From the Qin Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, the state-owned land system has always existed and is considered a great way for the country. Land annexation was regarded as a major harm to the country, and has been tried every means to suppress it in all dynasties.

After all, if the land is concentrated to a few people, on the one hand, it will reduce the national tax sources, and on the other hand, it will form a powerful powerful and aristocratic family, posing a threat to the imperial power.

Moreover, farmers who have lost their land may become refugees and take risks to rebel.

This is a cancer and is not controlled by humans. Even a high-ranking empire is difficult to stop.

Therefore, in history, all dynasties attached great importance to land annexation. Although annexation cannot be completely eliminated, the government must redistribute land every once in a while to avoid excessive concentration of land.

But Ying Zheng also knew that doing so would treat the symptoms but not the root cause. Re-allocation of resources every once in a while requires the appearance of a wise ruler and strong ministers.

Once a foolish king appears, land annexation is like a wild horse breaking out of control.

Although doing so limits the development of the intensive economy and limits the progress of industry and commerce, doing so will help the unity of the empire and the stability of the regime.

Ying Zheng was the lord of the empire. What he wanted was the stability of the empire, not serious land annexation. Even if the Qin Dynasty is now in trouble, he would not allow land annexation to occur.

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Seeing the joy of the First Emperor, Zheng State hesitated for a moment, and said to Ying Zheng, "Does Your Majesty have any good ideas for land annexation?"

Zheng State was afraid that the First Emperor mentioned land annexation because he saw it during the Eastern Tour. He was a whim and made a decision filled with anger.

As a superior, especially the human emperor of this era, you must be calm and rational, rather than be easily influenced.

"I have a little idea!"

Ying Zheng's eyes were cold, his whole aura was as sharp as a sword, and his voice sounded in the study.

"The truth is to use heavy rules in troubled times. Today's Great Qin is like a young and strong man. Naturally, I have tiger and wolf medicine in my hands, which completely shocks the world."

"The Zhili Nai Shi, after returning, make arrangements. The straight road matter needs to be put on the agenda. The drawing of the route map is completed earlier. The same land annexation should not be underestimated."

"We have to start..."

"promise."

Nodded and agreed, Zheng State said to Ying Zheng, "This matter needs to be progressive step by step. I will let Datian Ling be responsible for this matter and try to understand the situation."

"Um."

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You must be clear about land annexation. Only in this way can you prescribe the right medicine for the different symptoms that appear.

Regarding land annexation, Ying Zheng naturally had a tiger and wolf medicine in his heart. In his opinion, this tiger and wolf medicine was a bit terrifying.

It was precisely because of a hint of fear in his heart that Ying Zheng told Zheng Guo that he had plans in his heart, saying that there was a medicine for tigers and wolves, but he did not express the solution.

For a long time, due to the death of land annexation in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the entire later generations have been committed to resolving this matter and have promulgated many laws for this purpose.

As for the military camps during the Three Kingdoms period, the equal-field system implemented from the Northern Wei Dynasty to the early Tang Dynasty, the Wang Anshi reform of the Song Dynasty, the one-whip method drafted by Zhang Juzheng of the Ming Dynasty, and the system of storing people in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.

Almost every type is to stop mergers, but the effect has not been great.

These reforms cannot consolidate the empire and make the empire come back to a new vitality. They can only delay the demise of a dynasty to a certain extent.

It can be said that this series of reforms are all forcing the luck of an empire and a dynasty.

There are only two ways to truly collapse land annexation. Even so, it is not perfect, but it is much better than before.

It is precisely because of this that Ying Zheng was confused. Just like in later generations, the state-owned land system was implemented in cities and the collective land ownership system was implemented in rural areas.

This is equivalent to abolishing the land private ownership system and completely cutting off the source of land annexation, but the function of land as resource allocation is also lost accordingly, and the land output efficiency is not high.

The whole country implements a system of separation of land ownership and use rights. Only in this way can land annexation be stopped, and it is too difficult to do so.

The only benefit is that the Qin Empire is just like the later dynasties. It was just established and the founding emperor was extremely powerful and had an unparalleled prestige.

The most important thing is that it has undergone a profound and great change that has left the new empire in a barren state. At this time, a thorough reform is extremely likely to succeed.

After all, at this time, the power was in the hands of the emperor. The people of the imperial world had just experienced the war and clearly remembered the consequences of the war.

In addition, another way is to learn from the Song Dynasty.

In history, the Song Dynasty, like the Great Qin, recognized the right to private land ownership, but the Song Dynasty went further and even more crazy than the Great Qin.

They allow farmers to reclaim wasteland as their permanent property, and provide policy support and encouragement, stipulating that no tax will be imposed on newly reclaimed land, and that all prefectures and counties with outstanding reclaiming achievements will be rewarded.

With this inspiration, all classes and strata of society joined the land reclamation, and people asked for land from the wastelands, mudflats and sands that were in the past.

As a result, the area of ​​arable land in the Song Dynasty increased greatly.

Moreover, private land ownership has been relaxed, greatly improving land use efficiency.

Uncontrolling annexation allows people to freely buy and sell land ownership, resulting in fierce competition among land operators, and a situation where land and houses have no fixed trend, land and houses have no fixed ownership, and if there is money, buy, and if there is no money, sell.

Due to fierce competition, lazy and labor-loving homes, and poor management, will be eliminated. Therefore, both small peasant families and landlords have tried their best to maximize the benefits of the land they own.

This is why more advanced farming technologies and tools were born and spread and utilized faster, thus promoting the improvement of land use efficiency.

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Most importantly, such land policies indirectly promote the development of industry and commerce.

Uncontrolling mergers enables the intensive land and improves production efficiency, thus causing some farmers to lose land, some farmers to liberate from the land due to the improvement of efficiency, and a large number of surplus labor emerge.

In this way, it will inevitably stimulate the crazy prosperity of all walks of life, the development of industry and commerce has greatly promoted the prosperity of the society and economy, and the productivity has been rapidly improved.

From Li Kang's memory, the sailing, shipbuilding, medicine, crafts, agricultural technology, etc. of the Song Dynasty reached unprecedented heights.

If the Qin Empire reached such a level, what he thought in his heart would be not just above the Central Plains, crossing the sea, but also having a vast country.
Chapter completed!