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Chapter 937 The Qing Dynasty Begins

The next day, morning.

As soon as he came to court today, Zhao Jun announced a major news.

After this year's autumn harvest, the imperial court officially conducted an inventory of all acres in the entire Bianjing area.

Before the inventory begins, everyone is allowed to report all the land under their name, and everything in the past will be forgotten.

But if we wait until the inspection begins and find that someone has concealed, lied, falsely or randomly reported, their home will be searched!
Once the inventory begins, no matter who is in Bianjing!

Focus!

No matter you are a noble or a relative of the emperor, you are not allowed to hinder the officials of the Qing Dynasty from inspecting the fields.

Otherwise, it will be regarded as resisting the law! Will be dealt with strictly! No tolerance!

As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused an uproar among the government and the public!
Who dares to say that all the fields owned by his family have been reported to the government? Who dares to say that his family has not concealed the information?

no one! No one dares!

His Majesty's sudden request to clear the land in Bianjing really caught everyone off guard.

The officials are very calm. The official in question is going to court in shackles. His life is not in his own hands now. His Majesty can investigate if he wants. There is nothing to hide.

The new generals such as champion Hou Huo and others are also very calm.

Their fields were all sealed during wars and they were not afraid of inspection, but that was not the case for some of the country's veterans.

However, looking at the group of shackled civil servants opposite, he did not dare to be the first to jump out.

The honorable nobles are confident. In their view, no matter who the situation is, no matter how serious your majesty said it is.

But can they count?

They are nobles, nobles who have been with the country since the founding of the country.

How can Your Majesty embarrass them over such a trivial matter?

Isn’t it just a little bit of land?
The worst that can happen is that they will be hanged, and what else can the officials do.

The royal family and relatives are not panicking either.

I am a relative of the emperor. When the time comes, I will find out what it means. Hello, I am hello, everyone. Hello everyone is really good!
If we give the officials some face and make the court look good, nothing will happen.

So don't panic.

Looking at the various expressions of the officials below, Zhao Jun had no expression on his face, but he had already begun to make calculations in his heart.

You can ignore it now, but don’t cry when I take action. The more you cry, the more ruthless I will be!

After the news spread that day, the court began to prepare. Now the court has either been tamed by Zhao Jun and turned into a dog shackles officer.

That's right, the officer with the yoke.

Nowadays, those officials who wear shackles to go to court are famous throughout Bianjing, and the people of Bianjing affectionately call them yoke officials.

All of these shackles officers were very honest and not at all arrogant as in the past. The people laughed at them.

Except for these officers in shackles, how could the other officials dare to confront Zhao Jun?
So soon, all the preparations were basically completed.

Zhao Jun also specially mobilized a total of 200,000 people from the imperial army guarding the capital.

Just wait until the time comes to clear up the husband, and give anyone who dares to cause trouble a big showdown!
As the leaves turn yellow, the green leaves on the branches gradually turn yellow.

The crops in the fields have become golden, and the ears of wheat are full. It will soon be the harvest season.

After nearly two or three months of busy work, the busy autumn harvest has finally come to an end. The once golden fields everywhere have become bare.

The Qingzhang ceremony that had been prepared for a long time finally officially started.

Regarding the matter of clearing the father-in-law's land, the court had spread it through newspapers as early as three months ago.

The people around Bianjing don't care about this. It doesn't matter how much land their families have, it doesn't make any difference to them whether the land is clear or not.

But those powerful landowners who had concealed their secrets felt uncomfortable. The court wanted to clear out their land, and His Majesty personally issued an order and sent out troops.

All of this looks like the imperial court is going to do it for real, rather than just a show?
Then should they report the true situation of the fields?
They were all hesitant.

On the one hand, they are worried that the court is serious. If they fail to report, their land and property will be confiscated if they are found out later.

On the other hand, they were afraid that the court was just showing off. Once they disclosed the true number, no one else did, and the court did not investigate carefully. In the end, when their true number of acres was registered in the official register, they Taxes must be paid based on the actual number of acres.

Those who have not reported it do not need to pay it.

In other words, they have to watch others make more money while they make less.

Worrying not about scarcity but about inequality is something they absolutely cannot accept.

In this entangled state, the wealthy landlords soon divided into two factions.

Some timid or cautious families chose to report the true number of acres to the government within the specified time.

The local officials who reported the true number of acres also kept their promise and did not impose any punishment on them. Instead, they truthfully reported the number of acres and re-registered them.

Others think that the court will not really take action, and have a little background, and want to use some tricks afterwards. Or the greedy landlords and powerful family heads chose to continue to carry the hidden amount without explaining any.

In this way, before the stipulated time ended and the Qing Dynasty began, the entire map around Bianjing had a total of more than 13,000 hectares of land, of which nearly 5,000 hectares were imperial villages.

However, before the land clearing began, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Household Affairs, the number of arable acres in Bianjing's territory had reached more than 17,000 hectares.

That is more than 1.7 million acres of land.

There are a full 400,000 acres more than before!
But Zhao Jun knew that this was probably less than half of the real number.

The royal relatives, nobles, powerful landlords, and big businessmen still have at least twice as many acres of land as the land they have today, or even more!

But he has already given them a chance. Since they don’t want it, don’t blame him!
Xingwu fifth year, the first day of October.

The land clearing in the Gyeonggi area around Bianjing officially began.

This operation was completely handled by Zhang Zheng, accompanied by Zhang Tang, the experienced Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites, as his deputy.

Zhao Jun gave Zhang Zheng the title of the Gyeonggi pacification envoy for the Prime Minister's clearing of his father-in-law's land in the Gyeonggi region, and gave Shang Fang a sword, with Zhang Tang as deputy envoy.

During the period of purification, all matters related to the purification were fully handled by Zhang Zheng.

If necessary, the Privy Council can be called upon to mobilize the Imperial Guard for assistance.

Of course, it is only the acres in the area around Qingzhang Bianjing. The 200,000 people prepared by Zhao Jun in advance are completely enough, and the subsequent assistance rights are not used at all.

As soon as the Qingzhang Division began, Zhang Zheng led a group of officials from the Qingzhang Division who had just been established for three months to start an inventory in four directions along Bianjing City.

They did not check the local government's land register because they knew it was inaccurate. Everyone recorded all the fields along the way step by step.

The first thing they need to do is to confirm the true amount of land around Bianjing, and then compare it with the recorded land register to know who has concealed the number of acres.

As soon as their actions started, they immediately scared those lucky guys, and some secret actions started immediately.

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(End of this chapter)