Daqin started with offering immortal medicine

Therefore, from Yingzheng's point of view, the people of Great Qin are just the difference between more and less land in each family, and it is impossible to say that the people have no land.

Ying Zheng said: "Since the unification of the world, there have been hundreds of thousands of officers and men with military merits. In the later period, I was worried that continuing to award land would make the land insufficient, so I issued a new order for this purpose, replacing land with salary. Those who are not entrusted with the land will no longer be entrusted with the salary, which is called the annual salary. Why do the people still have no self-cultivation land?"

Li Yang smiled wryly: "Although His Majesty has reserved land for self-cultivation for all the people in the world, but..."

"Say what you have to say, I won't blame you." Ying Zheng knew that Li Yang must want to say something outrageous.

Li Yang nodded, and then said: "Your Majesty, have you forgotten that in the past ten years or so, people have continuously used people's power to build the Great Wall, Chi Road, Afang Palace, Lishan Tomb, etc., and millions of people have been requisitioned for labor. There is a serious shortage of labor force required for farming and production, so there is a situation where 'men don't have enough food for farming, and women don't have enough clothes for spinning'."

Hearing this, especially Ying Zheng who had heard the history of more than 2000 years later, he couldn't help but feel embarrassed, but he didn't blame Li Yang, but said puzzledly: "Although the corvee is heavy, I didn't ask them to hand over their self-cultivated land. !"

Li Yang sighed helplessly: "Although His Majesty didn't ask them to hand over the land, the people all over the world are serving in the military service and no one is farming, but they still have to pay the land tax. What should I do?"

Ying Zheng was stunned, looking at Li Yang, waiting for his next words.

At this time, Li Yang said to himself: "There are no chestnuts in the field, and the land tax has to be paid, so I have to sell the land for food. First, to pay the tax, and second, to use it for the survival of the old and weak women and Confucians at home. But I can buy it." The ones who started the fields were of course the upstarts who had stored grain, as well as those local tyrants. Therefore, in the past ten years, all the land of Qin State has slowly flowed into their hands."

Yes, after the unification of the Qin State, the real most worrying thing is the problem of enfeoffment upstarts becoming bigger.It's just that the Qin State was short-lived, and before it had time to discover this problem, Qin State was finished by Qin II, so this problem did not exist.

However, because of the appearance of Li Yang, the situation of the Qin State has been changed, so this issue will inevitably be put on the table and faced formally.

"So it is, so it is!"

Hearing this, Ying Zheng finally realized the crux of the problem.

Because in the Qin State, those who have made military meritorious titles can be exempted from corvee service, so when civilians are in corvée service, they can still be busy with farming and have surplus food for their families.In this way, when the common people could not survive because they did not have young and strong laborers to farm, they had to sell their land cheaply to these upstarts and gentry.

At this time, Li Yang went on to say: "In today's state of Qin, the country above is poor, and the people below are suffering. Only the upstarts and gentry in the middle are as rich as the enemy, and all the money and food of a country are held in their hands. This time the people are famine, The country is unable to recover from the disaster, but only relying on more than a hundred merchants can solve the millions of disaster victims in the world. It can be seen that the local tyrants and gentry are rich. If this continues, not to mention the prosperity and power of the country, just another famine, and the people will live again. It is impossible to rebel again. Your Majesty, this problem is already very serious, and preparations must be made early."

At this moment, Ying Zheng also realized the seriousness of the problem.

To put it bluntly, this is in danger of perishing Qin.

"This is a difficult disease caused by the implementation of the Qin State's policies over the years, and I am afraid it will be difficult to solve it for a while." Ying Zheng pondered for a while, and then said: "Do you have a solution?"

Li Yang said: "There is no good way, only strong medicine for serious illness!"

"What kind of medicine?" Ying Zheng asked.

Li Yang stretched out four fingers: "Land reform!"

"Land reform?" Ying Zheng was taken aback.

Li Yang nodded: "Exactly, if you want to prosper, you must first solve food and clothing, and if you want to solve food and clothing, you must land reform!"

Chapter 196 Land Contract System

Li Yang did not make alarmist remarks. The land annexation of the Qin State has seriously hindered the development of the Great Qin Empire, and even threatened the rise and fall of the Great Qin Empire.

Hundreds of thousands of upstarts have annexed most of Qin's land in the past ten years, making the whole country poor and poor.

Although the land tax is still collected by the state, the people do not have enough to eat. Once there is a famine like this year, the land tax received by the state is not enough to support the victims.

If things go on like this, there are only two ways for the Qin State. One is to ensure social stability. It can only use the money and food from the treasury every year to improve people's livelihood and solve the food and clothing of the people. The result is that the treasury is empty and unable to do anything. Such a country has been weak for a long time, and it is estimated that the Xiongnu can destroy Daqin.

The other is to ignore the hunger of the people in the world. If they rebel, they will be suppressed by force, but this will destroy the Qin State faster.In the Qin State in history, it was because of the outbreak of a large-scale peasant uprising that the Great Qin Empire collapsed.

Therefore, the current people of Qin State urgently need to recuperate.

However, the Qin State has nearly 2000 million people, but the land is in the hands of hundreds of thousands of upstarts. Even if the world is given ten years to recuperate, the people in the world will still be miserable and the people will not be able to live.

Therefore, only through the land reform, so that the people all over the world have self-cultivated land, can Daqin have hope.

"How to reform the land? Redistribute it?" Ying Zheng frowned.

Li Yang shook his head and said: "It can't just be redistributed, because after redistribution, the poor people's land will still be annexed by local tyrants in a few years, it is not a long-term solution."

"Then how do you plan to reform the land?" Ying Zheng asked doubtfully.

"Just eight words, nationalized, land contracted!" Li Yang said forcefully.

"Nationalized, land contracted?" Ying Zheng frowned.

Li Yang nodded: "That's right, the land reform policy I mentioned means that the land will be nationalized, and then distributed equally according to the population of each household, and the land contract will be implemented. Your Majesty, if the land belongs to the state, the common people will The state contracts the land for farming, and they only have the right to use it, not the ownership, so they can’t buy and sell it privately, so that we can completely prevent land mergers and completely solve the problem of food and clothing.”

When Ying Zheng heard this, his eyes lit up, and he said happily: "You are still smart. This land reform policy can indeed be done once and for all. It can permanently guarantee that everyone has self-cultivated land. Even as long as the country continues this land policy, there will be no land in 1000 years. Any land acquisition issues arise. Good, very good!"

Li Yang smiled: "Actually, this is not something I came up with, but the new China of later generations, which implements this kind of land contract system, which directly solves the problem of land annexation for thousands of years."

Upon hearing this, Yingzheng suddenly said: "Oh, since this land reform policy has been verified in later generations, it is even better. My Great Qin will use this land system to carry out land reform!"

Although Li Yang was very happy that the land reform policy was recognized by Ying Zheng, he was worried.

Because the land reform policy is to be implemented, it is tantamount to directly attacking the gentry and upstarts of Daqin, completely harming their interests, which is very fatal.

The reason why Shang Yang in history fell to a bad end was actually because he offended the nobles of the gentry and harmed their interests, so when Qin Xiaogong died, Shang Yang ushered in a catastrophe.

Therefore, for Li Yang, this land reform is like Shang Yang's reform, a reform that directly damages interest groups, and this reform will definitely push him to the forefront.

The reason why no one objected to the new laws in the past, which reduced corvee labor, was that these reforms would not affect the interests of the gentry, but instead benefited them.

For example, the corvee is light. In the past, the corvee was too heavy for the common people, and the labor force was in short supply. The land of the upstart nobles could not find tenant farmers to cultivate it.Although the land of the nouveau riche was not cultivated, they still had to pay land taxes every year, so the corvee was too heavy, which directly damaged the interests of the nouveau riche, the landlord class.Therefore, Li Yang's policy of light corvee is not so much to let the people recuperate, but rather to benefit the upstarts of the gentry, and they all agree with it.

Today's land reform policy is completely the opposite. Not only do the upstart nobles want to nationalize the acquired land, but even the land they acquired through meritorious service must also be nationalized, redistributed, and changed to a contract system.If they didn't resist this kind of change that seriously damaged their interests, Li Yang wouldn't believe it even if he killed him.

Ying Zheng seemed to see Li Yang's worry, and said, "Are you worried that someone will resist the land reform?"

Li Yang nodded: "Yes, the land reform has directly harmed the interests of the nouveau riche and other landlord classes, and it is bound to arouse their resistance! And more importantly, if you offend them in this way, I am afraid..."

Ying Zheng snorted coldly and said, "With my backing, what are you afraid of? Who dares to disobey my orders!"

Li Yang rolled his eyes: "What I'm afraid of is not that the land reform policy cannot be implemented."

Ying Zheng was stunned, and asked in surprise, "Then what are you afraid of?"

Li Yang spread his hands, with a shameless look on his face: "In case I become the second Shang Yang, thank you!"

Ying Zheng has black lines on his face...

I thought that a person who can say the words "establish a heart for the world, establish a life for the people, inherit the knowledge for the past, and create peace for the eternal world" is such a fearless person, and a true person with such a noble character. gentleman.

However, now it seems...

I was thinking too much!

This guy, what a gentleman, he is clearly a real villain.

Ying Zheng was also drunk from time to time, and snorted coldly: "I have never seen such a timid person like you. Land reform must be implemented, and you have to do it if you don't do it. If you don't help me to offend others, can you let me Are you going to offend someone yourself?"