Sections 550 and 551 Prices skyrocketed, and the currency system was reformed
Speaking of the public fields in the southeast, there is a historical public case, which is very interesting to say.
In the late Southern Song Dynasty, large landlords and big bureaucrats vied to annex land, which led to a sharp decline in the revenue of the Southern Song Dynasty's treasury, which was insufficient to cope with the military resistance to the Mongol Yuan.
The Song Dynasty originally had a large number of public land, but after many years of sale, by the end of the Song Dynasty, the public land had been exhausted, and most of the land was concentrated in the hands of "nobles".
Zhao Song lost his public land and fell into a financial crisis all of a sudden.
As a result, the powerful minister Jia Yidao drastically implemented the "Public Land Law", and used paper money and degree to forcibly purchase fields beyond the grade regulations by issuing paper money and degrees.
Jia Rudao attempted to rebuild the public land reserves of the Great Song Dynasty and increase the revenue of the treasury through the public land law.
Jia Yidao's public land law was first implemented in the six counties of Pingjiang and Jiaxing, which were the richest and had the most serious land monopoly, and in the first stage, 3.5 million mu was forcibly purchased.
This is known as the Gongtian Law. This is the most important measure in the so-called "Jingding Method".
However, this was resisted by the landlords, who colluded with local officials to conceal the number of acres and transfer the land forcibly purchased by the government to the middle and lower landlords and rich peasants.
In this way, the crisis of the Song Dynasty not only did not ease, but intensified social contradictions.
The failure of the "Jingding Reform" meant that the Song Dynasty's road to reform through the reform was blocked. As a reformer, Jia Yidao was also "ruined".
Li Luo sold Jia Nidao in later generations, he knew Jia Nidao, and felt that this person was most likely hacked, and it should not be so unbearable, at least much stronger than Shi Miyuan and Ding Daquan's generation.
The so-called coffin closure is conclusive, and Jia Rudao has been dead for more than 700 years, and later generations are still mixed.
If this matter ends here, it won't be much interesting, at most, let Li Luo summarize some lessons.
Interestingly, as the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed by the Mengyuan Dynasty, the tens of millions of acres of public land that Jia Rudao finally bought were all cheaper than Kublai Khan. The Gongtian of the Southern Song Dynasty became the head of the Guantian in Jiangsu and Zhejiang in the Yuan Dynasty.
Kublai Khan got so much public land, just enough to not infringe on the gentry and power, and also have a large amount of land to reward soldiers and heroes. Really took advantage of a big advantage.
And now, in the hands of Li Luo, who is in the hands of all these fields, he has also taken a big advantage.
It can be said that most of the land of the Tang Kingdom has been in the hands of the Tang Dynasty. This provided the conditions for the Junda Order.
"After deducting the vocational land, the public land in each county shall be divided equally among those who have no land and less land in the county, regardless of men, women, old and young. The fields are divided into upper fields, middle fields, and lower fields by being barren. One acre of upper field is equivalent to one and a half acres of middle field, and two acres of lower field. ”
"Within a county, there is a distinction between the population and the amount of land. It is to guard the counties in various places, take the counties as the domain, and move the people, so that the number is even. Counties with many people and narrow areas can be moved to counties with large and sparsely populated areas......"
Li Luo's approach is to break the habit of relocation, balance the population and land resources, and move the population from areas with less acres of land per capita to areas with more acres per capita. We should not have a situation where one county has less land and more people, while another county has a vast land and is sparsely populated, and make the greatest use of land resources.
He plans to spread population migration first by county, then by county, and finally by state, and then by county, and then by state, to alleviate the imbalance in population areas.
"Each is based on the acres of land of the county population, and each person is granted three to five acres of land. A family of five is good at holding 20 acres of land, and every three years, the number of mouths is approved and the acres of land are re-demarcated..."
Li Luo implemented the Juntian order according to the 20 acres of land for a family of five as a reference, which seems to be much more stingy than a 100-mu household in the Sui and Tang dynasties, but it is not.
Because the farming technology at this time was no longer the extensive cultivation of the Sui and Tang dynasties, under deep ploughing, the yield per mu increased greatly, and the per capita cultivated quantity also decreased. A family of 20 acres of land can't be planted without diligence. With the addition of southeast field fertilizer, a few acres of land per capita is enough to have a slight surplus after paying taxes.
It's just that this year, the war has been going on and the agricultural season has been missed, and the large-scale grain production will have to wait until at least next summer, and a large amount of relief grain will be needed during this transition period. Fortunately, the Tang State had a lot of food reserves, which could basically be dealt with, and a large number of people were avoided from starving to death.
Finally, the lengthy reading was over.
However, it is still not over, and next, there is another edict to reform and reopen the imperial examination. This is Li Luo's gift package to the Southeast Hanshi.
The edict said: "The national talent ceremony, the weight of famous weapons, and the foundation of social discipline." The king rules the world with the Ming Dao, so he weighs the world's talents with the Ming Dao... The so-called enlightened people, tomorrow's way, enlightened humanity, enlightened ministers, honest and shameful, knowing the hearts of the people, knowing good and evil..."
"Those who know the Tao must know literature and history as a reference, they must know arithmetic to know numbers, they must learn to ride and shoot to strengthen their bodies, and they must know the crops to persuade farmers...... This is the way of enlightenment. ”
As soon as these words came out, some officials from the literati were a little stunned, but they were all old men in Haidong, and they did not slander them.
Since ancient times, emperors have ruled the world with filial piety. And Li Luo, the king of the Tang Dynasty, proposed for the first time to "rule the world with the Ming Dao", which can be described as the first one. As the founding monarch, he has this qualification and this convenience.
Li Luo's Ming Dao rules the world, and the selection is actually a talent with strong comprehensive quality. The requirements for the subset of classics and history have been greatly reduced, but they have not been abolished, while the requirements for arithmetic, agricultural time, people's livelihood, and the six arts of gentlemen have been raised.
To put it bluntly, it requires intellectual education, moral education, and physical education, all of which are indispensable.
"The states printed the textbooks for the scientific expedition and distributed them to the counties and counties, thinking that the scope of the scientific expedition was ......"
It is to send the exam materials down and let the students who take the exam review and prepare first. The weights of each subject in the examination are the same as those of Haidong. At present, the traditional subset of classics and history is still the subject with the most weighted scores.
"Those admitted by each county are Xiucai, and they are given fame and fame; Those admitted to the state examination are given meritorious fame; Lifters can go to Lin'an to participate in the examination...... The examination will be held once every two years, and those who fail the five exams will be disqualified from reference..."
Li Luo drew on the imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty and clearly set up the three literary ranks of Xiucai, Juren, and Jinshi. However, the change from one test every three years to one test every two years also limits the number of examinations, so that many people do not have to take the test all the time and waste human and material resources.
"It is scheduled to reopen the imperial examination on the second day of February next year. May 15 state test. I will try it on the 10th day of October..."
"Xiucai, can be awarded the top ten products; Lifting people, can be awarded the nine products; Jinshi, can be awarded the positive eight grades. ”
Even Xiucai has village officials to do. In this way, the power at the grassroots level is in the hands of the court. The difference between the three levels of culture is only that the starting point of the official grade is different, but there is no restriction on going up, and all of them are opened. Even if you are just a showman, as long as you really have the ability, it is possible to climb to the three mansions and nine departments.
This is to reduce talents in an eclectic manner, and never to determine life by an exam.
You are a jinshi, and you started as the county government master of the eighth grade. And I couldn't do the exam, I was just a showman, and I became a small Shipin Muramasa.
However, if I really have the ability to do practical things and work hard, maybe I will become a state pastor many years later, and you, the jinshi of the year, are still just a county guard.
Just like the Hereafter. The starting point of doctoral and master's degrees is definitely higher than that of undergraduates, but they are not necessarily more capable than undergraduates. In the future, there may not be undergraduates who mix well, that's the reason.
In doing so, it is necessary to curb the rigidity of the bureaucracy. At the same time, divide the civil officials, and prevent them from being like the Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty, a single family, and form a civilian-official group with a common background.
As soon as the edict of the imperial examination was reopened, the scribe class was also encircled.
The next edict was to abolish the household registration of all colors, and no longer divide and imprison official households, artisan households, peasant households, hunters, fishermen, merchants, weavers, prostitutes, and music households, and liberate them from the confinement of household registration.
In this way, almost all classes, including civil and military officials, the army, the common people, scholars, and craftsmen, were favored.
It is really the Ze of the Tang King, descending to all sentient beings.
There are still many decrees that will be promulgated one by one in the future, but at the King Ceremony, these blockbuster benefits are enough to quickly stabilize the new Tang Kingdom.
"The declaration table is over, the ministers dance!" After Ma Zhiyuan read out several edicts, the ceremonial officer sang and shouted again.
In the midst of the music, hundreds of officials raised their arms together, opened their arms, clapped their hands, and shouted together: "Ha! Call! ”
With a ha, raise your legs together. With a whoop, step on the feet together. As a result, thousands of people clapped their hands and stepped on their feet, and the sleeves of their robes were turned up, which was not uniform, but it was very imposing. The officials also danced seriously.
This is the Asaga dance, which is also known as the hand dance. The Asaga dance has been a rule and etiquette for thousands of years. In the eyes of Wen Tianxiang, Zheng Sixiao and others, it is normal.
The Asaka dance originated from the Chinese tribal era, when the ancestors paid tribute to the chief through dance, and it has been handed down and is very ancient. The dance of the primitive religion of China and the witch dance of the Chu State are all dances to pay tribute to the heavens and ghosts.
Therefore, the so-called dance, in the Chinese tradition, is a ceremony, and it must be danced by the inferior to the noble.
"Hah! Call! ”
Cui Xiuning, the freshly baked queen, tried hard to hold her face, and her stomach was sore.
She was afraid that she would laugh out loud.
Of course, the queen didn't really laugh, but there were still people laughing.
I only heard one person laughing sneeringly, and although the voice was a little suppressed, it was still clear to hear. Li Luo couldn't help but glance at it, it turned out to be Xiao Yan, the envoy of the Liang State Mission who came to congratulate him.
Xiao Yan and hard work, as celebratory envoys, sat on the side of the VIP seats with the envoys of the Song court in Guangdong, and did not dance in the square like Tang officials.
Xiao Yan said that he was the king of Liang Guozhao, and he was not an embroidered pillow, this person could be literary and martial, but after all, he was young and a little frivolous.
However, Xiao Yan quickly suppressed his laughter, and his body trembled slightly.
Li Luo just didn't see it. And the hard work next to Xiao Yan glared at him fiercely.
"Rite over!" The celebrant sang, "Yama! ”
The ministers stopped dancing, bowed down to the mountain again, and shouted, "God bless the king! Wanfu Jin'an, rest with the sky! ”
"Xing!"
"Mountain Call!"
"God bless the King! Wanfu Jin'an, rest with the sky! ”
"Xing!"
"Again the mountain!"
"God Bless the King......"
Li Luo also stood up at this time, stood on the high jade steps, opened his arms, flattened his sleeves, and said loudly: "Flat!" On the celebration of the founding of the country, the widow and the Qing are the same! ”
The salute officer sang again: "The king has an order, tomorrow and one moment, give a banquet to the West Lake and worry about the garden!" ”
Because the Zhao Song Imperial Palace of Phoenix Mountain was too damaged by Meng Yuan, there are actually few decent palaces left, so that there is no place for a big banquet in the palace.
Li Luo had no choice but to order the "Hou Paradise", the most beautiful Jia Nidao Garden by the West Lake, to be changed to the "Xianwei Garden" and taken over by the royal family.
This garden is only a dozen miles away from here, near the mountain and the lake, and the magnificence blends into the lake and mountains, which is very suitable for holding the royal family banquet.
"King Xie!"
Finally, there is the distribution of the knights' seals. The moment they received the ribbon, they were the real Tang nobles.
Like Du Lie, Utu and the two are even more envied by others, because both of them are one family and two titles. Both fathers are earls, and all sons are viscounts.
Of course, others don't find it strange. Because they all know that the father and son of Du Lie and Utu are not only the king's Yuancong, but also the oldest and earliest Yuancong.
Wen Tianxiang, who has the highest title, was named the county marquis, and no one said anything. Although Wen Tianxiang returned to the Tang Dynasty for only two years, he had a high reputation and great military achievements, especially as soon as Wen Tianxiang entered Jiangnan, the scholars of the poor family returned to the Tang Dynasty immediately, and easily collected the heart of Jiangnan Shilin for the Tang State and mastered the public opinion of the prosperous place of culture and education.
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It wasn't until late afternoon that the whole ceremony was over, and it took a whole day.
"Send the prince to the king of the king!" As soon as Li Luo and Cui Xiuning came back, the first thing they did was to send Li Zheng, who had long been impatient at the ceremony, to Yan Duo.
They just want to take a break now.
Li Luo went to Cui Xiuning's Kunning Palace, waved away all the maids, pulled out the heavy gowns by himself, and fell on the bed painted with gold embroidery at once.
Cui Xiuning also hurriedly took off her gorgeous clothes, changed into a light middle coat, and fell on the bed.
"I'm a little tired. Maintain your demeanor for so long, pretend to be ...... all day," Li Luo smiled, "I'm just a fool, I'm still sitting, and my legs are numb and I have no intuition." ”
Cui Xiuning rolled over and rolled to Li Luo's side, "Press your shoulder on Benhou, I'm more tired than you Okay, Zheng'er has been making trouble, I still have to coax him, and I don't dare to move too much, don't work too hard." ”
Li Luo perfunctorily pressed the woman's shoulder and stretched one leg over, "The widow's leg, the queen press it." ”
Cui Xiuning said: "Listening to Zheng Sixiao, this is much simpler than the emperor ceremony, but it is more tiring to think about the emperor ceremony." ”
"Alright. The great task of becoming king is finally accomplished. Next, there was a lot of military and political affairs, and some of them were busy. We don't know when we'll be able to take a break. Li Luo sighed.
"Isn't it?" Cui Xiuning agreed, "It's been half a year since I came to Ancheng, and I haven't been to West Lake!" You haven't been there either! I get angry when I think of this, we've been in this world for five years, and you've never traveled to me once. ”
"Okay, when we are busy with this, we will pay a private visit to the white dragon fish suit, micro service, and have a good tour in the Tang Kingdom." Li Luo also suddenly felt that he really hadn't enjoyed it.
After coming to this world, the only time he enjoyed it was in the Lee family town in Inju, Goryeo.
In addition, he and Cui Xiuning's lives are very sloppy and busy, and they are like wars all day long. Even if they are now the king and queen of Tang, the little couple lives a very ordinary life.
Even the meals in the palace are home-cooked meals. The usual food, clothing, housing and transportation are also as simple and simple as possible. Although there were hundreds of maids in the palace, there were very few times when they were actually used to serve them personally.
The two talked for a while, had a casual dinner, and began to discuss another important matter.
Reform the currency system!
Today's Jiangsu and Zhejiang, still use banknotes, and the depreciation is becoming more and more serious, not to mention, it is still the currency issued by the Yuan court. How can this be tolerated?
Not only that, but there are also monks' degrees as currency on the market, and there are many of them, which is simply a strange thing. In addition, silver, gold, and copper coins are also circulating in Liu Tuo.
All this has caused the monetary system in the southeast to be extremely chaotic, which has seriously affected the fiscal performance and economic recovery.
"With the silver we have now, it is enough to implement the silver standard in the southeast." Li Luo said confidently.
After a large-scale rebellion, most of the silver accumulated by the big landlords and gentry in the rich land of the southeast was pocketed by Li Luo. A large amount of silver was concentrated in Li Luo's hands, which made the silver shortage of the southeast folk, and further aggravated the depreciation of the banknotes.
For this reason, the economy of the Tang State is now very fragile. The countryside does not have much impact, but in all large and small cities, prices are now soaring, changing three times a day, and voices of dissatisfaction with the Tang Dynasty have begun to appear in the cities.
The rice, flour, grain, oil, and salt in the city have skyrocketed fivefold recently, and only copper coins, gold and silver are collected, and no one collects money when they pay it. As a result, the citizens of the city, who used to pay money as their main monetary asset, suddenly became impoverished.
Bartering has occurred in many cities.
Although the problem was mainly caused by the Yuan Court, since Li Luo had become the master here, the problem had to be solved by him.
The Special Investigation Bureau reported that some people even wanted to prompt Tang Guo to break out in a civil uprising because of the sharp depreciation of the banknotes!
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