Liu Hou finally figured out that Sima Yi's strategy looked beautiful, but in fact it was endless. If he is replaced by a heroic figure as the main man, he is at a time when he needs a lot of money to conquer the world, and he does not have the production of the "Ministry of Industry" as financial support like Liu Hou, then he is likely to adopt Sima Yi's opinion.

He must have felt that Sima Yi was an unborn genius, and he could easily solve his long-standing financial difficulties with a single strategy. With the support of these funds, we will definitely be able to greatly advance the time for our unification of the world, or turn defeat into victory in the disadvantage.

However, he may not have expected that Sima Yi's last strategy was tantamount to forcibly making all the landless poor people tighten their belts and dedicate their money and food for him to fight the world. If this lord fights the world for a short time, the people may still be able to bear it, after all, the Chinese are the most tolerant nation in the world, but after a long time, it is bound to make the people's lives miserable, and then rebel in all directions.

Why is it so serious? Because the land rent is far from the normal tax, even if the land tax is 15 percent of the normal tax collected by the imperial court, it is only a tax of 6.0 percent, such a tax is actually not high, and after the people harvest the grain and pay the tax, they can get the bulk of the harvest themselves, and they will have enough rations to eat.

However, if you rent land for farming, even well-meaning landlords generally collect 4 or 50 percent of the rent, that is, 4 or 50 percent, and it is not uncommon for the black-hearted to receive 7 or 80 percent. In other words, the rent is about ten times the normal tax paid by the state.

In this case, even in a good year, many people do not have enough food left over after paying the rent to feed their families. The people were bound to starve, even to death. Therefore, land rent is actually a very cruel way of exploiting tenants. What kind of capitalist exploits the surplus value of the workers, in the face of this way of exploitation of tenants by landlords, it is simply scum.

No matter how low the wages of the workers are, they can still eat at least two meals, and the tenants do more tiring work, but they can't even eat enough, and in bad years, even eating bran vegetables may not be able to fill their stomachs, and even starve to death. In this case, the peasant uprising was a logical one.

Of course, Liu Hou would not let this happen under his rule, so he rejected Sima Yi's proposal. Sima Yi was not willing to accept that his elaborate plan to increase fiscal revenue was rejected by the emperor, so he vigorously demonstrated the necessity and urgency of increasing revenue. According to him, if he doesn't start arranging this matter now, soon the finances of Shu will not be able to bear the expenses of the Shu army.

At that time, the Shu army will have to retreat, the Northern Expedition will be interrupted, and the great cause of unifying the world will also be postponed. And the longer it drags on, the more vitality the enemy will recover, and the more difficult it will be to clean it up in the future. Therefore, we should clean up the enemy in one go, and let those displaced people grit their teeth and hold on for a while to unify the world, and their good days will come.

Liu Hou knew that empty white teeth could not persuade him, so he asked Guo Youzhi to show him the accounts of the "Ministry of Industry" products to make money, business taxes, customs duties, and accounts of confiscated money and grain from the treasury of various places, after all, now Sima Yi is also his own person, and some things can be decrypted to him.

Only then did Sima Yi know that the bottom of Shu was so thick, no wonder they could use troops year after year, and after fighting Eastern Wu, they would fight Wei again, and even the two countries would fight together.

Fighting a war is to fight for money and food, Sima Yi understands this truth, and he used to wonder why the Shu army has never been short of money, and the war can continue to fight. Now we finally know why. Since Shu has no risk of bankruptcy, there is no need to be a villain in vain. You must know that if he really persuaded the emperor to succeed and implement the land lease policy, he would definitely be scolded by the people of the world, and even leave a stain on history.

Seeing that Sima Yi was finally willing to give up the land leasing plan, Liu Hou said again: "Although we can't rent land to the people like the landlords, we can't be too cheap for them." If everyone can get the land so easily, then who wants to be a soldier. What does it make if you are a soldier or not? I have a few ideas, let's take a closer look at them to see if it's feasible or not. ”

After listening to the gossip of several strategists, Liu Hou summarized their opinions, combined with some of his later experiences, and gradually perfected six opinions: "First, the local officials in various places should still register the people under their rule, compile the households, measure the acres of land, clarify the taxes, and at the same time nationalize all the ownerless wasteland.

Second, in the future, those who originally owned land would still be taxed according to the standard of 30 taxes and 1. Third, for those displaced people who did not have land, the government could arrange some wasteland for them to cultivate, but the tax collection standard became 1 tax in 10, and the land could not belong to him until they had cultivated it for 10 years.

Fourth, the government gave land to these displaced people to cultivate, and these displaced people had the obligation to come out to defend their homes and the country. Therefore, let these homeless people send a qualified strong man to join the army for every ten households. And the families who went out to join the army, because they lost an important labor force, so the other nine families had to help them take care of the fields until the soldier was discharged.

If the soldier dies, they are to help until their parents die and their children reach adulthood. Fifth, once a soldier is ~ called into the army, the government will give them 20 acres of land and be exempt from taxes for ten years.

Sixth, the disabled and sacrificed soldiers will be given double the pension according to the above, that is, the family of each sacrificed soldier will be allocated 100 acres of land, and this land can be exempted from paying taxes for 50 years, and after the disabled soldiers are discharged from the army, they can get 50 acres of land and be exempt from taxes for 30 years. ”

As soon as Liu Hou's six strategies came out, the treatment of those who were soldiers and those who were not soldiers was greatly improved. Moreover, those who are disabled or sacrificed after serving in the army will receive sky-high compensation and pensions. With such generous conditions, Liu Hou didn't believe that he couldn't attract people to become soldiers.

Several people discussed these strategies of the little emperor, and finally found that the strategies of the little emperor were very good, and basically did not need to be changed, so they praised the emperor Shengming. Liu Hou was also very satisfied, and after discussing it for so long, he finally solved an important matter.

So, Liu Hou asked everyone to quickly return their attention to the war in front of them. The monarchs and ministers are also strange enough, they are on the front line of the battlefield, and they have just suffered a big loss, and they did not discuss how to destroy the enemy, but discussed the national economy and people's livelihood, which is simply off topic for 108,000 miles.

However, from their calm performance, it can also be seen from the side that the monarchs and ministers of Shu did not take such a city in their eyes. With the methods of the Shu army today, it is not easy to break such a city, but it is not difficult. The key is to discuss the best plan to save effort, time and casualties.