Xue Bolin restrained his demeanor, very calm, he said:

"The Xianguo has been in war for more than 20 years, and the real peaceful years are only the last six or seven years, and the six or seven years of peace are still due to the new land policy and the lifting of the ban on industry and commerce 20 years ago.

Therefore, it is thought that the Xianguo is now prosperous outside, not inside, and the real strength should be the first country to be rich and the people to be strong, and then the country to be strong and the people to be rich, and finally to help both, and the Central Plains is just around the corner. ”

Bai Liyan was already not interested in continuing to listen, and he didn't want Xue Bolin's words to stir up a thousand waves in his heart, which reminded him of the conversation he had with King Xian twenty years ago. He hurriedly asked:

"Then may I ask Xue Gongzi, is there a specific way to govern the country?"

"Back to Yongxing Hou, Hou Ye has been revitalizing education for 20 years, prospering industry and commerce, supporting agriculture and mulberry, deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and benefiting the world, this move should be unswervingly continued to be implemented until permanent. Moreover, the people are the foundation of the country, and the population of Xianguo is only more than 17 million, and there are many old and weak people and a sudden shortage of strong labor, which is a major disaster in our country in the next 30 years.

It is the best policy to encourage Hou Ye to cultivate life and recuperate without easy words, and accordingly we should encourage birth and recuperation, widely promote education and popularize medical institutions, reduce the early death of young children and child diseases, and wait for 20 Chinese New Year's Eve, the population will recover and talents will emerge one after another, so as to feed back the three industries of agriculture and industry, and then the cycle will continue to grow. It can reap the effect of enriching the country and strengthening the people. ”

Xue Bolin's eloquent conversation won Bailiyan's heart, although this person is dark and thin, his appearance is not amazing, but his sonorous and powerful conversation, close language organization logic, give people a deep impression of a rather powerful aura.

Bai Liyan couldn't help frowning and pondering what he said, and then asked him again:

"Then how can the country be strong and the people rich, and how can it be both in the end?"

"Back to Yongxinghou's words, the country is rich and the people are strong because the current national system cannot be changed, and if you want the country to be strong and the people to be rich, you must implement new laws to reform the disadvantages of the country and the people."

"Oh, Xue Gongzi thinks that there are still big drawbacks in the current law of making the country rich and the people strong?"

Bai Liyan asked him curiously, but Lu Hou only felt that Xue Bolin was not proportionate, so he said in a deep voice:

"Bolin, the new policy of Yongxing Hou is obvious to the world, and he can't stop talking about the disadvantages of the new deal and what kind of system it has become."

At this time, Bailiyan waved his hand and said to Lu Hou:

"Lu Hou, please calm your anger, it's okay to comment after listening to what Xue Gongzi said for the time being."

"Well, Yongxing Hou, Bolin, you can go on."

Lu Hou reined in his unhappiness, and Xue Bolin had the courage to continue:

"Yongxing New Deal divides the land to the people with subsistence allowances, regardless of men and women, the old and the weak, and everyone is born with their own land, which has changed the previous land concentration in the magnates, and the magnates are reckless and merged, and even privately raise hidden households to accumulate grain and grass, and refuse to pay money and grain.

The people are diligent in cultivating because everyone has their own acres of land, and the advanced farming method of accumulation and fertilizer has benefited the whole country, and the agricultural productivity has greatly increased. And everyone is satisfied, but they don't know the huge drawbacks hidden in it.

In the whole world, although the land is large, it will not grow, although there is more land, there are few acres of land, and there are even fewer grain fields. However, the population will continue to give birth year after year, day after day, as long as there are people.

In the future, when the country is rich and the people are strong, the world will be peaceful, everyone will continue to have children, and the court will continue to distribute the land to the people. It is not a big problem for a year, two years, ten or Chinese New Year's Eve years, but if the population continues to grow after a hundred years or two hundred years, the land under heaven will not grow, and then there will be more people than fields.

Further, before the Xianguo unified the world, this hidden drawback could still be removed, if the whole world was unified, and the various forces competed to divide their interests privately, and the division was not their own sphere of influence, and then it would be impossible to push a new land policy to replace it.

Even at that time, the whole country was complacent and carried away, and continued to promote it with the current new policy, and after a few years, population growth and land reclamation will become internal troubles, and please Yongxing Hou Mingjian. ”

To say that over the years, Bailiyan has seen a lot in the market, whether it is the civilization of the northern hemisphere, or Zong Botai's easy calculation method, it is all eye-opening, but there has never been an incident that can give him such a shocking impact.

Xue Bolin mentioned the two most fundamental issues, that is, people are the fundamental driving force and resource for all social and economic development, and second, land resources are limited, but population growth is unlimited.

In addition, Xue Bolin has seen that land policy should solve the problem of land distribution when the population is small, when the general level of education is not high, and before the interest groups multiply.

The new "Land Grant Law" introduced that year stipulated that peasants should enjoy the right to retain their own land for life and not trade it, and this law was actually a disguised measure of the "Land Grant Law".

It only severely restricts the right to trade land and the improvement of agricultural technology. The organic adjustment of the tax law will at least not lead to the failure of land harvests caused by natural and man-made disasters in the middle and late stages of the promulgation of the "Juntian Law", and the state and local magnates will expropriate and extort their land, causing the peasants to sell their land, and then a vicious circle, which will eventually evolve into a situation of large-scale peasant uprisings.

The combination of the new tax and land law, supplemented by disaster relief, grain storage, and agricultural technology, made it possible to reduce taxes even in disaster years, not to increase, and to fully mobilize the stockpiling of grain in the hands of the wealthy in the domestic market and the hoarding of grain abroad, so long as the state apparatus was theoretically effective, there would be no large-scale peasant uprising.

However, the disadvantage of the "Juntian Law" is that everyone has land, but it allows for sale, sale and annexation under certain conditions, while Bailiyan's "Land Granting Law" everyone enjoys land, and after death, it will be nationalized and redistributed, and it cannot be traded during his lifetime, so if the population increases unlimitedly, the land will one day be distributed. On that day, what will happen to the people who have no land.

Therefore, when Bailiyan enacted the Law on the Granting of Land, he pointed out in the prologue the potential risks of this problem, but did not propose a solution, because under the technical conditions of 20 years ago and the current environment, it was not realistic to reduce population growth.

But Bailiyan left the back door, which was both a low-level field and not a flat field. At best, people will not starve to death, but the land equalization method is to give each household enough land, enough land to provide enough for the farmer's expenses, including non-staple food, living expenses, and even some thrifty children can go to private schools.

However, the amount of subsistence land is very small, limited to the ration of starvation, and other non-staple food and daily necessities are not enough to supply the subsistence field, so it needs to be leased from the state, so the amount of subsistence land allocated by the imperial court is much less than that of the uniform field method, only one-fifth to one-sixth of the uniform field method.

Moreover, when the "Law on Granting Land" was enacted, Bailiyan clearly wrote that after the national grain yield per mu reached an average of five stones, the amount of subsistence land allocated by individuals would be reduced, and the people at the bottom would always be kept at the level of starvation, so as to stimulate the enthusiasm of the peasants to lease the land of the imperial court, and not to cause the peasants to lose their enthusiasm for labor due to the sharp increase in the yield per mu due to the progress of science and technology.

Therefore, there is no sharp contradiction between the land equalization law and population growth in the medium and long term of the "Land Granting Law", but the times are developing, the population will increase exponentially, and the limited resources and unlimited population are indeed the main contradictions in the future.

Although the current wars are frequent and the mortality rate of the population is high, this situation will not appear for the time being, but after the unification of the world, the world will be peaceful from now on, the population will resume growth, and if there is no birth control, the land will be divided sooner or later.

In the later period, due to the growth of population, the backwardness of agricultural technology, the continuous natural and man-made disasters, the dumping of the powerful and the tyranny of the imperial court, and many factors superimposed together, which finally contributed to the end of the Juntian Law.

The "Land Granting Law" was also a strong measure to solve people's hearts and grain and grass in the past, but it also seems to be a temporary measure today, and it cannot finally solve the problem of land distribution.

Thinking of this, Bai Liyan asked Xue Bolin again:

"In Xue Gongzi's view, how will the land be changed in a few years, and how will the accumulated disadvantages be eliminated?"

"Hui Yongxinghou, in the next thought, should increase the research of agricultural plants, in order to increase the seed productivity, and at the same time take the village as a unit, with the allocated subsistence land as shares, no matter how much new population, how much population is reduced, the allocated subsistence farmland, assigned to the common property of the village, with a household as a unit of equal distribution, and the unallocated land outside the village is regarded as the land owned by the imperial court, with a long-term lease lease to the people for cultivation.

In this way, the grain obtained from the village's own land belongs to the villagers, and the tax can be appropriately levied, while the land of the imperial court is taxed according to the advance tax law, and the price fluctuates appropriately according to the annual situation and national conditions, so that no matter how much the population increases in the future, the imperial court no longer needs to allocate land.

However, if the population of the village increases greatly, the number of peasants renting the land of the imperial court will inevitably increase, and in the long run, it will fall into the disadvantage of granting land to legal persons.

Therefore, while increasing the cultivation of improved seeds, we should also concentrate on the efficient use of land, develop more efficient seeding machines than cocoon cars, increase the scale of urban industry and commerce to absorb peasants to work, and the most important thing is to continue to vigorously promote education and improve the knowledge of the people, so that they do not have to work all day long.

Only by taking a multi-pronged approach, channeling the population, improving the production of farmland, expanding the industry, concentrating on the tuntian, and taking multiple measures at the same time can we solve the fundamental problem of the people's prosperity and the people's strength, and the country's strength and the people's prosperity at the same time. ”

Xue Bolin's detailed exposition, logical and rigorous insights, which can be called the world's incisive theory, Bailiyan was deeply impressed by his arguments.

In view of the fact that his argument was too advanced to be feasible for the time being, he could not make any affirmation of his attitude, so he said in a flat tone:

"Xue Gongzi's meaning, Ben Hou understands, please sit down."

"Xie Yongxinghou."

All land-related reforms must be carried out cautiously.

Xue Bolin's measures can be broadly summarized into four concrete measures. First, intensive use of land. Second, expand basic education and skills training, increase industrial and commercial jobs, and achieve urbanization.

Third, increase investment in agricultural scientific research to increase yield per mu, promote mechanized and automated sowing and harvesting, and delay the pressure brought about by slow urbanization and population growth. Fourth, in the end, the world will be peaceful, and the size of the population should be appropriately controlled, so as to achieve a balanced development of the resource economy and the population.

To say that these four articles are basically not in line with the current national conditions, but they are the inevitable trend of future development.