Chapter 552 Immortal Venerable Reform
Since Yang Feng's road was blocked, Liu Bingzhong and the Northern Confucian group he represented had to continue to stand firmly under the banner of the Mongolian Empire.
Fortunately, Kublai Khan is still the wise ruler.
Especially his heir, the King of Yan, who accompanied Liu Bingzhong to welcome Yang Feng, was a Confucian believer. His first teacher was Yao Shu, the second teacher was Dou Mo, and his companion was Liu Bingzhong. These were all the cores of Northern Confucianism. This eldest son of Kublai Khan can be said to be completely under the education of a group of Confucian scholars. He can be said to be the hope of Northern Confucianism. At this time, Confucianism occupied a major ideological position under the control of Kublai Khan, including the San Francisco and Western Xia. Needless to say, Guanzhong and Shanxi, even if Western Xia was respected in the past, Confucianism was respected. If Kublai Khan wanted to firmly control this most core land at present, he had to unite with Confucianism.
In short, Yang Feng completely pushed the northern Confucianism into Kublai Khan's arms.
Then he left Kaiping immediately.
On the same day he stepped into Juyong Pass, Kublai Khan left the real gold to stay in Kaiping. He led a large army including the Shihou of Taiyuan Liu Family to Helin to continue the war with his younger brother. Almost at the same time, a bird boat carrying Mongolian envoys sailed from Zhigu to Lin'an, and went to negotiate with the Southern Song Dynasty to recognize Hebei and Shandong's return to the Southern Song Dynasty in exchange for the Southern Song Dynasty to stop the attack on Xingyuan.
The negotiation will surely succeed.
Because Jia Sidao had already received a telegram from the national teacher and completely agreed.
Jia Sidao was not interested in fighting again.
Although theoretically, if he tried hard, it would be fine to regain Henan and Xingyuan, unfortunately he had no money to fight. Just maintaining Lu Wende's recovery of Sichuan and Xia Gui's troops northwards would have exhausted the savings of the Song Dynasty's treasury. Although he picked up Hebei and Shandong for free, he was also preparing to temporarily allow the marquis of the two places to continue to maintain warlordization, but in the end he would have to give some rewards to others. In addition, the Song Dynasty court must also station some troops in the north and send some officials to the north.
These all cost money.
There will not be much benefit for Henan and Xingyuan. If it were the past, Henan could be snatched up to save money to build forts along the Huaihei, but now the national defense line along the Huaihei has been built.
That's a bit unfair to spend this money!
In short, Jia Sidao also agreed to restore peace. After all, he, like Yang Feng, also understood that it was not good to weaken Kublai Khan at this time. The best choice should be to give him enough strength to continue fighting with his brother. After all, it is much more comfortable to watch the Mongols kill each other than to start personally. In this way, the border between the Song Dynasty and Mongolia was temporarily determined, including Yanshan Mountain, Taihang Mountain, Yellow River, Huaihe River, Daba Mountain, and then the western edge of the Sichuan Basin went south to the Daliang Mountain area. This strange boundary line allowed Mongolia to retain a protruding part in Henan, but this protruding part was only to Guide, and the Southern Song Dynasty had a land connection east of Xuzhou.
Of course, this protrusion is largely a symbolic meaning. Once the war starts again, the Song army attacks the north and south will immediately cut it off.
There is no strategic value anymore.
This also made the newly built national defense line along the Huai River that the Southern Song Dynasty had lost its meaning. Of course, this kind of thing was not a bad thing after all. Besides, it didn't cost much money to build this national defense line. Almost all of it was obtained by copying Pu Shougen and others' homes, so it was just wasted, and there was no need to feel sorry for it.
After Yang Feng returned to Peiping, he did not immediately go south to Lin'an. Instead, he summoned all the marquises in the name of the plenipotent representative of the court, including the acting local officials elected by local tyrants. In addition, Li Yan, the King of Qi who had been officially appointed by the Southern Song Dynasty, and the warlords of the Zhang family system who were named princes and dukes. All these forces of all sizes came to Peiping and issued a series of orders against the current situation in Hebei and Shandong. First of all, the first and most important one is...
Abolitionist.
All the marquis and powerful families, whether they are willing or not, must be released as a nationality and can be hired like the Southern Song Dynasty, but they are no longer slaves and masters can no longer kill them if they want to.
They are legally equal to their masters.
Those released slaves are willing to continue to follow the master. If the master starts a wage in the future, he is unwilling to continue to follow the master. Then the two parties will break away from their relationship and have a place to go and have nowhere to go to the Taoist temples in various places. Next, the Immortal Lord will send disciples to various places to settle in the Taoist temples in various places. According to the different situations of these people, they will arrange for them to rent public fields and give them a batch of immortal seeds, and open some factories for them to work. In short, the Immortal Lord will be responsible for the arrangement.
Another point is the public field system.
The land that originally owned by the Tartars and Seme prohibited those marquis and powerful men from occupying them.
Their real estate, property, women, shops, etc. are all OK, but the land is not good, and all of these land is collected into public land. However, this public land is not owned by the government, but belongs to the Immortal Lord. The farmers who originally rented these lands and continued to rent them, but the land rent was reduced to 20%. As for the taxes that should be paid, they must pay. As for the original land of the Marquis and the powerful, of course, they still owned the land they had, including the fiefs given to them by the imperial court, but other wastelands that had not yet been reclaimed will be owned by the Immortal Lord in the future. Others are not allowed to reclaim them. If reclaimed, it is considered that the Immortal Lord needs to pay 20% of the land rent to him, and the 20% of the land rent will be used to set up orphanages, nursing homes, compulsory education schools and even public hospitals in various places.
Yang Feng must curb large-scale land annexation in advance. It can be imagined how these marquises and local tyrants would crazily annex the land.
This is an inevitable result.
Originally, this was the main reason why the Mongols received support from those gentry in history. Yang Feng did drive away the Mongols, but he could not let all the dividends fall into the hands of these guys. He had to let the people get benefits, and the public land system was his best way. He rented 10% of the land, so the common people would definitely rent and plant his public land. Even if they were to open up land for him, it would be better than planting those powerful lands! They were not farmers at all but farmers on those powerful lands.
Liberating slaves and public land system, two lines are enough to solve this problem.
The welfare system can also be improved.
In addition, these tenants from public fields were used to spread his religion, form agricultural cooperatives, build water conservancy facilities, promote new agricultural technologies, especially promote immortal species, and establish a reserve system. In short, just like in Chengdu, turning the entire Hebei and Shandong into his territory.
As for the powerful...
Who dares to oppose the Immortal Lord at this time?
Even if they were reluctant, they could only accept that all of their hands were covered with blood of Tartars and sex. Without the protection of the Immortal Lord, Kublai Khan would immediately kill him and destroy their entire family. Everyone knew that it was not that they drove away the Tartars themselves, but that the Immortal Lord drove away the Tartars, and they just enjoyed their own fruits. The status of the Shihou and the powerful in Hebei was not determined, so Yang Feng would arrange them as they wanted. The situation of Li Yan and several other families was a bit complicated, but Li Yan's fief was only Yidu to the plains in Qingdao, and the other fiefs were at most one state. In addition, most prefectures and counties still belonged to the court, but they were only local officials, and these prefectures and counties were also handled according to the situation in Hebei.
In fact, there is no problem of land shortage in Hebei and Shandong at present. After all, the population is too small, so Yang Feng is preparing for the future.
And at worst, you will never play the big politics and return it.
By the way, this is not the first time he has played this kind of game.
In short, he solved the land problem in the north in a decisive manner.
Then there is a political issue. First, from roads to prefectures, all routes to prefectures, which are consistent with the Southern Song Dynasty. Shandong becomes Shandong Road, with Jinan, Yidu, Dongping and Xuzhou, Hebei also becomes Hebei Road, and is under Beiping, Shuntian, and Baoding, Zhending and other series of prefectures. Shandong Road Xuanfu System was still Li Yu, and the Hebei Road Xuanfu System was nominated by Yang Feng to let Lu Shikui serve as the position. The Hebei Road Management Office is definitely the Beiping Prefecture. The officials of various prefectures and prefectures are still the agents of the Shihou and the powerful. In the future, Jia Sidao will issue them another appointment.
But Hebei Road will no longer be granted a vassal state. Li Yan was named because he was rebellious and the Zhang family made great contributions to the battlefield. Others are not qualified. At most, they will get a military governor and then become a local official. In this way, they will still have military and political power, but if they want a fief, they must not count on it.
After all, everyone understands that these guys just got a bargain.
Another reform of Yang Feng is finance.
That is his banking system.
The Mongols also learned to print money in the Southern Song Dynasty, that is, the Zhongtong Census. After all, the benefits of this method are too obvious. After the Mongols were driven away, the north was actually circulated on the Zhongtong Census for the time being. In addition, Li Fu was close to the Southern Song Dynasty and he deliberately promoted it, mainly Huizi, which circulated on the Southern Song Dynasty.
But both Huizi and Zhongtong Banknotes were actually notorious. Yang Feng's reform was led by him, and the joint investment of various families was established. Jia Sidao gave the bank the right to issue banknotes north of the Huaihe River in the name of the court. The bank absorbed Zhongtong Banknotes in a certain proportion and exchanged them into new Longyuan Banknotes. The circulation of Huizi was still the same. The Longyuan Banknotes were guaranteed by gold, silver and copper coins, of course, mainly the reputation of the Immortal Lord, and the reputation of the Immortal Lord was guaranteed by the gold mine just discovered in Dengzhou. In fact, there was no need to be such a trouble. The reputation of the Immortal Lord was enough. At least he was much more reliable than the Southern Song Dynasty court.
What's more, he also has immortal seeds, and those exchanged dragon yuan banknotes can be purchased for immortal seeds.
In short, Yang Feng stayed in the north until the second year, the fourth year of Jingding, the end of the 1263rd year of the Western calendar, and then hurriedly set off for Lin'an, because if nothing unexpected happens, something big happens soon in Lin'an.
Chapter completed!