Chapter 464: Vassals of Vassals
Chapter 464 Vassals of Vassals
The castle in Langshanwu has a strong Central Plains castle style, and even the houses in the dock are mostly in the northern Central Plains style.
Qin Lang quite liked it.
"Mr. Yang, I think this northern city is more spacious, why not set up the Lang Son County Government in this northern city?"
Yang Jiyuan tidied up very neatly today, and hurriedly made a set of green round-neck robes, which look very nice on him.
"What Duke Wei said is true. Why don't we set up the county government office in the old man's previous house? Just clean it up, and we can start working immediately." Yang Jiyuan was straightforward, and he didn't give up. Never thought about taking it back.
When dealing with smart people, this is the most worry-free thing. Everyone will be very rational, and if you should make a decision, you should give in.
Next, Qin Lang said that he planned to station a team in Beicheng to serve as the power to educate, maintain law and order, and arrest thieves after the establishment of Langshan County. Yang Jiyuan hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded in agreement.
One county government, two sets of official positions.
One set was awarded to the Yang family, the county magistrate, the county magistrate, the county lieutenant, the recorder, and the army, etc., and the other set was the procurator, and Qin Lang selected a group of people from his own staff to serve as the procuratorate, county magistrate, and county lieutenant. Joining the army, etc., are of course controlled by Yang Jiyuan in name, and the county lieutenant is older than the county lieutenant of the school, but it is according to Qin Lang's plan.
Although the inspector is equivalent to a deputy, it is similar to an executive deputy, that is, he handles all the specific matters, and finally submits them to the chief for review.
If the county magistrate wants to do something, he has to go through the inspection of the county magistrate, and if he can inspect the school, he has to get the approval of the county magistrate.
It didn’t say that they should do things in parallel, and they didn’t take care of each other. Instead, they supervised each other and worked together under the same Tang law and the two tax laws.
Check and balance each other.
Yang Jiyuan couldn't see Qin Lang's plan, but after thinking about it, Qin Lang was still saving face, at least he didn't get rid of the Yang family, set up another yamen, and did his own thing, so how could the Yang family still participate in it.
Regarding the matter of naturalization and tax payment, Yang Jiyuan still wanted to fight for it, but Qin Lang refused as soon as he asked. Because of this disagreement before, the two families went to war, how can there be room now?
Yang Jiyuan shut up embarrassingly.
It’s not that the people in Lang Son didn’t need to pay taxes before they were naturalized. It’s just that they all pay taxes to the Yang family. Even the tax is not low. After all, the Yang family has such a small local population that they need to raise soldiers and maintain their own expenses. Every now and then, they would build docks and reclaim fields, and from time to time, the Yang family would also pay tribute to Jiaozhou and the imperial court.
Now Qin Lang wants to discuss this with Yang Jiyuan.
The Yang family wanted to maintain their status and their original privileges. The most important thing was the autonomy and economic privileges. Now that the Yang family has surrendered, the autonomy is gone.
But they still want to maintain this economic privilege.
"Yang Gong, the imperial court has changed the law of rent and mediocrity into a two-tax law. The land tax is based on the field of land, and the servitude is allocated to the field. In addition, the household registration is divided into nine classes according to the rich and the poor, and the household tax is collected. The new two-tax law, compared with the previous , for the common people, the burden has actually been greatly reduced. Lang Son implements the two-tax law, and the burden on the common people is not high."
Yang Jiyuan didn't want to implement the two-tax law, because he was the largest landlord, and the land basically belonged to the Yang family. The implementation of the two-tax law meant that the land tax was basically paid by his Yang family, and even the rent for the land tax was actually paid by the Yang family. It is also his responsibility.
"Mr. Yang, you can think about it from another angle. Although the tax is levied per mu, the grain collected per mu is actually only about 30 yuan per mu. Do you think it is too high?"
"Mr. Wei, the land of my Yang family was obtained by reclaiming wasteland. It is all raw land, and the yield is not high. Besides, my Yang family rents out tenants for the Wu people to cultivate, and the income is only half of it."
Yang Jiyuan still complained.
"As far as I know, Mr. Yang has more than 200,000 mu of land, which is quite a lot. Although there are many reclaimed fields, they are basically cultivated, and there is enough rain here, and they can be harvested twice a year. It can already produce about four stones of Maogu per mu in a year, which is much higher than the average yield in the Central Plains."
Maogu four shi per mu, that is, four shi of rice with husks, is indeed higher than many places in the Central Plains.
And Qin Lang has learned that in fact, most of the fields of the Yang family in Langshan are reclaimed and planted around the Qiongqi River Valley and some streams. In fact, there are many places suitable for reclamation and planting, and even the mountains are suitable for reclamation of terraced fields.
The rent that the Yang family charges from their own dock residents is 50-50, which seems not high, but these dock residents have to bear a lot of burdens, such as helping the Yang family build docks, canals and roads, and even training the city to defend the city. The handymen of the Yang family are actually on duty by the residents of the Yang family in turn, and they do it for free.
The Yang family paid the Yang family all the taxes, taxes, and labor that the people should have borne to the imperial government.
"Next, I will arrange for people to carry out the clearing of the land, and Mr. Yang will arrange to lead the way. After the clearing is completed, it will be formally recorded and archived, and the land deed will be issued to the landlord accordingly. It is protected by the government and is not infringed."
"The land deed will also be the tax base for the two-tax land tax."
Of course, land without title deeds is considered unclaimed land. Anyone can cultivate and occupy it, just like those wild mountain lands. They can be left to the mountain people to reclaim wasteland. After reclaiming, they can report to the government for registration. , After applying for measurement, the deed will be issued to the owner.
Measuring the land, checking the acres of fields, and also checking the household registration, which is to count the population from door to door, and indicate the number, age, gender, etc. of the population.
Below three generations, the account must be split.
A family like the Yang family is already a large family with hundreds of people. If it is only one family, of course it will not work.
"Mr. Yang, the land of the Yang family still belongs to the Yang family, and the relationship between the Yang family and the Wumin people will not change. In fact, it is just paying some taxes."
There are more than 200,000 mu of land. According to the two-tax law, the land tax is two liters per mu, and there is a free warehouse that pays one liter per mu. The total is only three liters per mu.
If you charge three stones per mu, then this is the tax rate of 1%. Even if Lao Yang's family is a landlord, and the land tenant collects the rent from the tenants, and the rent is divided 50-50, Lao Wang will at least get five buckets of stone, and the three liters paid is only one-fiftieth.
In fact, most of the Yang family’s land is two crops of rice, and the yield of rough rice is at least four stones per mu. This means that even if Lao Yang pays taxes on the millet after collecting the rent, it has not reached the level of 30 to 1 tax.
200,000 mu of land, 6,000 shi for grain, sounds like a lot, but evenly divided into mu, it is only three liters of grain. This amount of grain is the daily ration of the Tang frontier army.
Besides, the 50-50 share of the Yang family is actually just grain, not including straw or even some miscellaneous grains, etc. In addition, the tenants have to work for him.
Anyway, Qin Lang and Lao Yang did a detailed calculation there. No matter how they calculated, the annual tax of the old Wang family did not exceed 10,000 shi. worth mentioning.
What's more, although the old king has to pay a tax of several thousand stones and grains, he won't need to pay tribute in the future.
Furthermore, for the thousands of stone grains that were handed over, the Yang family, as the vassals of Tween and re-appointment, can take another third of it back, and the rest will be handed over to Wu'an Prefecture.
Three liters per mu, and one liter for Tween. The righteous warehouse grain was left in the local area to prevent disasters and famines, which meant that the Yang family actually only handed over one liter of grain per mu of land.
Qin Lang spread out a piece of white paper, picked up a charcoal pencil and sharpened it, and listed formulas and calculations on it for him. Lao Yang couldn't understand the numbers one by one. After listening to Qin Lang's explanation, he seemed to be Do not understand.
The most important thing is that Qin Lang's attitude is very tough. There is no room for maneuver in the taxation of registered households.
"Old Yang, is it difficult for the Yang family to accept a tax of only a few liters per mu of land? I, Qin Lang, now own more than 100,000 mu of land, but I haven't paid a single grain of grain. In addition to the land tax and grain in the two taxes, I also pay the free warehouse grain and the social warehouse grain. I even donate some of my harvest every year to orphanages and nursing homes in various places. The greater the ability, the greater the responsibility , isn't it?"
"Even if it is the emperor's Huangzhuang, the land tax is paid by the mu every year. Princes, generals and ministers cannot be exempted. Why is Yang Gong so persistent?"
Yang Jiyuan didn't expect that Qin Lang would have to pay the ration himself. After hearing that the emperor also wanted to pay the ration, Lao Yang thought about it.
That’s right, it’s only a few thousand stone grains a year, and it’s not that they can’t afford it. Besides, since Qin Lang said that after paying the grains, he doesn’t have to pay tribute, he feels that it’s nothing.
However, Qin Lang also told Yang Jiyuan that, as a vassal entrusted by Qin Lang Tween, he also had an obligation of loyalty to him in addition to paying taxes to the court.
For example, while he gets one-third of the tax, when Qin Lang needs it, their Yang family needs to provide ten knights, twenty warriors, and one hundred knights to serve Xiangyong, and one hundred warriors to serve Xiangyong. . These soldiers must be armed and keep training.
Part of the tax Qin Lang gave him was to recruit and train these armed forces.
Ten knights and twenty warriors, this is the number of vassals Qin Lang gave to the Yang family.
These thirty titled people will also get their own piece of territory.
Their territories pay taxes to the above, and they can also keep one third for themselves.
"Mr. Wei, my Yang family has hundreds of miles of land in Lang Son. There are only thirteen Guangwu Forts, ten knights and twenty warriors. Is it a little less?"
"Mr. Yang, I have something to discuss with you. After Lang Son is established as a county, I want to send troops to station here and confer knights to guard here. So I want to ask Mr. Yang for a few fortresses. Please forgive me. There are thirteen docks on the mountain, outside the main dock, how about half of one person?"
Yang Jiyuan immediately looked very ugly.
"Mr. Yang, I only need six forts, and the fields outside the six forts still belong to the Yang family. How about it?"
These Wubao were developed by the Yang family's hard work. The predecessor of each Wubao was once a barbarian stronghold occupying one side.
At the beginning, it took countless painstaking efforts, but now Qin Lang said that he would take it away, which is really difficult for others.
"Twelve Wubao, Yang Gong can choose six first, and leave the remaining six to me. I don't choose a place."
In exchange, Qin Lang is willing to double the number of knights and warriors in the Yang family, giving him twenty knights and fifty warriors, so that the Yang family can have up to two hundred knights, servant Xiangyong and five hundred warriors The armed forces of the attendant Xiangyong.
This is a private armed force belonging to the Yang family, and it is also loyal to the Yang family, the Shifeng governor of Wu'an Prefecture.
Apart from this, the Yang family is not allowed to have other soldiers and horses.
Qin Lang said this to Yang Jiyuan with a smile, but his eyes were firm, staring at Yang Jiyuan like an eagle, making him very uncomfortable.
He directly told Yang Jiyuan that he would grant the six Wubao to his brothers.
Qin used Qin Yong, Huang Biao, Dugu Yanyun, Feng Shan to wash the sea, these six people, one person and one castle.
Except for Feng Shan and Xi Haihai, Qin Yong is also a virtual title granted by the emperor. Qin Yong, Qin Yong and Ah Huang are both viscounts, and Dugu Yanyun is a baron.
Feng Shan Xianhai was originally a slave soldier centurion of Feng An's family. He has performed outstandingly since he entered the mountain. Qin Lang planned to give them a Wubao as well.
Establish a township in one fort, and manage the criminals and refugees brought to the Central Plains, and reclaim wasteland for farming and planting.
No matter how the Yang family chooses, he wants six of the twelve Wubao.
The main dock Qin Lang wanted the North City.
Officials at the first level are crushing people, not to mention Qin Lang is carrying the prestige of new victory, Yang Jiyuan, a loser who knelt down in Kaicheng, really doesn't have much capital to bargain with Qin Lang.
Everything has been laid out for discussion.
"Mr. Yang, I hope that in this barren land of Wu'an Prefecture, the Qin and Yang families can marry for generations, live in friendship, and go hand in hand with each other. After all, we are all Chinese Han people in the Central Plains. If we are not united, we will Devoured by barbarians."
"I'll think about it when I go back, and then give Wei Gong an answer?" Yang Jiyuan said with some seriousness.
"Okay, I hope Duke Yang can think twice!"
(end of this chapter)