Outside Jianye City, in a manor of the Qiao family, Qiao Ren and his subordinates stared at Ou Yeyang's irrigation technique with deep eyes. In the era of cold weapons, the reform of equipment is the development of equipment itself, such as Wu Dao (Miao Dao), Mingguang Armor, etc.; Another way is to improve the raw materials, from ancient times to the production of weapons from stone tools to bronze, iron, and steel, and Soochow took the lead in developing Guan Gang.

With the weapons and materials of this leading era, the weapons made by the Eastern Wu are not said to be sharper than those of the Wei and Han dynasties, but at least they are more tenacious and durable, and the armor will become stronger and stronger. With these seemingly small improvements, thousands of losses can be reduced on the battlefield.

Thinking of this, Hu Zong, the servant, couldn't help but suggest to Qiao Ren: "King, it's better to order the general to use this method to smelt steel and make weapons!" ”

"No!!" Qiao Ren waved his hand, then turned around and walked out, and said as he walked: "Let me make agricultural tools from iron supervision, this steel is flexible and durable, and it is a good material for making agricultural tools." Wei Ze, don't look at the military in everything, the diligent cultivation of internal affairs is the way to win. ”

"!!" Hu Zong made a disgraced face, so he naturally had to retreat and remain silent, but as a former Shang Shulang, he himself knew that in recent years, there have indeed been many problems in the finances of Dongwu's annual attacks, to be precise, there is a lot of money but less food.

Qiao Ren and others slowly withdrew from the workshop, and while walking Qiao Ren pondered as if he was about to make a difficult decision, and finally when he was about to get on the horse, Qiao Ren said to Jiang Ji on the side: "Zitong, the lonely king wants to inspect the land and the field!" What do you think? ”

Jiang Ji was stunned when he heard this, and then he was in a hurry, and replied to Qiao Ren in a low voice: "King, this! You've got it all figured out! If it is implemented, it will wipe out the sins of the local families in Jiangdong!! ”

It is no wonder that Jiang Ji has such a big reaction, and the Dutian order comes from Emperor Guangwu. In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu adopted a policy to strengthen the feudal state's control over land and labor, and to increase government taxes and servitude revenues. Fifteen years after the establishment of the military. Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty ordered Zhaozhou County to check the acres of land and the age of the household registration, which was called "Dutian."

In the Two Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms today, taxes are divided into two types: the Ding tax is the population tax; The acre tax, i.e., the land tax. However, the bulk of the tax of the Han Dynasty was not the land tax but the poll tax. The loophole in the Han Dynasty's tax system was that most of the country's land was in the hands of the family, but the system of 1 tax per 10 and the main tax paid per capitation made these wealthy families only need to pay a small amount of tax. On the contrary, landless or scarce but populous farmers need to bear great pressure.

Therefore, in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a large number of peasants preferred to hide in the manors of wealthy families and serve as domestic slaves to escape the poll tax rather than become free farmers. The wealthy families not only concealed a large number of people, but also obtained a large amount of land, but these lands were not registered in the tax books of the imperial court. It became the so-called Hidden Field.

The purpose of the Dutian Order was to survey these hidden populations and lands and increase the income of the imperial court. However, due to the Han Dynasty's tradition of emphasizing population taxes and ignoring land taxes. As a result, the Duda order was greatly opposed. It was not only the wealthy families who hid a large amount of land that strongly opposed the Dutian Order. Even the ordinary peasants and the peasants who depended on the wealthy were extremely resistant to this policy, because the various poll taxes levied by the imperial court added up to exploit them more than the wealthy families.

As a result, the ministers opposed, the local governors of the prefectures and counties defied the law, the wealthy families rebelled, and many people rebelled. Therefore, Jiang Ji would be so surprised when he heard that Qiao Ren wanted to inspect the land and land. Of course, the Huaisi family is due to various reasons. It is not a big landlord but mainly military exploits and business, but most of the land in the Jiangzuo area is in the hands of the four surnames of Wu County and the four families of Huiji, and this will certainly greatly damage the interests of the Jiangzuo family, even many people in the Huaisi family own large tracts of land. The most terrible thing is that the opposition of the peasants can easily provoke a popular uprising.

It is Qiao Ren himself, and thirty percent of the entire Lujiang County is his family's land. Therefore, in Jiang Ji's view, Qiao Ren is just a ruler and not an emperor, and he doesn't need to do this at all, that is, to harm his own interests and offend others, to do such a thing that is only beneficial to the country.

Hearing the hint in Jiang Ji's tone, Qiao Ren couldn't help but feel a sudden burst in his heart, because he felt that his henchman Jiang Ji didn't support him very much, so if he insisted on going his own way, how many people would be on his side!!

"Zitong, the lonely king has already thought about it, and this matter must be done. The War of the Three Kingdoms, the lives of people were devastated. If you want to unify the world, you need an overwhelming advantage, and I, Jiangdong, must become strong quickly!! ”

In fact, Qiao Ren has his own difficulties, and since Qiao Ren took office, he has carried out a lot of new policies with Sun Ce's trust. In the past seven or eight years, commercial circulation has been vigorously developed, and after attracting a large number of people from Shanyue to go down the mountain to develop land, the granary reserves of the entire south have increased by more than one-fifth compared with the original. This amount is unusually large, and it can also be seen from another aspect to what extent the powerful landlords annexed land in the late Han Dynasty. Because the new fields developed by the people of Shanyue only occupy 10% of the land in Jiangdong, but the grain production has increased by more than one-fifth, which shows the huge size of the family's private fields. But in fact, compared with the two Jin Dynasty eras in the original history, the private estate of a big nobleman could reach 10,000 hectares, and the early Three Kingdoms was much better. According to the law of land occupation in the Jin Dynasty, men can get 70 mu and women get 30 mu, and a nobleman can feed tens of thousands of people with 10,000 hectares of land

It is the legalization of this mass concentration of land that has made the power of the great families unstoppably huge, and the accumulated wealth will not be used for national construction, but will drag down the development of the country because of luxury. At the same time, it is also due to this way of accumulating wealth for nothing, the family members of the two Jin Dynasty have nothing to do and are spiritually empty, which leads to the spread of nihilism in this country.

In the Han Dynasty, and even in the Three Kingdoms era, in fact, there were many people of insight who could see this harm clearly, such as Sima Lang in the original history, who also used the implementation of restrictive policies, but also failed because of too much resistance.

In terms of the reasons to blame, after all, it is the authorities who have seized the interests of the other party, and at the same time, they are unable to give relatively equal means of compensation, so that the other party will rebound violently.

Therefore, Qiao Ren did not try to restrict the interests of the family at the beginning, but vigorously developed industry and commerce, opened up overseas trade, contacted the Great Qin, Anxi, and Kushan empires, and turned all the interests of the Huaisi family, which had no land, to commercial trade. And all this, in the past seven years, has had an immediate effect.

Since the Han Dynasty and Wu monopolized Confucianism and overthrew the hundred schools, and the emphasis on agriculture and the suppression of business, business was struggling, and once there was a way to vent, the business that had been silent for too long exploded like a blowout.

Even through the Great Qin people and the Champa people who traveled to the southwest, the Kushan Empire or beyond, the furs, medicinal herbs, and horses in the north, the tea and silk in the south, and the foreign horses, iron horses, precious stones, etc., were circulated under the sea and river shipping. The difference in profit alone is enough to make anyone's eyes red to the point of bleeding. The Huaisi Group, headed by Qiao Ren, has built the Jianye area into a commodity hub in East Asia. The imported goods of Daqin and Anxi, and rare metals such as copper were exchanged for silk and tea at low prices by Huaisi merchants, while the specialties of Liaodong, Wei, and Shu Han were also purchased at low prices in Lujiang on the north bank. Then the inland river caravan of the Huaisi family would transport the imported goods to the mainland for sale, and the overseas caravan of the Qiao family would ship these specialties of Liaodong, Shu Han, and Wei along with the tea and silk of Wu to overseas and sell them at a high price.

With Soochow's powerful navy and inland water army, such a monopoly on commerce was not interfered with by other forces. In other words, without the permission of the Soochow Navy, no boat could enter the Yangtze River. As for shipping, except for the Qiao family, the entire Han Dynasty did not have a single merchant ship that could sail on the sea.

The commercial prosperity of the south, as well as the good legal constraints, led to the arrival of a large number of merchant ships from the sea, and they had caravans from Kushan, Daqin, and Anxi.

Jianye has never been as full of people as it is now, and it is thriving. The flow of people came and went, not only Han Chinese from other states and counties, but also Hu people with countless braids, naked Yue people, and blonde and blue-eyed white people. As for industry, the so-called industry in this era is iron smelting, salt making and silk, and there is no need to say more, what does the Huaisi family sell without industry!?

Therefore, while leveling commerce, agriculture, and industry, a bowl of water, Qiao Ren chose to carry out the decree of the field. But in fact, Qiao Ren made a very big prediction of the situation he would face, and to some extent, Qiao Ren was also prepared to make quite a compromise with the scholars, at least allowing them to hand over some of the land and private rights such as private slaves, and at the same time give them considerable convenience. (To be continued......)