The three countries are very nuclear

Chapter 200 Three Moves

Throughout November, Lin Chao was very busy.

Although the specific things are handed over to other people, Xuzhou is in a state of waiting to be done, and the affairs are quite complicated.

From repairing the city walls of Tan County, repairing bridges and paving roads, to establishing some infrastructure.

Especially the government office where the office is run, and Liu Bei's mansion, Lin Chao specially ordered people to renovate it. Anyway, it can be as gorgeous or extravagant as possible.

When Jian Yong raised objections, saying that this move would only harm the power of the people and that it would not be too extravagant right now, Lin Chao directly vetoed his opinion.

Lin Chao has his own thoughts on this.

Liu Bei was born in a reckless family. Although he has a tough temperament and is full of ambitions, he has a preference for pleasure, and likes to drag everyone to dinner when he has nothing to do.

It would be fine if it was just that, but Liu Bei has been so busy recently that he fell in love with hunting again, and took Dian Wei out of the city to hunt every now and then.

Right now, he only owns Xuzhou, and has not yet fully grasped it. Liu Bei has begun to show signs of degeneration.

If the conditions are better in the future, there is no guarantee that Liu Bei will not be fascinated by these glitz and become only drinking and having fun.

The good first master has become the second master.

Just like Dong Zhuo after the capital was moved to Chang'an, he no longer had the boldness before, and became a family dog.

In order to prevent this from happening, Lin Chao discussed with Jia Xu all night, and finally decided to fight poison with poison.

If you like extravagance, then we will create a home of peace for you, so that you can have a good time.

If you like to eat, then let you eat enough.

If you like hunting, then hunt enough.

There will always be a day when you will get tired of these strange and obscene skills. Anyway, the main theme of the next year and a half will be development, there will be no big moves, and there will be plenty of time for Liu Bei to have fun.

Once after this wave of baptism, Liu Bei will pass this level.If I have free time in the future, I may still spend some time on it, but I will never indulge in it again.

Furthermore, as a prince of one party, Liu Bei's life would be detrimental to his prestige if his life was too simple. Naturally, he could not expect him to live like an ordinary person.

In addition, Lin Chao also perfected the future strategic plan.

In fact, Lin Chao originally wanted to copy Shang Yang's reform to govern Xuzhou, but considering that Shang Yang's system was too utilitarian and not conducive to long-term stability, he gave up after thinking about it.

The main method of Shang Yang's reform is to make a hole.

The only hole is the government.

All wealth, meritorious service, and rewards can only be obtained from the government.

The ultimate purpose of doing so is to drive farmers back to war.

Therefore, the reformed Qin State will gradually become stronger, because what Shang Yang built is a war machine with the country as the unit.

But in Xuzhou right now, this kind of operation is obviously not applicable.

Lin Chao's new plan is planned to be divided into three steps.

The first step is to manage people's livelihood.

This includes the law of farming, cleaning up thieves, checking officials, and the most important thing is to encourage production and trade.

Strictly speaking, whether it is cleaning up thieves or rectifying officials, it is all to better serve the farmland.Only when the common people have food in their hands can the official uniform obtain food for military use.

Commercial trade is different. This is the pillar of the economy and requires a large number of merchants to complete.

However, the Han Dynasty was also an era that emphasized agriculture and suppressed business. The common people paid once a year, while merchants had to pay twice. The slaves and servants kept at home also had to pay twice.

It can be seen that the ruler does not like this group of businessmen.

Promoting business rashly will definitely be opposed by a large number of people, so Lin Chao is going to start slowly and strive to complete this matter subtly.

Speaking of business, there are several iron mines in Xuzhou, near the East China Sea, and several places that produce salt.

In addition to salt and iron, Lin Chao also planned to hold the management rights of wine and paper in his own hands.

Find some wealthy businessmen to operate, but the source and final interpretation power must be controlled in the hands of the government.

If things go on like this, within a few years, Xuzhou will become a rich place, and the Liu Bei Group will also be able to have enough soldiers and food.

And the third point is to encourage production, rather it is to reward production.

Production is not only the output of materials, but also includes people.

The current population is too small, far from enough.Moreover, successive years of wars have resulted in more women than men, and a great shortage of labor force. Whether it is conscription or corvee, there are many fewer people who respond.

For this reason, Lin Chao disregarded everyone's opposition and forcibly abolished the oral taxation system.

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty changed the collection age of oral Fu from seven years old to three years old, the popularity of infanticide among the people has increased.

Many poor families were forced to kill their offspring because they could not pay their dues, causing countless human tragedies.

Lin Chao not only abolished oral gifts, but also rewarded births.If a couple has more than three children, the official uniform will reward the fourth child with 15 yuan a year until the age of [-], regardless of gender.

If the child dies on the way, no reward will be given.

Any more, and so on.

This move has two advantages. First, it can prevent folk infanticide. Although the reward money is not much, it can always reduce some family burdens.

Second, the idea of ​​patriarchy in this era is quite serious, and this can ensure to a certain extent that the ratio of men to women will not be out of balance.

There are rewards, and naturally there are punishments.

If a couple is in good health and still has nothing to pay after one year of marriage, they will have to pay three times the oral tax.If there is only one child, pay twice the oral tax.If you give birth to two, you will pay twice the oral tax.

In addition, after the girl is full, she must marry before the age of 20.

Those who do not marry at the age of 20 will receive twice as much as the tax, which will be doubled every two years until the age of 35.

Widows have to remarry after three years of keeping festivals for their ex-husbands. If they do not remarry, they will receive twice as much as a tax.

Those who remarry can be exempted from calculating the tax for five years.

For those who remarry and give birth to children, the government will even send people to the door to congratulate them and give them a hundred coins.

It is also up to the age of 35, and there is no need to remarry after the age of 35.

Right now, for the sake of population growth, Lin Chao can't take much care of it anymore. There are some unreasonable things in it, which will be revised slowly in the future.

But when he came up with this plan, the eyes of everyone looking at him suddenly became ambiguous.

After the meeting ended, Liu Bei patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile: "I thought Zichu you liked young ladies, but who knew that Zichu actually had a wife."

Hearing this, Lin Chao almost spat out a mouthful of old blood.

"Mr. Xuande, even if you are a vassal, how can you defile people's innocence out of thin air!"

No matter how Ren Linchao defended, he couldn't stop Liu Bei's meaningful smile...

So far, the first step of people's livelihood governance, apart from business and trade, has basically taken shape.

Regarding business and trade, Lin Chao is not in a hurry, because someone is more anxious than him.

Not to mention far away, even if they are about to move to Xuzhou to come to the Wuji Zhen family and the Qu County Mi family, I am afraid they will visit them soon.

After all, Liu Bei has just arrived in Xuzhou and has not yet formed a fixed interest system. If the two companies do not see the opportunity, it is impossible to do such a big business.

The second step is strategic planning.

Winning Taishan County is only the first step. Lin Chao's real goal in the next two years is actually Qingzhou.

Qingzhou is located on the edge, and in recent years there have been disasters and civil disturbances one after another, so it can be regarded as a miserable mess.Even now, there are still hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turban bandits entrenched in Qingzhou, and the government is simply unable to conquer them.

In Lin Chao's eyes, these 10 people are ready-made resources, from which they can be screened and exiled, and the rest can also be farmed, anyway, they cannot be let go.

And because of the turmoil, almost all the aristocratic families in Qingzhou ran away.

The second is to train soldiers and horses. Lin Chao doesn't care about this. Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, Gao Shun and others are all good at training soldiers.

After Xuzhou is well governed, Qingzhou is taken down, and the foundation is solid, Lin Chao can implement his third step plan.

That is, to weaken the family!

If you want to deal with the aristocratic family, you have to look at the advantages of the aristocratic family first, you have to see why they have been able to stand at the top of the big man for a hundred years.

In fact, it is very simple, just two words, money and power.

The aristocratic family hid the population and annexed the land, but only handed over a little money to the country. Naturally, the size became bigger and bigger, and the money in their hands also increased.

Although there are occasional acts of kindness, it is no different from picking a little bit out of the nails and throwing it to the people, which is not worth mentioning.

As for power, it is composed of knowledge and institutions.

The current cost of papermaking is still too high, and the quality of paper is poor and difficult to preserve, so it has not been spread out on a large scale.This allows the family to continue to monopolize knowledge and control the channel of wisdom.

And the inspection and judging system enables aristocratic families to marry each other, recommend each other, and carry hairpins from generation to generation.

If Lin Chao wanted to weaken the aristocratic family, he had to start from these two aspects.

First of all, it is necessary to prevent the aristocratic family from continuing to absorb the population and accumulate wealth, and then find a way to check the land and population under their names, and collect taxes, so as to control it.

Secondly, it is necessary to open up academies, start the rule of the people, implement imperial examinations, and cut off the monopoly of the aristocratic family.

Otherwise, if you kill a group of aristocratic families, another group will emerge and overthrow you, just like they overthrew Wang Mang back then.

And these are things that can only be done after a full stomach, and it may take decades to complete.

Right now, these aristocratic families still need to take advantage of them.After all, in the process of conquering the world in the future, they still need to contribute.

After thinking about this, Lin Chao couldn't help heaving a long sigh and revealing a wry smile.

"Family affairs, national affairs, world affairs, all have to be done step by step. Governing a big country is like cooking small fish..."

"Thinking about it now, I think this sentence makes sense."

(End of this chapter)