"Now that my Han army is restored, it will naturally not be disturbed by the clan and the family, but if it is established in the future, I have to be more vigilant to prevent the change of Hanyang in the future."

Li Fu's tone was a little cautious, he knew how taboo he was saying now, what was the change in Hanyang? It refers to the fact that Ning Zhongyuan led troops against the Qing Dynasty, and what Ning Zhongyuan relied on at that time, that is, the clan strength of the Ning family, and the Hanyang Battalion, which was almost equal to the Ning family, were able to achieve a reversal.

But he, Ning Zhongyuan, was able to do this Hanyang thing at the beginning, but if the Wang family, the Li family, and the Zhao family did the same in the future, what should it be? Ning Yu has thought about this problem, Li Fu has thought about it, and even Ning Zhongyuan, who personally launched the Hanyang Uprising, has also thought about it in his heart.

"The current clan, maybe we can let it go first, we can see how to control the family first." Ning Yu sighed slightly on his face and said slowly. You have to do it one by one.

Speaking of the family, Li Fu was a little emotional, because when he was born, his family was very poor, and he was almost sold to be a family, so after becoming an official later, he was naturally no stranger to this characteristic slave of the Qing Dynasty, so he began to popularize science knowledge about Ning Yu.

The slavery system before the Qing Dynasty was completely different from today, like the Song and Song dynasties, the traditional slavery system gradually tended to dissolve, and slaves and maids began to gradually free themselves from the shackles of the untouchable class and became good people who enjoyed the same rights as other commoners. At this time, the slave and slave relationship is no longer a lifelong master-servant relationship, but an employment relationship based on an employment contract.

Therefore, the slaves and maids in the Song Dynasty could not be killed at will, the so-called "slaves and maids are guilty, and their masters kill them without asking for a lawsuit, with a hundred rods; Whoever kills without guilt shall be imprisoned for one year. Therefore, the slaves and maids at this time were treated completely differently from the slaves and maids of the Qing Dynasty.

After arriving in the Ming Dynasty, the early Ming Dynasty strictly ordered only the eunuch family to serve the slave spleen, and "the common people's house, the person who keeps the slave spleen, the rod is one hundred, that is, the release is good", there are strict requirements for the number, "the prince is only twenty people, the first product is only twelve people, the second product is only ten people, and the third product is only eight people." "Under this system, the local gentry were simply not able to wield much overt force.

But in the Qing Dynasty, it was different. In fact, in the current Qing Dynasty, the slave culture is extremely prevalent, which is different from all dynasties, and the craze for slave storage runs through the entire Qing Dynasty, from the emperor and nobles to local officials, from the rich merchants to the landlords and gentry, all of whom keep slaves and maids.

Not only the Eight Banners are slaves, but even the ordinary eunuch families, most of them are also "longing for servants to become forests", like local governors, usually slaves or even "up to a thousand people", even if there are a little less, there are hundreds of people, together with the Ning family before the army, they can raise so many hundreds of families in the open, and no one cares how much they raise in secret.

In the end, Li Fu even sighed with emotion, "The rise of the Fu Han Army is precisely due to the disadvantages of the Qing Dynasty." Otherwise, with the strength of a few people, how can they resist the army of the imperial court? ”

Ning Yu thought of this, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, but now that he is about to sit in the world, he will naturally not leave such a big loophole, even if there is no second Ning family in the future, but the damage to society is also extremely deep, after all, one more slave means that there will be one less person who can pay taxes in the future, so no matter what, this situation must be reduced.

"If you want to use too strong means to seize the gentry's family at the moment, I am afraid that it will arouse the opposition of all the gentry in the world......" Li Fu said this euphemistically, but the meaning is also very clear, if you move a knife on the gentry's head, you must be prepared to be counterattacked.

"So this thing has to be done little by little, like boiling a frog in warm water, and suddenly one size fits all will definitely not work..... We'll have to take our time, but we'll have to do it. ”

"Boiled frogs in warm water?" Li Fu suddenly felt a little confused in his brain, this word is really fresh!

Ning Yu cried and laughed: "Just put the toads in the pot, when they first start to burn, they won't feel the heat.... By the time they feel the heat, they can't jump out...... Ahem, you don't care about this for now, we have to do this, because this is related to the future, and as for the current situation, we have to take care of it! ”

Li Fu gently shook the folding fan in his hand, "Things must be done, just look at how to do it, I'm afraid it won't work to prevent the gentry from accumulating slaves at this time, but in terms of quantity, we might as well copy the Ming system." ”

"Hmm...... On top of that, I thought I might have to do something with the new poll tax.....

Ning Yu pondered for a while, but made up his mind, "The new poll tax also includes slaves and maids, but this money has to be paid by the master, as for the slave and maid's poll tax, it is calculated five times that of the commoners, and then one more is added, if there are more than ten people, it will be counted as ten times, and if there are more than fifty people, it will be calculated according to a hundred times." Whoever rewards his servants for his exploits in war shall be counted as civilians. If he keeps slaves and maidservants, he shall be fined 100 times the fine. ”

The idea of "hiss......" shocked Li Fu, he looked at Ning Yu in front of him, but shouted a few good words again and again. The Metropolitan Governor's trick is not just to let them cut the meat...... The soft knife kills, which is also too ruthless. ”

Ning Yu's meaning is very simple, don't you want to keep slaves? Yes, pay the money, within ten people, it will be calculated according to five times the poll tax, and you will support it if you have money. Want to raise more slaves? I'm sorry, starting from ten times, to the scale of almost fifty people, a hundred times in an instant, once a year, don't worry about you not going bankrupt.

What's more, this measure also excludes the current military merits of the Fu Han Army, so that it can further win the hearts of these people to ensure the smooth implementation of the policy.

"The policy of the metropolitan governor has laid the foundation for my future great power."

Li Fu saluted Ning Yu, and he was extremely impressed in his heart.

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Jingshi, the East Warm Pavilion of the Heart Palace.

Yongzheng looked at the big stack of folds in front of him, his face was a little abnormally red, the current Yongzheng has succeeded to the throne for more than four months, and has done a lot of things, but in such a short time, if he wants to touch more things, it is beyond his reach.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly in the northwest war, and the arrears of the household department were also smooth, which made Yongzheng breathe a sigh of relief, but before he could be happy for a few more days, the rapid progress of the Fu Han army in Jiangnan was kicked hard in his heart, which almost made Yongzheng feel painful.

The Qing Dynasty, which lost Jiangnan and Huguang, now faces the biggest problem is not the lack of silver, but the lack of food - in front of Yongzheng at this time, there are folds presented from all over the country, that is, there is not enough grain for this winter, and even Li Weijun, the governor of Zhili, has presented the folds, saying that if there is no more grain, the price of grain in Beijing will be difficult to maintain.

But the problem is that after Jiangnan and Huguang are gone, Yongzheng can't change more food, especially the Jiangning front line is currently occupied by the Fu Han army, and Cao Yun is blocked, and the most intuitive evil result has happened, that is, the four million Shicao grain that should have been sent to Jingshi is gone!

In today's Qing Dynasty, the grain production area is mainly concentrated in the south, taking into account the northern Shandong province, so every year the imperial court will collect grain from Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Henan, and Shandong eight provinces, and the rated collection of grain is about 4 million stones, mainly to provide food for the princes and officials in the Beijing division and the soldiers of the Eight Banners garrison in the Beijing division.

The deadline for the collection of grain in each province is November each year, and the date of departure of the ship will be determined according to the distance of each province, so Jiangnan often begins to collect grain in August and September, and the grain will be transported by ship in mid-September at the latest, and the grain of the six southern provinces has a time limit for transporting through Huai'an, which is called "the limit of passing through Huai'an".

However, with the gradual loss of the south, it means that the Qing court's annual grain of four million stone cao is basically unexpected. Except for the first part of Henan, northern Anhui and Shandong Province, which were able to transport some grain into Beijing, the grain in other places was basically occupied by the Fu Han army.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, just when the grain did not fall, many displaced people in Henan and Anhui began to march to the north, many of them in order to avoid the military disaster, so they did not care about marching towards the capital, although there were countless starvations along the way, but millions of victims, crossed the Yellow River.

Thinking that so many victims were about to arrive in Beijing, Yongzheng felt that his brain was hurting, he took out a small porcelain bottle from his arms, poured out a reddish-brown pill from it, only the size of a soybean, and then swallowed it with tea, it was strange to say, after eating this pill, his headache was much better.

"Thanks to these pills, otherwise there are so many headaches, how can I get in the way?"

Yongzheng couldn't help but let out a sigh, he believed in both Buddhism and Taoism, when he was still a prince, he was quite interested in alchemy, of course, there was also a purpose at that time, that is, to deliberately show Kangxi, so that Kangxi thought that he did not seek the throne. However, later he pretended to be dressed, and he also had some research on Dan Dao, and he still has many Taoist priests.

The pill he is taking now is called "Jiji Dan", which is the handwriting of these Taoist priests, and the body is full of energy and energy, so Yongzheng will knock on two pills every day to recuperate his state.

After thinking about it, Yongzheng thought that this food matter could only be solved through the locality, so he wrote an edict to his henchmen and ministers, ordering the two local officials of Ortai and Tian Wenjing to collect grain in Henan, Shandong and other places, and then deport them back to Beijing to solve the urgent needs of the Beijing division. In addition, he also gave an edict to transfer Li Wei from Yunnan to Anhui and served as the envoy of the capital to transfer salt to the envoy.

The edict was written, and the ink had not yet dried, but Yongzheng sent someone to send a batch of "Jijidan" to his henchmen, and also cordially entrusted: "The ministers are really hard, and you need to ensure your health, especially Tian Lao Aiqing, although you are nearly seventy years old, I still hope that you can have children in old age." The elixir is very good, and I feel good after eating it. ”

After finishing the advertisement, Yongzheng felt that his headache was much better, so he summoned Zhang Tingyu, Long Keduo, and Xu Yuanmeng, a scholar, and other ministers to the palace.

After the monarch and ministers finished their ceremony, Yongzheng was a little impatient and said: "Have you all known that now Chu Wei is slandering my Han Chen, who has made great achievements in opening up the country in the Qing Dynasty, in the south of the Yangtze River, and even doing things to open graves and dig graves, which is really a lot of retrograde, and I can't bear to hear about it." ”

The ministers in the audience naturally knew it, but everyone didn't take it seriously, after all, it was not themselves who broke the bones and ashes, so naturally there was no pain. Just heard Yongzheng's words, everyone instantly understood in their hearts that the emperor was dissatisfied.

At that moment, Zhang Tingyu knelt down and said: "Chu's rebellious behavior is rebellious and harmful, causing the anger of heaven and man, it is really the way to bring about his own destruction, and the emperor must not worry about this." ”

Yongzheng was slightly silent for a while, and then he spoke: "...... After all, this matter is to come up with a charter, such as today, although the people's hearts are in the Qing Dynasty, but after all, there are such foolish men and foolish women who are in trouble for them, and the joint here has to be investigated. ”

Xu Yuanmeng, who had just been appointed as a university scholar, quickly noticed the hidden meaning of Yongzheng, and hurriedly knelt down and said: "Chu is confusing people's hearts, and I can also be a righteous person in the Qing Dynasty. ”

Everyone is an old fox, but when they heard this, they instantly understood, it turned out that Yongzheng's thoughts should be on this. It's just that revising the "History of the Ming Dynasty" is easy to say, but it is quite difficult in today's Qing Dynasty.

Strictly speaking, since the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the history of the Ming Dynasty has been being repaired, but at that time, due to various reasons, coupled with the fact that the hearts of the Qing people at that time had not yet been attached, the matter of repairing history was shelved, until the seventeenth year of Kangxi, after the rebellion of the three feudatories was pacified, Kangxi re-edicted the erudite Hongru 143 people in the Tiren Pavilion, and took 20 people from the top class and 20 people from the second class to revise the history.

It was not until the twenty-second year of Kangxi that the first draft was completed, and later because many of the words in it had not yet reached the effect of discrediting the Ming Dynasty, so the middle had been revised and revised until the forty-first year of Kangxi, Xiong Ci submitted 400 volumes of the manuscript of the "History of the Ming Dynasty", and only then did he complete the preliminary historical revision work. As for the content inside, it is naturally deleted and eliminated, and the structure is spoiled, and it has long lost the significance of the history books.

Now Yongzheng borrowed Xu Yuanmeng's mouth again and proposed to revise the "History of the Ming Dynasty", which contains a very profound meaning.

"If you want to clean up the source and sweep away the filth, you naturally need to start from the history books. On the same day, he continued to revise the "History of the Ming Dynasty", with Xu Yuanmeng and Zhang Tingyu as presidents, and Long Keduo and Wang Jiling supervised the revision of the History of the Ming Dynasty. ”

After Zhang Tingyu and the others received the order to thank him, he was about to retire, but Yongzheng left Zhang Tingyu behind, obviously there were other more important things to do, which couldn't help but make the rest of the ministers envious.