Chapter 1200： Not bad money

In fact, Marin ’s implementation of the “removal of poll tax” and “divided into acres” on Dongfan Island is only a pilot project. His real purpose is to implement such a policy in the North Sea country. After all, nobles do n’t pay taxes on their fields, and even ordinary landowners do n’t have to pay taxes, making Marin very depressed.

Why can't Europe fight a big battle? Because the king cannot receive taxes! The king's income is only territorial gains and business taxes, and the rest are not. In this way, it would be strange for European kings to be rich. Without sufficient money and food, it is natural that we cannot support a large-scale army. Then, naturally, large-scale wars cannot be fought. Even, not to mention the fact that they can't afford a large army, even if it's daily expenses, it's a bit of a catch. In this era, most large aristocrats have to find loans to maintain.

Therefore, Marin decided to promote the land taxation system in the colony in the future, and to promote it as soon as possible. In other words, Marin planned to promote the land taxation system in the colony from the beginning. Because if it is not promoted now, it is estimated that it will be rebelled when the tax is suddenly raised in the future.

Historically, the North American colonies rebelled because Britain suddenly raised taxes. However, in the eyes of modern people, the stamp duty and tea tax increased by the British are not harsh taxes and don't make people lose their lives.

However, the descendants of exiles in North American colonies are used to not paying taxes or paying less taxes. Suddenly give him a stamp duty and tea tax, they are not happy. Plus they have guns in their hands.

Therefore, the old and beautiful independence movements advocated in the history books are not for the purpose of being too just, but because these gangs are used to the good days of low taxes, and suddenly increase him taxes, even if it is a good tax, let them Unbearable. After all, "it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to extravagance". If you pay less taxes for a long time, you mistakenly think you should not pay taxes or pay less taxes. If the tax rates of later generations were obtained in that era, wouldn't it be enough to scare those people? In short, everything is used to ...

Because there were lessons from the British, Marin decided to tax them from the beginning, so that people in the colonies would be used to paying taxes. In this way, it is possible to fully avoid future changes caused by tax increases. Since all taxes are paid in the beginning, who can talk about taxation in the future-since everyone pays taxes, why would you not pay it? Do you think you are Fan Bingbing?

Moreover, the development of Marin in the American colony is now his personal investment, and no one else has participated. However, the Americas are so big that others will always be involved in the future.

Therefore, Marin needs to make a model in advance and formulate a tax system. In this way, disputes can be avoided as much as possible in the future. The system of "dividing into acres" and "removing the head tax" on Dongfan Island is actually an exploration of the management of the American colonies.

The Ming Dynasty is different from Europe. Europe is still a serf system, not to mention land tax. On the other hand, Dongpan Island belongs to the Ming Dynasty in name, and naturally it cannot apply the European serfdom. Therefore, Marin also went into the village to follow the custom, and engaged in the management mode of average land and taxation.

Moreover, in the future, European and American colonies will eventually abandon the backward serf system and change to private farmland and taxation systems.

Therefore, the taxation system implemented in Dongfan Island is regarded as an attempt and exploration by Marin. When this set is mature, apply it directly to the American colonies. In the future, it will be applied to the European mainland, and finally complete social transformation ...

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In fact, Yongzheng, who came up with the idea of ​​"dividing the land into acres" and "removing the head tax" is also unlucky. He was obviously the most promising Ming monarch in the civil affairs of the Qing dynasty, but he was blacked out by the officials. The most important thing is that his son Qianlong actually let the literary officials black him. The unfilial son of Qianlong, as long as the literary officials praised him as "the ancient Mingjun", as for the civil servants who black his father, he opened his eyes and closed his eyes. As long as I knew this, Yong Zheng should shoot Qianlong's unfilial son on the wall ...

Sometimes, Marin has to wonder whether the section of "Qianlong is a child brought by Yongzheng" written by Jin Yong is true, because this bear child does not maintain his father's reputation at all, it looks very different. biological……

In fact, this argument was not put forward by Jin Yongxian, but a folk legend. After all, it is too rare for an emperor to let his minister black his father, and one has to wonder whether Qianlong was born by Yongzheng. Otherwise, how could no other emperor have such a legend? In short, either Qianlong is not filial, or he is really not Yongzheng's own biological, otherwise he is not so ridiculous ...

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The Taipei Basin has been beaten down, but it is very troublesome to develop the Taipei Basin. Not to mention, the dense forest in the Taipei Basin is very difficult to solve. It is really not an easy task to change the Taipei Basin from virgin forest to Liangtian.

First of all, just like the development of North America, Marin needed a lot of manual logging to cut down most of the trees in the Taipei Basin and convert it to farmland. Among them, the most difficult thing is not to cut down the big tree, but to dig the root. After all, the taller the tree, the more the roots are intertwined. It is very troublesome to dig up the roots of the tree.

Fortunately, Marin conquered the Taipei Basin this time and captured more than 6,000 indigenous people. Among them, there are about 1800 people alone. So, after ordering a large number of shackles from Fuzhou, Marin handcuffed these young indigenous people, and then let those militiamen **** them to cut down trees and dig up roots. And at night, these indigenous young people will also be temporarily locked in the temporarily rammed earth wall courtyard ...

In fact, Marin is also reluctant to abuse these aborigines. Therefore, apart from shackled shackles and urged them to log and dig roots, Marin did not abuse any of the young indigenous people. Moreover, Marin also bought a lot of food from Fuzhou for the aborigines.

The reason why they were handcuffed at the beginning was because these aborigines were accustomed to freedom and wanted to manage them. At first, they had to be cruel and beat them up. Then, like Laogai, let these aboriginal Zhuang Ding help cut down trees for several months and reclaim the land as cultivated land ... When they get used to this kind of life, Marin will assign them to the officials and the island The soldiers, as tenants, helped cultivate the land.

The Taipei Basin is 240 square kilometers, and even if only 100 square kilometers is cultivated, there are 150,000 mu. According to the calculation that each household takes care of up to 50 acres of paddy field, it can also house 3,000 households and tens of thousands of people. If it is calculated according to the scale of a 20 mu paddy field per household, 7,500 households with a population of 20,000 or 30,000 can even be resettled.

Of course, this is only calculated based on less than half of the land in the basin, not counting the resettlement of the craftsmen and fishermen.

Moreover, the Taipei Basin on Taiwan Island is not the largest plain area. The largest plain area on the island is the Tainan Plain (also known as the Jianan Plain) in Tainan. The Tainan Plain has 4,500 square kilometers and rivers and creeks.

In later generations, the area of ​​cultivated land in the Tainan Plain is as high as 3,250 square kilometers, equivalent to 4.875 million mu of land, accounting for more than one-third of the entire cultivated land of Taiwan Island. It is the most important agricultural area on Taiwan Island.

However, for now, the most important thing about Marin is not to develop Tainan, but to develop the area around Taipei and Keelung.

Because Marin occupied Taiwan, not for farming, but for trade. The Tamsui River estuary in the north of the Taipei Basin, facing Fuzhou, is the main point of maritime trade. Therefore, Taipei is more important than Tainan.

Moreover, in Keelung on the edge of Taipei, there is also a world-class Jinguashi gold mine that can be developed. The combination of the two is much more important than planting land in the Tainan Plain. Therefore, the development of Taipei and Keelung is the best choice for Marin. As for the Tainan side, people will not be sent until the development here is almost complete.

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However, it is difficult to develop the small Taipei Basin with a small area. There is no shortage of manpower to develop the basin. After all, Marin has thousands of immigrants, as well as thousands of captured aborigines.

But besides the trouble of cutting trees and roots, the shortage of cattle is also a huge problem.

Zhang Cai told Marin that the merchant ship sent to Fuzhou had no problem purchasing other things, but it was difficult to buy cattle. Because, the Ming Dynasty is also very short of cattle ...

Daming cattle is not expensive, as long as 8 to 10 silver can be bought. However, if everything is fine, no one is willing to sell cattle. Because, in the era of farming, cattle farming is one of the most valuable assets of farmers, second only to land.

Therefore, less than a last resort, no one sells cattle. Zhang Cai all bid in Fuzhou to the sky-high price of 20 two silver apiece ~ www.novelhall.com ~ only bought 100 cattle back. Moreover, among these 100 cattle, there are 30 calves that have not grown up ...

"I heard that Hu Jianjin over the Yijiang River, in order to solve the problem of cattle shortage, specially cultivated a dwarf horse to replace the cattle arable land ..." Zhang Cai told the news to Marin.

"Jin Yijiang ... Dwarf horse ... Cultivated land ... Isn't that Jinyi Jiang horse?" Marin suddenly remembered, it seems that later generations of Jinyi Jiang horse are also a famous horse. Of course, its fame is not because of how well this horse can run, but because it can adapt well to the humid and hot climate of the southern coast. Hard-working and hard-working, and is a rare breed of horses that can be cultivated in paddy fields.

Be aware that it is difficult for general horse farming to adapt to paddy field farming. Because, in paddy fields, horseshoes are often soaked in water, and rotten hoofs easily. In general, horses can't adapt to paddy fields, but Jinyi Jiang horse can adapt to this, and the ability to pull carts is also good.

So, after thinking about it, Marin said to Zhang Caidao:

"Since the cattle can't be bought, you can inquire and see if there are any horses that can cultivate the paddy fields. For example, the Jinyijiang horse you mentioned, you can buy more, and the price is higher. Remember , We don't lose money! "Marin Niubi said coquettishly, and he threw a win in the air ...