Hear the words.

Fusu's face turned red.

He had the heart to defend himself, but he couldn't say anything.

Ji Heng was right.

The imperial court did not want to start the idea of annexation, but after the decree was issued, it was no longer controlled by the imperial court.

The local officials disobeyed the law, and eventually evolved into 'tyranny'.

For example, there are still many government decrees such as 'making the head of Qianqian from Shitian', but I am afraid that the local government will 'execute' it, and the imperial court is not a victim of it.

A look of annoyance appeared in Fusu's eyes.

Ji Heng took a sip.

He roughly guessed Fusu's thoughts.

But he didn't think that the court was really kind.

It's just that the land rent can't be collected, and I want to use this to collect more rent.

And it was the imperial court itself that did not think about it completely.

How can it all be blamed below?

Furthermore.

Great Qin has little control over the Kwantung region, and this kind of decree related to the livelihood of the bottom should have been considered in every way, and the Qin court chose to implement it in a hurry in order to collect more money and grain, which would naturally cause such a disaster, and after the decree was issued, it would not get too much supervision, which would inevitably cause a lot of corruption and become a local carnival.

It will also intensify the oppression and exploitation of the people by officials, aristocrats, and powerful people.

In short.

This is Qin Ting's own mistake!

A thought.

He remembered Wang Anshi's green seedling method.

This is similar to Qin Ting's field order.

During the Northern Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi implemented the green seedling method.

Wang Anshi's original intention was to let the people estimate the grain and wheat production of the year when the people were in short supply and there was a shortage of money and grain, and then borrow money from the government, and return it to the government after the grain was ripe, which was the so-called 'green seedling money'.

The Green Seedlings Law stipulates that the money and grain of the Changping and Guanghui Warehouses, which were previously set up for preparation for famine, will be used as the capital, and will be divided into two periods every year, that is, in the first month and May when sowing is needed and the summer and autumn are not ripe, and the farmers will borrow money and goods from the government on a voluntary basis, and the interest rate will be raised after the harvest, and the taxes will be paid in the summer and autumn.

Wang Anshi's purpose must be good, in order to protect the peasants from the exploitation of usury when the harvest is scarce, so that the peasants will not be annexed by the big landlords when there is no food, and at the same time, the government can get a large amount of income from the 'green seedlings'.

It stands to reason that farmers should cheer at this policy.

After all, the imperial court intervened, and the peasants no longer had to be exploited by the landlords, but in the end it was the local officials who ran to tell each other.

Because in the end, it is the magistrates who benefit.

First of all, the interest rate of the green seedlings interest money, Wang Anshi set the annual interest rate of two cents (20%).

But this is what Wang Anshi stipulated.

The annual interest rate of two cents that fell to the local government initially became two cents at a time, that is, two cents of half-year interest, because the government issued a loan in the spring and a loan in the autumn, so the local officials recovered the principal and interest every six months, and still collected it at two cents, and finally became four cents per year.

When the Seedlings Law is completely crooked, it will become a place to collect as much as it wants.

The maximum interest rate can be as high as a few hundred percent per annum.

Although Wang Anshi's policy says voluntary, this is an administrative order, and the so-called voluntary will eventually become compulsory voluntary, so that it later evolved into a loan if you borrow, and you can get a loan if you don't lend, which not only did not reduce the burden on the people, but increased the burden on the people.

Ji Heng sighed secretly.

He still admires Wang Anshi very much, but many of Wang Anshi's policies are more like sweeping away the accumulated shortcomings, without too in-depth consideration, no effective supervision, and no relevant norms, which ultimately backfired and exacerbated social contradictions.

Qin Zheng is the same.

Without effective oversight, any decree will be distorted.

But if it weren't for the time when they had to change, how many monarchs would be obsessed with change?

It is extremely difficult to achieve a permanent revolution.

Ji Heng sighed: "Daqin created, all parties are pushing forward vigorously, but no one has seen the trap hidden under their feet, some officials may have seen it, but they can't even shout, this is not a very serious problem." ”

Fusu took a deep breath, and he arched his hand and said, "Sir, the harm of land annexation has endangered the world, and I don't know if Mr. has a good way to eradicate it." ”

Ji Heng was silent.

Fusu still insisted.

Ji Heng looked at Fusu staring at himself with blazing eyes, looked at the eyes full of ardent expectation, sighed, and said: "The matter of land production has been the first problem since ancient times. ”

"Eradicating mergers is like driving fish from the abyss."

"It's not that simple."

Fusu gritted his teeth and said, "No matter how difficult it is, it must be solved." ”

He could see that Ji Heng knew the truth of the land annexation better than himself.

Moreover, it is difficult to eradicate the annexation itself, it is already difficult to make a difference at the moment, not to mention that the Qin court is facing many major events of internal and external troubles, and Daqin has no strength to correct it at the moment, and he really has no energy to let himself toss and eradicate the evil of land annexation.

But this is something he can't accept.

The catastrophe is already on the horizon.

If you don't notice it, you can't ignore it?

If we continue to allow the loss of people's land, we are clearly allowing the peasants to become slaves.

Who can bear the heavy pressure of peasants having no land, but having to pay land rent, and being exploited by the aristocracy?

When the peasants can hardly bear their burdens, I am afraid that the world will be in chaos.

How could he not be troubled?

Such a big event, as the eldest son, how could he be afraid of difficulties.

That's not Fusu!

Fusu suppressed the anger in his heart, and said: "What Mr. said is reasonable, but then, you still have to do something." ”

Ji Heng said slowly: "It's a good thing that you have a will. ”

"But this matter is so big, not the emperor's authority, not enough to lift the shady curtain."

"Even if the emperor does not have real power and does not have the trust of the world, it is still difficult to overthrow."

"If this matter is to be relieved for a while, it is enough to repeal the decree of the First Emperor."

"Then re-establish the Tian Zheng of Shang Ying."

"But how to establish the 'letter' of the government, who will supervise the officials, how to crack down on the nobles and merchants, how to make the peasants accept it, etc., do you really think that it can be solved with a lot of blood?"

"And today, the bottom board is still swinging, and the dark tide of aristocratic restoration is surging, and at this time it touches the merger of land and property, which involves too much."

"At the end of the day."

"Qin Ting is a rat trap right now."

"You have an earnest heart, but you don't have the ability to act."

"Even if you have learned about many evils in the place during this trip, you have learned a lot of shady scenes, and you have also seen the darkness of the place, but there are some things that affect the whole body, and those who are not tenacious can bear it, with Daqin's current situation, it is difficult to uncover this black curtain."

"And one of the Jiuqing has a history of governing Su, and he is in charge of the world's land, how can he not know the local annexation, and the harm of the merger?"

"So those who don't say it, it's not the right time!"

Fu Su sat indifferently in front of the desk for a long time, and suddenly sighed and said, "Do you just do nothing and watch Da Qin rot?" If this continues, even if Great Qin solves the nobles of the Six Kingdoms, there will always be new shortcomings, when will the world get real peace? ”

"Those who walk a hundred miles are half ninety." Ji Heng said lightly.

Fusu's complexion changed slightly.

Ji Heng said again: "People are constant, and then they can change; Trapped in the heart, balanced in the mind, and then done; Signify in color, sound in sound, and then metaphor. If you enter, you will not be able to go home, and if you go out, you will be invincible to foreign patients, and the country will die. Then he was born in sorrow and died in peace. ”

"This is Mencius's "Born in Sorrow, Died in Peace."

"It's the same thing."

"If you want Great Qin to exist for a long time, you must forge a system that can operate for a long time."

"This is what the First Emperor is doing right now."

"The most important thing about a long-term system is not necessarily short-term decision-making optimization, but the ability to continuously correct errors."

"The world's accumulation of evils is like a clay pot with a lid."

"These lids must be removed, but which lid to reveal, who will uncover the lid, when, how, to what extent, and what to do after the lid is removed, these are all to be fully taken into account, otherwise it will be a 'lose all the plates if you are not careful'."

"Also." Ji Heng glanced at Fusu coldly a few times, and said indifferently: "Don't take 'Taiping' too seriously." ”

"Throughout history, peace and peace are just ridiculous 'moments' in historical materials, but 'peace and development' should be a country's long-term pursuit."

"Turmoil is the real existence that runs through the long history of mankind."

"What Daqin has to do is to bring peace to the world as much as possible, and make peace last as long as possible."

"But that's not easy to do."

"You're a little too ambitious, and you're too high-eyed."

Fusu's face turned blue.

He arched his hand and said, "It's Fusu who is in a hurry." ”

Ji Heng said lightly: "If you want to hurry, you can't reach it." ”

"If land annexation continues to be left unchecked, it will surely become the greatest scourge in the world, but if we want to completely eradicate it, it is indeed not the best time to do so."

"If you want to eradicate the merger, you must implement the Xintian Law."

"The imperial court has no relevant design, and the rash issuance of a decree will definitely become a tyranny like 'making the head of the Qianqian self-real'."

"Policies will only continue to be used as a justification for local exploitation at the bottom."

"Second, Daqin still has more important things to deal with, compared to the more direct national crisis, land annexation is obviously not an 'important matter', at this time, the big land and industry are fighting, I am afraid that all the forces in the world will not agree, and it is difficult to get recognition."

Fusu was silent.

He knew he was overreacting.

But when he went deep into the local area and saw the local cases of land and property fraud, which were also mixed with all kinds of unjust prisons, and there was even the existence of blatant seizure of land, he was really indignant in his heart, and even wanted the law to be corrected quickly, but under Ji Heng's words, he also understood that it was not the right time.

The merger of land and property involves too much of a stake.

It's not at all something that the imperial court can touch now.

I was too eager.

Fusu lowered his head in shame and said, "Fusu has been taught." ”

Ji Heng said: "You have seen a lot along the way, and you have learned a lot of history, but I can tell you clearly. ”

"You want to learn from history?"

"Impossible!"

"History has not changed at all, it is true that the tools of production have changed, the technology has changed, the clothing has changed, and the diet has changed, but these are just the shell, nothing has changed inside, it is still the same set of laws in the past, but there is more disguise, history turns around, and people will still make the mistakes they should make."

"Everything that happens, it happens for a reason."

"There is hardly anyone in the world who can transcend history, because we all have our own desires and weaknesses."

"All the mistakes, we know."

"But after all, it can't be changed."

"What can be changed is called a shortcoming, and what can't be changed is called a weakness."

"If you want to learn from history, you must go beyond history and overcome your weaknesses."

"If Great Qin wants to transcend the history that should have been destroyed, it is destined to put in a lot of effort and bear a lot of disasters."

"This is the inevitability of history."

"You've just gotten a glimpse of the road, and the road ahead will be even harder."

(End of chapter)