716 Agrarian Reform Plan

In the day of rest of Meiling Post Station, in addition to washing off the dirt and changing into new clothes, Suning spent all his time writing a chapter for Li Erma, after all, he is the emperor, and any policy needs to be promoted by others, and under the background of Zhenguan's innovation, the plan promoted by the emperor will protect himself to the greatest extent, the person who originally proposed it, and will not become the target of public criticism.

Of course, in today's social context, the social reform has not violated the interests of the core class, this period of the Tang Dynasty has just been founded, the meritorious magnates have not yet formed one stubborn interest group after another, the society is still a withering, very suitable for the development of Zhenguan innovation, the most important land reform plan at this time will be easier to implement.

The Juntian system is very positive in the official evaluation of all dynasties, although during the reign of Tang Dezong, the Juntian system officially withdrew from the historical stage, but its role is still very significant, but the background of the implementation of the Juntian system is that the imperial court has mastered a large amount of land, and the division of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties for hundreds of years has caused great damage to the social economy, objectively creating a large number of ownerless wasteland, laying the foundation for the implementation of the Juntian system in the second generation of the Sui and Tang dynasties.

With the growth of population and economic development, the land of the imperial court became increasingly scarce, and because of natural disasters and human chaos, the peasants who had acquired land under the system lost their land, and the officials and powerful with strong financial resources annexed a large number of land, out of respect for the private ownership system. In the absence of sin, the imperial court will not arbitrarily expropriate the landlord's land.

This directly led to the fact that the land of the imperial court was acquired by the officials themselves and the local Haoqiang clan, and the increase in the number of royal families and the increase in the amount of land acquired, a large amount of land was obtained by the officials and the royal family, and the land of the imperial court became less and less.

The approach Suning wants to adopt is to buy land from owners of a large number of lands that they do not have enough resources to develop, even if it is not good land, on the premise of protecting private interests as much as possible. All these lands were brought under the control of the imperial court. Then, these large number of landowners purchased their subordinates and tenants, filled them into the people's register, expanded the population of Jiangnan, and officially implemented the equalization system in Jiangnan.

As for why Suning was sure that these landowners and population owners would make this deal with the imperial court. There are many factors. The main factor was that the imperial court had what the landlords wanted so much - the seeds of high-yielding crops provided by Suning themselves.

These seeds are widely cultivated in the Guanzhong area. It has been fully implemented, followed by Shuzhong, Shandong, Hebei and other places, Jiangnan and other places except for Xiangyang and Yangzhou areas that have been focused on development by Datang. There is no flow of high-yield crops, which was determined at the very beginning when Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui appeared in "Jiangnan Shu", because the land of Jiangnan is not clear enough, these high-yield crop seeds must not flow into the place where Jiangnan Datang cannot fully control.

The seeds are distributed by the imperial court, the farmers are strictly kept, and there is a special part of the agents who are responsible for this aspect of the work, and the news of the blockade of the south of the Yangtze River must be strictly controlled for those families and local heroes, especially the foreign races, so far not a single seed has been allowed to flow into the land of the south of the Yangtze River, and there are a large number of troops strictly guarding the soil demarcation line, and no one is allowed to bring seeds into the local area without permission.

So far, the news that Suning has secretly probed all shows that those local heroes and clans are eager for the seeds of these crops, but because the supervision of the imperial court is too strict, there are countless checkpoints set up in various places, and they are basically guarded by the central army of the twelve guards, not the local army, and those officials are also afraid of finding out their heads and then suffering crimes, no one dares to do this kind of thing.

And even if someone did this, the imperial court would be the first to know that the land where high-yield crops were planted would be forcibly nationalized, and private cultivation would not be allowed - families who could grow high-yield crops were given qualifications, and families without qualifications could not grow any of the high-yield crops even if they owned the land, and the land would be confiscated.

The third revision of the Zhenguan Law stipulates that this is the case.

If the land south of the Yangtze River can be slowly developed from north to south, the benefits are self-evident, but in order to leave an example for future generations to abide by, this simple and rude way of doing things cannot be put on this kind of thing, this kind of thing must be cautious and cautious, and it is related to the country's plan.

However, what makes Suning very pleased is that people attach great importance to private property these days, especially land, and the government will also protect land ownership in accordance with the title deed, and many emperors have stipulated that the purchase of land must be witnessed by the government, allowing land sales and recognizing private ownership, but the imperial court has to intervene in supervision, which is normal, so it is normal for some of these officials to collude with local tycoons.

The drastic changes in land annexation are inseparable from the enormous "contributions" of these people.

But according to modern standards, with enough harvest, enough to eat, enough to feed themselves, and in the case of dry years, the water in the imperial court is also beautifully repaired, which can ensure the supply of water; In the case of a large flood, the water conservancy projects of the imperial court can also avoid this phenomenon very well, such as Li Bing's Dujiangyan, which has protected the land of Shuzhong for thousands of years without floods and droughts, and then became the country of abundance.

Suning is not very sure how beautiful the water conservancy project can be, but in today's situation, planting normal crops in normal years, planting rice, and planting potatoes in famine years, at least the land can be kept from being lost, and people will not die, as long as the people will not be forced to sell their land for self-preservation, then the equalization system can be maintained, to put it bluntly, as long as everyone is guaranteed to have enough to eat, what is the problem?

High-yield crops are one thing, and the formulation and maintenance of imperial court policies are another, how to ensure that the people will not go hungry and sell their land to break the balance of the land system. This needs to be operated well, and perhaps it is also a very important point to increase commercial income by running a large business, and when it is possible to do agriculture without taxes, then the agricultural reform will be successful, and the transition from an agrarian society to an industrial and commercial society will not be a dream.

Nearly 10,000 words were sprinkled with blood drops and quickly sent to the capital through secret channels, five days later, when Suning arrived in Guangzhou City, this report was also sent to Li Erma's hand, looking at the words of His Majesty's personal opening, Li Erma's eyes twitched a little. Do you really think this kind of thing is playing with letterwriting? But it's been a long time since anyone has written to me. It's still a standard letter in this style, and I'm really nostalgic.

After opening the letter and starting to read, Li Erxi didn't have that kind of joke in mind, and Suning pointed out the crux of the current problem very seriously. This kind of strict sù and seriousness is the first time I have seen it. The root causes of the slow progress of the Jiangnan Rise Plan are analyzed in detail. He also lists the problems one by one, and then gives the solutions to the problems that he has proposed.

For example, the reason for the scarcity of households in the south of the Yangtze River was that the imperial court did not control it, and the Juntian system in the early years of Zhenguan did not involve most of the areas in the south of the Yangtze River. The imperial decree is almost a dead letter in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is useless to implement it in a few places, the number of people is too small, and a few prefectures and counties are useless at all, and the people who join the civil registration must automatically bear the obligation to pay taxes to the imperial court, and they do not have to bear taxes when they become tenants of large families and even tribesmen.

Compared with the great risks that the freemen had to bear: the land harvest was not enough in the year of famine - the harvest was not enough for the whole family to eat and pay the taxes - the government forced the tax - the land had no choice but to sell the land to quench the thirst - the local tycoons and the wealthy families received the land at a low price and became the owners of a large amount of land, while the commoners had no place to stand - the landless peasants were displaced and became refugees, and when the money was exhausted, they could only become lonely ghosts.

And tenants and more simply the tribes, life is the private property of the big family, although there is no freedom and dignity, but can live, the family will naturally not let their property go away, more small families do not expect anything to get ahead, life is the greatest hope, so this can also explain why the land south of the Yangtze River and even the land of Shandong are a large number of tenants and tribes, obviously have the opportunity to become free people to join the nationality, but they are unwilling and willing to be slaves.

I just want to live.

The biggest drawback of the equalization system has been undoubtedly revealed in the south of the Yangtze River, the peasants now own land, but once they encounter a year of famine, the peasants simply cannot keep their land, where is there something in the land that has no harvest to feed them and make them pay taxes? The government also forced them to pay taxes, so that the peasants had no choice but to sell their land at a low price to quench their thirst.

It is foreseeable that if you don't take countermeasures as soon as possible, then sooner or later, Guanzhong will be like the land of Jiangnan, all the land is either the powerful royal family officials or the powerful clan, even the imperial court will have no land, the common people have no place to stand, the strong and strong, the people have no way to live, no hope, no food, hunger and hardship, as long as one person rises up, it will inevitably cause the world to respond!

Rebellion is death, and not rebellion is death, so it is better to rebel, maybe there is still a glimmer of life! Qiang Qin swept Liuhe, and looked at He Xiong? But no matter how powerful the Great Qin Empire was, it was not at the hands of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, two prisoners of capital crimes, it was their seemingly fragile Shouyi who played the funeral march of the Qin Dynasty.

Li Ermaxi didn't have a smile on his face, his face was extremely strict, Zhao Chen beside him trembled, he didn't dare to take a breath, and his body began to tremble, once Li Ermaxi had this kind of expression, it meant that he began to be serious, and he couldn't be more serious, the emperor was still easy-going on weekdays, but at this time, the slightest thing that didn't go according to the emperor's wishes could cause the emperor to be furious, and his close attendants were the first to be unlucky.

Suning made it clear that in order to alleviate this crisis, the most important thing to do at present is to expand the public land in the hands of the imperial court, there is not much public land in Guanzhong, but there are still many wastelands and borderless lands in Hebei, Shandong, Hebei and Jiangnan, and the imperial court should nationalize these lands as soon as possible, and then negotiate with the big landowners in Jiangnan, in exchange for high-yield crop seeds, buy Jiangnan land and the tenants under the big family at a suitable price, give them civilian status, and settle in the northern area of Jiangnan. Gradually advance to the south.

Steady dìng live in Jiangnan, implement the Juntian system in Jiangnan, step by step, and then he Suning can't say anything more about the future, but Suning said in the fold that maybe in the future, the fiefs of the meritorious ministers and the children of the royal family can be sealed in the land outside the newly acquired land of Shenzhou in the Tang Dynasty, and Shenzhou itself, including the land in the south of the Yangtze River, will no longer give land to the courtiers. (To be continued......)