Chapter 184 Political Order

Now the remaining refugees have a place to settle, and the remaining more than 20,000 or nearly 30,000 refugees have moved to Luofeng Town to mine. The population of Luofeng Town has soared, so Luofeng Town naturally cannot continue to be called Luofeng Town. Zhao Qian remembered that someone had already asked Luofeng Town to be changed to Luofeng County.

Zhao Chen asked for an order to set up a county, but it was not called Luofeng County, but named Zhaoyuan, which was derived from the meaning of "Zhaoyuan, Zhaohuihuaiyuan's righteousness". In vernacular, it is to recruit refugees from afar.

However, it will take some time to wait until the imperial edict is completed. During this period, Luofeng Town naturally cannot continue to manage according to the original situation. Zhao Qian implemented military control over Luofeng Town, and Hu Yanzhuo led his headquarters to camp to Luofeng Town first. Qian Yanyuan was responsible for the Quanzhi Mining resettlement activity, temporarily managing the mining area and resettling refugees.

As soon as the appointment was issued, Zhao Jin had to discuss installment payments with the large Yizhou owners who came to Yidu City. At this time, there were few installments, even if there were any, between countries. After all, the information was not developed. If the person left, who would ask for money to pay for advance payments? People are not as good as those in the country!

At the same time, Yizhou sent seven large households, all of which were famous landowners in Yizhou. The largest landlords reached 70,000 acres. Even the town where his ancestral home was located was named after his family's surname. But the difficulty was not just these...

"Can't be paid in one go?" As the largest landlord among these people, Hu Fuchen, immediately stood up when he heard Zhao Jin's words. "Prince, although we bought those fields during natural disasters and man-made disasters, they were all written in black and white. Both sides were willing to do so. Why do you want to take out a little money and take them down? As for what will happen in the future, who knows! One day the emperor and another day the minister, let alone the appeasement envoy?"

The other six big investors agreed, but in fact they all had some thoughts, that is, they saw that Jingdong East Road did not have much money, so they collectively sold the land. This seems to have made concessions, but in fact they are moving forward as retreat.

How could Zhao Qian not recall this? This is the second one, which can be said to be the biggest difficulty of this meeting.

"Six hundred thousand guan! As long as you agree, you can get this money within three years! As for whether it can be cashed out, I believe you should know that the latest issue of Qingzhou Di has been reported? The gold mine of at least 1.6 million taels does not have small mine veins that may appear at any time around. As for escaping, can you still escape in the huge Song Dynasty? Are you still afraid that the successors will dare to ignore me?" Zhao Chen threw out his first bargaining chip, but he did not think the problem would be so easy to solve.

Hu Fuchen did not stand out this time, but gave a wink. The most loyal dog-legged man appeared and shouted: "Your words make sense! But the price given is not kind. This is a full 180,000 acres of land! On average, one and a half stones can be produced per mu, and 270,000 stones of grain can be produced in one year!"

Another big landlord said in a flash: "No, based on the current price of 500 cents per stone, this is equivalent to 135,000 guan! According to 30% of our rent and tax payment, we will have more than 40,000 guan a year! In this way, we only get 70,000 guan more in three years! The interest is very short!"

In fact, this big man changed his concept. First of all, the current grain is 500 yuan per stone, but that is because the grain has not yet fallen after the disaster. Once the summer harvest occurs, the grain will immediately fall to about 300 yuan. After the autumn harvest, the grain will drop to 26070 yuan. And this is just the retail price. The price of grain purchased by merchants is generally about 20% lower than the retail price. In fact, one stone of grain is only about 200 yuan.

In other words, over the past year, the money received by big investors will actually shrink by half.

Zhao Qian knew that he could see the tricks of these big-name households, but he was too lazy to be petty with them. If he talked about these big-name households now, he would never finish it for three days and three nights. After all, when it comes to grain, some rice can be said to be better, such as less watering after the drought this year and less rice quality, so the price is different.

Zhao Qian directly threw out the second chip. "I know that you secretly call me a slander, because I never do things according to ordinary people's thoughts. I don't care what you think. I just tell you that I don't like to argue the most. This is the decree that I am preparing to issue, you can take a look!"

As he said that, a clerk walked out, holding seven documents that he had to say in his hand, and sent them to each landlord. The landlords opened the documents and looked carefully, and their faces turned green immediately.

"Yi Cang Grain Order"

"The Order of the Trade in the Grain and the Trade"

The former is that in the next three years, Yizhou will requisition 20% of the grain per mu of land every year to place it in the charity warehouse. Fortunately, there will be enough grain to provide disaster relief after the famine occurs.

This government order is good, but the problem is 20% of the food! Originally, the tenants of the landlords would impose 30% of the rent and tax every year, plus these 20%. Whose tenants did not rebel?

But they had no way to stop it, because the document said it very clearly. This grain was not a tax levied by the court, but was used for the charity warehouse, taken from the people, and used for the people. The grain yamen has no right to call it without famine, but can pay money, buy it at a market price, and then use it for other places.

But Zhao Jin also said that it was only for trial in Yizhou area.

Isn’t this forcing their tenants to go to other prefectures and counties?

The latter "The Order of the Storing Grain and Trade ban" is even more hated by the landlords. This "The Order of the Storing Grain and Trade ban" roughly means that there are three years of severe drought and three years of severe flooding. Since there is a drought, there will be a flood in a few years. In order to prevent the unscrupulous merchants from hoarding grain, the food stored by each merchant shall not exceed 10,000 shi in the future, and the food stored by each household shall not exceed 8,000 shi. Once a violation is found, a number of fines will be imposed depending on the situation, and the excess grain will be collected to the local government.

In order to prevent illegal merchants from garrisoning grain from outside, and at the same time, foreign merchants disrupt the market, starting from the promulgation of the law, Yizhou grain cannot be transported out.
Chapter completed!