Jia Lian of the Red Chamber

Looking back, Jia Lian said that in September, he had been staring at the harvest of sweet potatoes. By early October, all the sweet potatoes planted had been harvested. The yield per mu reported by Fujian and Zhejiang provinces was pleasing to the eye. The minimum output is also 330 catties.

The yield of sandy land on slopes, pits and depressions ranges from a maximum of [-] jin to a minimum of [-] jin.However, even according to the harvest of [-] catties, one mu of sandy land can guarantee that a family of three will not starve to death.

Jia Lian quickly reported the results of the autumn harvest in Fujian and Zhejiang to Emperor Jiakang. Emperor Jiakang was overjoyed when he heard the news and decided to promote it in Gansu, Henan, Huguang.

Emperor Jiakang quickly ordered the governors of Gansu, Henan, Huguang, and Guangxi to send people to Fujian and Zhejiang for investigation and study.The governor of Gansu responded positively, but it was Henan and Huguang Shangzhezi who felt that Henan Huguang was not suitable for planting sweet potatoes, and if they were reluctant to promote it, they would delay the original autumn harvest.

Emperor Jiakang’s order to plant sweet potatoes in Huguang Zao, Henan was not aimless. In addition to correspondence with Jia Lian, he also had a heart-to-heart conversation with Mr. Du, thinking that the weather in Henan and Huguang in summer and autumn is not much different from that in Fujian and Zhejiang, and it should be possible to grow them, even if there is no Fujian and Zhejiang. With a yield of three thousand catties, as long as the yield per mu is one thousand catties, it is also a bumper harvest.Furthermore, Huguang and Huguang in Henan often plant a season of wheat. From June to October, the ground is always empty.Use it for trial planting, even if the harvest is not good, you can make up for it.

As a result, the governors of these two places actually disliked trouble and pushed back.Emperor Jiakang was immediately annoyed, and issued an edict to reprimand the governors of Henan, Huguang, and Guangxi. If Emperor Jiakang’s original intention were to be replaced, someone who was willing to listen would be replaced. However, these people are old ministers left behind by the late emperor. Therefore, give them two days to go. First, resign by themselves, and the court will appoint capable people to take over.Second, the Lixia military order, if someone who is not in Zhongganshu encounters natural disasters and man-made disasters, and another person starves to death on the ground in Huguang, Henan, they will be killed.If many people died of starvation, their entire families would be killed.

Yu Yanming, governor of Huguang, originally thought that the emperor's son-in-law would write politely, but in the end he scolded him bloody and even killed him.This is actually all done by themselves.Madam Yu dared to design the emperor to take concubines during the filial piety, if it was not for the sake of Yan Hou and the empress, she would have taken Yu Yanming and his wife to the knife.

How could it be polite to find a reason for the emperor this time.The governor of Henan was also unlucky, being implicated by Yu Yanming.

Yu Yanming was threatened and scolded by the emperor's son-in-law, and immediately became honest. His parents and children went to the capital to explain that they were afraid that farmers would invest human and financial resources, and that they would not harvest grains in autumn, so it would be difficult to do business, and it was not disrespectful to the holy order.

Emperor Jiakang didn't buy it: "What loss? The sweet potato seeds are distributed free of charge by the imperial court. Are you willing to wait to starve to death instead of trying to find a way out, a way to be well-off?"

Yu Yanming was really ashamed, so he had no choice but to hand over the government affairs to the chief envoy, and personally lead a team to Fujian and Zhejiang for sightseeing and study.Later, Yu Yanming seemed to never return on the way of planting sweet potatoes. He personally went deep into Huangpi, Dabie Mountain, Zigui, Shennongjia and other mountainous areas. Because most of the western part of Huguang is mountainous, rice planting is limited, and wheat production is low. People fell in love with sweet potatoes at once. Moreover, Yu Yanming made persistent efforts and invented the interplanting of soybeans in sweet potato fields. As a result, soybeans and sweet potatoes had a double harvest.

Therefore, Emperor Jiakang was famous for visiting Huguang in other provinces, and he finally earned his sophistication.He also saved face for his daughter and grandson.Since then, the hearts of the parents have finally been opened.

This is something.

Looking back, Jia Lian said that in the first year, he successfully planted sweet potatoes in two seasons in dry fields, which solved the problem of food and clothing for the people. Beginning in October of this year, Jia Lian started to implement the preparations for the New Deal.

This policy is somewhat of an equalization of the rich and the poor.Because most of the land is in the hands of nobles and nobles.These people are tax exempt.

In the twelfth lunar month of this year, according to the public opinion he heard during the three-month trip to measure the land, Jia Lian offered advice to Emperor Jiakang, the main content of which was to consider how much tax-free land the gentry owned.

Since ancient times, the gentry has been exempted from taxes and has been deeply rooted in people's cognition.If one size fits all now, it is estimated that the rebound will be huge. Jia Lian suggested that it should be done step by step.

What kind of step-by-step method?Just like the golden flowers on the heads of officials and wives, they are restricted.

For example, for scholars, the limit is [-] mu of tax-free land, for Juren [-] mu, for Jinshi, [-] mu, and for seventh-rank officials, [-] mu. By analogy, the bigger the official, the more tax-free land.So is the Lord.

As for how many tax-free land each gentry has, Jia Lian has no conclusions. He hopes that the court will set a standard that takes national interests into account and respects the gentry.

In addition, Jia Lian also put forward a suggestion, hoping that the imperial court can support the two provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang to prohibit large-scale land sales before the end of next year, because the country has previously stipulated that the land will be exempted from tax during the land surface, and Jia Lian is afraid that someone will take advantage of this policy to fight against next year New land tax deal for fall.

Emperor Jiakang fully supported the new tax policy in Fujian and Zhejiang, and the two proposals put forward by Jia Lian.

The day after receiving Jia Lian's report, Emperor Jiakang was anxious for the cabinet to discuss and determine the amount of tax-free land for gentry.

In the end, the imperial court decided to divide the ranks into the top ten from the scholar to the first rank.Xiucai allowed [-] acres of tax-free land.Because a scholar earns a tael of silver per month, and he can only sell [-] acres of good land for a lifetime, so the scholar has a quota of [-] acres of good land, and [-] acres of slope land can be exempted from tax.Then the ninth and eighteenth ranks will be increased according to the quota of scholars.That is to say, from Jiupin, one hundred acres of fertile land and one hundred emperors do not pay taxes.Incrementally increasing to the first grade of the imperial court is a thousand acres of fertile land without taxation.

Nobility starts from the duke to the lowest rank of Wuqiwei, 27 ranks in the ninth class, and Wuqiwei is tax-free for [-] acres.

In the end, the duke's tax-free quota was [-] mu, the marquis' [-] mu, the earl's [-] mu, the viscount's [-] mu, and the baron's [-] mu.

Then there are the clan princes.The prince has [-] mu, the county king has [-] mu, the county has [-] mu, and the county has [-] mu.The following is the same as the Duke of Fuguo.

The princess princess and the county master refer to the county king and county magistrate.

For example, Rongguo Mansion's thousand hectares of meritorious fields in the Eastern Province, Jia Mu lived for a day, and [-] hectares of them had to be taxed.In addition to the addition of the two marquises of Jia's mansion and the marquis of Sister Feng, the Rong mansion also has to pay [-] mu of land tax.

The tax payment in the Great Moon Dynasty was very low, only a little more than [-] catties per mu per season, less than [-] catties, and when the small tax and corvee were added, it only accounted for two-tenths of the harvest, which was really very low.

But the nobles of the Great Moon Dynasty really got richer and more treacherous, so they just didn't like it.

In March of the new year, Jia Lian was surveying the land in full swing, organizing spring plowing, and receiving officials from the three provinces of Gansu, Henan, Huguang, and Guangxi who came to visit and study. He was busy eating and blocking time.

Jia Lian received a letter from home saying that the Rongguo Mansion is going to hold a big wedding.

Because of the death of the Queen of Heaven, the marriage of the sisters Yingchun and Tanchun was delayed. This time, we have to rush to deal with it. Although we will not be going abroad now, we are not afraid of [-] but just in case. There are still many concubines in the palace.

Jia Lian is divided and lacks skills, so he can only be absent from the wedding where his younger sister meets his brother.However, nowadays, the goods from Fujian and Zhejiang are almost unrivaled in the world. I thought that girls probably like pearls and gems. Like novelty pearls, I bought a few boxes for Yingchun, which can be regarded as an addition to makeup.

Sister Feng and her two daughters now dress like Western women, with curly hair, high-waisted skirts, flowery umbrellas, and high-heeled shoes.It's just that Jia Lian only allowed him to learn how to dress with those foreign women, and she was not allowed to learn to dance.Not only did he tell Sister Feng that he would break her legs if he dared to learn, but he also sent a message to Francois that he dared to instigate his wife to cuddle with a man, so he copied his speech.

Therefore, although Sister Feng can wear skirts and drink coffee, she can't dance.

Even sister Qiao can't dance, but sister Qiao and Qian have mastered Western etiquette to the fullest.

This time when Yingchun was married, Sister Feng bought a lot of Western items, especially Western dresses and Western jewelry, and bought a set for each of the female relatives in Rongning and Ningxia.Even Jiamu Xing's family has a share.They don't care if they wear Sister Feng or not.

Sister Feng was going back to Beijing, and Sister Qiao would naturally follow her back to Beijing, which made Lu Ping's wife so painful that she didn't sleep well for several nights, and took her daughter Xiuying to stay in the Governor's Yamen for several days.He said that he was helping Sister Feng pack her luggage, but she was reluctant to part with Sister Qiao and Sister Qian.

When Lu Ping saw it, he sneered and said, "You silly woman, if you like it so much, you might as well take her home."

Mrs. Lu Ping rolled her eyes: "Do you think I didn't expect that? But I hinted at Sister Feng a few times, and he pretended to be deaf and dumb. Tell me what to do. Is it impossible to snatch a marriage!"

Lu Ping thought about it, this is also true, thinking that the girl is still young, and he will talk to the governor tomorrow.

Lu Ping's son Lu Yingjun scratched his head anxiously, his mother was too straightforward, she didn't understand the twists and turns of people in the capital.How can the daughter of a begging family say it face to face? People think it is disrespectful?

Lu Yingjun had no choice but to look for his father, and he was embarrassed to say that when he went, he laughed dryly: "Father, the governor's wife is going back to Beijing?"

Lu Ping saw at a glance that this kid was holding back his anger, pretending not to know, and snorted: "Nonsense, who doesn't know about this, I already asked your mother to help, isn't your kid on good terms with that brother, go and help too point."

Lu Yingjun was choked and panicked, his parents are really stupid!The mother's mouth is unlucky, but the father's reaction is slow!

There is no reason in the world to draw a daughter-in-law by yourself!