Seeing the proud look of the emperor's grandson, Yang Feng was also very emotional!
This is the result the Emperor Taisun wants.
In fact, he just wanted to complete the recognition of his imperial status in front of the people of the world in advance.
Anyway, his grandfather is not taboo about this kind of thing. He does not need to be like the princes of other dynasties and behave honestly. He must not make people feel anxious...
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care about this.
He was like a pure old farmer, watching his descendants begin to take charge of the family business, and then he could finally take care of the family business. He looked at the diligence of his successor with gratified eyes. He used to be like this to Zhu Biao, but now he is getting older and older.
This is especially true for Zhu Yunxi. In fact, he never thought about changing his successor. No matter whether he supported Zhu Yunwen or Zhu Di, his purpose was just to try to get Zhu Yunxi to embark on the path he thought was right.
That is to say, stay away from Yang Feng's temptations and keep a distance from Yang Feng.
The Ming Dynasty needed the new technologies brought by Yang Feng, but it did not need the heresies brought by Yang Feng, just like the Westernizationists in the late Qing Dynasty.
Ming learning is the body, and Xia learning is the application.
Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Di are just his tools.
But now Zhu Yunxi had the power to eliminate the two uncles in one fell swoop, taking the opportunity to preemptively establish his status as an emperor in front of the people of the world.
Therefore, the leader would definitely not dare to do so, and could only cry and pay for food.
As he spoke, he looked at the emperor's grandson who had already begun to offer sacrifices to heaven.
Although there is no difference in essence, the definition of imperial power has changed.
The division of land among military households has also become a reform of the military household system, but this reform cannot be rushed, so a pilot is needed to test it, and the Shanxi Capital Command and Envoy Department was finally selected as the pilot.
Yang Feng said.
Those who donate land can exchange for fame; those who donate 100 acres of land can exchange for fame as a scholar; those who donate 1,000 acres of land can exchange for fame as a scholar.
And Guan Tian can be traded.
Collection, storage, transportation, and management all require a certain amount of manpower to be supported separately, but if you use the tax package system, you don't have to worry about it at all.
Xie Cheng also came from a rebel background, and he is a professional.
After agreeing to all the conditions, of course I chose to return to Ming Dynasty.
However, there are no large landowners with 10,000 acres in Shanxi, so it is actually a matter of replacing a bunch of talented people.
As for the subsequent negotiations, there is no suspense.
However, these official lands in Shanxi are not heavily endowed, so they cannot be traded.
Not only military households in Shanxi, but military households from other places also began to demand land distribution.
Of course, the expenses of those unruly people during this period cannot be paid by themselves. They are all forced to donate from the gentry from all over Shanxi Province. Either you stand up and take the lead in fighting against the imperial court, or you pay for food and we stand up to fight against the imperial court. Those
The gentry were afraid that the imperial court would settle accounts in the fall, so of course they did not dare to take the lead. In fact, they almost regretted it at this time. Originally, they were indeed the first to follow the River God to cause trouble, but they just wanted to force Jin Fan away, but in the end they failed step by step.
Until now...
As long as Yang Feng handed over these two million and eight hundred thousand stones of millet and wheat to the imperial court a year, he could collect taxes as he pleased in Shanxi.
Those who donate 10,000 acres of land will be directly granted the same birth certificate as Jinshi.
After all, maintaining a tax system requires investing a lot of money.
"It's illegal or not. In the end, it's not your official name. But you don't have to worry about this. I will hire them, from the commander to the head, and then send them to the Toyoshu River to open up wasteland and farm."
Covenant...
They lost the right to interpret the legitimacy of imperial power.
The emperor's grandson was on Huanqiu, under the gaze of hundreds of thousands of people, wearing a crown and continuing the ceremony of worshiping heaven.
So Zhu Yuanzhang signed the contract very happily.
Xie Cheng said.
Because the people choose the king.
So he shouldn't care too much about this issue.
"So, why don't you just contract Shanxi's tax revenue to me?"
Shanxi can't grow tea, so it's useless to let Shanxi go. Anyway, it's still imported from outside by the imperial court. At most, it will be more free to trade within Shanxi.
Free of food...
"You are a god, how can you keep staring at the mortal world? As long as you don't break your promise, there is no need for the River God to come, but if you break your promise, it will be hard to say."
Tea is indeed an important material currently used for horse trading, but this has nothing to do with Shanxi.
"If something happens in the future, will you send them back to give them a shout-out?"
Firstly, his mentality is not that he must never bow to the unruly people. This is very important. Deep down in his heart, he actually understands that he and the people are equal. It is not that he has never knelt down when begging. Secondly, he knows very well that as long as he
If he doesn't tell the world, then this covenant will not be spread. The best he can do is put it with Yang Feng, so that this guy can use it to cause trouble in the future.
Xie Cheng nodded silently.
Xie Cheng said.
The Di newspaper belongs to the imperial court and will certainly not be disseminated.
Xie Cheng said.
In fact, as long as the salt industry is not liberalized, it will be fine.
Yang Feng said.
In this way, during the process of the emperor's grandson worshiping heaven, Yang Feng and Xie Cheng respectively represented both parties in the negotiation and completed the core content of the negotiation ahead of schedule.
I am the real one!
At this moment, amid the shouts of long live the mountains, the emperor's grandson walked up to Huanqiu wearing a crown, as if he was rehearsing his ascension to the throne...
"The emperor's grandson has finally grown up."
In fact, this is the most important question...
Of course, grain cannot be exempted, and Shanxi's tax exemption cannot exempt other provinces. Wouldn't that force other provinces to rebel?
Grain exemption is definitely not exempt, but Shanxi's taxes are all contracted to Ambassador Yang. As for how he collects them, it has nothing to do with the court. Shanxi pays taxes how it is paid by the court, but these taxes are paid by Yang.
The ambassador collects it on his behalf and then turns it over. Whether he doesn't collect it himself is his own business, as long as he doesn't lose the share he turns over to the court every year.
"Fourth, all the terms must be written down in black and white as a covenant, and it must be signed by the Emperor Taisun and His Majesty's seal."
Of course, it is impossible for the Emperor Taisun to come forward to negotiate this kind of thing.
Yang Feng said.
Everyone is a sensible person, and it is impossible not to settle accounts later.
"However, His Majesty has made it clear that once the rebellion in Shanxi is calmed down, all those who participated in the amnesty period, whether they were those who caused rebellion in the counties when they first went north to Taiyuan, or those who were elected to the capital afterward, plus those who had previously fought with the imperial court at Tianjing Pass, will
All their crimes will be pardoned, but these clubs, no matter what, must be dissolved afterwards. As for the commanders, His Majesty will reward each of them with a position."
Yang Feng agreed to all four items.
The whole process lasted for half an hour. With the burning of the sacrificial inscriptions proclaiming to heaven in the furnace, the River God Incident that caused panic among people in the entire north during the Ming Dynasty came to an official end.
"Ambassador, have you had enough?"
It's all the tax collector's own.
Yang Feng said with a smile.
This ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven is very complicated and must be strictly followed step by step. The process of offering sacrifices to heaven by Yuan Datou took more than an hour!
Although the emperor's grandson is not an emperor, the process must follow etiquette.
"First, amnesty."
but……
But the salt industry cannot be touched.
"And then find an opportunity to seize their leverage, and then settle the score with the court's laws?"
As for the rest, it's not worth mentioning.
This is already necessary. You must know that the imperial court will eventually have to rely on Shanxi military households, and it is impossible for the emperor to replace another batch of military households to garrison Shanxi.
On the other hand, the people of Shanxi recognized that Zhu Yuanzhang had restored the Three Jins and rescued them from the tyranny of Hu Yuan. As a thank you to Zhu Yuanzhang, the people of the Three Jins had surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang for generations, and regarded Zhu Yuanzhang as the ruler and protector of the Three Jins.
recognize the right of dominion and protection of his heirs.
Tell Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Di...
Xie Cheng said.
The number of military households is constantly increasing, so how can the guards deal with their land?
In short, it cannot be solved by dividing the land with a simple sentence.
Yang Feng said.
Hedong Yanchi and Yanyin are still the same as before.
First of all, there must be equality in order to make a covenant. One is above and the other is kneeling at the feet. This is not called a covenant. Although it can be beautified with some nice words, as long as the emperor and the people make a covenant, in fact, there is no distinction between the two sides. The good thing is that
It's not something that Xie Cheng needs to worry about, and the emperor at this time originally started from the lowest level of common people. As for beggars, there is no lower level. No matter how low they are, they are slaves, but slaves are not considered common people. As far as the status of common people is concerned,
Indeed, no one has a lower starting point than an emperor.
Xie Cheng nodded silently.
Juntian in Shanxi...
"Just like those lustful people in Hu Yuan's time?"
The emperor and the people formed an alliance, and the emperor and the people were brought to an equal position.
Xie Cheng said.
Even if the imperial court fails to settle accounts, local officials and the gentry who were previously forced to donate will still have to settle accounts with these unscrupulous people.
"So what does the ambassador want us to deliver on?"
The two courses in summer and autumn in Shanxi Province add up to 2.8 million shi.
Yang Feng said.
When order is restored in the future, these gentry will finally have some local power. If they collude with local officials again, it would be strange not to retaliate against them!
"Ambassador, as long as you ensure the food supply of Shanxi Xingdusi and ensure that Shanxi's industrial and commercial tax revenue exceeds the current two million dan per year, the court can exempt food. As for equalizing land, it is the easiest. His Majesty just issued an imperial edict. This does not require any payment from the court.
In terms of money, the court has no loss at all. At most, your majesty will compensate the landowners whose fields were divided and give their families a reputation as a scholar."
Then the land was given to the tenants by His Majesty the Emperor for cultivation. It was not divided land. The landowners insisted on dedicating the land to the Emperor for the sake of the fame of their descendants. Of course, it was useless for the Emperor to take it, so the kind-hearted Emperor gave it to them.
The land was distributed to the tenants who originally cultivated it, but the land was considered official land. The tenants had the right to cultivate but not the right to trade.
But Yang Feng's move will always keep the knife hanging. If the court or local officials and gentry really retaliate against the unruly people who participated, then these leaders who have established prestige in the process can come back at any time.
He raised his arms and once again plunged Shanxi into rebellion in a very short period of time.
This covenant opened the door to a new world for them.
Xie Cheng just smiled slightly.
"Marquis Yongping is indeed professional."
"Second, military households must divide their land."
So next, the commander-in-chief of the Zhaoyi, Huguo, and Hedong three societies will formally start negotiations with Yongping Hou on behalf of the more than two million Shanxi people belonging to the three societies.
Xie Cheng said.
Yang Feng said.
"Marquis Yongping, I am just fulfilling my promise. Even if I am a common person, I must fulfill my promise to others. Since you want me to be the middleman, of course I must be fair and just."
Official land must be allocated heavily.
In fact, for the court, the key is this free grain, which is more than two million shi per year in Shanxi. This is the largest tax in the north, especially the military supplies for Shanxi Xingdusi. If Yang Feng can ensure that the court will not miss this
In terms of revenue, Shanxi Xingdusi would not be short of this supply, so they could simply adopt the tax farming system like Hu Yuan and contract Shanxi tax revenue to Yang Feng, which would save the court a lot of trouble.
In fact, Confucian scholars were already wary of this covenant because it changed the theory of destiny they had been promoting.
Yang Feng said.
This is a good suggestion.
"The third equalization of land is free of grain."
After the news that the people of Shanxi chose to return to the Ming Dynasty reached the capital, His Majesty the Emperor announced an amnesty the next day, and not only amnesty for Shanxi, but also for the whole country. In this way, it was not the people in Shanxi who were blackmailed, but His Majesty the Emperor because of the dream.
Seeing that all the emperors of the Song Dynasty came to thank him, he was in a very good mood and felt that he could finally achieve peace in the world, so he granted amnesty as soon as he was happy.
If the emperor refuses, then it is likely that it will not only be Shanxi military households, not to mention that after knowing the corruption of the military household system, he himself has lost confidence in this system, so the reform of the military household land system is necessary
, but a new system has not been decided yet. After all, it is not just as simple as allocating land. If the land is allocated, how will military rations be solved in the future? There is also the issue of mobilization of military households. It is very difficult for military households to mobilize due to various problems.
Normally, if the land is divided, how can it be mobilized? And if the land is divided, what will happen to the additional land of Yu Ding? Originally, Yu Ding was also given land by the guards. Although it was half that of the regular soldiers, their land was also the land of the guards.
given.
You all should give up!
This turned into Shanxi landlords enthusiastically donating land...
Of course there is a covenant written in black and white, in two copies, but the Shanxi people's copy is given to Ambassador Yang for safekeeping, and the court's copy is of course hidden in the palace, just like an iron bond, so as long as Ambassador Yang doesn't hold it all over the world
Propaganda is equivalent to confidentiality. As for those commanders who have their heads outside, they are just nonsense. If Shanxi people want to verify, of course they can ask Ambassador Yang to see it, but Ambassador Yang will not take the initiative to pass it on.
In this era, there is nothing that can be spread nationwide.
"Ah, fair and square, by the way, why didn't the river god come?"
"The ambassador was joking. As long as they don't break the law in the future, the court will have nothing to arrest them even if they want to!"
And this system is not without precedent. After all, during the Hu Yuan Dynasty, most tax revenues were contracted.
it's useless.
"I will inform Your Majesty."
Then there is the choice of returning to the Ming Dynasty or returning to the Song Dynasty. As for this choice, there is no suspense.
This is already a rebellion.
"But if I am allowed to pay taxes, then except for salt, which belongs to the imperial court, other items such as tea will be liberalized in Shanxi."
The choice of the people became the explanation for the legitimacy of the imperial power. In other words, if the people did not choose, the imperial power would not be legitimate.
And the Confucian scholars, or the gentry behind them...
That’s the people too!
For the first time, they obtained a basis to restrict imperial power.
Therefore, compared with relatively illusory things, realistic benefits are more important after all.