Chapter 325: Changing the Law (4)
Regulating private property rights in the form of laws and collecting taxes by reasonable means is only the first step in Dai Yan's reform of the law. And his indirect suppression of the aristocracy was actually a preparation for what he did next.
In his planning, the Song State is, after all, a country dominated by commerce, so the policy of the whole country must be inclined to the direction of commerce. With such a tone, the harsh punishment and strict laws similar to those of the Qin State had no foundation at all in the Song State.
In today's Song Kingdom, if you want to say what Dai Yan hates the most, it is definitely a ranger!
Ranger, in the history books of this era and even in later generations, seems to be full of good feelings for this profession, as if these people are heroes who are specially born for justice and fight grievances for the people at the bottom! However, in Dai Yan's eyes, things are not like this at all!
The profession of ranger is considered an extremely broad group of people. In this group of people, there are scholars who have traveled all over the world, nobles who have fallen into the middle of the road, and talents who mingle with the people at the bottom like the disciples of the Mo family, but the most of them are still such a group of gangsters who do not learn and do not know how to do it!
Especially after Dai Yan co-opted the peasant family and the Mo family, and intercepted all kinds of talents in Taoqiu, the rangers who wandered in various cities of the Song Kingdom were really bad, and they had almost completely become the spokesperson of H society!
These people, who do not learn and do not know how to destroy the enemy's order in the Song Kingdom, are completely the biggest cancer in the Song Kingdom! What worries Dai Yan even more is that some of these smart people even co-opted the displaced people who wandered from various countries to the Song Kingdom, and took the opportunity to develop their power in the Song Kingdom!
In today's Warring States Period, due to frequent wars and disasters in the world, coupled with the severe oppression of nobles in various countries, ordinary people from various countries often migrated. Especially in times of disaster, kings of various countries will even take the initiative to move their people!
Like the deceased King Hui of Wei, when he met Mencius, he once talked about the national policy of Wei: if Hanoi is fierce, move its people to the east of the river and move its millet to Hanoi; The same is true of Hedong. This means that when Hanoi encounters a disaster year, the people will be moved to the east of the river and food will be transferred to Hanoi. Moreover, such a policy, in today's era, can be regarded as an extremely remarkable "benevolent government", and it can be regarded as the only thing that only a king who governs the country with great care can do!
And those countries that don't care about governing the country, once they encounter war and famine, they don't care about the people's measures, and even directly send troops to drive them away! People have a desire to survive, and it is naturally impossible to starve to death willingly, which leads to the fact that there are a large number of floating victims among countries today!
These displaced people are a destabilizing factor for all countries in the world. And all countries in the world, out of various considerations, also adopt a state of laissez-faire for these displaced people. As the monarch of the Song Kingdom, Dai Yan can't tolerate the existence of such a powerful unstable factor in the country!
He knows very well how Yangcheng, a dignified first-tier city in later generations, became a "demon capital" because of poor management of the foreign population! And how did the new president of the United States, who claims to be free and democratic, swore to build a wall to block immigrants after he ascended the throne!
Without a reasonable solution to the migrant population, it is very likely that a mine will be planted in the future!
Therefore, after Dai Yan promulgated laws on land and property protection, laws on the management of the common people and immigrants of the Song Dynasty were also quickly promulgated.
The first is the "Household Registration Law", in this law, Dai Yan clearly stipulates that every citizen in the Song State must register personal information with the government, and the government will issue a household registration. And the people of the entire Song Kingdom were roughly divided into four classes.
The first class is the nobility. This level is only eligible to apply for people who have more than three generations of inheritance and more than 5,000 acres of land in the Song Kingdom. Only those who have the status of nobility can apply to run for election to the Left House!
The second class is citizenship. This level is only eligible for those who pay more than 500 Wen per year in the Song Kingdom. Citizens have all the political rights in the law and are eligible to elect and even run for election to the right house.
And the third class is the most ordinary Song Min. This kind of person is a person who was born in the Song Kingdom, but pays less than 500 Wen a year. These people are the most ordinary people in the entire Song Kingdom, but they do not have the qualifications to become parliamentarians, nor do they have the right to vote, but they have all kinds of rights protected by law! And even the most ordinary Song people in the Song Kingdom, all activities in the entire Song Kingdom are not restricted, which is the biggest difference from immigrants!
The fourth category is the so-called immigration. These immigrants are people who have been displaced from various countries to the Song Kingdom, and everyone who enters from the border of the Song Kingdom must be registered, and the border administration bureau will issue a special immigration ID card!
Considering that among the immigrants, the scholars who traveled to study and the displaced people who were displaced were two completely different classes, Dai Yan also took into account the strong influence of the scholars in the world, so he also made a distinction between these two types of people. Those immigrants with knowledge and culture, and even traveling scholars, naturally have a high-level status and enjoy the protection of the law. Some of these talents even have "permanent residency" and enjoy all kinds of rights that only Song people and even citizens can have, similar to the green cards of later American imperialists.
And those down-and-out ordinary people did not have such a good situation in the Song Kingdom, and their activities in the Song Kingdom, such as doing business, were restricted. However, even with such discriminatory laws, displaced people from all over the world continued to go to the Song Kingdom, because after the laws of the Song Kingdom were gradually completed, there were opportunities everywhere, and they could at least have a bite to eat and survive in the Song Kingdom!
At the same time, in the household registration law, Song Guo also gave them a chance to improve: as long as they abide by the law and work hard in Song State, it is possible to directly become Song people and even citizens!
For Dai Yan, the division of the people in the Song State is just for convenience, but he doesn't know that it is this division that completely adapts to the national conditions of the Song State today!
The entire Song Kingdom is in a state of change, even if Dai Yan strongly promised to protect private property, but it is an indisputable fact that the status of the nobles in the Song Kingdom continues to decline, and gradually loses the ruling power of the Song State, so the nobles are actually quite worried about their future! And now that the "Household Registration Law" has been promulgated, the division of all levels has been determined, and the originally lost nobles have been stabilized at once!
And the original new-style landlords of the Song Kingdom, and even the merchants and excellent craftsmen who rose by virtue of the east wind of Taoqiu, actually needed a status to determine their position. Citizen, this identity between the nobility and the Song people, made the nouveau riche extremely satisfied at once!
The citizen class is not fixed, but has the characteristics of room for growth, which also gives hope to the Song people at the bottom and those immigrants! After all, with these identities, there are all kinds of different rights, and for the systems of other countries that are far more rigid than the Song State, these policies of the Song State suddenly make the Song State appear full of vitality!
Of course, Dai Yan, as an "outstanding young man" born in a new society and growing up under the red flag, will not forget the teachings of country D so easily! Even if he forgets the teachings of country D, he will not forget the inertia of history - a regime with a rigid system is bound to perish! Therefore, in order to have a direct connection to the existence of the four classes in the future, Dai Yan has added another policy, that is, the absorption of outstanding talents!
At first, this method of absorbing outstanding talents was only for the selection of Song officials, and then gradually expanded to the absorption of craftsmen, scholars, merchants and other talents useful to the Song State. And the most distinctive of them is the selection method of Song officials!
In the Song Kingdom, the nobles could run for the Left House and have privileges, but if he wanted to become an official, he must also participate in the imperial examination held by the Song State Rites Department, just like the rest of the Song Kingdom!
The imperial examination of the Song State is no different in form from the imperial examination that began in the Sui Dynasty in later generations: if you pass the annual examination, you can become an official!
The imperial examination is not only for the entire Song nobles, citizens and Song people, but directly for all the people in the entire world! Dai Yan even asked businessmen to go to various countries to preach: as long as they can pass the imperial examination, they can become officials in the Song Kingdom!
This unique policy, as soon as Fang released it, caused a sensation in the whole world! For example, today's countries, no matter how meritocracy is advocated, there is no such great effort as Song Guo to attract talents! Among the countries, the majority of the monarch's relatives and cronies really occupy the mainstream position of the court!
Even the Qin State, which most admired "foreign monks chanting scriptures", directly made Zhang Yi a country of the Prime Minister, but in fact, it is still a country where nepotism is used. King Qin's younger brother, Zhu Liji, is known as the think tank of Qin; And the other younger brother Yinghua has a special status in the army!
And the imperial examination, which is known as a fair, just and open selection of talents by businessmen, also makes the hearts of scholars from all over the world excited! They were amazed by the Song Kingdom, which advocated such a way and broke the rule of relatives and respect!
However, in the world, all kinds of travelers who claim to have "talents for helping the world" have to admit that it is not so easy to become an official in the Song Kingdom when they go to the Song Kingdom to participate in the examination held by the Ministry of Rites!
First of all, the examinations held by the Ministry of Rites must use the "Song Wen" that Dai Yan first simplified through the disciples of the Mo family, and is now popular throughout Taoqiu and even in the Song Kingdom. Such a requirement can still be understood by all countries in the world, after all, this is an exam held by the Song Kingdom, so it should naturally follow the rules of the Song Kingdom.
And the other requirements are really extremely difficult for travelers from all over the world! The vast majority of the questions in the imperial examination don't understand what they mean at all! Dai Yan, as a person who was deeply hurt by the exam-oriented education in his previous life, also directly sprinkled this monstrous malice on these travelers who wanted to be officials!
Geometry, logic, astronomy, physics, geography, and the history of the Song Dynasty are the most basic test questions, and after that, economics, political science, calculus, English level 8 (this is not available), arguments, administrative vocational ability tests, etc., but all the test questions that Dai Yan can think of and can torture people, Dai Yan has all joined in!
When the first imperial examination was held, Dai Yan inspected the examination room and saw those travelers from all over the world who picked up the pen and slammed the door and scolded, Dai Yan had an extremely refreshing feeling!
However, even if it is such a difficult exam, because of the open and transparent channel, it has really become an excellent talent selection channel! In the imperial examination, the questions produced are completely different from the form-oriented examinations such as the Bagu Examination in later generations, even if the questions from Dai Yan are a little more difficult, but after all, it is really useful knowledge for officials to be officials!
Thanks to the favorable terrain of the Song Kingdom surrounded by several rivers, Dai Yan only set up cities in several cities in the Song Kingdom for entry and exit management, which easily solved the immigration problem of the entire Song Kingdom, and the supporting "Exit and Entry Management Law" has also been implemented excellently!
After Dai Yan registered and even divided the people living in the entire Song Kingdom, and left an opening that could open up all strata, Dai Yan originally thought that the people in the entire Song Kingdom were managed by him. However, it was not long before he discovered that he was too young and too optimistic about the situation, because he had neglected an extremely large group of people - slaves!