On the high palace wall, Liu Che walked forward slowly.
The officials and attendants behind him followed closely and surrounded him.
"From home, this time a total of six merchants' properties, including the Du family, the Zhang family, and the Wang family, were confiscated, totaling more than a thousand acres of land, nearly 100 million yuan, more than 5,000 gold coins, more than ten warehouses, and dozens of houses.
There are countless shops. As your Majesty wishes, all the money and gold will be paid into the inner treasury of the Shaofu. As for the fields, warehouses and houses, the family can make their own arrangements!" Zhang Tang lowered his head and reported.
Liu Che lowered his head and looked at the bricks on the city wall and smiled slightly.
At this moment, five days have passed since he ordered the execution of Du Mao and others.
In these five days, Liu Che used blood and butcher's knife to let the merchants in Guanzhong know that the royal family's affairs were beyond their reach.
The Du Mao family headed by them had more than a dozen of their children imprisoned in prison, and countless others were exiled and sentenced to prison terms.
Other families have similar treatment.
Only the wife of Zhang Gui, who bears the surname of the Bo family, was extra-judicially favored and allowed to be redeemed. Then, the woman took her property and quickly remarried to a nobleman who was said to be the nephew of Marquis Che.
Of course, this is just an episode.
The real handiwork fell on the matter of confiscating the house.
"More than a thousand hectares..." Liu Che sighed with emotion, and said with a sneer: "A mere six households of merchants with municipal registration occupy more than a thousand hectares of land. What a good trick!"
You know, ten years ago, there were still land grants in Guanzhong.
In the Han Dynasty at that time, the standard for granting land to landless peasants was that they should be civilians in Guanzhong with a title and no criminal record.
The minimum standard for land grant is one hundred acres per household, which is one hectare of land.
At that time, there was no land annexation in Guanzhong, but the scale was quite small.
However, today, ten years later, only six merchants were confiscated. More than 1,000 hectares of land were confiscated, totaling nearly 100,000 acres. This is equivalent to the entire arable area of a small county!
In particular, the Guanzhong line is a large area of mu, with 240 steps per acre.
But Liu Che knew that this was just the tip of the iceberg.
Among those killed this time, at best, one of the Du family could barely be considered a tiger, and the others were just flies.
Liu Che has never even touched a real oligarch.
For example, the Tian family, the Wuyan family, or even the Big Mac family such as Dou.
Even Liu Che knew it well. After the fall of Ambassador Du, most of the Du family's land, property, and workshops were divided up by other wealthy businessmen and bureaucrats.
All that was left for the imperial court to confiscate were scraps.
Hearing this, Zhang Tang lowered his head deeply.
Zhang Tang knew very well what role the Tian family played in this feast.
Liu Che waved his hand and said: "All the slaves and servants of each family confiscated this time should be sent to Sixian Garden..."
Six merchant families had hundreds of slaves, and more than a hundred of them had children. The young ones were even nursing.
Obviously, if Liu Che had given these people freedom with a wave of his hand, he might have harmed their lives.
"No!" Zhang Tang nodded, but it was a little strange, because according to the past tradition of the Han Dynasty, confiscated slaves were usually either sold or given freedom.
In most cases, Liu would let his slaves go free for the sake of face.
But Zhang Tang was born into a well-off family and had never worried about warmth or cold since he was a child.
How do you know how difficult life is for people at the bottom of society?
If Liu Che had not been reborn, he would probably have been self-righteous and would have given freedom to those slaves like a holy mother.
However, as a reborn person, Liu Che had witnessed with his own eyes that giving freedom to a slave once only resulted in the death of countless people.
That was what happened after the death of my father in the previous life. As a routine tradition, before the emperor died, he issued an edict to release the maids and slaves in the palace.
As a result, hundreds of maids and eunuchs who had lived in the palace for most of their lives died of starvation and freezing after leaving the palace because they had no skills and were disconnected from society for too long. Others, in desperation, chose
Sold himself into slavery to a wealthy businessman.
This has to be said to be an irony.
At the same time, this is also something that has not been recorded in history.
And these slaves are similar to those palace maids and eunuchs.
Most of them have been other people's domestic slaves since birth. They only know how to serve their masters and have no skills to make a living.
What's even more frightening is that they have no home and no relatives to take refuge with.
If Liu Che were a holy mother, it can be expected that there will be many poor people freezing to death on the streets of Chang'an this winter.
Fortunately, he was reborn once, so Liu Che knew how to arrange this matter.
He turned around and said to Wang Dao: "Wang Dao, please pass on the order of the orphans and let the fellow villagers in Sixian Garden teach these poor people how to farm, how to cultivate, how to harvest and store... As for,
Their food and clothing expenses..."
Liu Che thought for a while and said: "Each person will be given one hundred dollars, one stone of corn, and they will have to earn the rest by themselves!"
It is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish.
The reason is very simple, and Liu Che does not intend to show his kindness indiscriminately.
Liu Che temporarily planned to let them help with farm work in Sixian Garden, herding deer and so on. They could earn five cents a day for herding deer, and one hundred and fifty cents a month, which was enough to support these people.
As for the future, it depends on the fate of these people!
"No!" Wang Dao nodded and wrote it down.
Liu Che's handling made Zhang Tang and Ji An look at each other in surprise.
At this moment, they discovered that even though their estimation of the prince was high enough.
However, the prince's thinking and way of doing things were often beyond their expectations.
Especially Ji An, coming from a family of officials, he knew very well that the prince's treatment was almost perfect.
"As for the more than a thousand hectares of land..." Liu Che chuckled.
He naturally knew that this was a test given to him by the emperor's father.
The price of Guanzhong land is so high, one acre of land can easily cost tens of thousands of dollars.
This is more than a thousand hectares, more than 100,000 acres, a wealth of almost hundreds of millions of dollars. No one can control it. People who are a little greedy for money are afraid that they will swallow it up as soon as they have the opportunity.
But Liu Che is the prince.
If you want to prove that you are a qualified prince, you cannot just focus on your own gains and losses.
But look at the world.
After thinking for a moment, Liu Che ordered: "Make a register of all the acres, and then write a document to the Nei Shi Yamen. He said, Gu said it. Let the Nei Shi Yamen allocate another batch of official land, combine the two, and grant the land.
Give it to the landless peasants in Guanzhong... Ju Qing..." Liu Che looked at Ju Meng and ordered: "I will leave this matter to you!"
Ju Meng was overjoyed when he heard this.
Grant the fields!
Who doesn’t know that presiding over land transfers is the best way to gain political prestige?
At that time, Chao Cuo assisted Beiping Hou Zhang Cang in holding a land grant, and then he officially entered the court!
"My family, I am a vulgar person, and I am not capable of doing this..." Ju Meng thought for a moment, then suppressed the excitement in his heart and declined.
He naturally knows and understands his own worth.
Conferring farmland is no small matter.
In the first forty years of the history of the Han Dynasty, land granting was the most important national policy.
Through the land granting year after year, the emperor of the Han Dynasty extended his authority and tentacles deep into the foundation, and entered the pavilion, especially Guanzhong. The entire grassroots political power was completely controlled by the emperor of the Han Dynasty under the land granting.
In the past, major events like this were personally presided over by the prime minister, directly intervened by the emperor, and closely coordinated by the three ministers and nine ministers. In this way, problems often occurred.
Because the question of who can grant land and who cannot, is an unsolvable problem in itself.
And land is the lifeblood of farmers.
Ju Meng remembers the grand occasion when he was a child and granted land.
At that time, the whole hometown, every household was busy dividing their families. The yamen were lined up with people applying for land transfers. In order to grab a quota for land grant, there were armed fights and vendettas.
Liu Che chuckled. This matter really depends on Ju Meng.
The reason is very simple. Except for Ju Meng's rangers, there are really not many people who can understand the current situation of the lower class people in Guanzhong.
After all, it was almost eleven years since the Han Dynasty last granted land.
Of course, Liu Che also knew that if things like land transfer were done well, it would be a great achievement. Once there was any large-scale behind-the-scenes deal, it would become a laughing stock and even completely lose the existing people's support.
After all, it was China’s low-rent housing that gave the people hope and then shattered it!
Think about what became of low-rent housing in the end?
Liu Cheke had no hope that his reputation as a prince would eventually turn into a gentleman's sword among the people.
So, Liu Che said: "You can just go ahead and do it. Gu will let Ji An watch from the side. If you encounter difficulties, you can also come to Gu directly!"
Ju Meng then nodded and said: "Promise, I will do my best!"
After thinking for a while, Ju Meng asked for instructions again: "May I ask, Your Highness, if you have any instructions on granting land?"
Liu Che thought for a while and said: "For the time being, let's use three standards..."
"One: Families with an annual income of less than 5,000 yuan have no criminal record!" The annual income is less than 5,000 yuan, which is the standard poverty limit of the Han Dynasty. More than 5,000 yuan proves that the family can maintain the minimum living needs.
, at least you can eat half full. But with less than 5,000 yuan, you are really a standard poor person in Guanzhong. Usually such families are on the verge of collapse, and they can only sell their children and daughters when they encounter difficulties!
"Second: There are men in the family who are affected by the king's affairs!" This is naturally politically correct, and it was also the first consideration when granting land in the past. After all, these families are the Han family, the real die-hards of the Liu family, and their true family members.
Of course you have to take care of it.
"Third: There are those who are guarding the border at the border, or those who are disabled in the army!" This clause did not exist in the past, but Liu Che deliberately added it just to inspire and encourage those soldiers who had gone to the Great Wall to guard the border. This proves that Liu Che
They have not forgotten their merits.
Liu Che said calmly: "There is a premise for all three of these, that is, the family must really have no land, or the number of acres of land per person is less than ten acres!"
"Let's arrange it this way first!"
This time, the scale of land transfer was very small.
Even if the Shaofu allocates the same amount of official land to make up another 200,000 to 300,000 acres, it would not make much sense.
At most, it can only accommodate 2,000 households.
Compared with the population of various counties in Guanzhong, which is often tens of thousands of households, it is only a drop in the bucket.
But it is a hope.
A hopeful hope.
There is no group of people who love and look forward to the land more than farmers.
"One more rule. All acres of land granted this time must be cultivated for more than ten years before they can belong to the grantor. Within ten years, these lands cannot be traded, sold, or mortgaged!" Liu Che added after thinking for a while.
This is natural, otherwise certain "proletarians", such as rangers and local gangsters, would smooth out their relationships, take the land, and then sell it to wealthy businessmen or nobles.
Liu Che is not a money-splitting boy, how could he let them take advantage of this loophole!
"Yan Yi, please report this matter to your father in detail when you enter the palace tomorrow morning!" Liu Che looked at Yan Yi and said.
"promise!"
"As for those shops, if you can sell them, sell them..." Liu Che thought for a while and then said: "If you really can't sell them, let Wang Dao take care of them!"
He is indeed short of money.
It's almost the New Year's Eve.
Chinese people naturally give out red envelopes during the Chinese New Year. Now, there are nearly a thousand people in the palace including officials, maids, eunuchs and guards.
The red envelopes and year-end bonuses of these people alone are not a small amount of money.
Then, there was Chen Ajiao, and the woman who was following him now.
It would be outrageous not to give some bonuses or provide some benefits.
Then, in the new year, naturally new official uniforms and ribbons will be given...
Liu Che made a rough calculation and found that just for this year alone, he would have to spend millions of money.
Then, there is Queen Bo’s birthday, which also costs a lot of money.
Lin Lin finally figured it out. If he didn't spend tens of thousands a year or two later, he probably wouldn't be able to hold on.
This was the result of saving as much as possible and Liu Che himself not being extravagant and wasteful.
In his previous life, Liu Rong was the crown prince. In one year, the crown prince’s uterus expenses were nearly 100 million yuan!
Wang Dao nodded happily.
The Han Dynasty has always had a tradition of using eunuchs to manage the prince's property.
"By the way, when will the young master come over to Tang Mu's office?" Liu Che asked Ji An.
As a prince, it is natural that it cannot be all expenses and no income.
Liu Che now has the food towns of Hongguyuan, Changling, Huayin and other ten counties on his body. It is conservatively estimated that the food tax of these ten counties is 20 to 30 million yuan.
"Going back to my family, the Cen Ming Mansion has written a letter to me, saying that I will probably be able to return in November next year!" Ji An bowed and replied.
Liu Che nodded.
The Han Dynasty used the Zhuanxu calendar to keep track of time.
In Zhuanxu's calendar, October is the beginning of the year.
In other words, at this time, September is the last month of the year and October is the beginning of the new year.
Therefore, we sometimes see in history books that although they are all in a certain year BC, there are two year names in the history books of the Han family.
Liu Che scratched his head.
To be honest, Zhuanxu's calendar is no longer suitable for today's era.
This old almanac from two or three years ago has almost no redeeming qualities for the current climate.
Because, you have to know that when Zhuanxu Li was founded, the Yellow River was still running like an elephant!
Later generations of piglets switched to the Taichu calendar in the first year of Taichu and adapted well to the new climate change. The twenty-four solar terms derived from the Taichu calendar had a far-reaching influence.
"Should I find someone to come up with the Taichu Calendar?" Liu Che thought for a while, then gave up the plan.
Resetting the calendar is not something that a little prince like him can decide or do.
This can only be done if the emperor wants to do it.
The reason is simple: the power of kings is granted by heaven.
On the other hand, except the emperor, no one else is qualified to communicate with God!
Liu Che shrugged his shoulders and looked at the city in the distance.
The year Bing and Wan will pass.
The world will also turn a new page! (To be continued)
