Chapter 1080 (1/2)

In the eighth year of Jingming, it was midsummer.

The war in the south is in full swing.

The leader of the Zhou army drove straight in and took 50 cities in one breath.

Yang Ji's reputation, for a time, has no two, no one can match.

In order to cooperate with the overseas development plan, under the strong implementation of the emperor and the queen, the Court promulgated a series of land trading systems.

In the past, land was bought and sold at will as long as there was money and power.

That is to say, land annexation.

The court almost had no effective means to prevent it.

More than 90% of the incidents that forced good people into slaves, prostitutes and people's lives were rooted in the land.

For example, during the natural disasters, the rich raised grain prices, suppressed land prices, and engaged in food starvation marketing.

Although they did not understand the hunger marketing theory, they did not prevent the local elite from taking such measures.

Moreover, natural disasters are usually accompanied by epidemics.

On the one hand, there is no harvest in the fields, and on the other hand, there are all kinds of diseases. In case of paying taxes to complete the corvee, its tragic degree is a living tragedy.

As a result, the rich become rich and the rich become poor, and the poor can only sell their children and women.

As long as the natural disaster lasts more than half a year, the land should be sold after the children are sold out.

And the price is extremely low.

Local rich people will take advantage of this opportunity to purchase land. A village, a pavilion, a town or even a county, most of the land is in the hands of a family.

The rich are always strong, and the small people are bankrupt.

The small people who are bankrupt are better tenants. They farm for the big families and seek a living.

The next time, he sold himself as a slave or fled from the wilderness to become a refugee.

As long as they don't go back to their places of residence, the government can't collect taxes and corvee from them. That's why so many people choose to flee the wilderness.

As for selling one's body, it's not that you want to sell and someone will buy it.

Big families buy people, usually only buy children. After a few years of training, they can work and be loyal.

Boys and girls can do it. You can buy it and use it.

Old people, such as men and women in their 30s and 40s, no big family will want them.

Even if you don't want money and just ask for a bowl of rice to eat and work for nothing, the rich families are not willing to ask for it.

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There is also a common situation that does not have to wait for natural disasters.

Natural disasters don't happen every year.

But every year there is a need to buy land.

At the beginning of their prosperity, they usually bought dozens of acres of land here and a few hectares of land there.

The more you buy, the more you buy, the more you buy.

At this time, the rich wanted to connect the land under their names.

Think about that scene, a guest came, pointed to a large piece of land and said, ”all the land here is mine.”

Listen, how heroic.

Blocking the land of other people's homes in the middle of each piece of land is particularly eye-catching.

What to do?

Buy it!

But no one wants to sell.

The family is not so hard to eat that most people will not sell land.

Even if there are difficulties, we will think of other ways first. As a last resort, no one will easily sell their land.

The land saved by our ancestors has been carefully tending the land for decades. It is hard to turn the thin field into a fertile one. Why should I sell it if you want to buy it.

At this time, one wants to buy, the other does not want to sell, and conflicts arise.

What to do?

The hooligans raised by the rich are useful.

All kinds of private means were used together, forcing people to sell land.

This kind of forced buying and selling has been performed every day for thousands of years.

Hatred, poverty, clan conflicts, all kinds of natural and man-made disasters are rooted in the land.

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In the eighth year of Jingming, the new land system, which the emperor and empress had been brewing for many years, broke through many difficulties. After compromise, the terms were supplemented and revised, and finally came out.

From the beginning of August in the eighth year of Jingming, no matter who was a farmer or a businessman, there was no more than 100 mu of land under each person's name.

Under the servant's name, a man can only have ten acres of land.

Within this standard, ten taxes and one tax.

In the past, as long as an individual does not have more than 100 mu of land, he can enjoy this tax rate.

If it exceeds the number of mu, it will be taxed 10% and 5% within one time.

If it is more than doubled, the tax rate will increase.

For example, a good citizen has 120 mu of land under his name. Among them, 100 mu, 10 taxes and 1.

The extra 20 mu will be taxed five times. If you harvest 100 Jin of wheat, you have to pay 50 Jin grain tax.

Scholars have other regulations.

The upper limit of the land under his name is 150 mu, two of them are Meng.

In other words, in addition to the scholar himself, there are three people in the family who can enjoy the benefits of owning 150 mu of land and 10 taxes and 1.The number of Jinshi increased gradually.

As an official, for example, Lord Lu, who is the leader of the hundred officials, can own up to 25 hectares of land under his name, with one tax per ten and twenty-five people sprouting.

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With the promulgation of the land law, there was a new slave law.