These people are also the ones that Ling Xue cares about the most, because they have already wanted to settle down, and now it depends on whether the conditions Ling Xue offers are good.
Ling Xue was also considering this issue. The conditions she planned to offer were not too generous. She would just give them all the reclaimed land, but they would have to plant sweet potatoes and potatoes for Ling Xue in the first three years. After three years, Ling Xue would not care what they planted.
However, they still have to pay the land tax after three years.
Ling Xue's conditions regarding taxation were quite relaxed. She only collected land tax and no other taxes.
Ling Xue didn't even plan to let the people pay for the corvée labor that the government had to levy every year. It wasn't that there was no corvée labor, but Ling Xue planned to pay them to come out and work.
As long as they are willing to pay, the people are eager to do labor service.
Ling Xue told Shen Zhen her idea and asked him to implement it, which made Shen Zhen furious. If you abolish all taxes, how will the government operate?
Ling Xue's words stunned him: "Yunyang Prefecture isn't ours yet. We're just managing it on behalf of it, so I'm doing it completely my way. Are you still going to extort money from the people and then give it to the emperor in the capital?"
Shen Zhen: When did I ever say I would collect the people's belongings and give them to the emperor?
In the end, Shen Zhen still couldn't convince Ling Xue, so he had to promulgate this matter as a new policy.
A new official has three things to do when he takes office. Is everyone in Yunyang City watching Ling Xue's moves with open eyes?
Now the rebel armies or anti-kings in various places have implemented new policies. In order to collect military funds for the war, they use all kinds of excuses to squeeze the little money from the people. There are really complaints!
When it came to Ling Xue, not only did he not collect more, but he canceled a lot of them. Everyone wondered if Young Master Shen had a problem with his brain?
Although the Shen family is very rich, they can't exempt all taxes levied on the people, right?
Not to mention the wealthy families, even the common people didn't believe it.
Ling Xue didn't care about that. She just wanted to let the facts speak for themselves whether she believed it or not.
Half a month later, all the fields were planted with sweet potatoes and potatoes, and even the wasteland reclaimed by the refugees was basically planted.
Ling Xue could finally breathe a sigh of relief.
Now it depends on the harvest in three months. Although Ling Xue is very confident about the yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes, she still doesn't dare to make any promises before the results come out.
Ling Xue was very serious about land. After all, it was a feudal society, and land was the most important thing for the people. Therefore, Ling Xue decided to count all the land in Yunyang Prefecture.
Anything registered under the name of a scholar to avoid taxes, or any large amount of hidden land owned by a local tyrant or evil gentry, must be registered.
All taxes must be paid, and nothing can be concealed. Anyone who conceals any information will have their land confiscated and transferred to the Yunyang Prefecture.
If you don’t report the land honestly, I’m sorry, you can’t keep it.
As soon as Ling Xue announced this policy, everyone was shocked, especially the wealthy families. Every household had hidden farmland and tax-evading fields, and Ling Xue was damaging their interests.
These families sent people to find Shen Zhen, who was actually the one who implemented these policies. But Shen Zhen was cunning, and he said to these people:
