On the ninth day of June, Shao Zeqing's family property was liquidated, with a total value of 2 million yuan!

For a time, it caused a sensation in Bianjing City.

Li Huan also has a lot of property, totaling 800,000 yuan.

A businessman with a fortune as high as 800,000 yuan!

The most dazzling thing is not the family property, but the fertile land.

Shao Zeqing has 300,000 acres of fertile farmland.

Good guy, he is richer than King Pu.

The official position of the transfer envoy is really the best among the best jobs, let alone the transfer envoy of Gyeonggi Road.

When the family's secrets were revealed, Zhao Ning was so excited that she almost stopped scolding her.

What's even more terrible is not the family property and fertile land, but the food!

Shao Zeqing secretly hoarded more than 100,000 shi of grain!

You know, the entire capital is short of food, and ordinary people are thankful to have a full meal.

This product actually hoarded 100,000 guan and prepared to sell it to the wealthy people in Tokyo at a high price.

The grain in Li Huan's granary was also piled up to the point of becoming moldy.

When the Jin army besieged the city and the city was most short of food, the court offered salt in exchange for high prices, but Li Huan actually kept the food.

It seems that he has calculated that after the Jin army retreats, the price of food will rise further, and he will sell it when the time comes.

This financial method is great!

very good!

It's not over yet.

A few days later, each of the merchants that Gao Qiu checked had stockpiled more than 100,000 kilograms of grain!

After reading it, Zhao Ning flipped the table over and said, "When a man is so angry, his blood splatters three feet! This is what you forced me to do!"

"Come here! Qin Hui! Let Qin Hui come to see me! All these merchants who are hoarding food should be given to my Yi tribe! All Yi tribe! All Yi tribe! Why are you still standing there! Give them all to my Yi tribe!"

"And that Wang Xun! I'm going to cut him in half!"

In Tokyo in June, the number of people is like leeks.

The blood on the execution ground gathered into small streams.

For a time, people in official circles and shopping malls were frightened.

Land and grain were in the hands of bureaucrats, nobles and merchants. Once war came, the court had to buy them at high prices.

Bargaining power!

If this is not reformed, the military rations in the north will definitely be a big hole that cannot be filled with hundreds of millions of dollars!

If we don't change this, if we fight a war, the bureaucrats and businessmen will gain weight, and the local people will die!

On June 12, the first New Deal of the Jingkang Period of the Song Dynasty was promulgated.

This new policy is very simple: equal land leasing.

On this morning, the New Deal made headlines in newspapers in Tokyo, but it did not cause much of a sensation.

At first, people thought this was just a fertile field for the court to deal with corrupt officials, and did not take it seriously.

There are three core contents of this New Deal:

1. Families with military merit can rent ten acres of fertile land and be tax-free for ten years.

2. Those who have no land can rent five acres of fertile land. In the first five years, they will pay a tax of 20 catties per mu every year. After five years, they will pay a tax of 10 catties per mu every year.

In the Song Dynasty, the annual output per mu of land was about 2.3 shi (276 jins), and in the south, the annual output per acre of land could reach 3.8 shi (456 jins).

With five acres of land, the total annual output value is 1,380 kilograms.

For a family of five, each person consumes half a kilogram of grain per day, which is calculated as 3 kilograms per day, which is 1,095 kilograms per year.

I saved 285 jins, paid 20 jins to the court, and still had some leftover.

Of course, this is an ideal situation.

There will be a certain amount of food loss, and there will also be natural disasters.

But generally speaking, according to this tax, the burden on farmers will be reduced a lot.

What?

What were the original taxes of the Song Dynasty?

That's a very complex issue.

The taxes of the Song Dynasty included head tax, cowhide, salt, distiller's yeast and other taxes, as well as buying, buying, etc.

In short, there is nothing they can't do, only things you can't imagine.

This new policy is naturally a great success for the landless people.

Especially the group of refugees in Tokyo City, as well as the landless people in other state capitals along Gyeonggi Road.

At present, Zhao Ning has more than 700,000 acres of fertile land gained from confiscating households. Each household is allocated an average of 5 acres, which can be distributed to 140,000 households.

With 5 people per household, 700,000 people can be fed.

Moreover, the imperial court collected 20 kilograms of grain per mu, so 700,000 mu could collect 14 million kilograms.

Including the consumption on the road (consumption is the food consumed on the road when transporting grain in ancient times), the calculation finally reaches 60%.

There are also 8.4 million kilograms, which can feed the 280,000 frontline troops for a month.

How did Zhong Shizhong be wiped out in Taiyuan?

Because there was no food, the soldiers mutinied, and the Jin army took advantage of them.

Why is there no food?

Was it because the Song Dynasty was short of food?

no!

The Song Dynasty already had 720 million acres of farmland during the Shenzong era. During the Zhenzong era, rice was introduced from Champa, and field yields increased significantly. This was a key reason for the skyrocketing population in the Northern Song Dynasty.

There was no shortage of food in the Song Dynasty, but the food could not reach the front lines.

Didn’t you see, the food in the homes of the big families in Tokyo is rotting, and the soldiers on the front line are praying for a mouthful of food!

This is the most fundamental reason why the Song Dynasty lost the war!

Why did the Five-Road Expedition to Xia in the Shenzong era fail?

It is also because food cannot be delivered to the front line, logistics collapses, and the front line collapses without a fight!

Otherwise Xixia would have been destroyed decades ago.

After the New Deal was promulgated, Zhao Ning sneaked out of the palace early in the morning to see the public's reaction.

There was a lot of discussion among the people, but it didn't cause a big splash.

At noon, some refugees went to the newly established Agricultural Affairs Department of the New Deal Yamen to report.

Zhao Ning saw several refugees wearing cloth clothes that they had worn for who knows how many years, walking out from the Agricultural Affairs Department, with the most innocent smiles on their faces.

"We have fields!"

"We also have a field!"

He saw one of the men coming out, squatting under the big tree in front of the Agricultural Affairs Department and crying loudly.

There were also people dancing in the open space in front, as happy as a simple child. People around them looked at them with surprised eyes.

Of course, they not only received good land certificates, but also received seeds.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Ning sighed in his heart: The people just want a few acres of land and enough food to eat. Is this too much?

This is not excessive, it is the most basic and simple requirement.

After staying near the Agricultural Affairs Department for a while, Zhao Ning left and returned to the palace.

The current "equal land tenancy" has only just begun.

Supporting new policies will also be released one after another later to assist the "equal land tenancy".

Its ultimate purpose was to break up the annexation of land by the powerful, regain the state's right to control food prices, and become a link in the national war system of the Song Dynasty.

This kind of new policy will definitely touch the nerves of the entire Song Dynasty interest group, but it has just been released now, and the scale is small, so it has not caused much impact.

This is why it was implemented in Gyeonggi-ro first.

As a reform zone, Gyeonggi Road should take the first step to make the model smooth and smooth, and then immediately implement it to the military town area north of the Yellow River.

As long as the military towns north of the Yellow River can follow this model smoothly, not only will the cost of war be reduced, but the people will all be grateful for the emperor's saintliness.
Chapter completed!