Xu Wei found these two people to help him solve his doubts. After Xiangkai and Jia Xu came, they understood Xu Wei's doubts.
Xiangkai first said: "The turbulent times in the Han Dynasty were extremely tragic. Sixty to seventy percent of the people died in the turbulent times in the late Qin Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Gaozu, there were only tens of millions of people. There were less than 2 million households in the world. One hundred acres of land for one household was not too much. The imperial court also controlled a large amount of wasteland. At that time, the Han Dynasty did not lack land at all. What it lacked was population. The land equalization system of the Han Dynasty was maintained until the period of Emperor Wen. That is to say, before that, the Han Dynasty controlled A lot of land.”
"The same is true for Shizu's reincarnation of the Han Dynasty. In both Han Dynasties, after the land was divided, the people were allowed to open up wasteland on their own. The income depended on the people's own ability. They did not care about other things at all. However, the rulers had too much control and had no control over the Han Dynasty. The requirements are too high, which has caused today's difficulties."
"Land is the lifeblood of ordinary people. Once they have it in their hands, they will not give it up easily. When the government was in power, the distribution of land was less. In addition, I was hard-working and could not buy and sell land, which led to today's situation. In this situation, although everyone wants more land, they are unwilling to give up the land they have in their hands!"
This statement made Xu Wei also look embarrassed. The reason why the thirty acres of land was originally planned was to ensure that the monthly salary of workers was higher than the income of farmers. Although this is a bit sorry for the majority of farmers, if you want to develop industry, you must obviously increase the income. Regarding the treatment of workers, otherwise we can only follow the example of Niu Niu, and use coercive means to capture the functional workers in the factory, turning the factory into a life-devouring den of flesh and blood.
But Xu Wei originally felt that the Han Dynasty had a small population, so how could it be possible for factories to consume human lives? We must know that population is the most fundamental productive force. A country is strong when it has a large population. So what if the original empire that never sets on the sun occupied half of the world? ?With a population of tens of millions, it was impossible to suppress the latecomers. In the end, the bald eagle with a population of hundreds of millions kicked it out of the hegemony.
But now the consequences of Xu Wei's methods have become apparent. Workers' benefits have continued to improve over the years, but ordinary farmers' incomes have declined due to the increase in the price of struvite and other commodities, so Xu Wei wants to expand When domestic demand arose, we only thought of expanding farmers' income, but the land issue became a big trouble again.
At this time, Xu Weicai realized that he had become the person he hated at first, and he blamed the farmers for any problems he encountered!
Xiangkai continued: "Actually, the prosperous period of our Daqian Dynasty has been unprecedented. During the Pre-Han Dynasty, the Han people had to wait until Emperor Xiaowen came to the throne to really have enough to eat. This was decades after the founding of the Han Dynasty, and although I, the Daqian Dynasty We haven't yet unified the world, but the people under our rule can already have enough to eat. This is already a prosperous era in the history books. It's just that the requirements for governing are too high!"
Jia Xu smiled and said: "I saw that the Governor Xi Zhong found a way to solve this problem. Everyone doesn't want to see the land they have worked so hard to cultivate given to others in vain, but if they give 5 years of income, There are still hundreds of acres of wasteland waiting for you. I think many people are willing to work hard for several years for the sake of future generations. Not to mention that the Xizhong Prefect also purchased hundreds of thousands of cattle and horses for farming. These large animals alone are enough to attract people to join the government. The policy of merging villages.”
"However, my subordinates believe that the method of playing with the loyal governor is difficult to promote in the entire Daqian. Yuyang is close to the capital, and with the support of the ruling party, it can loan 3 billion to solve the people's worries. However, it is impossible for all counties and counties in Daqian to do it. In this regard, our Dagang does not have such large financial resources to support such a reform. One county will cost 3 billion. Our Dagang now has more than 50 counties. If we all follow the method of Xi Zhong Taishou, it will cost 150 billion. , such a huge comparison of expenses, I’m afraid we don’t have so much money in the whole country!”
Xu Wei asked: "Do you have a better solution than Xi Zhong?"
Jia Xu smiled and said: "Why do we have to change the land? Why do these lands have to be connected into one piece? To change the idea, we can give the tribe less than 70 acres of wasteland and let them cultivate it by themselves. Although this is troublesome, obviously no people are willing. Give up 70 acres of land, even if these lands are uncultivated wasteland!"
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"We can arrange for officials to plan the land that villagers deserve and plan new villages. Although this cannot immediately realize the idea of governing and merging villages, as long as the new villages get better and better, most tribesmen will still give up on the mountains. The land! At that time, as long as they are willing to give up their original land, we can make up for thirty acres of wasteland for them on a first-come, first-served basis. I am afraid that the tribesmen will exchange land with us one by one."
"After all the land on the mountain comes into our hands, whether it is used to build orchards or turned into farms, it will be our own business! And the idea of governing and merging villages will also follow the decisions of each village. Disappear and realize!”
This is how Jia Xu asked Xu Wei to learn how to recuperate as a big man. Don't think about high-end production technologies such as canals and waterwheels, and don't want to help the people open up wasteland and follow them. As long as Daqian measures the land, the people will open up their own land. It’s about the land! Back then, the Han Dynasty only cared about dividing the land and didn’t care about anything else. However, it recovered well and even the Wenjing Reign occurred!
On the contrary, they are thinking about changing the world and changing the land all day long when they are in power. They even want to turn all the land in the world into irrigated land with canals. They are a little too ambitious. Among them, Jia Xu saw that there are nearly hundreds of millions of acres of irrigated land in Daqian. It is already an unprecedented miracle. At that time, the Zheng Guo Canal was only 40,000 hectares, but now the scale of Dagan irrigated land has exceeded Zheng Guo Canal's area by more than 200 times. What a power that changed the world, if Jia Xu hadn't seen it with his own eyes. , he couldn’t believe that Xu Wei led his men to do this!
After Xu Wei listened to Jia Xu's words, he knew that he was admonishing him for thinking too much about the affairs of the people of Daqian, which was beyond the scope of Daqian's national power. Only by doing nothing like a big man did he rule the country now. Dry!
Xu Wei thought about it and felt that things should be done step by step. He first set a small goal to allow the people of Youzhou to achieve an per capita yield of 100 acres of land. Xu Wei seemed to remember that many years ago he promised a member of his tribe that, Let everyone have 100 acres of land to feed their families!
After Jia Xu's persuasion, Xu Wei no longer did things beyond his capabilities, but watched Xi Zhong's actions with peace of mind. At the same time, he also increased the training in the official school of Daqian, striving to be in the official school every year. This school has trained 5,000 qualified grassroots officials.