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Chapter 1384: Take advantage of the void


I have to say that the Japanese people's ability to imitate is still very strong.

Originally, more than 200 years ago, the Wa Kingdom was still in the era of the islands being divided, and later the Japanese country unified the islands and established the Yamato Kingdom.

But the power of Yamato Province has always been in the hands of the minister, and the emperor is basically just a decoration.

Their social system is a system of slave owners, aristocrats, and private people, which is actually very backward.

The slave-owning aristocracy directly occupied large tracts of high-quality land, turning commoners into their own private tribesmen.

The Yamato Kingdom was divided into three classes: nobles, commoners, and tribesmen, and the tribesmen were actually slaves, and they were the people who were captured in the process of conquering the countries by the Yamato Kingdom.

These tribes were enslaved by the aristocracy and organized into different tribes according to the division of labor.

For example, the negative bow and arrow are used as guards.

The Soil Division and the Pottery Department provide pottery products.

It is responsible for the catering department, dolphin breeding department, horse feeding department, forging department, and bow cutting department of Gongyan miscellaneous affairs.

Fields and tribes cultivated in tuncang and grange.

The local sea department provides aquatic products, and the mountain department guards the mountain forest.

The Department of History, the Department of Tibet, etc., which are compiled by intellectuals from among the foreign diaspora.

Among them, the number of tabes who worked in the fields directly under the jurisdiction of the imperial family and the granges of the nobility engaged in production was the largest, and the people of the fields included three types: immigrants and conquered people were directly organized into fields; retained the original form of the rural commune and adopted the form of annual tribute to the members of the commune for exploitation; The field was made up of a private slave tribe dedicated to the local aristocracy.

The tribes are often named after the surnames of the nobles to which they belong, such as the Great Central Division, the Suga Division, and so on.

Tribesmen organizations are generally commanded by lower-level clan nobles, called companions, and positions can be hereditary.

Some nobles are not related to the tribesmen by blood, but they also claim to be clan lords and regard the tribesmen as clansmen.

For foreign tribesmen, the original internal structure is often retained, and the original chief is appointed as the companion, and some of the tribesmen are privately owned by the emperor or the imperial family, and they are called nasyo and subgens.

In the early days, there was a positive side to this system, which promoted social development.

But today, the system has changed.

The slave owners and aristocrats directly occupied the best land, turned the commoners into their own private people, and the land annexation, and even the conquest between the wealthy clans, also caused great social turmoil.

The Su I clan, who was in power in the DPRK, was also aware of the advanced system of his neighbor Datang, and under the persuasion of many Japanese who had sent envoys and studied in the Tang Dynasty, he decided to imitate the Tang Dynasty system, reform the Wa State, and wanted to establish a centralized system.

Su I's innovation is actually quite strong, comparable to the Tang Dynasty's Zhenguan New Deal.

The reforms of the Soga clan included changing the name of the era, moving the new capital, and announcing the new edict to the whole country.

The capital was moved to Namba, the most prosperous trading port, and the land and people were declared to be owned by the state, and all the people became citizens.

And imitate the Juntian system of the Tang Dynasty and implement the Bantian system.

Every six years, according to the number of people, the land is divided into three acres for men, two acres for women, and one acre for slaves, and these lands are to be returned to the state after death.

At the central level, he established a centralized system, imitating the Tang Dynasty in setting up central and local institutions and various official positions.

Specifically, the central government has set up two major institutions, the priest and the taizheng official, and the taizheng official has jurisdiction over eight provinces.

The Chief Minister-General is the Minister of the Minister-General.

At the local level, the administrative body is set up in Wugi and seven provinces, and each region is divided into states, and the lower country is the county, and the lower county is the li.

The hereditary system of official positions was abolished and conscription was introduced.

The intensity of the reform made Zhang Chao, who got the news, amazed.

This was a direct abolition of slavery and the full centralization of power.

The central government has two officials, eight provinces, and one bureau, and the local government system is the Wugi and seven county system, and the land system implements the bantian system, and the national conscription system is implemented.

However, Zhang Chao always felt that these widows were taking too big steps, and they would be pulled to the egg.

To put it simply, in the current Wa country, the Su clan is naturally in power, which is also the tradition of the Wa State, where the minister is in power, and the local nobles and powerful are in power.

If nothing else, the tribal people alone account for more than half of the population of the entire Wa Kingdom.

These people were the slaves of the royal family and the aristocracy, and they would easily release these slaves and let them become commoners In addition, the land is basically owned by the royal family and nobles, and they are willing to hand over the land to the imperial court Originally, the places were controlled by the nobles and the powerful, and the nobles and the powerful occupied the land, which was ostensibly owned by the state, but they only operated it on behalf of the nobles and signed the letter of appointment to become famous fields.

The owner of the famous field is the famous owner, so there is a small name and a big name.

The small lords were those who were wealthy peasants and small landowners, and the big lords were nobles and local tycoons.

In the past, the Monobe clan controlled the Imperial Court, and later the Soga clan defeated the Monobe clan to gain control of the court, and until now, they have been holding the power of the court for decades.

The Emperor is just a puppet of theirs.

Now the Su clan is willing to take the initiative to reform, on the one hand, there is a lot of pressure from the Tang Dynasty, and on the other hand, the local nobles are less and less likely to listen to the orders of the central court, which is his real motivation for reform, to put it bluntly, he just wants to seize power.

Although the Soga clan was the dictatorship of the minister, and it had not yet reached the point where the samurai class controlled the world in the later shogunate era, he really wanted to grasp the power more tightly through this reform.

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It's just that this reform has also touched the interests of too many people.

In real history, the Japanese reforms were carried out at a later time, when the reformists eliminated the Soga clan and installed a new emperor, and then carried out the reform in an all-round way, known as the Taika Reform.

And now, the Su I clan has actually taken the lead in reform, and I have to say that history sometimes makes people laugh.

But even if the largest landlords, the royal family and the Su I clan take the lead in reform, the nobles and powerful below may not be willing.

A few decades ago, the Monobe clan came to power and pursued a conservative policy.

The Soga clan had a broader vision and was bent on reform, but was blocked by the Monobe clan, and the two nobles went to war, and finally the Soga clan won.

The patriarch of the Soga clan, Soga Mako, established his niece as Emperor Suiko and actively implemented reforms.

Later, Prince Nintoku further proposed a reform plan, but the Soga clan was worried about harming the interests of the Soga family, so they killed Prince Shotoku and his son, the eldest brother of Yamaguchi, and set up another emperor.

But less than 20 years, now under the pressure of Datang and the instability of the local area, Suga Ezo was forced to take the lead in reform.

The local nobles and magnates are not satisfied with a letter of appointment from a great lord.

Reform means the loss of old interest groups, and there will inevitably be opposition.

However, Zhang Chao is very happy to see this change in the Wa Kingdom, and it is good for them to mess up.

In fact, the reform of the Japanese people imitated the Tang Dynasty everywhere, such as the Bantian system, which was the equalization system of the Tang Dynasty in the past, and even their Bantian farmers also had to bear the same rent, but the responsibility was heavier than that of the Datang.

For each section of the field, pay two bundles and two handfuls of rented rice.

The adjustment is also divided into field adjustment, household adjustment, and payment adjustment, and it is used for forced labor and substitute service, and the burden is very heavy.

Even if the tribesmen were slaves in the past, they can become citizens after Bantian, and their lives will not be better, on the contrary, the burden will be heavier.

This is somewhat similar to the tenant tribes in the estates of aristocratic landlords during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, who did not have to pay taxes to the imperial court and served in the imperial court, but only paid rent to the noble landlords for farming.

If it becomes a good citizen, although the land is divided and the land is granted, there are many rents and mediocrities.

Just like the average field in the Sui Dynasty, a man gave more land than a husband and a woman, but in comparison, the rent was less than the average.

As a result, many men in the Sui Dynasty would rather beat a bachelor than marry a wife, because the burden of marrying a wife is much heavier.

The land given by the wife is not as much as that of the man, but the rent and burden of a husband and a woman are much higher.

Iwami Ginzan.

Now that area is classified as a mountain of Goki and Seven Provinces, it belongs to Iwami Province of Iwaku.

There are eight provinces in the mountains, and in Iwami Province, there are six counties: Annon, Rima, Naga, Echi, Luzu, and Mino.

Iwami Ginzan is still only sporadically mined, and there is no large-scale mining, so it can be said that the local Japanese people did not discover the reserves here.

But Zhang Chao knew that in the Ming Dynasty, Iwami Silver Mountain reached one-third of the world's silver production at that time, which was quite amazing.

It doesn't matter if the Japanese don't know, he just knows.

There is also Besko Copper Mountain, which is on the island of Shikoku, which belongs to Nankaido Province and belongs to Iyo Province.

This copper mountain will not be discovered until a thousand years later, but his copper reserves are quite staggering, 650,000 tons of copper reserves.

The mine was mined for nearly three hundred years and accounted for one-third of the country's copper mining at the time of the Edo shogunate. 1.3 billion catties of copper reserves.

During the Ming and Qing dynasties in China, the annual copper imports to Japan were as high as one million catties, not counting the copper sold by Japan to the Netherlands and other countries, and their copper could reach millions of catties a year at its peak.

Besko Copper Mountain has high reserves, but there are still many in Iyo Daitong Mountain, and even many copper mountains are filled with gold and silver.

"Taking advantage of the imminent unrest in the Wa country, we happened to fish in troubled waters, and sent troops on the grounds of crusading against the rudeness of the Wa King, and then captured Iwami Silver Mountain and Besko Copper Mountain, anyway, both of these places are not far from the sea, and it is not a problem for us to send troops, especially Iyo's Besko Copper Mountain, which is located on Shikoku Island, and the Japanese people are not strong."

Zhang Chao is wishful thinking.

Attacking the Wa Kingdom, on the one hand, digging for gold and silver, and on the other hand, catching slaves.

The land of the Wa Kingdom is still very fertile, and the Wa people are relatively able to live, and it can be regarded as a long time of stability on the island, and the population is quite large.

The demand for copper, silver, and gold in the Central Plains is huge, and Zhang Chao does not have to worry about digging too much gold, silver, and copper, which will cause too much currency in the Central Plains, inflation or something.

Gold and silver are natural currencies.

This is much faster than porcelain burning, glass burning, perfume making, brewing wine, and sugar making.

"When are we leaving" Zhang Jing was already boiling with blood and thirst when he heard it.

"Don't worry, let's prepare first, gather two fleets, and prepare ordnance and supplies.

We have to wait for the approval of the court and the parliament to go to conquer the Japanese kingdom. ” With such a large silver mountain and copper mountain in front of him, Zhang Jing couldn't wait to capture Iwami Province and Iyo Province now.

"Dad, let's just secretly organize people and horses and act in the name of pirates."

Zhang Chao smiled.

"Don't worry, the silver mountain and copper mountain won't run.

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Besides, except for your father and me, no one else knows about those two silver and copper mountains now.

Let's report to the court normally first, I believe it can be passed. ” "What if it doesn't work" Zhang Jing was very anxious, and the two pieces of fat that were so big were in his mouth.

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