Chapter Nine Hundred and Thirty-Two: The Restoration Emperor is Good
When the old man lives up to his family status and the old man is helpless, what is the son Jia Liu doing?
Doing serious things.
He was not busy rescuing his father, nor was he commanding troops to fight.
Lao Ji has been fully responsible for rescuing dad.
Lao Ji is a trustworthy person, so he has nothing to worry about.
If Lao Ji really can't do anything, the worst he can do is send him to Ningguta to grow potatoes.
As for the military, Jia Liu had always only decided on the general strategy, and left the tactics to his subordinates. Those who could not interfere would not interfere, so that his generals would have a better environment for growth, so that they could be independent in the future.
In terms of martial arts, he is already outstanding. Hundreds of Manchu and Mongolian officers above the rank of colonel have proven his unique military ability, not to mention at least two or three divisions of Eight Banners soldiers.
There is really no need to show such martial arts to the world.
The icing on the cake is of little value.
It's better to give the younger generation more opportunities, otherwise how could they name Hou Yin's wife?
Therefore, the military deployment of Jingdong and Jingxi was completely handed over to Baoning, the admiral of the First Army, Zu Yingyuan, the admiral of the Second Army, Youyi, the commander-in-chief of the rebel army, and Wang Fu of the Jingdong Group.
So, what kind of serious things could make Jia Liu ignore the capital and instead plunge into the countryside to conduct research.
It is the proposed reform order No. 2.
After promulgating the move to open up the ban on speech and rehabilitate civil prisons to win the hearts and minds of scholars all over the world, Jia Liu has been thinking about issuing the No. 2 Reform Order.
Order No. 1 targets scholars, the so-called scholars.
Order No. 2 targets farmers, the so-called Qianshou.
Both scholars and farmers supported it, and even when the Jade Emperor came, he had to call him "Sixth Dad".
Order No. 2 can be summed up as the policy of allocating farmland to households that was implemented earlier in Yongping.
Once this policy is fully implemented from one government to one province, it will make the entire Zhili Han people unconditionally support the Weixin regime, and destroy even the dregs of the Qianlong and Jiaqing puppet regimes at the political level.
It would also allow Jia Liu, the reform emperor, to gain a firm foothold in the north and become a great emperor supported by all.
The significance is no less than launching two or three strategic decisive battles.
Even the capital, the core of the empire, cannot compare with it.
Therefore, Jia Liu attached great importance to this matter.
However, Li Shijie, the Prime Minister and Deputy Minister of the Cabinet, and Yang Jingsu, the Governor-General of Zhili, suggested that land distribution can be done, but it cannot be done across the board and must be divided into several steps.
The reason is that considering the livelihood of millions of Eight Banners in the capital, rashly giving all the flag fields to Han tenants will inevitably cause the banner people to lose their flag fields as a source of income, which will cause the banner people in the capital to band together and resist the reform regime because they have no livelihood.
At the same time, there were also a large number of beneficiaries of banner fields within the reform regime.
For example, the Prime Minister Bo Qingqing purchased more than 100,000 acres of flag land privately and redeemed the lease.
Therefore, if His Majesty the Emperor really wants to issue the edict and launch a vigorous land distribution policy throughout the province, it is very likely that the reform regime that has already gained the upper hand will become chaotic, and the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia are already in a state of turmoil.
Resisting out of despair.
This is undoubtedly very unwise.
Jia Liuyi thought so. He had said before at the clan meeting that the bannermen and Han soldiers and civilians were his subjects. How could millions of bannermen be excluded from government dividends and regarded as enemies of the reform government?
Lao Yang's opinion is to first divide the flag fields of Huangzhuang and Princes, and the flag fields of other ordinary bannermen will still be distributed to them. They may even be given more compensation to promote the process of converting the banners into civilians.
The president means the same thing.
It's like being a banker, taking advantage of the big ones and letting the small ones go.
It means only engaging those who take the lead and ignoring the rest.
The opinions of the two elders were naturally accepted by Jia Liu, but he, who was well aware of the common problems of bureaucracy, was worried that the monks below him would distort the foreign scriptures of the emperor, so he set off from Pangezhuang to the Jizhou area in person.
inspection.
I took the funeral supplies and a carriage of paper and string with me because I was afraid that I would have to buy them on the spur of the moment when I received good news on the way, which would cost more money.
Everything is ready, all that is needed is the east wind.
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In Sanhe County under the jurisdiction of Jizhou, there are more than 30 imperial villages under the jurisdiction of the Accounting Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
This place naturally became the focus of Jia Liu's inspection.
The so-called Huangzhuang is similar to the former Ming Dynasty Huangzhuang, that is, the crops and taxes produced by the land are all owned by the imperial court and have nothing to do with foreign dynasties.
In Jia Liu's words, it is the emperor's private property, sacred and inviolable.
According to Yang Jingsu, Governor of Zhili, Huangzhuang, which is now under the responsibility of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is divided into two large areas: inside the customs and outside the customs.
The total land area of Shengjing Grain Farm outside the Guanhai Pass is more than 720,000 acres, and the land of Dashengwula Grain Farm is more than 32,000 acres. Jinzhou Grain Farm occupied more than 1.21 million acres four years ago in Yongzheng, and the three places totaled nearly 2 million acres.
The number of Jifu Imperial Villages within the Guan Guan is greater than that outside the Guan Guan, with an area of approximately 3.5 million acres.
The total number of acres of fertile land in Zhili Province is about 36 million, which means that only Huangzhuang under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs accounts for about one-tenth of the fertile land in Zhili Province.
The area of Zhili was actually four provinces in later generations, and half of the fertile land was classified as flag land.
Therefore, the matter of dividing the land had a profound impact not only on the entire Zhili, but also on the entire north, and even on the entire empire.
Asiha, who accompanied the inspection, believed that the imperial palace should be preserved. After all, the royal family will definitely grow and multiply indefinitely in the future. How can it be done without private money.
Jia Liu understood this truth, but he believed that the value of land production was really not worth mentioning. Instead of occupying so much land just for the royal family to eat and drink, it was better to distribute it to Han tenants so that they could have eternal property and at the same time increase their income.
Improve their lives.
The human heart is the foundation of the royal family’s eternity.
Only with a fixed income from eternal products can we stimulate consumption and drive the development of industry and commerce.
Of course, Jia Liu didn't tell Lao A the truth, that is, he had already planned a big piece of cake for his children and grandchildren.
The kind worth trillions.
As long as the descendants don't seek death, it won't be a problem to live happily for a hundred or two hundred years.
The first imperial village visited was called Gaoli Village.
As the name suggests, this Zhuangzi is related to the Korean camp of the Eight Banners.
There are currently about 50,000 Korean bannermen, more than 10,000 Japanese bannermen, and more than 3,000 Russian bannermen in the Qing Dynasty.
The Korean bannermen are mainly Taezu, descendants of the Korean soldiers who joined the Eight Banners due to historical reasons during the Taizong period;
The Japanese bannermen were the descendants of deserters who were scattered in Jianzhou during the Japanese conquest during the Taizu period, and were either captured or took the initiative to join Jianzhou. Emperor Taizu had a Japanese personal army.
The Russian bannermen are the descendants of the Russian soldiers who were captured during the Kangxi period. These people are also called Albazin people and are included in the Manchurian Fourth Parade of the Xianghuang Banner.
Kangxi gave these Russian prisoners extremely generous treatment. Officers were generally given official titles of seventh to fourth rank, and soldiers were given houses, land, and hard-core crops like other bannermen.
Since the Russian prisoners were all male, Kangxi ordered the Han female prisoners to be released from prison and married to these Russian soldiers.
Over the past hundred years, the descendants of Russian soldiers have changed their surnames to Chinese characters. For example, Romanov changed his surname to Luo, why did Khabarov change his surname...
Therefore, Jia Liu once said to Asiha: "The Eight Banners are multi-ethnic Eight Banners, not the Eight Banners of Manchuria."
This is also a basis for turning the flag into a people, because the Eight Banners are not a nation, but a group.
It is said to be Gaoli Village, but the people working in the village were Han tenants, who were the actual owners of the land at that time.
The person in charge is Zhuangtou, a member of the Eight Banners of North Korea.
Soon after receiving the notice, the village head brought a dozen Han tenants over fifty years old to the entrance of the village.
When the old farmers arrived at the village entrance, they were startled by the situation in front of them.
There were at least a hundred imperial guards in yellow mantles on guard with knives, flags and banners were lined up in the distance, and countless white-armored sergeants were patrolling around.
Beside the old well at the entrance of the village, there is a large white hat standing. Inside, a young man wearing a white hat, white robe, hemp rope and straw sandals is eating watermelon.
Seeing the people coming, Jia Liu, who was eating watermelon, stood up quickly, waved to the people and said with a smile on his face: "Fellow, come and sit, come and sit."
A dozen old Han farmers were brought to Jia Liu in fear.
I don’t know who is taking the lead, so I will kneel down.
"Can't do it, can't do it,"
Jia Liu quickly supported the old man who was about to kneel down for him. He smiled and walked to the wooden barrel containing the freshly poured well water. He took out two large watermelons that had been soaked for a long time and took out his Yi Bilong sword to chop them.
into dozens of pieces.
"Don't kneel down, don't be restrained. I came here to understand some things. Come on, come on, eat watermelon, eat watermelon, let's talk while eating."
Seeing that the old people did not dare to take it, Jia Liu laughed and actually handed the watermelon to the old people piece by piece.
Afterwards, he said something to make the old people relax, took out one Huazi from his pocket and scattered one each, and then began to ask about the specific situation here.
It’s nothing more than how many acres of land there are in the imperial village, how many Han tenants there are, and how many servants there are. How much must be paid to the superiors every year, how much can be kept, whether there is enough food to eat, and during festivals and festivals, you can’t pull a piece of cloth or something like that.
The questions were very detailed.
The village head who brought the old people here didn't even let them speak.
On the way, the attendant's office brought a telegram over, and Jia Liu took it and took a look. It was Wang Fu's request for instructions to launch a joint attack on the puppet army Pan Zhishan.
The First Army has arrived in Tongzhou and is moving to Jizhou, Miyun and other places. The number of reform troops gathered in the Jingdong area has reached nearly 50,000, while the enemy and puppet Pan Zhishan's troops only have more than 10,000 troops. Therefore, Commander Afu of the Jingdong Corps
The chief believes that we can start to deal with Pan Zhishan's department and completely eliminate this group of psoriasis entrenched in the Jingdong area.
Afterwards, according to the original combat plan, the First Army and the first section of Wang Fu's troops advanced from the northern front to press the Changping and Shunyi areas, which were far away from the enemy and puppet troops, and completed the general encirclement of the capital.
At the same time, the Zhili New Army assigned a town to strengthen the defense of Shanhaiguan, and assigned a town to station in Rehe to monitor the direction of Horqin and Mongolia.
Ensure that when encircling the capital, there will be no interference from enemy and puppet forces outside the pass and from the Mongolian direction.
After seeing this, Jia Liu called Shuan Zhu aside and asked him to call Wang Fu back to agree to the battle plan, and told him that there was no need to ask for instructions again.
Another telegram informed the Second Army Admiral Zu Yingyuan that he should deploy a warning in the direction of Xuanhua. There was internal news that the Governor of Shaanxi and Gansu, Le Erjin, and the Governor of Shanxi, E Bao, seemed to want to organize the Banner and Han troops to move in the direction of Zhili.
Nominally, it was to support the imperial court in resolving the enemy and puppet regime in the capital, but in fact it was very likely that he came to "coordinate" at the invitation of Prince An, a rich man named Sehentu, and called for a peaceful solution to the problem in the capital.
Jia Liu was not worried about Shanxi, but Lerjin had a Xi'an Eight Banner cavalry in his hands, which he had to pay attention to.
At this time, Leerjin wanted to send a northwest army to Beijing, not because he wanted to be Zhang Xun, but because he wanted to be something else.
Therefore, Zu Yingyuan ordered Zu Yingyuan that once he confirmed the existence of the "Northwestern Army" and was marching eastward, he could cross the border to Shanxi to intercept it if necessary, and never allow the Northwest Army to enter North China.
He also sent a report to Baozhu, the admiral of the Fourth Army who stayed in Huguang, to be prepared to enter Shaanxi at any time.
After arranging all this, I came back and had a cordial chat with the old people.
After chatting like this for half an hour, Jia Liu suddenly said: "The imperial court has issued a policy. From now on, the Huangzhuang will no longer belong to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but will be distributed to the people of the village on the spot, no matter who they are, whether they are the elderly or children.
Each person has five acres of land and is exempt from paying taxes in the first year after the land is divided..."
The old people were all stunned when they heard this, and they all couldn't believe it: Is there such a good thing?
Upon seeing this, the accompanying Prime Minister and Deputy Minister Asha and the Chief Supervisor of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mr. Shuan Zhu, came forward to confirm the major policy changes of the court for the elderly. After that, the elderly suddenly became excited, and some of them shed tears and choked with sobs on the spot.
How pitiful it is that after a hundred years, this ancestral property can still be returned to their hands!
The atmosphere at the scene was one that made Jia Liu quite satisfied.
He also became more determined to divide the land.
If you want to be a good emperor, you must do things that satisfy the people.
In other words, try to meet the interests and needs of the people as much as possible.
Seeing that the Marquis of Fire was almost here, he was about to leave for the next place. At this time, an old man with gray hair who was probably in his seventies suddenly boldly asked Jia Liu: "May I ask who your lord is?"
When the old man asked, the other old men also reacted. Until now, they had no idea who the young official in front of them was who seemed to be in mourning.
Judging by his posture, he must be a high-ranking official, but to what extent he is a high-ranking official, they are not sure.
Asiha said hurriedly and proudly: "This is the emperor!"
"Ah? Your Majesty!"
The old people were startled, and then they all wondered, isn't Master Qianlong over sixty, why is he a young man?
Obviously, the information about the Reform and Qianlong war has not yet been fully spread to the grassroots rural areas, and not much is known about it.
Asiha quickly explained: "Qianlong abdicated, and now he is the Restoration Emperor!"
"ah!"
The sensible old people stood up one after another and knelt down to kowtow to the Reform Emperor. Jia Liu couldn't stop him, so he had to let them go, but he still said casually: "You are not the emperor, I am just working for the common people."
Under the grateful eyes of the old people and in the grateful voices of "The Reformation Emperor is good", Jia Liu, who was dressed in white robes, got on his horse and set off towards the next destination.
On the way, another urgent telegram was sent.
Shuan Zhu received the telegram first. After reading it, his brows suddenly filled with joy. Jia Liu couldn't help but smile when he saw it: "What makes you so happy?"
"Uh... it's up to the young master to see for himself."
Shuan Zhu handed the telegram to the young master.
"Being thief is probably not a good thing."
Jia Liu rolled his eyes at Shuan Zhu angrily, took the telegram and scanned it quickly, and then cursed angrily: "Trash, they are all trash!"
He actually tore the telegram into pieces.
Damn it, I saw a big-headed ghost!
Daquan is still alive!
Not only alive, but he also fucking escaped!
Not only did he escape, but he also surrendered the Changping garrison with just one mouthful, and Wanyan Jisan, the deputy commander of Manchuria with a blue flag, gathered his troops in Changping!