Chapter 3663 Way Out

Akainu doubted Wang Lufei's identity, and Wang Lufei directly stated that the navy was not important enough for him to lie. He was not Garp's grandson, so he said otherwise.

Akainu looked at Wang Lufei's arrogant attitude and said displeasedly: "Since the navy is not attractive, why do you still join the army?"

"Because someone else sent me here, and my attitude is that once I have done it, I must do it well and not give up halfway." Wang Lufei said that he was just following the path arranged for him by others, and it was not that he really liked the navy.

Faced with this attitude, Akainu couldn't help but stare at the other person, as if he wanted to see through Wang Lufei's sincerity through the window of his soul. It is obviously a powerful navy, but its attitude towards the navy is so perfunctory. If he forced the other party, maybe Wang Lufei would leave the navy immediately and most likely become a pirate, right?

Thinking of this, Akainu softened his expression and asked in a kind tone: "What is your attitude towards naval justice?"

"The theory is very good, but the practice is a mess." Wang Lufei said frankly. This was the first time he expressed his attitude in front of senior navy officials.

Naval justice is about maintaining order. As long as everyone abides by the rules of the game, order in the sea will bring long-term peace.

But in practice, everyone is dissatisfied.

"It seems that you have your own understanding of justice. Don't worry. It's just you and me in the office today. Let's talk about your understanding in detail." Akainu was curious about what the other party could say.

"Eight hundred years ago..." Wang Lufei was not polite, he just said it, and it was eight hundred years ago when he opened his mouth.

Akainu was dumbfounded. The other party really dared to say it. I hope it was not illegal information about the historical text.

Of course, Wang Lufei is not talking about blank history, he just said: "Eight hundred years ago, the pioneers of the world government controlled a large amount of land and obtained land ownership, talent rights, and economic rights. They could directly control the land and directly supervise it. Farmers produce. Then they pass these resources from generation to generation. The king's son remains the king, and the noble's son continues to be the noble. In the past, the eldest son inherited the family, but in this way, the younger son can go out and occupy new lands. Order can be stabilized. At this time, the income of the king and the nobles comes directly from the labor of the people. The people can feed the king and the nobles by cultivating public land, and they can also support themselves..."

Akainu was dumbfounded. A young marine was giving him a history lesson, and he was talking about history from the most basic distribution relationship.

Wang Lufei tells history from the perspective of changes in the inheritance system and taxation system.

Taxes were not collected from the beginning, because at the beginning the people had no money or even land, and the land belonged to the lords. Therefore, the labor force of the people is tax. The people have to cultivate public land, and the labor on public land is tax.

Later, the labor tax and farming tax were divided.

"As the expansion reached its limit, there was no new land, but the king and the nobles were still giving birth to children on the land, so they could only enfeoff their own public lands, so the land that originally belonged to one lord was subdivided into a large number of Small lord. At this time, the big lord's public land is far from enough, so the big lord can only ask the small lord to pay tribute, or to hand over grain according to the number of acres of land, and the method of taxation begins to change..." Wang Lufei continued.

Because there was no new land, the big lords could only enfeoff the public lands that originally belonged to them. This led to the continuous shrinkage of the public lands and had to collect taxes from the small lords. At this time, the target of taxation was not farmers, but small lords.

The small lords directly managed the land, obtained the harvest, and turned it over according to the number of acres, but farmers were still producing.

"It's not over yet. The population is still increasing, but tax collection rights and land rights are in the hands of nobles, large and small. They pass their rights from generation to generation to their eldest son, and other children are not eligible to inherit. , so a large number of Cao Mang appeared. These Cao Mang were not qualified to inherit the resources to survive, so they could only join the navy, but it was impossible for the navy to support everyone, so more Cao Mang became pirates. , the difference between those with inheritance rights and those without inheritance rights, divided into world government, large and small nobles, and grassland."

Akainu's expression was helpless, because this was the essence of the problem. There was nothing left to divide, but the number of people with nothing was still increasing. These people were all descendants of nobles, but they had no inheritance rights and no income from taxes, so they took desperate risks and became criminals who undermined social stability.

Who deprived them of the right to inherit? So what if they didn't commit a crime?

Of course, these have nothing to do with the people. The people are still the working tools on the land. When the number of people increases, handicrafts can also be developed. The original handicraft workshops were all worked by slaves, and a small noble family may have dozens of people engaged in handicrafts.

Handicraft industry requires raw materials, production tools, and markets. It is easy to form a monopoly. It is difficult for Cao Mang to compete with the workshops of small nobles in terms of cost, unless Cao Mang gives up his identity and becomes a laborer like the common people.

But Cao Mang definitely doesn't want to. Why should he, a descendant of a noble family, have to endure the same hardships as the common people while others are enjoying the prosperity? Why don't you inherit the family's assets?

Of course, it's because they are a big sect and I am a small sect. The small sect cannot get resources and in the end it becomes reckless.

At this time, someone will ask, what if the eldest son has no sons but only daughters? There is also a system of adopted sons in the island country, and the daughter can be married to the adopted son. This is why there are orthopedic plots of brothers and sisters in so many two-dimensional works, because it is common for adopted sons of samurai families to marry their sisters and sisters.

So the essence of the problem is that many grass-roots people are born in aristocratic families, but they have no inheritance rights, so they can only take risks. They must overcome their superiors, otherwise they will become ordinary people.

"You are right. If you want to stop the grass-roots people, either increase taxes or release the inheritance rights." Akainu said.

"But no matter which method you use, you have to take action against the nobles." Wang Luffy said: "The navy can't do it at all, which is the fundamental reason for the continuous decline of the navy. So the navy has no future."

Akainu thought that it was not that there was no future, because there were other ways out: reducing the population, or finding a technology that would open up a new era, and it could still be maintained.

Reducing the population, Thanos praised. As for finding new technologies and developing more land, it is not impossible. After all, the seabed and the universe are both good directions for development, and there is even a hard bone like the red soil continent.

Without changing taxes and inheritance laws, Akainu thought of two solutions. Of course, if he had to choose between taxes and inheritance laws, he would choose to increase taxes and would never change inheritance laws.

Because changing inheritance laws would shake the foundation.

The eldest son inherited instead of the brother-to-brother system, which was a direct change of dynasty. The recommendation system and the Enfeoffment Order replaced the eldest son system, which was also a change of dynasty. The imperial examination system replaced the recommendation system and the Enfeoffment Order, and the same was true...

Supporters and opponents fought and finally came up with a compromise plan, and then the two sides continued to play the game, and finally the efficient party won.

If there was no fighting, how could the eldest son who had an advantage in inheritance rights let go? His own resources were won by his ancestors, so why should he give them up? He inherited resources by himself, which was reasonable and legal, and his foundation was unbreakable.

If he wanted to change the inheritance law, he had to see if the sword in the hands of the grass was sharp. The poor really dared to kill people, because they had nothing, and they were not afraid of those with shoes.

The result of the final fight is that the poor family gets the opportunity to take the imperial examination, and the eldest son inheritance system can continue to be used. However, if the eldest son does not have a good reputation, he will decline like the Jia family in "Dream of Red Mansions". Therefore, the eldest son must also invest in education to cultivate his own talents for the imperial examination. In the end, the two sides played games under the imperial examination system, gradually forming a scholar-official class, and scrambled for the inheritance of resources.

There is no imperial examination in the sea, only the big clan and the small clan, the rich and the poor, and the two sides can only fight.

The eldest son of the nobles can legally inherit a lot of resources, and the inheritance law will not give the grass-roots a chance, so the world is in chaos. Akainu has very few options, either to change the inheritance law, or to increase taxes, or to reduce the population, or to find a new direction for expansion.