"Haha."

Before Zhen Yu finished speaking, he was hugged by Liu Lan deadly, under his stunned gaze, Liu Lan hugged him excitedly, and it took a long time to let go of Zhen Yu, who was full of black lines, and said: "What Berning said, isn't it a good way to resist the merger?" ”

If the merger can be resolved in this way, then he will be happy to see it, but how can the merger be so easily resolved? Not only that, as soon as this decree is issued, not only can it not solve the matter of annexation, I am afraid that it will also make the matter of hidden fields in various places more rampant and popular, although so, as long as there is a place that is a capable official, then naturally there will be no annexation, so it can be regarded as a great achievement. Zhen Yu did not tell the truth, as early as the Emperor Wu Dynasty, Dong Zhongshu advocated the policy of limiting the field, even if the world can not be evenly distributed, there must be a maximum limit, so that each landlord can not exceed the limit of a number of acres, unfortunately even this policy has not been implemented, why, or the family from the obstruction, and to Wang Mang's new dynasty, the reform wave of Fengtian Fagu completely nationalized the acres, called the imperial field, redistribution, and finally completely realized the Confucian field, but the result, but it led to a big change, Wang Mang finally failed, Defeated by the landlord class, there was no radical reform of the land system in China's history.

Therefore, Zhen Yu did not tell Liu Lan the truth, or did not say the consequences of this decree, because this is the most difficult road, but he made Liu Lan see hope because of this suggestion, and this was enough, and immediately suggested him, saying: "This policy cannot be disclosed to the public for the time being, after all, Xiaopei does not have a rich room of more than 1,000 acres, and he is the mouth of the world's corporals." ”

"Yes, not publicly." Liu Lan should be reconciled. To deal with what happened to them then and in the future, and now his first resort is the power of the family. If it is made public, I am afraid that the Mi family and the Chen family will completely leave themselves. And the abacus of entering Xuzhou may be difficult to start. ”

Liu Lan is different from many people, many people may say that they don't care about what others think of him, but in Liu Lan's view, most of the people who say this are just deceiving themselves, so he is self-aware and can listen to others' persuasion, of course, it also depends on what is right, in some other things, Liu Lan is often able to act arbitrarily, because he knows that his thoughts are right. It has been verified for thousands of years, but in this matter, Liu Lan understands that he must not act against the opinions of the majority of people before he is fledgling, because this is violating the 'tradition' of his sect and is going against everyone in this era, such a risk is too great, even for Liu Lan, who has always flaunted his courage, he has to be cautious, after all, if he wants to deal with the whole world alone, even Emperor Wu and Wang Mang have been defeated. How can Liu Lan win now? Even if he also has the strength to deal with the whole world, there is a great risk in breaking the long-rooted 'tradition', even if he is not counterattacked now, he will inevitably be counterattacked after death!

Liu Lan set a long-term plan for himself. gradually encroached on the family's strategy, but at this moment, he was suddenly shocked in his heart: "It's not good." To do bad things. ”

"What's wrong?" Zhen Yu asked.

"The clouds are long and they ......"

Liu Lan's heart darkened, and he ran outside the house. As he ran, he said to Zhen Yu: "I have to catch up with them quickly, and I must not let them move those clans." ”

"Haha." Zhen Yu smiled: "Don't worry. Yun Chang and they thought they were left behind by me, and at this time, De Ran only needed to send a henchman to inform Yun Chang to withdraw his troops. ”

"When?" Liu Lan looked at Zhen Yudao with a grateful face.

"I happened to meet when I came."

Zhen Yu said with a smile: "If I hadn't met Yun Chang, how could I have come here like this?" ”

"I see." Liu Lan secretly sighed in his heart that Zhen Yu came in time to help him solve the big trouble, and at the same time opened the door and said to Liu An, who was waiting outside the door: "Go and let Yun Chang and them collect their troops." ”

"No."

After finishing the order, Liu Lancai walked back with joy and said with a smile: "If it weren't for Berning to come, I would have had a big disaster first." ”

Zhen Yu waved his hand to show that he was not polite, and then resumed the topic and said: "De Ran is just an impulse, since De Ran wants to focus on industry and commerce, he naturally understands the key, but at that time, he was angry, and it was inevitable that he would be impulsive." ”

I understand the key, and if I understood the key, no matter how angry I was, I wouldn't have done such a thing. After thinking about it: "Although I didn't see as deeply and think far as Zhen Yu, this brother-in-law actually said that he was angry, and I don't know if he was giving himself a step down or really thinking that he was dizzy." But he didn't continue to pester Zhen Yu for what purpose, since the matter had come to this, then he naturally had to pretend to be a tacit, as if all this was not for his own dizziness by those small clans, he would definitely handle it carefully. Liu Lan, who collected his feelings, said: "The top priority now is to encourage the people to reclaim the ownerless land and wasteland, and at the same time promulgate a new tax policy. "Will there be a suspicion of a change in the day? After all, in ancient times, this was a big taboo, so that the people had worries about the government? But Liu Lan quickly rejected such an idea, for human beings, they are often not ashamed of creating evil, but they are ashamed to repent, and they are not ashamed to do things that others think are stupid, but they are ashamed to correct themselves, and in fact, only by correcting themselves, others will think that you are wise. In particular, if the government's order is not accepted by the people, even the decree of the court must be changed overnight, and if it is supported by the people, it must be adhered to in a year, ten years, a hundred years, and ten thousand years. And since there are loopholes in the laws and regulations that have been promulgated at present, it is natural that they must be amended in a timely manner, so how can they continue to be wrong because they are afraid of face?

Immediately decided, how to pay attention to these things, and immediately prepared to draft a new tax order, but his eyes fell on the wolf pen in front of the dwarf machine stone inkstone, Liu Lan's wolf pen was personally purchased by Zhen Jiang for him, made of dark gray fine and hard mole hair (weasel), stronger than the sheep's hair, softer than the purple hair, worse.

Liu Lan hesitated to reach out to get it, but he dispelled the idea, after all, he was a layman in drafting the tax decree, and if he drafted it by himself, he was afraid that he would cause more trouble by changing Chen Qun's tax decree as he had done before, so he immediately got up and went out of the house, and saw Liu An coming from a distance and yelling. said: "Liu An, go and let Chen Qun come here to see me." ”

Liu An, who had just come back, saw Liu Lan from afar. Just about to report to him about Guan Yu's return to the camp, I didn't want to hear him screaming there from a distance. At first, he could hear it clearly, and when he got closer, he understood what he was shouting, and before he could even say anything back, he was kicked out by Liu Lan again.

Zhen Yu has been watching coldly, looking at Liu Lan's busyness, and secretly looking at it like this, where does De Ran understand the key, but since he wants to focus on industry and commerce. How so? Could it be that what Zhen Yanxin said was false? His face darkened, and he waited until Liu Lan returned before he asked, "Listening to what is said in the book, Deran wants to value industry and commerce, I don't know if this matter is true or false?" ”

"Of course it's true, for the sake of business and commerce, I've been looking forward to Berning for a long time."

"Deran doesn't know anything about industry and commerce?"

"Exactly."

Zhen Yu nodded and said secretly: "I see, no wonder Deran is like this." He said, "Deran, you know." When it comes to a year of famine, who suffers the most? ”

Liu Lan said without thinking: "Naturally, these farmers are farming. Then he said: "Maybe it's not the year of famine...... Zhen Yu didn't let him speak, and said directly: "I once heard such a passage: There is no idle land in the four seas, and the farmers are still starving to death. ”

Zhen Yu's eyes lit up. asked: "What De Ran said is true, I don't know why De Ran knows what it is?" ”

Perhaps this is just like Cui Yongyuan said: 'It is always the peasants who starve to death, and the reason for this.' It was the fruits of their labor that were taken away by robbers. With this in mind, he said, "Exploiting with the government? ”

Zhen Yu smiled noncommittally. Said: "I don't know if there is a map of the thirteen states in the world?" ”

"There isn't one here, but there is one in the council chamber. If Berning uses it, he will send someone to fetch it. ”

"No need." Zhen Yu waved his hand at the same time to take more than a dozen items from the teacup, teacup, inkstone, wolf's hair, and books in front of the low machine, and placed them in the layout of the thirteen states in the world, and said while swinging: "This is the northernmost Youzhou, and the next is Jizhou, the central is Sizhou, and the northwest is Liangzhou......"

Liu Lan followed what Zhen Yu said and looked at it one by one, but he didn't understand what kind of medicine was sold in his gourd, and waited until he arranged the style of the thirteen states, and then asked, "What do you want from Boning?" ”

Zhen Yu said with a smile: "Whether it is Youzhou Liu Yu, Gongsun Zhan or Jizhou Yuan Shao, Qingzhou Tian Kai, Xuzhou Tao Qian...... And who among the shepherds in these thirteen states was a light servant and a light tax? ”

Liu Lan shook his head without thinking about it and said, "No." ”

"That is the case, why are the thirteen states in the world different, Yizhou is richer than Liangzhou, Jingzhou is richer than Sili, Xuzhou is richer than Yuzhou......"

Liu Lan thought for a while and said, "Because those poor places are disturbed by military disasters. The so-called protracted wars, rampant banditry, heavy taxes, and various disasters, combined with the narrow population and the lack of industry, are also the fundamental causes of the rise and fall of the states. ”

Zhen Yu nodded and said: "Let's not talk about Jizhou, let's talk about Yizhou, with the capital of Tianfu, why do you still have the bones of starvation, and after a hundred battles in Xuzhou, you haven't even heard of those who can't eat, let alone starve to death?" ”

Liu Lan was speechless for a while, and said secretly: "If Tao Qian is better at governing the state capital than other princes?" He didn't dare to judge, but he knew that Tao Qian's taxes were not less than those in other places? So what does this mean? Liu Lan wanted to find the answer, but he never got the point, and said in a consquiring tone: "Please give me advice." ”

"I don't know the beginning, but I have only recently come to my senses."

"How?"

"It is the people of Xuzhou who value business."

Zhen Yu looked at Liu Lan and said: "Although Tao Qian has been repeatedly banned, the people of Xuzhou all regard business as their deputy position, and even if they encounter famine and military disasters, they can survive. And if there is no such mercantile style, Xuzhou will definitely break its muscles and bones since the war with Cao Cao......"

"What Berning said is true."

"Seeking wealth with poverty, agriculture is not as good as work, and industry is not as good as business"

Zhen Yu said meaningfully: "Everyone in the world knows that the benefits of farming can be described as one land and one heaven compared to the profits of merchants, but why are merchants ranked after Shinong Industry and Commerce, and although this dynasty is wide business, but business is not as good as agriculture?" ”

Liu Lan naturally understood that the reason why the heavy agriculture and the suppression of commerce were so prevalent at the time of the feudal system was naturally not an accidental product, and the formation of the economic structure was naturally to meet the needs of the ruling class, and in the feudal society, the important part of taxation was not the family, but those yeoman farmers, and China's yeoman peasants were composed of a self-sufficient natural economic framework, which naturally enabled the ruling class to extract more wealth from it.

At the same time, for feudal countries, the development of agriculture can enable the people to live and work in peace and contentment. The prosperity of the people fills the granaries of the treasury. It can make the country free of food shortages and the risk of turmoil.

Therefore, the rulers of any feudal dynasty regarded the development of agriculture as the "foundation of the country", and regarded industry and commerce as the "last industry" to suppress it.

Of course, the more important point is to make the people feel at ease to stay in the ridges to grow food. After all, only in this way can we ensure that the people have enough to eat, can we ensure that the people will not rebel, so that they can sit firmly in their country with peace of mind.

At the same time, the income of commerce is not much higher than that of agriculture, so in order to prevent the people from 'pursuing profits' and not going to farm with peace of mind, it is natural to emphasize agriculture and suppress business.

When Zhen Yu heard Liu Lan's great words, he immediately resonated in his heart, some of which he thought of and some of which he never thought of, but in the final analysis. These are exactly what he wants to say: "What Deran said is exactly what he said, so it can be seen from this that whether the government treasury is full or not has nothing to do with whether the people have acquired land since Deran issued the new tax decree (because the tax is collected according to the land, it is no longer collected according to people and households, and there is no poll tax), and even if Deran can allocate them some land, their final result is nothing more than a pile of starving bones in Yizhou." ”

"That's why I want to focus on industry and commerce." Liu Lan nodded and said: "In the eyes of the world, a businessman will be called a profiteer." But they don't know that seeking profit is the heart of man. ”

Ordinary people are the kind of people they want to be, but the kind of people they have to be, so Liu Lan chose to let them start a new life in Xiaopei. The establishment of the 'experimental field' in Xiaopei is naturally due to the strong mercantile style close to Xuzhou. He just wants to see if the farmers in Xiaopei's experimental field have changed after he supports industry and commerce.

The peasants in all counties of the world struggled because they could not cope with the oppression of the proud clans from the imperial court. And they have to struggle to support themselves in a few acres of fields, and this life and suffering have already made them insensitive. Because that's all there is to it. Only a few people can really get rich by farming, and most of them have become the 'money bags' of the elite class because of a few acres of land that can only make ends meet. Liu Lan wants to change the eternal 'curse' that the people no longer have to sweat and cultivate a few acres of land to make a living, and he wants to let the people of Xiaopei, even if they are farmers, live a happy life.

Instead of tying them up in the field with a few acres of land, and paralyzing these lovely people with such a mental paralysis method, because he knew that if he wanted to be rich, he would never just give them a few acres of land.

From ancient times to the present, such paralysis has always happened to such lovely people, such as the people of the Han Dynasty, the third year after becoming a Ding, that is, at the age of twenty-three, they had to start military service, and this provision has its own intrinsic significance. Because it takes twenty to become a man, it is reasonable to be able to cultivate independently. As far as the agricultural economy is concerned, it is impossible to produce more products, only to save money, and the so-called "three years of ploughing, one year of savings", according to the general situation, a bumper harvest every year will absolutely not. On average, there will always be a famine year in three years, and when a famine year comes, the savings will be over. If there is no shortage for three years, six years should have two years, and nine years should have three years. And in an agrarian society, it will never be more than nine years of maturity, nor will it be more than three years of famine. A strong man, twenty years of land, can make a living independently, but he is required to serve in the military for the country (as a soldier in the frontier, as a guard in the central government, and as a national soldier in the county) and in addition to military service, the people also have to serve in the force, build a house, build a road, anyway, it is compulsory labor for the country, which was called a pawn in the Han Dynasty, and according to the regulations at that time, two hundred dollars to the government can also be replaced (the military service explained above can also be bought with money). The rich peasants, the middle peasants, and even the landlords could still have spare money to buy labor, but the poor peasants with the largest base were tied between the ridges and the service, and they had to run around all their lives for subsistence, taxes, and forced labor.

But even if there is no forced labor, even if there is a good harvest every year, even if there is no government exploitation, the people can't save too much wealth in a small field, not to mention that such a thing will not happen, but why are the dynasties and even the modern people still bound between small fields? Because the ruling class needs to extract more wealth from them, it is necessary to give them a field, even if it is only a few acres, because it is enough for them to feed their families, and it can paralyze them in the ridges.

Therefore, Liu Lan should encourage industry and commerce, so that in addition to the policy of restricting land, the problem of land annexation will no longer be a problem, and the middle peasants and poor peasants can become rich peasants or even landlords by renting their fields, while those who do not have cultivated land or who have not rented fields can also make a fortune or support their families by engaging in handicrafts or directly engaging in handicrafts during their leisure time.

"Deran's foresight is very comparable." Zhen Yu said with a smile: "Not to mention the handicraft industry, it is a way for the merchants, there are merchants, not only can solve the problem of the year of the disaster, some black-hearted clans hoarded grain, and secondly, it can make the goods circulate quickly, just like porcelain, the workshop made it, and sold directly to the merchants, and the merchants who know the world price will naturally sell it at a good price, even if it is farther, it will be a trekking through mountains and rivers, so that the people who need porcelain get the porcelain, the merchants get rewarded, and the workshop can continue to produce after recovering the cost, isn't this a win-win move?"

Thirdly, although most of the merchants were foot merchants, most of them set off in the form of caravans, they arrived at their destinations, ate there, lived there, and brought local specialties back to their hometowns, so that did not drive the local economy? ”

"That's exactly what Berning said."

As soon as Liu Lan spoke, he heard Liu Antong outside the house come in and said, "Envoy, Changwen has arrived." (To be continued.) )