Three Kingdoms: Ancestors of the Han Dynasty

In August, with the scorching sun shining brightly, Chengdu is like a furnace that seems to be roasting the fields, and the air is filled with a dry and hot atmosphere.

The officials of the inner government walked through the palace, passing documents and copybooks, each of them was sweating profusely, and sweat soaked their clothes.

Suddenly, more than ten attendants from the new palace entered through the gate. Huang Hao led the way, holding an ice tray that was emitting cold smoke, and walked in slowly, saying: "It's hot today. Si Cao bestowed ice trays, bounty syrup (sugar cane wine) and Nanzhong precious fruits to pass on to the ministers."

Hearing this, the officials of the various departments of Cao were all smiles and shouted long live Your Majesty.

Cao Langchen, selected by Shangshutai, stepped forward to greet him, cupped his hands and said with a smile, "I'm sorry for the Huangmen order."

Huang Hao and Chen Zhi are internal officials in the palace, and they know each other well. Seeing that it is Chen Zhi, Huang Hao is holding the ice tray and said with a smile, "Why is Chen Xuancao here today?"

Chen just raised the corner of his mouth lightly and said: "This is the end of today's selection of officials, and I am waiting for the prime minister to send me!"

"So that's it!" Huang Hao glanced at the melting ice tray in his hand, and said, "The ice tray still needs to be sent to the prime minister, so it's inconvenient for us to take a walk. When we are free in the future, we can have a chat!"

Chen just turned sideways to open the passage, and said with a smile, "Huang Men ordered you to go slowly!"

"Thank you!"

In the main room, Zhuge Liang held a feather fan in one hand and lightly shook the fan to remove the heat; in the other hand, he held a vermilion pen to annotate the copy.

"Prime Minister, Your Majesty ordered someone to send an ice tray to reward the Prime Minister and the officials of the inner government for their hard work." The guard entered the hall and whispered.

Zhuge Liang looked up and saw Huang Hao waiting at the door holding an ice tray, put down the vermilion pen, and ordered: "Yes, bring the ice tray in. Call Si Zhi, Chang Shi and others to come over and taste it together."

"promise!"

After a while, Pan Jun and Jiang Wan walked into the room chatting happily. Seeing Zhuge Liang's face focused on handling business, they couldn't help but lighten their steps.

Zhuge Liang bowed his head at the desk, caught a glimpse of the two from the corner of his eye, and said, "Chengming and Gongyan, there is an ice tray sent by His Majesty on the desk, you two can sit and rest for a while to get rid of the heat."

The cousins ​​Pan Jun and Jiang Wan smiled at each other, and sat down politely, waiting for Zhuge Liang to finish his work.

Not long after, Zhuge Liang put down his pen on the case, took the government order on the case, walked up to the two, looked at the untouched ice tray, and said with a smile: "Didn't you two not have to wait for me?"

Jiang Wan took out the gold paste from the ice tray, poured it into the wine bottle in front of Zhuge Liang, and said with a smile, "Before the Lord arrives, we are guests, so we don't dare to act like a guest."

"Hehe!" Smiling, Zhuge Liang sat down cross-legged, felt the cool air from the ice tray, picked up the cold wine bottle, and asked, "Chengming, what is the condition of the fields reported by the court officials these days?"

Pan Jun put down his wine bottle, and said in a deep thought: "The number of acres under the name of Li Yan, the chief farmer, exceeds half of the quota. Even if the limit of his son Li Feng's land occupation is added, it is too much. Therefore, according to the court law, he will be under his name within three years. The extra acres of land have been sold, which has reached the quota for occupying land.”

After a pause, Pan Jun continued: "The descendants of the late general (Liu Yan) also have too many acres of land, and he has been notified to wait for the sale."

Zhuge Liang shook his feather fan lightly, thought for a while and said, "It doesn't have to be like this. After counting the number of acres of land of officials at all levels, the imperial court will come forward and collect it at three times the market price."

"What does the Prime Minister mean?" Pan Jun asked doubtfully.

Zhuge Liang looked at Pan Jun, and said: "The officials of Bashu in the middle of the country are inferior to Tian Guang, they should be compensated, and their hearts should not be hurt."

"promise!"

The Jingzhou scholars in the Han Dynasty are high-level people, and they currently occupy only a small amount of land. However, as middle and lower officials, a small number of Bashu scholars may occupy more than the rated number of acres of land. The Han Dynasty still needs to appease and win over these small numbers.

However, the big man also left a gap for them, that is, the division of households, separating their own fields from the clan's inner government. Even if the fields of ordinary people exceed the normal number of ordinary people, the big man will not confiscate them, but they cannot add more fields.As officials, they need to satisfy themselves that the number of acres under their name cannot exceed the rated number of occupied fields, or they can be promoted to increase the limit.

Therefore, at the beginning of the promotion and implementation of the acreage policy, it is the best opportunity for everyone to adjust the acreage.Those who have many slaves and maidservants can rely on them to divide more acres of land; those who have more cattle can also rely on the cattle to occupy the land.Dahan officials can reach the rated amount by dividing households or selling the acres under their names.

Of course, the root of all this is that the big man has a lot of abandoned fields in his hands, and he compensates the powerful gentry through short-term benefits, so as to reach a long-term and stable contract for acres of land.

Zhuge Liang handed the scarf and silk he had just written to Jiang Wan, and said: "This is a policy of relocating narrow villages to wider ones, and it can make up for the shortage of the land system."

Jiang Wan put down the wine bottle, took the towel, and looked carefully.

Zhuge Liang explained: "Today we want to carry out the strategy of famous fields and divide them among the common people. There are too many people in villages and pavilions but little land, so it is difficult to divide them evenly. Now the common people can sell their local fields and move them to wide townships such as Longyou and Liangzhou. The big Han divided their fields, rewarded their agricultural tools, and made up for their losses. Those who belonged to the barbarians all moved to Kuan Township to increase their population."

Longyou and Liangzhou are vast in land and sparsely populated, with many Kuan townships.Zhuge Liang encouraged the people of narrow townships in Bashu to move to wide townships to enrich the local population.At the same time, all the attached Nanman, Huren, Qiang, Di and other four barbarians were unified and moved to Kuan Township, where they were registered as households of Qimin.

This is also an opportunity. As long as the people of the Shu region dare to sell the local land, they can not only get money, but also prostitute the Longyou fields for free. I don’t know if the people of the Shu region have this insight.

Jiang Wan finished reading, stroked his beard a little, and said with emotion: "This relocation is really a good strategy. Once this strategy is implemented, Qinzhou may gain tens of thousands of people in Shu, and the prosperity of Longyou will soon be seen!"

"The prime minister is really a god!" Said, Jiang Wan cupped his hands and 'licked' towards Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang tasted the lychees, waved his hands, and said with a smile: "Gongyan is too famous! It's just what Liang got for a while, and it's not enough to boast. This policy needs to be done by Gongyan and the county officials."

Zhuge Liang spat out the lychee core and asked, "How is the Field Water Conservancy Law currently being implemented? Can the county officials present any problems?"

Hearing this, Jiang Wan pondered for a moment, and replied: "All the officials in counties and counties are actively planning water affairs. Longyou has experienced many wars, and there are not enough craftsmen who are good at water conservancy. Therefore, the governor of Spurs hopes that Yizhou can send people who are good at water conservancy to Longyou to help them."

Because of the long-term maintenance of the Dujiangyan in Chengdu and the repair of the Shanhe Weir in Hanzhong, there are still many people who are good at water conservancy in Yizhou, and there is no problem in providing external support.

"Yes, this matter is arranged by Gongyan, and people who are good at water conservancy will be sent to Liangzhou to help. This year, all states and counties must submit water affairs maps, which will be reviewed by the inner government and repaired next year." Zhuge Liang said.

So far, the complete land system law of the Han Dynasty has been formed, with the core of restricting the people and the name of the land, plus the law of water conservancy per mu and the law of relocating and widening the township.These four strategies may divide the fields into acres, or build water conservancy projects to increase production, or implement policies to benefit the people.

"promise!"

As he spoke, Jiang Wan pointed to the ice tray and jokingly said, "Prime Minister, please come here. It's called rewarding the summer heat, but it's actually an order for government affairs. Eat people's food and share your worries!"

Hearing this, the three of them looked at each other and burst out laughing.

(PS: Longyou has those Han Dynasty water conservancy facilities urgently looking for)