After talking about the steps to ascend the throne, the next step is to involve the interests of civil and military officials. Fundamentally, it's a matter of land.

Yang Tong also knows that everyone's yearning for land is more important than money.

In this regard, he has also pondered and reflected.

After the founding of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui had three types of fields: first, the Yongye field that could be passed on to his descendants, with an average of 20 acres per capita;

Second, after the death of a person, it must be returned to the open field of the imperial court, 80 acres of open field for middle men and Ding men, and 40 acres of open field for women. (Note: Men and women under 3 years old are yellow, under 10 years old are small, under 17 years old are middle, over 18 years old are D, and 60 years old are old.) ）

The third is the "public party field", the so-called "public party field" is that the government yamen at all levels rent the official land to the people who have a surplus of labor to cultivate, and use it as the office expenses of the government at all levels in the form of rent collection, and the part that exceeds the public expense is handed over to the imperial court, and this kind of field is also the reserve field of the imperial court, and after the local population increases, it is distributed to the people.

This premise is very reasonable for the people, but it is not the case for the officials.

In terms of the division of land among officials, Emperor Wen of Sui came this way.

He first gave the prince the title of nine grades, and gave it to Yongye Tianqing, but there are not many people who have obtained the title, so this amount seems terrifying, and no taxes are charged, but in fact, it does not affect the country at all.

Secondly, Emperor Wen of Sui also granted Yongye Tian to the incumbent officials, and the first grade official was given 5 hectares, and each of the following products was reduced by 50 mu, to 1 hectare for the ninth grade, in order to fill the officials' salaries, and at the same time no taxes were collected.

This provision is the existence of shaking the foundation of the country, for three reasons: first, Yongyetian can be passed on to future generations, that is, after the official is born or dies, his children and grandchildren are still enjoying the treatment of the official; Second, after the official was promoted, his Yongye field was superimposed again and again; 3. After a certain position is vacant, the imperial court will give the successor a permanent field, and then, with his promotion, the field will be superimposed again and again.

As a result, a large amount of land was annexed to officials and their descendants, and the taxes of the imperial court gradually declined. When there was no land to distribute to officials, what did the imperial court do? Lower the standards of the disadvantaged and forcibly take away the people's land for redistribution.

Third, the imperial court also granted open fields to the slaves and maids of the families and officials in accordance with the standards of the common people, and this provision was purely that the imperial court was helping the families and officials to raise slaves and maids. Moreover, this kind of open land is basically impossible to recover, which further accelerates land annexation.

As early as the early years of the emperor's reign, Su Wei realized the seriousness of the land problem. He gave Emperor Wen a note, the content of which was that "the number of households is increasing day by day, and the land of the people is insufficient", and Su Wei suggested that "the land of meritorious heroes should be reduced to give to the people". It meant that the land in the hands of the officials was taken out and distributed to the people, and his proposal was seriously opposed by those with vested interests, and finally it was not resolved.

Later, due to the continuous growth of the population, there was a social problem of "less land and no people, no food and clothing", and Emperor Wen of Sui had to send officials to forcibly reduce the previous average number of fields, but only the fields of the common people, a vulnerable group, were moved. As a result, the new officials' fields are taken from the hands of the people, and the new population is also taken from the hands of the existing people, and contradictions accumulate day by day.

The officials not only continued to occupy a large amount of land, but also received rewards again and again, for example, Emperor Wen of Sui rewarded Yang Su with fields many times, each time 130 hectares.

At the same time, some bureaucratic landlords, relying on their power in their families, began to loot people's land, and a large number of cases occurred in which people were forcibly bought at low prices. As a result, the problem of the common people not having land to plant has become increasingly prominent, and the phenomenon of the common people not being able to eat has become more and more common, which has become the prelude to the people's uprising.

When Yang Guang ascended the throne, the land problem was very serious, so he deleted the title of Jiupin into three grades, and stipulated that the inheritance should be demoted within three generations, and then deprived of all title benefits, which was also to prepare for the recovery of the land in the hands of the family and officials, and the family in order to keep the land in their hands, the reason for opposing Sui became more sufficient.

After Yang Tong became the ruler of Jizhou, he also carried out land reforms.

First of all, the officials and the common people are all divided according to the standard of 20 mu of Yongye land per capita, 80 mu of open land for middle-aged men and men, and 40 mu of open land for women, so that every household has a source of livelihood. But no matter whose land it is, it must be taxed according to the standard.

Secondly, officials replaced the fields with money, and set the standard of the 30 grades of official positions, and each grade received the due amount of the land, so as to avoid the land annexation caused by the superposition of the fields. And it can avoid the problem of superimposing the burden on the imperial court.

Third, the remaining official land and "public land" were changed to "public leased land" and leased to the people for farming, and the localities had the right to collect rent, but had no right to use it, and had to hand it over as it was. The public expenses of the local yamen must be made an expenditure statement, and the project must be budgeted and approved by the audit department before the construction can begin.

Fourth, the imperial court does not grant open fields to people outside the household registration, that is, you can raise slaves and maids, but you have to pay for them yourself. And with the promotion of 'apportionment into the mu' and the abolition of the poll tax, all that can be obtained from slaves and maids is labor, and there is no loss to the imperial court. And the more slaves you have, the more pressure you put on yourself.

Fifth, it is strictly forbidden to buy and sell land to avoid social problems caused by the lack of land among the people.

Sixth, the system of separation of powers among the executive powers, the law enforcement powers, and the supervisory powers has made the ranks of officials clean and honest, and to a great extent has avoided the collusion of officials and gentry to seize the people's land. At the same time, the people are given the power to supervise and report officials.

Although Yang Dong's policy was unanimously agreed by everyone and implemented well, everyone was expecting Yang Dong to reward the land. If you don't give it, it will chill everyone's heart.

Therefore, Yang Tong decided to reflect the reward of the field on the title of Jiupin, as mentioned earlier, there are not many people who get the title, so the impact is not great, and because the officials and gentry have to pay taxes, it is no different from putting it in the hands of the people.

Although the meritorious heroes raised slaves because of this, the slaves did not show their fields, so even if the heroes were raised, they were not like the Guan Long family, who could easily raise 10,000 soldiers at every turn.

After the titles have reached the top, they can reward money, they can't buy land, they can only put it into the market, which can be regarded as accelerating the prosperity of commerce, after all, officials are rich people in this year, only their money to the market, can drive the rise of the entire commercial economy.

At that moment, the decision to reward the field with the title of nine grades was thrown out.

After agreeing with everyone on the number of acres of Jiupin, this matter is settled, and everyone's titles need to be canonized one by one after ascending the throne.

If you announce it too early, you will lose the surprise you deserve.

But at this time, Yang Tong's mind was no longer on this, but turned to the army and military power.

The army of the Sui army gave Yang Tong a very scattered and chaotic feeling, and he had always planned to reform.

He felt that since he wanted to change, it was better to reform sooner rather than later, although he could not reform before he ascended the throne, but now that he said it, at least it would not hurt the hearts of the future generals. Because if you mention it after you ascend the throne, it is too targeted, and it will make the freshly baked generals think that they don't trust them, so they restrict it.

"There's nothing wrong with the enthronement ceremony!" Yang Tong saw that everyone was looking over, and then said: "There are many problems in my Great Sui army, and what I want to say is that there is no war now, and we should take this opportunity to carry out reasonable reforms. What do you think? ”

"Your Highness! Weichen thought that there was no need for my Great Sui to keep a large number of troops, and that some troops should be reduced to reduce the burden on the imperial court. Speaking of military affairs, Wei Yunqi, the secretary of the military department, immediately came out and said.

Hearing Wei Yunqi's words, the whole hall was in an uproar, and many generals raised objections one after another, and everyone was quite dissatisfied with Wei Yunqi's behavior of 'eating inside and climbing outside'.

"Lord Shangshu, the world has not yet been unified, and it is too early to talk about disarmament, right?"

"In the troubled times, the army is the foundation of my Great Sui, and the defense line that my Great Sui needs to defend is thousands of miles. Why do you want to cut off your arms and abolish your martial arts? ”

"The border line is extremely long, and there are not enough million troops! Moreover, our Great Sui is surrounded by enemies on all sides, and if our army is fighting on the front line and the enemy is coming from all directions, how will we deal with it? Your Highness, the last general does not approve of disarmament, even if you are poor, you must raise an army. ”

"That's right! It's not that we can't afford to raise an army, so it's a big deal to fight a few more foreign wars and raise troops with war. ”

"Being idle now is also idle... And the hearts of those who are not of my race will be different, I mean to take the army to the Western Regions to practice, and you can train the army, remove border troubles, gain wealth, and build majesty, and you can get more in one fell swoop. ”

"I remember that His Highness said a sentence, that is, it is better to rob than to raise, just beat the countries of the Western Regions and rob him cleanly......"

"The last general seconded it!"

"The last general seconded it!"

“……”

Gradually, all dissent converged into one voice, that is, war, robbery.

Pei Renji and Wei Yunqi looked at the generals rolling up their sleeves and scolding Fang Xuan, high-spirited, impassioned, and fearless, and their hearts were full of emotion.

In the old Sui period, if someone said that the imperial court could not support the army and needed to be disarmed, the first thing the generals said was to levy more taxes to solve the financial crisis of the army. But no one says that now. These two elders can even conclude that this group of generals in their prime has no idea of levying more taxes on the people in their hearts, because their vision and vision are widened by Yang Tong, the wolf king, one and two are aiming at the vast world outside the Great Sui, and one and two advocate attacking and obtaining corresponding things through foreign wars.

Seeing that even Qin Qiong, who had always been calm, joined the queue of killing, Yang Tong was amused, and he was very excited.

An indelible martial spirit! It is the luck of the Great Sui and the nation.

Seeing that someone started to swear, Yang Tong shouted: "What kind of system is it for one or two Great Sui generals to swear with swearing? It's really a loss of national body... Grandma is a bear, and he NN closed the crow's mouth to Lao Tzu..."

Everyone was speechless: "......"

And this is a double standard, His Royal Highness King Qin can set fire all over the mountain, I can't light a lamp...... Alas......

"Listen to Wei Shangshu first!"

"Whoa!"

The generals are like frosted eggplants - wilted.

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