Chapter 104: Instruments and names cannot be faked!
Hear the words.
Fusu's face changed slightly.
But it soon returned to normal again.
He said indifferently:
"I know what you are thinking, but there are some things that you must not do. Even if I, Fusu, fail in the fight for the throne, I will never use conspiracy against other young masters."
"This is my bottom line!"
"This is also the promise I made to my father back then."
Mi Chen glanced at Fusu, sighed and said, "Young Master's character is rare in the world, he is pure, filial and true."
"Since the young master doesn't want to, I won't persuade you anymore."
"But the young master is indeed going to change."
"Young Master thinks that the Tenth Young Master's acceptance of the title is just deliberately suppressed by His Majesty, but as everyone knows, the Tenth Young Master has not shown up for a long time, and most people have forgotten him. However, he can continue to accumulate a small reputation, accumulate a lot of achievements, and wait until the time is right in the future, and the Ten Young Master will reveal his identity.
, by then the reputation he has accumulated among the people will be unmatched by you."
"Young Master has lived in the palace for a long time, how can he know about civil affairs?"
"But the Tenth Young Master is different. He can accumulate his reputation little by little. A young master who comes from among the people will definitely win the favor of more Guizhou leaders. When the Guanzhong clan responds again, there will definitely be countless followers."
"Young master, I'm afraid it's really difficult to rival you."
"The prince does have a reputation as a virtuous man, but his virtuous reputation is only among courtiers, and his reputation among the people is not known. The outside world only knows that there is an eldest son named Fusu, but that's all."
"Young master, if you want to fight openly and honestly, you should put aside your hypocrisy and be pragmatic!"
"Go to the people steadily to gain prestige, and at the same time put your political opinions into practice, let the facts speak for you, and let His Majesty know that your political opinions are not just rhetoric, but are indeed beneficial to the Qin Dynasty."
"Sir, you have stayed in Xianyang for too long."
"It's time to go for a walk!"
Fusu's eyes narrowed, he bowed and said, "Please Yangquan-kun, please teach me."
Mi Chen said in a deep voice:
"Since the young master has good relations with Confucianism, he has naturally read Zuozhuan. There is a sentence in Zuozhuan: 'Utensils and names cannot be faked.'"
"in my opinion."
"'Name' is a title, and 'Qi' is a status."
"Young master now has an identity, but he still lacks a status. If you want to get a status, you must not only gain recognition from the court, but also gain fame in the world. If you want to become a prince, both of them are indispensable."
"It was really unnecessary in the past."
"But now that the Tenth Young Master has returned, the Young Master must be cautious."
"The prince now wants to expand his influence as much as possible and show his political opinions to the people of the world, not only in the court, but also to establish a reputation in the world. The prince's previous political opinions were mostly seen in letters, but they were rarely implemented.
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"This will naturally make His Majesty despise you."
"Young master must get rid of this stereotype now."
"The Tenth Young Master has made a name for himself since he solved the case."
"Young Master is the eldest son, so naturally you don't have to start with such small things. You should focus on the big affairs of the country now. The loss of land in Chu is serious."
"Loss of land, where do we start talking about this?" Fusu frowned.
Since Shang Yang's reform, the Qin Dynasty has always implemented the land grant system.
That is, the government grants farmland to the people.
At the same time, other countries implemented the well-field system. The reason why the warriors of the Qin Dynasty were able to burst out with astonishing combat effectiveness had a lot to do with the field grant system.
The well-field system is essentially a multi-level ownership system.
That is to say, the ownership of the same piece of land was occupied by the emperor, princes, ministers, officials, scholars and other nobles at different levels, and each level exploited the land rent accordingly.
Shang Yang's reform, which changed the well-field system to the land grant system, broke this multi-level ownership and exploitation, and simplified the original multi-level ownership system into a two-level structure of "government-people".
The Qin Dynasty took back the land to the state.
County and county officials appointed by the government were directly responsible for management. Most of the taxes that were previously divided by nobles at all levels were transferred to the national treasury. On the one hand, it increased national tax revenue, and on the other hand, it actually reduced the burden on the people at the bottom.
Again.
The Qin Dynasty has been preventing the concentration of fields to a few people.
Starting from the ninth level of ‘Five Doctors’, those with high titles can no longer be allocated fields. The government directly converts the amount of cultivated land that should be increased into corresponding taxes, which is the harvestable grain output.
The law calls it the "tax-granting city"!
The land allocated to the common people did not have permanent property rights. They only had the right to use the land, but not the ownership of the land. After their death, the land was declared expired, taken back by the government, and then redistributed to his descendants.
Their descendants must work hard to cultivate their fields if they want to keep them.
Historically, Gan Luo, who paid homage to the Qing Dynasty at the age of twelve, had made great contributions to the Qin Dynasty. The first emperor of Qin gave him the reward of "recovering Gan Luo's land and house", which meant that the land that his grandfather had taken back was given back to him.
Got Gan Luo.
This is a gift, not a return.
According to laws and regulations, all the land belongs to the government, so why is it that the land is lost?
Mi Chen said:
"Young master, you don't know something."
"The lost land has always existed in Da Qin, but it didn't attract the attention of the court."
"During the Warring States Period, various countries were forced to use continuous wars to implement wartime administration. That is, each country's noble families had local administrative fiefdoms, and the fields within their jurisdiction were basically the same as their own fields."
"But with the unification of the world, the land returned to the government, and the land occupied by aristocratic families in counties and wealthy merchants was also taken back by the government. But how could they be willing to hand over the land?"
"When the world was first settled, Qin's laws had not yet been uniformly implemented."
"At that time, the counties and counties in Shandong were still as in the past, and land trading was common. At that time, the people in the world did not know what kind of land laws the Qin Dynasty would implement, so the people who lost their land did not dare to say that they had no land, and the wealthy families and wealthy people who bought the land concealed themselves and did not pay compensation."
"That creates a problem."
“Many Guizhou heads in Shandong counties actually had no land. Most of them rented land from local aristocratic families and wealthy people. Therefore, Da Qin seemed to implement a land grant system in Shandong counties, but in fact, it actually implemented a well-field system.”
“In recent years, there have been many complaints from counties and counties in Shandong and Guizhou.”
"why?"
"It is precisely because of the loss of land that multiple taxes are too heavy!"
Fusu frowned and said in confusion: "Since they lost their land, they can explain the truth to the government. How did they end up in this situation?"
Mi Chen shook his head and said:
"Young master, please remember that there is an order in the Tian Law."
"'People without land are unemployed and tired people and will be punished with all kinds of hard labor.' It is precisely because of this law that people who have lost their land dare not report it."
Fusu's face darkened.
He is not stupid and naturally understands.
What Mi Chen wants to express is that the powerful families in various counties and counties in Shandong distorted the laws of Qin and intimidated the head of Guizhou to dare not tell the truth to the government, so that they could continue to build their families and make money in the local area.
"This is really unreasonable!" Fusu said angrily, fluttering his sleeves: "How can I, Fusu, tolerate these snakes, insects, rats and ants harming the Qin Dynasty?"
"Please Yangquan-kun, please teach me?"
Mi Chen narrowed his eyes and said in a cold voice:
"Young Master should take this as an opportunity to write to Your Majesty, and at the same time send a letter to Shandong counties, preferably to the Chu region, to investigate the actual situation of the 'lost land' in the local area. If possible, the Young Master can implement his own solutions there."
"When the master's governance strategy is effective, the master will return to Xianyang and submit a report on the situation of lost land in the local area, and at the same time submit the master's solution."
"The young master's governance strategy has been put into practice and the problem has been solved. This will definitely make your majesty look upon the young master in a new light. Moreover, the young master will definitely gain the hearts of the people of Chu by solving the problem of 'lost land' on the ground."
"At the same time, it also proved the young master's talent to His Majesty."
"I hope you will adopt it!"
Fusu bowed deeply to Michen.
"Fusu has thanked Lord Yangquan on behalf of all the people. These matters are related to the foundation of the Qin Dynasty. How can I, Fusu, stand by and watch? I will write to my father right now."
"Investigate the loss of farmland in various counties and counties in Shandong!"