"The landlord's goal is to ensure that the tenants don't starve to death, but also don't have any leftovers. Otherwise, after a long time, the tenants will save up money and buy land, and they will not rent the land to him anymore."
Chongzhen smiled and nodded. Isn't this the feudal mountain, one of the three mountains pressing down on the people?
Thinking of this, he explained: "The land department I mentioned is to solve this problem!"
"There were so many people dying or fleeing everywhere that all the unclaimed land was taken back and called official land. There are two types of official land: one that can only be rented and not sold, and one that can only be sold and not rented."
"Anyone who wants to rent or buy official land must be a farmer without land. The price of selling land is six taels of silver per mu for upper land, five taels of silver per mu for middle land, and three taels of silver per mu for lower land. The rent for renting land is 10% of the harvest. As long as my official land has land to rent out, those rich landlords can forget about renting out their land at a high price."
"In order to avoid being fined or having their land taken back, the wealthy households either farmed the land themselves, rented it out at a low price, or sold it."
Fang Yuegong glanced at the others and said, "Your Majesty, what if these fields are all rented out and bought by people with ulterior motives, and then rented out or sold out at high prices?"
"Each household is limited to buying or renting five acres of official land, and can only sell it to the Land Bureau. You can sell it at the same price you paid for it, and you cannot resell it. As for other details, you can add them."
"It doesn't matter if you don't have money to buy land. The land bureau is responsible for the bidding. The interest rate is very low, even lower than the rent for renting a field!"
"The Department of Land Affairs involves the princes and royal families, and ordinary people cannot manage them. So I will let the Jinyiwei or the East Factory get involved. This is a challenging position."
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