Geng Wu looked at these uncles and said, "Let's go in and talk." ”

Geng Xi saw that Geng Wu's face was serious, and knew that it was a big deal, so he returned to the house and asked the irrelevant people to retreat, but left the elders of the major clans who came to visit.

Geng Wu took out the three political supervision orders in his arms, handed them over, and said, "Please take a look at a few uncles and look forward to helping Wenwei!" ”

Geng Xi took it and opened it, but his face became worse and worse the more he looked at it, and finally threw the political supervision order directly to the ground.

"General Zhenbei deceives people too much!"

The patriarchs of the Tian and Fu families looked at each other, stepped forward to pick them up and read them through, and their faces were also blue.

"Ma Zhenbei wants to clear the field, this is an old matter of Guangwu, you are now the county guard, the family is naturally full of help, and it will not make you embarrassed." Geng Xi took a few breaths, and said after a while, "But it is absolutely impossible to divide the land in this way!" What's to be done? This is to demolish Gengjiabao! I'm going to demolish our giant deer Geng's clan! ”

After speaking, Geng Xi slapped the table, pointed at Geng Wu and said, "You are the county guard, if you come strongly, I can't help it, but if you do this, the old man will die in front of the ancestral hall, let the ancestors and ancestors see what their filial sons and grandchildren will do!" ”

Why the family can be rich for thousands of years depends on three things.

One is the annexation of land to make money.

One is the monopoly of knowledge, which is used to gain power.

The last thing is to conceal the population, and the clans gather in order to gain power.

For a big family, wealth can be dispersed, power can be temporarily lost, but the power of the clan must not be dispersed!

Once the clan is dismembered and dispersed, then even if it can be rich for a while, it will be beheaded for three generations.

The clan is not just an ancestral hall, it is as simple as a big family sitting together for a meal during the New Year's holidays, the clan is actually a stitching monster with family, business, government and other functions under the small peasant economy, and it is a political, economic, and cultural violent group with blood ties as the link.

In Huaxia, everything revolves around the land, who annexes the land, it depends on whose clan is powerful, there are two men on your side, I have eight, I can bully you, it's okay to bully you, if you are not convinced, I will fight one by one until your family is extinct! Then take your family's land! Feudal official? Not to mention whether the government can know these things, whether they will care, whether they dare to arrest people, even if the powerful government wants us to hand over people, we will choose someone to go to prison and be stabbed, I guarantee that person will be satisfied with his son who has been divided into a large piece of land.

Unite the clansmen and exclude different surnames, this is the clan, otherwise why do you think that those villages are almost all with the same surname, it is because the people with other surnames in this village are dead!

Patriarchy is not a simple feudal dross, but the memory of thousands of years of internal struggle at the bottom of China, so to speak, in ancient times, non-patriarchal families, are extinct.

Geng Xi, as a patriarch for more than ten years, certainly understands this.

If according to Ma Qiang's political supervision order, all tenants and clansmen are allowed to take over the land by themselves, then the Geng clan accumulated over hundreds of years will inevitably fall apart in a few years.

The reason is very simple, why are these clansmen and tenants willing to listen to the words of the clan elders, the key point is that these people do not have much of their own private property, the fields they cultivate are all clan property, if you dare to disobey, you will starve to death next year!

And once the fields are divided into households, these clansmen will inevitably take care of their own interests and abandon the public, and it is no longer possible for the clan to send the clansmen to death as cannon fodder for the princes as they are now.

Again, the economic base determines the superstructure.

Geng Xi glared at this Geng Wudao, "Geng Wu, although you are a county guard, you are also a disciple of my Geng clan, do you want to destroy the Geng clan?" ”

Geng Wu also heard a stomach full of grievances.

Of course, he knew what the results would be if these three decrees were implemented.

These wealthy families, who have thousands of tenants at every turn, will soon become ordinary and large.

"Uncle, General Zhenbei is very determined, these three political supervision orders are just the beginning, you have also heard about the situation in Qingzhou, General Zhenbei will never allow a big clan to have so many tenants and clan soldiers in his hands!

You also said that these things are all old things, why can't you see them now? ”

"See? How do I see it! Geng Xi put his hands behind his back and shouted as he walked, looking extremely excited.

"If he wants money, food, soldiers and horses, I can give him them! Even if he wants to divide my field, I can accept it! After all, he has given you, my most outstanding disciple of the Geng clan, a future! Gave us a guarantee from Geng's!

But what is he going to do now? He's going to make up accounts! He wants all my tenants and clansmen of the Geng clan to leave the Geng clan!

Otherwise, you promise me that once the fields are cleared, everyone in Gengjiabao must still be in Gengjiabao! No one can be relocated somewhere else! ”

According to Geng Xi's original idea, he was going to buy the field back after clearing the field, which would be regarded as a donation of money and grain.

But now Ma Qiang wants to give 50 mu per person, such a large number, the fields near Gengjiabao are obviously not enough, that is, a large number of people will be relocated.

"General Zhenbei means that there are no men, women, young and old, all the fields are divided, although there are many people in Jizhou, but as long as the water conservancy is widely repaired, there will be more fields that can be cultivated..."

"No matter how much you can't have fifty acres for one person!"

The mu of the Han Dynasty was divided into large and small mu, the large mu was 240 steps, the small mu was 100 steps, Ma Qiang's 50 mu said that the small mu, and the large mu would generally be written as a public mu, which was the same as the catties and kilograms of later generations.

In later generations, Hebei had more than 77 million acres of land, excluding Chengde, Tangshan, Qinhuangdao, and Zhangjiakou that belonged to Youzhou at this time, and the cultivated fields in other cities were equivalent to 170 million mu in the Han Dynasty, which could just be divided among more than 3 million people in Jizhou.

In other words, Ma Qiang's division of land includes Zhao County and other places, so the people of Bohai and other places with large populations will inevitably migrate to Zhao County and other places that are almost empty.

At the same time, Ma Qiang is also preparing to let the people who were relocated to Bingzhou by Yuan Shao not return to Jizhou, and they will take root in Bingzhou in the future.

There is no way, the population of Bingzhou is too small, Li Ru's ruined Shuofang County, there were only 10,000 people in the heyday of the Han Dynasty, and now it has dropped to less than 3,000 people, Yuan Shao kindly helped move the people, Ma Qiang naturally will not let this work be in vain.

"Uncle, if you don't want to, won't those tenants be either? Will those people be unwilling? People die for money, birds die for food! ”

"I won't let them go! Who of them dares to go! ”

Geng Xi's hands were trembling, he must not let himself become the patriarch of the Geng clan who made the Geng clan fall, so after a hundred years, when he went underground, how should he see the ancestors and ancestors.