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Chapter 248 Huangzhuang Field Supervisor

"Wow! So much silver! How much silver was left for me by Grandpa, the emperor left me? It was only more than five million taels of silver! Yongwazi handed me six million taels of silver and eight hundred thousand taels of gold! He is really my lucky star!" The little carpenter was so excited that he couldn't even close his mouth.

Wei Zhongxian said: "I didn't expect that Yan Shenggong was so rich!"

The little carpenter pointed to the annual income column in the report: "Wei Daban, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the annual income of the Yanshenggong Mansion has been around 600,000 taels of silver. After deducting their expenses, they can save more than 100,000 taels of silver every year. It is normal for them to save so much silver for more than two hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty. Yongwazi did a good job! Turning Yanshenggong's private land into my imperial house is used to use our captured slaves, hahaha! I will not worry about losing money in the future!"

The royal farm that uses slaves is simply a business without a business. Slaves only need to maintain their basic living expenses, and they continue to bring huge profits to the Ming Dynasty royal family every year.

However, the little carpenter thought of another question and asked in confusion: "Wei Daban, Yongwazi confiscated the land of Yanshenggong. So what should the tenants who originally farmed on Yanshenggong's land do?"

Wei Zhongxian replied: "Please rest assured, the emperor, Yongwazi and Gao Xiaoer have made arrangements. This time, the monster thieves have caused chaos, and many farmers and gentry were enslaved, and many gentry were killed. There were countless homeless lands in Shandong and northern Zhili. These lands were occupied by Yongwazi and Gao Xiaoer first and included in the imperial village. The tenants of the Yansheng Gong Mansion will rent land in the imperial village in the future, and will only collect tenant rent every year, and will not charge heavy taxes."

"How much does it cost to rent a royal farm?" the little carpenter asked again.

"40% is 10% less than the tenant rent collected by the gentry outside. In the event of disaster, the tenant rent can be appropriately reduced and exempted." Wei Zhongxian said.

This is the best win-win result. Farmers pay tenant rent that is 10% less than that of landlords and gentry, but they don’t have to bear the heavy taxes of the court like self-cultivated farmers. For the royal family, tenant rent in the royal country is the most direct income, and there is no need to worry about being greedy for taxes from all levels of officials from the local government to the Ministry of Revenue.

But the emperor and the peasants won the win, and the landlords and gentry and civil servants were unhappy. The gentry who had fame could earn extra income by donating land to them by farmers, but now the farmers can directly contribute land to the imperial village; the gentry group of civil servants could seek personal gain through layers of exploitation, but now it has been taken over by their father-in-law.

Those father-in-law who managed the imperial village were called the imperial village field supervisor by Wei Zhongxian. The Sili Supervisor selected eunuchs from the palace and were specifically responsible for managing the fields.

Many eunuchs in the palace can be used. Some eunuchs with medium status can be sent to manage the imperial villages. Each field supervisor manages about a thousand hectares of farmland. For so many farmlands, one field supervisor will definitely not be able to manage it. Therefore, before leaving the palace, the field supervisor can select several lowest firemen from the palace, and leave the palace with them to manage the imperial villages locally. Each field supervisor can only select three small eunuchs.

After arriving at the imperial village, Tianjian can still recruit supervisors to assist in management. The principle of recruiting supervisors is to recruit disabled veterans from Liaoyang New Town, Jinyiwei and Dongchang Fanzi as the priority.

In the future, Zhang Yong will also promote the imperial farm system. He will vigorously develop the shipbuilding industry and encourage colonization, immigrate a large number of military officers who have no effect at all in the country and develop colonies outside. After the officers go out, all the military farm fields left by the state will be taken back and turned into imperial farms. The original military households who are unwilling to go out to colonize will become militias on the imperial farm.

The imperial village system spread in the palace, and the eunuchs of the grades of middle and lower grades in the palace were ready to move. They all went to the Silijian to give money to Wei Zhongxian, fighting to break their heads and hoped to be sent outside to be a field supervisor.

Just as Wei Zhongxian was active in the palace, Gao Shixin and Zhang Yong, the unparalleled brothers, brought the top Jinyiwei, the Jinyiwei, and their thugs, the elite factory guards, and Liaoyang Xinzhen, two evil forces that harmed the gentry, the Jinjin, and the national melting evil power, and devoted themselves to the action of competing for profit with the people.

Xu Xianchun was very efficient in his work, and the screening of prisoners was quickly completed. Those prisoners who were originally local farmers and some gentry captives who were trapped first registered their original land, and then demoted them all to slaves, first placed them in prisoners of war camps, and then sent Jinyiwei to take down their original land first.

The gentry was killed in many counties in Shandong and Zhili, and they all ascended the throne to the throne and made a book, of course, including the land under their names.

Xu Xianchun led a team of Jinyiwei to a village that was already empty due to bandits.

"Most of the land here belongs to Zhao Juren. Zhao Juren is already in our prisoner-of-war camp because of his thief, and his family is already in our prisoner-of-war camp. We measure their land and after we measure it, we go to the local county town to register and modify the land deed!" Xu Xianchun held the roster in his hand and pointed at a group of Jinyiwei.

However, when the Jinyiwei was measuring the land, a large group of people came from the next village to block the Jinyiwei and prevent the Jinyiwei from measuring the land.

"Who is so bold? He actually blocked the Jinyiwei's case?" Xu Xianchun was furious.

The person in charge dressed as a Confucian scholar said, "Caomin is Zhao Xianchun, the clan's brother of Zhao Juren, who is a scholar. Now the clan's brother is in trouble. As a clan's brother, Caomin has the right to inherit the clan's brother's field. I hope the superior will be proud."

Xu Xianchun said: "The Jinyiwei handles the case! The blocker is regarded as a rebellion!"

Zhao Xianchun sneered: "Embroidered Uniform Guard? Caomin did not interfere with the Jinyiwei's case handling, but came for the inheritance rights of his clan brothers. If the superior insisted on measuring the land, we could go to the Yanzhou Prefecture Office to sue."

Xu Xianchun was speechless for a moment. The other party was obviously a person with fame and fame, and the Jinyiwei could not hit him casually. So Xu Xianchun took the Jinyiwei here to stabilize the group of people, and at the same time sent a Jinyiwei to report the matter to Gao Shixin and Zhang Yong.

"Clan power, our family actually forgot this thing!" Zhang Yong said, "Let's go and help Xu Tongzhi!"

"I'll go too!" Gao Shixin must go with him in this kind of thing.

Gao Shixin brought more than 100 Jinyiwei and Zhang Yong brought twenty Dongchang men. A large group of people rode on horseback and rushed to the village where Xu Xianchun and the others were.

When Zhang Yong and the others arrived at the place, they saw Xu Xianchun still debating with those people. He didn't say much, but just turned over and dismounted, rushed up with the imperial edict in his hand, walked to Zhao Xianchun, raised the imperial edict in his hand, and looked at the scholar with a cold and cruel look: "Zhao Xianchun, scholar, right? Did you see it? This is the imperial edict! The emperor has an order, and all those involved in the demon thieves will confiscate all their property! It's implicated the nine clans! Zhao Xianchun, the emperor is kind and does not want to affect too many innocent people, and only confiscate the property of the three clans! If you don't let go, then we will arrest you for being punished by the thief and confiscate your property as well!"

After saying that, Zhang Yong turned around and shouted: "Come here! Take down Zhao Xiucai, who was thief, and take him back to the capital, deprived him of his fame and fortune, and threw him into prison!"

"It's unfair!" Zhao Xiucai was so scared that he knelt on the ground, "Although Caomin is the younger brother of the Zhao Juren clan, he has already left the nine clans. I hope you will be kind to me!"

Zhang Yong sneered: "Beyond the Nine Clans? Who has the face to inherit Zhao Juren's land? If you don't leave the Nine Clans, it's best if you're not far from the Nine Clans, you'll be fine. You'll have your land lost together!"

In fact, the priority of inheritance of clan rights is that the closer the blood relationship, the more priority the inheritance of the family property of the family is. However, in practice, it involves whether there is a fame or not. The tribesmen with fame will naturally be given priority, and those without fame will be given back. Therefore, although there are nine clans, Zhao Xiucai, who has fame, has given priority to obtain the inheritance rights of his clan brothers.
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