After Su Yonglin's explanation, everyone in the meeting fell into deep thought, and nodded slowly as he explained, understanding the truth.

Kong Maojie, director of the Supervision Department of the Revival Association, quickly reacted.

"So what the Chairman meant is that the state formulated laws, forcibly stipulate that no matter whether it was a famine or a bumper year, no matter what the situation was, landlords must not withdraw more than 40% of the food and cut this line to death, which can be low or high, so as to protect the interests of tenants?"

Su Yonglin nodded.

"Yes, that's what it means. Tenants have no bargaining power, and they are not even within the scope of the court's household registration statistics, and cannot be protected by the court. This situation is infinitely similar to the ancient [hidden household]. This situation itself is something we cannot accept."

Su Yonglin continued: "Using such a law can protect the interests of tenants, so that even in famine, tenants will not starve to death because they lose their bargaining power, and restrict the landlords from doing whatever they want and hoarding. I think it is a good thing for the country and the people.

We need to know that the more landlords exploit, the greater the possibility of refugees. Once refugees are generated, the government will pay the price for it. Landlords forcefully throw this part of the price to the government, and they will eat a lot of money. How can such a good thing be like this?"

Zhou Chong, director of the General Affairs Department of the Revival Association, frowned after hearing Su Yonglin's words.

"Chairman, it is naturally a good thing to do this. We all know, but can this be really implemented? Not to mention that there will inevitably be someone protesting in the court. Even if the court passes this decree, can it be implemented locally?

If this policy is to be implemented, the total grain output must be determined. If fairness is to be ensured, the official must intervene in the weighing process. The government needs to send people to intervene between the landlords and the tenants. In this way, can the landlords agree? You also said that this will cause a national shock."

Many people agree with Zhou Chong's opinion, believing that such policies are good, but they will inevitably be difficult to implement. There must be many people who disobey and have many difficulties in advancing government orders.

It is almost inevitable that you should not even think about this kind of thing. Many famous ancient reform strategies were difficult to advance, and some even took ten or twenty years to slowly advance, such as the one-whip method that Zhang Juzheng began to fully implement during his tenure.

Despite this, they will also face the danger of death and political recession.

In response to this, Organization Minister Jiang Yu also raised his own concerns.

"Even if the court forcibly advances and sends people to intervene between the landlords and the tenants, then in order to recover their losses, the landlords in the local area will likely clear out a group of tenants and retain only the minimum labor force.

The land belongs to them, and the government cannot force it to seize it. In this way, there will be no need to wait until the disaster year, and there will be a large number of refugees in the local area who will affect stability. In this way, wouldn’t it be a worry for the Ming Dynasty?”

Yes, this is also a problem.

Many members of the meeting agreed with Jiang Yu's view, believing that once this law is implemented, it will inevitably cause many difficulties. What's more serious is that the effect has not been seen, and a large number of refugees will first appear that will affect social stability.

It is not known whether the landlords will carry out armed protests, which is very troublesome.

In contrast, there are another group of Revival Club members.

They thought Su Yonglin was right to do this, and they had to fight against this unfair phenomenon of exploitation and oppression, leading the tenants to overthrow those bastards who were careless.

Tian Guizi made a speech on behalf of these Revival members.

"The tenant worked hard, and the landlords had a lot of land and did nothing. They could enjoy the fruits without going to work in the fields. They could also force more than half of the fruits of labor from the tenant. The tenant was hungry and the landlord had a rosy complexion.

Many of you here are from tenant families. Don’t you know the hardship and misery of tenants? Isn’t this the original intention of the establishment of the Revival? If you fear the tenant’s life or death for this, will the Revival still be necessary?”

After Tian Guizi made a speech, the venue was silent for a while.

Tao Yongguang, a subordinate of Tian Guizi and head of the Civil Affairs Department of the Ministry of Common Affairs, also made a speech later.

"I think what Premier Tian said is right. If the soldiers come and generals come and cover the water comes and soil comes, there will always be solutions to the problem. The Chairman also said that we cannot not solve the problem because of a problem, and we cannot be afraid to solve it because we are worried that there will be problems. If this is the case, what is the difference between revival and those decadent governments?"

Leading by Tian Guizi and Tao Yongguang, these revival members firmly supported Su Yonglin's idea and strongly demanded the promotion of this policy.

This group of members, led by Zhou Chong and Jiang Yu, is not opposed to Su Yonglin.

Zhou Chong stood up and spoke.

"We are just thinking more, but we just think that doing so will cause a huge shock at this moment when the Ming Dynasty was just established, making the country unstable. The Ming Dynasty has not yet unified China, and there are many regimes around it.

The Xia Kingdom in the west, the Song Kingdom in the south, the Goryeo in the east, and the grassland cavalry in the north, these are all potential threats for us. If we have trouble ourselves, won’t they take advantage of the situation to rob us?"

Tao Yongguang firmly opposed this and stood up to refute it.

"The stability of countries is always relative, there is no absolute stability, and it is normal for vibrations in some areas or fields. If we have problems, there may not be any problems within these countries.

I heard that the fight in Xia was serious. The struggle between King Li Renxiao of Xia and Prime Minister Ren Dejing was very divided internally. Do they have the spare energy to interfere in the Ming Dynasty?

The same is true for the State of Song. Peasant uprisings have occurred one after another. The State of Song is exhausted from suppressing the internal situation and cannot threaten the security of the Ming Dynasty. As for Goryeo... he would not dare to invade the Ming Dynasty with ten courage.

Moreover, this approach is in line with the interests of the working people and will inevitably receive the majority of support. There is no need to be afraid of those exploiters, just like the Restoration Army did not fear the Jin army back then."

Tao Yongguang's rebuttal left Zhou Chong and Jiang Yu speechless, and the members who opposed this had nothing to say, so they could only turn their attention to Su Yonglin.

Tian Guizi and Tao Yongguang also looked at Su Yonglin.

Kong Maojie and Xin Qiji, who had not spoken much, also looked at Su Yonglin.

Su Yonglin listened to their discussion and didn't say anything. Now that they had finished arguing, Su Yonglin nodded slowly.

"I also know your concerns. As Director Tao said, I am not worried at all. Xia, Song, and Goryeo are all dead bones in the tomb. Although the cavalry in the northern grasslands are fierce, there is no unified person, so it is not enough to be a threat.

So what we really have to face is the internal problem, the landlords’ resistance to this matter, and they may make trouble, but, isn’t that right?"

Su Yonglin's words aroused the doubts of most people.

After being stunned for a while, Xin Qiji, who had not spoken, took the lead in reacting.

"I understand! The Chairman means that once these people disobey the law, it is equivalent to breaking the law. The three judicial departments are under the control of the Revival Association. It will be legitimate to handle them at that time! The master is famous! Anyone who opposes can be labeled as a rebellion to shock the villain!"

"By the way!"

Su Yonglin smiled and said, "The key to this matter is not to expect them to implement it in place, but to pass it at the central level to make it a real law. After the legislation is successful, according to this law, those who disobey the crime will be criminals, and it will be legitimate to deal with them.

Moreover, the three judicial departments are under the control of the Revival Association. In the future, local judicial departments will also be dominated by Revival members. By then, using this law can fully combat those who violate the slander, seize their land, liberate their tenants, and naturally seize rural power.

As for the fact that they had cleared out tenants and tried to create refugees to affect local stability before, and put pressure on me, I could have expected it, but I was not worried that I had enough land for them to farm, and I had enough food and manpower to escort them to places with land.

They cleared out the population they don't want, I want the labor they don't want, I want it, they gave me a large amount of labor to the Ming Dynasty for no reason. Isn't this a good thing? Everyone, do you think this is a bad thing?

They asked me to be the emperor, yes, I would do it, but if I wanted me to be the emperor, I would give me the imperial power. As the emperor, my power is infinite. If they do not abide by it, they will rebel, and I can deal with them openly because I am the emperor."

This is also a way to use magic to fight magic.

To make him an emperor, he must give him imperial power. In principle, imperial power is infinite. As long as Su Yonglin has enough support, he can do whatever he wants.

Does he have enough support?

Of course there are.

After a moment of thinking, the members found that there was indeed great potential in this.

As long as Su Yonglin really has enough manpower and material resources and land to deal with these retired tenants, they can be transformed into their own strength.

Does Su Yonglin have it?

Of course there is.

There is money, there are people, and there is even enough land to allocate.

Moreover, Su Yonglin is really willing to spend money, really has strong mobilization ability, and really has strong execution ability. All of this can exceed the imagination of those landlords and evil gentry.

If they resist, Su Yonglin will fight firmly and immediately harvest a batch of land and population.

If you are lip service, Su Yonglin can also use local judicial power to attack and harvest land and population.

If they pretend to abide by it, in order to cause local chaos, then as much labor as they throw out, Su Yonglin can eat as much labor as they work.

The amount they threw was limited, but Su Yonglin's appetite was much larger than they thought.

So once this game begins, Su Yonglin is really confident to win and confident to gain an advantage.
Chapter completed!