Chapter 665 They used to be markets, but now they are hinterlands!
"Our family can still cultivate the land without looking for tenants."
"What are you planning? Tell me." Looking at his boss's appearance, Xu Deli felt that he seemed to have a solution! He quickly stopped crying and asked his son.
"Let's buy some cattle and farm tools and hire people to farm. We will pay as much as the government pays, and we will definitely be able to hire people to farm. On the government farm, after each family has done enough work for a year, they will not be able to farm.
It will affect the distribution of land, and there must be people who want to make more money and find work."
"Hiring people to farm? How much does it cost?"
"It doesn't cost much. Aren't the official farms just hiring people to farm? People who know the inside story say that they have made a lot of money this year. They can make back the money they spent just by harvesting grain."
"What are you thinking about? You really saw the thieves eating meat but not the thieves being beaten. If the government-run farms only rely on farming, they will end up in Liangshan sooner or later. They can take on a lot of government-run work, and they can also do a lot of it themselves.
Property is the only way to support people. If you encounter some disaster when farming, you not only need to invest the money for hiring people, but also put it into the capital. Why do people of the fifth generation share the land with others instead of hiring people themselves?
Come to plant? It’s because the land is given to tenants, and the roots are always there, and the benefits are also at the expense of the tenants.”
Xu Deli explained the core survival principles of Ming Dynasty landlords. Landlords are not farmers, they are not producers, they are just owners of land, an important means of production. By controlling land resources, they transfer production risks to others as much as possible.
If you are a tenant farmer, you are only a beneficiary. Even if there is a natural disaster, the impact on them is controllable. To put it bluntly, they are a scavenger class, not a creator of value.
Other capitalist-style farmers will invest in order to improve production efficiency and reduce production risks, but Ming Dynasty landowners have no motivation in this regard. Stingy landowners will not spend any money for their tenants, and all the income they get from the fields will be used
For personal enjoyment.
"Dad, what do you want me to do? Hiring people to farm is the only way I can think of at the moment. No matter what, the land needs to be planted. If you don't agree, I will separate the family and farm it myself. I'll take care of what I have in front of me first.
.As for the future, in a few years, when there are more people, there will always be times when the land in the officialdom is not enough, so when will we talk about the land tenure?" Xu Dalang has a very good idea now. If his father still uses it in various ways,
He is going to separate the family.
During the recent period, he had been traveling with several nearby landowners, as well as the big landowners in Zhongmou City. The government's canal opening had an impact on the landowners in this area. People with strong opinions must think of some countermeasures. They thought
The only way is to turn their own land into a farm and use a farm-style management method to survive the past few years. They have calculated their accounts and hired people. As long as the management is good, they can make more than if they rent out the land.
Of course, the effort here is much greater than sitting at home and being a landlord.
In Zhengzhou City, Song Quan was in the governor's office. He was in a good mood as he looked at the reports submitted by the people below! This year is the first full year after the recovery of the Central Plains. How the people's livelihood recovers will be a big test for him, a feudal official.
Test. Judging from the report, this year's work is still remarkable.
The total number of abandoned fields in various prefectures and prefectures across the province has reached 60% of the previously recorded number. More than 300,000 people have gathered around the Anmin Farms in the Central Plains. The grain output of these Anmin Farms this year has exceeded one million kilograms.
.I have food in my hands and don’t panic in my heart. The government has millions of stones of food in hand, which is enough to cope with emergencies. At present, there are no conditions for large-scale refugees in the Central Plains. Those who are likely to become refugees are all in Anmin Farm.
Well, it’s just over three hundred thousand.
The Central Plains is still in the tax holiday and agricultural taxes cannot be collected. Song Quan has always felt unsafe. Now that he has hundreds of thousands of grain reserves, he feels relieved. In other words, although the agricultural taxes have been confiscated, the financial input of the Central Plains has been reduced.
It's okay. The total of all kinds of messy industrial and commercial taxes actually amounts to hundreds of thousands of taels. I would have never thought of this before.
Judging from the current situation, in the next year or so, Zhongyuan's finances will be able to basically achieve self-financing, and it is even possible to provide some relief to the court! But the court may not look down on Zhongyuan's financial contribution, right?
Song Quan has been thinking about something that he can't figure out! Back then, the imperial court was short of money and tried every means to transfer taxes from various places to the capital, but in the end, he didn't get much.
The current situation is that the taxes paid by various regions to the imperial court do not have much weight in the entire fiscal structure of the imperial court. Including the tobacco and alcohol monopoly tax, the total fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty this year is close to 50 million taels of silver dollars, and of this, the customs,
As for tobacco and alcohol taxes, the total tax amount in Beizhi, Beijing-Tianjin region and Songjiang Prefecture is almost 40 million taels. The other provinces only account for about 20%.
In other words, for the imperial court, the taxes collected by other provinces were mainly to supply itself and were somewhat dispensable to the entire Ming Dynasty. No wonder that for a period of time, the emperor and Zhou Yanru did not want to unify the Ming Dynasty.
Judging from the financial revenue and expenditure situation, there is indeed no big need!
The production of Beizhi and the Beijing-Tianjin region is not only reflected in fiscal revenue. Next year, the palace system will also subsidize the military expenditure of more than 30 million taels to the court. This is even more incredible. Beizhi and Beijing and Tianjin seem to be in
Feeding the whole country. What Song Quan is more puzzling about is how he accomplished such a situation?
It is incomplete to say that Beizhi and Beijing and Tianjin support the whole country! The contribution of other provinces is not smaller than that of Beijing, Tianjin and Beizhi, but their contributions have been invisible. In the past two years, the total revenue of Ming Dynasty's finance has suddenly never been higher.
to 30 million taels, jumping to nearly 50 million taels. On the surface, it still comes from the contributions from the Beijing-Tianjin and Beizhi regions. In fact, what supports the rapid growth of fiscal and tax revenue in these regions is the expansion of the market.
Before the liberation of the Central Plains and Shanxi, products from Beizhi were also flowing into this area, but the scale before and after the liberation were not equal at all. After the liberation, the obstacles and barriers to commodity circulation were broken down, and the circulation costs were lower than before.
Several times! The number of people participating in consumption was several times more than before! The imperial court invested money in this area and the money circulating in the market was several times more than before!
With the superposition of several times the positive factors, the industrial production capacity of Beizhi has been completely released. The market is much more active than before, and the tax revenue will of course rise significantly.
In the era of commodity economy, there are two concepts, one is called the consumer market and the other is called the economic hinterland. Although the economic hinterland has some functional overlap with the consumer market, the economic hinterland is by no means the same as a simple consumer market. The difference between the economic hinterland and the industrial and commercial center
The relationship is much closer than that of the consumer market. They are mutually reinforcing and interconnected.
Before the liberation, places like the Central Plains and Shanxi could only be regarded as consumer markets, but now they are the hinterland of Beizhi and Beijing and Tianjin.