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- On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Mr. Zhao indeed took several boats of rice, flour, grain and oil to visit the five-guarantee households in the countyoh no, the widowed and poor people.
"It's a pity that there are no reporters and no way to take pictures. I can only ask Xu Yuanchun to draw a few sketches, which is better than nothing."
Magistrate Zhao also made a special trip to the Kunnan Lake Embankment construction site to pay New Year greetings to the people who did not rest during the New Year, and naturally also gave out rewards.
Although the pay per person is not much, there are many people who can't stand the work, and the result is another big expense for the boss.
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? After all the money spent, the nutrition money that Mr. Zhao Er worked so hard to earn years ago has basically been exhausted
But it doesn¡¯t matter, the future is long, just make more money.
The third day of the Lunar New Year coincides with the beginning of spring. On this day, the whole country will hold a grand spring welcoming ceremony.
Mr. Zhao Er also wore sacrificial robes and led the officials and people to hold high a sign with the word "Spring", blowing wind, beating gongs and setting off whips, and worshiped the spring ox and the god of light in a grand manner.
After the worship was completed, Mr. Zhao went to a field outside the county town and plowed a field with his own plow. This meant that he was plowing on behalf of the emperor to pray for a good harvest.
Then the Spring Festival team will carry the paper-made Spring Ox and the God of Light to the "Yingchun Pond" in front of the county government hall to worship them, where they will "whip the spring" the next day.
In addition, the head of the household who owns the cattle used by Mr. Zhao to cultivate the land and the land he cultivates can also enjoy tax exemption during this year.
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On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, the county held a spring whipping ceremony.
On this day, the county government gates, gates, and ceremony gates are open to the people of the county.
There is an incense table and offerings in front of the lobby, and there are people playing flutes and playing music. As a county, it is quite grand.
At the beginning of the ceremony, Mr. Zhao led the officials and people to kneel down facing the north to worship the Spring Ox God. After getting up, the Prime Minister of He County beat the drum three times, the officials held colorful sticks and circled the cow three times, and the officials in the ceremonial room sang: "Spring Spring!"
Mr. Zhao then took the colorful staff and defeated the spring ox. The red dates, walnuts, grains and other crops that had been filled in the tripe fell to the ground one after another.
The people who have been waiting for a long time came forward with cheers. You fight for me to grab it, get some luck, and look forward to a good harvest this year!
As soon as the spring whipping ceremony is over, Mr. Zhao¡¯s official duties during the Chinese New Year are finally over, but he still has no time to spare.
Because he promised Ning An, the two of them were going to stay in a garden in Suzhou for two days. There was no one else but them
How can Mr. Zhao, who has an empty pocket, just say no? After returning to the magistrate's house and changing into his civilian robe, he slipped out through the back door, boarded the eldest princess's carriage, and headed straight for Suzhou City!
It¡¯s not easy for you, sir
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The New Year¡¯s Day is the fastest, and before you know it, it¡¯s the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the day when the Yamen opens their seals.
But from the 11th to the 20th of the first lunar month, officials still have ten days of leave given by Emperor Chengzu. Therefore, during the five days between these two holidays, people will inevitably be impetuous and find it difficult to concentrate on work.
So under normal circumstances, Shangguan officials will not arrange any important errands in these days, and save the new year's plans until after the Lantern Festival holiday, when everyone has calmed down and then make arrangements.
But the current governor of Yingtian is Hai Rui, which obviously cannot be regarded as ordinary.
On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, after the opening ceremony of the Nanjing Yingtian Governor¡¯s Yamen, Haizhong Cheng brazenly announced two new policies that shocked Jiangnan!
First, from now on, ¡®the government and the people will be on the same page, with equal land and equal food¡¯!
The governor¡¯s yamen ordered that all the prefectures and counties in the ten prefectures and counties should immediately completely revise the field records and change all official fields to civilian fields. From now on, the fields in Jiangnan will be treated equally and all taxes will be calculated as civilian fields!
This is a measure that Lin Run has been pushing for since he was in office.
Before, Jiangnan was divided into official land and private land, and official land accounted for more than half. Since the rent of official land was twice that of civilian land, the people assigned to official land had to work hard for a year without even being able to fill their stomachs. They had to sell their sons and daughters to pay taxes, which was very uneconomical.
Therefore, they either fled and abandoned their land, or dedicated their official land to powerful families to avoid heavy taxes. The result is that Jiangnan has the reputation of heavy taxation, but in fact it fails to complete its tax collection tasks every year For local officials, this is a more serious crime than corruption and bribery.
They can only change their ways to complete the tax collection tasks of the court, either by imposing additional taxes on people's fields or by increasing taxes on industry and commerce.
As a result, officials were miserable, farmers were struggling to make ends meet, and citizens were complaining, which was why popular uprisings occurred frequently in Jiangnan.
"The government and the people are on the same page, the fields are equal and the food is equal" is a good medicine to solve the plight of the officials and the people in Jiangnan. From then on, official land no longer suffered from heavy taxation, and the burden on the people to farm official land was reduced, and those who abandoned it would naturally come back to farm it.
In this way, the government¡¯s tax revenue seems to be reduced, but in fact, there was no revenue from the government land before.??, so it actually increases tax revenue for states and counties.
Of course, it takes great courage to implement such a new policy that changes the ancestral law. For the Ming Dynasty bureaucrats who were accustomed to seeking stability, this was really unimaginable.
This new policy is exciting enough, right? But the second new policy is even more exciting!
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The second part of Hai Rui's new policy is to combine the land tax, corvee and other miscellaneous levies in various states and counties into one, consolidate the collection of silver tael, and pay it per mu! From now on, all prefectures and counties in Yingtian, ten prefectures and one prefecture will immediately implement the ¡®one whip law¡¯!
Specifically speaking, in terms of land tax and various miscellaneous taxes, they will be completely divided according to the number of acres of land. More land will be paid, less land will be paid, and no land will be paid.
As for the corvee, another major source of taxes and servitude, Hai Rui ordered each county to compile a "Tiger Head and Rat Tail Book", breaking the traditional distinction between small and large households and making a list of all households in the county, regardless of size. The large and rich households with more grains of grain were put in the front to bear heavy labor; the small and poor households with little grain of grain were placed in the back to bear the light labor.
The big household in the front looks like a tiger's head, and the small household in the back looks like a rat's tail, so it's called "Tiger Head and Rat Tail Book".
At the same time, the governor's yamen ordered all the prefectures to make an overall calculation of the ding grains in each county, and based on this, all the corvees were assigned to each county.
Then each county calculated the total amount of money needed by the servants according to the number of corvees given by the government. After deducting the number of exemptions and exemptions for scholar-bureaucrats and chaste martyrs, three-quarters of the money was spread into the fields.
The remaining one-quarter was evenly distributed among the entire county.
The most obvious benefit of this method of "taking into account the ding grain of a county and assigning corvees to each county" is the abolition of the "platoon and wheel service system" that had been implemented in the Ming Dynasty for two hundred years. The original system of rotating servitude based solely on the number of dingkou was changed to a system of servitude based on a combination of the number of acres of land owned and the number of dingkou.
¡°And in Dingyin, the weight of acres accounts for three-quarters, and the weight of Dingkou only accounts for one-fourth. In this way, the burden of the people with little land will naturally be greatly reduced.
The burden relieved by the common people will naturally fall on the gentry who own more land
One can imagine how the big households in Jiangnan would react to this?
¡°Well, I guess I can only endure it for now Hai Gong has sentenced more than 15,000 cases, but they haven¡¯t been executed yet!
The defendants in those cases are highly overlapped with the wealthy and wealthy households in Suzhou. Anyone who dares to object will be arrested immediately by the government!
It was only then that Niu Qianshi and others suddenly realized that no wonder Haigong was obsessed with releasing cases for trial. It turned out that this was all to pave the way for the New Deal at the beginning of the new year.
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