Qiming 1158

Chapter 639 What are you drawing?

The landlord class is short-sighted and compromising. They yearn for Su Yonglin's compromise, but they may not be able to compromise themselves.

The brutality and greed of the landlord class are very obvious, but the more brutal and greedy they are, the more obvious their own weaknesses and limitations will be. When they encounter a power that cannot resist successfully, their moral bottom line is the same as that of the Confucian family. Flexible and very soft.

In the end, if someone resisted, then Su Yonglin moved his fingers, and when the song rang and the cloth covered, the whole village waited for the food to be served. After eating the food, everything was solved.

Moreover, it’s [-]%, it’s not too difficult for them, it’s just that they ate more in the past, but now they eat less, they can still exploit the labor income of the tenants, and they can still enjoy the benefits.

It's just that the income is less than before, and it must be carried out under official supervision.

Perhaps for them, the addition of an official review of grain production will make them feel uneasy, they will feel disgusted, and feel that their rights have been violated.

So they will protest, they will oppose, and they will fight further.

However, Su Yonglin was sure that after the initial failure of resistance, these short-sighted and easy-to-compromise people realized that they would compromise, and would not cause a large-scale wave of resistance beyond Su Yonglin's coping limit.

Just like how Shandong officials reacted to the reform of the imperial examinations.

After Su Yonglin's explanation, the Fuxing members understood what Su Yonglin was thinking, and felt that this was indeed a strategy that would not violate the rules of the game, would not cause nationwide rebellion, and could also have an important effect.

The most worrying thing about the Renaissance Society is that it can't find a legitimate excuse to expand its power, but Su Yonglin is not worried.

When a country is willing to be the master of the country for the people at the bottom, there will always be those with vested interests who will jump out and provide the country with countless excuses to trouble them.

One is the law, the other is determination, the third is mobilization, and the three are ready to change the situation.

Su Yonglin holds power and orthodoxy in his hands. Through laws, he creates a righteous name that no one can resist. It is a natural disadvantage to cause trouble for Su Yonglin.

Once the two sides begin to compete, the Renaissance will naturally have a moral and legal advantage.

Isn't it beautiful?

The Central Committee of the Revival Society quickly approved Su Yonglin's proposal, and was going to add such a legal clause to the "Ming Law" that was being revised.

No matter when, where, or under any circumstances, the owner of the land title cannot expropriate more than [-]% of the food obtained from the land from the tenants, the highest is [-]%, and the lowest is arbitrary.

The total amount of grain and the tenancy available to the landowner will be determined by the official tax collector.

To draw a red line in the name of national law, we must not allow any situation beyond it to happen, and provide the most basic life-and-death line for the poor peasants at the bottom.

As the official legal provisions of the Ming Empire, the "Law of Ming Dynasty" has been compiled since before the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, and it has been compiled for more than three months.

However, the news of the completion of this legal provision soon spread among the yamen of the three judicial divisions, spread to the entire court, and soon caused a lot of heated discussions.

It is absolutely not a trivial matter that concerns everyone's interests. Even if an administrative official cannot interfere in this matter, as a citizen of the Ming Empire, they have no choice but to ignore the provisions and implementation of this law.

Needless to say, this time, the formulation of this law really touched the sensitive nerves of many people.

A large number of officials were involved in the Yanyun Department, the Foreign Nationality Department and the Shandong Department.

To say that whoever is an official these days does not have hundreds or thousands of acres of land is really laughable, unless it is a downright offbeat officialdom, but even if it is an offbeat officialdom, his own small family has no land, so don't all the clans have no land ?

The so-called corrupt official means that he himself ends up being greedy, and the pattern is relatively low.

As for the so-called honest officials, they are poor, and their family has no money, but their clansmen, relatives and friends are always rich.

Among the officials of the feudal dynasty, they, their family members and clansmen were all poor. They were mentally ill. Everyone was amazed, everyone laughed at them, and everyone suspected that he was sick.

This is also in China, the old beauty, this is to be dragged to a mental hospital for slicing.

So if you put this rule to the top, you can see the true flavor of many things.

So at this moment, most of the officials were a little flustered, except for the land and property of the Yuan Cong Department, which only took salary and really had no regulations.

The more land, the more tenants, and the more panicked.

Once this law is determined, it is not a matter of ten thousand or twenty thousand dollars for them. They really have to do it according to this rule, not to mention that the imperial court will send tax officials to intervene in their production activities, and once they lose the freedom to adjust their tenancy rents. The more land, the more tenants, the greater the loss, and the loss is almost permanent.

Who gave the emperor the idea?
Or was it the emperor's own idea?

Almost everyone feels that this is not easy.

But thinking of the emperor's actions on the imperial examination and education system before, they didn't dare to really discuss this issue with the emperor.

Because they also know that once the emperor they serve has determined this law, no one can stop him.

Unless someone can defeat the 40 elite Ming army.

Man, yet another expected failure of yes.

But they also know that things are not that simple.

Once a law is determined, even if there is no one in the central government to block it and make it a real written law, someone must implement it, and someone must actually act in accordance with this law.

Who will do it?

The local officials?

Please, the relationship between the local officials and the landlords and squires is not complicity, at least it can be regarded as a complicity, not to mention wearing the same pants, at least sleeping on the same quilt.

Will they take this law seriously?
Well, even if all of them were brainwashed, and suddenly all of them were honest and respectful of the six relatives and did not recognize Hai Rui, they all had to carry out the emperor's will to the end - are the landowners and squires in that place a good match?

Obviously not.

This kind of law that obviously harms their interests, they will definitely not sit still, and they will definitely carry out the traditional [policy and countermeasures] actions.

Anyway, I planted the tree, planted the tree, and owned the land. If you want to step on me, you must step on me first.

Either verbal protests, hands-on protests, or non-violent non-cooperation movements must be done to the best of their ability to evade obstructions to those sent by the government.

Once there is trouble in the place, the court will really never have peace.

In the final analysis, this kind of law, which is obviously intended to maintain the bottom-level muddy legs, can really only be enacted by an emperor like Su Yonglin who started from the bottom-level.

Although understandable, many court officials were not happy.

You've already become an emperor, so do you still need to recite that?

You are the biggest emperor in the world, why do you still want to be the master of that group of lowly mud-legged people?
What are you drawing?

Can't you just be your holy son of heaven, govern under the bow, and leave everything to us?
Although we will ask you to ask for [-] million points of benefits, it will not be enough to evacuate your home, right?
Although we will do [-] million illegal and chaotic things, but the inheritance of your family's throne is still very appropriate, isn't it?
The dynasty is still the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor is still your Su family. You honestly follow the sage’s words to establish your country and call yourself an emperor. There are no benefits without you. Why should you be the master of this group of mud legs?

Will they make your throne stronger or something?
With uneasy and incomprehensible hearts, the officials waited for the official revision of the "Ming Law" to be completed and promulgated to the world.

They are very concerned about this matter, and they want to know what special thoughts and special practices the local landlords and squires will have after the news spreads.

At the same time, on the third day of the first month of December in Hongwu's first year, Xin Qiji arrived in Haizhou and met Zheng Chenghong, the governor of Haizhou and a member of the Renaissance Society, who was in charge of welcoming and entertaining him.

(End of this chapter)