Everything is going on in an orderly manner...
Everyone in the world benefited from the decision of the First Emperor. This was not because of their status. Because they were human beings, they had to pay taxes.
However, Guizhou, which is really like gravel, cannot live better just because of the reduction of corvee and tax.
The distant realm of Qi...Langya...
This place is not very close to Xianyang, but because the First Emperor personally ordered it and Li Si personally supervised it, the decree was delivered via Chidao. The local government in Langya also posted a notice in a short time announcing the Qin's order to reduce corvee and tax.
In the countryside... on the vast fields, tenant farmers and ministers are diligently participating in spring plowing.
The oxen carry the plow on their backs and work hard under the supervision of the officials. If you look carefully, you will find that this plow is obviously different from the simple plows in the past. The shaft is a curved shaft, and the two oxen carry it. They eat the soil deeply and walk It's also fast.
Due to various complicated legal restrictions in the Qin Dynasty, news exchanges between various places were not frequent. The real Guizhou head of the Quyuanli invented by Zhao Si in this era could not be purchased.
Just kidding, you have to pay 15% in taxes, and you have to deal with complicated corvee work and various special circumstances. The family has been able to barely support the past year. How can you still have the money to buy a large instrument like a plow?
This is the current situation of the Qin Dynasty. The real head of Guizhou has been squeezed out of the country under the complicated corvee and heavy taxes.
However, heavy farming and heavy warfare are the basic national policies of the Qin State. Shang Yang proposed a response strategy to deal with the situation where the common people had no money left to buy plows and livestock and raise cattle under the Five Skills of Controlling the People.
Down to the countryside, plows and oxen were provided by the government and were used by the people during the farming season.
Because plows and oxen were publicly owned, many regulations were formulated accordingly.
For example, if a person who raises cattle cannot take good care of the cattle and causes the cattle to lose weight or have other problems, he will be punished accordingly.
The person responsible for keeping the plows will also be punished accordingly if the plows are damaged due to human factors.
The Qin State's ruling method was to lower down to the local villages, and the villagers were responsible for local affairs. At the same time, there were many regulatory restrictions to ensure that the local land could not be abandoned despite such heavy taxes and corvees.
The Qin State also has a special set of rewards and punishments for land cultivation and management. Those who grow good food and produce more can even be promoted to nobility.
If grain production is reduced year after year, corresponding penalties will be imposed. If grain harvests are insufficient among villages due to human factors, Li Zheng and the village elders will also be held accountable.
It is worth mentioning that in the Qin Dynasty, most of the power between the villagers was in the hands of Li Zheng, the village husband and the pavilion chief. Most of the village elders had honorary status. Unlike the Han Dynasty, the village elders were in one-third of an acre of their own land. Have supreme authority.
Generally speaking, what the Qin Dynasty strives to do is to squeeze out all the money and water in the hands of self-employed people. At the same time, while squeezing out all the money and water from the hands of self-employed people, it also protects this class from being completely unable to survive.
Theoretically speaking, Qin did it, but it was Qin before it unified the world.
This system of the Qin State took hundreds of years after Shang Yang's reform to turn the land of Guanzhong into a country that knew the law, understood the law, and abided by the law in the true sense.
And after unifying the world, blindly promoting the world will lead to this.
The farming tools and cattle that should have been used by the common people during the farming season were appropriated by wealthy families and local nobles.
This field is the property of the Cui family, and the new plows and oxen used belong to the Qin government.
As for the real common people?
Teeth wiped the sweat from his forehead with the bone grass in his hand and turned to look at the ministers and tenant farmers who were using plows and oxen to cultivate, with a trace of envy flashing in his eyes.
Ya's farmland and the Cui family's farmland are not very far apart, only a few hundred steps apart. The surroundings are empty, and you can see what's going on there at a glance.
On the vast fields, ministers and tenant farmers used plows they had never seen before and oxen they could not imagine.
And, fertile farmland that is beyond their reach.
Yes, fertile land!
Of course the best farmland belongs to the Cui family, but Ya and his group are cultivating the lower fields that are undulating and have just been opened up, the lower fields within the lower fields.
There was no way, most of their fields were sold to the Cui family for various reasons.
The Cui family did not use any special means. Taxes in the Qin Dynasty were so high, and the common people did not have oxen and plows. Without the use of oxen and plows, grain production would not increase.
If the grain output is too low continuously, it will violate the Qin law. It will make ends meet, and the more you go, the poorer you will become. This is the current situation of the common people.
Not to mention that in this era, the land needs to be carefully tended, watered, taken care of... If anything goes wrong, life will be difficult.
If you are lucky, you will work hard for more than ten years, but if you are unlucky, you will go bankrupt in one or two years.
If you go bankrupt, you have to sell the land.
If you don't have enough land to pawn, you have to borrow money...
The Cui family had a good reputation, so they were allowed to open up wasteland after harvesting their land. Moreover, they did not collect food for the first three years of the wasteland development.
The most important thing is that they no longer need to pay taxes after losing their fields. The Cui family pities them and will help them with taxes and other things. Although they don't know what method the Cui family uses, they do not need to pay taxes anymore.
All we need to do is clear up wasteland for the Cui family.
As for after land reclamation? Of course he became a tenant farmer of the Cui family.
There is nothing wrong with being a tenant farmer of the Cui family. Ya knows that many of the people working on that fertile land are the Cui family's tenant farmers.
If you are short of money, you can ask your host for a loan. If you don't get it, you usually don't need to push too hard.
Hey! Ya have to thank the Cui family!
Ya felt that there was nothing wrong with being a tenant farmer for the Cui family. He lifted the grass in his hand and felt extremely tired.
The Cui family are great benevolent people!
If they become tenant farmers of the Cui family, they will have land to farm in the future.
A group of common people are working hard with roughly the same mentality.
They were naked to the waist, and their clothes were in tatters, and even the things used to protect their cattle and horses from the cold were inferior.
But they are used to it...
While Ya was working hard, a man suddenly jumped out of the depression on the side, holding a big yellow dog in his hand.
"Ya, the emperor has reduced taxes. We used to charge 50% of the tax, but now we only have to charge 10% of the tax!"
Ya looked up and saw the same prodigal Cui Guo. He claimed to be an ancestor of the Cui family. His family had some money and he had a good relationship with Ya when he was a child.
When Ya heard about the tax cut, his first reaction was to be happy, but then he was dumbfounded.
What are you happy about?
He has no land left...
Cui Guo was stunned for a moment, seemed to have thought of something, and said with a smile: "I forgot that your land was transferred to the Cui family."
Cui Guo came to Ya's side with a smile, sat down, patted Ya's shoulder and said, "If you ask me, you shouldn't sell..."
Cui Guo sat on the edge of the field and looked at the vast fields.
The rich have endless fields, but the poor have no place to stand!
(End of chapter)
