Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 813 Isn't Luo Cheng Afraid?

"In the Two Taxes Law, the service money has actually been included, and the service money has been converted into the two taxes. Therefore, after paying the two taxes, the common people do not need to perform free service. The government also has special money and grain, which can be used to hire people to do the service. Usually the yamen The servants are also hired, with special service money, and road construction, city construction, water conservancy, etc., and special funds from the higher levels of the county."

Li Mi opened his mouth wide open, feeling like he was listening to a scripture from heaven. He had never heard of any dynasty or generation of emperors implementing such a policy before.

In his heart, he always felt that these policies were unreliable, but now that he had walked along the road and watched the excitement of the various counties in Shandong Province, he knew that these were the facts.

I don't want to admit it.

However, the closer the county is to Henan, the worse it is to the county near Donglai.

This result made Li Mi very frustrated, even more frustrated than his defeat in Beiman Mountain.

Luo Cheng is a martial artist, a blacksmith-born martial artist, not only is he better at conquering the world immediately, but now he is also better at ruling the world than him, how can this not be frustrating.

"I have a question. You just said that Shandong also implements the land sharing system just like outside the Guan. The land outside the Guan is easy to say. After all, it used to be occupied by Goguryeo people. Now the Goguryeo people are killed by the emperor and their population is slaves. Land confiscation can be used to resettle immigrants and grant land by equalizing the land. However, the land in Shandong used to belong to Henan. For generations, there have been many powerful landlords from the gentry. It can be said that they have controlled more than [-]% of the land, and the remaining [-]% of the land is only It is in the hands of the common people who account for more than [-]% of the population."

How did Luo Cheng solve this problem?

In Li Mi's view, in fact, many dynasties were weak and defeated. In the end, it was actually a land issue.

The aristocrats, gentry, and tycoons will always hold the vast majority of the land, while the common people only have a small amount of land, and as the dynasty stabilizes, they will intensify land annexation, and the land in the hands of the common people will continue to flow to the small number of nobles and tyrants. Hands, until the fragile balance is broken, so the world is in chaos, and then undergoes another reshuffle to restore the fragile balance.

Although Luo Cheng was also a rebel, he took the upper-level route after all. He was originally a general of the Sui Dynasty, and he embraced Yang Hao as emperor, and then he was enthroned by Zen, which made him inherit the Sui Dynasty, so the nobles of Shandong The powerful should keep their property and fields inviolable.

"Those who support our emperor will naturally preserve their land and property from infringement, but those who rebel and resist the imperial court will naturally have their property and fields confiscated by the government, and the previous fleeing and extinct households will also be returned to the government. All the official land, fields, public land, etc. in the hands of the government are all official. The imperial court took out these fields and allocated them to the land."

At the same time, the Qin court mobilized those people who had no property in the pass to immigrate to Liaodong, where they were given full land.

Of course, if only this is the case, it is definitely not enough.

Therefore, in the newly occupied lands such as Shandong, Huainan, and Fanyang, Luo Cheng implemented another big move.

The public land was bought back.

What is public land buy back?After all, a large number of deserted households and official lands were taken out to share the land with the people, and many people were mobilized to go outside the customs, and then the few lands in their hands were taken back and distributed again.

Why do you want to buy it back from the public land?
The core of this public land buyback is the land quota order.

All people have field quotas.

For example, in Guan, an ordinary man can only own a maximum of one hundred mu of land. No matter whether you have good land or poor land, mountainous land, slope land or paddy field, you can only own a maximum of one hundred mu. If you have twenty mu of private land, Then you can grant another [-] mu of land at most. This field is divided by mouth and will be taken back when you get old.

And if there are honors, titles, and official positions, then according to the rank of honors and titles, the amount of land owned can be increased.

This strategy is actually aimed at those powerful landlords, especially the old nobles and powerful ones.Because the upstarts who followed the emperor all had titles and ranks, their land holdings were greatly increased.

But in the past, the old aristocrats were powerful, even if there were members of the clan who served as officials and had official ranks or titles, after all, a big family would have a lot of land accumulated over hundreds or even hundreds of years. To such a huge land holding amount.

What about the excess?
The government buys back and replaces one-third of the excess amount, and the government pays for it, and the other third is awarded to them by the government. This can be regarded as some comfort to them, and the remaining third If there is an excess, they will be replaced with land outside the customs or on the frontier, and they will be replaced at a ratio of one to two.

Through such means, the serious problem of land annexation in the Central Plains can be alleviated.

However, doing so is very risky. After all, the nobles and powerful landlords in these places are not idle people.

But Luo Cheng still did this. His confidence lies in that the Gongtian Order will not harm the interests of the heroes and soldiers who follow him. With the support of the heroes and soldiers and the support of the people, the old nobles and local tyrants will oppose it. , Luo Cheng is not very afraid.

Because of this, he insisted on his views and vigorously promoted the public land order.

After this decree was promulgated, there was indeed a lot of excitement in the local area, and some people wanted to make trouble, but as soon as they made a move, they were suppressed by the generals stationed in various places.

To deal with these people, Luo Cheng was very ruthless and decisive.

Confiscated all the houses and land property, uprooted these rebellious families, and exiled them all outside the pass as villagers.

Under such thunderous tactics, although the other powerful landlords were still very dissatisfied, they still had to consider their own abilities. If they didn't have the ability to rebel, they could only obey.

"Isn't the emperor afraid of hidden dangers? If a war breaks out, these people will collude with the enemy and rebel?"

"My emperor said that they won't have this chance!"

Li Mi doesn't know why Luo Cheng is so confident, but now it seems that Shandong is indeed very lively. It can also be said that his risky move may be successful, or there may be hidden dangers, but at least he has already seen the benefits now.

"The emperor is really courageous, and he has no choice but to submit. He took the risk of offending so many old aristocrats and powerful landlords, but only to grant land to more common people." Li Mi thought to himself, it seemed that he did not have the courage.

After all, this land quota order actually not only threatens the old nobles and tycoons, but also potentially harms the new nobles and heroes of today, but the emperor still did this.

In the past, [-]% of the land in Shandong was controlled by about [-]% of the powerful nobles, but now under Luo Cheng's continuous actions, taking advantage of the current special situation, as the founding king of the country, he is When the constraints were most lacking, drastic reforms were launched, and this land restriction order was launched, with buy-back on the one hand, replacement on the other, and exchange of honorary officers on the other, a multi-pronged approach.

(End of this chapter)