Chapter 97 Why didn’t you sue the officials? Why didn’t Zhu Yuanzhang think of suing the officials when he rebelled?

Zhu Youxiao has something on his mind.

It's still a matter of dividing the land in his own imperial village.

He knew that everything Zhang Haogu said was reasonable, but after all, this was his own land and his private money. If he really wanted to use it to distribute land to the people, he would not be willing to part with it.

However, he understood.

If they don't come up with it, either the government will use finances to support them, or they will become refugees again.

The imperial court's financial support can support 10,000, 20,000, or even 35,000.

But, what about one hundred thousand? What about two hundred thousand?

Zhu Youxiao couldn't bear to let them become refugees again.

Now these happy faces have turned into that indifferent look again.

He also has a kind of compassion.

Zhang Haogu followed beside him and knew that the little emperor was currently having a fierce psychological struggle. He waited patiently for Zhu Youxiao to make his final choice.

Today, Yongding County has a new batch of alternate officials.

Start a new round of testing.

This new batch of candidate officials also complained a lot from the beginning, but now they have begun to adapt to life in Yongding County.

As long as they want to get ahead, as long as Zhu Youxiao is here, they will have a chance to succeed.

Many houses have been repaired.

The refugees from outside have to live together first, and then after they have one or two jobs and money, they can build a house of their own.

However, the most popular place in Yongding County is Datong Trading Company.

This is a trading firm specially established by Zhang Haogu.

They mainly sell three-legged golden toads, and in addition they sell looms and textile machines.

These two departments can currently be regarded as the most profitable.

As for the concept of land reclamation proposed by Zhang Haogu before, it actually does not hold true. The harvest of these uncultivated wastelands is firstly poor, secondly, the location is not good, and thirdly, the output ratio is not good, and some land is simply saline-alkali land.

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For now, these refugees are relatively stable here, but if time goes by and there is no land for farming, problems will still arise.

Zhang Haogu didn't say anything.

I just hope that Zhu Youxiao can think on his own.

Zhu Youxiao must be allowed to strengthen his beliefs.

It is necessary to implement the apportionment of every acre into an acre, and the land must be released.

He himself didn't want to understand that no matter how hard Zhang Haogu talked, it would have no effect.

Only by allowing this dog emperor to experience and understand for himself, what he understands and the principles he masters will be more effective than telling him a hundred or a thousand times.

certainly.

Zhang Haogu would not place all his hopes on Zhu Youxiao.

Unknowingly, the two of them had arrived at the refugee camp

This is a place specially designed to bring in refugees.

Ragged refugees are being registered one by one.

The population of Yongding County is increasing.

"Brother, what do you call me?" Zhu Youxiao simply opened a registration office alone and chatted with people while registering.

"My surname is Wang, and my name is Wang Laoqi!"

This refugee was also bringing his family, and he had a seven or eight-year-old son with him. He pretended to salute, and it was obvious that his movements were not very standard.

"Wang Laoqi!"

Zhu Youxiao muttered, and asked casually while registering: "How did you think of coming to Yongding County?"

"No need to ask, the family can't survive!" Wang Laoqi replied.

"Can't survive?" Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but ask, "But the family suffered a disaster?"

"Not really!"

Wang Laoqi sighed, with a bit of hatred exuding in his eyes: "Our home has been occupied!"

"My home has been occupied?" Zhu Youxiao was stunned: "Who in the world dares to occupy your home? Isn't there any royal law?"

"Wang Fa?"

Wang Laoqi started chatting: "My family is from Hebei. Originally, we still had five acres of land. I could still live in this life. Later, the emperor photographed the guarding eunuch and came over and said that he had to pay the mining tax!"

Zhu Youxiao nodded, he knew about this.

This can be traced back to the Wanli period, with the three major Wanli expeditions and the great changes in Liaodong. The national treasury was already stretched. Later, the officials put forward a proposal to increase revenue - collect mineral taxes to replenish the national treasury.

Wanli was well aware of the benefits of mining taxes, so he was unwilling to give up such a huge amount of money to foreign ministers, and finally decided to use eunuchs as mine tax inspectors.

The emperor could not trust his ministers, so naturally he could only trust the eunuchs. In this way, the mine supervisors and tax envoys were similar to imperial envoys and were part-time jobs of eunuchs.

After Wanli's death, Zhu Changluo didn't live for more than a few days before it was Zhu Youxiao's turn. The mining tax came from his own internal funds. Naturally, Zhu Youxiao had no reason to cancel it.

Eunuch Wei did not disappoint Zhu Youxiao when it came to making money.

However, after hearing Wang Laoqi's words, Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but have an idea in his mind.

Am I wrong?

What kind of immoral things can these guard eunuchs do?

"Are you required to pay mining taxes?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

right!

Wang Laoqi nodded: "This eunuch said that there is a mine under our house, and said that he wanted us to pay the tax. If we can't pay, then let us use the land to offset the tax. They arrested my son.

, asked me to pay taxes. I sold all the things I could sell at home. After paying the taxes, they said it was not enough, and they added our land to the imperial village!"

"What?"

Zhu Youxiao's eyes suddenly widened and he said with disbelief: "Why are they so bold?"

Wang Laoqi also became angry: "These people are all eunuchs arranged by the emperor. How could there be a mine under our land? When I refused, they came to beat me and even burned me.

I have no choice but to take my wife and daughter and run away!"

"Where are your parents?" Zhu Youxiao said slowly.

"They're all dead. They were all starved to death when they came out!" Wang Laoqi said.

"You, why don't you sue the official?" Zhu Youxiao asked.

"It's really strange. Why didn't Zhu Yuanzhang sue the officials when he rebelled?" Wang Laoqi also became angry and opened his mouth to say disrespectful words.

The guard on the side suddenly frowned.

But Zhu Youxiao suddenly raised his hand and stopped the guard's action.

Wang Laoqi also realized that he had made a mistake, and then he said calmly: "I also heard that Yongding County is recruiting refugees and they can have a way to survive, so I came here, this gentleman!"

Zhu Youxiao didn't know why, he just felt that his heart was filled with panic.

If it is a corrupt official, he will deal with it mercilessly.

However, at this moment, Zhu Youxiao discovered that the culprit was himself.

The eunuchs were their domestic slaves, and they happily told themselves how many acres of land had been added to the imperial estate, and how much money they had made.

He never cared about this before, he only felt happy.

What's wrong with the expansion of the Imperial Palace? What's wrong with having more money in your internal funds?

But today, he suddenly realized that he was wrong?

How could he imagine that for every additional acre of land in his imperial estate, there would be a broken family behind it.

You could blame corrupt officials before, but now can you blame yourself?

Aren’t you the one who is greedy?

The source of this problem is actually myself?

"You just stay here, stay here well!"

Zhu Youxiao's voice was choked with sobs, and he was a little ashamed as he said: "There are good days here, and there will be good days!"

Zhang Haogu also sighed, this Wang Laoqi is really heartbreaking, and his words are worth a thousand words of his.

At this moment, bursts of noisy sounds suddenly came from not far away.
Chapter completed!