Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Li Shusheng's head hit the hard ground again and again, and soon it turned blue and purple...

Land - he really can't get it!

If the emperor dares to touch the family's land before he can exchange it at equal value, he will be close to death!

A family like the Li family, which has been rich for hundreds of years, has many factions within the family. Although he is the patriarch, he does not have much power.

Ever since his nephew Li Yongmao became an official, his position as the clan leader has been in danger.

Li Shusheng knows very well:

If he really takes out the land, he is afraid that he will not even have to return home, and he will be killed on the road!

As the patriarch of a large family, although he can make decisions on many things with his words, he has no power once the land owned by the family is involved.

If someone from his own family is an official, his power will be greater, and he will have the power to decide even the land.

However, over the years, there have been no official heirs from his lineage.

Ever since Li Yongmao became an official, he, the clan leader... has been reduced to a rubber stamp...

……

Zhu Youjian sighed.

This is the bad nature of the gentry.

He wanted to take back the land occupied by the gentry, but he was afraid that negotiation was no longer feasible and the only way out was to use a butcher's knife!

Zhu Youjian thought for a while and waved his hand to let Li Shusheng get up:

"Go and tell those gentry that the illegally occupied land should be returned to me. I will buy back the legal land within their clan in the form of redemption. As for the land price, it will be calculated at three liang per acre."

Li Shusheng raised his eyebrows and looked at the emperor in surprise.

What do you mean?

Three taels of silver per acre of land?

This price is very reasonable.

If we negotiate at this price, the gentry should agree to hand over the land...

At the very least, he is sure to convince the Li family members!

Zhu Youjian's next words came again:

"If a gentleman is willing to donate all his land, I will give him a fortune!

Including your Li family! "

what?

Li Shusheng's expression changed drastically and he looked at the emperor in disbelief.

The emperor himself said that he would give a fortune?

Li Shusheng's mind was spinning:

It is not impossible to get the gentry to hand over their land - as long as there are reciprocal benefits.

Today the emperor showed his power and gave a suitable price. He went back to discuss with the clan elders. No one should be able to block his own land.

Because the total output from one acre of land in the spring and autumn is only two to three hundred kilograms, and the portion left for mediocre households, the annual net profit is only a few dollars. If there is a disaster, there will be no harvest.

Three liang per acre, this price is very reasonable!

This is the market price in an average year.

And this wealth...

If you can catch it - you can buy the land back later, that's it!

……

After Zhu Youjian conveyed his words to the gentry through Li Shusheng's mouth, he ordered the gentry to be driven away.

As for whether this condition can impress the gentry and make them willingly hand over their land...

Zhu Youjian still holds a trump card in his hand——

The fields occupied by the gentry used various means to avoid taxes and were not registered in the government's yellow book.

As for the yellow land registers of all the prefectures and counties in Nanyang, the emperor had already had them taken away and sent them to Guanghua.

This is the trump card!

……

Zhu Youjian turned to call Wu Ganlai and said:

"Wu Qing's family, immediately come up with a punishment for tax evasion and have the soldiers take it and post it everywhere."

Wu Ganlai's eyes lit up!

Wonderful!

A carrot in one hand and a stick in the other are the best ways to tame a stubborn donkey!

Tax evasion and tax evasion will be liquidated and heavy fines will be imposed.

This is Zhu Youjian's final investigation method!

If these sons of bitches really don't know what's good and what's good, don't blame the army for being ruthless!

If you can't count the acres, then you can count the taxes. There are plenty of ways to make these beasts submissive!

Zhu Youjian glanced at the three generals around him...

When Li Laiheng and the other three saw the emperor's gaze, they subconsciously straightened their spines.

They wanted to do what Liu Fangliang did in Wuqiang again.

The emperor said, the better you do, the bigger the bonus will be at the end of the year!

Zhu Youjian laughed:

With the knife in my hand, I have the world!

……

After the Peng family was bombed into ruins, Zhu Youjian cleared out a total of [-] acres of farmland in the surrounding area.

In addition to the fields owned by local people, there are nearly [-] acres that have not been registered in the yellow register.

Zhu Youjian ordered more than 3 refugees to be transferred and divided into [-] villages.

The refugees moved around for several years, and most of the old, weak, sick, and even women and children died. The [-] refugees were divided into nearly [-] households.

Basically, only one person from the original family survived...

Zhu Youjian asked people to ascend the throne and create a register, arrange the lijia, and distribute the land according to people.

Zhu Youjian believes that even though he is currently allocated according to one strong man per household, in three to five years, the number of 3 households with 10,000 people will become [-]+ people!

A woman in a calamity year is worthless.

After the refugees have land, with the talent of the Chinese people in farming, they will be able to have enough food to survive in the autumn, which will not be a problem!

As long as there is food, marrying a wife is not a problem...

Now that you have a wife, are you still afraid that you won’t be able to have children or reproduce?

……

Zhu Youjian re-registered the land at the standard of two acres per person and divided it among them.

One document after another was printed in triplicate, and each of the three parties, including the inner treasury, the imperial court, and the common people, had one copy.

The document stipulates that all these lands belong to the state, and the people only have the right to cultivate them.

The tax rate for farming state-owned land is one hundred copper coins per mu (one out of ten taxes). Exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are also exempted, and corvee service is abolished.

This standard is several times lower than the land rent for cultivating gentry land!

As long as this news spreads, it will have a devastating blow to the gentry.

As long as Zhu Youjian can ensure that there is a steady stream of land allocated, the gentry's fields will be reduced to the point where no one is cultivating them!

In this way, a large number of hidden black households will be separated from the gentry and return to normal household registration.

……

Zhu Youjian is paving the way for the next step of promoting "people mobility and industrial development".

At the same time, corvee labor will be eliminated, and work-for-relief will be reasonably introduced...

Allowing the people to contribute while also having money to take out is the way a reasonable society should behave!

Zhu Youjian was the son of an old farmer in his previous life. He knew clearly that the people could have enough to eat and wear clothes without patches - not only because of the spring breeze blowing into the land of China, but also because of the comprehensiveness of the corvee. Abolition...

……

These fields will be redistributed every ten years.

Zhu Youjian, who has the knowledge of later generations, naturally understands that only state-owned land can prevent the gentry from annexing the land!

Zhu Youjian ordered that all the soldiers who had been injured in battle since they escaped from the capital be gathered together. After training, they were sent to various new villages to serve as commanders and security guards.