Song Yang made great determination and gave him great power.
All the adults also promise that they will live up to the prince's trust.
This concludes the main discussion on officialdom.
Regarding the reform of official administration, Song Yang had some ideas.
But the focus now must still be on social stability.
Therefore, the next thing to be discussed is the top priority of this meeting, land reform.
Regarding the land reform, Song Yang had talked with Zhang Heng before and asked Fang Zhe to pass on the information to several others.
It's not too rude to mention this now.
"The population has plummeted and the land is deserted. Land reform is imperative."
Song Yang has set the tone and must change it.
“Specific land reform measures require everyone’s brainstorming.”
"Well, let's take turns speaking."
This time Song Yang did not express his opinion first.
He wants to hear everyone's thoughts.
Fang Zhe was the first to speak.
However, this guy didn't put forward any constructive suggestions. He made a lot of long speeches, but most of them were empty words.
His job is just to introduce ideas.
It was Qiao Jinglong who took over the conversation. He sorted out some thoughts and said:
"Your Majesty, I am a humble official."
"First of all, the people's basic living land is necessary, so regardless of whether they have had land before, they should be given a certain amount of living land."
"Based on the current land situation, fifty acres is considered more appropriate."
"And the people who originally had land...Xiaguan felt that their original land should be retained."
His speech was brief but his attitude was clear.
On the premise of dividing the land, the original private land will be retained.
After that, Chen Fu basically agreed with Qiao Jinglong.
The next person was Wang Ran. When he came to him, there were different opinions.
"The lower official believes that since the land has been redistributed, the original land system should be overturned."
"All the people, calculated on a head-to-head basis, each have fifty acres."
"A family of three has 150 acres of land. Such a large area of land can only be cultivated extensively."
"So no matter whether we keep the original land or not, the people will not be able to plant it."
"And the people's original land will definitely not exceed fifty acres. Now that they have fifty acres of land, it must be what the people want."
"Whether the original land is retained or not is no longer important."
Wang Ran's attitude was clear and he made a new start.
He himself is actually a landlord, and his family owns hundreds of acres of land.
If the land is redistributed, the amount of land in his family will also plummet.
But Wang Ran is such a pure person and does not consider personal interests in state affairs.
Regarding everyone's speech, Song Yang did not make any comment and signaled the next person to continue.
Zhang Heng had discussed land reform with Song Yang before.
That day, he had already expressed his views from the perspective of the landlord class.
Now it was his turn to speak. Zhang Heng organized his words and said:
"Your Majesty, gentlemen."
"What is the purpose of reforming the land system?"
Zhang Heng did not express his opinion immediately but looked at the crowd and asked.
Everyone looked at each other, and Wang Ran was the first to say:
"First, rally people's hearts through land reform."
"Second, fully and rationally allocate and utilize existing land."
After Wang Ran finished speaking, except for Song Yang, the other adults nodded.
Zhang Heng looked at Song Yang, smiled and then said Wang Ran:
"Master Wang is right, but I think there should be one more thing."
This time Zhang Heng did not ask everyone, but said directly:
"Gather all forces together and bring the world back to its center quickly!"
These words were absolutely treasonous before the natural disaster. Isn't it rebellion for a prince to bring the world back to his heart?
Of course, it doesn't matter if you say it now, the world is already in chaos anyway.
"If the land is completely redistributed, how will those with more land return to their homes?" Qiao Jinglong asked doubtfully.
"This requires certain additional conditions on the basis of redistributing land."
"For example, rewarding merit."
"Take your Excellencies as an example. The basic number of land allocations is fifty acres. However, because you have made great contributions to restoring people's livelihood and supporting the people, you can increase the number of land allocations to a certain extent."
"Another example is the Orion He Dayou. Because Orion has made meritorious deeds, it would not be a bad idea to give him fifty acres of meritorious land."
"Students call this method of dividing land to reward farming and weaving."
Zhang Heng said and paused temporarily.
"Then if they are county magistrates elsewhere and the landlords have established a power, how do we define their achievements?" Chen Fu asked.
If Song Yang wants to expand his sphere of influence, he will inevitably encounter many such things.
Without using force, we can only win them over through the chain of interests.
Zhang Heng said with a smile:
"Now that they have established their power, doesn't that mean they are already supporting and protecting the people?"
"Establishing order, appeasing the people, and searching for supplies can all be used as criteria for rewards."
In this way, no one has any objections to the land allocation.
Zhang Heng's idea somewhat coincides with the idea of growing a big beard.
If divided according to rewards, they all have made achievements in protecting the environment and the people.
The land allocated will not be less than the original land.
But here again the issue of fairness and justice arises.
As Song Yang thought before, without a complete supervision system, it would be difficult for those who count merits to be fair and impartial.
We discussed this point for a while, but there was no substantial breakthrough.
Song Yang saw that everyone was almost finished discussing, and then he pressed his hands to signal everyone to be quiet.
"Having said so much, most of the issues focus on fairness and justice."
"In this case, it's better for each of us to take a step back."
“If the original land area exceeds fifty acres, the original land shall be retained.”
“If the original land area is less than fifty acres, it will be increased to fifty acres.”
"But the location of all fields is uniformly allocated by the government."
Song Yang's words made everyone stunned.
Is it that simple?
Zhang Heng was also stunned. This was obviously different from Song Yang's previous thoughts.
In fact, Song Yang originally wanted to allocate land by rewarding farming and weaving.
He even wanted to copy Shang Yang's reforms.
But the current situation is a shortage of people, not a shortage of land.
Since the landlord class attaches great importance to fields, they will temporarily leave their original number of fields unchanged and only adjust the location of cultivated land based on the actual situation.
In this way, the people will be happy and the landlord class will not object.
This was also Song Yang's sudden flash of inspiration after listening to their heated discussion just now.
Since the contradiction between man and land is not the main contradiction, then put this contradiction aside.
Song Yang was influenced by later generations and felt that the landlord class must be overthrown.
But in fact, under the current circumstances, the number of landlords left is very small.
There is no need to deliberately overthrow it, and they won't be able to cause any trouble.
In this case, it would be better to unite them.
No one had much to say about Song Yang's change in attitude.
After all, this way everyone's interests are taken care of.
The land reform plan, which I originally thought would take several days of quarreling to resolve, was implemented so smoothly.
Of course, not everyone can enjoy fifty acres of land.
This fifty acres of treatment is only given to the first batch of people who follow Song Yang.
Including 5,000 survivors from Jiangzhou Fucheng, as well as aborigines from Duchang, De'an, and Ruichang.
This number is approximately 23,000 people.
This will require more than 1.1 million acres of land.
If several counties have one share, the land can still be taken out.
After all, Song Yang now controls 1.8 million acres of land around the city.