Wang Cheng, who has not heard from him for nearly half a month, is finally back.

Recently, Wang Cheng can be said to be in pain and happy, and he finally got his wish and approached the position of Xingyang upstart infinitely.

Although the king was not hungry for what he had told him, he could almost open his mouth to tell him the answer.

But in order to be more rigorous, Wang Cheng still personally visited various places and arranged for his subordinates to go and investigate in person.

"Childe, the general situation is like this, more than seventy percent of the cultivated land in Xingyang is in the hands of Haoqiang, and almost more than fifty percent of the cultivated land is in abandonment, and almost half of the cultivated land in the hands of the people is in abandonment." Wang Cheng gave an exact data obtained after investigation.

When he heard this answer, Wang Bu was stunned.

Of course, he knew that the important reason for the uprising at the end of Qin was the lack of food, and the people could hardly survive.

But for the imperial court, there is not much shortage of food.

Because various national projects are underway.

And now, in Xingyang alone, sixty-five percent of the arable land is being wasted?

"This data seems to be very different from the data recorded by the government, right?" Wang Bu was hungry and felt a little incredulous.

"Childe, the actual situation and the results of the investigation will never be the same." Wang Cheng told Wang with certainty that he was not hungry.

Of course, Wang Cheng also knew very well that Wang was not hungry and wanted dry goods.

So he continued: "After the first emperor made the head of the Qianqian from the real field system, the records of the official government could not be the same as the people, when the first emperor was still there, the situation was slightly better, but the situation deteriorated sharply in the past two years, especially after Qin II ascended the throne, the tax was raised several times, and the people were already unable to support it, and as a last resort, they could only sell the cultivated land to Haoqiang in exchange for grain and pay taxes." ”

Wang Buxing suddenly realized that he had ignored the problem.

Qianshou is from the real field, which means that the state recognizes the private ownership of land, and the local tycoons can use this system to use various means to annex these lands legally and compliantly.

But on the other hand, although the private ownership of land is recognized, the state's tax revenue still needs to be guaranteed, so there is also the theory of land tax.

The land tax is paid directly to the state, so in this respect, the land is still the state.

This leads to another problem, the land is not allowed to change owners without permission.

This means that after the land is determined, each household pays the same amount of tax to the state each year.

And this leads to even more serious and deadly problems.

Qin Shi Huang continued to increase the number of conscripts, the Great Wall, Abang Palace, Lishan, Chidao, etc., and the number of laborers levied was in the millions.

And these young and strong forces are precisely the main people who cultivate the land.

If all the people who farm the land are used to build national projects, even if the old and young women and children in the family can farm, they will not be able to plant so much land, so only part of the land can be wasted.

But the state doesn't care whether your land is wasted or not, even if it is wasteland, you have to pay taxes according to the rules.

At this time, the grain grown is not enough to eat yourself, so how can there be surplus grain to pay taxes?

You can't pay it back if you don't hand it over.

In desperation, local heroes began to appear.

They took away the wasteland in the hands of the people at a very low price, but because the state did not allow the land to be traded privately, the actual control of the land was in the hands of the local tyrants, but the people still had to pay the taxes themselves.

And after the people get the grain from the land sale, they can't keep it, so they basically take it directly to pay taxes.

This year's selling point, next year's selling point, the land is getting less and less, but the tax revenue has not decreased at all.

For the local heroes, the land is barren and barren, anyway, they don't pay taxes, so they can just take turns to plant, so that the land can rest for two more years, so that every year is a bumper harvest.

The land problem has existed almost since the history of China, and it has continued until after the founding of New China.

Of course, various reforms have been underway in the middle, but in the end, the big problem of land annexation cannot be solved.

Wang Bu was hungry and had this exam answer in his heart, but he didn't dare to use it.

"Childe ......"

"You're just in time!" Wang Bu was hungry and looked up to see that it was Chen Ping, and he couldn't help but be happy in his heart.

If it weren't for the inappropriate timing, he would have wanted to bring Zhang Liang over to discuss this issue.

"Ben Gongzi understands that seventy percent of the cultivated land is in the hands of local tyrants, you say, how can Ben Gongzi hand over these lands to ordinary people?" Wang Bu was not hungry and asked directly.

"Uh-huh???" Chen Ping was stunned, "What?" Childe, don't ......"

"Why not?" Of course, Wang Bu is hungry and knows the difficulties, but it is not possible to solve this problem.

"Gongzi is in urgent need of the support of local heroes at the moment, and if he moves the farmland, won't he directly want to do something to these heroes?" Chen Ping said bluntly.

Originally, Chen Ping wanted to talk about taxes, but as soon as Wang was not hungry, he threw him such a big melon.

He was so frightened that he trembled, and when he saw that Wang was not hungry, it seemed that he was playing for real?

Hurriedly continued to explain: "Although the number of Haoqiang is not large, but he holds most of the land in his hands, and most of the food is hoarded at home, the current trend is like this, the tax revenue that Gongzi can get from the people in a short period of time is almost very small, and even negligible, and the food in our hands can only last for two years at most, so we must win over these Haoqiang, so that they are willing to take the food in their hands to support Gongzi."

And once Childe chooses to do something to him, how many people can he kill in a short period of time?

Although the people welcome it, if Gongzi enters other counties in the future, these local tyrants will inevitably resist vigorously, if nothing else, they will hand over the grain to other forces, and it will be a disaster for Gongzi.

How can Gongzi use a Xingyang or even Sanchuan County to fight against the princes of more than 30 counties in the world? ”

Chen Ping looked at Wang Bu Hungry seriously, and even begged: "Childe, the big war is coming, Childe should win over these people, even if he wants to do it, it must be done after Childe overthrows the Qin Dynasty and controls most of the summers......

Local power, that's a problem.

They tend not to think too much about it and are self-centered.

Through continuous land annexation, annexation of commoners, and even mergers of small and powerful people, when the amount of his land swells to a certain extent, he can basically affect this county.

At that time, it will be the county order, and you have to act according to his eyes.

This is still normal time, if the government encounters any difficulties, it must ask for the support of these powerful people in a low voice.

And this is directly consuming the strength of the country and the prestige of the government.

Wang Buxing frowned slightly: "Although the war is imminent, it may not be impossible to engage in these ......."