Chapter 59: Reform
The world is prosperous, the people are suffering, the world is dead, and the people are suffering
The prosperity of any feudal dynasty is a joke in Liu Xun's eyes, a big joke.
If the goal of the government is to make it possible for the common people to eat, it is very simple!
As long as the land is constantly reclaimed, go west to the Western Regions and south to the Annam Peninsula, as long as we ensure that the Han army has absolute force suppression.
With the Han Sword, just reclaim enough land! All problems are solved. He will also be called the Holy Lord of the Ming Monarch by later generations, and will be admired by countless generations of people.
Then you don't need to do anything, just follow the path of Liu Xun in your previous life, wait until Huo Guang dies, wait until you are in power, wait until the Huns are infighting, and wait until your life span comes to an end.
This is what Liu Xun wants? No, Liu Xun came to the tuyere and became a pig on the tuyere!
Doing nothing? Leaving silently?
This is not what Liu Xun wants, he wants to surpass his ancestors, surpass Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, surpass Emperor Xiaojing, surpass Emperor Xiaowu, surpass all emperors, and become a unique existence.
If you want to do something, you must have someone first, and the implementation of any policy must have a large number of people who cooperate with it, and the interests of these personnel must be tied together.
Throughout the ages, whether it is in the past or the present life, there have only been three successful reforms, Shang Jun, Yongzheng, and Deng Dada.
Shang Jun's change of law is to tie up all the interest groups of the Qin State together, and use military merits to turn the entire Qin State into a never-ending war machine, once the enemies of the known world are defeated by it, this advanced system, there will be problems, and the Prussia of later generations is basically no different from the pre-Qin, all for war.
Yongzheng's official gentry are one, and the grain is an errand and errand, which is to collect the rights and financial resources to the central government, the national strength has increased, and there is a strong financial expenditure, whether it is external or internal, it can be dealt with freely, but it is inevitable that people will die in government!
How to reconcile land contradictions, use manpower and material resources more efficiently, establish a sound system of supervision and examination of officials, and how to make the people rich?
These problems keep lingering in Liu Xun's brain, these problems must be solved, and there is no idea how to solve them.
Land annexation, in other words, class solidification.
In an agrarian society, land is the largest source of wealth. In the beginning, most people were yeoman farmers, owning small plots of land, enough to support themselves and live a decent life.
The more land you have, the more wealth you have, and everyone wants to have more land.
In disaster years, when the output of smallholder land is not enough to support it, landlords and more affluent farmers take the opportunity to annex land. The land becomes more and more concentrated in the rich, and the rich get richer until the rich have no land and the poor have no place to stand.
The landless peasants also have to live, and they can barely make ends meet by planting land for the landlords in ordinary times, but what about the disaster year? The locust soldiers in the flood and drought can't afford to pay the rent, and the landlords and bandits come to grab a happy child again, are they waiting for death, or are they going to fight for a chance of survival?
If you die now, you will die, and if you die, you will die, and if you die, will you die?
There are only three ways to solve the problem:
1. Distribution of benefits
2. Production relations
3. Productivity
The first few decades of each empire are the time when the distribution of benefits is more reasonable. Taxes are light, as long as you are willing to work. There is no problem with the wife and children heating the kang head.
In the middle of the empire, resources will be relatively concentrated in the nobility and gentry, resulting in the growth of the ruling class. The land occupied, political resources began to concentrate, the most obvious is land annexation.
In the later period of the empire, when the people could not get food and clothing for all day labor, they wanted to farm and had no land.
The general rebellion began.
And this point is the fundamental reason, and everything else is a trivial matter, and only by understanding this truth can we truly understand history. The most important reason for the peasant uprising was the breaking and reorganization of the existing rules and the existing class. Departing from this fundamental and analyzing the reasons for imperial power, relative power, scholar class, Confucianism, climate, and nationality is all going astray.
At this point, Liu Xun's greatest admiration is Chairman Mao*, who is the only one who understands the essence of history, follows this line of thought, and solves the problem of peasants, who account for the vast majority of the people. in order to fundamentally win the struggle. It is only by fundamentally solving the problems of production relations and the distribution of interests. In order to avoid the occurrence of "how long can the red flag be fought".
An outstanding emperor, when he was in power, was able to effectively resolve all kinds of contradictions in the process of development, the court was politically honest, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment.
As long as an industrious nation like the Chinese does not interfere blindly and allows him to develop independently for one or two decades, the accumulation of social wealth will be very fast.
But he can only adjust and optimize to extend the life of an empire, and cannot fundamentally solve the problem of benefit distribution. Therefore, every few hundred years, there is a great change of blood in all classes, that is, various peasant uprisings and dynastic changes.
Since the beginning of its establishment, Huaxia has never really bent its knees to kowtow to anyone. Moreover, the Chinese have always believed only in themselves. Everything else is a floating cloud.
From the beginning of mythology, Dayu cures water, Nuwa mends the sky, Houyi shoots the sun, Yugong moves mountains, there has never been a real god to save suffering and rescue at such a time, and it is the Chinese themselves who save the Chinese.
It's a mindset.
It is the mindset that only believes that one's own hands can change everything, and does not believe that happiness will fall from the sky.
So the Chinese never really worship anyone. Whoever lets everyone live a well-fed and clothed life without being bullied, then I will live my life, and you ruling people will do whatever you love to do. If anyone makes everyone unable to live a life, and they don't have enough food and clothing, then you don't have to do this ruling day. Let's pull you down together, like the water of Dayu's governance, the day of Nuwa's mending, and the day of Houyi's shooting, abandon the old and replace the new, and replace it with someone who can make everyone live and continue to do this.
Is it cruel? It's not very cruel, as long as the rulers can give everyone three meals a day.
Is it simple? It's not simple, it's even very difficult to do, in the past and present life, the Chinese nation has only had a few prosperous eras in 5,000 years, and these prosperous eras only make the people starve to death!
And the most urgent thing now is how to make this turmoil end quickly.
The people are not afraid of death, but they are afraid of death.
Immigrating to Hexi is a good plan, relocating displaced people to Tunjuyan, Loulan and other places.
But the development of Jiangnan? We must not abandon it, because the development of Jiangnan also requires a large number of manpower, and the development of the western part of the Han Dynasty is as important as the development of the south, but the development of the western region will yield results more quickly.
Therefore, the southeast civil uprising is a crisis in Liu Xun's eyes, and it is also a turning point. At the end of every intersection, it is the beginning of a turning point.
These millions of landless people can allow Liu Xun to play them to the most critical areas and give this ancient empire a new glow.
Moreover, Zhang Anshi captured a large number of livestock in the tribes of the eight surnames of Wuhuan in Hehuang, which just gave more protection to this idea..................