As the scholars and powerful men gave in, the turmoil caused by the tax reform came to an end, and the common people won a great victory. When the news spread, everyone looked in disbelief:

The high-minded scholars in the past actually bowed their heads in front of a group of mud-legged people?

The powerful man who used to regard human life as nothing has given up?

Is there something wrong with the world or is there something wrong with my understanding of the world?

Those are the gentry, so powerful! The most noble class in the entire country, they control the lifeblood of the entire country. They have the final say on the national economy, politics and even the appointment and dismissal of officials. They can kill a large group of people with just a hand.

Cover them up and let them disappear completely! But now, they actually gave in in front of a group of mud-legged people? This is simply crazy!

Even the common people couldn't believe that they could actually force the nobles and powerful men to bow their heads in the past. They seriously suspected that they were violent and had not yet woken up. However, after calming down, they cheered excitedly. This was their first time.

Winning the battle against Shihao and Haoqiang is so rare that I can't even dream of it!

Through this head-on confrontation, they deeply realized two things————

First: With the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty and the death of many once-high-ranking aristocratic families, the era when aristocratic families firmly controlled everything has passed, at least in the north;

Second: Their number is a hundred times that of the powerful family. As long as they unite as one, they are not afraid of the powerful family at all!

This recognition is undoubtedly extremely important. It allows the once silent, represented, and ignored poor families and even the common people to bravely make their voices heard and begin to compete for various resources with the remnants of powerful families.

They are willing to be the silent majority. The court's attitude during this tax reform crisis has sent a positive signal to them: the court is on their side, and even encourages them to stand up and fight for what they deserve! Since

If that's the case, then what else do they have to hesitate?

They are really fed up with being tormented by those guys who are obsessed with taking drugs all day long, showing off their wealth, and pretending to be gods and ghosts. They have lost their families and their families. The aristocratic families and powerful people have controlled this country for hundreds of years, dragging down the entire country and even the entire country.

The nation is sinking with them and has committed such a great evil. What qualifications do they have to show a condescending face in front of them and control the fate of the entire country and nation!

They want to be their own masters!

It was also the turmoil of the tax reform that made both scholars and powerful people realize that the court would no longer tolerate them without a bottom line and accommodate them as before. The good days of the past few hundred years have come to an end for the time being. If

If they continue to indulge in drug taking and mysterious talk, they will soon be abandoned by the court and replaced by those Han slaves and even mud-legged people!

How can this work!

While many scholars were still aggrieved by the Nanyang court's bias, some far-sighted families had already sensed that a huge crisis was approaching their own class. They silently threw away the weapons in their hands.

The mysterious and mystical books and articles on metaphysics are as if they were written in heaven. They took off their gorgeous clothes inlaid with gold and silver and picked up the classics of various schools of thought and strong bows and swords again. In Nanyang, Xiangcheng, Nanjun and even Yingchuan and Chenjun

Studying the classics of various schools of thought and practicing archery, riding, and swordsmanship have once again become the fashion pursued by the children of the nobility. Whether they are willing or not, such bad habits as abstruse talk, drug use, and showing off wealth are gradually being abandoned.

Simplicity, strength, integrity, bravery, diligence, etc. have become virtues praised and pursued by people again.

From the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty until the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, the ideology of the Chinese nation went through a big circle for more than two hundred years, and finally returned to its original starting point.

In the original history, this circle was much larger and more difficult than we imagined. The entire Chinese nation stumbled through the bloody storms of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties for more than 360 years, until the Northern Zhou Army

After conquering Yecheng, we have returned to the starting point. The price paid is really unimaginable.

Li Rui knew nothing about all this. As a big farmer, he had too many things to do. He immediately organized people to plant winter wheat after the autumn harvest. Wheat is not very popular these days, so those who know how to plant it or are willing to plant it

There were not many people, so he had to arrange manpower to teach everyone how to do it step by step. At the same time, he transferred a large amount of gypsum from Xiangcheng to make soil fertilizer for farmers to use for free... If you want to get a good harvest, you must buy enough fertilizer. At the same time, he

We also need to organize manpower to distribute the ownerless land in Nanyang, Xiangcheng, and Xiangfan to landless farmers. After all, land is the lifeblood of farmers. Farmers cannot survive without land. It just so happens that as a large number of people flee south, many

The land was abandoned and it was just a good time to give it to them.

Naturally, these things cannot go smoothly, especially the land distribution. I don’t know how many people’s interests will be offended. Those powerful people were the first to be unconvinced. According to the previous script, they should pick up these ownerless lands first and transfer the last

The ones with the best fertility and irrigation conditions were picked out, and the rest were turned to the farmers. But now they have no share at all. Not only do they have no share, many tenant farmers have left them and gone to the government to register their household registration, and then rejoice.

of land!

Doesn’t this cost the lives of those powerful people?

What's even more outrageous is that Li Rui also ordered a strict investigation into the illegal occupation of people's fields and farmland, and asked those powerful people who took things they shouldn't have to return quickly and don't force them to use knives. Those powerful people were so angry that they didn't illegally occupy people's fields.

, they took advantage of others by clever means, and yet they still call them powerful? Just ask Guanshiyin Bodhisattva to do it! This great farmer clearly wants to punish them to death!

However, they were unable to do anything. In this world, whoever has the biggest fist has the right. The imperial court has tens of thousands of elite troops, and even counterweight trebuchets that can directly collapse a city wall one or two feet thick. The docks they worked so hard to build

The fort is simply vulnerable. Do you want to separate the country and stand on your own? If you want to die, just separate the country! Under Li Ruiheshan's eyes, they can only reluctantly spit out the illegally occupied civilian fields and farmland one by one.

Li Rui distributed these lands to farmers.

Of course, it was not distributed casually. He organized the landless peasants into one Jia for ten households, one bailor for every ten Jia, and a bailor and a chief. Based on the standard of a family of four, each household was allocated a field.

One hundred and sixty acres (Jinmu, equivalent to ninety city acres), and then provide each guarantee with seeds, farm tools, cattle, draft horses, mules, etc. for free. Farm tools and seeds are directly distributed to each farmer, and

Animal power and agricultural vehicles are managed by the security chief and the chief A. If the livestock becomes thin or disabled for no reason, the security chief and the chief A will be punished. Any farmer who deliberately destroys farm tools and abuses the livestock will also be punished. If the security guard

Chief, if Chief A knows and fails to report it, he will be punished together!

Each household must have a strong man registered in the register, who can be recruited by the court during the off-season. This strong man must not only accept the conscription by the court, but also shoulder the important task of protecting the home. Each village has an armory, and they do not need to perform corvee service during the off-farm period.

They have to receive military training when they are young, and when the war burns to their homes, they have to take up arms to protect the village. No matter whether they are mountain bandits, horse bandits, defeated troops, powerful armed forces, or barbarians, they

When the county did not order them to retreat, they had to fight hard to defend the village. To escape before the battle would be death! Not only that, if the strong men escaped before the battle, the commander of the army would be killed;

Implicating three generations means that the three generations of descendants cannot study, do business, join the army, or learn handicrafts. They can only farm, and they have to pay taxes three times higher than ordinary people. This is no different from the Yi tribe.

This is the Baojia system, but it is not a pure Baojia system. It also has a strong collective farm flavor. After all, if we implement a two-year and three-crop system, the labor intensity will increase exponentially. It will definitely not work to develop a small farmer economy like before.

Everyone has to work together, sow together when sowing, and harvest together when harvesting. It is impossible to do it alone. The Baojia system has the shadow of a collective farm, which is somewhat weird, but it is precisely because of this that it makes this

This system burst out with great vitality and was quickly accepted by people. In peaceful times, the common people were definitely not willing to accept this system, but now that the war is in chaos, this system has brought them only benefits and no disadvantages. Those who do not accept it are fools!

The local tycoons were angry again. They found out that Li Rui's plan was directed at them again, because there was another very important article in the Baojia system: land was owned by the state, and farmers only had the right to cultivate, not land ownership. In other words, farmers

You can't buy and sell land! Damn it, those idiots can't buy and sell land, and they have knives in their hands. Where can I go to annex land? This is totally unreasonable!

What makes them most angry is that the Chief A and the Chief Bao are elected by the common people in the Bao Nei. They are elected every three years. Those who do well will be rewarded, and those who do not do well will be kicked out. This means that the powerful cannot interfere. Not only can they not interfere,

The Bao Chief also has the obligation to protect the people in the Bao. If the people in the Bao are bullied or insulted, the Bao Chief must provide protection, including helping to report to the official and litigate. If he cannot do this, once the matter is revealed, the Bao Chief will definitely have to protect him.

There's a lawsuit. This means that if the local tycoons want to bully a common man, they will definitely not have to face a few weak thugs, but hundreds of people! If they try to rape a common woman again or

For things like beating people to death for no reason, the security chief would bring all the young and old men who were under the protection to come to them to fight. If they didn't fight hard, the court would kill the chief!

This is simply unreasonable! This person surnamed Li is really too bad. Every policy is cutting off their roots! They really want to ask Li Rui loudly: "We didn't throw your son into the well in our previous life, right? As for this kind of persecution?"
Chapter completed!