Chapter 136 The Feast of Slaughtering Pigs
The days that followed will be much calmer...
Basically, all the gentry who could be cleaned up were cleaned up, and the only ones who swallowed their anger and hid at home and secretly stumbled and cursed Yang Feng.
But they are all small and medium-sized landlords.
All the landlords with land of more than 1,000 mu were in the imperial prison.
Of course, it does not include nobles.
The land of those princes and princes was still retained, but they only needed to pay taxes in the future. The emperor forced the land rent limit to them by imperial edicts. This kind of thing is not without precedent. In fact, the emperor would also limit the land rent for those vassal kings with imperial edicts. Therefore, out of love for the people, the emperor also issued an order to give them limited land rent.
Moreover, the original land rent standard is difficult for tenants to accept.
Because while dividing the land, Yang Feng also designed a new land reclamation system, that is, Zhu Yuanzhang's new land reclamation will never afford the science.
Cultivate whatever you want and never collect taxes.
This was originally the Ming Dynasty ancestor system, which was much stronger than Ma Ge's nonsense, never adding taxes. He could charge 80% of the fire consumption without adding taxes. Zhu Yuanzhang directly opened up the land and never collected taxes.
In this case, if the land rent exceeds the limit of tolerance, why don’t the tenants open up the land?
In the past, household registration restricted their movement, but now Yang Feng has even let go of this. They can move in Shuntian Mansion at will. The wasteland they had no right to reclaim before could be reclaimed, such as those imperial villages, and even Yang Feng directly detained the walls of Nanyuan. It would be a waste not to farm such a large garden. If I had thought about it when I was good in the past, it would be good to have such an imperial garden, but now it is almost turned into a beast paradise and leave aside. I have stripped the walls and ordinary people will go in to reclaim the wasteland.
There was sufficient water source in that place, and even rice could be grown. In fact, the emperor did plant rice in it in the past to show his diligence and thrift.
There were originally the vegetable gardens and orchards of the palace.
There are also oxen.
The rabbits are being driven to compensate 10,000 cows!
And at this time, Chang'ang became honest and also received pardon for offering cattle, sheep and horses. He also had ten thousand cows.
Although Mongolian cattle are not old oxen, they are not impossible to plow the fields.
In fact, Yang Feng also had a series of plans, such as the Yongding River that needs to be repaired. Although it is not called the Yongding River now, this river must be repaired. It began to flood outside the capital. Lugou River, Qiang River, and Feng River are all its flood areas. One of them even went to Nanyuan and continued to divide it downstream, and eventually they all entered the Triangle Desert. Therefore, it must be bound into one, so that the original flood area will have a large number of wastelands that can be reclaimed. In addition, it carries a lot of mud and sand, and after being bound, it will all be poured into the Triangle Desert.
Then the triangle starch will gradually stagnate, but in fact it is originally stagnated.
This vast lake also became a fertile land.
However, the result is that the flood pressure in Tianjin has increased sharply. After all, there is no such huge flood discharge area that accommodates floods, so we have to dig a horse factory to reduce the river. Then the fresh water of this river to wash away the saline-alkali land east of Tianjin, and then small station rice can be planted.
It's a grain production area again.
Four hundred thousand acres of small station rice tops are now one million acres of land in the north!
And then there is.
The downward land of Baodi in the north of Tianjin is also a wasteland.
In fact, it is the imperial village, but now the imperial village has been abolished, and the land can also be opened and the Ji Canal can be managed to facilitate shipping.
In fact, at this time, the banks of the Xi Canal were full of wetlands.
In short, the entire Shuntian Prefecture will become countless fertile fields in the future.
Although most of these fertile fields may have a relatively low yield, there is no problem in growing corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and sorghum. At this time, sweet potatoes have been introduced...
"Chen Yi, a Humen from Dongguan, Guangdong, and Chen Zhenlong from Changle, Fujian?"
Wei Zhongxian looked at these two names in confusion.
"Yes, invite them to the capital and let them take the sweet potatoes or sweet potatoes they brought back from Nanyang, in short, they are the things they brought back from Nanyang."
Yang Feng said.
He was going to give these two people an official title, and even brought back the credit for sweet potatoes. He could give them one of them a title. At worst, it would not be hereditary, but it would allow them to shine their ancestors. Then more maritime merchants would try their best to make things back for this shining family.
Eunuch Wei hesitated for a moment...
"Is there any problem?"
Yang Feng asked.
"Kaiyuan Bo, you have to tell the parents that we can only issue an order to the local officials in Guangdong and Fujian to find someone, but if it were not for the parents' votes, they would not have paid attention to it."
"Is there no official in the middle school there?"
"No."
"Who is in charge of the Maritime Affairs Bureau at the moment?"
"Fujian is the Tongzhi of Fuzhou Prefecture, and Guangzhou is the deputy envoy of the Haidao."
"No wonder we only collected tens of thousands of taels of silver a year. Our Emperor of Ming Dynasty would not make money even if we guarded the mountains of gold and silver!"
Yang Feng sighed.
"Who said no, Long Sui often regrets it in the palace."
Eunuch Wei said with deep emotion.
"It's not too late now. Go and see Your Majesty quickly and ask His Majesty to convene a meeting of the imperial front and send tax eunuchs to Fujian, Guangzhou and Ningbo. At the same time, the tax eunuchs were promoted to the Maritime Bureau as well. They just asked them to help me find these two people. Yes, hurry up, this money must not be delayed."
Yang Feng said.
"Uh, Kaiyuan Bo, is it appropriate to send this time?"
Eunuch Wei said weakly.
At this time, I’m sending a Mao, I hate you so much. It doesn’t matter if you are struggling in Shuntian Mansion. Anyway, you can’t mess with them. But if you want to send the tax eunuch to their territory, and do something to take food from others, it would be strange if they can agree! This money is indeed impossible to delay, but it must be the money you can get. This money cannot be obtained. If you really send a tax eunuch at this time, it would be purely a humiliation for yourself!
"Why are there any inappropriate things? Is there any inappropriate things under the world? Is there any inappropriate things under the world? Is there any inappropriate things under the world? The Emperor of Ming Dynasty sent a few taxes to his territory, what is there inappropriate things?"
Yang Feng said.
Eunuch Wei quickly went to convey it to him.
That's all.
How can you gain profit without provoking trouble? A pool of stagnant water cannot be used. A catfish must be stirred up.
"Kaiyuan Bo."
As soon as Eunuch Wei left, Li Ruzhen walked in with an anxious look on his face.
"General Li, haven't you gone with Brother Ling to comfort the vassals?"
Yang Feng looked at him in confusion.
Li Ruzhen had been in the capital before. He was the commander of the Jinyiwei. Although he was just a vacant position, he had always acted as a guard in the palace. Even when Li Rumei raided the capital, he and his hundreds of servants kept shutting the door in his mansion. After Li Rusong received the order, he was thrown to his brother. At this time, he should have arrived in Datong long ago. It was the fief of the King of Dai and the first stop for Xuanwei this time.
"Kaiyuan Bo, Datong Governor Mei Guozhen, and General Li Dongyang, refused our army to enter the city. In addition, General Ma Gui of Yansui led his troops to the outside of Bitou Pass and sent his son to threaten our family. If they forcefully enter the city and cause war, they will attack our army at Bitou Pass!"
Li Ruzhen said.
Yang Feng looked at him speechlessly.
Li Ruzhen looked at him blankly.
"That's all my business. What I told your brother is very clear. I have to ask for two million. You have to give me two million as much as your brother wants to pay for this trip. It's not enough for your Li family to add it. If you exceed it, we will pay the 50% off the account. But if you are your own business, it has nothing to do with me.
Your brother said, isn’t the only one who is strong in the world?
I said it too, let me see!
If you have the ability, please ask the King Dai to pay the money. If you don’t have the ability, don’t ask him for it. It has nothing to do with me. Magui is the general of Yansui. As long as he doesn’t get into the lever, he will not make any mistakes. If he goes into the lever, he will make an order to criticize you. But don’t expect me to do anything for you. I only want the money, and I just want to collect the money. If you don’t dare to fight him, then leave. Go to the King of Jin. The court sent the British Duke and Lu Shouxuanwei Dai.
Have they comforted me?"
Yang Feng said.
"This has been comforted. Mei Guozhen and the others did not stop them from entering the city. Even their brothers can do it, but the army escorted cannot enter the city."
Li Ruzhen said.
"That's fine. Mei Guozhen and Li Dongyang did not make any mistakes. They were afraid that escorting the army into Datong and disturbing the place. It was their power to not allow soldiers to enter the city. The Governor of Datong and the General of Datong have this power. It was also true that Ma Gui left Yulin and went outside the Bitou Pass. As long as he was still in the Yansui General Defense Zone, how he would like to mobilize the army was his power. Then what do you mean to come to me?
Can't you get the money from the Dai King?
You are not capable of getting money!"
Yang Feng said.
"Kaiyuan Bo, you can't do this!"
Li Ruzhen was stunned.
"How am I? Don't bother me with your affairs. Also, the imperial court has a deadline for comfort, only four months at most. You must complete the comfort within four months and then return. When you can collect the money for me, I will release Li Rumei and those servants. If you can't collect enough money within four months, add it yourself. If you don't have enough money, don't add it, then wait to collect their heads. Hurry up, you have a lot of time!"
Yang Feng waved his hand to signal him to get out quickly.
Li Rusong just couldn't let go, after all, he had never done such a thing.
Ma Gui was actually surprised to find that this is possible. So why didn’t the Li family make money instead of letting the Ma family make money?
Is he still unclear how much money does Dai Wang have?
The fat sheep in my Ma Family pot doesn't need your Li Family to eat.
In fact, Ma Gui had already sent a letter to Yang Feng, and directly stated that he could do the job of raising funds for His Majesty the Emperor. Isn’t it just 50% or 50%? Four or 6% or 4% or 4% for him, so Yang Feng would not care about such idiots. He was inseparable from money. I have to say that he has learned bad things from him now, and these bastards have already realized it.
What kind of comfort?
This is obviously a pig-killing feast!
Chapter completed!