Sweep the World

Chapter 738: But by the decree

Since the second year of Jianxing in the (Western Jin Dynasty) (314 AD), Chang'an has never had such a lively experience in the 9th year of Yuan Shuo (in the present Han Dynasty) (350 AD).

Not only Chang'an, it should be said that the entire Guanzhong has not been so lively for decades. This excitement is not about chaos, but most scholars.

"Even before the Han Dynasty, there was the rule of Wenjing, and the rule of the world would have a prosperous age."

"Equalizing the land allows the cultivator to have his own land, and the people have the land and their hearts are stable, and the people's hearts are stable and the world is safe."

"The big man has eliminated chaos, and half of the world is barren. It is the time of great governance."

Wearing a turban on the head and wearing a fluffy coat, you have to be upright and frustrated when you speak, and feel that being reasonable is bound to have a face of justice. Basically, scholars have this commonality.

Uneven farmland does not really matter to most scholars. Even if there is real farmland, it is only one hundred acres per person. For people like them who can read books, in the early days, who was not a thousand acres of fertile land? More, one hundred acres is really too little for them.

Whether the Han official holds a large amount of land is actually irrelevant to the scholars. What they depressed or hated is the official limit on the amount of privately owned land. The "excess" land in a family is redeemed by the state, and the blow is heavy. There is no real rich family among the people.

Aristocratic families can be officials of past dynasties and have a wide network of contacts. While the people have great prestige, they can also influence the policies of a place and even influence or control the formulation of national policies.

The rich family must own an extremely large amount of land, have a large number of slaves, and even if it is not economical, they have to gather a large number of tenants.

Regardless of whether it is an aristocratic family or a powerful family, both have one thing in common, that is, a large amount of land must be mastered, and wealth can not be too much, but without land, it will inevitably not be able to gather people. Nothing can be done without people. Under the real conditions, talents are the foundation of everything. Once you can't gather people, any influence is vain.

The Han state does not allow the status and status to be unable to hold a large amount of land, which is tantamount to restricting the vast majority of people, especially those who have not had time to get on the "heritor" carriage, who have a large amount of land.

The land they owned was redeemed by the state on a large scale, and the title did not meet the standards for holding a large amount of land. There is no shortage of people who bang their heads against the wall and regret not being able to get on the "Merchant" carriage in time. More people are Mao. Enough to merge into the authorities.

In the creation of a country, some people have become nothing or suffer a heavy blow, and some have become upstarts from nothing, and those who are satisfied will be dissatisfied after reshuffling. The chaos at the beginning of the country is basically derived from satisfaction and dissatisfaction.

"It is not only necessary to equalize the land, but also to follow the example of the predecessors to make the land freely traded in order to start real governance!"

One sentence made everyone nodding their heads in agreement, including the speaker. They don't care about the 100 acres of land in equal land. Once the land can be traded freely, they can use the property in their hands and use all means to hold a large amount of land again.

Liu Yan originally didn't ban non-governmental gatherings, but he was not open-minded. Whenever there were gatherings, official people would be staring at them.

Originally, the scholars who came to Guanzhong had to gather every day and talk about it. Before, the various envoys could show their talents. After Liu Yan asked them to discuss the pros and cons of equalizing the land, the topic focused on whether or not to equalize the land.

It can be seen everywhere that in the wine shop, on the streets, on the mountains, by the river... As long as it is a place that scholars think is suitable, they are talking about Tiantian when they meet together to chat. Juntian is dispensable to them, and the change of national policy after Juntian is the most important thing. After all, there is an example before that once the Juntian is inevitably open to land transactions.

Too many people are talking about it. There is no limit to the speed and level of dissemination. Servicemen and recruits joined in when they heard it, and then spread from Guanzhong to the whole country. For a while, everyone was talking about Tiantian, with equalization. Tian hopes that it will become a reality.

In Miyagi, Liu Yan was walking with Ji Chang and Xu.

In fact, the Miyagi of the old Chang’an City didn’t have any good places to stroll. The Lin Yuan was in ruins without restoration. The roads, walls, and the places in the house where grass can grow are all grass. This year, it’s rare to see the green. It is the dry grass clippings that are drifting in the wind.

"Has become the general trend?"

"If you can get it for nothing, whoever refuses it."

"But it was within the expectation of the widow."

"This is the nature of people to seek profit."

Liu Yan certainly knows the desire of intelligent creatures to obtain benefits, especially that they can be obtained without paying anything.

In fact, it's not just people, even animals will be pleased if they can find their prey in vain. Who won’t be happy for nothing?

Xu Zheng has been unhappy for many days. He wanted to ask Liu Yan many times, but he couldn't answer any questions. He took it for granted that Liu Yan would not be so stupid, and that he did not comprehend Liu Yan's true intentions for doing this stupid thing about digging the foundations of the empire.

The military wants to block, but once even the military and soldiers are eager to equalize the land, the will of the high-level will not be able to control the grassroots, otherwise it will be the minority who can’t get through with the overwhelming majority, and once they become a minority under the premise that everyone desires. , No matter who it is, it is extremely dangerous.

Fortunately, at least there is still the spirit of sacrificing one's life for righteousness, and there is no shortage of people who spare their lives for their own righteousness. Xu Zheng is taking the lead in this wave of equalizing the land, and if it comes to the moment when he pays his body to protect the justice in his heart, he must sacrifice his defense.

"The prime minister." Liu Yan stopped to look at Ji Chang, and asked in a gentle tone: "If Juntian becomes a national policy, what kind of method does the prime minister think should be?"

Ji Chang could see the coldness in Liu Yan's eyes with a smile on his face.

Juntian was mentioned by the civil affairs system of the Sangong and Jiuqing. Originally, it was to be explored in a small range... or to test it out. What they didn't expect was that Liu Yan would actually propose a public argument.

Later, there are important ministers who are helping the flames. Otherwise, no matter how fast it is, it is impossible to spread the discussion of equalization to the whole country within a month or two, forming a decisive general trend.

Ji Chang is interpreting Liu Yan’s brief sentence verbatim. What he pays most attention to is the word "Ruo" in Liu Yan’s words. If he didn’t understand Liu Yan, he hadn’t made up his mind. It was in vain. What he didn't understand was that since Liu Yan hadn't made up his mind, why would he allow non-governmental discussions? Once the discussions can be made public, Jun Tian must be expected by everyone. Didn't he kidnap himself?

"Chen..." At this moment, Ji Chang felt that his throat was so dry. After spitting out a word, he couldn't help coughing a few times. Then the confidence in his heart was even more lacking. He said with a little panic: "Everything depends on the sacred judge. "

Liu Yan nodded slightly, looked at Xu Zheng, and said, "Where is the Taiwei?"

"The minister still has doubts about Juntian." Xu Zheng has always had this attitude, even if Juntian looks like it has become the general trend. His voice sounded dry, but after saluting, he said: "If you decide to equalize the land, the minister will follow your will even if he has any doubts."

Liu Yan already knows why Xu Zheng opposed Juntian. It will cause a serious blow to the military’s desire for war. It is rare that a group of warriors have a long-term vision and deduced that Juntian is actually beneficial in the contemporary era. Even Jun Tian is encouraging the people of the world to break everything and redistribute again when they feel unsatisfactory.

There is a weird side above the temple. The civil administration system that should have been focused on for a long time loses its long-term vision. It only needs to pay attention to the military in front of it but is thinking about the future.

In fact, it is not weird. The main reason is that the division of civil and martial arts is just official positions, and both civil and martial arts have high-quality qualities. To put it bluntly, it is not that literati can't kill people, and warriors don't kill people, nor can they be civil officials. The two are just different in responsibilities, but there will be no difficult boundaries. Everyone has the ability to work in a different position.

The vast majority of soldiers in the military are also looking forward to equalizing the land. Once the equalizing field can increase the amount of land held under his name, who will refuse such a good thing? Compared with the enthusiasm of other groups, the military has remained relatively restrained, that is, if you mention a few words when chatting in private, you will not stop doing business.

"It is the general trend to make the plowers own their fields." Liu Yan took another step, and when the prime minister and Taiwei were behind, followed. He made sense and said generally: "My generation is fighting **** battles, is it not just for my own wealth? If the people's hearts are like oil boiling, my generation's wealth may last forever?"

It's definitely a big truth. They have become the most wealthy group. They have the biggest piece of cake in their hands. They should always leak something so that others can taste it. Otherwise, those who don’t have nothing won’t. I watched them keep getting rich.

Liu Yan implemented the land state-owned policy as in the pre-Qin period. At the beginning, he was afraid that the military hero would collapse if he did not have enough land. He also wanted to use the reward of land to stimulate the army to make contributions. Later, he gradually discovered that the situation he encountered was different from that of the First Emperor. The First Emperor was distressed because the land in his hand was not enough to reward meritorious soldiers, but he was distressed because there was too much idle land.

Han Dynasty has always had the Tuntian Corps, which is also a convenient way for the people to rent land. Isn't it about making the most of the idle land?

For a long time, Han has been troubled by food shortages. Although it is said that it is because of the destruction of war and the sharp reduction of land that production has been unable to keep up with consumption after the founding of the country, how to encourage production is really a university question.

"The vast territory of the Han Dynasty is vast, but the land is sparsely populated." Liu Yan felt painful at the thought of over 5 million square kilometers of land with only 17 million people: "The North and Southwest are mostly vacant, even if there are any. Human area, worries in the hearts of widows."

The Han state abolished the administrative level of "zhou." Liu Yan was a vassal state with lone family members, no direct relatives, and no kingship. The system was a pure system of prefectures and counties, but it was a lot of trouble to call a certain place.

Beidi generally refers to the northern and southern banks of the Yellow River and to the north. The administrative division of the Han Dynasty included the original Jizhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, Guanwai Grassland and the Northeast.

The southwest is the Eastern Han Dynasty administrative division of Jiaozhou Provincial Government (including Jiaozhi), the southern part of Yizhou Provincial Government and the Indochina Peninsula.

By the way, the Indochina Peninsula is already regarded as the territory of the Han Kingdom, but unlike other local counties, which are directly under the Central Government, they are regarded as dominions, or so-called colonies.

Dominions and colonies are modern names, and they should be called militias now and now.

The initial creation of the militia area was in the Western Han Dynasty, when the army took a place, but the central government couldn’t stretch out its hands so long and drew a map of the territory to make sure it belonged to the country. At the same time, the central government appointed someone from the country or a local indigenous As the chief executive, in fact, the local government does not pay taxes, and only pays money or things similar to protection fees to the central government in the form of tribute throughout the year. In many cases, it is a worthless thing.

Due to the inconvenience of communication and transportation, the area under the control of the central government is not too far away. It can only be based on the management method of the militia area. Similar behaviors have occurred until the Manchu and Qing dynasties, but each era has its own name.

"Why is opening up the land?" Liu Yan said without any emotional fluctuations: "It can't just be an extra site on the map. If you can't use it, you won't be able to keep it for a long time. If you want to use it, you need someone."

Therefore, Liu Yan's idea of ​​equating the land is obvious, mainly because he wants to maximize the use of land. The starting point is the same as that of Hou Lu in a special period, but he has more worries than Hou Lu.

In fact, Queen Lu's Juntian was also a "big show" to buy the title holders. Without the title, the land is still not rewarded. It is a matter of Wenjing to give the land according to the head.

Zhu Xia said that "taking history as a mirror" has shown the disadvantages of unpaid equalization of land. The end of the Western Han Dynasty meant that the people hoped to equalize the land again. As a result, people with similar ideas gathered together and made Wang Mang a god~lightnovelpub.net~ although said After Wang Mang became the emperor, he really ordered the equalization of the land, but his ideals would always be ruthlessly destroyed by reality. If there is no "undercover" Liu Xiu in the rebel army, Liu Xiu is good enough, otherwise the Han Dynasty will basically come to the end of history. Up.

Of course Liu Yan didn't want to open up the bad head that can get something without paying, otherwise he was encouraging lazy to do something, so he really didn't want to do anything for free.

"The minister understands." Although Ji Chang understood, he felt more bitter than eating Huanglian in his heart: "The Prime Minister's Mansion will act immediately and order the North and Southwest to measure the land."

The haze in Xu Zheng's heart disappeared, but he still hesitated: "The savage land is the same? What is the reason?"

If you really want to do something, you still lack a reason? It just doesn't make things beautiful.

Ji Chang is really obsessed, the tide of equalizing the land has become a trend, and the result is still to disperse the population. He certainly hopes that there will be people in any part of the country, but he also wants people to be willing to go. It has not been done several times before, which proves that things are definitely not that easy.

"In the year of catastrophe, there are many places for the people to use." Liu Yan said slowly and methodically: "Achievement will be rewarded, and God will reward diligence."