Lord Moyu was forced to open

The demise of the nobles left no obstacle to clearing the land of the father-in-law, and other dignitaries no longer dared to interfere with this matter, for fear that they would follow in the footsteps of the nobles.

Finally, just in time for the arrival of the New Year, the land inventory in the Gyeonggi area led by Zhang Zheng and others came to an end.

Compared with the initial more than 17,000 hectares of farmland, after current inventory, the number of registered acres has reached about 35,000 hectares.

That is 3.5 million acres of land.

Of the 3.5 million acres of land, 500,000 acres belong to the imperial estate, and 2.5 million acres belong to the landlords, gentry, and nobles.

Only 500,000 acres belong to the people.

And in Gyeonggi, the number of people alone is no less than two million!
Bianjing City alone has a permanent population of one million!

Two million people, divided into 500,000 acres of land!

One person and one acre are not enough!

And five-sevenths of the land belongs to the landlords and gentry!
Zhao Jun, the emperor, was only one-seventh.

And the common people only own about the same amount of land as the Imperial Village.

After this inventory, in addition to the registered land that the court promised not to pursue, there are still more than 1.6 million acres of land that have been cleared, and now it is all owned by the court according to the rules set before.

Even the land of the landowners, gentry and nobles who concealed these fields was confiscated.

In total, the land ownership owned by the imperial court reached two million acres.

Zhao Jun immediately ordered the Ministry of Household Affairs to start granting land to the people.

In addition to those working in the city, there are approximately one million farmers in Bianjing.

So Zhao Jun directly followed the local equal division policy and divided the land equally among the local people whose individual fields were less than one acre.

Likewise, these fields were not created by land reclamation; they were all good and mature fields.

Next year, the imperial court will be able to pay nearly two million more acres of land tax in Bianjing.

This is a good thing for both the local people and the court.

More fiscal revenue!
The officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs have been smiling like flowers every day recently, and they are very happy to register new fields.

At this point, the operation to clear the land in the capital was officially concluded and achieved great results.

Zhao Jun was very satisfied with this result, but for others, this was an extremely scary signal.

Everyone knows that the land clearing operation in the capital is just an experiment by His Majesty. It would be okay if the experiment fails. But now that the experiment is successful, it is natural that Biixia will turn his attention to the world.

His Majesty's eyes are looking at the world, and what he is looking at is the land in the hands of the world's gentry and powerful men!
How can this make them not afraid?
But the more they fear something, the easier it will come.

The sixth year of Xingwu's reign was peaceful, and nothing happened in the court.

There are no bold guys in the border areas who dare to provoke the Song Dynasty, so everything is fine.

But when the New Year's Eve passed and the court began to attend court again, Zhao Jun's words immediately made the officials who had been happy for a year sink to the bottom of their hearts.

Your Majesty is really prepared to spread the issue of clearing the land and acres unexpectedly.

Just listen to Zhao Jun say:
“Now that the land clearing work has achieved complete success in the Gyeonggi region.

Then officially promote it nationwide! "

Zhao Jun's words were like a bolt from the blue, frightening the civil and military officials throughout the court.

Spread across the country?

Then will our hometown also be investigated? What will we do if our hometown is found to have concealed the fields? Is it possible that he is just like these unlucky nobles? Was His Majesty the one who cleaned up the whole family and then confiscated all the property?
Just when all the officials were panicking, Zhao Jun spoke again. “However, after the Qingzhang incident spread across the country, some regulations were different. For example, the article that allowed advance filing within a specified time without being criticized was abolished.

Of course, once it is discovered that there is land that is not on the register, or the land has not paid taxes, or the land is not paid by oneself, the owner's property will not be confiscated.

It just confiscates the land that has not been paid, the land that is hidden, or the land that others paid taxes on this land. "

Zhao Jun made some concessions, but at the same time he also filled some loopholes.

For example, the first one is that if a gentry commits evil deeds and robs a large number of fields, but reports it within the specified time, the court cannot punish him and makes him the owner of those fields for nothing. Isn't this a sympathizer?

Moreover, this regulation is also Zhao Jun's policy of buying horse bones for thousands of people in the Gyeonggi area, so it is not suitable for the large-scale promotion of the Qingzhang operation.

The second article is to reduce the excessive punishment in the Gyeonggi region.

Once the issue of land clearing is extended to the entire world and all property is confiscated, it will undoubtedly push the gentry all over the world to a dead end.

Although Zhao Jun was not afraid of them, there was no need to be so ruthless.

He just collected their illegal gains, which was Zhao Jun's rare tolerance.

If they still don't know what is good and what is evil, then Zhao Jun can only teach them what it means to be a hero who knows the current affairs.

Although the policy has been adjusted, the issue of clearing the father-in-law still makes those with vested interests uncomfortable.

Many officials in the court were among them, and they wanted to think of ways to see if they could get His Majesty to take back his orders.

But no matter how they thought about it, they couldn't think of a suitable excuse. The most important thing is that they don't dare to object directly now. The blood of those nobles is still left at Caishikou of Dongshi.

Maybe if they dare to object today, their heads will fall on the execution platform together with those nobles tomorrow.

After thinking about it, I saw someone looking at Zhang He, who had been closing his eyes to rest.

Then more and more people looked over.

yes! Just because they can't speak doesn't mean that the Prime Minister can't speak! Your Majesty can't just drag Prime Minister Zhang out and kill him just because he opposes him, right?

They didn't believe that Zhang Xiang didn't own some fields in his hometown that didn't originally belong to the Zhang family.

They are in the same group as Zhang Xiang!

However, since Zhang He expressed his intention to retire and return to his hometown last time, Zhang He has basically regarded himself as a transparent person when he went to court. He just stood quietly in his place and looked at each other in the court. Disputes, quarrels, and handling, but he no longer uttered a word, as if he was invisible.

However, after being a transparent person for so long, I didn't expect that now I would be noticed by everyone again.

Zhang He turned around and saw the expectant eyes of all the officials. After thinking about it, he closed his eyes and pretended that he had not seen anything.

Just kidding, I’m ready to retire, you still want me to carry the thunder for you before retreating?

I'm so lucky if I can do it for you!
can not see! can not see! can not see!
Zhang He silently hypnotized himself in his heart.

Seeing Zhang He's appearance, the officials who originally thought they had found a glimmer of hope were dumbfounded.

what's the situation?
Zhang Xiang actually pretended not to see them?

What does it mean?
You are the prime minister! If you don't stand up for something, who will? Why are you hiding?
But where does Zhang He care about them? The only real thing is to live well by yourself.

As for them?

I don't care if you go to hell!
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(End of this chapter)