Chapter 27 Tax holiday in wasteland

Plants cannot live without water. If their roots cannot absorb water, they will die.

She had read about treatment methods for saline-alkali land, but she had never tried it.

"Grandpa Zhang, do I need to pay taxes if I open up wasteland?"

"There is a tax holiday. The state encourages land reclamation, so wasteland has a three-year tax holiday. If you contract a lot of land, you can be tax-free for five to ten years. However, how many years of tax-free period you have to pay in taxes before you can give up the tax.

The right to use a piece of wasteland must be paid regardless of whether there is income from the wasteland. After the tax holiday, the annual tax on one acre of wasteland is only five bowls of grain, which is one-tenth of the tax on fertile land, and there are no other additional taxes.

What? Xiaoxi, do you want to open up wasteland?"

Xiao Xi nodded after hearing this.

Yes, she wanted to open up wasteland. The one-tenth tax on ordinary fields was exciting to think about. Mainly, there were no other messy additional charges. Although she didn't know what the messy taxes were, she could do it just by thinking about it.

She was very excited to fight for a ten-year tax holiday, not to mention that the later tax policy was really amazing.

"Many people want to take advantage of such a huge benefit, but it is not easy to take advantage of it. When the policy of reclaiming wasteland was implemented at the beginning, there were indeed many people who wanted to reclaim wasteland. They were all very motivated, but why didn't they do it later?

Really? Nothing can be grown in wasteland, and good seeds will only be wasted." Uncle Zhang reminded kindly, trying to dispel Xiao Xi's thoughts.

Opening up wasteland is not an easy task. After the initial policy, many people followed the trend to open up wasteland and cultivate land, but as a result, how many people lost their wives and soldiers.

The tax holiday is three years. After three years, you must pay the wasteland tax for three years before you can give up your wasteland use rights. Those with a tax holiday of ten years are even worse.

"Xier is just a child, she is curious about everything." Mrs. Liu hugged her daughter and smiled to smooth things over. In fact, when Uncle Zhang said that the land next to her was ownerless and had a tax holiday, she was also tempted, but she was turned off by Uncle Zhang.

After saying this, she gave up. Sure enough, there is no free lunch in the world.

But Xiaoxi did not give up this idea.

In her previous life, she had seen an introduction to saline-alkali land when watching a documentary. Out of curiosity, she went to check the specific distribution and area of ​​saline-alkali land. What surprised her was that saline-alkali land actually accounted for 1/3 of the cultivated land. This was still in

In the case of large-scale management, and in this world, there is no one to manage, so farmers stay away from saline-alkali land. Presumably the ratio of saline-alkali land to cultivated land may be higher, the ratio is likely to be 1/1, or it may even account for 2/3 of the cultivated land.

She had read about the treatment methods for saline-alkali land, and could only remember two, namely salt washing and deep plowing.

Salt washing: Irrigating the saline-alkali land with clean water, allowing the water to dissolve the soluble salts on the surface of the soil and carry it to the deep soil.

But think about the productivity and labor force of people in this era. There are no mechanized machines, everything depends on human shoulders and two feet.

Think about the distance between her land and the river here, which is about two miles. This is the shortest distance because she doesn’t know where her land is. If we calculate the distance from her home to the nearest field, the farthest is four miles.

A round trip of five miles is ten miles, and ordinary people don’t have horse-drawn carriages or flat wooden carts, so they can only carry water on their shoulders. A round trip of ten miles can carry two buckets of water at a time. Good guy, just carrying water is a

big project.

In ordinary households, they need to do laundry, cook, carry water, weed, manage their own fields, etc.

There are no washing machines here for washing, no induction cookers for cooking, and no running water for drinking. Even the poop you poop has to be dug out by yourself and piled into the manure pit. Yes, there are also special people who come to collect rice from the fields. They collect it from house to house, by the pound.

It is sold by the kilogram, and how many kilograms can be exchanged for how many coppers.

If you calculate carefully, excluding these times, there is basically no extra time.
Chapter completed!