During the day of resting at Meiling Station, in addition to washing away all the dirt and changing into new clothes, Suning spent all his time writing memorials for His Majesty Li Er. After all, he is the emperor and all policies need to be promoted. Under the background of the Zhenguan Reform, the plans promoted by the emperor will protect himself as much as possible, and will not become the target of public criticism.

Of course, in today's social context, social reform has not violated the interests of the core classes. During this period, the Tang Dynasty was just established, and the meritorious and powerful people have not yet formed one stubborn interest group after another. The society is still in decline, which is very suitable for the development of the Zhenguan Reform. The most important land reform plan will be easier to implement at this time.

The equal-field system was very positive in the official evaluations of all dynasties. Although the equal-field system officially withdrew from the historical stage during the reign of Emperor Dezong of Tang, its role was still very significant. However, the background of the implementation of the equal-field system was that the court controlled a large amount of land. The hundreds of years of divisions in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties caused huge damage to the social economy, objectively creating a large number of unowned wastelands, laying the foundation for the implementation of the equal-field system in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

However, the equal-field system does not force landlord land to be distributed to landless farmers, but the land controlled by the court itself is distributed to farmers. With the growth of population and the development of the economy, the land in the court has become increasingly scarce. Moreover, due to natural disasters and chaos, farmers who obtained land under the equal-field system have lost their land. Officials with strong financial resources and powerful annexed land out of respect for the private ownership system. Without any crime, the court will not randomly expropriate land.

This directly led to the large number of land in the imperial court being acquired by officials themselves and local tyrants, as well as the increase in the number of royal families and the increase in the amount of land acquired. A large amount of land was acquired by officials and royal families, and the imperial court was less and less land. The annual average land in Wuzhou was ineffective, and the collapse of the equal land in the equal land system was inevitable.

The method Suning wants to adopt is to purchase land from the owners of a large number of land that they do not have enough manpower and material resources to develop, even if it is not a good land, it can be included in the control of the court. Then, purchase their troops and tenants from these large number of land owners, enrich their nationality, expand the population of Jiangnan, and officially implement the equal-field system in Jiangnan.

As for why Suning is sure that these land owners and population owners will make this transaction with the court, there are many factors. The most important factor is that the court has what the landlords really want - the high-yield crop seeds provided by Suning itself.

These seeds have been widely planted in the Guanzhong area. They have been fully implemented, followed by Shuzhong, Shandong, Hebei and other places, except for the areas where the Tang Dynasty was key developed by the Tang Dynasty in Xiangyang and Yangzhou. There is no high-yield crop flow. This was determined when Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui first participated in "Jiangnan Shu". Because the land in Jiangnan is not clear enough, there must be a place where these high-yield crop seeds cannot flow into the Tang Dynasty in Jiangnan that cannot be completely controlled.

The seeds were distributed by the imperial court and kept strictly by the farmers. Some agents of the Blood Drops were responsible for this work. The news of the blockade of Jiangnan must be strictly controlled by those aristocratic families and local tyrants, especially foreigners. So far, no seed has been allowed to flow into the Jiangnan area. There are still a large number of troops strictly guarding the soil dividing line, and no one is allowed to bring seeds into the local area privately.

So far, all the information Suning secretly found shows that local tyrants and aristocratic families are flocking to the seeds of these crops, but due to the strict supervision of the imperial court, there are countless checkpoints set up in various places, and they are basically guarded by the Central Army of the Twelve Guards, not local troops, and the officials are also afraid that they will suffer after finding out their heads, so no one dares to do such a thing.

And even if someone does this, the court will learn at the first time that the land with high-yield crops will be forced to nationalize the land with high-yield crops and private planting is not allowed - families who can grow high-yield crops are all given qualification certificates, and even if families without the qualification certificate own land, they cannot plant any of the high-yield crops. If they find out, the land will be confiscated.

The third change in Zhenguan Law stipulates this way.

This time, the transaction is to exchange seeds from high-yield crops for land and make this transaction with them. If the land in Jiangnan can develop slowly from north to south, the benefits are self-evident. However, in order to leave an example for future generations, simple and crude behavior should not be placed on this kind of thing. This kind of thing must be cautious and cautious, which is related to the national plan.

However, what made Suning very pleased was that people value private property these days, especially land. The government will also protect land ownership according to land deeds. Many emperors stipulate that land purchases must be under the witness of the government, allowing land purchase and sale, and acknowledging private ownership. However, the court has to intervene in supervision, which is normal, so it is normal for some of the officials to collude with local tyrants.

The drastic changes in land annexation are inseparable from the huge "contribution" of these people.

However, according to modern standards, with enough harvest, enough food, enough food, and enough to support oneself. In the case of drought, the water in the court was well built, which can ensure the supply of water. In the case of heavy floods, the court's water conservancy projects can also avoid this phenomenon well. For example, Li Bing's Dujiangyan protected the land of Shu for thousands of years without any flood or drought disasters, and thus became the country of Tianfu. Such water conservancy projects are really a protector of agriculture.

Suning is not sure how beautiful the water conservancy project can be built. However, under the current circumstances, planting normal crops, rice, and potatoes in normal years can at least protect the land without losing it. People will not die. As long as the people are not forced to sell land in order to protect themselves, the equal-field system can be maintained. To put it bluntly, as long as everyone can eat a full meal, what else is there?

On the one hand, high-yield crops are formulated and maintained by the court policies. How to ensure that the people will not be hungry and sell their land to break the balance of the equal-field system. This requires good operation. Perhaps large-scale business operations are also a very important point among them. When will the agricultural tax be free, then agricultural reform will be successful. Transitioning from an agricultural society to an industrial and commercial society will not be a dream.

Nearly ten thousand words were quickly sent to the capital by blood droplets through secret channels. Five days later, when Suning arrived in Guangzhou City, the report was also delivered to His Majesty Li Er. Looking at the words his Majesty personally opened, His Majesty Li Er was still a little twitching. I really regarded this kind of thing as writing a letter? But no one has written a letter to me for a long time. I still miss this standard letter.

After opening the letter and starting to read it, His Majesty Li Er did not have the joking intention. Suning seriously pointed out the key to the current problem. This was the first time His Majesty Li Er saw this seriousness and seriousness. He analyzed in detail the root cause of the slow progress of the Jiangnan Rise Plan. He also listed the problems one by one, and then gave the solutions to the problems he suggested.

For example, the reason why the number of households in Jiangnan was that the court did not control it. The equal-land system in the early years of Zhenguan did not involve most parts of Jiangnan. The imperial court's government orders were almost nothing in Jiangnan. It was useless if implemented in a few places. The number of people was too small, and a few prefectures and counties were useless at all. When the people joined the nationality, they had to automatically assume the obligation to pay taxes to the court. Tenants who became big families and even the troops did not have to bear taxes. In the years of famine, they met a kind-hearted master's family and would not be able to eat, so they would not be able to die of freezing and starving.

Compared with the huge risks that free people need to bear: land is not harvested in the years of famine - the harvest is not enough for the whole family to eat and pay taxes - the government forces taxes - there is no way to sell the land to quench thirst - local tyrants and high-ranking households earn land at low prices, becoming owners of a large amount of land, while civilians have no place to stand - landless farmers are displaced and become refugees, and after spending money, they can only become lonely ghosts. This is the huge risk for free people.

As for tenants and more straightforward tribes, life is the private property of the big family. Although they do not have freedom and dignity, they can survive. The aristocratic families will naturally not allow their property to be lost. More small families do not expect to be successful. Living is the greatest hope. So this can explain why the Jiangnan area and even Shandong area are full of tenants and tribes. They have the opportunity to become free people and join the people, but they are unwilling to be slaves.

Just want to live.

The biggest disadvantage of the equal-field system has been revealed in Jiangnan. Farmers now own land, but once they encounter a famine, farmers cannot protect their land at all. Where can they eat enough in the land without harvest and let them pay taxes? The government kept forcing them to pay taxes. In this way, farmers were forced to sell land at a low price and drink poison to quench their thirst.

It can be foreseeable that if countermeasures are not made as soon as possible, then sooner or later, Guanzhong will be like the land in Jiangnan. All the land is either the powerful royal officials or the powerful clans. Even the imperial court will have no land, the common people have no place to stand, the powerful are rampant, the people have no way of life, no hope, no food to eat, and in the face of hunger and hardship, as long as one person rises up, it will inevitably cause a response from the world!

Rebellion is death, and not rebellion is death. Then it is better to rebel, and there may be a glimmer of hope! The strong Qin Dynasty sweeps away **, how can he look at him? But no matter how powerful the Qin Empire is, it is still destroyed by the hands of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, two prisoners who committed crimes. It is their seemingly fragile first rebellion that played the funeral marches of the Qin Dynasty. The lessons of the past, the teacher of later generations, and the minister Suning begs His Majesty to think twice.

His Majesty Li Er had no smile on his face, and his face was extremely serious. Zhao Chen beside him was trembling and did not dare to speak out, and his body began to tremble. Once His Majesty Li Er had this expression, it meant that he began to be serious and could not be serious anymore. On weekdays, the emperor still had easy-going times, but at this time, if something that did not follow the emperor's wishes, it might cause the emperor to be furious, and his close servants were the first unlucky ones.

In the memorial, Suning clearly stated that if we want to alleviate this crisis, the most important thing to do is to expand the public land in the hands of the imperial court. There are not many public lands in Guanzhong, but there are still many wastelands in Shandong, Hebei and Jiangnan. The imperial court should nationalize these lands as quickly as possible, and then negotiate with the Jiangnan landlords to exchange high-yield crop seeds, purchase Jiangnan land and the tenants underground in large families at a suitable price, give them national identity, settle in the northern part of the Jiangnan region, and gradually advance southward.
Chapter completed!