Mencius said: "Benevolent government must start from the economic realm." ("Mencius Teng Wengong I") To implement benevolent government, we must start from reforming the well fields. "Your Majesty will have fifty acres of Gui Tian, ??and my remaining husband will have twenty-five acres. No dead disciple will leave the country. There will be a well in the square, and the well will be nine hundred acres, of which it will be public land. Each of the eight families will have one hundred acres of private land, and they will raise it together." public land; after the public affairs are completed, they dare to deal with private affairs." ("Mencius Teng Wen Gong") Mencius divided land into public land and private land in order to protect the interests of farmers and prevent tyrants and corrupt officials from annexing land. Mencius proposed that farmers should "die without leaving their hometowns" and stipulated that land They are not allowed to buy and sell freely, and private land is regarded as the "permanent property" of farmers. Mencius's reform, providing land to the tillers, is the key to solving people's livelihood problems and implementing benevolent government, and is the most fundamental economic measure. The ultimate goal of land reform is to allow farmers to have land to cultivate and ensure they have the most basic material conditions, so as to achieve the development of productivity and the improvement of people's living standards. In order to protect the people's livelihood, Mencius proposed vigorously developing agriculture: "If the farming season is not followed, the grain will not be enough to eat; if a few grains of grain are not put into the pond, the fish and turtles will not be enough to eat; if the ax and catty are brought into the mountains and forests in time, the timber will not be enough to be used; A five-acre house with mulberry trees can be used to clothe chickens, dolphins, dogs and pigs in their time, and meat can be eaten by those who are seventy-year-old. The people will not be hungry or cold. However, there is no such thing as a king." ("Mencius: King Hui of Liang") Mencius believed that the people should be recruited in a timely and reasonable manner so that the people can do specific things in specific seasons and have plans. Engaging in labor production regularly can provide a basic guarantee for people's living conditions. He believed that if production could be developed in accordance with such requirements, the people would be able to "have the elderly clothed and fed, and the people neither hungry nor cold."

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