"What should I do?"

Qin Fan smiled slightly, and once again turned on the active skill-Great Rebellion True Word Technique.

"The first way is to change the nature of the land."

"The nature of the land?"

"Not bad! Nowadays, the land distribution method adopted by our Datang is the equalization system."

Li Shimin nodded, but said suspiciously:

"Isn't this Junda system good? It freed the people from the control of the wealthy clans, and the court received more taxes as a result!"

"Yes, it's not good!" Qin Fan did not deny the advantages of the equal-land system over the feudal land ownership system.

In fact, before the reform of Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the land of China was based on the saying that "the whole world is not the king's land".

That is, the land belongs to the state, and the peasants just borrow it and cultivate it.

Of course, in the war years, the princes used the land to reward the soldiers with outstanding military achievements, which was also the beginning of private ownership of land.

In any case, before the advent of the equalization system, land belonged to the state and feudal landlords.

And the people could only cultivate, but did not own the land.

This was changed by the equalization system, which allowed people to own some land after a certain number of years of cultivation.

The land will not be returned to the state until his death.

In this way, the enthusiasm of the peasants to open up the land has been stimulated.

And the matching rent modulation is a typical poll tax law in ancient China!

No matter how old the other party is or how much money they have, they need to pay a certain tax burden and serve in the military.

"Compared with the past, my Datang system has naturally improved."

Hearing Qin Fan say this, Li Shimin nodded with satisfaction.

"But! You might as well imagine a disaster year, such as this snowstorm at the beginning of the year."

"The people are extremely cold, and there is no rice to cook."

"At this time, a disciple of a great clan came with a bag of rice and said to you: I will use this bucket of rice to return you an acre of land, will you change it or not?"

"What would you do at this point?"

Qin Fan stared at Li Shimin and asked.

And Li Shimin's reaction was also expected by Qin Fan.

I saw him raise his palm and slap it on the table, laughing angrily: "One bucket of rice for one acre of land!" That's a good calculation!"

Qin Fan just looked at him fixedly: "So do you change or not?"

Li Shimin snorted coldly: "Don't change!"

"Okay, you're dead." Qin Fan said softly.

"How did I die?" Li Shimin crossed his eyebrows.

"Starving! The landlord came to exchange grain for land, but you didn't agree, and you couldn't afford the rice on the market, so the family starved to death!"

Li Shimin was silent: "What if I change it?"

Qin Fan chuckled, "Congratulations, you have survived the disaster year. From now on, you will be an honorable tenant who will make a living renting the land of the landlord's family. Not only do you have to pay the annual taxes of the imperial court, but you also have to pay a large rent to the lord's family."

Although Qin Fan's tone was brisk, Li Er heard the sarcasm from the other party's words.

"Ahem," Qin Fan continued, "It's just a person's experience! But if it is zoomed in to the entire Tang Dynasty, then what?"

The eldest grandson Wuji tilted his ear sideways and urged, "How? Don't sell it! Hurry up!"

"The land was annexed by the landlords, and the court was able to recover less and less land from the peasants."

"There are fewer fields to be recovered, and the imperial court will gradually run out of fields to grant."

"In the long run, all the heavens will be in the hands of those big and small families in the Tang Dynasty! And they are incarnated as landlords, constantly exploiting the people of the Tang Dynasty."

Li Shimin heard the meaning of Qin Fan's words, frowned and asked in a deep voice, "If the Juntian system collapses, what will happen to the rent modulation?"

Qin Fan couldn't help but be pleased: "That's right, I've learned to think about the next step!"

"With the collapse of the Juntian system, the rent modulation will naturally not be able to collect the endowment

When taxes are paid, the treasury will be very empty!"

Li Shimin's brows furrowed even deeper, he knew that what Qin Fan said was not fabricated out of thin air, but a reasonable speculation based on the current situation of the development of the Tang Dynasty.

It is true that the Tang Dynasty and Li Shimin's subordinates are thriving, the people are opening up wasteland, and the treasury is slowly filling.

But what about fifty years from now? What about a hundred years from now? What about two hundred years from now?

One day there will be the scene in Qin Fan's mouth, and when the time comes, where should Datang, who has lost its tax burden, go?

Seeing Li Shimin's gloomy face, Qin Fan couldn't help but smile and said, "Don't frown so much, I'll give you an idea!"

Li Shimin suddenly raised his head, held Qin Fan's shoulders with both hands, and trembled slightly: "Do you have a way?"

In fact, it's no wonder that Li Shimin is so excited, after all, it is about the Jiangshan Society of Datang!

"Two tax laws! Instead of cloth, millet and other foodstuffs, such as silver money, etc., are levied twice a year, and the levy standard is changed from the original ding to households."

"At the same time, the amount of tax is determined according to the amount of land......

Qin Fan talked eloquently.

"In this way, I can always have enough food for the people of the Tang Dynasty?" Li Shimin asked.

"Can't! But this will at least allow the Tang Emperor to collect taxes a hundred years later, so that the treasury will not be empty."

Qin Fan's two words shattered Li Shimin's reverie, but left him with a trace of comfort.

In fact, the two tax laws were proposed by Prime Minister Yang Yan in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, when land annexation was serious and the rent regulation could not collect the silver taels.

This really alleviated the dilemma of the empty treasury at that time.

Hearing this, Li Shimin's eyes that had just lit up dimmed a little.

"How can we feed the people?"

Qin Fan smiled: "The Conscription Law and the Fangtian Equal Tax Law, a whip law, and the apportionment into the mu...... I still have a lot of magic weapons, do you want to try them all?"

The conscription law and the Fangtian tax law were proposed by Wang Anshi of the Song Dynasty, which was the inheritance and reform of the two tax laws of the Tang Dynasty.

This reform did improve the weak predicament of the Northern Song Dynasty, but in the end it did not save the fate of the country.

A whip law was proposed by Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, which combined the enslavement, and all the field endowments, conscriptions, and miscellaneous labors were apportioned into the acres.

At that time, with many years of hard work, it renewed the life of the Ming Dynasty for another hundred years!

It's a pity that his good disciple not only didn't appreciate it, but also opened the coffin and whipped his teacher, which is also embarrassing.

The paving into the mu was a political move of the Yongzheng Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

Translated: Give me life! Energetically! Don't die!

After all, the poll tax has been abolished, and the people don't have to worry about paying a large amount of taxes every year because of the birth of a baby, so they are naturally willing to give birth to more laborers to help the family farm.

Listening to Qin Fan's various methods, Li Shimin's eyes lit up a little:

"These magic weapons? Can the people of the Tang Dynasty have enough to eat?"

However, Qin Fan's answer still hasn't changed, it's still the two cold words-

"Nope!"