Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1296 Constant production and perseverance

  In the big tent, it seems to have quieted down a lot.

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

  A moment later, Fei Qian suddenly smiled, broke the silence and said, "What does Zilong think?"

   "..." Zhao Yun cupped his hands and said, "My lord, when Yun first heard about this matter, he didn't understand it, so how could he talk about it?"

   Still such a cautious person.

Fei Qian nodded, not wanting Zhao Yun to say something, but turned to look at Du Yuan, and said with a slight smile: "Wen Zheng's meaning, someone knows...Wen Zheng has always been diligent, Beiqu, Pingyang, Li Shi, it's all like this..." Fei Qian smiled slightly, expressing his appreciation for Du Yu's attitude of safeguarding the interests of Zhengxi Group.

   But appreciation is appreciation. There are some things that Fei Qian can’t talk about now. Why can’t he just explain the Little Ice Age to Du Yuan right now, and say that there are ten or twenty years left at this point in time and it’s coming soon?

Throughout the history of China, when the weather does not change significantly, the external nomads can only be rampant for a while, except for a few small ice ages, which lead to abnormal weather and a large southward shift of the cold line, eventually forcing the nomads to continue Going south, internal and external troubles finally caused the Chinese farming dynasty to be overthrown by the nomads.

  The periods of the largest social turmoil in Chinese history were indeed closely related to the four Little Ice Ages, and were not entirely caused by the failure of government officials. From the end of the Yin and Shang Dynasties to the early years 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, and the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties were the third. 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 turmoil and wars. The long-term famine was the root cause of the unrestricted expansion of wars.

Fei Qian said: "The West River is turbid and chaotic, and the custom has been around for a long time. If you catch the law in a hurry and don't forgive each other, there are many people who are inclined to the Xianbei, and the people are so stupid. Continuation? As far as the people are concerned, if they have permanent property, they will have perseverance, so they send their sons to respect and teach it to increase their permanent property...It is human nature to benefit and avoid harm. Follow the usual routine."

"...The people have constant property, only then can they have perseverance..." Du Yuan frowned, repeated in a murmur, and after a while, he cupped his hands and said, "The land of the West River is exactly like this! If the people don't have constant property, they will have renunciation! The words of the lord , the voice of gold and jade, you should keep it in mind... Now that the confusion has been resolved, and the responsibility is far away, I dare not leave for a long time, so I express my farewell to the Lord..."

Du Yuan thought that what Fei Qian meant was that Hu and Han had lived together in Xihe for a long time. Teaching the farming and mulberry techniques will allow the people of Xihe to stabilize and stop fooling around with those local tycoons.

With a thought, on the one hand, Du Yuan felt ashamed that he couldn't keep up with Fei Qian's thinking, so he wanted to do more to understand more about Fei Qian's policies. It's been too long since I've been away from the clinic, otherwise I probably wouldn't know if the family turned upside down...

  So Du Yuan did not delay, so he bid farewell to Fei Qian and prepared to return to Xihe.

   Feiqian nodded, and said: "That's fine, I'll wait for something to happen in Yinshan Mountain, and come to Xunwenzheng for a drink, and the scenery of the West River will be..."

  Du Yuan smiled and said: "This subordinate will definitely sweep the couch to welcome you!"

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

  Zhao Yun arched his hands respectfully, jingled the iron armor on his arm, and said, "My lord, just now the words 'constant production and perseverance'...could it be from Mencius?"

Looking at Fei Qian's figure, Zhao Yun felt a little bit emotional. For Zhao Yun, Fei Qian's idea of ​​letting the common people have permanent property made Zhao Yun very moved. After all, Zhao Yun spent those days in exile, it is really a memory It's still new, so when Fei Qian asked about it, he couldn't help but want to discuss it, and no longer hide his thoughts.

  Walking into the big tent, Fei Qian motioned for Zhao Yun to follow, and said, "...Have Zilong read Mencius recently?"

Mencius talked about the relationship between property and perseverance several times in his speeches and works, "The way of the people is the way. Those who have property have perseverance, and those who have no property have no perseverance. If you don't have perseverance, you will do everything you want to avoid evil and extravagance." "Those who have perseverance without a permanent property, only scholars are capable. If they are civilians, they will have no permanent property because they have no perseverance. If you have no perseverance, you will do everything you can to avoid evil and extravagance."

   What Fei Qian and Du Yuan said was not entirely prevarication, nor was it entirely like what Du Yuan said was just a way to stabilize the place, but also had more far-reaching considerations.

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

  Outward expansion can solve part of the problem, but domestic mergers are still unavoidable. Even the Juetian system currently implemented by Fiqian can only be suspended, not cured.

Secondly, and the resistance to the implementation of the Juetian system is not small, so Fei Qian also needs to find a political theory for himself, a sage's words as a coat, then the "perseverance and constant property" of Confucius and Mencius, which does not separate families, may be able to use it. Come to use it?

  It is better to have an aboveboard governance program than killing without footsteps and chaotic direction, right?

   Otherwise, how to reflect the superiority of future generations?

  Fei potential at least understands this aspect.

  Of course, Mencius’s constant property theory is actually problematic...

  Zhao Yun nodded and said, "Yun slightly read it..."

   Fei Qian sat down in the middle, then pointed to the seat beside him, and said, "You don't need to be restrained, sit down, then Zilong knows what a permanent property is?"

  Zhao Yun thought for a while, and said: "Give a five-acre house, a hundred-acre field, trees and mulberries under the wall, silkworm baskets and clothes, poultry, cattle and sheep, all of which are permanent production..."

   Feiqian nodded. It seems that Zhao Yun has read it, but it is not very accurate. The means of production and living are indeed permanent production, but this is only a specific form of permanent production, not the system of permanent production.

   Feiqian said: "If a hundred mu of land is a permanent property, why do the people suffer so much?"

   "This..." Zhao Yun was silent for a moment, and then said, "This is a corrupt official in the countryside, an unscrupulous gentry, and a brutal and powerful deed. They took advantage of the youth and suffering to plunder, so..."

   Feiqian nodded, shook his head again, and said, "The refugee has no land to work, and suffers from hunger and cold, what does Zilong think should be done?"

   "Investigate the lawless, punish the unkind, and reward the refugees." Zhao Yun said forcefully, and he really thought so in his heart.

   Fei Qian couldn't help laughing, is this Zhao Zilong's version of beating local tyrants and dividing the land? "If there is no wrongdoing among nobles and rightists, what they say and do is in line with the laws of the country, and they do more good deeds on weekdays, build bridges and pave roads, care for widows and widows... so what about Zilong?"

  Zhao Yun was stunned for a moment, and then said immediately: "If so, as a screening, the family of Shanyu will naturally be protected, and it will be easier for those who do evil to obey the law."

"Discrimination? How do you discriminate? If there are only one or two people in a family, it is easy to say. If there are thousands of people in a family, there is always a difference between good and evil. In addition to the laws of the Han Dynasty, family and filial piety are the first. For those who do not repay..." Fei Qian said slowly, "If the law is not brought to justice, what is the use of the law? If the crime is committed because of the concealment of relatives, why does the big man respect filial piety?"

"This..." Zhao Yun moved his lips, as if he wanted to say that he could only catch the bad guys in these families, or that he wanted to let these families clean it up by themselves, but he didn't say anything in the end, because Zhao Yun also knew that this was obviously wrong. realistic.

   Moreover, such a plan is too demanding for officials. At this stage, most local officials cannot do it, and it is not their own territory. It is naturally good to be an official for one term, but if it is not possible, 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 period, the laws were strict, the farmland was granted equally, and the evil people were punished. Why did all the places rebel? Before Guangwu, the new dynasty's land was divided equally. Why did the situation change suddenly and the flames reappeared?" Fei Qian looked outside the tent. , said slowly, "During the Emperor Wen's time, "Speaking of Military Affairs" and "Shou Bian Persuading Farmers" were all great writings for a while, and they also meant to equalize the cultivated land and increase the people's constant production. Is it the fault of the Seven Kingdoms? Is it the fault of Duke Chao?"

  Zhao Yun was silent for a long time before he said: "Then, my lord, what should I do?"

   "There is no definite number of laws in the world. The good policy of the time and the poison of today should be advanced with the times..." Fei Qian suddenly smiled and said, "You can't stick to it for a while, and there is no policy that can last forever."

  Zhao Yun stared, speechless for a while.

   It's not that Fei Qian intentionally fooled Zhao Yun, it's just that this land issue is really difficult to deal with at the moment.

   Beat local tyrants and divide the fields?

Give me a break.

   To use a system, the society needs to meet certain conditions, but the Han Dynasty did not have this condition at all, not to mention that the local tyrants were beaten, and the land may not be really divided.

  The issue of land, even in later generations, there is still no way to properly solve it. How can Fei Qian immediately implement a method that can be passed down for generations in the Han Dynasty?

  Actually, in the system of Mencius’s permanent property theory, Mencius did not mean to let the people own their own land, but wanted to restore the well field system of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.

  In the well field system, the land is state-owned, and the land is only allocated to the 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, not that they really wanted the people to have "permanent property". Unstable ideology, these people with unstable ideology can do anything indiscriminately, which is undoubtedly very reasonable.

  Because of land, when 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 involved. But the problem is, if the land is completely stripped from the hands of the people, many things will inevitably happen...

   There is a sentence that is still widely circulated, full of warmth and thoughts, and there is a second half of this sentence, hunger and cold steal the heart. People cannot be poor. If they are poor, they can do everything. Stealing is even trivial. Besides, as far as ordinary people are concerned, stealing some food or something because of hunger does not seem to be a great sin.

Therefore, the Chinese rulers creatively used their wisdom to separate the ownership of land from the right to use it, forming the most basic setup of a typical feudal society. Then grant it to the peasants and common people for farming, and what ordinary common people trade in the market is not the land itself, but the right to use the land...

   Then this way and method even continued to later generations.

"If the people don't have a permanent property, there will be chaos. Somebody knows this. Most of the gentry in the world pass on Confucian classics to their families, so how can they not know?" Zhao Yun frowned, obviously very puzzled, "If you know it, why don't you do it? If you don’t do it, is there any use for such Confucianism?”

   "As the saying goes, knowing is easier than doing..." Fei Qian also nodded and sighed.

  Not to mention the Han Dynasty, even later generations are the same.

  Real estate hijacks the local economy, drags down industrial development, and devours the wealth accumulated by the people. Don’t you know that?

After Feiqian arrived in the Han Dynasty, in his sleep, he sometimes dreamed of the time when he was about to repay the mortgage, but there was no money in the card to repay the payment. After waking up, he sat on the bed and couldn't help but lament the future It was astonishing how stressful the mortgage put him on.

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

   But take a closer look, who are those people who tell you not to buy a house?

   These high-profile people, their family background, account balance and social circle give them the confidence that they will not feel insecure even if they live in a hotel for a lifetime. Do they need to worry about personal settlement?

  Do you need to worry about your child's enrollment?

  Need to worry about the exhaustion of moving if you buy large items?

Need to worry about being kicked out by the landlord for all kinds of magical reasons, standing at the intersection with a pile of dead furniture and not knowing where to spend the night, obviously doing things in accordance with the contract, but because I have to go to work every day and every month Waiting for the money to be issued, can't afford the lowest cost of rights protection, and choose to knock out teeth and swallow blood?

  That's why these people who don't need to think about various issues think that the Chinese people of later generations, fighting to break their heads and empty their pockets, and wanting to be house slaves are simply evil in the sand wall.

Ordinary people are not all stupid, but not everyone has the two options of better and best, and most people don’t even have the option of good, and can only repeatedly weigh between bad, worse and worst to make the most effective choice. It is only for your own choice.

Therefore, Feiqian can only weigh the pros and cons among the few options, and choose to swallow up those unowned, fleeing and rebellious gentry lands, so as to distribute them to the refugees, the common people, and those soldiers who fought with Feiqian And the sons of the gentry.

  Strictly speaking, has Feiqian’s current re-establishment of the military merit, juetian and other systems substantially changed the land ownership and the word “permanent property”?

  Unfortunately, no.

But at this stage, establishing a relatively reasonable and improved land transfer system, so that the common people can apparently own "permanent property" for a longer period of time, will definitely help the stability of the entire society and subsequent development. economic development.

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

   "Permanent production" must have.

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

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

  Besides, for the barbarians in Yinshan, the theory that those who have constant production can have perseverance is actually applicable...

"There are things in the world that are easy to know and difficult to do, and there are people who are difficult to do and easy to do. Only the matter of permanent production is difficult to know but also difficult to do..." Fei Qian smiled and said, "The people need constant production, but they have perseverance. , the world can be determined. The people of our generation can only learn from the past, even if there are thorns all over the place, we still need to forge ahead...Would Zilong be willing to help someone?"

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

Fei Qian hurried forward, helped Zhao Yun up, patted Zhao Yun's shoulder, praised and comforted him a few words, and then said: "Han people have constant production, and barbarian people are also...someone has a plan, Zilong might as well lead a former army to go Gao Nu is close, make the best use of the situation..."

  (end of this chapter)