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Chapter four hundred and thirteenth, measuring fields

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    "The Qinghe army is our common people's army. It is naturally true to abolish the imperial court's exorbitant taxes."

    The so-called cannibals are soft-spoken and short-handed. Some young and strong people collected money and food from the Qinghe Army, and naturally helped the Qinghe Army to speak.

    "Then the Qinghe army won't collect taxes? Impossible?" The people are still full of suspicion.

    After all, in all dynasties, there is no reason not to collect taxes, they have never heard of it.

    "Taxes must be collected, but there will be no poll tax in the future. The tax will be collected according to 20% of the harvest per acre, and no more will be collected."

    ? Although taxes are still collected, it was heard that only 20% of the harvest per acre was collected, which immediately aroused discussions among neighbors.

    "real or fake?"

    Someone couldn't help asking again, after all, no one believes in the fact that there is a pie in the sky.

    "It must be true, haven't you seen the notices posted at the city gate and the street?"

    The common people didn't know the Qinghe Army, so they naturally kept their distance from the Qinghe Army, so they hid at home and didn't read the notice at all.

    "Aren't we illiterate? We don't know each other after posting it." Someone smiled and found a step for himself.

    "Tell us carefully, what else is written on the notice?"

    The common people gathered around the familiar young man, wanting to know more information.

    "It is stated in the notice that the tax collection will not only be changed in the future, but if there is a disaster year, the tax can also be directly reduced or exempted. If someone is unable to eat, they can report to the Yamen and receive relief food."

    "The tax revenue of the Qinghe army is much lower than that of the imperial court. It's a pity that my family's land was bought by the old Zhang family. Now we have no more than one mu of land." Someone said with a sigh.

    "That doesn't matter. The Qinghe army will measure the acres of land again soon. It is stated in the notice that every household must be allocated land."

    "But how can there be so much land for us?"

    "In the past, the rich and powerful families seized a lot of land, and now the Qinghe Army has ordered them to return it. If they don't retreat, the Qinghe Army will deal with them."

    The rich and powerful families used to rely on their power to obtain a large amount of land through various means.

    As far as Yunxi Mansion is concerned, 90% of the land is in the hands of wealthy families.

    Ninety percent of the common people have almost become tenants of rich and powerful families. After a year of hard work, they can't get enough to eat in the end.

    But now the Qinghe Army wants to change this status quo, that is, first of all, to ensure that the majority of the people have land to cultivate.

    Because as long as the people have land to cultivate, Chen Ziang and his Qinghe army can receive military rations to ensure the logistics supply of the army.

    Chen Ziang and the others are now collecting taxes according to the number of acres of land, and they receive 20% of the grain for each acre of land.

    For those rich and powerful families who own a lot of land, the tax they have to pay is an astronomical figure.

    In the past, they didn't have to pay taxes and grains, because they were powerful and colluded with government officials, so the taxes and grains were exempted directly.

    There are also some big families who serve as high-ranking officials in the imperial court, so local officials dare not accept them.

    The result is that the rich and powerful families who own a lot of land do not hand over a grain of grain.

    However, the people who only own a small amount of land have been levied heavy taxes in various names.

    Now that the Qinghe Army has occupied Yunxi Mansion, they want to abolish the unreasonable tax system of the imperial court and formulate a new policy.

    Under the propaganda of the local youths, the new policy of the Qinghe Army was widely known.

    It's just that most of the people are still waiting and watching, although the Qinghe Army's new policy is in their interests.

    However, the king's flag at the head of the city changed. Who knows when the imperial army will fight back, and it may cause trouble to the upper body.

    Chen Ziang and the others are naturally aware of the reasons for the hesitation of the people. Firstly, they do not trust the Qinghe Army, secondly, they are afraid of those rich and powerful families, and they are worried that the land they have been given will not be able to hold it in the future.

    The rich and powerful families have been cultivating in the local area for more than a hundred years, and have accumulated a lot of prestige.

    Now the Qinghe army wants to distribute their land to the people, but the people dare not take it, worrying about settlement after autumn.

    Despite the difficulties, Chen Ziang decided to continue to implement the New Deal.

    Only by allowing the majority of the people to obtain land, can they win the support and support of the people, and can also ensure self-sufficiency in military rations.

    Although the common people had various misgivings, Chen Ziang and the others quickly carried out the investigation of the fields.??New measurement work.

    The first thing to start the field measurement is the land outside Yunxi Prefecture, which is under the charge of Miao Cai, the head of the household department of Yunxi Government.

    Because the Qinghe Army did not hire any officials from the original court, they were not familiar with the fields everywhere.

    The task force for measuring the acres of fields is mainly composed of Huke officials. In addition to recruiting elite soldiers from the army to assist, they also specially selected some young and strong people who are familiar with the local conditions from the common people to help.

    Ding Laosan was the first batch of locals to assist the Qinghe Army in measuring the acres of fields.

    The Qinghe Army pardoned Ding Laosan for assisting the imperial army against the Qinghe Army, repaired their houses, and gave them food relief.

    Therefore, Ding Laosan is full of gratitude to the Qinghe Army.

    Especially when he saw that his friend Dunzi had benefited from promoting the Qinghe Army's new policy, he couldn't help it.

    After all, he stayed at home to sit and eat, and his family had no land, so he couldn't always eat the relief food of the Qinghe Army.

    So when the Qinghe Army recruited Qing Zhuang to help measure the acres of fields, and gave a bucket of grain and one hundred copper coins every day, he signed up without hesitation.

    Ding Laosan was assigned to the twenty-fifth work team, responsible for re-measurement of the field in the north of the city.

    Ding Lao San is illiterate, so naturally he doesn't know how to measure work, but as a local, he is very familiar with who owns the land and the situation of the land owner.

    Thousands of acres of land in the north of the city belong to the local tycoon Zhang's family, and Ding Laosan and his family's original land is also here.

    It's just that later the old lady in the family was seriously ill and needed money urgently. The Zhang family took the opportunity to buy their family's 20 acres of land with two silver coins.

    Since then, Ding Laosan has become a tenant of the Zhang family. Although he still cultivates the original land, he has to hand in all the harvest every year.

    And the Zhang family only gave Ding Laosan a little ration to maintain food and clothing.

    Ding Laosan relied on the little rations given by Zhang's family to support himself and his father, and often endured hunger.

    Before the twenty-fifth work team measured the land, they naturally asked the Zhang family to report the amount of land themselves.

    The Zhang family also heard about the new policy of the Qinghe Army, and knew that 20% of the grain per mu of land would be paid as tax.

    Their family has seized more than 3,000 mu of land over the years. If it is really implemented in accordance with the New Deal, wouldn't it kill them?

    Therefore, when the Zhang family reported the number of acres of land, they only reported a few hundred acres, and then planned to bribe the measurement team to get away with it.

    "The Zhang family's land is at least two to three thousand acres, and they only reported a few hundred acres. This is simply taking us for fools."

    When the Zhang family reported the amount of their land, the members of the Qinghe Army Task Force were also very angry.

    "We were worried that we would not be able to catch them and deal with them. Now that they have come to our door, it has saved us a lot of trouble."

    Compared with the angry members of the work team, an official in the team leader laughed instead.

    "Didn't they say that there are only a few hundred acres, so let's measure it carefully, and the excess is not their Zhang family's."

    "If they say that those lands are theirs, then they are deceiving our Qinghe army, and they will have to pay a price." (Remember the website URL: www.hlnovel.com
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