Tang Yuan once said that killing chickens and monkeys may not be able to scare monkeys, but killing monkeys and setting an example of monkeys must be more able to scare monkeys than killing chickens.

For example, the 12th Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, who paid compensation for the land from generation to generation, because people dared to kill and cut, and they didn't take those cynics seriously, so who was not the Holy Lord of the Ming Monarch?

Zhuang Chengyi, the right member of the household department, once persuaded Shi Zhuangyong to read the notice as soon as possible because of many times, so that Shi Zhuangyong no longer took him to the banquet later.

But at this moment, looking at the two heads on the execution ground, especially the moment when Shi Zhuangyong's head blinked, Zhuang Chengyi was only left with endless happiness in his heart, glad that he did not get involved with Shi Zhuangyong at the beginning, otherwise he would probably end up with Shi Zhuangyong.

On the high platform, Zhao Huan glanced at the two heads in disgust, then stood up again, and said in a loud voice: "I am Zhao Huan of the Great Song Dynasty!"

I sent people to recreate the Fish Scale Book and the Yellow Book, not to collect taxes from the big guys, but to know how many people still have no land! Because, I have recovered the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, so much land, someone has to plant it! ”

Looking at the people with different expressions in the audience, Zhao Huan took a deep breath, and then continued: "If you are willing to go, give the land!" Give the cow! Give farm tools! Give the seeds! Give money! If you don't want to go, don't force it! ”

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With the examples of Hu Wenshan and Shi Zhuangyong in the past, especially after some gentry were directly assigned to Shengzhou by the whole family, the next thing became very smooth, and the re-transferred imperial historian not only repeatedly read out the notice of recreating the fish scale yellow book in the city, but also asked the officials who were familiar with the local situation to go deep into each village with Zhuang Chengyi to read the notice, and count the number of acres and Dingkou.

It was only at this time that Zhao Huan completely realized how ridiculous he thought about the idea of civil land annexation, and how chaotic the land system of the Great Song Dynasty was—or rather, the Great Song Dynasty did not have a field system at all!

"Powerful officials and rich surnames, occupy unlimited land, merger and counterfeiting, habits have become customary", "Households trade land, buy deeds, and disputes, and there is no day", "Millennial land for 800 masters", "The rich and poor have no fixed situation, and the land and house have no fixed owner", "People's land and property, only five or six years, will be different, the rich are poor, and the poor are rich. ”

Basically, if you have money and power, you can annex land at will, and the court will not bother at all. What made Zhao Huan even more convincing was that the random buying and selling of land was not only reflected in the people, but even the court of the Great Song Dynasty played like this:

"If the imperial court expands land, such as buying land privately, if it doesn't get anything, it will cost money in vain, what benefit will it gain?" "Those who have not cultivated the fields have recruited the people to reclaim them, and the number of them is like the example of the host and guest of the people." ”

That's right, if the court wants to open up the wasteland, it has to collect rent in the same way as the private landlords collect the rent of tenants, otherwise the bigwigs in the court will oppose it because there is no benefit.

What's more, in the seventh year of Shenzong Xining's reign, there were more than 4.45 million hectares of cultivated land in the Great Song Dynasty, and at that time, there were more than 447,000 hectares of various official fields, accounting for only one-tenth.

Frequent land deals bring with them a lot of money flows, like the joke that a soak of shit creates 10 million GDP. However, the local government has been soft on collecting taxes in the midst of large capital flows.

But!

If the government does not have enough official land, it will not be able to control the pricing power of land, and it will even lose its right to speak on land distribution.

And any dynasty, as long as it does not suffer from large-scale natural disasters or wars, plagues, etc., the population will experience an explosive period in the early days of the founding of the country, and then slowly enter a period of calm.

When the government loses the right to price and distribute land, the newly added Dingkou will face the situation of not being able to distribute the land, which is a hidden danger for the ancient society where the productive forces are not developed enough.

The frequent rebellions of the Great Song Dynasty twice a year were actually caused by this reason to a large extent, because the people could not survive and could only think of killing officials and rebelling to be recruited, and the court of the Great Song Dynasty was also happy to accept those rebels to be sent to death as cannon fodder. There's even an eerie balance between the two.

That's very wrong.

Although it is said that it is cool to collect taxes for a while, and it is always cool to collect taxes all the time, but if this tax is to overdraft with the future of the Great Song Dynasty, it will be a big mistake.

Officials naturally don't care, no matter who becomes the emperor, they need to govern the country, even if the treatment is worse, even if they want to be slaves and can't get it, but they are still officials after all.

But for Zhao Huan, changing someone to be the emperor basically means that he has to be a dog.

That's not good, it's impossible to take a dog leash, now is the best time to take the opportunity to step on the Jin Kingdom and Western Xia, and you can step on the whole world later.

As the saying goes, it's always cool to step on people, he is reluctant to be the emperor, and then he keeps stepping on people, is he uncomfortable?

But when it comes to the word field system, it is definitely not something that Zhao Huan can solve by saying that the field system needs to be changed.

After all, if you want to change the land system, you must face a problem that cannot be bypassed, that is, how to count the landlords who own a large amount of land now? Forced Recycling or Buyback? Kill with a shot or look at the reputation of this landlord or something like that?

The most fucked up thing is that when people bought land before, they had the endorsement of the government, and the forced recycling was basically gambling with the reputation of the government. If it's a buyback, where does the money come from? After a few big battles, the treasury is so empty that it can run mice!

"The field system needs to be changed."

Zhao Huan touched his chin and said, "Go back, Li Aiqing and the household department will come out with a charter." ”

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Li Gang looked at Zhao Huan with a confused expression, feeling that he might as well simply cut into the palace to count the ball-if he cut into the palace with one cut, wouldn't he feel the pain of the egg?

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There was a long table under the big willow tree at the entrance of the village, and behind the table sat two small officials, one of whom was quickly drawing a portrait of the person in front of him on the top of the household register, and the other was asking the farmer in front of him: "Name?" Age? Have you ever been married? Do you have any children? ”

"The villain Wang Er, twenty years old, has never been married, and has no children."

The man in front of him smiled very honestly, and after answering the question of the little official, he asked: "I have a household registration book, should the government give me a daughter-in-law?" ”

The questioning official sneered and said, "You got the household registration book in the morning, and the government would have sent you a daughter-in-law a long time ago!" ”

It's just that after finishing speaking, the little official felt that something was wrong, raised his head and looked at the man in front of him and said, "Your name is Wang Er?" There seems to be another one named Liu Er just now? Honestly, how many people in this village are called Wang Er? ”

The man still grinned: "Master Huiguan, the second Wang Er just now is my brother, and I have three younger brothers, all of whom are called Wang Er." ”