A total of 195 agricultural cooperatives have been established in 22 counties in the five prefectures of Shuntian Prefecture.
Of course, this is far from enough.
According to Zhu Youxiao, a township must have at least one agricultural cooperative, but now it is obvious that It's not very realistic, so I can only do it slowly in the future.
Shuntian Mansion's success in reducing rent gave Zhu Youxiao great confidence.
The newspaper published the rent reduction situation of Shuntian Prefecture and pointed out that the emperor had a purpose to reduce rent by 40% nationwide in order to realize the Datong society where the tiller has land and restore the glory of the Three Dynasties.
In May, other prefectures in the capital also began to reduce rents.
Because a large amount of wasteland in Yongping Prefecture has been reclaimed for settlement, there is no excess public land to rent to tenants.
Therefore, the attitude of the landowners in Yongping Prefecture is very tough, and most landowners are unwilling to reduce rents.
Zhu Youxiao ordered the construction of the first railway in the Ming Dynasty from the capital to Shanhaiguan.
Half of this railway was on the ground in Yongping Prefecture.
A large number of petty officials from the capital recruited migrant workers from various places in Yongping, agreeing to pay one hundred copper coins per day for three years, including three meals and accommodation.
Women were also recruited to cook for fifty copper coins per day.
Railway construction requires a large number of workers, so a large number of Yongping laborers poured into the railway construction site, because earning a hundred copper coins a day was much more cost-effective than planting fields.
As a result, the customs in Yongping changed.
A large number of landlords could not find tenants, so tenants chose landlords.
Most of the landowners accepted the court's stipulation of reducing rent to 40% and found tenants.
However, those who hesitated or resisted found that there were no tenants to help them cultivate their fields.
Now it became difficult to say no.
Out.
And the court didn't care whether their fields were cultivated or not, they still had to collect taxes as usual.
This meant that they continued to lose money instead of producing anything.
The panicked landlords had no choice but to find people to farm the land everywhere, and some even had plans.
Arrived at Denglai across the sea.
And Yuan Keli established a labor export trading company in Denglai, transporting a large number of Denglai Liao civilians to Yongping Prefecture to plant fields for landlords, but the charges were very high, including three meals and eighty copper coins per day.
Such labor costs, Counting only the two items of planting and harvesting, if the weather is normal, the landlord may be left with about two bushels per acre of land after paying taxes.
Not to mention the original 50% rent, even the 40% rent stipulated by the court is far inferior.
The landlords in Yongping Prefecture were really suffering at this time.
The attitude of the landlords towards the tenants who had already rented out changed drastically.
In addition to the 40% rent stipulated by the court, they also gave some small favors to the tenants from time to time in order to consolidate the friendship with the tenants and avoid losing money.
No one will be able to farm next year.
Xuanfu Town, Yanqing Prefecture, and Bao'an Prefecture were located in border areas.
After the abolition of the Kaizhong Law, a large amount of land was left cultivated by salt merchants.
These became public lands.
The imperial court rented these public lands to landless farmers for planting, with a land rent of 30%.
Fifth, the landlords in these places happily accepted the government's 40% land rent, and the rent reduction movement was carried out without any hindrance.
The situation in Baoding Prefecture, Zhending Prefecture, Hejian Prefecture, Shunde Prefecture, Guangping Prefecture, and Daming Prefecture is somewhat special.
Because these places have more people and less land, the rent reduction movement has encountered the greatest resistance, so it can only be done first.
A large number of immigrants are unlikely to have much effect in a short period of time.
Only about 30% of the landowners in these places are willing to accept a 40% rent reduction.
Bi Ziyan and Yang Lian really had no choice now.
They found that it was useless to deal with these landowners who had no access to oil and salt, no matter how good their words were, and no matter how correct their reasoning was.
All they saw was money.
Even people like Yang Lian felt that persuasion was no longer enough and could only be enforced by the court.
Bi Ziyan shook his head and said: "No, the emperor said that the army cannot attack the interior, otherwise there will be endless troubles.
How do you use it to enforce it?"
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Yang Lian said irritably: "The emperor always said to use economic methods.
How to use economic methods now?
No more railways can be built here.
Immigration is also something that cannot be done overnight.
Those landowners understand very well.
They are I thought it would take just one year.”
Bi Ziyan said: "The immigration matter is rather strange.
Logically speaking, the immigrants from these prefectures should be transported quickly.
Why did the Ministry of War delay it for so long this time?"
Yang Liandao: "Didn't Huang Bingbu say that there is insufficient maritime transport capacity?
Transporting it from Tianjin to Taiwan cannot be completed in a short time."
Bi Ziyan shook his head and said: "Brother Wenru, you have not experienced world affairs, and some things are not very clear.
A sea ship can carry thousands of people.
Now Taiwan and Japan are safe and sound, and the ships of the Ministry of War can be used."
It won’t take long to transport immigrants, not to mention the nearby Jeju Island and Liaodong, or even the distant Taiwan.”
Yang Lian said impatiently: "What's the use of talking about this now?
If the boats don't come, the immigrants can't leave.
They always have to eat.
The landlords won't have to worry about having no one to farm.
How can the rent reduction be implemented then?"
At this time, the manager of the East Factory from outside came in and said: "Two adults, there is a message from above, requiring that except for the tenants of the landlord who reduced the rent, the other tenants must be raised at one hundred copper coins per family per day, and they are not allowed to rent the land of the landlord. ” Yang Lian asked anxiously: "Is this an imperial edict?
How can we raise so many people in one day?
It costs a lot of money."
The leader said: "This news was passed down by the factory master.
It is not an imperial edict, but it should be the emperor's intention.
The factory master said that this time he will teach the landlords a lesson they will never forget."
Yang Lian said bitterly: "It's best to let their fields become barren and harvestless, and see if they dare to go against the imperial court in the future."
Bi Ziyan was also very busy these days, but he was not as angry as Yang Lian.
He smiled and said, "Let them learn a lesson."
So the Ministry of Household Affairs began to issue notices in various places.
As long as the landowners did not accept the court's land rent standards, the tenants did not need to rent their fields.
Each household could receive a subsidy of 100 pence per day until the immigration was successful or the fifth day of the Apocalypse.
Until the first month of the year.
A few days later, news came that rich iron ore reserves had been discovered in Wu'an, Daming Prefecture, and a Fengfeng coal mine with shallow burial depth, high grade, and suitable for mining was in urgent need of a large number of miners.
At this time, the Ministry of War's ships were ready to transport immigrants to Liaodong, Taiwan and other places.
The clerks in the Ministry of Household Affairs began to proudly publicize the imperial policy to farmers who received subsidies, and asked their opinions on whether to immigrate or work as miners in the mines.
Based on the conditions offered by both parties and the actual situation of their families, most farmers chose to immigrate, while some who could not leave their homeland chose to become miners.
At this time, the landlords who vowed to abide by the court's rent reduction regulations were despised by most people and only recruited a very small number of tenant farmers.
Yang Lian looked at the anxious landlords who were asking for conditions everywhere, and smiled like a flower: "Well, what did you do earlier?"
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