At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

"Remember, this is the idea proposed by my father at the beginning. I hope that all Limin people can let their children go to school."

"Yes, this is an idea, and it can only be an idea at present. In the home of the people of Li and Shu, children are the labor force, precious labor force, parents are old, and children must work in the fields to support the whole family, otherwise it will be difficult.

The cost of supporting a full-time scholar is not something that a peasant family can afford. My father once thought of subsidizing the local finance to subsidize the scholars in the ordinary people's homes, and at least provide them with a lunch. In this way, we can barely promote this policy.

But after a little calculation of the cost, the father knows that it is impossible to do it at present, let them all go to school, let alone millions of people, a meal for millions of people, that is millions of meals, The daily consumption is a big number, let alone all year round? "

Guo Peng shook his head helplessly.

"Father, what should we do in this case?"

"That's why I mobilized to clear the land for my father, eradicate the powerful manor owners, and execute the ones who took the lead this time. In this way, the problem can be alleviated to a considerable extent."

"But... this is for a while, not for a lifetime. My father said that land annexation is unstoppable. One group will be eradicated, and another group will be eradicated. Those who can study are always these people. How can these people serve the people when they become officials? What are the people talking about?"

Guo Jin has obviously thought a lot and thoroughly.

Guo Peng nodded with satisfaction.

"You have thought about it a lot, and you know that this principle is already very good. Therefore, land clearing must be carried out, light corvee and thin tax must also be carried out, and appropriate financial subsidies must also be carried out. It cannot cover all, at least Can cover a part.

The money from Qingzhang's land is used to support these poor scholars, cultivate them into talents, and let them enter the court. This is the current training camp model, and this is how the children of the training camp enter the court. "

Guo Jin remembered Guo Pengguang's acceptance of orphans from all over the world to train them in the Linzi training camp.

"Father, if the training camp continues to expand, there may be a way."

"A stopgap measure is not enough to be a universal law. It can be used now, but it cannot be used for a long time, and there is no impenetrable wall in the world. This matter is still a secret. Once it is exposed, the situation will be difficult to say. After all, we still need to establish a more Many schools."

Guo Peng patted Guo Jin on the shoulder: "Father knows how to do this, and you have to continue to do it, and the most important thing is to keep clearing the land every once in a while, so as to suppress the land. Local tyranny is like punishing officials."

Guo Jin nodded.

"But father, people with more land often have higher official positions and greater power. Nowadays, even the generals in the army probably have many family estates. Isn't father worried that they will change?"

"Power is intoxicating. Once power is in your hands, it is not so easy to let it go. The manor and power are two choices. For the father, I believe that after seeing the fate of these tyrants, they will choose power instead of the manor, so for the father. do not worry."

Guo Peng shook his head: "What's more, the army, as long as the father is still alive, there will be no problems. As for you...don't worry, the father will not allow the army to have problems in your hands. Be your master of the martial arts hall." .”

Guo Jin pursed her lips, as if realizing that Guo Peng would do something to ensure his control over the army.

He can't interfere with these things because he has no prestige.

This terrible prestige.

From ancient times to the present, it has always been a big problem.

But Guo Peng seems to have a well-thought-out plan and no longer talks about the military.

"All land must be measured clearly, taxation issues must be improved, and the population tax must be abolished so that the people of Li can have more children. Achieving such a goal is far more important than a rebellion by a powerful force."

Guo Peng didn't say anything, and Guo Jin didn't ask. He believed that his father could do the best, not to mention that if his father couldn't do it, he couldn't do it either.

Because he has no prestige.

"Indeed, our country Wei has an unprecedentedly large territory, but its population is only 6000 million. When the population was the largest in the former Han Dynasty, there were 6000 million people. 6000 million people cannot fill all the places that need population."

"After this counter-insurgency is over, Ah Jin, as a father, estimates that there will be millions or even more than 1000 million more people."

"More than 1000 million? Are they all hidden in the manor?"

Guo Jin was a little surprised.

"Well, all of them are hidden households and their private parts hidden in the manor. They are not counted by the court. They are all tenants of the rich and powerful families who took the initiative to avoid taxes and wars in the former Han Dynasty. This part of the population has never been counted by the court. In it, but still alive."

Guo Peng's eyes were full of unkindness.

"How could they hide such a large population?"

Guo Jin felt a little unbelievable.

"Ajin, in Zhangwu County, Bohai County, 37 rebel households were wiped out, and more than 29 hidden people were counted. This is because more than 1 people died because of the suppression of the rebellion."

"29?"

Guo Jin stared: "There are really so many? They...they really hid so many people?"

"It's just a lot, it's just a county, there are only 37 powerful households, there are more, and more have not been counted in time, do you believe it now?"

Guo Peng sighed: "There are so many people in hiding. With these people, the total population of Wei State will probably rise directly to 7000 million. These more than 1000 million people live in Wei State, as if they don't exist. How ridiculous."

Therefore, in the Three Kingdoms struggle for hegemony in that time and space, the populations of the three countries are not only those recorded in official data.

Shu Han 100 million, Sun Wu 200 million, Cao Wei 500 million, etc., are all taxpayers in the official government statistics, and more are never recorded.

After Wei destroyed Shu Han, the registered population was 500 million.

In the first year of Taikang after the founding of the Western Jin Dynasty, that is, the year when Wu was destroyed, the registered population was 600 million.

In two years, the registered population of the Western Jin Dynasty will reach 400 million.

In 20 years, the population has increased by almost five times. If this is the population growth brought about by normal birth, the fertility of human beings should be able to compete with that of pigs.

Human history should also be rewritten.

The Yellow Turban Rebellion and the Great Plague at the end of the Han Dynasty did cost tens of millions of people their lives, and the loss was almost half, but it definitely did not reach the point where there were only 800 million people left.

Due to various reasons, a large number of people, more than ten million people, either fled into the mountains and became fleeing households, or sold themselves into powerful manors and became hidden households.

Or because of the war, the government's population statistics work was inaccurate, so that people had a horrible understanding that the real population lost [-] to [-]% in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

However, whenever the troubled times end and the world returns to stability, there will always be a wave of large-scale population growth.

Not only because of the post-war baby boom, but also because those escaped and hidden accounts were discovered and re-registered.

Chapter 1290 A self-revolution of Guo Wei's regime

In fact, from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the return of the Three Kingdoms to the Jin Dynasty, there were always more than 1000 million tool people who lived like tools and were not included in the government's taxation statistics.

Their production and output all belong to the powerful landlords and dignitaries, not to the imperial court or the central government.

The powerful landlords and dignitaries have the same productivity and basic population as the central government, and they are even superior to the collapsed bureaucratic system in terms of mobilization.

So in the era of Sima Jin's southward migration, the gentry and the tyrants merged into one in order to protect themselves, and a powerful separatist force that mastered pens and guns-the aristocratic family was born.

However, under the rule of the Guo Wei Empire, under Guo Peng's powerful attack, the gentry and the powerful were still two distinct existences, and they never merged.

The aristocratic family has not yet been born, and there is still a way to solve it.

It's just that the powerful manor owners who have gradually grown bigger since the middle and late Han Dynasty are still unable to lose their tails.

In the area where Guo had to compromise, they still exist tenaciously, controlling a large population of millions of people, hiding in their own manor, unknown to the court.

They accumulate food, population, and force. Once someone covets their property, they will immediately pull up a resistance team and use force to resist the person or other organization that covets their property.

This is probably also a means of self-protection that had to be evolved in the Western Han Dynasty because it was too miserable to be killed.

For a period of time after Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, the local tyrants were really cut down by officials like pigs and sheep, and they were used to earn political achievements and raise military expenses for the court to fight back against the Huns.

Probably absorbing such experience, they have also developed the force needed for self-protection.

Of course, this is not in the interests of the central government at all.

Guo Peng was thinking about the population, and he was crazy to see the population explosion. As a result, they controlled one-seventh of the population of the Wei Empire but did not make any contribution.

Not only that, but they actually wanted to erode the grass-roots villages that Guo Peng had finally set up in the local area, and embezzle the population he controlled.

The power in the countryside is small, and it is difficult to resist such annexation without the support of the government.

If the other party is just an ordinary powerful landlord, the government will of course protect the village, but if the other party has connections in the court, then the situation is not necessarily the case.

Landlords with little power are difficult to annex land, and even become the target of annexation themselves, coveted by annexers who hold power.

And when big annexers like Guo Yang appeared, no matter whether it was the countryside or the powerful landlords, it was difficult to resist their power, and thus they were annexed.

This situation happened again and again, and finally after the Guo Yang incident exploded, Guo Peng, who had freed up his hands and gained energy, dealt with it severely. The power of the background.

Officials throughout Luoyang were forced to submit a petition to Guo Peng, explaining the fact of their own family's annexation, and soon, this kind of thing would also spread to the local political and military circles.

This is more similar to the internal contradictions of the ruling class, and it is a self-revolution of the Guo Wei regime.

This kind of thing will not cause all-round resistance from the manor owners, because small and medium manor owners are also victims, and they are persecuted by big manor owners like Cao Hong who dare not attack the village but dare to attack the manor.

Cao Hong’s property of more than 20 mu of land was not only obtained by Guo Peng before he became emperor, but also by Cao Hong’s continuous persecution of small and medium-sized manor owners who had no background in the years after he became emperor.

If Guo Peng simply cracked down on the annexation of land, it is estimated that many small and medium-sized manor owners would take the initiative to stand on Guo Peng's side and work together, such as joining forces to fight against Guo Yang and Cao Hong.

But while Guo Peng is cracking down on mergers, he is more importantly promoting tax reform.

In the process of reforming the tax system and promoting integrated taxation, for small and medium-sized powerful landlords, it is not only a matter of merging land, but also a matter of survival.

Therefore, whether it is the annexer or the annexed, as long as they are the manor owners, they will oppose it. Their resistance is all-round, representing the entire manor owner class.

But in this case, the big manor owners, those manor owners who held power, were the first to be attacked by Guo Peng through the Guo Yang case.

Vigorously cleaning them up, forcing them to take a political stand, stand in line, and force them to compromise with their future political future, thus effectively curbing the power of the big manor owners, making them afraid to resist, and dare not unite with small and medium-sized manor owners.

Therefore, when small and medium-sized manor owners unite to resist the unified taxation policy, they appear to be isolated and helpless.

Without the support of the official forces above and the support of the common people below, it was another rebellion suspended in the air.

The suspended rebellion that did not get support was attacked unanimously, and their resistance was naturally fruitless.

So in Jizhou, Youzhou, and Qingzhou, the areas where the rebellion was first carried out, under the auspices of the central forces, a large-scale act of destroying families has begun.

It is specifically reflected in actions such as flattening the manor, massacring the family of the manor owner in the name of rebellion, and counting the amount of their land and hidden population.

Then it is to quickly promote reconstruction, dispatch grassroots officials to build villages in the old manor, re-establish a new social order, and quickly resume production.

Replace the production mode of the manor with the production mode of the Wei Empire, eradicate the manor class from the economic base, and restore natural production.

Naturally, all the output this time belongs to the court, not to these manor owners.

Jizhou, Youzhou and Qingzhou carried out large-scale and large-scale persecution of manor owners. Thousands of manor owners' families suffered bloody revenge from the Wei government. The family power was uprooted, bloodbathed and massacred.

The main branches were all wiped out, and the side branches were rectified and demoted to coolies, and thrown to Hanzhong and Shuzhong to repair the main artery of the Shu Road, and they fend for themselves.

Because the rebellion made Guo Peng very angry, and it also made some local officials extremely angry.

So after the rebellion was quelled, not to mention the powerful families that participated in the rebellion, even a very small number of timid and fearful families who did not participate in the rebellion were also found out and killed.

This large-scale and magnified persecution did not arouse Guo Peng's ill feeling. He has always supported the idea that overcorrection must be overcorrected, and he turned a blind eye to this kind of behavior.

After this wave of actions, some counties and counties in Jizhou, Qingzhou, and Youzhou no longer saw the powerful figures of the manor, and all of them were killed.

Under the guidance and connivance of the local county, township, and village governments, the militiamen who lost their families and friends carried out extermination revenge on the powerful manor.

In short, the scene is very unsightly.

The long-suppressed resentment finally came out.

Subsequently, the land, population, and wealth held by the extinct landlords and powerful people were fully confiscated and counted.

The figures reported in the newspapers of all states, counties and counties are extremely astonishing, shocking the central government for a whole year.

Hidden population, occupied land scale, devoured wealth...

Based on preliminary statistics, Mr. Guo realized that the money for the construction of the Grand Canal and the construction of Mozhou, which he had been worrying about for a long time, was already available, and the national treasury had been greatly supplemented.

The cash flow wealth of the powerful landlords in the three states is enough to repair a Grand Canal, and can also build a desert grazing special zone.

This economy is cash flow wealth, the converted price of gold and silver, not counting other real estate.

Adding the population and other production materials, including the land and the houses, after all the calculations, their family property of several generations is worth the fiscal revenue of the Wei Empire for several years.

That's only three states.

After this data was seen by Guo Jin, he was also shocked and speechless for a long time.

chapter 1291 one thousand two hundred and one

The sum of the property and all the means of production in the Haoqiang manor, the sum of the efforts of these generations, was once obtained by someone Guo.

As a result, the financial situation of the entire Wei State has been greatly optimized and greatly relaxed.

It feels like a fortune from heaven.