Zhao State, the towns and towns were listed.

The people were located in the east of Handan. Although they were not big, they had the most fertile land in Zhao. This was because they were close to water and were convenient for irrigation. However, the people of the people gathered together at this moment. It was still winter and everyone was trembling. However, they looked very happy. They surrounded a wide courtyard inside and outside the courtyard, and stood full of people. Outside the courtyard, some people also poked their heads out of the short courtyard wall and looked curiously.

Everyone was very happy and very excited because Ma Fujun was here.

Ma Fujun did not come here alone. He and his disciples came here. If it weren't for the arrogant village officials who were worshiping this young man in fear and fear, everyone would not believe that the young nobleman who stayed in his home was Ma Fujun. Zhao Kuo sat on the ground with a smile, with figures around him. There were disciples standing behind him, holding bamboo slips in hand, recording.

"Brother-in-law, in the year of a bumper harvest, how much millet can the one acre of land in the list of people produce?"

The old man sitting in front of Ma Fujun stroked his beard, showed his teeth, and replied with a smile: "The best arable land can produce three stones of grain per acre."

"What if it's on weekdays?"

"Two stones and five."

“How much farmland do you have?”

"I don't have arable land. I have eight people and my family, and I have cultivated 300 acres of land..." The old man said, and Zhao Kuo suddenly realized that the Qin State is different from other countries at this moment. At this moment, the state-owned land is developing towards the private land ownership. Of course, in Zhao Kuo's view, it cannot be said that it is a state-owned land ownership. It should be the king's ownership. The arable land belongs to the king, and the rest are slaves who cultivate for the king. This is just a more selfish private land ownership!

The royal family distributed arable land to the nobles, and then distributed the land to the people, exploiting them layer by layer. The people did not have their own arable land. They were only responsible for farming for others, and the nobles could not sell the land privately. The land of the nobles was also a reward from the royal family. In this way, the disadvantages came. The people were unwilling to cultivate all their efforts to do this public land, and it was not their own arable land anyway, so why bother to work hard?

Therefore, all countries carried out reforms, such as Lu, Qi and other countries, implemented new tax laws, and ordered that both public and private land should be paid on a mu. This was a disguised recognition of private land. Wei, Zhao, Han and other countries also allowed the nobles to lead the people to reclaim arable land, and recognized that these newly reclaimed land belonged to the reclaimers. The best thing they did was Qin. Qin directly recognized private land, allowed buying and selling, and allowed the Qin people to reclaim and cultivate themselves.

In other words, there were farmers in Qin State, and farmers in other countries... that was called slaves.

The King of Qin has the most obvious gap with the kings of other countries, that is, in terms of resource allocation. Because the land private ownership is completed, the King of Qin can directly collect taxes from the whole country and centrally allocate national materials. The other princes are just a major lord in the country. The six countries are richer than Qin. If these resources cannot be directly mobilized, they will naturally not be opponents of Qin.

Of course, because all countries are moving closer to the Qin system, the land problem has become strange. In Zhao, there are real monarchs, false monarchs, nobles who own a large number of land that cannot be sold, nobles who cultivated private land, people who rely on nobles to farm, and people who own some of their own land and pay taxes directly to the monarch. Zhao Kuo asked seriously, and his disciples were also recording quickly.

Zhao Kuo did not like the Qin State's private land ownership system. It was this system that caused China to continue to carry out dynasties. Landlords annexed land, causing the people to live in poverty. Then there was a turmoil, overthrowing the old land owners and distributing the land again. After a period of time, the land was annexed to the landlords again, and the people could not survive... However, in today's view, the Qin State's private land ownership seemed to be the most suitable system for today.

At least, he allowed the people to own their own land and mobilized the people's enthusiasm.

But the problem is that the very unreasonable taxes. After Zhao Kuo investigated, he was surprised to find that the tax rate of Zhao State is five taxes and four. What is this? The tax rate of 80% is 80%! You have worked hard for a year and have 100 stones of food to pay 80 stones of food... If a war breaks out, you have to continue to ask for it. This is to force the people to death? Of course, the tax rate of Qin State is not much better. Qin State has three taxes and about 66%.

You should know that in the later Han Dynasty, the tax rate was thirty and one tax... Of course, this is also because the Han Dynasty did not need to prepare for war at all times. When fighting with the Huns later, the tax was collected quite a lot, which was even more harsh than the taxes in the Warring States Period.

Nowadays, no one can laugh at each other, because everyone is similar in taxation. The most painful thing is probably the people. Although the tax in Qin State is high, the people can at least reclaim the land by themselves. As long as they work hard enough and do not die of fatigue in the arable land, there is still a way out. For the people of other countries, they may be able to survive with aristocrats.

Zhao Kuo sighed, and he remembered Confucius's past sigh: harsh policies are more powerful than tigers.

When Confucius and Zilu passed Mount Tai, they saw a miserable woman. The woman's relatives were all bitten to death by tigers in the mountains. She was the only one who knelt in front of the grave and cried. When Confucius asked her why she didn't leave here, the woman replied, because there were no cruel decrees here. Confucius sighed: The cruel decrees were even more fierce and terrifying than tigers!

Zhao Kuo carefully calculated the grain output of the listed people. A strong laborer can cultivate fifty acres of arable land, and he himself consumed about thirty stones of corn in a year, one acre and three stones to calculate. That is about a strong laborer can cultivate fifty acres of arable land, and can get one hundred and fifty stones of grain. If he has to pay one hundred and twenty stones of grain, he can leave thirty stones himself...

Oh, it's just leaving just enough food he eats for a year.

This ghost tax has actually counted this!

Of course, this is just a calculation. It is impossible for a family to be full of strong labor, nor can it always be good weather. What's more, the labor force in the family who can cultivate 50 acres of arable land has to take a month to practice every year and take a month to serve, to help build roads, palaces, etc., and to go to the battlefield from time to time.

Zhao Kuo suddenly realized the despair of the people of Zhao who were left behind after hundreds of thousands of soldiers gathered in Shangdang.

Zhao Kuo asked about a lot of things again, and talked about it all the time that everyone did not dare to disturb Zhao Kuo's rest at night. The villagers left. Zhao Kuo sat in the inner room and Han Fei sat in front of him. Zhao Kuo frowned and said seriously: "Five taxes and four are too high. If I want to formulate reasonable taxes, I must come up with a tax rate that is both reasonable and will not seriously weaken the national strength. I need you to help me..."

"Old...Old...The teacher is right." Han Fei said, and he recalled seriously and said slowly: "I...I...I...I've noticed this when I was in South Korea. The tax revenue in South Korea is chaotic..." According to what Han Fei said, because of the different land owners, although South Korea's tax revenue is high, there are very few that actually enter the treasury, because there are layers of exploitation, and some arable land is even hidden.

Han Fei wanted to follow the Qin State to implement a complete private ownership of land, and then, on the basis of the monarch bypassing the nobles and collecting taxes directly from the farmers, he used the taxes in the four taxes and one. Han Fei said a lot of his own opinions, but Zhao Kuo shook his head. Zhao Kuo said seriously: "I think that we should adjust the grain production in various places in turn, and the grain production in a family for a year..."

The amount of arable land owned by each family is different. Some arable land is fertile, while some arable land is barren. If all taxes are subject to a unified tax rate, it is still somewhat unreasonable. It is best to set up a quota... Han Fei also has his own opinion. Zhao Kuo and Han Fei discussed the whole night without resting until the rooster crowed everywhere, and Zhao Kuo realized that it was already dawn.

During these days, Zhao Kuo was very busy. He set up a school room in the horse suit, allowing all those who want to learn to study. Even those who are humble from humble backgrounds can also learn. Therefore, soon, the horse suit gathered a group of poor people, both young and old, who all wanted to learn knowledge with Ma Fujun. Of course, Zhao Kuo would also help those poor disciples who came to study but were penniless and could only eat baking cakes once a day.

He did not relax his affairs about the medical officer. Under his call, famous doctors from all over the country were coming to Handan. King Zhao also agreed to Ma Fujun's request to set up a doctor who accompanied the army and a medical officer who treated the people in various places. The county set up a doctor with a doctor, a pediatric doctor, a facial doctor, and an injured doctor. They received their salary and were assigned to the county magistrate to treat the people in the county.

What doctors in this era most desire is to become the king's private doctor through their superb medical skills and gain a prominent position. Now, of course, it is a good opportunity to be an official in Zhao State. This is a good opportunity to show off their medical skills. Maybe they can be left by Ma Fujun and become Ma Fujun's doctor! Zhao Kuo also wants to pay a visit to Zhao's private doctor, and he will be responsible for setting up a school to teach doctors...

In addition to promoting medicine, Zhao Kuo also wants to solve problems such as taxation, land, corvee, etc. No matter how difficult it is, he must find a way to save the people who have long been desperate in this era... And in order to let countries follow their example and promote changes in various countries, Zhao Kuo may be the only one who can achieve it.

Qin State, Xianyang

Frequent good news from the Nanyang battlefield made the King of Qin happy and worried. Even Fan Ju, I won’t say much more in the near future. The effect of Bai Qi after he arrived at the battlefield was extremely obvious. The soldiers who came to report said that General Bai Qi had attacked Chendu. However, today, the King of Qin and Fan Ju sat together not because of the incident on the battlefield, but because of Ma Fujun’s letters.

Ma Fujun wrote a letter to the King of Qin again, which made the King of Qin extremely excited, just like a fan who got an idol's reply. The letter was sent by Fan Ju. The King of Qin looked at the letter seriously and was silent for a moment before handing the bamboo slip to Fan Ju. The King of Qin sighed: "Fortunately, Ma Fujun is not in Chu State..." Fan Ju picked up the letter and read it seriously. There was nothing to say, but Zhao Kuo hoped that the King of Qin could forgive the captured soldiers of Chu State and asked Bai Qi not to kill them.

Fan Ju thought for a moment, then his face changed drastically. The bamboo slips came to Xianyang and took several months. In other words, Zhao Kuo realized that Qin would secretly replace Bai Qi? He even expected that Bai Qi would defeat Chu and capture the soldiers of Chu? Fan Ju raised his head and looked at the King of Qin. Qin shook his head and said, "I have not yet waited for the good news from Wu'anjun, and Ma Fujun has already given the answer. It seems that Wu'anjun can win a great victory in this war."

Fan Ju didn't speak, and the King of Qin smiled, and suddenly his face became ferocious. He said angrily: "A talented both civil and military! A talented man with both civil and military! What kind of virtue does Zhao Dan have?!" Fan Ju listened quietly as the King of Qin cursed King Zhao with the most vicious words. The King of Qin cursed for a long time before he stopped. He sighed and said: "What a pity, such a person cannot be used by me..."

"King, what should I do if Wu'anjun?"

"What is the prisoner? Uncle Fan thinks he should do?"

Fan Ju said calmly: "Immediately order Wu Anjun to not kill the prisoners."

The King of Qin frowned and said solemnly: "Weakening Chu is the strategy you proposed. If the prisoners are released, the purpose of weakening Chu is not achieved, but it consumes Qin's national strength out of thin air, how can this be possible? Besides, I heard that the Chu people killed Qin's soldiers and they have never sympathized with each other. Why should we let them go?"

Fan Ju said again: "Let these Chu soldiers live, and can better achieve the purpose of weakening Chu... I will make these 300,000 people my helper to weaken Chu... This is more beneficial than killing them..." He narrowed his eyes and said seriously: "In the past, Han Fei once asked Ma Fujun about the way to war. He said: Quickly gather the army, take advantage of the enemy's key channels and cut off their contacts..."

When Fan Ju talked about Zhao Kuo, the King of Qin became serious. Fan Ju then smiled and said, "The method Ma Fujun said is indeed very useful, and it is very suitable for Wu'an Jun. Wu'an Jun originally likes to march quickly and win by surprise... Since he used the mobile warfare and information warfare he mentioned, why not use the ideological warfare together?"

"To let the soldiers know why they fight for, they must defeat the enemy ideologically..."

The King of Qin was not moved by Fan Ju because of Ma Fujun. He frowned and said, "No... I don't know if this ideological war can weaken Chu, but I know that killing these soldiers of Chu will definitely weaken Chu. I don't like to do unpredictable things."

"King... If Wu'an Jun killed 300,000 soldiers...what do you want to reward him? 300,000 heads? What kind of reward should you get?"

The King of Qin was stunned, frowned, and said nothing, but he was a little shaken.

Fan Ju walked out of the palace and he laughed.

What kind of person is Wu'anjun? How could he let those prisoners go?

As long as he violated the king's orders and killed the prisoners privately... Well, Wu'anjun, please go all the way.
Chapter completed!