"The first one is too radical, the third one is too long, and the second one is appropriate, but there are many problems."

Inside the Fan Building, Fan Zhongyan listened to Zhao Jun's thoughts and raised objections.

Zhao Jun said while picking up vegetables: "I also think that the second article is the most appropriate, what are the specific problems, you can say it first, this kind of thing is also a step by step, and if you encounter problems, you will solve them." ”

"The most unreasonable thing in it is to prohibit land sales, and when this article comes out, I'm afraid that landlords all over the country will oppose it en masse, I'm afraid it won't work."

Fan Zhongyan shook his head and said.

The reason why the Great Song Dynasty had serious land annexation was that there were no restrictions on land annexation since the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. In the past, the practice of various dynasties and generations was to prohibit land transactions in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.

For example, the Jingtian system that began in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the tuntian system in the Western Han Dynasty, the land occupation system implemented in the Jin Dynasty, and the Juntian system from the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the early Tang Dynasty were all like this.

It's just that it is generally just like this at the beginning, and when the time passes later, and in the middle and late dynasties, the system will be broken, and all kinds of nobles, officials, landlords, and powerful people have occupied the land, thus forming the fact that the land annexation is serious in the middle and late dynasties.

On the contrary, the Song Dynasty was really wonderful, and it did not prohibit buying and selling from the beginning, so that the land annexation was serious in the early days of the dynasty. Under such circumstances, the fact that the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty can still live for more than 300 years can be regarded as a miracle among miracles.

"As far as the Great Song Dynasty is concerned, which dynasty did not prohibit land trading in the early days? During the Wang Mang period, he even dared to nationalize the country's land, if Lao Zhao forgot it, he wouldn't scold him this time. ”

Zhao Jun originally wanted to scold Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi's brothers, but thinking that Zhao Guangyi could scold, Zhao Kuangyin was his direct ancestor, so he could only keep his mouth shut in the end.

Who made the ancestors not angry?

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhao Kuangyin had the ability to carry out land restructuring and improve the situation of land annexation.

But in order to emphasize literature and light military force, he first asked a large number of military generals and nobles under his command to hand over their military power and go home to buy fields for retirement. He also elevated the status of the literati and allowed them to legally occupy the land.

For a time, the military generals of Wenchen wantonly divided the land, and because the imperial court could not prevent them from dividing the land, their relatives and interest groups began to follow suit and divide it for the second time.

As a result, less than 100 years later, the powerful people from all walks of life followed suit, and after the three partitions, there were not many yeoman farmers left in the country, and the land was seriously annexed.

In the final analysis, Zhao Kuangyin thought that the generals of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms were too terrible, and made concessions first in order to appease them, which led to the opening of this opening and precedent, and the imperial court did not care about land annexation anymore, so that there was a land enclosure carnival among the people.

So Zhao Kuangyin has Zhao Kuangyin's difficulties, and Zhao Jun doesn't want to understand his difficulties.

But it's okay to insult the collateral ancestor Zhao Guangyi, but insulting the direct ancestor is still a bit contrary to the ancestors for the Han people who worship their ancestors, and they didn't open their mouths to criticize after all.

"Let's think about a solution first."

Fan Zhongyan said.

"What's your idea?"

Zhao Jun asked rhetorically.

Fan Zhongyan thought for a while and said, "Let's cancel the prohibition on land sales." ”

"After the cancellation, they may not be sold to the government."

"But if the government's purchase price is higher, won't they be able to buy it?"

"I'm afraid you want to engage in power and money transactions all over the country, collude with officials and businessmen, and let the imperial court buy land at a high price."

Zhao Jun shook his head and said, "This is not a problem that can be solved by simple supervision. ”

Originally, the sale of land was prohibited, and corruption would definitely occur when the government bought it back, but it was manageable.

Because in the last national census and land measurement, the imperial history and statistics bureaus of various roads had already checked the land and registered it.

There are three types of land: excellent, good and inferior, and when you buy back, you can directly trade according to the quality plus the market price at that time.

Once the prohibition on buying and selling is lifted, then there is a lot of room for maneuver in the middle.

For example, find someone to raise the price, or the big landlords continue to buy land, hold the land in the county, raise the land price, and force the government to buy it at a high price.

It's like buying a house, obviously there aren't many people living in a community, but the real estate speculation group bought the entire community and raised the price, aren't the people still suffering?

Therefore, the prohibition of land buying and selling is similar to the concept of housing restriction orders, forcing landlords to sell land to the government at a flat price.

If you really follow what Fan Zhongyan said, it will be called a bad thing.

However, General Fan also had a reason to object: "I think the reform should still be arranged within the existing framework, as you said yourself, it is easy to get the eggs when you take a big step, and directly prohibit land transactions, doesn't that force those landlords to rebel?" ”

"Well, the skull hurts, it's a dojo in the snail shell. In that case, there is only one last option. ”

Zhao Jun rubbed his temples.

Fan Zhongyan wondered: "What way?" ”

"Kill."

Zhao Jun shrugged: "What else can be done." ”

"Murder again?"

Fan Zhongyan was speechless and said, "Are you addicted to murder?" ”

Don't look at Zhao Jun, it seems that he hasn't led troops to fight all these years, but in fact, he has only more lives on hand than Fan Zhongyan, not less than him.

First of all, before he came to power, he swept away the underworld and eliminated the evil, Kaifeng Mansion Sanssouci Cave, Ghost Fan Lou and other underworld forces, that is to clear I don't know how much, the head cut off outside the East City is not 10,000, it is estimated that there must be 8,000.

The second is that he patrolled the whole country, executed one corrupt official when he saw it, and did not show mercy, killing hundreds of officials involved in the Huainan disaster relief money corruption case alone.

Finally, there was last year's corruption case in the army, and almost half of the hundreds of generals were killed by him. Then there was the purge of the army, thousands of middle and lower-ranking officers, and tens of thousands of soldiers involved in the case, who died, exiled, and imprisoned.

It can be said that Zhao Jun has killed 30,000 or 40,000 people, and it is estimated that there are more than 100,000 people who have been exiled and imprisoned, which can be said to be much more than Fan Zhongyan killed enemies on the battlefield.

So why isn't it so influential?

Because all this Zhao Jun did was reasonable and legal, and it was within the normal framework.

Zhao Kuangyin also executed thousands of corrupt officials, exiled their families, and killed tens of thousands, and I didn't see anyone in later generations talking about this.

Therefore, unless there is a political purpose like the four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty, abnormal cases will attract the attention of the world, ordinary anti-gang and evil, and crackdown on corruption, isn't that what wise monarchs often do in all dynasties? Why bother to write about it?

Therefore, in summary, what Zhao Jun caught was legal and compliant, and with the support of the civil and official group represented by Zhao Zhen and the Constitutional Yuan, this can be done.

In this way, the people who wrote the history books have nothing to blame.

If Zhao Jun had ulterior motives to implicate and kill people for political purposes, I am afraid that he would also be featured in the historical materials.

"I'm not that mad yet."

Zhao Jun shook his head and said, "But if you follow the restrictions you gave, can't you only kill people to solve the problem?" ”

"Why? Let's talk about it. ”

Fan Zhongyan hurriedly asked.

"Let me ask you, is it the law of the Great Song Dynasty that personal freedom must not be restricted, human beings must not be traded, and slavery should be completely abolished?"

Zhao Jun asked rhetorically.

"Yes."

Fan Zhongyan nodded.

There is no doubt about this, the Tang Dynasty recognized slavery.

The "Tang Law and Discussion" emphasized that slaves and maids were inferior, and their legal status was no different from that of livestock, and intermarriage between good and low was also prohibited.

But in the Song Dynasty, from the first year of Song Renzong Jingyou, he issued an edict to completely abolish slavery. Even the names have changed, and the former slaves are called slaves and maids, and later they are changed to manpower and female envoys.

At that time, it was stipulated that the system of good and cheap people should be abolished, and the untouchables in the traditional sense, such as merchants, tenant farmers, and slaves, were all organized households, and the contract contract was no longer a contract of sale, but a contract of employment, and all employed people were free people and enjoyed the right to resign at any time.

In the Tang Dynasty, a master punished a slave and maid at will, without any consequences. Kill a slave or maid for no reason, punishing labor for a year, and pay for the work. If there is a reason, there is not even a punishment.

This has led to a large number of lynchings of masters killing slaves because the cost of crime is so low.

In the Song Dynasty, at the beginning of the Song Dynasty, he killed innocent slaves and maids and was exiled for 3,000 miles.

During the Song Zhenzong period, it was further greatly increased, and even if the guilty man and female envoy were killed privately, the serious case would be sentenced to death by the government.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, the murderer was a capital offense, regardless of whether the other party was guilty or not.

Of course.

Except for officials and elites.

Chen Zhizhong killed the maidservant, but was deposed.

During the time of Song Yingzong, the official Liu Zhu cut the servant's face with a knife, but he was dismissed.

However, the magnates only enjoyed the death penalty, and if they were discovered, they were often dismissed, so it can be seen that the Song Dynasty basically eliminated slavery for a short time.

It wasn't until the Yuan Dynasty restored this thing, and finally after the founding of our country, that Tibet was recovered and serfdom was abolished, which could be regarded as the removal of the deep-rooted stubborn disease that had plagued China for thousands of years.

It's just undeniable that the Song Dynasty had regulations in the legal sense, but the people at the bottom actually didn't understand the law, and they were restricted by the landlord holding the contract, and the living environment was still no different from that of the slaves before the Tang Dynasty.

"Since I can't enact a new law to deal with land annexation, there's nothing wrong with me strictly abiding by the previous law," Zhao said. ”

"How do you obey the law?"

Fan Zhongyan asked.

"Starting this year, I will be given all the tenants of the landlords, either to build canals, build official fields, and resettle the tenants in official fields, or to build roads, dams, and reservoirs, so that there will be no one in the landlords' fields."

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "The landlords want to use the contract to restrict the tenants, sorry, the Great Song Dynasty does not allow the restriction of personal freedom." If there is such a phenomenon, it is a problem of the government. I have to use a knife to force those who are officials below, and those who are officials have to fight with the landlords with knives, this is legal. ”

"It's legal, count yourself ruthless."

Fan Zhongyan has nothing to say, this is really within the scope of legality, the imperial court has money, hires people to work, and the law stipulates that anyone is a free citizen, the contract can be suspended, and personal freedom cannot be restricted, so the government can indeed take people away to build infrastructure.

"The other thing is to reduce the burden on the people, I think that from this year onwards, since the government has recruited the people to work, it is to serve the people, and the service is to do things for the country, and the people cannot be delayed in their own lives."

Zhao Jun touched his chin and said: "So the government stipulates that during the period of servitude, any debts owed can stop calculating interest, which should also be reasonable." ”

"Then isn't this harming the interests of the landlords, they are capable?"

Fan Zhongyan objected.

"In this way, anyone who is willing to participate in the construction of the government infrastructure, the government will pay their debts for them, but they must transfer the contract to the government, which is regarded as the government to recruit the people, and then they will become tenants of the government, and the rent is much lower than that of the landlord."

Zhao Jun had a wonderful idea again.

In fact, this matter is not his first initiative, because during the Northern Song Dynasty, natural disasters in various places, coupled with high taxes, led to the bankruptcy of the common people, forced to buy land to landlords, and voluntarily became the slaves of landlords.

However, the imperial court did not allow slavery, so there were even cases where the imperial court and the local government ransomed people from the landlords.

For example, in July of the second year of Chunhua, Zhao Guangyi ordered that "those who starve people and men and women in the border states of Shaanxi Province will be redeemed by officials." There are also three years of Dazhong auspicious charm, and Song Zhenzong also issued an edict: "The people of Shaanxi were hungry in the previous year, and those who had beards were redeemed by the officials."

In other first years of the Ming Dynasty, the eighth year of Qingli, the first year of Longxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, etc., once there was a large-scale natural disaster, causing the people to go bankrupt and become slaves to the rich, there were many historical records of the government redeeming them.

It's just that in the past, this kind of thing only appeared in a small number of disaster-stricken areas, but now if the whole Song Dynasty ransomes slaves and helps tenants and slaves pay off their debts, I am afraid that the financial expenditure will be very large.

Fan Zhongyan said worriedly: "In all parts of the country, I don't know how many slaves and tenants, does the government have so much money to redeem them?" ”

"Let's take it one step at a time."

Zhao Jun said: "The purpose of the government bringing them here is not to let them be free, but to let them work, build canals, build reservoirs, and cultivate more farmland." There are more fields in the government, and there are people working. There are still so many landlords' fields, no one is working, and in the end, the right to speak has to go back to the government? ”

"Well, I see what you mean. Do you want to transfer the debts of the tenants to the government, so that the tenants will have to work to pay off the debts of the government, not to the original landlords, who occupy good land, but the government is trying to find a way to waste their fields? ”

"Yes, there is barren land all over the country in the Great Song Dynasty. It's just that because the water conservancy facilities are not in place, we can't let thousands of miles of wasteland become thousands of miles of fertile land. If they annex the land, then we will start anew and recreate a large amount of arable land. ”

"It's a good idea, but I don't know how much it will cost."

Fan Zhongyan smiled bitterly.

Obviously, the landlords concentrated the best land in the Great Song Dynasty, but they tried their best to rebuild a large number of facilities and reclaim new land, which was simply redundant.

But it seems that there is no other idea than this method, after all, if it is openly robbed, it will only cause the landlords to rebel.

And if they do this, the landlords will not think that this is the government fighting for people with them.

After all, it was irresistible for the government to levy conscription, and even the landlords had to spend money to pay for their own conscription, so it was reasonable for the court to do so, and they couldn't find fault with it.

When they boiled the frogs in warm water, they found that there was a shortage of manpower, and the young and strong people under their hands were all requisitioned by the government and not returned to them, and when the fields below were uncultivated, it was too late to regret it, and then they could only pinch their noses to admit the fact that the land in their hands was rotten, and then sell it to the government at a low price.

"This trick is called a salary draw from the bottom of the kettle."

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "That is, now the Great Song Dynasty has money and food to do it, and if you change to other dynasties, such as the situation of no money and no food at the end of the Ming Dynasty, you can only use a knife to issue a massacre order." But even then, we expect to have to kill quite a few people. For example, under the land sale and population exchange, there will inevitably be a large number of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, as well as landlords who are unwilling to pay their money. ”

"You're going to kill these people?"

"yes."

"I guess I'll kill a lot."

"Compared to the Holocaust, it's a lot."

"Yes."

Fan Zhongyan turned his head to look out the window and muttered to himself: "It's better for a family to cry than to cry all the way." ”

In recent days, a change, but the number of words in a change is still quite a lot, mainly because of a cold, the change of the sky is too bad, and the state is not very good. Some friends said that my main line and branch lines were chaotic, but I didn't think so. Because the main line has always been to reform and change the law, the protagonists have already undergone four reforms, the first reform of the officialdom system, the second examination of the law to rectify the rule of officials, the third light conscription tax reduction and recuperation, the fourth to deal with the problem of three redundancies, and the others are branch lines and the process of paving the way for reform.

Now it is the fifth reform, which solves the land annexation and begins to generate population.

There will be a sixth, seventh, in the future.

This is really an exaggeration to break the Great Song Dynasty, other dynasties are estimated to be able to solve the problem once or twice, and the protagonist has to do it so many times, step by step, it's really difficult.

(End of chapter)