When everyone heard this, they were all excited. The prince was finally going to be tough. People like Tieshuan, Tiefutu and others all followed Qin Yun down from the battlefield.
Who will give you any strategies? In their opinion, the best way to deal with the Yuan family is to confiscate the house!
Yang Yong was the first to express his position: "Your Highness, I will lead people over right now to ensure that a round of artillery fire will clear the ground and no one can escape!"
"I'll go too, I'll be responsible for knocking down the door!"
Seeing this, Wang Muzhi hurriedly advised: "Your Highness, if you come to force, it may arouse the anger of the people. Moreover, the Yuan family has many retainers, and there are even many Yuan family members in the Tongzhou military camp. I am worried..."
Qin Yun smiled: "Why, do I look like the person who ransacks his house whenever he disagrees?"
"Like!" Tiefutu nodded naively.
Everyone looked at him, and the silly big man scratched his head: "What's wrong? I'm right. His Highness led us to fight and exploded all the way. Isn't it just a Yuan family? Copy him!"
Wang Muzhi angrily shouted: "Reckless man!"
Then he cupped hands with Qin Yun and said, "Your Highness, I think we should take a long-term approach!"
Qin Yun suddenly thought of something: "No, what Tiefu Tu said makes sense. Tieshuan, Yang Yong, tomorrow you will bring a battalion of soldiers and horses to set off cannons outside Yuan's house. Remember to inform the owner in advance that we are here. It’s a military exercise, not targeting anyone or any force!”
Yang Yong: "No!"
Wang Muzhi was very anxious: "Your Highness, you must not do this!"
Qin Yun said: "Commander, don't be anxious, just take a look at how I write this imperial edict!"
As he spoke and splashed ink on the spot, Wang Muzhi picked it up and looked at it, but was stunned.
"Your Highness, what is the general contracting system and what is the subcontracting system?"
Qin Yun smiled and said: "It's very simple. The imperial court leases land from major aristocratic families, and we rent the land to the people who don't have land. In this way, the people only have to pay rent to the imperial court and don't have to pay any taxes."
Wang Muzhi frowned when he heard this.
"Your Highness, if this happens, won't the imperial court receive nothing? There will be no taxes to collect. If things go on like this, the treasury will be empty and the wealthy families will be enriched, and the imperial court will become even more unsustainable!"
Qin Yun smiled and said: "No, we just used a hundred catties of grain to take over the land from the aristocratic family and make it state-owned."
Wang Muzhi shook his head: "The aristocratic family is not stupid, and they will never believe the pie painted by His Highness!"
Qin Yun: "Who said I'm trying to make a big deal? How much food can one acre of land produce in Daxia now?"
Wang Muzhi mused: "Tongzhou is a place with good weather and good weather. If you grow millet or rice on one acre of land, you can produce one stone a year."
One stone is equal to one hundred and twenty kilograms. Wang Muzhi did not say nonsense. Daxia currently only has this output.
Compared with later generations, it can be said to be pitiful.
Qin Yun smiled and said: "If I say that I have a way to increase the yield per mu to more than three stones, do you think it will be empty talk?"
Wang Muzhi smiled: "Your Majesty, you are really good at taking advantage of people. If someone can achieve a yield of three stones per mu, I, Wang Muzhi, will build a shrine for him from now on. Three stones per mu! That is the yield per mu that many emperors dream of!"
“If you can do it, it’s not an exaggeration to call him a living divine farmer!”
Qin Yun smiled and said: "Then look, what is this?"
Qin Yun took out a letter from Western Sichuan from behind.
"I, Xu Jiang, paid a visit to Your Highness. I have found a high-yielding rice in Luochuan. I have been rushing to plant summer rice before. Now that the rice is heading, it is expected that each acre of land can produce more than two stones of grain."
"I have followed the sorting method recorded by His Highness and continued to carry out seed saving and cross-breeding. I believe that within three to five years, we will be able to cultivate high-quality grain seeds with an yield of more than four stones per mu!"
"Is this a letter from Mr. Xu who came from the Ministry of Industry?" Wang Mu was surprised.
Qin Yun smiled and said: "It seems that you know him too!"
Wang Muzhi said: "Of course, Mr. Xu is upright and upright, and he travels all over the world to control floods. We and other people in Luochuan all admire him!"
Qin Yun: "I have befriended Mr. Xu in Luochuan. Now that the first phase of the Luochuan water diversion project is completed, Mr. Xu has begun to study this hybrid rice."
Wang Muzhi: "What is hybrid rice?"
Qin Yun smiled and said: "It's a bit complicated to say, but by improving the farming methods, it is still possible to increase it to four or five stones!"
Qin Yun said it very conservatively. After all, there is no such thing as nitrogen fertilizer in Daxia, and the breeding of hybrid rice is a slow and meticulous job.
It might take a generation to complete. Many people only see the miracle of producing a thousand pounds per mu, but they don’t know how much sweat and hard work goes into it.
Wang Muzhi felt dizzy when he heard that cry.
Not to mention four or five stones, even three stones are enough to double Daxia's national power!
Wang Muzhi pondered for a long time: "Your Majesty, if this is really the case, who in the world can still be my opponent in Daxia? People have food and don't panic. Even if the yield is only increased to three stones per mu, Daxia will still have the capital to sweep all wastelands and Liuhe. "
"But this kind of food cannot be handed over to outsiders!"
Qin Yun arrived: "So, Tongzhou is going to do a pilot project. Let's rent out the fields of all the big families first!"
"One acre has one hundred catties, will they rent it?"
Wang Muzhi chuckled: "They are definitely willing, Your Highness, but we can't give them such a high price from the beginning."
"Otherwise, these people will definitely have doubts. Your Highness can give more to those who submit the petition and less to those who come later."
"But the Yuan family may not be willing to rent land!"
Qin Yun smiled and said: "Then it depends on your methods, Military Advisor Wang!"
Wang Muzhi cupped his hands and said, "Don't worry, Your Highness, I will make arrangements right away!"
Qin Yun waved his hand and said: "Go!"
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"By God's will, the emperor called and the court issued a new law on land leasing. The court plans to rent the family's land with eighty kilograms of grain per acre per year..."
As soon as the imperial edict came out, the entire Tongzhou family circle exploded.
One acre of land produces more than 100 kilograms every year. Even if they are more ruthless and hire people to farm the land and harvest half of the grain, it would be good to get 50 or 60 kilograms per acre. The court actually gives 80 kilograms?
Everyone's first reaction was disbelief, and their second reaction was that the court wanted to seize their land.
But the holy book was written in black and white, and it also stated that the land lease period would start from ten years, and the rent would be paid on time every year. If the rent was not paid in any year, the land would immediately return to the original owner.
But it also states that once the land is leased to the court, all crops produced on it have nothing to do with the landowner.
"Everyone, tell me, is this true? They give us eighty kilograms of grain for free every year."
"That's still false. Didn't you see that the imperial edict said that if the payment is not made, the land ownership will be returned immediately, and the land title is still in our hands."
"Now the new tax system is calculated based on land holdings per capita! The more land you hold, the more taxes you pay. And after renting it to the government, you no longer have to pay the head tax."
"That's it! But why is it stipulated that more than one acre of land can be rented to the court?"
"I don't know about that. Maybe the imperial court has some scruples!"
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Yuan family, meeting hall.
"This Qin Yun is crazy. In order to promote the so-called land equalization tax, he actually came up with such a trick. Isn't this, if you can't steal the chicken, you have to throw away a handful of rice first?"
"Everyone, I have studied this imperial edict for a long time and found no problems at all."
"Yes, I heard that many small and medium-sized families below have decided to rent their land to the court first. Anyway, if the court does not provide food after one year, the land will automatically return to their hands."
"It is said that after signing this contract, this year's land equalization tax will be waived!"
"Master, why don't we also rent the land to the court?"
The head of the Yuan family, Yuan Tianming, glanced at the commotion.
"Quiet, do you really believe that pie will fall from the sky?"
"This... that family owner, what should we do? Qin Yun has already begun to recruit people, saying that he will rent the land to the common people for free, and they only need to pay a certain proportion of land tax every year."
"Moreover, the imperial court distributes seeds and cattle for farming!"
"If this continues, all our tenants will run away!"
"Besides, we have to bear high land taxes!"
"Qin Yun must not be allowed to continue his misbehavior. Master, I have a plan to make Qin Yun use the rat weapon."
\"Say it!"
