The seventh year of Zhangwu was destined to be a year of recuperation and recuperation.

The people of Kanto were still exempted from agricultural tax and capitol tax and corvee throughout the year. All large-scale projects of the imperial court were suspended, and military operations were suspended except for necessary bandit suppression, and other military operations could be stopped.

All troops will temporarily participate in military camps, farm well, and resume production to strive for self-sufficiency.

Unless there are maintenance work on existing water conservancy facilities that must be maintained every year, try to allow the engineers to participate in construction during the slack season, and the court will take charge of the salary.

Only when there is not enough manpower will some civil servants be recruited with paid attention to the construction, but this is obviously not considered "force labor".

The spring plowing months have passed very smoothly. It seems that this year, the Han Dynasty can completely eliminate the large-scale starvation incidents. Some production cuts caused by floods and droughts and cold waves can also be supported by tax exemption.

In the fourth and fifth month of the lunar calendar, the first wave of vegetables planted in spring is ripe, and the poor can also eat a few bites of rice with mixed vegetables, even if they have survived the most difficult time. From then on, the big man has entered a high internal stability state.

From the emperor, the prime minister to officials of various departments, we also try our best not to do anything during this year, not to implement new policies, and to advance everything slowly according to the existing system and not torture the people.

The only thing that must be promoted is to procure the land for land rights confirmation and continue to deepen the national registration system for land property rights. This task must be taken while the order has just been established, which is also the most important administrative task of the court after the census.

However, the law on the inspection and local inspection and investigation was not determined after unification, but was decided a few years ago, so it was not considered a "reform". It was just a comprehensive and deepening implementation of the existing system.

The previous census took only one year to complete, and land inspections took about three years.

The specific system has also been said before: "Any civilians with less than 100 mu of arable land can ensure their land rights and interests even if they are not registered. When agricultural tax is collected based on the head, they are calculated as having 100 mu of arable land.

Those who own land more than 100 mu of Chinese mu must complete registration and verification within three years, otherwise the government will not support it when disputes arise in the future.”

After this policy was implemented this year, the main landlords had been arrested by the court to register first, and the measurement work was almost completed. The remaining were mainly small landlords and rich peasants, and the registration and inspection work was very cumbersome.

Therefore, in order to encourage everyone to register, and in light of the current vast land and sparsely populated areas, Liu Bei and Li Su and Zhuge Jin discussed, and introduced a policy to benefit the people: encourage the people to open up land or cultivate the uninhabited land caused by war.

As long as you ensure that you are a self-cultivated farmer, instead of hiring tenant farmers to occupy land, you have the spare time to plant more than 100 acres of land for a family. Then, as long as you go to the government to pre-register, you can occupy more land.

The maximum amount must not be more than twenty acres of land, that is, the actual possession of land has increased from one hundred and twenty acres to one hundred and twenty acres. After registration, there will be no objections or disputes within three years, and the government will directly recognize the ownership of the land and write it into the government's "fish scale book".

Of course, within the first ten years after the registration and right confirmation, the government may not impose taxes on the excessive land, but after the ten-year period expires, the grain tax will be required to be paid according to the thirty-one taxes on the actual land occupied by the registered land.

It is equivalent to the person who originally paid four stones of grain every year, but who actually occupied more land and registered may have to pay five stones. However, compared with the benefits of occupying more land, there must be many people who have been strong in R&F and who are able to support oxen at home, who are willing to occupy more land.

This is also equivalent to a policy that encourages land reclamation, and also strengthens the court's control over private agriculture. In time, we will definitely be able to bring the agricultural tax part of the "rental and mediocre transfer" law that is still relatively extensive, and the principle of "taxing and taxing" in the "two tax laws" from the late Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty.

Even if this step takes more than ten years to completely transform, it will be considered a long-term benefit to the country.

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In addition to the above-mentioned deepening of land registration, the court did not make any reforms in the seventh year of Zhangwu. The people sang their belly and were delighted that the peaceful world finally came.

The work pressure of officials has also decreased, and they are not so busy. Even the scale of imperial examinations has decreased. This year, fewer people who have clear statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory statutory

Speaking of war bonds, the seventh year of Zhangwu was also the last year for the imperial court to issue interest-bearing quotes of war bonds. The purpose of issuance was not to fight a war, but to block the fiscal gap caused by the tax exemption of Kanto.

(There will be continued to be issued in the future, but it is not a war bond. Most of the time, interest will not be paid, but can be discounted for industrial and commercial tax and franchise rights)

After Liu Ba's estimate, he reported to the emperor, which also showed that this year will be the year when the fiscal deficit continues to expand in the last year, and it will be stabilized and narrowed slightly from next year. By the ninth year of Zhangwu, he will start to enter a stable debt repayment cycle.

The bureaucratic system can handle daily administrative work by itself, and Prime Minister Li Su, of course, entered a half-rest early.

This year, Li Su did not look like Xiao He's character, but rather seemed to transform into Cao Shen early, following his own rules, drinking some wine every day to exercise, maintain health, and arrange some entertainment activities.

Of course, Li Su's temperament is definitely not a slack work. He just doesn't want to be entangled by tedious business work. If there are constructive and creative work that can make him interested and bring him a sense of accomplishment, he is still very happy to devote himself to it.

Influenced by him, Zhuge Liang in this life actually moved closer to this kind of talent. He no longer "does everything personally" when working, but instead tried to do the challenging work that was big and let go of the small, and to challenge the difficulties and must do it.

If the peace is coming today, the temperament and talent of their master and apprentice becomes more and more obvious.

When they were free, the master and apprentice both set an appointment to focus on several interesting things:

First of all, they found that after five years of colonization overseas, Zhou Yu, who had just surrendered again, seemed to have brought some good things, as well as some strange things, which are worth studying and seeing how to use it for the Han Dynasty and digest Zhou Yu's contributions.

Secondly, Li Su felt that taking advantage of the current rest and recuperation, he could first prepare for the future and make a plan for the issues that the Han Dynasty would have to solve in the next few years, and then write a plan and report it to Liu Bei for filing it.

When it’s sunny, you should repair the roof. Of course, you should write strategic plans while it’s peaceful and be prepared for danger in times of peace.

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One day at the end of May, Li Su completed a draft of the plan, and did not deliberately choose the days, so he went to Liu Bei to report directly.

Liu Bei was not surprised either. He was very adapted to this working model and did not feel that "hearing both sides will make you listen to the open and the side will make you secret". Anyway, it is just a long-term plan, so there is no need to discuss with the ministers, just listen first.

Li Su spread the draft in front of Liu Bei, and said in a blunt and blunt manner:

"Your Majesty, taking advantage of the fact that there is nothing wrong this year, I have thought about it in the mansion in the past few months and have given priority to the matters that the court will solve in the next few years.

Needless to say, this year, there will be no more disturbing people. Starting next year, tax exemption will be fully completed and taxes and labor service will be restored. We can almost start to solve Gongsun Du’s problem.

The Han Dynasty now has Dongyi, Fuyu in the northeast, fled to the high-ranking officials on the grassland, Hetao and Xianbei in the north of Bingzhou, and border troubles such as Hexi Qiang and Haixi Qiang, which have been severely damaged.

Among these external troubles, it is better to start from the east, because replenishment is relatively easy and you can transport troops and grain by water. Moreover, the Han Dynasty is now generally under the rule of the imperial court for a long period of time, so it is better to build it.

The northern part of Kanto has just recovered for two years and has been severely damaged. Hebei is not enough to support the military supply of the Northern Expedition grasslands. If the transportation from other states is too much loss and the use of the people is too heavy. The east first and then the north is just enough to save resources."

Li Su said this and paused for Liu Bei to digest the information.

If his plan was for the original historical man, it would definitely be inappropriate, because the original historical level of sea ship manufacturing and sea transportation experience and naval sailor scale did not support it, so there was no question of "sea transportation is lower than land expedition grasslands."

But the actual situation now is obviously the opposite. Li Su, Mi Zhu and Lu Su have made efforts from many parties to increase the nautical strength of the Han Dynasty so much that the cost of the eastern expedition is really lower, and the rich resources in the south can be fully utilized.

At the same time, let Hebei take a few more years of rest and recover the farming, so don’t bother with it first.

Liu Bei briefly looked at Li Su's ideas and thought it was very appropriate, so he continued to look at Li Su's roughly listed timetable.

According to Li Su's plan, the court is still in full rest this year.

Starting from next year (204), we will focus on the construction of Kuaiji County and Wu County in Yangzhou, and even Guangling County and Donghai County in Yangzhou, and develop shipping and people's livelihood on the north and south coast of the Yangtze River Estuary.

Li Su suggested selecting a good port near the Yangtze River Estuary, and then the court planned it, and the officials and the people jointly set up a large seaship shipbuilding base to facilitate the dispatch of north and south materials in the court in the future to try to go along the coast and expand sea transportation.

At the same time, this is also considered that the East China Sea south of the Yangtze River Estuary and the Yellow Sea north of the Yangtze River Estuary have completely different hydrotopic terrain. The north is severely shallow and large sand ships can only be driven, and "Fu Ship" can be used in the south.

Therefore, setting up large ports at the estuary of the Yangtze River to facilitate the transportation and distribution of rivers and seas.

Because even if they are sailing on the sea, after reaching the estuary of the Yangtze River, the sand ship can only enter the Yangtze River and travel in the inland river, but it is not convenient to go south directly. Otherwise, the flat-bottomed sand ship will easily be overturned by the waves when it reaches the south.

Similarly, if you want to go to the north, you can easily be destroyed by "rolling waves" when you want to go to the north. Therefore, it is definitely necessary to set up a large port near the estuary of the Yangtze River as a distribution center for ship replacement.

Previously, the Han Dynasty had three large shipbuilding bases. The earliest one was in Jingzhou, which was Zhao Yun and Lu Su spent many years to build during his tenure, and also made outstanding contributions to the later Pingjiangdong.

Jingzhou shipbuilding bases were in Yiling and Changsha respectively. Yiling was earlier and smaller, so it was impossible to build sea ships. Changsha was in Dongting Lake, and rivers and seas could be built. However, with the unification of the Han Dynasty, there were better coastal cities, so of course we had to move to the lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

The other two major shipbuilding bases in the Han Dynasty were the shipyard built by Lusu in Panyu, Nanhai County when he went to Jiaozhou, and the shipyard in Dashi County, Liaodong after Mi Zhu surrendered.

These two are located in the northernmost coastal coast and the southern coast of the Han Dynasty (Jiaozhi and Linyi do not include), and there is also a coastal base that connects to each other in the middle. Now one is added at the estuary of the Yangtze River, which is just right in the location.

After the river and sea transport port and shipyard at the estuary of the Yangtze River are built and made a little preparation, you will be able to cross the sea and completely destroy Gongsun Du.

Li Su remembered that Gongsun Du must have not lived until 207, so he started preparing in 204, and just took advantage of the change of power of the Gongsun family to easily destroy it.

With the absolute maritime power in the East China Sea, even if Gongsun Du has penetrated into Tsuma and even the Jiuzhou in Japan, he can still be taken away.

Finally, the ports and shipyards at the estuary of the Yangtze River in the East China Sea can better control and exchange the Yizhou area that has just been surrendered by Zhou Yu, further strengthen the rule of the government, and accelerate construction.

In Li Su's timetable, after solving the East China Sea issue before 207, a year or two will be reserved for a brief rest, or to deal with subsequent emergencies (for example, if Gongsun Du's descendants really continue to flee to Japan, they may have to spend more than one year chasing and clearing away the remaining enemies)

Then, by around 209, Hebei will recover peacefully for six years after the war, and Hebei will resume full tax collection for four years. The materials in the north are already enough to rely on local output to support the battle against the grassland. At that time, the senior officials and other treason fugitives in the Yuan family will just be able to kill all the rabbits.

Considering that the main support of the senior officials was a small group of Wuhuan tribes who were loyal to Liu He, this problem can be completely solved within one or two years.

210 years later, the main enemy of the imperial court's plan was the Xianbei. Considering the size of the Xianbei and its lasting harm to the Han Dynasty, the materials needed to completely solve the Xianbei problem were still relatively huge.

Therefore, Li Su suggested that before starting, he would spend some manpower to dig some new canals in Hebei and dredge the canals in Henan to ensure that the materials of the Central Plains, Jing, Yang will be easier to reach Daijun, Shanggu and other places.

The loss must be at least one-third of the time when Wei Qing or even Dou Xian.

Li Su was also very clear about the planning of the canal. In the current Han Dynasty, the demand for canals was completely different from that of the Sui and even Ming in history. Therefore, there was no need to have such a large project volume.

The Sui Dynasty canal was mainly to gather materials from all over the world to Luoyang, the eastern capital, and the secondary purpose was to continue to march from Zhuo County to the northeast and northward. The Ming Dynasty canal was only to absorb materials from Jiangnan to Yanjing.

In contrast, Li Su is now crazy about navigation technology and conducts shipping, so if he just wants to get the materials from Jianghuai to the surrounding areas of Jixian County, the Han Dynasty does not need a canal at all. It can be done directly by "grain and sea transportation", and the cost will not be higher than that of the canal.

Therefore, the construction scale of the Grand Canal will definitely be smaller than that of the Sui Dynasty. As long as the canals south of the Yellow River are dredged and broadened, connecting the old paths of the historical terrain, the Yanggu, the Nanyang Canal, the Hangou, the Feishui and Ruxushui, etc., there are basically ready-made ones.

As for the "Jiangnan River" part of the Grand Canal of the Sui Dynasty in history, today's Han Dynasty could even ignore it at all, either late construction, or reduce the scale of construction, mainly connecting the existing natural river channels with Taihu Lake.
Chapter completed!