Three Kingdoms

Outside Pingyang City, spring is coming. After the war, this piece of land has finally come to rest. There were not enough scribes to conduct land measurement and statistics, so Fei Qian could only rely on soldiers in the army to count the fields around Pingyang.

If you don't know the number and can't count, you can use the word "zheng" carved on the wooden board instead. If you don't know the length and don't know how to measure, you can use ropes and wooden sticks fixed at right angles instead...

Anyway, use a wooden stick to fix a 90-degree right angle, and then pull the rope of a fixed length along the extension line of the wooden stick until it reaches the end. Then you can nail the wooden stakes along the rope, and then use the right-angled wooden stick to determine the length. On the other side, pull the string again until you draw a rough square.

Of course, there are many differences in this measurement method, but the advantage is that it is simple and easy to operate, and even ordinary soldiers can do it.

Fei Qian leaned over and grabbed a piece of soil and squeezed it. Because there had been no farming for a long time, the old cultivated land on the outskirts of Pingyang County had lost some of its stickiness and was loose.

These lands need to be deeply plowed and the soil underneath can be turned up in order to plant some crops. In the early stage, the field power should not be too much wasted, and the yields will not be very high. After two or three years of careful maintenance, the land here will Only then will normal farming return to normal.

Jia Qu came out of the city and came to Fei Qian. He saw the ceremony and handed over a piece of silk from his sleeve with words written on it.

Fei Qian unfolded it and took a deep breath. The Hedong Wei family's properties in this area were densely written on the silk cloth...

A quarter of the shops in Anyi County belong to the Wei family...

Linfen County occupies more than half...

There are also Pishi County and other counties...

The industries involved include daily necessities such as rice, cloth, and salt, as well as other industries such as quality shops and restaurants, and even papermaking, carving, casting, breeding, and other related industries.

It can be said that Hedong Wei's tentacles involve all aspects of people's livelihood.

In addition to these street shops within the city, the most important area is the land and Wubao. In this area of ​​​​Hedong Wei, there are six Wubao villages of different sizes. The largest one has more than a thousand people. Some small ones have hundreds of people, and they use this to control the surrounding land farmers...

Fei Qian couldn't help but clicked his tongue. If Jia Qu hadn't been a Hedong nobleman himself, how would he know so much?

I think back when I was in Xiangyang, the Huang family, including the Huang family hermitage, only had four village castles, and they were far apart, and the scale was not as large as that of the Wei family.

Land...

Fei Qian cast his sights on an open piece of land in Pingyang. Fortunately, the Han Dynasty was declining now, and he couldn't care less about some things. He wanted to occupy the land of the old city of Pingyang here. This would definitely be destroyed if the Emperor of the Han Dynasty was strong. He was sprayed half to death. Although Pingyang Hou has disappeared, naturally the ownership of these lands belongs to the emperor.

I did not get the emperor's permission to cultivate and plant the land without authorization, haha...

But now, one is that this land has been plundered by the barbarians and has been abandoned; second, does the Han Dynasty still have the mind to care about such trivial matters?

The most important thing is that I need this land, otherwise how can I farm? How do you get food and grass?

This time, Fei Qian planned to kill the big ones and spare the small ones, but wanted to keep Bai Bo, who was captured this time. The situation was different at this moment, so the strategy he adopted would naturally be different.

Regarding the land system, Fei Qian really can't think of any better way.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the well-field system was adopted. "Kai Tu Zuo Yong", the well field belongs to the king of Zhou. The king of Zhou granted land to princes and ministers according to their titles. The recipients only have the right to use the well fields but no private rights. They cannot be transferred or sold, and "there is no vendetta in the fields."

Because there was no trade but enfeoffment, ancient nobility and slave farming were created.

Then "rituals and music collapsed" and the princes became stronger and stronger. Comrade Zhou was no longer interested in it. He began to seize all these fields, armed himself, and began to use war to seize the land of other princes. The Warring States Period began. .

Why did everyone in the Qin Dynasty rejoice and be extremely aggressive when hearing about their merits? This was because the Qin Dynasty later stipulated that land could be obtained by virtue of military merits, and this land was owned by individuals and could be bought, sold and inherited. From this, it is natural to imagine that the people of the Qin Dynasty broke out. How much enthusiasm contributed to Qin's war actions.

During the Han Dynasty, and now, in principle, land is owned by the state and is called "public land", which is "leaved" by the emperor to farmers for farming. However, in fact, these lands are concentrated in the hands of large rural landowners, so that there has been a millennium-long dispute about Land fight.

This model gave rise to three classes: the royal family in the upper class, the landowners in the middle class, and the farmers in the lower class.

Then there is the contradiction between the private ownership of land by feudal aristocrats and farmers. There is also the contradiction between whether land movement is led by the government or individuals. At the same time, there is also the contradiction between population growth and land concentration. The contradiction between these three is actually the most fundamental. The problem lies in taxation, that is, the contradiction in land output.

Regarding this mutual contradiction, Fei Qian really has nothing to do.

The butt determines the head. Now that Fei Qian is in the primary stage of a feudal lord, he naturally hopes that the interests will be tilted here. As for the future, this...

No one can tell.

Anyway, if you want to reclaim the land of the big landlords, it is equivalent to cutting the flesh from these feudal lords, that is, the nobles!

Hey hey hey...

Now it seems that Hedong Wei's meat is quite fat!

However, this must be done in a certain degree. It can only be targeted at individuals and cannot be killed with one blow, otherwise...

Fei Qian didn't want to end up like Wang Mang.

He is more or less a latecomer. Fei Qian still understands some of the tricks of nationalization after deprivation. This regulation was produced under specific conditions and is not a panacea...

Moreover, the local governments in later generations competed with the central government for financial interests...ahem...

It can't be used now anyway.

So it can only be private ownership, or semi-collectivization.

Of course, the land still belongs to the Han family on the surface, but in fact it can only belong to Fei Qian's small group. This is the most suitable method for the current situation.

However, there will be some follow-up conflicts and problems in the future. However, now we can only take it one step at a time. There is really no way to put all the policies in place at once...

These things involve too much, and I really get a headache just thinking about it...

Fei Qian sighed slightly, and suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves. Looking up, he saw a scout running from a distance to the east of Pingyang City. When he got close, he swung his saddle and dismounted, and reported: "The King of Hedong The envoy and his guards have arrived twenty miles east of the city..."

I'm worried that I don't have a sword. This Wang Yi is really good!

In the decline of ancient dynasties, land played an important factor, but it was not the absolute factor...

In the final analysis, it is when a very small number of people control the vast majority of wealth, and social security cannot afford the most basic living security for the most basic people...

This is true for any slavery system or feudal system.

When you are so poor that you only have one life left, what else can you not dare to do?

Therefore, the whole world is trying to maintain growth and the middle class as much as possible...