The Tang and Yuan Dynasties once said that killing chickens to scare monkeys may not scare monkeys, but killing monkeys to scare monkeys will definitely scare monkeys more than killing chickens.

For example, the 12th Emperor of Qingqing, who ceded land to pay compensation for generations, ignored those cynics just because they dared to kill and behead, so who among them is not a wise king and a holy master?

Zhuang Chengyi, the right-hand member of the Ministry of Revenue, persuaded Shi Zhuangyong to read out the notice as soon as possible for many times, so that Shi Zhuangyong no longer took him to attend banquets.

But at this moment, looking at the two dead heads on the execution ground, especially the moment when Shi Zhuangyong's head blinked, Zhuang Chengyi was only filled with endless happiness in his heart. He was glad that he had not gotten involved with Shi Zhuangyong, otherwise he would have been more likely to die.

He will also end up with the same fate as Shi Zhuangyong.

On the high platform, Zhao Huan glanced at the two heads with disgust, then stood up again and said loudly: "I am Zhao Huan, an official of the Great Song Dynasty!

I sent people to rebuild the Fish Scale Book and the Yellow Book, not to collect taxes from everyone, but I want to know how many people still have no land! Because, I took back the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun, so many

The land must be cultivated by someone!"

Looking at the people with different expressions in the audience, Zhao Huan took a deep breath and continued: "If you are willing to go, give land! Give cattle! Give farm tools! Give seeds! Give money! If you don't want to go, don't force it!"

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With the examples of Hu Wenshan and Shi Zhuangyong, especially after some gentry were directly assigned to the Holy State by their families, the next thing became extremely smooth.

The notices in the yellow book were also sent to the government officials who were familiar with the local conditions. Together with Zhuang Chengyi, they went to each village to read the notices and count the number of acres and acreage.

It was only then that Zhao Huan fully realized how ridiculous his original idea of ​​annexing private land was, and how chaotic the land system in the Song Dynasty was - or in other words, there was no land system at all in the Song Dynasty!

"The powerful officials and rich surnames occupy unlimited land, and the practice of mergers and counterfeiting has become a custom." "Every household trades land, buys deeds, and disputes are everywhere." "Millenniums of land are exchanged for eight hundred owners."

", "The rich and the poor have no fixed status, and the land and house have no fixed owner", "People's land will change in just five or six years. The rich will be poor, and the poor will be rich."

Basically, the rich and powerful can annex land at will, and the court will not interfere at all. What makes Zhao Huan even more convinced is that the random buying and selling of land is not only reflected in the private sector, but even the court of the Song Dynasty did this:

"The imperial court expands land, such as private individuals buying fields. If nothing is gained and the money is wasted, what is the benefit?"

example."

That's right, if the court wants to gain benefits from land reclamation, it must collect rent in the same way that private landowners collect rent from tenants. Otherwise, the big guys in the court will object because there is no benefit.

What's more, in the seventh year of Shen Zong Xining's reign, there were more than 4.45 million hectares of cultivated land in the Song Dynasty. At that time, there were more than 447,000 hectares of official land, accounting for only one tenth.

After Wang Anshi's reform and implementation of the policy of selling official land, the proportion of official land dropped to one-seventy-fifth.

Frequent land transactions bring a large amount of capital flow, just like the joke that a piece of shit created 10 million GDP. However, local governments are reluctant to collect taxes amidst the large flow of capital.

but!

If the government does not have enough official land, it will not be able to control the pricing power of land, and may even lose its say in land distribution.

As for any dynasty, as long as it does not encounter a particularly large-scale natural disaster, war, plague or the like, the population will experience an outbreak period in the early days of the founding of the country, and then slowly enter a period of calm.

When the government loses the right to price and allocate land, the new Dingkou who gradually come of age will face the situation of not being able to get land. For ancient societies where productivity was not developed enough, this was a hidden danger.

The Song Dynasty had frequent rebellions twice a year. In fact, to a large extent, it was caused by this reason. Because the people could only think of killing officials and rebelling in order to be recruited, and the court of the Song Dynasty was also happy to recruit those who

The rebels went to die as cannon fodder. There was even a strange balance between the two.

This is very wrong.

Although it is said that collecting taxes for a while feels good for a while, and continuing to collect taxes will always feel good, but if this tax is used to overdraw the future of the Song Dynasty, then it will be very bad.

Officials naturally don't matter. No matter who becomes the emperor, they are still needed to govern the country. Even if the treatment is worse, even if they want to be slaves and can't get it, they are still officials after all.

But for Zhao Huan, changing someone to be the emperor basically meant that he had to lead the dog.

That won't work, it's impossible to keep a dog on a leash. Now is the best time to take advantage of the opportunity to step on the Jin Kingdom and Xixia. Later, you can step on the whole world again.

As the saying goes, it feels good to step on people all the time. He reluctantly acts as the emperor, and then keeps stepping on people. Doesn't he feel comfortable?

But when it comes to the word land system, it cannot be solved by Zhao Huan just saying that the land system needs to be changed.

After all, if you want to change the land system, you must face an unavoidable problem, that is, what about the landlords who own a large amount of land now? Compulsory recycling or buyback? Kill them with one shot, so let's look at this first

Landlord's reputation or something?

The most damning thing is that when people bought land before, it was endorsed by the government. Forced recycling is basically gambling with the credibility of the government. If it is a buyback, where will the money come from? After several wars, the national treasury is really empty.

Gotta be able to run away from mice!

"The land system needs to be changed."

Zhao Huan touched his chin and said: "Later, Li Aiqing and the Ministry of Revenue will come up with a charter."

???

Li Gang looked at Zhao Huan in confusion, feeling that he might as well just cut Jin Gong and count the balls - if he cut Jin Gong with one knife, wouldn't he feel the pain in his balls?

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There is a long table under the big willow tree at the entrance of the village, and two clerks are sitting behind the table. One of them is quickly drawing a portrait of the person in front of him on the household registration book, and the other clerk is questioning the farmer in front of him.

: "Name? Age? Have you ever been married? Do you have any children?"

"The villain Wang Er is only twenty years old. He has never been married and has no heirs."

The man in front of him smiled very honestly. After answering the clerk's question, he asked again: "I am on the household registration book. Shouldn't the government give me a wife?"

The official who asked the question laughed sneer and said: "If you get your household registration book this morning, the government will have already given you a daughter-in-law!"

But after he finished speaking, the clerk felt something was wrong. He raised his head and looked at the man in front of him and said, "Your name is Wang Er? There seemed to be someone named Liu Er just now? Honestly, how many names are there in this village?"

Wang Er’s?”
Chapter completed!