"What's the problem?" Zheng Lang asked.

"Good...... Much, much, big," Wang Xianling's lips trembled, and he couldn't say it well.

The eyes of the other officials were equally straight.

After several investigations, Zheng Lang's plan was changed. On the second drawing, there are a total of eight large polders, with an area of more than 5,000 hectares. In Zheng Lang's plan, five to seven polders can also be developed, and the entire Taiping Prefecture can be finalized, and the area of the polder can be turned into a polder, and the lake that should be left behind will be reserved for water storage in the future, and the entire polder area may also reach seven or eight thousand hectares.

It is not too much, in the history of the Song Dynasty, Wu and Hu counties opened up nine large wei, as well as many small wei, and the actual use area also exceeded Zheng Lang's plan. That's a bit overdone.

Not only Taiping Prefecture, the Yangtze River area will have countless polders in the future, the official polder in the Jiangdong area reaches 7,900 hectares, it is the official polder, the area of the private polder may be dozens of times and 100 times, only the area of the river and Yin Furong Lake has 15,300 hectares of polder, but also more than Zheng Lang plans to develop the total polder area of the three counties of Taiping Prefecture.

Later, An, Qing to Chao, Lake along the river, excluding Xuan, Zhou, Chu, Zhou and other inland areas, the area of polders reached more than 70,000 hectares, which created Wuhu and Hu to become one of the four major rice cities.

Or once Xuan and Zhou are developed, the polders will also exceed Taiping Prefecture by several times. The area is large, and there are always advantages. However, once Xuan and Zhou are fully developed, the grain must be transported out through Cao Yun, and it must also pass through the ports of Wuhu and Lake.

An important commercial city followed.

If this tax is well managed, it will earn more than the polder.

There are not many of them, but each polder is a giant polder, and several circles are drawn, and almost half of the lake is encircled.

The eight large polders are all connected and combined, enclosing countless small polders that have been built.

This is Zheng Lang's idea, if it is another fifty years, this idea is not unusual, but now, dozens of officials are all dumbfounded.

There are still benefits, the reason why Zheng Lang values whether it is virgin land is precisely because it is easier to delineate reasonably, and in another fifty years, the circle will be a mess, will a forced demolition be staged in advance?

Each of the selected weis is also a more scientific site selection. Moreover, the flood control and flood control forces in Weida are concentrated, and the accident rate is small.

But these officials don't know.

Zheng Lang asked, "What's the problem?" ”

"No accident...... Wang Xianling continued to tremble.

These polders occupy 60 percent of the area, and if the small polders are broken, it is okay to drown a few ordinary people occasionally. We are just from the same Jinshi, not you, it is the champion of the father, where can I get up from where I fall, once something happens, my career will come to an end.

"What if the embankment is one foot two feet high and six feet wide? Or higher and wider? "It is the standard size of Wanchun Wei in history, one zhang is not three meters three three, but three meters and one six, this height and width are not standard, the height of the high ground is enough, even if the low-lying place is one zhang five high, there will be the danger of being flooded.

The same is true for the width, for example, in order to accommodate the lake, the polder is moved out, creating an irregular shape, just when there is a river rushing straight in, and at the sharp corners, the polder is prone to compression, and the thickness of the berm and the main polder itself must be widened.

Therefore, Zheng Lang said higher and wider.

Wang County's order can't answer, at this time there are many small polders in Taiping Prefecture, all of which are private polders, and it is good to have a two-zhang wide, so strong polder!

"If you are afraid, this matter will have to be taken care of by me and Zhao Tongju. But I want to say in advance that once so many large polders are encircled, it is possible that the newly expanded cultivated land will reach more than 4,000 hectares or 5,000 hectares. It will produce more than 1 million stone of rice a year, 20 taxes and 3, and 200,000 stone of grain. ”

It is also calculated based on the income of Wanchunwei in history.

But that is only a puff, there are many people who drink blood, these people not only hide tax evasion, but also hide production, the actual harvest of 100,000 acres of land in Wanchunwei is far more than 230,000 stones, rice and wheat in two seasons, the total output will be around 40 stones. Those don't talk about it, it's all in private pockets.

There are also now, but under Zheng Lang's control, the situation will be very light, and once so many wei are over, the people who drink blood will be very thin. I don't know how to do it in the future, even in the Southern Song Dynasty, it can be used as one of Qin Hui's private property, and Chaoyang will not get any benefits. However, if it succeeds now, both the benefits and the actual output will far exceed the figures he just mentioned.

He also said: "If more than one million stones of grain are released to Hebei, it is possible that Your Majesty will not faint in a hurry, and this kind of Daxu is the first feat since the beginning of the world, and it will also set a model for other states and counties in the future." Merit...... At that time, it can only be me and Zhao Tong to divide the two. ”

Zhao Tongju lowered his head and chuckled.

At first, he was hesitant, and it wasn't until Zheng Lang discussed it with him for a long time that he felt that things were feasible.

An output gain, a groundbreaking model and a merit, so that the expressions on the faces of a cadre of officials are wonderful, worried, afraid, excited, greedy, eager to try, hesitant, thoughtful, surprised, and even some people have several expressions rolling on their faces.

In their minds, there is still a risk. But it succeeded, and it was another amazing feat. Do the officers who are on duty want to be regularized? Does the main Bo want to be a magistrate, does the magistrate want to be a general judge, and does a general judge want to be a magistrate? If you succeed, this is a great opportunity.

Zheng Lang said again: "You forgot one thing, once we succeed, other states and counties will learn, and my little lady hired the weaver girls in the family to teach weaving, they are weavers from the inner palace, and everyone is a leader in weaving." With grain, fish, and exquisite silk weaving, take a look again, from Jiangning to Ezhou, where is the most suitable place for trading? ”

It was only then that the truth was truly revealed.

Everyone suddenly realized that it was no wonder that Zheng Lang set up the Wuge Courtyard in Wuhu.

Zheng Lang said: "Once it becomes a big port, how much tax will it bring in a year? Will it be two or three times as many as a few large wei? ”

The worries are gone, and all the excitement turns.

Wang Xianling asked another question: "Where does the manpower come from?" ”

Bet on it! There is no problem with money, because of the case of Linjiang Temple, Taiping Prefecture got a windfall, Guan Jian is manpower, such a big two Wei, how much manpower do you need?

"You don't have to worry, the official has already thought about it. Xinwei must be handed over to the people to cultivate seeds, and the official will divide the land according to the number of households and labor. First, the polders are divided into three grades, a few slopes in the polder are three grades, two to one, low-lying land and water-scarce land are two to two, three to two. Households are counted by mouth, etc., those who work with less than five households can get 30 acres of land, and those with less than 10 households can get 50 acres of land, and so on. Fifteen acres of land for one laborer, thirty acres for two laborers, and a woman between the ages of twenty and forty is counted as six acres of land, and if she leaves halfway, the number of days missing is divided by the whole work period, but each household must have one whole work to get the land. Old men, orphans, sick people, invalid diseases, widows and concubines, filial sons, benevolent people, and good people are each given 20 acres of land. Those who have acquired the land are strictly forbidden to buy and sell leases, nor are they allowed to abandon them, otherwise they will be immediately confiscated. ”

The edict allowed Zheng Lang to simplify the procedure and preside over the development himself.

However, the biggest drawback has become the affairs of one state, unlike the development in history, ten counties jointly contribute labor, and it is two wei in the same circle, and the labor burden is very heavy. Labor must be forcibly squeezed out from Taiping Prefecture. So I came up with this solution.

In fact, the polder still has to be handed over to the people, how to pay, one is calculated according to the number of people in each household, and the other is calculated by the number of labor.

I don't know how long the construction period will be, the more people, the shorter the construction period will be, maybe one and a half months, maybe more than two months, but no matter how you calculate it, it is cost-effective. Fifteen acres of land, Jiangnan is now very cheap, but a fertile and safe polder, one acre of land will not be less than two yuan.

This is the understanding of the people, and it is more than two dollars to build it well.

When you are tired, take your wife, and you will have more than 50 acres of land.

is also a handover, and the three and the four have become the four and the three, and the surname is completely different.

Rural women, including those near the capital, also work in the fields when the farms are busy. If you don't squeeze like this, you won't have enough labor. There are many brothers in the family, such as the six tigers of the Zhang family, put down their bodies, six brothers and six mothers-in-law, which is equivalent to ten laborers, although they will give many fields, but one household will produce ten laborers. There is a polder laborer.

It is also very human, for example, there is an old bare-egg at home, and then there is an old lady, a half-old child, or a disabled person, and another field. Reward people with good morals to show morality. This trick is not new, and there was a similar practice in the early Tang Dynasty when the Juntian system was implemented. As a result, there is a surname, and morality is also demonstrated.

Even the unevenness of the advantages and disadvantages of the land has been thought out and has become a third-class distinction.

The last one is to prevent some people, such as in the non-agricultural household registration of Dangtu County, I also go to work, and then sell it after I get the land, which is higher than the income of working in the city, and do not let me sell it or rent it to others to plant, then the order will be seriously disturbed by them before the polder starts.

For the labor generated by the latter, Zheng Langning is not indiscriminate.

Cautious like this, Wang Xianling thought for a moment and said, "This method is very wonderful. ”

"In the past, each household did not report the actual population, so I ordered each household to go to the home of the head of each senior household and report the actual population of the family. It is not only related to the division of fields, but also the distribution of ditches and ponds, the uncultivable Pipo Gang Mountain, and the distribution of the benefits of water chestnut lotus root, mushroom fish, reed, bamboo and wood. After the polders were opened, these ditches and slopes were distributed to each village, and the profits were shared equally among the registered population, and no one was allowed to encroach on them by any means. ”

In doing so, the county losses will be reduced superficially. In fact, otherwise, including the division of land by mouth, the number of hidden mouths will be made public. With the number of mouths, there is taxation. It is not harsh on the people, for the upcoming life of the people in the polder area, it is not a heavy burden, even the smallest number of households, there are more than 50 acres of land, put down the body, endure a little hardship, calculate the tax of 20 and take 45, and the 4 stone grain obtained from one acre of land, in addition to the cost, can also save 60 or 70 stone of grain, at least let them have food and clothing.

The difficulty is not now, but in the future, when the population will multiply further, and if you add the merger, fifty years later, it will be the same again. But in these decades, the people will live happily ever after.

Everyone thought about it again, and finally thought of the wonderful, and praised it again and again: "Wonderful." ”

"The official will pay for the purchase of hundreds of cattle, and put them in the fifth-class households without cattle, plus five hundred yuan per ox, to be repaid in five years, except in disaster years. If there is a calf, the government will also reward a lot of money after a year, but it is still not allowed to buy and sell. I don't want to borrow money from the government, let it be as it is. ”

Originally, with Zheng Lang's idea, he directly gave the cattle to the poor households without cattle, which could be vetoed by a few students, especially Sima Guang and Wang Anshi.

Taiping Prefecture was able to do this because it had a windfall in its hands, which other state capitals did not have and could not imitate.

Although it is well-intentioned, it cannot play a role in promotion.

After consulting with several students, and then with Zhao Tongju, it was finally changed to this decree.

The government does not need to post it upside down, the market price of a good bull is more than 4,000 yuan, the worse one is more than 3,000 yuan, and the interest rate is not low, but for the usury of more than 60 percent or even 200 percent in the Song Dynasty, it is nothing. If it is promoted, if the imperial court lends 100,000 head of cattle in a year, it can make a profit of 50 million yuan, which can feed two or three prime ministers. It's not a small number.

The burden on the peasants is not heavy, only 100 yuan a year, and the cow will be their own after five years. It is possible that the annual tax of the cattle of the Guangde officer will be close to this figure, and it may be that it will be paid for a lifetime, and even if the cow dies, it will have to be paid for a few years. If one household is shared by two households, only four or five hundred yuan per year will be paid, and the burden will be lighter. The burden on the people is not heavy, and it is also slightly beneficial to the country. Farming on a large scale, the state gets taxes again, and the hidden income increases.

Fearing that someone would sell the cattle and use the money to make usury, they deliberately added one more, and only the fifth-class households had this right. How can a person who can lend usury be a fifth-class household, and what ability does a fifth-class household have to lend usury?

There is even the possibility of government exploitation, and another article has been added to let it do as it pleases. The government sells it expensively, and the common people can not take out loans.

In just one sentence, there are so many things in it.

There will also be loopholes, and the main ones are plugged.

After a while, Zhu County's order, Wang County's order, and Dong County's order were all praised.

"It's not my idea, it's a solution that those little Langjun in my family came up with."

Just one sentence immediately left everyone cold and speechless.

"Xiaowei must be connected, otherwise there will be polders in the future, which is not what I want. For the convenience of irrigation, all the small polders must be destroyed and connected with the large polders, and the polders should be compensated in equal amounts according to the example of the third-class fields just now. The area of the polder is compensated by 10 acres per hectare of land. For the lakes that have been reclaimed, twenty for those below one hectare shall make up one, and thirty shall make up one for those above one hectare. ”

The destruction of the small polder embankment is not only the need for irrigation, with it, the polder owner must have an idea when fighting the flood and flood control, the polder is broken, my family can still keep the small polder, one person with the head, the rest of the people will have resentment, under the comparison, the phenomenon of sabotage.

The compensation is also very fair, and now the small polder will be broken at least once a year in ten years, and it may not be broken once in 50 years in the big polder. Although the embankment was built, the area of the polder was also included in the compensation process. Huze is even fairer, that is the floating profit on the water, the profit is very small, thirty to one is considered high.

However, as soon as Zheng Lang's words came out, several small officials fell down and said, "Zhizhou, we were wrong. ”

It is very fair, but there is one article, Zheng Lang chased it several times, and did not chase out the real area, less than one hundred of the actual reported field property, most of them reported sixty percent of the field property, and some only reported fifty percent, and even those who were black-hearted and did not repent, reported one or two percent.

Almost all the officials present were stabbed, but the few officials who knelt down were the deepest stabbed, and the amount of solid fields that their family concealed was very large, so they knelt down and pleaded.

There are still a few small officials who don't know what to think in their hearts, it is impossible for every small polder to be encircled, and the eight large polders marked on the map only occupy half of the area of the lake, and there is. Is it a good thing or a bad thing that I didn't get in my own house?

"What are you going me to do? At this time, the matter has been leaked, if I ask you to report again, the matter may immediately evolve like this, there was only one hectare of small pistol, and the report will become ten hectare of small pistol, will the entire Taiping Prefecture become the property of hundreds of your families? Or open up to a few of you and spread it out like that, how can this official win the trust of the people? ”

None of the officials could answer.

It is not possible, but inevitable, it is unlikely to change from one to ten, but it is impossible to change from one to two, and three to five, and there will be countless more.

One of the officials said, "What if someone has more mouths?" ”

Zheng Lang shook his head and said: "No, there will not be much even if you risk it, with the number of five people and six mouths, you will receive an extra twenty acres for yourself, if you risk it again, there will be few people, and the official will not allow you to resell the lease, so you can only plant a rough farming with a thin harvest, and you have to pay the corresponding more land taxes and bear the labor, and the gains outweigh the losses." Either there are many tenants in the main household, and the official of your original land is not very easy to ask, and if the newly cultivated polder is not cultivated, the official will have to take it back at that time, and the gain will outweigh the loss. ”

The principle is the same as his hypothetical temple view of occupying the land, not letting the common people rent their farmland, but letting the great monks work by themselves. As you like, as long as you are cultivating it yourself, it doesn't matter if you occupy a hundred hectares, but whether the great monk can cultivate a hundred hectares of land. If this root cause is cut off, no merger will occur, and at most it will occupy dozens of acres of land, grow a kind of grain, or plant some small garden vegetables, melons and fruits, and the harm will not be great.

A few of the officials looked at each other blankly.

Zheng Lang's tone softened, and he comforted: "Go and behave well, there is still a chance to make up for it." ”

Staring at the direction of Wuhu County on the map, a small official suddenly realized.

Zhao Tongju chuckled again.

This is the same as the user's labor division of the surname of the field, anyway, the polder will eventually be handed over to the people to cultivate, in another way, the people will mainly actively participate.

It is not possible to re-report the property, and compensation is not likely, but there are new ways to make up for it. Zheng Lang has already said that the stakes, the greater interest is in Wuhu County, in the future, this will inevitably become a giant port, now in addition to the Grid Courtyard, most places, except for some people under the Chicken Feather Mountain, from the Chicken Feather Mountain to the southeast Zhai Mountain, or to the north, are all vacuum areas. At present, the land is cheap, as long as you spend a little money and build some houses, it will become a good shop or an expensive house in the future. And why care about the loss of arable land?

With so many people knowing, can things still be kept secret? The main households with losses will also take the leap to make up for the "losses" from the county seat, and the resentment of dissatisfaction will disappear.

But from another point of view, this city will be built sooner or later, and it is impossible for peasants who are so poor that they can't even eat to come and buy land to build houses, repair shops, and do business, and it will fall into the hands of these main households. Why not do a favor in advance and send it away?

There are still some people who are dissatisfied, and the fields they conceal are too ruthless, and they may report one to two percent, and once the polders are demolished, where to go to court. But such people account for a minority, not many, not too many will not be able to make trouble, with a few people want to make trouble, the project will not be opened, once it is opened, the whole country will look sideways, and sentence them to death, but it is not enough to sentence them to exile in a bad way.

Grab one or two of them and deal with them, and the rest dare?

If all the main households are afraid of making trouble, the law will not blame the public, and the trouble will be great.

There is also a way, like the legendary Bao Qingtian to do, iron-faced selfless loyalty and annihilation, the decree I set must be implemented, if you violate the prince, you will be dealt with regardless of the prince and noble, and the morality is also there, I said it once, said it a few times, and reported five times, why do you have to hide it, there is a troublemaker and a troublemaker, and there are ten sentences and ten, even if the heart is uneven, you can only obediently obey.

Zheng Lang didn't want to do that, forcibly enforced the law, and his dissatisfaction was pressed in his heart, these people were very powerful in the local area, and they were always a hidden danger.

I am almost rebuilding the entire Taiping Prefecture, with this huge hidden danger, God knows if it will finally erupt?

The second map was put away, and a cadre of officials was still thinking about small calculations in their hearts, wanting political achievements and "dividends" at home, Zheng Lang had to cough, pull their thoughts back, and said: "Let's discuss these two first." ”

It was a matter of some details, as well as the last exploration, which sent a large number of people to check the terrain and finally determine the site of the polder.

Suddenly, a small official asked, "What will I do next year?" ”

The two Dawei that suddenly appeared will absorb tens of thousands of landless and landless and unemployed homeless people in the city, and stimulate the active surnames of the people by calculating the division of land according to household registration and labor. Next year, there will not be too many such people, and even some tenant farmers of the main households have no one to rent their fields for planting because of the large loss of people. By next year, the labor force in several Daxu will be very problematic.

Zheng Lang said: "Only two successes, I can ask the court for labor, how many landless people and displaced people will there be in the country?" This year, due to the disaster in the north, there is not much grain left in the state treasury, and all of them are transferred to the north. But by next year, there will be more than 1,000 hectares of fertile land, and there will be hundreds of thousands of stone of grain, which will be enough to feed more than 100,000 people. Will the problem be solved, whether the state will tax or buy and re-lend to the people who have migrated? ”

Not only to borrow grain, but also to borrow some money, the house can be on the spot, build a mud and straw shed, most poor people are such houses, but some daily necessities, as well as the simple wooden pillars, rafters, and beams needed to build a house, are necessary.

Where do the homeless people get their money?

But you can borrow, you can only lend, you must not give, otherwise the local people will feel unfair in their hearts, produce an unfair mentality, even if they do good things, in the end the people will not appreciate it, and even conflict with outsiders.

Thinking so carefully, what else can these officials say?

Can you not be meticulous, just start the work, once the construction starts, how many pairs of eyes will be staring at Taipingzhou!

After discussing for a while, they each walked out with mixed feelings, Zhao Tongju and Zheng Lang glanced at each other, and said, "Zheng Zhizhou, sail." ”

Before setting sail, the sail was officially slowly pulled up with a rope!

Zheng Lang looked at the blue sky outside and exhaled softly.

From the capital to the planning, to the Taiping Prefecture investigation, planning again, racking their brains for half a year, and finally a gorgeous drama is about to kick off!