After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 142 Suspected Transmigrator Wang Mang's Public Field System

"Your Majesty, I don't dare to hide it, I only have a hundred acres of fertile land in my hometown." Geng Cheng said.Jingguan owns a hundred acres of fertile land in his hometown, which is not much at all, and even belongs to a relatively small category.

"Wow, [-] acres of fertile land is worth the homestead of [-] families." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Your Majesty, Wei Chen, Wei Chen..." Geng Cheng seemed to have sensed danger from Zhu Yuanzhang's words and became incoherent.

"Geng Cheng, you only have [-] acres of fertile land, which is not much in the courtroom, or even a small amount..." Zhu Yuanzhang said.

Hearing this, Geng Cheng let out a long sigh of relief, and involuntarily wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Although your family's land is only [-] mu now, but after a long time, will you buy more land from the original [-] mu to [-] mu, or even [-] mu?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked, "You are now an official of the imperial court. It is not difficult to buy more land."

"Your Majesty, the minister is a clean and honest official, how can I get so much money to buy land?" Geng Cheng's cold sweat broke out again, "Don't say thousands of acres, hundreds of acres of land are all the property of the minister. Above the court, the piece of land that the minister owns can only be regarded as a meager ancestral property. Besides, the minister is satisfied that he will not buy it again if he owns a hundred mu of fertile land."

"You can't afford to buy land for a clean official, but what about your descendants, can you guarantee that your descendants won't buy it? There are some people who are not clean and honest, they can afford it." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "They will I bought land with the money I was greedy for, and even used power to oppress others and forcefully buy it. Today you buy [-] mu, tomorrow he will buy [-] mu, and over time, all the land in the world has been bought by a few people.”

"Your Majesty, is there anything wrong with this?" Geng Cheng said.

In ancient times, land was one of the most important possessions, surpassing even gold and silver.Officials, princes, vassal kings, and big families, which one does not own a lot of fertile land and land?
Some landowners occupied a large area of ​​land, which made it impossible for those poor people to dig a pit to bury their relatives after they died.There are many people who sell their bodies to bury their fathers, because the burial place also needs money to buy.

"Everyone has said just now that the world belongs to the people of the world and the people of the world belong to the people of the world. Mencius said that the imperial court is to manage the world on behalf of the people of the world. From this inference, should the court also replace the people of the world and manage the land of the world?" Zhu Yuanzhang said. .

"Land is the world, and good fields are the foundation of the country. If the land and good fields are occupied by a few people, wouldn't the world be theirs? How can we say that the world is the world for the people of the world?"

When the ministers heard the words, they were collectively silent, not knowing what Zhu Yuanzhang was trying to do with these words.

For a while, thousands of people inside and outside Fengtian Hall were silent, and needles could be heard falling from the hall.

Each of them has a lot of land, fertile land.And now the emperor suddenly said that the court should replace the people of the world and manage the land of the world.

In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang's sentence just now that there is no king in the world, has already given them a clear reminder.Coupled with these words now, the intention is already obvious, he wants to make a big move.

However, the officials still hadn't guessed what the emperor was going to do.After all, all the land was taken over by the imperial court, which has never happened since ancient times.It seems that only Wang Mang's new dynasty has implemented the Wangtian system, but it was only a flash in the pan.

Wang Mang was a usurper who was despised by all dynasties.The ministers did not think that Emperor Zhu would learn from Wang Mang, who was criticized by the world.

Some people even misunderstood that Zhu Yuanzhang said that he wanted all the land in the world to belong to his old Zhu family.

Although the ministers have already seen some clues, it is related to their vital interests, so no one speaks out.

"Okay! Since you don't want to say it, let's say it for you." Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Except for giving all the residents half an acre of homestead, the rest of the land belongs to the imperial court, and the imperial court helps people in the world. manage."

Whoa!
When the ministers heard the words, it was as if the pot had exploded.

"The land belongs to the imperial court, so what should we do with the land we own now? We must hand it over?"

"The land can produce food, and the land can build houses. The importance of land can be imagined."

The ministers were discussing in the courtroom one by one, whispering to each other.

In ancient times, land was an important symbol of a person's property.Is the most important real estate, assets, personal property.

Now that the emperor wants to return to the court, isn't this to take their lives?
What does the emperor want to do?The crowd froze.

"Everyone said it louder, the voice is too low for us to hear." Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly, "Since we are here to discuss with you, then you can speak loudly and open up."

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that this method is absolutely impossible." At this time, Song Lian stood out of the train and said, "This move of the Emperor is exactly the same as that of the usurped monarch Wang Mang's Wangtian system."

Wang Mang proposed a long time ago that the land is state-owned, and its dazzling light seems to be transcending.

"The Wangtian system was created by Wang Mang based on the well-field system in ancient books." Li Shanchang said, "The well-field system is to divide the land into squares, shaped like the character "well", so it is called 'well-field'. The well-field belongs to the king of Zhou and is allocated to the common people. Use. The lords are not allowed to buy, sell and transfer well fields, and they have to pay a certain amount of tribute, and the lords force the common people to collectively cultivate the well fields.”

Li Shanchang only talked about the origin of the well-field system, and did not express any personal opinions of his own, and he did the utmost to protect himself.

"The edict issued by Wang Mang at that time was: now it is renamed Tiantian Tian, ​​'Wang Tian', and slaves and maids are referred to as 'private family', and none of them are allowed to buy or sell. The male mouth is not more than eight, and those who have a well in their fields will divide the remaining fields to the neighbors and township parties of the nine tribes. Therefore, there is no land, and the people who should receive the land today are like the system. Those who dare to have a non-well-field holy system and cannot confuse the people will cast it on the four descendants and use it to control the charm.” Gao Qi actually directly followed the edict at that time. back out.

"That's why the minister felt that the public land system must not be imitated." Song Lian said.

"Your Majesty, you are frying Wang Mang's cold rice." A censor said.

"Your Majesty should not learn from the usurper Wang Mang, that would be doing the wrong thing." Gao Qi said.He is still a little daring to speak. In ancient times, there were many civil servants who were not afraid of death or offending the emperor. For example, Wei Zheng said, "The Wangtian system was only implemented for four years, and Wang Mang's new dynasty lasted only 15 years. It can be seen that Wang Mang The implementation of the public land system is simply a mistake."

"Can Wang Mang be on a par with us?" Zhu Yuanzhang said coldly, "Wang Mang is a foreign relative who usurped power, and his name is not right. And we are seeking rebellion to overthrow Hu Yuan and restore the Han family to the world."

There is also the biggest reason he didn't say. Wang Mang was a new dynasty established in the late Han Dynasty. The feudal aristocracy at that time had grown into a towering tree.When Wang Mang moved the feudal nobles when they were at their strongest, it was definitely impossible to succeed.

(End of this chapter)