The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

The night gradually fell, the birds returned to the forest, and the whole city fell into a peaceful sleep, but almost no one could sleep well that night, and almost every household was having heated discussions.

The opinions of the family are difficult to unify. It has to be said that the five-day "thinking period" given by the Qin State has caused this group of Wei people who are used to being determined by their fate to fall into difficult thinking.

Is it a risk to stay and see what will happen here after the Qin people rule, or pack up the belongings and leave before the Qin people change their minds?

This is a very difficult choice to make.

Many people quietly pushed open the window frames to look outside during the quarrels, and they seemed to be able to see the fire in the square in the distance—it was the place where the prince of Qin State was still melting bronze vessels all night to make plowshares.

Unlike what they had imagined when the city gate was breached, they were not massacred, nor burned, killed, or looted. The soldiers who entered the city were very well behaved, completely different from what they imagined.

"Looking at the conditions offered by Qin State now, it doesn't seem too bad if you stay... After all, you will be given free plowshares."

This is an external reason, and the most important point is that Zhao Zheng's words [both Qianshou] attracted them.Today, the purpose of a country attacking another country is naturally to plunder, plunder population, land, and resources.

And if you want to get these things that belonged to others, the easiest way is to lower the status of the other party, for example, from a commoner who owns property to a slave who is not allowed to own private property.

That's right, the status of the citizens of their defeated cities will be lower than that of others, that is, the so-called "second-class citizens", and they will be heavier than the natives in terms of tax burden and service.

Isn't it fair?indeed.

But where is the fairness of things like war?To put it bluntly, the relationship between the victorious country and the defeated country is the conqueror and the conquered, and as the conquered, they have no other choice but to obey them.

Squeezing local resources and throwing the dirtiest and most tiring work to the conquered are all basic operations. It is naturally a huge benefit to attract a big country to waste a lot of supplies and manpower to start a war. Otherwise, is it still for the sake of ending the war? Is war for peace? ——Ghosts believe it!

However, what the Prince of Qin said was that they were rewarded and punished the same as the people of the Qin State. These conquered people were all Guishou, and Guishou means ordinary people, and they are ordinary citizens.

This, this, this is undoubtedly Qin's statement, saying that Qin has no intention of squeezing them to the end. This also gave the locals confidence that the prince of a country would not come to deceive people on such an occasion?And there's no need to lie to them.

Qin's general and the army are now stationed here, even if they are not given these five days, they will not be able to make any waves.

For some Wei people who belong to the humble family, they have no second choice, and staying here is their best way, but for some wealthy families, the situation is different.

Compared with ordinary Wei Min, they got more news, so they had a better understanding of Qin State.So they knew very well that it was not a good thing to be classified as the nationality of the Qin State because of the situation in their own family. Those who have money and can't spend it are the most annoying!

And they can't bear to be the same as ordinary people in status.They couldn't bear the feeling of being pinned by the law, so they hardly hesitated, and immediately started packing their luggage after the show, and waited for the dawn to leave.

Thousands of people have thousands of faces, just when the administrative unit just named Dongjun was undercurrent, Zhao Zheng, who made an astonishing performance today, was sitting at a low table eating supper.And his camp was surrounded and protected by layers of soldiers.Its protection is so tight that even reptiles on the ground and flies in the sky are not allowed to enter.In fact, just as the Wei people thought, the status of the crown prince is now a golden lump.

The only son of King Qin, on the one hand, ensured the inevitability of the crown prince's succession, avoiding unnecessary troubles, and on the other hand, made all Qin's eggs in one basket.

Zhao Zheng has no brothers, but there are many strangers.

Once there is a problem with Zhao Zheng, in order to compete for the status of the second heir of the kingdom, the Qin royal family will immediately set off a bloody storm. At this sensitive time, if Qin begins to fight for the throne, it is very likely that they will lose their aspirations. Opportunity.

Therefore, according to common sense, Zhao Zheng shouldn't be here, but he just came.

Regarding this trip, not only Zhao Zheng, but even Yiren also undertook tremendous pressure, because the court officials including Lu Buwei did not agree with Prince Zheng's trip this time, even his wife Zhao Ji did not agree, Letting Zhao Zheng go to Wei State this time is completely a different person's will.

In Lu Buwei's view, this is not necessary at all. It is just a new county formed by the twenty cities of Wei State. As long as Qin State continues to follow the current route and speed smoothly, there will be as many counties as there will be in the future. Why bother now? Going out during this sensitive period?

But Yiren also has his reasons.

Throughout the world, the kings who have done a little bit have been protons, while the princes who grew up in the palace have become quite mediocre kings.Yiren has also been a hostage, and he is very aware of the pressure and hardship involved in being a hostage of a country. Frankly speaking, if Lu Buwei hadn't dealt with it in every possible way, Yiren believed that he would not be able to return to Qin alive.

But even so, the Yiren who returned to Qin State were still much better than many of An Guojun's sons.This is like the survival of the fittest among wild animals. No matter how carefully you teach them in cages, they are bound to be inferior to those in free range. Just the understanding of the three words "survive" and the spirit of hard work will lose.

"Although the prince was insane when he was young, he has grown up in the deep palace since he can remember. No one is afraid." The other man sighed and said to his teacher, "My grandfather once taught me how to raise children well, but only this Lessons, widows can't teach."

It is impossible for a foreigner to release Zhao Zheng as a hostage in order to train his prince, and now there is no country worthy of him sending the prince as a hostage.But Yiren always felt that although his son was good enough, continuing to grow in Xianyang would not be beneficial to the growth of Prince Zheng.

This kind of thought turned around in his mind for many times. It happened that Meng Ao captured another [-] cities, and the strange man had an idea. What could be more training for people than stabilizing a newly recovered land?What's more, based on the current situation, there will be many opportunities to solve this kind of problem in the future.

But this kind of thought was just a thought, so he wandered to his son's study room to ask his son's opinion, but he happened to hear his son talk about how to calm people's hearts with Xia Anran. up.

After Yiren asked his son what he meant, he immediately announced that Prince Zheng should go to the East County to Anmin. Of course, for his safety, Yiren equipped his son with a complete protection team. He also accompanied Zhao Zheng's reading The team threw it together.

The management team that arrived in Dongjun was generally no more than 20 years old. Except for the general Meng Ao who was stationed there, there was no one older. This was a team composed entirely of young people.

Anyone with eyes can see that this team is the future humerus team selected by Yiren for Prince Qin.And Dongjun is where this small team started.

As the magistrate of Shu County, Lu An is the only one in Zhao Zheng's think tank with practical experience in governing. He was naturally thrown over together. On the way, a few young people have already made a plan, and the first thing is It is how to suppress the people.

That's right, repression.

For the conquerors, stabilizing the local area is the most important thing, and their usual practice is to confiscate all the weapons in the local area, and then deter the local people with severe punishments.The common name is to get off the horse, first to frighten people and make people feel scared, and then the management will be much more convenient.

The confiscation of weapons is one of the most critical points. If the conventional practice is followed, Qin should melt all the weapons collected from the local area at this moment, and then transport them back to Qin.

However, Zhao Zheng rejected this proposal. He has greater ambitions, and in order to achieve his goal, he is willing to use a slower but more effective method.

In this way, Fang You cast a sword into a plow, and also had a five-day relaxation period.

When Zhao Zheng said his proposal, his little friends were all stunned, even Lu An, who had vaguely heard Zhao Zheng's idea, couldn't help being stunned, they didn't expect Zhao Zheng to be so daring to do it.

The State of Qin has always pursued the policy of supporting war with war, and the rewards obtained by soldiers are basically issued from the captured land. However, Zhao Zheng suppressed this tradition for the time being. Only the land owned by the non-local people was distributed to the soldiers of the Qin State.

"But, how could there still be land here..." Meng Tian frowned and expressed his disagreement, "The countries in the east are densely populated, and the usable land has long been occupied. There is no way there is any extra land."

—Is it really impossible to have spare land?

The two brothers Zhao Zheng and Lu An looked at each other and smiled.

Although it seemed to be leisurely, in fact, everyone in Qin's camp, including the prince, was reading the files.

Now the integration information of the entire Qin State’s new land is being gathered here. Although it seems that the choice is given to the people of Wei State, in fact, they have already taken the lead in the survey of the number of cultivated land, the number of people in the city, and the surrounding terrain. Start measuring!

Of course, there is also the integration of existing data in county offices in various places.

"When the time comes, check these figures with the numbers reported by the residents themselves, and we will be able to determine how much free land we can have." Prince Qin said to his companions with a smile.

When declaring household registration, people of course also have to declare how much land they have under their own names, which has ample room for maneuverability.

The habit of Wei State is to pay taxes according to the land, while Qin State pays both poll tax and land property tax. Under normal circumstances, Qin State's taxation will be heavier than that of Wei State.

But in actual operation, the tax management of Qin State is stricter, and the small officials above dare not increase taxes or collect extra fees without authorization, while Wei State is the opposite.

As a small country in the middle and lower reaches of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, Wei has a lot of burdens in all aspects, not only military expenditures, but also bribes for sending gifts to the other countries in order to obtain blessings, not to mention Wei's treatment when recruiting soldiers. The tax reduction and exemption policy for the whole family only for the selected soldiers, and the reduction in the number of merchants resulted in the decline of domestic business and the slow flow of property, which caused a sharp drop in fiscal revenue.

In order to maintain this balance, the state of Wei, which had frequent financial deficits, of course collected taxes from the people afterwards.Raising taxes without authorization, enlarging projects, and doing more things on land than people can do.

In fact, the tax paid by the people of Wei State was at least three times higher than what they should have paid.

Under such circumstances, the people of Wei State naturally had to take the opportunity to conceal the report when they declared, and many of the twenty cities today are descendants of military soldiers who did not need to pay taxes. It has become a local rich family, because there is no need to pay taxes, all the output can be put into the market, and the profits are used to buy land.

Therefore, since the Wei State began to adopt this method of conscription, there have been large and small manor owners in the Wei State. The manor owners integrated small pieces of land to obtain greater benefits. This is land annexation.The merged land can bring them huge benefits, and the owners of small manors annex each other, and eventually there will be owners of medium and large manors.

These people are the wealthy class of Wei State.

But in the Qin State, the amount of land each person is allowed to own is determined according to his or her own status. Zhao Zheng's orders to all of them are no less than a reminder to these people.

They are now commoners of the Qin State, so these lands and properties are naturally not allowed to be owned. After the liquidation period, if they have these lands, they will be punished by Qin Law.

Then there are only two options left for them-either sell the land quickly in exchange for money, or conceal the report.

The Qin State kept its promise to allow individuals to own personal property, but the unclaimed land after measurement is of course unowned land, and of course the unowned land belongs to the official Qin State.

Is this considered plunder?Of course not.

Lu An shook his finger: "We can allocate part of the land owned by the government to the landless Guishou for them to cultivate. The land still belongs to these people. We only take the land that no one wants and cannot be divided."

—Despicable! !

The eyes of the companion readers immediately changed when they saw Lu An.

Unexpectedly, Lu Jingxi looked so innocent with thick eyebrows and big eyes, but his heart was so dark.

However, Gan Luo shook his head after thinking about it, "I feel that the land obtained by the Qin State... may not be enough."

Lu An, who didn't know what they had slandered him, continued, "Don't worry, Gan Qing, since His Royal Highness said that in the future, we will have the same rewards and punishments, then we have to let the people of Dongjun understand Qin Fa...and then learn to use Qin Fa. "

"Using...?" Everyone was puzzled, Gan Luo raised his eyebrows slightly, he seemed to have a vague sense of something: "Is Lu Juncheng referring to the Shiwu system?"

The Shiwu system was originally the military establishment of the Qin State. After Shang Yang's reform, it became a mutual supervision model among the common people. Neighbors supervised and picketed each other.And if the neighbor reports it, the neighbor can get a reward.

Because of this local management system, the smallest local unit in Qin State can also guarantee stability.In fact, this system was used locally after each conquest by the Qin State. It is a very simple and rude management model.

Lu An lowered his eyes and smiled slightly, "No, what I'm referring to is... teaching the people of Wei to learn how to sue."

"Sue, sue?"

Lu An picked up the tea and smiled slightly, "The laws of my state of Qin are different from those of the state of Wei, and law enforcement does not avoid noble relatives

.In the past, the laws of the State of Wei were not fair for them to get it back. We, the State of Qin, can help them get it back. "

Five days later, the people of Wei State who finally stayed in Dongjun tremblingly took their families to the registration offices of each city to re-declare their household registration according to the requirements of Qin State, and a small official of Qin State came to measure their land. The process lasted for more than a month, and no one came to report in the end. After statistics, the number of people who applied for household registration was actually more than the number of people in Wei's local county annals.

This surprised everyone. It can be seen how many hidden households there were in Wei before. Now they have become citizens who can own private property.

After the population and land property statistics were completed, many "lands without owners" were found out, and these lands were distributed to the new Qin people who had no land property.

Before these people woke up from their dreams, Qin officials began to go to every village with drums and gongs to explain the Qin law.

After finishing speaking, these Qin officials all meant so much to imply that you are now the head of the Qin State, and everyone is equal. While the crown prince is still there, they can make decisions for you. Hurry up and complain about grievances before it's too late.

After another month, when Lu An couldn't wait and started to take people to the field to start measuring the land, a man and his family finally ran to the gate of the county government office to file a complaint. The case was very simple. It was a land seizure case, and the other party was too arrogant and relied on the forces behind it to hide it. The local county magistrate collected all the evidence in just three or four days.

However, he did not open the court directly, but sent people to the townships and counties to investigate and consult one by one, and finally opened the first joint lawsuit in the Great Qin Kingdom. There were many plaintiffs and the amount involved was extremely huge. The penalty was only half of that of Qin, and he was directly sentenced to severe punishment.

When the head fell to the ground, the people of Dongjun were silent. They looked at the Prince of Qin who came to supervise the execution in person, and there was a little light in their eyes.

Zhao Zheng stood up slowly, and he looked at the Wei people who had dull expressions in the audience... No, it was the Xinqin people who smiled slightly, "What the King of Wei doesn't give you is fair, but I, Qin, can give it to you."

As soon as the words came out, the people were boiling.

And at this moment, Lu An received a transfer order from Xianyang, Qin Wang Yiren finally approved his previous plan, but his position is not the prefect of Shu County, but...

The prefect of Dongjun.

At the same time, Wei Liao also received his transfer order, and he was sent to Shu County to build a pass and guard it there.

——Here, what's going on here! !