Da Ming Tai Shi

Chapter 312 The Real Guangdong

When Chen Yunfu gave the order to express the sentence, Lao Hu immediately picked up the first knife, and when he was about to greet the prisoner whose eyes were full of fright, Chen Xi opened his mouth.

"Wait a minute!"

After chanting to stop, Chen Xi immediately looked at Chen Yunfu, cupped his hands and said, "Da Ming Law, Ling Chi must not be used if it is not for rebellion. If Master does this, will it harm the peace of heaven?"

"They wreak havoc on the place, create banditry everywhere, and force good people to take the blame. What's the difference from plotting rebellion? I have the full power of the imperial order, so why not order him to be late."

Chen Xi gritted his teeth: "The young master is right, but the old man and others are old and don't want to see such blood, so please ask the young master Gao En to raise his hand."

This Chen Yunfu is not a good person, how could anyone invite others to watch Ling Chi's torture, you might as well just say it, just to scare us.

Today is the punishment, tomorrow may be your personal punishment!

Ling Chi's punishment was an unbearable pain in life. Didn't you see that Lin Wenhan, who was jumping and shouting yesterday, almost peed his pants at this moment?

Even though Lao Hu hadn't done anything yet, he turned his face pale and trembled like chaff from fright just by relying on his imagination.

Chen Yunfu looked at Chen Xi with a smile, and asked, "How does Mr. Chen want Benfu to raise his hand?"

"If the young master thinks highly of it, the old man and the others are willing to do their bit for the imperial court to suppress the banditry."

"it is good!"

Chen Yunfu applauded the festival, got up immediately and said: "With Chen Gong's words, Benfu feels more at ease, what about the opinions of the other three clan elders?"

Where did the other three have anything to say at the moment, looking at the cold blade reflected in Lao Hu's hand, they couldn't help swallowing a mouthful of saliva, and then forced a smile at Chen Yunfu.

"As long as the young master thinks highly of it, I'm willing to do my best."

"The assistant is really grateful to the four clan elders for their deep understanding of righteousness." Chen Yunfu laughed, strode out of the cell, stopped when he reached the door, and left a sentence: "Pull out all the real behind-the-scenes instigators." Show it to the public, and declare the canonical punishment!"

Chen Xi and the others immediately felt relieved.

This Chen Yunfu is really easy to speak and very sincere.

Once these dozen scapegoats died, it showed that this matter was on Chen Yunfu's side, so it was exposed and never mentioned again.

The four of them hurriedly followed out of the cell, and surrounded Chen Yunfu, talking with them cautiously and even submissively.

"Based on the abilities of the four clan elders' respective clans, Benfu thinks that there will be no more bandits outside the city of Guangzhou within three days, so it shouldn't be a difficult task."

Three days was the ultimatum given by Chen Yunfu. Within three days, Chen Yunfu would see all the Ding and Tian censuses of the four families.

The combination of two volumes is undeniable!
Chen Xi responded immediately: "Young master, please rest assured, the old man and others will do their best to not let the young master and the court down."

"That's the best." Chen Yunfu half turned around, and patted Chen Xi's shoulder: "As the saying goes, you can't write two Chen characters in one stroke. Benfu and Mr. Chen may still be the same family 500 years ago. I hope Mr. Chen can Help Benfu a lot, let's be loyal to the imperial court together."

Chen Xi nodded again and again, and his attitude became much more humble: "Yes, yes, this old man must always remember the teachings of the young master."

Chen Yunfu laughed, walked out of the prison gate, stepped on the carriage, took one last look at the four of them, smiled satisfied, and got into the carriage shortly.

Wei San flicked his whip to urge the two horses, and the chariot quickly disappeared from the four people's eyes.

The wind blew past, and the four of them shuddered in unison.

"This Chen Yunfu is cruel and merciless."

Chen Xi looked up to the sky and sighed, and walked towards his carriage with some disinterest: "Don't take chances, you three, within three days, send the two volumes from each family to the yamen as soon as possible. If Chen Yunfu can't see it this time, I'm afraid, I'm really going to kill someone."

All of them nodded, but they had no choice but to board the car and go home.

This time, it is really impossible not to bow your head.

In fact, after learning last night that Guangzhou Wei was taken over by Xu Jining, the four masters who lost their final hole card already knew that the possibility of them wanting to fight against Chen Yunfu this time is not very high, but their arrogance for many years made them unwilling. Willing to be submissive on the face so quickly.

I was thinking of bargaining, but I didn't expect Chen Yunfu to directly move out of Lingchi punishment.

Obey, and when the imperial court reopens the Guangzhou Shipping Department in the future, the families of several people can enjoy wealth forever.

Holding the cake in one hand and the butcher's knife in the other, Chen Yunfu made it clear what two poles are.

The Four Great Masters bowed their heads and confessed, in exchange for a rapid increase in efficiency. The officials of Guangzhou Hucao directly stationed in the Four Great Masters' on-site office work, and soon re-surveyed the entire Guangzhou Yellow Book and Fish Scale Book and gave it to Chen Yun. Just one moving data.

The 30 hidden households in Guangdong counted by the imperial court last year turned out to be just the tip of the iceberg in Guangdong.

There are 45 hidden households in just one Guangzhou prefecture, connecting the counties and townships, inside and outside the city!
These hidden households are all the tenants or tenants of the Four Great Families and some other small clans, and they rely on these big clans to live all year round.

There are also servants and servants raised in the families of several major clans.

The number was so large that Chen Yunfu called it lawless.

While annoyed at the lawlessness of these clans, Chen Yunfu also became extremely dissatisfied with the chief envoy of Guangdong in his heart.

Totally sucks!

No wonder there were millions of Dingkou in Guangdong more than 700 years ago, and it is still the same after more than 700 years.

It turns out that the local government didn't make any statistics at all.

Even the yellow book and the fish scale book are in charge of the four in turn.

How to write, how much to write, the government is not qualified to intervene!

This is simply a desecration of the state's public assets, and the public power that should have been held by the imperial court has been reduced to the private power of several major clans for personal gain!

With such actions, it is no wonder that as time goes by, the four big masters become more and more entangled.

But it's better now, after the merger of the two volumes, all the hermits were released, and the four major clans no longer confronted Chen Yunfu head-on, and started to divide the family and property at home.

This is a huge project.

Chen Yunfu stayed in Guangzhou for a full month and a half. It wasn't until the end of March that this large-scale separation project was gradually completed.

And with the leading role of the four great masters, the local clans in various prefectures and counties in Guangdong Province also began to cooperate with the imperial court to carry out the task of recombining the two volumes.

Finally, a more accurate data is compiled.

The actual cultivated land is 790 million mu, and the actual population is 4107 million.

This is a more detailed and more accurate figure.

"In the future, Guangdong's land tax and ding corvee will be recalculated according to this actual data."

Chen Yunfu could finally have a good night's sleep, no matter how tired he was after knowing this data, it was all gone.

Nothing could compare to it, and he was more excited to see a thriving country.

(End of this chapter)