However, is it so easy to say that an immortal country is so easy? Kunyu Kingdom is a weak country and is in a choke point. Why can't Hyun see the possibility of an immortal country?
Rubbing his forehead irritably:
Do you really want to live the life of a refugee? Or be considered a member of the royal family, and then live the miserable life of the royal women who destroyed the country? Grandpa! It is better to commit suicide.
The generals thought it was just a normal duty report, so they recited the manuscript that they had prepared and memorized to Ning Sheng. In fact, Ning Sheng did not need to worry about Xun detecting armaments, because there were some differences between ancient place names and modern place names. , Even if it is the same, it is impossible for Hyun to know the names of all villages, townships and towns. The generals are talking, and Hyun's mind is confused, where is this? Alas, where is that? Where are they talking about?
After the generals left, the two came out from behind the screen, and Ning Sheng's eyes kept falling on Hyun.
After getting closer, Hyun said:
"Brother, don't look at me with such suspicious eyes. I don't understand the place names at all, let alone the north and the south."
Ning Sheng was amused by Hyun's appearance, so he sat next to him, put his arm around her shoulders and shook her:
"Hyun, what will happen if the Jin Dynasty falls apart again?"
Hyun looked at Ning Sheng with a wicked smile:
"Brother is causing trouble to me again. As the king of a country, brother can't fail to see its future."
Ning Sheng sighed. He had seen it, but he didn't want to believe that it would happen. But no matter how much he deceived himself, he still had to face reality. Officials could be ostriches, but he, the emperor, absolutely, absolutely could not be like ostriches.
Let go of Hyun, sit up straight, and write:
"King Yi, take my instructions and check the border defenses on all sides as quickly as possible. I allow you to dispatch whoever you need."
While talking, Hyun stood up and stood aside.
Ning Fang followed the rules, stood up, walked to the front of Ning Sheng, knelt down on one leg, performed the military general salute, cupped his fists and said:
"Yi Wang Ningying accepts the decree!"
Ning Sheng personally handed the decree to Dao Ning Feng, and then said:
"You have to be careful along the way and be wary of boundary variables."
Ning Fang took the handwriting and put it away and said:
"Don't worry, brother, I will be more careful."
Hyun wants to go too, wants to see the armament situation everywhere, but now Ning Sheng and Ning Fang don't fully believe in themselves, and even if they propose it, they will never agree. On the contrary, it will make them more suspicious and full of envy. He looked at Ning Yan eagerly.
Ning Fang saw the look in her eyes, smiled secretly in his heart, walked up to her and asked:
"Want to go?"
Hyun didn't know whether to shake his head or nod, he just looked at him expectantly.
But Ning Feng's face showed bad intentions:
"Looking at you like this, I know I want to go. Then I..." Hearing this, Xuan was excited, and a smile broke out on his face. He looked at Ning Feng with brighter eyes, but Ning Fang suddenly changed his mind and said, "I won't take you there." "
If you didn't think he was a prince, you wouldn't dare to act rashly and went to clean up his bastard in the morning. Is there anyone so rude? I glared at him out of anger, turned around and climbed up the ladder to read a book. I heard Ning Ning behind me. Yan laughed heartily.
Stimulated by Ning Yan, he suddenly had an idea, turned around and said to Ning Sheng:
"Brother, there should be a lot of land in the hands of the nobles of Kunyu Kingdom now, right? And there are a lot of people on these lands who don't pay rent to the royal family and work hard, right?"
"Since the end of the Han Dynasty, the land annexation process has accelerated, and large land ownership has been increasingly concentrated in the hands of powerful families. At the same time, bankrupt craftsmen and farmers who have lost their land have to gather under the powerful families and become bound to the lord's land. "Peasants" established a self-sufficient manor economy, and the people who worked on these lands did not pay rent to the royal family, nor did they submit to labor sent by the state, but paid rent to bureaucratic landlords and worked for them. It is equivalent to the private property of bureaucratic landlords. At first, the number of tenants at different levels was stipulated, but later due to wars and other reasons, the order was not so strict, so they were recruited privately, and even some exiled peasants were captured. As a result, more and more people gather on private land, and the state owns less and less, which has a great impact on the state's tax revenue.
Hyun suddenly mentioned this. Ning Sheng and Ning Feng didn't know what he meant. They looked at each other. Ning Sheng nodded:
"Yes, that's true."
Not to mention these people, even the Ning family was like this back then.
Hyun glanced at Ning Ming and said to Ning Sheng:
"Brother, don't you think that with so many people gathering on private land and not paying rent to the royal family, the nobles are getting richer and richer, while the royal family is getting poorer? If the royal family is poor, it means that the country is poor. How can we develop the country in the future? , what is used to support the war?”
Ning Sheng and Ning Fang's minds cleared. This had been the case since the end of the Han Dynasty. It was precisely because the gentry could be self-sufficient and had military strength that they became one party...well, in today's terms, they were the Tu emperors. The emperor relied on their support. Only in this way can they control the country under their jurisdiction. Therefore, starting from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the emperors recruited these local emperors into the palace, assigned them positions, and made them happy. Only then could the throne be guaranteed. Otherwise, if there is rebellion here today, there will be rebellion tomorrow. Externally, these things were enough to bear internally, so the gentry could restrain the imperial power.
For example, in the Western Jin Dynasty, Sima Yan also had to be wary of Jia Chong and other big gentry. Especially in the war to destroy Wu, it can be seen that Sima Yan was afraid of Jia Chong and other big gentry. In the Kunyu Kingdom, people like Teng Juan The Teng family, Ye Zhen’s mother’s family, Ye Yao’s family, and the prime minister Lei Xu’s Lei family, etc., are all noble families. Teng Yu, Ye Yao, and Lei Xu are the current heads of the three families, and they all hold high positions. The important ministers are relatively reassured about Ning Sheng of the Lei family. The most fearful ones are the Ye family and the Teng family. Otherwise, they would not have allowed Teng Juan to enter the palace and adopted the strategy of Ning Fang marrying Teng Juan. How to weaken these great gentry families is Ning Sheng has been thinking about it.
So, when I heard Hyun talking about this, I asked casually:
"What's your idea?"
Ning Fang glanced at Ning Sheng and asked a fool for a solution?
Hyun walked to Ning Sheng again:
"The taxation method has been changed to collect taxes according to the amount of property. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, there were so-called suanmin and suanmin, which taxed the property of households in proportion. We can refer to that to collect taxes, not from businessmen, but from merchants. Xiang Quanmin, but in the process of taxation, there may be situations where tax is collected for adding tiles or growing taller trees. This problem needs to be solved by my brother. This is the work of the tax collectors. We cannot let them be so messed up. Come."
Min refers to the hemp rope used to wear copper coins. Initially in the Han Dynasty, a sling of money was called one Min. So "calculating Min" means liquidating property. What about suing Min? "Gao" means reporting, which means reporting someone who has concealed property. The taxes levied on craftsmen, loan sharks, and ships were a large-scale campaign to suppress business.
Although this move temporarily enabled Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to raise a large amount of funds for him to use in various aspects, it caused a large number of merchants to go bankrupt and retarded the development of the commodity economy. The phenomenon of "few merchants and expensive goods" appeared. But merchants The power did not disappear after suffering a severe blow. In the late Western Han Dynasty, businessmen, bureaucrats, and landlords gradually merged, intensifying the development of land annexation, which directly led to the serious social crisis at that time.
Here, Hyun proposed to Ning Sheng a combination of modern personal income tax and accounting.
As an emperor, Ning Sheng certainly understood the pros and cons of suing Min and suing Min. He had a vague framework in his mind and nodded repeatedly:
Why didn't I think of this? I've seen the same mistakes before, but I haven't thought of a solution yet.
With this thought in mind, he asked again:
"But such a sudden tax change may cause turmoil, especially for these noble families. They have been doing this for generations. It will not be easy to suddenly get money from them."
Hyun nodded and looked at Ning Ming again, which made Ning Ming feel bad. She had already looked at herself several times.
Sure enough, I saw Hyun walking slowly in front of Ning Yu with a bad smile:
"In order to silence those people, I have to ask King Yi to take the lead and set an example."
Ning Fang's face turned dark when he heard this. His money came from the monthly silver and salary given by the royal family, and of course the money from the fiefdom. But the money from the fiefdom was too little, so he basically relied on the monthly silver and salary. In the palace, There are still a lot of people to feed and daily expenses to maintain. He is not a man who knows how to live and make money. It sounds like he really doesn't have much money, but when he thinks about it, he can get some money from those nobles. , is also a good thing, weakening their financial resources is also a step towards the good side, it is better than standing still now.
He glared at Xuan and said to Ning Sheng:
"Brother, I am willing. I am happy to get money from those old guys."
Ning Sheng had been helping Ning Ying manage the finances of Prince Yi's Mansion, so he knew very well how much money Ning Ying had, and looked at him with a frown.
Ning Yan saw him like this and said first:
"I know what I want to say. It doesn't matter. It's a good thing to save a little. Fortunately, I don't have children. It's easy for adults to make do."
Hyun looked at Ning Yan, and then remembered what Ning Yan said about Princess Yi that day, and felt a little sympathetic to him. However, Kun Yuguo is important, ahem, to put it bluntly, her life is very important! Kunyuguo Good, she will be fine:
Ah! Heaven! Please forgive me for this selfish thought!
Now that he has reached this point, Hyun does not intend to have any worries anymore, and goes on to say:
"As for the land, my brother still has to find a way to get it out of their hands. If an individual owns too much land, it is not good for the country. There are also those tenants and tribes. They must be classified as state-owned instead of privately owned." ."
This tribe used to belong to the military establishment. However, during the peasant uprising at the end of the New Mang Dynasty, local powerful people used the military establishment division to organize their clans, guests, children, etc. to form armed forces. Later, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, wars broke out. Peasants who were unable to protect themselves requested the protection of armed clans. In order to gather people to protect themselves or to fight, the clans also needed to strengthen their armed forces. Therefore, they learned from the tyranny of the late Xinmang and used more military feudal systems to control themselves. The clans, guests, tenants, disciples, old officials, and tribes were once again formed in large numbers, and became common pronouns for the private armed forces of the great families.
These tribes were farmers in peacetime, tilling the fields, and became soldiers in times of war. The official tribes, originally commanded by the generals of the Japanese Army, also carried out farming when they were not fighting. Later, the generals saw that they were profitable, so they The troops are widely recruited to engage in production. In troubled times, people have nowhere to go, and the tribes always follow the general. The tribes absolutely obey the orders of the officers they belong to, and the color of being privately owned by the commander is getting stronger and stronger.
At the beginning, Buqu was not looked down upon. After the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Buqu's status gradually became humble. By the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Buqu had become a lowly person, with a status like a slave, and still, still, still had the hereditary status of an old man. !
If some tribes could be captured, it would be equivalent to weakening the military strength of the noble clan. Ning Sheng nodded again and again. He had been thinking about these for a long time, but he just couldn't think of a solution:
"Any ideas?"
Just now she felt that she was quite crazy and felt like she was pointing the way to the country. She was squeezing her legs and was about to drink water. She was stunned when she heard this. She doesn’t understand politics, law, or the balance of power. She just made an opinion.
Shouldn’t the rest be a matter for those in power? (To be continued)