After taking a hot bath at night, after eating, Sima Shu came to the small study, and Luzhu added two lamps to the room to illuminate the study. He sat down at the desk, spread out a large piece of paper, and pressed the four corners with a paperweight, which was a map of the entire imperial village, which was re-transcribed by Sima Shu to the steward of the palace.

This picture is obviously drawn using the primitive pictographic drawing method, there is no scale, the symbol represents, there is a mountain to draw a mountain, when there is a river, draw a river, neither in line with Sima Shu, the modern man's habit of looking at the picture, nor accurate, his work tonight is to redraw a map.

As soon as Sima Shu stretched out his hand, Xiao Dengzi hurriedly opened the wooden box he called, and there was a set of drawing tools such as rulers, compasses and triangles, which were all made by the craftsmen in the house according to his instructions, and they were all made of fine brass, finely carved, and plated with a thin layer of gold leaf, which looked shiny.

He picked it up and looked at it, and couldn't help but shake his head, such a simple thing, the craftsmen have to spend a lot of effort to carve the ornaments on it, which shows that the whole social atmosphere pays attention to luxury.

Sima Shu picked up a ruler and drew a frame on a piece of paper, marking the direction, and after a few days of investigation and inspection, he was already familiar with the geography and hydrology of the entire 'territory'. Reconnaissance and acquisition of military records is the basic skill of a special forces, and these things are not difficult for him.

Half an hour later, a topographical map drawn with charcoal appeared on a blank sheet of paper, on which rivers, villages, ditches, woods, roads, and even the paths taken by the peasants in the countryside were indicated.

"Little Dengzi, can you understand?" Sima Shu wiped his hands with a towel and asked Xiao Dengzi, who was standing on the side.

"Can you see a rough picture, there are some things that the slave doesn't quite understand what the drawing is?" Xiao Dengzi smiled embarrassedly.

"You transcribe this on another piece of parchment, and the palace will rest, and my wrists that have just been tired are sore!" Sima Shu took the teacup handed over by Lu Zhu and said.

"Your Highness, let me do such a meticulous work, I'm afraid Xiao Dengzi can't do it well."

Lu Zhu hurriedly said, you can't use a ruler compass to draw a picture, it all depends on the work of your hands, and you use the tiniest brush, it is really not easy to draw it without being out of shape.

"Alright, then let the green beads come!"

Sima Shu drank some water, opened his notebook, which recorded the results of his 'research' in the past few days, and looked at the words on it, his heart also became heavy.

The Western Jin Dynasty, which had just ended the turmoil of the Three Kingdoms and was not long after its unification, except for those who were on the upper floor, had a large outdoor door, and the people at the bottom were not so happy.

The household adjustment system was the basic economic and financial system of the Western Jin Dynasty. It was promulgated in the year when Wu was destroyed and China was unified. These include the land tenure system, the taxation system, and a number of provisions on the treatment of nobles and bureaucrats.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the possession of land was mainly divided into two categories: one was owned by the feudal state, and most of them were operated in the form of tuntian; One is private possession, which is mostly concentrated in the hands of the family gatekeepers.

In the later period of the Cao Wei Dynasty, the politics became increasingly dark, and many tuntians were appropriated by nobles and big bureaucrats, and a large number of tuntians became private serfs. However, the remnants of the tuntian fields in the hands of the state have been increasingly exploited.

At the end of the Wei Dynasty and the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, "those who hold official cattle will get eight points for officials, and scholars (Tuntianke) will get two points; Those who own and do not own cattle are awarded seven points for officials and three points for soldiers. ("Book of Jin - Chuan Xuan Biography").

The life of the Tuntian guests is very difficult, and such a Tuntian really cannot continue.

In 264 A.D. (the first year of Wei Xianxi), "Strike Tuntian Official" ("Three Kingdoms - Wei Shu-Chen Liuwang Huan Ji"), all the Diannong Zhonglang generals were changed to the county Taishou, and the Diannong Duwei was changed to the county order and chief.

As a result, a large number of tuntianjia were converted into yeoman farmers, and many fields and tuntianjia were occupied by nobles or bureaucrats.

The purpose of Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty was mainly to divide the land equally and restrict land annexation, so as to ensure the tax revenue and levy of the feudal state.

There are three contents of the household adjustment type, namely, the system of occupying the field, the household modulation and the customization system of the product official occupying the shade.

However, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty's household style was too idealistic, and it was impossible to ask people to occupy the land according to the prescribed amount under the extremely unbalanced land possession at that time.

If the number of fields occupied is not in accordance with the regulations, but there are more or less, then it is extremely unreasonable for the fields to be in accordance with the regulations, and a situation will be formed in which the rich are favored and the poor are harshly exploited.

This could not play a role in restricting the occupation of land by nobles and bureaucrats at all, and the land rent of the Western Jin Dynasty was twice as high as that of Cao Wei, and the amount of household adjustment increased by half compared with Cao Wei. As a result, a large number of food, clothing and tenants had to be reduced to a private population, and were subject to the servitude of the master, instead of being burdened with state servitude.

This is also the reason why a large number of yeoman farmers became private soldiers, slaves, and tenants in the hands of wealthy families, who were only responsible to the head of the family, and did not have to pay any taxes or obligations to the whole country.

At present, Sima Shu does not have the ability to change all this, but it does not mean that he will not in the future.

Sima Shu used his free time to inspect his 'territory', and at the same time investigated the water and soil conditions, wanting to make some preparations for next year's spring ploughing, but he was shocked to see the situation.

There is not a single landlord in his own territory, not even the upper and middle households, and the lower class households with ten acres and eight acres of self-cultivated land are all scaly and phoenixy, that is to say, almost all those who work on their own 300 hectares of land are tenants.

What surprised him even more was that in the entire Xincheng County, the Wang family and the Li family completed the annexation of hundreds of thousands of acres of land in only four or five years, and the two families wiped out nearly 100 landlords of all sizes in the surrounding area like falling leaves, turning them all into proletariats and turning these exploiting classes into poor hired peasants.

In order to deal with those landlords with more land, the Wang family and the Li family even used the power of the government in their hands to drag those landlords who owned land into various cases, and then used the power in their hands to take advantage of it.

The method of dealing with those yeoman farmers who have only a small amount of land is more straightforward and simple, that is, to collect taxes and usury, and they have to sell their land to him. Or in a disaster year, when the harvest is not large enough to pay the taxes, lend them the money at two to three times the interest. If God is also very cooperative, after three consecutive years of locust plagues, they will have to sell their land to the Wang family and the Li family.

After selling the land, their fate was also the most miserable, because after selling the land to the landlord and becoming a tenant farmer, they could not immediately cancel the property, change the household registration, and save the property and taxes, and had to continue to borrow, and even asked their children to be 'servants' as collateral, and the final outcome was that the family could not repay the debts and became 'white-haired girls'.

Tenants are oppressed by both the government and employers, and many of them choose the helpless solution, one is to flee the tenants, and the other is to become 'heroes'.

Sima Shu watched and thought about it, and now he is facing two serious problems, one is that the official families are busy looting ordinary people to provide for themselves to enjoy a luxurious life, and they have no energy and no 'superfluous' money to build water conservancy facilities, which leads to the blockage of ditches. However, large households are also unwilling to pay for repairs, resulting in paddy fields turning into dry land, and wheat and rice can only be planted for one season, and the land utilization rate has been greatly reduced.

Another problem is even more serious, that is, there is a shortage of labor, and there is no land to plant. Taking Huangzhuang as an example, there were originally more than 800 yeoman farmers around Huangzhuang, and there were more than 1,000 households, but after several years of 'operation' by the Wang and Li families, the number of households has been reduced by nearly half, and now there are less than 500 households.

Even these people who stayed behind are also fluctuating, and there is no overnight food at home, if it weren't for Sima Shu's timely arrival, I'm afraid the rest of the people would also have a hard time.

"If this problem is not solved well, no matter how much land there is, it can only be abandoned. It is not easy to find so many tenants at one time. Sima Shu stood up anxiously and walked around, "Can you solve the two problems together?" ”

Sima Shu thought for a while, there was still no good way, he couldn't rely on being the prince to snatch people from elsewhere!

"Prince, the picture is ready!" Lu Zhu said suddenly.

"Oh, yes, you guys should rest first!" Sima Shu looked at it and said absent-mindedly.

"Your Highness, how can you sleep if you don't sleep with slaves and maids, isn't that too unruly!" Xiao Deng Zi said.

"No, you've all been tired for a day, just have a little yellow door on duty at night, and you want to be alone for a while, you all have to rest early, you don't have to stay up so many people!" Sima Shu waved his hand and said.

"Yes, then His Highness should rest early, don't be tired!"

Seeing that Sima Shu was not in a high mood, Lu Zhu didn't dare to say any more, so he pulled Xiao Dengzi out, and then ordered the little yellow door on duty at night to be vigilant before returning to his residence.

"Now that we have cement, the dams should be built first, and then the main canals should be dredged to divert water to every piece of land...... With the dam, the water potential increases, and the water power can be utilized, and the mill and winery can be moved to the river, and it can be built...... In this way, I can attract enough people to Huangzhuang, as long as I can attract people to come, I am sure to stay! If you really can't do it, you can only snatch people from the Wang family or the Li family! ”

Sima Shu looked at the map and said to himself, pointing and thinking with his fingers on the map, one by one ideas were formed in his mind, planning this land of his own, this may be just his starting point, but he wants to take a solid step from here!

Early in the morning, when Lu Zhu walked lightly into the small study, Sima Shu fell asleep on the desk, making a thin snoring sound, but there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, as if he had dreamed of something happy! The candle on his desk burst out and a spark finally burned out, and many new markings were added to the map placed beside the prince, and the brazier at his feet was only a dark red, and only a few sparks were still stubbornly struggling to extinguish......

Lu Zhu lightly covered the prince with a blanket, and then stepped out lightly, and instructed the little yellow door at the door to let him watch and not let people disturb His Highness to rest.