Chapter 46 Boiling a frog in warm water

In front of the Weiyang Palace gate, Pang Tong walked off the carriage and happened to see the carriage of Zhuge Liang next to him slowly coming.

"Kong Ming!" Pang Tong quickly met.

"Well, Shi Yuan, you are here too." Zhuge Liang got off the car and saw Pang Tong.

"Haha, Kong Ming, Your Majesty invites you and I to come, probably because of Sun Quan's interchange of fields. I heard that the person who proposed to Sun Quan for the interchange of fields was your nephew Zhuge Ke!" Pang Tongyi said with a smile on his face.

"Oh..." When Pang Tong mentioned Zhuge Ke, Zhuge Liang's face showed helplessness.

"My nephew Yuan Xun has been extremely smart since he was a child, but he has not been trained. His career is too smooth, which is not a good thing. It is important to know that arrogant soldiers will be defeated, and if they are so happy about their achievements, they will definitely suffer. Okay, let's not talk about this, let's go and see Your Majesty first!"

"Haha, Kong Ming, if Your Majesty asks us about the matter of equalizing the land, have you thought of a solution?"

"The so-called "not doing the power" is not in his position. Your Majesty is still young. Some things are still too simple!"

A Dou looked at the crowd and said, "My dear friends, Sun Quan of Jiangdong has reclaimed deserted fields under the name of equal fields. I believe everyone knows that Yongzhou can also be imitated. I wonder what you think?"

In terms of internal affairs, Zhuge Liang had the most say, so Zhuge Liang stood up unwillingly and said, "Your Majesty thinks, how about this way of equalizing the field?"

"Yeah, those who plough have their own fields, and the way to enrich the country and strengthen the people is feasible!" A Dou said.

"Your Majesty, you are right. Those who plough the land have their own fields. In other words, you must have fields first. Please forgive me for your frankness. Now, there is not much free land in Yongzhou!" Zhuge Liang replied.

"How is this possible?" A Dou asked in surprise.

"Your Majesty, you asked me to be responsible for the internal migration of the Di people. Last year alone, there were more than 10,000 households in the Di people moved to Yongzhou. The Di people who moved to Yongzhou needed land, and the subsequent Di people also needed land. Now all the idle land in Yongzhou was planned to be given to the Di people. Now Yongzhou seems to have a lot of fertile land, but a few years later, hundreds of thousands of Di people moved to Yongzhou. In addition to the newly born Di people, there was not much spare fertile land in Yongzhou at that time."

Zhuge Liang paused and continued, "Your Majesty, Shanyue was originally a barbaric land, so Sun Quan could reclaim fertile land by the system of equal fields. The land in Yongzhou was reclaimed as early as the pre-Qin period, so this equal field cannot be used in Yongzhou."

When Shang Yang's reforms were made, the farming and sericulture were promoted. The Qin kings also worked hard to implement Shang Yang's reforms, so in the Qin Dynasty, the fertile land in Yongzhou had basically been reclaimed.

Zhuge Liang took a breath and continued, "Your Majesty, in fact, according to my opinion, this method of equalizing the field will not last long."

"Please give me advice," Adou said immediately.

"I look at the equal land in Eastern Wu, and there are several major omissions. First, a man gave 20 acres of land and a woman gave 10 acres of land. The cultivated fields are granted to the reclaimer. They are old or dead and returned to the land, but trading is not prohibited. It is like a man reclaiming a good land. When the man is old, he sells the land to others. How can he calculate it if there is any change?"

Adou nodded. This was indeed a loophole that Zhuge Ke raised by Juntian.

"Your Majesty, if you prohibit trading and plowing fields, it is not feasible! When Wang Mang usurped the power, he ordered the world to plow the fields as 'king fields' and could not be traded, but the people still suffered a miserable life. Therefore, this equal land can only be used in a land without a border!" Pang Tong added from the side.

At this time, Zhuge Liang said again: "Your Majesty, think about it again. Now Sun Quan has implemented equal land. A man has 20 acres of land and a woman has 10 acres of land. Total of thirty acres of land. If the couple has sons and the son gets married and starts a business, they will occupy another thirty acres. If they have two sons, it will be sixty acres; if the son has sons, it will be another thirty acres. In this way, it will not take three generations to live in Jiangdong. Will the fertile land in Jiangdong have no land to plant?"

"I would like to give another example. If a couple has five sons in a family, after they all become adults and marry, the family will occupy 180 acres of land. If a couple has only one son, they can only occupy 60 acres of land. In the long run, those who are prosperous will prosper, and those who are weak will become weaker. If the world is like this, it is a sign of the destruction of the country!"

Adou finally understood what Zhuge Liang meant, and Zhuge Liang's words conveyed a fundamental theme, which was land annexation.

First of all, the equal land system can only be implemented on unowned land. If the land originally belongs to someone and then equal land is implemented, it is equivalent to confiscating other people's land. This is like what Wang Mang did back then, and eventually it has caused public resentment. Although there are many open spaces in Yongzhou today, they are all planned by Zhuge Liang. The rash implementation of equal land is equivalent to disrupting Zhuge Liang's arrangement.

Secondly, even if you equalize the land on unowned land, it is not necessarily fair. Because this equalization of land is calculated based on the caps, not based on household registration, so if a family has a large population, it will definitely take advantage. Although this is equivalent to encouraging everyone to have more children, because more land will be more, it also exacerbates land annexation. The number of land is limited. When all the land is equalized, no new land will be distributed to others. At this time, families that occupy more land will become more advantageous and will gradually develop into new landlords, which will exacerbate land annexation.

One of the reasons why the Yellow Turban Rebellion broke out in the Eastern Han Dynasty was that it was serious land annexation, and a large amount of land was concentrated in the hands of those big families. The people did not have land to cultivate, so they would naturally rebel with Zhang Jiao.

A Dou looked back and thought, it seemed that there were really not a single dynasty that implemented the equal-land system. Even in the Tang Dynasty, when Wu Zetian was in power, land annexation was already serious, and by the time of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, the equal-land system was simply abolished. As Zhuge Liang expressed, although the equal-land system could increase taxes and population in the short term, in the long run, as the population continued to increase, land annexation occurred in the equal-land system, which came faster than other methods.

Thinking of this, Adou looked at Zhuge Liang with admiration. Zhuge Liang is worthy of being Zhuge Liang. In terms of internal affairs, I am afraid that no one in the world can compare with Zhuge Liang.

"I'm anxious!" Adou sighed slightly. At this time, Adou suddenly realized that although he had mastered countless advanced experiences in later generations, it was not something that was successful in later generations. If it was put into the Three Kingdoms, it would definitely succeed.

"Your Majesty, the most important way to govern the country is the word "stable". Only when the court is stable can the people live and work in peace and harmony, so that they can be harmonious with the people. Therefore, Your Majesty must not be impatient in governing the country." Zhuge Liang said with a smile.

"Thank you for your advice from the Prime Minister." Adou said modestly.

Although Adou has been a human being for two lifetimes, he is still a novice in governing the country, and is still far behind Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang and others left, but Pang Tong stayed with a smile.

"Teacher, do you have something to do?" Now there are only two people, Adou and Pang Tong, who are left, so Adou directly calls Pang Tong as the teacher.

"Your Majesty, I am leaving here, naturally because I am sharing my worries." Pang Tong showed a strange smile on his face, and then he said, "What Your Majesty is worried about is nothing more than the population of Guanzhong, taxes, money and food, and I am just not as good as Cao Wei. I came for this matter."

"Teacher, do you have a good way?"

"Cancel the tax on the tax and incorporate it into the land tax! In this way, there will be more taxes, money and grain!" Pang Tong said softly. His voice was very small, so small that only Adou and Pang Tong could hear it.

"Cancel the tax on the C tax and incorporate the tax on the C tax into the land tax? Teacher, what do you mean is to spread the C tax on the acres?" A Dou asked with an incredible look on his face.

"There are a lot of money to make money! This statement is very appropriate." Pang Tong replied with a smile.

"It's too..." Adou's mind was still full of incredible. You know, the dives were only proposed by the Qing Dynasty and applied, but unexpectedly it was proposed by Pang Tong.

Since China entered the feudal society, it began to collect the capitation tax, which took more than two thousand years to collect the capitation tax until the Qing Dynasty implemented the taxation of acres, and the capitation tax was abolished. In ancient times, there were many types of taxes, the most important of which were land tax and capitation tax. The capitation tax was also a major source of income for the national finance.

As the name suggests, the captive tax is taxed according to the captive. As long as it has records on the household registration, taxes must be paid.

The spread of acres into a mu is good news for ordinary people who have less land or no land, but for the aristocratic tribes and landlords who own a lot of land, it is great bad news. However, for the court, it can obtain more taxes.

It’s like a landlord’s family has 100 acres of land. If the landlord cannot grow it, he will find some tenants to farm. The landlord and the tenants must each pay their own head tax. However, once the acres are distributed, the head tax will be included in the talent, and the tenants will not need to pay taxes. However, as the owner of the land, the landlord has to pay more taxes.

After the deposit is placed in the acres, the more land you own, the more tax you have to pay. After careful calculation, some big families with a large land even have to pay thousands of times more land tax. Therefore, the implementation of the deposit is placed in the acres, it will definitely offend all the big families and landlords in the world.

When the Qing Dynasty implemented the implementation of the distribution of resident acres, the Eight Banners and the Green Forest Army in the hands of the Qing emperor were still very combat-effective. In addition, as the ruling class, the Manchus were not good at farming, and the distribution of resident acres did not have much impact on the Manchus. The landlord class of Han people could not make any big waves if they wanted to oppose it.

Nowadays, a large amount of resources in the Three Kingdoms era are still in the hands of the children of aristocratic families. If we implement the implementation of dives and acres, it is simply a way to destroy the country.

However, the population of the Qing Dynasty increased significantly. Before the population of the dime was divided into acres during the Shunzhi period, the Qing Dynasty had only 80 million people. Later, after the implementation of the dime was divided into acres, the population growth averaged 123% in the first forty or fifty years. In the late Qing Dynasty, China traveled 400 million people, and the population grew five times in 200 years. In addition, major uprisings such as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occurred in the middle.

Pang Tong seemed to see Adou's worries, smiled slightly, turned to look at a young eunuch with beautiful eyes serving in the distance, and waved to the eunuch and said, "Come here."

The little eunuch quickly walked a few steps and came close to Pang Tong. Pang Tong reached out, grabbed the little eunuch's hair, picked out one from it, and pulled it hard. The little eunuch was slightly shocked and found that Pang Tong had taken down one of his hair.

"Does it hurt?" Pang Tong asked.

"It doesn't hurt, I don't hurt." The little eunuch was confused and could only have an awkward smile on his face.

I saw Pang Tong grabbed all the hair of the little eunuch and pulled it violently.

"Ouch!" the little eunuch grinned and screamed in pain.

Pang Tong let go of his hand and saw that except for a few broken hairs on Pang Tong's hand, most of the hair was not pulled off. The little eunuch covered his head and almost cried.

"Your Majesty, have you seen it? It's easy to pull a hair this time, and it won't hurt at all. But if you force a handful of hair, you can pull off at most a few pieces, and it will make your head very painful." Pang Tong said.

"Taifu, what do you mean?"

"Your Majesty, this place is like pulling out the hair. If you want to pull it all out in one go, it will be difficult to succeed. But if you pull it up one by one, it will take a longer time to get rid of it, but it will not hurt you, and it will be much easier." Pang Tong's face still smiled.

But at this moment, Adou felt that Pang Tong was so vicious!

Looking at the little eunuch who was covering his head and crying, A Dou smiled helplessly and said to the little eunuch: "Okay, thank you for your hard work. This month, I will give you a 50% salary!"

When the little eunuch heard that the loss of hair could bring him 50% of his salary, he immediately smiled on his face.

In the third year of Jianxing in Shu Han Dynasty, Adou issued an imperial edict, exempting 10% of the tax on the tax and adding 10% of the land tax.

Jiangzhou.

The Yan family's forces are among the best in Jiangzhou.

Yan Yan made great contributions in the battle of Liu Bei's entry into Shu. Now Yan Yan is old and can no longer go to the battlefield, but the Yan family has not declined because of this. In the entire Yan family, more than 30 people from all over the Yan family were officials, from the court to the county magistrates, all of them were all the footsteps of the Yan family.

Similarly, the Yan family is one of the top landlords in Jiangzhou. This time, A Dou added 10% of the land tax, which had a great impact on the Yan family.

Yan Family Meeting Lobby.

"Your Majesty has added 10% of the land tax, so we have to pay a lot more every year!"

"Yes, if we count it like this, we will lose a lot!"

"Why do you want to share the same advice with the children in the court and join forces with other ministers to give advice?"

The crowd was in a mess and began to discuss.

"Hmph, calm down for me!" A light shout came, and an old man stood in front of the door. The old man's beard and eyebrows were white, but he still looked quite strong. When everyone saw this old man, they all stood up respectfully.

This old man is Yan Yan.

In the clan, Yan Yan may not be the biggest in terms of age, and Yan Yan is not the highest in terms of seniority. However, the Yan family was able to rise, and the popularity of the Yan family in Shu Han was mostly due to Yan Yan's contribution. Without Yan Yan, there would be no Yan family today. Therefore, among the people present, even those of Uncle Yan Yan had to stand up respectfully.

"Isn't it just Is it necessary to make a fuss like this?" Yan Yan said, walking straight to the front and sitting down next to the clan leader.

The current leader of the Yan family is Yan Yan's cousin. However, facing Yan Yan, the leader could only smile and said, "Fifth brother, you are not in charge of the family. I don't know that the firewood and rice are expensive. The daily expenses in the clan are very large. This amount of land tax is quite a lot!"

Yan Yan is ranked fifth among their generation, so the patriarch called Yan Yan "Fifth Brother".

"Hmph, I've been fighting for wars over the past few years, and the national treasury has been empty. His Majesty has no money, so he will naturally have to increase the tax!" Yan Yan snorted coldly.

"Hehe, what I said is, but the tax is too high, it always affects the safety of the country!" The patriarch continued to smile and said.

"You are so embarrassed to say! If Your Majesty hadn't valued our tribe, would our Yan family have such a big family business as today? Besides, what does Your Majesty want money to do? He is going to conquer the world! It's not going to eat, drink and have fun!" Yan Yan said with a high eyebrows.

"War is not about our Yan family's business, then Yongzhou is far away from our Jiangzhou..." I don't know who muttered in a low voice below.

Although Yan Yan is not young, he is not deaf in his ears or eyes. When Yan Yan heard this sentence, Yan Yan's anger immediately came up.

Yan Yan is also a timid, otherwise he wouldn't have pointed at Zhang Fei's nose and cursed. Now Yan Yan is on fire, stand up suddenly, kicked the table over, and shouted loudly: "Who said just now, stand up for me!"

"Swish..." Everyone calmed down, including the patriarch, all lowered their heads, as if they were children who did something wrong.

Everyone knows Yan Yan's temper, and Yan Yan's status is there, so everyone chooses to bow their heads obediently and dare not speak.

Yan Yan walked to the middle with a big stride and said, "War is not our business? Who said it is not our business? My title is just a war! Don't think I don't know. Last year, we reselled Shu brocade to the Western Regions, and then bought spices from the Western Regions and sold them back to Chengdu. We made a lot of money! If His Majesty hadn't captured the two states of Yongliang, where would we go to make this money? After making so much, now we have to ask for 10% of the land tax from you, so we would be anxious! We also have to go to Chang'an to give advice, do you want to rebel?"

When it comes to making money through trade in the Western Regions, everyone is silent. Not to mention selling Shu brocade in the Western Regions, even if you sell the goods from Shu to Chang'an, you can make a lot of money. Before, Yizhou and Yongzhou belonged to Liu Bei and Cao Cao respectively, so the trade was very inappropriate. Just the tax was paid. Now Yongzhou and Yizhou are connected together, so trade is much more convenient for merchants. And these big families in Shu naturally would not miss this good opportunity to make money. Many families have organized caravans.
Chapter completed!