As the news of Jiangdong's two-year tax exemption spread throughout the country, the situation in various parts of Jiangdong suddenly stabilized.

Gradually, the Wu people in various places saw the Chu people again, and they were no longer like seeing snakes and scorpions. On the contrary, now that the Yue people see the Chu soldiers patrolling the streets, although they have not yet smiled, the hatred and fear in their eyes have gradually dissipated.

When Xiong Huai got the news from all over the country, he was immediately very pleased, and it took a month to select typical characters and let them be publicized in various places, plus the local nobles and county Yin personally went out to gather the hearts of the people in Jiangdong.

As for the more than 40 cows, a few boats, and a few carts that were rewarded this time, they were not worth mentioning at all.

After getting rid of the people, Xiong Huai focused on the upcoming assessment.

The recommendation of morality, benevolence and filial piety is to win over the common people and establish the credibility of the king of Chu among the people. And Xianliang is to win over the Jiangdong noble family, let them better integrate into the Chu State, and establish the credibility of the King of Chu among the nobles.

And the aristocracy, as the core of the current country, is also the most important goal of this election.

For this reason, Xiong Huai asked Sima Tang Wu, who had the highest position and title in Jiangdong, to personally take charge of the assessment.

The time soon came to the day of the assessment, and there were a total of 93 people who participated in the assessment this time, including 26 people recommended by Yin of 26 counties and counties in Jiangdong, plus 67 people recommended by 67 nobles with the title of Chu State in various places, all of whom were children of aristocratic giants.

Three days later, the results of the assessment came out.

Xiong Huai roughly read the two better answers sent by Tang Wu, and couldn't help but look at Tang Wu with some disappointment and said: "Xianqing, there is not a single talent in a county in this assessment result, not even a talent in a county. Compared with the last assessment in Yingdu, the gap is too big. ”

Tang Yu smiled and said: "Great King, this should be normal, all parts of Jiangdong are still wary of our Chu State, and they will definitely not promote the real sages in the clan, but will only take out ordinary talents for testing." In addition, self-recommendation is not allowed in this assessment, and some people who claim to be talented have no way, so this result will naturally occur. ”

Saying that, Tang Wu congratulated again: "But the king, there is not a single unqualified person in this assessment, doesn't this mean that the land of Jiangdong has begun to return to the heart!" Yes, the minister is the king, and it won't be long before the entire Jiangdong will be integrated into the Chu State. ”

"Yes, that's the truth, although these people are the pathfinders of the nobles, they are not the daughters of the widows!" Xiong Huai laughed when he heard this, and then ordered: "Sima, the results of the assessment will be announced later, and the top three in this assessment will all be appointed as the widow's confessor, and the widow will be around." The remaining top ten were transferred to Yingdu. As for the remaining eighty people, all of them stayed in Jiangdong to enrich the local government offices. ”

"Yui."

After a pause, Xiong Huai looked at Tang Yu seriously and said, "Xianqing, how is Xianqing preparing for the next division of the field?" ”

Tang Mo replied confidently: "Please rest assured, the twenty-six counties in Jiangdong are now well known to the ministers, and all the households and fields in various places have been compiled into a book. ”

Saying that, Tang Mo arched his hand and said, "Please also ask the king to read it." ”

"Okay." Xiong Huai nodded.

Soon, Xiong Huai took Tang Wu and sent it over, roughly looked at the situation in Jiangdong counties, and then looked at Tang Wu: "What is Xianqing going to do?" ”

Tang Yu arched his hand and said: "King, it is already July, and it will be the harvest season soon, and the minister thinks that it will take some time for those who pass this assessment to go to various places and become familiar with local things." Therefore, the minister thought that he needed to wait for September before he could officially divide the land. ”

Xiong Huai nodded, now that the harvest is imminent, it is indeed not appropriate to make a big move, causing people everywhere to be suspicious.

As the saying goes, if you have food in your hands, you don't panic in your heart. After the autumn harvest, the people's surplus grain warehouses are full, and it is not too late to do it.

"Good, the words of the virtuous are just in line with the meaning of the widow." Xiong Huai said with a smile.

When Tang Yu heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and then continued: "As for the division of land this time, the main thing is to divide Wang Tian and the fields recovered from the noble giant family not long ago to the people. Because the files of the Yue Kingdom and the files of each family are all well preserved and have not been damaged.

Therefore, the matter of dividing the fields is very simple, it is only necessary to divide the fields that the people originally cultivated according to the number of people in each household, and to make profits and losses, and to stipulate the maximum number of fields and the minimum number of fields owned by each household.

The purpose of this is not only to ensure that every household has a field to cultivate, but more importantly, to allow the people to divide their households. ”

"Divide the household!" Xiong Huai smiled when he heard this.

How to divide the people's households has always been a big problem for all countries.

Nowadays, all countries levy taxes and levy conscription on the basis of households, and if it is stipulated that each household should send troops to conscription for one person, a family of three, one male should contribute one, a family of more than a dozen, and seven or eight men should also contribute one person, and in this way, the country will lose a lot.

Therefore, all the countries in the world hope that the people can divide their households, but of course the people do not want to.

Therefore, it is a big problem that plagues all countries to let the people divide their households, and Xiong Huai is very clear about this.

Even if in the past, when Shang Ying changed the law in the Qin State, the two changes before and after involved the policy of household separation, and the first two times were to guide the division of households through taxation and other means, but the people were unwilling to pay more taxes than divide households. In the end, Shang Ying had no choice, and through the official forced household separation, this determined the small family model of the people of Qin.

At this time, Tang Yu arched his hand and said: "King, according to the model of a family of five, the per capita ration of one and a half stones per month is one and a half stones, then ninety stones of grain are needed a year to ensure basic survival." Counting the taxes, then the people need to get at least 200 stone of grain every year in order to survive after paying the taxes.

In this way, taking the output of Huiji and other places as an example, the yield per mu is calculated as eight stones, and each household needs a minimum of 25 acres of fertile land. And where the yield is at the bottom of the acre, the place that is needed is probably a hundred acres of land.

Therefore, the minister means that according to the output of the fields in various places, the minimum number of acres of land owned by each household is stipulated, so as to ensure that the people have enough land to support their families. ”

Speaking of this, Tang Mo swallowed his saliva and continued: "In order to allow the people to spread out their branches and leaves, we can't simply divide the land by population, according to the basic unit of a family of five, it should be that no matter whether there is one person or two people in the family, he should be given land that can support the five people, so that he can marry a wife and have children and strengthen the family."

In the same way, in order to allow the people to divide their households, it is also necessary to set a ceiling on the amount of land that an ordinary household, whether there are a dozen or twenty people in the family, and the maximum amount of land they can obtain is the land that can only support nine people.

In this way, in order to be able to support their whole family and to obtain enough land, the people with a large number of people in the family will inevitably have to divide their households. As long as the people were divided into households, no matter how much they negotiated farming, the state would be able to obtain new sources of taxation and military service.

This is the way to make the people profitable and the country strong and rich. ”

Please remember that the first domain name of this book is:. Nine Heavenly God Emperors