Qiming 1158

Chapter 830 Problems left over from history
Some people slaughtered, and some people resisted.

For example, the Zhou family, the landowner of Pingyin County, Dongping Prefecture.

Because he is a good friend of the local magistrate, he participated in Chen Luo's corruption case along with the magistrate, and provided great help for Chen Luo to transfer stolen money and stolen goods, and was listed on the list impressively.

His family has vast fields, considerable financial and military power, and was originally a well-known local tyrant.

When the people of the Jin Dynasty were still there, the Zhou family pulled up a private armed force to protect themselves amid the changing circumstances.

In the course of Daming's war to destroy Jin, because they noticed that many remnants of the Jin Kingdom were defeated and fled without a place to return, the Zhou family, who saw them as young and strong, took the initiative to throw an olive branch, so some wars were scattered. The remnants of the Jin Kingdom turned to him in order to survive and became his lackeys.

As a result, his power not only did not weaken, but it was stronger than before the war, and his status was improved in the distribution of interests after the war. From small and medium landlords to big landlords, he had a good relationship with the new local county magistrate. further increase.

As a result, the team led by the judicial officers who went to sentence him was met with great resistance from him.

He mobilized all the private armed forces, used his own good defense facilities to fight to the death, resolutely refused to ambush, and desperately tried to survive.

He knew that he could not survive in Shandong, so he tried to escape to the south with his family, to the Southern Song Dynasty, maybe he could survive.

There were 100 people in the team that went to arrest him, all of them were elite soldiers. The soldiers would never let him go, so they formed an army formation and attacked him with the army, defeating all the more than 400 people in his private armed force. , Killed many stubborn Zhou family members.

In the end, the big landowner did not surrender. After the complete failure of the resistance, he chose to hang himself. When the soldiers rushed into the inner hall, he was already dead.

Before his death, he also killed his main relatives such as his wife and son, perhaps not wanting them to accept the cruel fate of surviving.

I have to say, he died too happily.

Therefore, the surviving family members of his family must doubly take responsibility for them.

There is also the Liu family, a large landowner in Dong'e County. When the arresting officers arrived, the family owner happened to be visiting the Wang family's house of in-laws. The house was raided, and some family members went to the Wang family to report.

Before the arresters arrived, the Wang family knew that they could not escape, so they decided to escape with the Liu family, trying to escape to the Southern Song Dynasty to seek their lives.

However, the arresting team quickly caught up with them and had a fierce battle with them.

They have more than 300 armed private units in their hands. Because they took a lot of money from them, they fought desperately and caused a lot of trouble for the pursuing troops.

But in the end, they were not the opponents of the regular army, and they were completely wiped out under the attack of the regular army.

The Liu family and Wang family were still stubbornly resisting and resolutely refused to surrender, so the pursuit troops regarded them as rebels who betrayed Ming and killed them all.

Coincidentally, there were also several large landlords in Jinan who chose to resist because they had a certain amount of private armed forces in their hands, and two or three landlords heard the wind and decided to unite and pull up a team of thousands of people to try to resist, but there was a certain amount of power. .

However, the purpose of their resistance was basically to escape, because they themselves did not believe that they could defeat the illustrious Ming army, and they did not dare to resist Su Yonglin upright and open.

The direction of escape is quite the same, and they all choose to run to the Southern Song Dynasty.

Compared with the landlords, the business travelers ran faster because of their sharper sense of smell. Basically, they fled south with money, or absconded in makeup, trying to cross the border blockade of the Ming army and enter the Southern Song Dynasty. Leap by fish.

However, because Su Yonglin sent orders to many frontier prefectures in advance, the frontier prefectures were prepared in advance, not only blocking the main road, but also blocking many mountain roads, small roads, and waterways.

So these bastards who tried to abscond did not escape the blockade of the Ming army after all, and they were arrested one after another and became prisoners.

By the beginning of May, Dongping House, Jinan House, Dizhou, Zizhou, Yidu House, and Binzhou were fully bloomed by Su Yonglin, and the key blasting was done.

Hundreds of landlords, government officials, and hundreds of officials were dealt with, and corruption cases broke out throughout the Yellow River Project in Shandong.

At this point, people finally know that Su Yonglin, the emperor, has moved from Kaifeng to Shandong in an instant, as if changing his body, where he is in charge of punishing corrupt officials.

Those corrupt officials who had colluded to advance and retreat together did not even react, and were instantly captured by the emperor.

The emperor made the first move, caught everyone by surprise, and completely seized the initiative.

This anti-corruption campaign by the emperor in person shocked the entire Shandong officialdom and upper class society. For a time, the Shandong region was in a state of turmoil, and everyone was in danger. Many people tried to know whether the anti-corruption storm had anything to do with them.

They even sent people to send letters to Zhongdu, trying to contact relatives and friends who were officials in Zhongdu to inquire about the news, or thinking that if something happened to them, there were still people who could run for them in Zhongdu.

However, Su Yonglin never spared any of the criminals.

And through the disposal and cleaning of these states, Su Yonglin also initially felt how much power these old-fashioned local families that have continued from the end of the Northern Song Dynasty to the present have accumulated in the changing situation.

Although he started the rebellion with such a group of people at the beginning, he also knew how rich the Shandong tyrants represented by Zhao Kaishan were, but when these things were really counted and placed in front of him, he Still can't help but be surprised.

For example, the Xu family, the landlord of Dizhou, owns [-] mu of land, has nearly [-] tenants, and has a population of more than [-]. The family strength is extremely large.

In the imperial accounts, the Xu family was just a small tyrant with one thousand mu of land and one hundred tenant households.

For example, the Tian family, the landlord of Binzhou, owns [-] mu of land, [-] tenants and a population of nearly [-].

But in the imperial accounts, they only had [-] acres of land and [-] tenants.

For example, the Qian family, the big landlord in Yidu Prefecture, owns 3 mu of land, has [-] tenants, and has a population of nearly [-].

In the accounts of the imperial court, they only have 270 acres of land and [-] tenants.

These three families alone accounted for nearly 3 people, and further devoured more than 3% of the 90.00 people on the imperial court's demographic chart.

And the local government is also embarrassed by them, deceiving the upper and lower, and concealing the real situation of the local landlords from the imperial court.

This is actually a legacy of history.

These Shandong tyrants annexed a large amount of land and scattered Song soldiers at the turn of the Jin and Song Dynasties, and then gathered a large number of people, established a huge private power, and sat on a lot of wealth.

Its power is so huge that the local officials in the Jin Kingdom feel that it is very difficult and do not dare to act rashly.

The Jin Kingdom's rule in Shandong only lasted for a short period of more than [-] years, and the actual governance of Shandong was only about [-] years. It was impossible to effectively manage Shandong and establish an effective household registration system.

Therefore, in the past 30 to [-] years, it was an era in which the powerful landlords in Shandong quickly accumulated wealth and strengthened their strength.

So much so that when Su Yonglin revolted, because of the growing conflict between Jurchen and Han landlords, Shandong landlords rebelled against Jinbing.

The Shandong landlords headed by Zhao Kaishan pulled up a team of more than 30 people to fight against the Kingdom of Jin, which is a manifestation of the powerful power of the local landlords in Shandong.

Su Yonglin also had a preliminary understanding of this when he asked Su Yin to collect social information in Shandong and Hebei before going north. However, it takes more time to fully understand this kind of thing, and Su Yonglin did not have this demand at that time.

Now that there is a demand, there is no need to send someone to make an unannounced visit, completely destroy their family, and just go in and count.

With this statistic, the astronomical wealth of the family has been calculated.

Most of the wealth generated in Shandong during the 30 years with almost no government intervention has been collected by these powerful landlords.

Even their families have a large number of weapons, and some large landlords have found armor and crossbows in the manor, and even saw the god arm bow.

There is no doubt that these are the products of the war era. They did not subjectively use these weapons to challenge the Ming regime, but in fact, they mastered these weapons and armors and possessed a certain amount of force.

This is something that is strictly prohibited by the law.

Therefore, Su Yonglin further confirmed the corruption cases of these tyrannical landlords, and added the charge of conspiracy to rebel, making it very justifiable for the court to purge them and not questionable.

After the purge, the huge financial reserves, food reserves, population reserves and ordnance reserves of these landlords and tycoons became Su Yonglin's trophies. Su Yonglin felt as if he had defeated a golden army in the war years and obtained a large number of seizures. .

Preliminary estimates, including cash, real estate, luxury goods such as gold, silver, pearls and jade, as well as seizures of livestock and armaments, the proceeds from house raids in Dongping Mansion alone have an estimated value of nearly 20 billion yuan.

There are more in Jinan Prefecture, about 23 billion yuan.

Some officials and wealthy gentry of the two prefectures have a property valuation of more than 40 billion yuan due to the proceeds of criminal house raids. Su Yonglin is quite surprised by the wealth of these people's families.

You know, the total investment of Su Yonglin's Yellow River Century Project is only 300 billion yuan, and there is an additional investment of 50 billion yuan.

And it is very important that if the 50 billion is not used at that time, it will be returned to the Ministry of Finance. It is not entirely the financial input of the Yellow River Project. Lin Jingchun has been staring at the Yellow River Project, hoping to use the 50 billion Bring it back.

Good guy, it's easy to make money.

(End of this chapter)