Lin Yi said: "Your ideals are too high, as if floating in the sky." I stand at the top of the hill and can reach you as well as the ground. ”

After he finished speaking, he patted Zhu Xiang's shoulder again and continued to rub his hands.

Zhu Xiang sighed, quite weak: "Okay." I really have an idea for what to do. ”

Lin Zhen asked, "What do you think?" Is it about the deceased husband's wife becoming the head of the household? ”

Zhu Xiang was surprised: "How do you know?!" ”

Lin Zhen smiled: "How could I not know the file you transferred from me?" ”

Lin Zhen, the old Zhuang heir, served as a court lieutenant in the Qin State at this time.

The foundation of the Qin state was the law, and the court was not only in charge of the trial, but more importantly, it was in charge of formulating and perfecting the law, and keeping and recording documents and files. Now the system of three princes and nine kings is not perfect, and Tingwei is also the most important close minister around King Qin.

It can be seen that although Qin Wangzhu dislikes Lin Zhen on the lips, he is still very close to him in his heart.

Zhu Xiangcha files need to be stamped by Lin Zhen. Lin Zhen glanced at the entry and knew what Zhu Xiang was thinking.

Zhu Xiang saw that Lin Zhen had already guessed, so he no longer concealed it: "The people in the world are thin, and most of the strong men are on the battlefield, and only the widowed mother is left at home." If the male in the family dies in battle, the widow has no children, and the land will be recovered. However, in reality, widowed mothers often continue to cultivate the land and pay taxes, and the officials will not strictly investigate. Since this is already the case, it is better to directly admit the widow and the widow in the law. ”

Lin Yi said: "I also have this idea. Especially after Qin unified the six countries, many men in the world must have died in battle, and if women do not plough the fields and do not pay taxes, the treasury will definitely not be able to support it. But I want to divide the fields directly, and the women will divide the fields into half of the men......"

Zhu Xiang stood up abruptly and brought the seat to the ground, startling Lin Zhen.

"What? Are you against? Lin Zhen smiled, "I thought you would approve of me." ”

"I agree, of course." Zhu Xiang took a deep breath and said in a complicated tone, "I just didn't expect you to think so." Isn't it...... Isn't it too radical? ”

"It won't be aggressive. Now there are frequent wars, and there are many people who have broken their homes. Land is granted according to households, and in many areas, there is a phenomenon of insufficient cultivation and inability to pay taxes, so the land can only be sold at a low price. The government may not know about the sale of land by the people, so there are many hidden fields in the nobles' homes that do not pay taxes. Lin Zhen said, "At present, the "Tian Law" is too simple and does not take into account the problem of population. ”

Lin Yi picked up the teapot, added water to himself, moistened his throat, and continued: "Although the "Tian Law" stipulates that 'if the people have more than two men and do not differentiate, they will be given double the endowment', but it is too troublesome to divide the household in this way, and the tax of the female child cannot be collected. It is better to divide the land between men and women, and it is better to collect the Ding tax. ”

Zhu Xiang: "......"

Zhu Xiang picked up the chair and sat down silently.

Hearing Lin Zhen say this, he also felt that he was not radical, and the King of Qin and the courtiers should agree.

There is no need to think much about which point is better for ordinary women to pay the poll tax or the division of the land for the women, because in Zhu Xiang's time and space, the women will soon pay the poll tax, but the division of the fields will not be until the Northern Wei Dynasty implements the uniform land system, and the early Tang Dynasty abolished it.

Before the Northern Wei Dynasty, only a very small number of women who set up female households under harsh circumstances were granted land.

"When granting land, attention should be paid to the limit of the number of acres cultivated by men and women and the corresponding forced labor. Otherwise, there will be cases of women being forced to die by land rents and men refusing to marry wives. Zhu Xiang said, "I'll sort out the relevant questions and leave them to you." ”

Because of the war in the Northern Wei Dynasty, there were few men, so women were given fields.

However, because the rent is regulated and the land is bound to servitude, and the field rent is not only to pay grain but also to pay silk cloth, it is difficult for the woman in the husband and wife to cultivate the field assigned to her after undertaking the textile task, and the man has to independently undertake more cultivation and servitude, resulting in the early Tang Dynasty "tens of thousands of households, many without wives". The woman bears the rent alone, the burden is extremely heavy, and there are many complaints.

After listening to the opinions of the people, Tang Taizong canceled the women's land grant, and at the same time canceled the women's forced labor. During the Tang Dynasty, there were few records of servants.

Therefore, Tang Taizong canceled the women's land grant at that time, which was different from the idea that later generations thought that the Tang Dynasty oppressed women, and it was precisely the embodiment of pity for women, which was unanimously grateful to the people.

At that time, the concept of chastity was already more serious, and under the premise that etiquette and religion were gradually tightened, he encouraged women to remarry, which slightly slowed down the slope of women's status.

However, after the abolition of the obligation for women to pay taxes for forced labor, women's position of power was not guaranteed. As a result, when the woman fell rapidly after the Southern Song Dynasty, the woman was powerless to struggle.

Hundreds of years later, the parties naturally can't think of it.

Zhu Xiang had read history, and he could think of it.

He would write down the benefits and disadvantages of the Juntian system to Lin Zhen, so that Lin Zhen could weigh it.

As for the later system of land endowment, it was a change made after the population increased, the per capita cultivated land decreased, and the commodity economy developed rapidly, which is not in line with the current social development situation. The Juntian system of the Northern Wei Dynasty is already very suitable for today's times.

Maybe a little ahead of its time? This is up to the monarchs and ministers of the Qin State to ponder. Zhu Xiang is busy, he wants to farm, and he has to engage in a trade war.

"You write secretly, don't let others know." Lin Zhen said, "I studied under Lao Zhuang, you studied under Xunzi, we are different." It's normal for me to propose that the female Ding divide the field, but it's not normal for you to propose, understand? ”

Zhu Xiang said: "I remember that Zhuangzi's thoughts on women are the same as those of Confucianism. ”

Lin Zhen said: "I am the heir of Lao Zhuang, Lao Tzu is in front, and Zhuangzi is in the back." ”

The corners of Zhu Xiang's mouth twitched slightly: "Oh, Lao Tzu does think that yin and yang are equal, and he even has a tendency to worship the mother." But Lao Tzu's thoughts definitely do not include what you are doing now. ”

Because men and women have equal talents, men and women have to plow the fields together, pay poll taxes, and make cattle and horses for the Qin State.

Lao Tzu didn't say it!

Lao Tzu yearns for a return to the primitive, there is no country, there is no exploitation, and everyone does not pay taxes!

Chapter 118: October Sugar Osmanthus

Zhu Xiang was once again shocked by the freedom of Lin Zhen, the old Zhuang heir.

This is probably the supreme state of the Taoist family mentioned in Zhuangzi's "Wandering Away".

Lin Zhen can already become a Taoist sage.

After chatting with Lin Zhen for a while, Zhu Xiang was in a much better mood.

He gathered a few vegetarian cold dishes and carried them to Xunzi, who was working overtime, to reconcile.

Xun Zi snorted coldly and accepted the food sent by Zhu Xiang, but still did not speak to Zhu Xiang.

Zhu Xiang was relieved to hear that Xunzi had accepted the food he sent on the second day, and now the blue and black had dispersed a lot.

As long as Xunzi doesn't get angry, it's fine.

Tian Fu's affairs are Lin Zhen's responsibility, and Xunzi's etiquette is in charge, although Zhu Xiang has been tossing for these two things for a while, now these things are not in his hands.

He finally put all his energy into pondering the trade war.

When the osmanthus is fragrant, Zhu Xiang picks the osmanthus flowers, half of which is made into osmanthus perfume and sent to Xueji, and half of which is made into sugar osmanthus and used as raw materials for desserts in the future.

The advice he handed to King Qin was finally written.

Zhu Xiang pondered for a long time and finally settled down very simply, that is, to let Lü Buwei contact his wealthy merchant connections and power to do cotton and linen textile business, and buy cotton and linen raw materials from other countries.

At the same time, the state of Qin sold grain to the state of Chu.

Qin could not sell much grain to Chu, but as long as it could reduce the grain in Chu's market by one percent, the trade war would be won.

Anyone who has studied economics knows that if there is less than one percent of grain on the market, the price of grain will not rise by one percent, but will rise until all the people in one percent are starved to death.

At this time, the Qin army on the south bank of the Yangtze River could easily obtain a large number of people by making a message of helping the Chu people to smuggle in.

Now the predicament of Southern Qin is the lack of people to develop, with Zhu Xiang provided high-quality rice and wheat seed rotation, plus pumpkin, potatoes and other miscellaneous grains, and traditional millet soybean, as long as the land of Southern Qin is developed, it can provide a large amount of grain to Qin, that is, it can also sell a large amount of grain to Chu.

Zhu Xiang would place Qin's textile factories in Southern Qin, buy textile raw materials from Southern Qin to Chu, and sell grain to Chu.

After the cotton and linen cloth was spun, the cloth became currency, and you could continue to buy things from the Chu State.

Zhu Xiang would buy all the specialties of Chu except grain, and then sell them to the Six Kingdoms to buy grain.

In this way, in order to make money, the Chu people will transfer their energy to other industries. There was a shortage of grain, and the Qin State purchased it from the six countries on their behalf.

The feudal monarch of the state of Chu was powerful, and the decree of the king of Chu could not be directly issued to the grassroots level. Even if someone in the court saw the drawbacks, it was difficult for the king of Chu to reverse what happened in the land and force the people to grow grain.

"Even if a sober nobleman finds out about this, they are powerless to keep everyone from being blinded by interests. Moreover, for most nobles, as long as they had enough food to eat, it was very cost-effective to starve some commoners and slaves in exchange for more money. Zhu Xiang said, "What's more, our cotton cloth is a novelty, and they will definitely like it very much." ”

Qin Wangzhu looked at the document offered by Zhu Xiang and said, "You still plan to let them 'steal' cotton seeds?" Why not sell it directly? ”

Zhu Xiang said with a smile: "If we take the initiative to sell novel cotton seeds, I am afraid that they will think that the Qin people are cheating." The cotton seeds they stole back themselves will think that they are foolproof and can be planted. ”

Qin Wangzhu smiled: "Then you have to let Li Mu accompany the Chu people to play a good show." ”

Zhu Xiang said: "Just let Qin Bing or the rich businessman Ding play at will, why do you need Li Mu to take action personally?" ”

Qin Wangzhu said: "When the price of cotton cloth rises, they will definitely replace the land where they grow grain for cotton." Alas, merchants were profit-seeking, so the Qin state should have banned business more severely. ”

Zhu Xiang was speechless. The force of this one-size-fits-all cut is also too great.

"Business can increase national taxes and adjust for inequalities in domestic resources. And there are some places that are not suitable for farming, and if people don't do business, people will starve to death, and the state will not collect taxes. Zhu Xiang said, "For example, the southern hills are not suitable for planting, but they are suitable for trade with overseas." In addition, there is little rain in the west, and rash reclamation will cause the desert to expand, and it can only be used for grazing and business. There are many small countries in the Western Regions that rely on commerce to exist. ”

Qin Wangzhu said: "And the country that relies on commerce to exist? If their food is cut off, won't they just be caught? ”

Zhu Xiang smiled: "That's true. However, it is not cost-effective for such small countries to be isolated from the big ones, and it is better to let them manage that piece of land and help them to trade between the big countries. Small countries also have a way to survive in small countries. ”

Qin Wangzhu thought of some small countries that still exist, and sighed: "There are also many widows in small countries who need to learn wisdom. Zhu Xiang, do you disagree with Qin's complete ban on business? ”

Zhu Xiang said: "The country is based on agriculture, and the people are based on food. Ensuring agricultural cultivation is a top priority. But regulated business is also a way to ensure agricultural production. ”

Zhu Xiang sorted out his thoughts and continued: "For example, one side of the water and soil is more suitable for growing cotton and linen, and the other side of the water and soil is more suitable for growing grain. This also avoids local fragmentation. ”

Zhu Xiang originally wanted to talk about the benefits of business in activating the country's economy, but it was difficult to explain it to King Qin, who did not know much about economics, so Zhu Xiang picked the point that King Qin was most interested in.

After the land area of the Qin State became larger, the King of Qin would definitely be worried that the Qin State would become divided like the Zhou Dynasty. Even if the county system is used, it may be difficult to manage the territory if it is large.

Business can solve some of the problems.

If we allow local businesses to connect, reduce the closed nature of the small-scale peasant economy, and link farming and textiles, small handicrafts, and business, and strengthen exchanges between various localities, not only can there be a simple way to prevent separation, as Zhu Xiang said, but also promote cultural and population exchanges throughout the country.

For the feudal kings, they preferred to tie the peasants to the land and make them tired of farming, so that they would not have the heart to rebel.

However, the carrying capacity of the land is limited, and there will always be a large number of idle laborers. Industry and commerce can bring together these idle laborers.

"A strong country should be one that places equal emphasis on agriculture and industry and commerce. According to different stages, the proportion of industry and commerce should be adjusted on the premise of ensuring agricultural production. Zhu Xiang said embarrassedly, "I can't say exactly how to adjust it." I only know a rough idea. ”

He is just a professor of agriculture, although he can talk a few words about economics, but it is also the level of bragging with friends, and he will not be able to govern the country if he is really allowed to govern the country.

Qin Wangzhu originally listened to it with relish, but after Zhu Xiang smiled embarrassedly, he couldn't help but support his forehead: "What is the difference between what you said about paying equal attention to agriculture and business, and not saying it?" What the widow wants to hear is concrete measures! ”

Zhu Xiang said: "But I really don't know." There are so many capable people in the court, they must be able to figure it out. But that was all after the Qin State unified the world. Before reunification, it must have been mainly ploughing warfare, otherwise there would not be enough troops. Attaching equal importance to industry and commerce must also be something that will be considered after the world stops, the people recuperate, and the granaries are abundant. ”

Qin Wangzhu asked, "But before that, you can't directly ban business, right?" ”

Zhu Xiang nodded: "Leave a gap, and then it will be opened." And Zheng'er is still waiting to go to sea to make money from other countries after this land is governed. ”

Qin Wangzhu was helpless: "What did you instill in Zheng'er?" Why does he, a Qin son, always think about money? ”

Zhu Xiang was surprised: "Your Majesty, don't you feel short of money now?" Don't you need money to do anything as a king? The more you want to do great things, the more money you need? ”

Qin Wangzhu: "......" Hearing Zhu Xiang say this, it seems to be true.

He was persuaded by Zhu Xiang and no longer stopped Zhu Xiang from instilling the idea of making a lot of money in Ying Xiaozheng.

However, whether to strictly restrict business, Qin Wangzhu still needs to think about it.

Zhu Xiang whispered: "Your Majesty, even if you prohibit it, there will be no fewer people doing business, but it has changed from paying taxes to Qin State to secretly smuggling and not paying taxes to Qin State." Human nature is evil, and even harsh punishments cannot prohibit them from pursuing profits. ”

Qin Wangzhu's face was strange: "Listening to your words, it looks like a disciple of Xunzi." Have you upset Xunzi lately? ”