In the council hall, the civil and military gathered, Li Er's brows were furrowed, the Li family has only been in the limelight for more than ten years, although it has been in the limelight in recent years, but this does not mean that you can act recklessly, if you want to move the aristocratic land, the slightest carelessness will cause chaos in the world.

Because the aristocracy does not only refer to those old family forces, but also includes all the civil and military forces in the court, because they are all new upstarts, and they are all feudal land and enjoy food.

Similarly, as the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Er can't just be ordinary people in his heart, even if the old nobles don't agree to move the land, Li Er must also have these people in his heart, because they are also a part of the Tang Dynasty, and they can't completely damage the nobles of this side in order to take care of the vulnerable groups on the other side, and the strategy of demolishing the east wall to make up the west wall is not the right way to govern the country.

"Keming, you are the secretary of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, what do you think about the problem of land production in Luoyang, Hedong? How many official fields have not yet been distributed in the hands of the imperial court? Li Er asked.

Everyone knew when they heard this, and if it was possible, the emperor still wanted to be conservative and did not want to make waves on the ground.

But Du Ruhui, who knew it, had a bitter face, "Your Majesty, not counting the two wastelands that have not yet been cultivated, if the existing fields are counted as ten percent, the commoners only account for thirty percent, the nobles and nobles occupy fifty percent of the fields, and the two percent belong to the government."

Traditionally, the government has divided the land as newborn babies, or migrated to the homes of immigrants.

Due to the peace and security of the country and the people in recent years, the people have migrated very little, and the land needed by the newborn babies cannot be used up by the government to reclaim wasteland with labor every year, so in this incident, the land in our hands that we can use is only half of the local area.

Not to mention whether this half of the field is enough to grow immortal grain, if we only distribute immortal grain to civilians, the fields of local nobles are still wheat and soybeans, I'm afraid it's not a good thing. ”

Li Er was silent after hearing this, yes, governing the country does not suffer from widowhood but unevenness, the yield of thousands of catties per mu of immortal grain has long made people red, if it is planted a year earlier, it will be harvested a year earlier, who doesn't want it? Moreover, in the eyes of the aristocracy, they have always been superior, and they will definitely feel that they should give priority to the commoners in growing food.

Bai Fan was puzzled: "How many nobles are there even if you count the maids and servants?" How can you occupy 50% of the land? Finished eating? ”

These words made the officials hear strangely, Lantian Hou is known as the most knowledgeable person in the world, how can he not even understand such a simple truth?

Li Jiancheng couldn't watch his son-in-law make a fool of himself, and replied: "It's not the point to eat or not, if you have more food, you can save it for the next year to resist the disaster, and if you have more land, you can pass it on to future generations to do family business, I'm afraid that except for you, the richest man in the world, no one will think that you have more land on your hands." ”

Li Jing opened his mouth and said: "Actually, there is not enough food to eat.

The more big nobles are, the more they know the importance of food, for example, five surnames and seven families, although they have thousands of years of accumulated wealth, but how many people are in a family? Tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands, plus side branches, guards, and private soldiers, it is really difficult to calculate, such a large family, and only those descendants can live a life without worrying about food and drink, and most of those marginalized clansmen rely on the care of the family to maintain a state of starvation. ”

"No, I have the impression that the aristocracy is not all poor and extravagant? I remember the first time I entered Chang'an, I met Huai Mo, Xiao Chong and Bao Lin and a few of their boys, all of whom were local tyrants, and the last restaurant was for pomp, and I also earned 1,000 taels of tweed from them that time. Bai Fan was even more confused.

"You kid, as a master, you are embarrassed to deceive and bully your apprentices?" Wei Chigong scolded with a smile.

"That can't be counted, I didn't open the door to accept apprentices at that time, I was still a weak scholar who was penniless, and I was known as the terminator of the gentleman, even if I didn't become famous, I couldn't help but itch my hands to educate when I met the gentleman."

Everyone laughed, and Li Er also said, I'm afraid that only Bai Fan in the world dares to say that a thousand taels of silver is a spare flower, even the emperor himself would not dare to be so arrogant.

"That can't be counted, they are called gentlemen, not nobles, have you seen that they are like this? Even if the auxiliary machine is wrapped in thousands of dollars, he doesn't dare to spend thousands of taels on a meal, otherwise I'm afraid that within three hours, Lao Wei will go to him for trouble. Li Jing continued.

"Pharmacist, this is why you dare to say this before the auxiliary machine and Xuancheng are in Shu, otherwise you dare to ridicule them like this to their faces?" Du Ruhui laughed.

Li Jiancheng continued: "The real nobles are all to store grain, in this era, there are no good things that are good every year, basically every year is a bumper harvest and a year of disasters.

Growing grain to resist disasters is not only a matter of the imperial court, you should know that after the great drought in the north of the year, the smaller the aristocracy is the less to carry the disaster, the small aristocracy can not carry the disaster for three months in the year of the catastrophe, and the rich landlords and farmers are not much worse, the middle aristocracy can not resist half a year to a year, if it is two or three years of continuous disasters, the big nobles can not bear it, and it is the ability to keep the descendants and not flee. ”

Bai Fan understood, this Tang Dynasty who doesn't know what a well-off is, is not the Song Dynasty that will be rich and incomparable in the future, although the Song Dynasty is weak and incompetent, but it has been strong for three hundred years, and the science and technology, economy, and culture of that era are extremely prosperous, in today's words, that is, the GDP of the Song Dynasty is dozens of times that of the surrounding countries, so the four Yi all see that the Song Dynasty is a piece of fat, we see that the Song Dynasty is weak, and it may be seen that the court at that time is ruined and avoided, after all, spending money can send a group of barbarians, why do you have to work hard?

Although the Tang Dynasty is still martial and unyielding, the scientific and technological civilization is still too old, and everything about people still revolves around the stomach and life, food is the lifeblood, and the land represents food, so everyone wants to increase the yield.

"No, the nobles want so much land, but they have few people, how can so many people plant fifty percent of the land?" Bai Fan exclaimed.

In the face of Bai Fan's exclamation, everyone present bowed their heads and remained silent, everyone knew this matter in their hearts, but this world-famous Lantian Marquis was kept in the dark, or rather, this is an upstart who has not really understood the current social structure, has not really understood what an aristocrat is, or rather, has not really integrated into the aristocracy of the Tang Dynasty.

But it's relieved to think about it, since Bai Fan was born, he has always overcome obstacles as he wants, how can he ever bow his head and bend down because of all kinds of difficulties? And he really seems to be like a god, and he has never been defeated since his debut.

Du Ruhui sighed: "Jian Zhi, although I don't want to break the dream of the world in your heart, but now that you want to coordinate the overall situation, you must have an in-depth understanding of the so-called aristocracy, and you must understand the real Tang Dynasty."

After thousands of years, although we have nominally abolished slavery, in fact did Datang have slaves? I can tell you clearly, there is!

How many? As a rough estimate, there is a percent, at least! ”

What the???

Bai Fan was stunned, even if he was born at the bottom of Baijiazhuang, and sat on the uncrowned king side by side with the emperor all the way, at this time, Bai Fan could not imagine that the Tang Dynasty was not the top dynasty in the legendary feudal society? How could there be slaves? Even the state knows that there are 10% of slaves, but they are still standing by?

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