Chapter 361: The Judgment of Fate
Wang Yue's Northern Expedition ended like this, and then he boarded a ship in Lushun to Dengzhou, and then returned to Kaifeng by land from Dengzhou.
Kaifeng.
Zhongshan Palace.
"The King of Zhongshan swept away the captives and made our Song Dynasty far away from the Han and Tang dynasties. His achievements will be shining throughout the ages!"
Zhu Shengfei said with a smile.
He was the negotiator sent by the Zhenjiang court and had been waiting for Wang Yue here for two months. During this period, he did his best to lobby in the court and received unanimous support from Zhao Huan to the ministers. But now when Wang Yue came back, all these bastards became turtles. Zhao Huan called him sick, and then issued an order to hand it over to the King of Zhongshan to deal with it. Then Zhu Shengfei could only come to Wang Yue to lean against the door and smile. In fact, he could not say that he was from the south when he calculated it carefully. His family belonged to Caizhou, but because he had no worries, he could face Wang Yue calmly...
Uh, that means he can throw his jar.
"Don't talk so much nonsense. The government is kind and allows you to talk, but don't think that you are really qualified to negotiate with the court. The disposal content given to you is here. You can choose how to do it yourself. I will go to Jiangnan again in a month. At that time, all those who dare to resist will be dealt with by the party.
House search.
Extinguish the family!
Men throw themselves to the island to mine, while women are the official and have no wives and poor people."
Wang Yue said, and he simply threw him a booklet.
At this time, Zhong Xiang had actually been defeated. After he took Dingzhou, he was attacked by Li Gang and Tian Youxiang who returned from Xiangyang, leading the Sizhou chieftain army. Zhong Xiang's troops were all mobs and could not defeat the elite troops under Li Gang. After he was defeated, he withdrew from Dingzhou, but he established a water camp in Dongting Lake. Moreover, the civilians in Jinghu South Road were in trouble, and Li Gang was powerless. He only relied on the chieftain army to control major cities such as Ding, Li and Tan. However, those villages and even counties had already lost control, and gentry from all over the country could only escape into the city and even form a group training themselves.
But it's useless after all.
Because in this case, it is already very dangerous to collect rent in the countryside. Maybe if you can't walk through the village, you may be chopped off by a mob from a river.
Unless you are trained with hundreds of armed groups.
But supporting group training also costs money, even more than the rent collected.
Those landlords are not unable to settle accounts. When the rent collection cost exceeds the land rent they can receive, they will certainly not do a loss business. Moreover, even if the current situation suppresses the civil unrest, they may be pushed by Wang Yue. Therefore, hiding in the city to save their money is wiser than risking their lives to collect rent. In this way, the entire Jinghu South Road is degenerating in their description.
Many places where you go out of the city are rampant places where bandits are rampant.
However, Fan Ruwei from Fujian was eye-catching. This private salt dealer was actually a talent. He actually established a real regime in Jianzhou in northern Fujian. He called himself the Fujian Jiedushi in Kaifeng court, and then played militia in various counties of Jianzhou, confiscating the land of the landlords and then equalizing the land. However, for those landlords who did not resist, they also guaranteed property and personal safety. He was a businessman and encouraged industry and commerce, and formed a regular army of 20,000 people. Shaowu has been captured.
Of course, it was mainly because he seized several silver mines in that area.
He has sufficient wealth.
Most of the other rebels were similar to Zhong Xiang.
Due to the limitations of their own abilities, these people rebelled with enthusiasm, but lacked organization and ability to form a regime, and could only create chaos but not establish order. If it were normal, the Zhenjiang court and the Jiangnan gentry had enough ability to solve these people.
But it would be different with Wang Yue.
It is impossible for them to resist Wang Yue's army going south when such civil wars arose.
I can only beg for mercy.
"The king set up the Four People's Congress to allow all the people of the world to speak out. Why can't we wait for a word?"
Zhu Shengfei said.
He had read the contents of the booklet countless times.
The original main customers and fifth-class households are cancelled, and according to the previous fifth-class households, the land owned by the first, second and third-class households is allowed to be selected for fifty acres and reduced to the fourth-class household standard. The remaining must be sold to the state, but the state pays with land vouchers and they own the ownership of the land they retain. The original fourth-class households remain unchanged, and the land they have in their hands is theirs. The customers who originally rented land that were reclaimed from the state will continue to plant the land they have in the form of rent, including the main households who originally needed to rent part of the land, and pay rent to the state.
Then all the main and customers, regardless of the past, were incorporated into the militia system.
This is actually not too much.
Of course, the customers cheered, and the fifth-class households would also cheer. The fourth-class households would not move anything and would not have to pay any more taxes, because in the future, farmers would only collect land taxes. Although the land tax increased a little, it was changed to roughly equivalent to one in ten, but other corvee labor, loss, and count taxes were all cancelled.
So the fourth-class household is also very happy.
The ones who are unlucky are the top three.
But the third-class households are just small landlords. They were originally about a hundred acres of family. The benefits of being a landlord class were not much benefit, but the taxes and exploitation of officials were mainly on them. The poor rats were crying, of course, there was not much oil for customers. The first-class households were all powerful and powerful, and they did not dare to take them off. In the end, of course, they were the most unlucky like them who were neither up nor down.
This can be barely accepted, at least it is not worth fighting for it. Moreover, many third-class households actually farm on their own.
Keep fifty acres of food and clothing to keep them.
First- and second-class households, especially first-class households, are the most unlucky, but they do not have the ability to resist on their own. At present, the first-class households in a place are usually only one-tenth of the first-class households. Taking Yanzhou as an example, all main households have a total of 120,000 yuan, but the first-class households have a total of 100,000 yuan, and the fifth-class households have a total of 110,000 yuan. In this tenth, the first-class households are at most one-tenth, and the first-class households have a maximum of 100,000 yuan. In a state with a hundred thousand households, the first-class households will not exceed 1,000 yuan. If the customers do not resist, the fourth-class households do not resist, and the third-class households are swaying. Could it be that the male students of those hundreds, first-class households will rise up with a knife to resist Wang Yue?
Stop hiding!
They are all scholars, and many of them can’t even hold a knife!
Resistance cannot resist.
But……
The land coupon is like waste paper!
This redemption is simply disgusting, and it is even more indignant than a direct robbery. At least the latter does not insult their IQ. This redemption is both insulting their personality and insulting their IQ.
"I allow you to speak. When will I not allow you to speak? Our Song Dynasty has no special place to speak. If you want, you can go to the Four People's Congress to speak. It's not that I don't allow you to attend the Four People's Congress. But now you use force to block the court's governance, so the court cannot choose the Four People's Congress from you. Look at Hangzhou and Xiuzhou, don't you choose the Four People's Congress?
So, if you want to talk, you have to put down your weapons first.
Then select representatives of the Four Ministries from all over the country and come to the capital to attend the Four Ministries Conference. At that time, you can speak freely!"
Wang Yue said.
"Don't the King of Zhongshan think it's too sarcastic to draw lots and select the representatives of the Four Minions?"
Zhu Shengfei said.
"So what is not a joke? Local people recommend it? Then I will pay 10,000 yuan. Who recommended me to be a one-man, and finally become a rich man and buy it with money. Then the Four People's Congress becomes a rich conference, forcing the court to formulate various systems to take care of the rich and continue to exploit the poor? Or, just like the Wei and Jin Dynasties, I would just set up a nine-rank Zhongzheng system in the local area, so that the Four People's Congress becomes a clan conference, and force the court to become a puppet of the clan like when the king and the horse share the world?
fair!
Remember, only fairness is the most important thing.
I can't think of any other way to be fairer than drawing lots at this moment!"
Wang Yue said.
"But there can be no restrictions, and all peddlers and barons are in the temple."
The deputy envoy Hu Quan, who had been holding back and not talking, said.
"Fair, scholars are humans, but peddlers are not humans?"
Wang Yue said.
Hu Quan shut up and said nothing.
"How will the court choose officials in the future?"
Zhu Shengfei asked.
"You want to ask if the imperial examination is still going on, right? I can tell you clearly that the imperial examination will continue, but it won't be the same as in the past. I'm still thinking about how to take the exam."
Wang Yue said.
The imperial examination is just changed to a civil service exam.
This is still essential, and it is actually easy to operate. It is a test or a test. It is just divided into several subjects. Then it is all Jinshi. Instead of being a local official, it is thrown out to be a second-level official, and the rest is promoted based on its ability. In fact, the literati in the Song Dynasty was still good at knowledge. They were not all those who only knew about eight-legged essays in the Qing Dynasty, science, medicine, and agriculture.
The ashes are not born yet!
Neo-Confucianism in later generations was just beginning, and Lu Jiuyuan, who was a scholar of the mind, was not born.
Confucianism can also be rescued or distorted.
"I want to thank the King of Zhongshan for being able to enjoy the literati's meal."
Hu Quan said expressionlessly.
Wang Yue looked at them with a smile. In fact, they knew that they had no other choice. If the Jurchens had a glimmer of hope before, but now there was no hope. Either accept the reality or Wang Yue's army went south and destroyed them with those rebels from all over the country. They just want to be shy and just look better in terms of face, but Wang Yue was not going to give them some face. If they wanted to surrender, surrender unconditionally and accept their fate honestly. Don't want to fight for anything, they don't have the qualification to fight for anything.
"Two, one month, I will give you a month to go back and notify all walks of life. In a month, I will lead a 100,000 army to inspect Jiangnan. I will continue to walk in all walks of life, and at the same time presided over the Public Field Law and the election of the Four Civil Representatives. During this period, any obstruction will be a dead end.
Then until I finished patrolling all the routes.
Two, you have a very tight time, so I hope you will set off immediately tomorrow!
see a visitor out!"
He said very simply.
Zhu Shengfei and Hu Quan stood up silently and walked out sadly...
Chapter completed!