Three Kingdoms: Summon the Heroic Soul Yue Fei at the beginning

Chapter 336 The Land System Throws Out
Chapter 337 The Land System Throws Out
What Ye Xiao didn't expect when the new emperor ascended the throne was that none of Dong Cheng and others came out to object. Ye Xiao guessed that it might be because Dong Cheng and others felt guilty for indirectly murdering Emperor Xian.

In the twinkling of an eye, it has been a month since the new emperor ascended the throne, and the whole north has entered late autumn and early winter. The cold wind is constantly blowing on the northern land, and Ye Xiao's side has spent [-] summoning points to get the heavy rain. Ye Xiao's harvest has been preserved a lot, plus he has continuously mobilized Jiangdong and other places to buy grain, and finally it's time for the autumn harvest.

Although many people starved to death, this was Ye Xiao's best effort. In fact, what Ye Xiao didn't know was that the people in the three northern counties saw what he did.

This time, Ye Xiao listened to Liu Bowen's suggestion that he did not use the name of the imperial court, but his own name. The people immediately cheered after hearing that Ye Xiao gave them disaster relief, and the fleeing refugees in Yuzhou settled down instantly. Qingzhou and Xuzhou didn't rule for a long time, so the people there didn't have so much trust in Ye Xiao. Even when Ye Xiao said that he wanted to provide disaster relief, many people were still trying to find a way to go to a place without famine.

But with Ye Xiao's relief food, those refugees who escaped immediately regretted it, so many refugees began to rush back. Ye Xiao did not reject these refugees who rushed back, but instead sent people from the government to pick them up.

But even so, many people starved to death on the way home. After Jin Yiwei told Ye Xiao about this, Ye Xiao just nodded without any emotional change.

After so many years of experience, he has gradually become ruthless from a hot-blooded youth, and Ye Xiao also took advantage of the drought to uproot the Qingzhou family. The big family was basically wiped out.

So Ye Xiao started to arrange one thing, that is to reform the land.

As the basic means of production of the feudal dynasty, land determined the rise and fall of the dynasty. The land system in China from the Qin and Han Dynasties to the end of the Qing Dynasty was a feudal land system, that is to say, the land was privately owned. When the dynasties changed, the emperor redistributed the land he had conquered to the peasants. When the peasants got the land, it would promote the development of production, thereby promoting the prosperity of the social economy.

This land system has been used for thousands of years, but this land system has a drawback, that is, the land is limited but the population growth is unlimited. In the early days of the dynasty, there were countless wars and the population dropped sharply. When the emperor distributed the land, everyone could get a share.

However, natural and man-made disasters will cause farmers to sell their land in exchange for a certain ration, and those who buy land will become another class, that is, landlords.

Landlords own a large amount of land, and they will lease these lands to farmers, and those farmers will have another status as tenants. The more they have, the more they rely on the income from these lands to bribe officials, and some even threaten the imperial power.

And this kind of land system also has a characteristic that it has not been maintained for more than 300 years. Take the recent big man as an example. Although it has lasted for more than 400 years from Liu Bang to the present, don’t forget that there is also Wang Mang in the middle. In the new dynasty, many people died when the Red Eyebrow Army revolted.

Ye Xiao naturally didn't want the dynasty he founded to die after 300 years, and he was naturally not as greedy as the first emperor, hoping that his descendants would inherit the throne from generation to generation.

His reforms are based on his historical responsibility to come to this era. He will not reform with passion like Wang Mang and then turn everyone against him.

At this time, he was not the little boy who just came out of Yingchuan. He had already washed away the strength of the family after various events, and he also pulled the hearts of the people over this drought.

The next step is what kind of reform system to use has become the most difficult, so Ye Xiao called Liu Bowen, Zhang Liang, Jia Xu, Chen Gong, Zhang Juzheng, and five people to prepare for a meeting to discuss this matter.

"Berwin, I now have two ways to promote reform. Let me talk about it and you can discuss it."

Ye Xiao glanced at Liu Bowen and others in the audience, and spoke slowly.

"The first type is the equalization of land. To realize what Mencius said is that the tiller will have his own land. We will measure all the land and distribute it to the displaced people to farm."

"The second type is public ownership, which is similar to the well field system in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, but it is different from the well field system. These lands belong to the imperial court, and then the imperial court distributes these lands to the common people. The common people only have the right to use but not the right to buy and sell. And the transfer between them also transfers the right to use the land, not the ownership.”

After Ye Xiao finished the two methods, everyone fell into silence. Ye Xiao knew that they were thinking, so he sat down and drank a sip of tea, ate a piece of pastry, and quietly waited for the result of everyone's thinking.

"Drip drip..."

The water in the time-recording drain kept dropping, and everyone in the audience was still thinking.

About an hour later, Liu Bowen came out slowly, looked at Ye Xiao and said.

"My lord, I have thought about it for a long time and think that the method of equalizing land is the best solution. After equalizing the land, everyone will have something to support their children. Isn't this what Confucius wanted to see? So I think it is still the system of equal land. Best, as for the public ownership mentioned by the lord, in my opinion, it is similar to the well field system in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the well field has been abandoned by history, so there is no need to pick it up again."

After Liu Bowen finished speaking, he returned to his seat, his face full of confidence.

"My lord, I feel that public ownership far surpasses well fields. Brother Bowen's words are correct, but there are some flaws in them. Behind the average field, it does seem that the tiller has his own land, but he has a fatal flaw."

The person who spoke was none other than Zhang Liang. Ye Xiao looked at the old buddy of Liu Bowen in front of him, who had been fighting against Liu Bowen every day for the past few days, and couldn't help but smile slightly. Ye Xiao knew that others didn't know, Zhang Liang and Liu Bowen were very clear about their political opinions. There will be ambiguity, but the two have a characteristic that as long as one party has sufficient reasons to persuade the other party, then the other party will admit that the skills are inferior to others.

"Oh? Ovary, tell me what are the disadvantages."

Ye Xiao asked with great interest when he heard that Zhang Liang actually saw the disadvantages.

(End of this chapter)