"Ahem, Your Majesty, let's stay away, now we're talking about the land issue of Hedong and Luoyang." Bai Fan looked at Li Er, who was led astray by Du Ruyan, and reminded that although Li Er was in the middle when he spoke, his temperament was indeed quite attractive, and this leader was not called in vain.

Li Er was slightly embarrassed by Bai Fan's words, and he finally brewed his emotions, so he was shaken over so lightly, why was you a hero when you were in the limelight, but when I wanted to be a hero, I was silent? Is it a forty-meter broadsword? Li Er discussed in his heart.

If Bai Fan hears this, he will definitely laugh out loud, His Majesty Li Er is still very cute, but you have to pick the object and time when you are a hero, how many women do I cover the Qinglou? How many people do you cover the slave class? Can it be covered? Don't say that you are an emperor, I'm afraid that even if you add the Emperor Taishang, plus the Li royal family, you can't cover it.

Du Ruhui continued: "In fact, fifty percent of the land in the hands of the aristocracy cannot be planted just by buying slaves to farm, and there is a large source of labor that is tenants, long-term laborers, and the like.

Many commoners chose to become tenants because their families had too few acres of land to grow enough grain to eat, renting the fields of landlords or nobles, so that in addition to paying a heavy rent, they could also have an extra mouthful of food.

And the long-term workers are also, even inferior to the tenants, belonging to those who have no land in their hands, and have been employed by the master's family for a long time to farm and work, and the master's family provides grain to support the long-term workers, the difference is that these people are free to marry, and unlike servants, they have a certain amount of personal freedom, although the class is not good, but they are still commoners.

In addition, there are also short-term jobs, that is, when the farm is busy, they help the rich who are too busy to earn money.

These, together with some of the nobles' own slaves, can really take care of the fifty percent of the land. ”

"Didn't the imperial court encourage the cultivation of wasteland? It is better to have the strength to rent other people's acres of land, so that it may be difficult for two or three years, and when your own land production increases, you will not have to be exploited by others. Bai Fan asked.

"It can't be counted like this, there is no harvest for three years of clearing wasteland and farming, and many people can't take care of food and clothing, how can they last for three years?

From the perspective of the imperial court, this is an individual who is unable to bear the famine, so he chooses to rely on others, or in other words, everyone works together to survive the famine.

For example, if you give a family a few hundred acres of good land, but he has only a few laborers, and he doesn't even have cattle, and he can't plant the barren fields, how can he talk about a rich harvest?

It is different to rely on the aristocracy, who have the money and buy sufficient cattle and farm tools, which greatly increases the intensity of farming, which is why they go to farm for others.

Because the aristocracy acted as the organizer of the concentrated labor force at this time, everyone worked together to plant the fifty acres of land in the hands of the aristocracy, and not to talk about exploitation or not, at least the ability of everyone to fight disasters was greatly enhanced, which is also the reason why the people saw that the land was extremely unbalanced and had no objection.

It's just that the nobles have been farming the land to collect grain and collect money, and they don't pay taxes, and the disadvantage is to increase the burden on the court. ”

Hearing this, Bai Fan understood, and laughed self-deprecatingly: "From this point of view, our ninety-eight people in Baijiazhuang would rather starve and freeze than be slaves to others, isn't it a bit stupid?" ”

Li Jing sighed: "It's not stupid, it's stupid, your father is a stubborn donkey, he doesn't want to live anymore, and he is not afraid of starving his son to death?" Send someone to carry a letter, and you won't almost freeze to death. ”

"Uncle, my dad is no longer here, so just be merciful."

Li Er opened his mouth and said: "Most of Baijiazhuang are military dependents, so they are arrogant and do not forget, and the status of Shinong and businessmen, and ordinary people is not low, so who will bend down and be a slave until they live and die?"

Now Keming has spoken thoroughly, how about boy, do you understand? Is there a solution? ”

Bai Fan glanced at Li Er, you are an emperor, there are many talents under him, there are one or twenty people here, you ask me what to do?

"Your Majesty, I just understood, and I haven't thought deeply about it, you should ask the elders here what to do."

Li Er smiled: "Them? Look at their appearance, don't say that there is no countermeasure, even if there is a countermeasure, who would dare to stand up and say it? Whoever is the first bird is the public enemy of the nobility of the world, whether it is the new aristocracy or the old aristocracy, there is no place for him, this is a job that offends the whole world.

So this matter, except for me, only you kid can bear it, maybe I can't bear it. ”

When Du Ruhui heard this, he was about to speak again, but Li Er waved his hand to stop: "Keming, you have done your best to be righteous and outspoken, do I know that you and Jian Zhi have had a lifelong relationship, and there are few people here who have had a lifelong relationship with him?" You've done your best, so leave it to the two of us.

All of you here are my old brothers, and I don't want you to sacrifice yourself, but I beg you to support me and Jian Zhi, if Datang wants to move towards unprecedented glory, we must all work together. ”

"I am willing to die for the Tang Dynasty and His Majesty!"

Bai Fan has been in deep thought without saying a word, he has never been afraid of the danger of being alone in the past, he is not afraid of being alone, and now he is still not afraid of dragging his family and mouth, he is more confident than Li Er, not because Bai Fan has a beggar gang, but Bai Fan can leave everything, but Li Er must rely on the imperial power, the only thing Li Er can't throw away is the throne, so Li Er said that Bai Fan is the most suitable to come out in this matter.

After pondering for a long time, Bai Fan finally spoke: "Since our ultimate goal is to make the nobles pay the grain tax like the common people, then what means to use is the question of implementation, the first thing is the promulgation of the decree, and the Tang Dynasty has only a land revolution." ”

"What is an agrarian revolution?" The crowd was puzzled.

But Li Jiancheng, who had read a lot of books in Bai Fan's place, understood, and said in a low voice: "Virtuous son-in-law, changing the law in ancient times is a struggle between blood and fire, no matter whether it succeeds or fails, 'the one who changes the law dies in the law' is an unchanging word for the ages, you ......"

Bai Fan smiled and comforted: "Father-in-law is too worried, I just said that the decree of changing the land, not a large-scale change, as long as the means are used well, four taels can also allocate a thousand catties." ”

Li Er laughed and said, "Okay, it's a good four-tael thousand catties, I would like to hear it in detail." ”

"The court nobles are divided into two groups, the old and the new, and at the same time, the small nobles know that they have no right to speak, and they have always followed the big nobles to paddle the water.

The new aristocracy is headed by all of you, and the old aristocracy is headed by five surnames and seven families and many big families, that is to say, the land reform, as long as we get the new and old nobles can be the two groups of people, without the head of the snake, even if the small and medium-sized nobles at the bottom want to be dissatisfied and coax, they can't make trouble, and whoever dares to gather at that time will be a rebellion. ”

Bai Fan's outline was eloquent, and after listening to it, everyone thought about it carefully, and it was indeed the case, what the land change was afraid of causing civil unrest, and if the civil unrest was solved, the land policy could be boldly implemented.

"But how can we deal with these great nobles who can be the leader? You can't kill people with knives. Hou Junji frowned and said, last time because he used his knife to slaughter the Li family in Longxi, the Hou family caused a lot of trouble in the follow-up, openly and secretly, the old Hou suffered a lot, so he was afraid once.

"That is, naturally you can't kill people with a knife, besides, in addition to the old nobles and the nouveau riche, we are all the leaders of the upstarts, can we kill each other?" Bai Fan said with a smile.

Today's third chapter, thank you for your support.

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