Chapter 292 - The Land Question (1) Luo Tianyuan is naturally talking about the land problem, you must know that Datang's current immigration strategy is not only for border troubles, but also a big killer for dealing with the family.
Ten years ago, the Turks attracted many people to the north to work as herdsmen, causing heavy losses to the family, and now it is ......
The South Seas are no better than the Turks, although the Turks are much larger than the South Seas in terms of the size of the territory, but in terms of fertility......
Even ten Turks are not as good as one Nanyang.
What is the Turkic place?
The land on the prairie is quite barren - the average soil thickness is less than 20 centimeters, such land cannot grow crops at all, only some tenacious pastures can survive, and such places can only be used for grazing.
But the South China Sea is different, the land here is extremely fertile, and it is an exaggeration to say that any handful of soil can be squeezed out of oil, which shows its fertility.
In particular, the humid and warm climate of the South Seas is more suitable for the cultivation of agricultural products, especially rice, which can even be harvested three times a year.
No one knows the meaning of this better than the people of Datang - what does this mean, this means that as long as Nanyang is in the bag, as long as Nanyang is developed, Datang will have an extra super huge granary, and the output of this granary can even support the entire Datang.
With Nanyang, even the people of Datang don't need to farm, and the state's relief grain alone can feed everyone.
This is naturally a great good thing for the people and the Tang Dynasty, but it is a great disaster for the families who control a large amount of land and black households (people who have no land and no naturalization).
With the land of Nanyang, it is naturally impossible for the imperial court to cultivate it in person, and it is bound to need a large number of people, and even in order to stimulate the people to go to Nanyang, Datang will definitely follow the policy of ten years ago and distribute land for free, how many people will be attracted to Nanyang?
Ten years ago, the imperial court's immigration policy shook the entire Tang Dynasty into fools, not only the people were dizzy by the pie falling from the sky, but the family was smashed to vomit blood.
Why did the family become a scourge of all dynasties?
In addition to the fact that they can control the imperial court through learning, the main reason is that the powerful families control a large amount of land and tenants, so that the imperial court does not dare to act rashly.
Thinking back then, the Han Dynasty was so strong, even at the end of the period, it still occupied an overwhelming advantage for foreign races - Guoheng was destroyed by weakness, and the Han Dynasty was destroyed by strength, this sentence is not just a slogan.
But the Great Han eventually perished, and why?
In the final analysis, it is still land annexation, a large amount of land has been swallowed up by the wealthy families, and the people have no land to plant, and there is no food to eat, and they can only be starved to death without food.
Of course, it is to rebel.
In fact, since the end of the Qin Dynasty, land annexation has always been the most important reason for the change of dynasty, including the Tang Dynasty, although the warlord melee led to the collapse of the dynasty at the end of the period, but land annexation is still the most important reason for the decline of the Tang Dynasty - why the Huangchao Uprising can set off such a big scene, in the final analysis, the people can not survive, in the case of only rebellion to fight for a way to live, naturally a large number of people support Huangchao, and the Huangchao Uprising can quickly sweep the world.
Before Li Zhen, it was not that people of insight saw the problem of land annexation, and the most suspected traverser Wang Mang was one of the representatives, he not only saw this hidden danger, but also wanted to change this problem through his own methods.
In Wang Mang's new policy, one of them is about land - the implementation of land state-owning: the state prohibits private sales of land, and strictly controls the amount of land owned, and the cultivated land of a family of less than eight shall not exceed 900 mu, and all more will be confiscated.
Restoration of the ancient well field system.
It is said that this policy is good, as the saying goes, there is no harm if there is no buying and selling, and the land is nationalized, and the people will naturally not be able to buy and sell land without the right to buy and sell land.
The people can't sell land, and the family naturally can't concentrate a large amount of land in their own hands, and it is impossible for the problem of land annexation to arise again.
But Wang Mang forgot that this move could indeed stabilize the state power, but it violated the interests of the scholar class - without land, how can we collect taxes?
How can we get rich without taxes?
Cutting off people's financial means is like killing your parents.
Since you're going to kill our parents, what else is there to say?
Let's get out of the way......
After all, Wang Mang was not in the right position, and he was too anxious, and after taking the throne, he did not carry out a major purge of the Liu royal family, but even when the position under the ass was not stable, he began to implement the new policy......
How could the Maison let go of such a good opportunity?
So he quickly supported Liu Xiu, the son of the plane, and Wang Mang, the traverser, to fight - and it turned out that although the traverser had the conditions of foresight, he was still a little worse in the face of the son of the plane who was favored by the plane, especially without the golden finger.
Needless to say, the new dynasty was overthrown, Wang Mang lost his trace (said that he died in the chaos, but no one saw his body, the real reason is probably that he did not complete the crossing task, was recalled by the crossing god or destroyed humanely), Liu Xiu won the world, and treated the family preferentially, but his move was tantamount to planting the seeds for the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
As a traverser, Li Zhen is different.
After he came to Datang, he had studied this period of history carefully for a period of time, and he was very familiar with this period of history.
I also saw the shortcomings of Wang Mang's land policy, that is, Wang Mang's vision was still a little too narrow, and he only noticed the domestic one-third of an acre, but did not turn his attention to foreign countries.
But Li Zhen is different, his approach is much smarter than Wang Mang.
He is not opposed to the family's land annexation (of course, he does not support it) - doesn't the family want to annex land?
It's okay, then you can just merge, I don't object.
But now that I don't object to your annexation of land, it's righteous enough, so you have no reason to object to my expansion of territory, right?
Then things will be easy to do, I have opened up a huge amount of fertile land here, and I have promised a family how much land to give away for nothing, attracting a huge number of people to farm, then you have no reason to stop - people are not your slaves, and they have not signed a deed of sale with you, and now they are not willing to do it with you, so why do you prevent others from coming to us?
Even if this matter is sued to the Imperial Court Criminal Department and Dali Temple, no one dares to sentence you to win, right?