The adults began to talk about their own affairs, Cheng Jinzhou was the only child in the field, and the other was Cheng Jinhao, the two of them looked at each other, probably chanting words similar to "the ghost will not go away" in their hearts.

As the two grandchildren who are currently left in the old house, in most families, the competition between them may last a lifetime, depending on the death of the parents and the intelligence level of the participants.

Cheng Jinhao was naturally dissatisfied with the attention Cheng Jinzhou received, but he sat too far away and could only wave with his eyes, hoping that at a certain moment, Cheng Jinzhou would look over and be scared to death by his persistence.

But in fact, except for the first glance, Cheng Jinzhou never looked back, he was indeed listening carefully to what Liu Bin said.

As a transit envoy, Liu Bin's most important duty is to ensure the country's tax source - tax source and tax collection are different concepts, the former determines who pays taxes, and the latter ensures that these people will pay taxes.

In any country, with his exhibition, the source of taxes will inevitably change, sometimes more, sometimes less. In most feudal countries, such as the aristocratic states of the Great Xia Dynasty, their tax sources are getting less and less most of the time, because the nobles do not have to pay taxes, and the nobles will annex the small peasants, and the small peasants also have a tendency to pay less taxes to the nobles, thus escaping the state taxes.

"This question, I'm afraid it's a headache for His Majesty." Cheng Yunan said the truth, shook his head lightly, rested his head on the soft chair, and looked comfortable.

Like most scholars in ancient China, Cheng Yunan was a talented scholar, but not a talented official - of course, regardless of the selection method used, whether in ancient or modern times, the stupidity of officials was inevitable, and they were always faced with the problem of their knowledge system.

Liu Bin was very worried about the country and the people, and said in a heavy voice: "It's not that this problem can't be solved, it just depends on how determined you are." ”

"That's something that the people above are considering, you are a low-ranking official, I'm afraid it's difficult for such a thing." It was Cheng Yunquan who spoke, the long history of Shaonan City, equivalent to the commander of the garrison headquarters of Shaonan City. He and Liu Bin are not a system, and they talk a lot more casually.

Liu Bin glanced at Cheng Yunquan lightly and said, "I'm not afraid that you know, I want to try out the average inheritance system in Hexi." ”

The current Great Xia Dynasty is the eldest son who has the title and other political inheritances, and the concubines share other property, the concubines only have very little income, and the illegitimate children have nothing at all.

Cheng Yunan was stunned when he heard this, and said: "This is something that shakes the foundation, how to make it." ”

Liu Bin seemed to have a smile on his face, and said quite seriously: "What I want most is to divide the real estate equally, if not only the son-in-law, but also the concubine can also get a part of the real estate, then the country's tax source will definitely increase significantly." ”

Cheng Jinzhou's face changed when he heard this, and the adults softened their expressions, in the eyes of these nobles, real estate is far less important than titles.

This may be the difference of the times, when Cheng Jinzhou was in school, the equal division of real estate has always been a terrible thing, with blood and killing between the lines, even if it is the equal distribution of the inheritance. In fact, what really changed Cheng Jinzhou's color was Liu Bin's idea of sharing the real estate equally through the guò estate, and such a thing has appeared more than once in Chinese history.

The most famous, of course, is Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's "Tui En Decree": the princes and princes can no longer use the primogeniture system, but should divide his property, especially the territory, among all his sons. As a result, the vast princely kingdom, after being divided again and again, will soon be weakened, even if the lords know this in their hearts, the sons will force the father to divide the territory to themselves.

This is a process of complete centralization, and from the perspective of Chinese history, Comrade Wu of the Han Dynasty completely buried the feudal system in the dust of history.

What makes Cheng Jinzhou unhappy is that as a member of the Cheng family, he is the beneficiary of the sub-feudal system, and he will also be one of the beneficiaries of the primogeniture inheritance system, and Liu Bin's methods will obviously make his most stable life come to naught.

The people sitting in the long hall did not realize this terrible consequence, the reason was of course not their dullness, on the one hand, their position did not allow them to think so far-reaching, and the historical inertia of hundreds or even thousands of years was not so easy to break, on the other hand, the strength of the county state in ancient China could almost be calculated by land, but among the nobles of the Great Xia Dynasty, their strength was far from being as simple as land. However, what Liu Bin said still pricked Cheng Jinzhou's fragile nerves, the relationship between the two families is so close, if one party has an accident, the other party will inevitably be implicated.

He couldn't help but add: "If the real estate is divided equally in Shaonan City, I will definitely oppose it." ”

"Oh?" Liu Bin immediately turned his head around, not disgusted by Cheng Jinzhou's youth, and said with a smile: "You can talk about it." ”

Seeing that even his father turned his face, Cheng Jinzhou's heart was horizontal, and Quan Zuotong said without taboo: "According to your design, divide the land equally, my father has more than a dozen brothers, so that each person can get only two or three Zhuangzi from the public school, which can subsidize some families, but let the entire Cheng family lose more, and when it comes to my generation, there are nearly 100 grandchildren, and one person can't even get a Zhuangzi, and then wait until my son, he may only be able to get a few hundred acres of land, at that time, what is the difference between him and ordinary farmers?" My housekeeper also has hundreds of acres of land. ”

Liu Bin stroked his palms and laughed: "That's right, it's to force the nobles to move, you can't just count the inheritance, just like you Cheng Jinzhou, maybe less than 3o years old, you can become an official star warlock, at that time, a person may get more land than the current Cheng family, right?" ”

Cheng Mu was happy to hear this, pursed her lips and smiled: "Ordinary star warlocks are not so rich, but if Liu Kuangxing warlock has today's status, he doesn't have to think about land or anything at all." ”

Several people agreed, Cheng Jinzhou couldn't help but feel a little sad, sitting here is almost all the elites of the second generation of the Cheng family, although Liu Bin put forward only an idea that may never succeed, but his attitude made Cheng Jinzhou see a kind of reformer's insistence - just like the school's insistence on charging fees in the playground, to set up a food waste punishment area in the canteen vice principal - reformers in addition to dazzling reputation, there are no bones to be left behind.

Cheng Jinzhou looked at the business card in his hand, and said: "If the land division fails, forget it, if it succeeds, it is really terrible." ”

Cheng's father said "um", as if he couldn't understand his son.

Cheng Jinzhou played with his fingers and said to himself: "If this trick is too useful, our king will definitely not only use it to expand financial resources, he will ask each nobleman to divide his title to each son, the soldiers under his command to each son, the equipment in the warehouse to each son, the warship and airship under his name to each son, and then he can also ask for it to be distributed to his daughters and illegitimate children......"

There was silence in the long hall, only Cheng Jinzhou recounted his reading results in a dull voice: "Our kings, the kings of all dynasties, are inevitably wary of the duties and powers of the nobles, just for the eldest son to inherit the title to be demoted by one level, how long has the Great Xia Dynasty been in trouble?" If it weren't for the intensification of the border wars, it would have been possible for another hundred years. Uncle Liu wanted to divide the inheritance equally, and our king Xià did not use it, he wanted to split an earl into 3 viscounts, and a duke into 3 marquises, but if you start by giving your sons property, instead of depriving them of their rights, this road may go more smoothly......"

No one expected that Cheng Jinzhou, who was only 12 years old, would dare to attack the king's policy so boldly, and the most terrifying thing was that he also said it quite reasonably.

In the gurgling spring water, only the sound of small fish flicking their tails.

Liu Bin stood up violently, and his strength was so strong that he pushed the soft chair upside down more than a meter. He straightened his arm, pointed at Cheng Jinzhou fiercely and said, "I want you to be my son-in-law." ”

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