Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 193 The world has suffered from Qin for a long time?

The blazing flames rose in the air, like a huge torch, and the red flame reflected the faces of everyone around the huge fire, bringing a layer of healthy red.

Mars flying in the sky, like fireflies flying all over the sky, cast a layer of mystery on the night of Shanglinyuan.

The flickering flame made it difficult for everyone to see Fusu's expression clearly at this moment.

"I didn't expect a small Luoyang order to conceal more than 3000 ministers!"

"So there are so many county chiefs in the world, how many people have they hidden?"

Fusu looked beyond the palace gardens in the distance, looking at the mountains and rivers that only existed in his mind.

For the first time in his life, he felt unprecedented isolation and helplessness.

In the past, whether he was fighting for power with Prime Minister Feng Quji, or discussing the distribution of benefits with the clan, he always attracted enough supporters by his side, so that he was always in a situation of fighting with more and fighting with less.

But it's different now. In name, Luoyang ordered Wei Wuyou to hide his population, but in fact, this is a problem that can directly destroy Qin.

From Fusu's point of view, the so-called [-]-level military merit system is actually a reward standard for [-] different levels of slaves and servants in the fields and houses.

This set of systems is not just a simple feudal system of rewards for meritorious service, its role actually involves all aspects of the entire society, and it is the basis for Qin to rule the country.

After the reform of Shang Yang, the Qin State used the system of prefectures and counties to control the land owned by the country, and used the system of military merits to mobilize all people from the monarch down, so that it could exist for a long time. world!

Under this system, from the monarch to the common people, there is a two-level system in which there are no middlemen who make the difference.

People with different titles can get different amounts of wealth from the state, such as land.

The land grant system under the Qin law has two sides. On the one hand, land is allocated according to the rank of title, but at the same time, it is also restricted according to the title of title, the amount of land that each rank can occupy.

Since a public official has and can only have one hectare of land, the higher the rank, the more acres he occupies.

That is to say, the land grant system and the land restriction system were carried out simultaneously.

However, this is only the practice of the Guanzhong area and other places where the old Qin people lived. In the old places of the six kingdoms of Shandong that were conquered, in order not to provoke a major civil uprising, the first emperor adopted the policy of "making the head of Guizhou real its land".

But this has created another problem, that is, the land restriction policy that has not been implemented will inevitably lead to the concentration of land to a few people, both to the wealthy class and to the powerful class.

Regardless of any class, in the era of intelligent farming, it is useless to occupy a large amount of land. Someone must work on the land in order for the land to generate value.

Just like what was said in the secret report sent by Hou Feng, the thousands of ministers that Wei Wuyou concealed were used to cultivate the land under the control of his family.

That is to say, Wei Wuyou incorporated these people into the civil registration through administrative means, and then recruited them to his own farm as tenant farmers.

In this way, from the perspective of the books, these people are not subordinate officials, so they only need to pay the same poll taxes as ordinary people, such as counting and oral taxes.

At the same time, because they had no land under their names, the imperial court could not get land rent from them.

In this way, when the imperial court lowered the land rent, apart from wealthy wealthy households like Wei Wuyou with an official background, both the ministers and the country would become poorer and poorer.

Well, this is a bit like the outsourcing of later generations... Fu Su raised his head, looked at the stars slowly appearing in the sky, and began to silently think about the way to break the situation.

If such behaviors are common, it is not difficult to understand why after Hu Hai succeeded to the throne, the world turned upside down.

After all, if the population is re-stated in strict accordance with the laws of the Qin Dynasty, taking Wei Wuyou as an example, he would have to hand over hundreds of thousands of dollars to the imperial court at least every year!

And there are thousands of people like Wei Wuyou in the world!

In a daze, another question appeared in Fusu's mind.

Was the demise of the Qin State really the result of the Daze Township Uprising that had been suffering for a long time, as rumored by later generations?

Although Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising was very strong, it lasted only a short time, and following behind them were Wei Jiu and Wei Bao, the clan relatives of the State of Wei, Zhao Xie of the clan of the State of Zhao, Tian Dan and Tian Rong of the clan of the State of Qi. , Jingju, the royal family of Chu State, Xiang family, the great nobleman who supported the clan Xiongxin, and Han Cheng, the clan of South Korea...

There are also countless scholars who are attached to the clans of these six countries.

Such as Zhang Liang, Chen Yu.

There is another problem, that is, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were soldiers who rushed to Yuyang, and it was the Xingtu army led by Zhang Han who attacked and wiped out this force.

The Xing Tu Army is a temporary army composed of slaves, slaves, and slaves.

These people are also the main personnel of 'The world has been suffering for a long time'!
However, the prisoner army did not turn against the Qin people like in the Battle of Muye, but defeated Zhou Wen's hundreds of thousands of rebels.

And the peasants under Chen Sheng and Wu Guang who cut wood into soldiers and won grain and Jingcong, have not been fighting against Qin all the time.

A considerable part of them broke away from Chen Sheng and made themselves kings, and fought again with the Kwantung aristocratic army, and some directly betrayed Chen Sheng and surrendered to the Qin army.

The main Qin army led by Wang Li actually entered the Central Plains from the northern border to fight the rebellion very late.

In other words, those who continued their lives for the Qin Dynasty were actually the group of people who suffered the most from Qin!

However, Fusu, who was influenced by the phrase "The world has been suffering for a long time", always felt that "Jiu Jiu Lao Qin, welcome Peigong" is because "the father has suffered from Qin's harsh laws for a long time".

But when Fu Su carefully recalled the memories in his mind, he realized that the so-called three chapters of the contract, namely the murderer dies, the wounding and the robbery, actually only lasted for two months!
Afterwards, not only did the Qin law be fully restored, but Xiao He later wrote the nine chapters of the law, whichever was most suitable for the time.

Among them, the first six chapters of the nine-chapter law are the same as the Qin law, based on the French classics, and three more chapters are added, which is the origin of the Han-Qin system.

As for what people said, Qin was lost in politics, not in system, that is, the main problem of the Qin Dynasty was tyranny, not at the system level, but at the policy level.

So after a certain pavilion chief took over Guanzhong, did he abolish the tyranny?
The answer is, no!

When the Chu and Han dynasties were fighting for hegemony, Xiao He recruited soldiers from Guanzhong to the point where even the old, the weak, and minors could join them.

During the war, Xiao He also conscripted corvée, and by the way built a Weiyang Palace that was "not magnificent but not powerful".

How big is Weiyang Palace?

Judging from the ruins of Weiyang Palace in later generations, although it is not as good as Efang Palace, two-thirds of it is always there.

Efang Palace has not been completed in seven years, but Weiyang Palace has been completed in three years!

So, are people in the world really suffering from Qin for a long time?

(End of this chapter)