Chastity Layman

After Princess Changle moved into Taiping Weigong Castle, she showed her gentle side.

The retainers of the Qin family and their female relatives who had received the fiefdom only looked through the account books sent by the stewards of the Qin family.

And to the children born to Qin Lang and the concubines, she also fully demonstrated the atmosphere that a big woman should have. Not only was he gentle and courteous to these concubine children, but he also prepared a lot of thoughtful gifts for them.

Originally, I was most worried about Anong. After all, she has been staying in the fief. Unlike Yu Xiao and others who have been with the princess in Luoyang for a while, and have the experience of traveling along the way, they are always worried that the princess will not be tolerated. But a month passed in the blink of an eye, and found that the princess treated people kindly, and always treated her like a sister. This made Anon feel that she was waiting to be killed, but in the end, she only felt like a feather was passing by.

At the same time he breathed a sigh of relief, he admired this princess from the bottom of his heart.

Greetings every morning and evening, and dare not neglect in the slightest.

The princess came to Taiping for a month, basically did nothing, neither re-established the rules for Wei Gongbao, nor sent her steward to check the accounts to take over the errands in the mansion.

Up and down, inside and outside, what should be is still not what it should be.

Everything is as it is.

Every day I stay in Wei Gongbao with the concubines and servants in the mansion, doing some embroidery work, drinking afternoon tea, occasionally playing the piano and composing poems, or educating the children of the concubines together, the days are as smooth as running water.

Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, an envoy from Luoyang came.

Both the emperor and the prince sent people to bring Mid-Autumn Festival gifts to the princess, and also rewarded Qin Lang and his children with many things.

Princess Changle was changed to Princess Taiping, and a total of 1,000 households were added to Fengshiyitong.

Holding a box of mooncakes, this box of mooncakes was made by his father with his sisters and nephews such as Princess Jinyang and Qin Wang Li Xiang. Jin Wang Mingda was still naughty, and the mooncakes she made were actually some rabbits, saying they were moon rabbits.

Li Zhi, the younger brother of the King of Jin, who had been with her for several years, had already gone to Chengde to join the feudal clan. Like her, she could no longer spend this Mid-Autumn Festival with her father.

In the letter to Lizhi, the emperor mentioned that he was looking forward to having a grandson as soon as possible, and he also gave a silver bottle of money, but it was the customized money used for the three rites. The emperor used this to urge his daughter to give birth early.

Lizhi's eyes turned red.

After getting married in Luoyang, she finally married Saburo. After marriage, Qin Lang resigned from all official positions and stayed with her wholeheartedly at home. Those were the happiest three months of her life.

The time of happiness is always so short, and Li Zhi, who is still immersed in it, has to accept the fact that her husband has to go south to quell the chaos because of her brother Li You's rebellion in Qianzhong.

After saying goodbye to Xiangyang, several months passed in the blink of an eye, but she never saw her husband again.

It is said that the newlyweds are like glue, but she can't even see her husband's face.

Every day in Wei Gongbao in Tianshan Mountain, surrounded by children born to Qin Lang and concubines, Li Zhi is always extremely envious, wishing that she also has a child with San Lang.

Although she misses her husband in her heart, Li Zhi remembers what her mother taught her, that men are always in business and are always busy outside, and women have to endure loneliness and take care of the home for men.

Fortunately, during the day, I was accompanied by concubines such as Yuxiao Anong, and cousins ​​such as Yingluonu and King Kong, but at night, I couldn't help being alone and unable to sleep, tossing and turning, always unable to sleep.

Where is Treasure Island?

It is said that in the depths of the South China Sea, Lizhi can only stare at a map of the South China Sea in a daze.

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Qin Lang knew that after the princess had safely arrived at Taiping Port earlier, he had planned to go back earlier, but there was always something delaying her.

Luzon was first established, and everywhere was busy.

Qin Lang personally sits on the island, and many things can be saved by him making decisions.

The Qin family's strategy is to first occupy the two bay ports in the north and south of the central plain, forming a situation where the double dragons surround the central plain, and focus on developing and operating the central plain of Luzon regardless of other places.

In order to stimulate immigrants to settle down, Qin Lang offered generous settlement conditions. A man was granted 120 acres of land, a young and strong woman was also granted 60 acres of land, and a middle-aged man was granted 60 acres of land. Dictation field, 30 mu per person.

Moreover, after this field is awarded, it will be a permanent job, which can be inherited from generation to generation.

In addition, the rent was completely exempted for the first five years, and only increased by 20% every year for the next five years. The full rent was not levied until the eleventh year, but the full rent was only set at three per mu, and the land rent was extremely low. .

Except for three buckets per mu, there is no other levy, neither fodder is collected, nor is it required to be allocated to the mu, nor is it required to do free labor for 20 days, and there is no grain for free warehouses or communal warehouses.

Moreover, Qin Lang rejected the proposal to divide the land into nine grades such as Tiantang and so on. For the time being, the land will not be divided into grades, but the tax rate is extremely low.

In addition to attracting gold diggers and others to stay and grant land, Qin Lang also gave extremely generous conditions for settlement to the Qin family's stewards and other basic family members.

The managers and buddies in various industries of the Qin family originally had their seniority and position. Qin Lang announced that they would be granted land based on the length of service in the Qin family and the level of their position.

In addition to the basic land quota, land is awarded according to their seniority and position. Basically, an apprentice who has completed five years can get an extra ten acres of land, and a junior buddy can get an extra twenty acres of land. A middle-level guy can get thirty acres, and a senior guy can get fifty acres.

And a third-level shopkeeper can get 100 mu, a second-level shopkeeper can get 200 mu, and a first-level shopkeeper can get 300 mu, and the managers at all levels will increase accordingly, and a big manager can get an extra thousand mu of land.

Junior apprentices, intermediate apprentices and senior apprentices, and then to third-level buddies, third-level shopkeepers, and third-level stewards, a total of fifteen levels, from granting an additional ten acres of land to granting a thousand acres.

Even those who have made the highest contributions can receive special awards of 2,000 to 3,000 acres.

In essence, this is a replica of the knights entrusted by the Qin family in Wu'an Prefecture. It just changed the name, but the essence remains the same.

The Qin family allocated land to their own people in various places, not only enclosing the land, but also giving them an additional benefit of one-third of the rent.

Encourage these internal employees of the Qin Group to immigrate and settle down, and even encourage them to recruit relatives and friends from the Central Plains to settle down. Every time a person is recruited and introduced to settle down, not only will the land be allocated to the other party according to the policy, but also the introducer will be given land. Ten mu of land is rewarded for every strong man, and five mu of land is given to the rest of the female men, and one mu of land is also given to young and old as encouragement.

Granted land can be bought and sold as long as it has been twenty years old.

The quota given by Qin Lang for owning land is 10,000 mu, as long as it does not exceed 10,000 mu.

He encouraged people to come and build manors to reclaim wasteland.

There is only one rule, don't throw it away. If the land is abandoned, it will be punished. If it has been abandoned for three consecutive years, it must be taken back to prevent people from hoarding the land and not farming it.

Although Qin Lang offers favorable conditions for granting land, he is not afraid of giving too much land, because the area of ​​arable land that can be reclaimed can reach 300,000 hectares in just one central plain, which is a total of 30 million mu of land.

Even if a family can own a farm of two or three hundred acres, it can accommodate hundreds of thousands of such farms.

The problem now is that there are too many lands and too few people.

If the entire Luzon Island plus other islands can be developed in the future, its arable land area can be increased by five or six times, and there will be more than 150 million mu of arable land, so there is no fear of running out of land.

Although this is only about 20 to 30% compared with the 600 to 700 million mu of cultivated land in the Central Plains, it is still very impressive.

Find ways to attract people, find ways to keep people.

Now 80% of the people on Luzon Island come to pan for gold. These people only want to pan for gold to make money, or even get rich overnight.

But Qin Lang hopes that most of these people can settle here.

The generous land distribution policy and the extremely low tax policy are all just for grabbing people.

Qin Lang is not very interested in the Fanyi on the island. Although he has expressed that if there are Daofan who are willing to naturalize, then he is welcome, but Qin Lang has already set a red line, which is the number of Daofan. It must be strictly controlled at an extremely low ratio, otherwise he worries about the danger of Luzon being barbarized in the future.

What he wants to ensure is that Luzon will be a pure Han civilization in the future, not a barbaric and fully mixed civilization.

So Qin Lang proposed that he would rather go to the Central Plains to adopt more abandoned babies and orphans, and recruit more mountain people, even if some beggars and disabled people are brought in, it is definitely better than absorbing a large number of Daofan.

The conditions in Luzon are unique. One of the best conditions here is that there are vast and fertile plains and a large amount of arable land. These are the most basic conditions for development and growth.

Otherwise, if it is just gold mining, salt making, and sea trade, it will be just a castle in the air and will not last long.

Absorbing some islanders to naturalize and teaching them to farm can solve the problem of Luzon's extreme labor shortage, but when using them, you still have to be careful about the red line and strictly control the number.

As for those rebellious islanders, especially those islanders and tribes who dared to attack and harass the Tang people, Qin Lang's attitude was also resolute. Whenever he found an opportunity, he would exterminate them and turn some of them into slaves in the plantations. A copy was shipped to the Central Plains to be sold.

"I think this field is given too much, one hundred and twenty acres per person, it can't be planted at all."

"Rough plowing and rotation sowing can increase the yield. Anyway, we put these lands there now. Why don't we take out more, which will be more attractive."

If a family of six comes to settle down, a couple plus an old man and three children, then the husband can divide 120 mu, the wife 60 mu, the old man 30 mu, and the three children If there is an older boy, he can also be divided into 60 mu, and the other two younger boys can be divided into 30 mu each, so the total is 330 mu.

Even if a family of six consists of a couple and four children, they can still get 300 mu of land.

Ah Huang and the others thought that the amount of land granted was a bit high. For example, in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the land equalization order granted 40 mu of open land to men over the age of 15, and 20 mu to women. Yes, but Lutian is only allowed to buy and sell, old people are exempted from school, and they return to the field after death.

Another 20 mu of mulberry field is granted as Yongye field. On the mulberry field, a certain number of mulberry, elm, and jujube trees must be planted according to the system. Non-mulberry townships are given hemp fields, ten mu for men and five mu for women.

The land grant order in the Northern Wei Dynasty also stipulated that slaves and maidservants could also be granted land like their lovers, and those who owned slaves could also be granted more land. For one cattle, they could also be granted 30 mu of land, for a limit of four years.

"Only men and women who have reached the age of 15 and under 60 will be granted land, and the old and the young will not be granted land. The land should be divided mainly by mouth, and the land should be returned after death." A Huang suggested.

Qin Lang smiled and said, "Since we want to divide the land and grant land to attract people to settle down, why should we be so coy and stingy, or we should simply be more generous, and the land granted will be a permanent occupation, but it can be inherited by descendants. Years can be freely bought and sold."

"As for the quantity, I still say the same thing, more is attractive, anyway, there are more fields."

Even if there are three or four hundred acres of land, it can still be planted using methods such as rotation farming.

Those who have permanent property have perseverance. Qin Lang still believes in this saying.

If it's just a group of gold diggers, they may leave at any time. Even if they get gold here and make money, they may bring the money back to their hometown in the Central Plains.

There will always be no people left here.

And if they have land property here, especially some assets, they will not leave easily.

People can compare. If it is in the narrow rural area of ​​the Central Plains, it has long been difficult to implement the land grant order. The field is also capped at 100 mu, and most of them still cannot reach the full cap.

Moreover, those frontier lands often have relatively poor land, and they also face unstable factors such as the barbarians Hu Di.

In contrast, on the Luzon side, there is no strong threat from the native barbarians, and they can actually provide enough fields. They are all good fields on the fertile plains. After a few years of cultivation, they can become high-quality fertile fields. A comparison , Don't the common people understand, don't know the choice?

It is said that Cub Selling Master Tian doesn't feel bad, and Qin Lang doesn't feel bad about dividing up Lu Song's land now.

As for saying that there may not be enough points in the future, we will talk about it at that time.

"It's impossible to plant so many lands!"

"If you can't grow enough, you will use rough farming and crop rotation."

Qin Lang requested that the stewards, buddies, and security guards of the Qin family who are currently on the island be given priority to land. These should be regarded as the government managers and employees of the state-owned enterprises of the Qin family on the island, so they are given priority Only by keeping enough land can they better motivate their enthusiasm, and keep these people and let them move their families here.

If none of the Qin family members are willing to stay, how can they attract others?

"There are a lot of people in the security team now, but the security team already has their own farmland, and now it's divided, so it can't be planted at all."

"You can score if you can't plant." Qin Lang's attitude is very firm.

"Is it necessary to immigrate and settle down if the land is allocated?"

Qin Lang knew that many of the Qin family's managers and associates who came to the island now were dispatched on business trips, so he didn't force them to settle down immediately and move their family members.

"Take things slowly. Let's distribute the land to them first. We can give them a period of time to think about it, but it's limited to ten years. Those who can move here within ten years are fine. If they don't move in ten years, they can move in later." Take it back when the time comes."

"Ten years is too long, how about three years?"

"Five years, give everyone more time."