Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Inner Story of the Land of Qingzhang

What wind did Li Xian hear?

It was Xu Youzhen who wanted to intervene in this. Something has already begun to happen.

The Criminal Department is in charge of the world's criminal prisons, and although the power of administrative supervision is more in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, as the secretary of the Criminal Department, he has to intervene, and he cannot say that he can't.

After all, many times, customary regulations are one thing, and the personal will of each department head is another.

If some ministers are strong, the power that originally did not belong to the yamen can also be usurped. If some ministers do not do things, even if their own yamen is in charge of affairs, they may be divided by other yamen.

Xu Youzhen is a strong person.

During this period of time, it can be said that there is no idleness.

Whether it is being strict and serious in dealing with the corrupt officials who have been investigated in Beijing, or when cleaning up the backlog of cases, he is ruthless and has a sense of iron-faced selflessness.

His prestige among the people is increasing, but in the eyes of the officials, he clearly engraves two words on his head, either other words, or cool officials.

Now Xu Youzhen wants to meddle in the land affairs of Qingzhang.

So is there a problem with Qingzhang land?

Of course there is a problem.

Most of the people who encroached on the land were local gentry, and it can be said that the meritorious talents, people, and even officials stipulated by the Ming Dynasty had tax-exempt acres, but one was counted as one, and all of them were overoccupied.

It's just a problem.

The other problem is the problem of the vassal king.

The land occupied by the vassal kings in various places was never taxed, and the land occupied by the vassal kings was quite large, and if there was a vassal king in that prefecture, almost the entire land of the prefecture would become the royal land.

None of them pay taxes.

Of course, if the fields cannot be taxed, the operation of the local government will become a problem, and there will be a national tax on imperial grain every year, so the local government has its own methods.

What's the solution?

It is absolutely impossible to go to the vassal king's mansion to collect taxes, but the common people who farm the land are easy to handle.

In other words, all the people who cultivated the land of the vassal king had to pay the land rent to the vassal king, and also to the land tax of the government, and even the exploitation of the royal stewards, and so on.

It's almost equivalent to a tax increase of two or three percent.

In fact, the taxes set by Emperor Taizu have never been high, and if you just look at the taxes set by the government, after adding three salaries, you can also bear it.

But why does it cause a situation where the whole world is opposed?

It is the people who bear more than just the taxes themselves.

As I said before, the Yellow Book of the Ming Dynasty is never accurate, and the taxes they collect are all fixed amounts handed down from the Hongwu period, and the people who pay the taxes are lost.

The rest of the people can only bear more and more burdens.

In the end, nature could not bear it.

Of course, now the Ming Dynasty is in full swing, and the situation in various places has not been bad to this point, but it does not mean that these problems will be solved one by one when the fields are cleared.

The magistrates are all able to handle themselves, and for those who can't, they naturally lift them up high and gently put them down. What it was like before, what it will look like after.

In such a situation, Li Xian said that he didn't know, which was a lie.

But Li Xian also has his own reasons.

First of all, Li Xian is behind him is the Shidafu group, although this group is also very loose, full of contradictions, and even different political opinions, but when it violates all their interests, it is natural to have a backlash.

Li Xian didn't care about his family's one-third of an acre.

After all, the official has reached the point where Li Xian has more property in his own family and less property, and he is not taken into account at all. But Li Xian had to pay attention to the thoughts of most officials.

On this issue, Li Xian felt that it was necessary to deal with it, but he could not overdo it. If you should let it go, you must let it go, otherwise it will not be a land clearing, but a big prison in Xingxing.

In addition, on the issue of the vassal king, Li Xian didn't want to embarrass the vassal king too much.

Without him, since Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, he has not had a good face for the vassal king.

The king of Xiang was sent to Luchuan, I heard that now the king of Xiang is not suitable for the weather of Luchuan, and many years of war, almost no war, although the scale of the war is not large, but it is also injured and sick, lingering sickbed, is already the prince of Xiangwang presiding over the affairs of Luchuan.

Moved the four kings of Hexi to Jingshi.

Although the northwest is barren, it can always be powerful and blessed in the local area, but at the foot of the Son of Heaven in Beijing, it is not good. Who cares about a vassal king.

And that's not the most important thing.

The most important thing is to treat the vassal king's fortune as one-size-fits-all, so the vassal king can only receive his own 10,000 koku per year, and as for the descendants of the vassal king, all the vassal kings must provide for them themselves.

Of course, there is no explicit rule.

It's just that the imperial court suspended the issuance on the grounds of financial constraints. It's just that this pause has no intention of resuming.

Although it is allowed to allow the local clans to enter the subject examination, and even enter the martial arts, the main hall to study, and even in the army, some clan generals have appeared.

But there are still very few people who actually take this path.

All of this has made the Daming clan complain about today.

It is not in line with the Confucian way of kissing at all.

The political privileges of these vassal kings were gone, and now even the economic privileges have been restricted a lot, and if you use a knife from the field, how should the world look at Your Majesty.

As the first assistant minister, he naturally cannot trap His Majesty in injustice.

In addition to this, there are such and such problems.

In a word, don't be deaf or dumb, don't be a family.

This time, there are many problems in Qingzhang land, and when it comes to provoking problems, Li Xian himself can pick out how many I don't know. But it's more important to get things done than to pick out the problem.

Although there are such and such problems in Qingzhang land, it is also an act of finding out the situation in various places by greatly updating the numbers of the Yellow Book.

Allowing the Cabinet to be more targeted in local governance is a great achievement in itself.

You must know that the famous Wanli Qingzhang in history, presided over by Zhang Juzheng, still has many places for the people to be honest?

What is self-truth, that is, you fill in yourself, how much land do you have?

In this way, if you look at the problems, how many there are, you can see it, but even so, Wanli Qingzhang is also a well-known governance behavior in history, and the Qing Dynasty is a national Qingzhang has not been carried out.

Xu Youzhen is not stunned, and she can't rub sand in her eyes, although the people call Xu Youzhen Qingtian, but she is a minister in the same hall, and she really thinks that Xu Youzhen is a very good person, a righteous gentleman, then it's funny.

If it comes, Xu Youzhen will intervene here.

What is his purpose?

Li Xian didn't figure it out for a while?

Was it the emperor who instructed Xu Youzhen to make a move? Is it Xu Youzhen who wants to take advantage of this incident to raise another big case? After all, as the secretary of the criminal department, if he wants to have merit, he naturally has to make a difference. Or did he figure out some of the emperor's intentions. Want to vote for the emperor?

Even at this moment, Li Xian had a lot of associations with the emperor asking him something, but he couldn't help but answer, and said: "Your Majesty, and only Henan in the north has not been cleared, and this year's water situation, some work has stopped." Now that the water situation has passed, but disaster relief is necessary in various places, and I am afraid that the land will not be cleared for a while. ”

Zhu Qizhen shook his head and said, "No, you have to start quickly, you can't stop." If the people are gone, the land will also be owned by the government, and the displaced people will be resettled and reorganized, and these things will also be the responsibility of the Qing Imperial History. ”

What Zhu Qizhen said is naturally targeted.

In every natural disaster, it is the people of the lower classes who die, and the real dignitaries cannot be said to have no casualties, but there are very few in proportion.

Every natural disaster is a local reshuffle, which concentrates the terra nullius land in favor of the gentry.

Some land is inherited, some land is inherited, and some land is not inherited, and it only takes some means to become one's own land.

However, this kind of land was excessively concentrated, which was not conducive to the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Qizhen naturally had to make some preparations. Moreover, after the catastrophe, it was also the weakest time for the gentry everywhere, so they naturally did not have the strength to compete with the imperial court.

The flood washed away a lot of markers, and it was the time when it was time to redivide, and it was a very suitable time for the people of the Qingzhang Imperial History to participate in it at this time.

In fact, Zhu Qizhen didn't dare to say that he knew all the shortcomings in Qingzhang, but he also knew that there were cats. I just don't know.