Chapter 2016 The matter of Zhuang He, the law of loan orders
Guanzhong.
Li Yuan''s manor.
Li Yuan tilted his head slightly, looked at the steward, and said, "But if you have any suggestions, you might as well speak up..."
The steward laughed a few times, then stretched out his hand and pointed in one direction and said, "My lord, do you know who''s land passed this place?" 』
"Ok? 』Li Yuan raised his eyebrows, feeling a little impatient. Seeing Zhuang He in the manor in the current situation, I was already upset, so I still have some interest in guessing riddles?
The steward sensed Li Yuan''s impatience, so he didn''t dare to keep showing off, and immediately said: "It''s the Xue family''s field..."
『Which Xue family? Oh..." Li Yuan was stunned for a moment, then realized immediately, "Is that the Xue family? 』
"Exactly... now there is no one in charge of the Xue family, this field...hehe, naturally it is also lack of care..." The steward nodded and bowed, "If the time is unusual today, this place of the Xue family is even more...hehe, so if you can take advantage of it This is a good opportunity...then our Zhuangzi can expand to the other side of the mountain...』
『Hiss... the Xue family...』 Li Yuan frowned, looked into the distance, and after pondering for a while, shook his head, "Don''t touch that place...don''t ask why, anyway, you just like your Zhuangzi! Also, don’t take grain and grass out for loans...』
"Uh? This..." The steward rolled his eyes.
When will grain be sold at a high price, even at the price of gold? Is it harvest time? On the contrary, it is in a disaster year, even in a catastrophe.
So who will have the most food? Is it a farmer who works every day without a day off? No, he is a manor owner who exploits a lot of food and grass every year. And these grains and grasses that are not expensive on weekdays, when the disaster comes, you can take out the wheat and millet that are pressed in the warehouse and will rot after two years, and replace them with everything that can be exchanged, such as cloth. Brocades, gold and silver treasures, even more land and human life.
So the manager of the manor saw that Zhuanghe in the manor was severely affected, but it was not as sad and tense as ordinary people''s homes. This is the reason.
Because the steward knows that any natural disaster like this is the prelude to a feast...
However, now that Li Yuan said that lending is not allowed, after the manager heard this, he really wanted to pull Li Yuan''s head away to see if it was blocked by some kind of dirt, and he wanted to give up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
『My lord…』The steward clicked his tongue, 「Is this the Xue family...a small one can understand it, it’s more or less...but this matter of lending...a different family...」
Li Yuan waved his hand and said, "Don''t worry about other family''s affairs, just do your own work well!" Also, set up this shed in the village early, don''t stare at the outside all day, you will forget about the things inside! Can it be done? If you can’t do it well, someone else will do it! 』
『Only! I will be able to do a good job! Lord, please rest assured! ”The steward responded repeatedly.
Li Yuan pulled out another seedling, looked at the root of the seedling with a frown, "If this Zhuanghe dies, don''t worry about replanting, wait for someone to come to tell you before replanting... the shape of the shed, first send People go to Hussar General to watch and learn...』
Li Yuan babbled a lot, then left, leaving behind the manor steward who was a little confused.
Really confused.
If he wasn''t afraid that Li Yuan would get mad and change his position, he really wanted to open Li Yuan''s head and look inside to see if it was rotten like Zhuang He in the field...
When there are still natural disasters, don’t you take the opportunity to make a fortune?
Then what is the food and grass that they have worked so hard to save every year for?
You know, if you lend out at this point in time, most farmers can’t afford it. After all, it’s a disaster year, so the “good people” everywhere won’t even force farmers to repay the loan immediately, and it’s even laughable. Hehe said that as long as the interest is repaid first, you can continue to give another loan. After all, the court needs to be stable, right? After the interest is collected first, the principal will come back, and then the loan will be repaid with interest, and when the amount is large enough, you can come to collect it...
By the time…
Wouldn''t it be wonderful?
What a great field! The steward of the manor stood blankly, looking at the fields of the Xue family and ordinary farmers farther away, grunted twice and sighed.
With such a master at the stall, could it be that Mrs. Li is on the verge of a dead end?
These fields would have been ours! They all belong to Mrs. Lee!
Just like the later generations of the Great Han Dynasty believed that everything in the world belonged to them. Under the influence of the small peasant economy, these gentry clans of the Great Han also believed that the land in the world was the best, and it was originally theirs.
Huaxia developed from the dynasties of ancient times, Xia, Shang and Zhou, right?
『Under the Putian, could it be the land of the king; on the shore of the land, could it be the king''s ministers. 』Is this sentence correct?
Duke Zhou used the land of the world to enfeoff the princes, is there such a thing?
Now, the vast majority of gentry surnames can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, or even earlier, so it is equivalent to the fact that these lands were originally entrusted to their ancestors, so now their children and grandchildren have taken it back, is it wrong?
It’s like the kimchi from the Great Cold Nether Kingdom, no matter which pot or whoever is making it, it’s all from the Great Cold Nether Kingdom!
Is this wrong?
Everything seems to be right.
It seems like everything is wrong too.
So which link went wrong? It''s like talking about the origin of kimchi or other historical issues with the people of the Great Cold Netherland. Do those clamorers really not understand, or are they pretending not to understand?
This is a very interesting question.
Fei Qian has not appeared in the meeting hall for several days. Of course, this does not mean that Fei Qian is hugging left and right at home, but that Fei Qian went to Sanfu to check the situation of Zhuang He''s disaster.
Pang Tong, the little chubby bird, was also busy with the work of keeping out the cold in the fields in Guanzhong, so he was often away from the city and worked in the fields with Zaozhi, so Xun You was left in the meeting hall.
After all, some documents and so on still need to be processed by manpower.
Every day when General Hussar’s office starts to work, it’s like the gate of the school every weekday morning. Countless people are holding, carrying, or simply carrying, and then gather at the Hussar’s office. Before riding the government office, he solemnly handed in the matter and said that his own affairs are the most important...
Which child doesn''t matter?
are all important. For the parents of this child, their own child is naturally the most important. But for schools, it''s just children of different grades.
Therefore, Xun You also divided his own writing levels. If he really did everything according to what these people said, he might not be too busy to finish it, and he would not be able to do it well.
Xun You believes that for the moment, the two most important things are military affairs and disaster relief.
Among all things, the importance of the military situation ranks first. No matter what time it is, even if the other things are half done and the military situation arrives, it must be put down first and deal with the military situation instead.
The other one is the current disaster resistance.
Although disaster relief is not as important as military affairs, it is urgent. Pang Tong, who is mainly in charge of disaster relief, Xun You needs to deploy it immediately whenever he has any needs, because the weather is really not a thing, and if he is not careful, he will be mischievous and can''t catch it.
After finishing the first two matters, Xun You began to deal with other matters. But busy, Xun You''s hands slowed down, and his brows frowned, "Wen Shu, come on!" 』
Wang Chang, who was first assisting in the meeting hall, raised his head, got up and went to Xun You.
Xun You handed the documents in hand to Wang Chang, and said: "Go and investigate, how many people are selling land these days?" Then come and report to…”
Wang Chang looked down, glanced up and down a few times, his brows were slightly wrinkled, he clapped his hands in response, and then turned around and left.
Xun You watched Wang Chang leave, and dragged another document. Just after looking at it twice, he felt a little uneasy. He sighed, stood up, walked around the hall twice with his hands behind his back, and then looked at the The empty central chief case, the position belonging to the Hussar General, sighed slightly...
Outside the hall, the sky was gloomy, and the low clouds seemed to be pressing on the top of the head. There seemed to be a force rolling in it, and it seemed to indicate something.
Near Meiyang, Fei Qian was taking Zhuge Liang to check the cold weather conditions of the farmland.
Meiyang was originally a fief for Guo Bang, but after Guo Bang’s death, it became a land without an owner, and naturally became a place for Feiqian to farm, and even established the "Red Emperor Palace"...
Fei Qian did not let Zhuge Liang return to Wuguan, but stayed with him temporarily, acting as a job similar to Shuzuo.
The main purpose is to let Zhuge Liang get used to it for a period of time, especially to change some of Zhuge Liang''s working patterns. Fei Qian doesn''t want Zhuge Liang to become what he was in history, and then eventually die of exhaustion.
Therefore, Fei Qian took Zhuge Liang out of the General''s Mansion and arrived in Meiyang. On the one hand, he wanted Zhuge Liang to have a practical look at the fields, and on the other hand, he also took this opportunity to instill some ideas.
Just like now, Fei Qian is discussing food issues with Zhuge Liang.
Food is very important.
Because food is important, it can be cultivated, and the fields where Zhuanghe grows are also important.
Then, with the gentry clans who own a large amount of land and control the grain production and harvesting process, the local tyrants become more important...
Is this chain right?
If there is a mistake, where is it wrong?
『Master, do you want to ban the sale of land? Zhuge Liang stood aside, looked up at Fei Qian and asked.
Feiqian smiled and said: "Since the beginning of the distribution of the fiefdom by Duke Zhou, the sale of land has been unstoppable. 』
『Why? ’ Zhuge Liang asked.
Fei Qian raised his head slightly, smiled but did not answer.
Zhuge Liang frowned, and followed Fei Qian''s gaze, thoughtful.
In China, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, with the rapid increase in productivity and the development of commodity production, land sales have already begun to appear. In the late Warring States period, Shang Yang announced that "the well fields will be eliminated, and the people will be able to buy and sell". After Qin unified China, Qin Shihuang "ordered the head of Guizhou to come from real land", all of which marked that the feudal rulers officially recognized the legitimacy of land sales.
After the long-term development of the Western Han and Eastern Han dynasties, the local nobles and powerful landowners became extremely inflated.
During the Qin Dynasty, although the annexation of land was not very intense, the situation of "the rich have lands connected to each other, and the poor have no land to stand on" has begun to appear. However, from the unification of Qin Dynasty to Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty, in only eighty or ninety years, landowners appeared frequently. General landlords such as Bu Shi, who can spend 200,000 yuan to pay officials, also appeared some such as the Shu Zhuo family and the Wan Kong family who got rich by smelting iron and doing business, and then bought more land. Le, a businessman and landlord who resembles Renjun.
That is to say, throughout the Han Dynasty, the ultimate goal of all people was land.
Being an official is for the sake of the land, as a general, and also for the sake of the land. Even businessmen, in the end, set their sights on the land...
So in the Han Dynasty, the complete prohibition of land trading was to stand on the opposite side of the whole world. Naturally, Fei Qian was not so stupid, and brought a system that could not be realized even in later generations to be used in the Han Dynasty. So Fei Qian only stood on the commanding heights of morality, and strangled the slightest sign of growing crookedly...
In the beginning, land annexation in the Han Dynasty, except for those bureaucratic landlords who were partially enfeoffed, was mostly developed through economic means in the process of land sales, which is what Sima Qian said, "To force farmers and livestock, workers and merchants, for the sake of The majority of these people did not have any political power when they started their families, neither did they have any noble towns, nor did they enjoy some salary, so they can only be called ordinary big families, and they have not yet reached the powerful ones. the point.
『The system of the Qin and Han Dynasties, Liehou entrusted the monarch with food, rent and tax, and the annual rate was two hundred. The king of a thousand households has 200,000 yuan, and the pilgrimage is paid out of it. Common people, peasants, businessmen and merchants, earn 2,000 yuan per year, and 200,000 yuan for a million-dollar household, and rent and rent out of it, the food and clothing are beautiful...』
Feiqian said slowly, "... so it is said that there are two hundred hooves of horses on land, a thousand hooves of cattle, a thousand-legged sheep, a thousand-legged pig in the lake, a thousand stones and fish waves in the water, and a thousand-legged hagi in the mountains. A thousand jujube trees in Anyi; a thousand chestnut trees in Yan and Qin; a thousand tangerine trees in Shu, Han and Jiangling; Acre Bamboo...』
Zhuge Liang said: "So my lord wants to break the "Su Feng"?" 』
Feiqian shook his head, and said: "The harm is not the "plain seal", but the desire for the "real seal"!" 』
A pure landowner, not terrible.
It’s like the Chuanshu Zhuo family, wasn’t it also powerful for a while, and now?
Therefore, these "Su Feng" families, relying on their own economic power, not only exploited and enslaved the poor peasants arbitrarily, but also began to collude with the bureaucrats. When it is time, it is the most real trouble.
The problem of the big Han at the moment is these gentry tyrants who have been closely integrated with politics.
『Go up to the king’s law, and down to rule the officials, and serve them concurrently, invade and fish the small people, and become jackals for the people... 』 Fei Qian said, 『What is the benefit of such people? 』
The emperors of the Han Dynasty also took action against these tyrants, such as Liu Bang''s "moving the place to fill Chang''an". charges, and then punished, but the effect of these measures is extremely limited.
These various measures, although some powerful surnames were executed and the land and property of some wealthy families were confiscated, they did not grasp the main points, and only temporarily suppressed their development. After the limelight passed, there was another wave of comeback.
So now Feiqian has changed his approach.
Implement the "Lending Order Law".
The hotly released "Loan Order Law" stood on the commanding heights of morality, indicating that the world is a big man, and as a nobleman, he should set an example for a big man. Therefore, those who are greedy for money are the behavior of inferior villains. its despicable character.
In particular, the act of charging high interest on loans and extorting people''s wealth is tantamount to exposing the ugly faces of those black sheep who are mixed among the gentry. More than 5% interest, so that it can reflect the dignified demeanor of a gentleman of the Han Dynasty, who treats money like dung...
As soon as this order came out, many people dropped their jaws in shock and looked at each other in blank dismay.
The gentry all want face, and those who don’t, can they still be called gentry? Therefore, morality, benevolence, loyalty, etc., are all things that the gentry talk about and put on their bodies, but now Feiqian is equivalent to letting the local gentry choose their surnames. Is it for face or profit?
The common people Zhuanghe suffered a disaster. Once it is judged as a disaster year, the loan interest during this year shall not exceed 5%, and those who exceed it will be severely punished. Is this a problem? Fei Qian did not prohibit the interest rate of loans in ordinary years, but strictly prohibited the interest rate in disaster years. Is there still a problem?
Who has a question?
Isn''t this law a manifestation of the morality pursued by the gentry? Not an act of benevolence? Isn''t it for the loyalty that the country should have for the country?
Because of this decree issued by Fei Qian, there was a sudden silence in Guanzhong Sanfu.
Which person dares to say that this law is not good? I''m afraid he will be sprayed as a fool on the spot! But you have to say something good against your will, and advocate this law for Feiqian, it hurts in my heart, I really can’t speak...
Fei Qian looked at the archway standing in the distance, with a faint smile.
When a place is sealed to someone, most of them will erect a new archway on the ground, indicating that this place is already someone''s private land...
It is necessary to set up a memorial archway to be a rich man of the big man, and to eat the flesh and blood of the common people. Is there such a good thing?
『The "Law of Loan Orders" is being implemented now..." Zhuge Liang said, "It may be suppressed...just..."
Fei Qian smiled and said, "Is there any flaws? 』
Zhuge Liang nodded, then looked at Fei Qian, "Could it be..."
Feiqian laughed loudly, and did not answer Zhuge Liang’s question directly, but pointed to a group of people rushing forward far ahead, "Qiao Jijiu is here..."
(end of this chapter)