Reborn in the late Northern Wei Dynasty

Chapter 207 Family Planning?

The land policy needs to be in line with the current social background. At least in this period, the land equalization system is indeed the most suitable choice.

After lunch, Gao Cheng refused the invitation of a group of officials, and spent the whole afternoon bored in the wing room, thinking hard about the land policy after the founding of the country.

But in the final analysis, the root of the contradiction between people and land is that the speed of cultivated land reclamation cannot keep up with the population growth, and no land policy can solve this contradiction.

Gao Cheng, who had nothing to gain, had to change his thinking, and changed the spearhead to solve the contradiction between man and land from land to population.

Of course, it is not like Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty who lost more than half of the household registration in the world.

He, who is no longer a horny man, suddenly realizes that solving the conflict between people and land is nothing more than population diversion.

As a liberal arts student, he didn't know much about industry and couldn't carry out industrialization, but encouraging and developing handicrafts, driving the development of commerce, and achieving the purpose of population diversion was an effective method.

But it just so happened that the idea of ​​putting agriculture first and business as the end, and the idea that the base is more expensive than the end began to spread widely in the Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the government began to promulgate insulting laws against businessmen.

The root cause is nothing more than years of war and social turmoil. When the agricultural population cannot meet the needs of production, it is a measure to prevent business from diverting the population.

Thinking about it, Gao Cheng immediately fetched a pen and paper, and wrote a letter to Gao Huan again at his desk.

In the letter, Gao Cheng clearly explained the contradiction between man and land and Gao Huan, and thus proposed that emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business is suitable for troubled times, but it is not suitable for the Gao regime after the unification in the future.

As a result, Gao Cheng proposed two future national policies to Gao Huan.

One of them is naturally to deeply develop the south of the Yangtze River and increase the amount of cultivated land.

The water and heat conditions in the south of the Yangtze River are there, so why wait until the foreign race tramples on the Central Plains and travels south in clothes to think about developing it.

The second national policy is to simultaneously develop agriculture and commerce. The line of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce is destined to not go far. Agriculture alone is simply not enough to withstand the continuous growth of population.

What Gao Cheng has to do is to adjust the business tax according to the population. Before the population grows on a large scale, the business tax will be heavy. When the cultivated land cannot meet the population growth, the business tax will be reduced to encourage business development.

With this in mind, Gao Cheng felt that it was necessary to start a debate on what is and what is not, to let the people of the world understand what is the contradiction between human beings, and to reverse the deepening thinking of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce since the Jin Dynasty.

As Gao Cheng, it was impossible to end the debate in person. Regardless of the darkness, he quickly recruited his accompanying staff, such as Wen Zisheng, Xing Shao, Wei Shou, etc., and planned to let them be the debaters in the future.

Gao Cheng also ordered people to invite Gao Longzhi, Yang Min and other civil officials.

A group of cronies were hastily summoned to the lobby of Bohai Palace in Yecheng.

Gao Cheng took the chair and asked everyone:

"I'm thinking hard today, if he's in chaos in the dynasty, waiting for a long time to rise to peace, the population is prosperous, the household registration is multiplying, and the land is not enough to allocate, what can you tell me?"

No one would think that Gao Cheng's desire to unify the world is a daydream, Xiao Liang is corrupt, and the Western Wei Dynasty has a heart to cheer up, but its foundation is weak.

Among the three forces, the Eastern Wei Dynasty is the strongest, and now it is in a period of vigorous development, and the gap with the other two parties will undoubtedly widen further.

From the current point of view, Gao Cheng does have a unified posture.

This is another reason why everyone is so desperate for Gao Cheng.

There is no benefit, how can you keep people's hearts just by showing favor.

While the scribes were still contemplating, Gao Jishi, who was beside the guard, spoke first:

"The fields are not enough, so we use soldiers from all over the world, and use the swords of the soldiers to seize the land for the farmers."

Gao Cheng looked sideways when he heard this, good guy, the north and south are facing Bismarck, that's right.

Do you want to abandon martial arts and follow literature, and become an iron-blooded prime minister?

Before William II Gao could speak, Yang Min stood up and objected:

"No, the former Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was so aggressive that his household registration was halved and the people were in dire straits. This almost brought the country down. The general should take this as a lesson."

Hearing this, Gao Cheng nodded to Yang Min and said:

"Zun Yan and sit down, Emperor Wu is aggressive. If Huo Guang and the people hadn't recuperated, Han Zuo would not have been able to continue. Cheng may use troops everywhere, but he also knows how to sympathize with the power of the people."

Then he said to Gao Jishi:

"Mobei is bitter and cold, and it is difficult to cultivate. It is not beneficial to increase the number of acres, or to promote animal husbandry. What Ji Shi said is not unreasonable. However, animal husbandry is not as good as farming. Growing with a household registration is like a drop in the bucket."

Gao Ji's speech undoubtedly opened up another way of thinking for Gao Cheng: capture Mobei and promote animal husbandry.

But today, Gao Cheng's determined topic is the simultaneous development of agriculture and commerce, so he made this topic vague.

He asked the people again:
"Can you get something?"

Seeing that his colleagues were all in deep thought, Wen Zisheng stood up and replied:
"The servant was once ordered to travel to the south of the Yangtze River to inquire about the geography and climate. Although there are many mountains, but the water network is criss-crossed, the climate is hot, and the crops are cropped twice a year. In the southern Jiaozhou, they can even be cropped three times a year. The general has Jiangnan, or You can relocate people to reclaim wasteland."

What Wen Zisheng said surprised a group of northern scholars. The crops are ripe three times a year. What kind of joke is this talking about?

Gao Cheng was deeply convinced of this, he was originally a southerner in his previous life, and the two proverbs of "Suhu is cooked, the world is full" in the Song Dynasty and "Huguang is cooked, the world is full" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties can be described as thunderous.

Wen Zisheng's proposal to develop Jiangnan also coincided with him, but he was thinking about Xiao Yan's property before the unification of the north, and seemed to lack respect for Yu Wentai and Xiao Bodhisattva.

"Pengju's words are very kind. In the future, the world will be unified. I will make it a national policy to open up wasteland in the south of the Yangtze River."

Gao Cheng took the opportunity to propose to his cronies his idea of ​​developing Jiangnan in the future, and brought the topic back to the conflict between people and land:

"However, in the last years of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the household registration was only more than 38 million, and in the last years of Emperor Xuan, it was even more than [-] million. It was only [-] years of recuperation, and the household registration was doubled. This is why Cheng is worried.

"Even if it takes 38 years to reclaim the south of the Yangtze River, we can double the amount of cultivated land for civilian use. What should we do in another 38 years? When the cultivated land is exhausted, the number of registered permanent residences will grow endlessly. Troubled times will not be enough to reduce it. Today's achievements are the only ones, and He Ren's family business died because of this."

The times were different, with the presence of these aristocratic families from the Han Dynasty to the present, it was impossible for Gao Cheng to talk about the wealth and honor of living with the country.

This kind of rhetoric is to treat the nobles of the Six Towns of Xianbei during this period, and has nothing to do with these Han clans.

Seeing Gao Cheng speak so seriously of the consequences, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay.

At this time, Yang Min vaguely grasped the crux of the problem, and said:

"What the general worries about is nothing more than the growth of household registration. When the world is unified, why doesn't the general reform the tax system and follow the example of the Qin and Han Dynasties to tax per capita and control the growth of household registration."

family planning?When Gao Cheng heard Yang Min's suggestion, his first reaction was to think of this word.

While Gao Cheng was annoyed by the fact that the issue had not been able to move towards the simultaneous development of agriculture and commerce he expected, he couldn't help feeling that the idiom of brainstorming was true.

This is much easier than digging into a dead end by yourself.

　It’s too late to be busy, I’ll stay up all night writing tonight, and I will send you a chapter of at least 6000 words before nine o’clock tomorrow morning. If I can’t do it, I won’t ask for a monthly pass for the next month.

　　
　
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