Volume 1: The End of the Dynasty Chapter 16: The Beginning of the Change
Huan Ji knew that although these people didn't say anything, who knew if they would suddenly come out to make trouble, so he took off his saber and named Uncle Yang as a lieutenant on the spot, the prime minister, and handed the sword to Uncle Yang along with the big seal to facilitate his actions.
"You Aiqing should work hard to maintain all matters of law change, and must not act arbitrarily, otherwise the law will be ruthless. The reason why I didn't tell you in advance is because I haven't decided whether to change the law or not, but do you want to know the tax records that Dasi Nong gave me this year? I know that you don't support the Fa change very much, and I'm afraid that you will have fewer things to wait for, but you have never thought about what the people of the world are like now. Huan Ji looked at the silent crowd below and said.
After the court meeting dispersed, Uncle Yang began to issue the first decree: let the states, counties, and counties immediately conduct a house-to-house survey of the population, measure the land that can be cultivated, and report it when the government opens after the winter, and these measured lands include those who were rewarded by the emperor to those princes and nobles, and at the same time, it was ordered to prohibit the slaughter of cultivated cattle without permission, and those who violated the law were fined confiscated and punished with hard labor for twenty years. He also informed all the people that when they ploughed in the spring next year, each person would be divided into two acres of fertile land according to the number of people in the family, and the seeds would be provided by the government. This is the "Treatise on Fields".
For a while, the states and counties sent officials to their respective territories to announce the new law, the sound of gongs came from the ridges, and the people who were still gleaning in the fields raised their heads one after another, looking at them with disbelief, the old Zhao people have been afraid of the oppression of the officials, they are afraid that this is what the government is talking about, but after a few days, there is new news that Uncle Yang is changing, although this Uncle Yang has not heard of it before, but these things are deeply loved by the old Zhao people, and now they have introduced that the surplus grain in the future does not need to be handed over to the public. Everyone rushed to the intersection and shouted: "Long live the emperor, long live the Taiwei!" ”
A haggard old woman came out of a thatched hut in the west of Tianzhou, and someone shouted: "Grandma Lu, have you heard, we will all have fields soon, and they are counted according to the number of heads of each family, and the more people there are, the more fields, why do you want that young man to take your dog's eggs away, you see that the dog's eggs are also a person's head miles, isn't it possible to have two more acres of fertile land." ”
This woman is the woman Uncle Yang met when he passed by Tianzhou Yuye City, that is, Yang Jin's biological mother. After hearing those words, she smiled lightly, "My dog was taken away by the captain, and besides, if he doesn't take it away, he will only starve to death," the woman thought to herself.
Suddenly, another official government came, and said in Lizheng: "The imperial court issued the "Theory of Rewarding Farmers", that is to say, as long as everyone cultivates the fields well, there will be a reward, in addition to the tax surplus grain is your own, and there is more surplus grain can be sold to the official family, the official family collects it at the market price, and the grain sold to the official family can also be reduced by half of the tax, and Li Zheng set up a copy, one by one recorded in the book, more than five years, the county official position, more than ten years, tax exemption, county closure order, and then the same. ”
It can be said that the "Theory of Fields" gave the people a little more stability, and this "Theory of Appreciating Agriculture" completely ignited the confidence of the people to work hard.
When these two new laws were implemented, Uncle Yang only slept for three or five hours a day, and he had to deal with the affairs of the court and the central government on the one hand, and also deal with the affairs of the new laws on the other.
These days, Huang Gongfu began to close his doors, and only went to the palace every day to give lessons to the emperor's two sons. The emperor's two sons, the eldest son Huan Ling was born when everything was normal, but who knew that when he was four years old, he suddenly had a stroke, and then his body was paralyzed, and even sometimes his thinking would be disordered, the second son Huan Sheng was born with a talent, and he was extremely smart, but he was not born to the queen, and he has always passed on the throne only to the eldest son, so Huan Ji has not established a prince, he thought that he was still young anyway, so he simply dragged it for the time being, but the two children were taught by Huang Gongfu.
Although the other magnates watched their fields before being given to those common people, they couldn't say anything, this was an order from the government, or an order from the emperor, what could they do, they could only let them cut their own flesh, there was no way at all.
The coldest season of winter is slowly coming, Uncle Yang is roasting the fire on the brazier with his hand, while looking at the bamboo slips spread out on the table, this is the report sent after the implementation of the new law in Yuye County in the west of Tianzhou, this should be the best place for the new law to be completed, because there are many people who do not have fields here, most of them work for those dignitaries and nobles to earn a bite to eat, so when they see that they want to have a field, how happy they are.
The sound of the dusk drum came from afar, Yang Jin walked in with the steaming ding, put it down gently, and was about to turn around and go out, when Uncle Yang stopped him: "Do you want your mother?" In a few days, we will go to Yuye County, just before we pass through Yuye City, I will go on patrol, and you will go and get together with your mother. ”
Yang Jin didn't speak, but tears came out of his eyes, he was only eight years old this year, and it was inevitable to leave his mother and feel homesick, but he endured it and didn't tell Uncle Yang, but he woke up crying from his dream every midnight, and he didn't know how happy he was when he heard that he could visit his mother today.
Uncle Yang sat down next to the desk and opened the lid: "Sit, we haven't eaten together for a long time, I just finished dealing with a little thing today, you accompany me to eat, and I can also test how your homework is recently." ”
Yang Jin wiped his tears and sat down next to Uncle Yang.
"Hey, it's really useless, and I'm crying," Uncle Yang teased. Yang Jin had never seen Uncle Yang talking like this, and in his memory, although Uncle Yang was not strict, he would not joke, and he was a little stunned for a while.
Uncle Yang sighed, picked out the green vegetables into his porcelain bowl, and sandwiched some meat for Yang Jin, only to hear him say slowly: "I don't know if it's right or wrong to bring you out, I also went up the mountain to learn art at your age, and in the past twenty years, my mother sent me a message in the form of flying pigeons, and then she left, but I still don't know, before she left, I asked my servant Aunt Qin to write to me as usual, but I feel that the letters are getting fewer and fewer, and the way of speaking has slowly changed, I knew something was wrong, so I went down the mountain, and I came to this imperial city because of my mother's will. Therefore, I don't know if you are right or wrong to come here, people are always the same, your mother should miss you very much, and I am afraid that I only have sour feelings in my heart when I look at this imperial city every day. ”
Yang Jin looked at Uncle Yang with a melancholy expression, this was the first time Uncle Yang had said this to him.
Uncle Yang cleaned up his mood and went to see the reports about the new law in various places. Yang Jin slowly walked out of the house and went back to his room to read.