One kick to the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 233 Trouble caused by benevolent government
The notice written by Xi Zhicai was quickly posted.As before, Qin Yi sent out a preaching group to go deep into the rural intersections to explain the contents of the notice to the people.

Not only Zhangzi County posted notices, but Huguan County also posted notices.Because all the property of Luo Kui, the former magistrate of Huguan County, was also confiscated. He also had a lot of land and tenants.There is no such victim as Luo Kui in Lu County, so there is no need to post it.

Not long after the notice was posted, some elders from the county came to meet Qin Yi, and praised Qin Yi for his benevolent government, which would benefit the people of Changzi County.

Those octogenarians were all in their seventies and eighties, with deaf ears and a bad tongue, Qin Yi still had to smile and deal with it unspeakably.

People praised Qin Yi, which made Qin Yi a little proud.But his elation didn't last long.After the elders left, Wang Heng came to the door with a few powerful men who lived in the county.

Qin Yi thought that Wang Heng and others were also here to flatter him, but who knew that after the meeting, Wang Heng kept sighing.

"Mr. Zi Pei, what's the matter? Is there any distress that I need Qin to help you solve?" Qin Yi asked suspiciously.

Wang Heng took a sip of tea and said, "Magistrate Qin, we are here because of that notice."

"Oh, what's wrong with the notice? Is there something wrong with it?" At this moment, Qin Yi still didn't understand that he didn't come here to flatter him.

Wang Heng said: "There is nothing wrong with the notice. What the Qin county magistrate wants to implement is good governance that benefits the people. It is precisely because of this that we wait...that we have the courage to come here."

Qin Yi was even more puzzled: "Since Mr. Zipei also thinks it is good governance, why does he look distressed?"

"Oh, County Magistrate Qin, let me be blunt. In your notice, the tenants who lease the government land will be given the land after three years. This makes the tenants who rent our land very jealous. Many people We are already discussing that in the coming year, we will reduce the amount of land that we rent and plant, and instead rent and plant land from the government. In this way, I am afraid that a lot of land will be abandoned when I wait next year!"

When Qin Yi heard this, he was immediately speechless.This is indeed a problem.It seemed that he was making things simple.In this era, due to the turmoil in the past few years, the population has decreased sharply, resulting in a lot of land being idle, but people who cultivate land have become sought-after goods.

But this does not mean that everyone has land to grow. Many of the idle land is in the hands of powerful people.In the later period of each dynasty, land annexation was very serious.The people who lost their land can only be reduced to tenants, dependent on the powerful to make a living.This is also the reason why the more troubled the world, the stronger the power of the tyrants.

At present, the powerful people in Changzi County, Lu County, and Huguan County have all been shocked by Qin Yi's thunderous methods. Qin Yi is not afraid that they are too powerful. What he is worried about is that they want to rent a government officialdom. If there are too many people on the land, the amount of land each person will be allocated after three years will inevitably be very small, and his benevolent governance will lose its meaning.

Furthermore, if the number of land rented by the tyrants decreases, this is also a major unstable factor.At the very least, the taxes and rations he collects will be reduced.

After thinking for a while, Qin Yi said: "Don't worry, everyone, what Qin originally meant was not that anyone can rent the government's land. Those lands are confiscated, and only the original tenants can rent."

Wang Heng immediately said: "Then how does the county magistrate of Qin know who is the original tenant and who is the counterfeit?"

"There is no..."

Just as Qin Yi was about to say, isn't there a household registration and land account book, he suddenly remembered that the government's household registration and field account book only records the owner of the field, and does not record who the land is leased to.In other words, between the owner of the field and the tenant, it is a private contract that does not require government registration.

Qin Yi had no choice but to change his words: "Qin will send people to verify this one by one. It will cost more manpower and time. Anyway, there are still two or three months before spring, and Qin will definitely handle this matter."

"Then there will be Laoqin county magistrate." Wang Heng and the others were satisfied now.

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After seeing off Wang Heng and others, Qin Yi sat alone in the second hall, lost in thought.

He suddenly discovered that he had always neglected the management of household registration and fields.Land in this era is privately owned and can be bought and sold freely.There are two types of owners of land: owner farmers and landowners.A yeoman is a farmer who owns his own land.Landlords are tyrants and landlords who own a large amount of land and rely on tenant farmers to cultivate the land for them.

Theoretically speaking, owner farmers and landowners can be converted to each other.If a self-cultivator is good at management and keeps buying land from others after getting rich, he can eventually become a farm owner.Conversely, if the farm owner goes bankrupt and his family business declines, he may also become a self-cultivator or even a tenant.

But in fact, there are very few people who develop from self-cultivated farmers to farm owners, almost none.On the contrary, the farm owner has more and more land in his hands, and his power is also growing.

A tenant farmer lives attached to the owner of the farm. While cultivating the land for the owner of the farm, he must also obey the orders of the owner of the farm and do other things.Otherwise, if the farm owner does not continue to lease the land to a certain tenant, the tenant will lose his source of income.This is also the reason why Qiu Rui and other tyrants were able to immediately gather an army composed of tenant farmers even if Qin Yi took away their private soldiers.

In terms of taxation system, it is divided into grain tax and small tax.The grain tax is extracted according to the amount of land and the harvest, and a certain proportion of the output per mu of land is extracted and paid to the government. Right now, the imperial court's grain tax ratio is [-] taxes per mu.

Of course, in terms of actual collection, it is impossible for every household to measure the land and weigh the harvest.When the grain tax is collected every year, the local government will decide how much grain to pay per mu of land according to the harvest status of the area under its jurisdiction this year.In actual operation, it is very likely that officials will draw up the amount of tax collection at will.This is also unavoidable.

Dingkou tax, also known as head tax, collects a certain amount of currency according to the registered population of each household.Adults are Ding and children are Mouth.The amount of tax paid by children is half that of adults.Currency does not have to be copper coins, including cloth, silk, etc., which can be used as currency in this era.

In theory, the tax system of the Han Dynasty is quite reasonable.However, no matter how good the system is, it must be implemented.In fact, landlords and tyrants relied on their power to hide their land and not report it, or to impose taxes that should have been paid by them on tenant farmers, so as to pay less or no tax at all.

This creates a situation where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.When such contradictions accumulate to a certain extent, turmoil occurs.

Right now, Qin Yi doesn't dare to make too much of a difference in the land system and taxation system, but he doesn't want to do nothing either.

But having said that, Qin Yi still has one more thing on his mind, and that is that Niu Fu is coming to Bingzhou.

Therefore, until the huge threat of Niu Fu is eliminated, Qin Yi can only follow suit, focus on stability as much as possible, and refrain from doing things that infringe the interests of the landlords and powerful people in the jurisdiction.

He was going to rent out all the confiscated land and planted it. He thought that this matter was his private matter and had nothing to do with the landlords and powerful people.But unexpectedly, it still caused trouble.

(End of this chapter)