Chapter 1917 Capital Booster(2/2)
This is not that Han Yi is more evil, but he has no choice. This is an excessive period, and it cannot be achieved in one step or one step. It will cause too much harm to the ruling class, and there are no slaves at all, and people will not agree. Moreover, this will gain support from the military. The slaves and generals of the country cannot beat the landlords, merchants, or foreign slaves. They can make money by using it. Last time they fought in Lelangzhou, the generals did not reward the court and sold slaves to make money.
Secondly, it is to abolish the laws that restrict the movement of the people. In the past, in order to develop agriculture and sericulture, the court clearly stipulated that it would restrict the movement of the people. You had to farm and not go around. However, after the development of business, no one cared about it. This law became useless in the canal generation. Now it is completely open and does not restrict the movement of the people. The reason is very simple. After the land enclosure movement appeared, a new agricultural model appeared. The landlord wanted the farmers to leave. If you want to leave, just sell the land to me. Anyway, the court admitted that the land belonged to me.
The curfews in Chang'an, Luoyang and Yangzhou will be abolished, and other prefectures and counties will be abolished one after another, but not together, because the royal police are not in place and there is no need to. For the time being, it is only opened in some commercial cities. The Ministry of Revenue has calculated the calculations and if the curfew is opened, the stamp duty will be enough to hire a group of people to maintain public order, which is profitable. However, there are also explicit provisions in the law that it will still be closed during special periods.
This is governing by doing nothing and allowing the people to develop freely.
Finally, there is another iconic revision, which is to formally abolish the law of joint ceremonies and stipulate that one person commits a crime and no longer implicates his family or slaves. Unless there is evidence that they are all involved, they must be tried according to law. In other words, if it is just caused by court struggles, it will no longer implicate his family.
In fact, after several major purges in the court, this issue has been debated in the court, because the nobles and officials were also afraid of it, and they were very scared of it. You should know that even the concept of "the king wants the minister to die, but the minister has to die" has not yet been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. It is just a success, the king will defeat the enemy. Then just kill me alone, and my family will not suffer this crime.
But some people still objected, thinking that this would make officials more unscrupulous, so Zhang Wenguan opposed it very much.
But in the end, Li Zhi made a very firm decision to officially abolish the law of sanctions because he also knew that the previous several major purges left a very bad impression on the ministers, because the purge was a bit too powerful. Almost all the veteran ministers of the Zhenguan period were killed, including two groups of foreign relatives. Now that he has power, he has to appease these ministers and make them sincerely loyal to him, rather than being completely forced by his tyranny. He also explained several times that this was also advocated by the prince repeatedly, and his purpose was to establish the image of the prince's kindness.
In addition, it is to exempt a lot of labor, such as sweeping the floor, public health, and other work, which were previously done by labor, but now the government invites people to do it.
The bill was passed, but it was not implemented immediately across the country, but was gradually promoted. This is because the development of the country is different. Many places do not have financial banks or civil security bureaus, and cannot be implemented. However, there are also explicit regulations on which state and when will the bill be implemented?
After the promulgation of this bill, the merchants were really cheering because each one was very beneficial to them, especially the lifting of restrictions on the people, which was really great for merchants. In the past, landlords would definitely object, but landlords did not, because the tenant farming system could no longer continue, and they all adopted the farming model.
The gentry was a little unwilling, but there was no way, as this was the general trend.
Chapter completed!