Chapter 533

Qin Huan stayed in Jingzhou for half a month before continuing his journey to Wuchang. In the past half a month, he not only inspected the education situation, but also learned about the lives of people everywhere, the popularization of legal concepts, and the relationship between people and gentry.

On the whole, the educational propaganda of the heads of towns and townships was good. The gentry everywhere clamped their tails very tightly and focused their energy on business and competition.

The price is low, which is undoubtedly countless times better than before. Otherwise, it is impossible to afford pen, ink, paper and inkstone for children. However, in some mountainous areas with less land, it is still necessary to mix coarse and fine grains to fill their stomachs, and it is common to dig wild vegetables.

If crops such as corn and sweet potatoes had not been popularized, it is estimated that many people would still be unable to fill their stomachs. There is a big difference between not starving and filling their stomachs.

A fist sized Coarse Grain steamed bread a day, a person can live, but you have to eat at least ten, or even twenty, and some with a big appetite need thirty.

Qin Yu didn't know until he saw the appetites of those big men. What he thought before was too simple. He wanted to make the people all over the world eat fine grain and have enough. It seems that he still has a long way to go.

According to his previous standard, even if they are not hungry at most, the people of Daqin may have to continue to eat coarse grain for a long time.

So Qin Huan decided to speed up the promotion of sweet potatoes, corn and other crops. After all, these things are much better than rice bran and wheat bran. They are also convenient for raising poultry.

Otherwise, the income from farming and hunting alone is really limited. In addition to the necessities of life, we simply can't afford to buy other things. In this way, the economy is a backwater.

Although Qin Huan knew that this prosperity and calm was only superficial, the gentry, landlords and businessmen did not accept their orders, but all dormant. Once the wives of various towns were transferred, in a few years, the people would definitely be manipulated by them again.

Only when the teenagers in the school graduate and grow up can they really be able to compete with the gentry.

However, these ladies had stayed in these remote places for three or four years, and Qin Huan could not bear to let them stay any longer. They would be transferred back to the capital for a blind date in six months at most, and then settled properly. Therefore, we must completely cut off the relationship between the people and the gentry.

Private lending no longer exists, so the only link between the two sides is land.

Nominally, the people still rent the landlord's land, but the rent became silver, and the wives agreed to give it to the landlord.

So when he returned to Wuchang, Qin Yu was prepared to take the whole Hubei as an experimental field, further deepening his new policy reform, including new education system, registered residence system, land system, and related administrative, law enforcement system, and supervision, reserve system.

The first is to carry out education for all in Hubei Province. Each county sends a wife as the director of education, which is directly managed by the Education Department of the interior government, and 50000 girls are transferred from ladies' colleges around the country as teachers.

As for education in the south of the Yangtze River, we can only think of ways from the south of the Yangtze River. In fact, there are still many young ladies in the waiting girls in the south of the Yangtze River. After a little training, they teach in their own county. In addition, older teenagers teach separately. I believe that gentry and landlords everywhere should be able to accept it.

Qin Huan thought about the southwest minority areas and the future grassland departments, and decided to send those who were originally to be exiled to these areas.

These people are all based on their families. They are still under house arrest in houses all over the south of the Yangtze River. When these people arrive in these places, men can do business, and women are responsible for teaching local children to learn Chinese. I believe these diehards should not refuse after so long house arrest.

The registered residence system is very simple. Everyone is a citizen. Abolishing all sales contracts, nominal servants, and landlords are all employment relations.

As for whether or not to pay, how much, and whether they will be beaten, scolded and molested by their masters, these can not be controlled for the time being. Now they can only ensure the safety of the servants and their freedom to come and go.

In addition, boys and girls under the age of 14 must be handed over and sent to school. As long as they read books, he believes that no one is willing to be a servant to others after graduation.

Then there is the land policy. All land is divided into two types and five grades. One is that public land is owned by the state and the other is that private land is owned by the people.

Although the public land is distributed to the people for cultivation, the people have no right to buy and sell it privately, but they have the right to manage it and can only recover it after death.

Private fields can be disposed of at will, planted by themselves or rented to others, and no one will manage them. However, a family can only own 100 mu of private fields at most, regardless of grade. The extra fields must be sold to the imperial court and become public fields.

According to the land grade, the imperial court gave a price ranging from 12 to 52 per mu, which was paid in ten years.

In order to prevent those landlords from opening their accounts and occupy private land, they also made explicit provisions in registered residence. Only married men can open their own accounts. All householders must be men. If the husband dies, the son inherits the registered residence. If there is no son, he will find someone to remarry or the family will turn back to the mother's family.

In the future, when people rent public land, they must take households as units and distribute the land according to the adult men and women of each household. Seven aspects have also been adjusted. In addition to filial piety and infidelity, the other five aspects have been abolished.

In other words, if you want to divorce your wife in the future, you can't divorce your wife unless she betrays her husband or is unfilial to her in laws. There's no reason.

Concubine room doesn't have this kind of treatment. She can rest at will. Moreover, if she has no children, she has no right to inherit the family property. Of course, concubine room can also choose to leave another house.

The tax revenue of public land is similar to that of private land. If each household of public land exceeds 10 mu, the extra income shall be paid by 10% per year according to different grades, and there is no need to pay tax below 10 mu.

No tax is required for each household with less than 10 mu of private land. For more than 10 mu, 10% of the income shall be paid every year according to different levels.

All the land is divided into five grades. The annual harvest is cut across the board and fixed. The worst one or two silver and the best five or two silver are convenient to calculate how much silver to pay each year.

In fact, such a land policy is to encourage everyone to divide households as much as possible under the provisions, and most of those areas with poor land do not need to pay taxes.

It's not that Qin Huan didn't want to nationalize all the land, but it's too radical. I'm afraid the landlord will work hard. Now the world is stable, there's no need to kill.

Second, it is the soldiers who have made meritorious contributions, and the land should also be rewarded. If the rewarded land is directly counted as public land, what is the difference between them and the people?

Therefore, each household has up to 100 mu of private land, which can be rewarded to those meritorious soldiers. It can also avoid serious land annexation. 100 mu of land can be cultivated by itself.

If the current business tax could not bear the huge expenses, Qin Huan wanted to completely exempt the land tax.

Facts have proved that as long as the output of land is not concentrated in the hands of a small number of people, it is better not to collect taxes than to collect taxes. The revenue of the imperial court will only be more or less, and it can be made up in business.