Liu Daogui's expression became stern and he said: "What you mean is that Tao Yuanming gave a voice to the noble families or nobles in the world, became their spokesperson, safeguarded their interests, and fought against us, so all the noble families and nobles in the world will
Protect him?"
Liu Muzhi sighed: "I don't want to admit it, but it is the fact. Your eldest brother's new laws and policies are to seize these resources from the aristocratic families and noble families who occupy most of the world's resources and power, and distribute them to the people.
, so that the people can live a self-reliant, dignified life, no longer enslaved and driven by others. Correspondingly, this is a national favor, so when the country is in trouble, the people and the people also need to contribute and pay taxes to help the country accomplish major things.
In this way, in the future Northern Expedition, or the various projects needed by the people, especially water conservancy projects that are beneficial to people's livelihood, and the construction of roads that facilitate transportation, only people will be able to do these things."
Liu Daogui nodded: "Yes, the reason why we were unable to accomplish many things before, or even the Northern Expedition had to rely on high-ranking families, is that we were unable to fully utilize the people's power. The common people can be allocated fields for farming. Logically speaking,
It’s most people, but noble families and powerful landowners use various means to force these farmers to be unable to survive. They can only sell their land and work as tenant farmers in the manor of aristocratic families. In our Jingkou, it is said that it is
Everyone can live well in a tax-free place, but even so, our livelihood is very difficult, let alone other places. Ordinarily, most of the officials in Jingkou are local people, such as my eldest brother, but we still live a good life.
I couldn't figure it out before."
Having said this, Liu Daogui paused and continued: "It wasn't until later, when I got older and became an official through my military exploits, that I realized the real reason. Most of the people in Jingkou farmed in small households.
Farming is done by one's own, but there is no centralized production model for many companies. Therefore, there is no such large ditch irrigation, no unified fertilizers and seeds, and hundreds of hectares of land cannot be used for centralized production with the same farm tools and cattle, so the output
There is not as much food as there is in the manor, but in agriculture, the more concentrated it is, the larger the scale, the higher the output."
Liu Muzhi nodded: "Yes, and Jingkou is densely populated and has many households. Therefore, the land divided according to the national law, one tenth and forty acres, cannot be divided into this amount. It can only be divided into two.
Thirty acres of land, but still have to pay taxes and draws based on forty acres. In addition, the quantity of production is not as good as that of aristocratic families, and although there is no need to pay taxes, military service is indispensable, and strong men must work for a long time.
We cannot farm, which means that after we pay taxes, we can hardly save any property, or even make a living. There are many refugees in the New North who are forced to flee to other places, or who are forced to go south to work in family manors.
Yes, just like Tan Pingzhi, Wei Yongzhi, and Meng Chang, if they had not met your eldest brother, they would have become slaves of the Diao family long ago."
Liu Daogui gritted his teeth: "So, we can only seize more land from noble families and noble landlords for people to cultivate. Not only do they have large estates, but they also hide their people and falsely report their land. They are really a worm to the country. Now they are just
Because we suffer from not having enough grassroots management talents and lack of officials, we can only rely on the village heads of these noble families to manage the people. Once your official school has a large number of talents who can govern the country and the countryside, then
You can use places like Qingzhou or even Jingzhou as a pilot project to attract a large number of households. Slowly, the situation in which the aristocratic families and powerful people in Wu control the whole country will be reversed."
Liu Muzhi sighed: "These are all things for later. I am making concessions to the aristocratic families and the nobles now, just to buy time. What's more, many ordinary scholars are not diligent in all aspects and do not distinguish between grains.
People can only read some dead books. If most of the people in Lanxiang Lishi School are released to govern the countryside, I am afraid that the result will be the same as when we let the eight brothers from Beijing return to their hometowns."
"What's more, when new officials govern the countryside, they must also eliminate the interference of powerful local landlords. This requires full cooperation from the local county magistrate, to the village chief, to the village chief, and even the security chiefs to enforce the new law.
Okay, it's not that easy. Here in Jingzhou, powerful clan forces have been rooted in the people for thousands of years, and it's not easy to make big changes. You should be very aware of this as you have been the governor here in the past few years."
Liu Daogui said quietly: "It is true. Our officials are at the county magistrate level at most, and the three elders in the village are all local wealthy people, including the two to thirty thousand soldiers who came to Jingzhou.
, they all live together in the military camp, or in the reclamation area near the military camp, and cannot spread out to the countryside of Jingzhou. Even if their service period expires, they are not willing to settle down locally, but have to return to their hometown, even if they are assigned
Their land has been reduced by half. In other words, they are just stationed in Jingzhou and do not want to settle here. The home they think of is their hometown in Beifu."
Liu Muzhi smiled and said: "That's it. After serving the service, where to settle is a personal choice. We can't force it. They don't regard Jingzhou as their home. After several years, they are still not accustomed to the climate. The locals in Jingzhou are not accustomed to Yangzhou."
It will take a long time to resolve the inner hostility and rejection of the brothers who came from Beifu, so Tao Yuanming said that he would move the entire Yu family to Jingzhou and bring tens of thousands of villagers and tenants in Wudi.
This branch spread out and began to control some prefectures and counties near Jiangling, becoming a new immigration area like Jiangbei."
"Only when the number of people is large and put into production can we truly start to communicate with the locals and even integrate them. After the demon thieves are pacified, I will consider doing it in the newly attached land. Another
On the other hand, we can also take the opportunity to take back the mature land and ready-made manors owned by some aristocratic families and powerful people in Wudi, including water conservancy and irrigation facilities, and distribute them to new self-cultivating people to become households that pay taxes directly to the state.
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Liu Daogui laughed: "This idea is very good, but I think Tao Yuanming, as the spokesperson of these aristocratic families, will strongly oppose and stop it."
Liu Muzhi sighed softly: "It would be easier if they were just spokespersons of aristocratic families or gentry. What they want is firstly the real interests of the land and population in front of them, and secondly the power in the court. These two
It can be solved. What Tao Yuanming said was that he would become the governor of Yizhou, move those powerful families who were unwilling to cooperate with us, and use the land and population of Yizhou to make up for their losses, including this time Yu Yue wanted to
The whole move to Jingzhou was based on this idea. At the worst, we could change the place and let them occupy more space, and give them the power of a few governors and county guards. This is an acceptable result for us." (End of Chapter)