Chapter seven hundred and fiftieth land development
Li An thought for a while and said: "Although there are many uninhabited and broken houses in Chang'an, they are scattered and scattered. People from the lower classes live around them. It is not good to build official residences. First, it reduces the status of officials. Secondly, the quality of these houses
Many of the owners are not in Chang'an, so it is not easy to buy land from them. It is better to find another place, such as Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty. The land is basically owned by the government, and it does not cost much to build official residences."
One sentence reminded Guo Song that he had forgotten such a large area of land in Han Chang'an City. He immediately said: "Then it will be in Han Chang'an City. Do you want to take this job?"
Zhang Lei and Li An looked at each other, with excitement in their eyes. They had bought official residences for Guo Song before, and they knew the conditions of the fields and houses in various places in Chang'an. They knew that the Great Wall of Han Dynasty was used to resettle refugees, and the refugees were evicted.
After going to Hexi, most of Chang'an City in the Han Dynasty was deserted. There were large shabby thatched houses and even wasteland covered with weeds. The land was very cheap and could be bought by paying the government a little money.
Chang'an people don't even bother to buy land and build houses in Han Chang'an City. The reputation is so bad that it would be a shame to live there. But if it turns into a gathering place for official residences, it will be different. The land price will definitely rise sharply. If you live there, it will be different.
If you can accumulate more land, you will make a fortune!
"Let's do it!"
The two said in unison that this was indeed a big deal, how could they turn it away.
"If you want to take it, come to Prince Jin's Mansion the day after tomorrow to sign the contract. The construction time is limited, and the quality of the house is required. It requires a brick house. Do you understand?"
"We understand that after we finish the construction, we will add 30% of the net profit to the cost, so that everyone will be refreshed."
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Early the next morning, Guo Song came to the official room of Prince Jin's Mansion. Wen Miao, a member of the Record Office, came over with a pile of documents. Guo Song frowned as he looked at the thick pile of documents on the table, "I have to approve all of this?"
"No! No! Your Highness has misunderstood. Most of the important things that have happened in recent months have been dealt with. There are only fifteen matters that need to be handled by Your Highness. I just want His Highness to take a look at them."
"Is there a summary catalog for these documents?"
"Yes! The humble job has been made and placed on top."
"Okay! Let me take a look first and come to you if I have any questions."
"I resign from my humble position!"
Just as Wen Miao was about to retreat, Guo Song remembered something and stopped him.
"There is one more thing that you need to deal with immediately."
Guo Song took out a handwritten contract and handed it to Wen Miao, "This contract is about the construction of an official residence. Show it to Cao Lingtai and Du Sima. They can add anything that needs to be improved. If there are no problems, it will be official."
Copy it in duplicate, and Dongzhu Zhang and Dongzhu Li will come to sign the contract early tomorrow morning."
"I'll go to my humble position now."
Wen Miao took the contract and left in a hurry.
Guo Song casually picked up the index table of contents on the document and read it carefully.
Before he left, he entrusted the Guanzhong affairs to Cao Wannian and Du You, and all matters big and small were discussed and handled by the two of them. If they were unsure about a major issue, they could wait until he came back to discuss it.
Cao Wannian has followed him for many years and knows his own style of doing things. He can consider things according to his own ideas. Du You was once the imperial minister Youcheng, in charge of the officials, households, and rites departments. He has rich experience in government affairs, and the two of them work well together.
tacit agreement.
Guo Song was very interested in one of them, which was an application report submitted by Zhao Jun, the magistrate of Yunyang County. Yunyang County requested a thorough investigation of slave households. Cao Wannian and Du You both approved this report and left it to be approved by His Highness the King of Jin.
In fact, Guo Song began to abolish the low status in Hedong last year, forcing the major estates to release slaves and increase the population. However, the order to eliminate the low status and abolish the slaves in Hedong was not deepened and was only briefly implemented. There are still a large number of official slaves in various state and county governments.
All the big families in the city had slaves.
The only success was that the low-income households were abolished, and a large number of low-income households who relied on wealthy families had their own household registrations. In addition, special household registrations such as prostitutes, music households, military households, craftsmen households, etc. were abolished and unified into civilian households.
But slaves are not even in the official status, so the abolition of the status has nothing to do with them.
For example, the couple were originally commoners who were forced to sell themselves into slaves. Their names were removed from the government's civilian rolls, and their names were registered in the slave rolls. At the same time, they signed a life contract. This was not bad, at least in the government's eyes.
Their names can be found during statistics.
There is also a situation where the child born to the couple is also the slave of the owner. If the owner does not go to the government for registration, the child will not have any record in the government. This is called a black slave household. Such slaves exist in large numbers in real life.
They have no personal protection, just like livestock. Many of them farm in the manors all their lives until they die.
In fact, the Song Dynasty did very well when it came to slaves. There were no slaves in the Song Dynasty, everyone was a commoner, the commodity economy was highly developed, the population flow was large, and land annexation was not serious.
The reason is very simple. A large amount of land has been annexed, but there are no slaves to cultivate it for him. If it is farmed by tenants, and the tenants do not pay much rent, they have to bear the land tax themselves. It is not cost-effective. It is better to invest in business and earn more.
A little more.
The reason why land annexation became common in the Tang Dynasty was largely related to the slavery system. Guo Song also hoped to abolish slavery like the Song Dynasty, but this took time and was done step by step. Many reforms were completed naturally. For example, slaves could not be bought and sold.
Wages must be paid, no physical harm is allowed, etc. When slaves become in vain, it is a matter of course to abolish them.
Therefore, Yunyang County proposed a thorough investigation of black slave households, and Guo Song was very interested. This is a good first step. Once Yunyang County succeeds, it can be promoted in various places. There will be no resistance to such slave households turning into slaves.
Too big. After all, becoming a Minnu is still a slave. You just need to register with the government so that the government can find out the true number of people in the area under its jurisdiction.
Guo Song took out the report and put it aside. Tomorrow he would go to Yunyang County to take a look at it on the spot.
At this time, a manager said at the door: "Your Highness, Du Sima wants to see you!"
Guo Song nodded, "Invite him in!"
Du Sima was Du You. He was officially named Zuo Sima of the Jin Palace. The original Sima of the Jin Palace was Zhang Qianyi. Guo Song also divided the Sima into left and right Sima. In this way, Du You, the left Sima, Zhang Qianyi, the right Sima, and Pan Liao, the chief.
If we add Cao Wannian, the envoy of Suzhengtai, Xue Changshou, the envoy of Suzhengtai, Liu Zi, the chief of Baihu Hall, and Zhang Qiu'an, the chief of Tiance Prefecture, these seven people actually formed the military and political team of Guo Song's Zhengshitang.
Du You and Cao Wannian are now responsible for assisting Guo Song in clearing up all the abuses left by Zhu Si in Guanzhong and Chang'an, sorting out various relationships, and preparing for the relocation of the Jin Palace and Tiance Palace to Chang'an.
Du You hurriedly walked into the room, bowed and saluted, "See you, envoy!"
"Du Sima has worked hard these days, please sit down!"
Guo Song politely asked Du You to sit down and asked the tea boy to serve tea. Du You smiled and said: "I am really busy during this period, but I feel very fulfilled. I have slowly turned around all the messy things before, and I feel very happy.
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“Land redistribution solved?”
"Basically, it was solved. I distributed it to the counties, and then the military assisted. The people I sent were responsible for supervision. You can say that you have to accept it even if you don't accept it. Fortunately, the resistance was much smaller than I thought. It was mainly those who passed through various channels.
If those who have a lot of connections and occupy a lot of land do not accept it, they will all be confiscated and they will get nothing. After killing more than a dozen people, the others will accept it honestly."
Guo Song nodded. He recognized Du You's method. Without resorting to some extravagant measures, it would be ineffective to just be reasonable.
"The countryside is farmland, but the city is full of houses. How are the houses being cleaned up?"
Du You bowed and said: "It is much easier to build a house than to cultivate land. We have found out all the changes in the house deeds during the period when Zhu Si was in charge of Guanzhong, eliminated those that were legally traded, and voided all the rest. We ordered the squatters to move out, and we will do this throughout December.
The problem has been solved, involving thousands of houses across Guanzhong."
"The question is...how do you know which transactions are legal?" Guo Song asked curiously.
Du You smiled slightly and said: "It's actually simple. You must pay taxes for legal transactions. If you don't pay taxes, of course it's not legal. If it's a consensual transaction, the buyer and seller can pay the taxes to make the transaction legal."
"Is there no problem at all here?" Guo Song asked.
Du You pondered for a while and said: "There are indeed some problems, mainly related to the private sale of official residences. Officials appointed by Zhu Si sold the official residences, and the money from the sale went into their personal pockets."
"Then how did you deal with this situation?" Guo Song asked.
"This kind of thing should also be divided into two. If it is sold to his relatives and friends at an extremely low price, there is no need to say that, it will be confiscated. If it is sold to a businessman or other wealthy family at a normal price, and the official is corrupt.
The money has been confiscated by us. In this case, we will refund 70% of the rent and take the house back. Buying a government house itself is risky. Since they dare to buy it, they must bear 30% of the loss."
"They have no complaints?"
"How come there are no complaints, but I told them that this is already very kind. In the past, the court handled this situation without refunding a penny. The losses were all theirs. If they are still not satisfied, then everyone will break up and pay for a penny.
If you don’t retreat, if you want to move to Chengdu, just go, and everyone signed and accepted it honestly.”
Guo Song laughed, "Du Sima is still very courageous!"
"Your Highness is very grateful. Many things happened because of force. If we don't cut the knot quickly, there will be endless troubles."
"Does Dusma have anything else to do?"
Du You nodded, "I still have two very important things to report to His Highness."