Chapter 136 (2) Treasury Bonds

On the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, firecrackers began to sound throughout the city of Nanjing, and on the bell and drum tower of Nanjing City, a melodious bell sounded, and with the ringing of the bell, the Great Chinese Dynasty finally sent away the first year of the Tianyuan after the founding of their country.

Although the south has not yet been subjugated, and the Shaanxi Dazhong Army is still fighting with the Dashun army, there is already a peaceful color in the city of Nanjing.

The establishment of the Great Middle Dynasty, coupled with the actions of the Great Chinese Army, completely destroyed the Ming Dynasty forces in the Southern Zhili, uprooted many deep-rooted families, and quickly radiated new vitality under the efforts of countless officials and generals of the Great Middle Kingdom.

Xiao Tianjian, in order to thank the military generals who were busy with the Chinese and the DPRK, specially held a banquet in the palace on the evening of the 30th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and invited the courtiers of the DPRK to have a good time.

During the banquet, Xiao Tianjian also let go of his heart, invited out three imperial concubines to accompany him, and the ministers pushed the cup and drank a bitter drink, the time was really like a white horse passing by, in the blink of an eye, he returned to Nanjing City for more than three months, with his return to the court, the Dazhong Dynasty also began to adjust frequently.

The framework, which was originally just set up, has been rapidly perfected in the past few months, and batches of officials who have been selected and inspected have begun to take up their posts to serve the revitalization of the Great China and North Korea.

Among these officials, there are some old officials of the former dynasty, there are also some rookies selected through scientific examinations, and some have not been officials in the Ming Dynasty before, but they have a great reputation among the people.

Although the scale of this banquet was not small, there were still many heroes of the Great and Middle Dynasties who could not catch up with the banquet, including the generals in the army, such as Yan Chongxi, Luo Li, Liu Bao, Shi Ran, Luo Rucai, Li Xuanzhu, Wang Chengping, Diao Zheng, Li Lingfeng, Zhao Weiguo...... In addition, there are important ministers like Lu Xiangsheng, who also need to preside over government affairs in various places, so it is impossible for them all to rush to Nanjing City to participate in Xiao Tianjian's banquet, and only some ministers and military attaches who remain in the Nanjing court can participate in the banquet.

It is said to be a big banquet, but Xiao Tianjian once again showed his stinginess, the wine banquet in the palace, the dishes are not much, and they are all some common ingredients, although there are some delicacies from the mountains and seas, but they are just ordinary things, but after these dishes have been conditioned by famous chefs, the taste is still delicious, otherwise they will really be despised.

However, Xiao Tianjian also said before the banquet that the new establishment of the Dazhong Dynasty was not long ago, and it was the time when a hundred wastes were waiting to be rebuilt, and there were places everywhere to spend money and money, whether it was him or the ministers, they must be diligent and thrifty, not extravagant and wasteful, let alone arrogant and lascivious, after all, there are still hundreds of people in the Dazhong Dynasty, and they don't even have anything to eat, and those of them who are in charge of the country have no reason to be too happy.

Therefore, at the banquet, there is nothing like singing and dancing to entertain the people, it is mainly just small talk between the monarch and the ministers.

Although this banquet is very simple, but the atmosphere is quite good, the ministers for Xiao Tianjian, the emperor, after ascending the throne, but not carried away by the victory, always remained sober, after the emperor, neither draft into the palace, nor extravagant and wasteful, as much as possible to save money, as these ministers who want to make a difference, they naturally understand Xiao Tianjian's stinginess, so subtly, these civil and military generals of the Great Middle Dynasty naturally follow Xiao Tianjian, no longer pursue luxury, for such a banquet, So there are no opinions.

Xiao Tianjian did not hold the emperor's shelf, but sat in the top position, frequently toasted to the ministers, and talked about some national affairs while drinking, so it was a Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, in fact, to put it bluntly, it was more like a summary meeting of the founding of the Great Chinese Dynasty in the past year.

The north has now been basically pacified, under the material transfer in the south, coupled with the border pass with elite troops stationed, for the time being, there is no need to worry about the construction of slaves and the Mongols breaking through the customs into the Kou, so the food shortage in the north is gradually being alleviated, some people who fled to the south, after learning that the north has been pacified, have begun to gradually return to the north under the guidance of the local government, and use this winter to prepare for the resumption of farmland after the beginning of spring.

A large number of thieves and bandits scattered in various places, under the blows of the large and medium armies in various places, will either be wiped out in ashes, or they will surrender to the large and central government offices in various places and accept resettlement, although these things cannot be completely solved in a short period of time, but Xiao Tianjian also believes that in the following year, this chaos can basically be ended.

The recovery ability of the common people is huge, as long as they are provided with land for them to survive, they will radiate great enthusiasm and devote themselves to the restoration of production, coupled with the successive wars, so that the population of many places has been greatly reduced, and the Dazhong army has almost uprooted those Ming magnates and relatives of the emperor and the country, and the land that was originally occupied by these privileged strata in large quantities was recovered by the Dazhong Dynasty, so the problem of resettlement of displaced people can be easily solved.

A large amount of land was distributed to meritorious soldiers in the name of rewarding meritorious service by the local government of Dazhong and North Korea, so that their families could cultivate it, and at the same time, a large amount of land was rented or sold, and a limited amount of land was distributed to the landless people, even if the people had no money to buy or rent land, the household department of Dazhong and North Korea also ordered that the local government could sell the land to the people and distribute the land to the people in the form of loans, so that the land could be returned to the hands of ordinary people, but the people who sold land with loans needed to pay relatively low interest. At the same time, in the next few years, the people who have obtained the land will have to repay the loans in batches, so that in the next 10 years or even 20 Chinese New Year's Eve years, the DPRK will continue to recover a large amount of capital principal and additional interest, and in the first 30 years of the DPRK, through the sale and purchase of land, it will be able to have a fairly stable income, which is far more than relying on fiscal revenue alone, and this will also win a respite for the initial development of the DPRK for several decades.

The most important point is that Xiao Tianjian issued an edict to abolish land privileges, in the form of apportionment into acres and a whip law, canceling the privileges of all classes related to land, no matter who it is, even if it is a large and medium-sized royal family in the future, as long as they occupy farmland, they also need to pay land taxes to the government in accordance with the tax system.

In addition, after discussing with the ministers, in order to avoid a large number of land annexations in the future, Xiao Tianjian also pushed out a new law, that is, to restrict land annexation, to avoid the emergence of a super-large landlord class, and to divide the amount of land ownership into several levels, all those who own land within 500 mu can pay the land tax according to the normal tax, and those who have more than 500 mu to 1,000 mu of land must pay an additional tax, but those who have more than 1,000 mu of land will have to pay heavier taxes.

In this way, after calculation, a person who owns a field of less than 500 acres can have a fairly good surplus after a year's work, after removing the expenses of hiring helpers and seed inputs, but if it exceeds 500 acres of land, it will be taxed, and after removing this overpaid tax, the surplus income of the field within 1,000 acres will be basically the same as the income of the field within 500 acres, and it may even be lower, if it exceeds 1,000 acres of land, then the additional tax will be higher. After the results are calculated, the income will be lower, or even the income will be flat, and you will not make any money at all.

In this way, if someone wants to occupy more arable land in the future, they have to consider this problem, the more land they have, on the contrary, the lower the income may be, and even reach a situation where they cannot make ends meet, so that no one will try to occupy land in the future.

In addition, the local government also left a large amount of public land for land circulation, which also reserved room for the future development of the industrial and commercial economy of the government of the Great China and North Korea.

Although the landlord class will definitely be dissatisfied with this, but under the suppression of the powerful armed forces in the early stage, they can not make too much trouble, and it has brought another benefit, that is, the landlords have accumulated considerable assets, these spare money, they have no place to use it in the future, and it is certainly not cost-effective to buy land, even if the money is to maintain its value, in the future, we must find a way to find a source, the best way out is two, one is to deposit in the bank, get interest, the other is to invest in business, or to open a workshop.

Xiao Tianjian also gave the household department an idea, that is, isn't the household department short of money now? There are places everywhere to spend money, and the current fiscal revenue is still very low, and the money obtained through confiscation is not enough to toss for a long time, so the household department can take advantage of this time to launch treasury bonds to the society in the name of the large, medium and Korean countries!

As the name suggests, the national bond is the national public bond, with the national reputation as the guarantee, to raise funds from the private sector, so that the state can concentrate idle funds for the construction of key technical facilities, and then use the future state financial revenue to repay these private funds, and give a certain amount of interest, so that the people who hand over the money to the state can use this means to make their funds appreciate, play a role in maintaining the value of their funds, and can also circulate and exchange funds for use when they are in urgent need.

In this way, private funds will not be hidden in the cellars by landlords or rich people as before, and will be precipitated to the people, and the state will have more financial resources to do more things, whether it is in road traffic construction or farmland and water conservancy construction, there will be money to make a large amount of investment to lay the foundation for economic development.

As soon as Xiao Tianjian put forward this method, the officials of the household department shouted loudly, they did not expect that the country's reputation could still be exchanged for money, if these new laws are implemented, they will definitely be able to collect a large amount of funds precipitated by the people, in that case, they will not have to worry about lack of money in the past few years.

This made Xiao Tianjian secretly sweat, although he was not proficient in the economics of later generations, but under the hearing and seeing, he came up with a little method, which was enough for people in this era to see, his proposal can be said to have plagiarized some methods of later generations, and it was not his original at all, even in the West at this time, it is estimated that he did not think of such a method, so now he has become an inventor, Xiao Tianjian even thought badly, is he going to register a patent for this, In the future, whoever imitates his method in the world will have to pay him patent fees? Hey!

So as soon as Xiao Tianjian's methods were proposed, the officials of the various ministries immediately began to prepare for the introduction of these new laws in the past two months.

However, this kind of thing is not something that can be done in a month or two, after all, Xiao Tianjian is only a framework opinion, and there are many details that need to be considered.

However, as for the details, Xiao Tianjian doesn't have to do it himself, there are so many ministers under his command now, he can't do everything personally, and it is also very necessary to let these people use their brains, which is of great benefit to the formation of an active and flexible way of thinking in governing the country in the future.

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