Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 541 Huang Zongxi ([-])
Three months later
The summer of the eighth year of Yan State 330 (548)
The Yan State Council was held on Penglai Island. Since the Han Dynasty respected the right, and Yan State was separated from the Han Dynasty, it also respected the right.

On the contrary, in the Central Plains, starting from the Jin Dynasty, it gradually became popular to respect the left, which was different from the Yan State.

Because Yan State respects the right, noble councilors or their representatives sit on the right side of the parliament hall, and civilian councilors or their representatives from various cities sit on the left side of the council hall.

These left and right are based on sitting north and facing south as a reference, that is, when a person/building faces the sun facing south, the right hand side is right, and the left hand side is left.

Therefore, the right side is west, and the left side is east, because the reference object faces south.

In the same way, at noon, when a person stands on the water of the Yangtze River and faces the sun in the south, the opposite of the river to the left is Jiangzuo, and the opposite to the river to the right is Jiangyou.

It's not because the map is upside down, it's just because the reference point faces south.

Looking at the representatives of the representatives participating in the parliament, Yan Ji whispered to the followers around him: "Whether it is the left seat or the right seat, they are all the ones we want to win over."

Because the nobles sit on the right, they are called the right, or the right, and the commoners/guilds sit on the left, so they are called the left, or left.

Since then, the Yan State Council has been divided into three parts, which are the [Grand Council] [Noble Council] [Public Council].

In the past few days, in the "Great Charter", Yan State has added a new article, recognizing the power of the common people's council. All affairs, large and small, must not only be reviewed by the noble guild, but also by the common people's council. (except noble succession, Jiuqing election, Yanjun election)

That is to say, it is recognized that the common people's parliament can also supervise the government of Yan State and share the supervisory power with the common people's parliament, but the right to vote and be elected is still firmly in the hands of the noble council. Yanjun and Jiuqing are still the same as before, only the nobles To elect and be elected.

The noisy parliament lasted for more than a month, and the final result was:
[-]. On the basis of the [-]-strong army, each city will expand its army and increase the production of weapons and equipment. All agricultural production must be prioritized for military operations. It is better to let the people starve to death than to increase the size and combat effectiveness of the parliamentary army.

[-]. After the Hou Jing rebels are eliminated, the land cap will be lifted throughout the entire Yan State. In areas where slaves have not yet been allowed to trade freely, population restrictions will also be relaxed, and land mergers will be allowed without restraint.

[-]. The original commercial taxation is retained, but if new commercial taxation is to be added in the future, it needs to be voted by the Great Council.

[-]. Abolish the official operation of salt and iron, and allow the private sector to freely operate the salt and iron industry.

[-]. Abolish the official operation of brothels and allow private brothels to operate, but the establishment of brothels needs to be reviewed by Yushitai and supervised by Shangshutai.

Sixth, loosen the control of Wushi powder, and allow Wushi powder to be freely manufactured, circulated, and traded among the people.

[-]. The ban on casinos is abolished and private casinos are allowed, but the opening of casinos needs to pass the review of Yushitai and be supervised by Shangshutai.

Eight,……

With so many reform measures, without compromising the privileges of the nobles, they also gave the guilds the power to exploit the common people.

In the past, only the nobles could exploit the common people, but now, the guilds can also exploit the common people openly.

The liberalization of various restrictions allows the people to freely bully the weak. The government no longer provides shelter for the weak among the people, and allows the strong among the people (guilds) to freely oppress the weak among the people (ordinary people).

Especially the liberalization of land annexation, although some areas allowed free land annexation in the past, but that was only a part of the area, but now it is spreading to the entire Yan Kingdom.

It is conceivable that in the not-too-distant future, countless people in the Yan Kingdom will lose their land passed down from generation to generation and become landless refugees.

Farmers who have lost their land can only be forced to become cheap labor for the guilds, creating more surplus value for the guilds, and the productivity of Yan will also develop rapidly.

However, in this process, countless people will live in the most extreme poverty, and the tragedy of family destruction will increase exponentially.

A big trend of "sheep cannibalizing people" is coming, and the human tragedy in Yan State will be even more cruel.

There is no such thing as quiet time and good luck, but there are countless people at the bottom of the Yan Kingdom carrying forward with heavy burdens.

People in later generations will only lament the good luck of Yan State, thinking that Yan State was lucky to be the first to enter the industrial age, but never think about those low-level people in Yan State whose families were ruined on the eve of the industrial age.

The most extreme squeezing brings the most extreme productivity improvement.

In the hundreds of years after the Magna Carta Movement, although the productivity continued to increase, the living standards of the people at the bottom of the Yan Kingdom were actually lower than before.

In the post-Han era, the people at the bottom ruled by the royal family at least had no worries about food and clothing, and even had extra wealth to go to the city for simple entertainment activities, injecting vitality into the urban development of Yan State.

In that era, the productivity of the Yan Kingdom/Wang Family was only a little higher than that of the Central Plains, but the living standards of the people at the bottom of the Wang Family far exceeded that of the Central Plains. The level has actually dropped to the same level as the people of the Central Plains!
However, since the nobles overthrew the autocratic monarch Wang Ting, the royal family has entered a new era of the Magna Carta, and the exploitation of the lower class people by the nobles is more cruel than the autocratic monarch.

And after the Great Council incident, the guilds also joined the feast, and they were even more greedy than the nobles of the Yan Kingdom, and they squeezed the bottom-level people to the limit.

Yan Ji can't predict what will happen hundreds of years later, he only knows that if he doesn't do this, the country of Yan will be ruined now, and there is no future.

In the same way, when Qin Xiaogong implemented the Shang Yang Reform, he would not think of what would happen 100 years later. For him, without the Shang Yang Reform, Qin would be finished now, but with the Shang Yang Reform, Qin would not be finished now at least. Even if it will be over in a hundred years, at least it will be countless times better than being over now.

If there is no present, there is no future. After winning, Qin State is qualified to talk about the future. If it loses, Qin State has been annexed by Wei State long ago, so there is no right to be rebelled by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang a hundred years later.

If a person does something, and the problems caused by this thing are exposed a hundred years later, it is not because the person is stupid, but because he has done this thing, he is qualified to be exposed in the future. If you don’t do this thing Things are already dead.

At the end of the meeting, Huang Zongxi, the representative of Chang'e City, became the first representative of the civilian council and was appointed as "General Suzaku".

(End of this chapter)