Chapter 52: It's Time to Show the Real Technique.
Su Mo said a lot.
But to sum it up, there are only three points.
First, abolish the joint sitting system!
Second, change the title and let the people of Daqin regard themselves as Chinese.
Third, popularize compulsory education, so that everyone in Daqin can read, know the law, abide by the law and understand the law!
In fact. If you want to change Daqin, it is far from enough to rely on these three points.
Nowadays, there are too many disadvantages in Daqin, and there are two fundamental problems, one is that the conscription is too heavy, and the other is that the land annexation is too ruthless.
These come, the first emperor in order to build the Great Wall, the Qin Emperor's mausoleum, Afang Palace, etc., a total of millions of conscription, you must know that this year is very hard, the people who went almost can't come back, and the men in every household in the world have been arrested to do the conscription, resulting in a decrease in the number of men, so who will plant these people's fields?
Without men, there is no workforce.
Therefore, the acres of land at home can only be wasted, but the taxes of the Qin Dynasty are very heavy, even if you don't farm, you have to pay taxes, so the people can't survive, so they can only sell the fields to the nobles, but in the long run, the people still can't live.
Water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize a boat!
When the people can't survive, then there is only rebellion.
As for this land annexation, we have to mention the Qin Dynasty's military merit system, the Qin Dynasty's military merit titles are divided into 20 levels, namely: first-class public servants, two Shangzao, three hairpins, four not more, five doctors, six official doctors, seven public doctors, eight public passengers, ninety-five doctors, ten left chiefs, eleven right chiefs, twelve left watches, thirteen middle watches, fourteen right watches, fifteen less on the building, sixteen on the big (Daliang made), seventeen car chiefs, eighteen big chiefs, nineteen Guan Neihou, twenty Che Hou!
Since the Shang Dynasty changed the law, the Qin Dynasty stipulated that as long as the soldiers of the Qin State captured a head of the enemy's "armor warriors" (armored warriors, generally elite forwards in the army), they could obtain the title of first-class knight (gongshi), reward them with a hectare of land, a house and a servant.
And those who have a title do not have to pay taxes to the court.
This Great Qin has been established for so many years, resulting in hundreds of thousands of people obtaining knighthoods.
So many people don't have to pay taxes, and the aforementioned Qin Dynasty's forced labor is too heavy, forcing the people to sell their acres of land to the nobles, and these nobles don't have to pay taxes after getting the land, so they wantonly annex the land, which leads to most of the land in the Qin Dynasty falling into the hands of the nobles, and these people don't pay taxes, and the Qin Dynasty's treasury naturally has no money.
The court has no money, and the people below are miserable.
Only the nobles really benefited.
Let's ask such a Great Qin, how can he not die?
But although Su Mo knew what Daqin's shortcomings were, he couldn't say it.
Do you want Su Mo to suggest to the First Emperor, Your Majesty, it's too hard for us to serve in the army, so we just don't build the Great Wall, right?
Excuse me, is this realistic?
It is true that the construction of the Great Wall is a bit of a waste of money and labor, but there is no doubt about the utility of the Great Wall.
In order to resist the invasion of the Xiongnu and other foreigners, the First Emperor ordered the construction of the Great Wall, in order to keep these foreigners out of the Great Wall and prevent them from running to their own territory to the cholera people.
According to the statistics of later generations, since the construction of the Great Wall, it has helped China resist at least a thousand foreign invasions.
It's ridiculous that in later generations, a large number of people scolded the First Emperor for building the Great Wall.
If there was no Great Wall, China would have been gone long ago.
What's more, now that the Great Wall has been repaired halfway, if you tell me now that you won't repair it, won't all the previous efforts be in vain, and once the Great Wall is not repaired, what will happen to the millions of conscripts?
Put all these conscripts home?
It's not realistic at all!
If you put them back, there will be an extra mouth in the family, which will only increase the burden on the people, not to mention that these people will go back and see that the fields at home are gone, and they can't afford to eat, and there will be no other way to go except rebellion.
If you do this, millions of conscripts will instantly become millions of rebels.
Therefore, the Great Wall must be repaired, and these conscripts cannot be released.
The only thing Su Mo could do might be to increase the treatment of these conscripts a little, so that they would not starve to death and die of exhaustion.
As for land annexation, this is a taboo subject.
As long as you dare to put forward these four words, you will be guaranteed that all the nobles in the world will be finished with you.
These nobles also included the civil and military officials who held great power in the Qilin Palace.
Shang Ying's change was because the interests of the nobles were moved, and as soon as all the Qin Hui kings died, the nobles immediately rebelled and divided the Shang Ying into five horses.
Although Su Mo is not afraid of death, he can't go against all the nobles in the world, right?
He only came to this world to be a marquis, but he didn't want to provoke so many enemies for himself.
What's more, it is too difficult to solve the problem of land annexation.
In all dynasties, only my dynasty Taizu has the ability to do this.
If it were someone else, he would have died hundreds of times.
Su Mo didn't think he could do this.
And even if you want to solve the problem of land annexation, but now Great Qin is worried about internal and external troubles, once it starts a war with the nobles, then there will be internal strife, which will only cause two results.
One is, if it is not broken, it will not stand.
The other is to accelerate the demise of Great Qin.
Su Mo is not optimistic about the Qin Dynasty, so the possibility of the Qin Dynasty's demise will be greater.
Su Mo, who came back to his senses, raised his head and looked at Qin Shi Huang's expectant eyes.
To be honest, when he heard the pride and ambition of the First Emperor, he also felt a sense of excitement.
But the reality is cruel, and the problems of the Qin Dynasty are too complicated, far from being something that he, a traverser, can change.
However, the First Emperor asked him to preside over the change, which was a good errand.
You can increase the power in your hands and make it more convenient for you to do things yourself.
Thinking of this, Su Mo said with a righteous face: "The minister must preside over the reform of Great Qin well, and he will never give up!" ”
"Good, good!"
The First Emperor nodded, laughing loudly.
After the two discussed Daqin's national policy in the dormitory again, Su Mo left satisfied.
Departure from the emperor's bedchamber.
Su Mo was thinking about how to promote change.
He put forward three suggestions to the First Emperor, among which it is very simple to abolish the Lianzai and change the title, as long as the people below are given the will, someone will naturally do it for him.
Moreover, these two conditions do not involve anyone's interests, and people with a discerning eye know that they are beneficial to the people, so no one should make trouble.
The only thing that is more difficult is how to popularize compulsory education in Daqin.
You must know that there is no paper in the Qin Dynasty now, everyone writes on bamboo slips, and bamboo slips are expensive, if you want to popularize compulsory education in Daqin, you must at least give people textbooks, which will cost millions.
You can't make millions of bamboo slips for others, the cost is really terrifying.
Even the treasury of the Qin Dynasty could not afford it.
So Su Mo thought about it, it was time to perform the real technique.
As a time-traveler, if you don't know the art of papermaking and don't know the ratio of gunpowder, you also deserve to travel to ancient times?
When he was in the world of Lu Ding Ji, Su Mo didn't do anything in the last three years, read books every day, and absorbed a lot of knowledge.
At least this papermaking technique is still possible.
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