and asked them to help conceal the report.

Some free farmers were even willing to sell their land to landlords and become tenants in order to reduce their tax burden.

Third, if the tenants are dependent on powerful people, and the court wants to fight wars or build fortifications, its mobilization ability will definitely be reduced.

You see, at the end of the Song Dynasty and the end of the Ming Dynasty, the state's mobilization ability was as weak as a rookie. Basically, there were big problems in household registration management and field management.

So, back to the essential question, how to restrain powerful land annexers?

Zhao Ning's idea is to establish several "administrative special zones" in this era of limited productivity and partially implement "state-owned land leasing."

The so-called "state-owned land lease" means taking the opportunity to bring the land into the possession of the court, and then the court leases it to the people.

This is what the Secretary for Agriculture is doing now.

The New Deal model of seizing the land of officials and clans and leasing it out is the policy that Zhao Ning will promote in the "administrative special zone" in the future.

Before, it was just a low-key operation of the New Deal Office.

annex part of the land and break it into pieces first,

In this way, the mobilization ability is also improved, the difficulty and risk of early reforms are small, and the administrative system of the Song Dynasty will not be brought down. Why not?

"Qin Qing, I will consider your proposal carefully."

Qin Hui knew that Zhao Guan's family did not want to discuss this issue with him anymore, so he wisely did not say more and then resigned.

Not long after, Gao Qiu sent over the latest information.

For now, the rebellion in Gyeonggi-ro has been suppressed, and public opinion about the New Deal has formed a general trend in Gyeonggi-ro.

Mei Zhili, the Minister of Household Affairs, said in an unbelievable tone: "If the guess is correct, the summer tax on Gyeonggi Road alone this time is a full 4 million shi."

In the past, Gyeonggi Road summer tax could only collect less than 500,000 kong.

This is not the key point. When the Gyeonggi Road Transfer Department was collecting taxes, they suddenly discovered that there were many more fields that had not been recorded before.

Moreover, according to Gao Qiu's incomplete speculation, the amount of money confiscated this time was as high as 1.5 million yuan, and most of the money is now on its way back to the capital.

The farmland that was copied reached as many as 500,000 acres.

Is the implementation of the New Deal so smooth?

Just use the army to chop and chop and that's it?

If everything were that simple, many problems in history could be easily solved.

The chain problems caused by reality are always complex and extensive.

But he said that the riots in various places have been suppressed, but now there is still a lot of noise in Dongfu.

What's the quarrel about?

Tian prices have been reduced!

There was a huge quarrel over this incident.

If a farmer with some savings in his family hears that the price of farmland has been reduced, he will definitely praise: Zhao Guan's family is such a wise man, I want to buy another ten acres of farmland.

But that's the farmer's view.

What do politicians see?

Has the price been reduced?

Why?

Because of the New Deal, most powerful landowners have no income at all for the whole year, and even if they add a little bit of consumption and apportionment, they will be unable to make ends meet.

If this is the case, then sell the land.

The problem arises when selling land.

In the political hall, Li Chunyou criticized Mei Zhili like this: "The price of land has been reduced, and households in the situation have sold their fields on a large scale. Who among the people has the money to buy it? If this problem is not solved, and households in the situation have abandoned their fields, who owns the land? Isn't it among the people?

Is there a big chaos because of the deserted fields?”

He then said in a sharp tone: "If there is a problem with people's livelihood in Gyeonggi Road, food prices rise sharply, and hungry people everywhere, who will bear the consequences!"

In the political hall, no one dared to answer this question.

This is how the two roles of politicians and farmers look at this issue differently.

All policies and economies are not single and independent. This is the saying that one move affects the whole body.

It is very easy to destroy an order, but it must be rebuilt after destruction, otherwise it will be a disaster.

Mei Zhili's face turned red from the rebuke. He puffed his beard and stared, saying, "The imperial court is here to buy land!"

Li Chunyou laughed: "Do you know how many fields there are? Do you know how much it costs to buy these fields?"

"The imperial court just allocated 12 million yuan to Hebei and Hedong for disaster relief two months ago. Now the salaries of officials in some places have not yet been paid, and some officials have already been impeached by our officials!"

Li Chunyou looked at Mei Zhili like he was looking at an idiot.

The officials of the Hubu Yamen were so angry that they wanted to rush over and slap Li Chunyou several times.

"Are the frontline military expenditures ready?" Li Chunyou threw another bomb.

The conservatives have smiles on their faces, as if I am just looking for trouble today. Let’s see how you, the naughty followers of Wang Anshi, end up!

"Okay, I will discuss this matter with the officials." Zhao Ding spoke at the right time.

After Dongfu officials held a series of "harmonious discussions," the internal scoldings in the court triggered by the New Deal continued.

Mei Zhili was about to run to Zhao Guan's house to cry, but as soon as he entered the gate of Wende Hall, before his tears burst out, Zhao Ning said, "Mei Qing, you came just in time."

"Official! Minister..."

"I plan to ask the Ministry of Household Affairs to survey the fields. Haven't the prices of fields in various places dropped recently? The imperial court bought them all!"

Mei Zhili was going to scold Li Chunyou and the others in front of Zhao Guan's family, but when he heard Zhao Guan's words, he was immediately stunned.

Happiness comes so suddenly.
Chapter completed!