My whole family was in exile, and I relied on my space to buy half of my country.

Chapter 367 Reform
In fact, it is not difficult to attract people to move back and plant cotton.

For them, the most important thing is to have land.

The dream of many people is to own their own land.However, under the system before the Zhou Dynasty, it was difficult for ordinary farmers to own their own land.

A large amount of land is in the hands of aristocratic families.

If a system like Lingnan is implemented, let them have their own land.She believed that they would all be willing to go, whether it was southern Xinjiang or the northern plains.

It's just that places like southern Xinjiang are very different from Lingnan.Lingnan has a small population and a lot of wasteland. Several big local families in Lingnan were also eliminated by them, so the New Deal was implemented very easily.

In southern Xinjiang and other places, a large amount of land is in the hands of aristocratic families.

However, Jiang Tang felt that now was the best time to take back the land from these aristocratic families.

Jiang Tangtang is planning reforms to change the previous land system.Similarly, aristocratic families are trying their best to protect their land.

Unlike many refugees who fled to places such as Cangwu in Lingnan and refused to leave, many aristocratic families were eager to capture their slaves and go back to farm.

However, Lingnan has a policy that all people who enter Lingnan and are issued a new household registration are legal citizens of Lingnan and are protected by law.

Several aristocratic families openly arrested people on the street, claiming that they were arresting slaves who had escaped from the family. After being sentenced to hard labor, the common people felt that they were protected.

Whenever he was being pursued by his previous master, he would go to the government to file a complaint.

After doing this several times, many aristocratic families did not dare to arrest people in Lingnan again.Instead use money to hire.

But many refugees already have land in Lingnan, and there are so many breeding farms and workshops in Lingnan that need to recruit people. They would rather stay in Lingnan than work for these aristocratic families.

The main reason for this situation is the distrust of these aristocratic families.

Many big aristocratic families have a lofty attitude and never treat the common people as human beings.On the other hand, most of them feel that only slaves who hold the bond of sale in their hands can be trusted.

Based on the above two reasons, many big families will use any means to turn their workers into prostituted slaves.

How can a person who has enjoyed freedom be willing to be a slave?
Because they could not catch escaped slaves and had trouble recruiting workers, many aristocratic families had trouble moving back to their ancestral lands to farm.

On the other hand, Jiang Tangtang selected dozens of people from the results of this examination, appointed them as local officials, and sent them to various places.

Along with the appointment letters of these officials, there is also a new land system.

Jiang Tangtang imitated the present and implemented public ownership of land on this land.

As soon as this policy was announced, it immediately aroused unanimous opposition from all the major families.

"It's just nonsense! How could it be like this? That is the land accumulated by our Hu family for generations. She just said one word and distributed our land to those refugees. What is the difference between this and bandits?" The husband of the Hu family slapped the table. Go up and pat the newly purchased square table in the main room into pieces.

The sons of the Hu family were also very angry, but compared to Mr. Hu, they were a little calmer.

Moreover, the sons had an additional layer of worry in their hearts.

Uncle Hu said: "Dad, should we lead our troops out of Lingnan quickly? If the Jiang family finds a reason to detain us, our Hu family will be doomed, right?"

"Let's go back to southern Xinjiang." Mr. Hu was very angry. "I will fight with them to find a way to contact the old people from the past."

Uncle Hu sighed feebly, "Father...it's obvious that the Jiang family has already planned to disintegrate the power of our family step by step. Think about her series of actions since we came to Lingnan."

Mr. Hu didn't say anything. Mr. Hu sighed: "What a scheming woman." Mr. Hu said: "Now, even some old people who are loyal to our Hu family often envy in their hearts the untouchables outside. Days. And all the weavers in the Hu family have been won over by that woman. Let’s go back now..."

Mr. Hu refused to admit defeat and said, "What are you afraid of? Our Hu family's most important secret skill is only known to our Hu family. Those untouchables have only scratched the surface of it. The Jiang family just mastered those untouchables and wants to take advantage of us." Is the lifeblood of the Hu family in danger?"

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Situations like the Hu family occur in many wealthy families.Some aristocratic families were even more excited than the Hu family. In order to protect their own interests, they even united with several families to prevent Jiang Tangtang from ascending the throne.

Jiang Tangtang had expected this situation.

If the interests of the aristocratic family are touched, the aristocratic family will inevitably resist.But Jiang Tangtang was not worried at all.

If it were two years ago, she might have thought carefully before considering reform.

But now, the situation is different.

Because of the successive disasters, most of the aristocratic families were severely weakened.Jiang Tangtang felt that they should take advantage of their vitality to carry out reforms quickly and accurately.

At this time, as angry as the aristocratic families, there were also some official families.

Ling Yanli looked at the appointment letter in her husband's hand and almost fainted.But in front of her husband, she did not dare to say much, so she could only quietly go out to find her sister Ling Yanzhu.

"What does she mean? Is she deliberately taking revenge on me?" Ling Yanli said angrily: "She must have done it on purpose. She knew that Siyuan was my husband-in-law, so she deliberately gave him a letter of appointment and asked him to go there. Be the county magistrate."

The brother-in-law was only 16 years old, not only younger than her husband, but also had no official experience, but the place assigned to him was actually better than the place her husband went to.

Why isn't this intentional?

Ling Yanzhu was also upset now.Unlike her brother-in-law who had already received the appointment letter and knew the result, her husband has not received the letter yet.

Could it be that her husband, who was a fourth-rank official, was not even qualified to be a seventh-rank official when he came to her?

But if she was really given a seventh-grade Sesame Officer, she would feel insulted just like Ling Yanli.

"Is the brother-in-law going to take office?" Ling Yanzhu asked.

Ling Yanli shook her head.

She shook her head not to say that her husband wouldn't go, but that she didn't know.

At this moment, Qu Siyuan was very hesitant.

Is he going to take such a small official position?
Go, I feel so embarrassed.

But not going... wouldn't this be blatantly offending the new emperor?Then he is afraid that he will never be an official again in his life.

In the end, Qu Xiuyuan made a decision for his son, "I just took this opportunity to go to the local area to gain experience."

Qu Siyuan nodded in agreement and began to prepare for taking up the post.

But Ling Yanli was unwilling to accept it and decided to quietly go to Jiang Tangtang to plead for mercy.

Jiang Tangtang has to consider the appointment of officials from various places these days, and he is also busy with reforms, so he has no time to see anyone.So when I heard someone from below reporting that my sisters from Beijing were visiting, I refused without thinking.

(End of this chapter)