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

Chapter 85 Changjiong Official Records ([-])
Changan
Weiyang Palace

"This "Cultural Policy" is interesting, Professor Wang Changjiong of Taixue? Is it the royal family of Liaodong again?"

Today, when the emperor was checking the letters of the ministers, after reading one of the letters called "Garn Tian Ce", he admired it very much. When he saw that the signature was Wang Changjiong, he couldn't help but sigh how many talented people there are in the Wang family of Liaodong.

Every year, the ministers can propose various good policies for governing the country to the emperor. Even if the emperor does not use it, there will be no punishment. Once the emperor uses it, the proposer can be promoted to a noble.

This is also one of the ways for civil servants to be promoted. Although their promotion speed is not as fast as that of military exploits, the advantage is that they are safe and their lives will not be in danger.

This year, Wang Changjiong proposed the "Target Policy" to the emperor, which is a policy that will not offend the powerful, but can also please the emperor.

"Tun Tian Policy"

"Nowadays there are millions of refugees in the counties of the Kanto region, and they have been supported by them. The cost is insignificant. After a while, the refugees have recovered, because they have no land. Let the refugees from the Kanto go to Heshuo, Hexi, and Liaodong, so that they can cultivate themselves and give them the fields. , the exiles will have no return, and the new land will be solidified."

Due to the limited content that can be written on the bamboo slips, Wang Changjiong's "Tuntian Policy" only writes here, and more specific questions have to be asked in person after the emperor summons.

The basic content is that the flooding of the river these years has led to the emergence of refugees in many counties and counties in the Kanto region, as many as millions. In the past, the imperial court gave these refugees a little rations to prevent them from starving to death, lest they learn from Chen Sheng and Wu Guang. , but this is only a temporary solution, not the root cause. When the government's finances are tight and the relief efforts are reduced, these refugees who have been appeased will make trouble again. The root cause is that they have no land. It is better to move them to the newly opened Heshuo area, Hexi areas, as well as the sparsely populated Liaodong area, there are many unowned wastelands in these areas, but no one has cultivated them. Let these refugees go to these areas to reclaim farmland. The farmland they reclaimed is their own. This can completely solve the problem of refugees. It can also stabilize these new territories of the Han Dynasty.

"Okay! This "Cultural Policy" is very good, come here, quickly call this Taixue professor Wang Changjiong into the palace, I want to ask in detail about the policy of garrisoning the land." Emperor Liu Che had always been troubled by the problem of refugees, since he came to the throne , the Yellow River kept flooding, as if he had a grudge against him, which made him have to spend a lot of money every year on disaster relief, and now there is a solution once and for all.

After reading Wang Changjiong's "Target Policy", which can benefit the people of the country and will not harm the interests of the powerful gentry, Emperor Liu Che continued to look at the good policies for governing the country written by other officials.

Most of it is nonsense.

For example, someone proposed to abolish counties and counties, restore the state, and let the princes and kings defend the Han Dynasty, so that the court would not need to spend money to recruit troops.

Some people proposed to restore the peace with the Huns and recuperate so that the people can breathe.

Others proposed to cancel various taxes and not compete with the people for profit.

Regarding these proposals, Liu Che sneered, dismissed them, looked at them a lot, and finally saw something he wanted to see.

"Salt and Iron Policy", Sang Hongyang.

The basic content of it is that salt and iron are important weapons of the country. Almost everyone eats salt, and those who want to rebel must have iron. But now, such important weapons of the country are controlled by the princes and powerful people. If they use the salt and iron industry they control to develop their own private soldiers, threaten or even rebel against the imperial court, it will be very detrimental to the country, and salt and iron are all profitable industries, so they should be controlled by the imperial court and increase the income for the imperial court. Revenue.Therefore, the imperial court should immediately send out visitors again to investigate the salt and iron industry in the counties and counties of the world, and take the salt and iron industry of the princes and tycoons into state-owned official camps. Reduce their resistance, and after taking over their salt and iron industry, they can be appropriately promoted to rank, which can be regarded as compensation for them.

Emperor Liu Che had such an idea a long time ago, but he never had a clue. Sang Hongyang briefly raised it a few times before, but at that time he was busy fighting the Xiongnu, so he had no time to care about it. Trembling, Sang Hongyang once again proposed the Yantie official camp, and he decided to take it seriously.

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"Your Majesty, Wang Changjiong, I greet you!"

Wang Changjiong, a professor of Taixue, received news from the eunuch that his "Garn Field Policy" was favored by the emperor, and he was asked to enter the palace to discuss it with the emperor in detail.

"Sit down." The emperor smiled and asked Wang Changjiong to sit on the soft seat that had been prepared.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

Wang Changjiong thanked him again, then knelt down facing the emperor.

"Your Wang family is really amazing. A Wang Changzhi has made great achievements in battle. You, Wang Changjiong, can come up with such a good strategy for governing the country. You also have Wang Changyu, who is also a fierce general who charges into battle, and you have a genius Wang Changye." Emperor Liu Che First, get closer.

"I'm just doing my duty." Wang Changjiong looked at people's words. In the past, facing a greedy prime minister like Tian Fu, he naturally proposed the policy of "Huaishang Relief Cao" to suck the blood of the people, so as to please Tian Fu. Now Facing the tough emperor Liu Che, naturally he could only come up with a policy that would benefit the country and the people like "Garrison Policy".

Wang Changjiong has many good strategies for governing the country, and many evil strategies for harming the people, but these strategies cannot be mentioned indiscriminately.

For example, in the past, if Tian Fu put forward the "Tuntian Policy" in front of Tian Fu, Tian Fu didn't even bother to talk to you, and he would completely neglect you and prevent you from being promoted for a lifetime, then the loss outweighs the gain. Another example is the "Salt Iron Policy" now , although Emperor Liu Che also likes it, but it will offend the gentry, so there are many strategies, but facing different people and different situations, there are not many that can be proposed.

There have always been talents. If the superiors are greedy, the talents will harm the country and the people. If the superiors care about the world, the talents will benefit the country and the people.

Talent is like water, if properly guided, it can irrigate thousands of farmlands, but if not properly guided, it will become a disaster.

As for his addition of Liaodong to the direction of farming, it was out of selfishness for the family that he let the refugees go to Liaodong to reclaim land, and all the powerful gentry in Liaodong, including the Wang family, could benefit from it.

Because after the refugees have worked hard to reclaim the land, they will find an opportunity to annex the reclaimed land at a low price, and get something for nothing, how beautiful it is.

"Then what do you think, how should the tenants of the farmland be collected?" After some inquiries, the emperor got many answers he wanted.

"It is extremely difficult to cultivate the farmland in the first three years, so the first three years of farmland should be exempted from renting, exempting corvee, and exempting taxes. From the fourth year onwards, those who voluntarily undertake corvee will only be charged [-]% of the rent by the imperial court, and they will not be willing to undertake corvee. Or, the imperial court charged them [-]% of the rent.” Wang Changjiong said slowly, [-]% would be the same as what the powerful gentry would charge, and it was very reasonable.

After all, if the harvest is too little, the tenant farmers of powerful gentry families flee from famine to serve as farmers for the imperial court. As the proposer of "Garning the Field Policy", he, Wang Changjiong, may be hated by the gentry.

(End of this chapter)