Chapter Twenty-Eight: Xie Jin's Questioning

Zhu Gaochi was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly asked, "What tricks does Mr. Yang have?" ”

Yang Shiqi bowed slightly: "Since it is the periodic law of the dynasty, then we only need to trace the history, in the great unified dynasty, find out what measures the long-term dynasty of Guozuo has in terms of land annexation, and then compare the measures of the short-lived dynasty of Guozuo, we can get a relatively good and mature solution." ”

Yang Rong nodded secretly, looking for experience and learning lessons from history, this is obviously a proposal of an old man seeking a country.

"This ......."

Zhu Gaochi was a little surprised, he couldn't imagine that Yang Shiqi would come up with a feasible strategy in such a short period of time.

"This coincides with the minister's "Ten Strategies for Taiping".

Xie Jin interjected: "The eight-hundred-year-old Zhou Dynasty is naturally the longest dynasty in the country, and when he was subordinate to Emperor Taizu Gao, he suggested restoring the Jingtian system...... The emperor owns all the land in the world, and the so-called problem of land annexation naturally no longer exists. ”

As soon as these words came out, not only Zhu Gaochi's palms were sweaty, but even Yang Rong couldn't help but glance at him and secretly scolded him for being stupid.

Yang Shiqi was speechless for a while, and said coldly: "Wang Mang of the new dynasty has restored the Jingtian system, and the new dynasty has existed for fourteen years, and it is the shortest among the great unified dynasties with the Qin Dynasty. ”

Xie Jin was speechless, so he simply stopped speaking in a fit of anger.

Yang Shiqi ignored him and deduced it on his own.

"In the 400th year of the Han Dynasty, the Qin system was inherited when the country was founded, that is, land was privately owned and freely bought and sold, and the landowner needed to pay a cultivated land tax to the state, which was 1/15 or 1/30 of the yield per mu, which had collapsed by the Yuan Emperor period."

"In the three hundred years of the Tang Dynasty, in terms of land system, the early stage was the government military system inherited from the Western Wei Dynasty and the Northern Zhou Dynasty, the middle period was the rent regulation, and the later period was the two tax laws."

"In the two Song Dynasty and three hundred years, the land system was not established, and land annexation was not suppressed, that is, the so-called 'rich and poor have no fixed situation, and there is no fixed owner of the land house', and at the same time the privatization of official land was implemented."

"As for the Ming Dynasty, the 'double book' system of yellow books and fish scale books is currently implemented, and the fields and grains are integrated."

Yang Rong endured it and didn't speak, while Zhu Gaochi pondered for a moment and asked.

"So according to the systems of the two Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty, they are actually all different, and there is no commonality, right?"

"Yes and no, there is always something in common."

Yang Shiqi explained seriously: "There are no more than four kinds of land systems, the first is like the Jingtian system in the Zhou Dynasty and the Juntian system in the Sui and Tang dynasties, where the land is owned by the Son of Heaven or the state; The second is that in the Qin and Han dynasties and the Song and Song dynasties, land was completely privatized; The third is to bind land, Dingkou and taxation together like the mid-Tang Dynasty rent modulation, the Song Dynasty Wang Anshi's reform of the 'Fangtian Uniform Tax Law' and the Ming Dynasty's 'double book' system; The fourth is such as the two tax laws in the late Tang Dynasty, which replaced the land levy with household tax. ”

"Then Mr. Yang thinks that Daming should learn from which one? In other words, the current 'double book' system does not need to be changed. ”

Mr. Yang, who Zhu Gaochi wanted to ask, didn't speak, but the other Mr. Yang finally couldn't help it.

"Your Highness, what kind of reference will be talked about later, the solution that Your Majesty wants to get is by no means the first and second!"

Yang Rong said the words that he was holding in his heart, and he felt comfortable.

Zhu Gaochi thought for a few breaths and agreed with Yang Rong's point of view, which was obviously the answer that Yang Rong came up with after figuring out Zhu Di's psychology.

Xie Jin's previous failure to return means that Zhu Di does not agree with the restoration of the state-owned land system of the well-field system or the even-field system.

And since Zhu Di made it clear that the core of the dynastic cyclical law is that land annexation exacerbates the contradiction between man and land, it also shows that Zhu Di does not support land annexation, or unconditional free annexation.

And Yang Shiqi also motioned for him to say first, and Yang Rong continued: "The third type can actually be ruled out, not to mention that His Majesty asked that it means to change." ”

"Not to mention the 'Fangtian Losing Method' of Wang Anshi's change in the Song Dynasty, what Wang Anshi didn't do, our Emperor Gao, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, has done it, and the current 'double book' system is running quite steadily."

“...... But the problem is that, just as the regulation of rents will gradually fail in the process of land annexation, the minister boldly asks, who can guarantee that the 'double book' system will not be the same for another 100 years? ”

After Yang Rong finished what he wanted to say, he leaned back in his chair and drank the half cup of tea that he hadn't finished just now.

Zhu Gaochi was silent.

In fact, Zhu Gaochi is not ignorant of the tricks played by the gentry class, he has experience in governing places.

Zhu Gaochi was in charge of the logistics and grain supply of the Yan army and the governance of the Yan-occupied area during the Jing disaster, and he knew very well that even in the land of Youyan, which had just been restored for not many years, the two-volume system would be a little mismatched after a generation, not to mention that in another hundred years, in another fifty years, it might be completely out of shape.

Therefore, the 'double book' system is likely to become another system design of Zhu Yuanzhang that is only temporarily successful.

"So, we only have a fourth option, right? For example, in the late Tang Dynasty, the two tax laws used household registration tax to replace the field levy and forced labor. Zhu Gaochi asked.

"Maybe you can't help it at all!"

"Didn't so many ministers come up with a way before?"

"If there is a way, why hasn't Han Tang been extended until now?"

"It's an unsolvable problem!"

"Jiang Xinghuo brought it up, he deliberately came to disgust people!"

Xie Jin questioned in a loud voice with some gaffe.

Obviously, the disapproval and temporary embarrassment of colleagues made Xie Jin, who has always been proud of his talent, change his mentality a little.

Of course, judging from the current situation, although Xie Jin said it a little dejectedly, a typical defeatist strategist's remarks, it is not impossible.

All options are ruled out, maybe there is no way? The two tax laws haven't been implemented for long.

After all, if the methods that the previous people came up with were reliable, then the current country name would not be Daming.

Similarly, Xie Jin didn't think that Jiang Xinghuo, who raised this question, would have any way at all.

"Enough!"

The eldest prince Zhu Gaochi was rarely furious.

"Master Xie, you haven't woken up yet, go back and sleep and wake up!"

Xie Jin knew that he was out of shape, so he also made a smoky appearance to cover up, turned around and walked out.

There was a long discussion in the flower hall, and it was not until the lights came on that Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong left under Zhu Gaochi's personal farewell.

Looking at the back of Er Yang leaving, Zhu Gaochi breathed a long sigh of relief.

Perhaps the improved land system based on the two tax laws would satisfy my father.

Zhu Gao Chifu naturally thought of what kind of character this Jiang Xinghuo was, who could actually put forward the earth-shattering truth of the dynastic periodic law...... It would be nice to see them in person and talk to them in person.

It's a pity that his father covered him very tightly and refused to directly break it to let him meet him.

If it weren't for the fact that Junji was smart and heard the name "Jiang Xinghuo", I'm afraid he would still be confused.

And the second brother Zhu Gaoxu is in the edict prison, all this may be inseparable from the second brother who is eyeing the position of the prince.

"Father!"

The little Zhu Zhanji ran over in a middle coat, and Zhu Gaoxu could even see that the child's eyelids were sinking uncontrollably, as if he was extremely sleepy but had been waiting for himself to finish the meeting.

Zhu Gaochi bowed slightly, wanting to hug Zhu Zhanji into his arms.

But he suddenly felt dizzy in front of his eyes, and if it weren't for the eunuchs' best support, he almost fell to the ground.

The moment he felt that he was about to fall, the thought that crossed Zhu Gaochi's mind was that it would be a pity if a talent like Jiang Xinghuo, who was rare in a thousand years, was not used by the country.