Qin Zhao found several careful villagers in Qinjia Village and asked them to stir with a small amount of wet rice grains and high-quality gunpowder sent by Zheng's family, and then rub it into granular shapes. They obtained gunpowder particles of varying sizes and filtered with filters through filtering. Then they treated the unqualified particles with larger particles and turned all gunpowder particles into particles of the same size.

Gunpowder of different particle sizes must be sent to the rocket experimental unit on the Chiyun Peak for experiments to find out the size of gunpowder particles that burn the longest time and can best provide continuous power for the rocket.

This is also a continuous experiment process.

On the second day of the experiment, the villagers of Qinjia Village who were doing the experiment told Qin Zhao that the bonding effect of wet rice grains is not as good as glutinous rice grains, and using glutinous rice grains can make gunpowder particles with less external materials.

When Qin Zhao heard this news, he was of course doing good deeds.

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After Qin Zhao finished his work on the Hell Rockets, he returned to Qinjia Village. Qin Youli said: "Master, the most annoying thing about Qinjia Village is that the land tax is too heavy."

"There are more than 1,300 acres of land in the village, which looks quite a lot. However, in order to avoid the land tax, many villagers dedicated their own fields to the juren in other townships. After these fields were given out, they were still cultivated by the original villagers, but they no longer paid the land tax to the county. They just needed to pay the land rent to the juren."

"And the original rent on these paid fields is backlogged onto the unfunded fields."

"The so-called Liao levies, suppression of wages and training wages in the court seemed to be light taxes and levies, and only levies were added to each acre of rice and levies. But in fact, when we arrived at the local area, the gentry led a large number of ordinary people who contributed land and did not pay the land tax. The newly added land tax doubled, several times, and dozens of times the land was pressed on the duty farmers who did not contribute land. These duty farmers were overwhelmed!"

Qin Zhao knew that Qin Youli was talking about a cancer in the late Ming Dynasty.

The gentry does not accept land taxes!

In the late Ming Dynasty, as long as you have the reputation of a scholar, you can go to the yamen to interact with the county magistrate. Some people who are good at currying favor with the county magistrate often go to the county magistrate to form a master-disciple friendship. There were many scholars from the Ming Dynasty, whose "name" is "preface" and is all chosen by county magistrates who were born in Jinshi after being admitted to the scholar.

If scholars are like this, let alone Juren. In the late Ming Dynasty, no matter what profession a Juren was doing, as long as he was a Juren, he would be called a master. Once you pass the Juren, the county clerks, yamen runners and even inspectors would curry favor with you, looking up at you, and never let you pay the land tax again.

If you give your own land to the Juren, you can no longer pay the land tax. If the land is given to the Juren, the Juren still allows the original landlord to farm on the original land and collect some land rent, which will successfully turn the country's land tax into the Juren's income.

This phenomenon is called Contribution and is very popular in the late Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, in "The Scholars", Fan Jin immediately became rich and did nothing, and various people from all directions gave him land, which was a dedication.

The common people who contributed can be exempted from higher and higher land taxes, while the gentry who contributed can get free land rent, which is very happy.

The county magistrates and prefectures of the states, prefectures and prefectures were also from gentry and maintained extremely strong class cohesion. In the eyes of these officials from Jinshi, taxing real estate under the name of Juren is a shameful scandal. What's wrong with letting gentry with Juren accept the offer and live a better life?

The only thing that was not happy was the land tax in the court. Because more and more common people were devoted to the gentry, the court in the late Ming Dynasty almost could not collect taxes. More than half of the land, even far more than this, was devoted to the name of gentry and other forces. There were fewer and fewer people who were honest and unwilling to contribute to the name of gentry, so the real self-cultivation farmers were suffering.

But there are always some self-cultivated farmers who want to straighten their backs and survive. They are unwilling to be tenant farmers of gentry or other forces, so they have to pay out ridiculously high land taxes to the government. The national policy of light taxes and low taxes in the Ming Dynasty became a joke at the grassroots level.

For example, in the sixth year of the Wanli period of Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty, there were 29 million mu of civilian land in the account books in Shaanxi, and they had to pay 1.7 million shi of land every year. In the calculation, only 0.06 shi of grain must be paid per mu of land every year, which is not a matter of light taxes and levies.

But the actual situation is that the gentry and royal relatives evade taxes, and the small people who actually paid the taxes were suppressed by the land tax. The actual situation in the Chongzhen Dynasty was to add a little bit of anti-suppression salary, and 6 rice per mu was added. In less than one dou, the self-cultivated farmers were crushed, and many people in Shaanxi would become refugees.

The situation in Lingnan is the same as in other places. It has become a trend for the cunning villains to bring land to the gentry and royal family. Qinjia Village has 1,337 acres of paddy fields, of which 1,029 acres are devoted to outsiders, and only 308 acres are actually paid as self-cultivated farmers.

Qin Youli beat the abacus in front of Qin Zhao and calculated this shocking number for Qin Zhao.

The only thing that made Qin Zhao feel relieved was that the servants he recruited and the dozen workers who worked in his own factory were mostly from these self-cultivated farmers' families.

These 308 mu of land must be paid for the 1,337 mu of land in Qinjia Village.

The land tax that needs to be paid per acre of land is more than four times that of the original one.

Qin Youli was typing on the abacus and calculating in front of Qin Zhao.

"Master, look, the land tax in Guangdong is four-fold per mu, Liao guarantor is one cent and two-fold per mu, Liuhe guarantor is one mu, and one dou and two-fold per mu. The land tax that needs to be paid for this thousand three hundred stones of grain."

"But now only 308 acres of rice fields are actually paid. The tuition that each acre of rice fields pays every year is one stone!"

Qin Zhao took a deep breath when he heard that he had to pay a stone of land tax for each acre of land.

Although the temperature in Lingnan is high and rice fields can be ripe twice a year, it is really shocking to pay one stone of grain and land tax per mu of land every year, and more than half of the harvests are paid taxes.

Qin Zhao said: "Where are those villagers who devoted their fields to the gentry? How much land rent should they pay in a year?"

Qin Youli shook his head and said, "Master, those who are tricky in giving are really a loss of rice. Every year, the gentry will change the amount of land rent. Every time the land tax outside increases, the gentry will increase their own land rent a little higher. All the villagers in my Qinjia Village are dedicated to the names of Wang, Liu, and Ye. The land rents of these three families have been received by nine dou per acre this year."

"Master, you see, this is not worth the loss? If no one contributed, how could the land rent in Qinjia Village increase to such a harsh level?"

Qin Zhao took a breath.

Qinjia Village knocked out a tiger and survived in this troubled times, but this does not mean that they can live well.

As long as there are still people who continue to bring the land to the gentry, the land tax of self-cultivated farmers will become higher and higher. Conversely, because the land tax of self-cultivated farmers has increased, the tenant farmers who contribute to the gentry will have to endure higher and higher land rents.

This is an act with internal automatic force. If no one stops it, it will keep rolling like a snowball.

The only thing that can stop this snowball is that farmers are unable to make ends meet and explode. When farmers cannot afford to pay land rent or land tax, they raise flags to rebel, destroying production and order in all rural areas.

This is why the north was in chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty. The yield per mu in the north was low, and the limit of this explosion was first reached.

It is not that famine destroyed the production in the north in the late Ming Dynasty. It is not that famine suddenly brought the class opposition in the north in the late Ming Dynasty to a point of collapse.

Qin Zhao waved his hand and said, "Tomorrow, the chief in charge of land tax, came to see me!"
Chapter completed!