"Xuan Qian Qianyi, Hou Xun, Zhu Chunchen, and Li Yan come to Qinzheng Hall!"

As soon as Jin Zhijun left, Zhu Cixiang immediately asked the eunuch on duty to announce the presence of these important ministers in Fengyang.

Qian Qianyi was the Minister of Rites and was asked by Zhu Cixiang to take charge of the reconstruction of the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum and the Ming Zu Mausoleum (in Xuyi). In order to prevent the Imperial Mausoleum and the Ming Zu Mausoleum from being stolen by the Qing army, Zhu Cixiang, the filial son and grandson of the Ming Dynasty, planned to build two pagodas.

However, how to modify the fortress-style imperial tomb must be studied by Qian Qianyi, a great scholar, and it must also comply with etiquette!

And Hou Xun is the governor of Jiangbei and the governor of Fengyang. He has a high official position in Fengyang.

Zhu Chunchen was left behind in Zhongdu. He sounded like he was on the same side as Hou Xun, but in fact he was the chief military officer of Fengyang Mansion and was responsible for the defense of Fengyang Mansion.

After the Qingliuxi War, Li Yan continued to serve as the commander of the general's army, and was Zhu Cihong's military advisor.

The four people were summoned and hurried over. What they saw in the Qinzheng Hall was a somewhat melancholy Prince Zhu.

Zhu Cixiang always had a smile on his face. Even when Beijing was under siege, he never looked so melancholy.

Zhu Chunchen, who had followed Zhu Cixiang for the longest time, immediately thought of Chongzhen, and immediately put on a sad expression. Before even saluting, he asked with concern: "Master Qiansui, are you the emperor?"

Zhu Cixiang looked at Zhu Chunchen and didn't understand for a moment, "What's wrong with my father?"

It wasn't that Chongzhen was dead. Zhu Chunchen was confused now and said quickly: "It's nothing. It's nothing. I just saw the sad look on Mr. Qiansui's face and thought you missed the emperor."

Missing Chongzhen? Zhu Cihong said to himself: I don’t have any feelings, what a waste of time.

He thought so in his heart, but said: "Yes, I do miss my father."

Zhu Chunchen breathed out, and then together with Qian Qianyi, Hou Xun and Li Yan, they saluted the prince.

The chair was placed in Zhu Cixiang's Qinzheng Hall. After kowtowing, he went to sit on it. This was the etiquette established by Zhu Cixiang. He originally wanted to skip the kowtow procedure, but the people below were used to kowtowing. If they didn't kowtow, they would not feel at ease.

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"You all should read Dorgon's autographed letter!" Zhu Cihong waved to an eunuch serving in the palace, who immediately handed the letter to Qian Qianyi.

Qian Qianyi unfolded the letter and started reading it. He was smiling at first, but halfway through, his expression changed dramatically.

"What? The Tatars actually want to equalize the land."

When he shouted, Hou Xun, Zhu Chunchen, and Li Yan were also shocked. Zhu Chunchen and Li Yan were better off. Zhu Chunchen's government occupied a lot of military farmland in Beizhili, but there were not many legal private lands.

, and all his family’s land has been occupied by the Tatars. Li Yan’s family is just a medium-sized landowner and does not have much land. Hou Xun is different. His family is the largest landowner in Guide Prefecture! This equalization of land is not

Are they all gone? When the Ming Dynasty counterattacks in the future, it may not be possible to take it back, right?

"What's going on?" Hou Xun asked hurriedly.

Zhu Cihong said: "Dorgon said in the letter that because the gentry in the north were incited by me and unwilling to be used by the Eastern invaders, the interests of the gentry were not considered. Moreover, there are fewer people in the north and more land in the north.

, Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong all have countless wastelands, so he plans to follow the method of the Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang Dynasties and implement the land equalization system in the north. The land will be granted orally, and each land will be granted ten acres. After the land is granted, the rent will be four liters per acre. Mr. Bai Mianhou,

What do you think?"

Dorgon was honest and told his son-in-law the truth. The gentry in the north, especially the Shandong gentry, were deceived by Zhu Cixiang into going against the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty did not count on them anymore and simply planned to dictate the land!

Hou Xun just shook his head: "How can it be like this? How can it be like this? This is seizing people's land! What Donglu is doing now is the same as rogue bandits."

"Hmph!" Zhu Cixi snorted coldly, "Sir, did you think that the Donglu were better than the rogues before?"

Hou Xun was startled by Zhu Cixiang's question and quickly knelt down to Prince Zhu, "Master Qiansui, that's not what I meant, veteran."

"Needless to say," Zhu Cixiang raised his hand to signal Hou Xun to stand up, "Mr. Hou, your family owns a lot of land in Guide Mansion, right? How did you collect rent before?"

Hou Xun stood up tremblingly, "Master Qiansui, my family doesn't have much land, and it was all left by the predecessors. As for the rent, it varies from field to field. Henan is poor and has suffered from drought for many years, so we can't harvest much. Usually it's one acre."

Collect two or three bushels of wheat and break it into white flour, that is, one bushel can be increased to two bushels."

Zhu Cihong said: "Donglu only charges four liters! You are much more ruthless than Donglu."

"No, no, no" Hou Xun waved his hands repeatedly, "The Donglu's four liters of imperial grain is the amount they have received. The officials who handle it will definitely get more from the small people's income. The small people's income will never be enough for one acre.

Less than eight liters.”

"Haha," Zhu Cixi said with a smile, "That's half less, and Mr. Hou is kind-hearted. Ordinary landowners won't accept so little, right? Military advisor, what do you think?"

Li Yan also frowned tightly, "Master Qiansui, Dorgon has indeed collected too little. In an ordinary year, the rent collected by the Chen family is no less than three dou per acre, and there is also another amount of usury."

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But that’s all in the past, now the landowners in Zhongzhou can’t afford that much!”

"Why?" Zhu Cihong asked.

"There is no one left!" Li Yan said, "In the past, if there were too many people and too little land to rent, people would starve to death! Once they had rented land, even if they paid three to five dou per acre in rent, they could still struggle to survive. Now. Now

Zhongzhou has a small population and a lot of land, and it is difficult to rent out the land. Otherwise, how can the Tatars account for the land?"

"Master Qiansui," Zhu Chunchen interjected, "I heard that the Tatars are going to set up some kind of green flag soldiers. It seems that they are using the green camp reform to enclose the land and grant farmland. It should be that they have less land and can't collect any taxes.

of."

Zhu Cixi also knew about this and had a headache for a few days.

However, compared with the current plan to grant farmland according to the plan, enclosing land and setting up green flags is nothing. What the plan to grant land to orally solves is the most fundamental and most difficult social contradiction in feudal society!

Even Zhu Cixi, a "traveler", didn't know how to solve this contradiction. But Dorgon solved it easily. Although he had activated the "Thanos Mode", on the basis of the population of Northland being reduced by 70 to 80%

It solves the problem, but the problem is always solved.

Moreover, a family of five can be granted fifty acres of land, and the annual royal grain payment is only two dan. Even if the number of corrupt officials is included, the maximum is four dan. And the average annual output of fifty acres of northern dry land is nothing.

It will not be less than fourteen or fifteen stones. After paying four stones, there will still be ten stones, which is enough to support five people. It is also very generous, so it can be maintained for a long time.

Once this problem is solved, the rule of the Qing Dynasty in the north will be stabilized, and the Northern Expedition launched by Zhu Cixi will be difficult to get the support of the working people in the north. Because one day of granting ten acres of land and paying four measures of imperial grain can completely satisfy the needs of the people.

It's warm and can be eaten to death. What benefits can the Ming Dynasty represented by Zhu Cixi bring to them?

Of course, those farmers in the north who were granted land would not spontaneously serve as soldiers to protect the Qing Dynasty. Because Dorgon did not have that kind of organizational ability, it would be good if he could collect four liters of rent per acre. He could really control it.

Yes, it is still the organized Eight Banners and Green Flag military groups. There are 200,000 households in the sky. This is its foundation.

"Then what should we do?" Zhu Cixiang asked.

Li Yan said: "Master Chitose, we have no way to plan and grant land in the southeast. The population in the southeast is already too large, and now there are refugees from the north. There is not enough land to grant, but the land clearance and land inspection must be carried out without delay and must be implemented as soon as possible."

The population density in the southeastern region of the Ming Dynasty was already very high, and the contradiction between man and land was very prominent. Moreover, due to years of turmoil in the north, Huguang, and Sichuan, a large number of refugees poured into the southeast. The population of the southeast is now likely to reach 80 million or even 100 million.

There are only 200 million acres of arable land at most, excluding some land in frontline areas such as Huaibei and Xuhai that is difficult to cultivate normally.

In addition, the implementation of planned land granting cannot save the official land, the army's meritorious service land and the army's farmland. Otherwise, the feudal regime cannot be maintained, how can the land granting be implemented? Therefore, Zhu Cixiang had to deduct tens of millions of acres.

The amount that can really be used for farming is just over 100 million acres. If divided equally among 100 million people, the average person will only get one or two acres of thin land. A family of five can only have six acres of thin land at most. If it is paddy land, it can be maintained with hard work.

Some time. But the southeast is not full of paddy fields. There are also many dry lands and slopes, and the yield is not very high. Six acres of dry land and slopes are a small-scale peasant economy that cannot be maintained for a long time. Even in New China with higher productivity levels, land reform

Didn’t differentiation also occur in the next few years?

What other solutions can Zhu Cixi have to solve the problems that even New China cannot solve? With the current level of agricultural production and the government's management capabilities, I am afraid that the concentration of land and the differentiation of farmers have already begun before the planned land transfer in the southeast is completed.

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What to do then? Do it again?

Zhu Cixi shook his head and sighed: "It is necessary to clear the land and inspect the land. In addition, we should also bulldoze the more than 200 million acres of cultivated land in Huguang as soon as possible, of which official fields and military villages account for most of it. How can we manage it well and increase the annual income?

Tens of millions of stones are possible.
Chapter completed!