If this were in the Central Plains, anyone who dared to do this would have been hung on the treetops to dry long ago. No one, not even the royal family, not even the tyrants would dare to do this. If you don't farm and don't let others farm, go to hell!
As a result, in Kushan, the mentally retarded Brahmins were so unscrupulous and forced the low castes to die. As a result, the low castes really died. Sima Zhang had never seen such a ridiculous thing. "Princes and generals would rather have
Where is "Zhonghu"? Where is Chen Sheng of Guishan? Where is Wu Guang of Guishan? Come on!
The rubbish Kushans do not explain, dismantle the system of contemplation of gods and Buddhas, and the Brahman system. They would rather send an idea back to the Central Plains and let the big bosses in the Central Plains create it themselves, and they must not spread this harmful idea to the Central Plains.
This country is hopeless. It can maintain its current size only because it is supported by the Ganges. It is supported by the fat Ganges. No matter what you do, this country will belong to the backbone of the empire. But if this fat Ganges is incorporated into
The Han Dynasty, according to the level of the Han Dynasty, could probably support 300 million people!
In this feudal era, when the total population of the world is only about 200 million, a giant empire with 300 million people emerges. If I want to conquer the whole world, and still do it, it is really not impossible.
Therefore, after people like Chen Zhong determined everything that the Guishan system of gods and Buddhas relied on, they would rather destroy the system of gods and Buddhas and take over the Kushans than leave a sinkhole for the Han Dynasty.
Seeing that a country that originally had the potential to become a powerful and invincible empire has become what it is now. People like Chen Zhong still have some conscience after all.
Well, even if you have a bad conscience, the benefits of exploiting 300 million people are far better than exploiting 20 million people. The former is better than paying a tenth tax per person to support the latter, which is better than turning over all the family property to support them.
In this era, or in any era, as long as the resources are sufficient, the more the population, the better, because the population represents the potential of the country. Just like in later generations, the number of young people who graduate from higher education in one year is higher than the number of young people ranked one hundred.
In the future, the population of the country will be even greater.
Do you think the countries ranked below 100 can surpass the former in other ways besides cheating?
Naturally, for ancient people like Sima Zhang, land is a resource, and land that is highly productive is a high-quality resource, and these resources serve people. More people means growth in the true sense. What is the concept of 200 million people?
?Sima Zhang trembles with fear just thinking about it!
If an empire of 200 million people were really to be built next to the Han Dynasty, the opponent would probably lose ten times, and the Han Dynasty would have nothing to do with the opponent. However, such a potential place was played like this by the opponent. Sima Zhang had no control over the entire country.
The Brahminical system was involuntarily disgusted with it.
This is a group of beasts that don't know how to develop or grow, and are completely dependent on the sky for food. To be in today's situation, it can only be said that God has taken great care of us. Sure enough, we should just overthrow God.
Sima Zhang couldn't help but have a clear understanding of Li You's saying, "When you live, you always need to leave something behind. If God doesn't give it, I'll take it myself. Who dares to stop me?" Sure enough, if God doesn't give it, then let us do it ourselves. Dare we
If I stop you, I'll kill you!
In short, although the children of these three families who have gone abroad do not consider themselves to be good people, compared to the Brahmins, these aristocratic families represented by the Chen family and the Xun family are relatively more upright.
At least this group of people can't do it at all. If they have fertile land, they don't have anyone to cultivate it themselves, and they don't want to rent it out to others. They would rather just leave it alone.
Of course, after talking about the disgust, we have to talk about the other side. After all, even a piece of toilet paper and a used oil pen have their own value. Garbage is a misplaced treasure. A system like Brahman, in this
The crowd looked disgusted but at the same time they had to admire him.
Even people like the Sima family, Chen family, and Xun family have to admire the stability of the Brahmin system. No matter what method is used, it is a skill to tame the people at the bottom like animals.
Even if this approach seems evil to them, in terms of the stability of the social system, the fact must be acknowledged, that is, the Brahmin social system does have its excellent aspects.
What's more, if you don't care about the life and death of the lower class and only care about the enjoyment of the upper class nobility, no matter what, this system will be a happy life style for the corrupt upper class, because under this system, the upper class of Kushan are completely
Don't worry about rebellions in other systems.
If the aristocratic family of the Han Dynasty hadn't been rotten to the core, the Xun family, a wealthy family with Legalist roots, would be very disgusted with this unprogressive social system. If it were to be placed under the clan structure of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, it might not be possible to do this.
People are beginning to learn this way of corrupting society.
After all, even the well-informed Xun Qi, Sima Zhang, and Chen Zhong had to say that they were convinced when faced with a stable social system like Guishang. As for Guishang's current situation, if it were placed in the Han Dynasty, it would have been long ago
There are wars everywhere.
However, although there is turmoil in Kushan now, it is clear that it is the result of the uneven distribution of spoils by the upper class, rather than the uprising of the lower class people because they cannot survive.
If people starved to death in the Central Plains, and if people starved to death on a large scale and no one took care of it, this place would have killed officials and revolted long ago. However, most of the hungry people in Kushan are waiting to die in peace.
Chen Zhong and others were also eye-opening.
This kind of ruling ability is simply very good for the upper class who are not very enterprising. There is no need to even say the famous saying of later generations: "If you don't starve to death, you will be like a mantis with its arms." Those at the bottom will be able to
Just obey the command and wait to die.
Regarding this point, the three families did not mention it publicly, but they already had plans in their hearts.
After all, although these three families may appear gentle and gentle on the surface, they are actually wealthy families with evil intentions. On the surface, they may criticize this system as rubbish, but in fact, they all devote some of their energy, manpower, and material resources to systematically study this system.
Although this system has various obvious flaws, which greatly suppresses the thinking, wisdom, cognition and consciousness of the people at the bottom, and also does great harm to the progress of the country, its stable social system is still in a certain situation.
Some places can still be used.
Even if it cannot be used for its own people, for the Han Dynasty, which is basically destined to embark on the road of enfeoffment, Kushan's method of using a few people to rule the majority and still being unimaginably stable is of great reference value.
However, this kind of research cannot be shown openly at all. Even if the three companies know that the other party must be learning from it and researching it, none of the three companies will expose the fact that the other party is studying this system. If you see through it and don’t tell it, everyone will be better off.
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The Han Dynasty would not allow such a thing to exist. What Chen Xi wanted was not the solidification of class. The lower class must have a stable and reliable promotion path.
Even if the official position after reaching two thousand stones in the central government will encounter an invisible ceiling, and it will take a generation or even several generations of efforts to break through, Chen Xi can accept it, but before that, the path to promotion must be very clear.
And very reliable.
As for being born a slave and being a slave for generations, Chen Xi does not allow it at all. Of course, when it comes to the kind of lowly people who must be slaves and maids, and those who cannot see high-ranking people, they must kneel down. Chen Xi has nothing to do.
Now, no matter how much you like this, he can’t control it!
For his own clan, let alone being slaves for generations, even if it is a class solidification, Chen Xi is working hard to break it. While reducing his own influence on the national system as much as possible, he is also reducing the family's influence in this country.
The proportion of the country.
Perhaps the major aristocratic families may not have noticed that their power is losing in the past, but now, because the domestic melee has stopped and entered a stage of rapid development, the major aristocratic families have actually gradually discovered this fact. The economy, officialdom, and local areas have all
is weakening.
What's more important is that it's not that they haven't increased, it's just that this country has grown too fast, and the tentacles of the aristocratic families have no time to penetrate. This cake called profit has grown so big that they can't swallow it as quickly as before.
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The family's strong foundation allowed them to eat more, but it couldn't be changed anyway. The common people, who originally had a very low share, expanded at an alarming rate.
Especially after the villages were merged, even Chen Xi was unable to forcibly cancel the debt notes, tenancy documents, and other miscellaneous things signed by the people from various places and their local powerful families.
But at any rate, Chen Xi relied on the previous replacement to move the aristocratic families north together, and then relied on the reclaimed land to gather all the people together piece by piece.
After that, all kinds of technologies and materials were thrown down, and cattle, farm tools, technicians, and land were rented to the people by the state at low taxes.
In addition, although Chen Xi's face could not allow the family to waive those debt notes and rent documents, at least with Chen Xi's endorsement, the family could not really continue to make profits.
In other words, the things owed still have to be repaid, but because of Chen Xi's existence, the interest is waived, and with Chen Xi's endorsement, these arrears and IOUs can be extended to a very long time.
However, according to Chen Xi's estimation, even if he achieves this level, and the family has stopped the illegal method that is close to usury for later generations, according to the debt balance calculated by Chen Xi after checking Liu Ye's statistics, the vast majority of the people are afraid that they will still have to pay more.
Work for those powerful families for ten years.
From this point of view, later generations said that sometimes in the feudal era, civilians worked hard all their lives, and the more they owed, the more they owed. It was not a joke. It was also enough to see the cannibalistic nature of this era, but Chen Xi had nothing to do with it.
Easy to talk about.
Of course, it didn't actually take that long originally. The Yellow Turban Rebellion greatly damaged productivity. However, the aristocratic families did not suffer much, but the common people suffered even more. The accounts that could have been paid off in one or two good years were forced to pay off.
His life span was so long that he might even be able to pay off it by selling himself into slavery.
