I am Da Song

Chapter 342

In terms of administrative division, North Liaodong Road is positioned as the national granary, with thousands of miles of fertile fields, fertile black soil, and developed water system. This is the most suitable agricultural production area.

As long as it can develop steadily, it will surely be able to produce a steady stream of food to supply the entire north.

In order to protect it perfectly, Zhengshitang specially set up two other administrative units in the west and north of it.

The first is the north. Zhang Jun introduced: "To the north of Liaobei Road, the Zhengshitang intends to set up a new Heishui Dufu, and put the Heishui Army as the governing place."

The government, state, army, and prison are all the same administrative unit.

The name Blackwater Army indicates that it is more inclined to military jurisdiction.

Zhang Jun said: "The climate in this area is cold, so it is not suitable for farming. But the rich resources of roe deer scooped up with sticks and pheasants flying into the rice pot really shocked the government and the people. I thought that this land was mainly used for fishing and hunting. It can also support hundreds of thousands of people.”

"That's why Zhengshitang intends to divide this area into registered households."

"Separate registered households?" Zhao Huan asked with concern: "How to implement it?"

Zhang Jun said: "According to the tradition of household registration and Qimin in our dynasty, households are divided into two types: fangguo households and rural households. The dual system of household registration has been with us for many years. Until now, the house tax, land tax, city deed tax, The commercial tax is still in the tax bill of the third division, although it was temporarily exempted, it has never been abolished."

Zhao Huan nodded, expressing his appreciation for this aspect.

The collection of real estate tax, land tax, and commercial tax in the Song Dynasty is undoubtedly a manifestation of reasonable taxation.

Compared with the financial collapse of the Ming Dynasty, the taxation system of the Song Dynasty is undoubtedly more advanced and perfect.

"So the Zhengshitang intends to slightly change this dual household registration system in the Heishui Dufu, adding a new type of fishing and hunting households in addition to the city households and rural households."

"City households and rural households pay taxes similar to those in the Central Plains, while fishermen and hunters pay mountain and lake taxes according to their chosen hunting grounds."

"With regard to the forest tax, the imperial court does not plan to divide it too carefully. There will be about [-] large hunting grounds, [-] medium-sized hunting grounds, and [-] small hunting grounds in the entire territory of the Heishui Protectorate."

"These [-] hunting grounds will be marked on the map in detail, and the local people will come and contract them on their own."

Zhao Huan was thinking about Zhang Jun's suggestion. Zhao Huan had seen a similar system to the system he mentioned.

That is Baohai, a fisherman of later generations.

Perhaps many people think that the sea is huge, and fishermen drive fishing boats, just go in and fish casually.

In fact, it is not. In offshore fishing, fishermen actually contract a piece of sea area with the government, where they can breed and fish.Only they can operate fishing boats in it, and they can only salvage and produce in this sea area.

If other people enter, or they enter other sea areas, the defendant will be fined.

If it is changed to the present, the local people pay a mountain and lake tax to the government, and the mountains, forests, snow fields, and lakes within this area are all owned by them.

No matter how many prey and fish the common people catch in it, even if they pick up a big piece of dog's head gold inside and earn [-] guan a year, the government will not charge them any more wealth.

This will undoubtedly greatly improve the production efficiency of the people.After all, every extra point of wealth gained is an extra fortune.

This is actually a big farmer somewhat similar to Midi.

Let me tell you some common knowledge, there are no peasants in Midi.

Midi only has workers.

Because in the United States, a large amount of land is owned by the government, and the agricultural land belongs to large farmers, who are more like capitalists.

They hired workers to produce, and paid the dozens of workers who drove the tractors to produce.

So Zhao Huan asked Zhang Jun: "Will there be a large number of wealthy businessmen from the Central Plains who come to contract hunting grounds and then hire local people to hunt?"

The problem now is that these hunting grounds opened by the state are likely not to fall into the hands of the local people.

Zhang Jun nodded solemnly and said, "I think the probability is quite high. Generally, there are only three types of people who contract hunting grounds. One is a wealthy businessman from the Central Plains, the other is a local chief, and the third is a certain village."

"Zhengshitang is quite looking forward to the rich merchants from the Central Plains coming to organize fishing and hunting production. As long as they contract hunting grounds, they generally don't stop at fishing and hunting. At the same time, they will mine timber, mines, leather, and sell pottery, porcelain, cloth, utensils and other industries to the local area. Supplies."

This is the Da Song version of capitalists.

As for the virtues of capitalists, Zhao Huan couldn't be more clear, and asked seriously: "These wealthy businessmen will definitely squeeze the people and harshly hunt the hunters, and finally poison the resentment to the bone marrow. Will it arouse local rebellion?"

What they are best at is forcing the people at the bottom to send them to the gallows.

Zhang Jun said: "I think this kind of thing is inevitable. But as long as it does not involve national hatred and family hatred, the government will be in a position with ease. The local rebellion can be quelled by killing wealthy businessmen."

"And all civil affairs can be strictly controlled by law."

As the prime minister, Zhang Jun is more reserved, just pointing to the end.

That is, businessmen are the ruled class, no matter how rampant they are, there are laws to restrain them.

In the event of disputes between the common people and wealthy businessmen, there is at least one government that can be counted on.

The most frightening thing is that the officials exploit and squeeze the common people, and the common people have nowhere to go to seek justice.The accumulation of conflicts will only turn a blind eye to people and stir up rebellion in the world.

In this way, the hunting ground is divided into multiple parts, and the government only needs to collect the mountain and lake tax at one time, which can greatly reduce the chance of officials disturbing the people.

The next production links are handed over to merchants, chiefs and local people, even if there are conflicts, there is still room for relaxation.

Zhao Huan nodded slightly, and said: "As long as officials and scholar-bureaucrats can't annex the land locally, I believe that even if the frontier is sealed off thousands of miles away, the people will turn to the court. Officials sent to the Heishui Dufu must choose students who are born Young people. They come from innocent backgrounds and go to the post alone without any interest involved. As long as they can manage the people well, they will be promoted and returned to Beijing to take up posts after a few years."

"Make sure their minds are on the officialdom, not on the property thousands of miles away."

"I will keep in mind the orders of the officials."

If there are mainland businessmen involved, then the taxes that the Heishui Dufu Mansion can provide will far exceed Zhao Huan's expectations.

To know whether the army can hold a piece of land, the two most important points are whether the tax here can be higher than the military expenditure of the garrison, and whether the food here can meet the needs of the garrison.

If the Heishui Protectorate Mansion can provide 100 million yuan in taxes every year, then the imperial court can station [-] troops here without any pressure.

If the Heishui Protectorate Mansion can provide 1000 million yuan in taxes every year, then this is the core area of ​​Zhuxia since ancient times, it is a sacred and inseparable part, and it is an important place that the imperial court's [-] troops must swear to protect.

Zhao Huan asked: "How much is the mountain and lake tax set by the Zhengshitang and the Third Division in the Heishui Dufu?"

(End of this chapter)