As soon as the land limit and purchase bill was released, a stone caused a thousand waves.

The cabinet had just drafted the draft and got it in preliminary consultation with the Senate. The draft clause, which should have been in the confidentiality stage, went without leaving.

Everyone in the capital was paying attention to this draft. Both the rich and ordinary people were devoted to great enthusiasm to pay attention to this case. For the rich, the land limit order would mean that most of the land they had will exceed the limit, and the purchase order would also mean that their fields would be expropriated by the court. Although it was not forcibly expropriated and confiscated, they were not interested in the so-called land replacement method. In their opinion, this was the court depriving the fields accumulated by their ancestors from generation to generation.

Even if the industry and commerce have flourished in recent years and have entered a primary commodity society, the rich people will still spend a lot of them to purchase land after making money. Even if they have to pay deed taxes to purchase land now, they cannot stop them.

Land has a unique significance for Chinese people. Especially the ancestral land in their hometowns is becoming more and more important. But now the imperial court wants to use wasteland outside the pass or even overseas to replace their ancestral land. This is not a robbery.

Ordinary people are very happy, especially those tenants who do not have their own land. They are reluctant to leave their hometowns to immigrate overseas, even if there is a lot of land outside the customs and can be granted to them for free. However, staying in their hometown and guarding their ancestral graves and old houses is inevitable that life is difficult.

Especially in places such as the Three Rivers and Two Lakes Central Plains, there are few lands and many people, so it is difficult to cultivate even if you want to rent land. Fortunately, there are so many workshops and minerals that can work and make money, but for most people, having a piece of land is the most at ease and the foundation for passing on family and career. Even if you can buy a piece of land, only the right to rent a land can make them feel at ease.

Now the imperial court is going to introduce this land restriction and purchase bill, take back all the land of the rich in the Central Plains and replace it with land outside the pass. The land collected is rented to the people, so the people can still redeem it in the future. How could they not support such a policy?

Never had a bill that caused heated discussions like this. There was a group of supporters in the government and the people, and everyone was fighting hard.

In the Senate, cabinet officials and senators have been discussing the draft for several days, and it is difficult to reach an agreement.

Some senators believe that the court's move was a little extravagant. They even believed that it was a chaos in politics. Some senators even talked about the current development of industry and commerce, believing that the court's move would cause great harm to the emerging industrial and commercial manufacturing industry. In recent years, the court has been constantly expanding its territory and is constantly immigrating to the border. A large number of people in the Central Plains have moved out, which has reduced many labor. After a large number of people have moved out, their original land was recycled by the court and rented to landless people, and more workers who originally worked in factories have returned to the countryside to farm.

"A landlord's family has a thousand acres of land. He hires workers to cultivate or rents land for rent. The number of tillers needs is much more labor-saving than the tillers that divide the tills into hundreds of households. The fewer tillers, the greater the output benefits, and the manpower saved can also provide labor for the industrial and commercial manufacturing industry that has great demand today."

"I think the court should not only not limit the fields, but also encourage farm farming and production, which can reduce labor, reduce costs, and improve production capacity efficiency. At the same time, it can also provide sufficient labor for our factories. If everyone has fields, who will still work, who will enter the factory, and who will still go to the mine? Then aren't we going back to the past? If industry and commerce are regressing and shrinking, the tax revenue of the court will also be reduced, and the consequences will be very serious at that time!"

"Yes, oppose the field limiting law!"

However, many people in the Senate support this land restriction and replacement bill.

The idea of ​​these people is that if the land annexation of the Central Plains is too powerful, a large number of people are landless farmers and all factory workers will be very unstable and have great hidden dangers. Increasing the number of self-cultivated farmers can greatly improve the social stability of the Central Plains. In particular, the thirteen provinces of the Central Plains are the core areas of the Han Dynasty, and these places must not be messed up.

Stability is the first priority of development, and it is also the basis for people's livelihood economy and industrial and commercial development. Without stability, there is nothing.

"Farm-style development is indeed more efficient, and for this reason, I think the imperial court's replacement method is quite good. The imperial court moved people to the border, and the migration cost of households was too high, and it was difficult for ordinary people to move there, and it took a long time to stabilize. But if the landlords replaced the fields outside the pass, they would be more capable of reclaiming new land than before."

Some congressmen immediately loudly opposed, "Landlords are indeed richer and more powerful than ordinary people, but when they are replaced by land, even if they have money, where can they find workers who reclaim land?"

"This is not a problem, the Japanese, Jurchens, Annans, Toyu people, etc., since these people can become workers or tenants."

In traditional agricultural society, the social structure is relatively simple and fixed. Farmers are the main body, industry and businessmen are just supplements, and scholars are managers. But when capital begins to germinate, society slowly transfers to commodity society. What is the biggest difference between commodity society and agricultural society?

A large number of industrial workers appeared, and where did these industrial workers come from? Historically, the British sheep ate people, etc., which was exactly like this. Britain developed the textile industry, raised a large number of sheep, occupied land, and farmers lost their land one after another. After the land lost, farmers could only become industrial workers. They provided land and manpower for the development of the textile industry. The textile industry developed rapidly, and capitalists' pockets became bulging, but those landless industrial workers became miserable in their lives, and they were exploited and squeezed by capitalists.

To put it bluntly, many farmers lost their means of production and became vassals of capitalists.

In traditional agricultural society, there are not many self-cultivated farmers, and even tenant farmers have relatively stable lives. They have means of production in their hands.

However, when the agricultural society develops into a capital society, sheep eat people is an inevitable phenomenon. One is the demand for land, and the other is the demand for labor. Only by seizing land can they raise more sheep, shear more wool, weave more yarn, export more textiles, and make more profits. Only when farmers lose their land can they enter factories and become industrial workers and provide them with a large amount of labor demand.

If it was still in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty did not have the country's destruction, there were not so many internal and external wars, and according to the development trajectory of the Ming Dynasty's industrial and commercial development, the Ming Dynasty might have finally entered this stage.

There is no large amount of land under the expansion of foreign wars like the Han Dynasty, nor a large number of people who have successfully conquered foreign wars. If you want to transform, you must go through the stage of sheep eating people.

But the Han Han are completely different now. The Han Han has opened up a large number of Xinjiang territory and conquered a large number of foreign tribes, which provides the two most important things for the Han Han's transformation, land and population.

With these large amounts of new land, the great man not only can't eat people, but also can alleviate the serious problems caused by land annexation. Immigration and land replacement have allowed more people to own land and regain the means of production. This is like a stabilizer that can greatly stop the current impetuous situation.

With a large number of newly conquered foreigners, the industrial workers who are most needed to the rapidly developing industry and commerce of the Han Dynasty. With these people, there is no need to force a large number of Han people to transform from farmers to industrial workers.

It is precisely because of these two conditions that the Han Dynasty has developed so rapidly and so stable now that there are not many fierce class contradictions.

Of course, this entire policy inevitably reflects the unfair treatment of the Han Dynasty towards foreigners.

The court granted land to the Han people, rented land, and fully supported them. Those who were willing to move out of the border include various settlement fees, immigration loans, subsidies, etc., as well as free land grants. Even if they stayed in their hometown, the court was still reclaiming a large amount of land to rent and sell to them through land restrictions and land replacements to the landlords, so that they could own the land.

But for those conquered foreigners, it was difficult for them to obtain the Han family immediately. They had to move away from their hometowns and become industrial workers or tenants of the Han Dynasty. Although the Han Dynasty had countless newly developed land, they did not get a mu and a half cent.

But no one spoke for them. In the eyes of the great man, it would be good if the great man conquered them and did not directly send them slaves. Now, it is not good to work as a worker and a tenant farmer. Isn’t it great to work as a salary and a harvest of tenant farmer, so I will not give them a penny or a cent less.

Even when they were in their second generation, after receiving the education of the Han Dynasty, they would be able to become a Han Dynasty, and the third generation would be able to join the army or serve as officials. By then, they would be a Han Chinese, and there would be no difference.

But many people did not realize it, or a few people would not say that after moving to the Han Dynasty, or to the frontiers of the Han Dynasty, becoming workers or tenants, even if their second generation could be integrated into the Han Dynasty and enjoy the same treatment as the Han Dynasty, because their parents lost the important means of production, most of them would still have to go to factories to work in mines or continue to be employed to farm, which would be an extremely difficult gap.

This is also a boundary set by the Han emperor. These foreign tribes, even the new Han people in the future, will have a transparent glass ceiling above their heads. It is too difficult to break through this boundary. It seems that the sky is bright, but it is actually difficult to break through.

This boundary can only take three or five generations or even longer, and it will gradually disappear as they become more dissolved into the Han people bit by bit.

In the long run, such policies have strengthened the interests of the Han people, and are actually accelerating the assimilation of foreign races, always maintaining the Han as the main body, and maintaining absolute stability within the country.

The House of Commons was constantly arguing, and the government and the country were also talking. Liu Jun saw it and heard it, but he was not moved at all.

The land restriction and land replacement bill of course have greatly harmed the landlords, but for the long-term stability of the empire, Liu Jun will not be ruthless. Liu Jun is willing to exchange a few acres outside the pass for one acre within the pass, or even ten acres for one acre. If the land restriction and land restriction method can be fully implemented, then the Central Plains will have millions of self-cultivated farmers and millions of self-cultivated farmers, which will be of great help to the stability of the Central Plains of the court.

Self-cultivated farmers are like the middle class in later Europe, and these people are the real foundation for the stability and prosperity of the country.

Liu Jun always remembers a saying that Mei Zhihuan said: Only the extremely hungry poor people in this world will rebel. Liu Jun believes that Mei Zhihuan is right. There are many poor people who are hungry and rebellious in all dynasties. Although they often fail to accomplish anything in the end, they are the mourners of dynasties.

And those nobles and rich landlords would also rebel, but if the hungry people had not rebelled heavily and severely damaged the dynasty, these people would generally be more difficult to achieve.

The court will continue to immigrate to the border, move out the people of extremely remote, backward and barren areas in the Central Plains, and distribute the criminals. However, it will also resolutely implement the land restriction and replacement bill.

If the poor cannot afford to eat, are hungry and dare to do anything, let alone rebel, even the emperor dares to take down. But unless the rich are forced to have no way out, they will not easily abandon their family business and rebel.

From another perspective, this is actually a cost issue. The hungry people rebelled without considering any cost issue, because they either starved to death or were killed, and they could live a few more days after rebellion.

But when a rich man rebels, the cost will be higher, and it is difficult to match the efforts and benefits.

When Liu Jun collected the exchange tax on these rich people, he scraped a layer of oil from them. They were very dissatisfied, but in the end, not many people really turned against each other. Today, the stability is not as good as a few years ago. I believe no one dares to rebel.

Moreover, the income from operating land is not high these days. Whether it is opening a factory, mining, or doing trade and transportation, the income is far higher than that of land output. They are suffering some losses now, but they can still get compensation for profits from other places. They will not be unable to overcome this bill.

As for those conquered foreigners, Liu Jun was even less worried.

As long as we can survive, not many people will have the courage to rebel. After all, rebellion will have to beheaded. In this era, national consciousness is not strong. What kind of national dynasty is what the powerful bureaucrats who enjoy the interests say. For ordinary people, can that thing be eaten?

As long as the big man gives them a job, is willing to give them a salary, and can give them food, drink and a place to live, they will be extremely satisfied.

Even if they were second-class citizens in the Han Dynasty, they would not care so much. As time passed, when their sons and grandchildren were born, they might care about these things, but then they gradually became integrated into the Han Dynasty and could enjoy more and more rights.
Chapter completed!