Since Cao Chong came to consult Cao Cao, he was naturally prepared, and soon, Cao Chong took out a thick stack of Zuo Bo paper in his sleeve.
Seeing this thick stack of Zuobo paper with dense characters written on it, Cao Cao frowned and asked, "What is this?"
Cao Chong smiled lightly and said, "Father will understand after reading it. ” Boss Cao glanced at Cao Chong, but did not continue to ask, but took the thick stack of Zuo Bo paper from Cao Chong's hand and put it on the table to look at it carefully.
At first glance, the expression on Cao Cao's face didn't change much, but when he looked at it more, his brows furrowed tightly.
"That's what you're asking."
Cao Chong nodded and said, "That's exactly what happened." ” Cao Cao put down the Zuo Bo paper, he had already looked through some of it, and he generally knew what was written on the Zuo Bo paper that Cao Chong handed over.
The main owners of these Zuo Bo papers are all from the Cao family and the Xiahou family, and the content of the writing is the issue of these people occupying land.
"The clan generals have made great achievements and occupied some land, which is nothing."
It's not a big deal to take up a little bit of land, but if it does, it's too much The actions of these clansmen are actually land annexations.
One thing that needs to be understood is why the prosperity of all dynasties occurred at the beginning of the dynasty, and not at the end of the dynasty There are four reasons for this.
The first point is that the decadence of the royal family is a natural trend.
Regardless of his background, the emperor who started a business needed to have excellent political and military abilities, "be sophisticated and understand the social situation", and "not be fooled".
Later generations, especially the emperors after the stability of the dynasty, due to the needs of the political system, grew up more in the deep palace, "why not eat minced meat" situation is more common, the understanding of society and politics is too flat and lacks experience, which also leads to the lack of creative ability of the emperors in the early days of the dynasty.
Therefore, it is unlikely that the prosperous era will occur in the later dynasties.
The second point is population growth.
Taking the prosperous Kangqian era as an example, the population of Kangxi was only 27 million in the 60th year, less than 30 years later, in the 14th year of Qianlong, it had surged to 17.7 billion, ten years later, 19.4 billion, and in the later period of the prosperous era, in the 48th year of Qianlong, it was 28.4 billion.
That's more than 10 times the increase.
It can be seen that the population growth during the early heyday of the dynasty was actually a huge burden carried by the dynasty in the middle and later periods.
Faced with a situation where everyone opens their mouths to eat, it is indeed not easy to keep it.
The development of productive forces during the heyday usually does not match the surge of population during the period, and the per capita production capacity gradually decreases with the increase of population.
The third point is that in the later period of the dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the central army plummeted, which was true of the Han, Tang, Ming, and Qing dynasties.
Fourth, it is land annexation.
Cao Chong knew the disadvantages of land annexation.
Cao Chong knew the disadvantages and consequences of land annexation, but the generals with meritorious relatives were the foundation of the Wei State, and it was a little difficult for Cao Cao to move, let alone him, the crown prince In order to eliminate the hidden danger in advance, Cao Chong took a deep breath and said: "It is natural for the clan relatives to occupy some land, but if the land they occupy is a little bit more, what will happen?"
"This" Cao Cao was stunned for a moment, and after thinking for a while, he immediately said: "No, Lone can issue a decree." ” Cao Chong shook his head and said: "The order is only useful when the father is alive, and after thousands of years, who will obey the father's order."
Although Cao Chong's words are ugly, this is indeed the truth.
"Even if you give the clan a little land, the clan relatives are their own family."
Hearing Cao Cao's words, Cao Chong knew that Boss Cao still didn't know the disadvantages of land annexation.
From this point of view, Zhu Yuanzhang in later generations is really a ruthless person, and Boss Cao, who was born in the aristocracy, is still inferior to Zhu Chongba in some aspects. call Taking a deep breath, Cao Chong's words were also spoken.
"Father, suppose the son is a pavilion marquis, a hundred households, hereditary.
That is to say, there are 100 peasant families in Erchen who farm and support my family, and there is no end to the number of children and grandchildren.
In the case that the sons did not make mistakes and were not exterminated by the nine clans, the fiefs of the sons will become bigger and bigger, and the sons of the sons of the family in order to develop, there are some peasants who are hard, as the children of the sons of the fiefs, they must find the sons and daughters if they have difficulties, for example, they have a few more children here, and they can't afford to raise them, so they want the sons to do well and buy a few.
If you get sick again, you have to sell your land, so in the end, you have no land, and you will work all your life to pay off your debts. ” After saying this, Cao Chong paused and secretly glanced at Boss Cao's expression.
Boss Cao's face didn't change much, but he was thinking deeply.
If this situation continues for some time, in most areas, most of the farmers who farm the land will be slaves of landlords like Erchen.
Because they don't have to worry about natural disasters, they don't have to worry about future generations getting sick if they don't have enough to eat and wear.
And the peasants farm the land, and it is estimated that half of it does not belong to themselves.
In this way, the state collects less and less taxes, many farmers have no land to plant, and when natural disasters come, there will be more displaced people, but these sons and ministers have no effect on the nobles. ” When Cao Chong said this, Cao Cao's face changed slightly.
Seeing that the fire was not enough, Cao Chong continued: "When the exiles were zàofǎn, the nobles would use their stockpiled grain and grass to gather soldiers and horses, take their heads to make war exploits, obtain larger fiefs, and if they were not careful, they could also use the peasants' zàofǎn to become emperors, such as Emperor Gaozu. ” After Cao Chong finished saying this, Boss Cao's face was very gloomy.
"But after all, they are clan relatives and their own people."
"The so-called clan relatives, if the father is old, the son is old, and the son of the son is also old, the father thinks that the descendants of those clan relatives still have much to do with the third generation of the successor of the father, or is it not his own person, does the father want to see the rebellion of the eight kings during the Jing Emperor period again?"
The main bearers of tax revenue in the Great Wei Dynasty were yeoman farmers.
Clan relatives generally have a complex network of relationships, and there is enough money to form gangs, and tax evasion is simply commonplace.
At the same time, in this case, the society ruled by man is even darker, the protection of officials and officials is extremely common, and officials and clan relatives are often two sides of the same coin.
Then the clansmen who have become big landlords can seize the land of the yeoman farmers by any means.
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The yeoman farmers were lucky, but they were forced to sell their land to the landlord after "being poor due to illness" and "their children and grandchildren were not talented"; More often than not, however, the landlords turned into landlords to force peasants to take out loans, violently seized farmland, embezzled acres of land from the army, and colluded with grain merchants to speculate in the market to force peasants to go bankrupt.
As a result, there are fewer and fewer yeoman farmers, and taxes, labor, and military service cannot be sustained.
At the same time, tenants are often physically dependent on the landlords, and the landlords can be said to have mastered the lives of the tenants, and the landlord class will certainly exploit the tenants more and more ruthlessly.
The clan landlords ate the flesh and blood at both ends in the middle, eating the tenants on the one hand, and the country on the other.
Once a natural disaster occurs, a large number of farmers even "starve to death" has become a luxury. is about to starve to death, so he can only take a risk, raise his arms and shout, "The prince will have a kind of Xiangning".
The Great Wei Dynasty was destroyed.
After Cao Chong's words were finished, the black clouds on Cao Cao's face piled up even more.
It wasn't until the end that a sentence came out of the corner of Boss Cao's mouth.
"Since the consequences are so serious, but these people, I'm afraid it will be very difficult to deal with."
All of a sudden, Boss Cao actually threw the problem back again.
Cao Chong had a feeling of crying and laughing
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