At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 76: The prosperous dynasty brought about by the land system

Xu Fan sneered and said: "Most of the land in Chu State is in the hands of the royal family and the nobles. The ordinary people are living in dire straits. All the interests of this country are occupied by the nobles. It is a country of the nobles. Why should the people want to be the country of the nobles? You have to sacrifice your own life. If you want the people to contribute, it is very simple. Just learn Qin’s policies and transfer military merits to the fields.”

Zhou Zhang and Chen Xiao could only smile bitterly. Although Chu State was the largest among the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, it was a pity that most of the land was owned by the royal family, big nobles, powerful merchants, and less than 30% of the land was occupied by farmers. Most of the people in Chu State were either tenants of the nobles or slaves.

It is not that Chu State did not carry out reforms. Wu Qi had already carried out reforms back then. Unfortunately, dozens of noble families were willing to accompany Wu Qi to death rather than reform. So far, Chu State's reforms have ended in vain.

The Chu State also became a clay-footed giant in the Warring States Period. During the Warring States Period, the Chu State was severely beaten by the Wu State in the early stage and by the Qin State in the middle and late stages. Its performance was completely inferior to its huge land area and population.

"Although Qin was called the violent Qin, it was able to win over the people of Qin by granting land for military merit. Many of the soldiers who destroyed the Chu state were people from Nanjun. They were real Chu people. people."

"The big nobles of Chu want to defend their land and have nothing to say against the Qin army, but ordinary people have no place to stand. Why do they want to defend Chu? The fall of Chu by Wang Jian has deep roots and no real reason. In your interests, why do the people of Chu State work for you? They may also hope that the Qin Army will win, so that they can also divide the land. Only by dividing the land to the people of Chu State, will they follow our rebel army and fight to the death with the Qin Army. "

Chen Gang even said: "When Qin attacked Chu, I did think about surrendering to Qin in order to divide the land."

Ji Bu also said awkwardly: "The fact that Chu State was able to calm down the war so quickly is related to Yingzheng's policy of dividing the land."

Ji Bu said indifferently: "Our family didn't have any land, but the Qin State occupied Jiujiang County and some of it was taken back by the Qin State."

The Qin State's annexation of the Chu State was extremely fierce. The Central Plains princes competed fiercely, and the reforms among them were also the most radical. The elimination of the aristocratic feudal system was the cleanest. Therefore, Qin State's annexation of these countries could quickly integrate them, and the war was only between Qin State and Chu State. The top leaders of the state replaced South Korea and the top leaders of the Wei state. On the economic basis, the three Jin and Guanzhong are mainly self-cultivated farmers.

The Chu State in the south is completely different. The Chu State has a large territory and abundant resources, and its strategic location is relatively good. It is not in an important position with fierce competition. It is large and has low competition. This allows the Chu State to survive in the fiercely competitive Warring States Period even if it does not need to be too radical. Reform can also improve national strength and defeat powerful enemies. There are still a large number of aristocratic feudal remnants in the country. It can be said that the Chu State is a small Zhou Dynasty.

The feudal system of the Chu State was completely incompatible with the feudal system of the Qin State. Such transformation was naturally intense. For this reason, the Qin State destroyed dozens of feudal lords of the Chu State and moved tens of thousands of nobles.

More than ten years ago, the First Emperor's policies were still reasonable. Although he violently wiped out the feudal lords of the Chu State, he also distributed the lands of these lords to the people of the Chu State. This was how Chu Land could be stabilized quickly. main reason.

Zhou Zhang said helplessly: "My lord, doing this can indeed contain the morale of the army and the people, but how can our rebel army survive?"

Xu Fan smiled and said: "Then our rebels must control more land. You also said that Chen County has 2300 million acres of land. Chen County only has 12 households. 200 acres of land for each household is enough."

Zhou Zhang said: "My lord is pushing the powerful nobles of Chu to Qin!"

Xu Fan smiled and said, "They surrendered to the Qin army. Will the Qin army accept it?"

Zhou Zhang and Chen Xiao could only smile bitterly. According to their understanding of the Qin State, the Qin army once again invaded Chen County. The first batch of people to die were those with more land. Nobles and powerful people who simply surrendered to the Qin State did not have this option. . The powerful nobles and the rebels stood together, which was also a characteristic of the late Qin Dynasty.

Xu Fan continued to explain to everyone: "Whoever can allocate land more rationally and let the limited land protect the interests of more people, that country can explode with stronger fighting power. Qin State has various institutional flaws. It can be said that He is cruel, you could say he is cold.

But the greatest thing about this system is that it opens up the channels of class, allowing slaves, common people, and nobles to all have the opportunity to become nobles. This is not found in other six countries, especially in a country like Chu where the world is famous. It is completely incomparable. These countries did not give slaves and civilians a way to rise. They were just a pool of desperate stagnant water.

As an old saying goes, benevolence and righteousness are not applied, but the offensive and defensive momentum is different.

In terms of the distribution system, the monarchs and ministers of the Qin Dynasty reformed the land distribution system and distributed the land belonging to the nobility to ordinary people, allowing them to become self-cultivated farmers. They also used the method of receiving titles for military merit to bridge the gap between the common people and the nobility. Through the passage, Qin weakened the power of the nobles and strengthened the power of the peasants, benefiting more people.

Compared with the Six Kingdoms, Qin State took care of the interests of most of its own farmers and was a benevolent and righteous party. However, the Six Kingdoms regime only represents the interests of a small number of nobles, and they are the ones who do not do justice. The Qin State's destruction of the Six Kingdoms can be said to be the victory of the peasants over the nobility, and the victory of the advanced land distribution system over the backward land distribution system. "

Xu Fan's words shattered everyone's views. The Qin State, which had always been violent towards Qin, was on the side of benevolence and righteousness. On the contrary, the Six Kingdoms of Guandong were on the side of ungrateful people. Zhou Zhang and Chen Xiao found it difficult to accept this, but Chen Gang and the others could understand it. The world was difficult, and it was not easy until the Chu State was destroyed.

Xu Fan, on the other hand, spoke directly, his eyes became brighter and brighter as he spoke, and he gained new insights.

He used to read history books only as historical stories, but he had never looked at the more than 2000 years of feudal history after Qin from the perspective of land benefit distribution.

Someone once said that the eyes of the people are sharp. This is not a perceptual thought, but a summary of history.

Among the more than 2000 years of feudal historical dynasties after Qin, the Han and Tang Dynasties were the two peak periods of our nation. From a materialist historical perspective, the reason why these two dynasties became the pinnacle of feudal dynasties is because of two The dynasty's land distribution system is more reasonable and more manpower can be organized to serve the dynasty.

Following the Qin system, the Han Dynasty had equalized the land since the founding of the country, and after 60 years of rest and recuperation, the country's power quickly recovered, and its martial virtues were abundant. It could suppress the powerful internally, and attack the Huns externally.

The military system of the Tang Dynasty was also based on the equalization of land. Therefore, the military power of the Tang army was extremely powerful. It could mobilize hundreds of thousands of troops for expeditions thousands of miles away. The Tang Dynasty was nine thousand miles west of Chang'an. The territory of the Han people expanded unprecedentedly.

This is the prosperous dynasty brought about by a fairer land system.

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