Chapter 540: Songjiang Mansion Is Initially Decided! All the People Thank You, Lord Han!
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Zhu Gaoxu can definitely win Huang Ziwei.
After all, it is not difficult to see from his actions that even if this person does not collude with the powerful gentry, he is still in a state of indifference and does not care about the life or death of the people.
One charge of dereliction of duty was enough to take him down.
But this is a bit of a waste.
After taking down a Songjiang prefect, the court officials will send another one.
Compared with this, there is no need to grasp the handle of Huang Ziwei and let him implement a whipping method wholeheartedly!
For the sake of his own future, even if Huang Ziwei is incompetent, he still knows what he should do.
Time passed by minute by minute, and two days passed quickly.
Nie Xing is extremely efficient in his work. After all, he has the Tiance Guard and the Feixiong Guard under his command!
The Forbidden Army takes action, but it doesn't matter what family you are, in their eyes you are just a chicken and a dog!
According to the standards set by the Prince of Han, those who should pay grain should pay grain, and those who should have their homes ransacked!
All the gentry in Songjiang Prefecture were destroyed in an instant!
In particular, Nie Xing deliberately changed the procedure, or deliberately gave these powerful gentry a chance to resist.
He first sent people to the door to recover the owed taxes and grain, instead of going directly to the house to ransack the house!
The difference between the two is that many gentry who tried to get through the situation had their homes forcibly confiscated!
Nie Xing was originally an orphan from Jingnan, and he was extremely dissatisfied with the Yongle court. After working as a knight-errant for many years, he also hated those gentry and powerful men who were unkind to get rich.
After his calculation, all the gentry and gentry in Songjiang Mansion were almost wiped out.
After all, in the past, there were no official servants coming to collect the arrears of grain. The gentry thought they could use the previous methods, either threats or deception, to fool them directly.
Who would have thought that the person who came to the door this time was not an official servant, but the Ming Dynasty Forbidden Army!
How could His Imperial Majesty's Royal Guards think highly of these local gentry? As long as they didn't reach an agreement, they would just draw their swords against them!
As every family of gentry suffered, the rest of the people reacted!
That Han King Zhu Gaoxu was clearly a butcher and executioner!
Faced with the despotic power of the Han prince, the gentry and powerful men could only honestly prepare their own tax arrears in the hope of losing money and avoiding disaster.
But then, something happened that made them desperate.
After the first round of purges, Nie Xing immediately launched the second round!
This time, it is no longer as simple as collecting taxes and grains, but directly ransacking homes and killing people!
Those who annex land will have their homes confiscated and imprisoned!
Those who drive up prices will have their homes confiscated and imprisoned!
Those who forcibly rob civilian women will have their homes ransacked and imprisoned!
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Cruel orders were issued one after another, and before the powerful gentry could react, the soldiers of the Forbidden Army came to the door and took the people without any explanation!
It wasn't until this moment that they finally understood how ridiculous their previous ideas were!
Even a wealthy family cannot withstand the calamity of weapons!
What kind of relationship and background is it? Compared with the King of Han Zhu Gaoxu, it is simply a joke!
That damned butcher and executioner is so fierce and domineering, and he will do whatever it takes!
Suddenly, everyone in Songjiang Mansion was in danger, and there was a tremor.
But then the prefect's Yamen posted notices one after another, completely stabilizing the overall situation.
The content of this notice is also very simple. The fields under the names of all the gentry who have their homes confiscated and imprisoned will be returned to the local people as civilian fields after re-measurement!
In addition, the imperial court will implement a new tax policy, spreading Songjiang Prefecture's taxes to the land of the entire county, minimizing the tax difference between official land and private land, and striving to have the same tax rate for both!
As soon as the notice came out, the people rushed to tell each other, wept with joy, and praised the king of Han for his virtuous character!
You know, what this notice says is to return those fields to the people as civilian fields, not official fields!
Civilian land is private and can be bought and sold; official land is public and cannot be bought and sold.
But official land is also farmland, and it also needs people to cultivate it. Those officials have many things to do every day, and they certainly don't know how to work. The common method is to rent out official land and recruit people to work on it.
Tenants who farm need to pay grain to the owner of the official land every year. This is the land rent and the first level of tax!
The so-called royal land in the world, all fields need to pay taxes to the state, and official fields are no exception. This is the land tax, the second level of tax!
To put it simply, tenants who cultivate government land need to pay both rent and tax, which is a heavy burden. However, privately owned private land only needs to pay land tax, so the burden is light.
Originally, after the Ming Dynasty established the empire, the imperial court allocated several acres of land to each household, and everyone had their own private land.
However, as the powerful gentry tried every means to seize the land, the number of real farming households in Songjiang Prefecture was greatly reduced. Most ordinary people either became tenants who farmed the land for others, or they simply gave up their status as farmers and became refugees.
Even so, the tenants had to pay both land rent and land tax, and they also lived a difficult life without a meal.
Moreover, the powerful gentry deliberately defaulted on tax and grain arrears. If the government could not collect the required grain, it would forcibly distribute it to the common people. This only increased the burden on the shoulders of farmers!
Either become a tenant or become a refugee, these are the only two choices for the people of Songjiang Prefecture!
Until now, Han King Zhu Gaoxu suddenly led his army into the city, killed all the tyrannical gentry and powerful people, and promised to return the land of the powerful gentry to the people as civilian land!
At this moment, the common people dreamed back to the reign of Taizu Hongwu.
The King of Han, Zhu Gaoxu, seemed to truly regard these poor people as human beings, just like Taizu!
Zhu Gaoxu did not know about this.
But when he walked out of the palace, he saw thousands of people gathered at the door. Before he could ask, these people all fell to their knees.
"The King of Han has been so kind and kind, but we have nothing to repay!"
"I am willing to make cows and horses for Prince Han to repay his kindness!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your great kindness..."
Seeing this situation, UU Reading www.uukｎshu.net Zhu Gaoxu shouted hurriedly.
"Fellow folks!"
"These are all things my father ordered me to do!"
"Although His Majesty the Emperor is far away in the capital, he still cares about the people in the south of the Yangtze River, so this time he ordered me to come and cleanse those gentry and powerful people!"
"Next, the government will introduce a new tax system and strive to be fair and equitable. All villagers and elders must fully cooperate with the government to measure the land. This will affect how much land will be allocated to you in the end!"
"In addition, if there are any villagers who have been oppressed by the gentry, if there are any villagers who have been unfairly wronged, they can report it to the king at any time, and I will definitely uphold justice for the villagers!"
Zhu Gaoxu spoke so openly that all the people who heard it burst into tears.
Especially since he also added an Emperor, His Majesty could be concerned about him. This was something that all the people had never dared to think about before!
The people are so simple and honest. As long as you treat them well and give them fields to cultivate by themselves, the suffering they suffered before will be forgotten in the blink of an eye.
Xia Yuanji looked at the scene in front of him and sighed suddenly.
Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, is really like Taizu!
The prince Zhu Gaochi is true to his benevolence and righteousness, and his kindness is also true.
But Zhu Gaochi is, after all, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. He has lived in fine clothing and fine food since he was a child, but he has never really penetrated into the private sector!
In addition, His Royal Highness was born obese and had difficulty moving, so he was destined to sit in the palace and give orders for the rest of his life!
But, is the benevolent government he thinks really benevolent to the people at the bottom?
Is it the benevolent government of the people or the benevolent government of the officials?
this moment,
Xia Yuanji was shaken in his belief!
Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, may not be a suitable monarch, but he is definitely a monarch who loves his people like a son!
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