On the second day of the Chinese New Year, Mr. Zhao did take several ships of rice, flour, grain and oil to visit the five-guarantee households in the county... Oh no, the widowed and poor people.

Unfortunately, there is no reporter and no video, so I can only ask Xu Yuanchun to draw a few sketches, which is better than nothing.

Magistrate Zhao also went to the Kunnan Lake embankment construction site to greet the New Year's Eve to the villagers who did not rest during the New Year, and naturally gave rewards.

Although each person doesn’t pay much, there are many people who can’t stand the work, and the boss will pay another expense.

After these consecutive dissipation of wealth, the nutritional expenses that Mr. Zhao worked hard to earn before the New Year were basically exhausted...

But it doesn’t matter. The future is long, so you can make another profit.

On the third day of the Chinese New Year, it is the beginning of spring, and the whole country will hold a grand welcoming ceremony.

Mr. Zhao also wore a sacrificial robes and led the officials and the people, holding up the placards called "Chun", playing and playing, yelling gongs and whipping, and worshiping the Chunniu and the Mang God in a mighty way.

After the worship was completed, Mr. Zhao Erpin was in a field outside the county town and plowed a leap, which meant that he was personally plowing on behalf of the emperor to pray for a good harvest.

Then the welcoming team carried the paper-paste spring ox and the Mang Shen to the "Winding Spring Pool" in front of the lobby of the county government to worship, waiting for the "whip spring" here in the future.

In addition, the plowing oxen households selected by Zhao Erye to cultivate the land and the land he cultivated can also enjoy tax exemption this year.

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On the fourth day of the lunar month, the county held a whip spring ceremony.

On this day, the county government gates, gates and ceremonial doors are open to the people of the county.

In front of the lobby, incense tables are set up, offering sacrifices, and people play flutes and music. As a county, it is considered to be a solid and grand.

At the beginning of the ceremony, Zhao Erye led the officials and the people to kneel to worship the Spring Ox Mang God. After getting up, County Chief He beat the drum three times, and the officials carried colorful sticks around the Ox three times, and the officials sang: "Whip the Spring!"

Mr. Zhao took the colorful stick and broke the spring cow. The red dates, walnuts, grains and other crops filled in the cow's stomach fell to the ground one after another.

The people who have been waiting for a long time cheered and rushed forward, scrambling and getting a start, looking forward to a good harvest this year!

As soon as the Spring Festival ceremony ended, Zhao Erye’s official duties during the Chinese New Year were over, but he still had no time to spare.

Because he promised Ning'an that the two of them would stay in Suzhou's garden for two days, without anyone else, just like them...

How could Mr. Zhao, who had an empty bag, say no? When he returned to the county magistrate's house and put on his casual robe, he slipped out of the back door, boarded the princess's carriage, and headed straight for Suzhou City!

It's not easy for a master...

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The Chinese New Year is the fastest, and before you know it, it is the sixth day of the yamen, and the day when the seal is opened.

However, from the eleventh day of the first lunar month to the twentyth, the officials also had ten days off given by Emperor Chengzu, so the five days apart between these two holidays will inevitably make people restless and difficult to concentrate on doing things.

So usually, the Shangguans will not arrange any important chores these days, and the plan for the first year is kept until the Shangyuan Festival holiday, so everyone is relieved and then arranged it.

But the current governor Ying Tian is Hai Rui, which obviously cannot be judged as usual.

On the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, after the seal ceremony of the governor Yingtian in Nanjing was held, Hai Zhongcheng boldly announced two new policies that shocked Jiangnan!

First, from now on, ‘One official and civilian, equal land and grain’!

The Governor's Office ordered that all prefectures and counties in Yingtian will immediately and completely modify the under-land booklets and change all the official fields into civil fields. From now on, the fields in Jiangnan will be treated equally and taxed according to civil fields!

This is a measure that Lin Run has been promoting when he was in office.

Previously, there were official land and civil land in Jiangnan, and official land accounted for half of them. Since the rent and tax of official land was twice that of civil land, the people who were allocated to official land worked hard for a year and could not even fill their stomachs. They had to sell their children and daughters to pay the tax, which was very unpaid.

Therefore, they either fled to the desert or presented their official fields to a wealthy family to avoid heavy taxes. The result was that Jiangnan only had the name of heavy taxes, but in fact they could not complete tax tasks every year... This is a crime that is more serious than corruption and bribery for local officials.

They could only use different ways to collect taxes from the people or increase taxes from industry and commerce to complete the tax tasks of the court.

As a result, the officials were suffering, the farmers were in vain, and the citizens complained, so civil unrest occurred in Jiangnan at any time.

‘One official and the people, equalize the fields and equal grain’ is a good medicine to solve the difficulties of the officials and the people in Jiangnan. Since then, the official fields have no more burdens. The burden on the people to plant official fields is less, and those who have abandoned the waste will naturally come back to farm.

In this way, the tax revenue of the government seems to have decreased, but in fact, the official land has no income before, so it actually increased tax revenue to the prefectures and counties.

Of course, it takes great courage to implement such a new policy to change the laws of ancestors. It is really unimaginable for the Ming Dynasty bureaucrats who are used to seeking stability.

This new policy is already explosive enough, right? But the second new policy is even more explosive!

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The second of Hairui's new policy is to combine the land tax, corvee service and other miscellaneous deductions in each prefecture and county into one, and the cash collection is collected and converted into a mu. From now on, all prefectures and counties in Yingtian will immediately implement the "one-whip law"!

Specifically, in terms of land tax and various expenses and taxes, they will be divided completely according to the amount of land acres. If there is more land, more land, less land, and no land will be paid.

As for another big head of taxes and service, Hai Rui ordered each county to compile the "Tiger Head and Rat Tail Book", breaking the traditional division of Lijia, and making all households in the county, regardless of size or small households. The large households with a large grain of grain were included in the front to bear heavy labor; the small households with a small grain of grain were included in the back to serve as light labor.

The front is a large household like a tiger's head, and the back is a small household like a rat's tail, so it is called "tiger head and rat's tail book".

At the same time, the governor's yamen ordered each prefecture to calculate the grain of each county, and based on this, allocate the corvee labor service of each county.

Then, each county calculates the total amount of silver and money needed by the employer according to the number of corvee labor given in the prefecture, deducts the amount of exemption given to the literati and chaste women and spreads three-quarters of the money into the land.

Only the remaining quarter is spread out in the whole county.

The most obvious advantage of this method of "all counting one county's grain and allocating one county's corvee service" is that it abolished the "Phaejia Round Service System" that had been implemented in the Ming Dynasty for two hundred years. The original system of simply taking turns to a dispatch system that combines the number of land and the number of Dingkou.

Moreover, among Dingyin, the weight of land acres accounts for three-quarters, and Dingkou accounts for only one-quarter. In this way, the people with no land and little land naturally have a huge burden.

The burden that the people have reduced naturally falls on the gentry who has a lot of land...

It is conceivable how the big players in Jiangnan would react to this?

Well, I guess I can only endure it first... Haigong sentenced more than 15,000 cases, but it has not been executed yet!

The defendants in those cases have a high degree of overlap with the wealthy and wealthy families in Suzhou. Whoever dares to jump up and oppose, the government can arrest people immediately!

Niu Qianshi and others suddenly realized that no wonder Hai Gong was possessed by the demon before the New Year. It turned out that it was all for the new policy to lay the groundwork for the beginning of the year.
Chapter completed!