Chapter 3218 The Agricultural Power of the Family Manor
Liu Muzhi frowned: "Does this mean that the death penalty can be avoided, but the living crime cannot be forgiven? However, in this case, if you don't kill someone, you can let it go, is it really okay?"
Liu Yu said calmly: "We in the Jin Dynasty also had a new king ascending the throne. When the emperor got married, he had to issue a general amnesty to pray for blessings. It seems that in addition to treason, disrespect and other unforgivable crimes, ordinary capital crimes can be forgiven."
Liu Muzhi nodded: "There is a common practice, but this time you want to use amnesty, it is not appropriate. You are not a king. Even if you want to use an excuse to remarry, it is not appropriate to use this amnesty."
Liu Yu said: "Yes, but other excuses can be used, such as the capture of Guanggu, the destruction of Nanyan, and the surrender of Murong Chao as a false emperor, in order to pay tribute to the dead soldiers and people, and to celebrate that we eliminated the first northern
The puppet country of the Hu people can grant amnesty to Qingzhou. There must be a precedent for this."
Liu Muzhi laughed: "You even know this. Yes, there has been one. When Huan Wen conquered the Chenghan Dynasty, he also granted an amnesty. This kind of amnesty was to stabilize the hearts of the newly recovered areas. There was no such thing.
The illegal level can be used. And in this way, you can assign the pardoned dying people, together with their families, to the noble families as slaves, and after defeating Tianshi Dao last time, for those who have the lives of Jin soldiers in their hands
It is the same reason for those enemy troops to be sent to the fighting arena and to the stage as slaves."
Liu Yu nodded: "But I can't tell Alan directly. If she can convince her tribe to hand over more than 2,000 people after she goes back, it is estimated that the last ones to come out will be old and weak people, or injured sergeants. This
It is their barbarian tradition that they value the young and the strong and despise the old and the weak. When they really have to die, they will abandon the old and the weak first."
Liu Muzhi said seriously: "Yes, many of their ideas are contrary to ours. If it were us Han people, we would rather have our children die than save the elderly and children. This is our filial piety and the basis of our benevolence and righteousness."
.However, in this case, those who will be given to the noble families will be weak ones, and their idea of selecting elite soldiers to become their own troops will not be established."
Liu Yu sighed: "This kind of family wants to build an army. In the future, it will overwhelm our eighth brother from Beifu Jing in terms of military strength."
Why don’t you even mention my brother’s request? If I hadn’t resolutely withstood Miaoyin’s request today, the consequences would be unimaginable.”
Liu Muzhi said with a smile: "Shouldn't you thank me for this matter? If I hadn't concealed both sides, how could you have successfully destroyed Nanyan? If I had told you this condition at that time, you would have refused to give in and agree.
By then, without the food, grass and weapons supplied by the family, even if you can win the Battle of Linqu with the food and grass you sent out, you will never be able to lay siege to Guanggu for a year."
Liu Yu gritted his teeth: "I can attack the city in advance and don't have to wait so long. To be honest, I used to think that the powerful people in Qingzhou provide food and grass. I didn't expect that it mainly relies on the rear, or these high-ranking families. Could it be that we are so
After many years of operation, are you still inseparable from them?"
Liu Muzhi sighed: "Yes, this is the fact. Whether you are willing to accept it or not, you cannot change this. Before, we tried to let many Jingba brothers get the title and enfeoff some land for them to manage, but the result was not
In two years, everything will no longer be able to operate. Skilled tenant farmers, water diversion channels, and supply of seeds and agricultural tools are not something that our rough warriors can solve. Even if you are a slave, I will give you dozens of hectares of land now.
, if you are asked to manage it, I’m afraid you won’t even be able to get the food to pay taxes.”
Liu Yu said seriously: "We have neglected this point before. Farming and spinning cloth requires technology and management. I thought that many of my brothers farmed at home before joining the army. Unlike me, I don't know anything about farming.
I was able to manage the land well after the land was divided, but I didn’t expect that after the land was too much, I couldn’t manage it either.”
Liu Muzhi smiled and said: "Yes, it's like asking the children of aristocratic families to join the army. You can't expect them to be able to charge into battle like the brothers from Beifu after a few months of training in the army. A ruler is longer than an inch, so you
I have to admit that in terms of business and management, the children of the aristocratic families who have been running the manor in Wudi for nearly a hundred years are much better than your Jingba brothers."
Liu Yu said in a deep voice: "Their problem is not that they don't have this ability, but that they have this ability, but they don't use it to serve the country loyally. They just deal with the country's grain tax, and use various means to reduce or reduce it, and stay.
The abundant grain and cloth became their private property, and eventually the country was at war, and it was time to ask for their help again."
Liu Muzhi said calmly: "The tax rate is like this. There is no way. You can't say that you should tax more noble families and those with more land, and tax less ordinary people. They can save more food. To put it bluntly, it is
Because their management level in the manor is higher, their tenants are more skilled in farming, especially in terms of production conditions such as irrigation, seeds, and agricultural tools, and have more advantages."
"For the same acre of land, if a farmer is only allocated 50 or 60 acres of land, he or she may produce about two shi of grain at most. However, in Wu Di's manor, they can produce three shi, five dou or even four shi of grain.
With just one tax, their family estate can quickly accumulate a lot of wealth."
Liu Yu frowned: "How can it be so different? Nearly double the output?"
Liu Muzhi nodded: "This is still built on land in similar areas. The fertility of the land is the same. If it is in different areas, the difference will be further. The output of places like Jiangzhou and Jiangbei is comparable to that of highly developed Wu
It is possible for the yield to vary by three or four times depending on the land."
Liu Yu gritted his teeth: "No wonder we wanted to divide the land according to the title at that time, and entrust a large number of places to the eight brothers in Beijing. The opposition of these high-ranking families was not so strong, and they accepted it immediately. It turned out that they had the confidence in their hearts. So now
If their private grain reserves are higher than those of the state, and if we want to do big things, we need to beg them in turn, what should we do?" Biquku
Liu Muzhi said calmly: "In the long run, we need to wait for the children of the Jingba brothers who were trained in Xiangxu to learn how to run and manage the manors. After that, they can set up farms in the name of the country or the imperial manor."
Officials and farmers should let people with management skills take care of these places to avoid private management by aristocratic families. In other words, you have to slowly nationalize the places where land can be cultivated instead of privately owned, and then send dedicated
Only through good talent management can we achieve long-term peace and stability and complete our farmland plan."
Liu Yu's heart moved and he said: "It will probably take more than ten years for such talents to be trained. Is there any good solution in the short term?"