Three Kingdoms: Ancestors of the Han Dynasty

Chapter 743 Reduction
The difficulty of moving the capital of the Han Dynasty to Chang'an is not the same as that of Cao Wei's moving the capital to Yecheng.In Yecheng of Cao Wei, there is the palace of the king of Wei left over from the period of Cao Cao.Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, Chang'an has rarely been repaired, the city gates and palaces have collapsed, and has experienced decades of wars, and it has long since lost its former magnificence.

Today, when the great Han Dynasty wanted to move the capital to Chang'an, Bashu scholars often used these words to persuade Liu Chan or block other officials who proposed to move the capital.

However, these are not big problems for Liu Chan.The Bashu scholars themselves were not monolithic, and there were quite a few of them who wanted to revive the Han Dynasty. Many officials in Badi did not want to mix with the Shu people, and they themselves had circles of communication with each other.

After Zhuge Liang's death, Liu Chan pacified the two prefectures of Jingjiao and took Sun Quan as his lord. His own prestige reached a high point in the country, and his right to speak was not low.And with regard to moving the capital, except for some Shu officials, people in Liangzhou, Longyou, Guanzhong, and Jingzhou were all happy to see the capital moved to Chang'an.

It can be said that moving the capital to Chang'an was not a big deal for the Shu Han.The difficulty lies in the planning of moving the capital and a series of issues such as how to move the capital. Therefore, the Dahan needs to arrange special manpower to handle the affairs of moving the capital. Difficult Problems.

The problem of the Han Dynasty moving the capital to Chang'an is nothing more than three points.

First, Guanzhong has not yet recovered its vitality, and Chang'an has a small population. When the capital was moved to the past, where did the population come from? This is another problem. Second, the city is abandoned and the palace is damaged. Third, the journey from Chengdu to Chang'an is thousands of miles long, and the road to Shu is rough and difficult. How to deal with tens of thousands of people or even more than one hundred thousand people is also a big problem.

After finalizing the arrangements for moving the capital, Liu Chan signaled that the court proceedings would continue.

"Dong Yun, the official censor, I have something to report."

"allow!"

The censor Dong Yun held the wat board, bowed his hands solemnly and said: "I am following your Majesty's order to check the hidden household registration in the counties and counties, and the powerful and illegal things. I have gained something, so I will report it..."

Since March Liu Chan ordered to check the household registration issues of the prefectures, counties and counties, Dong Yun sent many officials to the Northwest to inspect the situation.

After nearly half a year of inspection, Dong Yun gradually discovered the tricks in the local area based on the investigation of the subordinate officials and the reports of the local officials.Dong Yun found that there were officials in the Northwest region who were dereliction of duty, perfunctory about the tricks of each year, and accepting bribes from tyrants, and even a few places were ignorant of the limited-name land system implemented by the early big men.

Pang Sheng, the county magistrate of Longxi County, has collected the statistics for the past four years, which were modified based on previous data. He neglected administration, and asked about the detailed data on the number of males and females in his household registration, and little is known about it.

Although Zhong Bin, the prefect of Nan'an County, was diligent in governing, he colluded with local tyrants.During his three years in office, he received a large amount of bribes to buy fields and houses for his son, or to buy pastures and fruit forests to get rich.For the powerful Linghu family, he hid his household registration and cheated to get the Linghu family's children into officials.

The reason why Zhong Bin was able to discover corruption was mostly relying on the county meritorious Cao Donglixiong to secretly report to the officials of Yushitai, so that Yushitai could easily dig out the evidence of Zhong Bin's illegality.

In the large-scale investigation initiated by Yushitai, a county prefect and five county magistrates in Qin and Liang prefectures were found to have committed large or small crimes, and Dong Yun impeached them one by one.The crimes of its subordinate officials have long been punished with scientific laws.

Liu Chan flipped through the memorabilia handed over by Dong Yun, and did not reply in a hurry, but turned his attention to Sili Captain Ma Liang, and asked, "How is the strict investigation in the Bashu area?"

Ma Liang was moved when he heard the sound, and he cupped his hands and replied: "Your Majesty, Bashu has been around the capital for a long time. Most of the prefects follow the law. Those who violate the law and discipline with local tyrants are mostly county magistrates. All the illegal officials in Sichuan have been arrested. The minister arrested him and sent him to prison..."

As he spoke, Ma Liang glanced at Du Qiong and said, "And the outlaw clan has also been arrested, regardless of their background."

Ma Liang holds the knot in his hand, and there are [-] officials under his command. When they find out cases of hidden household registration and annexation of land, they directly lead troops to arrest them.Regardless of their background, regardless of their origin.Among them, Du Yue, a branch of Du Qiong of the Du family in Shu County, was captured. Du Yue relied on Du Qiong's reputation as Taichang Du Qiong to act in violation of the law and discipline.

When Ma Liang came to the door, he tried to make the trilogy and guests resist, but was directly captured by the officials brought by Ma Liang, and thrown into prison, where he would be executed after autumn.

When his family members need to be distributed to Longyou, Du Qiong thought about the love of his family and was about to rescue him, but Ma Liang scolded Du Qiong on the spot, asking whether Du Qiong also hid his household registration and whether he was in the same boat as Du Yue.Du Qiong didn't dare to resist, so he bit the bullet and said a few perfunctory words, and left with the people.

After Ma Liang's resolute rectification, the tyrants in the middle of Shu trembled with fear, recalling Zhuge Liang's time in power again, they did not dare to do illegal things.With the cooperation of prefects and county officials at all levels, the climate in central Sichuan has been greatly improved, and all the people who were registered in the past have returned to the archives.

Under Thunder's means, there is also the favor of the big man.Under the auspices of Fei Yi, Fei Shi and the county guard in central Shu persuaded with affection and reason, thousands of soldiers who missed their military status returned to their military status, exonerated and only punished those who committed the most serious crimes. Peace of mind.

Liu Chan closed the memorabilia presented by Ma Liang and Dong Yun, sighed, and said, "Since I came to the throne, I have mostly loved the people. I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen to this day. It really makes me sad!"

Liu Chan is not uncomfortable with the problems in the administration of officials, after all, the problems in the administration of officials can never be eradicated.The sad thing is that some people are willing to be guests and tenants under the tyrants and gentry, but they don't want to be the people in Han and feel uncomfortable.

Although there is a strong push to annex the land, in the final analysis, it is because of the frequent wars in these years, which have led to the corvee and heavy taxes of the Han Dynasty, and the people's farming time has been reduced, but the taxes have not been reduced. This makes the poor people have to avoid taxes and taxes. corvee.

Seeing this, Jiang Wan said with relief: "Your Majesty is benevolent and loves the people, and the people of Bashu know it. However, the war is heavy, it is not good for farmers, it is normal for the people to be separated, and their household registration is hidden. If the tax is reduced and the corvee is reduced, it will be called Tianzhi. system, the people should live in peace."

In fact, as Jiang Wan said, although the big Han reduced taxes, it was only better than Wei and Wu, but compared with the stable period, it was still quite heavy.It is also necessary to reduce taxes and reduce corvee.

For example, the head tax is the oral tax. During the peace period of the Han Dynasty, the money was [-], and it was collected from the age of seven.During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, due to the lack of expenditures for the war against the Huns, the collection was reduced from seven years old to three years old, and on the basis of twenty qian, an extra three qian was collected as the cost of army horse food and grass.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the oral tax was collected from the first year of age, and most people dared not declare their children in the family, so the population of each household decreased during the war.In this regard, the governments of the three countries have also adopted a unified policy, that is, the user tax replaces the personal poll tax to reduce the impact of the decrease in the registered population.

The same is true for the implementation of the limited-name land system by Dahan a few years ago, implementing household surveys, supplemented by land rent.At the same time, in order to reproduce the population, the Dahan reduced or exempted part of the land tax for underage boys and girls.But fundamentally, it only lowered a little tax, just like the housing price of [-] yuan in later generations has been reduced by hundreds or thousands of yuan, there is no qualitative change.

But in general, compared with the previous big man, there is progress.Next, after Jing, Hunan, and Jiaozhou are stabilized, the taxes of the three states are handed over, and the land rent is stored in the treasury. The big Han may be able to further reduce the squeeze on the domestic people. And the population recovery is more beneficial.

After pondering for a while, Liu Chan looked at Jiang Wan and asked, "Shang Shuling, in the next few years, the country will not raise troops, and focus on cultivating vitality. That's why I want to reduce taxes, breed population, and let the people enjoy peace and happiness overnight. How can I do that?" ?”

Jiang Wan heard Liu Chan's meaning, cupped his hands and replied, "Your Majesty has the people in mind, and I should obey it."

Liu Chan's refraining from troops and reducing taxes in the past few years is fundamentally for the great man.After the failure of the raid on Hedong, the Han Dynasty launched an expedition of [-] troops for three or four consecutive years, which not only exhausted the savings in the past, but also made the people in the country impoverished, or allowed the poor people to avoid taxes and corvees.

If the fight continues like this, it will basically hurt the big man's muscles and bones.After saving for a few years, the common people have surplus food, and the state owns food reserves. When wars are launched, it is also a job of sharpening the knife and chopping firewood by mistake.

As for the time to recuperate, Liu Chan also has a plan in his mind, as he said with Deng Ai before, the minimum is three years, and the maximum is five years.Three to five years is not based on Liu Chan's slap on the head. According to the laws of the agricultural era, as "Yalt and Iron Theory" said: "Three years of plowing will result in one year of storage, and nine years of plowing will result in three years of storage."

That is to say, after three years of normal farming, the people can have accumulated rations for one year, and these rations are used to prevent sudden disasters or man-made disasters.

When the great man saves for three years and sends troops, it means that the people have a surplus of food and grass. Even if the farming is abandoned due to the war, and the harvest of the fields is a little poor, it will not cause the people to be poor and avoid taxation.This will not lead to a decrease in the registered population or the number of households, and will not fundamentally damage the big man.

Liu Chan nodded slightly, and said: "Since this is the case, the tax reduction and exemption proposal will be drafted by Jiang Qing, and it will be announced to the world as soon as possible, so that the people will know the grace of my great man."

"promise!"

(End of this chapter)