Chapter 186: Three Pillars and One Small (I)

September of the 11th year of Kaiping

Huaying Hall Chengtian Tower, living in the south of the inner city,.

Chengtian Tower is seven floors high, based on it, you can take in the eyes of the entire imperial capital, Fang Xin has always liked to read here in his spare time - looking at the bright moon on the top, and looking down on the people.

The autumn breeze was slow, and Fang Xinzheng and Xiao Bing were playing chess.

Fang Xin was dressed in civilian clothes, and although he was fifty years old, he looked like he was only forty years old.

Fang Xin put down a moment and asked indifferently, "What's wrong with you lately?" ”

"No, it's all about going according to plan, and there's nothing big about it." Xiao Bing also said the same, and if you look carefully, you will see a rich purple qi on her body, which is transformed by merit.

At this time, Fang Xin's Heavenly Pillar had been hidden, but the golden dragon transformed by the Emperor's Qi no longer had its teeth and claws as before, but hovered as if it were fixed, lying in the abyss, so that it could have a good time.

The government of a country lies in the king, and to some extent, it is right

The government is in the country, and the entire court is not shocked by the turmoil of the ten to eleven years of Kaiping. According to the historian's pen, except for the birth of the crown prince's grandson, everything else is not a big deal.

However, in Fang Xin's view, after ten years of governance, the dynasty began to stabilize.

"Well, being on the throne, I know that some things must be done, and some things really don't need to be done." Fang Xin gave another son and said: "The disaster of land annexation turns out to be known to the whole dynasty. ”

In the past, the textbooks of the earth used to talk about the problem of land annexation, but in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the earth clearly knew about this - in the Ming Dynasty, the big landlords owned more than 10,000 acres of land, and no longer divided the family and property, and also thought that it might threaten the security of the imperial court, and the bureaucrats would do everything possible to break them up.

Even if they are also bureaucratic landlords, there is a considerable consensus among all officials.

In the records of the Ming Dynasty, it is often mentioned that the farmlands of the clan royal family, such as Chang Xun, the son of the Wanli Emperor, are said to have 20,000 hectares of land, that is, 2 million acres.

But in fact, these nominal lands, these lands could not be actually annexed, the number of acres was not right, and they were never taken over by the Fuwang Palace. The so-called Zhuangtian was not the emperor who demanded that the provinces pay 46,000 taels of silver every year under this name, and the governors of various places also bargained with the emperor. After the fall of the dynasty, this problem was never resolved—far from being truly comparable to the enclosure of the Manchu Qing dynasty.

In the Ming Dynasty, the land possession was the most concentrated in Nanzhili, that is, Shanghai, Nanjing, Suzhou and other regions, and there were more than 10 households with more than 10,000 acres of land. Ordinary so-called big landlords only own 500 to 2,000 acres. It is impossible for each household to have more than 500 mu of household registration25. There may be 1,000 households in each county with land between one and two hundred acres, and they can be called medium landlords. There are too many other small yeoman farmers to count. The vast majority of small yeoman farmers only receive three or two acres per household.

The problem of the large number of displaced people lies in the fact that due to the multiplication of the population, the land has to be thinned, or even there is no land to divide, which is the real problem in the late imperial period.

In this world, Fang Xin estimated that the agricultural imperial system had lasted for eight dynasties, five hundred years longer than the Qing Dynasty on the earth, and the imperial court had already gained insight into the problems arising from the agricultural economy - so the issue of land annexation did not need Fang Xin's guidance at all, and the bureaucrats would divide their own property.

It's just that before there is no breakthrough in science and technology, it is confined to the agricultural cycle, and there is no way to think of it.

After all, no matter how much the family and production are divided, the population will multiply for 200 years, and the limit of land accommodation will be greatly exceeded, and there is no grain killer such as corn and sweet potatoes in this world, so the population beyond the limit of land capacity will inevitably lead to peasant uprisings - this has little direct relationship with land annexation.

Even if it really can, it is mandatory for each household to only have five acres of land, and it will not be able to save the imperial court's morale, because there is still a surplus population that cannot be resettled.

The destruction of the Great Chu should have been slaughtered for 30 years, so that more than half of the world's 150 million people died, and then there would be land resettlement, and the world could be opened for another 300 years.

This time, the war ended ahead of schedule, and in fact during the 10 years of the war, no more than 20 million people died of starvation, killing, or disease, and not half or even two-thirds of what they should have been.

If Fang Xin was not the one who came, then it can be said that without the new dynasty after the massacre, the national life would not exceed two hundred years - the population would naturally explode if it exceeded the limit.

The total merit that Fang Xin could obtain was not only not the merit of saving 50 million people, but it was more than half less than that of a normal dynasty.

However, if this cycle of qi is solved, then the merits of the people who live because of this will be turned positive, and the direct number of people will be more than 50 million.

People are good at cultivating in the public because they can gain immeasurable merit with a slight move, and Fang Xin suddenly remembered a story on earth.

In ancient China, when a dynasty was in power, a retired official returned to his hometown, passed by Dongting Lake, and spoke disrespectfully at the statue of the god of water.

That night, the official had a dream in which he dreamed that the gods of Dongting Lake would tie him to the government palace under the water to punish him for the crime of disrespect. At first, the officials also tried to justify that when the water god brought bamboo slips and wooden tablets from the warehouse, they were piled up in the hall, which recorded countless bad deeds of corruption and bullying of men and women in the life of officials.

The official, who felt that his sins were so heavy that he would inevitably die, expressed his willingness to confess his guilt and surrender to the law, and the water god of Dongting Lake took out a thin document containing his past merits according to the custom, placed it on the scale, and put a mountain of records recording his crimes at the other end of the scale and began to weigh it.

But the result was beyond everyone's expectations, the thin piece of yellow paper representing merit seemed to weigh more than 10,000 catties, and the little official put those piles of bamboo slips and wooden slips on the scale, and the other end of the balance never moved.

This time it was the turn of the Dongting Lake Water God to be surprised, she picked up the document and looked at it, and then said with a smile: "The merit of the king not only offsets the sins of life, but also can be left to future generations." ”

The official naturally knew how many immoral things he had done in his life, but he couldn't remember how much merit he had accumulated to offset it, so he curiously asked if he could look at the piece of paper. When he took the document from the hand of the water god, the official is now more than ten years ago, when the imperial court wanted to increase the salt tax of the world by 30%, he asked the court to revoke the decision, and the bewildered official asked the water god to explain the reason, the water god of Dongting Lake said: "The king has no distracting thoughts on this day, purely for the world's common people!" This matter is worth 100,000 merits, which is very comparable. ”

The bewildered official asked, "The contemptible court did not allow it, so why can it be regarded as merit?" ”

The water god of Dongting Lake said with a smile: "It is precisely because of the inaccuracy of the performance that it is worth 100,000 merits, if you can really complete this matter, you will have immeasurable merits." ”

If the officials are like this, the emperor is purely for the people, and the merits involved in what they do are naturally incredible.

This is completely different from the so-called "100,000-fold mantra", the so-called 100,000-fold mantra is propagated by some Buddhists, saying that once you recite this mantra, the merit you make will be 100,000 times - releasing a fish is equivalent to releasing 100,000 fish, and donating 100 yuan is equivalent to donating 10 million! Saving one life is equivalent to saving 100,000 people!

Some even advertise millions of times, tens of millions of times, rely on, it's just that the heaven and earth avenue is its private service.

If you understand that this is the gods and Buddhas transferring their own merits to the person who recites the mantra, and you can barely say it, if you directly say that this is the supreme law, walking in heaven and earth, then this is the real blasphemy of the avenue of heaven and earth, and the crime should be punished!

What is merit? Although the levels are different, in essence, it is heaven and earth, the universe, and humanity, and the rewards and rights returned to the parties, one in and one out, and they are also basically conserved in a large area.

There are strict rules for receiving, receiving, doing, and returning.

Even if it is a person who has attained enlightenment, he can take it from the source, it can be called immeasurable, and it is only used for himself, even if one person becomes enlightened and the chicken and dog ascend to heaven, it is only within a limited range of relatives and friends, this so-called compassion is extra-legal!

And you can't directly spread this mantra to the big world, and indiscriminately distribute merit to destroy the balance of heaven and earth—why is it so vain that people in the world can take 100,000 times the merit? How will it be repaid after that?

On the one hand, the real donor spends a lifetime and only accumulates a few thousand to 10,000 merits, and on the other hand, if you recite a mantra, you will get millions of merits.

This is the devil's way!

Even if you establish the path of merit in heaven and earth, and invest in merit first, it is also because of the path, so that the path of merit can be activated, and the equivalent part will be recovered in the future, which can be advanced or overdrawn, but it can't be done like this - Fang Xin is playing chess, if he has an understanding, if he succeeds in the path of virtue, he will punish this kind of law, but this is a matter after the eighth or even ninth order.

The doer of the way will not shy away from punishment within the limits of the way, no matter who the object is.

This is far away, chess is a good chess, people are beautiful, Fang Xin looked at her.

In the past ten years, Xiao Bing has also been careful to abide by her duties, so that the Advent will keep her duty, of course, there will always be people who violate, and she will also lead people to kill, in the past ten years, the influence of the Advent in this world has tended to be benign.

In addition, guiding the development of the aristocratic chamber of commerce and participating in the promotion of the plane, this full of merit, if it is a good beginning and a good end, there are more than 300,000.

Fang Xin smiled because of this: "I have one thing, leave it to you and others, I don't dare to set up six pillars now, that is, build three pillars and one small!" ”

The Six Pillars, this is the theoretical saying of the main world, that is, the sacrifice of heaven, earth and man, as well as the past, present and future.

It is better to say that the sacrifice to heaven and earth is mainly to sacrifice heaven and earth, ghosts and gods, as well as saints and sages in humanity, which is already very difficult to stand up.

And the past, present and future, it is even more incredible, even if it is only included in humanity, it means that all the sages who have contributed to humanity in the past, present and future will be established, and this must be established by those who have truly attained enlightenment, even if it is the main world, no one dares to stand up, it is purely a theoretical study.

Xiao Bing has also studied this very much over the years, and was taken aback.