Chapter 290: Killing the Pig
Don't the ministers of the DPRK and China know the real situation of these gentry? The answer, of course, is no. The ministers of the DPRK and China are themselves the gentry, or the officials of the DPRK and China are basically representatives of the gentry, and they are all representatives of certain gentry. Even those so-called scholars from poor families, after becoming officials, will slowly become gentry, and some gentry will gather around them, or integrate into the circle of other gentry.
As for the Wangsun Han Xun Liu Meng and other families, they can be said to be the biggest gentry in Daqi, and naturally they also want to help the gentry speak, and they also consider the problem from the perspective of the gentry.
So the real situation of the gentry was very clear to them. But to be clear, there are some things that they can't say. They are the representatives of the gentry, and once they offend those gentry, the gentry can naturally change to a representative, that is, let him be dismissed and disgraced.
Don't think that such words are alarmist, in fact, such words are not exaggerated at all. Because you are against the gentry, it is not just one or two gentry who will offend, but all the gentry of the entire Great Qi. Because since you can offend the gentry of Sanjiang today, you may also offend other gentry. It will make the other gentry feel a sense of crisis.
And a person who will make them feel a sense of crisis is naturally the safest to eliminate him.
Naturally, there are gentry in Sanjiang who have money and grain, but these gentry will never take it out for disaster relief. All the gentry were waiting for the people to use the grain in their hands to seek greater benefits when they did not have any grain in their hands. One thing that is said is that it is difficult to prepare for the country.
The so-called cutting off people's financial paths is like killing one's parents, and the hatred of killing one's father is not shared. The disaster relief method described in the chapter of Master Ji will cut off the financial road of the Sanjiang gentry. It is equivalent to killing the parents of the Sanjiang gentry.
In fact, when major disasters occurred in all dynasties, whether it was floods, droughts, or locust plagues, it was not natural disasters but man-made disasters that really caused losses to the people. There is always a way to resist natural disasters, but man-made disasters cannot be prevented.
When a natural disaster occurs, the gentry and landlords backlog the grain in their hands and do not release it, resulting in high food prices, and the people can only exchange their fields for living food in order to survive, so every time a major disaster occurs, it is the time when land annexation is the strictest. It can be said that the man-made disaster after the catastrophe is the biggest killer of the people.
The final result of the disasters is that all the land is owned by the major families, and the common people have completely lost the land on which they depend. The landless people lost their source of livelihood, and there were only two outcomes, either starvation or rebellion. When the recidivism grows louder and louder, the gentry represented by the big families will join in. In the end, the director changed the dynasty,
In the process of changing the dynasty, it is inevitable that some of the gentry will disappear. A large number of civilians were killed and wounded.
When a new dynasty is established. Land redistribution has made land available to all. There will be a period of happiness for the people.
But when the new class of gentry grew larger, the land they owned was not enough to satisfy their desires, and a new round of land grabbing and annexation began. This was followed by the overthrow of the peasant revolt dynasty, followed by the redistribution of land three years later.
It can be said that history has been circulating according to this routine. In the period when land was the main means of production. This cycle is almost indestructible.
But this cycle is not to say that it can't be changed. Feng Qingyao believes that in the period when land was the main production number. There is only one way to change this situation - and that is to kill the pigs!
The gentry and the big family were raised as pigs. When the pig is fat enough, the fat pig that has been raised for a long time is slaughtered. Of course, it is impossible to kill them all, but to kill one group and keep one group. If you want to kill them all, the consequence may be that the gentry will rebel. The life of the dynasty was endangered.
After killing a group of gentry, part of the land from the gentry was returned to the imperial court, and the other part was distributed to the landless peasants, so as to alleviate social conflicts. In this way, the dynasty will have a relatively stable period of time. Then after some time, when the contradictions are more acute, kill another group of gentry. The land acquired continued in accordance with the previous method, with some of it being collected by the imperial court and the other part being distributed to the peasants who had lost their land.
The final result of this gradual encroachment is naturally that all the big families are wiped out, and all the land is concentrated in the hands of the imperial court. At that time, the imperial court rented the land to the common people at a very cheap price, so that the people had the ability to live. For ordinary people, as long as they can live, or let them see the hope of living, they will definitely not rebel.
If this is not done, but history is allowed to develop normally, sooner or later the land will have to be concentrated in the hands of a few, and the people will have no way to live sooner or later. Or when a certain family gathers too much land, it will naturally become ambitious, and it is almost natural to rebel.
The rebellion will inevitably cause social turmoil, and the people's lives will get worse and worse, and more and more people will join the ranks of the rebellion, and the fall of the dynasty is inevitable.
And if Feng Qingyao's method is used, for a dynasty, the imperial power will become bigger and bigger, which is a very good thing for the royal family. At that time, it can really be said that the land of the whole country belongs to the emperor, and the wealth of the whole society also belongs to the emperor.
But for the emperor, money was the most useless thing in a sense, and when the time came, all the land was rented to the peasants cheaply, and everything would be stable.
Of course, such an approach is not entirely without its pitfalls. There are pros and cons to everything, and the method that Feng Qingyao thought of is no exception. If the emperor is in a hurry, he may directly force those gentry families to eventually bring about the fall of the dynasty. So you have to go slowly, little by little, even if it takes one or two hundred years and seven or eight generations of emperors to complete this thing, it is acceptable.
However, once this is done, power will be highly centralized, and the imperial power will lose its restraint and truly become the supreme right. Once they meet a faint king or a tyrant, the days of the people ...... You can imagine it.
Of course, all Fang Bai in this world has advantages and disadvantages, and there are opinions and opinions, although Feng Qingyao's method is very fucking, it can even be said to be shameless. But in a sense, it's a very good approach. (To be continued......)