Chapter 645 There is no free land

Zhoushan Xingyuan, the imperial study.

Chen Huaiqing was just walking around irritably in his own son's imperial study. The conversation between father and son has been going on for a long time. As in the past, the opinions of father and son cannot be unified, and there is a generation gap between the two - Chen Dexing has the knowledge of hundreds of years of later generations, and of course knows that the world can be conquered, and now is the best time for China to conquer the world.

And he also knows very well what time is not waiting for me. The Three Classics of Heavenly Taoism and the various inventions spawned by Chen Dexing will sooner or later be brought to Europe by the Semu people and the Mongols. And the Europeans will also know about the existence of the New World!

Everything Chen Dexing has done over the years has actually opened a Pandora's box! It gave the Chinese nation a chance to rule the world, and it also gave the Europeans a chance to get out of the Dark Ages ahead of schedule......

If the Chinese nation had not seized the opportunity, the Europeans would have been as successful as they have historically.

And the one who prevented the Chinese nation from seizing this opportunity was Jiangnan Shi Dafu! It's not that these figures are conservative and backward and don't know how to keep pace with the times, but that their interests make them inevitably conflict with Chen Dexing's line. For more than 300 years, Jiangnan scholars have been the controllers of most of the land and population in Jiangnan -- their mode of development and survival is the "Imperial Examination Righteous Gate."

The Yimen model was used to form a large landlord family with a large population, and through the imperial examination, the entire family obtained political and economic privileges, seized a large amount of land, and enslaved a large number of tenant farmers. Let the labor of the tenant farmers support the children of Yimen to study and take the imperial examination, because there are many children who study part-time, and there are highly learned elders and good teachers to teach, the children of Yimen basically monopolized the civil and military imperial examinations in the Song Dynasty.

Chen Dexing's own family. Jiangzhou Yimen Chen is the largest and most powerful family among them! Even after the separation of the family. One of them, An Feng Yimen Chen, is also a first-class wealthy family in An Fengjun. If it weren't for the Jingkang Rebellion, the Anfeng Army would have become the front line of the north-south exchange. Chen Dexing will most likely take the path of martial arts, first become a martial artist, and then be recruited by a certain important minister of the court to be a son-in-law, the official can be Zhizhou, have a large number of children, buy a large amount of industry, and turn more poor middle peasants into tenants of the Chen family of Anfeng......

Such a model is the most ideal society in Song Ru's view! If Chen Dexing followed their path, the majority of Song Confucianism should be very welcoming to him, the new emperor who restored the Central Plains.

But Chen Dexing just can't get along with them!

Not only did the imperial examinations be abolished - the imperial examinations and the civil service examinations were one and the same. In reality, however, the imperial examination was actually closer to an election – and it also required stripping the land and population controlled by the many Yimen in the south of the Yangtze River. It is also necessary to reorganize the population and land in the south of the Yangtze River, and bring part of the population to the direct control of the Ming court.

Chen Dexing sat upright on the chair, just looking at Chen Huaiqing. This father and himself only have common interests, but no common ideals...... No, it's not that the old man doesn't have a common ideal with himself, he doesn't have an ideal at all! The old man's skills, skills, and strategies are not bad, but he is ideal. He didn't. In his eyes, there is only profit!

In the final analysis, Chen Huaiqing was the most traditional Chinese bureaucrat. If he becomes a king in India in the future, it is estimated that a Confucian dynasty will also be established in India, right? It's good to let those wealthy scholars of the Southern Song Dynasty follow him to educate Indian Ah San...... But before that. I have to dig up the roots of these scholars in Jiangnan!

Otherwise, no one would be willing to go out, the scholars and doctors would not be willing, and the poor and middle peasants would probably not be willing to move, right?

Thought of this. Chen Dexing coughed suddenly, and Chen Huaiqing also stopped. Turned to look at his own son.

Chen Dexing slowly raised his head, his eyes in his eyes. His expression was blazing, he seemed to be looking at Chen Huaiqing, and he seemed to have crossed him, looking at something in the distance: "...... Uncle, have you forgotten the Tianzhu feudal country? Although I have made you a blessed king, I don't want your old man to enjoy happiness in Fujian! Aside from the eldest brother, how many sons do you have now? Seven or eight? Why didn't that empty mother follow? Are you pregnant...... For the sake of so many sons, you will not be idle for the rest of your life. With so many younger brothers, I won't raise them with one prince. You've got to figure out how to make a movie for them! But it's not just you who want to fight for your children and grandchildren, but also me, my eldest brother, and the Han people all over the world. ”

He paused for a moment, as if with some emotion, "Today, no, it should be today's world, there are about 10,000 Han people!" Half of the world's people are always ...... The Mongols have killed so many people, and if they continue to kill like this, they are about to kill the world! Now my Chinese people account for half of the world, but my Chinese land seems to have no even one-tenth of the world! Now that the unification of the Ming Dynasty is imminent, and more than 100 years of turmoil will come to an end, what will the tens of thousands of people do next? If you don't go around the world, you will have children at home? Uncle, you are almost twenty children, and I will soon have more than ten...... If the peaceful and prosperous era comes, I am afraid that the reproduction of children and grandchildren will be faster, right?

The land of China is always limited, and I estimate that 17.8 billion mu is the upper limit. If there are 20,000,000,000 people planting 17.8 billion acres of land, there are not many people, there are many fields, the people are happy, and the court is stable. This is the peaceful and prosperous era! If this number is exceeded, there will be 30,000,000, 40,000...... It's time for more people and less land, and food is scarce! I may not see this day, but my sons and grandsons will! If I don't lay more ground now, so that the future descendants of China will have a place to go. The world has to be messed up! For the sake of the peace of my descendants, I still can't be comfortable after pacifying the world, and I have to continue to work hard! But it is useless for me to work hard alone, the seventy or eighty million people in Jiangnan must work hard together! That's why I want to drive the soldiers to divide the fields...... I want to land in the south of the Yangtze River and seal the military households! ”

"Uniform fields, sealed military households?" Chen Huaiqing asked with a frown.

Chen Dexing smiled coldly: "There is no free field in the world!" The people of Jiangnan will not get the land from me in vain...... If you want to get a field, give me a military household! I don't want them to be military households forever, just a generation. Only households that are willing to pay a strong man to join the army can get the land...... A strong man who joins the army, does not go out of the army, does not pay food, but also has to bring his own bow and spear, and he is not allowed to leave the country for life. In this way, the household to which the strong man belongs can get 100 acres of fertile land, which cannot be transferred for 50 years (these lands are mortgaged by the strong man not to escape).

If you don't want to join the army, then continue to be a tenant, I still have a lot of meritorious heroes to be crowned! ”

100 acres of fertile land is in the north, as long as it is not attached (that is, near the city wall), it is worth a thousand times at most. And in Jiangnan, it's just four or five thousand! This is a great asset for the House of Commoners.

And the price of this hundred-acre field is a son! Exchange the land worth four or five thousand yuan for the life of a strong man!

Such a policy will not only be implemented in Jiangnan, but will also be extended to the entire future in the future. Taking Jiangnan as an example, there should be about 200 million mu of land that can be allocated, of which 50 million mu belongs to the nobles and nobles, and 150 million mu is distributed to "military households", which can be exchanged for at least 1.5 million strong men!

The 1.5 million strong men were exchanged for 150 million mu of land...... They have no freedom and no choice. Chen Dexing can send them to the northeast, to the south, to India, to the New World. Maybe they can even bring their wives and children......

In fact, these people are equivalent to "selling" to Chen Dexing!

Of course, there is no need to force a buy and sell, and there is no need to force a buy. Four or five thousand pieces of land for a strong man, this is simply a sky-high price.

Moreover, in this place in the south of the Yangtze River, there are many people and little land, and the most lowly are tenants. Some are poor eggs with no land under and no tiles on the top, and with this 100 acres of land, they are immediately a landlord who is not too big or small.

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At this moment, it is next to Xingyuan, in a series of Ming army camps. In a courtyard with a sign of the Jiangnan Preparatory Officials School, hundreds or thousands of leading party members who had obtained the qualifications of Ming officials also learned about the "driving of soldiers and the division of fields" and the "military household system". These grassroots officials are naturally the executors of the two policies of "driving people to divide the land" and "military household system."

Xu Ziyuan, who was appointed by Chen Dexing as the chief teacher of the Jiangnan Preparatory Officials School, was sitting in one of the classrooms, and he had just explained the two policies. Now he just watched the students below open the pot with a cold eye, as if they were talking to each other.

There is no way to maintain discipline in today's classrooms, and these two policies are too sensational -- those righteous and wealthy families who have ruled the grassroots in Jiangnan for hundreds of years will be swept away. Instead, they were the noble landlords and military landlords of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, at least one million strong men will also become a tool for the Ming Dynasty to suppress Jiangnan - sending them out of the country is a matter of the future. At present, millions of people are armed and organized, and they are still afraid that Jiangnan Shi will resist?

Xu Ziyuan watched coldly, and the old students below who were older than him were talking louder.

"A hundred acres of land! I want to sell myself and become a soldier......"

"I'm afraid it's not that easy...... After all, Jiangnan is the world of scholars, and hundreds of thousands of regiments training troops are not a joke! ”

"Yes, if this news spreads, the scholars in Jiangnan will have no way out, and they won't have to fight?"

"What are you fighting, the Yangtze River moat is gone, thousands of miles of coastal areas are full of loopholes, there is no way to ......"

"Yes, in my opinion, only by abandoning the darkness and turning to the light, learning from Zhao and Yu and Chen Zilong, there may be a way to live."

"I'm afraid that most of them won't, no one will cry if they don't see the coffin, this battle of Jiangnan is not easy to fight!"

Not easy to play? When Xu Ziyuan heard this, he just smiled in his heart, whether it was good or not, he would know in a few days. The first batch of troops who landed are about to set out, and they will follow to become a county official...... (To be continued......)