The adults began to talk about their own affairs. Cheng Jinzhou was the only two children in the field, and the other one was Cheng Jinhao. The two looked at each other, probably saying something like "the ghosts remained unchanged" in their hearts.

As two legitimate grandchildren who are currently staying in the old house, in most families, the competition between them may last for a lifetime. The length of their specific time depends on the death rate of their parents and the intelligence level of the participants.

Cheng Jinhao was naturally dissatisfied with the attention Cheng Jinzhou received, but he sat too far and could only play a role with his eyes. He hoped that at some point, Cheng Jinzhou would look over and be scared to death by his persistence.

But in fact, except for the first glance, Cheng Jinzhou never looked back. He was indeed listening carefully to what Liu Bin said.

As a transshipment officer, Liu Bin's most important responsibility is to ensure the country's tax sources - tax sources and tax collection are different concepts. The former determines who pays taxes, while the latter guarantees that these people will pay taxes.

As any country develops, the source of taxation will change, sometimes more and sometimes less. In most feudal countries, such as the aristocratic countries like the Daxia Dynasty, their tax sources are getting smaller and smaller, because the aristocrats do not have to pay taxes, and the aristocrats will merge small farmers, and small farmers also tend to pay less taxes to the aristocrats, thus evading national taxes.

"I'm afraid your Majesty has a headache for this problem." Cheng Yunan said the truth, shook his head gently, rested his head on a soft chair, and looked comfortable.

Like most scholars in ancient China, Cheng Yunan was a talented scholar, but not a talented official. Of course, no matter what selection method is used, whether in ancient or modern times, the stupidity of officials is inevitable, and they always face problems beyond their knowledge system.

Liu Bin was a little worried about the country and the people, and said in a heavy voice: "This problem is not impossible to solve, it just depends on how determined it is."

"That's what the people above are considering. You are a vassal official, and such things may be difficult." The person who spoke was Cheng Yunquan, the chief of Shaonan City, who was equivalent to the commander of the security command of Shaonan City. He and Liu Bin were not the same system, so he spoke more casually.

Liu Bin glanced at Cheng Yunquan gently and said, "I'm not afraid that you know, I want to try the inheritance equality system in Hexi."

The current Daxia Dynasty is a political heritage such as the eldest son who has obtained the title alone. The legitimate sons share other property. The concubines only have very few investments, while the illegitimate sons have no illegitimate sons.

Cheng Yunan listened and said, "This is something that shakes the foundation, how to make it happen."

Liu Bin looked a little smile on his face and said seriously: "What I want most is to divide real estate evenly. If not only the legitimate son, but also the concubine son can also get a part of the real estate, then the country's tax source will definitely increase significantly."

Cheng Jinzhou's expression changed when he heard this, and the adults eased their expressions. In the eyes of these nobles, real estate is far less important than titles.

This may be the difference of the times. When Cheng Jinzhou was in school, equal division of real estate was always a terrifying thing. There was blood and killing between the lines, even through equal division of heritage. In fact, what really made Cheng Jinzhou look sour was Liu Bin's idea of ​​equal division of real estate through inheritance. Such things have happened more than once in Chinese history.

The most famous one is naturally the "grace order" of Emperor Wu of Han: the princes and princes can no longer use the system of inheritance of the eldest son, but should distribute his property, especially the territory, to all their sons. Therefore, the vast princely kingdoms will soon be weakened after repeated divisions. Even if the lords know this in their hearts, their sons will force their father to divide the territory for themselves.

This is a process of complete centralization. From the perspective of Chinese history, Comrade Wu of Han completely buried the feudal system in the dust of history.

What made Cheng Jinzhou unhappy was that as a member of the Cheng family, he was the beneficiary of the feudal system and would also be one of the beneficiaries of the eldest son inheritance system. Liu Bin's methods obviously made his most stable life a bubble.

The people sitting in the hall did not realize this terrible consequence. Of course, the reason was not their dullness. On the one hand, their position was not allowed to think so far. The historical inertia of hundreds or even thousands of years was not so easy to break. On the other hand, the strength of ancient China's counties and states could almost be calculated by land, but among the nobles of the Daxia Dynasty, their strength was far less simple than land. However, what Liu Bin said still hurt Cheng Jinzhou's fragile nerves. The relationship between the two families was so close that if something happened to one side, the other side would inevitably be implicated.

He couldn't help but add, "If I had evenly divided the real estate in Shaonan City, I would definitely object."

"Oh?" Liu Bin immediately turned his head, not disgusted by Cheng Jinzhou's youth, and said with a smile: "Let's talk about it."

Seeing that even my father turned his face, Cheng Jinzhou made a fuss and said in a childless manner: "According to your design, the land is divided equally. My father has more than a dozen brothers. In this way, each person can get only two or three farms from the public, which can subsidize some family income, but the entire Cheng family will lose more. By my generation, there are nearly a hundred clans, and one person can't even get a farm. When my son waits for him, he may only be able to get a few hundred acres of land. At that time, what is the difference between him and ordinary farmers? My housekeeper also has hundreds of acres of land under his command."

Liu Bin smiled and said, "That's right, it's just that you want to force the nobles to move. You can't just count the inheritance. Just like you, Cheng Jinzhou, maybe you can become a formal astrology warlock under 30 years old. At that time, a person might get more land than the current Cheng family, right?"

Cheng's mother was happy to hear it and smiled, "Ordinary astrology warriors are not as rich as that, but like Liu Kuangxing's current status, there is no need to consider land or anything else."

Several people agreed, and Cheng Jinzhou couldn't help but feel a little sad. What they were sitting here was almost all the elites of the second generation of the Cheng family. Although Liu Bin proposed only an idea that might never be successful, his attitude made Cheng Jinzhou see the persistence of a reformer - just as the school insisted on charging fees on the playground and setting up a vice principal of a waste food punishment area in the canteen - in addition to his dazzling reputation, the reformer also had no place to leave his corpse.

Cheng Jinzhou looked at the business card in his hand and said, "If the land is failed, it will be fine. If it succeeds, it will be really terrible."

Cheng's father said "hmm", as if he couldn't understand his son.

Cheng Jinzhou played with his fingers and said to himself: "If this trick is too easy to use, our King will definitely not be used only to expand wealth. He will ask every noble to distribute his title to each son, his soldiers to each son, the equipment in the warehouse to each son, the warships and airships under his name to each son, and then he can also ask to distribute it to his daughters and illegitimate children..."

The hall was silent, and only Cheng Jinzhou recounted his reading results these days in a dull voice: "Our kings, kings of all dynasties, are insecure about the power of nobles. Just to bring their titles to a higher level, how long did the Daxia dynasty be in trouble? If the border war was not intensified, it would be possible for another hundred years. Uncle Liu wanted to divide the inheritance equally, and His Majesty, our king, had not been used. He wanted to demolish an earl into three viscounts and a duke into three marquises, which was too loud to oppose it, but if we start by giving the sons property instead of depriving them of their rights, this road might have been smoother..."

No one expected that Cheng Jinzhou, who was only 12 years old, would dare to criticize the king's policies so boldly. The most terrifying thing was that what he said was quite reasonable.

In the gurgling spring, there is only the sound of little fish shaking their tails.

Liu Bin stood up suddenly, with a strong strength, and pushed the soft chair forward for more than a meter. He straightened his arm and pointed at Cheng Jinzhou hard and said, "I want you to be my son-in-law."

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Chapter completed!