This actually involves a very tricky system in the Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, the aristocratic families actually manage each region.
Now Chen Xi has pried away the aristocratic family, giving the country the opportunity to regain control of the bottom class. However, the Eastern Han Dynasty has grown crookedly for two hundred years. There are not only long-standing aristocratic families, but also some powerful landowners who have been established for three generations.
Young people like Zhang Fei have money, land and bodyguards, but no official status. Although they are somewhat famous in the countryside, they are suppressed by local aristocratic families, so there is not much they can do.
The older ones are like Mi Zhu. Apart from having no official title, their financial and material resources are not inferior to those of the aristocratic families. They are very famous in a county. Even if the local aristocratic family is not too strong, they may still need to give the other party some face.
, but they are not actual managers.
And now that Chen Xi has pried away the Central Plains family, creating a power vacuum, these powerful landowners with a certain reputation themselves have stepped forward, under the banner of maintaining local stability, and they will definitely make the areas within their capabilities remain the same as before.
Stablize.
The biggest problem now is that the government in the late Han Dynasty could not assign an official to a small village with a few hundred people. If it only assigned officials to the county town, the final result would be that the countryside surrounded the city.
Although the big head has been eliminated and the constraints of the aristocratic families are gone, the powerful landowners outside the city are still in control of an area just like the aristocratic families back then. Although they have less power than the aristocratic families in various places before, why should I give you a share?
So moist!
"By the way, what is the approximate ratio of government officials to civilians now?" Chen Xi asked.
"Almost seven thousand five hundred to one." Lu Su said helplessly. This is also an important reason why Lu Su said that it is inevitable to share profits with powerful landowners, because it is impossible to get an official to manage a small village with hundreds of people.
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"Gather villages and merge villages, merge villages and merge villages!" Chen Xi said with a look of displeasure.
"I have already thought about it. If you merge villages into villages, let alone how the powerful landlords will deal with it, you will talk about how to allocate the acres. If one person has fifty acres, have you ever thought about how a standard village can handle three thousand people if you come there?"
With the standard of five thousand people, how much space is needed?" Li You said with a hint of helplessness.
"It's ten miles in radius. I calculated it before." Chen Xi said without thinking, "A standard village of three thousand people."
"What about the influx of people in the future? What about people being born?" Li You looked at Chen Xi and said, "Your method is indeed easy to manage, but how to deal with the subsequent problems?"
"Well, the land of the aristocratic family has been taken back to the government. The common people only have the right to farm. Besides, how much land can the common people have now? In fact, after the villages were merged into villages, more of the so-called fifty acres of land were donated by us.
"Chen Xi rolled his eyes and said.
Chen Xi knew with his feet how much land the common people had in the late Han Dynasty. It would definitely not be too much. If it were really much, the common people would not farm the land for the wealthy, powerful, and landlords.
Therefore, when the land was divided, although all the land was subject to the same tax and all had fifty acres, each family was different. To be precise, it was to make up for the fifty acres of land, rather than to permanently distribute the land to the people.
"What if there are too many people?" Li You looked at Chen Xi expressionlessly and said.
"Then each household must be divided less." Chen Xi said with a matter-of-fact expression, "It is the government's own business how they want to divide our own land. We can even let them re-divide it every ten years.
, this way there is no question of whether the land is good or bad, it’s just a matter of taking turns to plant.”
The corner of Lu Su's mouth twitched, he didn't expect such a trick, but it is indeed a good way to solve the problem, but it also has great disadvantages.
"The problem is that the disadvantages of doing this are not small. The sage said, it is not about scarcity but about inequality." Lu Su said after a while.
"As time goes by, if the number of people in some villages decreases, each household will have more and more acres of land. If the number of people in some villages continues to increase, the number of acres of land each household will continue to decrease. This is contrary to the
That's fair." Li You said with a frown.
"Ha, this is not a problem. The land is constantly decreasing. They can choose to move out. Since they don't move out, they have their own responsibility when the land becomes smaller. If no one wants their land to become smaller, they can only control it.
There are two choices: population and territory expansion." Chen Xi spread his hands and said nonchalantly.
"If you just want to pick up bargains in the rear, then you should stick to the land given to you by the country and think about how to survive better. All the country can provide you is a basic living standard. If you want higher and better, then go for it yourself.
Fight for it." Chen Xi curled his lips disdainfully and said.
"The world is so big, and there are so many places for farming. I just want to pick up the bargains later. Those fifty acres of land are the basis for your survival from the country. Don't think about anything else." Chen Xi said indifferently,
"Oh, maybe there won't even be fifty acres left behind."
"Aren't you afraid of chaos when you play like this?" Li You was silent for a while and said.
"Liu Weishuo is a propaganda person. Don't you even know this? Tell them that if they want to live a better life, they can create it themselves. If you are not doing well, you are lazy. The country has given you the basis for survival. Don't be blamed for being such a dog."
Country, you see, someone opened up the territory and expanded the territory, and now he has become a landlord!" Chen Xi curled his lips and said.
"..." Li You and Lu Su were both silent, and suddenly realized that Chen Xi's approach seemed very interesting. Indeed, why did those people who were dawdling behind him fight for justice with others?
"Okay, in this case, there is no problem. Let's continue to merge the villages into villages. We need to set up an official position for the three standard villages. After all, according to your habits, the land in the village must be planned in a square shape." Li You paused for a while.
After confirming that there was indeed no problem with this, he spoke.
"A village of 3,000 people needs to have a part-time veterinarian. It can also build roads, build a primary school, equip militiamen, and build other infrastructure." Chen Xi said while touching his chin.
In a small village with a few hundred people, Chen Xi really doesn't have that many doctors, and the road construction plan needs to be postponed for a long time. Other kinds of infrastructure are basically not deployed in such a small village.
Therefore, if you don't go to a big village, it would be a waste to get a lot of things. The advantage of combining villages is here, and the resource utilization rate is higher.
"Indeed, a village of 3,000 people is qualified to be equipped with these, and water conservancy construction also needs to be considered. Small villages are really meaningless." Li Youwei nodded, "In that case, we will do it according to this. It will be difficult to build our homeland."
If it’s far away, merge with the nearest one.”
"If we are nearby, what should we do if we have a grudge?" Lu Su had seen two neighboring villages become mortal enemies because of water issues.
"Is this also a problem? Split the clans. Now those villages are basically a place where one family belongs to one family. Split it up. Put five households in this village and five households in that village, so that each family of each surname does not have an advantage!"
Chen Xi said unhappily.
"Okay, Zichuan, that's enough. It's impossible to say this. What you do will definitely make people angry." Li You waved his hand and said, "Forcible relocation is possible with our ability, but demolition is something we can do."
If the clan and the government do this, it will definitely cause anger and resentment."
"Okay, then merge nearby and separate the powerful landlords. Check the local reputation. If he is not evil, then give him two options. One is for the country to redeem the land and suppress him to less than a thousand acres.
, and the other asked him to go to the Northeast as well." Chen Xi thought for a moment and said.
Chen Xi did not say how to deal with those who have done evil. In fact, everyone knows that they will of course be dealt with according to the law, and then the land will be confiscated. Those who should be killed and punished should be punished.
"Is it okay to move to the Northeast?" Li Yang nodded. In fact, Chen Xi's words had already made it very clear. Landowners with more than 1,000 acres of land and good reputations were actually somewhat ambitious and were even thinking about it.
I am looking for opportunities to pass it on to my family.
The so-called heirloom of wealth only lasts for three generations. If you want to truly pass on your family, you must find a way to turn your family into a heirloom of farming and education, or even a heirloom of morality. The so-called moral heirloom is actually, to put it bluntly, a certain ideological theory.
Most of the aristocratic families in the Eastern Han Dynasty evolved from the nobles of the Pre-Qin Dynasty, so they mostly had some moral heirloom elements in them. As for the powerful landowners of normal future generations, if they want to pass on the inheritance, they hope more to inherit the family through farming and education. As for the latter one,
, to be honest, unless there is a saint or a pioneer of the school in the family, it is almost impossible to think about it.
Since those people have this idea, Chen Xi has no intention of stopping it. It is also good for Chen Xi that they are willing to do this. If they can reduce the number of fatalities, they will have fewer fatalities. After all, manpower is also an extremely important resource.
"In this case, let's implement it according to the previous plan. It has not been done before to combine villages and villages. If we do it now, we have experience. It shouldn't take too much time. Which of you two has time?" Chen Xi saw the two of them.
There were no questions, so he asked.
Li You thought for a moment and said, "Let me do it. It just so happens that this job is also part of the household registration. Doing this is equivalent to re-editing the household registration."
"Okay, then it's up to you, but I'm very surprised. You've been doing household registration for several years. Why do you feel like you've been doing it all the time?" Chen Xi asked with curiosity. If I remember correctly, you have been doing it since a few years ago.
, Li Youcai started doing household registration when he came here, and he is still doing it now.
"There are slight adjustments, and I am constantly making revisions and adjustments, and some of the household registrations have to be discarded." Li You lowered the corners of his eyes slightly and said calmly, "But the problem is not big. I will be able to issue one in a while.
Real household registration.”
"Okay, how is the repair of the bridge over Gongyou, and how are the things I arranged for Zheng Wengong done?" Chen Xi changed the topic and turned to Lu Su to ask, these things were what he had discussed before he left.
It’s been arranged, but I don’t know how it’s going so far.
