Chapter 58 The Juntian System

"My lord, at present, we have arrested most of the Shi clans in Hedong, and according to their marriage network, we will punish them with the punishment of the Nine Clans. Men over the age of 18 were to be put to death, and men under the age of 18 were brought up to the age of 18 and then put to death. And their wives and daughters will select some of them to serve as official slaves of the government, and if the lord can see it, he can choose some excellent women to serve the lord. And there are also women who will be sent to the army to serve as officers and soldiers to meet the needs of foreign wars. And these will collect money from the soldiers, and in this way, a part of the paid salaries will flow back into our hands. ”

With Fu Shanxiang's report, Dong Liang knew the current disposition results of these scholars, and Dong Liang did not have too many problems with this disposition result. The men must be put to death, and the younger ones will not be spared. However, in order to avoid the bad reputation of being said to be the execution of young children, those young children will be raised until they are eighteen years old. As for the fate of those women, they can only go with the flow in the troubled times, after all, there are too few women who can survive in the troubled times and survive very well. They are not like Yang Miaozhen who can have enough martial arts to protect themselves, nor are they like Fu Shanxiang who has amazing talent, so they can only use the methods and methods unique to most women to survive. So in this troubled era, Dong Liang will not pity them too much. If they want to blame, they will blame themselves for living in the Shi family, and the Shi clan will be the target of Dong Liang's eradication.

"Alright, that's it! Those women don't have to be brought to me, I don't look down on those women! Dong Liang said.

Dong Liang is not very interested in the women of the Shi clan, because at present, Dong Liang is only interested in those "famous women" who have left their names in history, after all, those ordinary women who have not left their names can no longer arouse Dong Liang's interest. Coupled with the fact that Dong Liang had a grudge against them, Dong Liang would not leave a dangerous time bomb by his side, so he gave up on these women, not wanting them to be by his side. Dong Liang didn't plan to leave those women by his side, and all of them were gradually divided into ranks. The highest rank rewards senior officers and makes them more loyal. And the low-grade ones will be sent to the army, and then as a woman who solves the physical needs of the soldiers, she earns some of the money in the hands of the soldiers for Dong Liang.

"Anything else to report?" Dong Liang asked.

And Fu Shanxiang continued: "My lord, at present, there are a lot of vacant land in our Hedong territory, and the scholars have been cleaned up a lot. And we have confiscated all the land, and then we must distribute it to the people, otherwise the people will not be able to get the land to plant, and we will not have any tax income, so we will not be able to continue to develop. And how we distribute it to the people, it is certainly necessary to discuss a way and a way. And the methods of our distribution must also pay attention to a certain way, otherwise we will not be able to win the hearts of the people at all, but will lose the support of the people because of uneven distribution. ”

"Oh? Is there anything you can do? Dong Liang asked.

"My lord, we can implement the Tang Dynasty's Juntian system." Fu Shanxiang said.

"What is the method of the Junda system?"

Fu Shanxiang next introduced the Tang Dynasty's uniform land system, because Fu Shanxiang once helped the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom improve the Heavenly Dynasty's field acre system, she has a lot of research on land policy and household registration policy, and she synthesized the current policy to see the most suitable implementation of the Tang Dynasty's uniform land system.

The Tang Dynasty's land equalization system was actually a land system implemented during the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the Tang Dynasty, when due to long-term wars, there were fewer people and more land, and finally those officials had to distribute the land to the ordinary people, and then let the ordinary people plant to obtain taxes. According to the regulations at that time, in the early Tang Dynasty, a male was given 80 acres of land and 20 acres of Yongye field. The property rights of the mouth field belong to the state, while the Yongye field can belong to oneself after being cultivated for a certain number of years, and then pass it on to future generations.

This can ensure that the vast majority of the land can be distributed, and the land of every common person will be basically the same, and there will not be too many gaps.

"After the implementation of the equalization system, the common people could get land and pay taxes to the imperial court on a regular basis. Then, under normal circumstances, the land cannot be sold, which can maintain the stability of the land and prevent the existence of land annexation to a certain extent. And we have already cleaned up all the scholars here, then we can distribute it to the people according to the Tang Dynasty's uniform land system, and then we can also gain the hearts of the people, and get rent and transfer to provide military supplies. On the other hand, we can also gradually implement the government military system, which is based on the Juntian system. The government military system can save a lot of military spending, which is enough for us to save a lot of money and feed a large number of soldiers. ”

Hearing Fu Shanxiang's proposal for the Juntian system, Dong Liang felt that it was still more suitable for the Three Kingdoms period. Because this Juntian system was actually learned from the lessons learned at the end of the Three Kingdoms period, and then it was reformed by the government of the Sui and Tang dynasties in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and then it became this Juntian system. The land equalization system is established under the condition that a land is state-owned, and the people cannot sell these lands at will, so that land annexation can be avoided to a certain extent, and the harm caused by land annexation can be avoided.

However, Dong Liang is obviously not very satisfied with this Juntian system.

"Although the equalization system seems to have a certain inhibitory effect on land annexation, it cannot really curb land annexation. And my memory is not bad, and I have also mentioned in the novels I have read in later generations, that the uniform land system cannot really effectively prevent land annexation, and the standard of his tax collection is based on the people. The equalization system emphasizes that everyone can obtain the same land, so that their harvest is naturally the same, and then it is inevitable to collect the same tax burden. However, in the later period, the land annexation was serious, and the land equalization system would inevitably collapse. Those people will inevitably have to avoid military service and so on, so they will inevitably run away as well. At that time, the equalization system could not completely solve the land annexation, and it was useless in the later stage. Once the Juntian system collapses, the rent modulation attached to the Juntian system, as well as the government military system, will all collapse with yo. In the end, both the rent-yong system and the government-military system have lost their economic base, and they are sure to collapse. Dong Liang said.

And Fu Shanxiang listened to Dong Liang's words, and he also knew that Dong Liang's worry was very important. The tax standard of the rent regulation on the land equalization system is based on the population, and at the beginning, the common people in the world have the same amount of land, which will inevitably make them all able to pay the tax burden. However, in the later period, land annexation was serious, and many people were left without land. But they had to bear the burden of taxes and forced labor when they had no land, which they obviously could not bear, and when the officials persecuted them again, they would certainly not be able to bear it. And the landlords who annexed the land were very powerful, and the officials did not dare to let them pay taxes, so they could only transfer the tax burden to the ordinary landless people, so that the people were easily forced by the officials to rebel.

"Then why don't you add a Manchu Yongzheng Emperor's stall into the mu? We apportioned the tax burden that should be paid by those people to the land according to the number of people and the amount of land, so that those who own a large amount of land will also have to pay more taxes, and this will also avoid the problem of insufficient land tax sources. If the people don't have land, then they naturally don't have to pay taxes, reducing the burden on the people, so that they won't be able to put too much pressure on them. Fu Shanxiang said.

And Dong Liang thought about it and said, "It's still not appropriate, even if it's spread into the mu, there are still a lot of things that haven't been done." Why don't you say that Yongzheng's old Tartar also has a well-known policy, one errand and one food? If it weren't for Yongzheng's old Tartar who put forward these two policies to alleviate the crisis of the people, the Qing Dynasty would have died long ago. ”

And Fu Shanxiang's face changed a little, obviously she didn't think that Dong Liang would propose this rule of one errand and one food. It's not that she doesn't understand this, of course, as a person in the late Qing Dynasty, she is very clear about Yongzheng's policy, but this is very offensive! Especially the gentry class, they must be desperate to oppose it.

"Shanxiang, you should know that as long as there are those tax-exempt privileged classes, there will be no shortage of land annexation. Because most of those who are exempt from tax are people who hold the power of the state, they use the privileges in their hands to accumulate land, and then use the privileges of tax exemption again to make themselves have more harvest, and then after the two-pronged approach, the land is more and more concentrated in their hands. And those people are exempt from taxes, and in the end, even if they let the land be apportioned into acres and convert the population tax into land tax, it will be useless. Because the vast majority of land in this world is also concentrated in the hands of those tax-exempt classes, this is an inevitable result, so many dynasties have not changed. So although I don't like the Tartar emperors of the Qing Dynasty very much, this one-in-one errand and one-piece grain payment is the real foundation that can maintain the country's income. Otherwise, the tax-exempt class will surely take the opportunity to accumulate land and eventually hollow out the state treasury. Dong Liang said.

And Fu Shanxiang immediately said: "This is very offensive!" When the time comes, will there still be talents coming to us? ”

"Hahahaha, talent? Isn't it enough for me to have you women? Moreover, I am a 21st century person, and I believe in the rule of law, not the rule of man, and in my opinion, a good system is more useful than any talent. We don't need people who are too good, we just need dogs who can scrupulously enforce our policies. Those who have other ideas, then we will not be sensitive. ”

"As long as we have a sufficient economic base and strong enough soldiers, then what can we not win? We have money, we have elite soldiers, even if we are defeated for a while, but I believe that we will win in the end. Because we can win the hearts and minds of the people, we can have enough strength to fight against those princes. This is the benefit of a good social system, which is more important than any talent. And if we leave a huge hidden danger in order to attract talents, then we will definitely be finished in the end. As long as there are hidden dangers left in the system, no matter how good you are, you will have a day when it will be difficult to return. In the face of a country's huge system, no matter how talented a person is, he cannot reverse his fate. Zhuge Liang is known as the people of Niu Cha, but they can't save the fate of Shu Han, because the population of Cao Wei's territory in the north is many times that of them, and he can't succeed no matter how much he goes on a northern expedition. The so-called talent, that is not important at all, what is important is our system design. As long as our system design is much better than that of other princes, then no matter how good their talents are, they will eventually lose to us. Talent advantage, that is based on the same system. However, if our system can surpass them and be many generations ahead of them, then even if we do not have the advantage of talent for a while, our economic and military strength will become stronger and stronger in the long run, and the other princes will become weaker and weaker. When the time comes, those so-called talents will all be clever women, and they will have no money, no food, and no army, so will they still be able to fight us with 10,000 dollars? ”

"Therefore, we either don't do it, or we have to do it, so that we can be absolutely ahead in the system. As long as they are absolutely ahead in the system, then none of their talents are of any use. Of course, you can't be too far ahead, you don't need any democracy or anything, Wang Mang was also an unlucky example back then. And this uniform field system and the government military system, to the later apportionment into the mu and the policy of one errand and one grain payment, are all magic weapons of the feudal era, so we might as well use it, and we are not afraid of causing chaos too much beyond the times. ”

When Fu Shanxiang heard this, she knew that Dong Liang's opinion could not be changed, and she knew that she was just Dong Liang's female slave, so she took the initiative to say: "The lord is wise!" ”

"Good! You develop the relevant implementation plans, and then you are ready to implement them. You have hastened to draw up the policies of the system of equalizing land, regulating rents, regulating the use of government soldiers, apportioning the land to the mu, and paying grain as one errand as one, and then I will implement them as soon as possible. It's the end of January in 190 A.D., and I hope that when the next female shogun comes out, I can start the Junda system in earnest. Dong Liang said.

And Fu Shanxiang immediately took the initiative to say: "Yes, lord, I'll do it right away!" ”