Chapter 1029 The Possibility and Necessity of Cancelling the Lijia System
"I don't say anything about the increasingly prominent disadvantages of the Lijia system, I believe you know it."
"Your Majesty, will this cause panic among the gentry in the world and cause chaos in the world?"
Shen Shixing was worried and authentic. Since Zhu Yiliu ascended the throne, he has been cautious every day as if walking on thin ice, fearing that something would happen.
To put it bluntly, it is not easy to meet Zhu Yili, who loves to make trouble.
"The only gentry is chaotic, and the people are already looking at the clouds and the colorful clouds." Zhu Yili said strongly, "And I clearly tell you wherever you are in chaos, just like this time Baoding Prefecture."
"Your Majesty decided to abolish the Lijia system, so I don't know which system to replace it?" Shen Shixing asked again.
"Old Wang Ge." Zhu Yiliu wanted to call Wang Jiaping, but found that Wang Xijue and Wang Jiaping agreed.
"Oh, both of them are surnamed Wang Ha... Let's do this, I will still be you in the future." Zhu Yiliu looked at Wang Xijue and said, and then turned his eyes to Wang Jiaping, "And like Mr. Shen, you were once my elder brother's teacher, so I will also call you Mr. "."
"I obey the order!"
"I obey the order!"
Wang Xijue and Wang Jiaping both nodded.
"Mr. Wang." Zhu Yiliu shouted again. This way, there will be no confusion.
"I'm here." Wang Jiaping agreed this time.
"How is the progress of land distribution work in Wanping County?"
"Go back to Your Majesty, as planned, everything goes smoothly for the time being." Wang Jiaping answered cautiously. He didn't understand why he suddenly jumped to the reform of Wanping County. Didn't it mean to abolish the Lijia system?
"Mr. Wang briefly talked about how Wanping County distributed the fields evenly."
"Yes, Your Majesty. After the field clearance work is completed, Wanping County will be divided into several districts according to the region, such as Mentougou, Shijingshan, Xicheng, etc., and then each district will be divided into several towns, and the townships will be further divided into several villages. It is also the last village to allocate the fields in each village according to the region."
"How to manage it?" Zhu Yiliu asked again.
"In every district, every township, and every village, the corresponding person in charge is selected to manage it."
"How did those responsible persons be selected?"
"It is decided by both the people and the county government, but the candidates are basically from the county government government."
"Did the gentry who originally managed the grassroots level in Wanping County agree?" Zhu Yiliu asked step by step.
However, after asking this, everyone here seemed to understand why Zhu Yili suddenly jumped from abolishing the Lijia system to the pilot reform of Wanping County.
"Your Majesty, I think that the original gentry class has no longer existed because everyone is equal, and the original Lijia system has actually collapsed."
Since Wang Jiaping has understood Zhu Yili's intentions, it will naturally be much smoother to speak, and it will be seamlessly linked to the Lijia system without any incongruity.
"You have heard it? Although I did not clearly point out the pilot reform in Wanping County, the Lijia system has been invisibly abolished and replaced by a new type of township and village household registration management model. The heads of township and villages are also officials at the bottom of the court. As Mr. Wang said, in fact, the original management model of relying on the village chief, that is, the gentry has completely collapsed."
A brief pause.
Zhu Yiliu then asked: "Mr. Wang, are there anyone in the village who jumped out to object?"
"Your Majesty, the powerful and powerful families of the royal family did not dare to jump out, how dare the village chief?"
"Of course I know that they dare not dare to do it openly, but they dare not do it secretly?" Zhu Yiliu took action step by step.
"They dare not do not have the support of the people. The people's eyes are bright and clear who His Majesty is protecting. If a village chief jumps out and causes trouble, the people will not sit idly by and expose them. Water can carry boats and can also overturn them. In fact, without the support of the people, they will never succeed in anything they want to do."
Zhu Yili was very satisfied with Wang Jiaping's answer and was very pleased that Wang Jiaping had already understood his spirit. It was indeed correct to choose Wang Jiaping when he first chose Wang Jiaping!
Feng Bao was also amazed when he heard this. He wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to persuade Wang Xijue to take personal favors to Wang Xijue, hoping to give Wang Xijue a chance to show off his credit, but he didn't expect that Zhu Yiliu had already been clear-headed and spoke it out with the help of Wang Jiaping's mouth.
And it is undoubtedly more convincing to say it from Wang Jiaping, but they are talking about the facts.
"After the conversation I had just had with Mr. Wang, do you think it's that difficult to cancel the LiA system?"
Zhu Yili swept over several cabinet ministers one by one.
Feng Bao deliberately glanced at Wang Xijue.
Wang Xijue saw it, but did not respond. It was not that he didn't want to respond, but he just felt that it was no longer necessary. When it comes to this, everyone knows it well.
Silence is an expression.
"Okay! Since I have no objection, then I will tell you why the Lijia system must be abolished and abolished."
"I feel that the Lijia system itself has contained contradictory factors from the beginning, and the disconnection between its rigid system shell and the ever-developing national economic situation has become increasingly serious."
"First of all, the burden of taxes and service between Lijia is becoming increasingly uneven. The Lijia system is a grassroots organization composed of standard households. The amount of corvee labor undertaken by each Jia and each Jia is roughly equal, right?"
"But the reality is that the economic conditions of each household vary greatly, and the geographical interconnection needs to be considered. At the beginning of the establishment of Lijia, the people and property of each Jia cannot reach a completely equal state. The people and property of each Jia and Lijia are uneven, and the capacity for labor service is increasingly disparate."
"Secondly, the separation of household registration and land in space is becoming more and more serious. The purpose of implementing the Lijia system is to try to build relatively closed communities based on the combination of population and land in the local area. This is a prerequisite for the Lijia system to effectively exercise its tax collection and service collection and the imperial control function, right?"
"However, with the development of the country's economy, the intensification of land annexation and the increase in tax and service burden, the mobilization and impact of various factors, the flow of population and land is becoming increasingly active, so that the population and land distribution in Lijia have been separated in space."
"There is a situation where there is a 1-mile land, and the whole county is full of fields, and there is no fixed place. Even the phenomenon of occupying land across counties, prefectures and prefectures has become increasingly difficult for the leaders of Lijia to accurately grasp the population and property status of the households in their own households."
"Third, although the establishment of the Lijia system does not and cannot eliminate the relationship between the gap between the rich and the poor and the various classes, it is based on the social and political ecology with less severe differentiation. However, this relatively balanced ideal and reality cannot be maintained for a long time."
"The current reality is: the tyrants and tyrants are annexed and weak in exile. One mile may only have two or three families, one mile may only have two or three families, and even one mile does not have one mile, one mile does not have one mile. Under the squeeze of officials, gentry and landlords who possess a large amount of land but arbitrarily avoid the burden of taxes and service due to their privileges and exemptions, the small and medium-sized classes that constitute the core of the Lijia system are declining, and the foundation for the Lijia rule no longer exists. I am not wrong, right?"
"I think that at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, rural thieves were blamed on Lijia. Emperor Hongwu ordered that if there were robberies who fled the army and prisoners and those who caused trouble, one person could not arrest him. Lijia would have to gather many people to capture him and go to the official position, and those who violated the crime were punished for crimes. But now, since the households originally organized in Lijia had already been scattered, Lijia could no longer play the role of maintaining social order."
"In addition, in the early Ming Dynasty, the households in Tongli had the responsibility of helping each other, helping each other in distress, and helping each other with illness. Emperor Hongwu even tried to force the households to support those who beg for food due to poverty and disability. It was stipulated that if the households in Tongli had not paid the funds for the households who were begging for food, they would have to check their families. Except for leaving enough food for their own use, all the remaining food was not earned to help the poor."
"But now? Land annexation is becoming increasingly serious, the gap between the rich and the poor is getting bigger and bigger, and clan organizations have replaced most of the functions of the Lijia organization. The Lijia household registration system has gradually evolved into synonyms for strong families, which is the so-called gentry class."
"Of course, I have to admit that in the face of the increasingly intensified conflicts between the Lijia system, the gentry and local governments have made various measures and attempts to maintain and rebuild local order to alleviate the conflicts and conflicts accumulated in the local area, and have achieved certain results, but they cannot fundamentally solve the problem."
"Because the political oppression and economic exploitation of the people by gentry and local governments is the main source of the deterioration of local conflicts. In the process of maintaining and rebuilding grassroots order, gentry and local governments are trying to expand their control over tax collection, and use their expanded power to strengthen economic plunder of the people and small and medium-sized classes who lack political power, which has led to the fact that the grassroots rule of our Ming Dynasty has long been full of holes and urgently needed rectification."
Because Zhu Yili had already prepared in advance, it was effortless to finish it in one go.
He knew very well and believed that everyone here understood what he said just now. Perhaps he had realized this problem a long time ago, but whether he dared it or not, could it be.
After all, this is really the overthrow of the Ming Dynasty's rule model at the grassroots level, that is, at the local level - but Zhu Yiliu did not think that this was the basis of the Ming Dynasty's rule.
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Chapter completed!