Chapter 1497: The Battle of Xuzhou (94)
Moling City can actually speed up the progress, after all, it is Zhen Yu who is building the city, although it is impossible for the Zhen family to afford such a huge cost, but it is enough to ensure that Moling New City is always under construction, rather than directly stopping construction like now.
In fact, just like the advice given to Liu Lan by many people, as long as the conscription is resumed, all problems will be solved, and the most sourness is to take a step back to ensure that their rations are sufficient, and there will be no deductions, and the people will be happy, after all, this is far stronger than conscription.
But Liu Lan still rejected such a suggestion, since the conscription has been canceled, then it is impossible to restore it, otherwise wouldn't it be a slap in the face for the order of the day, so the construction of Moling City can be delayed, it doesn't matter, as far as the current situation is concerned, what danger can Moling have, whether it is Shanyue or Yan Baihu and Xu Gong of Wu County, they are all suppressed by Tai Shici and Zhang Jaw, even if there is no city wall, it is fine.
But that's the case, but things can't be done, the city wall still has to be built, although the amount of work is huge, but do not demolish the old city, after the site is selected, you can first build the city wall, the military camp and Weng City, there is a shell, in the planning of the inner city building, in fact, it is difficult to finish the beginning, building this shell is the most difficult, the shell is built, but it is easy, after all, according to Liu Lan's vision, the water and land routes in the city are unblocked, and there is no market, giving the greatest convenience to the merchants.
Moreover, in the future, Moling City will become a city that never sleeps, and there is no curfew. However, although there were no markets, the banning of the former official markets and other institutions and other institutions in favor of Shang Cao was responsible for collecting taxes, which can be said to be a major innovation of this era, but this is not surprising in later generations.
Moreover, institutions like Shang Cao are still a bit too general, they are responsible for everything, and one department is in charge of everything, which is not only easy to breed corruption, but also affects work efficiency, so this tax and officials still have to be separated.
And the people's residences will also be moved out of the fang accordingly, completely canceling the high wall, this is Liu Lan's biggest change to Moling New Town, but Fang Cheng will not cancel, their responsibilities are a bit of the concept of the community in later generations, just to delineate the scope of officials for them, and Moling City will also be divided into five large districts, and set up five counties to order the officials in charge of no area.
I have to say that Zhen Yu was really surprised by Liu Lan's thoughts, although he had it when he was building Pei County, but this time it completely subverted his previous concept of the city, can such a town still be inhabited? It's unimaginable, but when Liu Lan said all the benefits, it seems that it is indeed more reasonable than the previous city.
In fact, in the past, the city could not build such a large scale, the biggest constraint is the market, the town is too big, the daily life of the people will be inconvenient, especially the people travel.
But now that the market has been canceled, you can welcome the house in any place to do business, regardless of the owner as long as you get the permission of the Shang Dynasty, you can, in this way, first of all, the people will become more convenient, because what you lack in life, you may be able to buy as soon as you go out, and you don't have to go to the center to buy daily necessities for half a day, or the people of Pei County are like that, go to the market of the four gates of the southeast and northwest to buy, if the home is in the east of the city to go to the west market, it will take one or two hours to walk, how inconvenient?
But now the people don't need to think about it so much, and even Liu Lan suggested that Zhen Yu can set up a small market in a densely populated place, which is a bit similar to the southeast and northwest cities, but the stalls inside can be all-encompassing, which is convenient for merchants to sell, and it is also convenient for people to shop.
Liu Lan said so much, he can actually think of a lot, as long as he refers to the construction of the city in later generations, but he said so much, in fact, it is to provide Zhen Yu with an idea and broaden his thoughts, anyway, Moling New City is to facilitate the people and relieve the pressure for the people to travel, and not all residents in the city are residents, and some factories can also be built, such as wine shops and garment shops.
In fact, the wine industry is a big profiteering, in the past, the hotel made its own wine, the government charged taxes to the hotel, a business store tax, a wine tax for selling wine, now because of the wine limit, some small workshops are not allowed to make wine, want to make wine, then you must have a certain scale to be licensed.
This makes many small workshops merge or even cooperate, such a production model is strongly advocated by Liu Lan, and the tax is no longer collected from the tavern, but from the distillery.
There are too many such examples, the previous small workshops will be completely a thing of the past, including salt and iron, the best effect of this is to adapt the previous people's self-sufficient way of life, and what can really be changed is the production mode of the common people's male ploughing and female weaving.
It can be predicted that what such a change will become in a few decades and hundreds of years, at least Liu Lan can be sure that there will be no more people rebelling because of the loss of land in the future.
There may even be cases where the government has to come forward to encourage people to produce and plant, or even give subsidies, because the wealth brought by the land is getting less and less.
This kind of scene is not a fantasy, Liu Lan is using his own efforts to change the consistent understanding of the people of this era and even in the future, the land is not enough to make the people rich, and the land is just a way for the ancient emperors to exploit the people and tie them to the land to suck blood.
What really needs to be solved is not how much land to be distributed to the people, but to let those people who have lost their land actively or passively be able to live or even live a better life after losing their land.
And if you want to solve this problem, in fact, you must first solve the dependence of those in power on land, and those in power depend on land, so they will inevitably seize it by force, and use their own rights or other ways to make themselves own more land, and what Liu Lan wants to do now is as if he made Mizhu into a textile factory and garment store, which is a revolution in his concept, so that he understands that making money is not only through land and food.
What's more, now the land can't meet these big families covering thousands of acres at all, because there are no tenant farmers you can hire, Liu Lan divides the land for the people in Xuzhou, everyone can claim it, no one will be a tenant farmer anymore, no matter how much land the family holds, no one can only do it in vain.
And the harm of the food is that the people under their control do not need to pay taxes to the Son of Heaven, but have to pay taxes to the master of the food town, and the master is exempt from taxes, so when their concept is changed, when the time comes to one day really reward the meritorious deeds, he will not reward the food town, or even cancel the food system system, it will be easy.
To use other ways to change the dependence of officials on land, it may be difficult, but it is easy, first of all, let people see the benefits, just like the current Mi family and the Zhen family, a textile factory and a money village, all make a lot of money, land is really insignificant to them, and even after the Zhen family moved to Xuzhou, Liu Lan divided their hundreds of acres of terra nullius, and no one has cultivated them until now, and Mi Zhu sold hundreds of acres of land, and finally even wanted to sell it to the Chen family at a very low price, after all, he would not do such a business with Liu LanAlthough Liu Lan verbally told the Xuzhou family that the government could buy their land at market prices, no one dared to sell it.
As a result, the Chen family is now also in a panic, no one buys it, and as a last resort, Mi Zhu had to give up the land, and Liu Lan naturally will not buy it at the market price, but gladly accept it, after all, the idea of the garment store and the textile factory, but he gave Mi Zhu for nothing, such a big profit, he gave up some land, and spent money to buy?
So possible.
Even now, the land of the Mi family is only from thousands of acres to 500 acres, which is still considerable, but they retreat the land, they can transfer more land to the people, as long as they have the ability to farm, they can go to the government to buy, of course, it is purchased according to the market price, no money, go to the money village, take the land mortgage, there is no time to pay the money, the money village will collect the land and then monopolize it, and will not lose, of course, this situation is often encountered in a famine year, or encountered a disaster, if it is a good year, then it is very easy to pay off the arrears in one or two years.
Compared with Zhen Yu's construction of Moling City, the newly arrived Xuzhou Thorn Shi Chen Dengke encountered a lot of trouble, the Thorn History used to just play a supervisory role, and did not have real power, but now it is different, Liu Lan gave the Thorn History the real power, of course, unlike the military and political affairs of the state pastor, the Thorn Shi is responsible for the government affairs of the whole state, and the governor is responsible for the military affairs of the whole state.
Liu Lan said so much, he can actually think of a lot, as long as he refers to the construction of the city in later generations, but he said so much, in fact, it is to provide Zhen Yu with an idea and broaden his thoughts, anyway, Moling New City is to facilitate the people and relieve the pressure for the people to travel, and not all residents in the city are residents, and some factories can also be built, such as wine shops and garment shops.
In fact, the wine industry is a big profiteering, in the past, the hotel made its own wine, the government charged taxes to the hotel, a business store tax, a wine tax for selling wine, now because of the wine limit, some small workshops are not allowed to make wine, want to make wine, then you must have a certain scale to be licensed.
This makes many small workshops merge or even cooperate, such a production model is strongly advocated by Liu Lan, and the tax is no longer collected from the tavern, but from the distillery.
There are too many such examples, the previous small workshops will be completely a thing of the past, including salt and iron, the best effect of this is to adapt the previous people's self-sufficient way of life, and what can really be changed is the production mode of the common people's male ploughing and female weaving.
It can be predicted that what such a change will become in a few decades and hundreds of years, at least Liu Lan can be sure that there will be no more people rebelling because of the loss of land in the future.
There may even be cases where the government has to come forward to encourage people to produce and plant, or even give subsidies, because the wealth brought by the land is getting less and less.
This kind of scene is not a fantasy, Liu Lan is using his own efforts to change the consistent understanding of the people of this era and even in the future, the land is not enough to make the people rich, and the land is just a way for the ancient emperors to exploit the people and tie them to the land to suck blood.
What really needs to be solved is not how much land to be distributed to the people, but to let those people who have lost their land actively or passively be able to live or even live a better life after losing their land.
And if you want to solve this problem, in fact, you must first solve the dependence of those in power on land, and those in power depend on land, so they will inevitably seize it by force, and use their own rights or other ways to make themselves own more land, and what Liu Lan wants to do now is as if he made Mizhu into a textile factory and garment store, which is a revolution in his concept, so that he understands that making money is not only through land and food.
What's more, now the land can't meet these big families covering thousands of acres at all, because there are no tenant farmers you can hire, Liu Lan divides the land for the people in Xuzhou, everyone can claim it, no one will be a tenant farmer anymore, no matter how much land the family holds, no one can only do it in vain.
And the harm of the food is that the people under their control do not need to pay taxes to the Son of Heaven, but have to pay taxes to the master of the food town, and the master is exempt from taxes, so when their concept is changed, when the time comes to one day really reward the meritorious deeds, he will not reward the food town, or even cancel the food system system, it will be easy.
To use other ways to change the dependence of officials on land, it may be difficult, but it is easy, first of all, let people see the benefits, just like the current Mi family and the Zhen family, a textile factory and a money village, all make a lot of money, land is really insignificant to them, and even after the Zhen family moved to Xuzhou, Liu Lan divided their hundreds of acres of terra nullius, and no one has cultivated them until now, and Mi Zhu sold hundreds of acres of land, and finally even wanted to sell it to the Chen family at a very low price, after all, he would not do such a business with Liu LanAlthough Liu Lan verbally told the Xuzhou family that the government could buy their land at market prices, no one dared to sell it.
As a result, the Chen family is now also in a panic, no one buys it, and as a last resort, Mi Zhu had to give up the land, and Liu Lan naturally will not buy it at the market price, but gladly accept it, after all, the idea of the garment store and the textile factory, but he gave Mi Zhu for nothing, such a big profit, he gave up some land, and spent money to buy?
So possible.
Even now, the land of the Mi family is only from thousands of acres to 500 acres, which is still considerable, but they retreat the land, they can transfer more land to the people, as long as they have the ability to farm, they can go to the government to buy, of course, it is purchased according to the market price, no money, go to the money village, take the land mortgage, there is no time to pay the money, the money village will collect the land and then monopolize it, and will not lose, of course, this situation is often encountered in a famine year, or encountered a disaster, if it is a good year, then it is very easy to pay off the arrears in one or two years.
Compared with Zhen Yu's construction of Moling City, the newly arrived Xuzhou Thorn Shi Chen Dengke encountered a lot of trouble, the Thorn History used to just play a supervisory role, and did not have real power, but now it is different, Liu Lan gave the Thorn History the real power, of course, unlike the military and political affairs of the state pastor, the Thorn Shi is responsible for the government affairs of the whole state, and the governor is responsible for the military affairs of the whole state. 10