After receiving the 600-mile expedition from Wuchang, Zhang Yong immediately sent ten Dongchang men to rush to Wuchang through the post station, changing horses but not changing people.

In the era of Wei Zhongxian, the Dongchang Anime was more powerful than the Jinyiwei. If you want to arrest people, you don’t need to go through the Criminal Department to send a letter to the clerk. As long as there is an emperor’s imperial edict, you will be fine. After Zhang Yong asked for the imperial edict, he sent ten Dongchang Anime to Wuchang. As long as the Dongchang Anime arrived in Wuchang, the Yidongchang Anime took the Jinyiwei to arrest people, the civil officials dared not say anything.

It took twelve days to go from the people from the Jinyiwei Qianhu Station of Wuchang to the capital city and to the Dongchang Ancestral sent by Zhang Yong to Wuchang. During this period, the servants sent by Juren Liu arrived at Yu Laoliu's house.

"Yu Laoliu! Has the injury been healed? After healed, come to our Liu family to work quickly!" The butler yelled outside with his servant.

"My father is gone. I haven't seen anyone for almost ten days." Yu Laoliu's son Yu Shitou said with a sad face.

Butler Liu led a group of servants to break into Yu Laoliu's house, searched through boxes and cabinets, and searched all over the other families in the village, but still couldn't find Yu Laoliu.

"The official family can't find that old thing."

"We searched around us, but we couldn't find that old thing!"

"Butler Liu, we didn't find anyone."

The servants came back to report, saying that no one was found.

"You can run away, the monk can't run away! The old guy's son, daughter-in-law, grandson and granddaughter are all here, so I'll take them back to work!" Butler Liu snorted coldly.

"You, why do you catch us?" Yu Shitou asked in horror.

Butler Liu took out the documents issued by the government and sneered: "Your father has been sentenced to our slave by the government! According to the Ming Dynasty, your father is a slave, and your family is all slaves of our Liu family! Take it away!"

Yu Shitou's family was captured, and he himself became a slave of the Liu Juren's family, who was responsible for chopping wood and carrying water; his wife became a laundry woman, who was responsible for washing clothes and bedding in the Liu family; his son became a low-ranking servant of the Liu family, and his daughter became a maid of the Liu family.

His family became the slaves of Liu Juren's family, and they were the lowest-class slaves who had to do rough work every day. The head of the family had the power to kill his family. Only then did Yu Shitou remembered that what his father said was correct.

Yu Shitou dragged his tired body, with scars left by a whip on his body, replied in the woodshed, lay on the pile of wood, and asked in his heart: "Dad, where are you?"

The Liu Juren family is not the kind of Jia family in "Dream of Red Mansions". The lowly servants in the Jia family, the rough maids and laundry ladies can at least solve the problem of food and clothing. However, no matter how Liu Juren is, he is just a rich man. He is a lowly servant in his family and lives a life of eating braised vegetables.

But Yu Shitou was lucky again, and he survived the hard days in a few days.

On this day, ten Dongchang men and women led a team of Jinyiwei to Liu Juren's house.

Seeing a group of factory guards like wolves and tigers coming, the Liu family's slaves were frightened and fled in all directions. A group of factory guards rushed into the Liu family's courtyard, arrested people when they saw them, and rummaged through boxes and cabinets.

"Stop! You are the hawks and dogs! What are we going to do?" Juren Liu appeared in front of Jinyiwei and Dongchangzi.

A father-in-law who led the team stood in the middle of the yard, opened the imperial edict and shouted: "Imperial edict!"

Hearing the word "Imperial Imperial", the Liu family knelt on the ground one after another.

The father-in-law read out the imperial edict and ordered the Liu family to take down all the big and small. Two Jinyiwei stepped forward, took off Liu Juren's Confucian costume, took off the square scarf from his head, and tied it up. When the father-in-law read out the imperial edict, Liu Juren didn't hear any other words clearly. He only heard the four words "removing fame and fortune", and he had already collapsed on the ground.

"Hmph! Scholars are amazing? Your Majesty has issued an order to deprive you of your fame and fortune! Are you still in vain?" Wei Liangqing sneered.

Liu Juren's family was taken to the Qianhu House of Jinyiwei in Wuchang. He was expelled from all his fame and fortune and turned into a white body. He occupied the mills and restaurants of Yu Laoliu's family and were returned, and he was fined a thousand taels of silver and fifty taels of staff. The land in his family was remeasured.

I heard that Liu Juren was expelled from his fame and fortune. The small landlords who originally devoted their farmland to Liu Juren's family took back the land. Anyway, they were devoted to Liu Juren's name just to exempt taxes. Now that Liu Juren's fame and fortune have been lost, why do you still have to devote your land to him?

In addition to the fields that middle peasants and small landlords devoted to Liu Juren, some scholars were also forced to break away from Liu Juren. In addition to the fields that farmers offered to them, a juren in the Ming Dynasty also used their students who were admitted to the scholars to help them annex the land.

A scholar has 80 acres of duty-free land, but at best, 80 acres of duty-free land is a very small landlord. So the juren and the Jinshi master will use the teacher-student relationship to make the duty-free land belonging to the scholar in disguise. For example, the land deed says that the fields belong to the students and the tax-free amount is also for the students, but these lands are actually managed by the teacher, and the teacher gives the students a certain amount of money as the expense of dedicating land.

The Jinyiwei confiscated Liu Juren's family and the land deeds collected were more than 3,000 acres!

Originally, a Juren had a duty-free land of 400 acres, but after verification by Jinyiwei and Dongchang Fanzi, it was found that in the family of Liu Juren, except for the students who had fame and fortune, he had a tax-free land of 1,000 acres. Needless to say, most of these were hidden fields!

"Bah! Such scholars look like they are greedy, but they are insatiable!" Wei Liangqing said angrily.

The father-in-law sent by Zhang Yong said justice: "The land tuition of the Ming Dynasty was encroached on these borers who read the books of sages!"

Wei Liangqing said: "No wonder, uncle wants to promote the establishment of acres of people and the integration of officials and gentry. He is willing to pardon Yang Lian's crime. But the scholars in the world shouted to kill Yang Lian!"

Yang Lian had committed suicide. He heard that the invented stall Ding Mu and the one who was in charge of the government and the gentry had already announced the world that it had destroyed all his psychological defenses. He took advantage of the fact that Dongchang Fanzi, who was guarding the prison, committed suicide by hitting the wall. Zuo Guangdou also committed suicide. When his student Shi Kefa came to visit the prison, he saw only a corpse.

Wei Zhongxian ordered the burial of Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou, but the reputation of these two men was already bad. All the scholars in the world believed that these two men were self-destructed and deserved their crimes, so it would be cheap for them to commit suicide. If their cemetery had not been arranged in the cemetery of the Ming Dynasty, and there were Jinyiwei guards around, the tombs of these two men would have been stripped of the scholars in the world.

The Cemetery of the Ming Dynasty was built at the suggestion of Gao Shixin. It buried the soldiers who died in the Later Jin War and civil servants who made significant contributions to the court, such as Yang Lian and Zuo Guangdou.

Juren Liu was dismissed from his fame and fortune, and his hidden fields were also copied. All the hidden fields had to be paid taxes and fines, and Liu Juren, who had become white, went bankrupt immediately. The farmers and scholars took back the fields they had invested. Juren Liu had to sell all his own land and use them to repay the land and fines that he had to pay the court.

A Liu Juren was destroyed, but the problem could not be fundamentally solved. There were still thousands of people like Liu Juren in the Ming Dynasty. They occupied nearly half of the land in the world, and their fields were all good land, and these lands were tax-free land. In addition, the fields of the vassal kings, nobles and military households, and most of the land in the world were tax-free land, and the taxes of the court were on the poor peasants who only had one acre and three cents of land. Therefore, during the Chongzhen period, the Ming Dynasty was poor and died of poverty.

However, at present, Zhang Yong and Gao Shixin did not take action on the land of scholars for the time being, but decided to move the fields of military households first, and then attack the nobles and vassal kings next, and finally deal with scholars.
Chapter completed!