How come the celestial technique I stole is so powerful?! Chapter 729: 664: Yin Yang Step

Chapter 729: Chapter 664: Yin Yang Step

Therefore, concealing unclaid property is a common practice by the governnt.

And this Lord Prefect rushed to the superior early in the morning to confess everything.

He’s truly a fool in the officialdom…

Lin Xiaosu gently rotated the teacup in his hand: “What does Lord Prefect think?”

“Most of my colleagues in the governnt office suggest continuing with the usual practice, claiming it for the governnt office to handle at its discretion,” Li Yi said. “But I’m worried that if it’s absorbed by the governnt office, so officials will definitely eye these lands for themselves. As the Magistrate, I might be able to suppress it for a year or two, but with interference from above over ti, or if I die first, this piece of fat at will definitely end up lining private pockets.”

Lin Xiaosu pondered: “Okay! First, you issue a notice setting a ti limit for asserting ownership, for instance, three months, or six months, either works. If soone cos forward to claim ownership during this period, providing evidence or witnesses, proving so properties belonged to their ancestors, and this is verified, then these can be returned to their descendants.”

Li Yi nodded: “Alright!”

Lin Xiaosu added: “As you said, over a long period, there will always be so lands that ultimately remain unclaid, so follow convention and let the governnt office manage them. But with one strict condition—the officials are strictly forbidden from personally pocketing or covertly pocketing these lands. You can rent them out: fertile land for a ten percent rent, dry land for a five percent rent, shops for a hundred coppers per month per room. The rental inco should be used strictly for designated purposes, managed by designated personnel, and used for public expenditures like setting up schools, repairing roads, and improving the environnt…”

Li Yi’s eyes lit up: “Although reclaid by the governnt office, in the end, it still serves the people from whom it cos! Your thod, Sir, is truly a great redy for governing! I am in utmost admiration!”

“This is what it ans to be an official, to benefit the people!” said Lin Xiaosu.

“Your mind is with the people, entering my Fuyao is indeed a great blessing for the masses!” Li Yi hesitated slightly: “However, the leasing standards you just set, Sir, differ significantly from the current leasing standards, should there be so adjustnt?”

“What are the current leasing standards?”

“For fertile land leases, it’s four to six percent, and for dry land leases, it’s two to three percent. You set fertile land at one percent, dry land at half a percent. Such low prices are unprecedented.”

Lin Xiaosu laughed: “That’s perfect! I am using this standard to force landlords to lower rents!”

Li Yi was left speechless…

Lin Xiaosu elaborated on this idea.

Whether a place is suffering depends not on the living standards of the local rich, for even the poorest temple has a wealthy abbot; we must look at the common people.

And whether the common people suffer depends largely on land rent.

The common people can’t do much else but farm.

If land rent is high, they won’t have money to live on.

However, land rent is sothing that the governnt can’t dictate, only landlords can; the land is theirs. If the governnt sets a low price, they would rather leave it barren than rent it out—you can’t do anything about it.

So this is not suitable for governnt control, but for market pricing.

Lin Xiaosu plans to put several million mu of fertile land and several million mu of other land onto the market, lowering land rent to the minimum. What will those big landowners, who have stubbornly refused to lower rents in the past, do?

If you insist on high rent, that’s fine, but what will your tenants think?

Rent governnt land for one percent, rent your land for five to six percent, who would want to rent your land?

Once competition is introduced, the entire market will be thrown into disarray.

A large number of landless people will scramble to rent cheap governnt land, and the land of those big landlords will be ignored, forcing them to lower their prices.

However, land is limited, and we must also prevent so from hogging governnt rental shares. This requires Li Yi to devise a rigorous control sche, verifying the qualifications of those renting, ensuring they are landless individuals, and capping the amount each can rent to prevent monopolizing…

As for how to formulate the plan, Lin Xiaosu casually listed points one, two, three, four, five…

To Li Yi, it was like hearing celestial knowledge; Fu Fu blinked beside him as if she understood…

Kuang Lang and the two trusted aides also felt their hearts pounding.

Every word spoken by Lin Xiaosu was a top policy for governance.

They had never heard of it before.

What was even more unimaginable was that every loophole in this plan that they hadn’t thought of, Lin Xiaosu had already anticipated, not only anticipated but also had incredibly ingenious solutions.

Where did he get these sches from?

This didn’t seem like sothing he had just thought of; it looked more like a mature plan that had been validated by countless people…

Yes, this is the knowledge Lin Xiaosu brought from that era.

In that era, there were no cultivators, not even imperial authority; the whole society revolved around the core of people’s livelihood.

The domain of people’s livelihood is where that world genuinely leads this one.

Various situations and problems have long been revamped in nurous ways across the land of Daxia, tested and improved by generations, and now, when introduced into this world, they stunned the old Magistrate who had been muddling through officialdom for half a lifeti…

The old Magistrate stood up and deeply bowed: “Mr. Su, you truly should not be just a fourth rank Chief Inspector!”

Hmm?

What nonsense?

However, the old Magistrate’s next words ca: “I feel, Sir, you are clearly fit for the role of Pri Minister! Your strategies for governing and safeguarding the nation, your worldly vision, if you were Pri Minister of our Great Wilderness, the welfare would bless hundreds of millions!”

Ah, there it is!

A voice floated by: “Lord Prefect, stop flattering, this race track is quite crowded, you’re really not fit for it.”

That voice ca, and the Magistrate was dumbfounded.

Lin Xiaosu burst into laughter.

Can you imagine, those words ca from Kuang Lang?

Hahahaha…

Kuang Lang laughed, everyone laughed, the Magistrate touched his head and laughed too, laughed like a big silly…