Chapter 456 Dissatisfaction
This New Year, Han Laoshan is not only satisfied, but also full of great "dissatisfaction" in his heart.
Because in the new year, he will no longer be the "Han family".
Han Qian returned to Xuzhou, and everything remained the same throughout the first month, with only one assassination order issued.
The full text of the assassin order is more than 100 words: "Han Qian, the assassin of Xuzhou, wrote an edict to the day, abolishing the laws of slaves and maids being cheap, comparing with livestock, slaves and maids giving birth to and raising similar cattle and horses, and producing and resting, and the slaves and maids of the lowly mouth are good, and the master hires manpower and female envoys, and the commission needs to be negotiated and handed over, and if it is not done, it will be dispersed, and there is no detention and forced slavery, and it is not allowed to adopt ......"
The new assassination order is equivalent to directly abolishing the old system of slaves and maids in the whole territory of Xuzhou, and forcibly dissolving the old personal dependency relationship, but in order to avoid the impact of this order being too strong, slaves and maids can be turned into manpower and female envoys hired by the master's family.
Due to the large number of village slaves owned by the four clans of Feng, Yang, Xi, and Xiang in the past, in fact, before the outbreak of the war to cut the feudal domain, the vast majority of people had already forcibly dissolved their personal dependence with the four surnames.
In the process of resettlement over the past two years, these people have been uniformly organized into good households, and a certain amount of food ration land has been granted, which has removed the biggest obstacle to the abolition of slavery in Xuzhou.
At present, Han Qian himself can be said to be the only remaining big slave owner and big landlord in Xuzhou.
Counting the first family soldiers brought into Xuzhou from Jinling, counting the Yang Tan Shuizhai who joined and naturalized under the name of the Han family with Yang Qin and others, counting the subsequent subdivisions and slaves and maids that were successively incorporated in the Jingxiang War, the slaves and maids who were rewarded, and the large number of slaves and maids who were rewarded at one time after the war of cutting the domain, Han Qian and his father had a total of more than 600 households and more than 4,000 slaves and maids in Xuzhou, accounting for more than 2% of the total population of Xuzhou.
Counting the 2,600 Xi clansmen who redeemed and bought back Xuzhou before and after, the family soldiers and slaves owned by the Han family under the household registration are as high as more than 1,000 households and nearly 7,000 people, accounting for 35/1,000 of the total population of Xuzhou.
After the issuance of the assassination order, Han Qian directly dissolved the subordinate relationship with the master and servant of these tribes and the small family, and unified them into good households.
In addition, the more than 4,000 slaves and maids who moved west of the Feng family were also officially removed from their personal dependence with the Feng family at one time - these slaves and maids had actually been resettled in the development process of Longya (Linjiang) County, and in fact they were already households affiliated to Longya County, and this time they were only officially recognized in legal documents.
After that, the household registration of Xuzhou will not only cancel the distinction between the host and the guest, but also completely cancel the distinction between good and low.
In other words, in the new year, Han Laoshan, the head of the Han government, will no longer be the "Han family".
Han Laoshan was not like this, he was kicked out of the "Han family" directly.
Han Qian merged the two weaving institutes, two shipyards, three plantations, foundries, two coal and iron mines, a armor workshop, and a sophisticated parts foundry founded in Xuzhou in these years and belonged to the Han family's private property, with a total of one million shares and a capital worth one penny per share; In addition, 200,000 new shares worth one penny per share were raised to form the Xuzhou Official Money Bureau.
Han Qian kicked Han Laoshan out of the "Han family", in addition to giving away a house in Jiming Village for the elderly, he also gave 1,000 shares of the capital of the Industrial Construction Bureau and 100 shares of the capital of the Xuzhou Official Money Bureau as pension funds, but Han Laoshan was still dissatisfied in his heart.
The first batch of people such as Feng Yi, Gao Shao, and Feng Xuan, about 500 people, crossed the Xuefeng Mountain on horseback on 6 February and arrived in Xuzhou -- at this time, Yang Qin and Feng Yi also led a fleet of ships carrying more than 2,000 old and young people into Chenzhou, and more than 4,000 people were crossing the Luoxiao Mountains and passing through Yuanzhou, not to mention that it would take another month to reach Xuzhou.
It is not a well-trained elite soldier, even if the old man and children are eliminated, a team of 4,000 people, even if it can purchase supplies along the way, can travel more than 1,000 miles a month by land, it is already quite good.
The first batch of people who arrived in Xuzhou mainly entered Qianyang City to rest for a period of time, while Feng Yi, Gao Shao, Feng Xuan, Zhou Chu, Lin Haizheng, Chen Jitang, Ji Xiyao, Zhao Qi, Lin Zongjing, Xi Fa'er and others rushed directly to Jimingzhai to meet Han Qian.
Han Laoshan caught Feng Yi's person, and without waiting for him to take a breath, he pulled him into the corner and complained: "The assassination order issued by the young master, has Lord Feng ever known - think about me, Han Laoshan, I have worked hard to serve in front of the old man all my life, and now I am half cut into the ground, my old eyes are dizzy, and my brain is not bright, it is useless, I can't help the young master, and I don't have the energy to take care of the little master, but it's better to leave me a small place next to the old man's cemetery, right?" What is the use of the young master giving me a good household now? Could it be that I, Han Laoshan, is seventy or eighty years old, and I can still take the test for a show or go to the battlefield to fight for military merits and change an official to do it? ”
Due to the extremely heavy exploitation of the poor commoners in the world, in order to escape the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, there were even many landless poor people who were willing to merge into large households as slaves and maids, at least without having to bear the burden of servitude, and could barely make a living.
As for the good and the lowly do not intermarry, and the children and grandchildren will always be lowly and cannot be officials, where can it be so much for the poor people who are struggling to survive and even have to fight for food to eat?
Han Laoshan succeeded his nephew Han Dong to his knees, which can be regarded as having an heir to the end of his life, but he will not really lose anything to Han Qian as a "slave", and he can still be in charge of a share of things in Xuzhou, and there is really no difference between abolishing the old system and not abolishing it.
In addition to severing the relationship with the Han family, Han Laoshan was emotionally reluctant, and mainly did not want to see Han Qian break up the huge family business of the Han family.
This is simply a "loser"!
Feng Yi couldn't smile bitterly, let him give it eloquence, and it was difficult to explain the twists and turns to Han Laoshan, who was full of old thinking.
The eldest Han Daoxun was the first to implement new policies in Xuzhou such as the reform of fields and acres, and the merger of local and guest nationality, which was only the beginning of the beginning, but when Han Qian entered Jinling to recruit slaves and maids into the army, and promised to grant land, he had actually embarked on this road of no return that was completely cut off from the family gate.
It is an inevitable choice to return to Xuzhou to continue all this and completely abolish the old system of slaves and maids.
On the one hand, the banner that Han Qian himself erected had to continue to carry.
On the other hand, if the old system is not abolished, a large number of old departments who followed Han Qian to make great contributions, this time they are still loyal to give up the military rewards that can be obtained after seizing Jinling, and follow Han Qian back to Xuzhou.
If this is the case, where will the large amount of labor needed for the development of industrial manufacturing be obtained in Xuzhou under such a shortage of population resources?
In order to ensure that there is enough labor force that can be hired freely, not only will the old system be abolished, but the rights and interests of women will be further protected on the basis of the current relatively open social atmosphere; After all, more than ninety percent of the cotton textile manufacturing that currently creates the greatest profit for Xuzhou are female workers.
And once the old system is followed, after a large number of elite veterans have become the private soldiers of the new family lords, how can Xuzhou continue to implement the recruitment system to solve the remaining problems of the private army system?
Completely abolishing the old system of slaves and maids, Han Qian returned thousands of slaves and maids under his personal name to freedom, but Han Qian's authority in Xuzhou would not be weakened, and could even be further strengthened.
Although the subordinates loyal to Han Qian were lifted from their direct personal dependence, most of the elites were either incorporated into the military and political system of Xuzhou, or into the Industrial Construction Bureau and the Official Money Bureau, and they would continue to serve Han Qian through these two systems.
More importantly, these elites, who have made outstanding contributions, themselves want to abolish the lowly and turn them into good ones and give them official status, not to mention that doing so will also make Han Qian more efficient and thorough when exercising power in Xuzhou.
As for the rewards of the old department, in addition to the positions promised by Han Qian within the two systems, the rest was carried out through the distribution of the capital of the Industrial Construction Bureau and the Official Money Bureau, and he no longer rewarded money and land like the traditional one, let alone rewarded slaves and maids.
At present, the total arable land in Xuzhou is only 2 million mu.
Although in the early stage of rewarding the field, each person may only be symbolically rewarded with three to five hundred mu, and the total area of the total cultivated land in Xuzhou will not be too large, but once the field becomes the standard and symbol of the status and identity of the nouveau riche, Han Qian cannot stop everyone's impulse and pursuit to buy land at the same time.
Han Laoshan didn't understand these truths, but felt that Han Qian was really too loser to dissolve the huge family business.
Of course, there are also many old ministries who don't understand, but the vast majority of the old ministries are new to the bottom, even Lin Haizheng, Gao Shao, Tian Cheng and others, the good life has not lasted long, and this new deal is basically the beneficiary.
The vast majority of people have strong reluctance to "cut off" the relationship with the Han family emotionally, but they will not have other feelings of resistance.
If it drags on for three or five years, and waits for the emerging family gate valve to rise in Xuzhou, and then implements such a new system, it may have more or less unpredictable negative impact.
On the way back to Xuzhou, Feng Yi already knew the content of Han Qianxin's assassination order, although it was only more than 100 words, but all aspects involved could be said to touch every corner of Xuzhou.
Feng Yi, Gao Shao, Lin Haizheng, Zhou Chu, Feng Xuan, Chen Jitang, Ji Xiyao, Zhao Qi and others also fully discussed the new decree on the way.
Of course, whether what they think is consistent with Han Qian's original intention, and how to promote the new policy more deeply in the future, and how to make new adjustments to the military and political system in Xuzhou, can only be known after meeting with Han Qian.
Feng Yi also patiently listened to Han Laoshan's complaints, and after Han Laoshan calmed down and left quite satisfied, he rushed over to see Han Qian.