Chapter 166: The Niu Li Party Struggle in the Early Tang Dynasty (Part I)
Li Junxian and Zheng Liwan were arranged to the seats of the guests and sat down with peace of mind. And the guests who were invited this time were officials from some departments whose business was not busy, as well as some famous people from Confucianism. And Kong Yingda, the priest of the country, also came, and it seemed that he was also sitting in the seat of the guest. However, those who are older are not as impetuous as young people, and they even get a female companion. And the guests here, only Li Junxian has a female companion.
And Li Junxian can also see that the students below are still divided into two factions. On the one hand, he looks richly dressed, and he should be a student from a wealthy family. On the other hand, there are some poor students. And those poor students would not have been able to enter the career if they had been decades ago. However, it was also thanks to the blessing of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Guang started the imperial examination system, and as a result, students from poor families were also qualified to enter the official career. This is also Yang Guang, a recognized "faint monarch", who has rarely been able to leave a legacy for thousands of years.
"Now, please start commenting freely, and even give advice to the imperial court. Our guests here can judge everyone! Kong Yingda said first.
Hearing Kong Yingda's words, one of the poor students first stood up and said; "I'll do it first! First of all, I have some doubts about my Datang's Juntian system. ”
After listening to this guy's words, everyone present turned their heads and talked about it. Because the Juntian system has actually been gradually implemented since the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the Tang Dynasty also implemented the Juntian system. The equalization system is to divide the ownerless fields to the common people, and after a certain number of years of cultivation, they will be owned by individuals. And the people also have to pay a certain price, that is, to pay rent. And the basis of the rent adjustment is the Juntian system, so as soon as this student opened his mouth, he fired at the Juntian system, which obviously made everyone talk about it.
"Although my Datang Juntian system seems to be good, there is actually a big problem. Although there may be a surplus of acres of land to grant to the people during the period of the founding of the country under the uniform land system, after a few decades or hundreds of years, the population is increasing, but the remaining acres of land are getting smaller and smaller, which will result in no land to grant. In addition, due to various natural disasters [***], the result is that land is bought and sold, and land is more and more concentrated in the hands of those rich households. In the end, the poor peasants had no arable land and could only depend on the rich households for survival. This will bring a big crisis to my Datang. ”
Li Junxian couldn't help but think that this guy had some level, and he was actually able to realize the problem of land annexation. Li Junxian just wanted to ask him what his name was, maybe he was a talent. However, what happened next made Li Junxian dispel this idea.
"You go on, do you have any workaround?" Kong Yingda seemed to be very curious and asked.
Everyone pricked up their ears to listen, and even some officials wanted to hear any new insights. Because what he said about the collapse of the Junda system in the later period really made the officials curious, and this is also a problem. If this problem is not solved well, I am afraid that it will overturn the problem of Datang. Since ancient times, the problem of land annexation has not been solved, so now that someone seems to be able to propose a solution, then they are certainly curious. If this problem is solved, it will make Datang prosperous forever!
"I mean, I, the Tang Dynasty, should restore the Jingtian system of the Western Zhou Dynasty." The student said.
Li Junxian wanted to ask this student his name just now, after all, he could see the loopholes in the Juntian system, and he should be a talent. But this idiot actually wanted to restore the Jingtian system in the Western Zhou Dynasty, which made Li Junxian's good impression of him completely gone. Because the Ida system is actually a system that has been eliminated by history, it does not conform to the course of human history at all.
In fact, the well field system is to give all the land in the world to the monarch, and then the monarch will grant the land to the people layer by layer. And then the people can cultivate their own land equally, and everyone works together, which is very fair. On the surface, this seems to be a very excellent social system, even infinitely close to [***]. However, as a historical researcher, Li Junxian can only say hehe to the Ida system.
"Ridiculous! My Datang land is privately owned, what does it mean that you want to restore the well field system of the Western Zhou Dynasty? A rich student on the opposite side shouted.
If those people are most opposed to the restoration of the Jingtian system in the Western Zhou Dynasty, I am afraid that they are the children of rich families. For none of them owned a great deal of land, which was their own property. If the well-field system of the Western Zhou Dynasty is restored, then their land will be confiscated to the state, so isn't this just taking away his wealth for no reason? Cutting off people's money is equivalent to killing their parents, and of course they have to refute this kind of thing.
"I am here for the stability of my Datang and the long-term peace and stability of Datang. And the Jingtian system, all the fields belong to the king, and then the king gives them to the people, which is the fairest to the people of the world. In this way, there will be no land annexation, and there will be no impoverished land. The humble student said.
The theory of this poor student has won the recognition of many poor students, because they are all born in poor families, and many of them are families with little or no land at all. And once people are poor, they have pink eye. They couldn't get used to seeing those big families owning too much land, so when they heard about this seemingly fair well field system, they all coaxed one after another.
"The imperial court cannot deprive the people of their private property at will!" The rich kid retorted with a private ownership of property.
"The whole world is not the king's land, everything you have belongs to the king, the king is just taking his own things back and redistributing them, what can you say?" A poor kid also shouted.
In this way, students from poor families and students from noble families began to quarrel one after another. Those students cited scriptures and classics to show that their arguments were correct. They came up with theories that seemed very suitable, but there was nothing practical.
And the guests above shook their heads and were speechless, obviously not expecting this kind of scene. And Li Junxian, seeing this situation, could only shake his head helplessly. Li Junxian also didn't expect that these students were such a politician, and such a discussion of politics had no practical significance at all.
"It's really exciting, I didn't expect that I actually saw a good show when I came to Taixue, this is really the early Tang Dynasty version of the Niu Li Party Struggle! These are two bunches of fools competing to see whose IQ is lower than the other! Li Junxian snorted coldly.
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