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Zhao Han said to Fei Ruhui again: "If my sister wants to work, she can join the mission team. Women can also be officials with me."

"That's a good thing." Fei Ruhui said happily.

After some more talking, Fei Rulan suddenly said, "I'm not too young, I've been looking for a year, and I think I've found a suitable family."

"Where are you from?" Zhao Han asked.

Fei Rulan said: "The niece of Yuan Yunlong, Juren of Anfu County."

Zhao Han didn't express his opinion, but continued to ask, "What's the situation with the Yuan family?"

Fei Rulan obviously did enough homework: "The Anfu Yuan family is a branch of the Yichun Yuan family. Since the founding of the country, there has never been a Jinshi. Juren Yuan Yunlong's family has a total of more than 300 mu of land, but there are so many people in the clan, and [-] mu for each person is not enough."

This kind belongs to small landlords, and apart from being forcibly divided, they actually have nothing to lose.

Zhao Han allowed the landlord's family to keep [-] mu of land each.But when the Yuan family's land was divided, it was not enough to divide [-] mu, and each person only got [-] mu of land.

Fei Rulan also said: "This Yuan Juren has already failed the exam five times. He is discouraged by the Jinshi examination, and his family has no money to buy him an official. Therefore, Yuan Juren is very active in doing things, and has been promoted in Anfu County. As the mayor of the town, he even wrote an article praising Fentian."

"This person can be cultivated emphatically." Zhao Han decided to establish Yuan Yunlong as a model gentry.

Fei Rulan said: "Yuan Juren's niece, I also asked someone to inquire about it. She is 15 years old, dignified and beautiful, reasonable, and good at poetry and painting."

Zhao Han immediately agreed: "This is a good match!"

Sitting next to him, Fei Ruhe smirked, he wasn't too picky about women, as long as they weren't ugly, this guy was focused on doing great things.

The next day, Zhao Han sent a missionary team and grassroots officials to accompany Fei Yinggong back to take over Tianhe Town.

If you add the mountains on both sides, the area there is very large, but the arable land is pitifully small.

If Fei Yinggong's son-in-law, Yang Fengsu, can actively cooperate with the work of dividing the land, and the work is done well, Zhao Han can appoint him as the mayor of Tianhe Town.In this way, there are nine towns in Luling County, and Tianhe Town is the poorest one. 90% of the arable land belongs to barren mountainous land. In the future, I am afraid that sweet potatoes will be the staple food.

After the meeting and discussion, everyone felt that one county governed too many nine towns, and the salaries of grassroots officials could not afford it.

Therefore, the administrative division of Luling County was fine-tuned, and one of the towns was dismembered into four parts, each of which was merged into adjacent towns.All the town's officials were sent to Bailuzhou Academy for advanced studies, waiting to be assigned to work in the newly expanded site.

In this way, Zhao Han finally owned the entire territory of Luling County, while maintaining the administrative districts of the eight towns in Luling County.

Immediately, the General Military Office also made adjustments, the framework is as follows——

Headquarters.

The Academy of Secretaries, the Department of Official Selection, the Department of Government Affairs, the Department of Propaganda and Education, the Department of Finance, the Department of Military Affairs, the Department of Criminal Names, the Department of Integrity, the Department of Public Works, and the Military Academy.

Of course, the Academy of Secretaries is Zhao Han's secretarial organization. There are three heads of secretaries, and there are some civilian staff below them.They are only responsible to Zhao Han, but they cannot intervene in the affairs of various departments, which is fundamentally different from the Ming cabinet.

In ancient times, the term "secretary" already existed, and Zhao Han didn't bother to use the term "hand book" and directly changed it to "secretary".

The official selection department is equivalent to the official department, which is in charge of Pang Chunlai.

The Chief Secretary for Administrative Affairs was formerly in charge of Li Banghua, but now Huang Shunfu, the magistrate of Luling County, has been promoted to serve as Chief Secretary for Administrative Affairs.

The Mission Department, equivalent to the Ministry of Rites, is in charge of Chen Maosheng.

The Finance Department, equivalent to Daming's Ducang, is in charge of Fei Chun.

The Department of Military Affairs, equivalent to the Ministry of War, is headed by Li Banghua.

The Department of Punishment, which is equivalent to the Ministry of Punishment, promoted Zuo Xiaoliang, the magistrate of Anfu County, to serve as the director of the Department of Punishment.

The Department of Integrity, equivalent to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, is headed by Xiao Huan.

The Department of Works, equivalent to the Ministry of Works, is headed by Song Yingxing.

The Military Academy, which is equivalent to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, is in charge of Fei Ruhe.

As for Tian Younian, he served as the head of the Armament Bureau under the Military Affairs Department.

This framework is quite large, but fortunately there are not many sites, and the officials are not too complicated.

But the land of the three counties is definitely not able to support it. After all, there are still so many town-level officials who must expand their territory to support them.

You are the Ming court, don't you want to rule the grassroots?

There are too many officials, and there are too many salary expenses!

Zhao Han had to at least double the size of his territory in order to have a slightly better financial situation.

Some people even think that there are still too many township-level institutions, and that Luling County should be reduced to six towns, and Jishui County should be reduced to five towns.

This suggestion is not a joke. Everyone, including Zhao Han himself, has thought about it seriously.

The economic base determines the superstructure, and an agricultural society cannot support an overly large bureaucratic class.Before, the number of regular soldiers was small, and they could barely afford it. Three thousand regular soldiers were paid on a monthly basis, which instantly tightened Zhao Han's pocketbook.

As soon as the General Military Mansion made adjustments, an old man brought the whole family of scholars to pay a visit.

"Old Liu Yingdong, pay my respects to the general town!"

"Please get up quickly, old gentleman."

Pointing to the people behind him, Liu Yingkui said, "All members of my Liu clan are willing to serve the town. Although there are no juren, there are five scholars, 12 children, and the rest are schoolchildren."

Zhao Han said with a smile, "Let them all come to Bailuzhou Academy. After the spring plowing is over, I will make my own arrangements."

Liu Yingkui also said: "Liu Tongsheng is the nephew of the old man. He ran away with his family and has nothing to do with my house. Please don't worry about it."

"Don't worry, old man, I don't want to implicate you." Zhao Han said.

Liu Yingkui continued: "These Liu family scholars can be used by the chief town as they like, even as officials. I have already warned them that the chief town has its own rules for employing people. As long as you do things seriously, the chief town will not treat you badly."

Zhao Han said with a smile: "The old man has great wisdom... I am not very talented, and I can't write well, so I just write a word with an axe."

"Thank you, Zongzhen, for your words." Liu Yingkui was overjoyed.

Zhao Han casually wrote four words "a family of virtue", it doesn't matter what he writes, he can write "eat meat tonight".

Liu Tongsheng and his family fled with the money, but Liu Yingkui sent the whole family of scholars to serve, these big families can't cut it across the board.

The main thing was the case a few days ago, Zhao Han showed his attitude.

Liu Yingkui was willing to stand in line and recognized Zhao Han's methods.The tougher Zhao Han behaved, the more convinced he was that the Liu family could benefit from being a dragon.

Of course, there are quite a few people who hate it deeply. Yesterday, another gentry ran away with his family.

Chapter 157 [Family Country Theory]

After Huang Shunfu was transferred to the General Army Mansion, the new magistrate of Luling County was named Li Ke.

This person's education is not high, but he was born as a child.

But he followed Zhao Han very early, and he was a self-cultivator in Li Jiaguai.In the early days, he assisted in the distribution of fields, then joined the missionary group, then became the mayor of the town, and then transferred to the county government. It is a matter of course to succeed the county magistrate.

"Meet the general town!" Li Ke cupped his hands.

Zhao Han smiled and said, "Please sit down."

"Xie Zongzhen." Li Ke straightened his back and sat down.

"I read the brochure you handed over," Zhao Han asked, "How did you solve the problem of peasant marriage before?"

In the division of fields among the three counties, there was a big mistake.

As long as they are 12 years old, both men and women have land to divide.But what if the girl gets married?Should the land under her name belong to her natal family or her husband's family?

According to equality between men and women, it is naturally owned by the woman herself, and she can take it wherever she marries.

But how could the woman's family agree!

Li Ke replied: "Changing land to get married, people of two families marry both a daughter and a daughter-in-law."

Zhao Han frowned and said, "If there is only a daughter in the family, or only a son, wouldn't it be impossible to get married?"

Li Ke said, "It's hard."

Zhao Han immediately called Chen Maosheng, and after explaining the situation, he asked, "Why didn't you tell me about such a big mistake in Tian Zheng?"

Chen Maosheng was also very surprised and explained: "At the beginning of the division of the land, everyone was very happy, and they didn't say it was not good for marriage. After that, I was transferred to the General Military Office, and I didn't know much about the things below, and no one reported it. situation."

Zhao Han didn't know what to do for a while, and ordered: "Immediately inform the mission group and the peasant association, and ask them to collect more opinions from the farmers to see how to solve this problem."

This is a big loophole, and the family who raises a daughter will suffer, which may lead to the reluctance of the daughter to marry, because the daughter will take the field away.

The land administration in New China is based on the village group as a unit, and the total amount is divided equally among the villagers.The deceased took back the land, and the newborn immediately divided the fields.

But Zhao Han couldn't do that!

The land equalization system of the Sui and Tang Dynasties has left a lesson for the past. With the control of the grassroots in ancient times, it is impossible to recover the land of the deceased, which is almost equivalent to re-dividing the land every year.Public land in the Sui and Tang dynasties was also redistributed to farmers every year. In order to save trouble, grassroots officials simply kept it the same every year.As a result, the deceased's land could not be recovered, and the newly grown Ding Tian could not be distributed, and finally the Tang Dynasty's finances were ruined.

The peasant association is only a transitional product, without any official position at all.Once it brings corruption to the official position, and overlaps with the effectiveness of village and town institutions, the government cannot afford so much salary.However, if official positions are not given, the enthusiasm of the peasant association cadres will also fade as time goes by.

Therefore, sooner or later, the peasant association will be abolished, or it will die out naturally, and all affairs in the village will eventually belong to the village head.

What Zhao Han was thinking at the time was that instead of allocating land with corruption in the future, it is better to take advantage of the full control now and directly distribute the land to farmers as private property.

In this way, it is guaranteed that each farmer has a few acres of land, and even if they have a few more children, they can live on.After the territory expands, the excess population will be moved to the war-torn areas in the north.

In this way, decades of rural stability can be obtained. At that time, land conflicts will be transferred overseas step by step.

Really, if a land government can be implemented smoothly and ensure the stability of the countryside for decades, it is already considered a very powerful policy.

From ancient times to the present, no political power has been able to maintain land administration purely by agriculture.

When New China developed into the 21st century, it also used industry to eliminate land conflicts.Due to the increasing population, many newborns in rural areas have been unable to divide their fields.

The industry in the [-]th century was not good. The early industrial revolution not only failed to alleviate land conflicts, but also accelerated land annexation!

There was so much land in North America at the beginning. After the industrial revolution, a large number of farmers had no land to cultivate, because capital annexed land too fast.It can only rely on continuous expansion and seizure of Indian territory to divert conflicts.

The same is true in Britain. Before the Glorious Revolution, the king opposed the enclosure movement because it was not conducive to the king's collection of agricultural taxes.

It was the great development of British industry that led to capitalists crazily annexing land, and the king would overthrow the king if it was an eyesore, so the land enclosure movement intensified-if this was done in China, the farmers would have rebelled long ago.British farmers rebelled, of course, but the population was too small to be easily suppressed by the nobles.

The land enclosure movement caused a large number of landless peasants to flock to the cities to work and earn a living.Britain's industrial scale can't bear it, so it can only enact strict laws, and anyone who steals a piece of bread can be exiled to Australia.In this way, the excess urban population is thrown overseas to fend for itself, which can not only reduce the pressure on local security, but also increase the population of overseas colonies.

As for the enclosure movement and exile policy, how many innocent civilians died, that is not a question that capitalists need to consider.

It can only be said that it was a history of blood and tears.

Zhao Han also wants to develop industries. He can imagine that after making money, capitalists must spend a lot of money to buy land.Therefore, he wants to divide the land in advance and prohibit the sale and purchase of land. Even if the land is rewarded for meritorious service, an upper limit must be set. Private land exceeding the upper limit is invalid.

Forcing capitalists to open up overseas!

But the problem encountered now is simply ridiculous. It turned out that a woman married a man, which led to a dispute over the ownership of the land.

Zhao Han used all his strength to collect various opinions, and found that this problem... has no solution.

Marriage can only be done by swapping fields. If there is no daughter in any family, it is difficult for the son to find a wife.If you want to ask for a wife, you can just promise that you don't want your wife's land, otherwise the woman's family will never allow her daughter to marry in order to protect the land.

Zhao Han held several meetings, and the final decision was absurd: no intervention.

If you don’t have a daughter in your family, and you still want to marry your son a wife, you have to agree to the woman’s property and stay with her natal family without bringing it.

No policy is perfect, as long as there are no major problems, then make do with it.

……

Bailuzhou Academy.

More than 400 officials, officials and scholars huddled together to listen to Zhao Han's lecture, and each of them had a pamphlet written by Zhao Han just in front of them.

"Family, Country and World Theory"!

Standing on the podium, Zhao Han was afraid that the students in the back row would not be able to hear clearly, so he simply held up a cardboard speaker to give a lecture.

"In the pre-Qin period, the land ruled by Zhou Tianzi was the world. The land distributed to the princes was the country. The land distributed to the scholar-bureaucrats was the home."

"In today's world, the land handed down by our ancestors is the world, and the land we lay down is also the world. What is a country? The land ruled by the emperor is a country, such as my Ming country! As for the family, your family, my family, big and small Countless homes!"

Although the Emperor of Ming Dynasty still has the title of Son of Heaven, the official term "Da Ming Kingdom" has been used for a long time.

These concepts are easy to pick up.

"Changing the surname and name is called subjugation. Benevolence and righteousness are full, and as for leading beasts to eat people, people will eat each other, which is called subjugation of the world. Subjugation is not terrible. If the Ming Dynasty is destroyed, it is called subjugation. You and I will build another country." It is terrible to perish in the world, no matter whether it is a commoner or a gentry, no one can escape!"

"The kingdom of Ming Dynasty is composed of tens of thousands of families."

"Thousands of thousands of families pay taxes for the court to maintain the existence of this country."

"As a country, as an imperial court, what should Ming do? It should use the taxes paid by ordinary people to support both civil and military teams."

"Civil servants and officials maintain the operation of the country. Spread enlightenment, encourage farmers and mulberry trees, build water conservancy, build bridges and pave roads, eliminate violence and bring peace to the people. Military officers and soldiers maintain the stability of the country. Internally, we must eliminate bandits and externally. Externally, we must resist aliens."

"What's the situation now?"

"Cultural officials and officials are mostly corrupt officials. They don't repair water conservancy projects, and they don't help the people in times of catastrophe. Instead of eradicating violence and bringing peace to the people, they wantonly exploit the people."