For all the current changes in Daxia, agriculture is actually the most fundamental foundation.
At that time, it can be said that more than 80% of the food in the entire society was concentrated in these high-level people.
Such high-level people not only include high-level officials in the imperial court, but also include high-level officials in some regions.
It can be said.
Before this, almost all the people did not have their own land.
All their land was either expropriated by various government officials, or plundered by local landlords through some means.
For the methods of these wealthy households, they are no match at all.
For example, the grain production in a region is normally in the hands of the people.
After the common people grow these grains, some of them are kept for their own consumption, some are used to sell them to make money, some are used to turn over to the national treasury, and some are used to pay taxes.
so.
Every time they appear, each part actually has a distribution system.
For these wealthy businessmen, they can operate every part of it.
First of all, for the part they eat, the rich households themselves can use some means to directly destroy all the grain production of the common people.
Sometimes, they can set fires at will.
Sometimes, some people and their servants are simply asked to pretend to be bandits and destroy these crops, while some others take advantage of the bad weather.
In short, as long as they take action, there will be no output from the fields.
Of course this is the case.
In fact, it is the same for these wealthy businessmen.
For these wealthy households.
They have a surplus of grain, and they can bear the consequences of no grain harvest this year.
But for these ordinary people, they only live on these rations. Once this happens, they lose the only land they can rely on, and without production, they have no dependence and security.
At this time, they can only sell their land to landlords.
And in exchange for food.
At that time, the landlord can rent the land to farmers and let them cultivate it.
Then most of the harvest from farming was given to the landowners.
In this case, the landlords will use this method to rob their land.
Another way is that these landowners can completely lower the price of food. They can make all food prices very low regardless of cost.
And this way.
This means that the food in the hands of ordinary people is worthless.
For ordinary people, they are counting on these grains for relief.
Thus.
They no longer have any clues.
The consequences are very dire.
In short, for these wealthy households, compared with ordinary people, they have the opportunity to try and make mistakes, and they have the ability to withstand a certain amount of hardship.
And for these ordinary people.
Their families have no chance to cope with this risk.
Once something unexpected happens, they will immediately go bankrupt.
It is under this situation that the land in the hands of ordinary people is relatively small.
And for these people now.
What they can get from this process is changes in land. When they cooperated before, they had already carried out a certain degree of reform of land and taxation in Hezhou.
Whether it is for ordinary people in Hezhou or for wealthy businessmen, a tax hierarchy has been set up.
After Zhang Bao and others took over other places, they also popularized this system.
In other words, the more money you have, the more you pay; the less money you have, the more you pay.
In fact, according to the current population of Daxia, although it is quite large, it is still incomparable with that of later generations of China.
So this method.
Although it is somewhat difficult to implement.
But it’s not like it’s completely impossible to unfold.
And for those at the top, Zhang Bao and the others were almost completely destroyed when they rebelled from the bottom up.
It can be said that the people currently working in these high-level positions are all Zhang Bao's people.
And these people who followed Zhang Bao to conquer the world were actually more or less influenced by Zhang Bao.
to be honest.
In fact, many of Zhang Bao's ideas are completely different to them from their previous ideas.
Even this idea is completely subversive.
For people in ancient times.
Many people are actually illiterate.
Without literacy, much of the knowledge about the world is passed down from generation to generation through word of mouth.
So for them.
What they received during this process came through their fathers and children.
As for these ordinary people, most of their parents’ generations are uneducated. The experiences they have accumulated, their survival experience, and their understanding of this society all come from their parents’ generation. of.
This step-by-step transmission from generation to generation is equivalent to getting narrower and narrower for those who are uneducated.
As for these wealthy landlords, they continue to move closer to the upper class. The cognitive changes they bring about are actually constant changes.
And some of the influences that Zhang Bao has brought to everyone are actually not just the many changes in this world.
Rather, it lies in the influence that Zhang Bao brought to everyone's consciousness. The influence of Zhang Bao actually brought many things that did not originally belong to this era into everyone's awareness.
They cannot treat these things as normal things like Zhang Bao.
It was just because they recognized Zhang Bao's authority that they wanted to implement Zhang Bao's requirements to the letter.
And when they continue to implement it, they will find that what Zhang Bao brings actually has huge benefits for their lives, the lives of ordinary people, and the changes in the entire society.
It may be said that it may lose the interests of some people, but it can bring better progress and development to this society.
At least it will definitely not happen like before, that kind of process that is not controlled at all.
Perhaps this is an important reason why people may follow Zhang Bao.
