"If you all have doubts in your hearts, especially the old village chief, who still has to manage these tenants, if you don't make it clear, I'm afraid you won't have the confidence to do things," Xia Nan said in a hurry. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"I'll start with Mr. Sima's three questions. The first question, as far as I know, the routine taxes apportioned by the imperial court every year are apportioned by the landlords to the tenants, and the state and county officials have to increase the amount layer by layer. Since the beginning of the year, the Liao salary has been levied, and it is still being collected, and it has been increased to nine cents. The payment of the government's discounted silver also adds the loss of the difference in the price of the grain sold, and the rent must be paid after paying these. In this way, the tenants worked for a year, and even the rations of the whole family could not be guaranteed. The reason why these tenants can still endure it is because Qiongzhou is like summer all year round, the rain is sufficient, there are no major natural disasters, the harvest is quite stable, and even if they can't eat enough to eat after paying the rent and taxes, they will not starve to death, if they are in Shaanxi, Gansu and other places, the land is barren, the output is very low, and if they can't pay it, they will be forced to die, and if they pay it all, they will starve to death, and they can only kill officials and rebel. ”

When Sima De heard this, he nodded again and again: "What the lord said is very true, the land of Shaanxi and Gansu has suffered drought year after year, the fields are deserted, and the red land is thousands of miles. ”

Tan Shan and the others thought that their previous life was hard enough, but they didn't expect that the inland of the Central Plains would be more miserable than here, so they sighed and shook their heads again and again.

"If we want to build a foundation in Qiongzhou, we must not be too short-sighted, we must let the tenants have enough to eat and live, so that they can farm with peace of mind, and we can have food to feed the workers and soldiers. If the rent of these two stones had been exempted from all assessed taxes, their lives would have been much better. As for whether we will lose, hehe, I am willing to pay as much as I want to pay to the county government, and if I pay it, it will give him face, and if I pay less, or even if I don't pay, what can the county government do to me? ”

Everyone will laugh heartily, not to mention that they have already controlled the county government, even if the county government is operating as usual, when they encounter such a hard stubble, they can't hide, and they dare to force them to pay taxes? Therefore, the key to this profit and loss lies in the part collected by the government, and if it is paid less or even not paid, won't this profit be squeezed out?

As for whether it will alarm the higher-level government layer by layer, that is also a matter of the future. What's more, with the strength of the escort team, the entire Qiongzhou Mansion has no force that can match it. Qiongzhou is located on the edge of the island, there is only a guard post, there is no battalion soldiers, the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers of the guard station, people with a little insight know that even pirates can't be beaten, otherwise Huang Mengjia and a few hundred native soldiers will not dare to hit the county seat. Unless Xia Nan openly raises the flag to rebel, it is not very likely that the Qiongzhou government will use force in a short period of time.

"The second question, if the rent is set at 40% or 50%, it is necessary to verify the output and eliminate concealment, and we don't have so much manpower and time to spend on this. What we have won this time is all good land, and the difference in harvest between acres is at most three or five buckets, and two stones are collected uniformly, and the rest belongs to them no matter how much, and it can also improve their enthusiasm, and we don't need to verify it by acre. Xia Nan said as he secretly felt to himself, thanking the ancestors of the old time and space for coming up with a method of household contract responsibility, which he could learn from.

Sima De suddenly realized that this is the simplest and most effective management method, which not only ensures the collection of rent, but also does not have to spend manpower and material resources to verify the output from house to house, and at the same time can indirectly increase the enthusiasm for production - after paying the rent, the rest is all his own, and this temptation is not small for tenants who cannot fill their stomachs all year round. Thinking of this, Sima De admired it, such a seemingly simple method, but it was a wonderful plan.

As for the third question, it actually explains the first two questions, and it is no longer a problem. In the case of you, from being tired for a year but not having enough food and clothing, to now being able to eat enough and save surplus food, will you resist paying rent? If he resists rent in this way, it can only show that he is lazy and useless, stealing and cheating, this kind of tenant, we don't want it, just drive it away, I believe that some people come to rent seeds. ”

Although everyone did not think as thoroughly as Sima De, they all saw the benefits of such rent collection and were all amazed. The rent of two stones per mu was thus settled.

Xia Nan set the fate of most of the tenants in Lingao in Hujiazhuang, and with the passage of time, the influence slowly began to be reflected.

The biggest landlord in Hefeng Village was Gou Dafu, and under his forcible seizure, two-thirds of the fields in the entire village belonged to him, and more than half of the strong laborers in the village were his tenants, renting his fields.

Before Gou Dafu made his fortune, the people in the village could still see his smiling face, and when he became rich like his name, he well interpreted the meaning of the words "for the rich", not only seeking to seize other people's land, but also to exploit the tenants who rented his land. In addition to distributing all the servitude of his own family to the tenants, the government also collected a lot of the official levies and tax increases from the tenants, but in return, he falsified and reduced the taxes he should pay, and most of the taxes due to the government went into his pocket. Every year, regardless of whether the harvest is good or bad, 30% of the harvest is used as rent.

Even if his tenants planted ten acres and eight acres of land, after paying the rent and taxes, they could only drop a few stones of brown rice every year. Many tenant families do not have enough to eat, and their children go out to beg for a living when they are a little older.

Because the family could not support himself and his younger siblings, he went to a blacksmith shop in the county seat at the age of 14 as an apprentice. When the news of Gou Dafu's robbery and murder by the Li people came, he had been working in the blacksmith shop for five years, and he was already twenty years old.

It was his younger brother, Second Brother Su, who came to report to him. His family is illiterate, and it is very casual to name them, he did not have an official name until he was three years old, and later because he was thicker and stronger than his younger siblings, he was called Su Thick Legs, and his younger brother was casually named Second Brother, and there was a younger sister called Su Xiaomei. Originally, Su Xiaomei had two male babies before, but because she really didn't have anything to eat, she died at a young age.

Knowing that Gou Dafu was killed, Su Thick Spit on the ground fiercely, and said with hatred: "It's good to die, this scourge should have died a long time ago." ”

If it weren't for Gou Dafu's ruthless exploitation, he would not have been separated from his family at a young age, and at the age of fourteen, he would have to pick up a sledgehammer that is difficult for adults. It is said that Gou Dafu's land and property have changed owners, and I don't know how the dead man transferred the land, but the land deed has the mark of the yamen, so it should not be fake.

"The world is as black as a crow, I just hope that this crow's heart is not so ruthless." Su Thick Legs came to this conclusion.