In fact, Wang Yue's big plan triggered fierce resistance along the Great Wall.

The reason is what Tong Guan said.

His plan was to shrink the water Great Wall on a large scale and then withdraw more fertile fields, of course, including a large number of paddy fields. However, the result was to turn the paddy fields originally occupied by the gentry along the Water Great Wall into dry fields. They could have grown rice in these water network areas, but after Wang Yue's plan was implemented, their paddy fields could only grow millet.

It has no effect on Wang Yue.

Because the land that has been added after the water recedes can also be cultivated and planted rice.

but……

That's not the land of these gentry.

The newly reclaimed land was the immigrants brought back from all over the place by Wang Yue. Those gentry could not benefit, but they could bear the losses after the rice turned into millet.

They definitely don't do it.

They can also use this reason to encourage the tenants. After all, this is also a loss for the tenants. It eventually evolved into a large-scale armed battle between the immigrants who dig channels and local tenants commanded by the gentry. The two sides used various cold weapons, including crossbows, and even dispatched cavalry to fight. By the time the Changsheng Army was dispatched to force the stop, the two sides had suffered more than a hundred casualties. When Wang Yue arrived in a hurry, a large-scale civil rebellion had already led to an armed confrontation. Tens of thousands of young and strong people in Baoding Army, Mozhou, Xiongzhou and other places had an armed confrontation with tens of thousands of immigrants.

"Ma, it would be great if there was such a formation when fighting with the Jurchens."

Wang Yue said speechlessly.

On both sides of the channel in front of him, countless young and strong armed forces confronted each other, constantly shouting and scolding through the channel, and shooting at each other with bows and arrows...

This is normal.

Because Hebei was in the front line in the past, there were many bows and arrows everywhere. In order to buy bows and arrows, the prices of bows and arrows surged. Most of the immigrants came back from Liaodong and were also good at playing bows and arrows. In this case, it is inevitable to take out bows and arrows to attack each other.

"King, there is someone behind this.

The news that we received at the end was Liu, a local wealthy man from Wen'an. His son was a Juren. He had a very good relationship with Cai Songnian, the son of Cai Jing, the magistrate of Hejian Prefecture. Cai Songnian had just been to their house the day before the Liu family made trouble. In addition, after the trouble broke out, Cai Jing immediately ordered the Hejian Prefecture Road Pacifier to all places. Although the order was to prevent the trouble, it seemed like notifying all places. Otherwise, so many young and strong people would not have gathered so quickly. In addition, the Baoding Army and the Xiongzhou Prefecture, and the magistrates of various places, all stood still on the matter. Even the magistrates of Dacheng obstructed the young and strong immigrants and arrested more than a dozen young and strong immigrants. Although they shouted to avoid the big deal, they were all dissatisfied."

Shi Jin said.

Although Wang Yue took over Hejian and other prefectures, he was still an official of the court after all. As long as these local officials did not escape, he would keep them for the time being. After all, this area is not Yanshan Prefecture.

It is useless to simply appoint a few officials, because the gentry is actually controlling the grassroots level.

You have to clean up the gentry first.

Yanshan Mansion took advantage of the Jurchen invasion, and the gentry were the leaders. Then he cleaned up on the charge of traitors. Basically, except for the very few who were spared, all the others were killed, so that he truly controlled the grassroots. However, the Song Dynasty had not found a reason yet. Now these guys were so stupid that they handed him the knife, so there was nothing to say...

"They can't wait to taste the iron fist of dictatorship?"

Wang Yue said speechlessly.

After saying that, he walked towards the chaotic scene ahead.

This guy is still riding a moose. This thing is just not resistant to heat, but it is just beginning of spring, which is still very suitable.

His appearance immediately stopped the two sides who were on the verge of starting another war, and looked at him in awe. The king who was standing on the moose was indeed quite fairy-like.

These locals who participated in the fight were basically all tenants, or they used the name of this time to call customers, but they were not limited to customers. Tenants of the Song Dynasty included but were not limited to customers. Because according to the fifth-class household registration in rural Song Dynasty, fourth-class households could roughly be considered self-cultivated farmers, and fifth-class households could no longer rely on their own land to support themselves. At most, their own family had a few acres of land, but they mainly had to rely on farming for those landlords. Fifth-class households and customers could basically account for 60 to 70% of the rural population, which means that 60 to 70% of the population relied on being tenants for landlords.

However, there was one that was stronger than the Ming Dynasty, that was, there were very few super landlords.

Of course, there are, too.

But like Xu Xiake's great-grandfather and the Wuxi Hua family were not officials, but because the merchants had hundreds of thousands of acres of land, it was actually wrong to say that the Song Dynasty valued business. The Song Dynasty's merchants were far less powerful than the merchants in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.

The merchants of the Song Dynasty were small merchants.

The merchants of the Ming Dynasty advanced to capitalists.

"I know you were instigated by someone!"

Wang Yue shouted to the local young men.

The latter looked at him silently.

“So can we do something that is good for us?”

Wang Yue said.

The latter looked at him in confusion.

"Go and arrest those who encourage you to make trouble and hand them over to me. Then I will not put his land cadastral land as official land, but you will continue to farm these official land. But you don't need to pay rent to the landlord, you just need to pay me a tax on land. Of course, this tax on land is a little more than in the past. After all, you can't let me get any money. Let's double the tax on land you used to, and then the rest is your own."

Wang Yue said.

The latter looked at him in shock.

"Don't understand yet?"

Wang Yue said with a smile.

"I'll say again, when you go back and capture the gentry who encourages you to make trouble. During your arrest, if there is some accident, such as their family has less food, less money, or even some livestock, it is all lawless to blame the public and cannot be investigated. Then I will not punish these gentry captured by you as official fields, and you will continue to plant these fields in the future. However, since they are official fields, your land tax will be doubled as my part. The land tax you originally wanted to pay will be your part.

Do you understand now?”

Wang Yue said.

The group of people, including Shi Jin next to him, were stunned and looked at him in a daze.

Then one of the crowd woke up...

"Don't listen to him, the court does not have such a law!"

He shouted in horror.

"Indeed, there was no such law in the Song Dynasty, but that was not before. From now on, there has been such law in the Song Dynasty.

The court?

I have the final say in the court!

Law?

I am the law!”

Wang Yue roared.

As he spoke, the axe appeared out of thin air in his hand, holding it up above his head like a flag.

"What do you think? If there is such a good thing, why should paddy fields turn into dry land? That little bit of grain produced is comparable to the land rent you paid? Brothers, hurry up and arrest your landlord and send it to the King of Zhongshan. Don't forget to let their family's grain be reduced by bags, money is reduced by a few cattle and sheep!"

Shi Jin shouted without hesitation.

"Friends, don't listen to them..."

The man screamed in horror.

But the next moment, the young and strong tenants around him suddenly turned around, roaring excitedly, and swept like a flood. He was immediately washed down in front of the torrent, and before he could struggle, he was stepped on his face by a big foot. Then he raised his hands like drowning, but then the second big foot stepped on his neck, and then he kept stepping over him one by one, and soon his arms were raised down weakly. The news was also spreading at an extremely fast speed. All the young and strong who heard and understood the meaning were roaring excitedly like here and turned around and rushed backwards, arresting the landlord behind them, and then handing them over to the king.

That's it!

Compared with land rent, the reduction in output caused by paddy fields is simply not worth mentioning!

What's wrong with dry fields?

The dry land is also irrigated, and wheat is also indispensable for adding 2 stones of pure grain. If you grow rice, you cannot grow wheat here. One season of rice produces three stones of grain. In the end, it is still more than two stones of pure grain, which increases the yield compared to millet wheat.

but……

Most of the births are given to the landlords!

As long as you don’t have to pay rent to the landlord, let alone such water irrigation land, you can support a family even by relying solely on dry land that is waiting for rain! Isn’t it just paying double the land tuition? Even if the land tuition is doubled, it only accounts for 20% of the output per year, but the landlord’s master costs 50% or even 60% of it. Which one does it cost to understand? Who is idle to have such a good thing?

"The king is really wise. In this way, no one of the gentry can rebel. We don't have to work hard, and these ordinary people will do everything themselves."

Shi Jin sighed sincerely.

Of course, he didn't know that Wang Dawang was learning from others.

That's what Zhu Yuanzhang did!

He made an excuse to confiscate the gentry's house in Jiangnan, tied them up with a knife and forced them to go to Fengyang to open up land, and then left their cadastral land as official land to the original tenants to continue farming. The latter paid him a land tax that was twice as high as the private land. He beat the local tyrants and the tenants to share the money happily. Then the gentry in Suzhou could no longer bear it and called on the street to overthrow the tyrant, but the people sent him to the government.

"By the way, the whole family of those landlords who were captured were taken to Cangzhou to open up the land!"

Wang Yue said.

If you want to learn, learn the complete set.

"Your Majesty, why not throw them farther away. Yang Zongmin's place is short of land and farming."

Shi Jin said.

Wang Yue changed Fengshengzhou to Xuanhua Prefecture, and then appointed Yang Zongmin as Xuanda Xuanfu Envoy to take charge of this land just obtained by the Song Dynasty. However, the population loss there was too serious, so the population was urgently needed to fill it, and Yang Zongmin was also collecting people everywhere to open up land.

"No, it's close to the White Tatars. These gentry have hated us. If someone defects to the White Tatars to teach them our skills, there will be endless troubles."

Wang Yue said.
Chapter completed!