Chapter 2017 Zhuang He’s incident, the law of lending orders
Guanzhong.
Li Yuan's manor.
Li Yuan tilted his head slightly, looked at the steward, and said, "But if you have any ideas, you might as well speak up..."
The steward laughed a few times in apology, then stretched out his hand and pointed in one direction and said, "My lord, do you know where this place used to be?"
"Huh?" Li Yuan raised his eyebrows, a little impatient. He was already unhappy when he saw Zhuang He in the manor in such a situation. Isn't he still interested in following the riddle?
The steward noticed Li Yuan's impatience and did not dare to continue to make excuses. He immediately said: "This is the Xue family's field..."
"Which Xue family? Oh..." Li Yuan was stunned for a moment, then realized, "Is it the Xue family?"
"Exactly... Now there is no one in charge in the Xue family. This land... Haha, naturally there is a lack of care..." The steward nodded and bowed, "Now that the current situation is abnormal, this land of the Xue family is even more... Haha, so
, if we can take advantage of this good opportunity... then our Zhuangzi can expand to the other side of the mountain..."
"Hiss... Xue family..." Li Yuan frowned, looked into the distance, and after pondering for a while, shook his head, "Don't touch that place... Don't ask why, anyway, you just like your Zhuangzi!"
Also, don’t use food and grass to lend money..."
"Uh? This..." The steward's eyes widened.
When can grain be sold at a high price, even at the price of gold? Is it during a good harvest? On the contrary, it is during a disaster year or even a major disaster.
So who has the most food? Is it the farmer who works every day without a day off? No, it is the manor owner who exploits a large amount of food and grass every year. And these food and grass, which are not expensive on weekdays, are not very expensive during disasters.
When it comes, you can take out the wheat and millet that have been pressed into the warehouse and will rot if left for another two years, and replace it with everything that can be exchanged, including cloth, brocade, gold and silver, and even more land and human lives.
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So the manor manager saw that Zhuang He in the manor was seriously affected by the disaster, but it was not as sad and nervous as ordinary people's homes. This was the reason why.
Because the steward knows that any such natural disaster is the prelude to a feast...
However, now that Li Yuan said that no loans were allowed, after hearing this, the manager really wanted to pull open Li Yuan's head to see if it was blocked by some dirt, and he actually wanted to give up this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
"Your Majesty..." The steward clicked his tongue, "This Xue family... I can understand it even if I am young, to a certain extent... but this matter of lending... another village..."
Li Yuan waved his hand and said, "Don't worry about other people's affairs. Just do your own thing! Also, build this shed in the village as soon as possible. Don't stare outside all day long and forget about the things inside! Can you?"
Do it? If you can’t do it well, let’s find someone else to do it!』
"Wei! I will definitely do it well! Lord, please rest assured!" the steward responded repeatedly.
Li Yuan pulled out another wheat seedling and looked at the roots of the wheat seedling with a frown, "If this Zhuang He dies, don't worry about replanting it. Wait until someone comes to inform you before replanting... The style of the shed, first
Send someone to the Cavalry General to watch and learn..."
Li Yuan explained a lot and then left, leaving the manor steward who was a little confused.
So confused.
If he hadn't been afraid that Li Yuan would go crazy and change his position, he would have really wanted to open Li Yuan's head and look through it to see if it was as rotten as Zhuang He in the field...
Isn’t there anyone who doesn’t take the opportunity to make a fortune during a natural disaster?
So what are they doing with the food and grass they have worked so hard to save every year?
You know, if we lend money at this time, most farmers will not be able to repay it. After all, it is a disaster year, so the "good people" everywhere will not even force farmers to repay the loan immediately, and they can even laugh at it.
Hehe said that as long as the interest is repaid first, he can continue to make another loan. After all, the court must be stable, right? After collecting the interest first, the capital will be returned, and then the interest will be compounded after another loan, until the amount is enough.
When it's big enough, you can pick it up at your door...
By the time……
Isn’t that wonderful?
What a great field! The manor steward stood blankly, looking at the Xue family's fields in the distance and the ordinary farmers' fields further away. He made two grunts in his throat and sighed.
With such a master in the stall, could it be that the Li family is on the verge of reaching a dead end?
These fields would have been ours! They all belong to the Li family!
Just like the Great Han Ming Kingdom in later generations believed that everything in the world belonged to them, under the influence of the ideas of small-scale peasant economy, these nobles of the Han Dynasty also believed that the land in the world was the best and originally belonged to them.
China developed from the dynasties of ancient times, Xia, Shang and Zhou, right?
"Under the sky, could it be the king's land; on the shore of the land, could it be the king's ministers." Isn't this sentence correct?
The Duke of Zhou used the land of the world to enfeoff the feudal lords. This is also true, right?
Nowadays, most of the gentry's surnames can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, or even earlier, which means that these lands were originally enfeoffed to their ancestors, so is it wrong for their descendants to take them back now?
Just like the kimchi of the Great Cold Underworld, no matter which pot it is in or who is making it, it all belongs to the Great Cold Underworld!
Is this wrong?
Everything seems to be right.
It seems like everything is wrong.
So which link is the problem? It’s like talking to people from the Great Cold Kingdom about the origin of kimchi, or other historical issues. Do those clamors really don’t understand, or do they pretend not to understand?
This is a very interesting question.
Fei Qian has not appeared in the meeting hall for several days. Of course, this does not mean that Fei Qian is hugging everyone at home, but that Fei Qian went to Sanfu to check on Zhuang He's disaster situation.
The little fat bird Pang Tong was also busy with the work of keeping out the cold in Guanzhong's fields, and was often away from the city. He worked in the fields with Zao Zhi, so Xun You was the only one left in the meeting hall.
After all, some documents and such need to be handled by manpower.
Every day when the General Office of the Cavalry begins its official business, it is just like at the school gate every working day morning. Countless people either hold it, carry it, or simply carry it, and then gather it at the door of the school.
Before the Qifu Yamen, he handed over the matter solemnly and said that his own affairs were the most important...
Which child is unimportant?
All are important. For the parents of this child, their own child is naturally the most important. But for the school, it is just children of different grades.
Therefore, Xun You also divided the writing levels into different levels. If he really followed what these people said, he would probably be too busy to finish it, and he wouldn't be able to do it well either.
Xun You believes that the most important things at the moment are two things, one is military and the other is disaster resistance.
Among all things, the importance of military situation ranks first. No matter when, even if you are halfway through other things, when military situation arrives, you must first put it down and turn to deal with military situation.
Another one is the current disaster resistance.
Although the matter of disaster relief is not as important as military affairs, it is still very urgent. Whenever Pang Tong, who is mainly responsible for disaster relief, has any needs, Xun You needs to make arrangements immediately, because the weather is really not a thing, and it will happen if you are not careful.
He's so naughty and mischievous that he can't even be caught.
After finishing the first two matters, Xun You started to deal with other matters. However, while he was busy, Xun You's hands slowed down and his brows wrinkled, "Wen Shu, come here!"
Wang Chang, who was assisting at the bottom of the meeting hall, raised his head, stood up and came to Xun You's side.
Xun You handed the document in hand to Wang Chang and said: "Go and investigate, how many people are selling land these days? Then come and report..."
Wang Chang looked down, glanced up and down, frowned slightly, bowed his hands in agreement, and immediately turned around and left.
Xun You watched Wang Chang leave and dragged another document. He just glanced at it twice, but felt a little uncomfortable. He sighed, stood up, walked back and forth in the hall twice with his hands behind his back, and then looked at
The empty central case, the position belonging to the Cavalry General, sighed slightly...
Outside the hall, the sky was gloomy, and the low clouds seemed to be pressing down on the top of the head. There seemed to be a force rolling in it, and it seemed to foreshadow something.
Near Meiyang, Fei Qian was taking Zhuge Liang to inspect the cold conditions of the farmland.
Meiyang was originally a fiefdom given to Guo Si. After Guo Si died, it became an ownerless land. It naturally became a place for Feiqian to farm, and even the "Red Emperor Palace" was established...
Fei Qian did not let Zhuge Liang return to Wuguan, but stayed with him temporarily to act as a scholar.
The main thing is to let Zhuge Liang adapt for a period of time, especially to change some of Zhuge Liang's working methods. Fei Qian doesn't want Zhuge Liang to become like what happened in history, and then eventually die of exhaustion.
Therefore, Fei Qian took Zhuge Liang away from the General's Mansion and arrived at Meiyang. On the one hand, he wanted Zhuge Liang to have a practical look at the fields, and on the other hand, he also took this opportunity to instill some ideas.
Just like now, Fei Qian was discussing food issues with Zhuge Liang.
Food is very important.
Because food is important, it can be cultivated, and the fields where crops grow are also important.
Then, together with the noble surnames who own a large amount of land and control the process of food production, harvesting and handover, local powerful people become important...
Is this chain correct?
If there is a mistake, where is the mistake?
"Lord, do you want to ban the sale of the land?" Zhuge Liang stood aside and looked up at Fei Qian and asked.
Fei Qian laughed and said, "Since the beginning of the enfeoffment of Duke Zhou, the sale of land has been prohibited."
"What?" Zhuge Liang asked.
Fei Qian raised his head slightly and smiled but did not answer.
Zhuge Liang frowned and followed Fei Qian's gaze, thoughtfully.
In China, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, with the rapid increase in productivity and the development of commodity production, land trading had begun to appear. In the late Warring States Period, Shang Yang announced that "except for well fields, people can buy and sell" when the Qin State implemented reforms. Qin
After unifying China, Qin Shihuang "ordered the head of Guizhou to seize the land", which marked that the feudal rulers officially recognized the legality of land sales.
Subsequently, after the long-term development of the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, the large landowners, mainly local gentry and powerful people, expanded extremely.
During the Qin Dynasty, although the annexation of land was not yet too drastic, the situation had already begun to emerge where "the rich had fields stretching across the country, and the poor had no land to stand on." From the unification of Qin to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it was only eighty or ninety years.
There are many landowners, including Qin Yang who "uses the land as a farmer" and ordinary big landowners such as Bu Shi who "uses the land and livestock as a job" and can pay 200,000 yuan to the government at a time.
There also appeared some large businessmen and landowners, such as the Shuzhuo family and the Wankong family, who became rich through iron smelting and business, then bought fields, and even "the joy of hunting in fields and ponds is like that of human kings".
In other words, throughout the Han Dynasty, the ultimate goal of everyone was land.
Being an official is for the land, being a general is also for the land, and even those who do business will ultimately focus on the land...
Therefore, in the Han Dynasty, the complete prohibition of land sales was to stand on the opposite side of the whole world. Naturally, Fei Qian was not that stupid, and brought a system that could not be realized even in later generations to the Han Dynasty. Therefore, Fei Qian only stood on the side of the Han Dynasty.
On the moral high ground, I strangled the slightest signs of growing crookedly...
At first, land annexation in the Han Dynasty, except for some bureaucratic landowners who enfeoffed, most of them were developed through economic means in the process of land sales, which is what Sima Qian said, "The most powerful farmers and livestock, workers and merchants, for the
Most of these people who have become rich through power did not have much political power when they started. They neither had any titles nor enjoyed any salary. Therefore, they can generally be called ordinary wealthy people and have not yet reached the level of powerful ones.
situation.
"In the system of the Qin and Han dynasties, the princes entrusted the king with food and rent tax, and the annual rate was 200 per household. The prince with a thousand households was 200,000, and he was hired for the pilgrimage. The common people, farmers, industrialists, and merchants were paid 2,000 per year, and a million-year-old family was equal to
200,000 yuan, and more of it was paid out by rent, and the food and clothing are so beautiful..."
Fei Qian said slowly, "...Therefore, it is said that horses with two hundred hooves are herded on land, cattle with a thousand hooves and horns, sheep with a thousand feet, pigs with a thousand feet in the lake, water with thousands of rocks and waves of fish, mountains with thousands of chapters of Hagi, and Anyi with thousands of jujube trees."
In Yan, Qin, there are thousands of chestnut trees; in Shu, Han, there are thousands of orange trees in Jiangling; in Huaibei and Xingnan, there are thousands of trees of cassia trees; in Chen, there are thousands of acres of lacquer in summer; in Qi and Shandong, there are thousands of acres of mulberry and hemp; in Wei and Chuan, there are thousands of acres of bamboo..."
Zhuge Liang said: "So my lord, you want to break off the "Su Feng"?"
Fei Qian shook his head and said: "What's harmed is not the "plain seal", but the desire for "real seal"!"
Pure landowners are not terrible.
Just like the Zhuo family of Sichuan and Sichuan, wasn't it also powerful for a while, and then what about now?
Therefore, these "Sufeng" families, relying on their own economic power, not only exploited and enslaved the poor peasants at will, but also began to collude with the bureaucrats, "riding around the princes" and "arbitrarily making decisions in the countryside" to become the dominant power.
is the real trouble.
The current problem of the Han Dynasty is these powerful nobles who have been closely integrated with politics.
"The king's law is at the top, and the officials are in chaos at the bottom. They are also serving as servants, invading the fishermen and the common people, and acting as wolves for the common people..." Fei Qian said, "What are the benefits of such people?"
The emperors of the Han Dynasty also took action against these powerful people. For example, Liu Bang "moved to Chang'an". Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also sent governors to patrol to monitor whether the local powerful people had "staggered the land and houses, used the strong to bully the weak, used the masses to oppress the few", etc.
crime and then punished, but the effect of these measures is extremely limited.
Although these various measures have led to the execution of some powerful families and the confiscation of land and property of some powerful families, they have not grasped the key points and only inhibited their development for a while. After the limelight passed, another wave of attacks came back.
So now Fei Qian has changed his approach.
Implement the "Lending Law".
The hotly released "Law of Lending" stands on the commanding heights of morality, indicating that the world is a Han people, and as a nobleman, we must set an example for the Han people, so those who are greedy for money are the behavior of low-level people, exposed
His despicable character.
In particular, the act of charging high interest rates on loans and extorting people's wealth is tantamount to exposing the ugly faces of those black sheep among the nobles. Therefore, in any year of disaster that is declared, local private loans are not allowed to be collected.
An interest rate of more than 5% can only reflect the dignified demeanor of the Han gentry, who regards money as dirt...
As soon as this order came out, many people's jaws dropped and they looked at each other in shock.
The nobles all want to be polite, and those who don't want to be shameless can still be called nobles? Therefore, morality, benevolence, loyalty, etc. are all things that the nobles talk about and apply on their bodies, but now Fei Qian is the same as a noble.
Let the local gentry choose their surname, is it for the sake of face or profit?
Zhuanghe, a commoner, is hit by a disaster. Once it is determined to be a disaster year, the interest on loans during that year must not exceed 5%, and those who exceed it will be severely punished. Is there a problem with this? Fei Qian did not prohibit the loan interest in ordinary years.
Loan interest rates are only strictly prohibited in disaster years. Is there still a problem with this?
Who has questions?
Isn’t this law a manifestation of the moral principles pursued by the nobles? Isn’t it an act of benevolence? Isn’t it the loyalty that the country should have for the sake of the country?
Therefore, after Fei Qian's decree was issued, the land of Sanfu in Guanzhong suddenly became silent.
Who dares to say that this law is not good? I'm afraid he will be called a fool on the spot! But if he says something good against his will and advocates this law for Fei Qian, it hurts my heart and I really can't open my mouth...
Fei Qian looked at the archway standing in the distance, half-smiling.
When a place is sealed to someone, most people will build a new archway at the end of the land to indicate that this is someone's private land...
I want to build a memorial arch to become a rich man, and I want to eat the flesh and blood of ordinary people. Is it such a good thing?
"This is the law of lending orders..." Zhuge Liang said, "Maybe it can be suppressed... but..."
Fei Qian smiled and said, "Is there any flaw?"
Zhuge Liang nodded, then looked at Fei Qian, "Could it be..."
Fei Qian laughed loudly, and did not answer Zhuge Liang's question directly. Instead, he pointed to a group of people hurriedly arriving in the distance ahead, "Here comes the Qiao sacrifice wine..."
