Just as Zhao Feng was thinking this, the old eunuch who had been staying next to Zhou Zhen came out and spoke softly to Zhao Feng.
"Master Zhao, Your Majesty is letting you in."
Zhao Feng nodded and walked directly into the imperial study room.
At this moment, Zhou Zhen also raised his head and looked at Zhao Feng with burning eyes.
"Zhao Sheren, you came to see me so early today. Could it be that there is already a solution to the matter?"
Zhao Feng nodded lightly, walked over, and placed the memorial on Zhou Zhen's royal desk with both hands.
"Your Majesty, I have already thought up the plan."
"Your Majesty, please take a look!"
Zhou Zhen opened the memorial, read it carefully, and then couldn't help but read it out softly.
"The three-year plan of the Zhou Dynasty?"
Zhao Feng smiled slightly. He designed this plan based on the rapidly progressing motherland in his previous life. However, that country in his previous life had a five-year plan, but the situation in the Zhou Dynasty may not wait five years at all.
Zhou Zhen glanced briefly, then put the memorial aside.
"It's better that you come and have a good talk with me."
Zhao Feng nodded slightly. He only gave the specific steps and regulations of the plan, but did not explain many aspects.
This memorial is just an outline. If you want to implement it, you must have someone who is familiar with this matter to operate it.
Otherwise, they will be like Zhou Zhen and others before, only knowing how to implement these policies, but not understanding some of the changes at all.
"Your Majesty, this three-year plan is only the first phase. In the early stage, I plan to carry out the reform of the Zhou Dynasty every three years."
"In the first year, we will vigorously develop people's livelihood in various places and open various factories at the same time, so that all people can initially break away from the lifestyle of relying solely on agriculture."
"This is not to completely replace agriculture, but to give these people a better choice. In addition to farming, they can go to work to increase their income and make their lives better."
"At the same time, we will open schools in various places, select children of appropriate age, etc., and enter them to study. As for educational subjects, I will explain them in detail in the next memorial."
Zhou Zhen nodded. Zhao Feng had done this before, and the people in Zhao County and Huaigu City also had more income because of these two policies, which made Zhao County and Huaigu County, which were originally very remote and poor, The people in Fucheng suddenly became wealthy.
If this policy can be implemented everywhere, people everywhere will live a better life. If people live better and have more money in their hands, it will of course promote the development of business.
Zhou Zhen is someone who has understood Zhao Feng's previous policies, so at this time, he will not ask stupid questions like whether there will be people to buy so many businesses.
Those princes, nobles, officials at all levels, etc. all have a lot of money at home. This first step is actually to take the money out of their hands and return it to the people.
This is also called the economic strategy of hiding wealth among the people.
Zhao Feng looked at Zhou Zhen seriously, and then continued.
"Your Majesty, in the second year, I plan to carry out land reform and count all the land of the Zhou Dynasty."
"Then we will distribute the land according to the number of people. For example, those nobles who have embezzled more land will take back the land in their hands. However, in order to make these nobles accept it, we will carry out a new reform measure on these lands."
Zhao Feng knew that those landlords and nobles who owned land would not be happy if their fields were taken away directly.
It may be useless for them to want so much land, but the taxes of the Zhou Dynasty are based on head tax. A nobleman, the real core members of the family, may only have a few dozen, but they occupy hundreds or even tens of thousands of people. A land of thousands of people!
That's why these noble families are so rich.
"After collecting these lands, we will cultivate them uniformly. The land of the nobles is equivalent to a shareholding, and dividends will be paid to them every year according to the harvest of the land."
"In this way, the methods used by the nobles to embezzle land will be ineffective."
Most of the nobles now rent their own land to the common people for farming. The rent has been negotiated long ago. No matter what the harvest in the fields is, the nobles will not lose money.
But in this case, in addition to paying taxes, the common people also have to deal with the high rents of these noble lands, which makes these common people even poorer.
The nobles guarantee harvests due to droughts and floods, and all risks must be borne by these common people. This is not the right thing to do.
Hearing this, Zhou Zhen nodded slowly. Some people had proposed land reform before, but the nobles did not accept it at all.
If the method proposed by Zhao Feng is followed, maybe those nobles will accept it willingly.
Zhou Zhen thought about it carefully, then his eyes lit up and he asked Zhao Feng in great surprise.
"Don't you have any other ways to increase the land's yield?"
Zhao Feng nodded directly and held his hands towards Zhou Zhen with a smile.
"Your Majesty, you guessed it right. In fact, I know that there are many high-yielding crops. Even if the dividends to the nobles are removed, the grain output of the Zhou Dynasty can be doubled several times. But if we can't find these high-yielding crops, we can't find them." Don’t worry, even these existing plants can be cultivated to produce high-yielding crops!”
Zhao Feng knew that the reason why the country's food in the previous life could feed such a large population was because there was a very admirable old man who had been researching hybrid rice technology all year round.
Although Zhao Feng does not have such high skills, he still knows some knowledge about seed selection and breeding.
By carrying out selective breeding based on these aspects of knowledge, you can also select some relatively high-yielding crops.
This matter will be implemented from the first year. After the land is harvested next year, these seeds selected in advance can be sown.
Zhou Zhen looked at Zhao Feng in surprise.
“Is that all you’ll do in the second year?”
Zhao Feng nodded. Land will always be the top priority for a dynasty that focuses on agriculture. The reason why he spent the first year laying the groundwork was to allow a large number of people to have other income besides land. .
At that time, these people can still farm in the fields. Whether they choose to pay dividends based on output or pay them annual wages, they can live a good life.
