The autumn wind is bleak, the grass grows and the warbler flies, and the last breath of summer disappears with a rainstorm.

It's the end of September, and the year has come to an end.

The temperature in the north is starting to get colder, and in the morning autumn frost and fog are coming, and the temperature is almost freezing.

And it's time for the corn to be harvested.

In order to make it convenient for farmers to pay taxes and sell rice after harvesting.

Liu Che ordered that the Yamen of the Inner History and the Yamen of the Shaofu take the lead, together with the generals of the five officials and the envoys of the guards of the northern and southern armies, assign competent officials, and according to the ratio of one to one of the yamen, go down to the grain collection points of each official warehouse of the Han Dynasty to supervise the storage and weighing of corn.

At the same time, the newly established embroidered clothes guard also poured out, and the whitewashed rangers secretly pretended to be grain farmers and went to various official warehouses to squat.

As a traverser, Liu Che is well aware of the bureaucrats' tricks.

At this time last year, Liu Che was just a prince, and he couldn't manage it if he wanted to.

Now, it doesn't work!

Qian|excellent|excellent|small|say|more|new|most|fast|www.uuxs.cc|The embankment was destroyed in the anthill, and the yeoman farmers and small landlord class were Liu Che's biggest source of wealth and soldiers, and the corrupt officials could not be brutalized.

However, this year's shape shì is very good.

The examination that has just passed has injected a new stream of fresh blood into the local grassroots political power.

It is unknown what the future will be for the young people who have just jumped out of the pile of old papers and are ready to show their ambitions, but at least for now, they are still very idealistic, very ambitious, and quite disciplined.

The news gathered in front of Liu Che from various channels shows that at least there are few problems in Guanzhong's grain collection and tax payment work this year.

The incidence of various incidents of pit farming has dropped to an almost all-time low.

Occasionally, a few officials who were bold enough to play tricks were also found out by all kinds of surveillance. and then thrown into the prison of Tingwei.

So, in the last days of September. Liu Che got the tax report cards of Guanzhong counties this year.

Unsurprisingly, the county governance on both sides of the Weishui River. This year's situation remains clear.

In the vast area east of Chang'an, where water conservancy facilities are developed, especially in the core area of the ancient Qin, the yield per mu generally reaches more than three stones, and in some places even reaches four or five stones.

However, in the barren and arid Kansai and Kanbei regions, where the land is strictly salinized, the situation is not optimistic.

In these places, the average yield per mu is only two stones, and even some farmers produce less than one stone of millet per mu.

Such a yield per acre. It really made it difficult for Liu Che to feel at ease.

You must know that at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period hundreds of years ago, at the beginning of the Warring States Period, when Li Kui was in charge of the Wei State, the yield per mu of the Wei State also reached the average level of one and a half stones......

"Tomorrow, the water conservancy construction in Guanzhong will be tilted towards poor areas!" Liu Che called Uncle Nei Shi Tian and Shaofu Ling Cen Mai to the front to discuss next year's water conservancy construction.

"The slope project should be stepped up to ......"

"No!" Shaofu Ling Cen Mai smiled bitterly and could only respond to orders.

Liu Che looked at the map of Guanzhong. The eyebrows are all twisted together.

There is no way, he has just ordered to encourage fertility and reward fertility.

In case the people had given birth to a child, but there would not be enough food to feed them. That would be a tragedy!

If the peasants have nothing to eat, they will definitely rebel!

And it's not just about being well-fed. You have to eat well!

Only well-nourished children can grow up to be the most reliable warriors and taxpayers of the Han family in the future.

You know. At present, almost three-thirds of the standing army of the Han family comes from Guanzhong.

Liu Che's palace guards and palace guards. There are as many as forty percent of the soldiers, who are from Guanzhong.

Therefore, Guanzhong is the most important and core basic plate of the Liu regime of the Han Dynasty.

It was with the support of the Guanzhong fathers and elders that Liu Bang was able to win the Chu-Han War, and it was also with the support of the Guanzhong fathers and elders that the princes and ministers could eliminate the Lu clan, or with the support of the Guanzhong people, Liu Che was able to sit firmly in this Weiyang Palace and give orders to the world.

However, the northern and southern areas of Guanzhong, because of history and geography, have always been less developed.

Not to mention anything else, it has been almost a year since the start of the slope project.

But it was still in the early stages of construction.

So far, the entire project has only completed less than one-tenth of the work volume.

With the current progress, it will take at least three or five years before it is possible to dig through the entire Baochuan Road and open up the traffic between Shu County and Guanzhong.

In this era when there are no high explosives, it is undoubtedly hellish to carve out a road and channel in the turbulent rivers and steep canyons with only your hands.

This matter is not in a hurry!

You must know that in the past year, the Baochuan Road project has swallowed the lives of dozens of people.

By the time it opens, it is estimated that it will consume at least ten times as many lives.

There's no way around it!

Not to mention the present, some key projects in later generations, even if they have all kinds of high-tech and all kinds of technical equipment, but in the end they still have to rely on human lives to fill in those dangerous areas.

In the Kanbei and Kansai regions, at least until the completion of the excavation of the Baochuan Road, they cannot count on the water resources from Shu County.

However, the local water resources are limited, and due to the geographical environment and historical conditions, the utilization rate is simply outrageous!

Liu Che looked at the map, stared for a long time, and finally made up his mind to strike hard to change the current situation of water resources in the Kansai and Kanbei regions.

"Fortunately, the ink masters of the ink garden have further improved the structure of the waterwheel...... Liu Che couldn't help but rejoice.

Moyuan's hydraulic forging technology has reached a critical juncture, which has brought great technological progress.

The new generation of waterwheels, Liu Che's visual measurements, should have reached the level of at least the Tang Dynasty.

Axles have been invented and used in waterwheels.

The invention of the axle solves the limitation that the waterwheel can only be used in places with abundant water resources and higher terrain.

Of course, the money thrown into this is as much as hundreds of thousands, and this is just the cost of materials......

Still, it's worth it.

"I will issue an edict and order dozens of ink masters in the Ink Garden, at least teach the craftsmen of the Shaofu to manufacture and assemble waterwheels......" Liu Che looked at Cen Mai and ordered: "Qing's task is to make it in October of the next year. As many craftsmen as possible can learn to build and assemble waterwheels, next year in November, December, New Year, February. In these four months, I will popularize waterwheels throughout Guanzhong. The focus is on the Kansai and Kanhoku regions! ”

"But......" Cen Mai raised his head and glanced at Liu Che cautiously, and asked: "Your Majesty, now a waterwheel, as far as the minister knows, costs tens of thousands of dollars at every turn, and the people may not be able to afford it......

"If His Majesty invests capital, the treasury and the treasury will also be under pressure......"

Liu Che nodded, this matter. He had already discussed it with his staff group, Prime Minister Zhou Yafu, and Imperial Doctor Chao Cuo.

Water wheels are expensive, and there is no way around it.

A water wheel, from manufacturing to installation, costs thousands of dollars just for manual labor!

This is still the standard of the craftsmen of Shaofu who do not pay at all, and only count their basic salary.

As for all kinds of spare parts, especially the high-tech precision parts such as axles, which are relatively expensive.

This kind of tall high-tech machinery is simply not something that ordinary peasants in this era can afford.

Only the big landowners and the bureaucratic class had that resources and wealth to install the waterwheel.

But the big landlords and the bureaucratic class. They themselves are cunzi who eat people and don't spit out bones, and they may make a show in the famine season, giving porridge and putting rice or something.

But I want them to pay for the mud legs to load the water wheel.

Do you think they are living Lei Feng?

Fear. If this waterwheel is to be loaded, they will only load it on the edge of their own fields, and they will send people to keep an eye on it. Mudlegs are not allowed to move their waterwheels.

Liu Che remembers clearly, when the little pig ruled in his previous life. The Yellow River embankment is in an emergency.

In order to protect the fields of his own feudal kingdom from being flooded, the prime minister at the time, Tian Wei, so. The Yellow River was diverted to the south, affecting the people of the 16 counties.

This is the first case recorded in the history of the Ming Dynasty that the Yellow River was broken for selfish gain.

Compared with the Kaishen Gong of later generations, he is really a saint!

Later, also for his own selfish interests, Tian Wei sprinkled and rolled in various ways to prevent the Han court from blocking the mouth, which actually caused the Yellow River to flood for 20 years!

It wasn't until later that the little pig inspected the world and saw the tragic situation of the people near the gourd's mouth, and couldn't help but feel sad from his heart, and ordered the accompanying guards and the army to devote themselves to the plugging work.

Through this story, Liu Che knew that the landlords and bureaucrats would always enjoy themselves and would not care about the lives and deaths of others.

The so-called Zhumen wine and meat stinky road has frozen bones, and it didn't just happen in front of Du Fu in the Tang Dynasty?

Similar stories have never been uncommon in all dynasties.

At Liu Che's own expense, the government organized the laying of waterwheels for the people along the Wei River and along its tributaries.

Liu Che's small coffers could barely afford the expenses.

But it will not be able to support such a large-scale investment in the long term.

What's more, with such generous benefits in Guanzhong, will Kanto be jealous?

Originally, the welfare of the Guanzhong people was more than one layer higher than that of the Kanto region, and if they played such a game again, the Kanto people would definitely make trouble when they saw it.

This world does not suffer from few, but from inequality!

When the time comes, if there is a disturbance in the Kanto, I am afraid that Liu Che will face the situation of the separation of the Kanto counties and states.

Pay for one's whistle!

Therefore, this matter really has to make a fuss about the landlords and the bureaucratic class, and we have to find a way to get these iron roosters to pay for it.

But how do you make these iron roosters generous?

What morality, ethics, and propaganda and other actions can be dispensed with!

In his previous life, in order to raise military expenses, what good things didn't he say? It's almost like a mouthful, but few of the local tyrants, landlords, big businessmen, and powerful bureaucrats across the country pay for it.

In the end, the little pig was forced to be anxious, so he simply flipped the table, made a confession and a bargain, and solved the problem with a knife.

Fortunately, as a traverser, Liu Che still remembers some measures from his previous life.

"If you install a water wheel, you can get a tax refund!" Liu Che looked at Cen Mai and said: "At the beginning of the next year, I will edict the world that anyone who has purchased waterwheels, cattle, horses, and animal power can be taxed annually, and they can be exempted from forced labor!" ”

In later generations, in order to encourage their own agriculture, Western developed countries often gave farmers tax rebates.

For example, a certain percentage of the tax refund is the amount of investment.

Of course, it is certainly not real money that is returned, but it has become seeds, farm tools, production tools and other things.

Now, Liu Che wants to play this tax refund, but he actually doesn't have any bargaining chips.

Fortunately, the ink master of the ink garden made soil fertilizer.

At present, the output of soil fertilizer is limited by technology and raw materials, and the output is very small.

Scarcity is expensive, and the price is naturally high.

Liu Che is also not a good man, and will sell fertilizer at a low price when production is still low – which will not help the farmers at the bottom, but will harm them.

You think, the production of chemical fertilizer is too small to supply the majority of the population, so that if it is sold at a low price, the bureaucracy and the landlord class will be rich.

They can take advantage of their own resources and position to monopolize the supply of chemical fertilizers, and then sell them to farmers at a high price to make huge profits, or even black-heartedly, and give them to farmers at all.

In this way, the bureaucratic landlords, who have a monopoly on fertilizers, will become richer and richer.

The peasants in general, as well as the small landlords, will become poorer and poorer.

What's more troublesome is that because of the storage of chemical fertilizers, this gap will get bigger and bigger.

After the bureaucratic landlord class tasted the benefits of doing so......

Liu Che felt that they were likely to use all means to stop the progress and spread of fertilizer technology......

By that time......

Therefore, in this early stage, at least until soil fertilizers can be manufactured and produced on a large scale, the price must remain high.

Use the high profits of chemical fertilizers to continue to promote the progress and development of technology, and make upfront capital accumulation for large-scale production in the future.

After discovering the problems in Kansai and Kanbei, Liu Che changed his mind and simply tied the supply of fertilizer to the tax rebate - only those who have a tax rebate quota can use the tax rebate to buy a relative amount of fertilizer.

Anyway, with such a big demonstration signboard as Shanglin Yuan, Liu Che is not afraid that the landlords and bureaucrats will not buy it!

But Cen Mai is not clear about these, at present, the details of this matter and the system are still being formulated and discussed, even if there are no more than ten people who know that Liu Che plans to implement the tax refund policy.

Therefore, Cen Mai couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty, what is a tax refund?" ”

Liu Che laughed and said: "This matter, for the time being, is still an idea, I will only come out after discussing it with the Prime Minister, the Imperial Doctor and the Empress Dowager, and I will naturally know the details of the situation!" ”

Even if it is to be figured out, this system must be constantly revised and improved to meet the needs of the times and the current situation of society.

Even, in the implementation process, there will definitely be many bumps and bumps, and even tearing things.

Liu Che expected all this.

Liu Che looked at Uncle Tian and said: "This matter, at that time, Tian Gong will also need to escort him, and the internal history yamen will be heavy, Tian Gong must be ready to cooperate with the Shaofu Yamen, and if necessary, I will order the five officials Zhonglang to cooperate with the Tingwei Yamen!" ”

When Uncle Tian heard this, his heart trembled.

Will the middle man of the facial features?

Tingwei Yamen?

Do you want to kill someone?

Although he was puzzled in his heart, as a veteran, Uncle Tian knew the measure, he nodded and said: "Your Majesty put it down, the old minister just gave up this old bone, and he will definitely cooperate!" ”

Although Liu Che didn't want to kill people, he knew that if he wasn't ready to kill people in this kind of thing, he wouldn't want to succeed!

When the time comes, if you don't cut off a few heads and destroy a few families, those powerful and landlords and bureaucrats will not know how powerful!

In China, it has always been like this.

Any reform and new deal, without killing people, without killing people, will not be successful!

Shang Jun changed the law, took the crown prince and the old nobles, and all the opponents killed became supporters of the new policy, so that the Shang Yang reform could succeed.

The reason why Wang Anshi's reform failed was that he didn't kill anyone. (To be continued......) R1292