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The captain glanced at Yang Wanyong gratefully before continuing.

"The leader said that we are not asked to be kitchen households or salt households, but to be salt factory workers.

After arriving, only one person from each household would work as a salt worker in the salt factory. For salt workers, the factory not only provides food and accommodation, but also gives them one stone of grain per month.

If you do a good job and produce enough salt, the factory will give you salt as a reward! "

After hearing these words, the atmosphere of the crowd immediately changed, and many people looked surprised.

"Salt workers are treated so well? Is it true?"

"With one stone of food per month, you can feed three people for almost nothing!"

"That's not true - I heard yesterday that the people who reclaim wasteland here are eating from a big pot, and work points are recorded, and there is no salary. I didn't expect that the salt workers were actually paid, and they were so generous."

"The salary is so good, it's not impossible to become a salt worker."

"···"

Yang Wanyong was also surprised by the good treatment of salt workers.

Although salt work is hard work, and I feel that my hands and feet will easily ulcerate over time, but if I can feed two or three people, it is worth it.

Not to mention that if you do a good job, you will be rewarded with salt.

But he also had doubts.

So he asked: "Captain, did the above say how to arrange the arrangements for the salt workers' families?"

“I was just about to say this,” the captain said with a smile, “The leader said that the Hai Salt Factory should be used as a pilot project for new settlement rules.

Don't ask me what a pilot is, I can't explain it either. All I know is that the families of salt workers first divided into small groups to cultivate villages around the salt factory.

In collective farming villages, just like in the big camp, work points are recorded according to contribution.

But as long as the team cultivates 800 acres of land, the fields can be divided.

Each household has the right to use five acres of land, and another five hundred acres will be distributed according to the total work points earned by each household in the team.

As for the remaining fifty acres of land, it belongs to the public. Why return to the public?

The food we came here to eat cannot be given to the rebels in vain, right?

The tools and rations we need to reclaim the wasteland cannot be provided by the rebels in vain, right?

Not to mention, the rebels will also protect our safety - the rebel soldiers are not allowed to eat, are not allowed to support their families, and are not allowed to receive compensation for their death or injury? "

The captain stopped here, and the crowd started buzzing with discussion again.

Yang Wanyong listened carefully and found that everyone had a lot of questions.

"We will allocate five acres of land for this foundation. If some people are lazy and work less, or simply go to do other things, won't they get five acres of land in vain?"

"Now that the land is divided, how much tax will the rebels charge? It won't be higher than that in the Ming Dynasty, right?"

"···"

As a former rich farmer, Yang Wanyong keenly noticed the "field use rights" in the captain's words.

I thought, what is the right to use?

Could it be that after the land was divided, it still belonged to them?

However, no one questioned the return of fifty acres of land to the public.

As the captain said, during the process of reclamation, they ate from the rebels, used the rebels, and accepted the protection of the rebels. The rebels should have received part of the land.

Besides, after all, they were part of the rebel army.

As for whether the Ming Dynasty's reclamation policy was better than that of the rebels?

None of the refugees present understood this.

Because the large-scale land reclamation organized by the Ming Dynasty was basically during the Hongwu period.

Who among ordinary people would know something that happened so long ago?

In the past one or two hundred years, there were only a few remote prefectures and counties in the Ming Dynasty. Occasionally, officials would recruit refugees to reclaim wasteland to enrich their household registration and increase their political achievements.

But the land in those places is mostly barren, and reclamation is difficult and even unsafe.

Farmers need at least one year, or even two or three years of hard work to support their family.

In addition, reclamation of wasteland without official permission is against court law.

Otherwise, how can we call those people who went to the mountains to cultivate wasteland privately as fugitives?

Overall, the conditions for the rebels to colonize North America are very good.

It is incomparable to the early Ming Dynasty - at that time, too many people died due to the change of dynasties, and a large amount of mature and good land was abandoned, and the people could pick it up for nothing.

But this kind of good thing only existed in the first one or twenty years of the founding of the feudal dynasty, and don't even think about it at other times.

···

People talked for a while and then asked questions all over the place, which made the captain very anxious.

After a while, I finally collected all the questions and answered them one by one.

"I didn't talk about the settlement in detail - what should I do if someone is lazy?

There are minimum work point requirements for each household during farming. If the total score obtained in the end is too low, you will not be able to obtain the guaranteed land, but will only be able to obtain the land allocated according to the number of work points later. "

After hearing this, those people who were worried about being taken advantage of by lazy people were obviously relieved.

Obviously, if there is no guaranteed five acres of land and only work and land are allocated, it will be a big disadvantage.

If someone is lazy and fails in allotment of fields, the number of fields he will be allocated will definitely be very small.

"Let's talk about the land tax - in the first year after the land is divided, it is only one tax per twenty; starting from the second year, it is changed to one tax per ten.

Don’t think too much, everyone. The leader said that in addition to regular taxes, the rebels will not impose other miscellaneous taxes on the fields where food is grown.

In addition, when the corvee was called for, the rebel army would not only provide rations to those who served, but also provide a certain amount of wages, instead of asking everyone to prepare their own dry food and work for nothing like the Ming Dynasty. "

In fact, Liu Sheng originally wanted to abolish corvee directly, but changed his mind under Li Changwen's persuasion.

First of all, collecting and issuing corvees was the main means for the imperial court to mobilize people's strength to do things. If the right to collect and issue corvees was given up, many things would be difficult to accomplish.

Moreover, even the people of later generations may not all be people who understand the principles and practice them, let alone the people at this time.

If corvee labor cannot be collected, the people may not be willing to do certain things even if the court pays for them.

In addition, the civilian husbands needed by the court were hired at market prices, which would cause a heavy financial burden.

Therefore, before the country develops to a certain level, abolishing corvee is suicidal.

Finally, while people enjoy the rights granted by the state, they should also bear certain responsibilities and obligations.

For example, military service was not abolished by any developed country in later generations.

Therefore, corvee can only be reduced and lightened, but it cannot be completely abolished.

As for whether the land tax of one in ten would be too high and dissatisfied the immigrants, Liu Sheng was not worried.

Through some of his original knowledge, coupled with the confirmation of Li Changwen and others, he basically understood the weight of farmers' taxes at this time in the Ming Dynasty.

When many people mention agricultural taxes in the Ming Dynasty, they will think of the ultra-low tax rates of 30 to 1 or even 40 to 1 tax.

But why is the burden on farmers so heavy in the middle and later stages?

If you look at information related to land taxes in the Ming Dynasty, you must pay attention to an easily overlooked item - time!

The information all says: What percent is the agricultural tax rate in a certain place in a certain year?

Why is the year stated?

Because the amount of agricultural taxes in various parts of the Ming Dynasty changes every year - if there is no change, it must be because the relevant agencies and local officials are lazy and directly use the previous year's.