Chapter 181 Resolution to Advise on Farmland Reform

After Wei Si enjoyed a night with Zi Lian and Yun'er, the next day, Wei Si handed over the search for 'Sui Hou Zhu' to Zi Lian and Yun Er.

Wei Si also began to order people to issue a notice to all the county offices in the Great Wei Dynasty, so that the people had the courage to write or ask someone to write on their behalf, to accuse themselves of the mistakes of the king and his courtiers, so that it could be used as a correction, and then built the 'Xingguo Palace' outside the Great Liang Xue Palace, which was dedicated to storing the policy of students from all over the world to govern the country.

In the end, he ordered people to collect all kinds of ancient books and inscriptions, and rebuilt a huge 'ancient history hall' between the palace and the school palace to store and organize them for the purpose of rebuilding the history books in the future.

For this reason, he isolated the former queen mother's residence in the palace and named it 'Na Ji Palace' to store the people's advice and policies, so that Su Dai could go to manage it on his behalf, and also set a rule for himself that after the palace was built, the king must go to each of the three palaces within a week to check the regulations.

However, for those who deliberately spread rumors and maliciously slander, they are still ordered, and after verification, they will be punished as serious crimes, so as to avoid chaos in the country due to rumors.

Therefore, countless books, ancient books, inscriptions and admonitions in the entire Great Wei Dynasty were sent to three places: Nayi Palace, Ancient History Palace, and Xingguo Palace.

In the blink of an eye, it has reached ten minutes of the Mid-Autumn Festival, and this day is also the day when Zhang Yi is officially reinstated as the prime minister, so Wei Si also took Zhang Yi, Chen Zhen, Su Qin and other more than a dozen officials to visit the three palaces that had just been built and placed the books.

After coming to the Naji Palace, Wei Si first selected three books of advice from the people, and after taking a look at each of them, he found that what was written in them was not a book accusing officials and his own mistakes, but a book full of books that promoted and flattered himself and local officials, so he asked Su Dai:

"Su Qing, what's going on, didn't the widow say that he wanted the people to report the mistakes of the widow and the officials? Why are all these words of praise and praise written? ”

Su Dai looked very helpless:

"King, although you have issued an order to advise the people, countless local officials are misleading the people, saying that you have issued an order to sing praises of virtue, and most of the people are illiterate, and they are all looking for someone to write on their behalf, and these ghostwriters have some friendship with the officials, so that's it."

Wei Si was very angry when he heard this:

"The widow wants to accept the advice of the people, not the medicine is fooled by them, how can it be mistaken by these moth-eaten officials? Immediately notify the county offices in all localities to fine all the officials of the districts under their jurisdiction who have been praised for merit and virtue for three months, and punish them. ”

Zhang Yi came over at this time and said:

"Great King, I'm afraid there will be something wrong with this, if you really punish these officials for three months, they will definitely be squeezed back in the hands of the people, I am afraid it will only increase the burden of the local people, and this is not just a county, which will make chaos occur under our entire Great Wei rule."

Wei Si asked:

"That Xiang, how do you think you should deal with this matter?"

Zhang Yi replied:

"King, you want to listen to the truth of the people, but you can't be like this in the whole Great Wei to admonish, you should choose a place to try first, so that even if something happens, it will be easier to deal with, and with the specifications of the palace you are building now, if the people of Dawei really start to admonish, your palace is not enough to store these countless admonitions, let alone have time to read them in person."

Wei Si looked at Chen Zhen, Su Dai, and Su Qin on the side:

"Zhuqing, what do you think of this matter?"

Su Qin replied first:

"Zhang Xiang is right, you should establish a set of genera to manage the advice of the people, set up more honest bachelors in it, and record the advice of the people, and let these scholars rearrange the complicated and repetitive ones, and then let these scholars read them out when you come to check it, isn't that okay?"

Chen Zhen said at this time:

"Ji Zi's words are not inappropriate, but because the king is accepting the advice of the people, and the advice may be related to the future and life of the local officials, so you can't let these local officials collect the people's advice, you should send people you trust and will not have selfish intentions to collect it!"

Sudai also said:

"People can't help but be selfish, just like when the Zhou Dynasty was founded, they rebelled against the three overseers who were established by Yin Shang, Uncle Cai and others, so the king, you still have to be cautious about this matter, the minister thinks that Zhang Xiang is right, you should take a county as a test, if it is useful, it can be implemented in the whole Wei, but we must issue another order to make it clear to the people, because of the previous mistakes of the officials, the admonition is invalid, so that we can give the officials who have sincerely reformed a chance, so that we will not lose these talents."

After listening to Su Dai's words, Wei Si nodded:

"Okay, then tomorrow Su Qing, you will redraft another notice on behalf of the widow, but where should you choose the county for this test?"

Sudai immediately said:

"Of course, it is to choose a safe and controllable place to try, the minister thinks that it is good to try the three places of Zhongmu, Anyang and Xihe in Hanoi County, although these three places are adjacent to Zhao, but our Wei State has heavy troops, and Zhongmu belongs to the newly expanded land in these years, and it just so happens that our Wei State is now nearly thirty percent of the newly expanded land in the king!"

After a pause, he continued:

"And the relationship between our Wei and Zhao is not bad now, even if the officials of these three places are not satisfied and want to flee to Zhao State, I am afraid that Zhao State will not dare to rashly accept them."

Chen Zhen immediately said:

"The minister thinks that he can try this policy of admonishment in Anyi, Quwo and Xintian, the old capital of Hedong, and it happens to implement the policy of arable land reform that the king has been hesitating about, if these clan officials have illegal acts, they just take back the land they occupy, distribute it to the people, and collect taxes, so that our Great Wei can also solve the problem of poor harvests in Hedong every year, after all, the officials of these three places are all relatives of my Great Wei clan, so that they can also set an example for other counties."

Ru Er also spoke:

"The king, the place that Su Dai and Chen Zhen said is good, but the minister thinks that if you want to accept the advice of the people, the most suitable place is the pottery land, after all, this is the most prosperous place for all the merchants and people in the Central Plains, and this has been under the rule of our Wei State for three years, and there is a place dedicated to the people and scholars in the local area, and the officials are relatively honest and relaxed!"

After a pause, he continued:

"Therefore, if you publish a book of advice in Taodi and establish your determination to accept advice, then not only will the entire people of Great Wei support you, but I am afraid that the people of the whole world will also be grateful to us for your wisdom and greatness!"

Wei Si nodded:

"The widow also thinks that the pottery that Ru Er said is good, not bad!"

After seeing that everyone had no objections, Wei Si remembered the matter of cultivated land mentioned by Chen Zhen just now, after all, this is also a thing that he has always been very worried about, and asked by the way:

"Then I don't know what the secretary thinks of this cultivated land reform?"

苏秦 says:

"Now although the land of our Wei State is heavy, but in fact, nearly half of it is controlled in the hands of the clan relatives and heroes, and the people have abandoned their fields because of the heavy taxes, and many of them have abandoned their fields, followed the clans and heroes, and became their slaves, which really can't be delayed any longer, and must be changed."

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"Yes, the minister also thinks that Lord Chen Zhen's proposal to give priority to Anyi, Quwo, and Xintian is a good idea to carry out the reform of cultivated land, so the minister also thinks that all the land that can be cultivated should be distributed to the people, so that the treasury can be abundant!"

Wei Si looked at the others, and seemed to be silent at this time.

After all, in order to reward his merits, Su Dai's Wei Si had just given Yin Jin and Wucheng two places to Su Dai as food yi, plus when he first came to Wei, Wei Si rewarded his Huai and Zhou, and now there are four food yips.

And Ruer also already has two food towns, sour jujube and Yangxia.

Chen Zhen has the greatest credit, so Wei Si gave him the most fiefs and food estates, and the land around Puyang, the capital of Wei, was Chen Zhen's fiefs and food estates.

Wei Si then said:

"This method of arable land, let the widow also remember that the Qin State in the west also carried out such a method of arable land, and it was not completely successful, the clan Gongqing still occupied nearly half of the land, but made its people even poorer, and the arable land reform that the widow wanted must make the Great Wei strong, and the people are also rich, after all, now the land of our Great Wei people is really too little, too little, and the widows have no choice but to levy taxes from them in order to fight, and the widows really can't bear it."

Su Qin also says:

"Yes, although our Great Wei has newly occupied countless lands, in order to appease these places, the king has ordered the local tax exemption for three years, and everything in the land is the front, so although our Wei State has obtained these lands, it has increased the burden!"

Wei Si replied:

"But there is no way for the widows, how can they appease these new people if they don't have tax exemption for three years? But the widow also knows that this is not a long-term solution! ”

Chen Zhen said:

"But if the meritorious man does not get the land reward in the future, then countless talents will definitely not come to work for our Great Wei in the future, and now that the tax arrears in Hedong are so serious, I am afraid it will not work if it is not rectified!"

Wei Si also knew that Chen Zhen, Su Dai, and Ru Er were all worried that they would lose their food in the future because of this cultivated land reform, so Chen Zhen proposed that Wei Si should solve the most difficult matter of land occupation by the Hedong clan now.

After all, after all kinds of cleanups by Wei Si over the years, the Wei Si clan has long been out of real power in the Wei State, but if you want to deal with their fiefdoms, doesn't it seem very mean and unkind? And these people are the foundation that Wei can build, otherwise Wei Hei would not have dragged on for so long and hesitated.

Zhang Yi also saw Wei Si's embarrassment, so he said:

"King, you should know that your ambition is to unify the world, at this critical time, you must give up something, those Wei clansmen, you should be more considerate of the king, but the minister remembered a person, maybe I can help you persuade the clansmen of Anyi, Quwo, and Xintian to take the initiative to give up the land!"

Wei Si looked at Zhang Yi puzzled:

"Zhang Xiang, who do you say this person is? Could it be that Hedong County is rude? ”

Zhang Yi shook his head:

"Of course it's not it, although Wei Buli has some prestige among the Wei clan, how can he compare to Wei Song?"

Wei Si immediately replied:

"Wei Song, this old guy has always liked to encourage the Wei clan to go against the widow, how can he help the widow?"