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Chapter 523 Talking About Farming

Li Chenan lifted the wine bowl to the two of them.

Su Yi'an quickly picked up the wine bowl, Liu Xiayin was stunned for a moment, and he also took a big sip along with him.

He didn't eat the pig's ear again.

Because Li Chenan said just now that he wanted to talk to Su Yian about farming...

Throughout the dynasties, no matter which country, agriculture must be the foundation of the country!

But the news from Jiangnan said that what the regent is about to implement next is the revitalization of industry and commerce!

It is not an urgent agricultural problem to be solved.

He puts agriculture after business!
In Liu Xiayin's view, this is very absurd.

This is also one of the reasons why Liu Xiayin disliked the regent——

The stomach is not full, and the life is hanging, so what is the use of the prosperity of industry and commerce?
This is not just Liu Xiayin's wish.

It is estimated that most of the officials in the entire Ningguo Dynasty do not understand this.

Apart from explaining to Wen Zhuyu and other senior officials in the imperial study, Li Chenan has not discussed this issue in depth with anyone.

But today he wanted to talk to Su Yian.

Because Wen Zhuyu believes that Su Yi'an has the talent to be a prime minister!

Although Li Chen'an canceled the prime minister, the top officials of the three provinces are equivalent to the former prime ministers, but the power of the prime ministers has been divided.

But the three top officials in the three provinces are all temporary appointments.

For example, Cheng Jingting, the servant of Cheng Guogong, is a helpless move to drive ducks to the shelves.

No one is available to trust!

Cheng Laoguo is very old, not that he is useless when he is old, but his energy can't keep up with the pace of the next series of reform measures implemented by the imperial court.

So Wen Zhuyu hoped that Li Chenan could persuade Su Yian, if Su Yian was willing to return to court, in Wen Zhuyu's view, he would be a rare talent.

But Li Chenan's reform measures are a bit ahead of his time. What he is more worried about is that great Confucians like Su Yi'an will usually be very stubborn in their thinking.

If they couldn't change their minds and couldn't accept their point of view...then his great talent would be of no use to Li Chenan.

It will even become a huge resistance!
Xiao Baozi is the only one who understands Li Chenan——

No matter how strong an ox is, if it doesn't plow the land... then it is definitely not a good ox!
Instead of wasting fodder, it is better to kill and eat meat!
The three took a sip of wine.

Li Chenan put down his wine bowl, looked at Su Yian, and asked:
"Sir, why do all the dynasties that have descended for thousands of years rarely have more than 300 years?"

This is Li Chen'an questioning Su Yi'an.

Liu Xiayin also put down her wine bowl and looked at Su Yian, wondering how Su Yian would respond next.

Su Yi'an pondered for three breaths, stroked his short beard, and said slowly:

"In my humble opinion, there are no more than three reasons."

"Mr. Su, let's talk and listen."

"First, in the last years of the dynasty, corrupt officials are usually rampant in the temples, while the common people are living in dire straits."

"Secondly, in fact, the rulers of all dynasties, at the beginning of the founding of the country, attached great importance to people's livelihood, especially farmers!"

"To overthrow an old dynasty, the ruler will almost always redistribute the land of the old dynasty to the peasants."

"But the class that really protects the interests of the rulers is not the peasants, but the scholar-bureaucrats of the world!"

"They have read books and are knowledgeable. Only they can help the ruler govern the country."

"As time goes by, the group of scholar-bureaucrats will become bigger and bigger, and their hands will become longer and longer...and the land can grow the most important food, and food is the most important living material in any dynasty .”

"As the power in the hands of the scholar-bureaucrats increases, they will get involved in all walks of life, including land, for the benefit of their families!"

"They control the law, connections, arms, etc., and they will use these powers to invade the people, and take the land from the people to them at a low price, but the original owners of these lands have become theirs. Shareholders."

"Third... farmers without land become rootless."

"They have no defense against unknown risks."

"Such as famine, such as plague, such as disease... Any disaster will make them displaced, so they take risks and become bandits."

"A country exists in different lengths of history, but in my opinion, if these three points are summed up, it is a sentence."

Li Chenan raised his eyebrows: "What kind of sentence?"

"The distribution is unfair!"

When Su Yi'an said these four words, Li Chen'an really looked at him with admiration.

He immediately sat up straight, and asked again: "What kind of injustice do you think there are?"

"I thought it was the unfairness of education first!"

"Reading is a very expensive thing. Peasant children can't afford to read at all!"

"They are not members of the scholar-official class, and their children have no chance of being recommended as officials!"

"The imperial examination was created by the previous dynasty. It was originally a great initiative. It provided children from poor families with a chance to enter an official career, but..."

Su Yi'an took a deep breath and shook his head: "It's just a cover to deceive people!"

"Study is a luxury. The poor are already poor, so how can they get money for their children to study?"

"Their class cannot be changed from generation to generation. The only way to change is to gather people and turn against them one day when they are desperate!"

"Secondly, the unfair distribution of wealth!"

"The scholar-bureaucrat class controls the greatest wealth in the entire country. They live a life of luxury, but the people who support them have put in the most effort, but they are poor... Everyone wants to live a good life. Why are some people born rich? And the vast majority of people are still unable to stand up even after exhausting the efforts of several generations?"

"This is to worry about inequality rather than scarcity."

"Again, it's the injustice of the law!"

"I've been thinking, everyone is human, so why can't you be punished as a doctor?"

"And why the poor can only be bullied by the rich?"

"And the land held by farmers has been annexed by rich people in large numbers, and there are many dark places in it!"

"Those who master the law and the rich go hand in hand with each other, farmers lose their land, and there is no place to complain!"

"The accumulated resentment will inevitably lead to the confrontation between the two classes!"

"Once this antagonism reaches a certain level of irreconcilability, once someone raises the flag and shouts...the world will be in chaos!"

"Thus, the flames of war broke out, and another vigorous battle broke out, until this dynasty was overthrown, and until another new dynasty was established."

"It goes back and forth...the reason why it's only 300 years is the time course of these conflicts from brewing to occurrence and then to the end."

"Short-lived dynasty, it's just that these conflicts erupted faster and more intensely."

"This is roughly the case in my humble opinion, so I think that if the regent wants to build a powerful country, he should start with how to solve the problem that the peasants' land will always belong to the peasants."

"Instead of starting with industry and commerce!"

"Because no dynasty perished because of the backwardness of industry and commerce!"

"I wonder if the Regent thinks so?"

(End of this chapter)