Chapter 172 The Problem of Pensions (4,000 words) In addition to monetary pensions, another method of compensation is material pensions, which is much more complicated, because there are too many types of compensation materials, such as grain, cloth, porcelain, salt, tea, livestock, farm tools, fields, etc., especially fields, because the land complex of the Chinese people since ancient times has led to most people choosing fields, and this proportion accounts for more than eighty percent of all those who choose material pensions.
Of course, the land given by the field pension will not be the land of the Central Plains, after all, even after the price reduction, but the land of the Central Plains is still very expensive - of course, with the development of the South Seas, the original price of the Central Plains has been reduced a lot, only some people who are difficult to leave their homeland will still cultivate, but under the impact of a large amount of grain in the South Seas, the grain they grow is not very competitive in the market, so that few people in the interior have grown food, and a large number of farmers have switched to cash crops, such as fruits or tea trees.
It stands to reason that the fields in the Central Plains should not be too expensive, but the problem is that the South Seas have a high grain yield, so the Central Plains no longer have to worry about food problems, and the people no longer have to worry about hunger, so the Tang Dynasty began to develop, both from the economy and culture have entered the era of the Great Leap Forward, and in all walks of life, there are signs of real estate - do not doubt the wisdom of the ancestors, the reason why real estate could not develop in ancient times was mainly because the economy was underdeveloped, and the people could not even eat enough for most of the period.
Where will you buy a house?
However, once the problem of eating is solved, then as the second only to food in food, clothing, housing and transportation, it will be put in everyone's mind, and in this case, the emergence of real estate is very normal.
Especially in the country is becoming more and more prosperous, both large and small cities are gradually expanding, which will inevitably occupy a large amount of arable land, but also indirectly lead to a surge in land prices, and even the price of arable land in some remote areas has been speculated, so that although the people are basically not short of land, the land in the Central Plains is still expensive.
Therefore, the court compensated the martyrs for the fields on the new soil, generally Nanyang and Tianzhu, although there are also Turkic steppes and grasslands on the Tubo Plateau, but the overall is still mainly in the south, after all, the climate of the Turks and Tubo is too harsh, unless there is a special reason, otherwise the rational people of the Tang Dynasty will not choose these two places at all.
Whether it is material compensation or monetary compensation, these two methods can be said to have their own advantages and disadvantages, but the imperial court is obviously more inclined to let the people choose land, because in the south, especially where in Nanyang, the price of the field is much cheaper, although after five or six years of development, Nanyang has been quite prosperous, but in Nanyang land is still the most worthless thing, if you use the pension to buy, ten taels of silver in Nanyang can get about 30 acres of good arable land.
Of course, if it is just such a little land, it is estimated that no one will choose this, after all, the people who immigrated to Nanyang were all landless tenants, and the rest were either difficult to leave their homeland, or their families had land, and no matter which one they were, they did not leave at the beginning, and they naturally did not choose to leave.
Therefore, the amount of land given by the imperial court is actually doubled, that is, on the basis of 30 acres of land, it will be doubled to 60 acres of land, and a certain number of seeds, farm tools and livestock will be allocated, and the treatment can be said to be good Don't want it - this is 60 acres of cultivated land, if the martyrs can put an end to the temptation of 30 acres of cultivated land, but they definitely can't avoid the attraction of 60 acres of cultivated land, because this is not just as simple as doubling one, and this also represents a huge leap between the middle class and the well-off family, With these 60 acres of land, you only need to reclaim it for a few years, and you can become a small landlord and let the family live a happy life.
In addition to the temptation of sixty acres of land, another and most important reason for the martyrs to choose Nanyang is that the climate here in Nanyang is so suitable for the growth of food crops that they don't even need to cultivate carefully, and if they scatter the seeds on the ground, there will be a lot of harvest in the coming year - that's what the natives of Nanyang did, and it was precisely because food was too easy to get that it led to their lazy character.
After they died in battle, the rest of the family were old and weak, women and children, and there was not much labor at all, and it was not easy to live in a place like the Central Plains, and here in Nanyang, the quality of the land ensured that even if they followed the example of the natives of Nanyang, they did not have to worry about starving to death - but all the people who immigrated here produced high food every year, although the price was not high because of too much food, but if it was only used to eat, it was enough for the family not to starve to death.
Anyway, since the work of immigrating to Nanyang began, although many people have died in the process of reclamation of Nanyang, none of them have really starved to death.
And it happened that the imperial court was promoting the theme of immigration is not to die of hunger, and portrayed Nanyang as a treasure land full of grain, and these slogans achieved great results in the early stage of immigration - the people who came through the chaotic years obviously knew what it was like to starve to death, coupled with the example of Turkic development and Tibetan immigrants twenty years ago, so in the early stage of reclamation, it received a warm response from the people, and the development of the Nanyang Peninsula was successfully launched.
But now that a few years have passed, the enthusiasm of the people has almost been consumed, and the immigrants have all been immigrated, and they also know that Nanyang is not as good as the official portrayal.
Because of course, you can't starve to death here, and you don't even need to farm the land to survive a year just by relying on the fruits in the forest, the problem is that the climate here is not very good, almost a third of the year is raining, flooding, the jungle is full of smoke, poisonous insects breed, these years of reclamation of the South Seas is indeed not starving to death of a person, but because of illness, washed away by the flood, there are not many people who are bitten to death by poisonous insects, so the number of immigrants this year has dropped to a record low, which can be very bad for the officials of the Immigration Department.
You must know that there is an indicator for the immigrants that the imperial court gives to the Immigration Department every year, and if this indicator is not fulfilled, not only will the chief official be dismissed, but all the officials of the Immigration Department will be punished.
So the officials of the immigration bureau who were forced to be anxious came up with various policies, but they did not work well, that is, in this case, they hit the idea on the head of the martyrs, as long as the martyrs choose the field, then they can use the number of acres of land beyond the specified range to attract the martyrs - although the land allocated by the immigrants is according to the amount of reclamation, as much as you can reclaim is yours, even if you reclaim a hundred acres, the court will not help you.
But having said that, manpower is exhausted after all, and even if a family of five tries their best, it is already good to be able to plant 20 acres of land, and no matter how much land is cultivated, it can't be planted.
In order to increase the number of immigrants, the Immigration Department has made an article in this regard - a family of five can only cultivate 20 acres, and you don't have to worry about not being able to plant 60 acres if I give you 60 acres.
It stands to reason that this method is not in line with the rules, because the court prohibits the people from raising slaves, although this order is a fart in front of the family, but the deterrent effect on the ordinary people is still very great, so when this matter was reflected to the above, the court immediately sent officials to interrogate, and even prepared to punish.
However, for the review sent by the above, the officials of the Immigration Department also have something to say, ordinary immigrants are indeed not qualified to buy slaves, the problem is that the situation of martyrs is too special, the pillars of their families died in the war for the country, and the imperial court can't just throw them a piece of land and leave it alone, right?
No one can look at this?
Men die in battle, and the rest of the family are old and weak, women and children, what is the use of you just giving them land?
You can't eat that thing, you can't watch orphans and widows starve to death, right?
How can the souls of the soldiers who died in heaven rest in peace?
If anyone dares to do this, they will be sprayed to death by those virgin watches.
We don't want to support them for the rest of their lives, but you at least have to solve the labor problem for them.
At present, the most suitable labor force for the imperial court is slaves, so we can't let the slaves go and let the soldiers farm for the people, right?
In the face of the interrogation of the officials of the Immigration Department, the officials sent by the imperial court could only be speechless, and after reflecting to the imperial court, the imperial court did not follow up, which was regarded as turning a blind eye, so they acquiesced, so in this way, the martyrs' families were guaranteed to live, and the Immigration Department got the immigrant population, and both sides were happy, which was considered a win-win situation.
As for the question of whether the slaves will run away, there is no need to worry about this, not to mention that the slaves are branded with the mark of the subordinate department, and everyone knows it, just say that helping the martyrs do farm work is much better than working hard in the slave camp, and some Jishan families will not treat slaves as slaves at all, but all kinds of preferential treatment, treat them as real slaves, and they will be much better than slaves in terms of clothing, food, housing and transportation, as long as they are not brain-pumping, fools will not fight against their masters, Unless they are certain that they can escape the pursuit of the government, but this is obviously impossible.
Therefore, it has become fashionable to leave the slave camp and become a slave of the martyrs, and if anyone can be selected by the martyrs, then they will definitely usher in the envy and jealousy of their companions.
And after breaking away from the subordinate division, all the slaves also know that the opportunity is precious, and they will work hard for the main family, otherwise if they anger the main family, the main family will send them back to the subordinate division.
And whether they escaped and were captured or sent back directly, they really had no chance to come out at that time, and could only die of exhaustion in the slave camp, which is obviously what those slaves who finally escaped are willing to see.
As for the pension specially named by Zhu Yundao was transferred by the bank, the military and the imperial court did not insert a finger in it, mainly to comfort their subordinates, because they knew that although the Tang Dynasty is now considered to be peaceful and the people live and work in peace and contentment, the internal corruption problem is still very serious, and eating and taking cards has become a common practice, but all the money that passes through their hands, no matter what it is used for, will try their best to cut out a layer of oil from it-where will they let go of such a large amount of money as a pension?
The King's Bank itself was established by relying on the army, and it was originally only used to provide protection and transportation for the trophies of the soldiers of the army, so as to avoid the use of oil scraping by officers at all levels, saying that it was a bank, but it did not provide lending business at the very beginning, and it was more like a combination of a pawnshop and a dart board.
But later, when the loot business matured, a large amount of loot was auctioned off, and the bank made enough principal, it began to develop completely, and the lending business was launched, and it was out of control ever since.
The original pension was not issued by the bank, but by the imperial court itself, but as I said before, the corruption within the imperial court is very serious, and after officials at all levels have gone through it, when it is really distributed to the families of the martyrs, it may not even be enough for ten taels of silver.
At the beginning, Li Zhen didn't notice this, because as far as he knew, in the early Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty in history, there were not many corrupt officials, but he forgot that this so-called not much was compared with an entire dynasty, how many officials were there in the entire Tang Dynasty?
Maybe the corruption of officials at the top is not serious, but the number at the bottom is still a large number.
So Li Zhen himself didn't think of this, plus he himself encouraged corruption (because it can't be said to be encouragement, but the tolerance for corruption is higher, he would rather have a corrupt and capable minister than an incompetent and incompetent clean official, because sometimes this kind of person is worse), and the people below don't think it's a big deal, so they didn't explain it to Li Zhen.
So he didn't know about this until Li Zhen went out on a patrol and was stopped by a group of martyrs' family members.
The result is obvious, Li Zhen was furious on the spot, he can allow officials to be corrupt, that is because officials will do practical things in addition to corruption, such as some project funds, he wants to allow relevant officials to make a little benefit on it, as long as it is not too excessive.
But now some people even have to ask for the martyr's pension, which is a pension related to the life and death of the family, and they dare to reach out for this kind of money?
Li Zhen would never tolerate such a person, and immediately ordered the Blood Dragon Guard to check everything clearly, and the result shocked him, all the officials involved in this matter almost reached tens of thousands, from the head of the household department of the military department to the local officials who distributed the silver, and the officials of the states and counties across the country basically intervened......
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Even Li Zhen didn't dare to deal with this matter, after all, this was a major matter involving tens of thousands of officials, although he wanted to kill people, but he himself knew that it was impossible, so he simply kicked the ball to the court.
As a result, Li Zhen's excerpt was handed over, but there was no news, just when Li Zhen was about to take the second excerpt, the court issued a decree, and all military salaries, including the pensions of soldiers killed in the war, would be uniformly distributed by the King's Bank, and the court would not be allowed to interfere in this matter from now on......
Li Zhen knew that the court was planning to compromise, and there was only one way to deal with it, otherwise they couldn't kill them all, right?
Not to mention the bloodshed in this, let's just say how to fill the vacant position after their death?
So pretending not to see is the only way to deal with it.
But even so, Li Zhen plans to let these people go, he is ready to wait for himself to ascend the throne, and slowly replace all these people, this time may be very long, but Li Zhen feels that it is worth it
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