After having lunch and resting for a while, Li Jing and the others set off again, walked around, and came to an orchard.

The red fruit is really attractive, just when everyone walked all the way, their mouths were already dry, and when they saw that there was no trace of people around, they planned to pick some fruit to quench their thirst.

"You go pick some fruit and come back, and don't forget to leave some money for buying fruit."

Li Jing asked Ximenyang to pick fruits.

Ximenyang immediately rolled up his sleeves, came to the fruit tree, picked a few juicy fruits, wiped them on his body, and took a bite, which tasted sweet and delicious.

"Childe, please taste it."

He returned to Li Jing with a pile of fruits, picked up a fruit and handed it to Li Jing.

Li Jing took the fruit, wiped it casually, and took a bite, it was really sweet and juicy.

At this moment, two people dressed as farmers appeared, standing in the distance and watching, not daring to come.

Li Jing guessed that they might be fruit farmers here, and they had to go over to talk to them and pay them for the fruits if they had eaten other people's fruits.

"Uncle, did you plant this fruit?"

Li Jing walked up to the two fruit farmers and asked.

"Yes, if you like it, you can eat as much as you like, eat as much as you like!"

A farmer said hurriedly, with a look of fear on his face.

Li Jing raised his eyebrows, is he so terrible? As for the scared shivering?

Seeing Li Jing raise his eyebrows, the two farmers were half frightened to death, for fear that if they said something wrong, they would make the master in front of him unhappy, and let him eat it casually, is he still not satisfied?

The Han nobles are really difficult to serve, even more difficult to serve than the nobles of Linyi Kingdom.

"Don't be afraid, my Datang is a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, how much is your fruit a catty, we will give you money, and we will definitely not lose a penny of your money."

Picking fruits to eat and giving money to others, that is a matter of course, Datang is a state of etiquette, and the Tang Army is a righteous teacher, these people will be the subjects of Datang in the future, and they can't do shameless acts!

The two farmers did not expect that the Han nobles were so good at talking, and they were willing to give money after eating the fruit, and the two of them had never seen such a kind nobleman.

However, with their years of understanding of the aristocracy, this may just be a kind word from others, just say it, if you believe it, you will be unlucky!

The two of them are serfs who grow fruits for the nobles of Champa, even if the other party really wants to give money, it is impossible to give them such serfs, and if they want to give it, it will also be for the noble lord.

"You're polite, you're polite! These fruits really don't cost money, you can eat them as you like!"

The two serfs hurriedly said.

Anyway, this orchard belongs to the aristocratic lord, even if he has an opinion on the Han nobles, it has nothing to do with their serfs, and his own aristocratic lord is looking for these Han people to settle accounts.

"This fruit is good, taste it too!"

Li Jing stuffed the fruit into the hands of the two of them, and there were good things to share, although it was a bit of a taste of borrowing flowers to offer Buddha.

The serfs held the fruit in their hands and couldn't help but tremble, this fruit was exclusive to the nobles, let alone eating it on weekdays, they didn't even dare to think about it.

The nobles would not allow them to eat it, even if it rotted on the tree, they would let them taste it.

The two serfs looked at each other, and finally picked up the fruit and took a hard bite.

"Woo woo, it's so delicious, it's the first time I've eaten such a delicious fruit, it's really delicious!"

The serfs cried while eating, they planted a generation of fruits, this is the first time in their lives to taste fruits, only to know that fruits are so delicious, no wonder the nobles of Champa like such fruits.

It's so delicious, he's never eaten anything so delicious, it's worth it in his life!

"Hey, you grow fruits, haven't you eaten fruits?"

Li Jing is very curious, there are home-grown fruits there, and he doesn't eat them, no matter how greedy he is for money, and he wants to sell all the fruits of the tree, there are always one or two broken fruits in this whole tree!

Even if they are reluctant to eat the good and half of the fruit is bad, they should have eaten it, how can it look like they have never eaten it!

"We are serfs who grow fruits for the Cham nobles, let alone eat fruits, the Cham nobles would rather let the fruit rot on the trees than give us serfs to eat, if we dare to steal it, we will be beaten half to death."

In Champa, serfs were like cattle, with no human rights at all, and the Cham nobles preferred to feed all the fruits to the cattle than to give a bite to the serfs they planted.

This is why the serfs were so excited, this was the first time in their lives that they had eaten such delicious fruit.

"Haha, it's okay now, in the future, you will be from the Tang Dynasty, you can eat as much as you want, I am in charge, from today you are free, and this orchard belongs to you."

Serfs belonged to the private property of noble masters, and the masters could dispose of them at will, and no one would care if they were killed.

If Li Jing wants to break the original system of Linyi State and re-import the culture, writing, and system of the Tang Dynasty to it, he must abolish the caste system of Linyi State.

Then start with the emancipation of the serfs, fight the nobles, divide the land, and let the serfs turn over and become the masters of the house.

Let all untouchables, serfs, etc. become free people, register their household registration, and become a member of the Datang tax paying army.

Destroy the heavy burden on the shoulders of the untouchables, serfs, and other people at the bottom of society, and remove the shackles around the necks of these toiling people, so that they can also enjoy the welfare of ordinary people.

The serfs couldn't believe that the nobles could have such kindness and would give them the orchard?

Killing them didn't believe that it would be true, the world was as black as a crow, and there was no good person among the nobles, and they would definitely not have any good intentions to give them this orchard.

"Master, if you have any orders, just say, we will do it, this garden is the garden of the nobles, we don't dare to ask for it, it will kill people."

The serf hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to Li Jing.

Li Jing was also speechless, he really wanted to divide all the land privately occupied by the nobles of Linyi Kingdom to these people, so that these people could have fields to cultivate, be self-sufficient, and give them freedom.

Why wouldn't they want to? Could it be that I am used to being a serf and can't change it for a while?

"Okay, you get up first, your original noble lord has transferred his garden to me, I have the right to dispose of here, from now on, you are no longer serfs!"

"We are not serfs, then...... So what are we? ”

"You are free people, and you are truly free from now on!"

"Is it as free as the Shudra?"

Li Jing didn't know how to answer for a while, the Shudra was the lowest rank in the caste system, and the untouchables and serfs were even lower than the Shudra.

"Sort of!"

"But we are all untouchables, how can we become Shudras?"

"I said you could!"

"Are you a Brahmin nobleman? But why do you want to give us freedom......

This can't be rectified for Li Jing, how can this be explained?

Forget it, the explanation is not clear, so I simply don't explain, and when I go back, I will let Han Shizhong register all the land privately occupied by the nobles of Linyi Kingdom and return it to the government.

Then let these serfs get out of slavery and become free people with official household registration.

Li Jing didn't talk too much nonsense with them, and directly left them fruit money, so he left in a hurry with Ximenyang and others, and returned to the palace of Zhancheng before closing the city gate in the evening.

After dinner, Li Jing asked about the progress of papermaking, and the papermaker told him that the manure paper had reached the last step, and when the wet paper was dried and peeled off, it would become paper.

Li Jing was very satisfied, and rewarded the papermaker with some delicious wine and food, which made the papermaker happy, and thanked Li Jing for his kindness!

……

"Wechen see the saint!"

Han Shizhong, who was summoned, respectfully saluted Li Jing.

I thought to myself that it was so late, and the emperor must have summoned him to have something big happening.

"Han Aiqing, you must be curious, I summoned you so late, is there something wrong?"

Li Jing pointed to the stool on the side and motioned for Han Shizhong to sit down and talk, there is only one thing to find Han Shizhong today, that is, about land reform.

In fact, the land reform is to move the interests of the aristocracy, distribute the interests of the aristocracy to the poor masses, unite the imperial court with the broad masses of the people, and break the irrational land tenure relationship.

Land reform will not work in the land of the Tang Dynasty, once it is done, it will completely anger all the nobles, and let those nobles collude together to harm the foundation of the Tang Dynasty.

But the land of Linyi is different, and if the Tang Dynasty wants to completely rule this land, it must liberate the untouchables here, so that they can have their own fields like ordinary people, so that everyone can have food.

Even if the nobles of Linyi Kingdom have opinions, it doesn't matter, if they dare to oppose the Tang Dynasty, it will be a big deal to send troops to fight again.

"Are all the populations in the area under the jurisdiction of the Zhennan Metropolitan Government registered in the household register? Has the field been re-measured? ”

Li Jing asked.

"After the measurement of the Governor's Mansion, except for the private land in the hands of the nobles of the former Linyi State, the land belonging to the government is only four or five hundred thousand mu."

"The number of registered households in various states and counties is about 100,000, and the rest are unregistered slaves!"

Han Shizhong answered truthfully that because of the caste system implemented in Linyi State, untouchables were equivalent to slaves in the eyes of the aristocracy, and they did not treat untouchables as human beings at all.

Even the Shudras with a large population base are servants in their eyes.

It is the three castes that can really be counted as people, and these people are registered in the states.

"Under the rule of my Datang, there are no slaves, let alone a caste system, Tianzhu's set is not suitable for a place under the rule of Datang!"

"All those who were not registered in the household registration were recorded, and all the land forcibly occupied by the nobles was confiscated to the imperial court, and all the people who did not have land were given land."

In order to carry out land reform in Zhennan Province, it is first necessary to seize the land of the nobles, abolish the untouchables, and let the untouchables, who are regarded as cattle, obtain the status of free people.

Then, according to Datang's equalization system, they will be given land and after obtaining benefits, they will naturally support Datang.