Chapter 37 How to Feed the People

The sun is slightly to the west.

The sun is still very spicy. There doesn't seem to be a little bit of change.

In the Biyong Temple, the flowing water outside flows silently under the smooth floor. Take a touch of heat.

And everyone was attentive, listening to Qiu Jun's voice and saying: "Mencius said: 'If you don't violate the agricultural season, the grain cannot be eaten; The number of dogs does not enter the pond, and the fish and turtles cannot be eaten; The axe catty enters the mountains and forests at the right time, and the timber is not usable. Grain and fish and turtles can not be eaten, timber and wood can not be used, it is to make the people live and die without regrets. There is no regret in health and death, and the beginning of the royal road is also. "Zhu Ziyun: 'Fu Nong, the reason for food and clothing. The business of the people is not heavy. The power of a husband, the cultivation of 100 acres, the health and death, and the husband to pay taxes, to the public, all take the possession. It can be seen that if Your Majesty wants to seek the world of great harmony, he must seek the rule of the royal road. If you want to rule the royal road, you must ask the cultivator to have his land and pay taxes. And now? ”

Qiu Jun paused slightly, as if waiting for someone to refute.

But no one contradicted it.

The so-called ultimate ideal of Confucianism, the Ida system. In itself, it is an ideal state without land annexation. It is in the same vein as the contract responsibility system of the family in later generations.

It can even be said that if there is a great Confucianism reborn underground, I am afraid that when he sees this kind of system, he will applaud it, and this is the embodiment of the ideal social system.

But nowadays, no one would say anything about the Ida system. It will not be said that Junda thought.

In fact, what is really practiced in this aspect is Emperor Taizu, Emperor Taizu had so many big cases back then, and he would sit on the big family at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and sweep them away one by one, the kind of big family with thousands of acres of land, so that they can move to other places, or fall apart, and even in modern times, many families are just hundreds of acres of land.

Only Beijing, Nanjing, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, because there are more high-ranking officials and nobles. Therefore, the degree of merger is relatively high.

And who are you doing it?

Confucianism, hundred officials, nobles, scholars.

They are the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty, and they are also the main force of land annexation, especially the nobles, who were born in the army, and they are much more ugly than some scholars and doctors in terms of food.

At this time, whoever said that he wanted to equalize the land and realize that the cultivator had his own land was offended by everyone present.

What's more, today's emperor is not an ordinary emperor.

If he really incorporated this policy into the national policy and took these high-profile seriously, he didn't know what kind of mess he would make.

So, no one refuted it and acquiesced.

Only then did Qiu Jun say: "You can't have three. ”

"Taizu saw that the people were suffering, and the rebels swept away the world, and the fish scales were yellow, and all taxes were paid, and the grain tax was fixed, and now it is only a few decades. In the past few decades, the situation in the world has collapsed, and His Majesty has been revitalized and the Qing Dynasty has been strongly advocated

Abbot, in order to save one or two, even if the land is now even, within a few decades, the merger will be reborn. This one too. ”

"When Taizu was in turmoil, the world was in turmoil, and people were determined. There is no wilderness without man, and the land can be cultivated. Taizu reclaimed the land and reclaimed the idle land. There is today's prosperity, and now there is no idle land except for the northeast, northwest, Huguang, Yunnan and Guizhou. There is no land to cultivate, and this is the second one. ”

"The population breeds, there are many people and there is little land, and in many places, even if they are strong enough to equalize the land, their land may not be able to support their people. Fujian is one of them, and the third is also. ”

This is why, in ancient times, except for the time of the founding of the country, it was possible to redistribute land by administrative violence, and after that, it was impossible to move from the field system.

Even if it is to clear the land and clean up the tax base, it can be said that it is a big deal.

Qiu Jun said: "In this way, the population breeds, the people have no land, they can only become homeless, between Yunyang, there are hundreds of thousands of homeless people, which are leveled by the imperial court, it has only been a few years, and tens of thousands have gathered." ”

"Where is Yunyang?"

"In the upper reaches of the Han River, surrounded by mountains, there are many mountains and few lands, only the barren land between the mountains can be cultivated, and the harvest is not enough, and the stomach is still insufficient. Not to mention, during the infestation of jackals, tigers and leopards in the mountains, this is harsh government and fierce tigers. ”

"If the imperial court doesn't think about change, decades later, there will be Zhang Jiao Huangchao's generation, starting from the grass, the so-called peaceful and prosperous era, but a catastrophe."

This is also what Zhu Qizhen is worried about.

Some of Zhu Qizhen's actions seem to have pushed the Ming Dynasty to the strongest, but it has not changed the most fundamental logic of the Ming Dynasty's economic operation.

Historically, before and after the civil fort, the Ming Dynasty was in chaos, needless to say. However, after the two emperors of Chenghua and Hongzhi, during the Zhengde period, there were Liu Liu Liu and Liu Qi uprisings, which spread almost all over the north. In the Jiajing period, there were Japanese in the south and Tatars in the north.

These seem to be political problems, but in fact, they are caused by the laws of the Ming economy.

A series of problems, such as land annexation and the gap between the rich and the poor, have spread from the economic level to other levels.

Zhu Qizhen has made a lot of achievements, maybe his current actions can keep the Ming Dynasty strong for about a hundred years, but if he doesn't make fundamental adjustments, about a hundred years later, the country will be in chaos and chaos, and the military will be exhausted.

Zhu Qizhen said: "This is where I sigh day and night, and I ask Qiu Qing to solve my doubts." ”

Qiu Jun saluted and said: "The minister doesn't dare, but he just accepts His Majesty's thoughts and dares to say one or two." ”

"The minister is a native of Qiongzhou, in the south of the Ming Dynasty, the closest to the South Seas, the land of the South Seas, the climate is humid, three crops a year, although the insects and snakes are harmful, the plague is the land, but the land is enough to raise people, the land of Yizhou Mansion, more than ten years ago, is still the place where savages haunt,

Now it has only been more than ten years, one government and three counties. enough to feed 300,000 people. ”

"I don't know how much of the land of the South Seas, Dayizhou Island, and the land of the South Seas can support hundreds of millions of people. There is no idle land in the Central Plains, and the north leads to the northeast and the west, and the south leads to the land of the South Seas. The wide range of land can support people, so as to be enough to alleviate trouble. ”

"However, this cannot be done for a while, but it must be done in a wide range of industries to accommodate the people. Establish a livelihood to live the people. ”

"Taizu thinks of raising the people, this is one of the most important things in the world, the life and death of the people are related, and the court does not dare to forget for a moment. Generations of descendants should be unquestionable. ”

"As for all the worries of Lord Zhou, it can be said that there is nothing to worry about. Mencius said: 'The king regards his ministers as his siblings, and the ministers regard him as his heart; The monarch regards the minister as a dog and a horse, and the minister regards the monarch as a countryman; The king regards his ministers as mustard, and the ministers regard him as an enemy. 'Raise them, be born and gather them, although their parents are not like this, how can the people not think of loyalty and filial piety and seek repayment, but have different hearts and cause trouble, could it be that there are people who want to deceive the Son of Heaven and suppress the people, so that the favor of the Son of Heaven cannot be given to the people? ”

Zhu Qizhen said: "Qiu Qing's words, Cheng Jinyu's good words, what do you think? ”

Zhu Qizhen said so, what else can other ministers say?

The tendencies of this could not be clearer.

Zhu Qizhen actually understands this, and he can't wait to take a stand. After all, Qiu Jun's argument was passed, and two difficult problems were solved.

One is the dilemma of the land, and before that, almost all financial changes were based on agriculture. Don't say that the Song Dynasty's industrial and commercial tax revenue exceeded half, just looking at what the Song Dynasty did, almost all the profits were controlled by the government, and the economic vitality of the Song Dynasty was actually far less than that of the Ming Dynasty.

It is only from this point of view that the development of the Ming Dynasty in the future is definitely not mercantilism, but heavy industry. It's not about the efficiency of industry, it's about feeding a larger population.

In other words, in modern terms, it's for the employment rate.

People without a livelihood are the biggest source of instability. Whether it is the Ming Dynasty or later generations, it is universal at this point, not to mention, so that it has become a national policy to attack Nanyang.

"Your Majesty is wise, and the minister can't wait." Yang Hong and the others immediately saluted and said.

For the nobles, there are many things that some people understand, and some people don't, just like listening to the book of heaven. But there is one thing that I understand, that is, to use troops against Nanyang.

This point was immediately supported by the collective support of the honorable people.

Without him, after the Battle of the Western Regions, the civil officials were creating a trend of peace and prosperity, and there was a thousand years of longevity banquet, a national celebration.

It is better to smash hundreds of thousands of taels of silver into the water than to exaggerate the peaceful atmosphere. One of them is to take away the military power from the hands of the Privy Council.