"Sir, did the common people hear correctly? The fields are divided according to the number of people on the household stickers. Doesn't that mean that women...women can also be divided into fields?"

After hearing the policy of land allocation reiterated by the prefect Liu Kong, the "New Chinese" who had just received household stickers suddenly showed expressions of disbelief. You must know that allocating land to women was in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty.

Something that has never happened before.

"Haha, you heard me right! As long as they reach adulthood, both men and women can get a share of the land!"

In front of these new Chinese people who had doubts and hopes on their faces, Liu Kongdang nodded firmly.

"Of course, although these fields have been allocated to you for farming, they are still government land. You cannot buy or sell them. As the family's population increases or decreases, the government will re-grant the land. However, the prince has ordered that this government land should be treated as private land.

Just pay the land tax, there is no need to pay additional land rent..."

After giving the answer that both men and women in the new country could receive land, Liu Kongdang then carefully explained to these people the detailed rules of the land distribution.

In fact, after deciding to allocate land to these freed slaves, Wang Bing also argued with the ministers of the Crown Prince's Palace for a long time about whether to allocate land to women.

After all, since the Tang Dynasty, women have not been granted land. Even at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, in order to restore production, each household was granted a lot of land, but there was no precedent for granting land to women.

What's more, the four prefectures on this peninsula only have a small amount of land in total. Even if we open up wasteland, it won't add much land. However, the population will continue to increase, and as time goes by, there will be no more land to grant.

However, in the final outcome of the debate, Wang Bing naturally won. As for the problem raised by many that the population will increase, but the land will not increase significantly, Wang Bing's solution is the state ownership of land, that is, the official land system.

However, the official land system proposed by Wang Bing is still very different from the official land system commonly implemented in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty.

Ordinary official land is to rent out the land and recruit people to cultivate it. The person who rents the land first pays a certain amount of grain to the local government where the land is rented every year, which is the land rent; and then pays taxes and grain to the court, which is the land tax. Under double taxation

, the burden on those who rent seeds is very heavy.

However, the official land system proposed by Wang Bing does not require land rent to be paid to the local government. Instead, it is like ordinary civilian land and only needs to pay land tax to the court. In this way, in addition to being unable to buy and sell, the official land and

There is no difference between people and fields.

To put it simply, the imperial court skipped the ‘middleman’ of the local government and came to ‘factory direct sales’.

However, in view of the actual situation that the number of fields in the four prefectures of the peninsula is indeed small, Wang Bing still made some changes. For example, the number of farmland granted at the beginning was four acres per capita. Now because of the reason that the land is granted to both men and women,

But it was changed to two and a half acres per person.

In this way, when the number of acres of land was limited, it not only ensured the loyalty of these people to the court, but also allowed the government to have a certain amount of spare land. In addition, the policy of granting land to each household increased or decreased with the increase or decrease of the population, in

For a long time, there was no need to worry about the situation of having no land to farm.

Of course, these remaining fields will not be abandoned, but will be 'rented' out again. Naturally, the rented out fields are no different from ordinary official fields, and they also need to pay additional land rent.

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However, based on the previous "land grant", this additional "official land" rented out will not increase the burden of these people, but will actually increase their income.

"The common people are waiting to thank His Highness the Crown Prince for his grace. May the Crown Prince live a thousand years!"

"Prince Chitose!"

After listening to Liu Kongdang's explanation and understanding the benefits of this, the whole square in front of the government office suddenly sounded like bursts of "thousand-year-old" sounds.

At this point, with the support of these "new citizens" who accounted for 80% of the population of the entire peninsula, Ming Dynasty had firmly grasped this newly attached land. As for the remaining two people, under the general trend, even if they had any intentions,

I can't afford any waste.

"Taifu, I really didn't expect that it would be so easy for the imperial court to win over the people of the four prefectures on the peninsula. No wonder Taifu said earlier that immigrants are not required to come to these four prefectures, haha!"

Seeing the cheering new citizens of the four prefectures outside the government square, His Royal Highness Zhu Changluo was completely relieved.

'Is it easy? Haha!'

Looking at Zhu Changluo who looked delighted, Wang Bing couldn't help but shook his head inwardly.

You know, it seems that it was just a simple method of freeing slaves and dividing land, which firmly controlled the four prefectures of the peninsula in the hands of the imperial court, but the 'preparatory work' behind it was not that simple.

In order to see the scene before him, Wang Bing first used the help of the Japanese to force Li Xin to join him, and then made these four prefectures go through "military control" for almost two years before these people got used to the Ming Dynasty's presence here.

In the end, under the pretext of cleaning up the "Japanese", they used an almost bloodbath to cleanse the gentry and landlords in the four prefectures, and took the vast majority of the land in the four prefectures into their hands.

With the 'simple' little things in front of me.

Otherwise, despite the fact that this peninsula is called "Little China", it is not that simple to truly regain it and return it to the "Greater China" of the Ming Dynasty.

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"My lords, in addition to the follow-up matters of freeing slaves and dividing land, you should also pay more attention to the promotion of Chinese language and other sinicization matters. This is the key to whether the four prefectures can truly integrate into the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, back then,

What happened in Jiaozhi is not impossible to happen again!"

Outside Zhenban City, looking at the officials who came to see him off, Wang Bing reminded him solemnly.

With the continuous implementation of the issue of freeing slaves and dividing farmland, there are no more major events in these four prefectures. Therefore, Wang Bing and Zhu Changluo naturally have to return to Liaodong and start preparing for the subsequent large-scale immigration.

"Haha, please rest assured, champion, I will not take this kind of important matter lightly, and I will definitely integrate these four prefectures into our Ming Dynasty as soon as possible, just like the mainland!"

Although Wang Bing is not a civil servant, everyone has figured it out during this time. Although the prince is nominally the king of governance in New Liaodong, the real decision maker is Wang Bing, the champion prince!

And the most important thing is that although he is a military general, he is also very insightful in the internal politics. In addition, as the prince and tutor, he is a natural "associate", so these people are interested in him.

There is nothing objectionable about 'crossing the line' behavior.

"Okay, the four palaces are newly established and there are many things to do. Please go and do your work. I and the champion will leave now!"

Finally, after waving to the ministers of the four palaces who were staying on the peninsula, Zhu Changluo spurred his horse and then took the lead in leaping away.

"I have a promising successor to the Ming Dynasty! The prosperous age is coming, brothers Nian, please support each other!"
Chapter completed!