We have fought to the Arctic Circle, and you want me to inherit the throne?

How do you define a person with a complete personality?

Li Che felt that a picture in the biology book summarized it very well.

An ape evolved into an upright ape, and then gradually straightened its back and became a normal walking human.

The birth of human beings is the process of animals standing up. The creature that can stand under the sun is human beings.

The national anthem tells us: Arise! You who refuse to be slaves!

Maybe the people in the audience don’t understand it now, but it doesn’t matter. There will always be a day when everyone will understand it.

Only when all the citizens of a country can stand up straight, be upright and not rely on anyone.

Only such a nation is qualified to stand at the top of the world.

After the speech, the plowing ceremony began.

During the ceremony, Li Che led his ministers to plow a field.

As a vassal king, Li Che had to personally plow the land and symbolically plow a few furrows.

In fact, they do not really participate in farming, but this behavior has great symbolic significance.

Under the gaze of all the people, he expressed that he would also participate in spring ploughing, thereby mobilizing the enthusiasm of the people.

But Li Che felt that this ceremony was somewhat redundant.

There was no need to mobilize the enthusiasm of the people. They were all eager to try, and they couldn't wait to kick the old ox aside and plow the ten acres of land themselves.

After the plowing ceremony was over, all the officials from the royal palace came out and began to register the population participating in the labor in each household and divide the areas and areas for reclaiming wasteland.

There were dozens of service counters in total, and there were long queues behind each one.

Without even looking up, the official asked the man in front of him, "Name?"

"Yu Erdan."

"How many people are in the family?"

"Let me think about it. My father, my mother, and my wife... three of us!"

The official frowned at him and said, "You are not a human being?"

"Ah!" The man suddenly realized, "Those four!"

"How old are your father and mother? Can they still farm?"

"Yes, my parents are in good health." The man patted his chest, "and I have plenty of strength. Sir, please give my family more land."

"Just one hundred acres, that's enough."

The official laughed and scolded, "Even if you have enough strength, can you cultivate a hundred acres by yourself? Go away, stop making trouble!"

Under the earliest well-field system, a household could cultivate about 100 mu of land, but that was a rough farming method, and the crops grown were those that required little care.

After the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, land relations were not tense and farmers' operating scale was about 50 to 60 mu.

Later, as population growth exceeded the rate of increase in cultivated land area, the relationship between people and land began to become tense, and per capita cultivated land declined rapidly.

In Daqing, the vast majority of farmers have cultivated areas of less than 25 mu.

But theoretically speaking, all the land in the Northeast is wasteland, and the amount of arable land that Li Che can distribute to everyone is unlimited.

Therefore, when dividing the area of ​​reclaimed arable land, it is necessary for the recording officials to distribute it at their discretion.

"How about this, I'll give your family thirty acres of land for reclamation."

The man was somewhat dissatisfied, but due to his fear of being an official, he hesitated and dared not speak.

"That's enough," the official said helplessly. "You're the only able-bodied man in your family. When you have children and more children, I'll give you more land."

"That's... okay." The man nodded.

The official wrote furiously, and after finishing a document, he pushed it in front of the man:

"Let me make a deal with you. His Highness has ordered that all farmland within Ninggu County be owned by the Ninggu County Prince's Mansion. The more land you reclaim, the more permanent use rights you will have.

Land use rights can be passed down to the next generation, but private land sales are prohibited.”

The man scratched his head, confused. "So, you mean we're farming for His Highness and have become his tenants?"

"Stupid, the land is still yours, it only belongs to His Highness in name," the official explained. "His Highness doesn't collect rent from you, let alone the food you grow."

"The reason for this is to protect your land in the name of His Highness, so that it won't be bought away by wealthy families."

The man nodded and said, "I trust Your Highness. You saved my father's life. Even if I have to farm for Your Highness, I won't say no."

After saying that, he stretched out his finger and pressed it on the ink pad, and then pressed his fingerprint on the document.

Li Che and Qian Bin were on the high platform and could just hear the conversation between the man and the official.

Qian Bin came back to his senses, looked at Li Che, and said carefully: "Your Highness has already distributed land to the people, why must the title belong to the palace?"

"If someone with ulterior motives finds out, wouldn't that be an excuse for them to take over the people's land?"

Li Che replied, "I remember I said before that no great unified dynasty since ancient times has ever lived for more than a hundred years."

Qian Bin nodded seriously: "Yes, you said, this is the theory of dynasty fate cycle."

"Master Qian, why do you think this happened?"

Qian Bin thought for a moment and replied, "The longer a dynasty lasts, the more ills will accumulate within the country. The people will find it hard to survive and will naturally rise up in rebellion."

Li Che nodded, then shook his head: "Yes, and no."

"In my opinion, the people of Daqing are the most lovable. As long as they can survive, they will never rebel."

“The fundamental reason for the dynasty’s fall is not the people, but the annexation of land.”

"Officials, aristocratic families, and nobles bought land from the people who couldn't make a living, and then hired them to work for their families. As a result, the rich had more and more land, while the poor had no land to share and could only wait to die."

"When the gap between the rich and the poor reaches the brink of collapse, most people see no hope of survival and can only overthrow the existing order and survive."

Qian Bin remained silent and said nothing.

In fact, every ancient official knew the harm of "land annexation", but no one proposed to solve it completely.

Because officials are vested interests, none of them have any good farmland at home. Even Qian Bin’s hometown has hundreds of acres of good farmland.

Li Che looked at him with a half-smile: "Master Qian, I don't care about Daqing's affairs, and I can't interfere. But in my county, land annexation must not occur. This is a matter of principle and there is no room for negotiation."

There is one advantage of establishing a country outside the Great Wall, which is that you don’t have to be restricted by rules.

The unspoken rules inside the Great Wall are useless to Li Che. In the Northeast outside the Great Wall, whoever has the stronger fist is the rule maker.

With such a good opportunity, Li Che would certainly try to completely solve the problem of "land annexation", which has troubled feudal emperors for thousands of years.

The solution is to ban the sale of land and nationalize the land.

Don't you like to grab other people's land? Don't you want to be the local landlord just because you have so much power?

Well then... In this area of ​​Northeast China, who has more power than me, Li Che?

All the land is mine, no one can fucking take it away!

Li Che smiled slightly and looked up at the sky.

Sunny day, cloudless.

At this moment, God withdrew a curse called 'land annexation'.