New Shun 1730

Just like what Liu Yu usually instilled in Mantou, or like what Mantou told Du Feng's sister.

The abolition of slavery and hereditary slavery by Dashun was not because of the kindness of a certain emperor, but because of the bloodshed and sacrifice of the slaves in Jiangnan, which made the old system unable to continue to exist. The continuous uprisings led to an increase in the cost of rule.

Dashun vulgarized and idolized the king of pacification, and turned it into a tacitly approved obscene worship. It was finally not banned, which was more or less a progress.

The stories that Bai Yunhang heard in his hometown and the perpetual tenancy rights that he saw with his own eyes when he was a county magistrate in Fujian. The popularization of perpetual tenancy rights is actually similar to the abolition of slavery and hereditary slavery.

Although this concept appeared as early as the Song Dynasty and had developed in the Ming Dynasty, it was the Jiangnan uprising in the year of Jiashen that really made the perpetual tenancy rights take root in Jiangnan.

Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian... these places where perpetual tenancy rights are most popular are also the places where the uprising in the year of Jiashen is the most fierce.

The criticism of weapons made the truth clear.

Although, with the help of the Qing Dynasty’s butcher knife, the gentry in some places were complacent: “The slaves said that slaves should not rest with heaven and earth, which is the true slave language. As long as there is heaven and earth, there are monarchs and ministers, fathers and sons, and masters and servants. If heaven and earth do not change, then monarchs and ministers, fathers and sons, and masters and servants will not change. The righteousness of masters and servants is open to heaven and earth.”

But resistance is meaningful after all.

The butcher knife of the Qing Dynasty was no match for the butcher knife of the Dashun Dynasty. A large number of hereditary slaves, tenants, and remnants of the uprising army who joined the Dashun Dynasty, even if the Dashun Dynasty compromised with the gentry in Jiangnan, did not continue the overly cruel and dark policies, at least disintegrating the large landlord manor system in Jiangnan.

The nonsense things in the late Ming Dynasty such as the right to night and taboos were also abolished.

In Anhui, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places, a wave of mosquito prisons similar to the "ban on red-maned horses" was also carried out.

A group of large landlords were arrested and asked what they meant by asking tenants to "avoid taboos"? Taboos only exist between the monarch and relatives. Tenants are not relatives. Do you want to be an emperor if you are doing taboos?

Dashun compromised and did not implement equal distribution of land in Jiangnan.

The result of the compromise was that in some places where resistance was most serious, the right of permanent tenancy was tacitly approved: the land of the rich households was not evenly distributed, and the interests of the tenants were appropriately guaranteed.

In addition, the development of the budding capitalism in Jiangnan made some "non-sale" school fields, sacrificial fields and other industries begin to be permanently leased.

Some are called field skin and field bones; some are called field bottom and field surface; some are called big purchase and small purchase, which all mean the same thing.

Shandong is not Jiangnan, the buds are not so strong, and it was on the front line of the anti-Qing war and suffered too many massacres. The permanent tenancy system here was not very popular.

Bai Yunhang meant that the state government would come forward to force permanent tenancy.

On the premise of not changing the "landlord land ownership system", appropriate reforms were made to resolve contradictions in a way similar to rent and interest reduction, and at the same time pave the way for his policy of equalizing land tax.

Now this policy has not been announced, only Liu Yu and a few others know about it, and only the land inventory has been completed.

Bai Yunhang does not want to do equal land or well-field, because he knows that this thing is nonsense and it is not feasible now.

And if he does this, he will definitely die.

But he does not want the policy that he has come up with with great difficulty and the policy that can easily get him promoted to an official to have big problems when it is implemented.

According to his calculations, if the land tax can be implemented, if the business is opened as Liu Yu promised, his Wendeng Prefecture can increase a lot of tax revenue, which is a huge political achievement and a major reliance for his future promotion.

Although Bai Yunhang did not dare to be as imaginative as Yan Yuan, who wanted to reduce the land rent to 40% and let the tenants have the ownership of the land after 30 years.

But he compromised and kept the original land rent of about 55%, slightly reducing it to 50%.

It requires rich households to divide the land into the skin and the bones of the land, and the rich households have the ownership, and the tenants have the long-term right of use for a period of 30 years.

The government will guarantee and sign a contract to keep the original rent level unchanged, slightly lower it, and it cannot be changed within 30 years.

If the landlord wants to sell the land, the tenant with the perpetual tenancy right has priority.

Within 30 years, the tenant has the absolute right to use the land, but the tenant needs to pay the land tax himself. After the abolition of the population tax, the number of acres of land and the population curve, as well as the slightly lowered rent, make the taxes and rent paid by the perpetual tenancy right tenants basically the same as before.

In later generations, there was a "375 rent reduction", which can probably be called "50 rent reduction", which stipulates that the rent shall not exceed 50%.

If it can be implemented, no matter what the original intention is, for what purpose, it can be regarded as a great good policy.

In addition, Liu Yu was asked to contribute part of the grain to make warehouse capital, and try to reuse Wang Anshi's Qingmiao Law in Wendeng to reduce interest, so that tenants with perpetual tenancy rights can receive low-interest loans.

Anyway, Liu Yu wants to engage in industry and commerce, which requires not only money, but also the more than 10,000 disaster victims who are recruited now do not pay at all. However, people and horses consume a lot of grain in a year. This Qingmiao Law does not require farmers to pay back money, but can pay back grain.

Bai Yunhang made a calculation with the help of the land that Liu Yu helped to check before.

If it can be implemented, the entire Wendeng Prefecture can have one-third of self-cultivating farmers and one-half of permanent tenants, who are the main force of taxation.

He does not care about the rest at all, because those people cannot be collected money and it is troublesome to manage them.

If it is implemented, it will definitely cheat some big landlords.

But as long as the big landowners did not blackmail the tenants into revolt, he had nothing to fear. What he is afraid of is that the big landowners will blackmail the tenants into revolt and cause things like five people's tombstones, so he will not be able to get promoted.

He also knew that although the idea was good, it would definitely not be possible to implement it with just the people in the government office. If we rely on local gentry and scholars, if this can be promoted, then it will be a disaster: let the gentry cut their own flesh?

After explaining the general idea to Liu Yu, Liu Yu pondered for a moment and said with a smile: "Sir Bai, do you know that Wang Jinggong's reform failed? You don't really think that the permanent tenancy law and the green crop law can be implemented nationwide. Promote it?”

Bai Yunhang also roughly knew Liu Yu's personality, and he also said with a smile: "Master Liu thinks highly of me. If I am successful, I will help the world. Now I have not reached the official level yet, and I am still pursuing it."

"It's naturally impossible to promote it nationwide. But if I promote it in my own state, I get top marks in the assessment, and everyone praises it, I don't care if I can promote it nationwide."

"As the saying goes, if you are not in the position, you will not seek the government. I am not a minister, nor am I in charge of the affairs of the Tianyou Palace. I only care about the affairs of Wendeng Prefecture. There is nothing wrong with that, right?"

Liu Yu gave Bai Yunhang a thumbs up and praised: "Master Bai is very capable, I admire him. Cheng, I understand what Master Bai means, and you want to ask me to lend someone for promotion again, right?"

Bai Yunhang nodded and observed Liu Yu's expression.

"Master Liu, this matter of permanent tenancy rights must be borrowed from your people. As for the Green Seedling Law, I also need to worry about it. In fact, I also know that the interest rate on loans is extremely high nowadays. If it were anyone else, I would naturally not agree. But Master Liu does not seem to be willing to do so. Don’t care about money?”

"Don't..." Liu Yu quickly waved his hand.

"Don't put a high hat on me. It's not that I don't care about money, I care about money very much. But I have my own bottom line. When I was fighting in the north, I said that I have my own bottom line. After breaking the city, I am not allowed to insult women. . As for the local bottom line, I don’t engage in loan sharking.”

"This is the bottom line."

"Secondly, the usury interest rate is so high, the land rent is so high, and gold and silver are profit-seeking. All the money goes to usury and land, so naturally no one will spend money to engage in industry and commerce. Since you want to implement the Youth Law here, it is also useful to me. It’s good. In the future, if interest rates are lowered under the Green Seed Law, wealthy households will naturally invest their money in industry and commerce. The lower the interest rate, the more money they will invest in industry and commerce. I support this.”

"But there is one thing."

Bai Yunhang nodded and said, "Sir, please speak."

"I will provide the capital for the Qingmiao Law and my people will take care of it. People from the yamen should not get involved, and Mr. Bai should not take this as a merit, otherwise he will be criticized. Just implement it in one place, or in other words, this It’s not Mr. Bai’s fault, but my business practices.”

Bai Yunhang was not prepared to regard the Green Miao Method as his own merit. Wang Anshi's example was in front of him. If this thing reached the imperial court, he would be sprayed to death.

Implementing it in Wendeng Prefecture can stabilize the local area, increase taxes, inhibit mergers, and make it easier for people to pay taxes, which is of great use to his political achievements.

If it is implemented well, the political achievements will be outstanding, and the dream of "excellent in the assessment and becoming an official in Beijing" will be one step closer.

I was embarrassed to ask Liu Yu for this matter. All fools know that money must make money, and the best way is not to engage in industry and commerce, but to buy land, rent it, and lend money at usury.

Thinking that Liu Yu was a fool who actually wanted to engage in industry and commerce, and that he was in need of food, he thought of asking Liu Yu to borrow some food for the Green Seedling Method.

Since Liu Yu took the initiative to take over, this couldn't be better. Merchant behavior should naturally be greatly rewarded.

Furthermore, those loan sharks will definitely be dissatisfied with the implementation of the Youth Law.

If Liu Yu did it, this would be much simpler.

Dissatisfied? If you are dissatisfied, you can hire desperadoes to attack the Liugong Island military camp.

He was worried that no one would stop him, so Liu Yu took the initiative to bring it up, and Bai Yunhang was more than happy to do so.

"Master Liu, I really don't know how to thank you for doing this. To put it bluntly, when people die and government ceases, I will be transferred to other places in the future, and I will not train troops on Liugong Island. These good governance will eventually come to an end. But even if it ends, at this time If you do something, it will be of some benefit to all people.”

Liu Yu smiled slightly and asked: "If Mr. Bai is promoted to Jiedushi in the future, it will be the end. Will he still implement such a policy of vigorous but disproportionate returns?"

"Well... if you tell lies, you will. If you tell the truth, I'm afraid it may not be possible. It's not that I don't have any kindness for the people, but if I really get promoted to Jiedushi, a province How many people are needed to carry out the task? It is impossible. Dengzhou is able to implement the New Deal thanks to Mr. Liu's garrison here, and there are hundreds of people who can serve as subordinate officials. Where will I find so many people if I am promoted to Jiedushi in the future? Besides, if I have so many capable people, what will happen to me? I'm just afraid that someone will read my book and accuse me of recruiting officials and doing evil things."

What he said seemed to be sincere, but in fact it was also true and false.

There was also a hint of reciprocation, secretly reminding Liu Yu not to make such a thing too big, so as not to cause misunderstanding or suspicion from above.

Liu Yu could tell that the last accented sentence "with evil intentions" was a reminder to him, so he nodded gratefully and said with a smile: "I have taken note of Master Bai's words. This matter is settled now, wait for me Come back and solve it later.”

Bai Yunhang knew that Liu Yu was acting strangely and there were some things he shouldn't ask, but he still couldn't help but ask: "Where does Mr. Liu want to go? When will he return?"

"Go and scout the terrain at night, hahahahaha... Lord Bai, don't worry, I will be back in three to five months and will not delay the business. Lord Bai, let's say goodbye now."

"No night?" Bai Yunhang stared at Liu Yu's receding back, thinking that this was a strange thing to say.