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"Pilot?" Huang Zhixuan looked confused.
"That's right, the so-called pilot means that some policies will be tried out in your county first. If it works and there are no problems, it will be implemented in the entire county." When Wang Junlin said this, he thought of a painting drawn by a great man in later generations.
circle, and then the Special Economic Zone appeared, completely kicking off the reform and opening up.
Wang Junlin knew very well that if he wanted to truly control Fanyang County, he had to solve the problem of land annexation. In fact, the Great Sui Dynasty was eventually destroyed, of course because Yang Guang was consuming national power like a madman, and he also wanted to go to war with other countries, as well as officials
Controlled by the nobles, most of them only think about family and personal interests, and few serve the country and the people.
But in fact there is another fundamental reason - that is, the problem of land annexation is too serious. In history, before the fall of every dynasty, land annexation was at its most serious. On the contrary, when the country was first founded, the people had the most land of their own.
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However, as time went by, the farmland in the hands of the common people gradually disappeared, and eventually they became tenant farmers of the landlord class. This process took two to three hundred years to complete in the Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, and even the previous Han Dynasty.
However, the Great Sui Dynasty was like this from the beginning after inheriting the Northern Zhou Dynasty. This is actually the reason why Sui II was like this.
Wang Junlin came prepared. He had already reached a consensus with Zhao Zhanpeng, who was the general guard, when he was still in the county town half a month ago, so the process of persuading Huang Zhixuan, or in other words, coercing Huang Zhixuan, went smoothly.
The first step Wang Junlin needs to do is to clean up all the hidden fields.
The so-called hidden fields refer to the number of fields that are concealed, and the spies under Shen Guoer have already found out how many hidden fields Fangcheng County has.
There are as many as 1,150,000 acres of hidden farmland in Fangcheng County evading land tax, and most of it is mature farmland. If the land tax per mu is half a stone, Fangcheng County will receive nearly 600,000 less crops every year.
Shi Liang Fu.
Tax evasion has been around since ancient times. There is nothing surprising about this in itself. From the perspective of landlords, they naturally feel that this is the most important thing they should do. However, in a dynasty like the Sui Dynasty, which was almost entirely dominated by the aristocratic landlord class.
, this situation will naturally become more and more serious.
In accordance with Wang Junlin's instructions, the Fangcheng County government announced that all landowners in Fangcheng County will be given one month to report their land on their own initiative. At that time, the farmland reported by each family will be registered. Once the farmland underreported is found, it will be classified as official land.
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Wang Junlin knows very well that no matter what time, there are many people who are willing to take chances, so Wang Junlin is ready to obtain a large amount of official land, and his approach will not be subject to any backlash, because tax evasion comes first, and the prefect also
Let the government give you time and opportunity. You said that your home only has 500 acres, so naturally it will be calculated for you according to what you said. As for the result of the investigation, your home has 2,000 acres. Sorry, there are another 1,500 acres.
It doesn't belong to your family, it belongs to the court, and it is the government's public land.
With the cooperation of Huang Zhixuan, who was both the county magistrate and a local leader, the first step of Wang Junlin's pilot work went smoothly.
The originally registered 710,000 acres of fertile land in Fangcheng County asked all landowners to re-report it, and a month later it became 1.17 million acres. Then Wang Junlin ordered people to forcibly measure the land, and the result was that the entire county was 1.8 million acres.
20,000 acres. In this way, Fangcheng County official farmland will have 650,000 acres more.
Landowners and nobles who have lost their land will naturally make trouble. This problem is actually easy to solve. The key depends on whether you dare to kill people and whether you dare to act in accordance with the law. Of course, it mainly depends on whose hands the army is in. Wang Junlin sent county soldiers to openly
The two most violent landlords were arrested for treason and had their heads beheaded by the county government. More than 30 landlords who secretly resisted were arrested and imprisoned, and the matter subsided.
Wang Junlin had expected these things. After all, since ancient times, reforms have been good, no matter how reform, there has been no death without bloodshed. The agrarian revolution is actually the most important part of reform since ancient times. Only two people died in one county.
The landlords arrested more than thirty people, which was actually relatively few. Of course, this was directly related to the fact that Wang Junlin was the governor of Fanyang County and was personally in charge of Fangcheng County.
Huang Zhixuan had been an official in the county for many years and was very familiar with local affairs. Although he knew that there should be a lot of hidden farmland in the county. After all, the Huang family had underreported a lot of fertile land in the past to evade taxes. But when he knew that there were many hidden fields in the county,
After the landlord reported the matter, when the people sent by the governor forcibly measured out 650,000 acres of farmland again, they couldn't help but be surprised.
If these fields are converted into silver, in Fanyang County, an acre of land with an annual output of three shi of grain is worth 10 taels of silver. The 650,000 newly obtained official land in Fangcheng County is mostly made of shangtian, almost 5 million taels.
The value of silver and such huge benefits are enough to arouse the greed of too many people. But when the magistrate of Fangcheng County took advantage of his authority to convert all their farmland into fertile farmland, the notorious prefect ignored Zhao Zhanpeng and Huang Zhixuan.
After he begged for mercy and directly ordered his beheading, no one dared to raise his hand again.
However, Wang Junlin has not been short of money in the past year or two, but he needs fields. To be precise, he needs tenant farmers attached to these fields. The 650,000 acres of official land can accommodate approximately 50,000 to 60,000 tenant farmers.
And this was not over yet. Wang Junlin replaced about 430,000 acres of the upper fields of the 650,000 acres with the middle and lower fields of the noble landowners in Fangcheng County, so that the official fields finally became 970,000 acres of middle fields.
The fields were all concentrated in Fangcheng County near the sea in the east. There were more than 20,000 tenant farmers, bringing the number of tenant farmers to more than 70,000.
King Junlin of these official fields was nominally handed over to the people in the original county government of Fangcheng County, but in fact he planned to implement a farmland system. He surrounded the 970,000 acres of middle and lower farmland with more than 70,000 tenants.
One hundred households constitute one village, forming more than one hundred villages. Each village will be appointed by the salt farm and managed by a trained village chief. There will also be a selected field chief under the village chief, and each field chief will be in charge of ten households.
They have established an organization and a law enforcement team, with one level of management and one level, and they hold regular meetings. They have strict regulations and requirements to keep them firmly under control.
Of course, in order to increase the enthusiasm of these 70,000 tenants, the already mature methods of increasing production in the saltworks will be gradually implemented, and some water conservancy facilities will also be repaired, and the grain tax they pay is less than half of what they originally paid to the landlords.
When the time comes later, Wang Junlin will organize rotation training for the civilian warriors among the more than 70,000 tenants to reserve military reserve forces.