A few days after the festival, it was the new year, the settlement period on January 1.

Zishou covered his eyes and looked at the faint value between his fingernails.

OK.

This is quite good news, after all, during this settlement period, there are thousands of people crossing the river to invest, as well as the promotion of manure and grain production to increase the credit, not too much, it is already excellent news.

I think it must be that the mediocrity of the princes and nobles' contributions has taken effect, after all, all the princes in the world are anti-minded, and they must have spread rumors and bad things while the war has not officially started!

Thinking of this, Zishou was much more relieved and decided to hang up with peace of mind in the new year.

Settle down and keep to yourself, don't do things, and wait for the princes and nobles to continuously contribute mediocre values.

Look at the aristocracy, although they agreed to pay the field tax, but they have not been able to collect it so far, you can know how difficult it is for these people to do it, and it is not at all possible to reverse their minds in a moment and a half.

There is also the 800 Shuibo Liangshan in Xinhuan, which should also play a role.

He is beautiful one by one, continues to sleep a lot, and really doesn't toss this year.

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In the main hall of the Criminal Department, Li Jing was in trouble.

The collection of aristocratic land is included in the new law, and the household department cannot collect the money, so it will naturally be punished by the ministry.

Li Jing recruited his henchman Ouyang Tianlu and two officials who had just joined the Criminal Department.

One of them is Bi'an, that is, the trumpet of the fox, and the identity on the surface is Bigan's nephew, and Bigan's seven tricks are one, but he has not lost the ability to listen to the voices of all things, so he knows Bi'an's identity and helps him get out of the relationship.

Bigan is already seventy or eighty, and Bigan, as the nephew of Bigan, is not young, sixty years old, and is an old fat man with small eyes.

Ouyang Tianlu was quite dissatisfied with this, which of the new officials in the DPRK and China was not in the prime of life? Only this old man had entered the Criminal Department and added real power, was Zhang Da of the Zhaoxian Pavilion blind?

Beside the chubby Bi'an, there was a tall and thin young man, whose name was Jiezhi, younger, with a dark complexion, and a white mark on his forehead that looked like a crescent moon and a star.

Ouyang Tianlu is still dissatisfied with this, to say that Bi'an has broken a few cases, Xie Zhi really didn't do anything, and what he did the most was to make small reports to other officials in the DPRK and China.

However, Li Jing likes Xie Zhi very much, he is a cultivator, and he knows that Xie Zhi is a trumpet opened by the divine beast Hedgehog, and he was pulled by Bi'an, who was a good friend, and entered the court as an official together.

The appearance of the hedgehog is similar to that of a unicorn, with thick and dark hair on the whole body, a horn on the forehead, and a dark complexion and a crescent moon on the forehead, which are the characteristics of the hog's nature.

The two divine beasts have entered the government and the opposition, as long as they understand a little about the affairs of the world, they can become good helpers for changing the law.

Of course, Ouyang Tianlu is not bad, among the criminal department, the best at speculating on the holy will is Ouyang Tianlu, fully comprehending the thoughts of the king, is a necessary skill for every court official.

Li Jing raised his eyebrows and asked, "The aristocratic Tian Fu has been transferred to my criminal department now, what do you think?"

"I know a little bit below, the household department can't collect the field tax, mainly because the people implement the well field system, in the well field system, the middle public field harvest is for the delivery to the imperial court, but the nobleman's field is not a well field, there is no public land at all, even if you promise to pay the field tax, you can't set a specific amount." ”

Li Jing nodded: "This is exactly the difficulty, many nobles only pay a small amount of land on the grounds that they have no public land, and they are perfunctory,"

He pondered for a moment and said, "This shows that Your Majesty's move is not just to collect the aristocratic field tax, but also to abolish the well field and implement the new field system." ”

"Waste... Abolish the Jingtian system?" Ouyang Tianlu was shocked: "The Jingtian system has been around for a thousand years, since the beginning of King Yu, how can it be easily abolished?"

He explained: "Yes, the well field system was originally implemented by King Yu, after the flood under King Yu, the field was revealed, the flood entrained the soil, filled the ravine, and alluvial a large area of plain land suitable for cultivation, King Yu implemented the well field system, divided the land into countless "well" squares, every eight families have a "well", and the middle piece of land is a public field, which is cultivated by eight families, and the harvest is handed over to the imperial court. ”

"At that time, the well field system was undoubtedly great, it would be scattered because of the flood and scattered and disorderly farmers, gathered together, so that they worked together to farm, no matter what disaster, all faced together, but the well field system has been a thousand years, to this day, there is no problem, that is, back then, King Yu also noticed the trouble, but failed to deal with it. ”

Ouyang Tianlu couldn't help but scold: "The Jingtian system was proposed by King Yu, how could there be a mistake?

He nodded secretly in his heart, yes, I really asked.

When Dayu was in the west to control the water, it was he and a group of brothers who dealt with the wetland monsters, and later they also took the person as the official, and the well field system was actually negotiated by them together.

He joined the merchant as an official, not to reverse the mandate of Shang to destroy Zhou Xing, but to deal with the troubles left by the Jingtian system.

It's a pity that he can't say this, after all, since the Three Emperors and the Five Emperors, no emperor will appoint beasts and monsters as officials.

He had long been aware of the mistakes of the Jingtian system, but his identity was inconvenient to enter the court, and it was not until he saw that Yuan Hong and the others were safe and secure in Chaoge, and Xiao Liu Bei, who was printed by the king of Xu, did he come to Chaoge on purpose.

However, he didn't say to Ouyang Tianlu that although the king could tolerate demons and beasts, it was still difficult for ordinary people to accept it, he just tried his best to explain:

"After the advent of the Ida system, there were slaves, and the two were companions. ”

Ouyang Tianlu was suspicious, it was getting more and more outrageous, what does Jing Tian have to do with slaves?

Could it be that when you see that the king wants to improve the status of slaves and has signs of overthrowing slavery, he wants to let the slaves have a relationship with Ida and abolish the Ida system?

What inexplicable logic is this?

He still patiently explained: "King Yu held the jade silk and held all the countries, at that time, the kings, princes and nobles, all owned a large amount of land, this is the private land, these private fields, as long as their owners do not sin, do not rebel, do not be attacked by the king of Yu, they can be left to their own disposal, unlike the common people who can only cultivate on the land, the princes can transfer, give away and even buy and sell land, these land, all private by the princes and nobles. ”

"Where there is land, someone has to cultivate it, and the princes and nobles are more interested in private land, so they forcibly arrange prisoners of war, criminals, and poor civilians who are attached to them for various reasons to work on their own land, leaving them only enough food for survival, and the rest of the harvest is handed over. ”

"It was on this harvest that the nobles and princes relied on to sustain their troops, officials, and bells, and those who worked for them had no official household registration because they were prisoners of war and criminals, and even if they escaped, they had nowhere to live, but to work for generations in their masters' fields, which became slaves. ”

"For thousands of years, the well field and the slave have become an inseparable whole, the slave must be moved, the well field must be moved, the well field must be moved, the slave must be moved, His Majesty ordered the princes and nobles to sacrifice slaves to build the Great Wall, few people responded, this well field is the root, less slaves, the land at home will be uncultivated. ”

"It is not uncommon for the aristocracy to look down on slaves, and not to be willing to serve as officials, generals, or even join the army, after all, the fewer slaves, the less they will harvest on their land. ”

Ouyang Tianlu is like an initiation, so it makes sense!

But he still can't help but have a secret discussion in his belly, knowing that it is so clear, why have you seen it with your own eyes?

(End of chapter)