Hearing this, a common man suddenly exclaimed: "Five times the tax, my mother, I can't afford to hand over all the grain harvested by my family." ”

"It's over, it's over!" One of the people was even more unbearable, poofed, sat on the ground, and was so anxious that he cried with tears in his eyes.

"Lao Wang next door, what are you crying about!"

The old man next door said while crying: "My old lady is sick, I have to spend time taking care of her every day, the family fields can't be cultivated during this time, and they will definitely be wasted, and the five times the tax can't be paid at all, isn't this going to kill me?" ”

A thin man on crutches looked embarrassed: "Yes, I went up the mountain hunting a while ago and broke off, and now it's not good, this land is inexhaustible, there must be wasteland, how good is this!" ”

"Okay, don't argue, listen to the officer." The village chief clapped his palms and motioned for the people to be quiet.

The official stepped forward to help the old king of the next door up, and said to everyone: "Your Majesty is the king of the world, how can you not take this into account?" His Majesty said that if there is really a problem in the family, you can report it to the village head, and when it is audited, you will be punished as appropriate, or even not punished.

This policy is mainly aimed at those lazy people in the village! If the lazy man does not work and his land is wasted, he will be taxed five times as much, and if he cannot pay the tax, he will be paid as a conscript, until it is repaid. ”

The official said, looking at the few people behind the people who were lazily dressed and hanging, and at first glance they were a few idle people.

Although the chaotic times at the end of the Han Dynasty made it impossible to survive without work, there were more or less lazy people, which was inevitable no matter what era.

For example, there will be deserters in wars, and those who are officials will have corpses and vegetarian meals, these people are similar to the nature of lazy people, they are all fools.

Liu Chan's punishment system is aimed at these lazy people, using a harsh punishment system to force lazy people to work, so as to improve productivity.

If these lazy people still can't change their ways, they will be levied high taxes at that time, and there will definitely be no way to give them.

But it doesn't matter if you can't pay it, if you can't pay it, you have to serve as a conscript, and when you get to the conscription team, you can't be idle, because there will be someone to supervise, and if you don't work, you won't even have to eat.

Therefore, Liu Chan's punishment system, whether those lazy people work or not, is beneficial to the country, if they work, they can increase grain production, and if they do not work, they will do forced labor and pay taxes, and support national construction, which is a win-win situation for the country.

When the people heard this, they were all relieved, most of them were still industrious people, and only a few people were idle.

And the lazy men in the back heard this, one by one like frosted eggplants, it seems that this land is still necessary to plant, compared to the heavy forced labor, often beaten and starved, farming is relatively much easier.

"Alright, now for the contents of this notice!" The official clapped his palms, pointed to another notice on the wall, and said, "This notice was promulgated by His Majesty in order to increase the population of Guanzhong.

Now that you have basically planted sweet potatoes and corn, your food production has increased greatly, and you don't have to worry about eating it.

So in the future, you will have more children, Your Majesty said, from now on, as long as you give birth to five or more children, you can also enjoy the tax exemption policy, and the imperial court will also subsidize rations.

In addition, the daughter of the family must marry when she reaches the age of fifteen, and if she fails to marry, she will also have to pay five times more tax.

In addition, His Majesty has summoned doctors who are proficient in gynecology from all over the country to Guanzhong, and basically every town can send one or two, and when the time comes, if your wife or child is sick or something, you will have to go to the town to see it, which is not charged.

Don't believe in any charms, pray to God and worship Buddha, etc., delay the time for healing, fool yourself, and harm the lives of children and women. ”

When the people heard this, there was another discussion, they were very interested in the reward system, and they could also be tax-free if they had more children, and they could also subsidize rations? That's a good thing! And there are doctors who see patients for free!

As for the punishment system, they didn't pay attention to it, because in this era, it was a patriarchal society.

The daughter is like water spilled out, and when she gets married, she will marry out, which is not like the future generations, and she will go home to visit during the New Year's holidays.

In the eyes of these people, daughters are raised for others, while boys can not only stay at home to work, but also marry daughters-in-law to increase the working population.

Therefore, Liu Chan stipulated that the common women must marry when they reach the age of fifteen, and these people not only did not resist, but they also wished that they would marry their daughters as soon as possible, so that they could reap a rich dowry and save food rations at home.

After reading out the contents of the notice, the official sent to dismiss the people and called the village chief to instruct: "As I said, Your Majesty's promulgation of this system will make the people more diligent, but after all, some people will have some crooked ideas.

For example, seeing other people's good harvests, secretly destroying, cutting off other people's irrigation water, etc., and even possibly killing people to cultivate cattle, you, as the village head, must deal with this kind of thing. ”

There is always no shortage of bad people in the world, and this decree issued by Liu Chan, although fair, as long as the people are willing to work, every family has the opportunity to receive tax-free rewards.

But it is precisely because every family has opportunities that there will inevitably be vicious competition.

For example, some people are jealous, see the high grain yield of other people's homes, and worry that they will not get the opportunity to be tax-free, so they secretly destroy other people's crops, cut off other people's irrigation water, and even kill cattle.

When Liu Chan was a child, he heard his elders say this kind of thing.

The village chief nodded again and again: "It must be, I must take care of these things." ”

"We come down every month to make rounds, and if the people compete with vile means, you are the only one who asks. We're going to run a few more villages today, so we'll go first. ”

This situation is happening one after another in various parts of Guanzhong, because Liu Chan basically thinks of all the places he can think of, so the people do not have any resistance to these two policies.

The only trouble is that it will lead to vicious competition among the people, and although the head of each village is responsible for supervising such things, it cannot be avoided in the end.

However, this is not a big deal, and the final effect of these two policies is to increase food production and increase the population of Guanzhong.

At the same time, on the side of Liangzhou in Longyou, he sent a group of people to Guanzhong.

In the land of Guanzhong, there were 6 million people at the beginning, but since the Xiliang Rebellion, the population has been greatly reduced, on the one hand, because of famine and war, and on the other hand, it has been moved.

However, Longyou Liangzhou was not stable at that time, and there were not many people in Guanzhong who moved there, and most of the people still went to Jingzhou and Yizhou. But although there are not many, there are some, but the total number of households is less than 10,000.