Therefore, overthrowing the gentry class is equivalent to eliminating the merchant class!

This naturally caused the court's commercial tax to drop significantly!

Nowadays, the industry and commerce of Ming Dynasty are completely supported by the imperial government, and private industry and commerce can be ignored...

Of course, these are not difficult for Richard. As long as the people are stable and have stable food taxes, Richard's court will be stable.

But now Richard found that although the internal stability of the court was stable, the external enemies could not be killed completely because of equal debt exemption!

The current situation can be seen by anyone with a discerning eye that the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty has entered the countdown, which is nothing more than how long it takes the Northern Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Taizong of Song, who fled south, took away the small court, but not many troops followed him. It would take at least two or three years to rebuild an elite soldier.

Will Richard give Song Taizong two or three years?

The powerful people of the Southern Song Dynasty all knew that Richard was a war madman. Not to mention two or three years, it would be great that Emperor Taizong of Song could survive in the eastern continent for a year!

This is why the Southern Song Dynasty's control over the local area has dropped significantly. The court is almost over, so the local governments and gentry classes naturally refuse to follow them to bury them.

And Richard was a class enemy with them, so local gentry and officials could only rely on their own and Daxing Group to train their armed forces.

Now the situation of separatist vassal in the areas where the Southern Song Dynasty lost control has faintly appeared. Local gentry and bureaucrats took the prefectures as units to protect themselves and formed armed groups to train. They were not subordinate to each other, but they formed a temporary military agreement to jointly fight against the Ming army!

This is a completely replica of the separatist rule of the warlords and governors in the late Tang Dynasty!

But now there are no military governors, but a local gentry and bureaucratic alliance with a more loose organization.

Although Richard is confident that he can defeat this local regiment training, he doesn't know when he will fight this way, and it will bring a lot of losses to the system soldiers.

Now that the Southern Song Dynasty is about to fall, Richard obviously doesn't want to continue fighting a meaningless war...

Therefore, the debt exemption order for equal land needs to be changed!

The initial point of the change was the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Because almost all the military officers in the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty proposed the conditions to save their family wealth, and they were all big landlords, so they naturally resisted the equal-land debt exemption order!

If Richard agrees to their request, it is equivalent to the cancellation of debt exemption orders for equal land and the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty will surrender without fighting!

If we refuse, there may still be military officers of the Southern Song Dynasty who are afraid of death surrender, but the battle must be fought...

Therefore, in April 15, Richard announced that the order for equal-field debt exemption will no longer be enforced in the south. As long as they are willing to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, they will retain all their legal rights and interests, and their private property can be protected by law!

Of course, this is only targeted at the surrendered landlord and gentry class. If it is still necessary to resist stubbornly, it is impossible to say that not only will all the land be confiscated, but the nine tribes will be massacred!

In wars between countries, Richard never had mercy.

As expected, as soon as this decree was released, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty opened its doors to surrender the next day. The loyalty of the defenders in the city to the Southern Song court disappeared the moment Emperor Taizong abandoned them and ran away.
Chapter completed!