King Qian summoned all the officials in the government office to discuss matters such as cleaning up hidden households in Lingnan, re-measurement of land, and registration and registration.
Many of the original yamen officials objected, but their opposition to this decree was useless because Lingnan had been under the jurisdiction of King Qian from the moment the old emperor issued the imperial edict.
Everyone discussed for a few days and came up with a rough charter. King Qian also summoned all the squires and powerful families in the area, and most importantly, those with fame, to be present.
As soon as the news came out, the entire Lingnan Prefecture was shocked.
The officials of the government office are somewhat involved with various aristocratic families, and some are even members of aristocratic families. They heard the news a few days ago when they were discussing the cleanup of hidden houses and the re-measurement and registration of land.
They didn't take it seriously at that time. Everyone had been here like this for thousands of years. Who could believe that Prince Qian, an idiot prince, would have such courage to actually attack Lingnan?
To the ancients, grain fields were the most hard-core real assets.
It’s the same reason that people in later generations care about whether they have a house, whether they have a car, and whether they have savings.
Now that King Qian is really planning to touch their real estate, it is equivalent to cutting their flesh with a knife. How can we make them not anxious?
For this reason, after receiving the notice, acquaintances began to discuss countermeasures in series to see how to deal with King Qian's policy.
They have always believed that there are policies from above and countermeasures from below.
With everyone's collective efforts, I believe we can always come up with a solution.
Not to mention, through everyone's unremitting efforts, these powerful country squires actually came up with a solution.
Just a few days after King Qian issued the notice and before the day of gathering, the government archives caught fire.
The row of cabinets containing the land account books was burned clean.
Without the land account books, see how King Qian asked his officials to clean up hidden households and re-measure the land?
Looking at the burned account books with only a pile of black ashes left, King Qian's face was darker than the ashes. When he first prepared to implement this decree, he had thought that there would be many obstacles, and the local powerful people would not be able to do so.
It will make him wish.
It's just that he didn't expect the obstacles to be so strong.
These people's unscrupulous provocations just aroused the fighting spirit of his second generation ancestor.
Prince Li Chengshang asked worriedly: "Father, what should we do?"
The account books were burned before the government decree was implemented. Could it be that the third fire that Prince Qian came to Lingnan to burn ended in vain?
"Since I was born, I have never met such a disobedient person. Since they are afraid from the bottom of their hearts that I will clean up the hidden house and re-register the land, then I will not do what they want."
Having said this, King Qian glanced at the officials present with cold eyes, "Lingnan is full of waste and is waiting to be renovated. It is imperative to re-measure the land and re-register the acres!"
"If some people or forces want to use this to make me retreat, then they are really looking down on others. They don't even know how many eyes Lord Ma has!"
Hearing this, all the officials onlookers felt a little bit in their hearts. Could this be self-defeating?
King Qian glared at the officials who did not dare to look at him. Some were guilty, some were anxious, and some were indifferent. He gave a heavy cold snort and rolled away his sleeves.
When such a big thing happened, several princes and staff from the palace quickly followed suit.
When King Qian entered the study, he lost his temper again and cursed almost all the powerful officials in Lingnan.
Several gentlemen and staff stood aside, silently enduring the poison of this demonic sound without saying a word.
"Go and investigate carefully for me!"
"I want to see who is cheating on me in the Yamen. If I know who it is, I will skin him, then confiscate his family and exterminate his family, so that everyone can see the consequences of betraying me!"
When Mr. Zhang saw that King Qian was tired of scolding him and sat down to drink tea, he asked: "Your Majesty, now that the land account book has been destroyed, what should we do next?"
After hearing this, King Qian put down the teacup heavily and looked up at the people in the study, still angry: "The account books have been destroyed. It is up to us to decide how much land they have. If you have any objections to the number of acres we gave, you are not convinced."
You can use the account books to confront them. If you can't produce the account books and still want to cause trouble, all of them will be put in jail and locked up."
"What if we arrest someone and they don't stop?" Mr. Zhang asked again.
Before implementing the plan, imagine all the possibilities to avoid being in a hurry and being at a loss of what to do.
Prince Qian leaned back in his chair. His anger was almost gone. After listening to Mr. Zhang’s question, he felt much calmer. “Our Lingnan defense is not a decoration. If they really don’t understand, then they should treat it as a rebellion.”
When they were arrested, the yamen were not closed enough, so they were arrested and sent to work in the mines. I don't believe that all of them could endure this hardship!"
The people in the study finally heard clearly. What the prince meant was that it was impossible to retreat. If the forces on all sides didn't understand each other, then they could only take tough measures.
Just this
Mr. Yan took a step forward, held up his hands and asked: "If all the forces in Lingnan are forced to resist fiercely, and this matter is reported to the imperial court and the imperial court censures it, does the prince have any countermeasures?"
In fact, Mr. Yan would like to ask more, will the prince be able to withstand the pressure from the court?
King Qian pursed his lips and said nothing. If this was done and brought to the imperial court, it would definitely not cause any waves, but if the government forced the people to rebel, the new emperor who was introduced to the imperial court would definitely issue an edict to reprimand him.
If the civil servants in the court come up with any ideas to embarrass him, they will be passive by then.
Mr. Zhang asked everyone to sit down and discuss slowly, and then waved the servants to serve tea to the masters.
The second master, Li Chengzhan, lifted up the corner of his robe and sat down. When the boy who served tea came out of the study, he said murderously: "What everyone thinks is possible. If some people are arrested and tortured to extract confessions, I will not
I believe they can keep gritting their teeth and insist on not telling the truth. If we have the evidence and they still make trouble, then we will charge them with rebellion and kill them to see if they are dishonest!"
Mr. Zhang was speechless. If everything could be done with fists, then why would the court amend the law?
Haven't you heard that wherever there is oppression, there is resistance?
No matter how hard you suppressed before, how hard you will be when you resist in the end!
Mr. Yan came back from his thoughts, thought for a moment and said: "We raided the Lou family a few days ago. We can use the Lou family as a model for this incident and redistribute the fields confiscated from the Lou family according to the population of the hidden households.
, let other forces see the actual benefits behind closed doors."
With real benefits, they are not afraid that the hidden people will follow suit and cause trouble.
The land reclamation of Xia Ji Farm outside the city is in full swing, and the construction of houses has not stopped for a moment.
Old lady Ding was cutting grass on the hillside with a basket and a group of women and children.
It is said that her family is living a good life now. The second son Ding Dazhuang is the captain of the princess's personal guard. The eldest son was favored by the princess and hired as the shopkeeper of the salt shop, managing all the salt shops in the city.
With two sons earning high salaries every month, how could she need her mother-in-law to go out to work?
Dante's old lady was restless. When she heard that the farm was collecting weeds and leaves for fertilizer, and a basket of fodder could be exchanged for five coppers, she immediately came out with the basket.
When Xia Jing took advantage of the coolness of the morning and rushed to Xia Ji Farm in a carriage, Mrs. Ding and other women and children had already returned from cutting a basket of fodder.
Many pits have been dug in the fields for composting, and a lot of grass has been filled in the pits.
Xia Jing stood by the pit and asked Zuo Jiuchuan, the manager of the farm: "Will the fertilizer be enough for these wastelands?"
"This little fertilizer is definitely not enough. Some even asked people to dry and pile the tree roots and grass roots dug out from the wasteland, cover them with soil and set them on fire to produce a lot of fire fertilizer."
Zuo Jiuchuan is the younger uncle of Zuo Jing, the captain of the Guards Squadron. Because he was a good farmer at home, he was hired by Xia Jing as the manager of the farm.
The smoldering plant ash he mentioned is black and is generally used as base fertilizer, which is the base fertilizer before planting crops.
It can be seen that the fertility of this kind of fire fertilizer should not be underestimated.
Xia Jing nodded: "As for farming, you know better than a layman like me. You can arrange things in the farm. If the land clearing has not been completed by the time of summer planting, you can plant crops on the cleared land first, and the remaining land can be planted with crops."
The wasteland below can be reclaimed during the slack period."
Zuo Jiuchuan responded and looked at the fertilizer pit. He hesitated for a moment and reminded: "It's just that the fertilizer produced by just relying on a few leaves and weeds is limited, and it may not be able to achieve the expected effect by then."
Xia Jing nodded, indicating that she understood.
Then she smiled and asked: "How is the livestock pen I asked you to build now?"
“It’s basically completed, and all that’s left is to build the thatched roof.”
"Then let's go take a look." Xia Jing said and turned around and walked towards the breeding area.
The residential area and the breeding area of the farm are separate. The breeding area is built on the mountain and closer to the fields, purely for the convenience of transporting fertilizer in the future.
The breeding area is divided into several areas. Cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens and ducks are all divided into different areas to facilitate future cleaning and management.
Xia Jing circled around and finally stopped in front of the creek next to the breeding area.
The water quality of this stream is very clear. In the future, the livestock and poultry in the breeding area will completely rely on this stream for water.
"It won't take a few days to build the roof. You can send people to the surrounding villages to buy piglets, chickens and ducks and raise them. When the breeding area is full, your fattening pit will not be short of excrement."
Zuo Jiuchuan explained with a smile: "Some time ago, I sent someone out to contact a group of poultry and livestock. When the cover is ready, I will have someone deliver it."
Xia Jing smiled and nodded. It was best for Zuo Jiuchuan to have rules in mind when doing things, so as not to have to worry about everything.
At this time, there were no poultry or livestock raised in the farm, and there were no crops in the fields. Xia Jing walked around casually, and after understanding the basic situation of the farm, she took advantage of the sun not being too strong, and drove to the city in a carriage.
As soon as I entered the city, I felt that the people seemed to be more energetic than before. They were gathering in groups and discussing what?
Ye Fei followed the carriage and informed Xia Jing of his discovery.
After Xia Jing unleashed her spiritual powers and heard clearly what the people were talking about, she sighed inwardly. Any reform would never go smoothly. The resistance from the outside world would be much greater than imagined.
For example, this time, all the forces in Lingnan really had the courage to burn the boat.
They were ruthless and burned the account books without any proof. They just wanted to see the prince's joke.
It depends on how capable your palace is. How can you re-measure the land and register it if there are no account books?
They just relied on the chance that the law would not punish the public, and all the forces wanted to twist into a rope to make the government helpless against them.
But, are the forces of all parties really unbreakable?
Xia Jing doesn’t think so!
It’s not a big deal to watch the fun!
There were many people watching the excitement at both ends of the street in front of the government office.
The personal guards rode horses and whipped their whips to drive them away, only to make the people reluctantly make way for them.
Xia Jing's carriage was surrounded by personal guards and entered the back office through the side door.
As soon as she arrived at the door of the study, she heard sighs inside and pushed the door open, "What's going on? You sighing, your good luck has been ruined by you."
When Mr. Zhang saw Xia Jing pushing the door open, he was shocked. He finally had a master with a normal brain circuit.
For example, Prince Qian and several other nobles spoke openly and silently to confront various forces in Lingnan, and if they refused, they would be killed.
Mr. Zhang's head hurt when he heard it.
King Qian's eyes lit up when he saw Xia Jing coming in. Finally, there was someone with whom he could discuss and make decisions.
"Where are you coming from, princess?"
Xia Jing sat on the throne, grabbed the fan from King Qian's hand, and fanned herself, "I went to the farm today and just came back from outside the city."
King Qian personally poured a cup of tea for Xia Jing and handed her his handkerchief to wipe her sweat.
Xia Jing pushed it away with disgust, took the wet handkerchief handed over by Hongmei with her backhand, and wiped her face and hands.
When King Qian saw her drinking a cup of tea, he asked: "Princess, you should already know what happened in the government office today. What do you think about this?"
Xia Jing did not answer his question immediately, but asked them, "What are your ideas? Have you discussed any regulations?"
Mr. Zhang stood up, bowed his hands to Xia Jing, and stated everyone's opinions just now.
Finally, she asked: "Princess, do you think Mr. Yan's method is feasible?"
Xia Jing nodded, "Yes, it is equivalent to directly buying the support of hidden households and ordinary people, but the various forces in Lingnan still will not compromise."
King Qian nodded, "The princess is right, I said that it is not feasible to allocate fields directly to the hidden households. At most, they can rent the fields for farming. In the autumn harvest, the palace will only take half of what they usually give to the powerful renters."
Paying half the rent less than usual is already a huge temptation for those living in seclusion.
Xia Jing did not expect that King Qian would be so stingy and take money so seriously.
If outsiders want to get some money and food from his hands, it will be more difficult than climbing to the sky.
Thinking about it this way, it seems that he made a lot of determination when he gave away the house last time.
Mr. Zhang looked at King Qian helplessly, then turned to Xia Jing and asked: "What good way does the princess have to implement this decree?"
Xia Jing glanced at Hongmei.
Hongmei understood, walked to the door and opened the study.
After a while, Xia Jing's personal guards came in carrying boxes of wooden boxes.
Except for the people brought by Xia Jing, everyone inside looked confused.
"Princess, what are you doing?" King Qian pointed to the wooden box. Did you get the silver from there?
Xia Jing raised her chin, "If you want to know, go and see for yourself."
King Qian stood up and walked slowly to the box, looked at Xia Jing again, hesitated for a while and then opened the lid.
Out of curiosity, the two gentlemen and several gentlemen gathered around him.
The account books in the box are neatly arranged one after another.
King Qian was overjoyed and immediately took out one, "Is this a backup account book?"
If it is a backup account book, then they will have a basis for enforcing the law, and those powerful men who dare to be arrogant in front of him can deal with them.
The two gentlemen also took out a book, and Mr. Zhang couldn't wait to flip through it. The more he read, the more excited he became.
This prompted Li Chengshang next to him to ask: "Sir, is this a backup account book?"
Hearing Li Chengshang's question, Mr. Zhang did not dare to neglect and quickly replied: "No, this is the tax details of various forces in Lingnan."
Li Chengshang didn't know why and said displeasedly: "It's just a tax details. Why are you so excited?"
Mr. Zhang ignored Li Chengshang and bowed to Xia Jing, "The princess's method is really wonderful. This time she broke the trap set by all the forces."
"What method?" King Qian flipped through the account books and threw them back into the box.
"Haha." Mr. Zhang smiled from ear to ear. After finally laughing enough, he explained: "These tax detailed account books are explaining the taxes paid by various forces over the years and how much they paid. When we re-measured the land, we
It is just right to implement the land ownership according to this tax quota."
King Qian was so excited that he wanted to slap his thigh, "In this case, those powerful people who evade taxes will be so angry that one Buddha will be born and two Buddhas will ascend to heaven!"
What is this called?
This is like shooting oneself in the foot.
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