Next, in Xiaohe Town, Wei Zheng gradually implemented various policies and systems.
The first is to reduce or reduce Ding taxes, errands and various capitations. This policy does little harm to the etiquette of Zheng Chengjie and other gentry, not to mention that even if the harm is great, they dare not oppose it.
In addition, Fanyang copper coins were fully implemented in Xiaohe Town, and Sui copper coins and gold and silver were strictly prohibited from being traded. However, official yamen were set up to exchange Fanyang copper coins with Sui copper coins, gold and silver.
This is not difficult to implement at all, because the Far East Army controls the supplies in the town, and stipulates that only Fanyang copper dollars can be used to pay taxes, and Fanyang copper dollars can only be used to purchase the required salt, iron, and tea from the supply station just set up by the Fanyang Chamber of Commerce in Xiaohe Town.
Cloth and other supplies.
What’s more, what amazed and shocked everyone in Xiaohe Town was that Fanyang Chamber of Commerce’s supplies seemed to be a bottomless pit. They had whatever they wanted to buy, and they were never out of stock.
The most taboo thing about coin issuance is that it can be released but not collected. If the government blindly mints copper coins indiscriminately without a channel to recover them, the copper coins will most likely depreciate significantly, so local governments will strongly resist it. Including the current Sui Dynasty, many courts in the past dynasties have
He did this stupid thing of killing the goose that lays the egg.
However, Wei Zheng stipulated in Xiaohe Town that only Fanyang copper coins could be used to pay taxes, and major living supplies could only be purchased from the Fanyang Chamber of Commerce. This fundamentally guaranteed the stability of Fanyang copper coins, so within a few days, Fanyang copper coins were used by Xiaohe Town.
All the people happily accepted it.
What's more, as long as Wang Junlin Group can always ensure the stability of the currency value and ensure a huge supply of living materials, there is no big difference between the written regulations of copper coins being equivalent to "ten coins" or "hundred coins". Some people in Xiaohe Town even have some
Worried, but there is no reason to refuse.
After unifying the currency, Wei Zheng first disbanded all the local soldiers who had always existed. If he was willing to join the Far Eastern Army, he could become a member of the town army as long as he passed the assessment.
Then the custom of using Lijia to govern towns was directly abolished. Instead, a public security office was set up in the town, and the town soldiers belonged to the public security office. The first chief of the public security office was Zheng Changsheng, and the adjutant was another military attache. Zheng Changsheng captured
Thought, construction, and ideology are responsible for ensuring the loyalty of the town soldiers to the Wang Junlin Group. The military attaches are responsible for specific military training and public security, but in principle Zheng Changsheng leads the military attaches.
The wealthy landowners in the town naturally disagreed with this matter, because all Lijia came from their clan. In fact, during the Sui Dynasty, and even throughout the past dynasties, the main method used by local nobles to evade the government was to use Lijia to govern.
Townships.
However, under the threat of the powerful Far East Army, the local wealthy landowners did not dare to show any reluctance even if they were unwilling.
In fact, for the local wealthy landowners, compared with another policy implemented by Wei Zheng, it was better to abolish Lijia and use the public security yamen to govern the towns.
After the issues of money, rule of law, legal power, and security power are resolved, the official government established in Xiaohe Town can be considered completely established, and it has initially grasped the lifeblood of this big town. The next thing that needs to be solved is the issue of taxation.
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In this era, tax issues can never avoid farmland and small households. In other words, taxation is mainly based on the amount of farmland, and tax is subsidized by small households.
Therefore, the first thing Wei Zheng had to do was to check the fields and households. As for the people in Xiaohe Town,
That iron mine was very famous in the Central Plains, and the iron mine that originally belonged to the Sui Dynasty was naturally taken over as official property.
These things are what really touched the cake of the local wealthy landlords. However, no matter how much they scolded Zheng Chengjie and others behind closed doors, facing the small officials sent by Wei Zheng, they could only smile with smiles and reluctantly deed their land.
hand it over.
The petty officials always smiled and behaved very gently towards the wealthy landowners without any intention of intimidation. This suddenly made Zheng Chengjie and other wealthy landowners have some thoughts and thoughts that they shouldn't have.
Of course, Wei Zheng couldn't believe these landowners, so after asking the wealthy landowners to report it themselves, he immediately sent people to check all the fields in the town. The fields that were not reported were directly classified as public fields, which immediately made the wealthy landowners almost vomit blood.
And die.
Take Zheng Chengjie as an example. There are 70,000 acres of fertile farmland near Xiaohe Town. However, because Wei Zheng promoted paying taxes based on the amount of land, the more fields reported, the more taxes paid, so the tax was underreported by 30,000 acres. As a result, the tax was underreported by 30,000 acres.
Wei Zheng left 40,000 acres to Zheng Chengjie, and the other 30,000 acres became public land.
Almost all the landowners, large and small, in Xiaohe Town were similar to what Zheng Chengjie did and experienced, but they could only suffer the consequences because they all asked for it themselves.
This move suddenly made one-third of the fertile land in Xiaohe Town public ownership. Wei Zheng immediately collected rent at a rate of one-fifth of the rent paid by ordinary landowners, and recruited people in the town to farm for the public. This immediately made the town and nearby villages
The poor people were overjoyed and came to work as tenants in the public offices one after another. As a result, there were no more people to farm for the landlords in Xiaohe Town and nearby areas, forcing the wealthy landowners in the town to lower their rents and keep them at the same level as the public fields.
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This kind of fertile land obtained without force and the land collected by force have completely different images when the matter is spread to the Far East Army. You must know that the Far East Army established a base area in the Central Plains. According to Wang Junlin and Nie Xiaoyu's plan, they will use fire to
The momentum of a prairie fire caused the Xiaohe Town base area to become larger and larger, eventually swallowing up the entire Central Plains and even continuing to expand.
This method is very concerned about the image of the Far East Army. Every action must be as gentle as possible, especially when the base area is first established.
In short, it is to let the ordinary working people see the benefits and hope, and voluntarily support them, so that although the wealthy landowners are not happy, they must control a degree and a balance, and do their best to avoid the threat of the Far East Army.
Force them to the opposite side of the Wagang Army.
Wei Zheng gave five acres of fertile land to each family of the people who participated in the town army, and issued land deeds on the spot, which were registered in the new public office. This immediately won the loyalty of the people in the town who participated in the town army, and once again set off the enthusiasm for joining the army.
Wei Zheng also gave benefits to the gentry and landlords in the town, asking Zheng Chengjie and other families to recommend their children to take the exam. As long as they passed the exam, they could serve as officials in the town. Even if they performed well here, they would be hired.
Can be transferred to serve as officials in the ten counties controlled by the Far Eastern Army.
The wealth of the counties under Wang Junlin's jurisdiction has long been famous all over the world, and with Wang Junlin's prestigious and fierce reputation, these places give people a sense of long-term peace and stability. This suddenly makes the wealthy people in the town see the wealthy landowners.
The most important hope for officials.
Of course, the series of policies implemented by Wei Zheng were of greatest benefit to the poor and landless people.
With the advent of troubled times, the land annexation in the world has become more serious. Li Mi and others in Wagang Village have not paid any attention to this, let alone tried to rescue them. Some new "nobles" in Wagang Village have even annexed land wantonly in the past two years.
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Among them, Zhai Rang's two younger brothers are especially famous. Each of them has appropriated more than 100,000 acres of fertile land through various means. Other new "nobles" in Wagang Village have followed or learned from them, resulting in three groups under the rule of Wagang Village.
There are more than 100,000 households, 90% of which are landless and propertyless tenants. The land annexation is even more serious than during the Sui Dynasty.
The Wagang Army has more than 400,000 troops, and it does not have the means to generate money, produce food, and create various means of production and living materials like the Wang Junlin Group. In order to maintain the huge expenditure on military equipment, it has no choice but to control the existing
The region levied a large amount of taxes, which were not much lighter than the taxes originally collected by the Sui Dynasty.
In addition, after Li Mi took control of the Wagang Army, every time he occupied a place, he would rely on the local gentry and powerful forces. Even if he suppressed local forces, it would only be convenient for the Wagang Army to infiltrate and control the place.
This is naturally related to the fact that Li Mi himself came from a noble family, which limited his vision.
Of course, family background does not completely lead to the limitation of vision. For example, Li Yuan and his son in Taiyuan, who also came from a large aristocratic family, saw the root cause of the demise of the Sui Dynasty and attached great importance to the people's livelihood, without affecting the support of the nobles and nobles who supported them.
Under the premise of interests, treat people as kindly as possible.
Even Li Yuan and his son found various excuses to deal with a large number of small landowners. They resisted the pressure of various nobles and imitated Fanyang County's land management method and distributed a lot of land to the poor people, which greatly won the hearts of the people.
In Xiaohe Town, what Wei Zheng did was more thorough than what Li Yuan and his son did.
For a long time, within Wagang's sphere of influence, heavy taxes have been distributed on a per capita basis, and tenant farmers have been extremely exploited, but they have been unable to resist.
Nowadays, Xiaohe Town has exempted and reduced the Ding tax, apportioned the tax per person, and spread the tax to the fields. Most tenants do not even have to bear direct taxes except for a very small amount of land rent.
Therefore, we can predict what the people under the Wagang Army will think when a series of policies to benefit the people of Xiaohe Town come out of Xiaohe Town.
Li Mi thought that Li Jing had used the most powerful method to drive a wedge between their outer camps and Wagang's main village. Little did he know that Wang Junlin, through a terrifying intelligence network, had already investigated and studied the situation under the Wagang army very clearly, and had already formulated a plan.
A truly powerful method was used, and this method was the strategy that completely cut off their Wagang foundation.
"It can be expected that after what Wei Zheng did in Xiaohe Town spread, the people under the Wagang Army were eager for us to attack them and drive out the Wagang Army or kill them all." The mountain road leading to Wagang where Xiaohe Town is located
At the mountain pass in the hinterland of the village, Li Jing looked extremely complicated after learning what Wei Zheng had done in Xiaohe Town.
He thought that this attack on the Wagang Army would be the time for him to shine. In fact, it was indeed the case at the beginning. However, as they captured Xiaohe Town and then launched the plan for the base area behind enemy lines in Xiaohe Town, he suddenly found himself
The protagonist becomes a supporting character because he sees the power of the policies implemented by Wei Zheng in Xiaohe Town. This is a move that fundamentally destroys the foundation of Wagang Village.