During the Wanli period, the Prince of Lu built a temple at the foot of Panlong Mountain, with a white pagoda built of white stone inside the temple. The original village at the foot of the mountain was Dongye Village, which was built in the Hongwu period, so it was renamed Baitasi Village.
"This is the temple built by your grandfather."
Zhu Shouyong was the son of Zhu Yitan, the sixth king of Lu, and the younger brother of the seventh and eighth kings of Lu. He was first named King of Taixing, and became the ninth king of Lu in the ninth year of Chongzhen. After his death, his third son Yi Pai became the tenth king of Lu.
Wang, the sixth son took Hai as the eleventh generation King of Lu, and now he is proclaimed emperor, so Zhu Shouyong is posthumously honored as the Shizu Emperor.
Zhu Yihai's grandfather, Zhu Yitan, was a filial and kind vassal prince. He often helped the victims of disasters and received seven awards from the court. Under his influence, Zhu Shouyong was also a benevolent and virtuous prince. He was willing to give charity, helped the hungry many times, and also respected Buddhist etiquette.
, sent people to Sanyuan Palace in Yuntai Mountain many times to pay tribute and property.
Dongye Village at the foot of Panlong Mountain was also the farm of Prince Lu's Mansion. It was later assigned to Zhu Shouyong, who would come here occasionally, and later even spent special money to build the White Pagoda Temple at the foot of the mountain.
It's just that everything is different now.
The White Pagoda Temple is still there, but all the monks in the temple have disappeared. The gold paint on the original Buddha statues in the temple has also been scraped off, leaving the broken Buddha statues, revealing the clay puppets inside.
There is not a single bronze Buddha statue left.
The village at the foot of the mountain was very lively. Zhu Shouyong succeeded to the throne as Queen Lu and gave Zhu Yihai this village and the manors at the foot of the mountain such as Yunshan, Siji Mountain, Wohu Mountain, Jiulong Mountain and Huangshan across the Liao River.
This bastard.
The Prince of Lu's Mansion has been in Yanzhou for more than 200 years, and owns various fields equivalent to more than ten thousand hectares. These royal estates are divided into various names such as villages, factories, camps, villages, halls, villages, villages, etc., and they are all tenant villages of the Prince's Mansion.
In the past, these royal villages were all rented out to tenants, and only a small part of them were cultivated by slaves or hired short-term workers.
There were originally more than 200 tenant households in Baitasi Village, with 1,100 acres of farmland. Not all of these lands were registered fertile farmland, only a small part of them were registered, and many of them were wastelands, mountains, riverbanks, etc.
In terms of location, Baitasi Village and others are right at the junction of the three counties of Ciyang, Qufu and Zouxian in Yanzhou. These mountains have become the highlands of these three counties, and both the Liao River and Baima River originate here.
After Zhu Yihai fled south, the farmland in the Lu Prince's Mansion was also occupied by tenants. More often, it was bought by powerful people such as the Kong family who colluded with local officials of the Qing Dynasty to buy it at low prices, or even directly reported it as a famine and occupied it.
However, after Zhu Yihai regained Shandong, he also cleared up the fields mercilessly. Not only the village fields of Prince Lu's Mansion, but also all the military camps, official fields, etc. were cleared together.
The land of Prince Lu's Mansion was also taken back, but Zhu Yihai only kept 10% of the land, and the remaining 90% was given to the imperial court to become an official, and then used as post rental, public house rent, school rent, and other public rental land, and the rest was sold at a different price.
Generals, officers, etc.
He reserved 1,800 hectares of land in Shandong as Huangzhuang farmland, and set up a total of 100 Zhuangzi in various prefectures, counties and towns.
Among them, the 54 hectares of land owned by the three villages in Cixian, Qufu and Zouxian counties are all located in Panlong Mountain and other mountains, and they are basically his own farmlands.
There are a total of six villages and 5,400 acres of land. It turns out that the six villages have more than these lands. For example, Baitasi Village has 1,100 acres of land. Zhu Yihai’s village has only 900 acres of land, leaving 200 acres of land.
, he joined the government and then sold it to the original tenants here at a different price.
"Are these all our tenants?"
"Well, Baita Temple has now resettled 200 households, with a population of more than 1,000. The court has sold land to them at a different price. Each household has sold six acres of land at a different price. In addition to the 200 acres of land taken from our village,
We also took out a thousand acres from the surrounding official fields and sold them at a different price. The price for the upper fields was three taels, the middle fields two taels, and the lower fields one taels. It was promised to be repaid in ten years, with the principal paid first and interest last."
This kind of price change is equivalent to zero down payment and ten-year installments. In the first ten years, you only need to repay the principal in installments, and the interest will be paid at maturity. The interest is also low, only five points. In this era, such a land purchase method and interest
The rate is the same as giving it away for free.
For Zhu Yihai, this is the redistribution of the means of production, which can break the serious land annexation problem since the late Ming Dynasty and greatly alleviate social conflicts.
On the surface, it seems that the imperial court sold off the official land that could collect rent at such a low price, and then changed the tax collection. The difference in income is four to five times, but in the long run, it is very cost-effective.
Some of the two hundred households in Baitasi Village are still old tenants, and they even know Zhu Yihai. After all, this used to be the farmland of Zhu Yihai and his son, and they would come and live here every year for some time.
The emperor sold the land to them. Each family had six acres of land. Although it was not enough for the family to feed and clothe themselves, they had their own six acres of land after all. The emperor also arranged for the shortcomings. They were hired to work on the nine hundred acres of land in Huangzhuang.
live.
Zhu Yihai did not directly rent to them, but used another model. The emperor recruited crop leaders as managers of the village, and there were also some managers below. Together, they managed the slaves in the manor and the hired villagers for farming.
When farming is busy, some part-time workers can also be hired temporarily.
This kind of employment model is actually a farm management model. Compared with the model of recruiting tenants and subcontracting, it is easier to take advantage of some of the advantages of collective management.
In particular, Zhu Yihai's village not only grows grain. Only 500 acres of the 900 acres of land are planted with grain, but wheat, grain, corn, soybeans, etc. are grown separately. The remaining 400 acres of land are planted with peanut oil.
Vegetables are pressed for oil, cotton is grown, mulberry, hemp and tobacco are grown. The village also has small oil pressing mills, rice and flour mills, flue-cured tobacco mills, textile mills and other processing industries.
In addition to these 900 acres of land, Panlong Mountain is also attached to a manor, which is the private property of the emperor, so tea, various fruit trees and economic forests are also planted on the mountain.
Although Shandong's soil and climate cannot produce high-quality tea, it is still possible to grow medium-low quality tea. Planting tea in barren hills does not bring good returns.
There is also fishing in the village.
Generally speaking, this is an agricultural model that is completely different from ordinary family farming and collective farms. It not only grows grain, but also engages in economic planting, processing, and even breeding.
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Coarse grains such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, corns, and radishes can be planted on the barren mountain slopes, and they can be well utilized for breeding and transformation to maximize the economy.
The breeding farm can even engage in breeding, selling piglets and chickens, etc.
Relatively speaking, it requires more technology and capital, but it is very suitable for large landowners, especially for the development of Huangzhuang.
Zhu Yihai's six villages together have 5,400 acres of land and six mountains. There are rivers, reservoirs and ponds here, and the development prospects are pretty good.
It was only last year that we conquered Yanzhou, established Zhuangzi, recruited village leaders, handlers, and recruited long-term and short-term workers. Now Zhuangzi is already prosperous. Although it is still far from the prosperous farm planned by the emperor, the fields are now prosperous.
The summer wheat has just been harvested, and corn, soybeans, sweet potatoes, etc. have been planted. The wheat and potatoes sown in the spring are also growing well.
The small tea leaves, fruit trees, and forest trees newly planted on the mountain are also growing well.
Oil-pressing mills, mills, and textile mills were also built. For example, in the textile mill, many young women from nearby villagers were recruited to work, and some goods were also distributed to village women for spinning and processing at home.
Those young women come to work in the workshop every morning and go home after work in the evening. They are paid on a piece-rate basis and settle accounts at the end of the month. Although the wages are not very high, for the nearby villagers, this is a very satisfying thing. They can have something outside the land.
For extra output, just work and don't have to worry about anything else.
Women who have to take care of the family cannot leave home to work, but they can still work at home and make money.
After the men have cultivated a few acres of their own land, they will also work on the farm. Whether they are doing farm work, working in workshops or on the mountains, they are paid on a daily basis, and the wages for heavy work can be increased.
"Zhuangzi started operating after the New Year, and the investment so far has been quite large." When Zhuangzi faced the emperor, he was a little frightened. This Zhuangzi has so much land and mountains and forests. As a result, it has been in business for more than half a year and has not seen a penny of profit.
I have invested money in it, a large amount has been invested.
But the emperor didn't think so.
"Our Zhuangzi is not just about farming, so the initial investment must be large, but it doesn't matter. Only with investment can we get output. In the long run, it is very cost-effective. Use the money as needed."
The emperor appointed village heads and deputy village heads to manage each village. In addition, there were offices in each province that were responsible for planning and auditing. They would conduct regular inspections or secret visits, and various specific accounts would also be specially audited.
Even the Shaofu Supervisor will conduct regular audits.
The farm management model is different from the traditional tenancy and contracting. It is a self-operated model, so the industrial model must also be diversified, not only farming but also breeding, and even some primary processing of agricultural products.
For example, those workshops not only process their own agricultural products, but also process primary agricultural products from surrounding farmers to earn more added value.
This is actually the development direction of the self-operated farm model. The income from farming alone is meager and depends on the weather, which is very unstable and has a limited upper limit.
It is difficult for ordinary people to engage in this model. First, there are limited resources such as land, mountains and forests, and second, there is limited capital. Therefore, they can only farm and weave with men, barely living in Hukou, and raising two pigs and a few chickens and ducks at most.
It was too advanced for farmers to unite to establish cooperatives, so in this era, basically only big landowners, bureaucrats, emperors, clans, and relatives could establish such farms.
Shandong is now also divided into three sub-tour roads, Denglaiqing Road (eastern Shandong), Wuji Taidong Road (northern Shandong), and Yancao Xuyi Road (south Shandong).
The Shaofujian has one hundred palaces in Shandong, and also has a general village headquarter with offices in Shandong. The three prefectures also have offices and managers. They not only have the power of auditing and supervision, but are also responsible for the overall situation.
For planning, such as how much land should be planted in Baitasi Village, how many mountains and forests should be planted, building reservoirs, ditches, or building mill houses and other workshops, all require the head of the village of Baitasi to report to the Taoist Office above, who will send people there.
After on-site inspection and review, you have to report to the provincial office.
After approval, the relevant money is withdrawn. After the money is withdrawn, the head of the village has to prepare expenditure accounts, etc. In short, Zhu Yihai uses the same process of the imperial court to develop his imperial village.
Zhuangzi in various places not only cultivated land, but also engaged in breeding, and even agricultural products and handicrafts. At the same time, they could also become the emperor's most important intelligence eyes and ears, regularly reporting the actual situation in various places, such as prices, natural disasters, and even the reputation of local officials, as well as the actual situation of the people.
Take charge of these and collect reports.
Zhu Yihai feels that it is completely appropriate to invest more in the early stage.
"A mine was discovered under Panlong Mountain?"
"Well, we discovered coal and copper. We sent a report and sent people to check. The copper mine is a small mine, while the coal mine is a large one. The office above seems to be planning to open the mine!"
Although most of Yanzhou is plain, there are some mountains, but not many.
But now there are many reports of coal mines being discovered, and the reserves are even very large. In addition, some small gold mines, iron mines and copper mines have also been discovered, as well as a lot of brick and clay, which is suitable for building bricks and ceramic kilns.
The income from mining is naturally very high, unless it is particularly difficult to mine.
The current policy of the imperial court on mineral resources is that all minerals are owned by the state, but the common people are allowed to mine them. However, it is necessary to apply for a ministry license in advance. This license requires a license tax, and mines with different sizes of reserves also have requirements for mining. They must
A certain mining volume must be reached, otherwise it will not work just to occupy the mine, so a deposit must be paid first.
After mining, you must submit a mining class.
Different mines have different taxes.
For example, gold and silver mines require 40% of the mining tax, while copper, iron, lead, tin and coal require 20% of the tax.
In addition to the mining class, the minerals obtained after mining are not allowed to be sold freely after the mining class is handed in. They must be purchased and sold collectively, that is, they must be purchased by the imperial court.
Especially for gold, silver, copper and iron, the court allows you to mine and obtain certain profits, but these minerals must be purchased and controlled by the court after mining, especially those important resources.
This means that the imperial court must monopolize these important resources and account for the majority of profits.
Mining can only account for a small portion.
However, this year the emperor decreed that the unified purchase of minerals is the same as the unified purchase of grain. Now after taxes are paid, the remaining 70% needs to be purchased by the unified purchase, and the remaining 30% is allowed to be freely listed. This can be regarded as stimulating enthusiasm and increasing vitality.
But the majority is still in the hands of the court. For example, when gold and silver are mined, 40% of the mineral tax is paid first, and the remaining 60% is left. The court then purchases 70%. In fact, the court takes away 82%, and the mine owners only have 10% left.
Just eight.
Other mines pay 20% of the tax, leaving 80%. If they purchase 56% of the total, they actually pay 76%, leaving 24%.
The remaining 24% must be paid to the ministry for license fees and business tax. Although it is not high, there are still expenses after all. Of course, mining profits are very high, and the emperor has also carefully calculated the purchase price, such as copper
, although it is lower than the market price, there is still a lot of profit. For the bureaucratic landlords who have a lot of money in their hands, investing money in mining is actually a very good business. It is better than being buried in a pig pen.
