Lu Dynasty

Chapter 365 The Great Migration

Zhang Ning was dumbfounded when he heard that, Xu He actually proposed to me Jimin Restaurant.Zhang Ning said nervously, "You didn't hurt anyone, did you?"

"Why are you so nervous!" Xu He said with a smile: "We just wanted some food, and the shopkeeper is so cooperative, how could we hurt people? After all, we are just begging for food and don't want to kill people!"

Zhang Ning said with a long sigh of relief: "It's a good thing you didn't hurt anyone, otherwise my husband and you would have nothing to talk about! Jimin Restaurant is my husband's property! My husband has no other problems, but to protect his shortcomings. If you hurt him Then wait for his army to trouble you!"

Liao Hua and Xu He looked at me with wide eyes and asked, "No... no way! Jimin Restaurant is really owned by Mr. Lu? In this way, he really has no shortage of food! But who can guarantee that he can eat food? Treat my Yellow Turban people well?" Even Yuan Shao and Cao know that Jimin Restaurant is my property, and there are many people who don't know it, like Liu Biao and Liu Zhang.

"The people are the people. Whether it is the Yellow Turban or ordinary people, as long as they are under my rule, I will let them live a good life!" I said solemnly, "But they must abide by my laws and systems. If they violate my Laws, systems, or even prohibitions, then I will not be polite!"

Xu He said: "That's natural. The state owns the country's laws, and the family has its family rules. I still understand! But why are you so nice to the Yellow Turban? Could it be because of Ning'er?"

"Actually, the yellow scarves are also ordinary people. You rebelled because you were hungry and couldn't survive! If you could have a bowl of rice to eat, I don't think you would take risks!" I laughed and said, "Who in this world has a stable life and is unwilling to However, you have to stick your head to your waistband to make a living. Since your nature is not bad, why can't you accept you and give you a chance to reform? Of course, there are also reasons for Ning'er, after all, you are his father Among them are kind and loyal people, such as Liao Hua!" Liao Hua looked at me praising him, rubbed his head in embarrassment, and smiled awkwardly.

Xu He glanced at Liao Hua, then at Zhang Ning. He sighed and said, "Then tell me, if we surrender to you, how are you going to arrange us?"

"First select the young and strong from among you to serve in the army. The young and strong I mean are those who are 30 years old. They must pass my assessment before they can enter my army! The rest will be given land, grain, and cattle. , Let them cultivate in the three prefectures of Sibingliang. At first, the grain seeds I distributed were high-yield grain seeds, so that you can eat as soon as possible. Then you will plant other crops, such as wheat and corn , rice, etc.!" I laughed and said, "If my policy goes well, the people under my command will not need to pay agricultural tax in the future, but only need to pay transaction tax. That is to say, only tax is collected when food is sold, and you grow your own. Eating is not taxed!"

"So good?" Xu He said, "If you don't collect taxes, where will your government salary and military supplies come from? Then you won't have to pay from the people!"

"It's not that I don't collect taxes, it's that I don't collect agricultural taxes!" I shook my head helplessly. Although Xu He can be regarded as a wise man among the Yellow Turbans, his acceptance ability is completely incomparable with Guo Jia and the others.I laughed and said, "I collect commercial tax. It's the money of businessmen! I don't collect your land tax and head tax. You must grow a lot of grain, so I will send people to buy it. Once you sell the grain, I will Taxes are about to be collected! If you don’t sell them and eat them yourself, I won’t collect taxes! Do you understand this?”

"Oh! That means you only collect tax from merchants?" Xu He asked.

"Almost! Of course it will be a long time later. At first you still have to pay some taxes. After all, my business has just started. If you don't pay taxes, I can't afford it. Don't worry, my tax rate is very low !" I laughed and said, "Do you understand?" In fact, when I don't collect agricultural taxes, their children will understand.At that time, these old yellow scarves were in their seventies and eighties, so they didn't care about the business tax!
Xu He smiled and said, "Understand! Understood! Then I've decided, the whole army surrenders to you! How are you going to assign our people to your rule?"

"First, divide the million yellow turbans into three parts, with 40 to 25 thousand people in each part. Group the young people aged [-] to [-] and their families together, and then gradually transfer them to the three prefectures of Sibingliang." I laughed. Dao: "The young and strong part will be transferred to Sizhou, most of the others will go to Bingzhou, and a small part will go to Liangzhou. I think the young part should have the largest number of people."

Xu He said worriedly: "Sizhou is fine, but can the other two states properly arrange the yellow scarves under my command? Once we leave, many people from Qingzhou will follow."

I laughed and said, "Don't worry! Even if all the people in Qingzhou go to Sili, they will be able to let go!" To be honest, Xu He is a bit unfounded.In Qingzhou, I have no more than 500 million people in all my calculations, and it is absolutely not too crowded to put tens of millions of people in the same place!Like China in later generations, which city does not have a population of 600 million!I didn't see how crowded it was.In the Han Dynasty of China, the land was not small, and the population in the most prosperous period was only about 3000 million.It is not bad that the current big man can still have a population of [-] to [-] million, and the three prefectures of Sibingliang will definitely let it go.

In ancient China, it was always said that common people's uprisings were caused by food shortages. In fact, food shortages were caused by underdeveloped technology and culture at that time.Chinese agricultural books have been compiled long ago, and the old Chinese farmers have more and more experience in farming.But the government didn't pay attention to it, so it didn't spread it.In fact, this was also caused by that hooligan Liu Bang.

As for farming, during the reform of Shang Yang in the Qin Dynasty, it was proposed that as long as there is a way to increase the yield of the land, the country will reward it.If it proves that the proposed method is indeed feasible, it can be sealed as a marquis.It was only in the Han Dynasty that the restrictions on conferring marquises and titles were raised, so that farmers and craftsmen could not obtain titles and fell into the lower class of society.This is also the reason why aristocratic families can control the government.

The aristocratic family suppressed the way to become an official only by studying and becoming an official or military meritorious service, and then took the right to learn culture in their hands. to the limit.As for the army, even the soldiers are slaves of aristocratic families, so how can the poor generals stand out.Therefore, if I want to interrupt the control of the imperial family by the aristocratic family, I must improve the status of the peasants and workers, and broaden the road to becoming an official and noble, and then use papermaking and printing to remove the cultural monopoly of the aristocratic family. The aristocratic family's control over the imperial court will be broken without attack.

(End of this chapter)