There are seven townships surrounding Qingzhou City, and the distances are not too far.
The place where Liu Yuanwai was located was Data Township, which was one of Qingzhou's popular attractions before banditry.
The pagodas in this Datta Township are quite old.
Let alone thousands of years, going back to the Warring States Period.
It is roughly equivalent to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, except that at that time there were not seven heroes of the Warring States Period, but a total of forty-two countries.
So the history books here are called Forty-Two Histories.
The founding emperor of Dali was equivalent to the status of Zheng Ge in the Forty-Two Histories. He unified the world and named the country Li.
Books share the same text, cars share the same track, and so on.
To some extent, the historical process is relatively similar.
The most famous mountain-viewing tower in Datta Township was built in Qingguo during the Warring States Period. Its former site is the innermost ancient city of Qingzhou.
It was originally used as a watchtower and was built to be eleven feet tall, so it is nearly forty meters high.
Chen Ze was quite interested, so the first stop when he went to Data Township was to take a look at the Mountain Viewing Tower.
Find the way first, and then bring the big girl over to have a look.
It's just that the road to Data Township is really bumpy, and I don't dare to drive too fast, otherwise the car will easily roll over.
Chen Ze opened the car curtain and took a look at the road conditions. The road was narrow and full of potholes.
Even if you are riding a horse on this kind of road, you don’t dare to ride too fast. If you are not careful, you will be overturned.
When the cement is done later, the road must be paved.
After marching for about half an hour, we saw people. Many people were working in the fields. The people from the special service team went over and asked. When they came to Chen Ze's carriage, they said: "Master, this is Data Township. I heard from the fellow villagers. To get to the mountain viewing tower, you have to walk on the mountain road for at least an hour."
When Chen Ze heard this, he decided not to go.
It takes two hours to climb a mountain to see a tower, and at least an hour to come down. It’s too hard.
"not going."
Chen Ze opened the car curtain and walked out. He got out of the car and took a look at the people who were busy, and couldn't help but sigh secretly.
At a glance, all the men, women, and children were as skinny as skin and bones, working there under the scorching sun.
The situation in rural areas is similar. When I went to Xiaozhou Village before, most people looked relatively thin.
"Yuanyasu, follow me to the ground. The others will stay here to guard."
Everyone responded, and Chen Ze pulled Li Yuankang onto the ridge of the field.
At a glance, everything is covered with rice, and the growth doesn't seem too bad.
Fortunately, the drought has not had much impact on Qingzhou. We should be able to grab a wave of harvest this year, but the situation in the future is uncertain.
However, no matter how good the food grows, it has little to do with the people working in the fields.
At least 70% of the success of this food collection is gone.
But with the current situation, Chen Ze felt that the Chu court might add fuel to the fire and increase taxes.
The time is between September and October.
Using disaster victims and heavy taxes to force riots in the eight southern states first depends on how the palace responds.
This matter is really of great importance to Chen Ze.
If you want to engage in construction and development with peace of mind, you still need a relatively peaceful environment, but the current situation is... complicated and troublesome.
The Luzhou side was still in the defensive change period, and the Wangfu side did not show any hostility and did not take any action to deal with the defensive change, which was relatively restrained.
The Chu court should not dare to push too hard. After all, there is Jin Liao in the north. If there is a fight here, there may be a stab in the back.
In addition, there are forces such as the Huo family in Beiliang and the Lu family in Zhongzhou that can affect the situation.
I feel like it should still be able to last a year and a half.
But the situation is changing rapidly. The only thing Chen Ze can do is to seize the time and rise as soon as possible in this peaceful vacuum period.
He shook his head slightly and stopped thinking about the overall situation for the time being.
I came to a farmer's house and asked Yuan Liu from Data Township where his wife's family was.
The farmer quickly pointed the way and spoke carefully.
Visiting the people?
It's not necessary at all.
Besides, this Chen Zexianyi and angry horse looks like a son of a wealthy family. He might be a friend other than Yuan Liu. Who would say anything bad about him?
Wouldn't that be causing trouble for yourself?
Compared with this, Chen Ze is more concerned about water conservancy issues.
Waterwheels can be seen from all the way, but water can only be delivered manually, which is not efficient, and the cultivated land area is limited.
I asked about last year's harvest and found that the yield per acre of land was around two shi, which means the yield per acre was around 200 kilograms.
Fields are also divided into levels, including Sussex Field, Middle Field and Beautiful Field.
Farmers can only occupy thin fields.
After all, we are in the south, with abundant water, and last year was a bumper harvest.
Think about it, after 70% of an acre of land has been taken away, there will be 400 to 50 jins of grain left. This farmer only has 6 acres of land. After the grain requisition, there will only be about 300 jins of grain left.
And these three hundred kilograms of grain will last the whole family for a year.
I can only survive because of my strong character.
Chen Ze said goodbye and left without saying much. He got in the car and went directly to Yuan Liu's house.
Not in a very good mood.
From the situation of this farmer, we can see how serious the land annexation is.
When Dachu was first founded, the late emperor allocated funds from the treasury to encourage production and land reclamation in order to appease the people.
According to what Lu Qingyun said, when Da Chu was first founded, the average person had about ten acres of land.
And the tax is not high, about 30%.
The current per capita land and tax revenue are even more exaggerated than those at the end of the Sui Dynasty.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the average person still had five acres of land, and the tax revenue was only 60%!
It has only been a few years since it became like this. It is truly a magical reality.
When Daqing sees it, everyone has to give it a thumbs up!
Finally, there is someone smarter than me.
When he got to the car, Chen Ze took out the intelligence collected by the investigation team and read it again.
Liu Yuanwai, whose real name is Liu Fudong, is now thirty-seven.
After initial investigation and Qingzhou Yamen records, it was found that last year Liu Fudong only had 170 acres of land and three tenant farmers.
But after verification, Liu Fudong had at least 1,600 acres of farmland and 46 households of tenant farmers.
This is only what can be found.
There is no doubt that it is tax evasion.
I don’t know how many ordinary people suffered from blood mold among them.
The farmer like that just now must have suffered a disaster, otherwise it would be impossible to have only this little land in hand.
Probably because the family couldn't have enough to eat after paying taxes and grain. If they didn't have enough to eat, they could only borrow money from Liu Fudong. After the borrowing was completed, they could only use the land to pay off the debt if they couldn't pay it back.
After going back and forth, the land in the family came into the hands of Liu Fudong. In the end, when there was no land left, Liu Fudong had to work as a tenant farmer to make ends meet.
After a while, we arrived at the entrance of Liu's courtyard. The house was quite impressive.
The nurse at the door saw so many people and they were all well-dressed, so they hurried forward to ask what was going on.
The people from the special team showed their cards directly.
"The Crown Prince is here in person, ask Liu Fudong to go out quickly to greet him."
