Chapter 260: Sixian Garden and Reform(1/3)
Shanglinyuan. Worth your collection..
Liu Che stood on a hillside and looked around the world.
At this moment, Liu Che felt a generous feeling in his heart to point out the country and inspire words.
"Family..." Ji An held a lot of bamboo slips, documents and decrees, stood beside Liu Che, and said: "According to your majesty's edict, starting from this mountain, it is thirty miles long from east to west and fifteen miles wide.
All mountains, lakes, salt ponds, rivers and lakes will be your Sixian Garden!"
Liu Che nodded, feeling extremely proud in his heart.
This Sixian Garden was given to Liu Che by the emperor after Ji An and Yan Yi entered the palace yesterday as a place for activities and entertainment, as well as a place to make friends with the world's heroes or have parties.
In the Han system, one mile is three hundred steps, one step is six feet, and one mile is approximately 1,800 feet.
From the Zhou Dynasty to the Qin Dynasty, there was almost no change in this weight and measure.
Basically, one mile at this time is approximately 400 meters in later generations.
In other words, Liu Che's Sixian Garden is a behemoth with a length of 12 kilometers, a width of 6 kilometers, and a total area of 72 square kilometers.
Liu Che looked forward and saw the vast plains in the distance. There were faint smoke curling up from the valleys. Farther away, there were mountains and rivers with peaks and lofts looming among them.
This place is a Feng Shui treasure!
Liu Che just took a look and came to this conclusion.
"In the future, many things can be moved here!" Liu Che thought in his mind: "We can also move some important scientific research projects here, such as papermaking, engraving, coinage, and even... the black technologies that will be discovered in the future.
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Liu Che's 'Sixian Garden' is located on the south bank of the Wei River and is surrounded by other places in Shanglin Garden. At twelve o'clock every day, the garrison troops of Shanglin Garden will conduct uninterrupted patrols.
It is impossible for people without permission to enter here.
Compared with the past in the royal estates and workshops, both confidentiality and safety are undoubtedly a qualitative improvement.
The only thing that may lead to leaks is the people living here...
Don’t think that there are no civilians in Shanglin Garden...
The Shanglin Garden of the Han Dynasty has a circumference of three hundred miles and stretches endlessly. It is almost equivalent to a small vassal state.
For such a big place, the royal family cannot afford so much.
Therefore, as early as the time of Emperor Hui, Shanglin Garden was opened to the common people. Some civilians with permission were allowed to enter Shanglin Garden to farm.
The land cultivated by these people is fake land.
In fact, it is renting seeds.
The Han Dynasty court often leased some land in Shanglin Garden to landless farmers in Guanzhong and military widows for farming.
For example, when Xiaozhu later became emperor, he liked to hunt. He often led his men on a rampage in Shanglin Garden, trampling on farmers' seedlings. The farmers were not good men and women, so they scolded him on the spot. It is recorded in the Historical Records:
In the land of rice and rice, all the people shout and curse.
Then, Xiaozhu was scolded and did not dare to retaliate. He could only look back to King Wuqiu Shou angrily to expand the scale of Shanglin Garden, and then set aside many forbidden areas.
In addition, the livestock industry in Shanglinyuan is also very developed.
According to what Liu Che heard in his previous life, there were thousands of horses and countless cattle and sheep in the entire Shanglin Garden.
For example, Xiaozhu's later minister Bu Shi was promoted like a rocket by raising sheep for Xiaozhu in Shanglin Garden.
At this time, except for the royal hunting grounds designated by the emperor as well as the royal estates and palaces, the entire Shanglin Garden was open to the people of Guanzhong.
Everyone can freely enter and leave Shanglin Garden for hunting, mining, and fishing by relying on the roads issued by the government. If you want to cultivate the land in Shanglin Garden, you can also apply to the government and after approval, you can get a fake field for farming.
Therefore, Yang Xiong later said in "Yu Lie Fu": The palaces, pavilions, terraces, ponds, gardens, and forests are sufficient to serve the suburban temples, entertain guests, and serve as cooks. They do not take away the people's anointed crops, soil, and mulberry trees.
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Therefore, the royal garden of the Han Dynasty, Shanglin Garden, was not a large-scale, countless area, but a place restricted only to the royal family as people of later generations imagined.
In fact, from the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty to its demise, this place was actually a place where both the emperor and the common people could come and go.
It's just that the interrogation is more stringent and the security checks are more extensive.
The Shanglin Garden of the Han Dynasty and the Old Summer Palace and the Summer Palace of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties are two different concepts.
Therefore, it is not surprising that there are common people in Liu Che's territory.
In fact, there are quite a few!
Liu Che walked along and saw many people working in the fields.
Nowadays, it is the critical period when the corn is about to be harvested. Many people, almost all their families, are mobilized. The elderly can help pull weeds, the young and strong can turn the soil and water, and the children can help with weeding.
Get started.
Liu Che looked around and found that the conditions of many people were not very good. Most people did not even have a complete piece of clothing on their bodies, and most people's clothes were full of patches.
"Ji Qing..." Liu Che stopped, turned around and said to Ji An: "According to Gu's order, Gu's Sixian Garden will be exempt from land tax for three years starting from this year!"
This land was given to him by the emperor. Naturally, he could decide everything on the land.
For Liu Che, the hundreds of farmers in Sixian Garden can only pay him a land tax of more than ten or two hundred thousand yuan a year (the tax on fake land is not 30 yuan per year, which is basically only less than 10 yuan per year).
The land rent for landowners is less, or even the same), and Liu Che can't stand the money now.
It's better to use it to win people's hearts.
At the same time, it can be regarded as one of the things that the princes of the Han Dynasty will definitely do after being installed.
"No!" Ji An nodded and wrote it down.
"In addition, I would like to post a notice. All the people concerned, who have less than five thousand years of age, who have less than one strong labor force in their family, and who have been injured in the army, are allowed to herd deer in Gusi Xian Garden and buy deer seeds."
, when the deer has antlers, sell it for money and then come back alone, let’s consider it as rent for five cents a day!” Liu Che ordered.
This trick was learned from Xiaozhu.
In his previous life, this edict issued by Xiaozhu was one of several far-sighted edicts that Liu Che admired.
Never underestimate the benefits of raising deer.
After Xiaozhu promulgated this policy in his previous life, the income from deer raising in Shanglinyuan was accumulated in a steady stream. Guess how much this income reached by the time of Emperor Yuan? Seven billion!
It was this money that was used on Chen Tang's expedition.
Otherwise, Chen Tang wouldn’t say anything like, ‘Anyone who openly offends a strong man will be punished no matter how far away’. Without money, it’s a waste of time to fight!
"No!" Ji An nodded and wrote it down.
The purpose of establishing Shanglin Garden in the Han Dynasty was completely different from that in the Qin Dynasty. Shanglin Garden was not just a place for recreation in the Han Dynasty, it also shouldered huge social responsibilities and public welfare responsibilities.
As the saying goes, "The state-owned suburbs are pastoral. The frontiers have hope. There are grass beds and forests and ponds, so they can prevent disasters."
To put it simply, whenever a disaster occurs, Shanglinyuan is basically a temporary settlement and resting place for the victims.
At the same time, it is also the responsibility of Shanglinyuan to provide relief to social orphans and raise orphans.
For example, Xiaozhu later had an elite army called the "Orphan Army". They were all selected from orphans who lost their fathers in the war against the Huns. They were all raised in Shanglin Garden and received military training while raising them.
Therefore, Liu Che's order is very reasonable.
As a prince, he now indeed has the confidence and ability to carry out some activities such as raising hopes.
Therefore, Ji An didn't think too much.
How could he know that raising and raising deer could make such a small amount of money?
"It's really an investment that will bring benefits for countless years!" Liu Che thought about the little pig's deer-raising policy and clicked his tongue a few times.
This policy is indeed very quick.
Liu Che didn't even need to spend money to grow deer, so he asked Ju Meng to go to Shanglin Garden to catch a few hundred deer alive. In Shanglin Garden, it was estimated that there were still several thousand deer...
Then, because they are rented to the people for grazing, so. Once the lease period is up, these deer will return to his hands, and maybe a few fawns will come with them. In this case, they can be rented out again...
A chicken lays an egg, and the egg lays a chicken. Decades later, this income snowballed to nearly the Han Dynasty's financial income of one or two years...
It’s hard to believe just thinking about it!
But then again, the people these days are really simple and honest...
Liu Che scratched his head, thought for a while, and felt that it was a bit unethical to copy the little pig's behavior, so he added: "Also, tell the person who rents the deer that when the deer is born, it will be his!"
Before Liu Che traveled through time, he was just a commoner. He was well aware of the hardships faced by the people, especially farmers.
I don’t intend to be like the little pig.
Well, let's think of this policy as a comeback benefit for those landless people, residents below the poverty line and military widows.
Let Shanglinyuan return to its original position - the regulating valve for the social gap between rich and poor.
After thinking for a while, Liu Che added: "For the time being, this notice will only be posted in Sixian Garden!"
His Sixian Garden is only 72 square kilometers. If too many people apply, then a good thing will turn into a bad thing!
"No!" Ji An nodded and wrote it down.
That's what Jialing does.
To be continued...