Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Chapter 160: Breaking down the house and ransacking the house
blue mansion.

After Zhu Biao and the others left, those gentlemen from Dingyuan County and Township who were kneeling on the ground did not know how long it took before someone finally raised their head.

Then the others also looked up.

After finding out that nothing was wrong, everyone breathed a long sigh of relief and looked at each other. They all saw fear on each other's faces, as well as the joy of surviving the disaster.

They were really scared just now, and Prince Zhu Biao found an excuse and arrested them too.

You must know that although they did not participate in the beating of Li Jin, they were actually fighting against the imperial court's implementation of the New Deal.

But if he thinks this is the case, Zhu Biao will arrest them on "unfounded" charges.

These squires also underestimated Zhu Biao.

Of course, if only Mao Xiang came to Dingyuan this time, then he might really do this.

As the first commander of Jin Yiwei in the original time and space, he is the best at this kind of thing.

After Zhu Biao left Lan Mansion, he went directly outside the city.

Then I met Li Jin.

blue sky.

In the mountains and fields.

Li Jin was limping alone, holding a ruler measuring the acres in his hand, and was making careful calculations.

Zhu Biao was a little moved when he saw this scene.

The Ming Dynasty was lucky to have such a great talent like Yang Xian.

Zhu Biao didn't dare to ask for more.

But if there were more officials like Li Jin in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Biao believed that the world would definitely become better!

The resistance to tax reform is far greater than Zhu Yuanzhang and others thought.

First of all, we encountered a big problem when we first cleared the land.

Dingyuan County is by no means an exception.

It can be said that field management in various places is a mess, and the situation of land underreporting at the grassroots level is very serious.

If we want to clear the land, it is not enough to just rely on the new scholars sent out by Zhu Yuanzhang and a small number of officials from Zhongshu Province.

Those subordinate officials who bullied Hu Ye and his daughter were right.

Clearing the land is indeed a difficult technical job, but not everyone can do it.

In comparison, counting the population is much simpler. Officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs only need to know how to add, subtract, multiply and divide.

This is completely different for Qingzhang land, because the fields cannot all be regular squares. There are often field shapes such as Gui, Xie, Ji, circle, Wan, and arc. In ancient times, surveyors had to be proficient in the art of square fields to be accurate. Measure the area.

What's more, it's an emotional intelligence job.

Just like this incident in Dingyuan County, local forces are intertwined and cover each other. The executor must be shrewd enough to dig out hidden fields from the mouths of cunning local powerful.You must know that there are many ways to fight. The Lan family's choice to directly beat the court officials is the worst of the worst.

Likewise, the executor's stance must be firm enough, so firm that it will not be easily corrupted by the local rural gentry.

original time.

Zhu Yuanzhang also tried to clear his father-in-law's land, but it was very difficult to implement it.

The imperial court simply did not have such a large talent pool.

All we can do is issue an imperial edict, allowing each place to "select the sages who will work in the city" and "create new records" on their own.

The predicament of the imperial court was seen by everyone everywhere.

Okay, since you can't take care of it, I'll delay it slowly.For example, in Suzhou Prefecture, the original time and space delayed for a full 20 years before submitting the entire prefecture's fish scale atlas.

In some places, the methods adopted are consistent with those in Dingyuan County this time.

That is, the government and the local powerful have reached a tacit agreement. You cooperate with me to establish the land register. You are not allowed to say anything else. I will not go into the land you concealed, so we can each sell it to save face and live in peace.If the imperial court has a target for increasing the number of acres of land, then there is no other way. This knife can only hit the heads of the common people.

Therefore, this time the problem in Dingyuan County is solved.

Now that the entire Lan family has been confiscated, I believe that after such a thing happened, the other rural gentry families in Dingyuan County will also cooperate obediently to clear their land and implement new taxes for the sake of their necks. Although it will make them lose a lot of money, but Compared with their own lives, these are nothing.

For the entire Fengyang Mansion.

It also has a deterrent effect.

But if you look at the whole country, this deterrent effect will be greatly weakened. After all, this incident did not happen around you.

In addition, the speed of spread in ancient times was very slow.

Relying only on official documents from the imperial court and official newspapers.

After Zhu Biao returned from Dingyuan County, he became even more worried. After completing his mission to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Without stopping for a moment, he got directly on the rail train to Yangzhou.

Yangzhou.

When Zhu Biao found Yang Xian at Yangzhou National Adult School, Yang Xian was writing textbooks on various irregular area measurement methods.

I saw Zhu Biao coming.

Yang Xian put down what he was doing and walked out.

"See Your Highness," Yang Xian said.

"Yang Qing, everything in Dingyuan County has been resolved, and Li Jin's injuries have healed." Zhu Biao briefly told Yang Xian what happened in Dingyuan County.

The final result of the Lan family was that the Lan family father and son were executed, and the rest were exiled.

All the Lan family's property was confiscated.

"Since everything has been resolved, why does His Highness still look worried?" Yang Xian asked.

Zhu Biao expressed his concerns.

After all, he is only one person and cannot do everything by himself.

And not every time, there is an opportunity to go under the knife.

Therefore, Zhu Biao wanted to hear Yang Xian's thoughts and how he would solve this situation.

Yang Xian smiled slightly and said, "Your Highness, the court can try to run a newspaper."

"Newspaper?" Zhu Biao asked doubtfully.

Yang Xian nodded and said: "It's similar to the imperial newspaper, except that the newspaper is not only for officials to read, but also for the common people all over the world."

"Your Highness, you also understand the situation in Dingyuan County this time. The Lan family and other local squires colluded with the government to maliciously misinterpret the New Deal, confuse right and wrong, and make the people misunderstand the tax reform."

"So our court needs a tongue of its own."

"The newspaper is the mouthpiece of the imperial court. The imperial court speaks to the people all over the world through newspapers, so that the people can understand the policies and laws of the imperial court in a timely manner, instead of allowing the rural gentry and nobles to confuse right and wrong."

"At the same time, we can also use newspapers to maximize the deterrence of those lawless rural gentry families. For example, the Lan family incident in Dingyuan County is a good entry point."

"You must know that the Lan family is the cousin of Yongchang Hou Lanyu, and Lanyu is the uncle of the Crown Princess. But even with such a strong relationship, if they obstruct the New Deal reforms and violate the laws of the court, they will still have the house confiscated. We will have our house confiscated. As long as this matter is widely publicized, it will not only express the court's determination to reform, but also be able to completely frighten the gentry across the country who want to resist the New Deal. Before they do this, they will first consider whether they are as tough as the Lan family."

(End of this chapter)