Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Bird's Ambition! 2/5
Although it is said that the prince is 100 miles, the uncle is 70 miles, and the son is 50 miles, but this is only a standard, and besides, after hundreds of years of annexation, this set has been abolished, even if Zhou Tianzi was at his peak, it was not to let the princes strictly abide by this regulation, for example, the king of Wei Gu, that is, the ancestor of Wei Li, the founder of Wei, the fief given to him by Zhou Tianzi, is 4000 li, compared to 40 princes, but he is only a son.
Wei Li recently checked the former Jianjian, and deliberately paid attention to the situation during the period of King Wei Wei, and learned that when King Wei Wei took over the fiefdom, Wei State could produce 200,000 stone and five grains every year, from the princes and nobles, down to the common people of Limin, they were full of food and drink, and the days were unhappy, and they were prosperous.
But with the passage of time, many nobles emerged in Wei, and then, the nobles began to encroach on the people's land and grain, and controlled the rice seeds in their hands and did not sell them to the people, which eventually led to a large amount of land being wasted, and the grain production was not as good as a year.
The aristocracy is very selfish, selfish to the extreme, they only ensure that their families are well fed and drunk, and they don't care about the people, they have a lot of cultivated fields in their hands, but they don't plant them, and they don't let the people plant, so they let those cultivated fields grow weeds taller than people, and they are wasted there!
It was because of this incident that Wei Ya decided to change this status quo, break the monopoly of the aristocracy on farming and rice planting, and hand over all the cultivated fields to the common people to plant!
"Why, all of them are dumb!" Wei Li's voice became cold, and the civil and military officials buried their heads deeply, not daring to look directly at Wei Li.
"Your Majesty, Weichen has something to do!"
At this time, Meng Ge stepped forward and said with the wat board in both hands.
Seeing that Meng Ge stood up again, the ministers raised their eyebrows, while Wei Li showed a faint smile and said, "Let's go!" ”
"Your Majesty, the reason why the land of Wei is abandoned is entirely because the nobles control a large number of cultivated fields and rice seeds, resulting in the people having no land to cultivate and no rice to plant. Meng Ge said with a solemn expression.
Damn, this bastard, has a grudge against us, right?
Many ministers scolded secretly in their hearts, their faces were pale, and they wanted to jump out and point at Meng Ge's nose and eyes and scold, but they didn't dare!
"Well, Meng Aiqing is really my virtuous minister of Wei State, grain is the foundation of the country, there must be no loss, Meng Aiqing, lone to give you a hundred thousand Niu Wei, as a starter, this matter is left to you, be sure to return all the wasted land to the people before the beginning of spring, in addition, these wasted land, must also be cleared on time, sown on time, without delay!" Wei Li looked at Meng Ge with a solemn expression.
"Weichen takes the order!" Meng Ge first bent down to respond, and then straightened up and asked, "But Weichen has something to ask, if the people open up the wasteland and cultivate, how can the king reward the people?" ”
If you don't give the people a little benefit, the people won't work for free!
Wei Li hesitated slightly, then stared at Meng Ge and said; "Tell the people that anyone who cultivates one acre of land, and the five grains and grains produced by the land, shall be eighty percent from the state, two acres from the land, seventy percent from the state, three acres from the land, sixty percent from the state, four acres of wasteland, fifty percent from the state, five acres from the wasteland, and the country will still take fifty percent, and fifty percent will be the lowest, and tell the people that the land shall be privately owned by the landmaker, but the land shall not be wasted, and the land must be cultivated every year, and those who do not plant shall report to the government and ask others to cultivate it, and if the people cultivate for five years, the tax will be reduced by two percent, that is, as long as the people have cultivated the land for more than five years, The whole grain produced by the cultivated field, the country only takes three! ”
A simple summary is that as long as you plant more than four acres of land, you can get half of the yield of the five grains produced by the land, and if you plant it for five years, you can get seventy percent of the yield, and the land is still privately owned, not belonging to the aristocracy and the state, as long as it is not wasted, you can plant anything!
After hearing these words, Meng Ge couldn't help but be overjoyed, and then bent down and responded: "Weichen takes the order!" ”
I believe that when the people learn this news, they will definitely be elated and go to the wasteland to open up the wasteland, although the tax is high, but do more to get more, and the land is privately owned by the landcutter, I believe that no one can resist the temptation of private land.
Meng Ge was overjoyed, but the ministers were crying with sad faces, feeling that the flesh in their hearts had been cut, and at the same time, the hatred for Meng Ge in their hearts went straight to the sky!
Seeing that the matter was settled, Wei Li also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, the military merit system and the land reform law have been completed, and the next thing is to implement it, and then his eyes signaled to Si Zhong, Si Zhong nodded and understood, and shouted at the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces: "Retreat from the dynasty!" ”
Wei Li got up from the king's chair, turned around and walked back, and the civil and military officials bowed down in unison, making a series of congratulations, and when Wei Li left, the civil and military officials also withdrew from the Taizheng Hall one after another.
"Meng Ge, a child of the Meng family, stop for Lord Ben!"
Outside the Taizheng Hall, the pawn Tian Nan stopped Meng Ge in front of him, his tone was quite unkind, Meng Ge heard someone call him, turned around, and said lightly with an expressionless face: "Who called me?" ”
Seeing Meng Ge's attitude, Tian Nan and the surrounding ministers' faces suddenly turned cold.
"Of course it's me!" Tian Nan replied coldly.
Seeing this, Meng Ge still didn't have any expression on his face, but he saw him behind his hands, and said in an unhurried tone: "It turned out to be Lord Tian, I don't know what Lord Tian called me to do?" And don't Tian adults know the etiquette? ”
When Tian Nan heard this, he couldn't help but squint his eyes suspiciously, "I don't know the etiquette?" So to speak? ”
"I am now Lang Zhongling, and I am on an equal footing with you, but you are shouting my Meng family's child, this is one, and second, my Lang Zhongling is the king's own seal, is it, do you look down on the king and don't recognize me as Lang Zhongling?" Meng Ge was sharp-bitten, and directly charged Tian Nan with not knowing the etiquette and disrespecting the monarch.
"You ....." Tian Nan's face turned pale and his lips trembled, "Hmph!" Meng Ge's face showed disdain, he snorted coldly, and just as he turned around to leave, not bothering with Tian Nan, Tian Nan said again: "Stop!" ”
"I wonder what else is going on with Lord Tian?" Meng Ge stopped a little impatiently and replied.
Tian Nan took a deep breath, walked in front of Meng Ge, his face was flushed, and he stretched out his finger angrily to point at Meng Ge and asked, "You are also from a noble family, why are you above the court, and you have repeatedly damaged the interests of our nobles!" ”
Hearing this, some ministers also pricked up their ears and listened.
"The bird's nest knows the ambition of the bird!"
Meng Ge looked proud, full of righteousness, dropped this sentence, Meng Ge didn't even look at the ministers, and strode away, leaving the ministers with a straight back!
"What do you mean?"
"Can anyone figure out what that means?"
"Bastard, Lord Tian was tricked, Meng Ge scolded Lord Tian for having no ambition!"