The prince has spoken, and of course the people below will break their legs.

Therefore, only two days after Zhu Shuren met with Sun Jiaji, Ying Tianfu sent several Cao officials who performed relatively well in the initial stage of the "abolition of Ding and separation" reform to Nanjing City, where Zhu Shuren met and questioned them and reported their experiences.

And before Zhu Shuren met him, of course, he would first look at the list and resume, and then he really found something that surprised him.

"Hucao County, Liyang County, Yuyao County, Shaoxing Prefecture, Yao Qisheng? Is 38 years old a lifter? Tsk, it's quite difficult to move, and it's really not the material for reading sage books.

Sun Jiaji seems to be also from Yuyao, Shaoxing, is he still a fellow villager? Could it be for the sake of fellow villagers, if you can carry it, you will carry it a little? ”

When he saw Yao Qisheng's name, Zhu Shuren also had a sense of vicissitudes.

Of course he knows that this guy helped the dog Tartar beat Zheng Chenggong in history, and this person originally had a bad career under Kangxi at the beginning, after all, he was not a material for reading, he only relied on people to make a career, and he also liked to break the sea ban, and was dismissed from business - this historical knowledge is not a partial content, even if you have not read history books, as long as later generations have watched a few Qing court dramas during the Kangxi period, you will basically know.

However, Zhu Shuren also understands that since the Ming Dynasty has now regained its sight, it will definitely be inevitable to use those literati who were originally in history, which is no way. After all, you can't ask those people who came out after the Ming Dynasty didn't exist in history and didn't serve as officials in the Qing Dynasty for the rest of their lives, right?

Therefore, Zhu Shuren can only suppress the disgusting in his heart and set a relatively low moral standard: if a person becomes a second minister, receives the grace of the Ming Dynasty, and votes for the imperial examination in the Ming Dynasty, it is obviously a slightly heavier sin. If a person has not received national favors in the Ming Dynasty in history, has not been awarded meritorious service, and was only admitted to the imperial examination in the Qing Dynasty, then there is no way to criticize too much.

Eat the king's luck, and be loyal to the king.

Those who have never eaten Lu are loyal to the national integrity, but there is no need to be loyal to the family and surname.

In the book that Zhu Shuren asked Gu Yanwu to ghostwrite, it was also written, "Those who die in the country, those who eat meat, and those who die in the world are responsible", of course, he must uphold his own principles of life and employment.

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Gossip stopped, and said that after Zhu Shuren suppressed his unhappiness about "using historical aids and abusers", he chose to summon Yao Qisheng with a pleasant face.

Yao Qisheng was also flattered when he heard that he had performed well in helping to promote the division of workers and peasants in Liyang County, and was actually summoned by the regent.

He knows very well that a character like himself doesn't like officialdom to talk about seniority, and he also engages in some sea trade and small business in both officials and businessmen, but he has repeatedly failed to even try to be a jinshi in his studies - such a person, why does the prince reuse you? That's definitely going to require you to bite!

If you don't have this awareness, don't covet this wealth!

So, as soon as he entered the door, Yao Qisheng finished his salute, and after a few simple words of praise for virtue, Zhu Shuren had already heard that the other party was a smart person, and he was not afraid of doing things with dirty water.

Zhu Shuren first gave a little sweetness in his words: "I heard that although you are not good at reading, you know a lot about arithmetic and business, and you have also dabbled in maritime business at home?" ”

Yao Qisheng hurriedly admitted: "The student is clumsy and clumsy in the classics and history, and he is really ashamed. ”

Zhu Shuren waved his hand: "There's nothing to be ashamed of, Lone is also from a maritime family, and he doesn't like to read rotten Confucianism." ”

Yao Qisheng immediately knelt down and chanted: "How dare you compare with the prince!" Although he doesn't love the study of Confucianism, he only needs to slightly divide his energy to dabble in, and he can still get two Jinshi back then.

However, students devote at least half of their life to the pursuit of joining the Shishi but cannot get it. ”

Zhu Shuren smiled: "I heard that you are from Yuyao County, Shaoxing Prefecture, and the lonely ancestor is also from Yuyao County." Cabinet Zhang Ge Lao and Ying Tiansun Mansion Yin are also people from Yuyao County, it seems that Yuyao County, Shaoxing Prefecture, is good at giving money, food and wealth to empower them. ”

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the ability of the master of Shaoxing Mansion to collect taxes on money and grain was very famous. Many Kedao officials who were born in the two rankings of Jinshi are bad at math themselves, and when they go to the local level, they have to rely on Master Shaoxing to settle accounts and collect taxes.

So much so that at that time, Yuyao County, Shaoxing Prefecture, which was known as the best place for mathematics in the country, all kinds of loopholes to avoid taxes and to identify the means of tax avoidance came out of the circle of Yuyao people at the beginning.

If the accountants who evaded taxes in that era also went to jail, then at least eighty percent of the accountants in the prison were auditors.

And Yao Qisheng heard that the regent actually raised him like this, and also investigated his origin, and suddenly became more and more energetic, ready to show his strengths: "Your Royal Highness has every opportunity, and you even know the student's hometown, and the virtue of the corporal is unparalleled in ancient and modern times!" The students are really impressed! ”

Zhu Shuren waved his hand, signaling that the other party didn't have to come to this set of virtual things, and quickly cut to the chase: "If you don't talk about the false etiquette today, you don't have so much time."

Since you have performed well in Liyang County, then you should say: This method of separating workers and peasants and abolishing Ding has been tried out now, but there are still subtle improprieties? What should be done with possible resistance? ”

Yao Qisheng knew that the opportunity was rare, but he didn't hide it, he had done his homework before coming, so after taking a deep breath, he said firmly:

"Students think that since ancient times, the reform of the law involves fiscal and tax interests, which are either unfavorable to the government or the people, and it is easier to succeed if they choose one of the two. If the government and the people are unfavorable and only benefit the king, then it is Han Fei's law, which is too ideal and difficult to land.

Fu Zhuyu, the urgency of the master. And although it is not beautiful, it is not the harm of the Lord, but it is still a two-legged treasure and a treasure. Today's master is also a spell, the minister is not allowed to arbitrarily decide, the recent habit does not dare to sell heavy, the floating sprout tends to be a farmer, and the wanderer is in danger of war. Its backlash must be heavier than 'slashing two legs'. Han Fei borrowed Bian He's words and had to be cautious. ”

Yao Qisheng's words also dropped his book bag slightly, but Zhu Shuren was also born in the two rankings, so there is no obstacle to understanding.

The most fearful thing about idealistic changes is that they want to do it in one step, and then at the same time offend both the ministers and gentry of the court and the people, and in the end it will only be beneficial to the emperor alone, so it will be easy to be counterattacked.

Shang Ying, Han Fei, and these people are all not allowed to die well, and the eagerness to achieve it accounts for at least half of the reason.

However, Zhu Shuren didn't feel that he had offended everyone at the same time, so he asked quietly: "Why do you think that this change has offended the gentry and the people at the same time?" This law is obviously beneficial to the people, and completely abolished the tax on the peasant people, but it did not increase the burden at all! The extra money and food they paid was also a substitute for the forced labor they should have served, and no matter how you look at it, the burden will only be reduced, not increased. ”

Yao Qisheng said euphemistically: "Your Highness is benevolent and loves the people, how can students not know it, but although the law of 'the lower limit of land acres for peasant people' set by His Royal Highness has not been officially implemented this year, it will eventually increase the burden on self-cultivated farmers with less land in the future, similar to regressing to the land occupation system and the land sharing system of the two Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties.

Under the land occupation system, it is also the imperial court to approve how much land should be occupied by each Dingkou theory, and according to the theoretical value of the field, but the index was higher at that time, the Wei and Jin dynasties were Zheng Ding accounted for 70 Han acres, and the early Tang Dynasty accounted for 40 Tang acres, which is equivalent to the area of today's Ming Dynasty, and there are about 20 acres.

The lower limit set by His Royal Highness is only half as loose as that of the Tang people, and at the same time, there is no cap on the upper limit. But in the final analysis, this lower limit was originally unknown to the Ming Dynasty, and the ignorant people may not be able to understand His Highness's good intentions. ”

The gentry are sure that some people will oppose it, because the Ming Dynasty did not use the gentry to pay grain for service, and now they have to pay at least for food, and the gentry are at a pure loss in agricultural taxes and service money, and they have the motive to make trouble, as well as to encourage the people below to make trouble.

If there is no lower limit on the taxable area of the peasant population who have only a little bit of land, then the peasants will absolutely benefit 100 percent this time and will not be agitated.

With this lower limit, people with less than 10 acres of paddy fields at home will not be purely benefited, but will have to weigh and weigh. Perhaps if there are only five or six acres or seven or eight acres, it can barely be the same as before the law change, because the grain tax of a few acres of land that is overcharged can be about the same as the poll tax that is exempted.

However, if the whole family, one male and one female, two adult laborers and two juvenile laborers, with a total of less than five acres of land, still insists on retaining their agricultural status according to the new law, they should suffer a small loss. These people are likely to be used by the gentry.

Although Zhu Shuren is strong and strong, he can kill a group of gentry who take the lead in making trouble, and then persuade the deceived people to go back, but after all, it is a bit undignified.

Zhu Shuren saw that Yao Qisheng pointed out the line between friend and foe in the distribution of benefits, but he had to admit that the other party had studied the beneficiary groups of the new law quite thoroughly.

However, Zhu Shuren's insistence on setting a lower limit for the taxable area per acre of land for peasant nationality obviously had other considerations -- he wanted to let the Ming Dynasty gradually start industrialization, and it was necessary to squeeze out the inefficient agricultural population and make the fields a little more concentrated, so that at least the labor saturation of the labor force could be satisfied, and the peasants would not be left idle and landless to plant.

He has calculated that with the agricultural production efficiency of the Ming Dynasty, it is more than enough for a family of two adults and two children over ten years old to plant ten acres of paddy fields. If there is less land, the labor force of the people will be wasted, and they will not have enough to eat, so they will spend a lot of time idle to bask in the sun.

The British on the other side of the continent have been enclosed for a full 150 years now, and the Ming Dynasty has started late in this regard.

If we do not squeeze out some of the agricultural population and create an atmosphere that breaks the natural economy of small farmers, relying on the promotion of the upper echelons alone may not allow the Ming Dynasty to achieve industrialization.

Zhu Shuren may still be able to open and hang when he is alive, but what about the people after him? If you want to go back to the old way, is the Ming Dynasty still waiting for the great powers to catch up with the technology tree in the future?

Although the Ming Dynasty in this life, the basic technology is now possible, even if Zhu Shuren is incompetent after a hundred years, the descendants will not be obviously overtaken by the powers, and at most the Ming Dynasty will become one of the scientific and technological powers, and it will not be able to form an obvious generation advantage against the enemy. But Zhu Shuren felt that this was not enough.

He hopes that the process of science and technology and industrialization of Damingpan will be to achieve "only Daming is strong on the earth, and there can be no column" in the future.

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Therefore, the national policy of guiding peasants who only farm a little bit of land to become workers cannot be changed. The Zhushu people are at least countless times more gentle than the British sheep cannibal enclosures - where in the British will protect the homesteaders who only have ten acres of land?

It's a pity that some words are not suitable for Zhu Shuren to say directly to people with too low status, so after he groaned, he could only say: "Lone's move has another deep meaning, you don't know." ”

Yao Qisheng pondered for a while, and after all, it was the adventurous spirit of chasing wealth that prevailed, which made him dare to speculate: "The student thinks that His Royal Highness's so-called deep meaning is not trying to force farmers to work?"

It is not difficult to speculate on this method, the student's family used to dabble in maritime merchants, and in recent years, the number of foreign merchants and craftsmen in my Ming Dynasty has increased, and the students have also communicated with the English, and learned that they have a kind of 'sheep eating man' enclosure there, that is, to turn small yeoman farmers into workers as much as possible......"

When Zhu Shuren heard this, his brows furrowed slightly, but he did not refute it.

Yao Qisheng saw that he had guessed a little bit, and dared to continue: "If this is the case, the student thinks that His Highness's method of setting the lower limit of the taxable area per mu of land per household should indeed be implemented, but when it comes to specific implementation, the method can still be considered.

For example, the reason why people in the world think that each household can cultivate at least 10 acres of paddy fields or 20 acres of dry land in order to saturate their labor is mostly based on the plains and wilderness, and the land with fertile fish and rice.

However, if it is a mountainous and rugged area, and the land plots are narrow and scattered, it may not be much more efficient to forcibly let the people with less land sell land to relocate and merge the land.

What's more, in the mountainous and rugged areas, there are no prosperous towns around, workshops and workshops are scarce, and all the people who have changed their agricultural status may not be able to find a job. According to the new law, all of them were used for conscription, and it was not necessarily necessary for so many people to serve long distances -- at the end of the Qin Dynasty, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were serving in different places from afar, and the attrition on the way was too heavy. ”

After listening to this, Zhu Shuren felt that it made some sense. Indeed, what he thought at first was that if the peasant nationality was forced to change his nationality, he would have a chance to eat public meals and serve as a servant. Moreover, from the perspective of the whole country, there will never be too many cases in which the conscripts have not had too much work to do.

Daming still has so much construction to do, but it really can't be done, and Zhu Shuren can still engage in "state-owned enterprises" to accelerate industrialization. With the guidance of a person like him, there is no problem of surplus labor going nowhere to go.

However, serving in other places and forcing people to relocate are indeed prone to chaos. Many people are reluctant to leave their hometown too far, and the time lost on the road will make people's hearts fluctuate.

This is not the 21st century, there are no complaints about working in Guangdong from the Northeast, and I feel that it is appropriate to travel so far. The people of this era are too peaceful to relocate. If there is no crime, the other party is asked to leave home thousands of miles away, so what is the difference between an exiled prisoner?

Even if the people of Zhu Shu are for their good, they feel that there are not enough people in the ravines and ravines, and they hope that the people in the mountains will move to the surrounding plains and cities nearby, there will be people who will resist.

At this point, even in the 21st century, in the final stage of poverty alleviation, there are many people who are absolutely poor, and they would rather stay in the mountains than move out, and they are not willing to come out of the city to live in a house for nothing. Some of them are because they are old, illiterate, and can't integrate into society, so they would rather grow their own crops and eat them in the ravines.

This is not a problem that can be solved in one generation. The literacy rate of the Ming Dynasty is countless times worse than that of later generations.

Zhu Shuren finally realized that his steps were a little bigger in some very local details.