Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 845
Chapter [-] Casting a Plow into a Sword Fighting the Quartet

After all, the income from farming is the lowest in any era.For example, in this era, even if the weather is good, in a good harvest year, the output of one mu of land is about 150 yuan, and the annual income of [-] mu of land is only [-] yuan. Excluding taxes, seeds and labor costs, the net The profit is only three to five thousand dollars.

Chen Ying thought for a while and added: "There are too many people going to work, and it's hard to recruit long-term and short-term workers. Even if they can be recruited, the commission must be greatly increased. In this way, the income from farming will be much thinner. I believe that many landlords will lose interest in farming and sell their land to set up factories, so that more ordinary people will have land to farm?"

The issue of land annexation has been a problem that has plagued all dynasties in China for thousands of years.Countless people spent their entire lives without finding a fundamental solution.

At the same time, the issue of land annexation has become China's fate.Once the arable land exceeds the maximum population that the land can bear, troubled times will come.

In the final analysis, it is still a question of the size of the cake. The current cake is too small, even if it is eaten by one person, it is not enough to fit between the teeth, but if it is made ten times or a hundred times bigger, one person will be full with one bite, and the cake will be full. There is no need to rob so fiercely! "

However, the income of working is not only high, but also not affected by the weather.

Standing on the top of the city gate, Li Jiancheng looked at the brightly lit Qinglin and sighed, "It would be great if every city in the world could do this."

Wei Ting shook his head and said: "No, if half of the cities can do this, it will be a glorious and prosperous age for the strong and powerful."

Chen Ying showed a strange smile and said, "Prosperity? Are you rare?"

Li Jiancheng sighed and said, "Everyone, who doesn't want to live in a prosperous world? Every monarch of a country, who doesn't want to be able to create a prosperous world?"

"Actually, it's not difficult at all for you to want a prosperous age!" Chen Ying pointed to the empty night sky around him and said, "Back then, the Sui Dynasty had more than 980 million households. After more than ten years of war, people have been killed seven or eighty-eight, and now the population of Guanzhong is less than a quarter of what it used to be, and if there are a few years of tax exemption, it will not be long before the prosperous age will come."

Chen Ying's words were absurd, but they frightened Li Jiancheng.Li Jiancheng and Wei Ting looked at each other, their temples throbbing.Wei Ting shouted: "What nonsense are you talking about? I don't know how many people have to die in every prosperous age, and how much effort has been put in to create it. Looking at thousands of years of history, there are only a handful of times that can be called a prosperous age..."

Chen Ying retorted: "Every dynasty is prosperous for quite a long time after the founding of the country, and this thing is not rare at all!"

Even if Chen Ying's words pierced a window, Li Jiancheng's heart suddenly brightened.He looked at the dark night sky, his gaze seemed to penetrate time and see the depths of history.

Every prosperous age is built on the bones of the previous dynasty after the collapse. Without great chaos, there will be no great order. This has been the case since ancient times.However, the sages will tell him that it was a certain monarch who was so talented and generous that he helped the common people create this prosperous world...

Li Jiancheng asked: "Tell me, how did the prosperous age come about?"

Chen Ying asked: "Before I answer you, please tell me, His Royal Highness, how did the previous dynasty collapse?"

Wei Ting hurriedly said: "Does this need to be said? Naturally, the foolish king was too licentious and carried out large-scale construction projects, which made the sky angry and the people resentful.

"Yang Guang is what you call a foolish king, right? Unrestrained licentiousness..." Chen Ying interrupted Wei Ting and said, "Yang Guang has one empress and four concubines, three sons and two daughters, a total of five children. Isn’t this too false? Wei Canjun, if I remember correctly, you should have thirteen sons and five daughters, right!”

Wei Ting was speechless.

Chen Ying pointed to Li Jiancheng and said, "His Royal Highness, to be disrespectful, you have six sons and five daughters..."

Li Jiancheng was silent.

"If Yang Guang is desolate and promiscuous, how many people in the Manchu dynasty are not desolate and promiscuous?" Chen Ying said with a wry smile: "What kind of stupid emperor is promiscuous and promiscuous? It's hard to say whether it's true or not, but there is one thing in common. , that is, the people do not live in poverty. Yes, the people do not live in poverty is the prelude to the demise of every dynasty.”

Li Jiancheng was shocked!If people's poor livelihood is the prelude to the demise of every dynasty, then during the Great Tang...Hebei Rebellion, almost more than half of the people in Hebei followed Liu Shishan to rebel, and the same is true now in Jianghuai. If the people can survive, their heads will be kicked by donkeys. Will follow the rebellion!

Chen Ying went on to say: "Why do the people live in poverty? Historians will point the finger at the emperor without exception, thinking that the emperor has lost his morals, which is why he made the people's lives difficult. The specific method of losing morals is also listed by Wei Canjun just now. Ah, building large-scale construction projects, emphasizing cruel officials, nepotism, emphasizing villains and far away from virtuous ministers...the number is too numerous to count."

Li Jiancheng asked in surprise: "Isn't it right?"

"The devil knows if it's true or not. Could it be that people who study history can wake up the dead emperor from the coffin? Can't they interrogate them one by one? But there is one thing they didn't write, that is, government exploitation, land annexation... yes, land annexation, This is the real reason why the people are in dire straits." Chen Ying walked from the top of the city gate to the inside of the city gate.

Li Jiancheng and Wei Ting also followed Chen Ying in.

Chen Ying took the pen and ink on the desk, drew a circle on the paper, and said, "This big cake represents the land."

Then the pen turned around and cut it in half, "At the beginning, there were only two families who divided the land. It can be seen that they couldn't farm it at all. It is no problem to divide it into three-year rotations. It is easier to pay taxes. gone."

Draw again, and the pie becomes four parts, "But they will have children after all, and their children will eventually get married and start a business. Now that they get married and start a business, they must have a piece of land. I assume that they will have two children per person." Divide it up, this big pie has been divided into four, it is a bit smaller, but there is still plenty for them.”

After painting a few more times, the flatbread became more than a dozen pieces. "In another 20 years, the children of these four families will grow up, and the fields will be divided. They will divide the land left by their ancestors again... Look, now the land is just enough, everyone has a piece, there will be no waste, and the output of the land is enough to allow them to live a life of food and clothing after paying taxes, so this era is called the prosperous age. Yes, a A country that has come from troubled times, as long as there are no major disturbances, no matter how incompetent the monarch is, through the efforts of three or four generations, it can usher in a prosperous world."

Li Jiancheng calculated silently in his heart, just as Chen Ying said.The Western Han Dynasty was built on the ruins of the Great Qin Dynasty. During the founding period, Liu Bang couldn't even find five white horse-drawn carts. However, after three generations, it happened to be the "Government of Wenjing" in history.This is true of the Western Han Dynasty, and so is the Eastern Han Dynasty. Five or sixty years was a prosperous age. Even in the period of the Three Kingdoms, when the princes competed for hegemony, after the world was divided into three parts, Wei, Shuhan, and Dongwu all entered the prosperous age.

Chen Ying continued: "The great disadvantage of a prosperous age is that the products are abundant, the country is peaceful and the people are safe, and the people can rest assured to reproduce offspring, so the population grows rapidly. However, the population needs land to support it, and a country has limited land and a limited population to support it. With an infinitely growing population, everyone knows what will happen. Therefore, when the population exceeds the limit that the land can accommodate, the prosperous age will turn into a passing cloud, followed by chaotic times. More and more The population is fighting openly and covertly for less and less land, and it doesn’t matter if you think about it, if there are a few more large-scale natural disasters or wars at this time, it can be said that this country is doomed.”

Hearing this, Li Jiancheng's face became a little unnatural.Datang's aristocratic families are now frantically annexing land, and he finally understands why Chen Ying wants to start a business and open a factory.Because, only in this way can completely put an end to the harm caused by land annexation.

The key is that the aristocratic families cannot be eliminated.

Chen Ying continued: "This is still the most ideal state. In fact, this state is impossible. The land cannot be divided indefinitely until it can no longer support so many people. The rich will buy real estate arbitrarily and lose their land. People either became serfs or were displaced, and the annexation of land became more and more serious. For example, Wei joined the army, and Jingzhao Wei’s land property was as many as tens of thousands.”

Wei Ting's cold sweat immediately flowed down.He faltered and said: "His Royal Highness, I have become Webster's master!"

Li Jiancheng patted Wei Ting on the shoulder and said, "Yi Zhi, don't be nervous, I understand..."

Chen Ying was still there and said to himself: "In the entire Guanzhong, there are only more than [-] acres of land, but now the Websters have occupied tens of thousands of acres, and even the Hou Mochen family has nearly [-] acres of fertile land. The land that can support dozens or hundreds of thousands of people is now used to support your family. The most terrible thing is that these aristocratic families and these privileged classes do not have to pay taxes. The country cannot operate without taxes. I have to eat, the small officials in the yamen, the third class of yamen servants, they also have to eat, and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Tang Dynasty also have to eat, the court has no money, what should I do?"

Li Jiancheng sighed secretly.

When the imperial court had no money, it had to collect taxes from those peasants.Their land is getting less and less, taxation is more and more heavy, and finally, they also lost their land, and those lands were either abandoned, or they were annexed like aristocrats, and in either case, the country is lost forever this tax.

With land annexation, the country's tax sources are dwindling day by day, and the finances are unable to make ends meet, but there are still many things to do. If things go on like this, the country will surely come to an end.With the collapse of the empire, there will always be a bloody war, and the war will swallow the lives of tens of thousands of people. Everyone will kill and kill, kill and kill like crazy, until there is no one inhabited for thousands of miles, until the population reaches the population. Reduced to the point where the land could bear and there was even plenty of wasteland, the war was over.

At this time, Li Jiancheng finally realized suddenly.

Everything is clear.

The so-called prosperous age is just a period when the population and the bearing capacity of the land are balanced, and it has nothing to do with whether the king is wise or not.As long as the population growth rate does not exceed the limit of the land's capacity, even a pig can create a prosperous dynasty.

Conversely, once the population exceeds the limit of the land's bearing capacity, the limited land can no longer support so many people, and there will be a man-made mass extinction to forcibly reduce the population to a relatively low level. Clear the system and start over.For thousands of years, this process has been repeated all over the world. The difference is that we can always achieve great order after great chaos, while in some places there is endless chaos after great chaos, which lasts for thousands of years without stopping.

Li Jiancheng carefully recalled the history books he had read, or took a pen to list the increase and decrease of household registration and taxation of each dynasty according to the different time periods of the founding, prosperity, and demise of the country, and then compared them carefully. Horrified, my hands kept shaking, and I couldn't write any more.Finally, even his voice was trembling: "What a curse!"

Chen Ying sighed and said: "This is the curse of our Chinese nation, our Chinese nation has been spinning in this circle,
The prosperous age is as simple as that, kill [-]% of the population, leave [-]% to reproduce, live for three or four generations, and it will be another prosperous age! "

Li Jiancheng lost his composure and said: "No, this curse can be broken! The root of the problem lies in the land! If we can increase crop yields and feed more people with less land; if we can make the rich Pay the same taxes as the poor, and make the rich pay even more; or . . . "

Li Jiancheng gritted his teeth, and roared desperately: "If we can continue to open up the land, let the land grow with the growth of the population, ensure that the tillers have their fields, and every household has surplus food and meat to eat, then this way The spell will be invalid, and the damn end times will never come!"

For a moment, there was a trace of relief in Chen Ying's eyes.

In fact, Chen Ying was very worried that after Li Jiancheng came to power, whether the magnanimous and benevolent Li Jiancheng would stand still and be satisfied with the territory of the Tang Dynasty instead of continuing to expand like in history.

Chen Yingdao: "To break this curse, as His Royal Highness said, it can be divided into three steps. First, internally, we must encourage the construction of workshops and encourage the development of industry and commerce. At the same time, we should strive to improve scientific planting and increase the yield per mu. Let the least amount of land support the most people. In the end, it is never to put horses on the South Mountains and put swords into the warehouse. We must hold high the cast plow as a sword and fight in all directions!"

Li Jiancheng also wanted to ask Chen Ying to help him.

Chen Ying said with a smile: "Your Highness, why don't these clans and clans take the people to Andong or the Western Regions to farm?"

Aristocratic clans and elites have talents, human capital, and strength. If this model can be promoted, it will simply be the COFCO Group of later generations, enclosing land all over the world.Part of the grain produced is sold locally, and part is shipped back to the country.In particular, the Anton Governor's Mansion can go down the river, directly into the sea, and be transported to Guanzhong by water. In this way, it will not only save costs, but also alleviate the food crisis in Guanzhong.

Li Jiancheng pondered: "Is this feasible?"

Chen Ying said with a smile: "I am willing to set an example. How about this? The Anton Governor's Mansion has a lot of wasteland. Your Highness can sell the land of Xinna in Anton to the minister. I am not greedy. I am willing to give out 100 million guan , I wish to go to Anton to farm the fields!"

Li Jiancheng was immediately moved.

Most of Anton is wasteland, and there is no human habitation for hundreds of miles.If you sell it to Chen Ying, you can't pay it back!

PS: There will be more later!
(End of this chapter)