wjnovel Chapter 184
Chapter 184
Chapter 184
In Yangzhou, which has a vast territory, the days of spring plowing in the north and south are different.In the south of Yuzhang and Kuaiji counties, spring plowing started in March, but people in these places rarely talk about it, and the development is not very sufficient, and there is not much arable land.
Gradually heading north until late March, Shouchun and other places also entered spring plowing.
Zhang Yi also attached great importance to this spring plowing, and personally inspected the spring plowing in nearby counties.
As the two counties of Jiujiang and Lujiang with relatively frequent wars, they have recovered quite well in the past two years.Especially around Chaohu Lake, a large amount of farmland has been reclaimed, and the aristocratic family has undergone cleaning, and many of the land in their hands have already entered the hands of the government.
The aristocratic families with a large amount of private land no longer exist, and there are more aristocratic families with a large amount of private land in the three counties of Danyang, Wu Jun, and Kuaiji who are at peace.
Especially Wu Jun, because Zhang Yi did not use many soldiers against Wu Jun when he attacked Sun Quan, so the family is relatively well preserved.
But it doesn't matter, Jiangdong's development level is not enough, and the official land can be continued to be developed. As long as there are people, it can be reclaimed. No matter how much private land is in the hands of the family, it will not affect the government.
What's more, the last turmoil in Wu County wiped out many aristocratic families.It also allowed Wu County to implement many of Zhang Yi's regulations, such as limiting the number of servants, and the number of servants used by certain families should not exceed one-tenth of the number of acres of cultivated land, and the number of acres of cultivated land should not exceed [-] acres.
For a big family, a thousand acres of arable land is a small amount.This forced them to make a change, that is, divide the family into two parts or even three parts for reporting.
Such a disguised separation of families temporarily achieved Zhang Yi's goal, and then Zhang Yi waited for these aristocratic families to make mistakes.As long as they make mistakes, Zhang Yi has an excuse to relocate them to another place, so that the family is really separated.
Zhang Yi absolutely does not allow the existence of too large aristocratic family. He allows your family to have high-ranking officials, scholars, and wealth, but he absolutely does not allow you to have tens of thousands of mu of fertile land.
The reason for this is due to the nature of China itself.For thousands of years, China has always been an agricultural civilization, and this nature will never change.But Zhang Yi didn't want to establish a regime that was only farming. He also wanted something else, such as animal husbandry, commerce, oceans, etc. What he wanted to establish was a diversified regime.
But no matter how diverse, the root will never change, that is farming.Therefore, Zhang Yi will definitely stick to the bottom line and must limit the amount of arable land for a single person.
Zhang Yi is also looking for new planting species. In Shouchun's personal manor, he planted seeds collected by others to see if these things are valuable.And let people sort out some planting skills, these are some farmers who have read a little.
Not only farming, but also craftsmen, merchants, etc., Zhang Yi has set up various small industry associations in Shouchun, and specially approved a piece of land for these industry associations to use.Let all walks of life have a place to communicate, and also specially set up an advanced department in the city, called the Intellectual Property Department, to protect the legal status of inventors and creators for 50 years.
This intellectual property, in ancient times, was good and bad.For example, some craftsmen's skills are cherished by each family, and they are not disclosed to the outside world at all, and are passed down from generation to generation.
Although this can support a large family for several lifetimes, it is not conducive to the spread of technology.Zhang Yi set this up for the purpose of technology dissemination. He specially set up the term patent. In the past 50 years, all products that use this technology need to pay the patent holder a patent fee, ranging from five baht to Ten five baht coins vary.
Of course, it won't be too smooth at first.But Zhang Yi has already begun to build a strong judicial department, and with advanced consciousness, Zhang Yi naturally knows the importance of the judicial department, which is an important symbol of modern civilization.
The judicial department mainly covers several aspects. Criminal justice is the interrogation and arrest system; tax justice is the inspection of the tax department; interest justice is litigation justice. However, because this involves Zhang Yi’s newly established patent, it is based on the court. An additional patent supervision department has been added, and they act together with taxation and justice; the inspection and judicial department, which is the procuratorate, inspects all management and judicial agencies and is directly responsible to Zhang Yi.
Zhang Yi originally wanted to establish a system of three provinces and six ministries, but later he thought that this system of three provinces and six ministries was still lacking, so he directly established a modern government framework.
This change cannot be accomplished overnight, but Zhang Yi already has a blueprint in mind, and plans to complete the construction of this government framework in about 20 years.
At the end of the spring plowing, Zhang Yi received another piece of good news, that is, Da Qiao gave birth.
Zhang Yi is also very happy, he has an extra daughter.He named this daughter Cheng'er, and he loved her undiminished.
However, his subordinates were a little dissatisfied with this, because neither of the two women gave birth to him a son.Without a son, he would have no heir, and without an heir, Zhang Yi's foundation would not be stable.
Liu Ye, who was Zhang Yi's half housekeeper, once again became active again, and he started to marry Zhang Yi and Zhang Luo a concubine.
Starting from the various families to recruit beauties, the first to bear the brunt is Bu Zhi's clan sister, who is a dignified and virtuous woman.The Bu family was also the first family to turn to Zhang Yi. No matter what, they should give these families a reassurance. You must know that Zhang Yi's three women are all from Jiangdong. What do other people think?
Similarly, Di Qing, who had no family influence, also wanted to consolidate his position in Zhang Yi's heart, so he found a beautiful woman in Lujiang.This beauty is the Qin Luofu that Zhang Yi met in Lujiang back then. She is just 15 years old this year, and many people want to marry her.However, his family couldn't find a suitable candidate, so they kept procrastinating, and now Di Qing sent him directly to Zhang Yi.
The third candidate is quite special, she is a daughter of the Luo family in Kuaiji, but she has been married once, but her husband died, and she returned to her natal family because of her young age.
At this time, people don't actually have much prejudice against widows.Not to mention the example of Cao Cao, it is recorded in "The Peacock Flies to the Southeast" that after Liu Lanzhi and Jiao Zhongqing divorced, the son of the prefect was going to marry her.
However, Zhang Yi did not directly agree to these three marriages.He doesn't mind how many wives he takes and how many concubines he takes, and of course he is willing to have a full house of children and grandchildren.
But he wouldn't be in a hurry to marry a new man just after Da Qiao gave birth to his daughter.Zhang Yi put this period in June, that is, two months later, so he showed some respect for Da Qiao.
(End of this chapter)