Chapter 152: An Insurmountable Obstacle to Agricultural Improvement

Nei Shiteng, Ba Chen, and Tian Zhen consciously retreated aside.

Feng Shijie looked like he was in the dust, and said, "Your Majesty, Feng Shijie, has come to see the Great Law Order."

Yingcheng raised his hand and said, "In just two days, Xianyang has added 3,000 hidden fields and 3,000 hidden households, what does Feng Neishi think?"

Gurgle.

Feng Shijie's face fell.

I thought that Yingcheng summoned him to come because he had something to explain, but he didn't expect it to be a matter of accountability.

"This!" Feng Shijie lowered his head and didn't know what to say, so he could only say, "The lower official is guilty!"

If His Majesty the First Emperor had asked so now, he would have to kneel down and plead guilty now.

But Yingcheng is not His Majesty the First Emperor after all, so it is naturally impossible to kneel down and ask for guilt, but ...... He couldn't answer!

"Tell me what you think?" Yingcheng asked with a smile.

Feng Shijie took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "Xiaguan, I don't agree to conduct a thorough statistics on the household registration of Xianyang's fields, please make a clear statement!"

Yingcheng paused and asked, "Why?"

"Hey!" Feng Shijie raised his head with a sigh, as a Xianyang Order, he has been in the position of Xianyang Commander for more than ten years, how can he not know what the situation in Xianyang is, he can only sigh: "Xia Guan knows what the situation of Xianyang's field household registration is, this problem is not now, not even since His Majesty ascended the throne, but the situation of more than 500 years of my Great Qin."

"Now this policy is like a broken river and a sparse river, unless the lower officials are alarmist, no matter how strong the embankment is, it will be difficult to stop the turbulent river."

"In detail." This is the first time Yingcheng has met Feng Shijie to oppose him with such a resolute attitude.

The three of them were also silent.

Feng Shijie also seemed to understand that there were some things that were tacitly acquiesced in His Majesty the First Emperor, and he might not be acquiesced in here in Yingcheng, so he immediately said:

"Xianyang alone, since the beginning of my Great Qin Dynasty, there have been a total of seventy-two princes, five hundred and ninety-three feudal monarchs, and as for the other people with titles, there are countless others!"

"For the current Great Qin, Meng Xibai has long been like a yellow flower in the past, and once it is gone, it is the Pinyang Bai Clan, and it can only be slaughtered!"

"This is the elder generation of my Great Qin, before I took the title, even if it declined, I still have the reality of a fief and a fief."

"Although, my Great Qin did not use the actual title of the prince as in the past, and the prince was not allowed to have private soldiers, nor was it allowed to break away from the imperial court's decree, and it could be directly adjusted when the imperial court needed it."

"However, the fiefdom closure has not been abolished and continues to this day."

"The Great Law Decree can know who is the one who really owns the fertile land of Wanqiu?"

Feng Shijie didn't wait for Yingcheng to think about it, and said directly: "The old general of Wucheng Houwang, the fief of the prince of Tongwu and the king of Ben, are all in Pinyang, which can eat 20,000 households, do not have private soldiers, and even have to pay taxes!"

"However, the 20,000 households in it are 20,000 households in more than ten years, and no one knows how many households there are, and as for the specific number of fertile land, no one knows how many households have been cultivated in the past ten years."

"The Wang clan is indeed loyal to Great Qin, and for so many years, there has been no transgression in the sale of grain in various places, but this is just that there is no transgression!"

"As the Great Law Decree thinks, in Xianyang, there are four families with the largest number of private land, four Wang, Li, Feng, and Meng, and these four alone, the fertile land has already exceeded 100,000 hectares!" ….

"And the other feudal monarchs, the former state captains and lieutenants, Jiao Hou Dun weak, Yao Jia, Yao Jia, Wu'an Hou Ma Xing, Xianghou Wang Ling, Zhuyi Hou Shen Brown, Lun Hou Han Cheng, Wuma Hou Linghu Fan, etc., all have large-scale private land in Xianyang."

"Although Xianyang is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, in fact, the hidden household is a lake account, and it is not clear whether it is liquidated or not, and the matter of taxation is even more so, and the tax payment will exceed expectations every year, which is also the reason!"

On the one hand, the lower officials are deeply trusted by His Majesty, and on the other hand, the lower officials are also considered to be of higher status among the many nobles, so even if there are contradictions, the lower officials can also carry out dredging and balancing."

"But now that everything is measured by footsteps, naturally, the hidden fields and hidden households cannot

No matter how hidden, but this is the same, it will involve nearly 600 princes!"

"The Great Law Decree thinks that my Great Qin lives in the middle of the world, and has the land of the Six Kingdoms, spanning tens of thousands of miles, and there has been no land to seal for nearly ten years under the cultivation of the national policy, why, because I can't see any extra fields on the map."

"This is not that there is no land to seal, but that I have cultivated the Warring States Policy for more than 100 years, and I have been living in Great Qin for 556 years, and I am a marquis everywhere!"

"In the same county, there will be no more than two marquises, and that's why it's a lot!"

Yingcheng listened to Feng Shijie's explanation of the problem clearly, clearly, and swept his eyes on Nei Shi Teng and Tian Zhen.

If the two men didn't know, he would have walked backwards.

It's just that.

The two men didn't mention half a point, but just raised the question, which was obvious.

Statistics on the hidden fields and hidden households involve far-reaching, and the small body can't bear it at all.

Relatively speaking, Feng Shijie's figure is more resistant, so Feng Shijie was pulled out.

Nei Shi Teng did not have much foundation in the Qin State, because Nei Shi Teng was a subordinate, and in the past, Nanyang, South Korea was a fake guard, and the position of a fake guard was more similar to that of a supervisor, and the king assigned a place to temporarily take charge of the military and political affairs of the place.

In the Qin State attacked Korea, Nei Shi Teng dedicated Nanyang to Qin, and the first emperor let Nei Shi Teng continue to lead the Nanyang military and government, and the following year he took Nanyang's troops to attack Korea.

is similar to his speed of light, and Nei Shi Teng is also one of the Jiuqing who was exceptionally promoted by the First Emperor.

Nature.

Deeply trusted by the First Emperor and ranked as one of the Nine Emperors, it is not directly related to whether he has a deep background in the Qin State.

For example, Feng Shijie, although he is not in Jiuqing, he relies on his family strength to compete with most of the nobles in Xianyang.

Feng Shijie was able to stay in Xianyang for more than ten years, also because of the Feng family.

Li's army from France is the only one who does not serve in politics, the Wang family only serves in the army, and the Mengshi is also the rise of the military, although there is an outlier called Meng Yi, but it is only in the supervision of the world, and only the Feng family can suppress many nobles in Xianyang.

This is the administrative convenience that comes with status.

And now the situation of this hidden field and hidden household was actually acquiesced in the previous administration of Great Qin.

No wonder the old thief of the First Emperor ran so neatly! ,

No wonder there was little opposition to the collectivization of agriculture in the first place! ,

No wonder there have been so many hidden fields and hidden households in the past few days, and there has been no movement one by one! ,….

Yingcheng was speechless and died.

This is still because he is not deeply involved in the world, and if he is a few more years old, he will understand.

Because he now feels that if he follows the current statistical method, there is no way to solve the problem if a large number of hidden fields and hidden households are counted at that time.

This is not a problem to solve with more cultivated fields and more farmers, but it involves all the nobles accumulated in the five hundred and fifty-six years of Great Qin.

And these nobles are the main force of Great Qin's true domination of the world.

If you can't solve this problem, even if you count it, it's useless.

People don't make trouble at all, they sit firmly and wait to see what he wants to do.

As for taking it back.

If there is no better solution, how to count it, how to erase this part and return it to others.

But if it doesn't work.

With the collectivization of agriculture, taxation could not be implemented.

As a result, education, mining, business, and even propaganda are nothing but words.

"What happened to the Xianyang Agricultural Collective?" Yingcheng asked without further delving into this question.

The Department of Agriculture belongs to the central government, and if it wants to implement agricultural collectivization, in the current situation, it is mainly the county order to do it.

Faced with Yingcheng's question, which stopped abruptly in the middle of the question, Feng Shijie was not surprised, and quickly replied: "At present, the officials of the government are making statistics on the boundaries of each township, and after the statistics are completed, they will be divided."

"It won't be too much of a problem!"

Yingcheng nodded and said, "Regarding the question of Xungui, after I go back, I will set up a special agricultural office, and the previous officials will be recommended by you, and let them enter the palace to see me within three days."

"Since the problem is out, let's find a way to solve it, I don't want any official to stand up and stop me, if you really don't want to be, don't blame me for pulling a random person from the street to replace him, when something bad happens, don't blame me for not reminding me."

Hear the words.

Feng Shijie was stunned, and quickly replied, "Xiaguan should remember the teachings of the Great Law Order."

He understood.

It was not said to him.

And the three of them next to him, Steten, Ba Chen, and Tian Zhen were also shocked in their hearts.

They didn't see any intention of backing down from Yingcheng's attitude.

He also hurriedly responded, "Your Majesty should remember the teachings of the Great Law."

"Let's go down if it's okay!" Yingcheng waved his hand.

"Retire!" The four of them no longer had any doubts, and gradually set off an uneasy retreat in their hearts.

Looking at the four people who left, Yingcheng also sighed lightly in his heart.

Regarding the issue of the hidden field, he still needs to think about it seriously.

Come up with a foolproof plan to reach a consensus with Xungui.

The collectivization of agriculture on a li-by-li basis must be carried out.

But what kind of way can make Xungui accept.

Before the Spring and Autumn Period, the well field system was practiced, which was actually public ownership.

That is, the land is owned by the imperial court, and the ruler divides the land to the slave owner, who is responsible for managing the land under his jurisdiction, such as princes, ministers, nobles, etc., specifically divides the land into "well" shaped fields and hands them over to the people to cultivate, of which the middle piece is public land, and the output belongs to the slave owner, and the remaining eight pieces are private fields, and the output belongs to themselves. ….

Taxes were not paid directly to the imperial court, but upwards, with each layer paying tribute to the next.

After the Spring and Autumn Period, the practice was the private ownership of land.

At first, as in the case of the nobles now, with the increase in the population of the people and the optimization of agricultural tools, the people cultivated a large number of private fields, which were not included in the statistics of the princes and kings, and naturally there was no tax, but the increase in population increased the burden on the state, and only then began to recognize the private ownership of land.

For example, the Qi State's "Land and Decline Levy" and the Lu State's "Initial Tax Mu" are the beginning of recognizing the existence of land and starting to collect taxes.

And the private ownership of land in the Qin State also began with the Shang Dynasty Reform Law, and the small townships were gathered into counties, and the orders and Cheng were all thirty-one counties. For Tian Kaiqian Mo to seal the territory, and pay taxes. ,, in fact, it is to waste the well field, open the Qianmo, reward cultivation and weaving and fighting, and implement the method of joint sitting.

In the previous few years, in the 31st year of the First Emperor, the implementation of the 'Qianshou Zi Shitian), not only formally determined the private ownership, but also the private owner could report the amount of possession to the government, and the imperial court verified it as the basis for expropriating the land tax.

So this is a legacy problem, although it is counted, but it seems that there is no statistics.

And after Qin.

Yingcheng thought about it carefully, the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, inherited the Qianshou from the real field system, and improved it into a household system.

What he remembered most was the crossing of Ziwang Mang.

It is also a way to solve land annexation.

Wang Mang's new policy restored the public ownership system and restored the well field system, and it seems that in his memory, the male population of the clan was the standard, so as to demarcate the land owned by individuals and distribute the excess land to the clan neighbors.

In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Juntian system was used, and he was also deeply impressed by this system, which was used until the early Tang Dynasty.

In fact, it is generally a farmland system that connects the upper and lower levels, and the equalization system distributes barren land to the people according to the population.

After the Anshi Rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, the central government of the Tang Dynasty did not have the ability to control the household registration of the acres of land, and the authority of the field endowment was transferred to the local counties, and the total amount of taxes was determined by the imperial court, which was levied by the local government according to the number of assets and acres, and the summer and autumn were levied twice, and that is

It is a two-tax law.

In the Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi changed the Fangtian Average Tax Law, measured the land once a year, divided the fields into five grades, and distributed the fixed taxes, forming a heavy tax on fertile land and a light tax on barren land, and no tax was levied on pitang, roads, ditches, graves, and wasteland that did not produce.

A whip law in the Ming Dynasty grouped the land levy, forced labor and other miscellaneous taxes of each state and county into one article, combined the collection of silver taels, and paid according to the conversion per mu.

In the Qing Dynasty, the number of people was used as a fixed number of Ding tax, and then "breeding people and never increasing the tax", and then the fixed Ding tax was evenly distributed into the field tax, and a unified land Ding silver was collected, and people were no longer the object of collection.

In addition to this, there is also the tuntian system, and to a certain extent, the tuntian system is the collectivization of agriculture.

However, no matter what the system is, the reason for the change is because of the contradictions in land annexation and the emergence of large-scale tax evasion.

And Daqin's problems in these two aspects are not small.

As Feng Shijie said, it is caused by the accumulation of generations of nobles, and this problem should not only exist in Xianyang, but also in all parts of the world, but Xianyang is the most serious place.

In dealing with this issue, we cannot arrest whoever takes the lead, as Li Si did, nor can we adopt the method of pulling and stepping on this collective.

Li Si's rebellion was originally in line with the interests of the great Qin's successive nobles, because they were also the backbone of maintaining the stability of Great Qin.

Pulling and stepping on one can solve most of them, but this will definitely cause a rapid split in the entire Great Qin basic plate.

Internal divisions are often the most terrifying.

And the strategy from north to southeast that the First Emperor is now carrying out is actually the conquest of the First Emperor with the Great Qin base and the former Chu nobles.

If he cuts the middle of Daqin's basic plate in the back, something will happen.

"It's a headache!"

Yingcheng couldn't help pinching his head, thinking so hard that his head was about to explode.

But this is another urgent matter.

When the seeds are sprinkled in the fields and then divided, he will have to wait until after the autumn harvest to make another plan.

The years are like dreams