Akainu doubted Wang Lufei's identity, and Wang Lufei directly stated that the navy was not important enough for him to lie. He was not Garp's grandson. If he said otherwise, he was not.
Akainu looked at Wang Lufei's arrogant attitude and said unhappily: "Since the navy is not attractive, why do you still join the army?"
"Because someone sent me here, and my attitude is that once I have done something, I must do it well and not give up halfway." Wang Lufei said that he was just following the path arranged for him by others, and it was not that he really liked the navy.
Faced with this attitude, Akainu couldn't help but stare at the other person, as if he wanted to see through Wang Lufei's true heart through the window of his soul. He was obviously a powerful navy, but his attitude towards the navy was so perfunctory. If he forced the other party, maybe Wang Lufei would
If you leave the navy immediately, you will most likely become a pirate, right?
Thinking of this, Akainu softened his expression and asked in a kind tone: "What is your attitude towards naval justice?"
"The theory is very good, but the practice is a mess." Wang Lufei said frankly. This was the first time he expressed his attitude in front of senior navy officials.
Naval justice is about maintaining order. As long as everyone abides by the rules of the game, order in the sea will bring long-term peace.
But in practice, no one is satisfied.
"It seems that you have your own understanding of justice. Don't worry. It's just you and me in the office today. Let's talk about your understanding in detail." Akainu was curious about what the other party could say.
"Eight hundred years ago..." Wang Lufei was not polite, he just said it, and it was eight hundred years ago when he opened his mouth.
Akainu was dumbfounded. The other party really dared to say it. I hope it was not illegal information about the historical text.
Of course, Wang Lufei is not talking about blank history, he just said: "Eight hundred years ago, the pioneers of the world government controlled a large amount of land and obtained land ownership rights, talent rights, and economic rights. They could directly control the land and directly supervise it.
Farmers produce. Then they pass these resources from generation to generation. The king's son remains the king, and the noble's son continues to be the noble. In the past, the sea was opened up, and the family was inherited by the eldest son, and the younger son could go out and occupy new land. But in this way,
The order can be stabilized. At this time, the income of the king and the nobles comes directly from the labor of the people. The people can feed the king and the nobles by cultivating public land, and they can also support themselves..."
Akainu was dumbfounded. A young marine was giving him a history lesson, and he was talking about history from the most basic distribution relationship.
Wang Lufei tells history from the perspective of changes in the inheritance system and taxation system.
Taxation is not collected from the beginning, because the people have no money or even land at the beginning. The land belongs to the lord. Therefore, the labor force of the people is tax. The people have to cultivate public land, and the labor on public land is tax.
Later, the labor tax and farming tax were divided.
"As the expansion reached its limit, there was no new land, but the king and nobles were still giving birth to children on the land, so they could only enfeoff their own public lands. So the land that originally belonged to one lord was subdivided into a large number of
Small lord. At this time, the big lord's public land is far from enough, so the big lord can only ask the small lord to pay tribute, or to hand over grain according to the number of acres of land, and the method of taxation begins to change..." Wang Lufei continued.
Because there was no new land, the big lords could only enfeoff the public land that originally belonged to them. This led to the continuous shrinkage of the public land and had to collect taxes from the small lords. At this time, the target of the tax was not the farmers, but the small lords.
The small lords directly managed the land, obtained the harvest, and turned it over according to the number of acres, but the farmers were still producing.
"It's not over yet. The population is still increasing, but tax collection and land rights are in the hands of nobles of all sizes. They pass their rights from generation to generation to their eldest son, and other children are not eligible to inherit.
, so a large number of grassroots appeared. These grasshoppers were not qualified to inherit the resources to survive, so they could only join the navy. But the navy could not feed everyone, so more grasshoppers became pirates. So according to the tax collection
, the difference between those with inheritance rights and those without inheritance rights, divided into world governments, large and small nobles, and recklessness."
Akainu's expression was helpless, because this is the essence of the problem. There is nothing left to divide, but the number of people with nothing is still increasing. These people are all descendants of nobles, but they have no inheritance rights and cannot obtain income from taxes.
So he took the risk and became a criminal who undermined social stability.
Who deprived them of the right to inherit? So what if they didn’t commit a crime?
Of course, these have nothing to do with the people. The people are still the working tools on the land. As the number of people increases, handicrafts can also be developed. The original handicraft workshops were all worked by slaves, and a small noble family may have dozens of people engaged in handicrafts.
Handicraft industry requires raw materials, production tools, and markets. It is easy to form a monopoly. It is difficult for Cao Mang to compete with the workshops of small nobles in terms of cost, unless Cao Mang gives up his identity and becomes a laborer like the common people.
But Cao Mang definitely doesn't want to. Why should he, a descendant of a noble family, enjoy the prosperity and prosperity of others, suffer the same hardship as the common people? Why should he not inherit the family's assets?
Of course, it’s because they are a big sect and I am a small sect. The small sect cannot get resources and in the end it becomes reckless.
At this time, some people have to ask, what if Da Zong has no sons, but only daughters? In the island country, there is also an adopted son system. Just marry the daughter to the adopted son. This is why so many two-dimensional works have orthopedic plots about brothers and sisters.
, because it is common for the adopted son of a samurai family to marry his older sister.
So the essence of the problem is that although many people are born in aristocratic families, they do not have the right to inherit, so they can only take risks. They must overcome their superiors, otherwise they will become ordinary people.
"You are right. If you want to stop recklessness, you must either increase taxes or liberalize inheritance rights." Akainu said.
"But no matter which method is used, the big nobles must be attacked." Wang Lufei said: "The navy simply can't do it. This is the fundamental reason for the navy's continuous decline. Therefore, the navy has no future."
Akainu thought that it was not without a future, because there were other ways out: reducing the population, or finding a technology that would create a new era, so that it could still be maintained.
Reducing the population, Thanos likes it. As for finding new technologies and developing more land, it is not impossible. After all, the seabed and the universe are good development directions, and there is even a hard nut like the Red Earth Continent.
On the premise of not changing the taxation and inheritance laws, Akainu thought of two methods. Of course, if he had to choose between taxation and inheritance laws, he would choose to increase taxes and never touch the inheritance laws.
Because the law of inheritance shakes the foundation.
When the eldest son succeeds to replace the younger brother, it is a direct change of dynasty. The replacement of the eldest son system by the imperial examination system and the favor order is almost a change of dynasty. The imperial examination system replaces the imperial examination system and the favor order, and the same is true...
After the supporters and opponents fought hard, they finally came up with a compromise plan, and then the two sides continued the game, and in the end the more efficient side won.
If we don't fight, how can the eldest son, who has the advantage in inheritance rights, let go? His resources were acquired by his ancestors, why should he hand them over? Inheriting resources by himself is reasonable and legal, and his foundation is unbreakable.
If you want to use the inheritance law, you have to see if the sword in Cao Mang's hand is sharp. Poor families really dare to kill people, because they have nothing and are not afraid of wearing shoes when they are barefoot.
The final result of the fight was that the poor family got the opportunity to take the imperial examination. At the same time, the eldest son inheritance system can still be used. However, if the eldest son has no fame, it will decline like the Jia family in "Dream of Red Mansions". Therefore, the eldest son must also invest in education to cultivate his own imperial examination.
Talent, in the end the two sides competed under the imperial examination system, and gradually formed a class of scholar-bureaucrats, competing for each other's inheritance rights of resources.
But there are no imperial examinations in the sea, there are only big and small sects, rich and poor families, and the two sides can only fight each other.
The eldest son of a great noble can legally inherit a large amount of resources, and the inheritance law does not give a chance to recklessness, so the world is in chaos. Akainu has few options, either to change the inheritance law, to increase taxes, to reduce the population, or to find new ways to expand.