Liu Jun and Li Chunjiang were soaking in the soup pool together, drinking wine together and recalling the past.●⌒,

Thinking about the time when the two met at the beginning, it seemed like yesterday. They built a horse team together, formed a village group, suppressed bandits, and destroyed bandits. Li Chunjiang, a big son, trusted Liu Jun, who was lowly at the time. He was not promoted and appreciated, but a kind of trust between friends and even brothers.

Liu Jun smoked a cigar and sucked the clouds and the smoke made the water vapor even more vague.

"Mei Qing graduated early in Jiwu Hall. I have already awarded him the rank of Right General. I wanted to keep her in Beijing, but she asked to go to Nanyang." Liu Jun took a heavy breath and then vomited hard.

Li Chunjiang also had a cigar in his hand. He nodded after hearing this, and said, "I know Junior Sister Mei's temperament, she is quite strong. I thought you could succeed, but who expected that it would be like this now. You shouldn't just follow her like this. Sometimes you should be tougher."

Liu Jun smiled, "If it were someone else, maybe I would do that, but she is Mei Qing." He took a sip of cigarettes, turned his head to look at Li Chunjiang, and asked, "Do you think you can really have feelings when you become an emperor?"

"Being an emperor doesn't hinder you. The key is whether you want to or not."

"It's useless for me to be willing, she has to be willing."

"You are in love and I am willing to do anything about love. If she doesn't want to, she really can't do anything." Li Chunjiang said.

"Yes, forget it, let's just let her." Liu Jun was helpless, "Chunjiang, you have been back from Nanjing for a while, and it's enough to rest. After the New Year, you should become the auxiliary minister of the cabinet and the Minister of Personnel."

There are now seven auxiliary ministers in the cabinet, the first auxiliary, and five auxiliary members. The first auxiliary members leads the cabinet, the second auxiliary members, and the five auxiliary members serve as the ministers of the five ministers.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Minister of Personnel was generally not included in the cabinet because the Ministry of Personnel had too heavy power. However, now the seven auxiliary ministers in the cabinet are divided into the main and secondary. The cabinet is led by the chief minister. The original six ministries were already divided by the Ministry of Revenue, and only five ministries were left after the Ministry of Revenue was split. The five auxiliary members of the group served as one minister. Therefore, the Minister of Personnel became the first auxiliary member of the group and the third largest person in the cabinet.

Liu Jun handed over such a heavy position to Li Chunjiang, which fully demonstrated the emperor's trust in him. Li Chunjiang was very young, but he served in central Beijing and local governments, and performed very well in the Governor of Lianghu and Sanjiang. He not only had a stable and trustworthy position, but also had strong ability to manage government.

If the governors were not abolished, Liu Jun intended to allow him to serve as governors in the local area for several years. However, after the revocation of the governor, the only vacant position of Minister of Personnel in the court is the most suitable for him.

"I'll follow His Majesty's arrangement." Li Chunjiang did not refuse. He understood the emperor's character. Since he had said it, he just thought about it.

"The most important thing after you take office is personnel. The imperial court is now in the national examination. After the inspection results are released, it will be handed over to the Ministry of Personnel. At that time, you must quickly make personnel adjustments such as promotion and removal according to the assessment results. The first batch of students from each university will officially take up internship positions next year. You must also arrange this part. Two years later, the waves will wash away the sand and how many available talents will be left. You must do a good job of checking, being responsible for supervision, making good files for each intern, and building a tracking report. In addition, the officers who have been transferred in the army must also make good arrangements. In the local area, especially at the grassroots level, they must vigorously promote and reuse these military-to-peer cadres. Make good use of these military-to-peer cadres is a killer weapon for us to rectify local officials. Don't waste it."

Whether you are an emperor or a company boss, personnel and financial power are definitely extremely important and must be held in your hands. How to grasp personnel power? Of course, you must have an excellent, capable and trustworthy Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. As an emperor, you are not as good as opening a company. Liu Jun cannot do everything himself, so he can only manage the upper level well and then manage it layer by layer.

"Your Majesty, I will definitely live up to my responsibilities." Li Chunjiang nodded, and then said, "But there is something I have always wanted to report to Your Majesty. It is about some personal opinions in the court today." Liu Jun looked at Li Chunjiang with interest, "You said."

Li Chunjiang said something that Liu Jun did not expect. In recent years, the imperial court has been continuously expanding its territory and migrating people from the Central Plains to expand borders. Most of the people moved out were poor people, as well as some places with poor geographical conditions, either lacking or mountainous land, with few arable land and many disasters. Many places have been experiencing nine disasters in ten years, and the people are in poverty and have a hard life. After moving them out, they arrived at the border. Although they left their hometowns, they did have a new life. The fertile land can be as low as at least hundreds of acres of land.

Now the population of the Central Plains has decreased a lot, and the number of people has decreased, and the land is still the same. Therefore, many people who had no land in the past and those who could not rent out the land can now also rent out the land. In addition, the construction of projects such as Fangduofang mines and road water conservancy has also given people the opportunity to earn some wages while farming and farming, so their lives have been much better.

However, Li Chunjiang still saw some shortcomings.

"Compared with those migrants, most of the people who are now staying in the Central Plains are still landless, and the land in the Central Plains is concentrated in the hands of a very small number of landlords. I think this is a hidden danger."

Liu Jun poured a glass of wine for Li Chunjiang and asked, "What do you have any suggestions?"

"Train acquisition and land grant."

Liu Jun suddenly understood, but was still a little surprised, "Be more specific."

"Your Majesty, in the late Southern Song Dynasty, land annexation was severe, the people were poor, and even the imperial court tax revenue was greatly reduced. Later, Jia Sidao, who was in power, issued a policy to promulgate the land limit law, which stipulated the upper limit for aristocratic officials at all levels to own land. Then the imperial court took this into consideration and took out one-third of the part that exceeded the standard, and the imperial court bought it back as official land and then leased it out. In this way, the imperial court solved the problems of military rations, meetings, prices, etc. by collecting rent, and the most important thing was to solve the major problems of landless people's lives."

Liu Jun nodded. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, both Song dynasties were not suppressed and land was allowed to be traded freely. Even in the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, due to insufficient military expenses in the anti-Jin period, the court proposed to sell the public land in the hands of the court to private individuals to raise a large amount of military expenses.

But by the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty was full of financial problems. At this time, I thought of restricting the land, buying back the excess land, and then renting it out to landless farmers to collect rent to solve the finances, and at the same time solving the lives of a large number of landless farmers.

In history, although Jia Sidao was called a treacherous minister, he did have good abilities. The policy of restricting land and buying back public land was a life-spanning soup for the Southern Song Dynasty at that time.

The Han Dynasty also had a lot of public land, confiscated a large amount of land from the royal family, royal family and illegal bureaucrats of the previous dynasty, the military farming, fleeing households, and the deserted households, and the sand field silted by rivers, and there were still a lot of them.

But in recent years, the court has been implementing a policy that is to sell these public fields. Of course, the sale of these public fields is not simply for sale, but for renting them first and then to ordinary people, with a limited amount for each person. After the people rent the plant, they have the right to redeem the field as long as they pay the full grain for a few years.

This approach is not because the court needs money to sell land, nor is it because it is unwilling to manage the rent collection, but it is still taking into account the interests of the people. For the court, selling land does lose a lot of rent in the long run, but from the overall perspective, it has given the court a lot of self-cultivated farmers, who are the solid foundation of the court and are of great significance.

Just as Li Chunjiang said now, although the court moved a large number of people and took the land of these people to the court and then rented it out to the remaining people, the state of the Central Plains is essentially less than 20% of the landlords, occupying almost 80% of the land.

A large number of people who stayed in the Central Plains actually made a living by leasing land. Even if they could not even rent the land, they could only rely on work. Now that the industry and commerce are booming, the court is also light on taxes, so there is no problem at the moment, but this is a hidden danger.

"Do you think the land restriction system should be implemented?"

"The land restriction system should be implemented in the Central Plains."

The Han Empire has now expanded its territory and has a vast territory. However, when it comes to the core areas, there are still the Central Plains, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sanjiang, Lianghu, Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Guangxi, Sichuan, and the rest, such as Yunnan, Guizhou, Hainan, Taiwan, Liaoning and even Gansu, are still underpopulated and not developed enough.

The stability of the thirteen provinces in the Central Plains is extremely important.

"Your Majesty, the court does not need to spend a lot of money to buy the excess for the thirteen provinces of the Central Plains. I think the court can completely exchange land for land and exchange land with them."

Li Chunjiang showed a sly smile.

"Hahaha." Liu Jun laughed and realized it all at once.

Jia Sidao's public land law in the Southern Song Dynasty relied on the state to buy back three points of the land that exceeded the limit and rented it to the people. Even if you only buy one-third of it, the court still needed to spend a lot of money at one time.

Even today's great men face great financial pressure to fully implement this policy.

But Li Chunjiang did think of an excellent solution, replace it.

In addition to the thirteen core provinces, the Han Dynasty also had many provinces, including the three northeastern provinces outside the pass, the Seshang area, and even the newly built large areas of land on the Indochina Peninsula. In addition, there are also territories on the Nanyang Islands, not to mention the areas such as the southern desert and northern desert.

There are still a lot of idle land in these places. The imperial court can completely replace the land of the thirteen provinces with the landlords in the Central Plains, such as one acre of land in Hebei to three provinces in Liaoning, one acre in Henan to five acres in Annan, one acre in Fujian and Zhejiang to three acres in Taiwan, one acre in Jiangsu to ten acres in Nanyang, etc.

In this way, the court can recover a large amount of land in the core area without spending a penny, and it does not require any effort to immigrate to the border, so that a large number of people can rent the land to the court. In a few years, they can even gradually redeem these lands, from tenants to tenants to self-cultivated farmers with land.

At the same time, the landlords themselves have great strength. When they exchange for a large amount of land on the border, they will definitely develop them. They are not weak in their own strength and do not need too much help from the court to develop these lands.

Jia Sidao's target of land purchase was initially an official household, and the standard set was that the first grade was limited to 50 hectares of land, and each grade below decreased by 5 hectares, and to the ninth grade, it was five hectares.

However, later, because the land that the official households exceeded the standard was far less than the public land, it was first stipulated that the maximum land that the unofficial family had was limited to five hectares, and later it was reduced to 200 acres. In the end, regardless of the officials and the people, one-third of the land that exceeded 100 acres must be bought back for public land.

The thirteen provinces of the Han Dynasty had a large population, with a population of more than 300 million. These thirteen provinces accounted for at least 70%.

"Chunjiang, what do you think of land limiting for each land limit? If each land limit is 100 acres, the court will collect it and exchange land for land. Specifically, the court will have to come up with a standard, such as different provinces and different prices of land. In addition, all the land must be divided into several standards such as fat and thin. In this way, each land is finally calculated in a comprehensive manner for each land. At the same time, the court also calculated such a price standard for all land outside the thirteen provinces. Then, people who exceed the land limit standard can freely choose the land they replace. They can choose from North Korea, outside the pass, Japan, Annan, Myanmar, Nanyang, etc. according to their own ideas. What do you think?"

Converting land is definitely a troublesome thing, and if it is not done well, it will become a difficult problem for the Han Dynasty to relocate.

We must be open, fair and fair. The better way is to give them some choices and make things open and transparent, so that everyone can understand and have room for choice, so that they will naturally be more acceptable.

"It is probably too strict to limit the land at a rate of 100 acres per 100 acres."

Liu Jun nodded, Ding means an adult man, which means that minor men and extremely old people are excluded, and women of old age are excluded. A big landlord, even if it is a big family, probably no more than ten males, which means that they cannot retain at most one thousand acres of land, and many of the big landlords own more than a thousand hectares of land.

"In this way, every family, adult, regardless of gender, can own fifty acres of land, and a minor, regardless of gender, can own twenty acres of land. What do you think?"

"For ordinary small and medium-sized landlords, in this way, they should be able to retain about a thousand acres of land, and they should be acceptable, but the big landlords are afraid that it will be difficult for a while."

Liu Jun smiled, "As long as most small and medium-sized landlords can accept it, we can ignore these big landlords. After all, the number of small and medium-sized landlords is far more than that of large landlords. We are not confiscating their land, but replacing it. It is because they don't want to eat toast and want to eat and punish them, so there is no need to worry too much."

Liu Jun felt that the standard for restricting land was already good, which was much better than the policy of restricting land by 100 acres in the Southern Song Dynasty. However, Liu Jun also planned to do it thoroughly. The Southern Song Dynasty bought back more than one-third of the part of the purchase exceeding the land limit, and Liu Jun wanted to replace it beyond the part of the part.

The land in these thirteen provinces that have been replaced will be rented to local landless people. The court will also limit the rent to the tenants according to the land limit policy. After paying the land tax for several years in full, the tenants will have the power to redeem the rented public land of the government. The court encouraged them and could even provide them with some loans.

"By the way, the imperial court has introduced a policy of restricting land purchases, and it is necessary to add a restriction on land purchases and sales. In the 13 Central Plains provinces, the buyer's land purchases cannot exceed the limit. If the amount is full, the land shall not be purchased again, otherwise it will be considered illegal and will be severely investigated and punished once discovered."

The imperial court allowed the sale of land, but there were restrictions. The restriction on the sale of land in the Central Plains was that it could not exceed the limit of the land limit. As for the thirteen provinces, the restrictions on arable land could be larger than that of the Central Plains, such as ten times or more, and pastures could be placed wider.

"Chunjiang, the suggestion you made is very good. You don't bother the second master in one matter. When you go back, you will immediately draft a proposal, and then take it to the cabinet meeting to study it with the auxiliary ministers. Finally, a formal proposal is made and sent to the Senate for consultation. I hope this proposal can be reached as soon as possible, and finally pass the bill to vote, becoming a formal bill, so that the court can implement this policy in accordance with the bill and quickly start land replacement." Liu Jun said to Li Chunjiang excitedly.

He knew very well how important this bill would be to the great man if it was done well.
Chapter completed!