My house was confiscated and I was exiled. I emptied the emperor's warehouse and fled.

The high relocation costs make it unaffordable for the poor people who make up the majority at the bottom.

They begged Qin Mu, hoping that the Qin family could help.

Qin Mu said that the Qin family can pay the fees on their behalf, but as they become registered residents of the new county, they must abide by all the new county's laws and regulations, just like foreign residents.

At the same time, he also publicized a land policy determined by Su Yunwan: All land in the new county is owned by the county government. According to the principle of everyone having a share and fairness and justice, the cultivated land will be uniformly distributed to the people of the county for free farming, and land taxes will be paid according to the harvest. .

As for the specific number of acres of land each person will be allocated, the proportion of land tax, etc., it will be determined after the county population and land are fully collected.

On the one hand, there are high subsidies. After arriving in a new town, they can use the subsidy money to build a house and buy land to settle down again.

On the one hand, the land was taken back by the government and only the right to use it was obtained. The share allocated is unknown, and the land tax is unknown.

Those wealthy gentry families took their money and left without hesitation.

They have money and food, so they can still live a good life after moving out.

If they stay, they will not only lose the vast farmland that has been annexed for generations, but they may also be left without tenant farmers for farming.

If all the poor farmers within the jurisdiction have enough land, who will farm for them? We can't let them go to the ground in person, right?

The poor farmers who corresponded to them were overjoyed. The land allocated to them by their ancestors had been sold off in the years of famine, and they could only work as tenant farmers for the powerful and wealthy households, receiving minimal food rations.

Nowadays, land is redistributed, even if there is only the right to use it, and even if the land tax is not determined, it will not be worse than the situation of being a sharecropper in the past.

The most troubled ones are undoubtedly a small number of rich farmers. They relied on the accumulation of generations of ancestors to finally purchase a certain amount of fertile land.

Once you choose to stay, it will all be taken away, and how much can be redistributed is unknown. But if they choose to leave, they will easily be excluded and bullied by the locals in a new territory, and they will have to spend a lot of money to worship the mountains again in order to farm safely.

Now the government stipulates that whether to stay or go must be determined within a week, and another week is given for relocation.

Those rich farmers were so anxious that they blocked Qin Mu and others every day to ask how much land they could allocate.

At this moment, someone fanned the flames and rumors spread: The Qin family took all the land in the new county as their own and treated all the common people under their rule as tenant farmers, charging 80% of the tenant rent. The ultimate goal is to make them sell themselves and become slaves of the Qin family.

This made the red farmers who had accepted it calmly explode. Many people blocked Mr. Dongfang and called on the state pastor to send someone else to govern the new county.

The powerful and wealthy households who were preparing to migrate also stopped and joined the resistance.

It would be great for them if it could stay the same.

Qin Mu sent Zhong Wei and others to uncover the source of the rumor: the nephew of his predecessor, Chang Shi.

The man's patron uncle was killed by the Qin family, and the brick kiln under his name was taken away by the government, and finally fell into the hands of the Qin family.

Under extreme jealousy, knowing that the Qin family was cooperating with Zhou Mu, he still sent servants to spread the Qin family's cannibalism everywhere, intending to use public opinion to get Zhou Mu to take back his life and curb the Qin family's arrogance.

Now that man has been caught by Qin Mu, who plans to kill him in public. Anyone who dares to gather a crowd to cause trouble again will be expelled from the county to suppress the turmoil with strong methods.

This move was opposed by Mr. Dongfang. Even if he wanted to kill someone to vent his anger, the case should be tried and sentenced by the government.

As for the expulsion of the indigenous people, most of them were fooled and deceived by others. Their original intention was to survive and just clarify the rumors.

And what he did was in line with Zhou Mu's wishes.

Zhou Mu hoped that those people would stay and collect another large sum of money.

With this money, whether it is sending people to introduce refugees from other places or using it to develop military strength, it will be much more profitable than moving those people away.

What he didn't know was that when Mr. Dongfang and Qin Mu were at loggerheads, Chu Yi meant a special group-exiled prisoners.

According to the agreement, the Qin family can spend ten times the ransom money for buying and selling people, remove these people from the government, and then incorporate them into the new county, leaving them to the Qin family's disposal.

Even if he is exonerated and becomes innocent, he is not bound by the government.

And this is the benefit Qin Junyi gained in return for his concession in weapons supply.

Within the scope of the new county, exiled prisoners and their descendants accounted for more than half.

They plowed military fields during the busy farming season, dug rivers and mined mines during the slack farming season, and had no rest throughout the year until they collapsed and died from exhaustion.

If this group of people were retained, and based on their crimes and past performance, they would be exonerated or their work burden would be reduced, and this great favor would be given to them, they would be more loyal than other ordinary people.

Now that Zhou Mu is still obsessed with money, he can take advantage of the turmoil of expelling people and keep half of them at a discounted price.

So, Qin Mu and Chu Yi asked their men to continue to check in various villages. They returned to Beiling Village and asked Qin Junyi to make up his mind.

In the study, after listening to their explanations and suggestions, Qin Junyi asked Chu Yi: "How much do you think the state pastor will discount it?"

Chu Yi: "With the benefit bonus left by the other half of the common people, at least half of it can be reduced."

Qin Junyi thought for a moment and said, "Then let's go to the government office tomorrow to discuss the matter with the state pastor."

Su Yunwan added: "Even if the state animal husbandry agrees to discount the price by half, this part of the cost is still too high. Except for the few who are pardoned, the others who remain are responsible for cultivating military fields, and then regularly select the best and give them opportunities to redeem their sins, and let them divide them into Pay the atonement money monthly for several years.”

"Sister-in-law, this is a good idea. It can not only win people's hearts through kindness, but also pass on this high cost, so we don't have to be taken advantage of." Qin Mu praised.

Su Yunwan pursed her lips and smiled, then said: "As for the land tax, I want to implement a new tax system, cancel the capitation tax, and also cancel the temporary assessment, household tax, road tax, water tax, household tax and other exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes .

Taxes will only be collected from other aspects such as fields and commerce, and the integration of officials and gentry will be achieved. Families such as scholars and civil servants with high status will no longer be exempted from taxes to avoid land annexation.

As for government officials, we adopt a policy of high salaries to support integrity, and also provide salaries to all government officials such as government officials to prevent them from extending their money-making hands to ordinary people and achieve clean government. "

Her words made Qin Mu and Chu Yi as shocked as Qin Junyi when they first heard about them, and they were speechless for a moment.

Since ancient times, ordinary people have been required to pay a tax per capita every year from birth to death, as if they owe the royal family.

This tax is different from the field tax. No matter whether there is famine or not, whether there is food and drink, you must pay it as long as you are alive. How many people are forced to sell themselves and transfer this tax to the owner.

If the capitation tax is really abolished, then the people will finally live like human beings!