Chapter 422 - Forcibly Inventory, Raiding Homes and Dividing Fields

After the banquet, Xu Hongji, the Duke of Wei, and Li Banghua, the secretary of the Ministry of War, immediately launched an investigation, but the reaction of the generals of the guards was not as fierce as imagined.

Three years ago, Zhu Cihong took over the land of the guards of Huguang and Nanzhili by thunder, which had already made everyone frightened, and now he came with 100,000 Tianwu troops, and anyone with a discerning eye could see that he had come to divide the land, and who would dare to resist.

However, there are policies and countermeasures, and it is obviously unrealistic to expect them to honestly hand over all the land they have acquired in the past 200 years at once.

Zhu Cihong had already sent people to secretly check the land of the guards, and knew their methods well, and knew that some Nanjing nobles were looking for people to pretend to be military households to fill the numbers, first, to make the land of the guards under the names of each family famous, and second, to use these military households to continue to eat the empty salaries of the Nanjing Beijing camp.

I have to say that this group of nobles and nobles is very good, and the yellow book of the guard sent by Wei Guogong is basically the same as the previous one, only a small handful of officers who invaded Tuntian were found, and Xu Hongji ordered them to be executed, which was considered to be an explanation to Zhu Cihong.

However, Zhu Cihong is not a fuel-efficient lamp, how could he be fooled by them, he directly issued an order: all those who pretend to be military households will be arrested and killed; All the officers who instigated others to pretend to be military households were beheaded and confiscated their property.

The will to check the land of the National Health Center was issued by Emperor Chongzhen and the cabinet, and Zhu Cihong could take advantage of this matter to cut down a group of nobles, no one had anything to say, and Chongzhen and the cabinet were to blame for something.

For a while, the nobles of Nanjing were caught off guard, and some timid people took the initiative to hand over the land one after another.

What made them even more alarmed was that the day after the order was issued, another order came out from the palace, and the crown prince ordered to mobilize 50,000 Tianwu troops to go to the provinces of Nanzhili, carefully check the land of the guard, register the fields, and re-establish the yellow book of land rent!

Throughout June, 50,000 Tianwu soldiers divided into roads and carried out a large-scale inventory in Yingtianfu, Suzhou, Songjiang, Changzhou, Zhenjiang, Yangzhou and other prefectures and counties.

There are not only military generals and soldiers in the Tianwu Army, but also a large number of Guozi prison guards who abandoned their pen in the early years and joined the army, and these prison students have become civilian officers of the Tianwu Army after several years of integration with the army, and there is no pressure to carry out some inventory work.

After the officers and men of the Tianwu Army learned that the good fields they had checked would be distributed to them, they shouted one by one and worked very hard to check them, and there was a tendency to find out all the officers of the guards.

With the help of the Ministry of Intelligence, the investigation work of the Tianwu Army progressed extremely rapidly, and a team of sergeants began to raid homes and take people after obtaining evidence.

"Check the squire Wu Fengyou of Suzhou Mansion, colluded with Wei to command Zhou Jianfang, and privately occupied 50,000 mu of military tun!"

"Zha Daxing Bo Zou Cunyi, colluded with the commander of the Daning Zhongwei, privately occupied 800,000 mu of military tun, and was ordered to investigate all his family property confiscated, and the thieves who harmed the country were beheaded to show the public!"

"Check ......"

In the midst of the uproar in various places, a large number of gentry who colluded with officers to occupy the military camp of the guard were locked up, and a group of nobles who were reluctant to hand over the land that had encroached on the military camp were taken to Nanjing Imperial Prison by the Jinyi Guard.

Not only Beijing has an edict prison, Nanjing also has, during the Hongwu and Yongle years, Jin Yiwei did a lot of big cases in Nanjing edict prison, Nanjing edict prison and the criminal department Dali Temple these murder places are in the Taipingmen area.

Today's Li Tingbiao serves as the commander of Nanjing Jinyiwei, and the Jinyiwei spy he trained can legitimately act as Jinyiwei and take people.

For a time, the Nanjing Imperial Prison was crowded with the officers of the guard who had committed crimes, and after two days of full food, they were dragged away by the Jinyi guards, and they were cut down in front of the Taiping Gate and beheaded the Fa.

In recent days, there will be an inexplicable sound of ghosts crying and wolf howling in front of Taiping Gate every night, which startles people nearby to take a detour.

Some of the nobles who handed over the fields early were secretly frightened, but fortunately they took the initiative to hand over the fields at the beginning, otherwise they would have been cut down in front of the Taiping Gate.

With the lessons of the nobles in Beijing, the nobles of Nanjing are obviously much more honest, and at the same time, everyone is praying in their hearts that this killer will leave quickly and don't stay in Nanjing.

Zhu Cihong killed so many officers and nobles at one time in Taipingmen, not only the nobles of Nanjing were terrified, but even some officials, gentry, and ordinary people felt a pressure, is this the imperial power from the north......

After this time, all the land of Nanzhili was retained, except for some generations of military households with a very small proportion, and the land inherited from the ancestors was still retained, and the rest was recovered by Zhu Cihong.

The next step is to divide the fields for the Tianwu Army, and after Zhu Cihong and a senior general of the Tianwu Army planned, the Tianwu Army officially began to divide the fields into households.

According to military merits, each regular soldier was given at least 100 acres of paddy fields, and some high-ranking sergeants and veterans of the former Yongwei battalion were even given 500 acres.

The officers are divided into more, according to the captain, the general sentinel, the hundred general, the battalion general, the regiment general, the brigade commander, and the division commander, all according to the merit of the land, such as Gao Bang, Li Shaoyou and other brigade commanders, each of whom has thousands of acres of fertile land under his name, and the land allocated by Sun Yingyuan, Huang Degong, and Zhou Yuji is as high as 10,000 mu.

There are about 80 million acres of cultivated land in Nanzhili, and the land of the guard is a large proportion, and it is more than enough to distribute it to 100,000 Tianwu Army, in addition to Nanzhili, there are Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi and other places can be divided into land, and there is not much else in the Ming Dynasty, that is, there is more land.

In order to prevent a repeat of the mistakes made by the Wei system and cause new land annexation, Zhu Cihong issued an order on the same day that all the allocated fields belonged to the official land, and only the right to use them did not have the right to buy and sell, and the right to use them could be hereditary, that is, to be distributed to future generations.

In fact, it is similar to the household contract responsibility system in later generations, the land belongs to the state, you have no right to buy and sell, and you have to go through the procedures if you want to lease.

Zhu Cihong promised that no matter now or in the future, the imperial court will not take back these official fields for any reason, unless they commit the crime of rebellion and are raided, and whoever sells the land without permission will also be asked to take it back.

The soldiers of the Tianwu Army were overjoyed, to put it bluntly, these lands are still equivalent to giving themselves, the lands of the past dynasties are not the main ones who are not angry, and the family is in the middle of the road, who will sell the land.

The crown prince's move seems to be restrictive, but in fact, it is a disguised way to curb the situation of the descendants of the soldiers from selling their land due to the middle of the family, even if the descendants are poorly mixed, as long as there is land, they will not be starved to death.

Zhu Cihong also stipulated that the generals were only allowed to hire people to plough the land, and never allowed their subordinate soldiers to plough their fields.

The collapse of the Ming Wei system is mainly that the officers encroach on the land of the military households and let the military households under their jurisdiction cultivate for them, so that the military households have become tenants, without their own land, life is becoming more and more difficult, and more and more military households are fleeing.

Zhu Cihong is preparing to include the above in the national law in the future, requiring future generations to strictly abide by them, as for how many years he can maintain after his death, it is not something he has to worry about......

Children and grandchildren have their own children and grandchildren, Zhu Yuanzhang arranged everything clearly, prevent this and that, the Ming Dynasty has not lasted for a thousand years.

As for the taxes on the divided fields, except for the families of the soldiers who died in the Tianwu Army, the rest should be paid, but Zhu Cihong lowered the taxes and only collected one bucket of grain per mu of land.

Since it was decided to eliminate the privileges of the gentry class, Zhu Cihong naturally would not let the new class have privileges, and the privileges of those tax-exempt families would also be resolved after the gentry class was resolved.

The current tax exemption is only for political considerations, to inspire soldiers to fight for the country, and in the future, Zhu Cihong will replace this tax exemption privilege with new benefits.

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