Yun Chao takes a multi-pronged approach.
While sending people to take over the inspections of the towns that have escaped, they also sent propaganda teams to promote their policies to benefit the people.
Of course, the most critical point has not been forgotten, which is to let the recruits clean up banditry in various places.
Before the wheat harvest, except for Nanhu Town, Yun Chao's transformation of various towns and villages in Qingyang County had basically been completed, and these sites were firmly in Yun Chao's hands!
About ten days after Xiaoman, golden waves of wheat gradually cover the land of Qilu, and Qingyang County is no exception, entering the annual wheat harvest period.
These days, there is no mechanization, and wheat harvesting is all done manually.
Most of the newly reclaimed wasteland in Yunchao is planted with soybeans, which are not yet in the mature season.
However, many wheat fields were confiscated from landlord bullies.
These wheat fields have not been redistributed and are still cultivated by the original tenants, and the land rent is still implemented according to the original standards.
Yun Chao has already asked the propaganda team to publicize that these fields will be redistributed after the wheat harvest. As long as you work hard, everyone will have the possibility to divide the fields.
Although the original tenants were still planting the fields, Yun Chao did not stand idly by. Not only did he lend them sickles and other wheat harvesting tools, he also organized a group of landless helpers to help the tenants in difficulty harvest wheat.
The sickles made after the innovation of iron smelting technology are many times easier to use than the sickles originally used by the tenants. It greatly reduces the labor intensity and shortens the wheat harvest time of the baby!
With the help of helpers, the wheat harvest in Qingyang County was quickly completed!
You can't waste too much time harvesting wheat. Once it rains, half a year's hard work may be wasted.
Whether the wheat lodging occurs or the wheat becomes moldy because it is not dried in time, the losses are very high.
Therefore, every year when the wheat is ripe, farmers have to risk their lives to harvest it. The labor intensity is so intense that many people simply cannot imagine that it can almost cost half their lives.
The people of Qingyang County are blessed this year. The wheat harvest work is easier than in previous years.
The common people are not stupid, of course they know whose credit it is.
For a time, Yun Chao's reputation was so great that even the tenant farmers whose fields were taken back were full of praise for Yun Chao!
However, nothing is perfect in the world.
Even though Qingyang County had a Yunxian Lieutenant this year, it still encountered natural disasters.
Not only Qingyang County, but the entire Huanghuai River Basin is said to have suffered a severe drought.
From the Spring Festival to the wheat harvest, there were only two light rains in Qingyang County, which only wetted the wet ground, but did not rain at all.
What this means for the crops needs no further description.
Even though many farmers worked hard to carry water to irrigate their fields, the yield of those fields that depended on the weather was still reduced by 20 to 30%!
The productivity of the Dawu Dynasty was backward, coupled with the heavy tax burden, the output of the fields could not even guarantee the food and drink of the farmers.
This reduction in production is even more insufficient.
The farmers have worked hard for half a year. After paying the taxes, the remaining rations are not even enough to last the autumn harvest. How can they reason?
Thinking that their families might starve to death, many farmers shed tears while harvesting wheat.
However, there are those who cry and those who laugh.
The old farmers who depend on the weather are miserable, but the farmers in the irrigation areas are smiling.
Thanks to Yunchao's massive infrastructure construction, at least tens of thousands of acres of fertile farmland will benefit from Qingyang County this year.
Waterwheels rotate day and night, pumping clear river water and sending it into canals.
Canals like blood vessels transport the river water to the dry fields, nourishing the rows of crops.
Unfortunately, due to time constraints, Yun Chao has not built so many canals. Basically, they are only in Sanshui Town, Woniu Town, and Wangjiaji area. Other towns and villages have benefited less.
Without contrast, there is no harm.
I heard that the fields in several towns had a bumper harvest. Not only did the output not decrease in the year of drought, but they also harvested three to five buckets more. The mentality of the people in other places was unbalanced.
They hate it.
They hate the landlords and bullies in their own village, they hate the inspectors in their own town, and they even hate themselves.
Why didn't you wake up earlier? If you had brought Yunxian Lieutenant over earlier and driven away the landlord bullies, why would you have worried about not being able to sustain the autumn harvest?
At this time, some people who were originally dissatisfied with Yun Chao also changed their attitudes.
Even the tenants whose fields were about to be taken away no longer resisted Yunchao.
What's there to be afraid of if you don't have any land? Look at those Yunxian Lieutenant's helpers. They don't even cultivate an acre of land at home, but they still enjoy a good life!
A helper who has no land can only eat three full meals a day, while he cultivates dozens of acres of land, but can only manage two and a half meals a day.
The helpers who don’t have fields can often eat meat, but those who have fields like me don’t see meat meat very often throughout the year.
It's better to leave all the land to Yunxian Lieutenant and work for him as a helper.
Not only can I have enough to eat, but I can also support my family, and I may even be allocated a field in the future!
The propaganda team has clearly publicized Yun Chao's policy. For the fields allocated from him, you only need to pay three buckets of grain tax at a time. No matter how much the rest of the grain is, it is all yours!
The three-dou grain tax is about 30% of the output of ordinary fields.
If it is a fertile field and irrigated land, three buckets of grain will be about 20%.
The people of Qingyang County can’t even dream of having such a low tax!
Such a good policy, if you still don’t know who you should follow, then don’t plant the fields, because you probably won’t even understand it!
The common people's recognition of Yun Chao continues to rise, but Magistrate Sun and Chief Feng are worried.
Even if he no longer wanted to talk to Yunchao, he had to come to him for discussion.
"Lieutenant Yunxian, the summer tax will be collected soon. I heard that you only charge three dou of land rent from farmers. What should I do with the tax?"
Magistrate Sun is the first person responsible for whether the stipulated tax collection can be completed, so he must ask clearly. Even if Yun Chao turns his back, he can no longer pretend to be deaf and dumb.
Old God Yun Chao was here: "May I ask the county magistrate, how much is the summer tax in our county?"
Magistrate Sun said nothing and looked at Director Feng.
Things like grain taxes are theoretically the responsibility of the chief bookkeeper.
Chief Feng didn't want to talk to Yun Chao, but he had no choice. He didn't care who was in charge of matters within the scope of his responsibilities.
"Lieutenant Yunxian, according to previous years' practice, the grain output is usually 50%!"
Yun Chao looked at Magistrate Sun: "Magistrate, is this true? The land tax is really 50%? I don't read enough books, so don't lie to me?"
"this……"
Magistrate Sun hesitated for a moment, and then said decisively: "Yes, we usually charge 50%. Chief Feng is right!"
"snort!"
Yun Chao slammed the table: "Fifty percent? You might as well take it all away! Do you think I don't know? The court stipulates that one tax per ten tax is collected, and only 10% is collected. How come it's only 50% when it comes to you?"
Magistrate Sun, Chief Feng, and even Prime Minister Yang rolled their eyes.
"Lieutenant Yunxian, 10% of the grain tax is the grain that is handed over to the court. If we don't collect more, where will the filial piety of Dongping Mansion come from, and where will our county's expenses come from?"
