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Chapter 426 Is it based on agriculture or is it based on food?

"Building water conservancy projects is what we should do, but in five years, the number of cement canals will be three times more than now. Is it too much? I'm afraid it will be difficult to support it with national strength. There is also the breeding of cattle, which has doubled in five or six years."

It’s twice as difficult as it is. Cattle are raised by farmers themselves, so the government can’t force them to breed them.”

"The current total length of cement canals is too small. Even if it is three times longer, it will not account for all the total length of water canals. The most expensive thing about cement canals now is the cost of cement. My idea is to encourage private ownership in the next few years.

The cost of building a cement plant will be reduced a lot if all prefectures have cement plants. Building cement canals can also increase the income of farmers, which is a good thing with multiple benefits. As for cattle, my idea is to encourage farmers to breed their own cattle.

In addition, various counties and the imperial court should build fine cattle breeding centers to breed fine cattle and sell them to farmers."

"Your Majesty, apart from the small number of cattle, the most important reason why farmers have fewer cattle is that the price of cattle is too high, making it difficult for poor farmers to purchase cattle."

The price of cattle is between ten and twenty taels. A household may not have this amount of money after a year of hard work. More importantly, two cattle are often needed to use the cattle. Indeed, as Zhou Yanru said, buying cattle is a considerable thing for poor farmers.

It is not easy. A family has to live frugally for several years to buy a cow. In addition to the price of the cow, farmers often borrow debt or pay interest due to lack of money, so the cost is about half higher than the actual price of the cow.

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"Let's do this. I'll let the Royal Bank launch a special cattle loan for ordinary farmers. When ordinary people buy their first cow, they pay 30% of the money themselves, and then the Royal Bank borrows the rest. From now on, they only need to repay the principal in installments every year.

Just pay money. In addition, in order to increase the popularity of new agricultural tools, when the government collects agricultural taxes and purchases grain from the private sector, it will provide some agricultural tools to the people based on the amount of grain."

According to Zhu Youjian's original intention, he actually did not want to launch these two policies. Because there will be a considerable space that cannot be regulated. It is inevitable that some people will use cattle loans to cash out for profit, and will use loopholes to directly compensate farmers.

The farm tools in hand are resold on the market. This kind of thing will not be able to plug the loopholes in future generations, and many people will take advantage of it, let alone now.

But after thinking about it, Zhu Youjian felt that he should not give up eating because of choking. As long as most of them can be ensured to reach the hands of farmers, the policy can play a big role. In order to ensure that these two policies can truly benefit the people, the Royal Bank’s grassroots salesmen and managers

Supervision needs to be further strengthened, and the most severe methods are not even ruled out to deal with them. As for farm tools discounts, there is actually no need to worry too much. Even if they are taken away by large households, they will eventually resell them to the common people at low prices, because they themselves

If you don’t farm, the value of these things will not increase if you keep them at home. Therefore, giving farm tools as a subsidy for collecting grains will at least reduce the price of farm tools.

"Where does the money for giving away farm tools come from?" Zhou Yanru didn't pay much attention to the Royal Bank's cattle loan, because it was the emperor's own business and had nothing to do with the court. But for giving away farm tools, you need to know the direction of the money.

"Twenty percent of the total agricultural tax every year is purchased directly by the Ministry of Household Affairs into farm tool coupons, and then local governments return the tickets to farmers. Farmers use their registration certificates and farm tool coupons to go to the nearest supply and marketing cooperative to get farm tools. Local governments must inform the court of the policy

Provide three-party supervision to each farmer, the farmer, the government, and the supply and marketing cooperative to ensure that the farm tools provided by the subsidies can actually flow into the hands of the people. As for which part of the farm tools is subsidized by grain collection, the supply and marketing cooperatives can do it themselves!"

"Twenty percent of the agricultural tax is subsidized into agricultural tools? Doesn't this reduce national tax revenue in disguise?"

"It is a disguised reduction of agricultural taxes! The farmers of Guochao are suffering too much. Now that other incomes of Guochao have increased, it is natural to take appropriate care of farmers. Judging from the current tax situation under the rule, a 20% reduction in agricultural taxes will

The impact on the overall fiscal revenue is less than 10%. Can't we bear this loss? Besides, the revenue is increasing every year. In reality, it is probably not affected. What's the point of giving some profits to farmers? Everyone often says

Farming is the foundation of the country, but when it comes to actually giving profits to farmers, it refuses to do anything. Is this farming-based? Why do I think it is farming-based!"

Zhou Yanru's concerns are reasonable, but Zhu Youjian was very angry when he heard this. He was so reluctant to reduce agricultural taxes in disguise. If the mainstream countries in later generations did not levy agricultural taxes and would still subsidize growers, officials would

I am afraid that they cannot accept it even more. They talk about putting agriculture first, but no court or king in the past dynasties has taken the initiative to lower taxes. From the Han Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, the standard of regular taxation has not changed. Better dynasties

In other words, the miscellaneous taxes are just a little lower. When it comes to treating its own people, it has never introduced any truly good policies.

Zhu Youjian's original plan was to gradually reduce agricultural taxes, but after careful consideration, he felt that this would not make much sense. Only by directly canceling agricultural taxes would it be effective. A reduction of more than ten or twenty points in agricultural taxes would actually be distributed to the poor.

There is not much benefit. It is better to exchange the money for something that can change production efficiency. When production efficiency increases, the people will benefit even more.

"Let's talk about launching a large-scale water conservancy construction project. I plan to build a large dam in Miyun, and then use an elevated channel to divert the water to the capital. This project should ideally be completed in five years. The elevated channel leading to the capital will be

On the one hand, it can solve the problem of farmland irrigation along the way, and on the other hand, it can also meet the daily water needs of people in the city. It is a multi-purpose means. Of course, this project must be designed well, and the construction progress must also be grasped to make it a

A serious project to benefit the people should neither tire the people nor make the construction period too long."

In the era when there were no high-lift water pumping tools, the only way to improve the efficiency of irrigation was to use stupid methods. Build dams to raise the water level, and then build elevated channels to bring the high-water level water over. Although the cost is a bit high, it can really solve practical problems. The height of the canal

Lifting it by three to four meters would have a huge impact on the North China Plain. Zhu Youjian had seen this method in later generations, so he could think of it.

However, he actually had concerns about starting such a large industrial city. Later generations had such experience and lessons. Due to the rapid development of work, many water conservancy projects did not play their due role, but caused great harm to the people.

Therefore, in construction planning and progress, we must be as cautious as possible to avoid rushing for quick results. We must use financial income and technical level as the measurement criteria!

As a time-traveler, the most common mistake is to start too grand a project without considering the actual national strength and productivity. But if you don't start a grand project, the development speed will be too slow. How to balance this contradiction? It is quite a test. Today's

Zhu Youjian seems to understand the mentality of a certain great man of later generations at that time. He may be more intolerant of the country's backwardness than he was at that time, and wants to change the status quo as quickly as possible.


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