After busy for more than half a month, the summer harvest in Mayi was finally completed, and soybeans were planted on the land to nourish the soil. In recent years, soybeans have been planted on all the land in Mayi. Now farmers throughout Mayi have discovered the method of growing soybeans.
The fields do not need to be left fallow at all, and can also increase the yield in the coming year. Now Xu Wei does not need to remind them, everyone knows to replant soybeans.
The soybeans grown will be pressed into soybean oil. After all, Xu Wei made the iron pot, so cooking will naturally have to be made, and cooking is indispensable for oil. Eating too much oil can also reduce food consumption, and soybeans can also be used.
When used as feed, it can be said that the economic value of replanted soybeans is more than twice as high as that of grain.
Fortunately, Mr. Wang and the farmers who farmed the land were both people who had endured hunger. They were willing to replant the soybean fertilizer land, but they would severely crack down on anyone who dared to hinder the planting of wheat!
After finishing the summer planting, people in Mayi could finally take some time to learn about their grain harvest.
There were dozens of accountants in Mayi's meeting hall who were dialing the abacus with thunderbolt. Although Old Man Wang and the others could roughly estimate how much grain they had harvested this time, the precise number still had to be calculated by the accountant!
When all the abacus stops, an accountant hands over the calculated results to Xu Wei!
"More than 16 million stones!" Even Xu Wei couldn't help but take a deep breath of air-conditioning. This grain output has tripled from a year ago.
Others couldn't help but take a deep breath of cold air.
Old Man Wang sighed: "It actually exceeded our expectations. According to the 30% tax, we can collect 5 million shi from food alone this year. It was impossible for Wei County to have such a high tax at the beginning!"
Xu Wei laughed and said: "Of course it is impossible to have such high taxes. We levy taxes directly to the tribesmen. No one else takes away food from the people. We benefit, the people benefit, and the nobles and nobles are killed by us.
Without it, there is less exploitation in the middle, so our taxes are heavier than those of the court, but the people get more, and both parties benefit.
But the imperial court pulled out a millimeter from the hands of the nobles. 500,000 shi is probably a lot, but this does not mean that the people's burden is light. If Wei County's grain has 3,000 shi, the nobles will at least take it away.
20 million shi, so it seems that the imperial court did not receive much, but people in the rich Wei County starve to death every year! But the people still blame the imperial court for the excessive taxation!"
Old Man Niu and the others looked at each other and said, "There can't be that many of them, there are only so many of them, how can they possibly eat up so much food!"
Xu Wei smiled and said: "Old man, you have forgotten that we occupied Wei County before, and all the land we cultivated belonged to the noble families. We have not asked for the common people's land, and these lands are the best in Wei County.
At that time, we all estimated that if all the land had a good harvest, we could receive 30 million shi of grain. I said 20 million shi was on the lower side. You said that just one Weijun noble family occupied more than 20 million shi of grain. The big man
There are more than 100 counties, although they cannot all be as wealthy as Wei County, but even if I calculate one-tenth of them, the world's nobles and nobles occupy 200-300 million shi of grain. Everyone says that the Han Dynasty has so much less grain.
Don’t you starve to death and get scolded?”
"200-300 million stones of grain!" This astronomical figure dazzled everyone for a while, but many people were overwhelmed. Then the top management of Mayi looked angry, and Wang Ge even cursed: "It turns out that all this is caused by these clans.
It’s the nobles’ fault that they actually pretended to be good people and told us that there were villains in the court! It turns out that the real villains are them!”
It can be said that the top leaders in Mayi are all victims of the Han system. Even Zhang Baiqi, who came from a small tycoon background, found that not only could he not achieve a class leap, but he would also fall down. Just like Zhang Niujiao, he was originally
They are also powerful, but they have to sell private salt to maintain their family business, so these people have to rebel to break the oppression of the Han Dynasty.
And farmers like Old Man Wang even sold their land to survive, until they finally couldn't survive and had to join the Yellow Turbans to rebel.
But the vision they were exposed to did not allow them to know what caused this change in them. They could only passively accept the explanations of the wealthy nobles and gentry: "There are villains around the emperor, and eunuchs interfere in politics, which makes the world bad."
It makes it impossible for everyone to survive.'
So when they were cleaning up the noble families in Wei County, everyone felt guilty. Although everyone survived using this method, they felt in their hearts that they were doing something evil and felt that they were sorry for the noble families who were killed by them.
In fact, Xu Wei also understands their feelings very well, because he also has such a heart. In the modern country of hope, he has been beautifying and promoting himself, so that everyone has a good impression of them without knowing it. Xu Wei discovered when reading the novel
He had a strange imagination. It was obviously very satisfying to beat up Hope Country, and he thought so too.
But there is always a feeling in his heart that Hope Country should not end up like this. He actually sympathizes with Hope Country, and his own rationality and sensibility are in conflict. After this discovery, Xu Wei had to admit that the brainwashing method is really useful.
I hope the country still has some good feelings. Even if you realize it rationally, you still can't control your emotional thinking.
But the perceptual thinking also changed very quickly. Xu Wei settled the accounts for them this time, letting Wang Ge and the others know that most of the interests in the world were occupied by the nobles and nobles. It was they who were shamelessly and cruelly exploiting them, and they were the villains.
For a moment, they felt like they had been deceived, and then they began to feel extremely angry at the deception that the noble family had deceived them.
Originally they thought that the good gentry in the world really accounted for the majority, but now that Xu Wei had settled the score, Wang Ge and the others discovered that the villain was themselves. Now they had no objection to the Tengjia Army occupying the wealth of the gentry.
Feeling guilty.
Because everyone also has the simplest principle, human life is of paramount importance, and human life is the most important thing.
When everyone can live, your wine, meat, and extravagance are all your business. Although I am envious, jealous, and hateful, I will not have the thought of killing you. Even if I have such thoughts, I feel ashamed in my heart.
But now hundreds of thousands of people starve to death in Jizhou every year. You nobles and nobles still control tens of millions of stones of grain. You would rather the grain become moldy than use it to save people. Then it is understandable for me to kill your whole family because of hunger.
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No one in the upper echelons of Mayi would agree that even if they starved to death, they could not touch the food of the powerful nobles, nor could they rebel against such a rule.
Since this court cannot allow everyone to survive, then we can just change to another court.
Since the existence of one noble family will starve tens of thousands of people to death, then destroy these noble families so that these thousands of people can live.
Zhao Rong said angrily: "As expected, the nobles and nobles cannot be retained. Qu Shuai still has foresight. We in Mayi have the current development momentum because there are no noble nobles. From now on, when we occupy the counties of the Han Dynasty, the first thing to do is to kill them all."
These wealthy nobles!"
"Yes, there is no good person among the powerful nobles. We want to kill them all!" This was the first time that the enemy and the enemy were so obvious. Mayi's top officials directed all their hatred towards the powerful nobles.
Xu Wei stopped and said: "There is no need to go to such an extreme. We only need to take away the land of the noble families and distribute it to the people who have no land. As long as the land can be distributed fairly, not only can the land of the Han Dynasty be
It will starve people to death, but it can also make people live very richly!"
"So we must maintain our advanced nature and keep our Tengjia Army financially wealthy so that we can do various projects. To avoid becoming like the big men, we must ensure that the land is used for farming without the oppression of the middle class and farming by ourselves.
We can give you land, but if you rely on the land to exploit others, we will severely crack down on this behavior!"
But Xu Wei's statement made Wang Ge and others feel guilty, because they also had the idea of becoming big landowners. They also wanted to own 10,000 acres of land or 100,000 acres of land like the noble families.
"Our land in Mayi can't be bought and sold?" Old Man Niu asked even more surprised. Although they hate noble families and powerful people, they still agree that land can be bought and sold, and they also want to buy land.
Xu Wei looked at the top management in Mayi and asked: "Does everyone have the idea of purchasing land? If you have this idea, can you raise your hand?"
Although everyone thought Xu Wei's question was strange, most of them raised their hands because they didn't think it was a serious problem, and Xu Wei could also see that even the few people who didn't raise their hands didn't want to
Land, but Xu Wei's attitude worried them and they did not dare to express their attitude.
Xu Wei secretly thought that it is indeed difficult for people to transcend their own class.
Everyone around me wants to become landlords. It is impossible to build a new world by yourself. There is a long way to go to train successors, otherwise you will end up like a bear.
There is no way around it. The limitations of class are like this. Those who want to become landlords the most are tenants and farmers. If Xu Wei didn't have the knowledge of later generations, Xu Weizhen would conquer the world. What he would have to do in the future is to restrict Wang Lei and the others.
He is a hero, and the highest he can achieve is just an enhanced version of Zhu Yuanzhang.
But fortunately, he was a later generation and knew who the next advanced class would be, so he began to cultivate advanced productive forces as soon as he came to Mayi.
Now, in order to make everyone clearly aware of the dangers of land annexation and give everyone a strong impression, and at the same time to dispel their thoughts of becoming landlords and noble families, Xu Wei continued: "We in Mayi and Dahan
Who is greater, who has a larger population and is more powerful?"
Although everyone has confidence in Mayi, they still have to say: "The population of the Han Dynasty is dozens of times larger than ours in Mayi, and the territory is more than a hundred times larger!"
Xu Wei smiled and said: "But we have money to build water conservancy, open up wasteland, build new cities, and maintain an expedition of 100,000 people. We can ensure that no one in Mayi starves to death, and although the imperial court is dozens of times more powerful than us
, but they cannot maintain an army of 200,000, and the treasury is so empty that they are starving to death.
Our financial revenue in Mayi is several times greater than that of the Han Dynasty. Why is there such a big gap? It is because the taxes collected by us in Mayi are not exploited by the nobles and nobles, so we will get as much as we collect!
The Han Dynasty was exploited by the powerful nobles. A tax of 1 yuan levied by the Han Dynasty would become a tax of 10 yuan or even 100 yuan below. Therefore, the treasury of the Han Dynasty was empty, but the common people could not survive. If the 2 yuan obtained by the powerful nobles were used,
-300 million shi of grain were given to the Han Dynasty. I’m afraid that the Han Dynasty’s court could organize a million-strong army to swamp us!”
When Zhang Baiqi heard this, he laughed and said: "We in Mayi now have no shortage of food, and our money is several times stronger than that of the big man. We also have hundreds of thousands of strong warriors. After hearing Qu Shuai's words today, I am even more convinced that this big man
The world will definitely be captured by us!"
Wang Ge even smiled and said: "Our soldiers in Mayi are not much worse than those of the big men, and there is no shortage of food and grass. Although we have less territory, the troops we can mobilize are greater than those of the big men. Our Mayi is like the rising sun.
But Dahan is in decline, as long as we accumulate strength for a few more years, Dahan will definitely not be our opponent!"
Xu Wei said firmly: "Even now, I am extremely convinced that the Han Dynasty will not be our opponent in Mayi. The reason why we have not attacked the Han Dynasty in recent years is not because our military strength is not strong enough, but because we do not have enough talents.
Govern the counties we occupy! Even if we occupy three counties, it will be difficult to find enough management talents. So I asked everyone to lurk in Mayi to accumulate strength."
Xu Wei continued to ask: "But have you ever thought about what kind of country you want to build?"
Zhang Baiqi and the others looked at each other, wondering what Xu Wei meant. Are there other countries in the world besides Han?
This may be the tragedy of Chinese civilization. It matured too early, could not find any civilization around it to communicate with, and eventually became backward, conservative and closed!
Finally, Wang Yong said: "Of course, Commander Qu will become the emperor, and we will all become the founding heroes of the country. We will achieve great success and leave our names in history!"
This is the simplest ideal, and it is also what most people think.
As soon as Wang Yong said this, everyone agreed: "Brother Yong has spoken out what is in our hearts. Qu Shuai will be the emperor, and we will be the founding heroes!"
Xu Wei looked at the happy Mayi high-level officials and said seriously: "When the First Emperor established the Qin Dynasty, he wanted it to be passed down for generations to come, but he did not expect that the Qin Dynasty would perish in two generations. When Liu Bang founded the Han Dynasty, he also wanted to
It would have been passed down for tens of millions of years, and it has only been passed down to today for more than 300 years. If we include Wang Mang's establishment of a new dynasty, and taking Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu as the starting point of this dynasty, the Han Dynasty will be destroyed in less than 180 years of existence.
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"When Liu Bang and Liu Xiu founded the Han Dynasty, they definitely wanted the Han Dynasty to exist for a long time. They hoped that the descendants of the Liu family could be emperors forever. Those founding nobles hoped that their descendants would be princes for generations. Thus, today's Han Dynasty was formed all over the country.
The noble families, these noble families are all Liu Bang, the founding hero during the Liu Xiu period."
"Who among you still thinks that the Han Dynasty can continue to survive? I can tell you with certainty that the Han Dynasty will not live long. Even without our existence, the continuous uprisings will eventually devour the Han Dynasty. By then, the bones of public ministers will be trampled all over the streets.
, and the inner treasury was burned into brocade ashes. These aristocratic noble families that have existed since the Liu Bang and Liu Xiu periods will eventually disappear into history like the nobles of the Qin Dynasty.
Everyone thought that in the past few years, the Han uprisings had continued, and the scale of the outbreaks was getting larger and larger, and the number was getting larger and larger. No matter how you looked at it, the Han people were going to die, so everyone agreed with Xu Wei's words on this point. Even without them, the Han people would be dead.
Will die!
"I know that the country you want to build is similar to that of the Han Dynasty. I become the emperor, and everyone becomes the hero. My descendants will become royal relatives like the current Liu family, and your descendants will become the current noble family.
But have you ever thought about the meaning of such a completely unchanged country? What happened to the Han Dynasty will also happen to us. The process of the Han Dynasty's downfall is what our descendants will encounter in the future. The dynasty we established fell.
Our descendants will also be buried with this dynasty.
I can definitely tell you that this process will not take long, at most two hundred years, and all the problems encountered by the Han Dynasty will be encountered by our descendants.
Everyone just wants to build a dynasty that lasts forever. I think it is unrealistic, because there is no such history. History tells us that there is no immortal dynasty. Recent history even tells us that the time for the dynasty to perish is about 200 years! I think
It wouldn’t be a bad idea for everyone to think about the demise of the dynasty.”
There was a deathly silence in the meeting hall. Everyone was still imagining their country, but Xu Wei had already asked them to think about the destruction of the empire they were still imagining.
Especially when everyone thought that the wealthy nobles like killing chickens and dogs would become their descendants, everyone couldn't help but shudder.
Zhang Baiqi asked: "Shuai Qu, if we don't learn from the Han Dynasty and we come up with a completely new system, can the country we build last for generations to come?"
Only then did everyone react. Old Man Niu said: "Yes, why should we all learn from the big guys? We must learn from the good ones, but why should we also learn from the bad ones? Of course we must abolish them!"
Wang Yong said excitedly: "The nobles and nobles are the worst things in the Han Dynasty. We will definitely get rid of them in the future so that our country will have no soil for them to survive. In this way, our country can exist longer!"
Zhao Rong also shouted: "Eunuchs are not good people. We must kill them all and then abolish them!"
Wang Ge also said: "The Hu people are not good people. If they hadn't rebelled, how could the Han Dynasty raise taxes every year to conquer them and kill all the Hu people in the Han territory!"
Old man Wang immediately looked at Wang Ke and said, "It's over. One-third of our soldiers in Mayi are barbarians. You want to kill yourself too!"
Everyone was really panicked, and they were seriously searching for the root cause of the decline of the Han Dynasty. Although it was very superficial, they really wanted to break out of the historical cycle.
This is exactly what Xu Wei wants. Now everyone knows that dealing with feudal landlords is doomed. If you want to break out of the historical circle, you have to enter the industrial era. Xu Wei would rather let them become industrial and commercial tycoons than become wealthy clans.
At least the chaebols have taken a step forward and don't have to circle around in the historical circle, while the chaebols can only lead the Chinese nation astray.
Xu Wei thought for a while and said: "I will continue to make a calculation with everyone. The Han Dynasty has about 800 million acres of land, and these lands are good and bad, and the cultivated land also needs to be left fallow, so I temporarily think that the Han Dynasty can produce 800 million shi a year.
Food, the Han population includes young and old, old, weak, women and children, and they eat more or less food. I tentatively think that a person can eat 10 shi of food a year to ensure his life!, and the annual grain output of the Han Dynasty is divided by one person.
With one year’s rations, the entire Han Dynasty can only feed a population of 80 million people at most!”
“When the imperial court counted the national population in the third year of Emperor Heng’s Yongshou (157 years), it was found that there were approximately 10.7 million households in the country, and the population of the country was approximately 50 million, and these did not include the wealthy gentry, powerful landlord clans, guests,
tribes, slaves and other people, and we have not even counted the Xiongnu, Qiang, Di and Baiyue people living in our Han Dynasty. It is roughly estimated that including them, the entire Han Dynasty has a population of 55 million."
"And since Emperor Heng, the uprisings of the Han Dynasty have continued, and finally it has become what it is now. In other words, the upper limit of the population of the Han Dynasty is 55 million. If this number exceeds this number, a large number of people will starve to death. People who do not want to starve to death will
They will find ways to survive and rebel! Regardless of whether the rebellion succeeds or fails, a large number of people will be consumed, so the population is below the safety line, but in a few years the population will exceed this line again, and the people will not be able to survive.
They continued to rebel again, and this cycle continues until now.
But according to our calculations, the limit of the population that the land of the Han Dynasty can support should be 80 million people, and the 25 million people who have disappeared are the land occupied by the noble gentry. This food cannot reach the hands of the people, and the people can only starve to death."
"And if the land can be distributed fairly, the Han Dynasty can feed 80 million people, which is equivalent to helping the Han Dynasty extend its life by about 100 years. And if we transform the entire Han Dynasty into water conservancy facilities like Mayi, the grain output per mu can be
If it reaches 3 stone, the Han Dynasty can support a population of 240 million, which is equivalent to helping the Han Dynasty extend its life span by three hundred years, so that the new dynasty will have a life span longer than the two Han Dynasties combined."
"It can be seen from the above examples that if you want to extend the life of a dynasty, you must first rely on a fair land system. For example, the Han Dynasty is because of the unfair land system. It can obviously support more than 80 million people, but because of the influence of the powerful gentry,
, can only feed about 50 million people. If our dynasty can realize from the beginning that those who till the land have land, and those who don’t till the land have no land, then the life of the dynasty can be extended by hundreds of years!"
"The second is to increase the yield per mu. Our fields in Mayi have been reclaimed by us in the past two years. Logically speaking, they are the lowest-quality land. However, we built elevated water canals to increase yields and plowed deeply and carefully with curved shaft plows.
We developed various chemical fertilizers, found high-quality seeds, and discovered that soybeans can fertilize the land and allow wheat and soybeans to be interplanted. In this way, we achieved a harvest that tripled the yield per mu."