Chapter 470: The Designer's Mind

Doing something to the field is something that Li Mu has been pondering all along. To this end, he also consulted a lot of ancient books. I have a comprehensive understanding of the recorded field system.

The earliest field system in China was the "well field system". The pioneer of the well field system is the mythical Dayu who controls the water.

In ancient times, the climate was hot and humid, hundreds of rivers were overflowing, and large and small rivers and streams collided and flowed with each other, stirring up the ocean all over the land of the mountains and plains. Emperor Shun ordered Dayu to take on the mission of controlling the water, with the Qin tribal leader Da Fei as Yu's assistant. After thirteen years, Dayu lived up to expectations, and the flood was subdued. After the flood water subsided, it hit a large area of plain land, which stretched out as far as the eye could see.

The struggle for fertile land and water breeds strife, and people fight and fight, and the chaos is out of control. In the face of chaos, Dayu invented the well field system.

The so-called "well field" is to divide the land into countless large squares in the shape of "wells" on the vast flat fertile plain, with one "well" for every eight families, and a public field in the middle, which is cultivated by the eight families and handed over to the state. The only well of the eight houses, located in the center of the public field. People come every morning to fetch water and exchange leftovers at the well. Around the eight fields are irrigation canals and roads. Ten wells and one mile, ten miles and one society, this weights and measures, placed in the era thousands of years later, are still used.

People formed a non-aggression in the fields of flat exhibition. At that time, the population was not large, and the square well fields carved out of the large and small alluvial plains were enough for the population at that time to live and cultivate.

However, with the development of the population, the "well field system" no longer applies. With the demise of primitive society, it entered feudal society. When the monarchy was at its peak, land became an important resource and a target of contention in the hands of the monarch. In order to get the land, the countries fought endlessly. In order to win the war, the monarchs of the vassal states initiated a transformation of private ownership of land, i.e., rewarding military merit.

Later, when the Qin Dynasty dominated the world, the situation changed again.

In the first place, the land was used as a reward for military merit in order to win the war. Now that the war is over, Qin dominates the world. The land was all Qin's, and the battle for land came to an end. Land is no longer the most important resource for the monarch, so what becomes the most important resource?

The answer is population, because of the land, people will be planted. Especially after Qin unified the world, he found that many men died because of the war, resulting in countless fertile fields that were not cultivated, and then realized that people were the most important productive forces.

Several dynasties since the Qin Dynasty have all imposed stricter and stricter control over people. They shared the pressure on the land tax on the people, and began to collect the "head tax", from tax land to tax people. The advantage of this is that there is more control over the people, but it also leads to disadvantages. Land-owning people have more and more financial resources and power, and they can rely on this part of the resources to gather landless displaced people, and then form a gate. And the landless exiles will find it difficult to rise to the occasion and become slaves in the formal sense. That's why when Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled, they shouted a sentence, what kind of prince will Xiangning have?

The fall of the Han Dynasty also had its roots in this. After the private ownership of land, the control of the land by the major gate valves exceeded that of the state, resulting in the emptiness of the state, the rise of the powerful and the powerful, and entering an era of chaos. But in chaotic times, there is also a benefit. To a certain extent, it broke the old barriers, allowing the people at the bottom to have a way to rise.

After the fall of the Han Dynasty, China hardly did not have a long period of unification. The Three Kingdoms, the Two Jin Dynasties, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, have gone through more than ten dynasties for more than 300 years. Although the country in this period was aware of the drawbacks brought about by private ownership of land, due to the power of the monarch, it was greatly constrained by the gate valve, so the reform of the land system has not been carried out. This is also the era when the power of the gate valve is the most dazzling, and it is also the era when the five surnames and seven hopes are formed, and the era that is most missed. The gate valve of this period, in a sense, already has the ability to "abandon". The fundamental reason for this is the land in their hands.

When the Sui Dynasty once again dominated the world, Emperor Wen of Sui immediately set out to do two things, which were to reform the land system and curb the power of the gate lords. The method he came up with was a "three-in-one" method that synthesized the policies of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

Juntian system, rent modulation, government military system.

The first is the Junda system. The land is state-owned, and Ding Nan is over 20 years old, and 100 acres of land are granted, of which 20 acres are Yongye fields and 80 acres are oral fields. Return to the field after death. Such a measure is to avoid the occurrence of the phenomenon of underreporting, if the people want to get the land, they must declare it, otherwise there is none. This will ensure that the hukou system is perfected, and that the state will levy a fixed amount of rent from the people on the basis of the records of land grants, regardless of whether they are rich or poor. In this way, the pressure on the people will not be very great, and the improvement of the household registration system will also help the completion of the government soldiers and conscription, so it is called the "trinity".

In the current situation, this is a very good approach. But there are also big hidden dangers, because history has proven it. When this method was implemented in the Middle and Tang Dynasty, it was no longer effective. The reason is that the growth of the population exceeds the stock of land, resulting in the people having no land to divide, but still having to pay rent according to the capitation, which will inevitably breed contradictions.

Another fundamental reason is that, in order to achieve the goal of annexing land, the local gate lords and big clans exploit the common people by various methods, such as stealing and plundering, or recruiting displaced people for naturalization. As a result, the fields that should have been ordinary people flowed into the hands of local wealthy families in large quantities. However, the imperial court had very little control over the local area, and the Juntian system was destroyed as a result.

The Juntian system was destroyed, and the Trinity suddenly collapsed. Unable to distribute the land, the people are naturally reluctant to declare the population and bear taxes, and the phenomenon of concealment has been repeatedly prohibited. The household registration system collapsed, and the government soldiers and conscripts could not be completed. This is also the fundamental reason why in the late Tang Dynasty, the government military system collapsed, the imperial court's control over the army failed, and it entered the era of "festival envoys". During this period, the Jiedu envoys had become a new warlord force, they controlled the land, and they could give the people a bite to eat, so they naturally controlled the army.

It is now the early Tang Dynasty, and the population has plummeted by tens of millions due to the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty. The registered population is only more than 3 million households, more than 12 million people. This population, in terms of Datang's current land stock, is enough. The court did not care much about the annexation of land, and from the perspective of maximizing profits, the annexation of land by the gate lords during this period was beneficial to the country, because the more land cultivated, the more grain.

But since Li Mu came through time, with the knowledge learned in later history textbooks, and knew the hidden dangers and drawbacks, he couldn't sit idly by. And because of his arrival, the formation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs started the industrialization process of the Tang Dynasty. It's like a butterfly flapping its wings and causing a lot of uncontrollable changes. As long as he wants to continue to do his own thing, he must regulate all aspects of the system to match what he is doing.

Therefore, the land system must be reformed.

The word reform itself shows how difficult it is. It is even more difficult to reform a system that is now in place without any problems, because you can't give a reasonable reason. This is also something that has been bothering Li Mu all along.

At this time, his experience as a game designer helped him immensely.

As a game designer, it's actually a two-pronged job. As a game designer, you have to deal with two types of people. The first is the player, as a player, it is natural to ask the game to be fun, and it is better to spend less, or even no money, to play for free, which is equivalent to the people. But it costs money to develop a game, it costs money to operate a game, it costs money to run a server, it costs money to publicize, it costs money to maintain, so it is impossible to say that it is free, and the wool has to be on the sheep. These are equivalent to the expenses of the imperial court, the army, foreign wars, etc., not the emperor's mediocrity, but necessary expenses.

As for the game designer, there is also the boss dad above. What does the boss of the company do, is it to "make you happy with the game", of course not. The boss dad is going to make money, he is going to make a profit. Even if the money becomes a number to a certain extent, he still has to brag. Compared with the bigwigs of all parties, even if the bigwigs of all parties are pressed under his feet, he has become a "heavenly khan", he has to compare with his predecessors and future generations, and his name will go down in history and be awesome through the ages.

This is the goal of Li Mu's current boss father, Comrade Li Shimin. As the company's second-in-line heir, he killed the first-in-line heir, and he had to prove his awesomeness.

This kind of splint gas, Li Mu has experienced it. During the internal test of "The Legend of the Tang Dynasty", he was in charge of the data balance group. Often scolded by players in the morning, grandson! Lao Tzu has filled the first six pieces, why don't you outfit orange! I was scolded by the boss in the afternoon, grandson, you give him a green outfit for six yuan, and I don't want a job!

The result is to work overtime at night.,On the one hand, modify the explosion rate of the first charge.,On the other hand, make some GM numbers in the server to swipe the screen.,Wowhaha,The explosion rate of this game is really high.,I charged six dollars and got an orange suit......

It's also very difficult.

This experience has given Li Mu, a former data balance master, a different kind of thinking. Although the problem is difficult, there is still a solution to the problem, and the existing land stock is so large, and there is a lot of room for tossing and turning, which is like a game beta, even if there is a little word, you can reset the server to save it when the time comes, and it's okay to say.

Li Mu didn't start with Li Shimin, because Li Shimin can be said to be very unreasonable recently. Today he also decided to pick a few "lucky players", send a few "invitation codes" first, try the water, and see how the reaction is!