Chapter 3230 Farming
Right Fufeng.
A vibrant farming scene slowly unfolded in front of Tian Yu.
Tian Yu couldn't help but slow down his horse, as if to avoid destroying the peace in front of him.
The sun shines on the vast fields of Guanzhong, and the golden light and green wheat seedlings intertwined into a beautiful picture.
After resisting the invasion of late spring cold, the farmers in Guanzhong devoted great enthusiasm to production. The farmers wore coarse cloth clothes and plowshares in their hands, and worked hard to cultivate this fertile land.
The land will never let down mankind. The amount of sweat it will be produced. The air is filled with the fragrance of grass and trees and the smell of freshly turned soil. This is a gift from nature and a witness to the hard work of farmers. Even the wind floating around Tian Yu seems to be gentle because of this.
Tian Yu sat on the horse's back and looked at everything in front of him with some greed.
Once upon a time, he had seen such a huge labor scene in Youzhou.
At that time, Liu Yu was still there in Youzhou.
Liu Yu is a good person, a good person who is in a high position but is not immersed in money and authority, and still maintains a pure mind.
It’s a pity that such good people often don’t live long.
Tian Yu's eyes followed the men working in the fields.
Their figures are dotted among the green acres, either bent down to weed or flipped over the acres. Although their movements are repetitive and monotonous, each movement is full of strength and rhythm, as if it is a melodious chime song.
In the distance, several yellow oxen lowered their heads and pulled the plow truck calmly.
That is the disaster-stricken land that needs to be re-ploughed.
With the ox plow and the new plow, it is easier to restore the farmland of the fields than to simple manpower.
"Send the order and walk along the road, don't trample on the seedlings!"
Tian Yu ordered.
Immediately, soldiers were ordered to pass it backwards one by one.
Tian Yu is here to take office.
Because of his outstanding achievements in Longyou, he was promoted to the Dali Temple Assistant of Chang'an Yin.
Behind Tian Yu, he rode on the horse with a belly swaying, and kicked and stepped on the Western Qiang King Ajiesha.
A Jiesha was very happy for a while, which made him much wider and fatter. His belly was drooping on the horse's back, shaking. If his war horse was not more handsome than ordinary horses, he might not have been able to carry him.
Ajiesha has been living a good life recently.
After the Western Qiang rebellion, Ajiesha quickly recognized the situation and completely turned to Fei Qian. The Western Qiang people also had the opportunity to recuperate and settled down from then on.
Except for a few people, most people still like to live a stable life.
The Western Qiang Rebellion is actually a fundamental issue of survival rights. Whether it is the Han people or the Qiang people, normal life cannot continue, so they can only find a way. Most of the time, the people at the bottom, regardless of the Qiang people, are like loose sand, and cannot accomplish anything. For the Western Qiang Rebellion, the people who are making trouble with these Qiang people are not the Qiang people at the bottom, but the heroes among the Qiang people.
During the repeated rebellion of the Western Qiang, many people died, and the original living environment had undergone tremendous changes. The grassland, which was originally fiercely competitive, is now empty, just like the land redistribution of the Han people. The decline in population has caused the space of the Western Qiang people to invisibly increase. The level of conflict between each other has decreased, so naturally not many Western Qiang people are willing to continue to fight against the Han people.
Beigong didn't understand this, so when he wanted to continue to do something, he couldn't do it.
Ajiesha also didn't understand this, but fortunately he knew that he could not follow Beigong to the black...
After the basic contradiction was resolved, the Western Qiang also gained a relatively stable period, and during this period, the Western Qiang people had a relatively strong sense of happiness, so Ajiesha naturally gained more support. As for the previous incident of Ajiesha killing the Beigong, it was gradually forgotten.
This time, it was because Ajiesha heard that Yami had given birth to a fat boy and came to congratulate Fei Qian with a gift.
At the same time, with Tian Yu and A Jiesha coming, there were also a group of cavalry in Longyou that had just been trained for a period of time. These cavalry were roughly divided into three categories, one was from the Western Qiang people, the other was from Longyou and the Snow District, and the other was from the Western Regions. Now, after intensive training, they happened to follow Tian Yu and A Jiesha to the Sanfu in Chang'an.
For these cavalry, they were basically the first time they came to Chang'an, just like Tian Yu Ajiesha. They were very interested in the farmers working on the Guanzhong Plain and carefully observed everything around them. It seemed that even the clothes on the farmers were so novel to them.
Because of the economic development of Chang'an Sanfu over the years, most of the farmers who cultivated in the farmland have already put on clothes. On the one hand, there is the aftermath of the cold weather in the late spring, which is still relatively cold in the morning and evening. On the other hand, the people are richer, so of course they are willing to consume on clothing. Therefore, the consumption of the people does not mean that it should not be, or whether there is such a demand, but depends on whether the people have money.
This money is not the so-called average of the big man or the disposable income, but the real surplus of the farmers living in a year. In Shandong, where the gap between the rich and the poor is very wide, what does it mean even if the average of the people is high? The same is true for disposable income. Disposable income is the sum of final consumption expenditure and savings. If it is just the surface disposable income increased, but the actual surplus, that is, savings decreased, then it may not be a good thing in fact.
The people of the Sanfu in Chang'an had a surplus, so of course they were willing to spend some money on their clothes.
The phenomenon of farming naked is basically invisible.
Whether men or women, their clothes are mainly coarse cloth, and the colors are mostly gray, brown or earthy yellow. These colors are not only dirt-resistant, but also relatively cheap.
Farmers usually wear half-length wide-sleeved robes, but they are not as imagined in later film and television dramas. When they work, they roll up their sleeves, but use a rope called a sling to assist, exposing their arms to facilitate the operation of farm tools.
Just simply roll it up, and it will gradually loosen when working, and it can be fixed with a trouser.
The hem of the robe is usually lifted up and clamped around the waist, while the legs are wearing sleeves, also known as trousers.
Most peasant women use robe skirts, with mostly double-breasted or slanted tops, while lower skirts are looser, making it easier for them to squat or bend over while working in the fields. Their hair is usually simply tied up and fixed with cloth towels or hairbands, which is both practical and neat.
It is worth noting that even though the fields are muddy and difficult to wear shoes, most farmers and women have his or their shoes. Even if they don’t look like leather boots from noble people, they no longer run around barefoot…
Even when working, these farmers and women still have some smiles on their faces, and from time to time, there are people quarreling with each other and laughing in the fields.
The laughter seemed to be contagious, and it quietly climbed to Tian Yu's mouth.
Ajiesha looked left and right from the side, then asked Tian Yu: "Assassin, such a large area, are they all... all of them belong to the cavalry?"
Tian Yu smiled loudly, "Not all, but they are..."
Ajiesha frowned a little, "What does it mean?"
Tian Yu smiled but refused to answer.
Ajiesha thought for a long time and slapped her hands, "I understand! Ahh, this... this is really amazing! Tsk tsk, how much food can this Chang'an Sanfu, such a large area of ​​farmland, grow? "
Tian Yu smiled again.
A Jiesha suddenly realized, "This matter is a secret, right? Then I guess the number? Is there...well, is there a hundred thousand stones?"
In the concept of Ajiesha, 100,000 is already a very huge number.
Tian Yu laughed, "100,000? It's too little, it's too little!"
"That's one million?" A Jiesha glared wide, feeling that the number was completely unimaginable.
Tian Yu was still smiling.
"Is there still a little? Then... one, one thousand, ten million?" Ajiesha said, for some reason, he stuttered a little, obviously he was frightened by this huge number.
Tian Yu smiled and waved his hand, "Not that much, it's a little worse."
Ajiesha exhaled, "Oh...ah?!"
A little bit near?
Even if it is a few million, it is a very terrible value!
Ajiesha couldn't help but tremble for a moment, then stared at the surrounding fields, as if he was looking at the pieces of gold mountains...
In fact, whether it is Tian Yu or Ajiesha, there are fewer predictions.
In Guanzhong Sanfu and other areas where Feiqian Xintianzheng are implemented, a household with a low tax rate of within 50 acres, and 50 to 100 acres are the normal tax rate. Once it exceeds 100 acres, a higher tax rate will be generated. If you still want to enjoy a low tax rate after exceeding 100 acres, you can only use military merits to offset it. This is the merit system.
This has basically no impact on ordinary people. Only "large households" will be restricted. The more land you have in your home, the more tax you need to pay.
At the same time, because the handicraft industry in Guanzhong Sanfu and other places has flourished, all kinds of miscellaneous items that the people had to pay, such as salt, horses, manuscripts, etc., and even corvee-service, were also distributed into the land rent and paid in the form of grain. On the surface, this seems to increase the land rent, but in fact it reduces the burden on farmers.
Because farmers do not need to exchange farmland for money, or salt, horses, manuscripts and other items to pay, avoiding secondary or multiple exploitation, the farmers can quickly adapt to the new tax method after they have passed the initial incomprehension and support.
This has invisibly reduced the means of exploiting farmers by the landlord class.
For ordinary farmers, what they need most is a simple taxation model, rather than a complex, difficult to calculate, and may also change at any time.
For a long time, the biggest bearer of taxes in feudal dynasties was the lowest-level people.
The wealthy families had various ways to evade taxes, while ordinary people could only pay the land rent tax from their personal income, and they had to be repeatedly harvested and exploited again and again. For example, during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, ordinary people had to pay war horses as additional taxes when the country needed them. At this time, ordinary people not only had to pay the money they had accumulated but also tried every means to purchase war horses to pay the additional taxes, but also had to bear the additional cruel harvest of inflation caused by the rising war horse prices.
There are also iron, salt, draft manuscripts, fish glue, etc.
Every time these tax-increased items are charged, it is an "average" carnival in the court.
The ministers told the emperor, "I have thousands of Han people. These additional sects are equal to every farmer, and each person is a little bit! Is it completely acceptable?"
When the emperor calculated, it seemed that there was not much, and as long as the final financial result could be achieved, he sighed, "I will suffer the people more!"
In fact, whether in the years of war or in normal times, as long as the court is every extra tax, it is a great opportunity for the middle-class landlords to find ways to destroy ordinary people's families.
Fei Qian did not believe in these bad policies. In the Han Dynasty and even in the subsequent feudal dynasties, no one knew, understood, and understood.
The interests of the old class can only be broken by the new class.
Just like the great man has always advocated that thirty taxes and one is good governance, is this the true voice of the people?
Obviously, ordinary people have no channels to speak out, and who are the people who have channels to speak out?
So when the good governance of the people is truly reduced to the interests of some people, will some people say good things about this policy?
If these people say it is good governance, what kind of "good governance" will make these people feel that it is really good?
At least among the three auxiliary servants in Guanzhong, there are few gentry and powerful people who jumped out, advocating how good Shinta Masato is...
Ordinary people just think it’s good and can’t tell them if they want to say it.
The key to Fei Qian's Tian Zheng is to directly benefit the people, reduce the opportunities for these large and small landlord classes to exploit the people, not only expand the cake, but also change some distribution methods.
Exploitation still exists, but it has made the people of Guanzhong feel happy, and the farmers in Guanzhong Sanfu have become more enthusiastic about farming.
Especially the enthusiasm for reclaiming wastelands.
Because every farmer knows that under the Xintianzheng, although every extra acre of land they have reclaimed is also subject to taxes, it will bring them more benefits.
Moreover, the additional benefit of summarizing all miscellaneous taxes into Zhuanghe is the simplification of taxes.
Every year, taxes are only required to be collected during summer and autumn harvests. Moreover, because the tax collection project is single, the tax pressure and process are reduced, which can reduce the number of officials and also reduce the opportunity for corrupt officials to extort and extort when collecting taxes.
The reason why Fei Qian was able to implement the new field politics at the moment was that on the one hand, it was because of war, so-called "destruction and establishment". In the turbulent era of the world, people were more likely to accept some new concepts and systems, just as the Zhou Dynasty's consistent theory of bloodline and the system of ministers was broken during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. On the other hand, Fei Qian gave these large and small landlord classes the opportunity to transform and support the common development of the four people, especially increasing the development of handicrafts and the improvement of production technology, using a diversified business model to avoid being held hostage by the single "respective of agriculture" small peasant economy, increasing the variety of products of the entire society, making the large and small landlord classes no longer irreplaceable...
This made the landlords of all sizes gradually shut up.
Because they found that not only the emerging military honors class were replacing them, but also representing "work" and "business" class were also emerging, reducing their voice...
Among the feudal dynasties in history, there were not no emperors who wanted to fight corruption and change, but under the result of homogeneity of the entire bureaucratic class, it was like letting the national football team conduct self-examination and correction. How could it be possible to find out what? Even under pressure, I am afraid that a minion would be handed over to take the blame.
If the people are too entangled...
Ah, let’s take a look at this melon!
Absolutely familiar!
Then the public's attention was diverted...
The specific values ​​of tax revenues from Guanzhong and Hedong will only be known among top politicians.
Tian Yu thought that the data he inferred through the diary and related documents were already surprising enough, but in fact, he still missed a lot.
Over the years, through a series of infrastructure construction of land and water conservancy, coupled with technical improvements in livestock, cattle and horse plow fields, the total amount of plowing fields in the Sanfu area of ​​Guanzhong has reached nearly 15 million mu.
Although this value is still a long way from the total number of fields in the heyday of the Sanfu farmland in Guanzhong, for now, the total output produced every year has exceeded 70 million stones in normal years, so the total tax revenue obtained in agriculture has also increased to more than 10 million stones, and is moving towards 15 million stones.
The farmers that Tian Yu and Ajiesha saw were the most stable cornerstone of the entire Feiqian political group, and it was also the confidence that Feiqian dared to leave Guanzhong Sanfu and head for Hedong.
The people of the Han Dynasty were simple and lovely, and they never asked for much. Whoever brought them hope would be able to remember them for the rest of their lives...
Otherwise, what if people think about food as the most?
If there is food in your stomach pressing, it won’t churn.
Although sometimes the people will be brought into the ditch by some public officials, it is impossible to let the people follow.
Being confused for a while is the nature of joining in the fun.
Being deceived for a while is the instinct of greed for cheap things.
I really want the people to rebel...
It will only be possible unless the social unemployment rate is too high and the people cannot eat on a large scale.
A few people standing in the distance of the road, when they saw Tian Yu and others, they were about to come. They first showed the token representing their identity, and then asked and checked Tian Yu's seal. After confirming that it was correct, they handed Tian Yu an order issued by the General's Mansion.
Tian Yu opened it and saw that the expression on his face had not changed much. He was still smiling, but his eyes flashed slightly. He immediately said to Ajiesha: "Ah, King of Xiqiang, I have a new order, so I can't accompany you to Chang'an... I can only say goodbye! Sorry, sorry..."
Although Ajiesha was curious, he knew that he could not ask too much, so he laughed and said it was okay. Then he took the Qiang people under his subordinates to rush the chariots and horse gifts to congratulate the cavalry and Yami, and walked forward first.
After Ajiesha left, Tian Yu turned to ask the minor official, "It's okay to be stationed here temporarily, the personnel are carrying dry food, but the war horse... there are also fields around it. If the Zhuanghe is not damaged much, it would be a sin!"
The little official smiled and bowed and said, "Shi Shi Xun has made arrangements, please come down... Please rest assured, it will only take a few days to do..."
"These few days..." Tian Yu asked, "But there are some changes in Chang'an?"
The little official was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Assister... this, uh, I'm not convenient to say..."
Tian Yu waved his hand, "I understand. It seems that some people are still worried..."
It was difficult for the little official to answer this, so he had to smile awkwardly, which was accusation.
Tian Yu turned his head and looked at the farmers in the distance. After a long time, he sighed, "The lord is so kind, and there are still ghosts and monsters who do not repent... Ha! Where is the conscience?"
Chapter completed!