On the Linhai River, sails are continuous, and tall masts are endless on the river, and the journey is inconsistent. There are also thin ferry and fishing boats, passing through the gaps between the big boats.

With the curtain of the Ming and Song War, Taizhou Shanggang seemed to have restored its former prosperity.

On the banks of the river, the fields are densely covered with ridges, which is also a prosperous atmosphere. Now is the season of harvest. In the golden rice fields, farmers are waving their sickles to cut the heavy rice into pieces. Occasionally, dozens of families gathered in a village, with blue bricks, gray tiles and thatched roofs contrasting with the dynamic and stillness of the scenery on the river, making it a poetic and picturesque scene.

It seems that a peaceful and prosperous era has arrived on earth with the establishment of the Ming Dynasty.

The Hundred Years of War since the Jingkang Shame has ended in the Ming Empire. Although there are Mongols and Tubo people in the west of the Central Plains, small-scale wars continue. But what does this have to do with the rich land on the southeast coast? At worst, you can just use some gifts to comfort it.

Anyway, the Ming Dynasty is full of treasury and there is no shortage of these small money at all. Shouldn’t we spend some small money to buy a big picture of rest with the people?

After all, the people of Middle-earth have been suffering from war for more than a hundred years! Even if there are some powerful Han Wu and Tang Xuan, who are in power, should they let the people take a breath first?

Unfortunately, things in the world are always not so satisfactory...

In a small village on the banks of the Linhai River, someone is reading articles in an upbeat accent, but it is not the Four Books and Five Classics, nor the Three Classics of Heavenly Way, but various news articles in the tabloids.

If there is any part of the Ming Dynasty established by Chen Dexing and the Southern Song Dynasty that the former dynasty was in line with each other, it would probably be loose public opinion control. The Song Dynasty shared the world with the scholars and officials, so naturally they could not control the literati and officials. Chen Ming was the foundation of aristocratic democracy, so they naturally could not control the national people's political discussions.

Except for Tiandaoism and Saint Chen, no one should discuss anything wrongly, not only can you discuss it casually, but you can also publish it in tabloids.

"... The imperial court wants to use troops to all directions, and the military households in Jiangnan were used as military farming soldiers in Liaozhong, northern Liao, southern Mongolia, western regions and other places. The mobilization order has been issued. Anyone who receives military orders must report to the location of the Linhai Military Household Brigade before the end of November. You can bring your family and servants with you. If you violate the order, the military law will be severely punished!"

"The method of the imperial court to use military forces in Liao land was to garrison for a long time, and it was not allowed to return it for decades. Each soldier could obtain 50 mu of deserted fields in Liao land. One horse was plowed and several seeds of farming tools were used. The fields were used to replenish the land, and the land was cultivated in normal times, and the army was promoted to the battlefield during wartime. All the people of the Ming Dynasty could voluntarily register and go there. The land was allocated together, and each of the naturalized military households could obtain 150 mu of land, and 300 stagnants of capital for the purchase of machinery were given, one horse was plowed and several seeds of farming tools were given..."

In Pingba in the middle of the village, a middle-aged man in Confucian clothes was reading proudly, with an indescribable look on his face. His children from Yimenfang, the residents of this village were once customers of Yimenfang. Several generations of people were favored by the Fang family, so when the Fang family was in trouble, they also protected many Fang family members who were in trouble. This Confucian scholar named Fang Kesi, known as Fang Si Scholar, was one of them.

Now with the end of the war, the limelight for capturing the children of Yimen has passed. The rumors of massacring the children of Yimen have now been proved to be false. The heaviest punishment for the children of Yimen was just exile to the border and overseas colonial areas.

Therefore, those Yimenzi who were hiding from the east have also come out to move. It is impossible to return to the land and continue to be the local owner. They have new owners, either the lords and nobles from the north or the local military soldiers. These people are not something that the ruined Yimenzi can provoke.

So the Yimen who missed the net had to find ways to reliably. Some people changed their names and surnames to take the lower-level officials of the Ming Dynasty. Although their salary was not high, there seemed to be no room for improvement. But they could still have enough food and clothing. Some people opened a private school to take pupils to teach the Ming Dynasty. Although the imperial examinations were abolished, they had official exams. Although they were just minor officials at the lower level, they were always better than being a farmer, and it was easier to get into the exam. Therefore, the motivation for farmers to let their children study was stronger than before. Private schools opened like mushrooms in the rain in various places can always recruit students.

Fang Si Xiucai is now a private school teacher. In fact, he has some skills. He is not only literary but also knowledgeable. He can take the exam to take a small official. Chen Ming's local finance is relatively rich, and Linhai County, which has developed industry and commerce, is even richer, so the salary offered to officials is also high, which is enough for the solitary Fang Si Xiucai to start a family and start a career and live a decent life.

But Fang Si Xiucai was ambitious and had been studying Confucius and Mencius for half his life. How could he be an official of Taoism? Although his private school also taught the Three Classics of Heaven and Dao (if you don’t learn this, you won’t be an official), he himself said that he would never become an official of the Ming Dynasty.

The farmers started to talk at this time, and their expressions were like those of Fang Si Xiucai, and they were all a little gloating.

"It turns out that the evil people will not be rewarded. Let those military officials be proud! Now, I will stay in the bitter and cold land north for the rest of my life."

"Yes, I just know that there is no good thing about the pie in the sky. One hundred acres of irrigated land and thousands of stagnant property, how could it be for nothing? Is Emperor Chen so kind?"

"Hmph, they are all lazy rogues. Now some of them are suffering!"

"It's better to die in the north and never come back, so that our lives will be easier..."

"So what if I die in the north? The saint will not pull all the soldiers to the north. Besides, there are lords and lords, and with them, we will still not be able to go back to the past."

The farmers obviously miss Yimen Square. Yimen Square is a prominent family that has been developed for hundreds of years. Although they still have to exploit tenants to fatten themselves. However, a prominent family that has been a hundred years must have some tricks and rules. They know how to carefully disguise, know that they must restrain their children, and cannot let them do anything wrong, and know how to squeeze out the most wealth while leaving a way out for the farmers.

In a nutshell, Yimen exploits tenants based on the long-term and needs to be a long-term flow of water and not very good at killing chickens to get eggs.

However, most of the military landlords of Chen Dexingfeng were vicious. Now that they have turned into landlords and rich peasants, they naturally have to search for them viciously so that they and their families can live a decent life as soon as possible.

There are also some military households with many people, and they are also tenants who rent land to cultivate. Now that they have land, of course they have to cultivate themselves. One hundred acres of irrigated land and two strong laborers. The women and children at home work together, and hire workers temporarily during the busy farming period, and raise two buffaloes at most, which is enough to deal with it. Moreover, Chen Ming couldn't help but slaughter oxen, and when the oxen was old, they could still be sold to butchers.

Such "rich peasant management" is much more cost-effective than renting land to farmers. The production model of renting land to small peasants from Yimen often means insufficient investment in land. Yimen, which has financial resources, will not invest in agriculture, and tenants are unable to invest. The emerging "military rich peasant" has land, can also borrow capital, and has certain political protection. It will not be oppressed by anyone. Although the military households are not nobles, they are also reserve aristocrats and can become lords at any time, so local officials dare not bully them.

Therefore, many military households chose the most hated tenant after obtaining the land! Chen Ming's court and the government were different from the former Song Dynasty, and did not take any measures to prevent the tenant from being withdrawn, and even vaguely encouraged the tenant. The semicolons opened by Tiandaozhuang in various counties in Jiangnan were all loaned to military households with land with low interest to help them buy oxen and farm tools and manage their own land.

The tenants who lost their land would have no living security. The way out was to go to the city to work, go to sea to make a living, go north to farm, and go north to farm, and the north was vast and sparsely populated, so it was difficult to recruit tenants. Many nobles who were given land were now recruiting tenants in Jiangnan, and the conditions offered were relatively superior, or they might as well go to join the army as a military household!

But no matter what choice, you have to leave your hometown and go to an unknown place to roam. Maybe you will die outside, and you will not be as comfortable as before.

Therefore, the tenants who have been in Jiangnan for generations and have lived hard to live by renting land, the first option for them after being withdrawn from the tenant is to rent other people's land. No matter how harsh the conditions are, as long as they can rent the land, there will always be a way out...

Therefore, these days, the rents in Jiangnan have not been reduced, but have become higher.

In addition to the high rent, it is much more difficult to borrow money now than in the past. This is no longer a matter of interest rate, but a problem of difficulty in borrowing!

Although lending money to tenants has always been the main part of Yimen's income, lending money is naturally lending usury! But for tenants in Jiangnan, borrowing usury is also a way to live. They have to borrow in disasters and marriages and funerals. Some people in their families have to grit their teeth when they get sick and take medicine. Only when they can borrow usury can they reproduce and continue to relive. Although the price is likely to be interest that cannot be paid off by their descendants.

But now the Yimen in Jiangnan has suffered a heavy blow, and there is no ability or financial resources to continue to lend money. The military households and lords who replaced them do not have much extra money to lend money. No one has given usury, which is not a good thing for people who want to borrow usury.
Chapter completed!