As a matter of fact, civil taxation, a maladministration tax measure, was proposed a few years ago. At that time, many people did not realize such malpractices and were still intoxicated by the peace and prosperity.

Now, listening to Qin Yi's compromise measures, everyone seems to understand that the civil tax is likely to be the cause of the civil uprising.

Today's Great Xia, disasters are frequent, the Quartet is restless, and the wars of the past few years have almost exhausted the country. Moreover, the people's livelihood was already not very good, and under the catalyst of war, it has already collapsed.

In such a situation, the burden of civil tax on the people can be described as miserable.

"Second, civilians will change, redundant officials will be cut, agricultural reclamation will be rewarded, and acres of land will be divided equally."

In this sentence, the real measure should be divided into fields and households.

In the current Great Xia, many fields are concentrated in the hands of wealthy households, and ordinary farmers, without their own fields, can only work for rich households for the rest of their lives. This has been the case since ancient times.

It is precisely this situation that has led to the widespread poverty of the peasants in Bactria today.

"Your Majesty, Weichen has objections." The officials of the court, one of them came out of it, obviously to oppose Qin Yi, "Since ancient times, all dynasties have relied on many wealthy merchant families, and these people occupy a large amount of land. It is precisely because of this that they choose to support a dynasty. Now, it is to distribute these lands to the peasants, do you want these nobles to revolt? You must know that this side of the force controls at least 50% of the wealth of Great Xia, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are rich and rival the country. ”

"This is just a countermeasure, Your Majesty has not said anything, let alone promised to implement such a measure, isn't it a bit of a transgression for you to preemptively state your own opinion?"

Qin Yi did not back down in the slightest, he had been planning for this matter for a long time, and it was time for the land of Great Xia to be distributed to the peasants. When it comes to people-oriented, it is better to say that farmers are oriented.

Looking at the people of Daxia today, at least 80 percent are peasants, and if such a huge peasant population is not allowed to become rich, how can the country be rich?

In order to make the peasants rich, the most fundamental thing is that the peasants have their own fields to cultivate, so that the peasants will do their own things and increase their enthusiasm for production and labor in order to get rich.

When the man heard what Qin Yi said, his face changed several times, and he said in front of the emperor that he had exceeded etiquette, and if he was remembered by the emperor a day later, would he still be alive?

"Humph! The foundation of Great Xia is fundamental, you have to understand. Without the support of those rich families, Great Xia would not have been able to inherit it for so long! ”

"Oh? Is it? I remember that in the Han Dynasty, Emperor Xuanzongwu once set a people-oriented policy. So may I ask, do you officials not remember such an ancestral system, or can it be modified in later generations? ”

As soon as Qin Yi's words came out, everyone in the Jinluan Palace, including the Great Xia Emperor Xia Chang, fell silent.

For hundreds of years, no matter how turbulent and changing the domestic political situation in Great Xia was, who still remembered the affairs of Emperor Xuanzongwu back then? The land created by our ancestors will not be cherished by future generations; The national policy formulated by the ancestors to benefit the people has been abandoned and used by later generations, and it is no wonder that today's Daxia is full of malpractices and popular changes.

"Go on!"

The two words in Xia Chang's mouth indicate that Qin Yi has a third countermeasure.

The eunuch in front of the emperor stepped forward at this time and said in a loud voice: "Third, today, the laws and regulations do not work, the political laws do not work, the old laws should be abolished and the new laws should be formulated." If these three articles are made, then Bactria can get rid of maladministration and quell the popular uprising. ”

To put it bluntly, such a suggestion is actually Qin Yi's hope that Daxia can embark on the track of the rule of law.

In the current Great Xia, the existence of the law is equivalent to a dead letter. Whoever has the power will be able to interpret the law. Sometimes, if a nobleman kills someone, he can be exempted from punishment by various means, but the common people cannot.

This is legal inequality.

It is precisely because of this that a large part of the region, which is equivalent to the absence of law, is completely ruled by man. The continuous development of society must move from the rule of man to the rule of law, which is the law summarized by Qin Yi in his previous life and present life.

After the imperial eunuch read out this recital, he handed it back to Xia Chang. Xia Chang took it, shook it in his hand and said: "All the ministers, the student Qin Yi, gave me this excerpt, and three suggestions were written on it: abolish the people's tax, divide the land and acres equally, and formulate a new law, you can discuss it and see if you can give some suggestions!" ”

"Your Majesty, the former Changyang Marquis Yu Shifan has also made innovations to these three articles, but they have been vetoed. The current Great Xia is no different from usual, according to Wei Chen's opinion, it is better not to implement it. ”

"Especially this second article, the practice of dividing the land to the ordinary people, and the cultivators have their own fields, of course, it is okay, but please don't forget that under this whole world, it is not the king's land, how can the fields be distributed to those untouchables?"

"Ladies and gentlemen, the people are the foundation of the world, and if the people do not have their own land, how can they produce?" Qin Yi explained his opinion, "If the people have land, they will inevitably keep to themselves; If the people do not have land for a long time, they will surely become chaotic in this environment. ”

"It seems to make sense."

"The people are the most important, that is the first priority of the country, all the army comes from the people, if there is no people, there is no country, the minister implores Your Majesty to implement these three suggestions."

Suddenly, above the court, there were opponents and those who agreed, and Qin Yi couldn't be clearer about their thoughts. If these measures are not in their own interests, some people will inevitably raise the banner of opposition.

At the same time, on the sea southeast of Great Xia, northeast of Yingzhou Island, warships sailed from the distant sky.

"Where did that strange ship come from? It's completely different from Middle-earth! ”

"With the sun flag on it, the people on the ships, dressed in iron armor, this ...... Could it be the naval warship of Dongying? No...... No, there are Fuso's! ”

Yingzhou Island is located in the southeast sea of Bactria and in its northeast direction, scattered with several small sea countries, among which Dongying and Fusang are the largest. A few years earlier, the two countries had sent troops to harass the southeastern coast of Bactria so that some people could recognize the origin of the warships.

"There are hundreds of warships, and they are even more different from the past, what do they want to do?"

In the naval camp stationed on Yingzhou Island, rows of soldiers boarded the warships one after another, but unfortunately there were few warships. As soon as less than ten ships left the harbor, dozens of shells from enemy ships were greeted by them.

"Enemy attack! Dongying sent troops to attack Yingzhou Island! ”