I am Da Song

Chapter 363 Encouraging Development
The desperation of the scholar-bureaucrats also aroused the absolute shock and thought of all the ministers in the court.

Because everyone has seen the fact that when the industrial and commercial tax surpasses the land tax, the two sides will no longer have the possibility of overtaking. From then on, the gap will only widen every year.

The 11 billion mu of land is almost the upper limit of the Song Dynasty.However, the industrial and commercial tax of [-] million crowns is only the starting point of the Song Dynasty. After that, the industrial and commercial tax of the Song Dynasty will be the best, and the gap with the land tax will be completely widened.

It is self-evident which one represents the future of the Song Dynasty, agriculture or industry and commerce.

At this moment, even the scholar-bureaucrats fell into complete self-doubt. It was a kind of desolation and self-pity in which the lofty pride was completely shattered.

Compared with the foreseeable brilliant rise of industry and commerce, agriculture has no way out.

But in the loneliness of countless ministers, Zhao Huan was full of spirits, and encouraged them with a light smile: "You don't have to be so depressed. In my opinion, my land tax is far from the end, and the 11 billion mu of fertile land is even worse." It's just a starting point."

The ashen eyes of the scholar-bureaucrats were full of astonishment.

How could the officials encourage the scholar-bureaucrats so much one day?
Everyone thought that the officials were extremely dissatisfied with the scholar-bureaucrats, and wished they could all be kicked out of the court!
Looking at the surprised light on the minister's face, Zhao Huan responded calmly.

He naturally hated the corruption of the scholar-officials.

But extermination is completely unnecessary.

Zhao Huan needs a cultural class to exist. As another choice for the emperor to govern the country, he always urges the new student class to keep forging ahead and pioneering and innovating.

If the whole world is handed over to the students without reservation, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not repeat the lessons learned by the scholar-bureaucrats and become decadent and depraved one after another in comfort.

After all, dragon slayers are the easiest to turn into new dragons.

And objectively, these literati and bureaucrats merged a large amount of land and operated on a large scale, which indeed improved agricultural productivity further than the small peasant economy.

This is critical!

Zhao Huan picked up a booklet from the low table beside him, opened it and said to everyone, "Do you know how much land an average person in my court has on average?"

"It's land, not arable land!"

Hearing Zhao Huan's emphasis, everyone was taken aback.

It is well known that each commoner in the Song Dynasty had an average of ten acres of land.

However, no one has ever calculated how much land each commoner in Song Dynasty had.

When no one could answer, Zhao Huan glanced at the book and said, "I tell you, the people in my dynasty own more than ten hectares and three mu of land per capita."

This number simply shocked everyone.

Ten hectares and more than three mu!
Doesn't this mean that everyone is a wealthy family of Tian Lianqianmo?

Zhao Huan was not surprised by this number.He has read a cold knowledge that there are 13 billion people in the Chinese Empire, and each person owns an average of 8000 square meters of land.

Today, the population of Da Song is smaller, and the area in the north is wider, reaching all the way to Siberia, Lake Baikal, and Sakhalin Island.Therefore, the per capita area of ​​the people in the Song Dynasty is very amazing.

In the Song Dynasty, the arable land of the people is less than ten acres, just like the people in later generations cannot afford a house of [-] square meters, and there is an error in the distribution link.

But the biggest feature of the prosperous age is that all contradictions can be resolved by creating wealth.

It is a saying that everyone in later generations has heard that development is the basis and key to solving all contradictions.

Da Song is obviously not developed to the extreme now, and there is still a lot of room for expansion.

Zhao Huan said: "In my opinion, the land tax is far from the upper limit. 11 billion mu has never been seen before, but it may not have no future. 18 billion mu, 20 billion mu, 25 billion mu, as long as science and technology advances, all of these will be possible for agricultural development. able to achieve."

"Nowadays, the world is still farmed by manpower, so the average ten acres of arable land per person cannot be quickly expanded. But Qing and others, as national heroes, should try to use new technologies for farming. If steam engines are used for farming, perhaps Qing and others will open up soon A large amount of farmland. When the common people cultivate an average of [-] mu, how can there be famine or natural disasters in this world?"

Each commoner has an average of [-] mu of arable land, and this figure has reached the prosperity dynasty in the absolute sense.

Because even in many imperial courts after the war, the land granted and averaged to the people is only about [-] mu.

When the common people manage one hundred mu of land with five families, they will immediately restore the most ideal state of the farming era.

It is equivalent to that every household is a manor owner with a hundred acres of fertile land.The common people of the Song Dynasty all lived the life of the old men outside the officials.

This is the direct benefit brought by the prosperity of the country, the expansion of territory, the prosperity of science and technology, and the advancement of technology to the people.

So when the literati and bureaucrats were shocked and looked forward to the beautiful picture scroll drawn by Zhao Huan, Zhao Huan said to everyone: "In order to motivate officials, I will set up an assessment for all officials. The agricultural production in the area under its jurisdiction has increased by more than [-]%. The assessment is Most. Once the term of office is up, priority will be given to promotion."

"Agricultural production is less than two percent, and the assessment is a palace. Two consecutive terms of assessment are a palace, and the official is demoted to one level!"

In Zhao Huan's view, this assessment was not difficult at all.

As long as the officials earnestly persuade the Nongsang class, they will be able to achieve a passing grade, and they will not be at the end of the palace.

And if the official puts a little effort into it, he can immediately stand out.Whether it is to expand the area of ​​cultivated land, improve the agricultural level, improve the quality of compost, select grain seeds, intensive cultivation, reasonable rotation, and guide the distribution of four-season crops, any one of them can quickly increase the total agricultural production value of the jurisdiction.

After all, the total value of agricultural production is really nothing complicated, it depends on the grain output.

"Of course, this assessment is only carried out in places where the Central Plains court is easy to monitor. In the frontiers and in the west, there is no need for uniform requirements. The local area is not easy to monitor, and it is easy to violate nature and destroy mountains and rivers."

"The specific places to implement it will be determined by the Zhengshitang, and measures should be taken according to local conditions."

Adapting measures to local conditions is necessary to govern this huge country.

Originally, the shortage of arable land was a trouble only in the hinterland of the Central Plains, and there was no need to implement this decree in the frontier.Forcible advancement may lead to environmental damage and soil erosion.

Right Prime Minister Mei Zhili respectfully responded to the order, and replied: "The political affairs hall must be the commander-in-chief and all the officials will do their best to fulfill their duties and complete this law as best as possible."

Zhao Huan nodded, believing in the capabilities of the civil government of the Great Song Dynasty.After all, since 2000, the Central Plains has focused almost all technology trees on social governance.

The level of social governance and administrative efficiency far surpasses that of the West.

What impressed Zhao Huan the most in terms of statistics was the statistical reports at the city and county levels in Japan, which were shockingly detailed, exquisite, and clear.In later generations, the whole world should be unmatched.

But what is interesting is that Xiaotian’s national governance system appears to be a cabinet system, but in fact it is the aristocratic family system in the Central Plains, which is very similar to the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Therefore, Zhao Huan believed that the civil government was spurred on. Even without various advanced tools, their statistical reports and government affairs details would be very detailed and clear.

In ten to twenty years, it can greatly promote the development of agriculture in the Song Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)