Chapter 251 Land Reform
Zhang Daoling has been preaching in various famous mountains and rivers all his life, and has never set foot in the prosperous land of Beijing, although he is famous, the aristocratic class is very unfamiliar with him.
This time, in order to preach the doctrine, he also fought hard, wearing a cyan Taijitu robe, with snow-white long hair fluttering in the wind, and his hand whisked dust.
Standing on the high platform for divination, the movements are like flowing clouds, elegant and calm, just this appearance, with its worldly charm, conquered most of the courtiers on the scene.
Zhang Tianshi usually uses drawing talismans to heal and snaring disciples, but at this time, if you want to be impressive, this method is not brilliant.
However, if you can live to be one hundred and three years old and create your own teaching, how can you not have some unique ability.
After the regular worship to the heavens, Liu Zhi carefully arranged a blessing activity for him, and on the first day of the new year, he prayed for the national fortune of the Han Dynasty.
This time, he changed into a pure white robe, with wide robes and large sleeves, which were spotless.
Holding a breeze sword, stepping on the seven stars, graceful, brushing his sleeves, suddenly clouds and mist, as if in a fairyland.
Liu Zhi watched it with great interest, such a pleasing large-scale magic show, he hadn't seen it for some years, so nostalgic.
However, the people of the Han Dynasty who are short-sighted can be fooled lightly, and the witchcraft of those who pretend to be gods and dance gods on weekdays is simply incomparable to this.
Liu Zhi swept his eyes at the stunned crowd, and a sense of superiority arose, sample, look at your little bit of talent, this is shocking?
In his experience, this is just the beginning, and the best is yet to come.
Sure enough, Zhang Daoling lived up to expectations, his big sleeves fluttered, there was no fire spontaneously combusted on the tip of the sword, and the blue-green flames swayed in the wind, igniting everyone's eyes.
There was a burst of fairy mist, and the snow-white robe on Zhang Daoling's body actually changed color in an instant, becoming a yellow robe.
The audience resounded one after another pumping sounds, and this wonderful performance completely conquered them, and they admired the five-body body one by one.
Even Liu Zhi, who is used to seeing big scenes, has to admire.
You must know that in ancient times, there were not so many scientific and technological sound and light equipment and chemical supplies, and it really relied on hard skills to be able to play such an effect.
After a blessing event, Zhang Daoling has completely conquered the nobles of the Han Dynasty.
At the end of the event, many people immediately gathered around, and their eyes lit up.
"The old immortal's methods are really incredible!"
"Sure enough, he is worthy of being a person who has entered the immortals, and a real person has the ability to reach the sky."
"No wonder Your Majesty respects him and treats him as a national teacher, he is really a living immortal."
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In the face of praise, Zhang Daoling was calm and calm, unmoved, and a good image of a master outside the world who is not happy with things and does not feel sad about himself.
On the same day, the streets and alleys of the Jingshi spread, and they all said that Zhang Daoling was a land immortal, and his means reached the sky.
Liu Zhite issued an edict to reward him with a splendid pavilion group in the West Garden as a Taoist palace, which was renamed the Heavenly Master Taoist Palace on the same day, and the emperor personally gave a plaque.
Zhang Daoling led his disciples and grandchildren to live in, during the Spring Festival, the Heavenly Master Palace incense was prosperous, and there was an endless stream of dignitaries and nobles.
In a short period of time, the fame of the Heavenly Master Dao resounded throughout the land of Beijing, and all kinds of miracles of him were talked about everywhere.
Alchemy and cultivating immortals were originally ethereal, but because they were too mysterious, they were prohibitive, which was also an obstacle to the spread of Taoism.
But the unnatural phenomena seen with one's own eyes are real, and people have to choose to believe it, coupled with the fact that His Majesty the Emperor personally punched in and promoted him, Taoism quickly swept the country at the fastest speed.
The situation is very good, but Liu Zhi is getting busier and busier, and the country is gradually on the right track, and it is impossible to be as dazed and disorderly as before.
After many rounds of negotiations, a new land policy has finally been released.
Liu Zhi abolished the "oral tax" and "tax calculation", no longer had a poll tax, and added all taxes to the number of acres.
This is modeled after the Qing Dynasty period of the apportionment of the mu system, but the scope of the acres is more extensive, including dry land, mountain forests, grasslands, water areas and so on.
Due to the different fat and thinness of the fields, the tax is levied according to the third class, and it is strictly forbidden to abandon the land, whether you plant or not, it is charged according to the quantity.
The collection method can be grain, or it can be converted into copper coins, which is more flexible.
Considering that many ordinary people no longer had land, Liu Zhi decided to carry out a large-scale inventory of the land across the country, and re-measured, and all the land that belonged to the ingenious seizure must be returned.
If the number and area of acres of land do not conform to the government's registration, they should also be cleared, and the people should be organized to reclaim the land, and the reclaimed land could be distributed to the peasants.
Daxing water conservancy, several famous Daze such as Yunmengze, Juyeze, etc., through dredging the river, carrying out embankment drainage and other measures, man-made a large number of fertile land.
In addition, the land returned by the previous clean-up of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, as well as the land recovered after the bandits in various places, is barely enough for redistribution.
According to the distribution of 100 acres for every 15-year-old male, 20 acres of thin land, 80 acres of fertile land, and a large area of water, part of which can be converted into water surface.
Combined with the Tang Dynasty's Yongye Tian and Kou division system, 20 mu is reserved for self-retained land, and 80 mu is owned by the state, and if the number of family members changes, it will be redistributed.
If there is no son in the family and the daughter does not marry, the land may be allocated according to the same qualifications.
Owner-occupied land is private property that can be rented or bought or sold for a maximum period of ten years.
The land belongs to the state and cannot be rented or transferred, and if it is converted to work or reduced to slavery, it must be recovered.
In terms of servitude, it was also distributed according to the number of acres of land, and the large families had a large number of slaves, but they served according to the number of households, resulting in a shortage of the national labor force.
Military service is still based on the size of the population, and in view of the decreasing number of registered populations, it is stipulated that anyone who carries ten private soldiers in military service can directly become recruits.
And so on, but the number of private soldiers is limited to fifty, and the maximum can be a team.
This is also equivalent to opening another promotion channel for the children of rich families who are not good at reading, but after enlisting in the army, private soldiers must obey the command in a unified manner.
Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Yuzhou and other densely populated places with insufficient land will relocate part of the population to live in the meandering area.
Artisans and businessmen can move to their usual place of residence and there is no longer a mandatory hukou restriction.
In addition, a tiered system was adopted for the taxation of domestic slaves, with a tax of one-third higher than that of fifty slaves.
and for those above a hundred, it is doubled, if it is more than two hundred, it is doubled, if it is more than five hundred, it is doubled, and if it is more than a thousand, it is tripled.
In view of Wang Mang's lesson, Liu Zhi did not bluntly demand that the family's land be recovered, but modified the way taxes were collected to make them bear more responsibility.
These measures have effectively reduced the burden on the peasants and increased the state tax revenue, and the only dissatisfaction is that the family is strong, but because it is within the acceptable range, it also chooses to accept it with forbearance.
Liu Zhi and his staff members worked hard to listen to the opinions of many parties before promulgating these policies.
The timing is also just right, and it was chosen after the rectification of the rule of officials, otherwise, there would be no way to implement the land distribution alone.
Liu Zhi issued an edict stating that if it is reported that there is a suspicion of fraud during the inventory and distribution of land, he will be severely punished.
As for the five-year national plan, this year's plan has basically been decided, and the implementation of the new land policy alone will take more than half a year.
There are also regular spring plowing and autumn harvests, as well as a large number of water conservancy projects, and huge amounts of labor reclamation tasks, and the affairs of various magistrates have long been filled.
Moreover, land reclamation and water conservancy projects cannot be completed in one or two years, and must be carried out on the premise of ensuring agricultural production.
In this era, there was no machinery, and it was all carried by manpower, and it would take several years to build an ordinary-sized reservoir.
However, the development of gunpowder is in full swing, and there is almost a relatively stable formula.
In the future, it can be used to blow up mountains and build roads, and when the time comes, it can greatly improve the construction efficiency of water conservancy projects.
However, this is still a secret for the time being, and he does not plan to say it, after all, the main use of gunpowder at present is still war.
Up to now, there are still very few people who know that he is ambitious and wants to recover the Western Regions and Liaodong, Liaoxi and Yazhou.
Of course, it would be better if the Silk Road was further opened up and the silk and porcelain trade could be restarted.
Be a little more daring, open the sea route, and engage in a maritime trade war...... The Great Han may be able to become the center of the earth, the real country of heaven and Han.
Ahem, that's all an afterthought, I can only say that there is one possibility, now he is still doing it step by step, little by little.
It's better to be an emperor with dreams than to do nothing, isn't it?
Therefore, Dahan's first five-year plan basically revolved around the theme of improving agricultural production.
First of all, it is necessary to fill the stomach before it is possible to think about other things.
Daze was harnessed, river embankments were built, and a number of reservoirs were built to supervise agricultural production and improve output and efficiency.
How to prevent and reduce disasters is also an important issue that cannot be avoided.
After all, over the years, various natural disasters have continued one after another, and it has almost become the norm, and the construction of water conservancy facilities is itself to cope with the occurrence of drought and flood disasters.
In view of the frequent earthquakes in recent years, Liu Zhi issued an edict on ground earthquake relief, instructing the local government and the people on how to escape correctly when the earthquake came, and minimize the disaster.
Fortunately, over the years, although there have been many earthquakes, the magnitude is not very high, according to modern standards, it is estimated that the highest is a few tenths of magnitude, and most of them are around three or four magnitudes.
For the rest of the hailstorms, wind plagues and locust plagues, the imperial court also brainstormed and formulated coping strategies, which naturally incorporated many of Liu Zhi's later ideas and practices.
Although he only received nine years of compulsory education, this knowledge was already very awesome for the ancients, who were seriously lacking in scientific knowledge.
Is...... It's full of superiority.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Liu Zhi promulgated all the policies, and by the way, he issued an edict stipulating that today is the Lantern Festival, officially determining another traditional festival in China.
On this day, Jingshi was lit up everywhere and celebrated all night.
During the Xiyuan period, the people of Luoyang were the first to feel the peace.
Since the death of Emperor Shun, the change of regime has been like a watch, which has directly led to the turmoil of the imperial court.
The so-called gods fight, the small people suffer, and the people of Jingshi are alive and trembling, and the day is precarious.
Now that His Majesty has ruled the country, stabilized the regime, and put an end to the decade-long strife, it is definitely a great thing for the people to applaud.
At present, the only variable is that when there is no heir today, combined with the experience of the Eastern Han Dynasty in the past 100 years, this is a big problem that cannot be avoided.
So after the Spring Festival, the old ministers of the clan repeated the old tune and began to urge him to draft a concubine.
The big truth was pressed down, and the ministers of the court all followed suit, and Ma Rong, the Taifu who never wrote a book, also spoke up.
"The crown prince is the foundation of the country, if His Majesty has no children, the people's hearts are unstable, and the dynasty is shaken, which is a taboo for the country."
This is so reasonable, Liu Zhi was speechless, for the courtiers, this is an empirical matter, who made the Han Dynasty have a short life for several generations of kings, and there are few heirs.
Didn't he Liu Zhi ascend to the great treasure as a vassal king? In history, Emperor Huan of Han's son died early, and the throne fell to Emperor Ling of Han.
If he didn't pay attention to this issue, even if he didn't care who the throne passed to, his subjects wouldn't think so.
It is hard to guarantee that they have taken care of their thoughts, which is indeed crucial to the stability of their own regime.
The Empress Dowager Yun Ming was persuaded by several clan elders and also joined the urging army.
Secretly, there began to be remarks pointing to the only woman in the harem, Deng Meng.
said that she was a charming emperor, but she couldn't give birth to a prince, she was so jealous and mean, etc., so that Deng Meng couldn't stand it in the end, and took the initiative to ask Liu Zhi to choose a concubine.
In the case of public words, Liu Zhi finally relented and tentatively scheduled for this autumn draft.
All unmarried women between the ages of 15 and 20 who have a clean family background, outstanding appearance and good character can voluntarily sign up.
At the same time, an order was issued to select the sons of the family, and to recruit women over the age of 12 to enter the palace for a period of five years, when the time comes, they will be sent home to marry.
When entering the palace, a certain amount of compensation will be given to the family, and there will be monthly money for the maid in the palace, and the travel expenses will also be issued when leaving the palace.
This is equivalent to working in the palace, and there is a glimmer of hope that the sparrow will become a phoenix and climb the high branch of the emperor.
Retreat to the second, even if you can be a female official in the palace, it is good.
At the same time, the inner government also openly recruited embroiderers, musicians, kitchen workers and other technical talents, of course, the wages are also more generous.
Although the draft is scheduled for August, many people will be busy with the preliminary preparations from the summer.
Although Liu Zhi repeatedly emphasized that he was not ready to choose a concubine on a large scale, he couldn't stand the fact that many families wanted to stuff people into the palace.
Such a young and promising emperor, and the harem is empty, if you don't work hard, it's just a tyrannical thing, is there?
Maybe his family can still have a queen and shine on the lintel.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, being a relative was not a shameful thing, it meant power.
As for the emperor's announcement that relatives are not allowed to hold positions above the fifth rank, it is also easy to do, with policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom.
You only need to use the daughter of the side branch of the family, or the kind that the father and brother themselves are not promising.
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