Chapter 363： Reclamation order

October 14th.

Dahua's first large-scale decree after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the reclamation order was issued.

Now the harvest of autumn rice has been basically completed, and the spring planting from now to next year is the longest holiday for the people.

Reclamation of wasteland basically can only rely on this period of time. When other farmers are busy, there is no condition for reclaiming land.

The area of ​​arable land in China today is much smaller than that of later generations, and there is a large amount of land that can be cultivated.

However, it is not easy to cultivate these wastelands, and it is definitely not possible to rely solely on the strength of the people.

After all, the fields that have not been cultivated are mostly because there is no water source.

Irrigation is the biggest problem in farming.

If you want to cultivate fertile fields, you must first build water conservancy projects and dig ditches to allow water to flow into those fields.

Rice planting is absolutely impossible without water. It is not cost-effective to rely on people to carry water for irrigation.

Therefore, in ancient times, there was obviously a large area of ​​wasteland, but the people who had no land seldom went to reclaim it because the cost of reclaiming was very high.

Now Wu Changqing has issued a reclamation order, which promises that the government will be responsible for the tools and costs for the construction of the ditch.

It only takes a little effort.

At the same time, farm tools for reclaiming the land are also distributed free of charge by the government.

Without iron farm tools, reclaiming land can exhaust people.

After all, the wasteland is harder and more weed than the often cultivated land.

The government decree stipulates that the ownership of land reclaimed belongs to the court, but the right to use it belongs to the reclaimer permanently.

What does that mean?

In other words, unless the imperial court wants to build roads, build urban areas, and mine ore, it will not be able to recover those lands. Those lands are for permanent use by the reclaimers, and there is no tax.

However, when the imperial court had to build roads to occupy farmland, the people had to hand it over unconditionally, and the government would give a sum of money to compensate.

Wu Changqing is to guard against the shortcomings of private land ownership. If the private ownership of the land is admitted, and an airport or a railway is to be built in a certain place in the future, those unsophisticated people would dare to ask for tens of thousands of taels of silver per acre, otherwise they would not sell it.

Or, with the encouragement of someone with a heart, deliberately go against the government.

At that time, the court would either slap itself in the face and break the laws it made. Either they will be disgusted by these spoilers, and build the railway in another place, which will increase the huge construction cost.

There is no such thing in the current era.

But as a later generation, Wu Changqing had seen a lot, so he had to take precautions.

After all, there are many bad people who are officials, and there are many people with low consciousness. People are all selfish.

Even if the private ownership of the land is not recognized, the reclamation order issued by Wu Changqing is an incomparable preferential treatment for the people.

Perpetual use right, without paying taxes, the people couldn't even think of it before this was changed.

Although the land reclaimed by the common people belonged to themselves, they had to pay high taxes. The amount of grain earned after tax is insignificant compared to the cost of reclamation.

Therefore, the people who had no land in the past were willing to go to the landlord’s manor as tenant farmers, and were unwilling to reclaim their own land.

When Wu Changqing discussed with several cabinet ministers, several ministers disagreed. They felt that this was too favorable for the people. Taxes could be exempted for a few years, but there was no need for permanent free.

In this regard, Wu Changqing patiently explained to them the art of tax collection.

The most stupid way to collect taxes is to directly ask the people for food.

The people are naturally unhappy in their hearts that the food they have grown fortunately needs to be handed in.

A slightly more sophisticated way of collecting taxes is to increase the price of some necessities of life.

Raise the price of salt, raise the price of rice milling, raise the price of red brick and cement used to build houses, and then charge merchants’ taxes.

In this way, the merchants will earn some profits, and the royal taxes will not be low.

Although the people no longer have to pay food, they are paying intangible taxes and fees when buying necessities.

In this model, only very smart people can understand that this is a ghost of the court. Ordinary people will only curse a profiteer at those merchants and transfer their anger from the court to the merchants.

This is of great benefit to governance.

Of course, there are more clever ways to collect taxes.

For example, printing money.

After the introduction of paper money, the court can print more banknotes according to the wealth of the society, so that no taxes are collected and the court has money.

As for the common people, it seems that they have never paid taxes, but as more and more currencies are on the market, the currency is forced to depreciate, which in essence is equivalent to paying taxes.

This way of collecting taxes is even more difficult for the people to notice.

Of course, this method requires good control. If too much currency is issued, leading to too serious inflation, then the credit of this paper currency will collapse.

The latter two tax collection methods are only logically feasible, and they are likely to cause some problems in practice.

For example, if the price of salt rises, some people will control themselves to eat less salt, which will have an impact on their health.

For example, when printing and issuing banknotes, some people will not lose money if they buy something early, while those who keep saving money will suffer a big loss, which will cause inequality.

Therefore, those methods just make sense logically, and further refinement and improvement are needed in the specific implementation.

This refinement and improvement work is a cumbersome and huge project, and Wu Changqing is naturally handed over to the ministers below to solve it. Otherwise, what is the use of these ministers.

As an emperor, Wu Changqing was able to point them in the right direction, which is already rare.

You should know that most emperors of all dynasties and generations are actually just a stamp, and basically can't make any constructive decisions. They all waited for the minister to study the policy, and then the emperor stamped it with a jade seal.

As long as the emperor doesn't miss a few stamps, he is considered a qualified emperor in the eyes of ministers.

The emperors who can make some major decisions and put forward some constructive opinions are all excellent emperors.

For example, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Di, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and so on.

An emperor like Wu Changqing who can directly point the minister in the right direction is unique in history.

Because no emperor has as much knowledge as Wu Changqing.

In the 21st century, the amount of information received in a day is greater than the amount of information received in a year by the ancients.

In terms of insight, Wu Changqing is better than the entire cabinet combined.

This is also where the ministers admire and awe Wu Changqing.

Even though Wu Changqing was only seventeen years old, none of the ministers below thought he was smarter or more knowledgeable than Wu Changqing.

If an improper emperor like Wu Changqing is not capable of crushing everyone, how could other people surrender willingly.

When the emperor is so cool, which man doesn't want to. The reason why they didn't rebel was just because they knew that they didn't have any ability.

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