Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Looking at the data of the Song Dynasty listed by later generations, Emperor Ming snorted.

Then he turned to his eldest son and said:

"Even if Biao'er reads the theory of wealth, he must remember the disaster of the Song and Yuan Dynasties."

"You must know that agriculture is the foundation of the country."

Seeing his son bowing to show that he knew, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded with satisfaction.

He was a little confused because of the news that the Ming Dynasty was dying of poverty, but what he said at this time reminded him of how the people lived.

The Southern Song Dynasty was certainly not as good as the Northern Song Dynasty, but the Mongols were even worse than the Southern Song Dynasty!

If the financial business was developed, and eventually no one farmed, wouldn't it be a repeat of the old disaster?

What if there was a lot of money? Could Jia Sidao go to the Mongols to buy food, or could he go to Japan to buy food?

In the end, wouldn't he have to rely on the public land law to seize the land of those big landlords to make up for the country's deficit?

After asking himself, Emperor Ming became more and more determined that agriculture is the foundation of the country, and only agriculture can be the foundation of the country!

But then again...

"I have heard the title of landlord many times, and it is more appropriate than the word "tyrant".

"Fighting for land with the country, and then grabbing profits, causing the country to be impoverished and the people to be enriched alone!"

"If you ask me, when there are no landlords, our Ming Dynasty may be able to continue for a thousand years!"

No one else can respond to this, and only the crown prince can stand up and say:

"Dad, then won't our family become the landlord?"

This remark made Zhu Yuanzhang glare at his son:

"Our Zhu family and the Ming Dynasty will rise and fall together, what is the difference?!"

This sounded right, but Zhu Biao always felt that it seemed a bit wrong.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang was worried again after hearing this:

"I don't know where our descendants will go after the country is destroyed?"

...

In the Guangzheng Hall of Bianliang, Qian Chu kept silent.

But Li Yu had a grudge against Zhao Kuangyin. Even though he had some feelings for him because of the fight with King Jin, it was impossible to completely eliminate it, so he simply asked directly:

"Your Majesty, how did the Song Dynasty split into the North and South? And there are only a hundred counties left?"

Zhao Dezhao also looked up, he didn't quite understand it.

Previously, his father and Lord Zhao had briefly mentioned that the enemy went south and caused the Song Dynasty to split into the north and the south, but they simply mentioned why it was divided into the north and the south.

Originally, this question had been put aside for the time being, but at this time, the light curtain said something incomprehensible such as "physical sorting" and "physical equalization of land", so it's no wonder that others are curious.

In response to Li Yu's question, Zhao Kuangyin was silent for a while and said lightly:

"Even if the capital was captured and the country was destroyed, some clan members fled to the south and survived. What's there to say?"

It can be felt that the emperor is in a bad mood, but Li Yu is curious at this time:

"Then the emperor... oh no, what about the descendants of King Jin? Are they like me today?"

Li Yu felt that the emperor Zhao stared at him with a very strange look for a long time, and finally shook his head and said:

"Like you? Oh, I know you don't want to be a Song citizen, but you and I are Xia citizens after all, so I follow the etiquette and treat you with courtesy."

"But how can Mongolia know this?"

"Before, the light curtain briefly said that my descendants were carried by the ministers and thrown into the sea, and there were also 100,000 Song citizens who walked into the dark sea together."

The tone was still light, but Li Yu suddenly felt a chill on his back.

He was angry that the Zhao emperor still refused to allow the south of the Yangtze River to be independent despite his flattery, but at this moment he suddenly realized that if they were not of the same language and race, the Zhao Song emperor would not have such patience.

Li Yu suddenly remembered the tragic scene of the foreign race destroying the country, and just when his mind was confused, he heard the prime minister Zhao Pu whispered:

"The great unification is that the six directions are in harmony and the nine states are connected."

"Only when the world is united can we resist foreign barbarians and compete for the first place in a hundred generations!"

Of course, Li Yu had also read the "Book of Han". He was speechless when he heard this.

[In 1263, the prefect of Lin'an and the transport envoy of western Zhejiang jointly proposed a plan to buy public land.

Jia Sidao praised this plan and sent it to Song Lizong, saying that he could get 10 million acres of good land and 6 or 7 million yuan in income, which could not only fully meet the military pay but also have a surplus, and could avoid the purchase of grain, pay the army, stop the production of paper money, stabilize prices, and stabilize the rich, and bring five benefits to one thing.

This temptation was too great for Song Lizong to refuse.

In the end, Song Lizong overcame the opposition of some officials and landlords, and Jia Sidao, the prefect of Lin'an, and the transport envoy of Zhejiang West took the initiative to sell good land as official land, and the public land law was officially implemented.

As for later, we all know that the public land law was implemented for only twelve years before it ended, and the Southern Song Dynasty died completely after this short struggle.

Looking at the details of the public land law, it is not difficult to understand why it was difficult to implement.

First of all, in terms of the objects of land purchase, the public land law targets the big bureaucrats and big landlords who own the most land. The number of land that can be held is limited according to the official rank, and at least one-third of the excess must be sold to the government as public land.

This can only be said to be a beautiful thought. In fact, Jia Sidao overestimated the prestige of the Southern Song government and underestimated the power of the big landlords after they formed a group.

At the beginning, this land limit by rank was difficult to implement, so it quickly became a form of distribution purchase, that is, as long as the land owned is more than 200 acres, one-third of the land must be sold to the government.

Since the big landlords cannot be robbed, only the small landlords can be robbed. However, for the small landlords, if they are robbed, they will immediately go to the people to get their money back, so the final result is quite unsatisfactory.

The second biggest problem is the price of buying land. It is not based on the area but on the amount of land rent. Even so, the Southern Song government has no money to give you.

For more than 5,000 acres, half a cent of silver, five cents of official edict, three cents of ordination certificate, and three and a half cents of Jiaozi. For less than 1,000 acres, half of Jiaozi and half of ordination certificate, in short, no money.

Putting aside the price, which is no different from robbery, and putting aside the delivery, which is no different from robbery, the direct result of this move is the proliferation of ordination certificates and official bodies.

It is unknown whether there are more people serving the Buddha after the proliferation of ordination certificates, but there are indeed many people who are exempt from tax. The proliferation of official bodies and the officials added for the public land law have made the problem of redundant officials more serious.

In addition, the places where the public land law is implemented are not very good.

When it was first proposed, the booklet wanted to implement the public land law in Liangzhe and Jiangdong and Jiangxi, but in the end the opposition was too fierce, so it was only implemented in the six counties in western Zhejiang.

In this way, the final fate of the public land law is not difficult to guess.

The first designated target was the big landlords, who naturally strongly opposed it.

The small landlords who were then harvested naturally also strongly opposed it.

The harvested small landlords passed the pressure to the people, which also made the people strongly opposed it.

The additional officials, the flood of certificates and imperial decrees made this policy out of money, and naturally it was difficult to continue.

The essence of the public land law was not very new. It was essentially a product of the contradiction between the feudal state power and the landlord class. The Southern Song government wanted to bleed the landlord class to get rid of the economic crisis and resist the conquest of Mongolia.

And this was the last struggle of the Southern Song Dynasty in the face of foreign invasion.

In 1268, five years after the implementation of the public land law, Mongolia began to officially promote the war to destroy the Song Dynasty, and the siege of Xiangyang City was at all costs, forcing the Southern Song Dynasty to compete with national strength.

In this battle, Kublai Khan pressed all his personal troops, and also went to Central and West Asia to find the Khanate that he could not deal with to borrow craftsmen and soldiers, and finally pulled up a coalition of nearly fifteen ethnic groups.

At this time, the Southern Song Dynasty was still busy arguing with the big landlords, and was fiercely squeezing the small landlords and poor peasants to get every last grain of rice.

The final outcome was not difficult to predict. 】