If we say that the previous agricultural tax exemption of 10% of the 30% tax for farmers is not as attractive as imagined.
After Li Yunze directly exempted the children from the oral tax and exempted the gangsters from the calculated tax, the impact was no less than throwing down a poached egg.
You must know the price level of the Han Dynasty at this time. One stone of wheat and millet only cost 200 yuan.
Because of decades of peace, the population of Han people has increased significantly.
It is common for a family to have more than ten people.
If everyone pays the suanfu, it means that they have to pay one or two cents each year just for the suufu.
For farmers, the annual tax payment is one or two cents, which can be said to be heavy.
After all, although the income of farmers is not low, usually one acre of land produces about two or three shi, which is more than two hundred kilograms when converted to modern measurement units.
Corn costs more than 200 yuan per stone. Before the large-scale land annexation began, the average family could own dozens or even hundreds of acres of farmland.
Calculated in this way, several thousand or even more than 10,000 kilograms of grain per year does not seem to be too small.
That's not how the account is calculated.
There are many people in the family, and everyone needs to eat, which consumes a large amount of grain, and enough grain must be set aside.
After all, 'my parents will starve to death and not eat the food they grow'.
When the remaining grain is sold to profiteers, the average price is less than 200 yuan per stone.
The life of a farmer requires more than just food.
You can rely on yourself to grow hemp, raise mulberry and weave cloth to wear clothes, but what about salt? What about farm tools? What about seeing a doctor and taking medicine when you are sick? Do you want to eat meat or drink alcohol? What about the red and white matter?
One after another, which one doesn’t require money?
By the way, there is also corvée.
The common people had to perform corvées every year. Not only did they have to pay for their own food and clothing, but they also had to have money to survive while doing corvées.
Taking into account all these expenses, it is extremely important that Li Yunze is exempted from the oral tax and the calculated tax of the gangsters.
With household registration, children from black households can work openly, join the army, and work in the fields without having to worry about being caught by the government officials in the middle of the night.
It is precisely because of this that when Li Yunze increased the conditions for surrendering land, more people could no longer bear it and took the initiative to go to the Yamen to apply for surrender documents.
This is not that the emperor directly snatched away the people's land, but only owned it in name to prevent land annexation.
Because it is the emperor's land in name, and if you want to annex it, it will be the emperor's thing.
Strictly speaking, it is a great rebellion!
Some unwilling people spread rumors among the people, saying that the emperor wanted to take away the people's fields, which indeed caused a lot of turmoil and trouble.
However, Zhang Tang would never get used to this. Zhidu was busy outside, and Zhang Tang was temporarily in charge of the Criminal Department.
People from the Criminal Department arrested people everywhere. After they were caught, they were interrogated in the former Tingwei Yamen. Now the Criminal Department prison is full of interrogations. Once interrogated, a series of people and families will be involved.
When it comes to killing powerful men, Zhang Tang's hands are definitely no weaker than Zhidu's.
Once the killing begins, they will not even spare bird nests, egg yolks, earthworms, chickens and dogs.
As for why these big households objected, it was naturally because they wanted to annex land.
As for why land annexation is necessary, of course it is because land is the most important means of production in the agricultural era.
If you have land, you will have tenants. If you have land and tenants, you can be a local emperor and wait for the right time.
As for the loss of the emperor and the court, will the world be in chaos? These powerful people are eager for the world to be in chaos, so that they can have a chance.
Food is never enough.
Due to the lack of meat and fat supplements, it is common for ordinary people to eat one pound of carbohydrates in one meal in this era.
As for why not go hunting.
Haha, all the mountains, rivers, lakes and woods in the world belong to the Emperor, and naturally those animals also belong to the Emperor.
Go hunting without the emperor's permission
In fact, Li Yunze is already preparing to open this ban as a means of encouragement for the next round.
Li Yunze didn't care about anything else. Only land annexation is a Pandora's box that nothing can open.
Once the land annexation begins, it means that the dynasty has entered a countdown to its destruction.
History shows that there were many emperors who understood this, but they were unable to resist the opposition of powerful interest groups. Even if the reform was successful temporarily, they would still be overthrown after death.
Only time travelers like Li Yunze have the ability and perseverance to carry this matter through to the end.
Of course, another very important reason is that he, Li Yunze, is not afraid of being 'dissolved in water'.
The censorship clique's habit of throwing insults at others was ineffective against the thick-skinned Li Yunze.
Li Yunze is powerful and unafraid of the evil hands that dissolve in water.
Now that Li Yunze is in Dahan, basically no one can control him.
If Empress Dowager Dou is still alive, or if Ji Ji is still alive, there will be room for maneuver. After all, the Han Dynasty governs the country with filial piety.
It's a pity that everyone is dead. We can't rush into the mausoleum and carry them out to suppress Li Yunze.
After the autumn harvest, Li Yunze took people out to inspect the autumn harvest.
When he came to inspect the autumn harvest near Balingyi, people sent by Zhang Tang caught up with Li Yunze and said they had something important to report.
"What's the matter?"
"Your Majesty, the traitor Liu Dingguo is crying injustice in prison."
Liu Dingguo was escorted to Chang'an City in advance. As soon as he arrived in Chang'an City, Li Yunze issued an order to revoke his title as King of Yan.
The current Liu Dingguo is just the traitor Liu Dingguo, and is no longer the King of Yan Liu Dingguo.
"Crying about injustice?" Li Yunze on horseback was a little confused. "Why is he being wronged?"
Zhang Tang's envoy hurriedly responded, "Your Majesty, the traitor Liu Dingguo said that he was bewitched by Liu Ling, the daughter of Liu An, and did the wrong things. He said that it was all Liu Ling's fault and that he was just bewitched."
"Ah."
Li Yunze was no longer too lazy to say anything, and directly waved his hand, "Tell Zhang Tang to handle it according to law."
According to the law, Liu Dingguo's treasonous behavior in colluding with the Huns should be punished by being broken into pieces.
Of course, Li Yunze was kind and abolished torture, only beheading was required.
In fact, according to Liu Dingguo's status as King of Yan, Bai Ling Poison Wine could have left his body intact, but Li Yunze was unwilling to give him this dignity.
This time the Xiongnu invaded and harmed the Yan Kingdom. Countless people died tragically and tens of thousands were plundered out of the fortress.
Just beheading him was enough to save him face.
After sending away the envoy, Li Yunze simply dismounted and led a group of officials and palace guards into the nearby village on foot.
The village is not big, only about a hundred households.
At this time, the autumn harvest has passed, and the yards of every household are filled with grain in sacks.
Seeing such a rich harvest, Li Yunze also smiled.
In fact, the grain output of the Han Dynasty is not low in this era.
First of all, the mothers of the Han Dynasty are different from those of later generations. Only about 70% of the mothers of later generations are small mothers.
And he also knows how to use retting fertilizer, coupled with intensive farming, he can basically maintain the average yield per mu at more than 200 kilograms.
You must know that in the Roman Empire at this time, except for Italy, which had fertile land, the grain output in other places was not even 100 kilograms per mu.
It's just that food, in the face of a rapidly growing population, will never be enough.
"Among the three agricultural fertilizers, retting fertilizer can only be regarded as a weakened version of nitrogen fertilizer, and it still lacks the other two fertilizers."
“Plant ash can be used as a weakened version of potassium fertilizer, but what about phosphate fertilizer?”
Li Yunze knew about phosphate fertilizer. One of the important reasons why the output of paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River, known as the land of fish and rice, exceeds that in the north is that there are many fish and shrimps in the paddy fields.
Fish and shrimp are typical organic phosphate fertilizers.
It is precisely because there are many fish and shrimps in the paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River that the local fields have high yields.
But where did the bones and meat of so many fish, shrimp and animals come from in the north?
Unless natural phosphate rock can be found.
Li Yunze frowned and thought deeply, thinking of ways to help the big man's agriculture, when he was awakened by the sound of quarrels coming from the threshing floor of the village.
I didn’t say anything, just go over and see what’s going on.
"One stone of corn costs one hundred and eighty-five dollars, not a penny more."
On the threshing floor, the merchants who were surrounded by many villagers stood on the cart and shouted loudly, "If you are willing to sell, bring the grain. If you are not willing, please don't say anything."
"How come it's so cheap?" Some villagers shouted angrily, "Last year it was still 210 yuan per stone."
"Last year was last year." The grain merchant who led the team responded in a neutral tone. "This year is this year. The grain harvest is bumper this year. There are people selling grain everywhere, so the price is naturally low. The emperor will not collect your field tax. It is everywhere." If you want to sell grain, where can you get it from? I don’t want to
If you want to sell grain, you will die at home. "
There are also villagers shouting, "Other people charge more than 200 yuan to collect grain."
"Then you go find someone else to sell grain." The grain merchant looked impatient and asked, "Should I leave?"
The villagers were angry, but there was nothing they could do.
There are many places where people need to spend money in life. After gradually bidding farewell to the era of barter, the value of money has become more and more evident.
In this case, the villagers can only use their main harvest to exchange for currency and then buy other commodities.
The price difference between selling and buying has become a good opportunity for many merchants to make a fortune.
This is what the saying "The price of grain hurts the farmers, and the price of rice hurts the people".
Grain merchants who control the purchasing channels can suppress prices without any scruples, thereby earning more profits.
As a businessman, you can really give up everything in order to make money, and naturally there will be no conscience.
Seeing the aggrieved villagers, the grain merchant standing on the cart felt extremely proud.
'The emperor doesn't collect land taxes, which is an advantage for me. '
Li Yunze does not collect grain taxes, but the Shaofu has a large imperial estate. The grain produced by these imperial estates is enough to supply the salaries of officials and the food needs of the army.
Moreover, Li Yunze is also innovating government affairs. In the future, officials' salaries will gradually be transferred from food and other materials to money, reducing the demand for food.
The output of Huangzhuang will be mainly used by the army in the future and used to feed those large livestock.
I just didn't expect that what was originally a good intention was actually seized by grain merchants to lower prices aggressively.
"You can't leave."
Li Yunze's cold voice came, with cold murderous intent.
