In the letter, Liu Lian first told Zhu Zhen about the difficulties he encountered in promoting the yellow book - Qing Zhang's landowners encountered great obstacles.
The officials he sent to the countryside to clean up their father-in-law were often expelled, reviled and even beaten by the common people. In more than a year, more than a dozen police officers died, so much so that they were unwilling to go to the countryside anymore after being paid double wages.
In order to solve this problem, Liu Lian also spent a lot of effort. He organized people to preach to the people about clearing the land and making up the yellow book to give the court a basis for collecting taxes, so that those with more land would pay more taxes and those without land would pay more.
Those with less land pay less tax!
In the past, the local tyrants and gentry who owned a large amount of land bribed the government and used various methods to hide their property and pass on the tax burden, so that the poor people shouldered most of the taxes for them.
The poor people could not afford the overloaded taxes, so they could only sell their land to large households at low prices to cope with the government's pressing pressure.
Therefore, "the rich are surrounded by miles of land, and the poor have no place to stand on." "Although the Yuan and Ming dynasties were reformed, there was absolutely no improvement at all"...
Therefore, re-clearing the land and compiling yellow records is a great thing for the poor people to reduce their burden. The people should strongly support it and should not do their best to obstruct it!
However, the obvious truth does not make sense to ordinary people.
Liu Lian investigated the reason and believed that it was because since ancient times, imperial power did not extend to counties, and the vast rural areas were ruled by gentry and clan elders.
With the help of the power of clan and ethics, these people have ruled the countryside and farmers for thousands of years. Although the change of dynasties is not easy.
These country gentry clan elders relied on their privileges to seize land and become large landlords. Then, relying on the wealth produced by the land, they monopolized culture, etiquette, justice, and opportunities to deal with the government. By making the people unable to see, hear, and feel
Think and constantly consolidate your position.
As a result, over time and with deep roots, the poor people have become marionettes who cannot think, and their every move is manipulated by the gentry and elders who hide behind the scenes.
I would like to ask, what effect can be achieved by speaking to a puppet? Even talking nonsense will not help.
Therefore, Liu Lian understood that only by cutting off the ties held by the elders of the Squire Sect could this situation be changed.
Only then did he realize that before he left Beijing, when the emperor was giving the opportunity, why he emphasized that if he wanted to succeed in the Yellow Register, he needed to clear his land, which went hand in hand with the implementation of the Lijia system.
Only by using the lijia system, which is an artifact that fragments the inherent power structure in rural areas, to break the control of the gentry and elders over the poor people, can it be possible to successfully clear the land and implement the yellow book!
However, when he implemented the lijia system, he also encountered huge resistance. The clan did not agree to be divided and reorganized, and the squire objected to letting ordinary people serve as lijia chiefs, because that would dilute the power in their hands.
They gathered together and filed a complaint with the government, accusing Liu Lian of "splitting clans, breaking rural covenants, instigating disobedience to the people, and destroying the gentry", and called him "the source of trouble." It was predicted that it would not be long before the customs in Jiangxi's countryside would deteriorate.
It’s bad, it’s all conscience, and chaos is everywhere!
What Liu Lian didn't expect was that even the bull-nosed people in Zhengyi started to oppose him.
When they opened the forum to give lectures, they slandered the believers, saying that he was a black dragon who came into the world to stir up troubles, confuse people's minds, and do evil in Jiangxi Province. Anyone who cooperated with him and signed the "Lijia Township Agreement" was killed by the black dragon.
The bewitching monsters and monsters will be killed sooner or later...
Zhengyi has been inherited for more than 1,200 years, and its influence in Jiangxi is beyond imagination. They stood up to oppose it, which put great pressure on Liu Lian, making him 'difficult to move forward and unable to succeed'...
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Seeing this, Zhu Zhen had to stop and calm down.
This was the first time that he learned from Liu Lian's letter how difficult it was for his senior brother to implement the Yellow Book in Jiangxi and how intense the hostility he encountered was.
Zhu Zhen had also read several letters from Liu Lian's family before, and his senior brother was always full of confidence. Even when he mentioned some difficulties, he also said that "despite the setbacks, he will be the same", "I will definitely be able to overcome the thorns and thorns, and you will succeed."
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But he never expected that the senior brother would encounter such a malicious situation.
"Alas, the wealthy gentry in Jiangxi, like those in Jiangnan, were spoiled by the tax farming system of the Yuan Dynasty." Shen Liben sighed and whispered:
"For nearly a hundred years, the imperial court has been in name only. The local government has relied entirely on the autonomy of the gentry. I am definitely not used to the sudden separation of power from them..."
"It's the Ming Dynasty now!" Zhu Zhen suddenly raised his voice and said: "If you miss the Yuan Dynasty so much, then all of them will go to Mobei to find their emperor of the Yuan Dynasty!"
"Yes." Seeing His Highness getting angry, Shen Liben quickly changed his words: "In fact, during the Song Dynasty, the government accurately grasped the land and property of large households, and the rich households paid the bulk of the taxes. Didn't they just accept it obediently..."
"These scoundrels need to be dealt with!" Lao Liu scolded and continued to turn the pages and read the letter.
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After turning the page, Liu Lian's tone changed from depression to excitement - he told Zhu Zhen that things had taken a huge turn for the better!
A chief secretary named Pang Yi secretly gave him a copy of "No Account Book", which helped him uncover the reason why the implementation of the New Deal always resulted in twice the result with half the effort; it also solved the mystery that had always shrouded his mind.
He carefully studied the account books and found that Jiangxi actually had a huge amount of land and population, which were not included in the government books at all!
The starting point for the government to clear the land is the census conducted in the third year of Hongwu. According to Boss Zhu's top-level design, as long as the household stickers are compiled properly, the household information of each household can be obtained.
If we know where your home is, how many people there are, and how many hidden fields there are, we can dig them out for you!
But Boss Zhu did not expect that there are policies from above and countermeasures from below. In the census of the third year of Hongwu, the Jiangxi government actually hid one-third of the population and did not report it! Naturally, they did not compile household allowances!
The land occupied by these people was naturally omitted when the land was cleared!
In particular, Jiangxi is not as flat as Susong. Except for the plains in the north, most of its areas are dominated by hills and mountains, with basins and valleys scattered throughout.
If there are no locals to guide you, you won't be able to find the villages dotted in the mountain basins and valley bottoms.
As a result, these people and land scattered in the mountainous areas of Jiangxi Province disappeared from the sight of the court...
If that's all, it can be said that local officials are lazy and incompetent in their work.
But there happens to be such a book, which records in detail the existence of that part of Hidden Yakuto's "Non-Account Book"! The nature of the problem suddenly changed!
It's not that they are slacking off and doing their jobs poorly, but that they are colluding from top to bottom, internally and externally, deliberately concealing a large amount of household registration and land in order to evade the court's taxes!
As for why we still need to establish this "Ignore Account Book"? Isn't this nonsense? Are the Gonggun gentlemen who helped hide it together, working for those big dogs in vain?
There will definitely be a protection fee!
This account book is the basis for local governments to collect protection fees from big dog owners!
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