The System Made Me a Fool

　　Fan Li nodded slightly to Yan Ge and said, "Your Majesty, in the current economic system of the Great Wei Dynasty, there is still a very serious disharmonious factor hindering the development of the economy, and that is the problem of land annexation!"

　　"Your Majesty is now at the national level, implementing a policy of merchandising, and also restraining the large landowners and clan princes who hold a large amount of land from the aspects of property tax and land tax, but Your Majesty does not consider the foundation of their wealth - the land level. , strike them."

　　"Thus, these people can still legally occupy a large amount of land, and these privately occupied lands are not used to build handicraft workshops, or to rationally develop agriculture and animal husbandry, but to obtain benefits by leasing them to tenants, or simply It is idle and tightly used as a symbol of wealth accumulation.

　　And this greatly hinders the further development of the country's economy."

　　"What's more, some local squires used their personal power in the local area to forcefully occupy the peasants' land, causing the peasants to become tenants dependent on the land, which is also not conducive to the development of industry and commerce."

　　"If these lands can be returned to the state or returned to farmers, it will be of great significance for further expanding the planting area of ​​new rice, increasing grain production, and for the development of industry and commerce.

　　Only by solving the last stubborn ailment of the Great Wei economy can the Great Wei economy take off!"

　　Yan Ge looked at Fan Li with admiration, and couldn't help but sigh that both Jiang Ziya and Fan Li are absolute monsters, not to mention Jiang Ziya's excellent strategic vision, Fan Li's views on the national economy are also sharp.

　　In fact, serious land annexation, the problem is often one of the root causes of the crumbling feudal dynasty in ancient China in the late period! A large amount of land was occupied by private individuals, leaving farmers with no land available and could only be reduced to exploited tenants, and the merchant class became rich in business. In the future, the purchase of land is not for development and reproduction, but for hoarding land, and the identity becomes the landlord again.

　　This vicious circle has led to serious obstacles to the development of agriculture, industry and commerce in the country. Like a moth, it will eventually gnaw away the great tree of the dynasty one day! Taking the Song Dynasty in history as an example, in the early years of the Song Dynasty, the "No suppress mergers,”

　　The national policy at the time, the point of view at that time was "not to suppress annexation,,,,, the wealthy households are connected to our borders, and the wealth of the country is guarded.

　　Urgent thieves, border disturbances, mergers, wealth, and willingness to lose are all mine."

　　That is to say, concentrating wealth in the hands of a small number of people is conducive to the stability of the country and can also create conditions for the country to concentrate wealth.

　　This view is reasonable to a certain extent.

　　Especially in the early days of the establishment of the dynasty when the national politics was relatively clear, but with the passage of time, the weakening of the central government's ability to control local governments led to serious consequences of the policy.

　　These include serious wealth gaps, setbacks in productivity development, and even the country's difficulty in collecting taxes from wealth concentrators.

　　Therefore, Dawei cannot be used as a lesson for the future! The policy of developing industry, commerce and agriculture before Dawei has obvious effects, in addition to the strict management of officials, it is also due to the new rice seeds, special products and productivity technology itself. The superiority of the land makes it possible for the economy to develop rapidly even in the case of serious land annexation.

　　But all of this will inevitably collide with land annexation as the economy develops to a certain extent. The most realistic problem is that businessmen want to expand reproduction, but they find that there is no land to build factories and farms. The country wants to promote new agriculture. technology, but found that the big landlords do not ignore you at all, and do not obey the overall arrangements of the state.

　　Let us review the history, how did the country embark on a new route of rapid capitalist development. After the opening of the wool textile industry, the prosperity of the wool textile industry made a large number of aristocratic landlords forcibly occupy the land of the peasants to concentrate on the development of animal husbandry. The development of urban handicraft industry provided important labor force, which made Guoneng become the first country in the world to undergo the capitalist process.

　　The same is the concentrated possession of land, the difference lies in these two points - the use of the land and the generation of free labor.

　　The use of the land occupied by the enclosure movement is to develop productive forces and will lead to the production of free labor, but the merger of land under the feudal system will only lead to a large number of farmers from self-cultivation farmers to tenants attached to the landlord, and the land owned by the landlord will also be reduced. It will not be used to develop production, here is the fundamental difference.

　　Therefore, if the Dawei economy wants to develop further, it must solve the problem of land annexation.

　　Yan Ge was about to discuss further on this point, but he did not expect that some of the cabinet ministers had put forward new opinions.

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Chapter 140 Coveting the world

　　Yu Xinghuai stood up and bowed to Fan Li and Wang Meng respectively, and said, "Your Majesty, the opinions of Lord Fan and Lord Shoufu are certainly reasonable, but based on the work experience of the minister since he served as the emperor's sacrificial wine, the minister thinks how to reform and obtain the wine. The way of the scholar is the main direction of the work of the court in the future."

　　"Alright, alright, everyone can speak freely and express their opinions. It's good! Yu Aiqing, you can also talk about it!"

　　Yu Xinghuai said: "Your Majesty, the country's new policy is progressing smoothly in all aspects, but in the selection of talents, the imperial examination system of the past eight divisions is still used. Even the Hongdu School established by Your Majesty is mainly to cultivate literature and art There is a big gap in talent in politics.”

　　"Looking at it from the perspective of a minister, most of the talents who recruited scholars from the old Bagu are old-fashioned and old-fashioned, and it is difficult to adapt to the rapid development period of national reform. It's like old wine in a new bottle, it won't taste good no matter what!"

　　When he heard this, Yan Ge's father-in-law, Lin Song, was not happy: "Master Yu is going too far, aren't you also a master of the eight-legged sect, now that you are a high-ranking student, turn your head around? If you want to reform the eight-share system, this is not crossing the river and demolishing the bridge!"

　　Yu Xinghuai blushed and said, "Sir Lin's words are too bad, I only think for the sake of the country"

　　"Okay, don't fight!"

　　Yan Ge pressed his hand and said, "Yu Aiqing is indeed right.

　　It takes ten years to cultivate trees, and a hundred years to cultivate people. Talent is the foundation of a country, and the verdant forest I govern really needs excellent talents with both political integrity and ability to protect it, Yu Aiqing, you mentioned it very well!"

　　"but."

　　Yan Ge changed his words and said, "Whether it's what Fan Aiqing said about suppressing annexation, or what Yu Aiqing said about reforming and capturing people, I'm afraid it's not easier than taking a country with Tai Gong.

　　If you move the land, you will move the last lifeblood of the country gentry, and if you move the eight shares, you will move the way of the sages and sages that the gentry has long revered, and any one of them will cause an uproar."

　　As soon as these words came out, all the ministers present nodded slightly.

　　In fact, Lin Song was not ignorant of the necessity of reforming the way of scholars, but it was the nature of the old literati that made him instinctively oppose this matter.

　　Lin Song is still like this, one can imagine how fiercely those rotten old guys would object.

　　You must know that Yan Ge is now very popular among the common people, but in the Shilin review, he is still the target of verbal criticism! "Your Majesty, this old slave also has something to say."

　　When Yan Ge was thinking about it, he didn't expect an unexpected person - Xu Kun, the eunuch in charge of the East Factory.

　　Although the main members of the cabinet are seven cabinet members, other important officials of the court often come to sit in or participate in discussions at relatively important meetings. Li Jing and Li Cunxu are regulars here.

　　It's just that Yan Ge didn't expect that Xu Kun, who has always seldom commented, would suddenly speak up.

　　Xu Kun said: "Your Majesty told me to investigate people in the arena, and after some investigation, this old slave has basically grasped some of the situation of people in the Great Wei Wulin.

　　Coupled with the fact that His Majesty has encountered people in the arena many times during his micro-service trip, this old slave thinks that a new plan for managing people in the rivers and lakes is needed to prevent these people from breaking the law with their own force!"

　　Yan Ge applauded: "Master Xu, you are right, so why doesn't Jinyiwei strengthen the management of this aspect?"

　　Xu Kun said with a look of embarrassment: "Your Majesty, although the power of Jinyiwei has spread all over the country, it only has a strong deterrent power against ordinary people, but even if the people in the rivers and lakes are third-rate masters, we need a lot of effort to subdue them, second-rate and above. It is basically difficult for us to deal with the masters.”

　　"As for the first-class and even top-notch experts in the arena, they are even more outlaws, neither the Jinyiwei nor the local army can do anything about them.

　　The Great Wei is His Majesty's Great Wei, and it is necessary to ensure His Majesty's absolute control, how can these people who violate the ban by force go unpunished, so this old slave thinks it is necessary to respond to this phenomenon as soon as possible."

　　Yan Ge thought about it for a while and said, "Master Xu, among the rivers and lakes, the seven sects hold the right path."

　　, I must be very disciplined and reasonable, why didn't the East Factory cooperate with the Seven Gates faction, and the Seven Gates faction sent some experts to assist the East Factory in the management of Jianghu affairs? Xu Kun said: "Your Majesty, this old slave is not without it.

　　There are two problems here. First, the seven sects have high self-esteem and are accustomed to being sloppy. They are not willing to let them break away from this kind of comfortable management system like the imperial court. If you can do it by force, it may require His Majesty to come forward to formulate policies."

　　"Secondly, it is always inappropriate for our court to rely on external forces to manage one party's affairs! I have a million heroes, but I have to be led by tens of thousands of martial arts masters.

　　Doing things according to their rules is also unacceptable to the old slave."

　　"So the old slave believes that even if we want to cooperate with the seven sects, the imperial court needs to be in a position of absolute leadership.

　　But if you want to do this, you must train the court's own masters, which we are currently lacking.

　　of!"

　　When Yan Ge heard it, he felt that what Xu Kun said was very reasonable.

　　Judging from his experience this time, the Ten Directions Association and the Demon Sect are all major harms to social stability. Even the Zhenwu Sect, who claims to be a famous and upright sect, will kill corrupt officials because of misunderstandings and temporary conflicts. Justice, but breaking the rules by force is also a fact, this phenomenon must be eliminated! So Jiang Ziya, Fan Li, Yu Xinghuai, Xu Kun pointed out a direction, which one seems to be very important, Yan Ge is also a bit big for a while , I don't know whose opinion to listen to.

　　At this time, Yan Ge saw Wang Meng's wise eyes in 囧:囧囧:囧 glowing, immediately.

　　I understand that Wang Meng still has insights to be published.

　　So he smiled, "Lord Shoufu, don't just watch it, let's summarize it."

　　Wang Meng then opened his mouth and said, "Your Majesty can remember that when Wang Meng first came to plan for His Majesty, he once gave His Majesty the 'ten theories' on the general trend of the world."

　　"of course I remember."

　　"Actually, what the ministers have said is nothing more than within the scope of these ten articles."

　　"Among the ten theories mentioned by Wei Chen, the reduction of the vassal was completely accomplished through His Majesty's resolute conquest of the independent vassal town.

　　The government of officials can be kept in a clean state through the supervision of the Imperial Clerk and the Ladies Division, and the monarch's power has also been greatly consolidated due to His Majesty's reform of the official system."

　　"Rich country is the top priority of His Majesty's New Deal, and now it has a good momentum of development and business is booming.

　　Not to mention a strong army, the strength of the Great Wei's army is unprecedented now."

　　"After thinking about it, so far, among the ten theories mentioned by the ministers, there are only five issues: pacifying chaos, flat borders, rich peasants, taking scholars and diplomacy. The five items have not been completely resolved. Isn't it just coincident with what the ministers said?"

　　"The purpose of pacifying the chaos is for social stability. The existence of people in the martial arts has caused serious trouble to the stability of the people. To deal with the rich peasants, Your Majesty has done a lot of practical things. The way of the scholar is the foundation of the country's century-old plan and must be reformed."

　　"As for flat borders and diplomacy, the Great Wei is surrounded by strong enemies on all sides, and the way to engage in combat is to retreat if you don't advance. Only by taking the initiative to attack and eliminate the surrounding disasters in one fell swoop can the threat of the border be permanently eliminated.

　　But taking the initiative to attack is not to create enemies on all sides, and the current national strength of the Great Wei is not enough to support the Great Wei to fight on all sides, and use the army to redeem the force, so diplomatically, it is necessary to make close attacks, win some, and attack some."

　　"Therefore, this minister believes that the matters mentioned by your colleagues are very important. Since they are all important, why not do them at the same time?"

　　"The Great Wei has been poor and weak for a long time. In the past, the great affairs of the country were all focused on one point, but now the country is rich and strong, and the great treasury of the Great Wei is enough to allow us to use troops abroad and maintain domestic reform and governance.

　　The premise is that the scale of the use of troops should not be too large, and it needs to be done step by step, choosing a weaker one first: the opponent will start the operation, and after the domestic problems are completely resolved, after the full attack, the major event can be determined!"

　　As soon as this statement came out, all the ministers agreed.

　　"Okay, what Mr. Wang Meng said is good."

　　"Yes, this is the safest middle-of-the-road strategy."

　　Yan Ge said: "Since everyone has reached a consensus, the next question is, where should we fight first?"

　　"Western Region!"

　　"Western Region!"

　　As soon as Yan Ge finished asking, Jiang Ziya and Wang Meng answered at the same time.

　　The two wise men immediately looked at each other and smiled, Wang Meng said, "Master Taigong, please tell me."

　　Jiang Ziya stroked his beard and said, "Since Lord Shoufu shares the same opinion as this old man, then this old man naturally listens to Lord Shoufu's opinion."

　　"Okay, you two don't give in, Taigong, let's talk about it."

　　Jiang Ziya then said slowly: "The old minister believes that there are three reasons for attacking the Western Regions first."

　　"First of all, the Western Regions are naturally scattered into many small countries, and they are not united with each other, which is suitable for each of us to defeat."

　　"Secondly, the Western Regions has always been a battleground for military strategists. Historically, the Huns, Turks, and Tatars have left their traces here. Occupying this area is equivalent to breaking the Rouran, and the Huns and the Huns have been fighting for each other. The escape route to the west.

　　In the future, when His Majesty sends soldiers to these two families, you can force them to flee north to the Golden Horde and the Slavs, so that they will never be able to make a comeback!"

　　"These three things, once you capture the Western Regions, Your Majesty will open a trade route westward to Persia and Saracen, and you can also detour to the Peacock Empire, and even further west to Rome, the Franks, and the Teutons.

　　This road can bring endless wealth and resources to our country!"

　　At this time, Yan Ge suddenly said: "There is a fourth point, the top warhorse in the Western Regions, I will also decide!"

　　Jiang Ziya heard the words and said: "Your Majesty is right, the war horses in the Western Regions are also an important factor worthy of our consideration.

　　The reason why the old minister suggested to attack the Western Regions first is that after we have obtained the warhorses of the Western Regions, we will then attack the Rouran, and the two nations on horseback, the Xiongnu, will be able to become even more powerful!"

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