"Have you heard? The government is going to divide the land for the common people! ”

"Really, fake?"

"Of course it's true, my neighbor is the brother of the eldest son of the second uncle's sister-in-law's eldest aunt and the second cousin of the county government secretary's office, and he told me this matter personally, how can it be fake?"

"Yes, yes, I've heard that, too! This matter was brought up by Lord Wei, who escorted a large number of displaced people to our Zhuqi County, and in order to appease the displaced people, he proposed to allocate land to the displaced people. ”

"But the land is in the hands of Haoqiang, what does the government give to the displaced people?"

"That's it, that is, the government and the family are all wearing a pair of pants, how could they give us the land of the hero?"

Just when everyone was questioning, a young man said mysteriously: "You don't know this, Lord Wei is ready to take the local heroes, as long as you hand over the land and the tribes, you can get a certain amount of compensation, if you don't want to, there will be a large army to encircle and suppress." ”

"Shhh Really? ”

"Does that Master Wei have such guts? Dare to attack the family? ”

"It would be good if Lord Wei really exterminated Haoqiang, then we would have a field, and we would no longer have to look at the eyes of the Haoqiang landlord to live."

"Humph! How can there be such a good thing? Do you think those landlords are easy to bully? Take the two major poplar families in our county as an example, each family has hundreds of people alone. If they really provoke the Haoqiang family, they will definitely not be tied. ”

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Soon all kinds of rumors spread all over Zhuqi County, and some landlords rushed to the county government to inquire about the news after hearing about it. According to Wei Shuo's instructions, the county commander Liang Qiu sent away the powerful people of the family who came with an ambiguous attitude. I didn't get any definite news from the county government, and I wish the families in the county more restless.

Early in the morning, dozens of people shouted all over the county town with gongs: "The county magistrate has an order: please come to the county to gather in front of the county yamen, and the government has a new announcement!" ”

Some smart and clever people immediately thought that today might be the day when the county government announced the division of fields, and immediately put down the work in their hands, and ran to the county government in a hurry, and after a while, hundreds of people gathered in front of the county yamen. In order to prevent anyone from making trouble, Liang Qiu specially seconded a hundred soldiers from Wei Shuo to maintain order.

When he arrived, seeing that more and more people were gathered, Wei Shuo finally appeared with Liang Qiu and others. From time to time, some people in the crowd pointed at Wei Shuo, as if to say that it was the guard Cao who proposed to divide the land to the common people.

Wei Shuo swept his eyes and found that the people at the scene were basically ragged commoners, and occasionally a few well-dressed people seemed to be slaves and henchmen sent by some wealthy families to inquire about the news. He didn't care, he just stretched out his hands and pressed down, signaling everyone to be quiet.

When all the people at the scene saw this, they immediately quieted down.

"Folks! In Xia Weishuo, like you, you are all ordinary people, so you know the suffering of the people! Today, I am fortunate to have the help of Liang County, and I am determined to seek benefits for the common people of the world. According to the regulations, in the future, I wish all the people of their county, whether high or low, as long as they are 15 years old, men can get 40 acres of land, and women can get 20 acres of land. Every year, each mu of land can pay a certain amount of grain to the government according to the 15th tax, and the government will not levy other taxes related to agriculture. ”

Wei Shuo's opening remarks are powerful and simple and clear. For these ordinary people, who have been in a panic because of the rumors about the division of land, his speech is like a long drought and a rainy day, and he suddenly spoke to everyone's hearts, and everyone was excited and didn't know why. Many low-level people present were eager to get their own land.

"Your Excellency is wise!"

"Lord Wei is such a person!"

"Good! All right! ”

Many ordinary people cheered with tears in their eyes, and they clapped their palms vigorously, eager to slap them for fear of rotting. It seems that this is the only way to vent the excitement in your heart. Some people even pinched their muscles with their fingernails, for fear that all this in front of them was just a dream. It wasn't until he frowned and gasped that he was convinced that everything in front of him was real.

What surprised the people even more was that the county government had greatly reduced the agricultural tax. Although it is not as light as the 30 taxes and one tax at the time of the Han Dynasty, compared with the heavy taxes since the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, the taxes formulated by Wei Shuo have greatly reduced the burden on the common people.

According to the production efficiency in ancient times, before high-yield crops such as corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes were promoted, the yield per mu of wheat, millet and other crops was usually only 140 catties, that is, about one stone. Forty acres of land need to pay four stone of grain to the government every year.

In ancient times, a man could easily take care of forty acres of land with the help of livestock. However, considering that the ancient fertilizers could not keep up, under normal circumstances, the ancient farmers would divide the forty acres of land into two parts for rotational cultivation, that is to say, only twenty acres of land produce grain every year, which is about thirty stones.

In this way, an adult man can take care of 40 acres of land every year, and there is 26 stone of grain left, which can basically feed a family of four. If the family is strong and wealthy, and only farming is completely in the wind and rain, you can basically live a well-off life in ancient times.

There were also many slaves and subordinates who had become powerful families, and they couldn't help but get moved when they learned that the county government intended to abolish slavery and grant land to slaves. Although it is better to be a slave in a family than ordinary people, it is not as comfortable as being the master of your own house in any case.

If what Master Wei said today is true, it means that people like them can live a normal life from now on. They can own their own land, and they can also let their descendants study and study, and they are no longer lowly slaves to be slaughtered.

Maybe Wei Shuo didn't know that his words had invisibly divided the servants and subordinates in the family's camp, maybe it was an accident, right?

Looking at the people below with different expressions, either they were excited to death, or they were crying bitterly, Wei Shuo was also full of emotion. Who made it so difficult for the common people, who occupy nearly eighty percent of the world's population? Who deprives their offspring of the right to education?

Obviously, all the injustices suffered by the common people in the world come from the deformed society of the Wei and Jin dynasties. In this society, the family should be in charge of everything in the world, and they deserve to enjoy the wealth provided by the common people. And Wei Shuo wants to break all this, end this troubled world as soon as possible, and win a glimmer of life for those ordinary people who are struggling at the bottom.

"Please pay attention, folks! The laws and regulations related to the Juntian Order will be conveyed to all villages in the near future, and I hope that you will explain them to the people under your rule well when you return. If you have any questions in the future, please come to the county office and ask directly. If anyone dares to threaten and obstruct the implementation of the county government's Juntian order, once discovered, this official will not be spared! ”

"Tomorrow, the government will send relevant personnel to various regions to verify the population, and I hope everyone will be ready when they return."

At this moment, Wei Shuo had to rejoice in the various study classes held in the army before, without which he would never have enough literate talents to help him complete the two important tasks of verifying population and land. If the population and land in the prefecture cannot be inventoried, how can the land equalization system be implemented?

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Soon the news that the county government was about to implement the Juntian Order suddenly spread all over Zhuqi County, and many families were anxious like ants on a hot pot after getting the news, Hu Zhao and Yang Wengan, as representatives of local Haoqiang, must give everyone an explanation, otherwise how to order everyone in the future!

"Brother Hu, do you know why Lord Wei insisted on committing this tyranny? Could it be that he really wants to leave the family behind? ”

"The younger brother can't understand, since the Han Dynasty, the power of the family has been expanding day by day, in addition to the talented Wei Wu Emperor Cao Cao in the past hundred years, which emperor do you think can suppress the family? What did the guard Cao rely on to dare to risk the world's condemnation? What's even more odious is that he also threatens him with force! ”

Hu Zhao and Yang Wengan are afraid that no matter how smart they are, they will not think that Wei Shuo is not a person from this world at all, he just seeks the laws of history and knows that the Juntian system is in line with social development. To say that Wei Shuo really relies on, of course, is that he has insight beyond the people of this era.