Chapter 267: Reform of the Merger State
The frequent change of dynasties in Chinese history is a unique phenomenon in the world. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 The most direct and fundamental reason for the change of dynasties is the peasant uprising, not to mention those small uprisings, which affect the whole country, so that the uprisings that changed the dynasty can be counted as eight: the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprisings at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Red Eyebrows and Green Forest Uprising in the New Dynasty, the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the peasant uprising at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Huangchao Rebellion at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Red Turban Army uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the uprising of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of the Qing Dynasty.
Why are peasant uprisings so frequent only in China? Where is its roots?
The common people of China are very able to endure hardships, as long as they have something to eat, they can support themselves, but once people have no food to eat, they will rise up to rebel, and the more people who do not eat, the greater the momentum of rebellion, so a major uprising is inevitable.
For thousands of years, they have suffered countless heavy hardships, but they have been able to stand up again and again, relying on this kind of tenacity.
"We only need to give the people of Taihang Mountain a hope now, I believe that they will be able to survive and live in Bingzhou in peace." Kou Zhun spoke firmly, he knew how important land was to farmers, and with land there was hope for food and for a family to live.
The importance of land to farmers is self-evident, and Zhang Quan also deeply agrees, throughout China for 2,000 years, it has been fighting for land!
The fact that the Chinese nation can stand tall in the East, rejuvenate again and again, and fall down and get up again and again is something that history has witnessed again and again, and as a member of this nation, Zhang Quan is proud of it.
Under the conditions of small-scale peasant economy, in order to increase output, farmers must increase labor input to the land regardless of the cost, which is also the origin of the ancient Chinese tradition of intensive farming. This leads to a decrease in labor productivity, which creates the need for land concentration. The concentration of land will inevitably reduce the number of peasants on the land, and more people will not be able to rent the land, so they will become displaced people, and they will gather in the mountains and forests to become cowards, and a peasant uprising will be formed in a serious way.
In view of this, all Chinese dynasties have banned land annexation, and the most draconian measure is Wang Mang's Wangtian system, which fundamentally prohibits the sale and purchase of land. However, in a country like China, where land is scarce and people are large, land is the most scarce resource, the main form of social wealth and interest-bearing wealth, and land annexation and concentration are inevitable.
With the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, after 200 years of development, the scholars developed and expanded, and the land, as a symbol of wealth and society, gradually gathered in the hands of a few people.
Dividing the land and giving the people a hope, it is easier said than done!
Dividing the land is to seize the lifeblood of these upper-class people, which piece of land is not owned now, although after war, but after all, there has not been a change of dynasty, you can't plunder the land of the original landlord at will, right?
Where did you get the land to give to the people?
Xie Jin shook his head and said, "Ping Zhong's idea can be roughly guessed, but I'm afraid this plan won't work." Although the state has been repeatedly invaded by the Huns, the Black Mountain thieves have been in turmoil, and many local scholars have been killed in the rebellion, however, all the rich families of the scholars are usually leafy, and the roots are deep, even if the immediate family members are all killed, most of the side branches are still there, and if you want to divide these lands, you will encounter great resistance, one is not good, they will stir up the rebellion again, not to mention that many of the big families of the scholars often always have one or two people who can escape in the rebellion, how to divide the land? ”
Kou Zhun replied confidently: "This matter is not difficult to say, first of all, after gaining a foothold in the word, the lord also needs to have a relatively tough attitude." ”
"Oh, what is the best plan for Ping Zhong, come quickly." Zhang Quan urged.
"The Prefecture Pastoral Office shall post a notice as soon as possible, announcing that the land registration files of each county have been burned or lost due to the war, and the people of each county are requested to take their own land deeds to the county government office within ten days to re-register;
If you can't get the land deed, there is no basis for anything, the government will not recognize the land property it owns, and if you can take out the land deed, you can measure the number of acres on the land deed, if there is a surplus, you can use it to distribute it to the disaster victims who have no land and the people of Taihang Mountain, so that we have a foothold in the word, if someone makes a hindrance from it, there is no need to be polite. ”
Kou Zhun's move seems simple, but it is actually very mysterious. All of a sudden, Xie Jin had a feeling of being sudden, doing this was a businessman's business, although it was a little unkind, but the reason was not lost.
Without the title deed document as evidence, the land ownership will not be recognized, which is actually only secondary, and the government will not get a lot of land from it.
Because the title deed is usually the most secret thing hidden by a family, and this thing is just a piece of waste paper for the Huns, no one deliberately searches for this thing, as long as there are still people, the loss of the title deed may not be a big surname.
On the contrary, the main thing is to have the land deed, and return the landlord's land according to the actual amount on the land deed, which is the essence of Kou Zhun's plan.
At the end of each dynasty, the local gentry and wealthy households annexed a large number of land, and in order to evade taxes, tricks, false declarations and other means emerged one after another, and the tax-paying land registered by the government became less and less, and most of the land disappeared inexplicably in the treacherous reversal.
Of course, it is impossible for these lands to really disappear, but there is no record in the official register, and if there is no record in the official register, then the original owner will inevitably not be able to produce a valid title deed.
This is the case in all dynasties, and the Eastern Han Dynasty is inevitable.
Kou Zhunyi's move is equivalent to re-clearing the land, but this is much simpler than the general sense of Qingzhang land, because only a small part of the land with a title deed is needed, and most of the "black fields" without a title deed are directly classified as terra nullius.
These "borderlands" only need to be led and supervised by officials, and they are distributed according to the number of people in the formation of the Ryoting model.
With this trick, the landlords, who had previously made the most false reports and harmed the most serious state interests, suffered the greatest losses, and this was tantamount to lifting a stone to shoot themselves in the foot.
In the past, when the gentry and rich households were powerful, this trick was difficult to implement smoothly, but now after the raids of the Xiongnu and the troubles of the Black Mountain bandits, the population of the state has been greatly reduced, and the local gentry and rich households have been greatly weakened.
Thinking about this clearly, Xie Jin's face showed a look of relief, and he said unhurriedly: "Ping Zhong is really talented, and he can easily resolve the worries of the lord, and the lord's wisdom and talent are really extraordinary!" ”
The frequent change of dynasties in Chinese history is a unique phenomenon in the world. The most direct and fundamental reason for the change of dynasties is the peasant uprising, not to mention those small uprisings, but to affect the whole country, so that the uprisings that changed the dynasty can be counted as eight: the uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Red Eyebrows and Green Forest Uprising of the New Dynasty, the Yellow Turban Rebellion of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the peasant uprising at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the Huangchao Rebellion at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Red Turban Army uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the uprising of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of the Qing Dynasty.
Why are peasant uprisings so frequent only in China? Where is its roots?
The common people of China are very able to endure hardships, as long as they have something to eat, they can support themselves, but once people have no food to eat, they will rise up to rebel, and the more people who do not eat, the greater the momentum of rebellion, so a major uprising is inevitable.
For thousands of years, they have suffered countless heavy hardships, but they have been able to stand up again and again, relying on this kind of tenacity.
"We only need to give the people of Taihang Mountain a hope now, I believe that they will be able to survive and live in Bingzhou in peace." Kou Zhun spoke firmly, he knew how important land was to farmers, and with land there was hope for food and for a family to live.
The importance of land to farmers is self-evident, and Zhang Quan also deeply agrees, throughout China for 2,000 years, it has been fighting for land!
The fact that the Chinese nation can stand tall in the East, rejuvenate again and again, and fall down and get up again and again is something that history has witnessed again and again, and as a member of this nation, Zhang Quan is proud of it.
Under the conditions of small-scale peasant economy, in order to increase output, farmers must increase labor input to the land regardless of the cost, which is also the origin of the ancient Chinese tradition of intensive farming. This leads to a decrease in labor productivity, which creates the need for land concentration. The concentration of land will inevitably reduce the number of peasants on the land, and more people will not be able to rent the land, so they will become displaced people, and they will gather in the mountains and forests to become cowards, and a peasant uprising will be formed in a serious way.
In view of this, all Chinese dynasties have banned land annexation, and the most draconian measure is Wang Mang's Wangtian system, which fundamentally prohibits the sale and purchase of land. However, in a country like China, where land is scarce and people are large, land is the most scarce resource, the main form of social wealth and interest-bearing wealth, and land annexation and concentration are inevitable.
With the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, after 200 years of development, the scholars developed and expanded, and the land, as a symbol of wealth and society, gradually gathered in the hands of a few people.
Dividing the land and giving the people a hope, it is easier said than done!
Dividing the land is to seize the lifeblood of these upper-class people, which piece of land is not owned now, although after war, but after all, there has not been a change of dynasty, you can't plunder the land of the original landlord at will, right?
Where did you get the land to give to the people?
Xie Jin shook his head and said, "Ping Zhong's idea can be roughly guessed, but I'm afraid this plan won't work." Although the state has been repeatedly invaded by the Huns, the Black Mountain thieves have been in turmoil, and many local scholars have been killed in the rebellion, however, all the rich families of the scholars are usually leafy, and the roots are deep, even if the immediate family members are all killed, most of the side branches are still there, and if you want to divide these lands, you will encounter great resistance, one is not good, they will stir up the rebellion again, not to mention that many of the big families of the scholars often always have one or two people who can escape in the rebellion, how to divide the land? ”
Kou Zhun replied confidently: "This matter is not difficult to say, first of all, after gaining a foothold in the word, the lord also needs to have a relatively tough attitude." ”
"Oh, what is the best plan for Ping Zhong, come quickly." Zhang Quan urged.
"The Prefecture Pastoral Office shall post a notice as soon as possible, announcing that the land registration files of each county have been burned or lost due to the war, and the people of each county are requested to take their own land deeds to the county government office within ten days to re-register;
If you can't get the land deed, there is no basis for anything, the government will not recognize the land property it owns, and if you can take out the land deed, you can measure the number of acres on the land deed, if there is a surplus, you can use it to distribute it to the disaster victims who have no land and the people of Taihang Mountain, so that we have a foothold in the word, if someone makes a hindrance from it, there is no need to be polite. ”
Kou Zhun's move seems simple, but it is actually very mysterious. All of a sudden, Xie Jin had a feeling of being sudden, doing this was a businessman's business, although it was a little unkind, but the reason was not lost.
Without the title deed document as evidence, the land ownership will not be recognized, which is actually only secondary, and the government will not get a lot of land from it.
Because the title deed is usually the most secret thing hidden by a family, and this thing is just a piece of waste paper for the Huns, no one deliberately searches for this thing, as long as there are still people, the loss of the title deed may not be a big surname.
On the contrary, the main thing is to have the land deed, and return the landlord's land according to the actual amount on the land deed, which is the essence of Kou Zhun's plan.
At the end of each dynasty, the local gentry and wealthy households annexed a large number of land, and in order to evade taxes, tricks, false declarations and other means emerged one after another, and the tax-paying land registered by the government became less and less, and most of the land disappeared inexplicably in the treacherous reversal.
Of course, it is impossible for these lands to really disappear, but there is no record in the official register, and if there is no record in the official register, then the original owner will inevitably not be able to produce a valid title deed.
This is the case in all dynasties, and the Eastern Han Dynasty is inevitable.
Kou Zhunyi's move is equivalent to re-clearing the land, but this is much simpler than the general sense of Qingzhang land, because only a small part of the land with a title deed is needed, and most of the "black fields" without a title deed are directly classified as terra nullius.
These "borderlands" only need to be led and supervised by officials, and they are distributed according to the number of people in the formation of the Ryoting model.
With this trick, the landlords, who had previously made the most false reports and harmed the most serious state interests, suffered the greatest losses, and this was tantamount to lifting a stone to shoot themselves in the foot.
In the past, when the gentry and rich households were powerful, this trick was difficult to implement smoothly, but now after the raids of the Xiongnu and the troubles of the Black Mountain bandits, the population of the state has been greatly reduced, and the local gentry and rich households have been greatly weakened.
Thinking about this clearly, Xie Jin's face showed a look of relief, and he said unhurriedly: "Ping Zhong is really talented, and he can easily resolve the worries of the lord, and the lord's wisdom and talent are really extraordinary!" (To be continued.) )