Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Chapter 162 The Power of Newspapers

The content that occupies a similar size section as the tax reform introduction is the incident of the Lan family in Dingyuan County, Fengyang Prefecture being ransacked by the Po clan.

The newspaper highlighted the identity and background of the Lan family without any hesitation.

The cousin is Yongchang Hou Lanyu, and Lanyu is not only the brother-in-law of Kaiping King Chang Yuchun, but also the uncle of the crown prince.

But even for a wealthy family with such a status and background, the result of resisting the New Deal was that the family was destroyed and their homes were confiscated.

What this means is already clear.

I believe that all the wealthy rural gentry and wealthy families across the country will feel particularly heavy when they see this piece of news.

Below this news, there is also a punishment for the magistrate of Dingyuan County.

Below these two major pieces of news, there is a reward.

That is to report the situation of hiding the acres. Once verified, you can get corresponding rewards from the court.

Attack on the heart.

This Yang Xian is really scary.

Shen Wansan thought this in his mind and turned his attention to the rest of the contents of the newspaper. In addition to these two major news, the newspaper also recorded the establishment of new departments of the court such as the Information Bureau and the Railway Bureau, as well as brief introductions.

In addition to these relevant policies of the imperial court, a corner of the newspaper also recorded some common sense of life.

For example, precautions for planting and eating new crops, potatoes.

In particular, it was mentioned that sprouted potatoes have a certain degree of toxicity, and people were reminded not to eat them by mistake.

After reading the first issue of "Da Ming Daily" and making sure that he had read everything on it, Shen Wansan slowly closed the newspaper.

"I'm afraid the Ming Dynasty is going to change." Shen Wansan murmured in a low voice.

The power of Yang Xian's newspaper is completely comparable to that of a million divisions.

What he has to do is to unite the power of ordinary people all over the world and tell them clearly that the implementation of the New Deal will be beneficial to them.

The specific figures listed above allow them to truly understand how much the taxes they have to pay will be reduced after the implementation of the New Deal.

At the same time, he told them a simple truth, that is, the more acres of land registered by the court, the less taxes will be distributed to each of them.

In this way, it was tantamount to directly pushing the gentry and noble families to oppose them.

For these local farmers, they all know how much land their family owns and how much taxes they should pay.

The newspaper finally stated that there would be a reward for reporting, which was even more obvious, indicating the court's attitude.

That is to allow farmers to inventory the land of the gentry.

Mobilize farmers to fight.

Of course this is only one aspect.

On the other hand, by exaggerating the Lan family's confiscation and destruction of their clan, it shocked the country gentlemen all over the world and made them dare not act rashly.

At the same time, the decision of Lu Tao, the magistrate of Dingyuan County, also silenced those parents and officials everywhere who were not loyal to the court and did not care for the people. At this juncture, if they still dared to go against the court, then Lu Tao would serve as a warning.

The problems that had troubled Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao for a long time were finally solved.

If there are still people in various places who dare to openly resist the implementation of the New Deal and hide their land, it would be a good idea to borrow their heads.

The next issue of Daming Daily happens to be short of material.

Fortunately, this was only the fifth year of Hongwu, and the Ming Dynasty was newly established.

It was not the middle and late Ming Dynasty that was extremely ill.

Otherwise, if we wait until then to clear the land, the resistance we will encounter will be hundreds of times greater than now.

Moreover, the kings at that time were far less courageous than Emperor Hongwu at this time.In the original time and space, after the Ming Dynasty, which lasted for more than 100 years, began to gradually decline due to serious land annexation, intensified class conflicts, and government corruption, one person once stood up.

This person is Zhang Juzheng.

Zhang Juzheng, determined to bring order to the chaos, wanted to perform a good operation on Daming.

But in the Ming Dynasty at that time, one person said another, which one was not a big landowner?Who hasn’t concealed their land and evaded taxes?

His teacher Zhang Juzheng, Mr. Xu Jiexuge, owned a total of 24 acres of land in Songjiang, Fengxing!
The reform did not succeed. Is it because Zhang Juzheng has no ability?

Throughout the history of China, as a child of ordinary people, even the emperor could step aside as a civil servant. Zhang Juzheng can be said to have reached the pinnacle.

There is no doubt about his ability, and he can become the final winner of that political struggle and have the last laugh.

All of them prove that Zhang Juzheng is powerful.

Zhang Juzheng failed.

Just because he is doing the most important thing in the world, reform.

He offended all the powerful people in the world, and even he, Zhang Juzheng, couldn't bear it.

Therefore, in the end, not only did the reform fail, but the deceased Zhang Juzheng and his family were also implicated.He was imprisoned, committed suicide, and was sent to the army. It was terrible.

But what Yang Xian had to do at this time was even more difficult than what Zhang Juzheng had to do.

There is no impenetrable wall in the world.

No one in the entire court knew that although the new tax reform came from Li Jin, it actually came from Yang Xian.

In the eyes of these distinguished courtiers, he, Yang Xian, had already been granted the title of Marquis of the Ming Dynasty at a young age and held a high and powerful position.

He could obviously be like them and be a master, but why was he making such a fuss?

Why do you, Yang Xian, want to reform the tax system so that we can no longer prey on the people at will? Why do you, Yang Xian, want to measure the land so that we can no longer evade taxes at will? Why do you, Yang Xian, want to reform the imperial examination system and become enemies of the Confucian scholars in the world?

We are all officials and have vested interests. The life and death of the people has nothing to do with us. Why do you want to help them and torment us?
Those Huaixi nobles couldn't understand it, those court ministers couldn't understand it, and those rural gentry families running rampant in the countryside couldn't understand it even more.

Because they don't understand that Yang Xian is different from them.

Yang Xian came from later generations.

It was an era when everyone had the right to live well.

Poor people are human beings too.

After accidentally traveling to this era, Yang Xian didn't think so much at first. At first, he thought about stewing Kun Kun who announced the dawn and resigned directly.

But living in the Ming Dynasty in the past few years has also changed a lot for him.

Especially after experiencing the great disaster last year.

Yang Xian wants to stand up and make this era better.

He didn't want to do much, just make it a little better, that's all.

Yang Xian knew clearly in his heart that what he had done had offended the noble gentry throughout the Ming Dynasty who had suffered losses due to the tax reform.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao are here now, they share most of the firepower for him.

These honorable men did not dare to make a move for a while.

But Yang Xian is not used to putting his destiny in the hands of others.

The next most important thing he has to do is to spread train tracks across the country.

(End of this chapter)