Overlord!

Chapter 72 Wu County is prosperous, an unforgettable scene for Sun Ce

There are 10 households in Wu County!

Hearing Sun Ce's rhetoric, even with Gu Yong's spirit, he was shocked beyond measure.

A county with [-] households is a magnificent sight that no minister or general has ever imagined.

But at the same time, he is also looking forward to it. If it is true, with [-] households, this county alone will be enough to support the foundation of the entire Jiangdong king and hegemony!

This is close to 60 people!More economical and prosperous, it can provide a lot of wealth and soldiers for the recruiting system.

Gu Yong immediately asked: "What method of administration does the general plan to use to build this unprecedented career?"

The calm and confident look on Sun Ce's face convinced Gu Yong even more.

No way, with a different vision, naturally a different attitude.

There are hundreds of thousands of households, which is indeed unprecedented, but latecomers abound.

Wu County is also Suzhou. In the Song Dynasty, the population of Gusu City alone was as many as 72.

This is true for a city, let alone a whole state?

Wu County is named as a county, but its area is actually larger than a state in the Song Dynasty, and it is close to the area of ​​the entire city of Suzhou in later generations.

Later generations can support more than 800 million people. Now there is no chemical fertilizer, but it is no problem to support 80 people.

After all, no matter how much the land increases, it won't turn over an acre and a hundred stones.

So the more critical thing is to develop!
Sun Ce resolutely said: "The common people are allowed to occupy the land according to the appropriate law! If the common people open up wasteland and register with the Tian Cao, the land will belong to the common people forever, and they will be exempted from paying taxes for the first three years."

"More importantly, after the land has been abandoned for three years, the people have cultivated it for three years, and the wasteland belongs to the people!"

Zhantian, although it has the same name as the Zhantian method of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

But it is definitely not the land occupation system of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The land occupation law of the Eastern Jin Dynasty is called land occupation. In fact, it should be called the "Limited Land Occupation Law", which stipulates that the upper limit of people's land occupation is [-] mu.

What Sun Ce quoted was the system of the Tang, Song, and Ming dynasties, that is, "the farmer is unknown or dies first, and every year, the 'God of Agriculture goes to the soil to attach to the person'" (if a field is occupied by others and operated for more than three years, then the possession The owner has the right to legally become the owner of the field, while the original owner loses the ownership of the field)

He said to Gu Yong very formally: "Order the chief official to tell the people that those who can widely plant mulberry jujubes and reclaim wasteland will stop losing old rent; the county magistrate Zuo can recruit persuasive classes, which will increase the envy of the household registration and open up the wilderness." Natives, discuss rewards!"

Stop losing old rent, that is, temporarily stop collecting taxes.

And "increase the envy of the household registration, and there is no open land in the wild" is the fundamental guarantee for Sun Ce's bold words!
Since the Song Dynasty, the agricultural development of the Central Plains has taken off, and the population has rapidly exceeded [-] million, relying on this decree.

Sun Ce is not demanding on today's scholar-bureaucrats, that is, a large number of modern people in later generations also talk about the limitations of the feudal small-scale peasant economy, but they still think about the average production of small-scale peasants.

I would rather be poor as everyone is limited to ten acres of land, than be rich with efficient development.Advocating that all the people under the rule, counting as one household, are all locked up on tens of acres of farmland for production, abide by the law of equalization of land, and have a youthful atmosphere, imagining that the small-scale peasant economy can always be stable.

So when the fields are allotted, there is nothing to do.

Therefore, there is not enough population to develop industry and commerce, and industry and commerce cannot develop at all.

The most fundamental reason for the delay in the expansion of the industry in the East is the legacy of the literati's Wenqing thought, admiring the great harmony of the world, sharing the land for production, and living a life of small people who do not interact with each other until death. Emphasize agriculture and suppress business.

This is not called emphasizing agriculture, this is called ignorance.The real focus on agriculture is to reclaim the farmland without any open land; to increase the yield per mu of land, free up a lot of manpower, develop industry, improve technology, and in turn promote agriculture.This can actually guarantee the economic stability and national stability they imagined, so that a natural disaster will not cause a large number of people to go bankrupt and starve to death.

Gu Yong only felt greatly touched, and even the entire values ​​were rewritten.

The less knowledgeable a man is, the more strange is his courage and pride, because the less knowledgeable he is, the more absolute he believes, and he has never heard the opposite.

Today, Gu Yong saw an aggressive concept put forward by Sun Lang, which is completely opposite to the Han Dynasty's previous conservative and restraint policy.

He didn't criticize Sun Lang's unconventionalism for the first time, but began to think seriously.

The truth in the world is that the more knowledgeable a person is, the more aware of his own shortcomings, and the more he can discover, recognize and learn from the strengths of others.

He compared his previous cognition, and had to admit that what Sun Lang said was indeed more magnificent and forging ahead.

Sun Ce never underestimated the ideas of feudal scholar-bureaucrats.

Their vision is only limited, and their thoughts are imprisoned by Spring and Autumn classics such as "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius". The improvement of productivity greatly shocked and left a deep impression on me, and I thought that the land equalization system would always be advanced in future generations.It is the best way to solve all problems in any era.

So at every turn they want to restore the ancient system and engage in equal-field production.It’s like a small-scale peasant economy, where each household guards tens of acres of land and is self-sufficient, which is the most perfect economic model.For example, Wang Mang, he followed this routine completely. The land was nationalized and trading was prohibited. All households in the world were completely equal and absolutely fair. Even if there was an extra acre, it would be distributed to the clan and neighbors.

However, the real elite among the literati and bureaucrats will always adapt to the situation and pass reforms one after another to promote the transformation of the system to a non-land system and allow the free circulation of land.Some people are allowed to go beyond the small-scale peasant economy, have extra energy, capital, and manpower to develop business.

Sun Ce only accelerated the process, presenting the final results of the reforms of the scholar-officials in the Song and Ming dynasties to Gu Yong, the current scholar-official.

Gu Yong compared and reflected for a while, still in shock, but he was quite convinced. He stood up and cupped his hands and said: "If the government equalizes the land and strictly distributes the acres of each household, it will definitely not be possible to make wild land. The general's method, I don't know Dare to say whether it is complete or not. But it does have unparalleled advantages in terms of resuming production, relocating people, and reclaiming new fields."

"I will inform the common people together with the chief officials, advise on farming and mulberry, and develop reclamation."

Sun Ce waved his hand proudly, and said: "I am sure that this matter will happen in the south of the Yangtze River. But today we are talking about the matter of mulberry, hemp and ramie. If there is no open land in Wu County, Mr. Gu would think that there are only tens of thousands of acres of mulberry fields, Is there more Ma Tian?"

Gu Yong's face was stern, and he asked directly: "What is the general's plan?"

Sun Ce smiled calmly, given so many policies of tolerance and convenience to the people under his rule, it is time to show the authority and strength of the government!

"I want to make a law that all people who have a hundred acres of land must plant ten acres of mulberry and hemp!"

Planting mulberry or hemp depends entirely on what the land is suitable for.

But this decree must be enforced.

This is a decree that has been implemented in all dynasties. Although Sun Ce promoted it in the same way, the purpose is completely different.

He promoted this article not to develop a self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy like other dynasties, but to provide material guarantee for large-scale handicraft production.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation, even before eating and drinking.

As long as the textile industry can be promoted from the family workshop to the professional production level in the south of the Song and Ming Dynasties, it will be able to overtake the north economically.

As for the large-scale industrial production of large textile workshops, once formed, it will simply crush the world's economy.It is said that if tens of millions of cloth are produced a year, and the cloth is used as currency, Sun Ce can also reap all the wealth in the north.

However, this idea is a bit far away. The current conditions for large-scale textile workshops are still lacking.Everything else is unsatisfactory except a large number of women workers and an abundance of production materials.

In fact, Sun Ce set his expectations very low, as long as the administrative order introduced can mobilize the production enthusiasm of the people in Wu County.Don't be passive and negligent, guarding the land of fish and rice, but worrying about food.

But he really underestimated the desire of the people of Zhuxia for the fields.

Especially those clients who have lost their fields!
In history, the Hakka people held together as clans, and retreated to the mountainous areas to cultivate together in order to avoid fierce battles with the local hosts.

Inspired by Sun Ce's Land Occupation Law, these clients began to enclose land everywhere in Wu County with the township party and clan as a group.

They are very powerful, often hundreds of people, enclosing tens of thousands of acres of land!As long as anyone enters the scope of their enclosure to cultivate, they will be dispatched in groups to confront each other.

This kind of thing will cause disputes every day, and then alarm the government.

In fact, this is entirely due to the customer's excessive desire to possess the land.The customer base is actually irrelevant.

However, in order to win the support of the chief officials, the client patriarchs have made bold statements that they are bound to cultivate all these hundreds of hectares of land within three years!Land registration can be registered from now on.In Tian Cao's account book, it is recorded now that these tens of thousands of acres of fertile land belong to their clients.After three years, they can be taxed according to the size of the land.

In order to create an established fact, they divided the land registration on the barren land with Xiaoli Tian Cao and his clan children on the spot.

The excessive greed of the Hakka people successfully angered the local tyrants.

They have manpower and material resources, so naturally they don't want to see the rich land being snatched away by these customers.

They organized tribes out of Wupu one after another, and began to reclaim the Taihu Plain with cattle on a large scale.

The Taihu Plain is thousands of miles wide, stretching as far as the eye can see, and extremely rich.

And the fields occupied by Dahaoqiang are as many as thousands of acres, and there is no edge at all at first glance, and there is no division of fields and ridges to waste.

When Sun Ce looked at this scene from the field, he was so shocked that he would never forget it!
Sun Ce seems to have seen the vast and boundless natural granary of the Eastern European Plain here.

But this is Wu County!It is the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River.

Comparing places like the Eastern European Plains with this place is too humiliating to this land of abundance.

The climate, water pattern, and land fertility here are completely only on the Eastern European Plain.It's just that Zhu Xia is reserved, hides and secretly makes a fortune, and doesn't brag about it.In terms of the granary, the population that can be raised here far exceeds that of the so-called European granary.Zhuxia boasted that Suhu was familiar, and when the world was full, there were still a group of barbarians there.

Even the level of civilization of the two sides in this world is vastly different!

The big tycoons no longer worry about fighting in troubled times, and finally walked out of Wubao and began to invest in production with all their strength.They disbanded the trilogy and forged the sword into a plow.Invest heavily in agricultural reclamation and technology development.

All kinds of agricultural tools that already exist, those small farmers’ families, and the customer’s family can’t imagine the convenience equipment, they are all equipped with the trilogy.

Later, it made every effort to promote cattle farming and popularize plows.

Strive to use the least number of people to cultivate the most fields.It is the innate instinct of every great nobleman and big capitalist.

The development of agricultural technology and the use of advanced equipment will always be more convenient for large families than for small farmers.

The effect of Sun Ce's policy implementation, among other things, at least when the late rice matures this year, the grain that can be harvested far exceeds that of Wu County, which was governed by the Han Dynasty before.Even if there is a drought next year, there will be more food for disaster relief, so that the disaster will not come and starve people will die everywhere.Even if the common people go to sell their sons and daughters, it is better to go and gnaw the bark and grass roots.At least food has changed from a question of whether there is food to a question of who has it and who has it.The question of availability is always easier than the question of how to distribute it.

This trend of occupying fields even reached Sun Ce's Wutong Garden.

In addition to official land, Sun Ce also has a large number of gardens, such as Wutong Garden and Deer Garden.

This kind of garden usually has an area of ​​tens of thousands of mu, including lakes, ponds, forests, hunting grounds and so on.

When there was a disaster in Guanzhong, the emperors of the Han Dynasty liked to open the royal gardens for refugees to cultivate. For example, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty often opened the Shanglin Garden to allow the people to go in for farming and even hunting.

Zhou Cheng also found Sun Ce who was busy here with his personal guards in Wutong Garden, and he couldn't laugh or cry: "Sun Lang, you have been bringing your personal guards to the outskirts of Wutong Garden these days. It turns out that you are not practicing riding and shooting, but planting seeds tree plant?"

Jiang Qin, who was digging a hole with his butt pouted, jumped up immediately when he heard the words, straightened up, with a look of pleading for help, and looked at Zhou Cheng with resentful eyes.

"Madam, hurry up and persuade the general!" He almost wailed, "Since I joined the general, I feel that I almost don't know what it means to lead troops to fight!"

Seeing Zhou Cheng's doubts, he was full of emotion, crying in a sad voice: "In the beginning, I was one of the four Sima who led the army under the general's command. Later, the general asked me to be in charge of raising horses. If you raise horses, you should raise horses." Well, at least it took up an iron horse among the golden and iron horses. But it didn’t take long to raise the horse, and it was completely out of touch with the golden and iron horse. Go organize spies and install embroidered clothes guards. But at any rate, it still occupies a commanding department Bar!"

"But now, now! The commander-in-chief is gone, and he is here to accompany the general to plant orange trees every day! Wuhui is not peaceful, and the soldiers are sent to Nanshan to plant trees here. What is this? "

After planting the orange tree in front of him, Sun Ce got up, handed the lei in his hand to the guard beside him, patted Jiang Qin on the back with a smile, and said, "You see, you don't read much, I'm giving you this in advance." You are not aware of the treatment of a Marquis of a Thousand Households."

"Qianhuhou?" Jiang Qin exclaimed in surprise: "How did planting oranges get involved with Qianhuhou? General, I don't study much, so don't lie to me!"

Sun Ce smiled and said, "Then ask Mrs. Zhou if I have lied to you."

Jiang Qin looked at Zhou Cheng hesitantly, could it be true?

Zhou Cheng smiled amiably and nodded: "The meaning of your general comes from Sima Gong's "Historical Records: Biography of Huozhi", Jiangling Qianshu Tangerine, and Qianhuhou."

Sun Ce patted him with a smile, and asked, "How about it, do you understand? A year's plan is nothing more than a valley; a ten-year plan is like trees. In the south of the Yangtze River, plant a thousand orange trees, and a thousand households will grow together." Wealth is equal. You count how much you grow yourself."

Don't say this is Sima Qian's scholarly imagination.

There are thousands of bells in the book, and the golden house in the book is by no means a lie.

If you want to make a fortune, the most convenient way is to learn the precious wealth left by the predecessors from books.

Li Heng, the minister of Soochow, is a loyal practitioner of Sima Gong's sentence.He used to be the prefect of Danyang in Soochow, and his official position was General Weiyuan. He wanted to manage the family wealth, but because his wife was strict, he secretly planted more than 1000 orange trees near his home and did not tell his son until his death. .

When the orange trees matured, the Li family became the most prosperous family in Soochow.After all, there are clear records of the wealth obtained by a thousand orange trees every year, which is worth thousands of pieces of silk.With thousands of bolts of silk obtained every year, which family can not be rich?

Therefore, the great writers of later generations generally like to persuade their friends who went south to become officials to plant more orange trees.

For example, "Going to Yue and passing through Wu, Wujiang is connected to Yue. There are many kinds of oranges in the garden, and lotuses will not grow without water."

And Su Shi, a foodie, is the most fanatical advocate of this matter. He has been lingering between eating citrus and growing citrus all his life.Once chanted with pride: "I hear the joy in oranges, and Shangshan will not be reduced!"

As a result, under his influence, the civil officials and scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty went to the south, and they all liked to promote orange planting under the rule.Two orange production centers in Dongting and Wenzhou have been formed.

Planting oranges and Weaver Girls is a unique climate in the south of the Yangtze River. Sun Ce naturally had to take advantage of it, and said with a smile: "The governance of Jiangnan must have a ten-year plan. Planting oranges and mulberries is the convenience of Jiangdong. The land in Wutong Garden and Luyuan will be plundered by the common people. It should be noted that soldiers and horses go before food and grass are used. Even your Jiang Qin's gold and iron horses must be supported by the rich resources of the Wu County treasury."

You need to know the so-called Lu family, the top aristocratic family in Jiangdong, and the story of Lu Ji pregnant with oranges.

When Lu Ji was six years old, he followed Lu Kang to visit Yuan Shu and hid three oranges in his bosom when he left.When leaving to say goodbye, three oranges tumbled to the ground.Yuan Shu laughed at him: "Why is Lu Lang still pregnant with oranges when he's a guest?"

Lu Ji knelt down and replied, "Because the oranges are too sweet, I want to take them home and give them to my mother to taste."

Jiangdong Qianshuju, Sun Ce not only hopes to obtain wealth comparable to Qianhuhou.I also hope that under the promotion of the new decree, agriculture and commerce will all develop, so that everyone will no longer be trapped in a piece of land, a piece of dock, equal poverty, people's livelihood is dying, and there is a lack of merchants, and the economy has no vitality like the previous Han Dynasty .

The so-called aristocratic family, because there are no orange trees in the family, and the business is not vigorous, even oranges are rare, so when you are a guest, you have to go home with three oranges.

What he hopes is that an ordinary family in Jiangdong can live beyond the so-called "noble family" of the Han Dynasty!
In the old days, Wang Xietang flew into the homes of ordinary people.

At that time, apart from gold and iron horses, conquer the world.In the hearts of the people, everyone must support Sun Ce with all their strength.If so, he will be the heart of the people!
The hearts of the people in the world will support his honor, so why do we need to replace the Han Dynasty with a deliberate idea like Cao Pi?
However, this idea only flashed in Sun Ce's mind, it was too far away, and it is meaningless to think about it now.

He turned to look at Zhou Cheng and asked, "Ma'am, how did you find this place?"

　Tell everyone a joke, free of charge.I just couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, and I found it very interesting.

　　History book friends, when many people mention Daming, their logical thinking ability is lost to Java.

　　Many people don't even know how to govern, and they are completely on the same level as Chongzhen.

　　That is to say, it is difficult to collect taxes in the Ming Dynasty.

　　I found that Ming Chuan is the well-deserved number one at the starting point. Many people want to dress up as emperors and prime ministers to solve this problem.

　　It shows that many people tend to get into a dead end.

　　Let's jump out and say that there was an ancient country, the court was corrupt, but the economy was prosperous, but it was difficult to collect taxes.The big family always tried to prevent the court from collecting taxes.

　　What should the court, the emperor, and the prime ministers do at this time?
　　ARefer to the advanced modern taxation system, establish a sound taxation agency, train professional tax officials, strictly examine the state's wealth, and design a reasonable tax distribution.

　　B sent a eunuch with hundreds of guards, the world is vast, and he didn't know to go to a certain city to blackmail wealthy households.Extorting 20 taels of silver a year is really impossible.

　　Chongzhen: B! B!I choose B!

　　Modern Emperor-wearing youth A: Stupid x Chongzhen, if you kill all the wealthy people in the southeast, won’t you be taxed?Kill all the nobles and officials in the capital, and you can collect taxes for a year.

　　Modern rebel youth B: That's right, even the eunuchs and Jin Yiwei can't collect taxes, and Daming is hopeless.The only way is to learn from Li Chuang, kill all the wealthy households, destroy the capital sprouts, and equalize the production

　　Q: What about when the economy recovers?It will be difficult to collect taxes
　　
　
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