On the second day of the Lunar New Year, Zhao Erye really took several boats of rice, flour, grain and oil to visit the five guarantee households in the county...... Oh no, widows and poor people.

It's a pity that there are no reporters and can't take pictures, so I can only ask Xu Yuanchun to draw a few sketches, which is better than nothing.

Zhao Zhixian also went to the Kunnan Lake embankment construction site to pay New Year's greetings to the people who did not rest during the New Year, and naturally gave a reward.

Although there are not many people per person, there are many people who can't stand the work, and the result is another big expense.

After this series of scattered wealth, the nutrition money that Zhao Erye worked hard to earn years ago is basically exhausted......

But it doesn't matter, the coming day will be long, and then you can earn it.

On the third day of the new year, it coincides with the beginning of spring, and on this day, the whole country will hold a grand spring ceremony.

Zhao Erye was also dressed in sacrificial clothes, led all the officials and people, held high the name card called 'spring', blowing, blowing, beating gongs and whips, and worshiped the spring cow and the god of mang.

After the worship was completed, Zhao Erye was in a field outside the county seat, and helped the plough to plough a piece of land, which means to plough on behalf of the emperor and pray for a good year.

Then the spring greeting team will carry the paper-paste spring cow and mangshen to the 'spring pool' in front of the county government hall to worship, and wait for the next day's 'whip spring' here.

In addition, the head of the cattle household selected by Zhao Erye for cultivating the land, and the pro-cultivated field he cultivated, can also enjoy the treatment of exemption from taxes during this year.

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On the fourth day of the new year, the county held a whipping spring ceremony.

On this day, the county yazha gate, gate, and instrument gate were open to the people of the county.

In front of the lobby, incense tables are set up, offerings are placed, and people play flutes and music, as a county, it is considered to be grand.

At the beginning of the ceremony, Zhao Erye led the officials and people to kneel in the north and worship the god of Chunniu Mang. After getting up, He County Cheng beat the drum three times, the officials held the colored cane around the ox three times, and the priest of the ceremonial room sang: "Whip Spring!" ”

Zhao Erye took the colored staff and broke the spring cow. The red dates, walnuts, grains and other crops filled in the tripe in advance fell to the ground one after another.

The people who have been waiting for a long time cheered forward, you compete for me, ask for a lottery, and look forward to this year's harvest!

As soon as the whip spring ceremony ended, Zhao Erye's official duties during the New Year were over, but he was still not idle.

Because he promised Ning An, the two of them would go to the garden in Suzhou to live for two days, and there was no one else, just the two of them......

How could Second Master Zhao, who had an empty pocket, say nothing? After returning to the county magistrate's mansion and changing into a plain robe, he slipped out of the back door, boarded the carriage of the eldest princess, and went straight to Suzhou City!

It's not easy......

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The days of the New Year are the fastest, and before you know it, it will be the sixth day of the new year, the day when the yamen opens the seal.

But from the eleventh to the twentieth of the first month, the officials still have ten days of leave given by Emperor Chengzu, so the five days between these two holidays will inevitably make it difficult for people to be impetuous, and it is difficult to concentrate on work.

So under normal circumstances, the officials will not arrange any important errands in the past few days, and the New Year's plan will be left until the end of the Shangyuan Festival holiday, and everyone will arrange it after taking care of it.

But the current governor of Yingtian is Hai Rui, which obviously can't be said as usual.

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, after the opening ceremony of the Yamen of Nanjing Yingtian Governor, Haizhongcheng brazenly announced two new policies that shocked Jiangnan!

First, from now on, 'the government and the people will be one, and the land will be grain'!

The governor Yamen ordered that all the prefectures and counties in the ten prefectures and prefectures of the Ten Prefectures of the Heavenly Dynasty should immediately and thoroughly revise the field book and change all the official fields into private fields.

This is a measure that Lin Run has been pushing since he was in office.

Before, Jiangnan was divided into official fields and private fields, and official fields accounted for as much as half. Because the rent of the official land is twice that of the private land, the people who are assigned to the official land work hard for a year, and they can't even fill their stomachs, and they have to sell their children and daughters to pay taxes, which is very unprofitable.

Therefore, they either fled to abandon the famine, or sacrificed their official land to the powerful family to escape the onerous taxes. As a result, Jiangnan has the name of heavy endowment, but in fact, it cannot complete the tax task every year...... For magistrates, this is a more serious sin than embezzlement and bribery.

They can only change their ways to increase taxes on people's land or industry and commerce to complete the tax collection tasks of the imperial court.

As a result, the officials were miserable, the peasants were struggling to make a living, and the citizens were complaining, and there would be a civil uprising in Jiangnan at every turn.

'The government and the people have one rule, and the land is even, and the grain is equal', which is a good medicine to solve the dilemma of the officials and the people in Jiangnan. Since then, there is no longer the pain of re-endowment of official fields, and the burden of the people planting official fields is small, and the abandoned land will naturally come back to farm.

In this way, the government's tax revenue seems to have decreased, but in fact, the official field has no income before, so it is actually an increase in taxes for the state and county.

Of course, it takes great courage to implement such a new policy to change the laws of the ancestors. For the Ming bureaucrats, who are accustomed to seeking stability, it is really unimaginable.

This new deal is exciting enough, right? But the second new deal is even more exciting!

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The second part of Hai Rui's new policy - the land tax, forced labor and other miscellaneous levies of each state and county will be combined into one article, and the silver taels will be collected together, and the payment will be paid according to the conversion per mu! From now on, all states and counties in ten prefectures and one state will immediately implement the 'One Whip Law'!

Specifically, in terms of land endowment and various taxes on consumption and miscellaneous taxes, it will be completely divided according to the number of acres of land, with more land to be paid, less land to be paid, and no land to be paid.

As for the other major head of the enlistment, Hai Rui ordered all counties to compile a 'tiger head and rat tail book', breaking the traditional distinction between the first and the best, and making a register of all households in the county, regardless of size. put the large and rich households with a lot of grain in front of them to bear the heavy labor; Small and poor households with little grain should be included in the last to be used as light laborers.

The front is a large household such as a tiger's head, and the back is a small household for a rat's tail, so it is called 'tiger head rat tail book'.

At the same time, the governor of the yamen ordered the prefectures to calculate the grain of each county as a whole, and to send the conscription of each county on this basis.

Then each county calculated the total amount of silver needed to hire the servants according to the number of servitudes given by the government, and after deducting the preferential exemptions given to the scholars and chaste martyrs, they distributed three-quarters of the silver money into the fields.

The remaining quarter was evenly distributed among the whole county.

The most obvious advantage of this method of 'counting all the grain in one county and sending one county to conscription' is that it abolishes the 'platoon rotation system' that has been in force in the Ming Dynasty for 200 years. The original system of simply assigning servants according to the number of acres of land owned and the number of dictoes was changed to a system of assigning servants according to the number of acres of land owned and the number of dictokou.

Moreover, in Dingyin, the weight of acres of land accounts for three-quarters, and Dingkou accounts for only one-quarter, so the burden on the people who have no land and less land is naturally greatly reduced.

Naturally, the burden of the common people fell on the gentry, who owned a lot of land......

Can you imagine how the big families in Jiangnan will react to this?

Well, I guess I'll have to endure it first...... Hai Gong has sentenced more than 15,000 cases, but he hasn't executed yet!

The defendants in those cases highly overlap with the rich and big families in Suzhou, and whoever dares to jump up and oppose it, the government can arrest them immediately!

Niu Baishi and others suddenly realized, no wonder Hai Gong was enchanted with the trial of the case a year ago, and it turned out that it was all to pave the way for the new deal of the new year.

High, really high!