Now that the party's opinions are temporarily unified, Hong Jinglai must start preparing for the cleanup of the academies. After all, he must know which academy has a plaque bestowed by the previous kings and a "gold medal for immunity from death."

Of course, even those academies with quotas cannot actually have the tax exemption and labor exemption rights of 80,000 knots of land like the academy of Zhao Wanyong's family. At most, it is only a few hundred knots, or the tax exemption of one or two thousand knots.

There were only dozens of households and hundreds of households with slaves and maidservants. Hong Jinglai needed to clarify the specific details of the privileges granted to them by the previous kings when they were given plaques.

At the same time, a comprehensive census and understanding of academies, ancestral temples, private schools and other institutions in all counties and counties across the country were conducted. However, as soon as the census began, there was some kind of commotion among scholars all over the world.

As soon as the draft document of the Uijeongye Government arrived at the local level, local scholars felt something was wrong. Why did Hong Jinglai ask all localities to report all academies to the Hanyang court and indicate whether they were gifted academies? Did he want to disturb the local academies?

It shouldn't be that big of a deal. If it were to happen, it would be equivalent to being hostile to all the yangban in North Korea!

Half a century ago, during the reign of King Yeongjong, he had to dismantle about 300 academies. But at that time, the party struggle was quite severe, and King Yeongjong had party members to help him eliminate rival parties. Therefore, the main contradiction was still concentrated on

In the party struggle, most of the 300 academies that were demolished were owned by losers and their sympathizers.

To put it bluntly, it is liquidation. This is an old routine. Hidden under the abolition of academies, the goal of replenishing the central finance and strengthening the feudal royal power has been obscured by the superficial issue of party struggle. Many people still think that it is just a failure.

It was just the normal fate of those who had been demolished. Moreover, most of the 300 academies that had been demolished had been rebuilt after King Yingjong kicked off the operation, and they now enjoy even more glorious power than before.

Therefore, although the two squads have some guesses in their minds, they are just guesses for the time being.

Hong Jinglai had some problems here. As we all know, North Korea has experienced two large-scale wars. One was the Japanese Rebellion and the other was the Indiscriminate Rebellion. Especially during the Japanese Rebellion, Joseon Wen Tianmuhi, Konishi Yukinaga and Kato

Qingzheng actually entered Hanyang City at a trot, and did not encounter any fierce resistance at all in the early stage.

At that time, King Li and all the officials almost fled in despair. They were in an unspeakable panic. Even their wives and children were not necessarily in the mood to take them with them, let alone the documents and archives of past dynasties. Those that have been in existence for more than two hundred years.

All the files and records fell into the hands of thieves. They were soon lost in the fire and completely destroyed.

Within a few decades, the Donglu Tatars invaded Hanyang City again. King Li and all the officials fled again and again. The few documents they had packed up and so on, good guys, all fell into the hands of thieves and fled.

He was disappointed. Fortunately, this time Hanyang didn't have a fire that burned the whole city to a white ground.

Coupled with the collection and organization of the former authentic king Li Zu, now Hanyang Kuizhang Pavilion, Art Museum and other places preserve relatively complete various legal documents over the past two hundred years. Through searching, you can find out the documents of the imperial court over the past two hundred years.

All government decrees, as well as the original text records of all the decrees of the previous kings.

After two checks, it is clear that there are forty-seven academies with plaques inscribed by the ancestors of the past dynasties. In the small country of Ming Dynasty, there are actually so many academies that can fully enjoy the rights of tax exemption and exemption from corvee. This is the case in all dynasties.

What is King Li thinking? He is actively infringing on his country's tax base. Isn't he digging a hole for his old Li family?

What is even more surprising is that there are almost 700 academies in the entire North Korea. Some counties with prosperous literary styles have seven or eight academies in one county. Almost all the land in the county is under the name of the academies.

What kind of private farmland does exist? Taking Daegu as an example, less than 100 households of yangban, which accounts for about 7% of the population, occupy more than 60% of the land in the county under the name of academy, and they are mainly high-quality paddy fields.

However, good citizens and middle-aged people, who accounted for 50% of the population, only occupied more than 30% of the remaining land, and actually paid all the taxes in the county and performed labor services.

Someone may ask, where did the remaining 43% of the population go? Of course they were used as slaves! About 2,000 households were under the name of Liangban, and as private slaves, they served as slaves for Liangban.

Farm the fields and serve as servants.

By exploiting 2,000 slaves from a mere 100 households in two classes, they can live a superior life far better than ordinary people. They can also become an "idler", make progress in their studies, participate in the imperial examinations, and then obtain official positions and strengthen their family's power.

Further oppress and exploit slaves and increase their own and family wealth.

Of course, in fact, among the two classes of one hundred households, it is considered good that only one-tenth of them can pass the Jinshi examination and hold official positions. The rest of the people will basically be "young students" throughout their lives and do not have the necessary qualifications.

That kind of overwhelming power is said to oppress slaves, but in fact it is just like Hong Jinglai did in the village, with a few households and more than a dozen households living together.

After everything is found out, Hong Jinglai is no longer a stupid young man. As a ruler, we have tiger skins to pull off when doing things. Li Li, who has been supported, must not act as a rubber stamp at this time. If this is of any use

If you don't have any, why should we support a great king?

It was Hong Jinglai who took the initiative, but the order must be given by Li? This way, at least the mouths of feudal defenders like Jin Pingchun can be silenced. Aren’t you the king’s sage? Then be the sage. This is the Lord.

The decree issued by His Highness was not issued by Hong Jinglai. If you oppose it, you are opposing King Li!

It’s only fair to suppress some people’s opposition first!

Entering the palace to report to Li?, Li? said that the matter was serious and allowed him to think twice. Faced with such a major matter, the young man would definitely not dare to make a decision alone, so he immediately summoned the ministers of his old Li family to the palace for discussion.

.Since Hong Jinglai had spoken, he was actually just here to inform Li?, not to seek Li?'s opinion.

In this case, how can Li Jian avoid being involved in the whole political storm? It is best to sit on the mountain and watch the fight between tigers and watch Hong Jinglai fight with the local two squads. In other words, in this major event, he can

To seek some benefits for King Li himself, or to expand King Li's own royal power.

We can't let Hong Jinglai push him to the front desk and rubber-stamp him, because he won't get any good results. After inspecting the academy, it's impossible to confiscate the property. If it were confiscated, I'm afraid that all the yangban in North Korea would immediately take the tenants and tenants with them.

They rebelled.
Chapter completed!