The emperor made a start, and then everyone had a lively discussion.

From granting 100 acres of land to now proposing to divide 100 acres of land into one household, this is undoubtedly a huge change. It is true that the number of fields granted has been greatly reduced, but in fact, in the past, it has not been possible to really grant 100 acres of land per ding.

In terms of the boundaries of the world in the five years of the Great Cause, the whole country was only 800 million mu of land, and at that time there were 8.91 million households and a population of 46.02 million. Seventy-one percent of the population is in the north and 29 percent in the south.

This does not include slaves, monks, lowly people, and some hidden households, etc., so a hundred acres of land is nearly 900 million acres, and in fact, many of the fields in the world belong to the royal and imperial courts, and the noble officials and powerful landlords also occupy a large number of private land.

Therefore, it is estimated that the land that can really be equalized is only more than half.

In many places, even 20 acres of Yongye land are not enough.

During the Sui Dynasty, the basic national policy was to use the uniform land system and rent adjustment, and the basis of taxation was Ding, so the household registration and Dingkou were extremely strict, which was also the fundamental reason why the number of households in the early Sui Dynasty increased from 3 million to nearly 9 million.

However, although the household registration statistics of the Sui Dynasty are good, there are many households in the Sui Dynasty who do not pay taxes and do not pay taxes, and there are not many Dingkou who really pay taxes and serve in the Sui Dynasty, according to the official statistics of the imperial court, 401,000 Ding Na Silk, 4.9 million Ding Jiaofu, and the total number of Ding Ding is only more than 8 million, basically an average of only one class per household.

Therefore, the regular tax in the Sui Dynasty was less than 33 million stone a year, 4 million horses of silk and silk, and more than 6 million pieces of linen.

And now the emperor said that Daqin should change the number of people to grant 100 mu of land to a maximum of 100 mu per household, and the minimum is 10 mu per ding, which is a huge change.

In addition to slaves, as long as they are naturalized Daqin people, they can be divided into land grants, with a minimum of 10 mu per person, and a maximum of 100 mu of land per household, regardless of gender, old or young.

Daqin now has more than 12 million households and a population of more than 80 million. Among them, there were more than 10 million slaves and more than 10 million naturalized barbarians.

Excluding slaves, there are more than 70 million people, and the minimum of 10 acres of land per mouth means that at least more than 700 million acres of land will be needed.

Therefore, it is indeed necessary to relocate some of the population of the Central Plains to the frontier, after all, there are few people in the frontier.

If the Central Plains really wants to be divided, some villages will be divided according to their mouths, and one person may not be able to divide one acre of land, so it is necessary to mobilize immigrants.

In this era of agriculture, without one's own land, it will never be able to solve the problem of food and clothing, and it will not be able to get rid of poverty. If the common people can't even solve their own food and clothing, how can they contribute to the imperial court's finances?

"For the private land of the nobles, officials and landlords, it is necessary to further limit the amount of land in the Central Plains, and there is also an additional article, the Yongye land granted by the people is only allowed to be bought and sold among the villagers of the village."

"Sage, isn't this too much?"

"I think it's very appropriate, if this opening is opened, it won't take long for the cultivated land in the Central Plains to be annexed by the powerful families after all, so the imperial court can't let go of this opening. If you want to buy land, you can also buy land, but you can only let go of the south and the border areas. ”

"Where the per capita land is less than 10 acres, some people must be mobilized to relocate. The ultimate goal of giving priority to relocating the population from the areas with the least land is to change the predicament of the northern region with a large population and a small amount of land, and to ensure that every ordinary person has at least 10 acres of land. ”

If there are more people and less land, all kinds of problems will inevitably occur, so how to adjust this contradiction has become the foundation of governing people's livelihood.

"It is difficult to leave the homeland, to give the people a household in the frontier is to grant 200 acres of land, and each person to give 10 acres of Yongye land, and they may not be willing to give up the current hometown where a family only has 120 acres of land."

"If you are reluctant to leave, you have to leave, this is not only to let the people get rid of poverty and enter into food and clothing, but also the century-old stability plan of the imperial court. Otherwise, it would be impossible for the newly conquered Baekje, Lim-eup, and other places to be sustained, and the frontiers would be impossible to develop. The imperial court stationed in the frontier may not be able to provide for it, and in the end, the imperial court can only give up these bloody places, and eventually let other barbarians occupy them, and sooner or later they will become a problem for their henchmen. So the fundamental way is to emigrate, we immigrants used to occupy him, develop him, garrison his troops there, and turn it into his new homeland there, so that other barbarians can no longer touch it. ”

One household in the Central Plains is given 20 acres of Yongye land, one person has at least 10 acres of land, and one household has a maximum of 100 acres of land.

As for immigrants to the border land, the imperial court can give each person 10 acres of permanent field and a household at least 200 acres of land to divide the land.

"Sage, the minister thinks that the attendants should take the lead in setting an example, and the guards stationed in the frontier should all move their families there, so that the soldiers can also defend the frontier with peace of mind."

Luo Cheng nodded, "For the government soldiers in the guard camp, the imperial court must not only let them take the lead, but also give them tangible benefits, I think that each government soldier can be given a hundred acres of military land without paying land tax." When his family moved to the station, he was still given 10 acres of Yongye land for each oral gift, and 200 acres of land for each household. These 200 acres of land do not count the amount of military land of the government soldiers. ”

"Some restrictions on land sales can also be appropriately relaxed, allowing nobles to buy land and establish manors in the past."

The more we discussed, the more intense it became.

Land policy can be said to be the foundation of a country, although the main source of financial revenue of the imperial court is not land tax, but this involves the stability of the world, and it is a major event involving tens of millions of people.

Caution must be exercised.

"Divide the land and grant the land, so in the end, will the land be divided according to the person or the household?" Wei Zheng asked, there must be a standard for everything.

A minimum of 10 acres per household, and a maximum of 100 acres per household, these are only two limits, but how to divide them, is it divided on a person-by-person basis, or is it divided on a household-by-household basis?

"I thought that each household could first divide 10 acres of Yongye land, and then add 40 acres of mouth land, which is the basic field. Then fine-tune according to the actual number of family members. For example, if there are five or fewer people, then it will be divided into 50 acres per household. If the family has more than five people, ten acres will be added to each family, but the upper limit is 100 acres. ”

Wei Zheng nodded, a household is given at least fifty acres of land, if it is intensive cultivation, it is still good.

"Then is there a standard for this division of households, and the fields are divided according to households, so that when they do not get it, many people will have to divide their households. For example, the original family of three generations lived together, two grandfathers and grandmothers, and three sons below, and the sons also had children and children, but they were all one household, enough for more than a dozen people, if the upper limit of the new regulations could only be divided into 100 acres, but if the family was divided into four households, then it could be divided into at least 200 acres of land, a difference of double! ”

"In such a situation, as long as there are several sons in a household, and the son grows up and marries and has children, he can apply for a separate household, but the parents must live with one son, and not all the father and son can be separated. In principle, parents are encouraged to live with their young sons, and the other sons can live separately when they become biological children. ”

For such a division of households, the imperial court actually encouraged, because under the two-tax system, in addition to the land tax according to the acres of land, the household tax must also be levied on the basis of households.

There were three generations of the family, two of the three brothers went out into separate households, and the youngest son did not separate into households, one household became three households, and the amount of land was at least 150 acres, and if the population was large, it could be increased further.

In this regard, the imperial court is not opposed or even encouraged.

"Can the slaves, cattle and horses of the family divide the land?"

"Of course this is impossible, our dynasty is not the Western Wei and Northern Zhou Dynasty, and now there are many people and little land, so we will not give land to slaves and cattle and horses."

"Sage, the land is fat and poor, how to solve this?"

"This can't be solved, so we can only try to give each villager as much fat and thin as possible when dividing the land, and try to be fair. On the field, no special treatment will be given. ”

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