Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 450 Land System

  Outside Pingyang City, the spring is good. After the war, this piece of land finally waited for the time to recuperate. There were not enough scribes to measure and count the land, so Fei Qian could only rely on soldiers in the army to count the fields around Pingyang.

  I didn’t know how to count, so I used to engrave the word “正” on a wooden board to replace it. I didn’t know the length, and I didn’t know how to measure, so I used ropes and wooden sticks fixed at right angles to replace it...

Anyway, use a wooden stick to fix a 90-degree right angle, and then pull a fixed-length rope along the extension line of the wooden stick until it reaches the end, then you can drive a wooden stake along the rope, and then use a right-angled wooden stick to determine On the other side, pull the rope again until a roughly square shape is drawn.

   Of course, there are many differences in this measurement method, but the advantage is that it is simple and easy to operate, and even ordinary soldiers can do it.

  Fei Qian leaned over to grab a piece of soil and pinched it. Because there has been no cultivation for a long time, the old cultivated land on the outskirts of Pingyang County has lost its stickiness and is loose.

These lands need to be plowed deeply, and the soil below can be turned up to grow some crops. Moreover, in the early stage, the field strength should not be too much, and the yield will not be very high. After two or three years of careful maintenance, the land here Only then will it return to normal farming.

  Jia Qu came out of the city and came to Fei Qian. After meeting Li, he handed over a piece of silk from his sleeve, with words written all over it.

  Fei Qian unfolded it and took a look, he couldn't help but took a deep breath, and densely wrote on the silk cloth the property of the Hedong Wei family in this area...

  A quarter of the stores in Anyi County belong to Wei's...

  Linfen County occupies more than half of it...

   There are also other counties such as Pishi County...

  The industries involved include rice, cloth, salt and other livelihood materials, as well as other industries such as quality shops and restaurants, and even papermaking, sculpture, casting, breeding and other related industries.

   It can be said that the tentacles of the Hedong Wei family have involved all aspects of people's livelihood.

In addition to these street stores and shops within the city, there is also the most important piece of land and Wubao. In this area, the Hedong Wei family has a total of six large and small Wubao villages. The largest one has more than a thousand people. Some small ones have several hundred, so as to control the surrounding land farmers...

   Fei Qian could not help but click his tongue. If Jia Qu himself was not a member of the Hedong gentry, how would he know so much?

  When I was in Xiangyang, the Huang family, including Huang's Hermitage, was only four villages and forts, and they were far away from each other, and the scale did not reach the level of the Wei family.

   O land...

Feiqian turned his attention to the open land of Pingyang. Fortunately, now that the Han Dynasty is in decline, some things can't be taken care of. He wants to occupy the land of the old city of Pingyang here. Sprayed to death, although Pingyang Hou has disappeared, so naturally the ownership of these lands belongs to the emperor.

  I didn’t get the emperor’s permission to reclaim and plant without authorization, hehe...

  But now one is that this piece of land has been looted by the barbarians and has been abandoned; the second is that the Han Dynasty itself still has the mind to take care of such trivial matters?

  The most important thing is that I need this piece of land, otherwise how would I farm it? How did the food come from?

   This time the captured Baibo, Fei Qian was going to kill the big ones and release the small ones, so he wanted to keep them. From time to time, the situation is different, so naturally the strategy adopted is also different.

  Land system, Fei Qian really can't think of any better way.

   During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the well field system was adopted. "Encouraging the earth to make mediocrity", the well field belongs to the King of Zhou. The king of Zhou bestowed the lands granted to princes and high officials according to their titles. The recipients only have the right to use the well fields but not private rights, and cannot transfer or trade them.

  Because there is no business, only enfeoffment, so the ancient nobles and slave farming were born.

Then "rituals and music collapsed", the princes became stronger and stronger, and Comrade Zhou, who was no longer a bird, began to collect all the land from these fields, armed himself, and began to use war to seize the land of other princes, and the Warring States Period began. .

Why did everyone in the Qin Dynasty rejoice when they heard about their meritorious deeds, and they were extremely aggressive, because the Qin Dynasty later stipulated that land could be obtained by relying on military exploits, and this land was owned by individuals, and could be bought, sold and inherited. How much enthusiasm has contributed to Qin's war operations.

In the Han Dynasty and now, the land is in principle owned by the state, called "public land", and the emperor "falsely" cultivates it for farmers, but in fact, these lands are concentrated in the hands of large rural landlords, so that there has been a thousand-year history Land Wars.

  This model produced three classes, the royal family at the top, the landlords at the middle class, and the farmers at the bottom.

Then there is the contradiction between land ownership by feudal nobles and farmers, and the contradiction between whether the land flow is led by the government or by individuals. At the same time, there is naturally the contradiction between population growth and land concentration. The contradiction between these three is actually the most fundamental. The problem lies in taxation, that is, the contradiction in land output.

   Regarding this mutual contradiction, Fei Qian really has nothing to do.

  The **** determines the head. Now Feiqian is in the primary stage of feudal lords, so naturally he hopes that the interests will be tilted here. As for the future, this...

  No one can tell.

  Anyway, if you want to reclaim the land of the big landlords, it is tantamount to cutting flesh on these feudal lords, that is, the gentry!

  Hey hey hey...

   Now it seems that Hedong Wei's meat is quite fat!

  However, there must be a limit to this, it can only be aimed at some individuals, not all of them can be killed with one shot, otherwise...

  Fei Qian still doesn't want to end up like Wang Mang.

   He is more or less a latecomer. Fei Qian understands the tricks of nationalization after deprivation. This law was produced under specific conditions, and it is not a panacea...

  Besides, those local governments in later generations compete with the central government for financial interests...cough cough...

   It doesn't work now anyway.

  So it can only be privatization, or semi-collectivization.

  Of course, on the surface it still belongs to the land of the Han family, but in fact it can only belong to the small group of Fei Qian. This is the most suitable way for the current situation.

  But there will be some follow-up conflicts and problems in the future, but now, we can only take one step at a time. There is really no way to put all the policies in place at once...

  There are too many involved in these things, I really have a headache when I think about it...

Fei Qian sighed slightly, and suddenly heard the sound of "de" horseshoes. Looking up, he saw a scout riding from a distance in the east of Pingyang City. The envoy and his guards have gone twenty miles to the east of the city..."

  Zheng worry about not having a knife, this Wang Yi is so kind!

   In the decline of ancient dynasties, land was an important factor, but not an absolute factor...

   In the final analysis, when a very small number of people control the vast majority of wealth, and social security cannot afford the most basic living security for the most basic people...

   This is true of any slave system or feudal system.

   When you are so poor that you have only one life left, what else are you afraid to do?

   Therefore, the whole world is trying to maintain growth and the middle class as much as possible...

  (end of this chapter)