With the end of the once vigorous scholar movement, the popularity of seeking truth has declined for a while, and this as a carrier of the so-called neo-Confucianism to grab political dividends, it has been sluggish for a period of time, but it is only a kind of decline in popularity intuitively, and the actual sales are still rising.

Seeking truth is still the main way of life and pastime that the vast majority of people in the Ming Dynasty like to see now.

During this period of time, the articles published by Qiushi Bao, the General Administration Department began to downplay those political factors in the court, and most of the frequent publications were some anecdotes sent from various provinces, and there were even some 'gossip' cases, which were more in line with the curiosity of 'voyeurism' in human nature, which made people all over the world addicted.

At this juncture, the official articles of the two issues of Qiushi Bao once again shifted the attention of the scholars and the people to the Nanjing court.

First of all, the advent of honeycomb coal, Nanjing Imperial Merchants Association will buy this new type of coal, exclusive access to the coal manufacturing technology and sales rights, and as the inventor of honeycomb coal, a craftsman named Zhang Yang into the world's field of vision.

100,000 taels of silver technology authorization!

Ordinary people and scholars were shocked by this figure, and they didn't know how many idle craftsmen they had inspired, and these groups who earned a living by crafts seemed to have found a golden avenue, and even more, they packed their bags and went to Nanjing to pursue a new life.

For the first time, the idea that intellectual property rights could be exchanged for money took root in the minds of people all over the world.

And honeycomb coal, a new biological part covered with a veil of mystery, also tickled everyone's flesh, and everyone was eager to know what could be worth 100,000 taels of silver in the world!

And when everyone has not yet come out of the shock of this honeycomb coal, an issue is called "Reform the Old and Ding Xin, about the cancellation of the clan year; Explanation of the relevant policies of tax exemption and employment fields", once again sent a big melon to the people of the world.

The signatory of this article is Yang Shiqi, the first assistant to the cabinet.

In this article, the hidden dangers of the two systems of clan relatives and tax-free fields are explained in detail, and detailed numerical evidence is presented, among which the total tax exemption of nearly one million stone per year for clan relatives and tens of millions of stone a year in the country is really shocked.

At the end of the article, it is clearly stated that the Ming Dynasty will completely stop the distribution of clan annual salaries at the beginning of the fifth year of Jianwen, and begin to collect taxes on all original tax-free fields.

In the same period, there was also an article signed by Xia Yuanji, the head of the household department, entitled "Comprehensively Measuring the Acres of Fields, and Redefining the Survey of the Provincial Governments", which told the world.

Beginning in June of the fourth year of Jianwen's establishment, the Ministry of Household Affairs will send working groups to Shandong, Beiping, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Huguang, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Henan, Fujian, and Nanzhili to conduct a new comprehensive land survey in conjunction with the political envoys and local military guards of the above-mentioned provinces.

Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Sichuan, Guizhou, Jiaozhi, and Taiwan, which are not on the list, will not be re-measured, but all officials under the jurisdiction of their provinces will be exempted.

Compared with these two articles, at the end of the article, the news that Yan Zhenzhi, the former secretary of the Ministry of Engineering, was promoted to a university scholar is not so important, and the officials and scholars in the world have only one thought at the moment:

Why did the emperor rebel?

"There's nothing more to say, our emperor is Emperor Yang of Sui! It's Yang Guang! It's Wang Mang! ”

Jiangxi is the most prosperous province of the Ming Dynasty, but also the cradle of scholars, the whole Jiangxi, more than half of the fields are tax-free fields, the imperial court this knife down, Jiangxi is the most seriously injured place.

And Jishui is the county with the highest admission in Jiangxi, which is a complete explosion.

The Du family is the sitting tiger of Jishui County, not because their family is powerful, but because the Du family has four masters, and the four sons are now the official body of the six products, and the rare and valuable thing is that the remaining grandchildren of the four sons are not all famous, so the Du family's tax-free and professional fields are as high as more than 6,000 acres!

Of course, his Du family did not have the money to buy so much land, which was all sent by the local powerful landlords or ordinary people to avoid taxes.

Therefore, although the Du family is not engaged in production, it has hired countless 'tenants' from the side!

The output of the land, the Du family is levied according to the standard of thirty taxes and one, which is twice as low as the official tax, so the people are naturally very happy, and if the average tax is paid today, where are the people willing to attach their fields to the Du family?

I have to get the deed back!

Anchoring a field is risky.

Because the attached land needs to be converted into a land deed, this gives those scholars an excuse to embezzle the people's land, and the land deed is written in my name, what qualifications do you have to say that this is your land?

With the publication of this issue of Qiushi Daily, the Du family had to usher in a storm of "land production" run.

The door of their house was blocked tightly by all the landlords and people who came to ask for land.

In addition to the title deed, every person who converts the title deed to the Du family has a private 'agreement' with the Du family that is not officially recognized by the government, that is, it is clear who the land belongs to, and how much the output of the land belongs to the Du family and the agreement party.

Since the head of the Du family almost died of a myocardial infarction, the old man found out these agreements add up to more than 5,000 acres of land, calculating the land price of these lands and the annual commission, the old man only feels that if he returns it, he will not survive tonight, and he will have to die of distress tonight.

In a fit of anger, Old Man Du jumped to his feet and scolded Zhu Yunwen, anyway, in addition to him, there were only two sons left in the house who stayed in Jiangxi as officials.

"Scolding and scolding, now our family's subordinates have even blocked the door, for fear that the house will be flattened."

The third son, Du Liang, muttered: "These lands belong to other people, so you can't help but return them." ”

Old man Du's distressed brain was dazed, and he sat on the chair of the first master and slumped, panting for breath.

"!"

The second son, Du Huaishui, jumped up.

"The title deed is written now in the name of our family, why should it be returned?

Even if it is still there, how many acres of land are there for those ordinary people? The big head is out of a few big families, and we will return the landlord's land in full, and those ordinary people will not be returned! Let them go. ”

What's the use of that thing in private?

The government only recognizes the title deed, and the title deed is signed with the name of his old Du family, which is the land of his old Du family!

"If the lawsuit goes to Nanjing, we will take care of it!"

Du Huaishui said beautifully: "This time the imperial court cut the tax-free field, how much money did our family lose invisibly?" The people have to bear this expense, who let them be greedy in the first place? Thinking about taking advantage of the imperial court, now I'm dumbfounded. ”

Du Liang snorted and said two words of unbearable concern, but Du Huaishui replied.

"How does the Great Ming Law determine the evasion of grain taxes? Those who refuse to pay grain will be exiled, and those who withhold and conceal the report will be directly killed! These people are hiding their land and property through the means of affiliation, and their family members know about it and do not report it, which is also a kind of behavior of refusing to hand over grain with a fluke mentality, so if they really see the official, those who sign this kind of agreement will be beheaded, and his family will be exiled! ”

Du Huaishui was proud, and he became an official in charge of criminal litigation, but he recited the Da Ming Law backwards.

Old Man Du's eyes suddenly lit up.

That's right, the government only recognizes the land deed, these agreements are illegal tax evasion, and they are not recognized by the government, and the people who sign these agreements to convert the land deed to avoid paying taxes will be killed!

"But our family is also an accomplice to collusion."

Old man Du really felt that the sage book was useless at this time, and what he needed most in real life was to understand the law and be reliable.

Only by understanding the law can we drill legal loopholes and trap people.

"It's not us who signed the agreement."

Du Huaishui said confidently: "Dad, don't worry, these sons have thought about it at the beginning, so they have always let the housekeeper take care of it, and the name signed is also the name of the housekeeper. ”

His old Du family's housekeeper is an old family servant, and the housekeeper's son also serves his old Du family.

For the sake of his son, he has to carry it down!

The more Old Man Du listened, the happier he became, dancing excitedly, and at the end he was a little puzzled: "Since we are not afraid of making trouble with the government, why do we still have to return those landlords' land?" ”

Well, this old man has to look at Shu, and he wants to eat more than 5,000 acres of land in one go.

Du Huaishui sighed.

"Dad, those landlords have a lot of servants in their families, if you want to force them to be anxious, aren't you afraid that they will cut us down next time?"

Old man Du suddenly woke up.

That's right, the common people are a threat of fart!

If you want to blame it, you signed the title deed conversion at the beginning, and now this land is our old Du family!