The situation in Jiangnan as a whole is complex, and we cannot adopt a barbaric one-size-fits-all approach. That is absolutely not possible.

Therefore, Zhu Han's Jiangnan Land Reform Prime Minister Affairs Office immediately brought in Li Shanchang, Liu Bowen, Shi Naian, Hu Weiyong, Jiangnan Kong family and others.

We need to discuss a method that is both safe and effective.

Solve the centuries-old problems of land annexation and hidden property taxes in Jiangnan.

"Deputy Marshal, I believe that everything must be done with justice, and one must have a name and honor before it can work. In this way, the top and bottom are harmonious, and the people's wishes are echoed. This is the key to truly and effectively implementing the Jiangnan New Deal.

Where.”

The person who is talking about this righteous name is Liu Bowen.

He was a scholar from Jiangnan.

Moreover, as a former official of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, he also had a very high reputation among the squires, and Zhu Han had always treated him as one of his own, so he let him speak first.

"Mr. Liu, do you have any mature suggestions? Of course, there is no need to beat around the bush," Zhu Han said.

Liu Bowen smiled slightly, and then said, "The lower official suggested that all the land in Jiangnan should be surveyed to determine that all the figures exceeding the registered number should be returned to the government. However, the owners of these original properties can get a purchase price.

These buyout funds will be compensated by the poor people who will be allocated the land in the future. All land buyout funds can be tentatively set at two years' harvest per mu of land.

The official has already calculated that the harvest in two years is about two to three stones. In this way, it can be paid in installments over five years, which is less than three or five bushels per year. The total excess farmland in Jiangnan is at least

There are as many as 30 to 40 million. If the average number is three dan, that would be about 80 to 90 million. Use the money to redeem the excess land in Jiangnan. In this way, the refugees will get the land, while the wealthy and powerful families who originally owned the land will get the land.

In exchange for harvest compensation, if everyone takes a step back, nothing will happen."

"Moreover, our Jiangnan Land Reform Prime Minister Affairs Office can also levy a tax on these redemption funds. It does not need to be too much. It only needs to levy one-tenth of the tax, and then it can get another eight to nine million.

Stone grain grass!”

"In this way, we can almost guarantee sufficient military rations for several years!"

"And once the redemption system is successfully implemented in Jiangnan, it will not only alleviate the contradiction between Jiangnan's small land and large population, but also gain a large amount of fiscal revenue!"

When Zhu Han heard this method, he found it to be a relatively safe method.

However, this seems to sound familiar. The land redemption reform in later generations seemed to be like this.

This method sounds simple, but it is a bit difficult to actually implement it.

First, sort out the amount of land in Jiangnan, and then enter into land redemption contracts with the refugees. The supervision of these matters cannot be accomplished with words.

"Mr. Liu's method is good!" Zhu Han nodded and said, "I wonder if there are other methods?"

The other people obviously didn't have any opinions.

They were all less familiar with the situation in Jiangnan than Liu Bowen, and they all agreed with the method proposed by Liu Bowen.

However, Li Shanchang quickly put forward his own additional suggestions, "Deputy Marshal, I think that when this method is implemented, it can be allocated to several full-time yamen. First set up a Qingtian yamen, and then set up a redemption yamen.

Then set up a tax collection yamen to sort out the number of fields, distribute the land, and then carry out redemptions to pay taxes and obtain contracts for the fields. This will check and balance each other to prevent anyone from colluding, and to prevent those powerful people from turning their left hand over to their right hand.

, turn the originally illegal land into your own legal land!"

"Ah, very good!"

After hearing this, Zhu Han immediately agreed, "Mr. Li said it very well, so let's do it like this!"

but.

The land redemption reform that Zhu Han planned to adopt had just become known, but it encountered far stronger resistance than imagined.

The gentry and powerful people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have been intertwined for hundreds of years.

Although the Mongols sucked blood from them when they came to conquer.

But most people saved most of their property because they knelt in time.

Now the Red Scarf Army, a bunch of bastards, have come to the south of the Yangtze River to rob the land they have accumulated over generations. It is like digging up their ancestral graves.

Many unwilling powerful people resisted, and even trained their troops and prepared to fight against the Red Turban Army.

Faced with such a situation, even a simple Qingtian cannot be completed.

How could Zhu Han have free time to argue with them and immediately mobilized 20,000 troops from Jinling?

Starting from Wuxing, they swept all the way southward along Suzhou. Anyone who did not cooperate with the settlement of land and property would have their homes confiscated!

All their land was confiscated. As for the men, as for those families with powerful clans, they were broken up and moved to various places to live separately, so that they could no longer stay together to make trouble. For a while, brothers Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Han were originally in

Jiangnan's very good reputation instantly gained a lot of slander.

Many people have said that Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Han were both beggars in the past. They carried out land reform in Jiangnan to embezzle land just because they hated the rich. They were so stupid that they could not get to the top, and it was difficult for scholars to live a good life! So we must educate scholars.

I would be willing to be knocked down into the quagmire and look like a mud-legged person!

So, for a while, many fools who didn't know the truth started to make fun of Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Han along with these powerful men.

The policy of land redemption and redemption has been widely vilified.

Not only that, many powerful landowners came to Jinling in series.

They knelt down and petitioned in front of Zhu Yuanzhang's Prince Wu's Mansion, asking the King of Wu, Zhu Yuanzhang, to take back his orders and not to destroy the centuries-old cultural tradition in Jiangnan.

After all, if the fields that Gengdu passed down to his family are not cultivated, how can he still study!

Without scholars, how can you two beggars like Lao Zhu govern Jiangnan!

Faced with this group of people's actions that looked like requests but were actually threats, Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have already been prepared.

"King Wu, give us scholars a way to survive!"

"That's right, King Wu is so kind to you, please don't rob my family of their ancestral land!"

"Wu Wang Renyi, please take back your life!"

...

A series of wailing sounds sounded at the door of Prince Wu's Mansion.

Many people who didn't know the truth gathered around him one after another.

They didn't know what happened, but they saw scholars and gentry kneeling outside Prince Wu's Mansion, crying and wailing loudly.

Many people listened for a long time before they finally understood.

It turns out that the land of these landlords will be expropriated by the Wu Palace in the name of "land reform".

As a result, many people sympathized with these gentry.

Many people discussed it privately.

"That's not okay. It's all family property. How can you buy and sell it by force?"

"I heard... King Wu was born a beggar, so he has some hatred for the rich, isn't he?"

"Haha, not only is he a beggar, I heard he also became a monk!"

"Haha, no wonder, I must not see these squires living a good life, so I came to torment them."

Many people expressed their opposition to these people who sympathized with the gentry.

"You fools, you can't even eat two mediocre meals a day, but you feel sympathy for these fat and big-eared landowners, bah!"

"How much of the land owned by the landlords was earned by hard work in farming, and not by plundering the land from the common people!"

"You fools, you are so stupid and bad!"

There was a lot of discussion outside the gate of Prince Wu's Mansion.

Many people were talking about the land reform in Jiangnan. Regarding these people's remarks, spies in casual clothes immediately reported to Zhu Han and Zhu Yuanzhang in Prince Wu's palace.

"These fools don't farm their own land, so they don't know the benefits of my land reform." Zhu Han couldn't help but say.

"They are all common people, living in the city and not farming. Naturally, they don't know the benefits of land. They think those gentry and landlords are good men and women!" Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Brother, what are you going to do with these landowners and gentry who are mourning outside the door?" Zhu Han asked.

Zhu Yuanzhang picked up the tea cup, took a slow sip of fragrant tea, and then said: "Since they are willing to kneel, let them kneel. We should eat and drink as we should, and don't worry about them."

"I see, there are more and more people watching the fun," Zhu Han said.

"Haha, don't be afraid. The more people watching the excitement, the better. This principle is not unclear. Let people understand this matter clearly, and it will save a lot of trouble in the future land reform." Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile.

Zhu Han understood at this time that his brother was planning to start a public opinion war.

really.

As time goes by, there are fewer and fewer ordinary people who originally had sympathy for the gentry and landlords.

They even felt contempt for the gentry and landlords who were mourning every day.

"I thought that scholars were all decent people, but I never thought that for a few acres of land, I would act violently in the street here."

"What kind of scholar is just a person who has benefited from the honor of his ancestors and learned a few bad books? A real scholar should be someone like Wanhu!"

"Wanhu? Who is Wanhu?"

"You don't even know, Wanhu, that we are the number one scholar in the imperial examination in Jiangnan! What kind of hot air balloon has been made now that can make people fly hundreds of feet into the sky!"

"Really or not? This is also a scholar?"
To be continued...