Chapter 18: The Controversy over the Public Land Law

Yuan Thorn and the three of them all showed excitement on their faces, especially the two young people of Wen Lu, it seemed that they could realize their lifelong ambitions by joining the dragon teeth, in fact, I know that these three people still don't understand the essence of the dragon teeth very well, of course, this has to be done slowly.

It can be seen that the ancients were much simpler than the modern people.

I looked at the three of them, and said with a slight excitement on my face: "The Dragon's Tooth will temporarily consist of five departments: the General Department, the Security Department, the Supervision Department, the Intelligence Department, and the Commerce Department, among which the General Department

Responsible for the overall planning, the development of various systems of the organization, the review of the personnel to join the organization, the organization's decisions to other departments, the general department personnel must all be the core members of the dragon's tooth, the intelligence department is responsible for the collection of military, agricultural business, human geography and other places, all lines of intelligence, that is, to give full play to the role of meticulous work, to extend it to all corners, where there are people, there must be people of my dragon's teeth, as big as Kublai Khan's every move, as small as a certain village who has a happy event, etc. The Ministry of Security is responsible for the safety of important people in our dynasty, assassinating people who endanger our society, such as Liu Quan, who defected to the enemy and betrayed the country, and gradually eliminated Tianya, while the Ministry of Supervision is responsible for supervising hundreds of officials and supervising the words and deeds of major industry organizations, and the Ministry of Commerce needs to make money for the organization, and the people in the dragon's tooth also have to eat. These departments are subordinate departments of the organization, and they must do things under the leadership of the organization, and they are also sharp knives to achieve the purpose of the organization. My preliminary plan is that this security department will be in charge of Mr., the intelligence department will be handed over to Junshi, and the supervision department will be handed over to Song Rui, of course, this is only your identity in the dragon's tooth, and as for the affairs of the DPRK and China, you still must not relax. ”

"The ministers will do their best, please rest assured."

"Well, the location of this dragon's tooth is set up in the Shifeng Teahouse first, and I will ask Wei Xiaosi to buy all the houses nearby, change the name to the Lion Peak Chamber of Commerce, and act in the name of the Chamber of Commerce to the outside world." You go down and think about it carefully, and see if there are any gaps in my idea. ”

"In accordance with Your Majesty's will, the ministers will retire."

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Since moving to Ningqian Palace, I have often unconsciously stood in front of the window on the top floor, staring at the palace compound with dementia.

It seems that none of this has anything to do with me, I'm just a passing tourist, a lonely time traveler.

I didn't know that I was a guest in my dream, am I having a long dream?

It's been almost a month since I've been here, and I still can't accept the fact that Ryoshan is gone.

In these days, I gradually got used to getting up early.

At the time of the court meeting, the dispute between the two factions of Xie Jia broke out again, and the reason was the Gongtian Law.

Chen Zongli, the head of the household, took the lead in firing the gun.

"Chen Zongli has a book to play."

"Chen Aiqing, please speak."

"Your Majesty, many officials on Zhexi Road have recently reported that this public land law has caused panic and even disgust among many farmers.

In terms of land system, the Song Dynasty was the most mature dynasty in the development of private ownership of land than the Han and Tang dynasties, and the Yuan and Ming dynasties. The Song Dynasty inherited the practice after the Chinese and Tang tax laws, and there were no restrictions on the sale and possession of private land. In the Song Dynasty, land annexation was mainly carried out in an economic way of free sale, and it was an axiom at that time that "the rich and the poor were uncertain, the land and houses were uncertain, and if there was money, they were bought, and if they had no money, they were sold", so the situation of forcibly seizing and annexing land with political privileges was not allowed in legal theory.

Land is the most constant "permanent property" in an agricultural society, and the Song Dynasty called the households with permanent property the main households, and the households without permanent production called the customers. The customers are mainly landless tenants, hired workers, etc. According to the amount of property, the main households are divided into large landlords, small and medium-sized landlords or wealthy peasant households, and ordinary small landowners, among which there are many peasant households who still need to share part of the land.

With the political [***], the land became more and more concentrated in the hands of the big landlords, and the imperial court gradually lost control, so it had to issue a meeting to quench its thirst, or to rely on and fight for fish. As a result, "the national economy is trapped in the making of paper money, and the rich are trapped in peacemaking", and no one can come up with a better way.

In March of the fourth year of Jingding (1263), Jia Rudao decided to implement the Gongtian Law in an attempt to save the financial crisis that was becoming more and more serious.

However, the Gongtian Law directly involved the interests of the bureaucratic landlords, and Li Zong could not make up his mind, and in the end Jia seemed to resign and threatened to implement it, but it was only tried in some parts of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

In July of the fourth year of Jingding, less than half a year after the implementation of the Gongtian Law, Shangshudu Province claimed that "Chinese and foreign branches are coarse". Although it does not rule out the sycophancy of Jia Nidao's henchmen, the Gongtian Law will not be absolutely ineffective in alleviating the financial crisis. However, the Gongtian Law could not fundamentally solve the fiscal crisis, but instead became a new source of social unrest during the Jingding period.

I glanced at Jia Yidao and said, "Chen Aiqing, since the implementation of this public land law, it has increased a lot of revenue for the treasury, and it has not disturbed ordinary farmers, how can it cause them uneasiness?" ”

"Your Majesty, there are four major drawbacks of this public land law, first of all, it is called buyback, which is actually a forcible seizure and deepens the social crisis. For example, it is not surprising that one hundred guan is one acre, but only forty guan is given, and most of them are huizi (paper money), so it is completely opposed by the big landlords. Second, officials commit fraud, buy back unfairly, and intensify social contradictions. The officials in charge deliberately exaggerated the number of acres of land and forced them to increase the number of acres they bought back, with the result that some households were bankrupt and had no land to sell. However, the overseers were impatient and mean, unscrupulous, and even indiscriminately inflicted corporal punishment, forcing some desperate households to commit suicide. Thirdly, the official land collects rent, and the head will be constricted, triggering class conflict. Finally, the company will be printed and bought back the public land, which will exacerbate inflation. The detailed description of these four points has been written in the recital, and I invite your Majesty to read it. ”

I motioned for Xiao Qi to take the fold, looked at Jia Rudao and said, "Master, what do you see?" ”

Jia Rudao didn't get up, and responded indifferently: "Your Majesty, rest assured, the ills of the Gongtian Law will be supervised." ”

"Okay, that's it."

"Your Majesty, the minister Ma Tingluan has a book."

"Ma Aiqing, please speak."

"Your Majesty, the four major ills mentioned by Lord Chen should not be underestimated, this Zhejiang West Road is the weight of my Great Song Dynasty taxes, please think twice, if it goes on for a long time, the people's anger and grievances will become more and more serious, and our finances and people's hearts will be greatly affected."

"The ministers seconded the proposal." Most of Xie Daoqing's faction stood up and said.

Before I could speak, Jia Rudao stood up and said: "Lord Chen, Lord Ma, the Gongtian Law is the first emperor's decree, implemented for half a year, my Great Song Dynasty granary will basically be abundant, if it is not for the Gongtian Law to hoard grain and grass, I am still on an empty stomach in front of the soldiers, may I ask the two adults, is there too much land backlog at home, will there be a second talk about this impact?" Or maybe the adults have a better plan in mind to ease our finances? Or is it because this Gongtian method is my suggestion? ”

Ma Tingluan hurriedly said: "Master Jia, I'm waiting to talk about the Gongtian Law, why did you get involved in other things?" ”

Jia Rudao raised his tone slightly: "Hmph, you are sour and Confucian, you can't come up with effective strategies yourself, and you always like to point fingers at other people's methods, is this the character of a scholar?" ”

"You ......" Ma Tingluan was speechless for a while, just looked at me.

Naja looked at me as well, as if awaiting my verdict.