Chapter 41: Threaten Father Paul to spread new ideas
"All the farmers' miscellaneous taxes have been cancelled, including the tithes to be paid to the church. From now on, the castle will help pay them. The Lord will still bless you."
"You can catch prey in the territory as long as you get approval, and you can also apply to cut down and use the timber in the territory."
"The land tax on the territory has been changed from the original 50% to 30%. After the farmer pays the land tax on the harvest of the currently rented field, all the remainder belongs to the farmer. Private property is protected by the lord and cannot be deprived of it at will. If there is large-scale abandonment or
If production is reduced, the lord will take back the land use rights and implement redistribution.”
"The grain, livestock and other items produced by farmers' fields should be purchased by the lord at a reasonable price."
“Farmers can purchase livestock such as cattle, sheep, and horses, as well as farming tools such as hoes, sickles, heavy plows, and various crop seeds from the lord at a discount. If they cannot afford it, they can also rent it, and the cost will be one-third of the original price.
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"Farmers are allowed to freely trade the goods they need, and they only need to pay a commercial tax of 3% of the transaction price to the lord."
"Encourage the people of the territory to have children. Regardless of male or female, if a child is born, he will be rewarded with 3 gold coins. All child support before the first birthday will be reimbursed by the lord's castle."
"Langke, if the "Slange Agricultural Reform Eight Regulations" you wrote are really implemented, those farmers will be very happy. Now that the year is good, they have become lazy, and they will become lazy by then.
More lazy."
Robert shook the document in his hand and was a little dissatisfied: "You still want to use my money to raise children for those farmers. This is so unreasonable. Although you are a farmer yourself, you can't do this."
From the aristocratic education Robert received since childhood, the inherent impression of farmers was that of laziness.
And what the lords want to do is squeeze them hard.
Three days of free weekly labor, various charity jobs, and all kinds of strange taxes are all designed to drain their surplus labor and collect their spare money, so that the farmers will not be idle.
Wandering around the territory.
As for raising children, no one has even thought about it. That is a matter for God and the Lord. It has nothing to do with our lords. It is only natural for the untouchables to raise their own children to work for me and to sacrifice their lives for me.
"Robert, I've told you many times, those poor farmers are so busy all year that they have no time to be lazy."
"On the contrary, for the sake of food and clothing for the family, to have children, and for those messy taxes, they are actually very tired, so tired that they can hardly stand up straight.
"We lighten some of their burdens, protect their private property, and allow them to take a break after their busy work, relax their bodies, get nutrition, and have time to have children. In this way, the population will increase, farming efficiency will be higher, and soldiers will be available.
There will be more, and agricultural output will also increase... This is a virtuous cycle."
"Believe me, if this reform regulation is implemented, the castle's warehouse may be reduced this year, but in less than a year, the territory's income will be able to increase by at least 30%, and the survival rate of newborns will also be improved on the basis of previous years.
More than 80%.”
"This..." Robert was still hesitating. He still felt that this regulation that seemed to harm his interests was a fart, so he turned his head and moved out of the church: "If we do this, the St. Petersburg monastery will not agree.
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"Why don't you agree? I not only want Father Paul to agree, but I also want him to support it and correct the bad habit of donating one's life's property to the church after death. Instead of donating it to the church, it is better to give it to the lord first.
And you."
Speaking of this, Robert's eyes lit up: "Yes, yes, if this can be done, this regulation may be implemented."
Li Feng rolled his eyes and didn't want to pay attention to this puppet lord anymore.
Didn't you see that Tom, Kurimu and others below are already impatient?
In fact, according to Li Feng's idea, a person's property after death should be left to his or her descendants. Only in this way can people have the belief and motivation to build a family business for their descendants.
The practice of donating at every turn, let alone donating to the church, even if you donate to Li Feng, he will not encourage it.
"I ask you, do you agree with this agricultural reform regulation and are you willing to implement it?"
"Yes." The audience responded loudly in unison, and the voices were surprisingly consistent. Robert was so shocked that he broke out in a cold sweat, and he did not dare to say anything anymore.
Soon, Li Feng took Smith and a dozen tax officials on horseback to personally distribute various agricultural reform measures to various villages and towns, reading them word for word to the thin farmers.
Land rent reduced from 50% to 30%?
The rental price of farm tools has been reduced to one-third of the original price. If you want to skip renting, you can even buy it directly?
Cancel weekly work and charity work?
And help raise the children?
Not to mention other things, these four items alone have shocked the farmers' jaws, and many people rubbed their ears to make sure each other whether this was true.
It was like thunder rising from the ground, and all the citizens felt like they were in a dream after hearing the eight major regulations.
They emboldened themselves and stepped forward to ask, "Steward Skrone, are you telling the truth?"
"Of course it's true. As long as you conscientiously implement the regulations I have formulated and adopt the intensive farming methods I introduced before, I guarantee that everyone will have a good life in the future. They will have enough to eat for every meal, and they will be able to afford medical care when they are sick.
A doctor can afford to support his wife and children, and be filial to your elderly parents..."
Li Feng's flatbread was undoubtedly delicious, and some peasant women present couldn't help wiping their tears.
"Absurd, devil, little Kron, I have never discovered that you are actually a despicable and shameless devil. You are letting those lovely people get rid of the control of the Lord. If they do not receive the blessing of the Lord, sooner or later they will be defeated by the devil.
Devour.”
Late at night, a group of men in black suddenly broke into St. Peter's Monastery, and the leader was Li Feng. Father Paul was quite happy when he saw Li Feng at first sight, thinking that this boy was here to read the books inside and listen to the Lord's teachings.
Who would have thought that he actually asked himself not to send people to Dialand to collect tithes anymore, and he still had to pay wages to the charity workers. That was all, after all, his losses would be made up by the castle.
But Li Feng actually asked him to promote ridiculous slogans such as land privatization is the will of the Lord, labor is the most glorious, and working people are the most lovable. He is crazy.
In this world, nobles and missionaries are the most glorious and lovely, okay?
Land belongs to the nobility, right?
"Heresy, this is heresy, outrageous, excessive." Father Paul's mouth was twisted in anger, and he trembled his fingers and spat at Li Feng, which made Piccolo and Snake want to give him a sword on the spot.