I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 156, revealing the face of the noble family

After working for more than half a month, the summer harvest in Mayi was finally completed, and soybeans were planted on the land to nourish the soil. In recent years, as long as the land in Mayi has been planted, soybeans will be planted. Now farmers in the entire Mayi have discovered how to grow soybeans. There is no need to fallow at all, and it can also increase the output of the next year. Now there is no need for Xu Wei to remind, everyone knows to replant soybeans.

And the soybeans planted will be squeezed into soybean oil. After all, the iron pan was made by Xu Wei, and cooking is naturally going to be made, and cooking is also indispensable. Oil can also reduce food consumption if you eat too much oil, and soybeans can also be used As feed, it can be said that the economic value of replanted soybeans is more than twice that of grain.

Fortunately, the old man Wang and the farmers who planted the land are people who have endured hunger. They are willing to replant soybeans to fertilize the land, but they will be severely punished if they dare to hinder the planting of wheat!
After finishing the summer planting, Ma Yi finally had some free time and knew that their grain harvest was over.

In Mayi's meeting hall, dozens of accountants were dialing the abacus in a thunderbolt. Although Old Man Wang and the others could roughly estimate how much grain they had harvested this time, the exact figure still needed to be calculated by the accountant!

After all the calculations stopped, a cashier handed over the calculated results to Xu Wei!
"More than 1600 million shi!" Even Xu Wei couldn't help taking a deep breath. The grain output has tripled compared with a year ago.

The others couldn't help but take a deep breath.

The old man Wang sighed: "It actually exceeded our expectations. According to the 500% tax, we can collect [-] million shi for grain alone this year. It was impossible for Wei County to have such a high tax!"

Xu Wei said with a smile: "Of course it is impossible to have such a high tax. We collect taxes directly from the people. No one else collects food from the people. We benefit and the people benefit, but the powerful and noble families are killed by us." Light up, without this layer of intermediate exploitation, so our taxes are heavier than the imperial court, but the people get more, and both sides benefit.

However, the imperial court pulled out a millimeter from the hands of the nobles. It is estimated that 50 shi is a lot, but this does not mean that the burden on the people is light. If there are 3000 shi in the grain of Weijun, the nobles will at least take it away. 2000 million shi, so it seems that the court does not collect much, but the rich Wei County starves to death every year!But the common people still blame the imperial court for expropriation! "

Old Man Niu and the others looked at each other and said, "There can't be so many, there are only so many of them, how could they eat up so much food!"

Xu Wei smiled and said: "Old man, you forgot that we occupied Wei County before, and all the land we cultivated belonged to the nobles, and we haven't taken the land of ordinary people, and these lands are the best in Wei County. At that time, we all estimated that if all those lands had a good harvest, they could receive 3000 million shi of grain. I said 2000 million shi, which is to say the least. You said that just one powerful family in Wei County would occupy more than 2000 million shi of grain, big man There are more than 100 counties, although it is impossible for them all to be as rich as Wei County, but even if I calculate one-tenth of them, the grain occupied by the rich and powerful in the world is 2-3 million shi. Don’t you starve to death?”

"2-3 million stones of grain!" This astronomical figure dazzled everyone for a while, but many of them sank down, and then the high-level officials in Mayi were angry, and Wang Ge even cursed: "It turns out that all of this is caused by these powerful people. It’s the gentry’s fault, they still pretended to be good people, and told us that there are villains in the court! It turns out that the real villains are them!”

It can be said that the upper echelons in Mayi are all victims of the Han system, even Zhang Baiqi, who was born as a small tyrant, found that not only could they not achieve a class leap, but they would fall down.Just like Zhang Niujiao, he was also powerful, but he had to sell private salt to maintain his family business, so these people had to rebel to break the oppression of the big man.

And self-cultivating farmers like Old Man Wang sold their fields and land to survive until they could not survive and had to join the Yellow Turban Army to rebel.

But the vision they were exposed to did not allow them to know what caused their change.They could only passively accept the explanations of the elites and gentry that there are villains around the emperor and eunuchs intervene in politics. '

So when they were cleaning up the nobles in Wei County, everyone felt a sense of guilt. Although everyone survived by this method, they felt that they were doing evil things in their hearts, and felt that they were sorry for the nobles who were killed by themselves.

In fact, Xu Wei also understands their hearts very well, because he also has such a heart. In the modern hopeful country, he has been beautifying and promoting himself, so that everyone has a good impression of them without knowing it.When Xu Wei was reading the novel, he found a strange imagination. It was a very cool thing to beat Hope Country, and he thought so too.

But there is always a feeling in his heart that Hope Country shouldn't end up like this. He actually sympathizes with Hope Country. His rationality and sensibility actually conflicted. After this discovery, Xu Wei also had to admit that brainwashing Dafa is really useful. I hope that the country still has a good impression. Even if you realize it rationally, you still have no way to control your emotional thinking.

But the same emotional thinking also changed very quickly. Xu Wei settled the accounts for them this time, letting Wang Ge and the others know that most of the interests in the world are occupied by the powerful and powerful, and they are shamelessly and cruelly exploiting them. The villain is them For themselves, they felt cheated for an instant, and then they began to rise to the point of anger at the deception of the nobles and nobles.

Originally, they thought that the good aristocrats in the world really accounted for the majority, but now that Xu Wei had settled the accounts, Wang Ge and the others realized that the villain was themselves, and now they would not be concerned about the possession of the wealth of the aristocrats by the Tengjia Army. Feeling guilty again.

Because everyone also has the simplest principle, human life is the most important thing.

When everyone can live on, your wine pool and meat forest, extravagance are all your business. Although I envy and hate, I don't have the idea of ​​killing you. Even if I have this idea, I feel ashamed in my heart.

But now in Jizhou, hundreds of thousands of people starve to death every year, and your elite clans still control these tens of millions of grains, and you would rather these grains get moldy than use them to save people, so it is understandable for me to kill your whole family because of hunger up.

No one in Mayi's top management will agree that even if they starve to death, they can't use the food of the powerful and powerful, and they can't rebel against such rules.

Since this imperial court cannot keep everyone alive, then we can just change to another imperial court.

Since the existence of a powerful family will starve thousands of people to death, these powerful families should be wiped out so that these tens of thousands of people can live.

Zhao Rong said angrily: "Sure enough, the nobles can't stay. Qu Shuai still has a vision. Our current development momentum in Mayi is because there are no nobles. In the future, when we occupy the counties and counties of the Han Dynasty, the first thing to do is to kill them all." These nobles!"

"Yes, there isn't a single good person in the elite clan, so we have to kill them all!" This was the first time that the two sides of the enemy and us were so obvious, and the high-level leaders of Mayi poured all their hatred towards the elite clan.

Xu Wei stopped and said: "There is no need to go to such extremes. We just need to take away the land of the powerful and powerful and distribute it to the common people who have no land. It will starve people to death, but please also make people live a very rich life!"

"So we must maintain our advanced nature, maintain the financial prosperity of our Fujika army, and be able to do various projects, so as not to become like a big man. We must ensure that the land is used for farming, without the oppression of the middle class, and farm by ourselves. We can give you land, but if you rely on the land to oppress others, we will severely crack down on this behavior!"

But Xu Wei's statement made Wang Ge and others feel guilty, because they also had the idea of ​​​​becoming big landlords in their hearts, and they also wanted to own [-] mu of land, or [-] mu of land like the powerful and wealthy.

"We can't buy and sell the land in Mayi?" Old man Niu was even more surprised.Although they hated the nobles and tyrants, they still agreed that land could be bought and sold, and they also wanted to buy land.

Xu Wei looked at the senior management of Mayi and asked, "Does everyone have an idea of ​​buying land? Those who have this idea can raise their hands?"

Although everyone thought Xu Wei's question was strange, most of them raised their hands, because everyone didn't think it was a serious problem, and Xu Wei could see that even the few people who didn't raise their hands didn't want it. The land, but Xu Wei's attitude made them worry, and they dared not express their attitude.

Xu Wei thought to himself, indeed, it is difficult for people to surpass their own class.

Everyone around me wants to become a landlord. It is impossible to build a new world by myself alone. There is a long way to go to train successors, otherwise it will be the end of Mao Xiong.

There is no way to do this, the limitation of class is like this, the tenants and self-cultivating farmers who want to become landlords the most are tenants and self-cultivating farmers. If Xu Wei does not have the knowledge of later generations, Xu Weizhen has captured the world. What he will do in the future is to restrict Wang Lei and the others The hero, the highest peak he can do is nothing more than an enhanced version of Zhu Yuanzhang.

But fortunately, he is a person of later generations and knows who the next advanced class is, so he began to cultivate advanced productive forces as soon as he came to Mayi.

Now, in order to let everyone clearly understand the harm of land annexation, to give everyone a strong impression, and at the same time to dispel their desire to be landlords and noble families, Xu Wei continued: "We Mayi and Dahan Who is bigger, who has more population, and who is stronger?"

Although everyone has confidence in Mayi, they still have to say: "The population of the big man is dozens of times larger than our Mayi, and the territory is even more than a hundred times larger!"

Xu Wei smiled and said: "But we have money to repair water conservancy, open up wasteland, build new cities, and maintain an expedition of 10 people to ensure that no one in Mayi will starve to death. Although the imperial court is dozens of times stronger than us , but they couldn't maintain an army of 20, and the treasury was so empty that the rats would starve to death.

The financial revenue of our Mayi is several times stronger than that of the big man, why there is such a big gap, it is because the taxes collected by our Mayi are not exploited by the rich and powerful, so how much we collect, how much!

However, the big Han was exploited by the powerful and powerful. The court of the Great Han collected a tax of 1 qian, which became a tax of 10 or even 100 qian. -2 million stones of food will be given to the court of the Han Dynasty, I am afraid that the court of the Han Dynasty can organize an army of millions to drown us! "

Hearing this, Zhang Baiqi laughed and said: "We have no shortage of food in Mayi now, our money is several times stronger than that of a big man, and we still have hundreds of thousands of powerful soldiers. Hearing Qu Shuai's words today, I am even more convinced that this big man The world will definitely be captured by us!"

Wang Ge even laughed and said: "Our soldiers in Mayi are no less than big men, and we don't lack food and grass. Although our territory is small, the army we can mobilize is higher than that of big men. Our Mayi is like the rising sun. But the big man is in decline, as long as we accumulate strength for a few more years, the big man will definitely not be our opponent!"

Xu Wei said firmly: "Even now, I am very sure that the big man will not be our opponent in Mayi. The reason we have not attacked the big man in the past few years is not because our military strength is not strong enough, but because we don't have enough talents to fight against him." Govern the counties we occupy! Even if we occupy three counties, it will be difficult to find enough management talents. That's why I let everyone lurk in Mayi to accumulate strength."

Xu Wei continued to ask: "But have you ever thought about what kind of country you want to build?"

Zhang Baiqi and the others looked at each other, wondering what Xu Wei meant. Besides Han, are there other countries in this world?

This may be the tragedy of Chinese civilization, it matured too early, and there was no civilization to communicate with, and finally became backward, conservative and closed!

In the end, Wang Yong said: "Of course Shuai Qu became the emperor, and we all became the heroes of the founding of the country. Our achievements and fame will go down in history!"

This is the simplest ideal, and it is also the idea of ​​most people.

As soon as Wang Yong said this, everyone agreed: "Brother Yong has spoken our minds, Qu Shuai will be the emperor, and we will be the founding heroes!"

Xu Wei looked at the joyful Mayi executives, and said solemnly: "When the first emperor established the Great Qin, he wanted to pass it on for thousands of generations, but he didn't expect that the Great Qin would die in the second generation. Liu Bang also thought about it when he established the Great Han. It will take tens of millions of years to pass on, and it will take more than 300 years to pass it on today. If Wang Mang's establishment of a new dynasty is counted, and Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu is taken as the starting point of this dynasty, the great Han will enter extinction in less than 180 years. "

"When Liu Bang and Liu Xiu established the Han Dynasty, they definitely wanted the Han Dynasty to exist for a long time. They hoped that the descendants of the Liu family would be emperors forever. Aristocrats, these aristocrats are all Liu Bang, the founding hero of the Liu Xiu period."

"Who still thinks that the Great Han Dynasty can continue to survive? I can tell you with certainty that the Great Han Dynasty will not last long. Even without our existence, the continuous uprisings will eventually swallow the Great Han Dynasty. By then, Tianjie will be full of Gongqing's bones. , Neiku burned into splendor ashes, these aristocrats who existed since Liu Bang and Liu Xiu's period will eventually disappear into history like the nobles of the Great Qin Dynasty.

Everyone thinks that in the past few years, the uprisings of the big men have continued, and the scale of the outbreak has become larger and larger every time, and the number is increasing. No matter how you look at it, this big man is going to die. Will die!

"I know that the country you want to build is similar to that of the great Han. I will become the emperor, and everyone will become heroes. My descendants will become relatives of the emperor like the current Liu family, and your descendants will become the current nobles.

But have you ever thought about the meaning of such a completely unchanged country? We will also encounter what happened to the great man. The process of the destruction of the great man is what our descendants will encounter in the future.The dynasty we established collapsed, and our descendants were buried with it.

I can tell you with certainty that this process will not last for a long time, at most two hundred years, and all the problems encountered by the big man will be encountered by our future generations.

Everyone thinks that the dynasty they established will last forever. I think it is unrealistic, because there is no such history, and history tells us that there is no immortal dynasty. Recent history even tells us that the time for dynasty to perish is about 200 years!I think it's not bad for everyone to think about the demise of the dynasty. "

There was deathly silence in the meeting hall, everyone's country was really imaginary, but Xu Wei already asked them to think, the empire that was still in fantasy was destroyed.

Especially when everyone thought that they would become their descendants, the aristocrats who were like slaughtering chickens and dogs, everyone couldn't help but shudder.

Zhang Baiqi asked: "Shuai Qu, if we don't learn from the big men, and we come up with a brand new system, will the country we build last forever?"

Only at this time did everyone react, and the old man Niu said: "Yes, why should we all learn from the big men? We must learn from the good ones, but why should we learn from the bad ones, of course we must abolish them!"

Wang Yong said excitedly: "The nobles are the worst thing about a big man. We will definitely get rid of them in the future, so that our country will not have the soil for their survival in the future, so that our country can exist longer!"

Zhao Rong also followed suit and shouted: "Eunuchs are not good things, we must kill them all, and then abolish the eunuchs!"

Wang Ge also said: "The barbarian is not a good thing. If they hadn't rebelled, how could the big man raise taxes every year to punish them, and kill all the barbarians in the big man's territory!"

Old man Wang immediately looked at Wang Ke and said, "After that, one-third of our soldiers in Mayi are barbarians. You want to cut yourself too!"

Everyone was really panicked, and they were seriously looking for the root cause of the decline of the great man. Although it was very superficial, they really wanted to break out of the historical cycle.

This is exactly what Xu Wei wanted. Now everyone knows that feudal landlords are doomed. If they want to escape the encirclement of history, they must enter the industrial age. The plutocrats have taken a step forward at any rate, and they don't have to go around in the circle of history, while the aristocrats can only lead the Chinese nation astray.

Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "I will continue to calculate with everyone. The Dahan has about 8 million mu of land, and these lands are good and bad, and the cultivated land also needs to be fallow, so I think for the time being that the Dahan can produce 8 million mu of land a year Grain, the population of the big man is young and strong, old and weak, women and children, and they eat more or less food. For the time being, I think that a person can eat 10 shi of grain a year to ensure his life!, and the annual grain output of a big man is divided by one person With one year's rations, it can be concluded that the whole big man can only feed a population of 8000 million at most!"

"When the imperial court counted the national population in the third year of Emperor Yongshou (157), it was found that there were about 1070 million households in the country, and the national population was about 5000 million. People such as trilogy, servants, etc., have not even counted the population of the Xiongnu, Qiang, Di, and Baiyue living in our Han Dynasty, and it is roughly estimated that including them, the entire Han has a population of 5500 million.”

"And that is, from the beginning of Emperor Heng, the uprising of the Han continued, and finally became what it is now. That is to say, the upper limit of the population of the Han is 5500 million. If this number exceeds this number, a large number of people will starve to death. People who don't want to starve to death. They will find a way to survive and find a way to rebel! The rebellion will consume a large number of people no matter whether it succeeds or fails, so the population is below the safety line, but in a few years the population will exceed this line again, and the common people will not be able to survive. They continued to rebel again, and this cycle of reincarnation has continued until now.

But according to our calculations, the population limit that the land of the Han Dynasty can bear is 8000 million people, and the 2500 million people who disappeared are the land occupied by the powerful and powerful. The food cannot reach the hands of the people, and the people can only starve to death. "

"And if the land can be distributed fairly, the Dahan can feed 8000 million people, which is equivalent to helping the Dahan extend the life span of about 100 years. If we transform the entire Dahan into a water conservancy facility like Mayi, the grain yield per mu can Reaching 3 shi, so that the Han Dynasty can carry a population of 2 million, which is equivalent to helping the Han Dynasty prolong the life span of 4000 years, so that the life span of the new dynasty will be longer than the combined life span of the two Han Dynasties."

"From the above example, we can see that to prolong the life of the dynasty, one must rely on the fair land system. Like the big Han, it is because the land system is unfair. It can obviously feed more than 8000 million people, but because of the powerful clans , can only feed about [-] million people, if our dynasty can realize that those who till the fields will have their fields, and those who do not till them will have no fields, then the life span of our dynasty can be extended by hundreds of years!"

"The second is to increase the yield per mu. The land in Mayi has been reclaimed by us in the past two years. It is logically said that it is the most inferior land. However, we have built elevated canals to increase production, and used curved plows to cultivate deeply and carefully. We produced all kinds of chemical fertilizers and tried to find high-quality seeds. At the same time, we discovered that soybeans can fertilize the land, so we interplanted wheat and soybeans, so we achieved a bumper harvest that tripled the yield per mu.”

(End of this chapter)