Another year is approaching. In Jiangnan, where the war has just passed, the old order has been broken, while the new order is still being established in a hurry, with uneasiness and confusion everywhere.

By the Linhai River, a group of farmers ploughed the winter fields and gathered together to chat. Naturally, they were all complaining and complaining.

"The saint's heart seems to be not pretending to be like us ordinary people. It's better to have the Yimen Party and the Yimen are protecting each other. There is always a way out."

"Yes, now those military households and lords are all rough people, so they know how to fight and kill, and they don't care about us little people."

"The officials are not good now. They ignore them because they have caused deaths. They only know how to make money. Recently, they have sent people to the countryside to check household registration and land. I wonder why it is for?"

"Why else? You have to collect more taxes! No matter whether you collect the land or the people, you will always bear the tax in the end... Who can still count on those lords and military households to help us with the burden?"

"Rely on them? Humph, you think they are Yimen Fang!"

Of course, Yimenfang will not bear taxes for the people, but they will help customers hide their population.

The population of the Southern Song Dynasty was only more than 10 million in history in the late Lizong Dynasty. However, the population statistics conducted about ten years after the Yuan Dynasty pacified Jiangnan were as high as 70 to 80 million, and most of them were above the hometown of the Southern Song Dynasty. Considering the massacres during the Mongol eradication of the Song Dynasty, the population of the Southern Song Dynasty was at least 70 to 80 million in the late Lizong Dynasty!

From this we can see that the problem of household registration hidden in the late Southern Song Dynasty was extremely serious. This is also the reason why the Chen Ming court has begun to investigate the national household registration now. The account books of the Ministry of Revenue in the Southern Song Dynasty are really unavailable to read. There are only more than 10 million people in the country. Who would believe it if you tell me it? There is more than one million people in Lin'an Prefecture alone!

At the same time, this time, the household registration inspection was also preparing for "spending acres to acre". Now Chen Ming's tax types in rural areas are generally divided into Song system. It is generally divided into land tax and service tax, among which land tax is various taxes linked to land. Service tax is a tax linked to population. At the beginning, this tax was "service" and let the people work as free labor for the country. In theory, most of the clerks in the Song Dynasty were also "service" and should not pay wages. However, during the implementation process, this "service" began to gradually evolve into taxes such as "free service money" and "free husband money".

However, the collection of this type of tax is very troublesome. You have to first classify the households and collect taxes according to different levels. This is a conscience job to divide the households. How to divide them depends entirely on the conscience of local officials and clerks.

When those local officials and clerks faced the Yimen in Jiangnan, they were particularly conscientious. Therefore, the tenants who were hiding in the Yimen were basically hidden people. These tenants did not have to pay "free money" or "free money", and naturally they could afford heavier land rent and repay more usury.

But now, the Yimen in Jiangnan has been smashed and destroyed. It can no longer protect the tenants below.

When I think about paying "free money" and "free money" soon, I am full of resentment on my simple faces with dish-like faces.

"We can't afford to pay a rent alone. If we have another extra fee for exemption, we're afraid we'll all jump to Linhai River!"

"It's useless to jump to Linhai River. Isn't Liu Laosan dead in vain? When a person dies, the rent has to be paid, and the fields can't be planted anymore. The day before yesterday, Li took more than a dozen military soldiers to the Liu family and took away the eighteen stone grains, leaving the sixteen stone grains for the Liu family..."

"Sixteen Stone Valley... I don't know how many left after sending it to Liu Lao San? How can I live the future of the three of Liu's mothers!"

"The only ones that cannot be passed by are not just the Liu family, Lao Yutou, Wang Laoguai, Ding Yiguai, Zhang Da, Zhou Agen and the other five families have also been withdrawn from their tenants!"

When it comes to withdrawing the tenant, everyone sighed, "The rent is high, the labor costs are heavy, and there is no place to borrow usury, so these difficulties can still be overcome. But withdrawing the tenant... will really make the farmers live.

"If it really doesn't work, please move the place." Someone suggested, "Go to the north to try your luck. I heard that there are many land in the north and there are few people. The rent is very light. Even if you use the farm tools and farm horses of the landlord, the rent will only account for 30% of the harvest."

"But it takes a trip fee to go to the north! The family and the family travel thousands of miles apart. Why do they cost dozens of traffic?"

"Yes, what if you can't rent a land in the north? Wouldn't you starve to death?"

"Then be a military household. Go to Linhai County to register for a registration. The government will pay the travel expenses. There are free fields to get when you arrive in the north, and it will be tax-free for five years."

"I'm afraid there is a field but no life seeds..."

"But if you don't go, you will only starve to death!"

Tenants also have to go with them. There are many people in the south of the Yangtze River, but there are few land, so the rent is of course heavy. Going to the north, there are few people and many land, so the rent is naturally light. If you go to western Liaoning and Liaodong, paying 20% ​​of the land is enough. If you go to western Liaoning, you don’t have to be a tenant anymore. You can just register a military household and get 150 acres of land, and you can get the equipment fee.

However, Sheng Ren Chen’s land and money are not easy to take, so he has to fight for his life. Now in the rural areas of Jiangnan, those who dare to fight for his life are already military households. There are thousands of families in each county. The remaining farmers are naturally more conservative and timid. If there is no way, they will not leave their hometown.

Just when everyone was feeling desperate, Fang Sixiu came over and heard this and shouted: "When a military household is going to fight to kill the enemy? You have to fight with the Tartars. Can you have this ability?"

Fang Si Xiucai looked dusty, with a bag on his shoulders and a wooden stick on his hand. It was obvious that he had just returned from going out.

"Four scholars, how about Qingyuan Mansion? Have you handed over the letter?"

It turned out that Fang Si Xiucai was accompliced ​​by Liu Sheng to Qingyuan Prefecture, the capital of Zhejiang Province. There is a judge in the Xixi Province of Zhejiang Province, which is one level higher than the Taizhou Magistrates. If the judge in Taizhou Magistrates cannot be managed, you can go to the Xixi Zhejiang Magistrates.

"Oh!" Fang Si Xiucai just shook his head and didn't say anything.

"It's still not accepted? The province doesn't care. Is it true that we poor people have a way out?"

"This government is simply unreasonable!"

"Yes, the landlord retired the tenant and forced someone to die. The government didn't ask. What is the government going to do?"

The tenants were even more resentful, complaining in groups, and their words were very particular. However, the outrageous words were only expressed, but everyone was already scared by themselves, like a frightened rabbit. They looked around and did not find any military households nearby, so they breathed a sigh of relief.

There are now more than 3,000 military households, more than 100 nobles, and hundreds of merchants holding gentry cards in Linhai County.

If there is a real stir, the elite brigade can be concentrated at any time. Even if there are tens of thousands of tenants in Linhai, they can easily defeat them. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty had many troops in Jiangnan, and not only Linhai had troops, but there would be large troops coming from other places at that time.

Fang Si Xiucai also sighed and talked about his experiences in Qingyuan Mansion. "Now in Jiangnan, we are not just here, but also here. Ninghai, Tiantai, Xianju, Huangyan, Xiangshan, Fenghua, Xinchang, Dinghai... There are troubles everywhere, people die everywhere, and governments everywhere ignore them. The victims all went to Qingyuan Mansion to file a complaint. The entrance of the Provincial Judges Office was bustling like a vegetable market, and many people carried the bodies over!"

The fact that the withdrawal of tenants is actually quite common in Jiangnan today! The reason is that the collapse of the Yimen is different from the emergence of military landlords and the Yimen who are obsessed with imperial examinations and seek greater economic benefits after obtaining political privileges. The emerging military landlord class does not have such ambitions, and there is no way for them to go for an exam. Moreover, most of them are farmers. When they have obtained a large amount of land and can get low-interest loans by mortgaged land, they naturally choose to operate the land.

In addition, Chen Ming's national policy is very conducive to commercial operations.

First of all, Chen Ming's court had New World gold and controlled the shipping routes of sea trade, so it had strong financial resources and did not need to engage in state-owned economy like the Song Dynasty, interfere in commercial activities everywhere, and accumulate money at the cost of disrupting normal business order.

Secondly, with the support of New World gold, Tiandaozhuang, as a super bank with the functions of a central bank, is also growing rapidly, giving Daming a strong financial heart, which further promoted the prosperity of business.

Again, Tiandaozhuang issued a large number of paper money with New World gold and silver as guaranteed. Although it was sufficient, it still caused inflation to a certain extent.

Finally, the basis of Chen Ming's regime was the commercial gentry of military meritorious landlords. Therefore, the merchants had a higher political status and their private property was more secure.

These reasons combined together made Chen Ming's domestic commercial activities suddenly become active after the war ended, and all kinds of businesses were relatively easy to do. Some military rich peasants who treated agriculture as a business had made a lot of profits in the past year. Many people wanted to expand their operations, which also led to the concentration of land use rights, and a large number of small peasants became victims.

"What should we do?" When everyone heard that there were many people causing trouble, they immediately felt that there were some opportunities. There were too many people and great power! Maybe the high-ranking officials in eastern Zhejiang Province would come out to make decisions for the people.

Fang Si Xiucai smiled, "Of course we have to make a fuss! The bigger the fuss, the better! If the fuss is big... we have a way out!"

"Yes, you must make a big deal!" Someone next to him immediately agreed, "If it makes a big deal, the officials in Zhejiang East are afraid that they will lose their black hats, and they will definitely use the thug Li's head to calm the public's anger!"
Chapter completed!