In mid-July, Guzang County is still hot during the day. Fortunately, it's already the beginning of autumn, so the coolness will subside at night and the scorching heat during the day will disappear.
Lin Feng is quite free now. After all, he is only responsible for Guzang County. Cui Yuantu is responsible for government affairs, and Huan Su is fully responsible for Lianhua Mountain. Lin Feng does not need to worry about anything.
At the end of June, Lin Feng received a letter sent back by the emperor from Heibingtai, and learned that Yang Qianli and others were impeaching him in the court, and that the emperor directly exiled Yang Qianli to deal with officials in the court.
Lin Feng doesn't care about impeachment.
Dividing one person into another will inevitably affect the interests of countless people.
Definitely.
Lin Feng was also ready.
In order to strengthen Qin's power, Da Qin must reform. Only in this way can Great Qin's finances be improved. Without sufficient financial support, it would be impossible for Da Qin to go east and conquer the Xia Kingdom.
Lin Feng was also grateful for winning Jiuxiao's trust.
Just go all out.
Live up to Ying Jiuxiao's reliance.
On this day, Cui Yuantu arrived at Shenshi in the afternoon and came back. Cui Yuantu now has dark skin and has lost a lot of weight, but he is also more powerful.
After all, I travel to places every day.
Cui Yuantu arrived in the study, bowed to Lin Feng, and said excitedly: "Master Marquis, all the land in Guzang County has been inventoried."
Lin Feng asked: "How many acres are there?"
Cui Yuantu replied: "It's not bad, there are 436,837 acres. The current population of Guzang County, I have also investigated, there are more than 5,600 households, close to 30,000 people. Divided evenly, that’s a little more than ten acres per person.”
"Of course, it is different for each person. Because Guzang County has many mountains and few fertile fields, and even the number of middle fields is not large. Such a land is still insufficient because the output is very low."
"Fortunately, in Guzang County, you can still raise cattle and sheep, otherwise the people's life would be difficult."
Cui Yuantu lamented: "The lives of the people in Liangzhou are much worse than those in Xianyang and Guanzhong."
Lin Feng said: "Guzang County's geographical location is limited, so there is no way around it. Unlike the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River in the Jin State, you can grow rice twice a year in the Jin State. Even if you go south, you can get three crops a year." It’s all there. It’s good to have this kind of land here in Guzang County.”
Cui Yuantu said: "The land in Guzang County is far from insufficient. To develop Guzang County, it must be supplemented by commerce. I believe that the Marquis's idea of developing commerce in Guzang County is completely correct."
Lin Feng asked: "Business takes time to cultivate and cannot be achieved overnight. Uncle Cui, the land inventory is finished and the autumn harvest is almost over. I think this year's taxation can be put on the agenda. What do you think the price of an acre of land should be?" "
Cui Yuantu said: "I combined the poll tax and other miscellaneous taxes and believe that one acre of land can be collected at six cents and two cents of silver. Based on the average family with ten acres of land, the family is six cents and two cents of silver. It’s only a little more than half a tael of silver, which is affordable and is lower than the previous tax. A family only needs six or seven taels of silver.”
Lin Feng frowned after hearing this.
He shook his head.
Cui Yuantu said: "Does the Marquis think it is low?"
"Taller!"
Lin Feng said: "The land in Guzang County is no better than other places. How much grain can be produced from one acre of land here? Eighty kilograms of grain from one acre is considered a good harvest. Furthermore, the price of grain is cheap. According to today's The market price is generally six cents per catty."
"One acre of land costs only 480 cents, which is four cents and eight cents of silver, less than half a tael of silver. You tax one acre of land for six cents and two cents of silver, which accounts for almost 15%. This is too much It’s too high, so you have to push it down.”
"People, it's not easy!"
"Price is suppressed, wealth is hidden among the people, people have more food, their lives get better, and business will naturally get better."
According to this tax, it is actually almost one tax per fifteen.
Still have to press down.
Da Qin, Xia, Jin and Qi did not have high-yielding crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn. In fact, there is not even hybrid rice now. Under this premise, the output of land is extremely limited.
Cui Yuantu asked: "How much does the Marquis think it should be?"
Lin Feng said: "If it drops a little, it cannot drop too much, otherwise it will be difficult for the court. I am considering setting the price of one acre of land at four and six cents of silver. What do you think?"
"Can!"
Cui Yuantu answered directly.
He also has a lowest bottom line in his heart, which is four cents of silver. Below this bottom line, it is easy to fail because the money collected is too little.
According to the current land calculation in Guzang County, one acre of land costs four and six cents of silver, and ten acres of land costs four cents and six cents of silver, which is almost half a tael of silver for ten acres of land. A total of more than 436,800 acres of land were collected. According to this tax, the final income was about 20,000 silver.
This tax is not low.
There are sixty-four counties in Da Qin, which is 1.28 million taels of silver.
The annual field tax is 1.28 million taels of silver, which is a huge amount.
In the past, it would have been impossible. Therefore, the policy of apportioning one person to one acre must be correct.
This is beneficial to the people.
It can also weaken the wealthy gentry.
As you can imagine, the emperor was probably even more excited. Because since the founding of the Qin Dynasty, it has never received such a large amount of taxes.
Cui Yuantu looked a little more excited and said, "Master Hou, I believe that the tax collection time will start at the end of the month and last for ten days. The collection of land tax will not be arranged by the local village chief, but will be left to the county government." Arrange people to go to each village to collect. It happens that Jiang Dushan and Zhao Feixiong have nothing to do, so let them go to each village and collect it in the shortest time."
"Can!"
Lin Feng answered with a smile.
Taxation is the key among the keys, and no mistakes can be made. Although the money collected was not much, it was crucial and even of extraordinary significance to the Qin court.
Lin Feng and Cui Yuantu discussed it well and arranged for someone to issue a notice. As soon as a notice was posted, discussion immediately arose. In particular, the notice clearly stated that one acre of land would be collected at four and six cents of silver, as well as the time and method of collection.
In order for the collection to go smoothly, Lin Feng arranged for people to go to the villages to inform, village by village.
In fact, it will probably never be like this in the future.
This is the first time, and it's done in more detail.
As the notice spread in Guzang County, ordinary people in the area cheered. The common people do not study, but they also understand that there is more money and less money. They know that they can get more by paying less taxes according to the method of collecting taxes after sharing the land.
This is a great thing.
There was no reaction from the local gentry. Because the Zhang family, Ma family and other major families all support Lin Feng. None of these people objected, and the remaining small landowners did not dare to speak out.
At the end of July, Cui Yuantu took Ma Laifu, Jiang Dushan, Zhao Feixiong and others to various places to collect money. On the third day of August, they collected all the land tax of 20,000 taels of silver.
After Lin Feng received the money, he wrote a memorial and sent someone to send news about Guzang County back to the court.
Then, he asked Meng Ao to arrange soldiers to escort 20,000 taels of silver back to Xianyang.
