Chapter 420 Trouble and Blades (2)
Just as Cai Yan and Zhao Fujin were talking, Saner's voice sounded outside the door. Wang Bing pushed the door and walked in. He saw Cai Yan hugging Zhao Fujin, who was lying in a bamboo chair, and he just pointed at the chair and stool casually, signaling Wang Bing to be more casual.
Cai Yan looked at Wang Bing who was sitting and continued to be interrupted by San'er. Wang Bing said, "The rumors in the market are all words. The former Tang martial artists were responsible for the disaster of the world, but the fact is not the case. It is because the former Tang abolished the military and military system, which caused the military artists to harm the world."
As soon as Wang Bing entered the room, he saw the two of them lying in the same bamboo chair. He was a little embarrassed, so he said goodbye first. After hearing this, he was as stupid as Zhao Fujin, and both were stunned.
"According to the regulations of the previous dynasty's government soldiers, the soldiers were farming and soldiers during wartime, and regularly practiced swords and fights. During wartime, the soldiers drawn by the Zhechong Mansion brought their own swords, guns and arrows. Although they were provided by themselves, they did not equip themselves with swords, guns and arrows. Instead, they were jointly issued by six families. One person went out to fight. Not only did they exempt their own taxes and labor, but there were also five families who had farmed for them. They obtained military merits on the battlefield and could also receive rewards for their merits."
"If my husband goes to fight, the swords, guns and arrows used are provided by others, and all labor and taxes are exempted, and others will cultivate the land in the family. If my husband and Fujin have several children, if our family doesn't have so much land to share with the dolls, my husband is a pauper. According to my husband's ruthlessness, my husband is eager to use his sword to fight with the barbarians of the Liao Kingdom. Those who are brave enough to starve to death and timids may even earn a royal title for Fujin!"
When Zhao Fujin heard him talk about giving birth to a baby, he blushed, but he also understood his words.
"If you earn military merits and get the land, and others have solved all the worries behind it. If your husband is a soldier, General Wang is the governor. General Wang told him, "Let's rebel..."
"What do you think of the minister? Follow the court, some people prepare swords, guns and arrows for my husband, some people cultivate for free, and after gaining military merit, the court will give our family land and raise money for their families, raise babies, and rebel with General Wang. What will General Wang give to my husband? Can he give us land? Or will he exempt our family from land tax and labor? He is a big military governor, have so much land? If he rebels with him, my head is not really kicked by a donkey!"
"Mencius said, gather with him whatever he wants and do not do to him what he hates."
"The system of government troops can provide the land that the people want to support their families and solve the worries behind the soldiers, so everyone strives to be the first, so the prosperous Tang Dynasty expanded its territory for thousands of miles and suppressed the world to surrender."
"Later... the aristocratic families used one method or another to occupy all the fields in the world, and even extended their hands to the military military soldiers under the names of Zhechong Mansions. Therefore, the six families lost their ability to prepare swords, guns and arrows for the soldiers who sent troops to fight, and the court also lost the fields to reward meritorious soldiers, so the military soldiers came to an end."
"The foundation of the military soldiers is the land, and the six people who are supported by them, but these fields have all flowed into the wealthy families. The wealthy families have countless fields, so they have enough money and food to support their soldiers, and the world is in chaos."
"So, it was not the fault of the military soldiers of the previous dynasty to harm the world. If the land under the name of the Zhechong Mansion is still in the hands of the soldiers, my husband can guarantee that no ambitious person dares to rebel. Countless soldiers who are jealous of the red military merits are eager to cut people's heads and earn military merits!"
Zhao Fujin listened to him quietly talking about the previous dynasty, as if he had forgotten the existence of Wang Bing, and said thoughtfully: "My husband said... he did not allow ten acres of land to be sold, just to ensure the combat effectiveness of the soldiers in the garrison. He could rent it to others to farm and not sell it. Isn't it possible?"
When Zhao Fujin asked in confusion, Cai Wei suddenly realized that he had made a very serious mistake and nodded, "It is indeed as Fujin said, renting seeds is not sold, but if renting seeds is sold?"
Zhao Fujin was even more puzzled and said: "Lease seeds means renting seeds. Every year, tenants need to pay a certain amount of tenant rent. How can they be sold?"
Cai Wei suddenly smiled and said, "One stone of rice is worth a total of silver. The top-grade Jiangnan fields can be planted for two seasons a year, and four stones of rice can be produced each season. Even if there is only three stones of rice a year, three stones of rice can be sold for three coins. So the question is, why? Why are such fields only ten coins per mu of silver sold for such a field?"
Zhao Fujin was stunned. Wang Bing was stunned for a moment, then he understood what Cai Yan meant, and he smiled bitterly in his heart.
Seeing that the young wife frowned, she couldn't help but smile and said, "The top paddy fields in Jiangnan can produce eight guan coins a year, but one acre of land is priced at ten guan coins. Fujin also knows how merchants care about the fields, and the price of ten guans per acre is obviously contrary to common sense, and this is the shrewdness of the Song people!"
"Don't you understand? Actually, the reason is very simple. It's just that Fu Jin forgot why our family gave your father the million yuan of money."
Cai Yan sighed: "The land sale requires land deed tax. The higher the land price, the more land deed tax you pay to the government. For example, if we buy General Wang's land and spend 100 cents of silver to buy a mu of land, we need to pay ten cents of land deed tax to your father. But if I and General Wang agreed privately that one mu of land on the surface is only ten cents of silver, our family will only need to pay your father a consistent silver tax, and our family will save nine cents of silver."
Zhao Fujin finally understood, gave Cai Yan a very big glance, and pouted, "My husband is really cunning!"
Cai Yan was speechless and defended: "The daughters-in-law of other families can pluck the rice and grain of their parents, but the young wife of my husband came back... Besides, no matter how much money you give your father, wouldn't your father still spend it on the stone? But our family has returned it to the people."
Zhao Fujin wanted to defend himself, but he couldn't defend himself. His husband could have been trying hard to make money for the court before.
Cai Yan smiled bitterly and said, "The Song people were too smart. Our family finally robbed so much land and secretly made them. They originally gave them land for the future of the garrison. Although the land deeds in our hands are in our hands, we do not collect land rent. They just need to pay taxes to the government. But these smart people cannot stop our family from selling our 'leaving rights' to others. They said they were renting for others, but in fact they sold the fields and sold the garrison's right to rent for the garrison!"
Zhao Fujin then understood what was going on and was shocked.
Cai Yan frowned and said, "No! Ordinary people rented our land, and sold the right to rent it, but the land in the garrison must not be lost! I have to think of a way..."
Cai Yan took out his arm from under Zhao Fu's golden head, and the two of them finally stood up from the bamboo chair.
"Is there something wrong with General Wang?"
Cai Yan came to the table, took out a pen and wrote a notice, and lowered his head to ask. Wang Bing did not hesitate for a moment, so he hurriedly stood up and saluted a military salute, saying, "The third division has been fully equipped. The last general came to ask the general if our army was training in accordance with the training methods of the first and second divisions?"
Cai Yan looked up in shock, then smiled and said, "General Wang came here to ask me for muskets and artillery, right?"
"yes!"
Cai Yan looked up at Wang Bing with a solemn look on his face, and then lowered his head and chuckled.
"You are not polite. Don't worry, muskets and artillery will equip the general with a complete set of a third division of the Guards. However, our army did not plan to form a third division of the Guards before, so the guns still need some time to prepare. What the general needs to do now is to strictly enforce military discipline and learn to walk first. Of course, he also needs to learn the art of fighting in groups of three or five people."
Cai Yan looked up again.
Chapter completed!