1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 72 Land Policy
On the third day after He Laoliu committed the crime, the "Interim Law on Public Security Management and Penalties in Jianye City" was hastily promulgated, and it was promulgated and preached to everyone in the camp.

Because he was not a legal person, Qi Tian racked his brains, consulted and negotiated with many people in the camp, and listed all kinds of criminal security acts that may occur at present, as well as the punishment he would receive.

The most serious crime is inciting, organizing, and gathering people to kill or attempt to kill others. Once discovered, even if there are no consequences, the penalty is death.

Of course, Qi Tian has selfish intentions in deciding this one.The organization and gathering of people can only be the original pirate gang that he trusts and has experienced life and death.

Although, Qi Tian refused to admit it, the former pirates would gradually become the rulers.However, in his heart, he vaguely regards himself, Cao Xiong, Yu Fukun and other big and small leaders as the managers and representatives of all immigrants.Overseeing, planning, allocating, dispatching everything here.And everyone here must build everything here according to their wishes, no matter material, institutional, or even spiritual.

As for other vicious homicide cases, according to Qi Tian's intention, all corporal punishments are abolished, and life-long hard labor is directly sentenced. In the case of wounding, the sentence is more than half a year to ten years of hard labor depending on the severity of the situation.

But Yu Fukun insisted that before serving hard labor, he must be beaten with a military stick, otherwise it would not be enough to deter the "young people".In the end, because Qi Tian was young and didn't know the dangers of society, he had to be beaten with five to fifty army sticks before he was forced to do hard labor.

Qi Tian had no choice but to accept it.Corporal punishment, a punishment tradition that has been left over for thousands of years, is written in the "Interim Law on Public Security Management Punishments".

Although, this law is extremely rough, and there are many loopholes in it that people can exploit.But it is the first written law on the continent of Hanzhou, a law with modern significance.

To a large extent, the original role of this law was to restrict the behavior of the original pirates, and it was also a written protection for ordinary immigrants.

However, ordinary people are actually most concerned about whether they and their families can have enough food and whether they can live well in this wild land.

And to live well, their greatest expectation is land.

"Old Changtou, you said, we have opened up so many lands. Will those leaders give us land?" After another busy morning, most of the immigrants from Luzon were in the reclaimed farmland. Sprinkled with corn.Because there is no sifting, and it is a raw land, no one knows how much corn will grow next year if it is sown.

At this time, everyone hurriedly used their lunch and took a rest.Ding Yongchang sat on the ground, looked at the land after hard work, and said to Chang Sanxi next to him: "With the land, do you feel that there is something to look forward to?"

"Probably give us land." Chang Sanxi said with some uncertainty: "If we don't give us land, are we going to be long-term workers for a lifetime?"

"Didn't we just live in Luzon because we couldn't bear the cramps in Daming?...Could it be that following...they came to this wild land, and we will be oppressed again?"

"Why don't you go ask? Look, they are quite kind, and they probably wouldn't bully us.... A few days ago, didn't they beat the thief who bullied the Ge family half to death?"

"...ask directly, so that they won't feel that we are...persecuting them. We...have only been here for two months, and the food and supplies are all from others....We will be scolded as heartless !” Ding Yongchang said.

"Why don't you let your family pass down the roots and ask that little leader." Chang Sanxi suggested: "That little leader looks very kind, and he also taught so many children to read and write, and learn skills."

"Well, it's not that we don't want to work for them!... But we just want to leave some land for future generations!" Ding Yongchang sighed.There are desolate and uninhabited people everywhere here, and they have been reclaimed by hard work. Everyone, more or less, can share some land.

"This creek must be well protected. It will be our domestic water for a long time to come!" Qi Tian and Yu Fukun were standing near the creek not far to the south of the camp at this time, and began to plan the construction of drinking water for the camp. Underworld engineering.

The upper reaches of Xidi is a small river with a small water volume. The water depth is only one or two meters, and the shallow part is even half a meter.The width of the river is only four or five meters. When it flows through here, it forms several forks, turns into a stream, and finally slowly flows into the sea.

According to the long-term plan, this creek land will be transformed into a reservoir, which will become the main source of water for production and living in Jianye City in the future.

"Then shall we extend the fence around the camp here in the future?" Yu Fukun nodded, and then asked another question, "If one day, the army comes and surrounds us, as long as the water source here is cut off, the whole There is no water to drink in the camp!"

"Where does the army come from in this remote continent?" Qi Tian smiled and said, "If there is an army coming, how much logistics supplies do we need to prepare?...Only the Dutch in Batavia have this strength!"

"Don't be afraid of [-], just in case!" Yu Fukun said: "What if one day we suddenly fall out with the Dutch and they send people to beat us?... This is called a prophet..."

"It's a rainy day!" Qi Tian nodded, "So, we can consider building three or four water storage tanks in the camp. In addition, we can also drill wells. With bricks and cement, it's not that difficult."

"Hey, we still have too few people, and we find it laborious to do anything!"

"Indeed!" Qi Tian was convinced, "If we have 8000 people, I can build our Jianye City into a beautiful small town in one month!"

Night gradually enveloped the entire land, and the camp that had been noisy all day gradually quieted down.After Qi Tian checked the progress of all the projects today, he came to the storage area.Nearly 30 teenagers have gathered here, the youngest is eight years old and the oldest is 19 years old.Qi Tian came to teach them.

In fact, Qi Tian didn't know what to teach.However, according to the different qualifications of each person, ten to thirty words are taught every night.Then he casually asked questions about the teenagers and discussed the issues.

For example, today, someone asked a question.

"Will the reclaimed fields be distributed to all?"

"Of course it can't be distributed to everyone!"

Qi Tian thought for a while, and then said: "Do you know? A society, or our camp, does not allow everyone to farm. Some people have to burn bricks, and some people have to go Logging, and some people, he has to build a house..."

"Only in this way, our camp will be like a huge gear, through different divisions of labor, we will gradually build our homeland."

"As for those who are willing to farm, we will definitely distribute some of the land to them, and let them manage all the labor in the field. But at present, it may not be distributed to them."

"Why? You have to know that the reclaimed fields used to be grasslands, woodlands, and wastelands. We don't know if crops can grow in these fields, and even if crops grow, there are some that grow well and bad-looking ones."

"If you distribute these raw land to them in advance, what do you think will be the consequences?"

"Never harvest!...or bad harvest!" Chang Chunsheng said.

"That's right! It's these two consequences. If it's just one or two years, and the fields allotted to someone are either bad or bad, isn't that unfair to him?" Qi Tian said.

"Then you mean to distribute the fields to everyone after they have become cultivated land?" Ding Chuangen was thoughtful.

"That's really the way to think about it." Qi Tian nodded, "They all get the same amount of land, so it can't be that some people are allotted good and fertile land, while others are allotted poor and thin land."

"The preliminary plan is that after two years, everyone will be allocated [-] acres of land, regardless of gender. If they reach the age of [-], they will have [-] acres of land."

"Then... how much will we harvest from expropriating the fields?" Ding Chuangen asked.

Qi Tian laughed, the teenagers said "we", then they have subconsciously substituted themselves into the entire group and have a preliminary sense of ownership.

"Considering that we will invest a lot of farm tools, mules, horses and cattle in the future, we plan to expropriate [-]% of the land output in the first three years. After three years, it will be reduced to [-]%. After five years, it will be reduced to [-]%. Forever."

Considering the huge gap between the industrial output of this era and later generations, Qi Tian dare not cancel or implement extremely low agricultural tax at all.He just adopted a method of step-by-step reduction, with a guaranteed agricultural tax of [-]%, no matter what, he wouldn't starve the ruling class to death.

The most important thing is to vigorously develop the productive forces of the 17th century, enhance industrial strength, and actively promote foreign trade. This is the way to gather financial resources and national strength.

We are a great time traveler, and the structure cannot be limited to the agricultural tax. In the fields, we can compete with farmers for food.

I don't know what basic information on industrial development Cao Xiong and the others will bring back to me from Batavia.

(End of this chapter)