"And Deran, you can't help but underestimate the power of the Peixian family, the so-called world clan is a family, strange today Deran moved them as Yuzhou Mu, even if you deal with them as the supreme (Son of Heaven) in the world, you must understand that since Emperor Guangwu succeeded to the throne, the real power is in the hands of the Son of Heaven or in the hands of the family?

Liu Lan wanted to say out loud that this world is the world of the people, not the world of these clans and scholars. But these words can only be said in later generations, Liu Lan, who came to this era, deeply understood the power of the family, so he began to feel weak.

"Deran, who in this world does not understand the symptoms of today? But have you ever thought about it, why didn't anyone come out of this? Because the crux of this crux is related to themselves, the key to their family's accumulation of wealth, so they can't say, let alone say it, saying it is equivalent to impeaching themselves, which is equivalent to slapping themselves, so this problem naturally cannot be solved, and hundreds of years ago, those who think like Deran must be the former Han Gaozu, after all, Gaozu was born as a small official at that time, and most of the ministers around him were like this, because they understood the suffering of the people, so they were willing to share the worries of the people, but in the same way, they did not deal with the family. Although most of the real families in the world were destroyed by the explosion of Qin at that time, but the family that was handed down from the Zhou family was still there, it is said that when Emperor Wu began to rectify the family, Emperor Wu began to rectify the family, but even Emperor Wu had such a powerful force but still failed to suppress the family, and even it took so much effort to deal with a Luo family inherited from the Western Zhou Dynasty, you can imagine how difficult it is to deal with the family, and now the world. It is also different from the Wudi Dynasty, which has descended since Guangwu. There are dozens of thousand-year-old families inherited from the Zhou dynasty in this dynasty, not to mention the thousands of families from this dynasty in the past. The most terrifying thing about these families is that they have married each other for thousands of years, and they are all the same, although De Ran you seem to be dealing with a small Peixian family, but behind it may have violated the interests of some behemoths, and then they collectively counterattacked De Ran You, even if they don't deal with you head-on, but there will inevitably be conspiracy behind it, and then it can be prevented, the simplest example. It's like exploding Qin's martingale, and in the end, didn't it fall on the decisive counterattack of the Qin nobles? Therefore, if Deran wants to clean up the family, I still have to advise you, before you have enough strength, such an idea must be suppressed, otherwise there is only a dead end waiting for you.

"Hey!" This is the first time for Liu Lan, and it is also the first time that he feels so helpless, but he doesn't know that there are many cattle who have fallen on the road of dealing with the family. From Emperor Wu to Wang Mang, from Cao Cao to Zhuge , and then to Yang Guang angrily pushed the imperial examination, but as a result, the country was defeated. and then Li Er, who has been fighting the Shandong family for so many years, has only downgraded their grade. In the end, the disaster of the family was completely solved in the hands of Empress Wu Cao, and it took nearly a thousand years. Liu Lan wants to eradicate them during the most vigorous development of the family, but you can imagine how difficult it will be.

"Actually, what Yu wanted to say was to teach Zhen Yan to say it to Deran. First of all, for land annexation, in fact, this is like Dayu to control the water, if it is just blindly blocked, no matter what, it can't be blocked, since it can't be blocked, it's better to be sparse, so this thing is also simple. ”

"What's the easy way? Do you just let the land be annexed by the clans, leaving the people without land? "The family is powerless for the time being, so let's deal with the land annexation first, and agree that this is also a headache for a long time.

"First of all, we need to admit that the land is the private ...... of the people" Before Zhen Yu finished speaking, he was interrupted by Liu Lan: "This is natural, otherwise how can there be a merger?" First of all, it is clearly stipulated in the Han law that the land is owned by the Son of Heaven, and the so-called whole world is not the king's land, and the land is distributed by the Son of Heaven, or the Son of Heaven grants land to the people, or rewards the powerful and meritorious ministers, but in the same way, due to the annexation of land by the family, there is also a stripe of private land in the Han law, that is, the land owned by the cultivator can be sold. Therefore, talking about the law is the result of the game between the family and Liu Xiu, that is, it must be in line with the interests of the royal family and the interests of the Son of Heaven, and who is suffering in the end, or the people.

Why, because the land tax in the Han Dynasty was relatively low, Mencius had a cloud: tithes and taxes, the government of the king, and in this dynasty and the previous dynasty, fifteen taxes one, thirty taxes and even all reductions and exemptions are common, why are the people still struggling? This is the crux of the family's annexation of land, because the so-called good governance of the imperial court has not played a substantial role for the people, because they do not cultivate much land, and the wealth they accumulate cannot be compared with the clans that occupy a large amount of land, but these clans have more money to annex the land because they have made a lot of profits from it, and because they are the magnates of the court, they will continue to advise the Son of Heaven to continue to implement this 'good governance', and this kind of good governance makes the clan's ** for annexing land more and more intense. Because the clans that controlled the land were able to make huge profits, such a large reward made them even pay a high poll tax for the support of the farmers.

Before Zhen Yu finished speaking, he was interrupted by Liu Lan: "What Boning said is right, the good government introduced by the imperial court has become a bad government, which has aggravated land annexation. ”

"This is also why since ancient times, there have been officials who have forced the people, but they have never heard of the big clans and landlords forcing the people." Zhen Yu smiled and resumed the previous topic, and said: "Besides, since the land is privately owned by the people, the land should be in the eyes of the people just like they sell grain and vegetables, after all, the land is their own, so they naturally have to buy or sell it at will according to their preferences." ”

"But if they sell it, won't they have nothing to eat?" Liu Lan asked weakly.

"But why are they selling?"

Zhen Yu looked at Liu Lan for a long time and said, "If they don't sell it, they will starve to death." Zhen Yu didn't let Liu Lan speak, and then said: "Of course, there are other situations, that is, forced buying or even snatching." ”

Liu Lan nodded, only to hear Zhen Yu continue: "So what Deran has to do is to prevent the occurrence of such things as forced purchases, as for the people to sell land, it should not be restricted, and for some clans to have too much land, it should not be radically confiscated, but should be slowly planned." ”

"Slowly?" Liu Lan's eyes lit up, but then he shook his head and said, "What if you stop the forced buying." The people still have no land to plant. ”

Zhen Yu smiled with satisfaction and said, "Deran can know." Most clans and wealthy people do not buy land from village to village, but they do not want to. But if the people in the township want to sell the land, the rich families in the township have already bought it, so most of the clans who really buy land between the townships are clan relatives and nobles, and their methods of buying land are all forced to buy and sell or even rob. ”

"I see." Liu Lan's eyes lit up, he seemed to understand what Zhen Yu was going to say, and it was even more as if he had found the rope head among the millions of hemp ropes, but all this seemed to be about to clear the fog. But he was in a state of confusion again.

"Yes." Zhen Yu nodded and said: "The more such a person, the more such a hateful person, De Ran must be cautious in dealing with it, wouldn't it be a good strategy to buy the land in the hands of these clans at a fair price without using force, and then sell it to the people at a flat price?" It's better than being incompatible with the clan. ”

"It turns out that Berning is here to be a lobbyist." Liu Lan smiled bitterly: "I just don't know who invited Berning." ”

"No one."

Seeing that he finally relented, Zhen Yu secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "Equality, average, consistency, unity, no difference, no injustice, there are its preciousness, but there are also its emptiness and boring. It is impossible to eliminate all the differences between people, including rich and poor, strong and weak, longevity, wisdom and ignorance, diligence and laziness, urban and rural areas, officials and people, skin color, north and south, men and women, health and disability...... What the government should do is to encourage both the strong and the diligent. It also protects the weak and avoids the vicious expansion of differences.

"It is impossible for Deran to erase all differences, such as Deran's New Deal, although it is supporting the self-cultivated people. But from another angle, isn't it deliberately suppressing the rich peasants of the clan again? Although it is a good law, it is contrary to the traditional tax order, and it is not only so. Deran is exempt from cloth brocade in taxes, so that it can be done. Not only will it not be able to make Deran enrich the treasury, but it will also be unable to make ends meet. And how many times has Deran seen a homesteader who cultivates a small plot of land and gets rich by farming? Therefore, although the law promulgated by Deran seems to be a good law. It's flashy, and it's just a façade. Therefore, it is not a sin to own land, and the hateful are those who take it by force, but the virtues of these clans should not be too radical and brute, and as it was said before, they should be purchased at a parity and transferred to the people. ”

He paused and said, "As Yu said, this decree of Deran is not only not a good law, but it will also make the people complain, yes or no?" ”

"yes, but I don't know why?" It can be said that this is Liu Lan's most puzzling point.

"First of all, when the people learned that Deran had taken a lot of money from the rich peasants and clans, they would be less enthusiastic about investing in land than these rich households, even though they were less landless, because of what? Because none of them expected to improve their lives by farming, and this was the reason why they opposed the New Deal, coupled with the instigation of the clans, they naturally rejected the New Deal very much, and the other was that the clans that owned a lot of land, the rich peasants, and the middle peasants, learned that after the government collected such a heavy tax, there would be hidden fields and evade heavy taxes, so that it would become an unstable factor in the land harvest, and it would make the people spend a little less on the fields, because no matter how hard they worked to cultivate, they would be charged a heavy tax. Especially those small clans, when they learn that the harvest they have worked hard to obtain is expropriated by the government, they will naturally lose their enthusiasm for investing in the land, and when the ponds and ditches are clogged up, and the embankments and ridges will collapse, if they do not dig, repair, or manage, then the fields will be thinned down, and after such a long time, the land will naturally degrade, and then the good government of Deran will become a bad government, and the gains will outweigh the losses.

The third is that Deran divides the land into two classes: the fertile land and the barren land, so that if a servant takes a bribe from it, so that the rich land is poor, and the barren land is abundant, will not the decree issued by Deran make the poor want to be poor and the rich richer? Zhen Yu said earnestly.

As if he was drinking, Liu Lan only felt the cold wind swishing behind him, and looked at Zhen Yu with a weak heart, he thought that the 'advanced' law he came up with would have miraculous results, but when he heard Zhen Yu say this, he inevitably had a trace of doubt in his heart, could it be that this decree is not suitable for this time? Busy asked, "Berning, what do you say now?" ”

"First of all, the tax should be reduced, and at the same time the cloth or cloth should be added to the tax revenue to fill the treasury. The second is to encourage reclamation, not to buy the clan land at a parity price for the poor peasants, as Deran said, and the third ......"

"What?" Liu Lan was really a little puzzled: "Didn't Bo Ning say before that he would buy it from those clans who forcibly bought and sold land?" ”

Zhen Yu smiled and explained to him: "At this time, it is not like the prosperous era of Wenjing, the land tends to be short or even panicked, not to mention the wasteland occupied by the government, that is, the ownerless idle land that died due to war or took refuge in another country is enough for the people to live in, as long as Deran is properly distributed, why worry about the wasteland?" ”

Liu Lan nodded as if he was enlightened, and agreed with what Zhen Yu said, after all, for him who came through time, China's so-called prosperous era, whether it is 'Wenjing', 'Kaihuang', 'Zhenguan', is not the revival after a hundred wars, the population has been created by the people's large amount of land after the sharp decline, but with the continuous increase of the population base, it is like 'Tui En Ling', the people's land is getting less and less, accompanied by the wind of land annexation, and it is naturally difficult to regain the prosperity......

While Liu Lan sighed in his heart at Zhen Yu, who was comparable to the general vision of later generations, he listened to Zhen Yu continue: "Third, Deran should set up a big clan above the clan, and it should be based on more than 1,000 acres of cultivated land. He thought for a while and then said: "In the world, there are very few people who have thousands of acres of land, in Jizhou, with the abundance of my Zhen family, it is only five hundred, that is, Xuzhou, and it is only Mi, Chen, Zhang, and Cao who occupy an area of thousands of acres, so these clans are charged a heavy tax of fifty percent, as long as Deran is properly used, they will never resist like Xiaopei's small clans."

For small clans like Xiao Pei, such a heavy endowment will inevitably make them hurt their muscles and bones, and even worsen since then, but for big clans like Mi, Chen, Zhang, and Cao, it is just a rarity. ”

Liu Lan was a little apprehensive and said: "If these families sell their land to avoid heavy taxes, and those who have a thousand mu sell a hundred mu and keep nine hundred, so they don't only have to pay the taxes of the small clans?" ”

Zhen Yulang laughed, pointed at Liu Lan and said with a smile: "Isn't this exactly what Deran wants?" ”

There are too many things to digest, and Liu Lan was a little confused for a while: "What do I want?" ”

"Yes."

Zhen Yu said with a smile: "No matter how much land he sells, even if he only sells 100 acres, as long as there are 10 acres for the people, can't he solve the people's land panic?" As the saying goes, water is impermanent, law is impermanent, since Deran can determine the tax policy according to the situation, why can't it be modified in the future? As long as it changes with the times and the land is measured accurately, when there is no room of 1,000 acres in the world, it can be changed to 900 acres, 800 acres, and this is limited to ......" (to be continued. )