Great Tang Southern Emperor

But Nanyang is different. The land here is extremely fertile. It is an exaggeration to say that oil can be squeezed out by just grabbing a handful of soil, which shows its fertility.

In particular, the climate in Nanyang is humid and warm, which is more suitable for the cultivation of agricultural products, especially represented by rice, where the rice can even be grown three times a year.

No one knows the meaning of this better than the people of Datang—what does it mean? The output of the granary can even support the entire Tang Dynasty.

With Nanyang, even the people of Tang Dynasty do not need to farm land, and the country's relief food alone can feed everyone.

This is of course a great thing for the common people and the Tang court, but it is a great disaster for the aristocratic families who hold a large amount of land and black households (people who have neither land nor naturalization).

With the land in Nanyang, it is naturally impossible for the imperial court to cultivate it in person. It will inevitably require a large number of people. Even in order to stimulate the people to go to Nanyang, Datang will definitely follow the policy of ten years ago and distribute the land for free. How many people will this attract? Nanyang?

Ten years ago, the imperial court's immigration policy shocked the entire Tang Dynasty into idiots. Not only were the people dizzy from the pie falling from the sky, but the aristocratic family was also vomited blood.

Why did the aristocratic family become the scourge of all dynasties?In addition to their ability to control the court through knowledge, the main reason is that the powerful families controlled a large amount of land and tenants, so that the court did not dare to act rashly.

Thinking back to how powerful the Han Dynasty was back then, even at the end of the period, it still had an overwhelming advantage over foreign races——Guoheng will perish with the weak, and the Han Dynasty will perish with the strong. This sentence is not just a slogan.

But the big man died in the end. What is the reason?In the final analysis, it is land annexation. A large amount of land has been annexed by aristocratic families. The people have no land to plant, and there is no food to eat. If there is no food, they can only starve to death. Since they are dead anyway, what is there to be afraid of? ?Of course it was a rebellion.

In fact, since the end of the Qin Dynasty, land annexation has always been the main reason for the change of dynasties, including the Tang Dynasty. Although the warlord melee led to the collapse of the dynasty at the end of the period, land annexation was still the main reason for the decline of the Tang Dynasty——Huangchao Rebellion Why did it cause such a big scene? In the final analysis, the common people could not survive. Under the circumstances that only the rebellion could win a way out, naturally a large number of common people supported Huang Chao, and the Huang Chao uprising quickly swept across the world.

Before Li Zhen, it was not that there were no insightful people who saw the problem of land annexation. The most suspected traveler Wang Mang was one of them. He not only saw this hidden danger, but also wanted to change this problem through his own methods.In Wang Mang’s New Deal, one of them is about land—implementing state ownership of land: the state prohibits private buying and selling of land, and strictly controls the amount of land owned. For families with less than eight members, the cultivated land shall not exceed [-] mu, and any excess land shall be confiscated .Restore the ancient well field system.

Ordinarily, this policy is good. As the saying goes, if there is no sale, there will be no harm. The land will be nationalized, and the people will not be able to buy and sell land if they have no right to buy and sell land. The idea of ​​a land sale.People cannot sell land, so it is naturally impossible for aristocratic families to concentrate a large amount of land in their own hands, and it is impossible for the problem of land annexation to arise again. People have land and have a way of life. Who has nothing to do to rebel? ?

But Wang Mang forgot that this move can indeed stabilize the state power, but it violates the interests of the scholar-bureaucrats—without land, how can we collect taxes?How do we get rich without taxes?Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents.Since you are going to kill our parents, what else is there to say?Let's set up our battles and get going...

After all, Wang Mang was not in the right position, and he was too hasty. After he won the position, he did not cleanse the Liu royal family. Instead, when the position under his buttocks was not stable, he began to implement the New Deal...

How could the family let go of such a good opportunity?

So Liu Xiu, the son of the plane, was quickly supported to face off against Wang Mang, the traveler—and it turned out that although the traveler had the conditions for foresight, he was still a little bit worse when facing the son of the plane who was favored by the plane, especially when there was no Goldfinger case.

As a result, needless to say, the new dynasty was overthrown, and Wang Mang lost his trace (it was said that he died in the rebellion, but no one saw his body. The real reason may be that he did not complete the task of crossing, was recalled by the great god of crossing, or destroyed humanely. ), Liu Xiu won the world and treated the aristocratic family preferentially, but his move was tantamount to planting the seeds for the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

But Li Zhen is different as a time traveler.

After he came to Datang, he studied this period of history carefully for a period of time, and he was very familiar with this period of history.He also saw the disadvantages of Wang Mang's land policy, that is, Wang Mang's vision is still a bit too narrow. He only paid attention to the one-third of an acre of land in China, and did not turn his attention to foreign countries.

But Li Zhen is different, his approach is much smarter than Wang Mang.

He has no objection (of course he does not support) to the family's land annexation - isn't the family's land annexation?It's okay, then you can annex it casually, I have no objection.

But now since I don't object to your annexing the land, it's enough to be righteous, so you have no reason to object to my expansion of the territory, right?

Then things will be easy to handle. I have opened up a lot of fertile land here, and I promised a family how much land to give away for free, attracting a lot of people to farm the land, so you have no reason to stop Right—he is not your slave, and he has not signed a contract of sale with you, and now he is unwilling to do anything with you, so why do you prevent him from coming to join us?Even if this matter is reported to the court's Criminal Department and Dali Temple, no one would dare to judge you to win, right?

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Without the people to farm for you, I see how you plan to farm so much land?Do you grow it yourself?

Your family is prosperous, but even if your descendants are as prosperous as seven clans and five surnames, how many descendants can a family have?2000 people already top the sky, right?But let alone how many of you pampered and pampered people can bear the daily heavy physical labor of farming, even if you really go to farm-you have millions of acres of land under your name. Even if 2000 people don't sleep for a whole year, how much can you grow?

What about the rest of the land?

There is a law in the Tang Dynasty. Once a certain piece of land has been barren for many years and no one has cultivated it, the imperial court has the right to take it back, and it is still the kind that does not give money-you can’t stop planting, and others are not allowed to plant it. Bar?Occupying a latrine and not shitting is not allowed no matter which dynasty it is in, especially when it comes to people's livelihood, it is absolutely not allowed to have such a problem.

This law was of no use to aristocratic families with many tenants, because some people farmed land for them.

But since the immigration policy came out, the aristocratic family has been completely panicked, because compared with farming land for others, owning their own land is the dream of all Han people-don't underestimate the land complex of Han people, in order to own a piece of land What is it to leave the land that belongs to one's own land?

Even if the aristocratic family has responded as quickly as possible, such as blocking the implementation of the immigration policy, such as selling their own land at a low price, or reducing the rent of the tenants, it is completely useless. These policies cannot stop the people from running To the Turks.

And without the tenants, with their little manpower alone, tens of millions of nearly tens of millions of acres of land cannot be planted at all with their family's little manpower. Even if they sell the land while planting, in the end, it is still A large tract of land was confiscated by the imperial court.But they have no way to stop it, because this is the law established by the court long ago-the aristocratic families can ignore the laws of the Tang Dynasty in secret, but they don't have the courage to do so in the open, otherwise even if the court really takes action against them, And absolutely no one will intercede for them.

It was also this move of the imperial court that caused many aristocratic families to almost go bankrupt. For a period of time, some small aristocratic families simply lived on chaff. It can be seen how miserable they were at that time, and they will propose this policy even more. Li Zhen hated it to the core.

After more than ten years of recuperation, these small families managed to recover a little bit of vitality, but the Tang Dynasty went to war again.

Once Datang really prepares Nanyang to emulate Turkic immigration policy, the situation of the family will be even more miserable-not only Nanyang is more fertile than Turkic land, and the environment is better.More importantly, because the immigration policy was promulgated for the first time ten years ago, a considerable number of people did not believe that such a good policy would fall on them. Many people simply ignore the immigration policy, and naturally it is impossible to go to Turkic to become herdsmen.

But later, when many examples proved that the immigration policy was real, and the people who went there made a lot of money, this part of the people regretted it, and hoped that Datang would go to lay down a few more lands every day. , they can also divide a few pieces of land.

It is a pity that although Datang did indeed lay down a few lands later, such as Gaochang, Tuyuhun, Tubo, etc., due to various reasons, these lands did not implement immigration policies or the number of immigrants was too small, which made most people The people who were looking forward to it were disappointed.

Gaochang is because this country itself is a country of Han people, and it doesn't matter at all to the rule of the Tang Dynasty, so naturally there is no need for immigration.

Although the citizens of Tubo and Tuyuhun are not of Han blood, the Great Tang ruled out the serfdom here and turned all the serfs into free people. This made the people of the two countries very grateful, and it was too late to support the Tang Dynasty. May oppose Datang's rule?

Although Datang did arrange for some people to immigrate to the past, the number was not large. They just transferred some poor people who had no land from places such as Shuzhong or Ganzhou, and the policy did not spread to the hinterland of the Central Plains. People in the Central Plains, Jiangnan and other places were disappointed.But the imperial court has no policy, and they have nothing to do. They can only pray every day that Datang will lay down another place.

Then, their wish came true, Linyi violated the frontier, and Tang Yue King Li Zhen sent his army south to easily destroy Linyi, and he was about to kill Zhenla. Seeing that a large piece of fertile land was about to fall into the hands of Datang, Almost every day now, people are looking forward to when the imperial court will promulgate the immigration policy again, and even people go to the Yamen to inquire about the situation every day, but the answer they get is that there is no news in this regard.

While disappointing many people, they were also waiting with confidence, because even they knew very well that this time was different, and the imperial court would definitely issue an immigration policy this time.

Because according to the news from the front line, Nanyang is different from other places. The king of Yue seems to hate Nanyang natives in particular, and even plans to turn Nanyang natives into slaves and send them all to slave camps in Datang to make them work until death.

This made many people lament the great courage of the King of Yue, but they also waited for the implementation of the immigration policy with great anticipation—since the people in Nanyang are going to become slaves, a place as big as Nanyang must not be left empty. , so the promulgation of the immigration policy is almost certain, and the scale is absolutely unprecedented. I am afraid that even ten years ago, the scale of emigration to Turks could not be compared to this time.

Last time, due to the actions of the family, some black households did not terminate the contract with the family. Later, when the news of the Turks came, these people hated the family to the core, and they also looked forward to the next immigration policy of the imperial court.If the imperial court really plans to launch the immigration policy again this time, the threat facing the family will be much greater than ten years ago. All tenants and black households will definitely break away from the control of the family and become good citizens with land and land.

But what about the family?

Although after suffering from the loss ten years ago, many aristocratic families have learned to gain wisdom from a ditch, and did not merge too much land, but invested their money in business.

But this is only part of it. There are still a considerable number of aristocratic families who have continued to invest in the land after recovering their vitality. To start the immigration policy, it would definitely be a catastrophe for these aristocratic families.

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This is also one of the reasons why the family had to put Li Zhen to death. If Li Zhen was really successful in Nanyang, it would inevitably cause a large number of black households and tenants to leave the family and go to Nanyang again.

Similarly, this is what Luo Tianyuan is most worried about. Once the common people go to Nanyang, what will happen to the large amount of land accumulated in the hands of the family?No one farms the land. After a certain number of years, these lands will be taken back by the court...

Is there another land sale?But if all the aristocratic families sell the land together, so much land is sold together, how low is the land price?

You must know that land prices were very expensive in the heyday. Before the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, the price of one mu of good land (dry land) in the Guanzhong area was about 50 yuan. Compared with the current price and purchasing power level, it exceeded 8 to 10 yuan (roughly more than 30 yuan). The annual salary of a sixth-rank Beijing official), the closer to the two capitals, the more expensive, and the farther away, the cheaper, generally fluctuating between 50 and 20 guan.After the Anshi Rebellion, around the time of Tang Xianzong, the land price was relatively cheap, but in the Guanzhong area, the average price of ordinary dry land was around 4 guan, which is about 5 to [-] yuan today.

That is to say, even after the Anshi Rebellion, when the troubled times began, the price of an acre of land was at least 4 yuan, that is, 5 to [-] yuan, which is equivalent to the annual salary of ordinary people.

However, after the implementation of the immigration policy ten years ago, the price of land in Guanzhong even dropped to the point where it was five cents or even lower per mu—and the buyers were still picky.

This is the serious consequence of large quantities of land appearing on the market.

If Luo Tianyuan's predictions are not bad, the price this time will be even lower, and it is not impossible to even drop below three pennies. This is in the heyday, when there is no war, and it is sold at such a low price. , Land owners will really lose money.