"Regardless of the discipline category, there will always be some questions that have been debated over whether the lives of those who have been commented on as 'born hundreds of years early' are usually failures in terms of history. It's a question that gets brought up all the time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Info Robin Sword once had a brilliant argument on this issue, saying: 'All politicians and military strategists who were born hundreds of years earlier are basically successful, while scientists and artists often fail. —On Genius, S. Goodes.

In June 346 of the Gregorian calendar, Queen Margaret signed and issued an edict, which can almost be said to be a monumental work. Generally known as the "June Edict of the Gods of War" according to the month in which it was published and the apparent author, this edict was a very important document in the history of France. Even in the history of economy and law, it is praised by many scholars as "the most far-reaching document of antiquity".

In order to make this edict known to all the people, the prime minister, who has always been "stingy", announced that he had set an advertising budget of up to 5,000 solaries throughout the country. According to the market price at the time, it probably took only 5 solaries to hire someone to copy a volume of the Chronicle of the Empire of Articut (the book was compiled by the Hitarus scholar Odraus (18th year of the mainland Gregorian calendar - 73rd year of the mainland Gregorian calendar) for 30 years, and the whole book has a total of 25 volumes with a total of 14 million words, that is, an average volume of 5 or 600,000 words).

The scope of the edict was wide-ranging, but the main ones that have been mentioned again and again by later generations are the following.

First, it is expected that it will take three to five years to conduct an inventory of farmland and household registration throughout the country. Although the country was founded not long ago, because it did not touch the interests of the small and medium-sized Nasibis nobles in various places, in the period of 346 years of the mainland Gregorian calendar, the number of people and cultivated land that had naturally increased and was concealed and not reported had reached a large amount, which had begun to affect the central government's fiscal revenue and expenditure. This article is followed by an article, from now on, all ownerless wasteland will be nationalized, waiting to be distributed to the landless and landless poor households.

Second, from next year, no taxes will be levied on all goods that transit through France, but are not sold in France; Exports from France are not taxed, but profits must be declared and taxed on profits. The detailed rules state that when entering the country, it is stated that only the goods in transit shall pay a deposit at the same rate according to the value, and then apply for the return of the deposit with the list of goods at the time of entry when leaving the country. This seemed to be an almost inexplicable policy at the time. Because at that time, no matter which country, goods had to be taxed in transit, and it was also a "second crime" of entering and leaving the country once. It seems that the tax revenue has been reduced, but in fact, because the border crossing still has to pay a deposit equivalent to the amount of tax paid, the government of Falunsi will actually have a large amount of liquidity. Moreover, due to the reduction of transit costs, the number and quality of caravans will increase, so not only will the amount of this liquidity be large, but it will also be able to drive the hotel and catering industry near the main transportation routes.

Third, urge the city handicraft industry to set up guilds and implement the apprenticeship system for handicrafts. Unfortunately, this system did not continue after the fall of the Pallas dynasty, and it was not until a century before the Industrial Revolution began that the Yartikats regained their former wisdom. Accompanying the policy was to allow craftsmen such as blacksmiths, tailors, carpenters, etc., to recruit a certain number of apprentices each year, and the craftsmen who recruited the apprentices could receive certain tax incentives. In addition, each guild has to evaluate the apprentices recruited in the same year every year, and the winning workshops can get some discounts and rewards within the guild. Later, there was a special assessment of the royal family, and the workshops with excellent results were able to obtain fixed orders from the royal family. The guilds of the era of the military gods were only a loose organization used by the government to control the market and promote the development of the industry, which was different from the later non-governmental organizations that aimed to monopolize operations and avoid competition within the industry.

Fourth, protect the interests of yeoman farmers, restrict land annexation, and encourage yeoman farmers to develop sideline businesses. In fact, there are the most complex things involved. To cite just one example, starting next year, independent yeoman farmers can apply for a special business license that can only be used on the day of the market. With this license, the farmer paid a tax equal to one-third of the ordinary commercial tax on the proceeds from the sale of goods on that day. In contrast, professional businessmen must apply for different business licenses. In addition, the cost of land acquisition will be increased; lowering the threshold for government loans to farmers; The tilt of tax policy towards yeoman farmers is a necessary auxiliary means.

Fifth, it was announced that it would invest heavily in recruiting scholars and craftsmen from the mainland, regardless of nationality, discipline, or origin. The first is to gradually establish a complete education system in 5 to 15 years. As for the second thing, it was specifically stated in the edict that special treatment would be given to scholars who had studied the law, and that the aim was to compile a new Code of Law as soon as possible. In the later period of the Falunci period, the only simple basic education system in the whole continent was established, which is commonly known as the "three-three simple school" system, in which all children between the ages of 6 and 12 had to go to school for half a day for three years, and learn to read and write simple military orders, simple addition and subtraction arithmetic, and draw simple maps. On the surface, this is a work done to improve the quality of soldiers, but in fact, the big library, the civilian academy, and the noncommissioned officer academy send roving regiments to various localities every year to select some students who have achieved outstanding results in the simplified studies to continue their studies. Relatedly, many of the artists of that era were also polymaths, so many received a small regular income, and the art of the Narcibes, which had been in decline since half a century earlier, was gradually revived.

The most important mention of this edict was the provision for the codification of the new Code. This code was finally compiled in 352 kilometers of mainland China, and although the official name at that time was the "Great Law Code of the Kingdom of Falency", it was generally known as the "Code of the Military God". First, because the compilation was proposed by Sogrend, and he personally presided over and participated in the compilation work; The second reason is that in the year 365 of the mainland Gregorian calendar, Thorgrande proposed the "First Amendment to the Grand Code" based on the experience and experience of himself and other judges in adjudicating cases for many years, which is the most standard version of the "Military God Code" that we see today.

This code is not the first written law in human history, nor is it the first written law on the continent of Articut, or even the first in the history of the Kingdom of Pharynse. However, for the first time, the code began to classify the laws, with the criminal and civil laws separated; At the same time, the "General Provisions" chapter of the Code has the rudiments of a modern constitution.

"In the study of legal history, I and other scholars such as Verne have completely agreed and disagreed on one issue -- the earliest legal document that possesses the logic and spirit that law should have is the Code of the Military God." - "On the Spirit of the Law", Rudolf Teras, 1497 Gregorian calendar.

Let's leave aside the specifics for the time being, and after the promulgation of the Imperial Decree, it is a matter of the highest priority to prepare for implementation and to listen to opinions on amendments. For any government in any era, the resistance to the intention of reform is often proportional to the benefits that can be brought by the reform.

If nothing else, the many clauses involving land alone were enough to make Old Luce furious.

"This is an open robbery!!" Old Luce almost threw the teacup out of his hand after hearing this, but after Thorgrande reminded his father that the thing was worth 20 coppers, Old Luce restrained his temper very modestly.

"Of course, you're my son, and I know you're going to have to look outside." Old Luce stood up and put his arm around his son's shoulder.

"And how much are you going to come up with?" Thorgrande asked bluntly.

Old Luce hesitated there for a while, and he bowed his head and muttered something in silence, and then he looked up to the sky and blinked his eyes. He kept pacing back and forth the whole time, occasionally fiddling with his fingers. Thorgrande watched his father fretting there, and it was evident that he knew the temperament of old Luce, so he could sit down peacefully and wait for a reply.

After a long time, Old Luce stood in front of his son with a heavy face and stretched out a slap to his son.

"Fifty percent? No, at least eighty percent. Thorgrande said without looking up.

"What, I'm talking about five percent!!"

"Father, it is the duty of every citizen to declare all the land truthfully."

"It's also your responsibility to rob honest businessmen?"

"Father, I hope to start a pilot with you, and we have to grasp the scale of the land. Please set an example, at least those who take the initiative to cooperate will be rewarded. Of course, those who deliberately conceal it will also be punished accordingly. I know our family's wealth very well, since you can't hide it, why don't you make a gesture to show others? You definitely don't doubt that I would dare to use you as a negative teaching material, if that would be a thousand times better than the current one. ”

"Are you still a son? Not to mention helping outsiders rob my father, he also openly threatened me. ”

"I'm not threatening your father, on the contrary, I'm already showing favoritism in this matter." Thorgrande paused, "You must not forget what you yourself taught me, 'A successful businessman is to find opportunities to profit from disasters,' if I remember correctly, it was true. ”

Old Luce was bored by his son, and after pacing back and forth a few more steps, he finally felt a little tired. He found a chair next to him and sat down slowly. With one elbow propped up on the table, he supported his head with his hand, and sighed slightly, "Thorge, you may think I'm an old miser." But think about it, I'll have to save a dowry for little Eclair, and how much your mother loves her like a granddaughter. And in the future you will have to have children, maybe one or two, maybe more, girls will have to prepare a dowry, and boys will have to afford a dowry. I'm old, I don't have the energy and thinking of my youth, and land and real estate are the investments I can rely on the most. You are the prime minister of a country, and you only have 10 silver coins a month, what do you rely on to make your children live a good life? Well, you come and tell me, this old man, how to minimize the losses? ”

"The land was sold to tenant farmers over a period of 20 years at an interest rate of 3% (3%). I calculated that if you give up 80% of the land, you will not have to pay any taxes for the income of the land in the next 20 years. For 20 years, you can have a fixed income of 5,000 solaries per year, and the transaction is guaranteed by the king, so you don't have to worry about the risk. If you manage the rest of your family's property well, you will actually lose 30% of your income in 20 years. The rest of the hidden gains are even more incalculable. Sogrend suggested.

"I want 5% interest." Old Luce thought for a moment and responded.

"I can't do it, it has to be 3% interest. If the interest rate is calculated at 5%, I can bankrupt half of the new yeoman farmers in the first five years, and I can't do useless work. ”

"4 cents?"

"3 percent, there's no room for compromise on this issue, father." Thorgrande's tone was soft, but his attitude was categorical.

"Okay, okay, anyway, all these properties will be yours in the future, so be as happy as you like." Old Luce knew that he could no longer convince his son.

"Actually, Father, you should think about why Mr. Hule asked you to befriend the old Rockefeller of the Crystal Forest in the first place. If you don't supply him with casks at a reasonable price, you can still make your business go up. Now do you think about it, is it the value of those 300 barrels, or the prestige that old Rockefeller brings to you? Thorgrande enlightened his father.

After the edict was issued, all of France was focused on the terms of the land. Landlords large and small were concerned about the extent to which Her Majesty the Queen and the Prime Minister of Caiunescu were determined to rectify the ills of the land.

Clearly, what happened in July was much more than they expected. The first to declare and verify all his land was the family of Luce, and although the wealth of the elder Luce was the envy of many, what surprised them even more was that he was willing to give nearly eighty percent of the land and sell it to the tenant farmers for 20 years at a low interest rate of 3 percent, and to settle it every four years after the autumn. At the same time, the queen issued a supplementary edict that tenant farmers who purchased these lands were exempt from tax in the first year and three and a half years after that. And these lands are guaranteed by the royal family.

In the face of these changes, investors with a keen sense of smell immediately can't wait to enter the market to get a piece of the pie. On the one hand, since the prime minister's family can set an example, there will be a lot less resistance to the subsequent farmland and household registration inventory. On the other hand, the elder Luce, though confused for a while, was still a wise man, and he began to issue his own land bonds in September. Because in fact the purchase and sale were backed by the royal family, the credibility of the bonds was simply beyond words. By the end of the year, the elder had actually reclaimed all the capital of the land, and he invested most of the money in grapes and olives.

Although he was eventually put on the spot, Sogrend found that his father had actually given him a very good idea. Historically, the inventory of land hukou has inevitably encountered great resistance. To put it bluntly, these obstacles are still the role of economic leverage, so they should still be based on economic means, supplemented by administrative means. As long as the business can be glorified into an attractive investment, a soft landing is still possible. The landlord could choose to pay taxes on the concealed land that was found to be liquidated, or have the royal family buy it with land bonds.

"I've been thinking about what to do with the gold I got from the Rossi family, and now my father has shown me a great idea. The 20-year land bond is very risky, but if it is guaranteed by the royal family, it is believed that there is still a considerable market. And the gold that is not used for the time being has naturally become a necessary reserve. Keeping it safely in the treasury, which everyone knows, will help us acquire a large amount of land in the country without a single cent. ”

However, now that you have a plan in place, it is important to prepare for a flawless implementation. "It's not easy to turn a bitter medicine into a fine wine, you need to store it for a while to make it more appealing." The process slowed down because the inventory required a large number of people with knowledge of geometry and mathematics, and because it would take some time to see how luscious the return on the investment would be.

The effect of this reform will not be seen until more than 20 years later. However, compared to the land reform in Mastar, there are at least two advantages. First, compared with Mastar's completely passive actions, the reform of the "god of war" was more proactive and imposed a lighter burden on the people. Second, compared with the forced reforms that consumed a lot of government resources at the beginning, Sogre fully mobilized private capital, and even a lot of foreign capital was attracted to the land bond market in France, which was also the reason why France was able to carry out multiple reforms at the same time.

With the promulgation and implementation of the "June Edict", the golden age of Pharenci gradually arrived.

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The author will start working in Suzhou next week, so ...... Update...... You get the idea. In addition, the third volume will end in one or two episodes.