stjorthotic Chapter 342: Lijia System Has Already Foreseen Its Collapse As Soon As It Appears [Please Subscribe,
Chapter 342: Lijia System Has Already Foreseen Its Collapse As Soon As It Appears [Please Subscribe,
After Yan King Zhu Di fell silent, Prince Zhu Biao suddenly looked up at Yan Changqing and said:
"If the Lijia system in the tax collection system is fully implemented, it should be able to solve the problems of local gentry and clans, and firmly control local power in the hands of the court, right?!!"
The Lijia system is one of the foundations of the tax and servitude system.
The battle of Lijia is based on households, with 110 neighboring households as one li. Among them, the ten households with more land and more fields take turns to serve as the head of the li. The remaining 100 households are divided into ten jias, with ten households in each jia taking turns to serve as the head of the lijia. .
Every year, a person from the village leads the leader of the top ten to serve, which is called "that year"; the rotation takes place every ten years, which is called "pai nian".
After the expiration of the period, they will be rearranged according to the increase or decrease in the number of people and fields.
If there are poor people in the neighborhood, they will be chosen among the 110 households and those who have escaped will be compensated.
During this period, the chief of the village was responsible to the superior government and took charge of the affairs of the subordinates.
This includes managing the households under their jurisdiction, making statistics on the growth and decline of household property, supervising households' production matters, mediating civil and criminal disputes within the household, sorting by the amount of grain and property, and arranging service according to the yellow roll of taxes and servitude, etc. In the early stage, the armor cannot be moved.
It can be said that the Lijia system was the spread of the imperial court's ruling power to the next level below the county magistrate.
More importantly, Li Jia is the king of corvee!!!
In other words, there is no need for the court to spend extra money to support him, and all expenses will be borne by Li Jia himself.
But it represents the official court, and can barely be regarded as a member of the official system.
To use an analogy, compared with the officials and subordinates of the imperial court, the difference between Lijia in the Lijia system is that there is no official establishment and there is a formal establishment.
Lijia are all temporary workers recruited outside the official establishment of the imperial court to assist management, with power but no reputation.
However, regardless of whether it has a name or not, the establishment of Lijia "can be said to represent the imperial court's further control over townships, towns, villages and people by its ruling power.
From this point of view, the establishment of Lijia can also be said to be a concrete manifestation and proof of "imperial power going to the countryside"!!!
Zhu Yuanzhang, who was sitting at the back, also looked at Yan Changqing on the podium with a faint look of complacency on his face. Zhu Yuanzhang himself was a beggar and a refugee, and he grew up in the local area since he was a child.
He also knew more about the local gentry clan than others.
Because his family had suffered losses from the local gentry clan when he was a child, after he became the emperor, he became equally interested in townships, towns, villages, and li below the county level, places where imperial power had been semi-abandoned since ancient times.
At least as a man who has a strong desire to control power, Zhu Yuanzhang cannot tolerate having power that is not within his control.
Therefore, after referring to the rural system of the Han and Tang Dynasties and the Baojia system of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Zhu Yuanzhang finally formulated the Lijia system of the Ming Dynasty, which is now also being tried in Yingtian Mansion.
Yan Changqing raised his head and looked at Zhu Biao, then glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang who was sitting at the back with a faint look of satisfaction on his face, shook his head and said:
"The Lijia system can only be applied for a while. As time goes by, the collapse and disintegration of the Lijia system is an inevitable result."
When Zhu Yuanzhang was still convinced, Yan Changqing had already taken the lead and explained:
“First of all, the lijia system is a grassroots organization system organized based on the standard number of households. The starting point is that the amount of corvee assigned to each li is roughly equal.”
"But this was wrong from the beginning."
"Because the economic status of each household varies widely, and geographical interconnections must also be taken into consideration, it is impossible for the people, property, and property of each Jia and Li to achieve a completely equal state at the beginning of the establishment of Lijia."
"Coupled with the different treatment of the li chiefs who 'leave the rich to the poor', as time goes by, the burdens of people, property, taxes and servitude among each li and each li will only become more and more uneven, and the burdens between them will only become more and more uneven. There is also an increasing disparity in the ability to bear corvee service.”
"Second, His Majesty's purpose in implementing the Lijia system should be to try to create relatively closed small areas in local society based on the close connection between Lijia households and the land."
“This plays a great role in effectively collecting taxes and levies and conducting grassroots social management.
"However, with the passage of time, along with the development of social economy, driven and impacted by factors such as the intensification of land annexation by the gentry and the increase in the burden of taxes and servitude, the flow of population and land will inevitably become increasingly prosperous and active."
“Eventually, the separation of population and land became inevitable”
"At that time, the distribution of households and land in Lijia will naturally be spatially separated, and a situation will arise where 'one mile of land is scattered all over the county, and all the fields in the county have no fixed place', or even across the country. The phenomenon of land ownership across counties, prefectures, and provinces also occurs frequently.”
"In the end, it became increasingly difficult for Lijia leaders to accurately grasp the population and property status of their own households."
"Third, the establishment of the military system is based on the current social and political ecology where local socio-economic differentiation is not too serious.
"However, this relatively balanced social reality cannot be maintained for a long time. As time goes by, more and more literary students in rural villages will be admitted to the imperial examination and have the privilege of being exempted from corvee and taxation as scholar-bureaucrats."
"At that time, rural society will soon experience increasingly serious social differentiation, leading to the annexation of treacherous tyrants and the exile of the weak. There may be only two or three households in the village, or only one or two households in A, or even no one in the village. It’s a situation where no one has it.”
"In the end, under the squeeze and impact of the officials and gentry who owned a large amount of land but wanted to avoid the burden of taxes and servitude because they enjoyed preferential rights and exemptions, the collapse of the Lijia system was basically inevitable."
Every time Yan Changqing told a story, Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth opened wider, and the looks of shock on the faces of the princes such as Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, and Zhu Di also increased.
By the time Yan Changqing finished speaking, the collapse of the Lijia system was almost like a prophet of uncertainty, appearing in front of Zhu Yuanzhang and the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Hua, Zhu Gang, Zhu Di and other ten chariots.
Of course, it is okay to say that it is a prophet of the future.
Because the collapse of the Liga system itself was the result he saw when he looked back from the lower reaches of history.
At this moment, no matter it was Zhu Yuanzhang, Prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, they all felt numb.
Obviously the Lijia system has just come out and is still in the trial operation stage, but from Yan Changqing’s words, it is obvious that we have seen the result of the collapse of the Lijia system in the future!!!
What's even more outrageous is that they thought carefully about the reasons given by Yan Changqing one by one.
Even they themselves have to admit that according to what Yan Changqing said, the collapse of the Lijia system in the future will really become an inevitable thing!!!
[His ability to look hundreds of years into the future, really has no limitations at all?!]
[Or is the so-called Saint’s wisdom really so outrageous as his Eminem’s?!!]
[A system has just been established and passed, and is still in the trial operation stage, but you have already seen the final result of this system. Even if his Eminem is really Saint, isn’t it a bit too unreasonable?!!]
[No wonder the so-called Saint 500 Years has just come out. If every Saint is as perverted as Mr. Yan shows, then everyone else is having fun!!!]
[Sure enough, Saints are all perverts, and Mr. Yan is even more perverted among perverts!!!]
Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, all looked at Yan Changqing on the podium silently, 393 couldn't help but roar and complain silently in their hearts.
Yan Changqing, who was on the podium, did not know that Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes were complaining about him. Instead, he looked at them calmly and said:
"I recommend suspending the current system of taxes and servitude for five years, because after five years, the world will undergo great changes.
"The system of taxation and servitude enacted at this time is not necessarily suitable for the Ming Dynasty five years later."
Hearing Yan Changqing's words, Chu King Zhu Zhen couldn't help but ask:
"Mr. Yan, what big changes will happen to the world in five years?!!"
Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Xi, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, also looked at Yan Changqing with interest.
"Potato."
Yan Changqing said two words lightly.
Zhu Yuanzhang, as well as the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes all frowned slightly and couldn't help but murmur repeatedly:
"Potato?!!"
"Potato!!!"
"What big changes can potatoes cause in the world?!!"
Although the fact that potatoes yield at least twenty dan per mu is indeed shocking, potatoes shouldn’t cause any major changes in the world, right?!!
"You will know then."
Yan Changqing shook his head and said nothing more.
Regardless of whether it is Zhu Yuanzhang or the princes Zhu Biao, Zhu Di, Zhu Fan, Zhu Di and other princes, after all, they still do not understand how much change a food that can feed the people in the world will bring to the world!
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