Lu Xiangsheng was still a little hesitant: "But if the new army is used, the situation in Zhejiang will be in chaos."

"Sir, you should continue to suffer from chaos." Yang An was a little anxious. "The emperor gave you the important task of implementing the new law in Jiangnan, hoping that you can implement the new law in the short term to set an example for the next national implementation. If you are mediocre here, the emperor may have to change someone to do this job."

"The emperor may have to change someone to do this job!" This sentence was like a heavy drum hitting Lu Xiangsheng's heart.

He couldn't help but sigh, "Your Majesty, it seems that you and Weichen are both wrong."

Originally, Lu Xiangsheng thought that before the arrival of the emperor, the emperor, specifically reminded him not to take too violent actions and try to use milder methods to promote the joint efforts of officials and gentry as well as the work of officials and gentry. However, judging from the practices of gentry and even officials over the past few days, how innocent this idea is.

The ancestors have warned them that cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents. Not only did they cut off their wealth, but they also wanted to dig their roots. I am afraid that in the eyes of these people, they are no different from the demons who jumped out of hell. How can they expect them to support him?

Thinking of this, Lu Xiangsheng suddenly remembered an article called Xiaoyuer, who had read in Pratyekabud in Beijing before leaving Beijing, "Any reform and reform will not be smooth since ancient times, because those vested interest groups who have suffered losses will definitely fight back frantically.

They will use the fastest speed and cruelest methods to eliminate those who are trying to reform, so don't try to persuade or influence the old forces in a gentle way, because this is tantamount to playing the piano against a cow. The best way to deal with such people is to use swords and guns in their hands. Any reform will kill people, because only by watering them with blood can bright fruits grow."

When I first saw this article, the person who laughed in my heart was probably a naughty man. How could such radical reforms be made? Didn’t this offend everyone?

Lu Xiangsheng, who has been educated by Confucianism since childhood, believes that peace is the most important thing, and believes that if there is a possibility of negotiating everything, don’t use force easily. You must make more friends and fewer enemies, so you will naturally look down on articles that start by shouting and killing.

Thinking back to this article, Lu Xiangsheng felt that this little fish was really seeing the core of the problem. The most critical problem now is that he came to Jiangnan to cut off the wealth path of the gentry, but he still naively thought that he forced the other party to make concessions with the emperor's name and his reputation. Now when he recalled how naive he was.

"Can't continue to do this anymore."

Lu Xiangsheng decisively ordered, "Yang An, you will immediately take 5,000 troops to various county government offices tomorrow. The government office will escort the land deeds, land deeds and even booklets from shops in various places. During this period, you will take them down if you dare to obstruct them."

Yang An asked again: "What if there is another incident of the mining tax surveillance incident?"

Lu Xiangsheng's face muscles shook a few times before gritting his teeth and said, "Don't kill them!"

"Here, the officials will fulfill their mission!" After receiving Lu Xiangsheng's order, Yang An took two steps back and saluted him solemnly.

The mining supervision and tax incident mentioned here refers to what happened during the Wanli period.

In the late Wanli period, the Ming Dynasty, which had passed the three major expeditions, exhausted the little wealth saved by Zhang Juzheng, and the financial crisis was quite serious. In order to get money, Emperor Wanli had to personally send a trusted eunuch to Jiangnan and gave them the title of an eunuch in the area and a mine.

What do these eunuchs do? They just want to collect taxes, so the people of Jiangnan called these eunuchs "mining supervisors" and "tax supervisors".

How did the gentry in Jiangnan evaluate the behavior of Emperor Wanli? In the words of Huang Zongxi, a thinker in the late Ming Dynasty, it is "killing and peeling off the bone marrow of the world and separating the children of the world, and treating me as a matter of course."

Look, Emperor Wanli is such a person in their writing.

But is this really the case?

In fact, it was not the case. The fact was that the financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty was quite serious at that time. Seven or eight out of ten lands in the world were in the hands of officials, gentry and landlords. Don’t forget that these people do not have to pay taxes.

In other words, the land tax of the entire Ming Dynasty was all over the farmers who only had 20% of the land. In addition, the Ming Dynasty's commercial tax was notoriously cheap. Comrade Zhu, the founding emperor, personally set a tax rate of 30 taxes. If this tax rate was placed in modern society, it would make all merchants laugh.

But even those merchants are unwilling to pay this amount of commercial tax. They tried every means to evade taxes through bribery, smuggling, concealment and other means, so that the huge Ming Dynasty's fiscal revenue in a year was only a few million taels, which was simply a big deal.

Seeing that the finances were almost unable to hold on, Emperor Wanli had no choice but to send the eunuchs he trusted the most and came out to collect taxes in person. Then the eunuchs were regarded as a life-and-death enemy by the gentry in Jiangnan. They encouraged the people to rush to the yamen of the tax and mining prisons, and pulled out the eunuchs and beat them to death, and then everyone left.

Wanli was furious when he learned about this, but he had no choice but to end the matter.

What makes people speechless is that even in later generations, there were still some "brickers" and "professors" who scolded Emperor Wanli, saying that for his greed, he personally sent eunuchs to the people to plunder money, and finally was driven back by the righteous people in Jiangnan. This was a great victory for the righteous people to oppose feudal forces.

However, they couldn't tell the specific method of Emperor Wanli, which was arrogance, extravagance, and lewdness. This also shows that the virtues of scholars have been the same from ancient times to the present. Regardless of whether it is true or not, I will give you a big hat first. Anyway, we all say it is true, who dares to say it is false?

After receiving Lu Xiangsheng's order, Yang An did not stop at all, and ordered five thousand troops. The next day, he headed straight towards Shaoxing Prefecture, Jinhua Prefecture, Ningbo Prefecture, Songjiang Prefecture and other places.

Naturally, Yang An's actions could not be hidden from the intentional people. For a moment, the atmosphere in Zhejiang became tense. Everyone understood that Lu Xiangsheng was going to play the game in real life.

Because if you want to promote the integrated job and pay for food, you must know whose land in Jiangnan is in. Only by mastering these can you better collect taxes. Otherwise, you can only rush around like blind people riding blind horses and finally kill yourself.
Chapter completed!