Qiming 1158

Chapter 1340 Rehabilitation Policy
Although the salt trader's actions of smuggling salt have earned a lot of wealth and provided considerable help to the Ming Dynasty, it is not appropriate to maintain the old salt price in Jiangnan when the Ming Kingdom has already decided to go south and destroy the Jiangnan Kingdom. .

Su Yonglin severely criticized the thinking of some officials of the Ministry of Finance, and criticized this view on the surface, believing that they have gone the wrong way on the issue of economic work and revolutionary goals, and asked them to make a profound review.

The people of Jiangnan are also citizens of Ming Dynasty and should be treated equally.

"Don't cry like the end of the world just because a point of making money is gone. What the imperial court needs to do is to open up and reduce expenditure, not to exploit! Is it very pleasant to catch salt and make money from death and bully the people?
This is something that only the old feudal dynasties would do, something that would only be done by the Zhao dynasty!We are not the old bureaucrats of the old dynasty. If this kind of thing is done, it will be a serious matter of nature! "

Su Yonglin was very angry and said very serious words. At that time, the impact of this wave on the Ministry of Finance was still great.

A finance official was dismissed, and more than a dozen officials with revival status were punished by the revival society. Criticisms were circulated among the national revival society organizations, and the Ministry of Finance's salt department was also publicly criticized.

It can only be said that Su Yonglin is still an indispensable existence and absolute authority in this country, so his influence is unparalleled.

This directly determines that Hangzhou people can buy very cheap salt, ending their painful history of buying salt at high prices.

After a series of tossing and turning, the price of salt finally returned to the position it should have returned to. Su Yonglin completely canceled the extortionate and miscellaneous taxes imposed on table salt. This necessities related to people's livelihood ended the evil mission of exploitation.

However, Su Yonglin was still not satisfied with all this, and he still had a lot of things he wanted to do.

Just wait for the Ming army to sweep Jiangnan.

When the reorganization of the Ming army was two-thirds completed, and it was also when the first ten days of August in the eighth year of Hongwu were approaching the middle of the year, the people of Hangzhou finally realized that they could not buy enough salt. No matter how much they bought, the Hangzhou government could always bring in more salt. fill vacancy.

Therefore, I am afraid that the price of salt has really fallen in place, and it will not be changed easily.

For this fact, the feelings of Hangzhou people are very complicated.

Citizens in Hangzhou City and farmers outside Hangzhou City had different perceptions of the Ming Kingdom during this period.

The peasants, under the leadership of the Fuxing members, overthrew the landlords, got the land, and established their own peasant associations, so their favorability for the Ming Kingdom soared, and they regarded themselves as people of the Ming Kingdom rather than Song people on the spot.

By granting land, the Ming Kingdom quickly gained the approval of the farmers in the south of the Yangtze River, and then quickly established grass-roots organizations and established communication channels with each other, and established a firm foothold at the grass-roots level at an extremely fast speed, completing the grand strategy of encircling the city from the countryside.

But for a considerable number of citizen groups, they did not benefit directly from land reform.

They are citizens, handicraft business practitioners, and have little to do with the land. Although they have gained great benefits from the level of salt, this is not enough to reassure them.

They are now both worried and wanting to believe in the Ming Kingdom, which has newly occupied Hangzhou without committing any crimes and directly knocked down the price of salt into the abyss, and has more expectations for them.

They don't know how the Ming Kingdom intends to rule them.

The great trial of the people suing the government before brought them joy, excitement, and some benefits, but it was all temporary.

Hangzhou citizens who have been at the feet of the emperor for a long time are well aware of all this.

And soon, Ming Guo gave the answer.

In addition to a series of policies for resuming the market and recruiting workers, the policy that has the most influence and impact on the citizens of Hangzhou is the [Resumption of Agriculture Policy].

As the name suggests, it is a policy to restore the identity of the agricultural population and return to the countryside for production and life.

Because after the implementation of the land reform to divide the land between the local tyrants, the Ming state had a huge amount of [public land]. After allocating the original farmers, there was still a lot of surplus. Therefore, the Ming state announced the policy of rehabilitating agriculture, allowing cities Residents brought their families and families back to the countryside to settle down.

The citizens of the Southern Song Dynasty were not active citizens, but mostly passive citizens.

Because their families were poor and could not support the surplus labor force or lost their land, they were forced to leave the land and the countryside to make a living in the cities, passively becoming citizens and proletarians.

Now the Ming Dynasty has given a policy of restoring agriculture. If they are willing to settle in Hangzhou Prefecture, they can obtain land in Hangzhou Prefecture nearby, and if they are willing to return to their original place of residence and settle down again, then they will come to the official government to register and wait for the official government. Unified arrangement.

Because their hometown may not have been captured by the Ming army, and they have not had time to implement land reform, but they can rest assured that destroying the Song Dynasty is an established plan.

Their hometown will definitely be taken back by the Ming army, and then land reform will be carried out, so that they can return to their hometown to re-own their land and continue their agricultural life.

The promulgation of this policy can be said to be far better than the reduction in the price of salt.

Compared with this policy, the reduction in the price of salt has become the icing on the cake rather than the help.

One stone stirred up a thousand waves, and the 70 permanent residents in Hangzhou began a big movement. Large numbers reported to the government that they wanted to return to their hometowns or simply settled down nearby.

They want to be farmers again.

As a result, the Ming government also began to make large-scale arrangements.

Those who have settled nearby can be arranged directly, and it can also have a calming publicity effect. Su Yonglin has specially assigned people to help them settle in the rural areas around Hangzhou.

The real land, houses, farm tools, seeds, and three-year tax-free policy were given to them as a gift package, and they only felt that the whole person's soul was sublimated.

If it weren't for the fact that there was no land to farm, how could these people come to settle in the cities to survive?

The ancients who relocated to the land have always preferred their own land, and the Ming Dynasty gave them land, allowing them to return to the way of life that their ancestors had been living in for thousands of years, so it was less than a month before the Ming army entered Hangzhou. It completely belonged to the Ming Dynasty.

Just give them land, give them peace, they don't care who they are ruled by, it's obvious.

And this set of policy processes has been running in the northern land for several years. Ming officials are already very familiar with this matter, and they are very familiar with it.

This policy has allowed more than 60.00% of the citizens of the Ming Dynasty to return to the land and become farmers again, and now, this process is being repeated in the Jiangnan land.

The false urbanization process brought about by the mythical operation of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty's unrestrained land annexation embarked on a "regression" process with the attack of the Ming Dynasty and its own disintegration.

From a certain point of view of historical development, the Ming Dynasty has reversed history.

But from the perspective of economic development, the Ming Dynasty completed the economic transformation from the virtual to the real, punctured the economic bubble of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties, or it shows that the state has ruthlessly cleaned up the economy of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties like a sponge full of water. a moment.

The water that should be squeezed has been squeezed out, and the original appearance of the Chinese economy in the Middle Ages was revealed, and the original appearance of the most normal commercial economy under the current productivity level was revealed.

The economic model based on agriculture and supplemented by manual commerce is the healthiest and most realistic economic model under the current state of productivity.

If commercial income was unusually high and agricultural taxation did not account for a major share of the imperial government's fiscal revenue, then the dynasty would be dead soon.

(End of this chapter)