The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 245 Finally Someone Dare to Kill Officials
From winter to spring, Daming ushered in the fourth year of Shenwu. Although the world was settled last year and there was no war south of the Great Wall, the territory of Daming not only did not calm down, but ushered in unprecedented changes.

At the beginning of the year, the Southwest region began to carry out ground-breaking land reforms, which truly made it possible for everyone to have land, and for the first time guaranteed the interests of the vast number of low-level people.

According to the new land policy, all land in Ming Dynasty will be divided into official land and private land.

Each household can own a maximum of [-] mu of private land, which can be bought, sold, rented out, or even abandoned. Each mu is based on paddy and dry land, and there is no other tax and corvee except for a fixed annual land tax of one to two silver coins.

Official land is distributed on a per capita basis, and land ownership belongs to the imperial court, but the right to use it is clearly stipulated that it belongs to the assigned individual. Official land is prohibited from being bought, sold, leased, mortgaged, and abandoned for more than three years.

It can be said that it completely cut off all the loopholes of land annexation, that is to say, the people who will be allocated official land in the future will not be allowed to sell the land to the landlord, even mortgage or lease.

In addition to paying the same land tax for official land, each mu also needs to pay a land rent of one silver coin to the imperial court every year.

Even though the combined tax and rent of official land is higher than that of private land, it is undoubtedly a big difference compared to before to hand over [-] to [-]% of the annual harvest to the landlord. Therefore, after the new year, the entire Southwest The people were all in a carnival.

In turn, it also made the people in the south and the north become turbulent. It is typical to suffer from inequality without worrying about the few. This made the big landlords in the north and south feel tremendous pressure.

It also made Zhu Cihong sweat a lot, and had to lift the cover completely, saying that he would treat them equally, and that the new land policy would be followed up in three years at the latest in the north and five years in the south at the latest.

This temporarily suppressed the countless commotions of the people in the north and south.

And countless landlords and gentry are also trying to find a new way out, which has caused the price of land in various places to plummet all the way, and there are countless large families who have separated and set up households.

Although the Northwest region is also promoting the New Deal, the people in Guanzhong and Hanzhong regions are also cheering, but other regions are resisting the imperial court's policy of relocation, making the entire Northwest region unstable.

This made Li Banghua feel great pressure during the northwest tour. Fortunately, Wu Sangui's Fourth Army was in charge, so that no party dared to publicly boycott.

At the same time, the follow-up implementation of the New Deal in the seven southern provinces also encountered huge obstacles.

It is mainly in Fujian and Jiangxi, especially in Fujian where there are many mountains and tea hills everywhere. Everyone has no objection to tea hills being counted as orchards for tax collection, but for those civil servants who come to measure, they just glance at them and open their mouths. Reporting the number of acres is really intolerable.

In addition, some tea mountains are rich in famous tea and good tea, while some tea mountains are just ordinary tea, but they have to pay the same tax, which makes countless people feel unfair again.

In addition, in Fujian, both the Han people and the Hakka people have already formed a tradition of holding together for warmth, and private fighting has become commonplace, which has caused frequent conflicts between the local people and the civil officials who came to measure.

Fortunately, the power of the imperial court is terrifying, and there are garrison troops everywhere, so that the local people are very restrained. Otherwise, if the emperor of another dynasty is changed, this kind of action will probably arouse popular uprisings long ago.

As for the whole of Fujian, if you want to say which family is the most powerful, it is undoubtedly the Zheng family who was born as a pirate.

Over the years, the Zheng family has relied on the sky and the emperor's distance, and the chaos in the Central Plains. After being recruited, they relied on their strong strength to collect protection fees from merchant ships at sea, and at the same time ran rampant in various parts of Fujian.

The brothers of the Zheng family and a group of subordinates have used various means to rob a large number of mansions, fertile land, mines, and tea mountains over the years, and almost all of them have become millionaires.

During the period, under the oppression of the Zheng family, countless families were ruined and many people were killed. Not a few whole villages and entire villages were massacred. Regarding the brutality and arrogance of the Zheng family, officials from all over the country and the big family dared not speak out. The emperor of Fujian.

But in recent years, as the imperial court has achieved victory after victory, Hong Niangzi and Zhang Yan are sitting in Nanjing, and the Zheng family and their subordinates have also begun to restrain themselves and become low-key.

Last year, Zheng Zhilong didn't even dare to collect protection fees from merchant ships, and actively cooperated with the court's new policy.

Apparently, Zheng Zhilong also understood that the Zheng family was a bit of a big fan, especially Qian Yiqian, the backer of the Zheng family in the court, was a traitor, which made Zheng Zhilong very nervous for a while.

However, the strength of the Zheng family is already very large, so huge that it is difficult for Zheng Zhilong to restrain him.

At this moment, on a tea mountain in the north of Fuzhou City, a big man with five big and three rough, fierce face, full of alcohol, was twisting the neckline of a civil servant and yelling and cursing.

And all the officials and small officials behind the civil officials are also facing the enemy, timid and sweating.

Because they were surrounded by hundreds of domestic servants and guards with sharp knives, staring at each other and swearing at each other.

Facing such a situation, the civil official showed no fear on his face, instead he threatened righteously: "Zheng Zhihu, what do you want to do? Do you still want to kill officials and rebel?"

"Fuck, you're an ass official, don't put garlic in my mother's nose to pretend I'm here, I'm not scared, if you don't measure it again today, I will recognize you, the knife in my hand is not good Recognize."

The big man is Zheng Zhilong's second brother, Zheng Zhihu, and he still wears the official status of a guerrilla general. In the past, this kind of big-bodied civil servant would be a dog in front of him, killing him like an ant.

But now, this guy who didn't know where he was transferred, actually blackmailed him, and he didn't know how to live or die.

Facing Zheng Zhihu's cannibalism, the civil official said indifferently: "Whether I am an official or not is not up to you, but to the court. It is not up to you whether this tea mountain needs to be re-measured." The final decision, but this official has the final say, and this official believes that there is no need to re-measure."

"Fuck your mother, you grandson, your eyes have grown into your crotch, my tea mountain is so big, how can I get two thousand acres? You are a little sesame official, you want to be sincere with me Zheng Can't make it through the house?"

Zheng Zhihu was about to go mad with anger, and the veins on his forehead were bulging. His tea mountain could only support five hundred acres, but this guy just walked around, and he opened his mouth to cover two thousand acres.

"I am just following orders and taking measurements according to the regulations. I am not feeling sorry for anyone. If General Zheng has any objections to my measurements, he can report to the magistrate, or directly ask the governor to re-measure."

"Measure the fart according to the rules. I didn't see you pulling the rope. You are just talking nonsense. I will ask you again, do you want to measure it again?"

"General Zheng doesn't know something. The imperial court has stipulated that mines, orchards, woodlands, and barren hills are inconvenient to measure. Statistical officials can judge their area based on experience. If General Zheng is messing around, don't blame me for impeaching you for obstructing official duties."

This official was relocated from Nanzhili with his family, and he didn't pay attention to the threat of a mere guerrilla general from Zheng Zhihu.

"I killed you..."

Zheng Zhihu was suddenly overwhelmed by anger and blood, and he drank a lot of wine, so he couldn't bear it anymore, and he punched the clerk's head with a punch, directly hitting the clerk until his skull was sunken, and he died.

"Ah! The official was killed!"

All the officials and officials were frightened by this scene, and immediately ran away screaming, and Zheng Zhihu's servants, seeing that his general had punched the civil servant to death, also raised their knives and slashed at the fleeing officials. The little official wailed and screamed for a while.

It wasn't until more than a dozen small officials were killed by his subordinates that Zheng Zhihu reacted, and the wine was also sobered up. Obviously he didn't expect that the official would be killed directly with a single punch.

(End of this chapter)