Three Kingdoms

Inside the big tent, it seemed to have calmed down quite a bit.

Du Yuan and Zhao Yun both secretly glanced at Fei Qian, who was thinking.

After a moment, Fei Qian suddenly smiled, broke the silence and said, "What do you think Zilong?"

"..." Zhao Yun cupped his hands and said, "My lord, when Yun Chu heard about this, he didn't know what was going on. How could he say anything?"

Still such a cautious person.

Fei Qian nodded, not asking Zhao Yun to say anything, but turned to look at Du Yuan, smiled slightly and said: "Wenzheng's meaning is already known... Wenzheng has always been diligent, Beiqu, Pingyang, Li Shi is like this..." Fei Qian smiled slightly and expressed his appreciation for Du Yu's attitude in safeguarding the interests of the Zhengxi Group.

But appreciation is appreciation, and there are some things that Fei Qian can't say yet. He can't just explain the Little Ice Age to Du Yuan right now, and talk about how it's about to arrive in the next ten or twenty years at this point in time?

Throughout the history of China, if the weather does not change significantly, external nomads can only be rampant for a while. Only a few Little Ice Ages caused climate abnormalities and the cold line moved southward significantly, eventually forcing nomads to continue to Moving south, internal and external troubles combined with foreign aggression eventually led to the overthrow of the Chinese farming dynasty by the nomads.

The largest periods of social turmoil in Chinese history are indeed closely related to the four Little Ice Ages, and were not entirely caused by the failure of official governance. The end of the Yin and Shang Dynasties to the beginning of the Western Zhou Dynasty was the first Little Ice Age. The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms, and the Western Jin Dynasty were the second Little Ice Age. The end of the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties, and the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty were the third Little Ice Age. The Ming Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty were the third Little Ice Age. Four Little Ice Ages. At that time, the temperature dropped sharply, causing drought in the north and a large reduction in grain production, resulting in decades of violent social unrest and war. Long-term famine was the fundamental reason for the unlimited expansion of war.

Fei Qian said: "The Xihe River is turbid and has been a custom for a long time. Now if we rush to catch the law and refuse to let each other go, many people will fall in love with Xianbei. Their people are stupid and do not know what is good or bad. They are afraid of following each other. People and things will be dispersed. Why? Continuation? For the people, if they have a permanent property, they will have perseverance, so they send their sons to teach them in order to increase their permanent property... It is human nature to avoid disadvantages by avoiding benefits. If you let them be greedy and despicable, the benefits will be great, and you should not do it. Just follow the usual rules."

"... Only when the people have permanent property can they have perseverance..." Du Yuan frowned, murmured and repeated something. After a moment, he raised his hands and said, "The land of Xihe is exactly like this! If the people have no permanent property, they will become alienated! Lord!" The words of the king, the voice of gold and jade, should be kept in mind when you are far away... Now that the confusion has been solved, I am far away from my duty, and I dare not stay away for a long time. I express my farewell to the Lord..."

Du Yuan believed that this was what Fei Qian meant. Hu and Han people had lived together in Xihe for a long time, and many Han people were gradually in a semi-wandering state like the Hu people. This was naturally not conducive to the stability of politics and people's livelihood, so he sent Zao Zhi Teach the farming and mulberry farming techniques so that the people in Xihe can stabilize and no longer follow the local tycoons and fool around.

After thinking about it, Du Yuan felt a little ashamed that he couldn't keep up with Fei Qian's thinking, and wanted to do more to understand Fei Qian's policy ideas. On the other hand, the governor of a place really couldn't If you leave the hospital for too long, otherwise you won’t even know if your family is rebelling...

Therefore, Du Yuan did not delay and said goodbye to Fei Qian, preparing to return to Xihe.

Fei Qian nodded and said: "That's fine. After something happens in the Yinshan Mountains, come back to Xunwenzheng for a drink and watch the scenery of the Xihe River..."

Du Yuan smiled and said: "My subordinates will definitely sweep the couch to welcome me!"

Fei Qian stood up, sent Du Yuan to the big tent, and then said goodbye to Du Yuan. After Du Yuan left, he looked back and saw Zhao Yun's thoughtful look. He couldn't help but ask, "What is Zilong thinking about?"

Zhao Yun bowed his hands respectfully, made the armor on his arms jingle, and said: "My lord, the words 'constant production and perseverance' just now...could it come from Mencius?"

Zhao Yun looked at Fei Qian's figure and had some thoughts in his heart. For Zhao Yun, Fei Qian's idea of ​​letting the common people have permanent property moved Zhao Yun very much. After all, those days when Zhao Yun spent in exile were really memories. It was still new, so when Fei Qian asked about it, he couldn't help but want to discuss it and no longer hide his thoughts.

As Fei Qian walked into the tent, he motioned for Zhao Yun to follow him and said, "...Zilong has read Mencius recently?"

Mencius talked about the relationship between constant wealth and perseverance several times in his works. "The people are governed by the way. Those who have constant wealth have perseverance. Those who do not have perseverance. Those who have no perseverance will do everything for their own sake." "Those who do not have permanent property but have perseverance can only do it if they are scholars. If you are a commoner, you will not have permanent property because you have no perseverance. If you don't have perseverance, you will do everything to avoid evil and extravagance."

What Fei Qian and Du Yuan said was not entirely prevarication, nor was it entirely as if Du Yuan was guessing just how to build a stable place, and there were more far-reaching considerations.

First of all, after all, the land issue is a serious problem not only in feudal society, but even in later generations.

External expansion can solve part of the problem, but domestic mergers are still unavoidable. Even the Jue Tian system currently implemented by Fei Qian can only be temporarily suspended, but cannot be cured.

Secondly, the resistance to the implementation of the Jue Tian system is not small, so Fei Qian also needs to find a political theory for himself, a sage's words as a coat, then Confucius and Mencius' "perseverance and constant wealth" of not dividing families may be used Come and use it?

It's better to have an upright policy agenda than to have no follow-up killings and unclear direction, right?

Otherwise, how can we show the superiority of future generations?

Feiqian at least knows something about this aspect.

Of course, Mencius’ theory of constant production is actually problematic...

Zhao Yun nodded and said: "Yun has read it briefly..."

Fei Qian sat down in the middle, then pointed to the seat beside him and said, "No need to be restrained, sit down. Then does Zilong know what permanent fertility is?"

Zhao Yun thought for a while and said: "Give me a house of five acres, a field of a hundred acres, mulberry trees under the walls, baskets of silkworms and clothes, poultry, pigs, cattle and sheep, all of which are permanent products..."

Fei Qian nodded. It seemed that Zhao Yun had indeed read it, but it was not very accurate. The means of production and living were indeed constant output, but this was only the specific manifestation of constant output, not the system of constant output.

Fei Qian said: "If a hundred acres of land is a permanent crop, why do so many people suffer and die?"

"This..." Zhao Yun was silent for a moment and said, "This is the cruel and powerful act of corrupt officials and unscrupulous nobles in the countryside. They took advantage of the youth and pain to rob and plunder, so..."

Fei Qian nodded, shook his head and said, "The refugees have no land to work on and are suffering from hunger and cold. What do you think Zilong should do?"

"Check out the lawless, punish those who are unkind, and make them refugees." Zhao Yun said sonorously and forcefully, and that was indeed what he thought in his heart.

Fei Qian couldn't help but laugh. Is this Zhao Zilong's version of fighting against rich people to divide their land? "If the gentry is free from any lawlessness, everything they say and do is in compliance with the laws of the country, and they do many good deeds on weekdays, such as building bridges and paving roads, and caring for widowers...what should Zilong do?"

Zhao Yun was stunned for a moment, and then said: "If this is the case, it can be used as a screening. The good people's homes will naturally be protected, and those who do evil will be easily punished."

"Screening? How to screen? If there are only one or two people in a family, it is easy to say. If there are hundreds of people in the family, there will always be good and evil. In addition, according to the law of the Han Dynasty, filial piety comes first. Even if there are guilty, there will be many For those who do not retaliate..." Fei Qian said slowly, "If we do not bring him to justice, what is the use of the law? If he is guilty of hiding from relatives, why does the great man respect filial piety?"

"This..." Zhao Yun moved his lips, as if he wanted to say that he could only arrest the bad guys in these families, or he wanted to let these families clean up by themselves, but in the end he said nothing because Zhao Yun also knew that this was obviously Unrealistic.

Moreover, such a plan is too demanding for officials. At this stage, the vast majority of local officials cannot do it, and it is not their own territory. It is good to serve as an official if it can benefit one party, but if not, it is acceptable to settle for the next best thing and benefit one or two generations of one's own family.

"In the pre-Qin Dynasty, the laws were strict, the land was granted to farmers, and the bad tribes were punished. Why did everyone rebel? Before Guangwu, the new dynasty's royal fields were equally divided into acres. Why did the situation suddenly change and the war broke out again?" Fei Qian looked outside the tent. , said slowly, "During the Emperor Wen's period, "Talking about Military Affairs" and "Guarding Borders and Encouraging Farmers" were both famous articles for a while. They also had the meaning of equalizing the cultivated land and increasing the people's permanent output. They were praised by the whole world. Why did Dongshi end up being cut off in half? Is it the fault of the Seven Kingdoms? Is it the fault of Duke Chao?"

Zhao Yun was silent for a long time and then said: "Then, my lord, what should we do?"

"The laws of the world are all uncertain. The good strategy at that time and the poison today should keep pace with the times..." Fei Qian suddenly smiled and said, "You cannot stick to one moment, and there is no strategy that can last forever."

Zhao Yun stared and was speechless for a moment.

It's not that Fei Qian intentionally deceived Zhao Yun, but this land issue is indeed a bit difficult to deal with at the moment.

Divide the land among local tycoons?

Give me a break.

To use a system, society needs to meet certain conditions, but the Han Dynasty did not have these conditions at all. What's more, if you beat the local tyrants, you may not really get the land.

Even if there is still no way to properly solve the matter of land in later generations, how can Fei Qian immediately implement a method in the Han Dynasty that can be passed down for thousands of generations?

In fact, in Mencius' system of constant property theory, Mencius did not intend to let the people own their own land, but wanted to restore the well field system of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Under the well-field system, land is state-owned, and land is only allocated to direct producers for fixed occupation and use.

What Mencius defended was that he hoped that the rulers would ensure certain means of production for the people in the small-scale peasant economy. It did not really mean that the people should have "constant property." In Mencius' view, people with fixed property had stable minds, and those without fixed property had stable minds. With unstable minds, these people with unstable minds can do whatever they want, violate the law and discipline, and this is undoubtedly very reasonable.

Because of the land thing, after the Chinese ruling class realized that it could repeatedly obtain output, it immediately took it into the harem and never allowed ordinary people to get even half of it. But the problem is, if the land is completely taken away from the hands of the people, a lot of things will inevitably happen...

There is a saying that is still widely circulated, "Fullness warms the mind," and there is a second half of this sentence, "Hunger and cold stir up the heart." People cannot be poor. If you are poor, you can do anything. Stealing is even more trivial. Moreover, as far as ordinary people are concerned, stealing some food because of hunger does not seem to be a big sin.

Therefore, the Chinese rulers creatively used their wisdom to separate the ownership and use rights of land, forming the most basic setting of a typical feudal society. The emperor owned all the land in the world, but transferred the use rights to his vassals, and then the vassals Then grant it to farmers and common people for farming. What ordinary people trade in the market is not the land itself, but the right to use the land...

Then this method and method even continued to later generations.

"If the people have no permanent property, there will inevitably be chaos. I know this. Many nobles in the world pass on Confucian classics to their families. How can I not know it?" Zhao Yun frowned, obviously puzzled, "If you know it, why don't you do it? If we don’t do this, how can such a study of the classics be of any use?”

"As the saying goes, it's easier said than done..." Fei Qian also nodded and sighed.

Not to mention the Han Dynasty, this is true even for later generations.

Real estate kidnaps the local economy, drags down industrial development, and swallows up the wealth accumulated by the people. Isn’t it clear to everyone?

After Fei sneaked into the Han Dynasty, in his sleep, he would sometimes dream about the scene where when it was time to repay the mortgage, there was no money in the card to pay back the payment. After waking up suddenly and sitting on the bed, he couldn't help but sigh about the future generations. The pressure the mortgage put on him was astonishing.

Of course, in later generations, there are also many people who clamor not to buy a house, saying that this and that of being a house slave is not good and it is better to rent a house and so on...

However, if you take a closer look, who are those people who are telling you not to buy a house?

These high-profile people, their family backgrounds, account balances and social circles give them the confidence to stay safe even if they stay in hotels for the rest of their lives. Do they need to worry about personal settlement issues?

Do you need to worry about your child’s schooling?

Do you need to worry about buying a big item and being exhausted from moving?

You need to worry about being evicted by the landlord for all kinds of magical reasons, standing at the intersection with a bunch of dead furniture and not knowing where to spend the night. You obviously follow the rules and follow the contract, but because you have to go to work every day and have to pay every month When you get paid, you can't afford the lowest cost of safeguarding your rights, so you choose to have your teeth knocked out and swallowed with blood?

That's why these people who don't need to consider various issues think that the behavior of later generations of Chinese people who want to be house slaves even after emptying their pockets is simply a sinister thing in the sand.

Ordinary people are not all stupid, but not everyone has the two options of better and best. Most people don’t even have the option of good. They can only make repeated trade-offs between bad, worse and worst to make the most beneficial decision. It's just a choice that benefits you.

Therefore, Fei Qian could only weigh the pros and cons among the few options, and chose to devour the land owned by the ownerless, fleeing and resisting nobles, so as to distribute it to the refugees, common people, and the soldiers who fought with Fei Qian. and the sons of the gentry.

Strictly speaking, with Fei Qian's current re-establishment of military merit, land titles, and other systems, will there be any substantial changes to land ownership and the word "constant property"?

Unfortunately, no.

However, at this stage, establishing a land transfer system that is relatively reasonable and more improved than the current stage, so that the people can have "permanent property" on the surface for a longer period of time, will definitely contribute to the stability of the entire society and subsequent development. economic development.

Therefore, even if it is known that it is actually a fake Hengchan, it can still give people a certain sense of security and maintain social stability like the "Hengchan" of later generations.

"Perpetual production" is a must.

It is also necessary to establish a complete, at least relatively stable, political structural system for the redistribution of social resources, otherwise it will still fall into the cycle of war.

What's more, efforts to increase some agricultural and animal husbandry output at this stage will also help the Chinese people to survive the Little Ice Age for a longer period of time and not be as miserable as in history. Therefore, at this stage, we are fully mobilizing the efforts of all parties. Enthusiasm to promote the dissemination of agricultural mulberry technology has become a link in Feiqian's entire plan.

And for the Hu people in Yinshan, the theory that constant income requires perseverance is actually applicable...

"There are things in the world that are easy to do but easy to do, and there are also things that are easy to do but difficult to do. Only the matter of constant income is difficult to do if you know it is difficult..." Fei Qian smiled and said, "The people need constant income, so there are With perseverance, the world can be determined. People of our generation can only learn from the teachers of the past. Even if there are thorns everywhere, we still need to work hard to move forward... Zilong, is he willing to lend a helping hand? "

"My lord's wish is what Yun Zhi wants!" Zhao Yun left the table and bowed, his voice loud and clear.

Fei Qian hurriedly stepped forward, helped Zhao Yun up, patted Zhao Yun's shoulder, praised and comforted him for a few words, and then said: "The Han people are always productive, and so are the Hu people... Someone has a plan, Zilong might as well lead an advance army, Go to Gaonu nearby and take advantage of the situation..."