In the blink of an eye, in September, many major events still happened in South Korea in the past five months.

In June, five days and nights of torrential rain fell in Mikawa County, causing the water to swell and soon overflow the embankment. The flood was like a wild horse that had escaped its reins, uncontrollable, and washed away countless houses along the shore. Along Yishui, both sides of the strait are full of mourning and miserable.

Han Wangran attached great importance to this and immediately carried out disaster relief and first aid in accordance with the new law. Han Wangran knows very well that the catastrophe is followed by the pandemic, and disaster relief alone is not enough. Referring to the experience of later generations, Han Wangran sent a medical team of hundreds of doctors to treat the wounded in every county and township. Injuries and patients infected with fever should be isolated and treated, and animal carcasses drowned in water should be burned and buried deeply, so as to cut off the transmission channels of the plague and prevent secondary pollution of water sources.

At the same time, according to the methods of treating the plague summarized by later generations of physicians, the jaundice that the doctors had been helpless was treated with Qingneyin and Artemisia Chen, bathed with herbs such as Peilan, kept clean, forbidden to eat raw and cold food, and used mugwort to drive away mosquitoes.

After Han Wangran discussed with the ministers at the court meeting, he decided to reduce or exempt the tax in the disaster area for three years on the basis of opening a warehouse for disaster relief. For orphans and widows, the State is responsible for upbringing them; If there are people in the family who have died of floods or pestilences, the state will pay burial expenses.

All of a sudden, the people of the dawn of Korea preached the virtue of the new law and the virtue of the king of Han. It was from this time that the new law began to be truly deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

September is a very special month of the year, when farmers are busy with the autumn harvest and then ordering winter wheat. When the white autumn frost began to appear, the entire Central Plains Continent entered a long dormant period.

This is the most idle time for farmers, who have been busy for most of the year, can take time to take a good rest, or do some odd jobs to support their families, or go into the mountains to hunt some wild animals to enjoy meat. Occasionally, the state will summon young people to build water conservancy at this time. Prepare for a possible spring famine in the coming year.

Such peaceful days can last until February of the following year, when the earth begins to warm up, and the farmers, who have been dormant for a winter, begin to carry out the most important event of the year with hoes and plowshares - spring ploughing!

It's just that this year is a little different, because the land reform in the new law is about to start in earnest. The new law was promulgated at the time of the busiest spring ploughing, in order to seek stability. The wide-reaching land reform was carried out after the autumn harvest.

Looking at all the dynasties in Chinese history, there is no more than one reason for the demise of all dynasties, and that is the land annexation of Yan zhòng. When the peasants did not have enough land in their hands to feed themselves, all kinds of peasant uprisings would erupt. They may not be able to overthrow the rule of the previous dynasty, but they can always deal a heavy blow to the former dynasty and pave a smooth road for the emerging interest class.

The rise of each dynasty was a process of redistribution of land, and when all the peasant households were given enough land to support themselves, they settled down. If this situation is maintained well, it can be one or two hundred years or two or three hundred years. That is, the reign of a dynasty in Chinese history. Of course, in the case of a faint monarch or a natural or man-made disaster, it is not uncommon for this number to be reduced to decades.

In China's long feudal society, land was a very disturbing thing. It was the foundation of the peasant life, the foundation of any dynasty's rule, and the basis on which the nobles and nobles relied to maintain a luxurious life. The so-called money does not change a piece of land, money is something outside the body, only land is a priceless treasure that can be passed down from generation to generation.

For the hero who has made great achievements, the important thing is not how much money or how high the title is rewarded. It's about how much land is granted. For a wealthy businessman, money is nothing more than a number. The most important thing is to buy enough land to pass on to future generations. They know very well that everything will be spent, but not land.

The reforms implemented by the imperial historian Fan Sui in the land are subdivided into the following articles: 1. The land is nationalized, and to be honest, this has little impact on the Korean nobles and common people, because the new law guarantees that as long as they do not rebel. Then the right to use the land will always be in their hands. 2. Encourage the reclamation of wasteland, in principle, whoever cultivates the wasteland, of course, in order to prevent excessive damage to the environment, such as mountains and forests are strictly forbidden to be cultivated. This article is beneficial to the common people and the nobles. 3. Abolish the private land system. Abolition of slavery. This is the content that has the greatest impact on the nobles.

Speaking of the private land system, we have to talk about the well-field system, which is widely prevalent in this era, and its vassals, slavery. Strictly speaking, this system originated during the period of the Five Emperors. At the beginning, after Dayu controlled the water, the Central Plains was filled with plains from the alluvial rivers of the river. After the catastrophe, you fight each other and kill each other in order to seize a fertile land. Dayu did not want to see such a situation happen, so he invented the system of implementing Chinese civilization for 3,000 years - the Jingtian system.

As the name suggests, the most important thing about the Ida system lies in the word "well". Dayu ordered people to divide the plains into countless pieces of "wells", and every eight households got a "well". The middle piece is a public field, which contains a well for water, and the grain harvested by it is turned over to the state treasury, and each family is responsible for the rest of the land. According to this division, ten wells and one village, ten villages and one community, and the villages and communities do not invade each other and live in harmony.

Of course, at this time, the common people could only cultivate the well fields allocated by the state, and could not sell them or dispose of them in any other way. The monarch could divide the wells of the common people among other people according to his own preference, or confiscate them again because of the crimes committed by the common people. If the common people had committed more serious crimes, they could have reduced their entire families to slaves. There is a saying in the "Book of Songs": "The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister." "Basically, it's a relationship formed by the Ida system.

In South Korea's new law, the well-field system is still strictly enforced, but it restricts the arbitrary actions of the monarch. It is true that the land is owned by the state, but as long as the common people who have been allocated the land do not commit the major crime of rebellion, the land in his name can still be inherited by his relatives.

The private land system, which was extended from the well field system, was an important point of the new Korean law. Since the Xia Dynasty, some princes and tribal leaders have large tracts of land in their hands, although nominally they do not have the right to dispose of the land, but because of the relationship of power, as long as they are not attacked by the Son of Heaven and the princes, or do not fail. They can then quietly transfer and sell the land.

Of course, because there were too many princes, since the Xia Dynasty, there have been small-scale wars. Where there is war, there are naturally captives and criminals, bankrupt artisans and farmers, who may be forced to make a living or be forced by power. In short, it became a slave, that is, the private property of princes and magnates. They don't appear in the country's household register, and what they work in exchange for is the extravagant life of the powerful.

The only difference between the private field system and the well field system is that the fields under the private field system have no public land in the middle, only wells.

However, by the end of the Warring States period, the entire well field system was already full of holes. The world was in turmoil for hundreds of years, and the officials of the wealthy clan took advantage of the situation to seize the situation. Occupies a large amount of land. As the number of freedmen owning wells became smaller and smaller, a new landlord class began to emerge, and many freedmen who originally owned welllands had to rely on the emerging landlord class and rent their land in order to survive.

The attitudes of different countries towards this reality are also inconsistent. In the case of Wei's Li Kui Reform Law, in terms of land, Wei implemented the "Wuchengtian system", that is, the policy of buying and selling was allowed on the well fields cultivated by free people and the well fields of public offices. At the same time, the subordinate peasants of the fiefdoms were abolished; For the old aristocracy, which occupied most of the land, they still retained the private land system and subordinate farmers.

Like the states of Chu, Qi, Zhao and the former Korea. The private land system was only a small-scale change, and it was not as good as the Wei State. Yan Guo completely retained the private land system and did not make the slightest change.

The Qin state, on the other hand, carried out drastic reforms, abolishing the private land system and at the same time eliminating the system of epigenetic slavery. Such a change was what the emerging landlord class wanted to see, because henceforth. They can sell their land openly.

However, South Korea's new law killed these new landlord classes. The new law stipulates that the land under the name of the four categories of people who do not have the title of Shinong, industrialist, and industrialist shall not exceed 100 mu. For the excess part of the land under the name of these people. The state will redeem it at a certain price and redistribute it to the common people. At the same time, the new law stipulates that the common people who cultivate the land granted by the state will only pay 30 percent of the tax, which is much better than the 4 or 50 percent tax given by the new landlord class. It is precisely because of this that the new law has won the popularity of the common people.

It's just that such a change is not easy to say. The nobles of South Korea all belong to such an emerging landlord class, because of the incident of Shaofu Hanwen, they have reined in a little and transferred all the land that exceeds the standard of the title, but now Fan Sui wants them to hand over all the slaves in their names, which really violates the core interests of the nobles.

Zongzheng Mansion, Sikong Jiying said with a resolute face: "Can't pay, absolutely can't pay!" If we hand over all the slaves in our hands, our strength will be greatly affected! ”

Zong Zheng Han Xin nodded yes. Indeed, now these people have very high titles, and they can own 6,000 acres of land, which is not a lot. However, once slavery was abolished, slaves who were originally their own private property became their own free people. The state would grant them land to cultivate, and if they wanted to cultivate the land under their name, they would have to pay to hire them or rent them to the other party.

"However, if the king insists on going his own way, it is absolutely impossible for us to let the king change his mind!" Zongzheng Han Xin sighed deeply and said.

Taichang Gongsun Shi also showed a helpless smile and said: "We are better, after all, we have a title in our bodies, and we can enjoy enough land in our names, but those wealthy families in the place are really miserable, without a title, only a hundred acres of land can be left in the past, and the rest will be symbolically redeemed by the king." ”

Si Kou Han Xiu smiled bitterly, sighed deeply, and said: "Recently, many wealthy families have asked to see me, just to inquire about two things, one is to let us make a statement to the king and cancel the restrictions on the land under the name of those who do not have titles; The other is to ask if the knighthood can be purchased, so that there is room for mitigation if the first path doesn't work. ”

"I've found someone to test the king for both of these two, no!" Han Xin said.

"Then we'll watch these losses in vain! Since the king can use Hangul, he can naturally use us as well. You must know that Han Wen's wife has a lot of relationship with the Queen Mother! But the result? It's not that he was kicked out of Xinzheng by the king! Sikong Ji said angrily.

"What do you mean?" Si Kou Han Xiu asked tentatively.

"Now that the king has lost the hearts of the people, how many noble heroes in Korea are satisfied with the king's changes? Those local wealthy families are the cornerstone of the country, and now there are many complaints in the local area, in my opinion, South Korea is afraid that it will be a big mess! Sikong Jiying looked in the direction of the palace and said dissatisfiedly.

"De Xinbo, be cautious! Be careful! Taichang Gongsun Shi forgot to go outside the door in a panic and said hurriedly.

"Humph! Almost every minister has said such things. But the king didn't know it in his heart. ”

Zongzheng Han Xin waved his hand, indicating that it was enough. "The king is the king of a country no matter what, and he led our Korea to recover the two counties of Sanchuan and Nanyang, which is a great achievement! It is better to be cautious. Now the law has changed a lot, but the ancestral system has been broken a lot, but the king's original intention should be good. If you want to blame the imperial historian Zhang Lu, if he hadn't bewitched the king every day, how could the king have made such a change that shook the country's foundation! ”

Si Kou Han Xiu nodded thoughtfully, if there was no person named "Zhang Lu", the king might only train a new army, like King Zhao Wuling, strong Korea, the monarch and the minister are harmonious, a good story for a while, how good. It's a pity that now the king is completely obsessed with changing the law, and he has handed over the power of life and death to "Zhang Lu", which is really ......

"Does Zongzheng mean the Qingjun side?" Taichang Gongsun Shi said amazingly.

Sikong Ji should have opened his eyes wide, he just said that, Zongzheng Han Xin and Taichang Gongsun Shi actually gave birth to such a big plan, it was really ......

Si Kou Han Xiu's brows furrowed even more, and he hesitated: "Zong Zheng really means this?" ”

Unexpectedly, Han Xin nodded and said angrily, "It's time to set things right." Although the king is heroic and has the ambition of King Zhao Wuling, he is young after all, and he does not know that the root of the country lies in the local wealthy families and the central magnates. Every new law that is being implemented today is not conducive to the common people to the benefit of the powerful and wealthy families. In the long run, the country will not be a country, I am afraid that before Korea is strong, we will die under Zhang Lu's sword. Instead of being controlled by others step by step, it is better to strike first. I believe that one day the king will understand our good intentions. ”

"But ......," Si Kou Han Xiu still wanted to defend something.

"What? Are you worried about being infamy? Han Sikou. Zongzheng Han Xin stared at Han Xiu and said unhappily.

Han Xiu gritted his teeth, and said in a righteous and awe-inspiring manner: "I think this matter is inappropriate, now that the ministers of the court are in a wait-and-see state, if we rashly raise the banner on the side of the Qing monarch, it will be difficult to ensure that other young people will be in trouble with Xinzheng, and this is one of them." Now that Xinzheng holds the military power, they are all the king's henchmen and staunch supporters of the new law. Zhang Lu is deeply favored by the king, and there must be thirty or fifty guards accompanying him when he travels, which is really not convenient for assassination. For the sake of South Korea, I implore Jongjeong to give up this unrealistic idea. ”

Zong Zheng thought for a while and retorted: "The so-called if you want to achieve great things, there is always sacrifice. We cannot give up the interests of the majority for the sake of the minority, which is one thing. Second, our Qingjun side is nothing more than assassinating Zhang Ping and Zhang Lu, and once these two people go, there is no way to talk about the king's plan to change the law. The king will definitely be furious because of this, and if Xinzheng is in chaos, our henchmen can lead a small number of elites to control the king, and big things can be done! ”

Taichang Gongsun Shi thought about it, provided a specific piece of information, and said: "The king asked me about the plan, I want to go to the old capital of Yangzhai to visit Yingchuan Academy, and then the prime minister will accompany him, Zongzheng, do you think this is a good opportunity?" ”

Han Xin was overjoyed and said, "God really help me!" It's a big deal! (To be continued......)