I am the king of the dead

Chapter 192 I allow them to rebel, but they must pay taxes! (Thank you Song Jialang for the cold face and cold heart!)

Xing'an was called out by the eunuchs of the Compassionate Ning Palace, and Empress Dowager Sun sent someone to deliver a box with a seal inside.

Xing'an had never seen this golden seal before.

Zhu Qiyu picked up the gold seal, turned it over, and looked at the sun.

Many courtiers are baffled, why is His Majesty suddenly holding a golden seal?
Although it was engraved in the dark, Zhu Qiyu still recognized the words on it, the treasure of King Xiang, the entire gold seal, the tortoise button, is five inches and two inches square and one inch and a half inches thick, which is not very big.

Zhu Qiyu remembered that before she ascended the throne, Empress Dowager Sun had invited King Xiang Jinyin into the palace, but in the end she decided on the basic style of Prince Zhu Jianshen and Elder Lord Zhu Qiyu.

This seal was probably the trump card in the hands of the Empress Dowager Sun, who finally went crazy with the emperor, but at this time, she took it out.

It became a card in the emperor's hand.

Although the courtiers couldn't see what was on the seal, they understood the etiquette system, and only princes could use the gold seal.

Zhu Qiyu somewhat understood what Empress Dowager Sun meant, that is, the group of children in Prince Ji's Mansion, everyone should stay still and grow up well.

She will not offend the emperor, and she also asks the emperor not to kill chickens and monkeys, but to kill them all.

"Am I such a stingy person?" Zhu Qiyu put the golden seal back into the sandalwood box, handed it to Xing'an and said, "Put it back to Tai'an Palace later."

"Your Majesty." Yu Qian asked on behalf of the courtiers. This is not the emperor's private matter, and the emperor is selfless.

During the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, passed away, and Empress Lu came to the court to proclaim the rule.

Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty Liu Heng went to Weiqiao, Taiwei Zhou Bo asked Liu Hengping to retreat to the left and right, and Lieutenant Song Chang said loudly: "If you have something to do, you can report it to the Taiwei."If what you say is public, what you say is public, if what you say is private, the king is selfless!
Since then, the emperors of all dynasties have no private affairs, which means that the king is selfless.

Yu Qian obviously noticed that this golden seal of unknown origin appeared in this Wenhua Palace at this time, it was absolutely not by accident.

"The treasure of King Xiang." Zhu Qiyu explained, the golden seal of King Xiang can't fish, let alone make nests, so it doesn't matter if you say it.

Many courtiers, you look at me, I look at you, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

A few days ago, His Majesty asked Xing'an to visit Prince Ji's Mansion, after which Zhu Jianshen was alive and kicking. Today, the Queen Mother brought out the King Xiang's golden seal that Her Majesty had invited before she supervised the country, which can be regarded as a settlement to some extent.

In fact, since the death of King Jili, all the courtiers have a stone in their hearts. If the Queen Mother makes a scene, His Majesty gets angry, and His Majesty wins, then the wisdom will be lost, Your Majesty will be defeated, and the world will wither.

Fortunately, this scene did not happen.

The Emperor of Ming Dynasty and the Empress Dowager of Ming Dynasty reached a certain level of reconciliation because of the group of children in Prince Ji's Mansion.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Everyone, let's continue the court discussion. Yesterday, Yu Shaobao submitted a memorial. I drew a picture overnight. The painting is not strong enough, which made everyone laugh."

"Xing'an, show everyone."

Although the original King Yi was not good at painting, he still knew a little bit. After all, Zhu Zhanji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty, was good at fine brushwork and Danqing, and his famous works were passed down to later generations.

Zhu Qiyu sketched a few random strokes, whether it is not good-looking or good-looking, it does not affect the court discussion.

Song Huizong was very good at painting, but he was a big fool.

After Xing'an hung up His Majesty's painting, it slowly unfolded, and a pastoral painting appeared in front of everyone.

It is a picture of harvesting wheat in full swing. There are so many characters in it that it is difficult to distinguish them for a while.The courtiers talked a lot.

Zhu Qiyu stood up, came to the front of the painting, took a deep breath and said: "In the 30th year of Hongwu, on the day of Guisi in the fourth month of summer, Yu Xin, the Minister of the Household Department, registered for the rich household registration, Yingtian Prefecture, Gyeonggi, thirteen provinces, a total of 340 Rich household, field eight hectares."

Zhu Qiyu said very flatly: "It's the servant holding the umbrella, sitting drinking tea, and taking the concubine to beat his legs, so moist."

"Masters of the Ming Dynasty, do you know how many wealthy households are there?" Zhu Qiyu made a fool of himself.

Wang Wen was stunned for a long time and said: "I'm afraid there are 14, even if there are no, there are [-]!"

Wang Wen, like Yu Qian, has been inspecting places for many years. Of course, he knows how serious land annexation is on the ground. In this short period of 50 years, land annexation in the Ming Dynasty has grown wantonly like weeds in a wheat field.

Yu Qian didn't speak, but was a little disappointed, Hu Wei and Wang Zhi pretended to be confused and continued to pretend to be asleep, while Yu Shiyue had nothing to do with him, with a face of bewilderment.

After all, Jin Lian, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, sighed and said: "Your Majesty, 50 years have passed, and there are still [-] wealthy households in the world, each with eight hectares of land."

As soon as this remark came out, there was an uproar in the Wenhua Palace!
50 years have passed, what does the world look like!Everyone knew something, even Li Binyan, who reacted the slowest, was terrified!
But the figures of the imperial court have not changed for 50 years.

Jin Lian sighed again and said: "Historically, there have been more than [-] households who have set yellow books and fish scale books in various places."

Zhu Qiyu clapped his hands to signal the officials to be quiet, and said with a smile: "Back then, in Beizhili, there were 340 rich households. Yu Shaobao and Jin Shangshu implemented the farm law. , there are more than [-] households that can be counted as wealthy households.”

"Gyeonggi is considered normal, but in the 30 years of Hongwu, there were 130 wealthy households in Daming Prefecture, and now there are more than a thousand households."

"My lords of the Ming Dynasty, the population of our Ming Dynasty has increased from more than 30 million people at the beginning to tens of millions. The population has increased, but the number of wealthy households in the world has not increased, and taxes have not increased. It has always been 400 million hectares."

"The tax was even reduced by about 120 million shi."

"is it possible?"

Zhu Qiyu paused for a moment, then continued: "Only in Beizhili, Qingtian cleared [-] hectares of land!"

"According to the eight hectares of rich households, the extra six thousand households are exactly the fifty thousand hectares of land."

Zhu Qiyu pointed to the picture scroll in his hand and said sharply: "The upper peasants and middle peasants are busy working in their own fields over there. They have their own fields and cultivate in their own fields. They can support their own family without the help of others, so they He is plowing the land."

"But there are very few such self-cultivating farmers. There are less than [-] households of upper and middle farmers in the Gyeonggi area!"

"The peasants are the most. They have fields in their hands, but very few, less than ten acres. They need to go to the peasants, wealthy households, gentry, powerful, rich merchants, princes, and royal palaces as servants and domestic servants. , There are about one million households of such people.”

Daming's ten mu of land cannot support a family.

After Zhu Qiyu finished speaking, he quietly waited for the courtiers to discuss in a low voice. Before the figures came out, they had no idea that the wealthy households in Ming Dynasty had not changed, that there were so few self-cultivating farmers in Ming Dynasty, and that land annexation in Ming Dynasty had reached such an extent. .

"There are tens of millions of people in Gyeonggi! Wealthy households, upper peasants, middle peasants, and lower peasants, there are more than one million households in total! There are less than 500 million people! Gentlemen, do you know where the remaining 500 million people have gone? ?”

Zhu Qiyu pointed to the servants in the painting who worked for rich families and farmers, and continued: "They are all here, and they are the largest group of people. I understand how much commission I should get."

"Being a slave, a servant, and a bandit when you are free, and busy when you are busy, but you are just busy, but you can't even get the rations you need to live. This is for the idle people, the unemployed people!"

"There are five million such people."

"Da Ming, the scars are everywhere!"

"Is this the Great Ming Dynasty that our ancestors of the Ming Dynasty, with shabby roads, sleeping mats and pillows, and stepping on mountains of corpses and seas of blood, surveyed and surveyed from all directions, brought down the Great Ming Dynasty!"

"Does it deserve to be called Daming?"

Zhu Qiyu spoke so forcefully that the wooden pole in his hand was pierced to the ground by him. After he finished speaking, he sat down and said nothing more.

Inside the Wenhua Palace, everything was quiet.

Can Yu Qian not know how much anger this memorial he submitted will arouse His Majesty's anger?
But I know it will incur the wrath of the sky, but this memorial, will it not be published?
Yu Qian had no choice but to go. He and Jin Lian were responsible for the implementation of the Farm Law, and their responsibilities were unshirkable.

How furious His Majesty is, this memorial will also be published.

How long did Yu Qian and Chen Xun advise His Majesty on the way of benevolence and forgiveness?This memorandum turned all Quan Renshu's previous words into nonsense!
This is the bloody reality of the Ming Dynasty. From the perspective of Yu Qian and others, as soon as the investigation report is released, the Ming Dynasty will be released tomorrow, and it will almost die tomorrow.

Jin Lian took a deep breath, leaned forward, with a hesitant expression on his face, and then said, "Of the people in the countryside, only one-tenth of them own land, while nine-tenths of them are tenants."

"The harvest is only once the autumn harvest is ripe, and the most are less than three stones. The three stones are still calculated according to the official dendrobium, and they are converted into private dendrobium. In fact, the few are more than one stone."

"But the private rent is very heavy, some are as high as one stone, two or three dou, and some are as little as eight or nine. , the road falls in the wild, and it is not uncommon to see that the road is full of corpses."

"There is a folk song that says: Carrying hoe and plowing plants invades the morning, and the Longtian is full of joy. At the end of the day, the millet belongs to others, and I don't know where to throw my wife."

After Jin Lian finished speaking, he fell silent again. This is the current situation in Daming. The rich eat their mouths full of fat, and the servants died on the side of the road without anyone asking.

This poem is "Father of the Farmer" by Zhang Bi, a poet in the late Tang Dynasty, but it was widely circulated among the countryside. It is a kind of big hoe.

Ren Yuanxiang from the household department took a deep breath and continued: "Because of the implementation of the farm law, many wealthy households have no servants to use, so they summoned their family members, entangled the township and the village, and the commanding officer and the volunteer team practiced to confront them. Run them away."

"There are two taxes in summer and autumn. Summer does not exceed August, and autumn does not exceed February of the next year. It is already July, and the prefectures in Gyeonggi have started to collect taxes again. The wealthy households, gentry, big merchants, and rich merchants in Gyeonggi have gone to the yamen to make noise. "

"There are no Kyushu and Fujian outside the mountains, because they have all run away because of military disasters."

"In some counties, the yamen had to ask the commander in charge and the volunteer team to practice before driving away the noisy rich households."

"This year, Kyushu, Gyeonggi, and Fujian will pay the second tax, but what about next year?"

"The wealthy households are still arguing. Are so many fields and so much land being taken away for no reason? They are not happy."

After Ren Yuanxiang finished speaking, he stopped talking. The implementation of the farm law finally came to the moment of real sword and gun. What should we do?
In fact, the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty were not optimistic about the farm law from the very beginning, and that was the reason.

Li, Lichang, Baojia, and Laoren have been established since the Hongwu period.

Later, even Zhu Yuanzhang had to watch the military and guard law become corrupted, but he was helpless.

There were major incidents in the court one after another, such as the case of Hu Weiyong, the death of the prince Zhu Biao, and the Lanyu case, which involved a lot of people. The old Zhu Yuanzhang no longer had the energy to do these things when he was young.

Hastily passed the throne to the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunqi, and Jing Nan was soon ushered in.

In fact, in the eyes of all the courtiers, the farm law is just another copy of the military and health law, and it will be defeated after all.

Chen Yi yelled wildly after drinking, saying that he would do it after the sun went down.

Isn't it just that Emperor Taizu Gao's military defense law, the imperial power went to the countryside, but half of it was done, and it couldn't be done?Why can't it go on?Because in the end, everyone will betray their relatives, in the end, they will be lonely, and in the end, it will be the crime of the world!
Finally the sun went down.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and scolded the cruelty of the Hongwu period, muddle along with muddleheaded muddle along, as for what is going on at the bottom of the folk, in fact, the Minggongs know it well, and they also know it more or less.

But I didn't expect it to be so bloody!

Zhu Qiyu sat up straight, and said confidently: "I allow them to rebel! But they have to pay taxes!"

"I allow them to rebel! But they cannot hide themselves!"

"I allow them to rebel! But they can't dig up Daming's roots and scold him!"

"From next year, in the Gyeonggi region, princes, relatives, wealthy merchants, wealthy businessmen, gentry, wealthy households, and upper farmers who have not joined the Farm Law will pay taxes according to the system!"

"In the two capitals of the Ming Dynasty and the thirteen provinces, all Huangzhuang, Wangtian, Xuntian, Jigentry, and Jushi's fields and acres must be taxed according to the system!"

"One grain of rice is missing, and I will go to their house to get it!"

Zhu Qiyu was not angry, he had been thinking for a long time, since Yu Qian wrote the letter, he began to think.

Living in the Ming Dynasty, either you rebelled and put your head on your belt, or you paid taxes!According to the system, there is as much land per mu as there should be.

There are two inescapable things in life, death and paying taxes.

There are still three things in the court discussion today, fairness, fairness, and fairness!
Jin Lian took a deep breath and asked tremblingly: "Your Majesty, do the prince, county king, honored ministers, and relatives also want to pay taxes?"

"Accept! Even Huangzhuang has to pay!" Zhu Qiyu nodded and said: "Even my Huangzhuang farmland has to pay, why don't they pay!"

"If you are more courageous, just rebel directly!"

"My lords, even if the trouble is a crime to the world, the tax will have to be collected, so let them go to the trouble, and I will calm down one by one, isn't it just plowing the world again?"

"Then just plow again!"

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