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The money and grain of the ninth year of Yongli in the tenth year of Yongli are rare in any dynasty, but I have heard that there are people who have levied a few years in advance, but I have not heard that there is a levy in the past.
Zhou Shixiang did this, but his purpose was not to really scrape the ground in Xiangshan, but to use this reason to dig out all the hidden population.
When Liao Ruixiang took over the Xinhui County Ya, most of the officials in the six rooms of the Yazhong did not run, but gathered together to keep all the official documents and nuclear documents in the county and wait for the new county officials to take over.
This move of the officials is also the norm, whether the Ming officials come or the Qing officials come, they need the assistance of these officials, otherwise the county officials are all smeared and don't know anything.
With the help of these local snakes, the newly appointed officials can quickly get the yamen up and running, and these officials can continue to stay in office and keep their jobs.
As the so-called guests and hosts are happy, why not. has a short career in Xinhui before, and the experience of being a county magistrate, Liao Ruixiang is also familiar with the Taoism of the yamen officials, and he retained them all after playing Zhou Shixiang.
The first thing after taking over the county government, Liao Ruixiang asked the officials to take out the Xiangshan yellow book from the warehouse, and then checked the Dingkou in the register one by one according to each square, and finally reported to Zhou Shixiang that there were 7,600 households in Xiangshan, with a total of 49,000 people, including 25,800 people in Dingkou.
This yellow book was made in Xiangshan County in the seventh year of Yongli, that is, in the eleventh year of Shunzhi, and when the Shaowu regime was established in Guangzhou in the third year of Shunzhi, the total number of people in Xiangshan was more than 126,000 and 53,000 people in Dingkou.
Eight years later, the population of Xiangshan fell by half.
This is also due to the fact that Xiangshan is a densely populated place, the land is extremely fertile, and there are more convenient conditions for water towns, while Luoding, Gaozhou, Lianzhou, Zhaoqing and other places are many counties with a population of only 1,000, and many townships are uninhabited.
More than 20,000 Dingkou are required to pay the imperial grain according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, and the number of acres of land counted in the Xiangshan land register is nearly 40 million hectares, that is to say, purely calculated by book numbers, each adult Dingkou in Xiangshan should be able to plant nearly 20 acres of land.
But the fact is that most of the more than 4 million mu of land in Xiangshan is concentrated in the hands of landlords, and only half of the land is in the hands of ordinary people.
According to the reports from the township offices, nearly one-third of the local people are tenants who do not own their own land and make a living by renting the landlord's land.
Land is the lifeblood of the people of this era, and it is also the foundation of maintaining any political power.
Zhou Shixiang's energy was limited, and it was impossible for him to make a detailed land survey report by himself like the great men of later generations, so he could only calculate the total amount of money and grain he could get from Xiangshan every year from these numbers on the books.
As a result, according to the calculation of two levies a year, one summer grain and one autumn grain, the Taiping army could only get more than 10,000 stone of grain from the farmers of Xiangshan, which was converted into more than 1 million catties.
When I heard it, more than 1 million catties of grain was definitely an astronomical amount, and it could go to the sky when piled up.
It can be spread on the head of every soldier in the Taiping Army, and one person only has more than 100 catties of food.
How can more than 100 catties of grain feed a soldier for a year, not including additional supplies in wartime.
The soldiers did not have enough to eat, and the old, weak, women, and children in the former rear camps in the townships had to be provided with food and grain seeds free of charge before the summer grain harvest.
There is so much land, but you can only get such a small amount of grain, where the grain goes, just by the land, it will take at least more than 2 million catties of grain every year.
The answer is that the grain is in the hands of those landlords and gentry, who control most of the land in Xiangshan, and while exploiting the tenants, they do not have to give a grain to the government, because they are privileged gentry The problem went around and around the landlords and gentry, Yongle, Changning and other townships no longer have landlords, so all the local fields were divided by the local township office, and the longan was better, and the landlords in the township ran more than half, and only a few families were left to wait and see the situation.
In other townships, the situation is very bad, there are dozens of people in the township, and there are as many as 100 families who have been officials in the original family, and these families are all called gentry families, and many of the ancestors have been big officials.
Liao Ruixiang did not agree to take these landlords and gentry, Song Xianggong also objected, Zhou Shixiang had no intention of ruining his reputation, so he had no intention of killing people and seizing land, but he had to solve the problem of lack of food, so after the three of them combined, they decided to cut out the grain from the landlords and gentry in a gentle form.
Grain requisition is an excuse for action, inventory of the hidden population is the first means to force the gentry to comply, and supporting policies such as exemption from forced labor are bait to attract the hidden population to take the initiative to register.
The so-called hidden population is actually the common disadvantage of all dynasties, and all scholars who have the status of a person will receive a series of preferential policies after winning fame, the most important of which is tax exemption.
This preferential policy caused many peasants to invest their fields in the name of the gentry to avoid taxes because they were greedy for small profits, and over time, these peasants became tenants of the gentry or directly became black households.
At the same time, after the scholar with a famous place name became an official, he would also buy and acquire land in his hometown.
While the land of the gentry continued to increase, the tax revenue of the government became smaller and smaller, which explains why there were more than 400,000 hectares of land in Xiangshan, but the Taiping army could only collect less than 4 million catties of grain according to the book.
The greed of the gentry cannot be underestimated, Song Xianggong said that Xu Jie, the first assistant of the Jiajing Dynasty, annexed more than 200,000 mu of land in his hometown, although the gentry of Xiangshan did not produce such a big man as Xu Jie, but there were those who had been scholars, and there were also squires, and there were countless prefects and counties.
None of these people did not buy land for their own families, and after two hundred years, it is quite rare that half of the land in Xiangshan can belong to ordinary civilians.
Carrots and sticks dug up the black households under the names of the gentry, that is, the roots of these gentry were cut off, and there was no one to farm for them, so what could they do with their fields.
In order to implement this policy, Zhou Shixiang also ordered the garrisons of all townships to enter the villages for careful inspection in the name of checking out the military spies, and all those who registered were issued new certificates, and those who did not have certificates were arrested and detained at the township office.
The Taiping army that suddenly drove to the village frightened the black households who were still watching the wind, and also frightened the landlords and gentry.
Within seven days, more than 9,000 people had increased in Dingkou in Xiangshan County.
It is obviously unrealistic to dig out the black households and prevent them from farming for the gentry, and it is impossible for the Taiping army to support them, so the next thing is to negotiate.
Song Xianggong negotiated with the local gentry on behalf of Zhou Shixiang, and the final result was that the black households hidden by the landlords were all registered and paid, but they did not have their own land, so the government allowed them to continue to rent the former land and collect the money and grain from these fields.
This land naturally belonged to the families of the landlords and gentry, that is, the landlords and gentry in disguise bore the taxes and grain of the population they hidden.
This is a disguised system of integrated payment of grain by the gentry, and it is also a policy implemented by the Taiping Army with high pressure.
This policy can only be implemented in Xiangshan at present, because the Taiping army has absolute control over Xiangshan, and there is no need to think about it in other places.
In addition, the landlords and gentry in each township of Xiangshan who had a land yield of more than 200 mu voluntarily "donated" military rations to the Taiping Army, and the amount was increased step by step according to the number of acres of land, and finally a total of 6,550 stone of rice was "donated".
Forced by the strength of the Taiping army, the landlords and gentry in Xiangshan could only swallow this bitter fruit, but the subsequent changes in events made them even more angry.
In order to be able to obtain more young and strong laborers to engage in production tasks, Zhou Shixiang asked the Xinhui County Government to introduce a policy to attract displaced people, that is, all displaced people who moved to Xiangshan could obtain a field from Xiangshan, ranging from three to ten acres.
As long as the displaced person has cultivated these lands for five years, the land belongs to him forever.
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During this period, he only had to pay one-third of the output of the field to the government.
Where did the homeless people come from in Xiangshan?
All the gentry stared wide-eyed at the newly posted notices in the township and village offices, and they all clearly understood that the so-called homeless people in the mouth of the government meant those black households that they had hidden The black households are indeed tempted.
After the grain requisition was over, the Xiangshan County government, townships, and village offices focused their energies on resuming production and spring ploughing.
In order to make effective use of the existing production materials in the territory, the township offices organized the production of the people in a unified manner, and important production tools such as ploughing cattle and plough rakes were the key protection.
Some township offices are also experimenting with changing scattered single-family cultivation to integrated and unified farming.
Commerce is also gradually recovering, and the Xiangshan County government encourages small and medium-sized handicraft workshops in the county to increase production, and each township sets up markets.
In the past, most of the taxes on miscellaneous taxes were also exempted, and only a certain amount of taxes were collected on the market value of goods.
The blacksmith workshop that built the production tools received key support from the Xiangshan government, which provided funds free of charge to allow them to expand their production, and strive to provide more iron production tools for spring ploughing.
The Taiping army had seized a lot of livestock, and the burden of unified feeding was too much, so Song Xianggong suggested that it would be better to distribute the livestock to the townships and hand them over to the villagers to raise, and then buy them back from them in the future with the same gold and silver.
On the one hand, it can reduce the burden of the Taiping Army, and on the other hand, it can also make the villagers settle down and integrate into the Taiping Army.
This proposal was approved by Zhou Shixiang, who instructed the townships to raise more pigs in the future, and the more pigs the villagers raised, the Taiping Army would have additional rewards in addition to the market price.
Due to the developed water system in Xiangshan, the township offices have also organized people to raise ducks and geese in accordance with the instructions of the county government, and set up special fishing teams to implement the county's policy instructions on increasing fish and meat production as much as possible.
After various civil affairs were slightly on the track, Zhou Shixiang convened the Taiping Army to discuss the formation of an army on February 2, the day when the dragon raised his head, in Zhiren Houfang, Xiangshan County. oshow7 t1706231537: