"The current Qin country should have already begun to build the Great Wall to resist the Xiongnu. Since they don't plan to fight to the death with the Xiongnu for the time being, it means that the current His Majesty also wants to improve the people's livelihood.”
Ying Zheng's heart skipped a beat. Jian Heng's words coincided with what he was thinking. After unifying the six states, his idea was to first manage his own land well and raise the strength of the entire country.
"Village Chief is right."
"As I said just now, there are ways to govern a country. The current Brother Zheng gives people the feeling that he hasn't adapted to the era of war. Most of the policies are still carried out according to the policies of the seven kingdoms during the chaotic war. Although this will make the imperial court rich, it won't make the entire country rich.”
"This is…Weren't the wealth of the imperial court and the wealth of the country the same thing?”
In Brother Zheng's eyes, the wealth of the imperial court and the wealth of the country were the same. Because only when the taxes were increased would the imperial court have more money. Under the condition that the taxes remained unchanged, the more taxes the people paid, the richer they were.
"That's not the same thing, and you seem to have confused this concept. It's not that the country will only be rich if the imperial court is rich, but that the country will only be rich if the people are rich.”
Jian Heng could see that these people all placed too much importance on the upper structure and neglected the lower foundation. Even the lowest status merchants were the same?
"Only when the people are rich will the country be rich.。。Village Chief's words have a deep meaning."
Ying Zheng mulled over this sentence over and over again. In the past few days in Peach Blossom Village, Ying Zheng had also learned a little bit of the basics of economics.
If it was in the past, he would definitely think that Jian Heng's words were crazy.
But now, he had to think about it carefully.
"No matter what dynasty or system it is, the commoners at the bottom are the most important. What you wear and eat comes from the commoners. If there is a problem with the economic foundation of the commoners, then the upper echelons will also have problems. This was like building a house. If the foundation was not laid well, it might not be visible in a short period of time, but once it was built for a long time, the house might collapse.”
"I see. Village Chief Jian Heng's words are really enlightening. In the past, Mencius once said that 'the people are the most important, the country is second, and the monarch is the least important.'”
Li Si was a Confucian student, so he remembered some of the famous Confucian classics.
" That's true, but Meng Ke's words aren't entirely correct.'The king is light' is only relative. After all, not everyone can sit on the position of emperor. Otherwise, why can't only Brother Zheng unify the kings of the other six countries?”
Inadvertently, Jian Heng let out another rainbow fart, making Brother Zheng feel refreshed after smelling it.
That's right, why was he the one who unified the six states? It was all because he was stronger than the rulers of the six dynasties.
"Then according to Village Chief, what should the Imperial Court do now?”
"I've already said before that we should support commerce and reduce corvee. Previously, the various countries suppressed commerce because the seven countries were competing with each other. If everyone went to trade, the lack of food and grass would very likely be seized by other countries and destroyed. However, now that the Six Nations had been destroyed, there was no longer any external competition. Agriculture was important, but there was no need to pay as much attention to it as before. Ordinary people only had a few plots of land for their entire lives. How could they become rich?”
"You mean to encourage the people to do business? But if there were too many itinerant merchants, no one would be farming?”
Li Si said hesitantly. How could he not know that business was a lucrative industry? It was precisely because of the huge profits that after tasting the benefits, not many people would farm.
"Sigh, are you stupid?"
Jian Heng sighed slightly and said,"
"First of all, let me ask you a question. Has the cultivated land within the country been divided up?”
"This…"
Li Si turned his head and gave Ying Zheng a glance. This was classified information, and he did not dare to speak without Ying Zheng's permission.
Ying Zheng nodded at Li Si.
"Indeed. Although after the six countries were destroyed, the Qin country's territory expanded quite a bit, under the circumstances of the military merit system, it's almost divided.”
Jian Heng nodded and continued,""Right? The current Qin country is already in a situation where there is no land to divide. Now that the land has been divided to those meritorious soldiers, the soldiers will also have sons in the future. Each family will have more than one son. When the sons grow up, most of them will inherit the land that their fathers fought for. Then the problem is that both hands are flesh.”
"This... I'm not sure. Naturally not."
"That's right. The general practice is to distribute the land equally. The amount of land allocated to each son is the same. According to this distribution method, how much land will each farmer have after a few generations?”
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