Chapter 122 Arrival in Shaanxi
The policy of installment purchase in Shuntianfu actually has a big problem.
What's the problem?
Installment means how much you have to repay each year.
But what if there is a famine?
What should I do if I can't afford it?
If I can't afford to pay it back, I gave some officials an excuse to blackmail the people.
Therefore, in order to make up for this loophole, Chongzhen thought about it and adjusted it slightly.
What is it adjusted to?
If you take the land first, it is equivalent to renting it to you by the court. You are the tenant of the court, and 10 kilograms of grain is your tenant rent.
After ten years of handing over, the field will be yours.
In the future, you can pay according to normal taxes.
What is the normal tax?
0.034 stone per mu, about 4.08 jin.
What is this called?
This is called renting instead of purchasing.
This is one of the financial plays in later generations.
Its essence is the same as the installment in Shuntian Mansion, but it further adjusted the repayment of the farmers, reducing the repayment of the farmers.
Farmers no longer have to worry about whether they have paid off their loan. They will end after paying 10 kilograms a year, and they will be paid for ten years.
The emperor told Geng Ruqi his thoughts, and Geng Ruqi said: "Your Majesty's wise and wise candle shines all over the world. This is a benevolent policy that has never been seen in ancient times. I will do my best to implement it."
Chongzhen said: "I have cut dozens of heads in Shuntian Mansion. I believe you don't want to make things difficult for me, my dear."
"I will never let down Your Majesty's expectations."
The emperor looked at Zhao Jianji again and said, "Zhao Aiqing, do you know at this time?"
"I will do my best to implement Your Majesty's new policy."
"Okay, Shanxi will follow this policy."
After talking to the two, Chongzhen asked them to retreat.
It was getting late, and Chongzhen rested in the Jin Palace.
After a while, Cao Huachun sent some women, all of whom were first-class beauties, about sixteen to eighteen years old.
Unfortunately, Chongzhen was already asleep.
It was too tiring to rush on the road, and Chongzhen didn't want to make too much trouble. After all, it was Taiyuan City that he would leave tomorrow.
Next, it is a glorious and arduous task to enter the hardest hit areas.
To preserve your energy.
Early the next morning, Chongzhen got up.
In the last life, Zhang Chen had the habit of going to bed early and getting up early.
The body is always the capital of revolution.
Don’t be superstitious about those who overdraw their bodies and can do big things.
Very few people are in poor health and can achieve success.
Most people cannot become a very small number, and most of them are ordinary people.
Zhang Chen is a relatively self-disciplined person.
Just as dawn, the emperor put on his clothes and washed up, he left Taiyuan City with the Jinyiwei and Tianxiong Army.
Even Geng Ruqi and Zhao Jianji had not had time to see him off, and the emperor had already walked away.
The so-called 800-mile rush was only two days later when the news arrived in Beijing.
When the emperor arrived in Taiyuan City arrived in Beijing, almost, yes, almost all the officials were in full bloom.
Boiling has two meanings.
One is anxiety.
The second is to be very happy.
I am anxious because some officials are offline in Shanxi, where they are given a lot of money every year. What if the emperor catches something in Shanxi and gets the person?
Since Huang Taiji came to Beijing last year, the emperor seemed to have been stimulated and chopping people's heads has become commonplace.
Everyone is not willing to be cut off by the emperor, otherwise their income will drop sharply in the coming year.
Of course, happy people have not taken any nests in Shanxi.
They hope that the emperor will encounter some incredible things in Shanxi this time, and it is best to change a group of officials so that they will have the opportunity to arrange their own people.
After all, who doesn’t want to make money?
However, no one knew that the emperor was actually going to Shaanxi.
Shaanxi is now the worst-hit area of grain shortage in the country and the source of the rebels. Of course, they would not have thought that the emperor would go there.
Five days later, Chongzhen entered the boundaries of Shaanxi.
As soon as I entered Shaanxi, I obviously felt much more desolate.
The "thousand miles of barren land" described by the ancients is not an exaggeration at all.
The Jiali (the village of the Ming Dynasty) that we passed by was desolate and could not see a single figure.
The fields were so dry that they were cracked and the crows were hovering in the sky.
There is no smoke in the distance.
It seems like entering a vast no-man's land.
Fortunately, the army has enough food.
Arrived in Shang County soon.
Shang County belongs to southern Shaanxi. Although the disaster is not as good as Yan'an Prefecture, it is also full of refugees all over the place, and the situation is terrible.
Chongzhen saw with his own eyes that the people who were not covered in their clothes were thin and thin, and he walked numbly on the road, walking very slowly.
They were all fugitives and should have escaped here quickly, but they really had no choice because they couldn't walk.
In late autumn afternoon, the leaves in front are golden, and the autumn wind is rustling.
This scenery will definitely be posted online in the 21st century. Many people will like it and leave messages saying it is so beautiful, so quiet, and I want to escape from my current life and live in seclusion there.
But the people here don't have the mood to escape from this hell on earth.
There are white bones on the roadside, and there are blood marks on the bones. Obviously, they are not naturally rotten, but are eaten piece by peeling off the skin and eating them one by one, leaving only hair.
This is the case with the purgatory on earth.
The officials in the court lived a life of drunkenness and dreamed of death, insisted on their morality, and were addicted to self-motivation.
A lot of money is spent in the southeast, and the spring dream of Qinhuai ten miles is cold. I don’t know how to cool down the passionate young man.
No one is following Shaanxi.
No one pays attention to the people of Shaanxi.
No one wants to take a look here.
The central court was busy with internal strife. The emperor, who started from Wanli, was busy enjoying and left the country alone, so Shaanxi became what it is now.
Where is Chongzhen?
The personality defects of middle-aged teenagers.
rebel?
Reasonable!
If this is not rebelling, would it still be human?
Seeing the team fleeing famine in front, Zhang Chen felt sad.
The people who lived in this land were completely different from the people in the late Ming Dynasty.
The 21st century is a republic made of heroes and a peaceful and prosperous era.
In the late Ming Dynasty, no one was willing to give their flesh and blood, and whatever they were willing to give was killed by Chongzhen.
Zhang Chen adjusted his mood and ran forward.
Suddenly, a heart-wrenching wail came from the front.
"No! No! Please don't! That's the last little food, our life! That's our life!"
It was a woman, with a child on her back, with a haggard face and a thin body.
But she still carried the child on her back, holding a slightly bulging bag in her arms.
She tried to hide it as much as possible and prevent others from discovering it, because once others discovered it, she would definitely not be able to protect it.
Moreover, along the way, she had to be very energetic, otherwise she might be killed and eaten.
She was begging for a group of people.
Those people were wearing the clothes of servants of some wealthy family.
Chapter completed!