Li Chenan did not object to Su Yi'an's words.

Because these words are placed in this historical era, with Su Yi'an's insight, they can be regarded as insightful.

In the society of feudal dynasties, the land issue was the biggest problem of dynastic change.

It started with the private ownership of land and ended with the massive annexation of land.

It seems to be a circle, and no dynasty has escaped from it anyway.

But Li Chen'an obviously looks at this issue differently from Su Yi'an.

He nodded, and first affirmed Su Yi'an's statements: "What you said is right!" ”

Su Yi'an stroked his short beard and sat up straight with great pride, he was right.

"But ......"

Li Chenan suddenly came to a but, Su Yi'an was slightly stunned, and thought to himself, could it be that you have any more strange views?

The corners of Liu Xiayin's mouth on the side curled, and in his opinion, Su Yi'an's answer was impeccable.

Can this young regent tell a new trick about this?

"That's how I see these issues."

"Let's talk about the land."

"Rich people, why do you want to go out of your way to annex the land of the peasants?"

Su Yi'an and Liu Xiayin were stunned, thinking that they still need to ask?

Of course, it is to occupy those lands as a permanent property for future generations to pass on!

Li Chenan said again: "What you said is one of the aspects, and in my opinion, it is a secondary issue. ”

"Listen to me and tell me what I think the idea is, and if you listen to me, we'll discuss it if you have any questions."

"Let's look at the essence of land annexation, I think it's for the sake of food that is vital in this era!"

"The rich will take the fields from the people, not for the fields themselves, but for the grain that is produced in the fields!"

"The land becomes extremely valuable because of the food it produces."

"Something valuable, it's a commodity...... Don't worry. ”

"I won't talk about this issue for now, let's discuss this issue from the root."

"For the ruler of a country, does he think that the common people have land in their hands, even if the tiller has his land and the dweller has his house, he will think that they will not rebel?"

I can't get that right.

Because the common people really do not rebel when they have land and land.

Su Yi'an and Liu Xiayin both nodded.

"There's one of the biggest problems here!"

Li Chenan leaned over, tapped his fingers aggressively on the table, looked at the surprised two, and said:

"This is a false proposition that does not hold water!"

"Don't worry, listen to me!"

Liu Xiayin swallowed back the words that came to his lips, and listened to Li Chenan again:

"There are two huge problems for ordinary people to farm!"

"The first is that the profits are so low that they have very little income!"

"I think you all know how much the current field yields per mu, wheat is only 150 catties, and rice is only 200 catties!"

"It's a good year!"

"One hundred and fifty catties of wheat is only twelve buckets, and the price of a bucket of wheat is about thirty-five yuan, and one mu of land is converted into four hundred yuan."

"The price of rice is similar, 200 catties of rice, that is, 16 buckets, and an acre of land produces 500 yuan."

"Let's calculate the cost again, taking wheat as an example, if you need wheat seeds for one acre of land, you will count it at 30 catties, and you will have to cut 80 yuan."

"Regardless of the cost of labor, then remove the tax...... According to the lower tax in the early years of the founding of Ningguo. ”

"Two taxes a year, calculated according to one percent of the income from the field, which needs to be deducted forty wen."

"We went to 120 wen, let's not calculate the taxes that are assessed by each locality, one mu of land, the people actually get 280 wen."

"Even if a family plants 50 acres of land, we can get 14 taels of silver a year...... Not counting the money they need to eat, wear, and buy farm tools! ”

"Do the math, after deducting these, how many taels do they have left?"

"I have calculated, if there is no sickness, everything is safe, and there will be about four taels of silver left!"

"That's what a family earns in a year under the best of circumstances!"

"The second is the unpredictable risk!"

"Farming, relying on the sky to eat!"

"No one can guarantee that every year will be a good year, and once there is a disaster year...... Crops in the fields will plummet or even be wiped out! ”

"Even if the officials of the imperial court wisely exempt them from taxes in disaster years, they will have no harvest and can only eat their old capital!"

"Just like that, how long can I eat?"

"If there is no land to plant due to natural disasters, there is no food to eat, and there is no land to eat if there is no food to eat!"

"This is the beginning of a vicious circle!"

"In a century-old dynasty, there will definitely be no shortage of such natural disasters!"

"What then? You can't starve to death, can you? ”

"So, the common people will sell their fields to the local gentry and wealthy families to exchange for some silver to buy grain!"

"Note that the flow of land at this time is not necessarily the gentry and wealthy families who are trying to steal it, but the people who take the initiative to sell it in desperation!"

"And they themselves carried hoes to become tenants for the gentry and wealthy families."

"As a result, their identity changed, from homesteaders to tenants of landlords' families."

"Of course, they can't make a lot of money as tenants, but apart from their own physical strength, the costs they would have to pay are gone."

"They work in the fields for a day, the landlord gives them a day's wages, and when the farm is not working, if they have a craft, they can also weave a pair of straw sandals to make a basket or something, and sell them in the market to subsidize the family."

"In this way, the transfer of risk is completed...... All the risks that were originally borne by themselves were transferred to the gentry and wealthy families. ”

"The state's tax policy for the gentry and wealthy families is different, they don't have to pay taxes or pay less, and even the tenants on their land don't need to be served!"

"After the gentry and wealthy families got those lands, they were still cultivated by those peasants, and after paying the wages of those peasants, they earned more because of the benefits generated by the scale than the peasants themselves!"

"They are more resilient to the risks of natural disasters!"

"As a result, more and more land flowed into the hands of the gentry and wealthy families, but the gentry and wealthy families did not need so many tenants for cost considerations, after all, they were better at calculating costs, which led to a group of people who had neither land nor the qualifications to be tenants!"

"None of them have anything, and the little silver from the land sale will be spent in a short time, what should I do?"

"I still can't starve to death!"

"So, there are homeless people, bandits, and all kinds of unstable factors!"

"They looked at the gentry and wealthy families, believing that it was because of these people that they had encroached on their interests, which led to a contradiction between the two classes."

Li Chenan said freely.

These words completely subverted the views of Su Yi'an and Liu Xiayin-

They believed that the main culprit of the peasants' loss of land was the ingenious seizure of the gentry and wealthy families, but Li Chen'an's words meant the opposite!

Li Chen'an believed that the peasants lost their land, which did not require the gentry and wealthy families to bother to rob it, but those peasants took the initiative to sell it to the rich people in order to survive.

Does that make sense?

The two frowned in contemplation.

Only Xiao Baozi didn't think about it at all.

She was looking at the sky.

The mind is calculating.

The Spring Festival is worth a thousand gold...... Half an hour has passed since I arrived in this small courtyard.

How much gold is wasted?