The more Yue Buqun looked at the income of the Huashan Sect, the more shocked he was. As a landlord who was not a landlord, the Huashan Sect is now a member of the exploiting class. Even though he has a good reputation second only to the Western Army, the data still seems to be extremely shocking.

The land opened by the Huashan Sect was contracted for farming by farmers at the foot of the mountain. Yue Buqun paid 40% of the rent to the government in the name of the Huashan Sect, which is already a small amount. The remaining 60% is 20%, and only 40% is left for the farmers.

According to the rent of other sects, the Huashan sect is already extremely benevolent and righteous.

The land rent of the Shaolin sect is not low, so they do not have to pay taxes to the government, so they collect 50% of the tenant rent, but the temples scattered in various fields still charge at least 10%. In addition, the landlords who contracted large tracts of land collected some of the tenants, and less than 20% left to the tenants. They also have to bear part of the taxes originally distributed to the temples. After all, although renting mediocre people is an ancient matter, today's people have changed their ways and left exploitation again!

The Wudang Sect also has a lot of land, even comparable to the Zhang Tianshi lineage of Longhu Mountain. The tenant rent is not low. However, the leaders of Wudang have been relatively light in history. The tenant rent collected is often distributed again, nominally giving to the tenant farmers, but most of them have entered the pockets of exploited people at all levels.

Then there was the Songshan Sect. The Songshan Sect had thousands of hectares of fertile land in Henan and often had conflicts with the Shaolin Sect. After all, they were close to each other. When the disciples had conflicts, the tenants naturally followed each other. The two factions had never stopped them, and they seemed to not care about these trivial things.

"The land of our Huashan School is relatively small in the martial arts world, and most of them are developed by ourselves. The taxes are much higher than those of other schools, but there are very few left to farmers. I'm afraid it won't work if this continues." Yue Buqun threw down the book and turned around, "Junior sister, I went down the mountain to take a look today. There are already people who have used more land mergers to redeem more with money in the foot of the mountain. There are more outside the mountain. Huayin County already has tenants who specialize in managing our land for landlords. When I went to see it in June, I still remember that they were farmers who planted several acres of land."

Ning Zhong was very strange, so why did he lose the land?

"It's probably the so-called subcontracting. I heard that someone is doing things in it." Yue Buqun looked worried and worried.

If this continues, it will probably take a few years to go on. A large number of landlords who depend on the Huashan Sect will appear under the name of the Huashan Sect, and the Huashan Sect will become thieves like Shaolin Wudang and even Songshan Sect.

This is not what Yue Buqun wants to see.

He was a scholar and cherished his reputation very much. Now he has broadened his horizons and understands that although the Huashan Sect practices martial arts, it is a big sect in the world. But if the farmers lose their land and their way out, the world will be ruined, let alone a sect in the world. And today, the chaotic consciousness of "the farmer has his own land, the living has his own house, and the scholar has his own ability". If there are many landlords and few farmers under the name of the Huashan Sect, the Huashan Sect will be shaken as a result!

"How did the Western Army solve this problem? It's good for us to learn from others," Ning Zhongze sighed. "If farmers don't have land, there will be big problems. Although the Huashan Sect is big, it may be difficult to resist the desperate attacks of farmers. Unfortunately, we can't learn the rules of the Western Army."

She hated the government for a long time. In her opinion, the first person to kill who was too high to exploit and force farmers to have no way to survive was the corrupt officials in the government.

"We only charge 20% of the land we have opened, and by the end of the year we will return it to each household for half a century. The government takes away 40% without saying a word. We also need to collect farmers to repair cities, guard the border and fight wars. In addition, we can't afford it, let alone the poor farmers." Ning Zhongze suggested, "It's better to lead the Western Army into the pass."

Yue Buqun smiled and said, "The arrival of the Western Army cannot be stopped. Wei Yang is planning not only those in the court these days, but he is probably also planning these major sects in the martial arts world."

That's nature.

Nin Niang has told Wei Yang many times that it is hard to say that the small sects in the martial arts world do not welcome the Western Army, but those big sects will definitely not welcome the Western Army.

In the western front, no matter what kind of Buddhist and Taoist you are, you have to pay taxes to establish your own economic status. If you want economic status or not, you have no other status.

Why has Shaolin not gained a foothold in the western front for so many years? It is precisely because Wei Yang has cut too much money from the strongholds set up in these martial arts sects in the western front.

Vajra Temple is now on the mountain, but it also cultivates some land. They dare not contract it for others. They have to pay taxes for farming themselves. According to the per capita land area, more than one acre will be added. Anyone who does not pay taxes will send you to see the Buddha, and no one will say it will work.

This inevitably led to the great martial arts sects with too much land under their name to resist the Western Army entering the Guanzhong area. No one knew what force could resist the Western Army's iron hooves and their scary policy strategies after passing Tongguan.

The Huashan faction is not afraid. They don’t have much land, and paying taxes will not have much impact on them.

"I guess that after the Western Army completely took over Guanzhong, our Huashan faction should manage this part of the land in a new way." Yue Buqun suddenly remembered something and quickly opened the cabinet and took out a stack of letters. This was the letters they had communicated with Wei Yang over the years. "We were the first time we went to the western frontier. When we came back, Wei Yang mentioned the farm to us, and later the letter also mentioned the concept of 'state-owned farm'."

What's the use of this?

Ning Zhongze helped to find out and opened it and saw that he had mentioned the reminder of operating a farm several times.

"In the early years, we tried to run the farm mentioned in the letter on part of the land, but it seems that there is no big difference from the general land farming method," Yue Buqun suddenly slapped his forehead and suddenly realized, "It is because the overall land policy has not changed, the land policy of the court has not changed, and the Huashan School still operates the farm the same way. If the Western Army is not there, the relationship between the land and population, that is, the so-called system of means of production, cannot be changed. The Huashan School's land cannot change much situation."

The couple discussed and decided that after the emperor left Xi'an Prefecture, the Western Army would definitely expand its influence, and the Guanzhong area should be influenced by them, so the resolution changed.

"The farm must be operated as soon as possible. This time, Henan was hit by floods, and some people left their land and came to Guanzhong. This is a good opportunity to recruit labor. The little money we have accumulated is probably enough to purchase another batch of land," Yue Buqun pondered for a moment and said resolutely, "We have Tongtian Avenue, and we don't have to compete with farmers for benefits. After getting the land we purchased, we must implement the policies of the Western Army, build farms, exempt middlemen, and the accumulated grain can be sold to the Western Army in the future, and we can also run grain stores. We have to set a rule that the rent must not exceed 40%, which includes various taxes, including land taxes."

Is it OK?

Ning Zhong was a little worried that this might be attacked by other sects.

"The world is in a great way. If the Huashan School wants to achieve a breakthrough, it is probably not enough to rely solely on the efforts of the martial arts world, but also to manage people's hearts," Yue Buqun is sure. "When today, Buddhism and Taoism are prosperous, but Confucianism is only known to the princes. Our Huashan School is both a Taoist school and a Confucian school in the martial arts world. We must be the first in the world and not the old martial arts world. I think this is right."

As for other sects coming to attack, Yue Buqun was not afraid.
Chapter completed!