When Li Su was in school in his previous life, he read history textbooks and always didn't understand the saying "Workers are the most loyal class and are destined to be the leader."

Because he felt that in the era he lived, no matter how he thought that farmers were more miserable than workers, why were farmers not as ambiguity as workers?

Unexpectedly, he put himself in the late Han Dynasty for several years before he understood the words in the textbook with "unexpected knowledge of this matter" - the context of that words was not directed at the society he saw in his 21st century life, but at the historical stage where the species "workers" had just emerged.

When the concept of "workers" was first born, they meant that "landless farmers, who do not even have the qualifications to be farmers, have to be servants", so they are more miserable and more thorough.

Li Su couldn't understand this possibility in his previous life because he felt that even if he lost his land, he could still rent the landlord's land as a tenant farmer.

When he arrived at the end of the Han Dynasty and the densely populated Shu County, he understood the concept of "permanent tenant rights" mentioned in the legal history textbook in the university. Although there was no written civil law in the East since ancient times, there was also similar concept in customary law, and even the Han Dynasty had such a habit.

The so-called "permanent tenant rights" is roughly speaking, although the tenant farmers have no land, they have signed a contract with the landlord to "make sure I rent your land for a long time" or a verbal agreement to ensure that the tenant farmers have the "right to be exploited stably". If the tenant farmers do not make any mistakes, under the protection of the permanent tenant rights, the landlords will not be able to deprive the tenant farmers of their rent and sublease the land to others at will.

Even if the landlord sells the land, the new buyer must ensure that the old tenants continue to rent the land, which is somewhat similar to the modern civil law "buying and selling does not break the lease". Selling a house will not affect the continued execution of the unexpired lease of the old tenant.

Since Li Su developed the industry and commerce of Shu County, the first batch of workers born, whether they were miners, weavers, salt workers, or dock workers, as long as they were full-time, most of them never had the most proletarian poverty that they could not obtain.

In other words, because the plains in Shu are small and the population has expanded for a hundred years, so many people are unavailable to be serfs, and they have no chance to "pay stable rent and be exploited", so they have become workers.

It’s quite like before the Civil War in the United States started in 1860, the southern farmers defended their system: What’s wrong with black slaves? At least our black slaves all had a bite of food and there was no unemployment problem. In the early days of industrialization by the Yang Jiha in the north, there were so many unemployed workers who wanted to come back to be serfs and were not qualified to starve to death!

It is precisely because of the deep hatred that once these people were beaten and divided into the country, they were also the most loyal to the new regime and the reform, and they were almost allowed to do whatever they wanted.

The only pity is that because the unscrupulous business tyrants raised the price of brocade during this reform, the vast majority of the workers who benefited were textile workers, while the blacksmiths and miners did not benefit much.

Most of the textile workers are women... The loyalty of these people is not that great in such a chaotic world.

If a miner and blacksmith who had a deep hatred was tens of thousands of hardships and revenge was loyal to him, Li Su could suggest that Liu Bei directly drag the tens of thousands of strong men to the battlefield to serve in the army, and then use some good equipment to ensure that his loyalty is absolutely guaranteed and he will definitely be able to win.

The economic war of reform has reached this point, and the deduction has far exceeded the limit of Li Su's initial IQ.

If he knew that it would be so big, he might have included iron tools and other heavy labor industrial products in the list of replaceable taxable items for renting and mediocre reproduction. Now he will gain 100,000 miners and blacksmiths. It would be as happy as Qi Jiguang's recruitment of Yiwu soldiers.

It can only be said that human intelligence still has an end, and no matter how far-sighted and sensible a person can only take one step at a time.

...

As time goes by late August, the one and a half months of autumn tax collection season is finally coming to an end.

Adding leverage to the largest five-county rich and profiteer alliance, the Shujin seller was ultimately not able to withstand Li Su's industrialization.

Until August 15, according to government statistics, there were more than one million people in Shu County and more than 300,000 people who did not pay the money for the reconciliation of mediocre servants. On this day, the transaction price of Shu Jin was still topped at a high of 360 yuan per meter. The anxious unpaid farmers were still waiting for it.

But the next day, with more than 20,000 more horses of Kuanjin coming out, the hoarding party finally completely broke its capital chain and could no longer hold on to so many goods.

The price of Shujin in Chengdu fell below 350 yuan that day, and fell back to 32 yuan in the evening. Within a day, more than 100,000 people who had not paid the household registration were flocking to the car and rushed to pay the taxes.

Early on the morning of the third day, the Hanzhong Palace issued a special order, with the theme of "setting down the price of Shu brocade", announcing that someone had caused trouble and destroyed the people's tax payments. With the unlimited supply, it finally stabilized at the official guide price of 300 yuan. And as the last batch of people paid the tax, the tax was paid, and there was no need to sell low grain and buy Shu brocade, which means that the rich people continued to hold on and there was no meaning to keep it up.

Although they can continue to fight to the death, it is like someone who is trapped at a high level after buying stocks. They can not sell or cash out, which makes their "book assets" seem worth a lot of money. But the problem is that the retail investors they want to transfer to no longer exist.

Most of the people are simple and do not want to make a fortune in a greedy way. They don’t bother hype. Whether ordinary people sell grain or buy broth, they are all for tax payments. After paying the tax, they can not participate in market transactions for the rest of the year, and they will not take over the market.

"Using the price increase of tax targets in the autumn harvest season, grain prices fell, and scissors gap to exploit the poor" business model, which started from the Qin Dynasty, was once again defeated by the government.

The reason for adding "again" is because when Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, Sang Hongyang was a senior farmer, he did it briefly. But soon Sang Hongyang personally played the role of exploiting the people, and the government went directly to make the difference. After Sang Hongyang's death, landlords and tyrants in China began to do this business again, and it had been three hundred years.

The difference between Li Su now is that he really asked Liu Bei to set up an "official protection price" and was just a bottom-up, but he would not let Liu Bei go to the scene in person. For example, this time he only came forward to support the bottom when the grain price fell to a significantly lower than the normal level of 200 coins per stone. When the brocade price rose, he just sold the market to the guide price of 300 coins and stopped and would not chase him.

On the first day of September, the Hanzhong Palace issued another tutoring order, saying that Shu County, Guanghan, Jianwei, Zhuti, and Ba County, the autumn tax work this year was completed well, and the reform of the "Rent and Message Law" has been officially successful.

A list of rewards and punishments was inevitable in the teachings.

The rewards are naturally those who adjust better during the tax collection process and suffer less. The representative figures are Yang Hong, the magistrate of Du'an County, who was recognized as the first in governance. Yang Hong was promoted to the next level as a result.

As for punishment, of course, it was a mess during the law enforcement process. The worst was that of Zitong County Magistrate Chen Mi, who was charged with "reproaching national laws and exploiting the people."

The specific manifestation is that the granary capacity of Zitong County was not calculated well. For the big households who came to pay the tax first, they opened up and asked them to pay all the grain and blocked the official warehouse in advance. As a result, when the poor people who paid the tax late in Zitong County came to pay the tax, they were told that they would not collect a grain of grain and they had to exchange it all for money to collect it.

The laws of the "Rent and Ordinary Regulation Law" clearly stipulate that if the people insist on paying the "land rent" part of the food, the government must collect it. Even if the granary is insufficient, it can only "do not allow households to reconcile mediocre labor to exchange for grain transactions". Therefore, Chen Mi's operation obviously deprives the people of the legitimate rights and interests of insisting on paying grain in accordance with the law.

In fact, Chen Mi, Lou Fa and others were originally representatives of powerful people who secretly opposed the new law in Guanghan County, and there was collusion between officials and businessmen.

As a typical example, Chen Mi was of course sentenced by Liu Beiming's Zhengdian and detained him in Chengdu and beheaded in public and abandoned the market, confiscating his property.

The other few who did not do that so obviously escaped death, and were either demoted or fined according to the circumstances.

The general principle of the royal palace teaching is that "those who are loyal and beneficial will be rewarded even if they are enemies, those who are negligent will be punished even if they are negligent; those who commit crimes and lose their feelings will be released even if they are serious; those who are wise and decorate will be killed even if they are light."

The plot of the matter, objective harm, and subjective motivation must be considered, and rewards and punishments must be determined in a unified manner.

No one within the five counties dares to be dissatisfied.

...

A few days after the reward and punishment order was issued, Li Su also asked Guan Yu that he had borrowed some soldiers, mainly to borrow Gao Shun's camp - the camp was too elite, and it was a waste to use it to repair rivers and water conservancy, so he was just maintaining the construction site order and was idle.

Gao Shun was not alone. Because he was originally stationed in Nan'an County, Jianwei County, Li Su took a bunch of mortgaged land deeds and asked Gao Shun to "force the execution" from several counties in Jianwei nearby.

After all, Jianwei, represented by Chen Jian, resisted the tyrants, and after this leverage, he was already unable to turn over. Although the Han Dynasty did not have the Bankruptcy Law and the Regulations on the Enforcement of Civil Judgments, Li Su asked the camp to enforce the deadbeat, and probably no one would resist by force, and there was no "infringement on the legitimate rights and interests of the debtor."

Now it is the Han Dynasty! It is natural to repay debts and pay money!

Gao Shun took a boat downstream from Nan'an County. The first stop was to Wudao, the second stop, and the third stop was Jiangyang and Zigong.

After entering the county town of Jade Road, Li Su went straight to the largest manor of Chen and asked Gao Shun's people to break the door and enter.

Gao Shun waved a bunch of land deeds: "Chen Jian, see if you mortgaged these land deeds to Yang Hong for food. But it seems that there is no clear agreement on this. Are you planning to pay it back now or will you pay it back next year if you don't accept it? According to the folk custom, your family will be entrusted out 1,600 hectares of land in this Yudao County alone, which is really a lot. Jiangyang and Zigong are there."

Chen Jian, the chief of the Chen clan, looked as if he was dead: "It was indeed the bastard Yang Hong who betrayed us! He was simply a shame for the four sects of Shu Confucianism! Scum! Liu Yan and Liu Bei exploited our ancestral property like this, but he even sold himself to surrender, shameless!"

Li Su didn't speak at first, he just asked Gao Shun to negotiate. Seeing Chen Jian say this, he calmly closed the folding fan: "Be careful when speaking, I, Li, don't like to implicate it - if I hadn't found out this time, your cousin Chen Shi did not collude with you, it was just a problem of inattention, I would have dealt with him to the end.

If you have to bite the "Four Sects of Shu Confucianism" that never exists and represent your entire family, then I have to give all your cousin and other Chen family members who are officials..."

Chen Jian also knew that he was finished: "Bah! One person does things and one person does it. This time I, Chen Jian, do it. If you have the affair, kill me! What's the point of framed innocent people!"

Li Su waved his fan bone: "Then there is nothing to say, copy it."

The soldiers of the Eight Hundred Clans wearing iron armor and holding the horse-killing sword immediately began to enforce the fields and change the registration with the county officials.
Chapter completed!