Eight hundred and thirtieth chapters to set things right
According to records, the most serious land enclosure after the Qing Dynasty entered the pass was during the Shunzhi period, which lasted until the early Kangxi period. In the northern region alone, especially near Beijing and Zhili areas, the so-called land enclosure reached 16 million mu, causing countless ordinary families to go bankrupt and even become slaves under their jurisdiction.
This is just an official number. According to Sun Jiagan, the real number may be more. Due to the great impact of land grabbing, local people have complained, and the people have even experienced continuous resistance.
After Kangxi took power, in order to ease social conflicts, Kangxi issued a special order to stop land grabbing, but this did not mean the end of land grabbing.
Even during the reign of Kangxi, land enclosure still occurred, but the means changed from the initial powerful land enclosure to the trick, and the scale was much smaller.
Furthermore, although Kangxi issued an order to stop enclosing land, he did not return it to the enclosed land. Instead, he used the enclosed land to build imperial villages, Wangzhuang, official fields, etc., treating the lost people as coats of clothes, allowing them to farm for the Qing Dynasty on these lands, thereby gaining benefits.
Sun Jiagan talked about the situation of land enclosure. Zhu Yicheng nodded to show his understanding, and then asked how he dealt with these land enclosed, including the previous imperial village and Wangzhuang.
In response, Sun Jiagan replied that after the Qing Dynasty fled Beijing, these imperial villages and Wangzhuangs naturally took over to the Ming Dynasty court. At present, except for official fields, those farms now belong to Zhu Yicheng. In other words, Zhu Yicheng himself did not know that he actually owned nearly 10 million acres of land in the suburbs of Beijing and Zhili, which surprised Zhu Yicheng a little.
"This matter was booked and handed over to the Military Affairs Office for a memorial. If the emperor needs to know the details, you can take a look." Sun Jiagan said at last.
When he mentioned this, Zhu Yicheng remembered it a little. Sun Jiagan did come to a memorial two years ago. The content of the memorial was mainly to clean up Beijing and suburbs of Beijing, and there seemed to be an appendix.
However, Zhu Yicheng was busy with other things at that time. He only read the content of the memorial but did not go to the appendix in detail. After only giving instructions, he asked the Military Affairs Office to archive it.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yicheng sighed softly. This was considered to be his negligence. If it weren't for what Xiao Jiangzi said today, he wouldn't have paid attention to this matter.
Sun Jiagan, including the Military Affairs Office, had no problem with his approach. As an enemy property, especially the industries of the Manchu nobles, it was natural to take over the country after taking over the north. Of course, the imperial court took over, and the industries such as Huangzhuang and Wangzhuang were also belonged to Emperor Zhu Yicheng.
Now in the suburbs of Beijing and Zhili areas, there are more than 100 imperial villages belonging to Zhu Yicheng, and the number of land is even more amazing, reaching 7 million acres. This is the surplus that Sun Jiagan directly took over some of the villages that originally belonged to the Qing Dynasty's Wangzhuang and nobles. If he counted them together at that time, this number would be even more shocking.
Shaking his head, Zhu Yicheng said: "All the kings under the world are kings, and all the kings and ministers are kings. I am rich in all the world and have the whole world. What do you want these monks to do? I didn't know it back then, but now I know this, but I can't ignore it."
"Sun Jiagan!"
"I'm here!"
"These real estates were all the people's wealth and ointments that the Qing Dynasty had taken advantage of. I naturally had to make trouble for the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. Let's do this. You and the Military Affairs Office have a charter these days and manage these real estates well. Those who can find the old files will be sent to the original owners one by one. As for those who have no owners, they will be transferred to the court as official farms and official fields. As for those who have a Baoyun slave and the Zhuangtou Zhuangtou Zhuang, they will also delete and select one or two of them and give them appropriate land to help rebuild their family business..."
Zhu Yicheng's words shocked Sun Jiagan. He stood up with excitement and bowed to Zhu Yicheng with great tribute: "The emperor cares about the world and the people, this is the blessing of all the people in the world, and the blessing of my great Ming Dynasty. I thank the emperor for the kindness of the people in the world..."
"Get up, there is no need to do this." Zhu Yicheng hurriedly stepped forward and helped Sun Jiagan up, then patted him heavily on his shoulder: "This is something I think I do, but it's a little late. You need to do it with your heart. Remember to put it into practice."
Zhu Yicheng's words were both a statement and encouragement, and even a little bit of criticism. He didn't want good things to end up doing bad things.
Zhu Yicheng still knows a little about the government's work. Although some policies are good, they are distorted during the implementation process. Some people even become greedy to turn a good thing that is obviously beneficial to the people into a bad thing that is full of complaints. This situation is not without it.
Although the current Ming Dynasty is pretty good in terms of administration, and after the Fujian case, Zhu Yicheng's thunderous methods also made the court see clearly the emperor's disgust and determination to corruption. But now this matter involves great benefits. With so many imperial villages and fields, once the people who work below take this opportunity to make a fortune, it will inevitably reduce Zhu Yicheng's original request.
To avoid this situation, Zhu Yicheng asked Sun Jiagan to do his job well. Sun Jiagan naturally understood this truth and immediately agreed.
However, Sun Jiagan also raised a question, that is, he felt that it was inappropriate to send all the imperial villages back to the people at once. This statement surprised Zhu Yicheng a little because he knew that Sun Jiagan was a capable official and a clean official, so why did he think so?
"The Emperor, it has been a long time since the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, and today is different from the past. If you directly look for the original owner to return it, you can find some of them, but many of them have no actual evidence. Doing this way cannot reflect the Emperor's intention. Moreover, those sects, sects, sects, and slaughter are also of different quality. Some people follow the Manchus and foxes to act as a fraud, and they cannot be generalized when they are going on. Moreover, I think that people are promoted to Mien and fight against Mien, and people often worry about inequality. "
Before Sun Jiagan could finish his words, Zhu Yicheng understood what he thought and immediately knew that he had thought things too simply.
Sun Jiagan said nothing wrong. After so many years of things, it is extremely difficult to find the original owner. Some of the original owners may have lost their family and their families and their whereabouts have not been known. Even if they are still alive, they probably cannot provide the real evidence from that year.
Furthermore, people in the world are different. There are good people and bad people. There are loyal people and naturally greedy and cunning people. Once this matter is announced in front of the world, there will definitely be many people who are taking advantage of the situation. As for those people like Zhuangtou, Zhuang Ding and ordinary Baoyun Slave, the same is true. The quality is different and each has its own thoughts, and there will inevitably be trouble at that time.
Coupled with the words that Sun Jiagan said that people in the world often worry about being weak but not being uneven, Zhu Yicheng woke up and nodded secretly, and at the same time he was glad for Sun Jiagan's blunt statement.
Chapter completed!