"Crazy! These are two crazy people!"

Li Gu was completely scared by Ye Hua's proposal... He has been in the center for a long time and has far surpassed ordinary people. After sorting out what Chai Rong and even Guo Wei have done over the years, Li Gu discovered a terrible clue... In the past few years, all kinds of actions seem to be being laid out, and everything is for today's goal!

The taxes of the people were abolished, and the taxes were distributed into the land taxes. The gentry paid the food together. The local people were devoured and the local people were appointed as officials. The local people had a clever name, exploited the power of the people, opened up channels for promotion of officials, and introduced martial artists to officials... This trick would be turned upside down and changed the days!

Being careful is definitely being careful!

Don't you know?

If you take out any one, you will be in chaos in the world and dare to throw it out together. Do you want to see if the Great Zhou Dynasty is destroyed?

Li Gu was stupid. He just wanted to ask, is there anything more exciting?

Ye Hua smiled and looked down at Mr. Li.

"How can you take such a responsibility for the great Zhou Dynasty? A little bit of small things will scare you silly. If you say something bigger, wouldn't you be scared to death!"

"What else do you want to do?" Li Gu asked in panic.

Ye Hua leaned over and leaned into Li Gu's ear and said only two words. Li Gu immediately shivered all over. Suddenly, tears flowed. He knelt down a few steps, and came to Chai Rong, kowtowed, and after a few strokes, his forehead became red and swollen.

Prince Li raised his head, his old face was covered with tears, which was so miserable!

"His Majesty!"

This sound was like a cuckoo crying blood, "It was not easy for the late emperor to build a foundation. In five years, he fought south and north and worked hard to govern, so that he could have the national power of the Great Zhou today. Now that his troops are sophisticated and food are enough, he can unify the country and create a foundation that will never be achieved in an era! Your Majesty, the old minister is brave enough, and I beg your master not to ruin the country of the Great Zhou because of a single thought! The king's field's proposal is absolutely not feasible! If Your Majesty insists on this, the old minister, the old minister is willing to kill him in the Golden Palace!"

Li Gu wiped his tears and said with his neck: "The old minister has been deeply grateful to the late emperor. He cannot watch the Great Zhou Dynasty fall. The old minister has no choice but to go to the nine springs first!"

He turned around suddenly, his eyes were spitting fire, and pointed his hand at Ye Hua!

"It's all you little treacherous minister! You encourage Your Majesty to do that kind of thing! I'm waiting for you in hell, but I want to watch you, being cut into pieces, being killed, being destroyed, being scolded for all ages... You, you are simply a monster of the chaotic country and a thief who deceives the Lord..."

Li Gu cursed desperately, and Ye Hua couldn't listen. "Mr. Li, what you said is not as thorough as Mr. Wang!"

"Mr. Wang? Someone said it?"

"That's right, it's Mr. Wang Pu." Ye Hua held a long letter in his hand, which was written by Wang Pu... When Chai Rong was in Hedong, Wang Pu stayed in Hedong as the governor.

The set of things discussed by Chai Rong and Ye Hua cannot speak vernacularly, and there must be a test field.

This glorious mission fell on Wang Pu...

Wang Pu was also scared by the successive reforms. It turned out that using a martial artist as a minor official was just the beginning of everything. The subsequent reforms were one after another, and each of them was terrifying.

Take the gentry as an example. After receiving it, Wang Pu felt it was absolutely unfeasible. If he forced it, it would only arouse opposition from scholars all over the world, and the Great Zhou Dynasty would be in chaos.

He wanted to write a letter to object, but he analyzed it again. Somewhere else might not work, but Hedong is different!

The war here just happened, and the original Han gentry and landlords had almost run away, and the Shatuo nobles were swept away. The rest was a piece of white paper.

Especially important, Ye Hua asked Zhang Yongde not to disperse the land.

Wang Pu finally understood Ye Hua's intentions. It turned out that this kid was preparing for today's reform, and he was really far-sighted!

The land is not scattered, so it's easy to deal with.

Wang Pu counted the land in the 12 Hedong prefectures. In the battle to wipe out the Northern Han Dynasty, there were more than a few thousand soldiers who made meritorious service. Some were promoted to high positions, some retired and went to the local area to be sting officials, and more people married their wives and urgently needed to settle down.

Wang Pu granted land to these meritorious soldiers according to his military merits.

The most people can get five thousand acres, and the lowest is one thousand acres.

Because Ye Hua has a requirement that less than one thousand acres will cause the land to be dispersed and become a small peasant economy... The most mortal thing about the small peasant economy is inefficiency. Think about it, if one thousand acres of land are all in the hands of one person, he will deduct food and drink and the remaining grain will definitely be traded without urging him.

One thousand acres were scattered to ten households, and every household got rid of the food rations, and the remaining one was limited. Some wanted to keep them, and some wanted to sell them... It was very likely that they had worn out all the soles of the shoe, and they couldn't even collect a pound of grain.

Wang Pu easily understood what Ye Hua meant. In fact, since the Qin and Han Dynasties, the court has attached importance to gentry and used aristocratic families to manage the local area, which is also due to the consideration of lowering costs and improving efficiency... However, after the gentry and landlords become bigger, they will overwhelm the court, invade the power of the court, and evolve into local emperors, and in turn, obstruct reforms and resist the implementation of government orders, which is not worth the loss.

Everything is a double-edged sword, and there will be gains and losses.

How to weigh the pros and cons?

Wang Pu remembered Ye Hua's "three benefits", and he gradually got an idea.

First of all, Wang Pu awarded the land to the meritorious soldiers and first created a group of landlords. However, these new landlords are different from traditional landlords. To be more precise, they are farmers!

I have only a large area of ​​land, and relying on my own hands, I can't cultivate even if I am exhausted.

If it is placed in the Central Plains, things will become very simple. They rent the land to tenant farmers, lie at home to collect the land rent, and can live a relaxed life.

But Hedong is not good, there is not so much labor here!

The first thing the farmer had to do was to buy slaves from the yamen of the politicians.

Zhang Yongde was happy to serve his former subordinates.

He scattered his men and horses, went to the grassland, captured slaves, and sold them to the farmers for valuation.

As for these farmers, they have no income for the time being and cannot pay for the purchase of slaves... Of course, they cannot leave the fields empty. At this time, Miss Fu San's money house played a role.

The money house pays for the slaves for the farmer, and the farmer uses future harvests as collateral.

This is a complete capitalized operation.

Many people think that capital-dominated farms are more advanced than the traditional landlord and tenant farming model. Perhaps this idea is correct, but in Hedong and in the most primitive farms, this is not the case at all!

The advantage of slaves over tenants is just easier to squeeze!

The land rent in the north is generally around 40%, and some of them will exceed 50%. Generally speaking, it is the landlord and the tenant farmers, half of each. The landlords get it for nothing, and the tenant farmers work hard but can only enjoy half of the harvest... It seems very unfair.

But in the farm mode, slaves worked every day except for basic food and had no rest!

Almost 90% of a slave's output belongs to the farmers!

In a nutshell, the farm model is to use more cruel squeezes to exchange for more commodities!

In terms of improving efficiency, it is indeed progress.

But from other perspectives, especially from slaves, it may not be!

Resist, escape, destruction... all kinds of situations continue to happen. In order to suppress the slaves' counterattack, the farmers needed the help of the court, and naturally, they accepted the tax request.

The so-called gentry's food collection is not a problem in Hedong.

Wang Pu also found a very interesting situation, because the main body of Hedong's grain levies is the farmers, who are more influential and understand more than ordinary people.

The difficulty of those clerks trying to make a clever name and exploit them will increase a lot.

Another policy - to spend the money and return to the public, becomes natural.

Farmers are willing to pay more money to avoid extortion from minor officials.

After these two items were continued, a very gratifying result was produced.

The annual income of the government increased greatly, and Wang Pu's hands became more money.

Mr. Wang is not a slave to the wealth, so who can’t spend money with money!

He first rectified the administration of officials, included all the minor officials and yamen runners at all levels in Hedong into the formal establishment, and gave them salary.

Wang Pu did this naturally, and he didn't even notice it immediately. What a great change! You should know that all dynasties have allowed clerks to exploit the people because of their weak financial capabilities and unable to afford huge personnel expenses.

For example, if a county is formally organized and officials who receive the court's salary may be just a few pitiful people. Others must rely on collecting various fire expenses and extortion to live, otherwise they will also go hungry.

Under such circumstances, officials and the people had many conflicts and serious confrontations. In order to appease the people's emotions, they regarded the yamen runners as untouchables. The so-called advocates for Youzaili, they became even worse than prostitutes!

Since he has become a pariah and has no way out and has some power in his hands, it is no surprise that what those yamen runners will do.

Therefore, in many operas, there are honest officials and corrupt officials, while almost without exception, Zaoli is all black-hearted scumbags who are greedy for money and profit.

There is no way, the environment is like this, you can't survive without scum!

Wang Pu was surprised to find that the new method brought too many unexpected benefits, and his former stubborn disease was easily solved. He wrote a memorial to Chai Rong and a letter to Ye Hua.

In the letter, Wang Pu was both happy and worried.

What I am happy about is the various changes in Hedong, but what I am worried about is whether these experiences can be maintained... After all, the situation in Hedong is too special, and he is not sure what will be like in the future. How many people will regard Hedong as a thorn in their eyes and a thorn in their flesh, and they want to get rid of it quickly!

Ye Hua handed the letter to Li Gu. Li Gu browsed quickly. He was stunned by the situation described above and could not believe it!

"This, is this true?"

Ye Hua chuckled and said, "Mr. Li, what we have to do is very difficult, but not that dangerous. Hedong is a good example. What you should think about is how to carry forward it!"

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