Emperor: When will the Seventh Prince rebel? I will open the city gates to welcome him.

The people kneeling in the main hall were terrified.

These officials did not expect that they would be found out so quickly.

In fact, Hongxuan didn't need to investigate too much, he could see it from these officials with rosy faces.

In this era, when food is scarce, how can we not be greedy if we want to eat to look rich, even fat and obese?

Moreover, in Yuzhou, officials protect each other. If you are not greedy, you will not be able to sit in the position of prefect or county magistrate.

Hongxuan exposed all their ugly sides.

Kill a chicken and show it to these monkeys.

"I know my crime, I hope the King of Zhenbei will spare my life!"

The remaining thirty-nine officials all knelt on the ground, begging King Zhenbei to spare their lives.

King Zhenbei looked at the prefects and county magistrates kneeling below with his cold eyes.

"You all passed the imperial examination and became officials with great difficulty. Each of you went through repeated selections, but now that you have become officials here, you have forgotten your original intentions, right?"

"Today I have killed Fang Delong. It is not because I want to kill him, but because I have to kill him."

"If I don't kill him, none of you will be afraid of me, and you will continue to be greedy!"

The thirty-nine officials kneeling in the hall already felt the scythe of death on their necks.

"King Zhenbei, spare my life!"

"Please spare my life, Lord Zhenbei. I will never again commit corruption or abuse the power of law!"

Some of the officials kneeling below who had poor mental health had fainted.

"hehe!"

Zhenbei Wang Hongxuan sneered.

"I am not a heartless person. I will only give you one chance, just one chance!"

King Zhenbei looked at the officials at the bottom of the stairs.

He already had this plan in mind.

In fact, for the King of Zhenbei, killing people is the easiest thing to do, but killing these corrupt officials is actually the worst option.

And it will be counterproductive.

The bureaucratic system of the Dafeng Kingdom is such that it cannot be without greed.

If you are not greedy, you can't be a county magistrate, let alone a prefect.

Because once you become an official, if you want to climb to a higher position and become a higher official, the only way is to bribe your superiors and exploit the people.

That's the system.

Then under this system,

Even if Zhenbei Wang Hongxiong killed all the prefects and county magistrates in front of him, it would not solve any problems.

Even if the King of Zhenbei were to choose another group of people to take their places, wouldn't those people be greedy?

Absolutely impossible! Being in that position, they will definitely be countered by this position, so they have to be greedy.

Even if Wang Hongxun of the North wanted to reform and change the overall outlook, implementing changes within Yuzhou would require a gradual process.

We cannot adopt a one-size-fits-all approach.

If it really is a one-size-fits-all approach, then the consequence will be that everyone will oppose him, and in the end everyone will take advantage of his misfortune and eliminate Hongxiong, no matter how many contributions he has made.

It’s not that corrupt officials cannot be used, but it depends on how they are used.

The whole Yuzhou wants change and reform

He wanted to build a Yuzhou in Hongxuan's ideal, so that the people of Yuzhou could have enough food and clothing.

To create a land of abundance with abundant food, we still need these corrupt officials kneeling down below.

"The last chance I give you to survive is within the counties and prefectures under your jurisdiction."

"Register all the good farmland and put it under the management of the Zhenbei King's government! The land belongs to the public and cannot be privately owned. No matter whether you are an official, a gentry or a commoner, you do not have the ownership of the land. All of it is under the management of the government."

This king will establish a grain official, and this grain official will be the prefect and the county magistrate. "

Gan Haoyu, the prefect of Xiangyang County, asked in confusion:

"King of Zhenbei! Why should all the fields be managed by the King of Zhenbei's government?"

Not only him, but other prefects and county magistrates also didn't understand why they did so.

King Zhenbei snorted coldly, revealing a hint of murderous intent:

"You are Gan Haoyu, the prefect of Xiangyang County, right?"

Gan Haoyu, the prefect of Xiangyang County, was sweating profusely: "Reporting to the King of Zhenbei, it is correct! It is this humble official."

"How much good land do you have?"

"I have 1,675 acres of good farmland!" said Gan Haoyu, the prefect of Xiangyang County, without daring to lie.

"You are already guilty of a capital crime. You want to know the reason for your death?"

"Then I will tell you, and I will also tell you, the bunch of corrupt officials kneeling below."

"I will only say this once, and this is the last time. Also! You don't need to ask any more questions about the orders I want to execute. Just carry them out honestly."

Hong Xuan glanced at everyone:

"If we don't hand over all the good farmland to the Zhenbei King's government for management,

Then within three years,

You, the highest officials in the region, including the local gentry, will seize all the land from the common people.

Just like now, every one of you prefects and county magistrates owns thousands of acres of fertile land.

You dogs, it's no wonder that this prince often hears the eunuchs of the Imperial Household Department, the six ministers, and the cabinet ministers in the palace talking about natural disasters and man-made calamities that have caused the people to be displaced and starving.

It seems that you prefects and county magistrates are the natural disasters and the man-made disasters!"

No matter how much grain the imperial court plants, it cannot feed these parasites.

"I see!"

The prefect and county magistrate kneeling on the ground understood that the King of Zhenbei was protecting the people to prevent them from getting the land and then having it taken away again by the prefect, county magistrate, and local gentry.

Therefore, the King of Zhenbei established a grain official.

At the same time, all the land will be managed by the Zhenbei King's government and distributed equally to every citizen.

"You register all the land and hand it over to the Zhenbei King's government for management. Then, let all the people in your county or prefecture get some land to plant. Give all the land to them, and divide the food they grow into a 30%/70% split, with the government getting 30% and the people getting 70%!"

"Besides this, you must not collect any more taxes from the people. You are not allowed to collect any silver or any additional fees from them. Anyone who disobeys this order will be executed!"

"The land was not distributed based on the family unit, but on the population unit."

All the prefects and county magistrates in the hall were stunned.

"Mingjun!"

"Holy Lord!"

These words are not enough to describe the achievements of Zhenbei King Hongxuan at this time.

If Hongxuan was the emperor.

He was definitely an emperor who was unique in history, a wise ruler who had no predecessors and no successors.

Since ancient times, emperors, imperial power and officials have established various taxes to exploit the people, either corvée or exorbitant levies.

The government collects taxes not only from grain but also from money. This has been the case since ancient times.

The food they grew was just enough for the people to make ends meet and survive.

Because more than 90% of the grain grown has to be given to the government, and less than 10% is left for the people to survive.

This situation is still good. Some people have no good land and become hooligans.

But now, Zhenbei King Hongxuan left 70% of the food to the people, and the Zhenbei government only collected 30%.

"A wise ruler of all ages!"

The land was distributed not on a household basis but on a population basis, which was enough to motivate the people.

In this way, even children and women and children can be allocated land and fields, and for a family, they will get unimaginable amount of food.