Three Kingdoms: The Guan Family's Rebellious Son, Long Blessing Jing Xiang

Chapter 194 This son, it's not because Kong Ming doesn't teach, but he can't teach
Shuzhong, Chengdu, Zhengfu Street.

This is the place where Liu Bei, the left general of the Han Dynasty, and Zhuge Liang, the general of the military division, worked.

It is worth mentioning that Liu Bei knew that Zhuge Liang liked stargazing.

So in this "Zhengfu Street" a "star observatory" was specially built for Zhuge Liang.

At this moment, Zhuge Liang followed Liu Bei and slowly boarded the empty and deserted observatory.

——"To observe the shadow of the sun during the day, and to observe the pole stars at night, so as to correct the day and night."

Liu Bei murmured about the words on the "Star Watching Stele".

On this high platform, 36 square bluestone slabs are tiled one after another...

The sky measuring ruler soaring into the clouds shows the unfathomable depth here.

Actually, before coming here.

Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang had been chatting for a long time about Guan Lin's third examination paper in General Han Zuo's mansion.

Guan Lin's examination paper was uncharacteristically written, and he wrote a lot, filling two bamboo slips.

Including answering Zhuge Liang's questions positively.

——Yizhou was initially decided, and meritorious ministers asked for the closure of farmland. How to allocate the limited farmland?

Guan Lin's answer was: "There are two beggars in front of my house, one is a beggar and the other is still a beggar. One of them is at the front door and the other is at the back door. They won't leave!"

"The one at the front door begged with me every day, and I ignored him at all. After a month, this beggar couldn't get any money, so he left and never showed up at my door again."

"The beggar at the back door, I felt sorry for him, so I gave him a piece of bread every day. At first he also nodded to me, but after half a month, he didn't respond at all. One month later, one morning I rushed When I saw him, I didn't give him a piece of bread. Guess what? He ran up to me and yelled at me, saying, 'Why don't you give him the piece of bread that belongs to him?' and even beat me? "

"I thought about this matter, I couldn't sleep anyway, I tossed and turned for several nights, I finally realized, I realized the inferiority of human beings, I realized that blindly obeying others' requests and giving favors, when After you can’t continue to extend favors, you will be blamed by others instead!”

The reason why Guan Lin answered this way is because he has personal experience.

Before time travel, when others borrowed money from him, he often borrowed it without thinking so much... But when he asked for the money in the end, what did he get in exchange?
It's the other party's cold eyes, the other party's accusations, and even friends.

At that time, Guan Lin realized that one cannot always obey others, one must learn to refuse.

What a painful realization!

However, this answer sheet, at first glance, what is Guan Lin answering?
so verbose?This is too watery, right?

You must know that in the Han Dynasty, bamboo slips were used as a circulating writing carrier, which was time-consuming and heavy.

It is extremely inconvenient to transport and store.

This requires people not to talk nonsense, not to write long articles, and not to waste resources.

And "Ci Fu" came into being. Fu is generally composed of four characters and is highly concise. Therefore, "Fu" is used in official documents, performances, letters, sacrificial texts, and examination papers.

To put it bluntly, the writing is concise, highly concise, and unpredictable, wringing out all the water.

It must not be the same as the novel written by someone in the later generations, the sea, the sea, it is all water.

Therefore, when Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei first saw this long article, they couldn't help frowning subconsciously.

——"This is too long! 』

But with the deepening of this long article.

Gradually, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang's eyes narrowed, and they realized that this long essay was like water.

But it tells a truth worth pondering.

Even, this long article gave Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang great inspiration.

To know…

In Yizhou's preliminary decision, it is understandable for these meritorious ministers to ask for the land. Isn't it just for this little land that they tied their heads to their belts?
But, precisely... But it was already under the premise that Liu Bei contributed the treasury of Chengdu and let them grab it by themselves.

then…

Based on Guan Lin's reminder, Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang had an in-depth discussion and finally came to a conclusion:

——Rewards and punishments cannot be flooded!
And this is precisely the first big pit that Liu Bei encountered at the beginning of his rule of Shu after he entered Shu.

Let the heroes grab it by themselves;

Another bounty;

He also gave away all the land, and the entire treasury was completely emptied, and he has no ability to make blood...

Next, they can only rely on the "straight money" that deceives the common people and the rich to forcibly continue their lives.

But this question alone, Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei discussed for a whole day.

However, this discussion that lasted all day was actually only one-third of Guan Lin's answer sheet.

Because "field mu" was mentioned in the test questions.

Therefore, Guan Lin thinks of the Tian Mu system...

Only then did I write the reform that made Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang "surprised" at a glance, so that they couldn't breathe, and even staggered their legs:
——Spread into the mu!
In fact, regarding the reform of land tax, Guan Lin not only wrote about the item of land tax payment.

He wrote all the reforms he could think of since the taxation system in the Han Dynasty.

Including the Northern Wei Dynasty's rent transfer corvee system.

Including those of the Sui and early Tang Dynasties——Zuyong Modulation

Including the mid-Tang Dynasty—the two-tax law.

Including the Northern Song Dynasty's - Recruitment Law and Fangtian Average Tax Law.

Even in the late Ming Dynasty - Zhang Juzheng promoted the "one whip method".

It was not until the end that Kangxi's "breeding people, never adding a tax" and Yongzheng's implementation of "dividing people into mu" were written, which completely abolished the poll tax that had lasted for thousands of years.

have to say.

The Qing Dynasty... This dynasty that cannot be washed away caused the long-term suffering and backwardness of the Chinese nation;
This historical evaluation is destined to be a dynasty that will be "rolled to the end".

Among the emperors, only Yongzheng's evaluation is surprisingly high.

The government decrees he implemented, such as "split to the mu" and "abolish the poll tax", are tantamount to benefiting the whole of China.

Of course, Guan Lin wrote so many land tax systems and land systems.

He was a little unsure, which one is suitable for the Shu Han now?
Yes, everyone knows that it’s good to have a small fortune!
Once the poll tax is abolished, the life pressure of the poor can be relieved, and everyone will not be imprisoned on the land of the landlord, and they will be busy all year round.

You can go out to work according to your own skills and abilities, do some side jobs and business, and make the economy more dynamic.

In this way, in terms of childbearing, the common people will naturally dare to give birth, and the population will also show explosive growth.

As a matter of fact, when Yongzheng implemented the policy of "spreading into mu", in just 100 years, the population of Huaxia soared from nearly 2000 million to 20 million, an increase of more than [-] times!
Of course... well, sure is good!

The advanced nature of the system is also impeccable. Guan Lin is afraid that there will be too much resistance, and that Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang will not be able to suppress those opposing clans.

We must know that the core of sharing the land into the mu is that in addition to the abolition of the poll tax, there is another important thing, which is to transfer the tax to the land.

Whoever owns the land pays big taxes!

Naturally, the implementation of the scheme of distributing the land into the mu will definitely meet with great resistance.

Everything must proceed from reality.

On this point, Guan Lin is not sure... Don't let the landlords unite and take the Shu Han in one wave!

Nengcai really did something wrong with good intentions.

Therefore, Guan Lin simply wrote down the options and handed over the choice to Zhuge Liang...

This person's talent and vision, means and decision-making.

It must be more reliable than Guan Lin's blind judgment.

Never ignore the wisdom of the ancients!
And Zhuge Liang specially proposed to rush to this observatory with Liu Bei, also to make the final decision on this matter.

"Kong Ming proposed to come here because the observatory is open to the sky and the ground below, and you and I are the only ones in the middle, right?" Liu Bei's heart seemed to be quite heavy, as if, the four words "spread into the mu" , sounds beautiful, but once it is implemented, the burden is too heavy and the pressure is too heavy.

It is not easy to make this choice.

"call--"

Zhuge Liang exhaled a long breath, as if his state of mind was no different from Liu Bei's.

"Before I saw Yunqi's second answer sheet, which not only suppressed but also attracted merchants to solve the problem of the empty treasury. At that time... Liang already felt that this son was astonishing, and he was sure that he was the mysterious "Huang" Laoxie' even intends to accept him as a closed disciple... to guide him personally, but..."

Zhuge Liang paused, "Now it seems that I am naive. From the tax system alone, there are only a few records in ancient books. At the beginning of the country, tax mu', Qi State's "decline of land and land", the household registration system in the Qin Dynasty, and now the two items of 'rent' and 'tax' in the tax system of the Han Dynasty...but...but..."

Zhuge Liang's rare throat choked up, and he still had a feeling of being so shocked that he couldn't breathe.

"call--"

After another long exhalation, Zhuge Liang opened his mouth.

"The sum of the previous land tax systems is only five or six, but Yunqi alone answered seven land tax systems, and each of them is more incisive than the current tax system of the big man... Especially this one is divided into mu, don't lie My lord, since I saw these four words, I... I just feel that the method I have been looking for in my heart, to build an ideal state for my lord, has finally been found, and every word and every sentence in this system The words, let Liang feel that they are profound and profound, and need to be pondered over and over again! So...so..."

Zhuge Liang's voice is hoarse...

It was as if he had been greatly surprised or amazed.

It made his throat hoarse, and even now, Yu couldn't believe it was true.

Zhuge Liang pondered for a while, then he emphasized his tone, "Young master so talented, so smart, so wise? Like a son from heaven, Yun Chang wants me to accept Yun Qi as a closed disciple. Well, it's not that Liang doesn't teach, it's... yes Can't teach at all! It's Yunqi who should teach Liang!"

This…

Liu Bei could not help but ponder.

——"This cloud flag can make Kong Ming say such serious words! 』

——"However, this stall is really eye-catching. Second brother, second brother, did your son... fell from the sky?Is it the Son of Heaven?He... how did he come up with it? 』

Thinking this way in his heart, Liu Bei also pondered: "There is no problem with the land tax system of the Great Han Dynasty. The problem is that the land has been in the hands of those wealthy clans these years. They have various tax-free privileges. Even if they have to pay taxes, they have ways to pass on the taxes. The tax burden, on the contrary, is suffering for the common people, originally...the common people cannot make ends meet, but they still have to pay poll tax, the same amount of poll tax, the pressure is completely different for powerful landlords and poor people.”

Liu Bei started from the beginning, he knows the twists and turns in the middle too well.

I understand too well that this tax... has forced many well-to-do small peasant families to become refugees and tenant farmers of others.

According to the statistics in the "Monthly Order of the Four Peoples".

Generally, a field of 120 mu can produce an output of [-] shi, which can be converted into about [-] yuan when the price is stable.

As for the annual consumption of a family of five, the rations are 80 shi, the land rent is 4 shi, the salt is 229 qian, the clothes are 187 qian, the remuneration, calculation, and oral tax are about 706 kuai, the seeds, farm tools and feed are about 792 kuai, and the sacrifices are made. And the odd expenses are about 208 yuan, and the total cost is 5700 yuan.

At first glance, it seems that there is still wealth.

But in reality, counting tax and oral tax, that is, poll tax is not static.

Even in peacetime, the expenditure of the poll tax is more than five times that of the land rent, and with the period of war, the poll tax will gradually increase, and there is no upper limit.

Similar to three times, five times, that is trivial.

During the period of melee among the princes at the end of Han Dynasty, ten times was nothing special.

But now it’s fine as long as this is the case, but the local government doesn’t care so much...

When they have no money, they collect all kinds of taxes—counting tax, mouth tax, water tax, and well tax. Even in the hot summer, you have to pay taxes even if you enjoy the shade under the tree.

After coming and going, the peasants can't afford the money, the only way is to go bankrupt, and then either become tenants or servants of the powerful landlords, or they can only become refugees!
The homesteader has almost disintegrated in this era.

Liu Bei knows this all too well...

Liu Bei's father, Liu Hong, used to be the county magistrate of Dongjun Fan, but... since his early death, even the son of a county magistrate like Liu Bei would be overwhelmed and quickly decline.

Let alone ordinary people.

Liu Bei pointed to Guan Lin's bamboo slips, "Actually, the passage written by Yunqi resonates with me the most."

Zhuge Liang raised his eyes, and he noticed that this was Guan Lin's analysis after he proposed the field tax of "split Ding into Mu".

——"Why do refugees appear?"

——"For example, in the past, one hundred people cultivated one thousand acres of land, with an average of ten acres per person, but now there are more people, and there are 120 people. Because of the advancement of farm tools, only fifty people are needed Cultivate this thousand acres of land!"

——"So, the problem arises. With the increase of population and the improvement of farm tools, but the land does not increase, then there must be some people who can't cultivate the land, are excluded, and become unemployed. These unemployed people gather in the countryside. They are refugees, and if they gather in cities and towns, they are bullies! If they gather in the mountains, they are bandits!"

After Liu Bei read these words, he couldn't help thinking about it!

He couldn't imagine that if he didn't have the help of his uncle Liu Yuanqi in the early years, would he also become a refugee, eating and sleeping in the open, begging for a living.

Zhuge Liang noticed Liu Bei's expression.

He raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked lightly: "Does the lord want to implement this land tax system that is divided into acres?"

"Naturally." Liu Bei said with emotion: "Only after suffering have we realized how difficult these ordinary people are, but many times, Bei can't help himself!"

Zhuge Liang reminded again, "My lord, have you ever thought about it? If you really want to do this... then your lord will stand on the opposite side of those aristocratic families. Emperor Guangwu Zhongxing relied on the rich families. Since ancient times, no one has ever relied on peasants. The power of people and the people breaks through a foundation."

Liu Bei pointed to the last sentence in the bamboo slips and said, "It's not entirely true. Kong Ming read Yunqi's last sentence, it's thought-provoking..."

"Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, Zhang Jiao and Yellow Turban, these uprisings all tell us that it is impossible for the peasant class as a leader to create a foundation, but the working class can!"

"Worker?" Zhuge Liang asked again: "Yunqi doesn't seem to have written it, what is a worker?"

Liu Bei narrowed his eyes slightly, "I just have a faint feeling, you say... If Yunqi is that Huang Laoxie, he opened a workshop, recruited refugees, engaged in production, and made ordnance, could it be that his purpose was only for military engineering? "

This…

It seems that because of Liu Bei's words, Zhuge Liang suddenly realized something, "My lord means that these are the so-called working class in Yunqi's answer sheet!"

"Maybe..." Liu Bei was also not sure, "Perhaps, Yunqi is using his method to draw those refugees together to create a new force, a force that will gradually grow stronger enough to overthrow Cao Wei!"

goo-dong...

Zhuge Liang swallowed slightly, and asked Liu Bei solemnly.

"Is my lord really determined to carry out this plan?"

"Hehe..." As soon as Liu Bei grasped Guan Lin's answer sheet, he couldn't put it down, "It stands to reason that I shouldn't listen to such a young man and just go my own way. But for no reason, I want to try! This feeling is just like when I was in Nanyang in the past. , and Kong Ming, you are a pair, when you put forward the idea of ​​three points in the world, my state of mind is generally the same!"

"I know it's very difficult to get into the mu, maybe even harder than the 'three points in the world' mentioned by Kong Ming at that time, but if Yunqi only proposed it, I might be moved after seeing it, but after thinking about it, I will definitely know." It’s difficult to retreat, but now... I still have you, Kong Ming! If it is you, maybe, this road can really be cleared!"

Zhuge Liang's expression trembled slightly, and his pale lips became a little more bloody...

He realized that the lord had been persuaded by Yunqi.

The lord wants to walk a path that is completely different from Gaozu, Emperor Wu, and Guangwu Zhongxing.

Zhuge Liang's expression was still quiet, and his voice was still low:
"This should be Yunqi's 'Longzhong Dui' dedicated to the lord!"

"Liang knows what to do, but...this is a lot of money, my lord, don't be in a hurry. If you believe me, let me do it step by step! Let Liang arrange all of this... If it is smooth and steady, just let me do it. Let Liang try to build an ideal city-state in Bashu, where the people are rich and the country is strong!"

Listening to Zhuge Liang's slow words, Liu Bei only felt hot in his eyes.

He stretched out his hand and patted Zhuge Liang on the shoulder, "Second brother has Yunqi, Jingzhou, I am not worried at all, but I have you, Kong Ming, and even if it is difficult to have you, I believe, you must Can do it, and do it well!"

Speaking of this, Liu Bei solemnly said:

"Yunqi woke me up. I, Liu Bei, should have walked out of this 'people's road!'"

"Kong Ming, you go ahead and do it. If you encounter opposition, if you encounter resistance, don't forget that there is me behind you! If you and I are of the same mind, the profit will definitely be worthless!"

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(End of this chapter)