The south is a tax-heavy area, so Yuzhu started from Jiangnan, unified the taxes of all people, and stipulated that the upper limit of land rent was 20% of the yield per mu.
As long as the land rent exceeds this, it will be irresponsible and a heavy fine of 10,000 times will be necessary.
In other words, if landlords dare to charge an extra kilogram of land rent, as long as they are found out, they will be fined 10,000 kilograms of grain, with no upper limit.
Principal Chang retreated to an isolated island and was able to quickly stabilize the situation by carrying out land reform across the island.
However, Principal Chang used a relatively mild redemption method and did not resort to violent confiscation.
As for the jade pillars, they are neither redeemed nor confiscated, but they must be taxed together.
The easing of class conflicts should not be too drastic, but must be patient enough to make changes slowly.
Because the times and circumstances are different, if you take too big a step, it’s easy to lose track of yourself.
I don’t hate the few, I just hate the inequality!
Wang Mang's well-field system was essentially land reform. He really wanted to equalize the rich and poor and ease class conflicts. As a result, he offended bureaucrats and landlords all over the world, and was finally hacked to death by the Green Forest Army who invaded Chang'an.
In this era, scholars could not pay taxes on land within a few dozen acres, and exempted two people in the family from corvee service. No matter how much, the land of the gentry and the gentry did not need to be taxed.
Although the fourth child became a rebellious person who ran away in a panic, the ideas promoted by the fourth child such as dividing the land into households, paying the grain to the gentry as a whole and working as errands, returning fire to the public and raising honest money are all good governance.
Yuzhu took this very seriously and did it even more thoroughly than when Lao Si was the emperor.
Is the Green Seedling Method promoted by Wang Anshi any good? It must be very good and a good strategy.
However, Wang Anshi neglected to let local officials promote the Young Crops Law and conduct assessments, which was tantamount to forcing local officials to do evil.
Local officials are all exiles. In order to achieve political achievements, they dare to do any bad things. For example, they force farmers who are not short of money to borrow usurious loans from the government.
Isn't this a money grab?
Yuzhu is an old bureaucrat. He doesn't like to engage in too violent reforms, but prefers to boil frogs in warm water.
When the water boils and the time is right, the frog has been boiled until its legs are soft.
In the foreseeable future, the New Army is unlikely to engage in large-scale wars. Moreover, the minimum age of the existing 150,000 Imperial Army soldiers is more than three years.
Therefore, at this time, Yuzhu's foresight once again played a huge role.
Taking advantage of the land reform in Jiangnan, Yuzhu took action.
In addition to the Second Town stationed in the Western Region, half of the officers and veterans in the Guards Town, the First Town, the Third Town, and the Fourth Town began to transfer to the newly established local police stations.
All benefits for changing jobs remain unchanged. For example, the monthly salary of veterans is ten taels of silver. After arriving at the local police station, it remains the same as ten taels of silver.
However, the monthly salary burden of these ten taels of silver was passed on to the local government.
The money comes from the local government. However, the local government does not directly send it to the police station. Instead, the court collects the money and forwards it to the transferred police officers.
As a result, the imperial court's military expenditures were greatly reduced.
You know, the imperial court had spent more than 10 million taels of silver just to raise the first batch of 50,000 new troops.
The implementation of job transfer not only solves the financial pressure of raising troops, but also solves the mountainous problems within the army, and can also better control local public security problems.
Correspondingly, the imperial government established the Police Headquarters to take charge of police forces across the country.
In other words, the police station is not under the jurisdiction of the local government, but directly under the imperial court.
Everything has advantages and disadvantages.
Yuzhu weighed the pros and cons before making any arrangement.
The logic is actually very simple. If the local government wants to do lawless evil, it must use the six-door government officials.
After the vertical management of the police station, I dare not say that there are no bad apples at all. At least, from the source of the motivation, the pressure on the local people who are forced to do evil must be many times smaller.
At the same time as the Police Headquarters was established, Yuzhu quietly established the Police Supervision Bureau, which reported directly to him.
There are not many people in the Police Supervision Bureau, only a few hundred people.
However, when they supervise local police stations, they go out in full force to inspect a certain county or a certain prefecture.
Think about it, as long as the local police do evil things, they will definitely leave a lot of traces.
Yuzhu's method is to either not investigate you, or when he investigates you, he will send more than a hundred people at once. From the government bureau to the county bureau, every policeman must pass the test.
How many people did a county have in this era?
A hundred people are sent down to visit and investigate house to house, filtering like a sieve. The bad apples who do bad things will inevitably be exposed.
Yuzhu knew very well in his heart that as long as he checked carefully and carefully, he would definitely catch the black sheep.
If we do a serious investigation, everyone will be afraid!
Cha who throws bricks at the wall, no one cares!
If this continues, most of the police will be good people who abide by the law.
Li Jiapo and the Hong Kong police are examples that can be referenced.
Especially the Hong Kong police, before the crackdown, was almost policeless and corrupt, and had an extremely bad reputation.
The veterans' treatment will remain unchanged, and the police department will also have real power, so the resistance to changing jobs will be much smaller.
The new army recruits who are recruited can only receive an auxiliary military salary of one tael of silver.
The salary of the original auxiliary soldiers was increased to two taels of silver per month.
In short, the old people have old methods and the new people have new methods. Everyone has hope.
In the past, after the green battalion soldiers were disbanded, they could only go home and farm.
Many laid-off veterans can no longer farm and have become block tyrants in the countryside or cities, which is extremely harmful.
Today, there are more than 200 prefectures, more than 200 states, and more than 1,300 counties in the country.
More than 20,000 officers and veterans were spread out, and only a few people were allocated to a county.
These people are the backbone of the county police department, and then they recruit a group of ordinary policemen who are paid one or two and a half yuan a month, and the power of local security is quietly held in the hands of Yuzhu.
With the expansion of colonies and the multiple expansion of the empire's territory, it was definitely impossible to continue to implement the county system.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After bringing local violent institutions, such as police stations, courts, prisons, etc., back to the court, the rest can slowly promote true local autonomy.
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To put it bluntly, if you don’t master the institutions of violence, you won’t be able to get out of the hands of the imperial court.
After local governments gradually become autonomous, you will spend as much as you have in taxes, and you will not be allowed to spend more than you make ends meet.
What's more important is that after local self-government, talents from all over the country have hope and fierce competition with each other, and the pressure on the court has been reduced a lot.
However, according to Yuzhu's idea, local autonomy cannot be based on provinces, but can only be carried out on prefectures and Zhili prefectures.
The future provincial level will be dispatched by the imperial court and will only be in charge of the province's violent institutions and judicial system.
The local autonomy of dividing provinces into prefectures fundamentally prevented local separatist forces from blatantly challenging the authority of the imperial court.
All arrangements are for the establishment of a constitutional monarchy when the time comes in the future.
When everyone has clearly divided the cake and no one is trying to steal it, the dynasty cycle rate will be completely ineffective.
Yuzhu saw clearly than anyone else that only with the establishment of a constitutional monarchy could the Tong family's emperor continue to be emperor.
Otherwise, if an emperor like Sima Zhong emerges in a few years, the Tong royal family will most likely be wiped out.
When land reform was being carried out in the south, the northern region also took advantage of the slack farming season to impose large-scale corvee labor and start building roads.
Yuzhu was well aware of the suffering of corvee labor and specifically made it clear that corvées were not allowed to leave the county and could only build roads, canals, and dredge rivers for public welfare purposes.
If you want to be rich, you must first build roads. It is already common sense and there is no need to say more.
Just when Yuzhu was about to leave for Wuchang, great news suddenly came from Dagukou.
In the Chinese Empire, the first five-ton steelmaking blast furnace was successfully tested in preliminary experiments.
Yuzhu was extremely happy and went to Luanzhou immediately.
Looking at the fiery red molten iron produced from the first furnace, Yuzhu's heart was extremely fluctuating.
In the early days of industrial society, pig iron production was one of the most important indicators to measure a country's industrial strength.
As promised in advance, the chief invention engineer, British John, was awarded 3,000 pounds on the spot.
Hey, foreign devils only care about money. No matter how many empty compliments you give them, it's better to reward them with five pennies.
"Dear Sir, I love you so much." After John got the money, he couldn't help crying with joy and said loudly, "I can finally afford my own house in London."
A beautiful girl from London will marry him only if he has his own house in London.
Society is so realistic and cruel.
Yuzhu glanced around and found that not only the foreigners were envious, but also the Chinese people present were all envious.
Well, this is the effect we want.
What does it mean to come to the East to pan for gold?
The only way to make more fresh inventions and create a fortune is to rely on leading technology to make a fortune.
John's entire R&D team received at least a 500 pound reward.
Yuzhu, who had long seen through human nature, did not issue certificates of merit, but only paid out gold to the foreign technicians, and he did so on the spot.
That night, Yuzhu held a grand celebration party at Dagokou.
The rum shipped from Cuba was so cheap that everyone was allowed to drink it.
After a toast, Yuzhu just wanted to go find Peng Yingyue and spend the night together.
Unexpectedly, he was stopped by Alice.
Alice complained: "Dear Darling, you don't want to force me to find a lover, do you?"
Yuzhu knew well that he hadn't touched Alice for a long time. But Alice ate meat, fish, and seafood every day, and she was extremely energetic.
Oh, she endured it so hard!
Yuzhu had no choice but to follow Alice back.
As a result, the tragic Emperor did not wake up from his deep sleep until dusk the next day.
When I looked at Alice again, alas, this girl was extremely energetic, and her whole body was filled with the lustrous color of contentment.
"Darling, let's continue tonight." Alice took the initiative to offer a sweet French wet kiss, but Yuzhu wanted to back out.