The second year of Qian Sheng should be a good year!

Almost every common person in the world prays like this in their hearts.

In May last year, His Majesty ascended the throne in the capital and was named "Qian Sheng". Later, Wu Sangui and many other generals led their armies to the west, and Shaanxi was restored in less than a month.

Hundreds of thousands of bandits fled from Henan to Shaanxi, and then from Shaanxi to outside the customs.

Even if the newspaper said that "the pirates and bandits are joining forces," both the bandits and the bandits were sent to the outside world to eat sand. These news made the common people feel that the days of peace were coming soon.

The world is at peace!

With the arrival of the New Year, although the smoke has not cleared, a sudden news completely disrupted people's festive atmosphere after getting rid of the old and welcoming the new... His Majesty will move the capital to Nanjing!

This sudden news made the people in the north feel nervous, but made the soldiers in the south sometimes ecstatic and sometimes very nervous. This kind of anxious mood rose to the extreme in the twelfth month of the first year of Qiansheng, and For Zhu Guoqiang, who has been on the throne for a year, he will not waver in his will simply because of the reaction of his subjects.

After arriving in the capital last year, he first ascended the throne at a selected time, and then reorganized the imperial court, appointing some more capable ministers in the northern and southern imperial courts and localities. Regardless of whether these people were accused by the Qing Dynasty, whether they had committed such crimes, whether they were Whether they have passed the Jinshi examination or not, as long as they are useful to the country, they will be employed after careful consideration.

Thanks to this, the court situation quickly stabilized, and the craftsmen in Nanjing were also working day and night. Before the winter of the first year of Qian Sheng came, the main hall of the Nanjing Imperial Palace and various government offices had been rebuilt or renovated. So, in a hurry, Before the canal froze, Zhu Guoqiang hastily announced that he would move the capital to Nanjing.

In addition to the civil and military officials from the capital, those who moved the capital together also included the accompanying officers and soldiers from the Beijing camp. In fact, there was no "Beijing camp" or Beijing army during the Qian Sheng Dynasty. Instead, the Central Guards was established with 100,000 officers and soldiers. , stationed around the capital. It was at this time that the resettlement of military households in Nanjing was officially put on the agenda.

Land is needed to resettle military households. Where does the land come from?

In southern Zhili, except for Fengyang, Yingzhou, Haizhou and other places, due to the rampant Donglu and bandits, the population has dropped sharply and the land has been barren. There is a large amount of land that can be used to house military units. In Jiangnan, that place is densely populated and has many people. Little land.

Resettlement of military households?

Where to place it?

Therefore, it has become a top priority to seize the land of the honorable ministers and officials who have not been surrendered. With the land, military households can be settled, and there is really a lot of land for those honorable ministers in Nanjing.

There are tens of millions of acres!

After settling 100,000 military households, there are still some left!

The task of confiscating Xun Chen's fields was carried out by Fang Yizhi, who was the Minister of Punishment and received the imperial order directly.

Why do you want to confiscate Xunchen’s fields?

Not only because those honorable ministers committed a serious crime of surrendering to captives, but also because military households needed land for resettlement, and more importantly - to tell the world that whether they were thieves or surrendered to captives, regardless of their status, they would all receive the punishment they deserve.

When we first killed those honorable ministers who surrendered and became slaves in Nanjing, we were too hasty, so we only confiscated the household's frivolous wealth, so we started a second raid on the homes. The once-neglected villas outside the city and the manors in various places were all searched. The scope of the inspection also included their properties in various places.

In the few months after the capital was first moved, although there was no rush, the descendants of Nanjing's honorary ministers who once retired from the country were indeed living a life worse than death, but they had no place to redress their grievances.

Tonglu's crime is death!

If he didn't kill the whole family, he would be showing mercy outside the law.

There is only one option waiting for them: exile.

Originally, the matter of confiscating the house was very simple, but as the confiscation of the house deepened, the seemingly simple confiscation of the house began to have side effects. And the side problems were in the fields.

"Your Majesty, regardless of whether you are a noble or a gentry, the land you own on the surface is not in line with reality."

"Oh? It's normal to hide property!"

Facing Fang Yizhi's report, Zhu Guoqiang said.

"It's not hiding. Take Wei Guogong's family as an example. Judging from the copied land deeds, Wei Guogong's family has no less than 200,000 acres of land, distributed in South Zhili, Huguang, Henan, Shandong, North Zhili and other places. But this

Of the 200,000 acres of farmland, at least 180,000 acres were donated by outsiders over hundreds of years. They belong to the Duke of Wei in name only, but in fact they belong to individuals. According to the practice over the years, the owners have been ordered to

Retreat from the field..."

Before Fang Yizhi could finish speaking, Zhu Guoqiang asked.

"Return the fields? What fields should be surrendered? How many of those fields were occupied by force? Who is the owner of the land? How was it occupied back then? Whether it was usurpation or dedication, Fang Yizhi, please tell me!"

His Majesty's rhetorical question made Fang Yizhi speechless and speechless for a moment.

"I was born in a vassal government, so I naturally know about "devotion". Even in the Prince De's Palace, some people donated land. I remember that in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, someone's whole family donated 2,000 acres of land to Prince De's Palace. As for the occupation, my family

Prince De's Mansion has also occupied the houses of the common people, have you occupied it? Didn't you see the missing piece in the northwest corner of Prince De's Mansion?"

There is a missing corner in the northwest of the courtyard of Prince De's Mansion in Jinan. This place was originally the residence of the resident Mao family. In the early years, in order to expand the palace, King De paid a huge sum of money to buy Mao's house.

In the palace, Mao Er was also a staunch man, and he did not hesitate to fight to the death and threw himself into a lake. So the neighbors gathered together and protested to King De, but King De had to give in. Therefore, the palace is still missing a corner until now.

"How did the first day of June in Jinan come about? Who doesn't know the old Jinan people? Isn't it the day when 12 cents are thrown into the lake in early June, the people of Jinan will gather on the lake to row boats and pay tribute to commemorate the 2nd Mao. It even continues to this day!

Wang Xiangchun, a scholar from Jinan, wrote a poem praising Mao Er's actions a few years ago. The poem goes: "The imperial palace in Xianyang has become dust, can Mao Er live seriously? The ghost cries that the city will collapse in June, when will the autumn rain wipe out the green phosphorus."

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This is the result of the land occupied by Prince De's Mansion, which fully explains what "I didn't eat mutton and I got all pissed off and died." But without occupying the house, De Fan made people laugh for hundreds of years, and even continued

It lasted until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

After exposing his shortcomings, Zhu Guoqiang asked rhetorically.

"Fang Yizhi, you are also from a distinguished family. Is it necessary for the local big families to break up with each other and not even try to seize the three to five acres of land from ordinary people to save their face? Are there few of these honorable ministers and officials who need to seize the land and donate their own initiative?

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In our Ming Dynasty, everyone is willing to donate. Why don't you have to pay taxes or perform corvee labor? You can donate to the owner's house. You don't just donate if you want. Most people kneel down and donate at the door, and they won't accept it.

Honorable Sir, if an official wants land, there is no need to seize it by force. He can just let the servants spread the word - if the servants are taken in, people will immediately line up to offer the land, and the land offered can be hundreds of thousands of acres, or even tens of thousands of acres.

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But don’t think that after you donate the field, the field really becomes the owner’s family. That’s nonsense. In fact, you are giving the owner’s share of the money and food that should be given to the country. And this money and food are not handed over to the owner from generation to generation.

The master's family, it depends on whether anyone in the master's family is an official. After all, being exempted from official duties is the privilege of being an official, and it must be a high official.

As long as the master's family does not lose power and there are people who have served as officials in the court for generations, even if there is no land deed, the money and food that the donor should give will not be short of him. Once the master's family loses power, even if the master's family has the land deed, the donor will pass it.

Make trouble, or surrender to other new powerful people to get the land title back.

Just like the famous "Xu Jie retreats from the fields", who are the "common people" who surround the Xu Mansion and want to retreat from the fields?

They are all contributors. Even Hai Rui calls the contributors "tricksters", but the problem is that he needs those "tricksters" to attack Xu Jie. Why was one willing to fight and the other when he surrendered?

If you are willing to suffer, and it is beneficial to both parties, then will you regret it later?

Xu Jie will not be in position then!

When you donate, you just go for the advantage. If you can't take advantage of it, you are stupid if you don't go back on it. Besides, you have the support of "Hai Qingtian". To put it at best, his support for these "sufferers" is to attack the powerful, but go to

To put it more deeply...it's all politics.

Have the taxes stolen by the donors been recovered?

The official position is very bad, but the general environment is like this.

His Majesty's words made Fang Yizhi break into cold sweat on his back. There was nothing he could do about it, the Fang family also had "family members" who brought fields to donate.
Chapter completed!