Eight Hills in the Eastern Jin Dynasty

Vol 4 Chapter 2870: Only increase without detracting from the country

Liu Muzhi hooked up the corner of his mouth: "Well, I'm afraid you have to be fully mentally prepared. Madam has always been very good to you, and the wonderful voice will follow you in life and death, but they are in the position of the family. In this way, unlike the previous generation of nobility, at least there is a scholarship in the end, and you can still eat a bite, and you can directly lower the nobility to the people, which means that the final foundation of the noble family is also destroyed. I'm afraid that even the wife and Miao Yin will not agree. The truth is indeed on your side, but the descendants of the family drag their families to replace hundreds of thousands of people, and it is no small act to kill their parents."

Liu Yu said solemnly: "Fatty, I have fully considered this point. It is cruel to them, but for the country, there is no other way. I will not smash the jobs of these hundreds of thousands of people. Smashing the rice bowls of millions of ordinary people in Dajin, do you want to say more? Now, taking advantage of the northern expedition to destroy Hu and expanding abroad, before the popularization of printing, the children and scholars of these aristocratic families still have some knowledge and culture. If you have made merits in the army, or have some political achievements as an official, you can naturally retain your title or even be promoted."

"Yu Yue and his hundreds of aristocratic children will join the army this time, as well as the aristocratic children who are now serving as officials in various places in Dajin. They don't have to worry about their jobs, as long as they contribute to the country and benefit their lives, they will be able to do so. If you continue to enjoy the current treatment, it must be that even people like them will not be able to value those who have done nothing. They only know that relying on the status of a scholar, relying on the fields uploaded by their ancestors, continue to **** the people's blood and **** the people's fat."

Liu Muzhi sighed, "Send slaves, send slaves. I think you take it for granted. Yuyue and the others, including people like Wang Hong, Xie Hui, and Fu Liang, are willing to come out and do things. Mu Manor’s industry is about mastering power, giving oneself and earning more benefits to one’s own family, but no one can guarantee that one’s own family can hold power forever, especially in the central government in the DPRK. In case the future generations fail, it’s human nature to give your children and grandchildren a capital-guaranteed meal. If you become a prince, you will break this final guarantee, even if it’s Yu Yue. And Wang Hong and others would not approve of it either."

Liu Yu shook his head: "According to what you said, those who have a title can always keep the sage, and finally descend to the lowest baron. New meritorious and newly promoted to the sage, as long as they rise up, they can always have an iron rice bowl for their children and grandchildren. You can always occupy the land of Shijue, just as you say, a few thousand acres, let’s make a discount, even if it is 500 acres, I will only give a Ding man a few dozen acres of land. About ten acres, when you and I were in Jingkou, there were also tens of acres of thin fields in your family, and you still had to pay taxes. That is to say, ten private households may only cover the land occupied by a scholar, and this scholar still does not have to pay taxes. Do you think it’s fair? After decades of development, there are hundreds of thousands of people who don’t pay taxes and occupy land, millions of people, where does the country’s land come from, and where does the country’s food taxes come from? Here?"

Liu Muzhi gritted his teeth: "This is indeed the case. That's why in the past, the land of Wu was completely handed over to aristocratic families, and taxes were paid according to the land area of ​​the manor, although this would make the manors of the major families conceal a large number of people. , But this kind of problem of several nobility in a family or even dozens of nobility in a family can be digested and solved within them. In any case, the court can always collect a certain amount of tax."

Liu Yu sneered and said: "Is this a good thing? Ordinary people have only 30 or 40 mu of land because of the land occupation, but they have to pay a tax of one or two hundred acres. In the end, they have to go bankrupt and sell themselves, and enter these aristocratic manors as tenant tenants. , Banker. Just like when the Diao family came to Jingkou to force me and other people in Jingkou to become slaves. But they used the method of opening casinos to cheat money, so that we owed huge gambling debts and sold ourselves as slaves. After changing to other places, they didn’t even need this hand, and they directly annexed the land. In the end, the people in Wu area became the servants of the clan and the Hakka servants of the family. The entire land in Wu area was in the hands of the family. They wanted to pay Pay taxes if you don’t want to. Even when the enemy is invading, when the strong Hus invade, he will take out some grain to form an army, and it will be as if the country owes them love. These grains and grass should not be paid according to taxes. Did you hand it in?"

Liu Muzhi sighed: "The two evils should be the lesser one. The tax exemption of the shijue must be controlled within a certain range. This can only be done, otherwise the people who have the shijue will be allowed to merge and occupy the land according to the title, or the country. The division of land is not something that Wu land can afford. In fact, we used to implement this kind of decree of subrogation of titles, and many children of Jiangbei have already relied on the existing titles to occupy land in the past. This is also our time. What is allowed."

Liu Yu gritted his teeth: "That is to allow the family to be willing to emigrate to Jiangbei, and to enrich the villagers in Wudi as a temporary expedient plan for Jiangbei, not for long. And you said, even our newly developed Jiangbei land, They will use this method to occupy and grab ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ After that, they will also come to occupy the new places we have laid down. After I fight to destroy the swallows in Qingzhou, this place will become their private land, even These powerful and powerful families of Han landlords in the newly-occupied territories will also learn the same way. Then we are fighting the world, for whom? Is it for the people of the Great Jin Dynasty, or for these aristocratic families?"

Liu Muzhi said indifferently, "Don’t you understand that sending slaves? The people who serve in the army will become scholars if they have won the ranks. You think that only the family members want to benefit from the world, and find a hereditary replacement for their children and grandchildren. Jobs? Ordinary people want the same thing! It’s just that they don’t have the power of a family. You can still deal with them, be reasonable, and talk to them about the difficulties of the family and the country. Let them accept the current generation surrender, if you follow The common people also say the same, desperately working hard in exchange for a Shijue, and the next generation may be gone in an instant. They will be willing to do it? Ask your brothers, if you get to the grandchildren and mix back with Tian Shelang, will they accept it!"

Liu Yu said solemnly: "This is the state's decree. It is the will of the state. If you don't accept it, you have to accept it. Otherwise, everyone will follow suit. There will be no more, it will inevitably be a lot of resentment. The specific operation can be discussed, such as temporarily retaining the sire, but the land division and tax exemption are in line with the descending lords, and then a ten-year and twenty-year period is stipulated. If you don’t make the merits of patronage, the title will be downgraded, but this principle cannot be broken."

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