Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 522
"Pa-ta-pa-ta-pa-ta~"

Xiujia tapped the table rhythmically with her fingers, silently thinking about how to deal with this problem.

For Hideka, it is absolutely impossible to seize the land. Asano Nagamasa and Masuda Nagamori are still in Utsunomiya at the moment, waiting to discuss with Hideka about the land inspection.

But in the case of land inspection, what if there is a civil uprising?
Hideyoshi's handling of the daimyo who caused civil uprisings due to his incompetence in governing the territory is not light. Sasao Naruma and Kimura Kiyoshi's 30 shi said they would change.

Xiujia is not willing to follow in the footsteps of these two, he also hopes to use Kanto as the base to lay down a piece of his own business.

"Pa-ta-pa-ta-pa~"

The rhythmic tapping of Xiujia's fingers suddenly stopped, she looked up at Changchuan Zhenqin and said, "Well, you can arrange two things later.

First, all. I mean all the Guandong retainers, regardless of whether they are natives of the Kanto, all the rewards for those whose knowledge and deeds are lower than Wanshi are all suspended.

Just tell them that because of the deviation between the Guanhe system and the Shigao system, the grant of land will be suspended, and it will be issued after the land is checked and counted.

During this period, all salaries will be paid by the family according to the amount of their knowledge and actions. "

"Second, it's up to you to communicate, and ask those reserve teams who decided to return to Jibei after the Kanto was settled, to ask again about the idea of ​​transferring the seal, and those who are willing to stay will be included in the reward.

Thirdly, delay the time for those soldiers who are unwilling to transfer their titles to return to Jibei. Tell them that the delay time is expected to be half a year. During this period, the military rations will be provided by the family. military rewards.

Fourth, Todo Takatora arranged for each reserve team to be dismantled into brigades to go to various villages to conduct land inspections, and to conduct appropriate training before the inspections to speed up the progress of the inspections.

Fifth, you are responsible for informing the implementation and asking them to tell the neighbors that this land inspection is only to find out the situation of the land in the territory, and it does not involve tax reform. Those who pay the tax can offset the tax with grain after the autumn harvest.

Sixth, like the tax requirements of five publics and five people in the territory, but tell them that the land money will be exempted for 3 years. After 3 years, the children and the elderly will continue to pay in person, and the adult tax will be halved. When the reply will be announced.

The money for other buildings under the feudal city is paid at 80 cash per year, and those in rural areas are paid at 40 cash per year. "

Taxes in Japan are actually separated. During the Warring States period, the lord allocated a piece of land to his retainers, and he had the right to govern the territory on his own according to the laws and regulations formulated by the lord.

Of course, the main premise is that it does not violate the lord's decree, and one of them is very critical, the taxation needs to be consistent with the lord.

Taking the Hojo family as an example, Hojo rewarded a retainer with a piece of Zhixing with an estimated tax of 1000 kan. According to the ratio of grain and money in the Kanto, this land is worth about 10 shi.

(Note: Due to the climate and early development in the western country, the water conservancy facilities are relatively complete, and the food price is relatively low. The food price discount is about 1:4, but this ratio increases as you go north, and even reaches 1:8 in the southeast region. [-].)
According to the law of the Hojo family, he is about to collect talent on this land according to the tax of 4 people and 1000 people, and the grain must be resold and exchanged for money and then handed over to the lord, a total of [-] guanwen.

This is another difference between the Shigao system and the Guangao system. The Shigao system is the output of the overall knowledge and practice, and then the lord distributes it according to taxes and land farmers. In the end, the lord may only get 600 shi.

However, under the high-level system, the tax paid by the peasants to the lord must be 1000 guan, that is, the tax payment is 1000 guan. The lord doesn't care about the money.

That is to say, according to historical records, the Narita family knew 2850 kanwen under the rule of the Hojo family, and their discount stone height should be 28 shi.

The land tax was collected by the lord who was entrusted here, and he could use the money for his own life, or for military expansion, to provide soldiers for the lord, and so on.

For this tax, the superior daimyo has no right to ask them for it.

In addition, land farmers also have to bear miscellaneous taxes such as land tax and other house money. Hideyoshi even came up with ship tax, court tax, etc. in order to levy the court. The comprehensive tax reached 7.5%, causing a large number of farmers fleeing from famine.

And this part of miscellaneous taxes is collected by the highest-level daimyo from the lower-level retainers, and the retainers then apportion taxes to the territory.

In other words, this part of the tax belongs to other than the five lords and five people, and is paid by the local people to the highest-ranking daimyo.

From this point of view, the four men and six people of the Hojo family seem to be a benevolent government, but they are actually generous to their family members.

The purpose of the Hide family's exemption from land tax (head tax) is very simple. It is to make the comprehensive tax of the people in the territory as much as possible under the premise of the tax of 5 officials and 5 citizens of the governor. The six peoples are unanimous.

The Hide family didn't do this out of kindness, and paid out their own money to subsidize the income of their retainers. The Hide family can directly inherit the tax requirements of the Hojo family's 4 citizens and 6 citizens. Anyway, the less income is not the Hide family's income.

But don't forget, the Ji Bei retainers who were transferred with the Xiu family this time are the basic board of the Xiu family!
When they were in the West, the tax was always 5 public and 5 citizens, and 1000 shi Zhixing earned 500 shi. If you let them know that after working hard to transfer the Guandong, the income will be reduced. Do you think they will jump?
You may have to ask, didn’t the transfer of the Tokugawa seal to the Kanto in history also continue the Hojo family’s policy of four publics and six peoples?
But how many titles did Tokugawa give to his retainers?The average seal is 30%, and what's more, it will be doubled directly.

Hideka doesn't want to learn from Tokugawa Ieyasu, he wants to hold a large amount of land in Kanto in his own hands, because he is very aware of the development potential of Kanto, but now it's just a lack of governance.

Once these lands are distributed, the subsequent Zhixingxiu family who have increased due to pioneering and irrigation will not be able to share a single point, and the retainers will continue to repair and increase Zhixing with each inspection.

He would rather only give an average transfer compensation of about 10%, even if he gave them a 10% salary increase, he would still have to hold a large piece of land in his own hands.

The real power of the land is not only the agricultural output, but also the population in it.

Once this piece of land is sealed off, it will be like a layer of separation from the Xiu family in the future, and it will be very inconvenient for administration.

The attitudes of Hideya and Tokugawa Ieyasu towards the Kanto are essentially differences in their views on governance.Tokugawa Ieyasu didn't know the true strength of Kanto, so he chose to distribute the responsibility for development in a big way.

But after more than ten years of development, after he realized the wealth of Kanto, he had to pay a higher price to transfer all the retainers here.

The Xiu family took a longer-term view. He would rather bear the responsibility for the development of the Kanto himself than seize the fruits of the development of the Kanto himself. After all, assigning the general request to the retainers and directly managing the matter has the same effect.

Under the premise of "cherishing seals", if you give them another 4 citizens and 6 citizens, Ji Bei samurai will immediately break away from your Xiu family, who will transfer the seal to Kanto with you?
For the Xiu family, he would rather be kind to the old family in the Kanto, the farmers in the Kanto, and the Kibi samurai are also the objects he must appease.

Look at the end of overthrowing your own basic situation. Let alone, what is the end of Zhu Yunqi who has offended the military dignitaries and the royal family all over the place, don't I need to say more?
This time the Xiu family moved to Kanto, only the samurai/trained ashigaru brought 2 people, and their family members numbered at least 10, basically emptying out Jibei.

These people are the foundation of the Xiu family's rule of the Kanto. As long as they are not in chaos, the Xiu family doesn't have to care even if there are local peasants in the Kanto ruled by the Xiu family.

In fact, another advantage of exempting the land tax is that it can encourage the people of Kanto to have more children. In the past, as long as the children were born, they would have to pay taxes.

一人一年50-100文钱，小于12岁孩子和大于50岁老人减半征收，一家子按照7人来算，一年的地子税和别动钱就是500文以上。

For farmers, there is only so much land. The more they live, the more taxes they pay, and the family will go bankrupt sooner or later, so they dare not live more.

But after the reduction of 100 Wen, they can save 250 Wen a year, and their life can be richer, so that the population of Kanto can increase.

If you want to open up the Kanto, in the absence of mechanized equipment, manpower will always be the primary productive force.

The Xiu family just did some calculations. Based on the 52 people in the Jibi area, the annual land money is about 4.2.The land in Kanto is more sparsely populated, so Diziqian's income should be about the same.

4.2 guan is not a lot for the Xiu family, which is equivalent to the commercial tax revenue of Okayama Town in the past, but for the better development in the future and the current stability, the Xiu family is still willing to pay.

Speaking of the Xiu family's benevolent government towards the common people, the Xiu family still shows tenderness towards the local servants and the people of the country. He allows the local servants and the people of the country to choose whether to pay taxes under the high-stone system or the high-level system.

On the surface, it must have given them more choices, but in fact, it was the Xiu family who left a hole here.

Because no matter in the past or now, businessmen are bound to daimyo.It's not that you can have your own caravan with just a lord of tens of thousands of stones, it must be at the level of half a country.

The commercial area of ​​the castle town is divided into sections, and the lord does not have the good intentions to develop the castle town, and it is all contracted to the merchants for development.

You can see this from the town names of some ancient cities. There are many names of local businesses, indicating that the houses and small businesses in the entire town are developed around this business.

Therefore, the grain that can be traded as a bulk commodity must be purchased from the field by the firm controlled by the Xiu family.

Grain pricing is in the hands of Xiujia, and Xiujia doesn't even need to go short on the price of grain. Deliberately lowering the price of grain can make the people of the country unable to survive.

The vassals of the Xiu family and the direct rulers of the Xiu family must immediately accept the reform of the Shigao system. When the autumn harvest comes, the tax will be collected according to the output of the land. Maybe the people will be less likely to sell grain at a discount in the past autumn harvest pain.

As for those Chinese people who choose to implement the high system, their people can only accept the grain prices deliberately lowered by the collectors. Seeing that they may not be able to survive next year after selling grain and paying taxes, they are left with two choices.

Either flee from the ground, or set off a storm in the territory.

At this time, the role of the first article of the Xiu family to suspend the enfeoffment of the retainers below Wanshi who were entrusted before became prominent.

Many people here were old nobles in the Kanto region before, who were taken in by the Xiu family after being changed by Hideyoshi to Yi Zhixing. Even though Hideyoshi was hateful to them, they might not be grateful for the charity from the Hideyoshi family.

If they are allowed to seal now, they will become the lords of these peasants. Under the persecution of the peasants, they may not have other thoughts in their hearts, and they want to regain the attention of the Xiu family.

Yes, they didn't dare to really rebel, but in the name of Yikui, they still have the desire to let the Xiu family give them more fiefdoms and more rights.

If it's just the peasants on the ground and Yi Kui, the local servant, it's just a group of unorganized mobs. Even if you add a few people from the country, no one among them has absolute prestige to lead them, and the Xiu family can easily suppress them. .

But if this group of samurai were left in exile, for this group of "untouchables", even if the "lords" who had ruled them in the past came, they would have a backbone.

Moreover, this group of people is a well-educated generation in the Warring States Period, with certain internal affairs and military experience.The quality of the Yikui army led by them is not the same as that of ordinary civilians.

For example, the success of Ichikui in Kaga is due to the participation of local powerful samurai.

For this group of people, they just wore the skin of a Zongfang official on their heads, changed into a vest, and continued to be their own lords, but the original name on their heads was gone.

Before the participation of the samurai, whether in Kaga or other places, the organization of Yikui people was disorganized, and even their own demands were not clear.

It was also because of the participation of the samurai that Mikawa Ieyasu suffered a lot, and finally had to make a partial compromise in exchange for the re-loyalty of the samurai group.

After losing the leadership of the samurai, Mikawa Kazuki, who lost his command and clear goal, was quickly put down.

Hearing the six items listed by the Xiu family, Nasafune Sadakin asked the Xiu family for confirmation: "Should the rewards of the warriors of my family also be suspended?"

The Xiu family gave an affirmative answer: "I'm talking about all of them, of course including the samurai of our family."

The warriors are also human beings, they have legs on their feet, and if they really want to run into the fields, they can't be stopped at all.

Everything must be leveled at this time, otherwise the old Guandong officials will think that the Xiu family is deliberately making things difficult for them, and then they will not even want Zhixing, and go directly to the field to ask for salary with the Xiu family's armed forces. The Xiu family will not be able to bear it.

Only when they see that the Xiu family has the same attitude towards their retainers, will they be willing to trust the Xiu family and wait for the Xiu family to complete the land inspection.

"But." Changchuan Zhenqin said with some reluctance, "Brothers came to Kanto with His Royal Highness for the reward. If His Highness doesn't give you the official seal this time, I'm afraid they have something in their hearts."

"I'll give them a little bit of their salary, and I'll give Lumi a little bit of their knowledge and behavior after the autumn harvest. Why do they have ideas?"

Regarding Changchuan Zhenqin's concerns, the Xiu family retorted, "I tell you clearly that in the future, all people below ten thousand shi will be converted into money and grain. Now the 5000 shi of the western countries and the 3000 shi of the Kanto are not sealed. Just a trial run.

I have even thought of a name for this set of policies, separate from the salary, and call him Shilu, which means the salary handed down from generation to generation.

In the Western Kingdom, it was already paid by Shilu for less than 1500 shi, but now it is just mentioned. How could the officials of the Western Kingdom be reluctant?

For them, they don’t need to worry about governing their territories, and they don’t need to undertake military service. The wealth produced by knowledge and deeds can be completely used for their own food and clothing. Why are they reluctant? "

Facing the slightly angry questions from the Xiu family, Nasafune Sadaqin calmly replied, "Zhixing land is not the same as Lumi after all, one is something handed down from generation to generation that can be seen for real, and the other depends entirely on His Highness's arrangement.

At the beginning, when it was implemented below a thousand stones and below 1500 stones, the people below had a lot of opinions.Previously it was voluntary, but now it is mandatory.

My lord~ 5000 stones and 10000 stones are no longer small collars. Having these knowledgeable retainers is the backbone of the territory and the family, and they are quite influential. Please think twice before acting, my lord. "

(End of this chapter)