Chapter 309: The Establishment of the State
In Ning Yu's eyes, although the policy of apportionment into the mu implemented by Yongzheng is a good policy, after all, it will be subject to internal checks and balances, and it will not be able to step to the level of the integration of the official gentry and the payment of grain, which actually greatly affects the effect of the policy.
Because there is still a loophole in front of the big net of apportionment into the mu, that is, the gentry are exempted from errands, which is a kind of privilege of the imperial court to exempt the meritorious from servitude, of course, this privilege is not only from the Qing Dynasty, but has lasted for thousands of years.
In today's era, as long as there is a meritorious scholar, you can basically enjoy such privileges, such as Xiucai can be exempted from his own service, in addition to himself, he can bring two people to be exempted, and Jinshi can be exempted from four to six people, in addition to scholars, officials also have preferential privileges, in terms of official rank, such as a first-class official or a knight can take up to twenty-four people, and when the official becomes a squire, the preferential privilege is still valid.
It was precisely because the gentry had such preferential privileges that many people would send their land to the gentry so that they could avoid being taxed by the imperial court. Therefore, in the later stage, even if it is a scholar who has just been admitted to the examination, someone will come to post it, which is very terrible, which means that a large amount of taxes in the imperial court have been swallowed up by the gentry group.
Strictly speaking, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the disadvantages of the former Ming Dynasty were reflected, but in this regard, it was even worse than the former Ming, that is, the Eight Banners nobles at that time took the lead in collecting a large number of charges, and the Eight Banners Princes and the Internal Affairs Government set up Nayinzhuang per mu of land, and those who invested more land were the head of the village, and some people who did not bring land could get the rope land for the masters, and become the labor force of the Imperial Village of the Internal Affairs Office and the Manor of the Eight Banners.
Although all dynasties have made a move to fill up, especially in troubled times, there are often commoners who have joined the families of officials and nobles in order to survive famine or escape various persecutions, but the scale of investment in all dynasties is not as large as that in the early Qing Dynasty, it is really because the rulers of the Qing Dynasty at that time deliberately implemented large-scale land enclosures.
Therefore, Ning Yu can be sure that in this environment, Yongzheng wants to do it in one step, and there are still many things that need to be done internally, even if the current Qing court is like a patient who has just been seriously injured, and his condition has not been completely stabilized.
But the Fu Han Army is different, he himself is a new force, and the internal interests have not developed to such an intertwined point, if it really moves, the area touched will not be so big, if someone is really dissatisfied, the army will be peaceful, and it is just right to cut off a batch of people.
"Write to the palace of the king of Chu, write down the relevant policies of Yongzheng this time, and also write down the official gentry as errand and pay food..... We've got to get to the bottom of it first....."
Li Fu quickly spread out the rice paper on the table, pressed it with copper paperweight, and then took a wolf pen and began to write. Because this before and after is already in his heart, coupled with this communication with Ning Yu, he has clearly seen the stakes here, and he writes it smoothly.
Every time Li Fu wrote a piece of white paper, the officials on the side hung up the white paper and waited to dry it to prevent the ink from sticking, and after a while, Li Fu was already full of dense stacks of white paper.
"Mu Tanggong is worthy of being the successor of the King of Lu, and his writing goes straight to the liver and diaphragm, and he has no fate to decorate, and he has the Qiu Zhi ...... of Jiangxi Zhuxianzheng"
Ning Yu read all the words on the white paper, only to feel hearty, and couldn't help but praise loudly, no matter how hard he tried, it was impossible for him to write such beautiful words.
Li Fu took the pen, took a sip of the teacup, and let out a long sigh of satisfaction, this text must be blameless in Wuchang.
Ning Yu picked up the last one and looked at it, read it carefully, but felt that some things were still not expressed thoroughly, so he immediately looked at Li Fu.
"Finished?"
"It's over"
The two were stunned when they met, but they were speechless, Ning Yu couldn't cry or laugh, he read it carefully, and still felt that he couldn't express his thoughts.
"If that's all there is, maybe it's not enough, so please ask Mr. to write it, and add another paragraph at the end."
“........ The prefectures and counties of Sichuan Province are mostly loaded with grain. The gentry and the eunuchs, etc., are all good and exempt. Please ban the reform in the name of preferential exemption forever, and be an errand with the people...... The gentleman originally had no silver and no preferential exemption, and every private Confucian eunuch was famous, or in the name of the gentry and tribute eunuch, he was exempted from skill, and there were many evils, and his descendants were indiscriminate, and the private Confucian eunuchs, and those who were soliciting tricks and senders, were found to be punished. ”
Li Fu knew that his Metropolitan Governor was a decisive person, and he said that he would lift the table, but he was still a little worried in his heart, and said in a low voice: "Now is the world of great disputes, if the Metropolitan Governor is blindly spicy, he will force those gentry to the side of the Qing court....... Isn't it stable first? ”
"Mu Tanggong, now is certainly a world of great controversy, but it is more important to cut through the chaos quickly, the sooner this matter is done, the less hidden dangers will be in the future, only by fundamentally controlling it, so that a hole can be fundamentally abolished."
Ning Yu sighed slightly in his heart, Li Fu is a member of the gentry group after all, no matter how loyal he is, he will subconsciously resist this kind of policy that is harmful to the interests of the gentry, which has nothing to do with the limitations of the times, but only related to his position.
It seems that after the anti-Qing Dynasty is completed in the future, we will have to deal with these gentry inside!
"These will not be implemented immediately, but will be reflected in the new field endowment system in the future, and will also be the first decrees issued by my father after he ascended the throne!"
In Ning Yu's words, an extremely important message was revealed, that is, the Fu Han Army was finally going to establish a country!
Li Fu didn't know much about some of these things, but when he learned about it, he couldn't help but be a little excited!
The founding of the country and the system not only means that his Ning family has become a royal family, but even the other founding heroes will also be crowned princes and marquises, and the big guy will come out and tie his head to the waistband of his trousers to fight the world, isn't this it?
Of course, at this time, Ning Yu proposed to put the reform of the field mu system after he ascended the throne, and in fact, he was also making an exchange with the meritorious gentry within the Fu Han army, that is, to reward you with high-ranking officials, but you have to guarantee one thing, that is, the new dynasty's field mu system can be carried out smoothly!
The smooth progress of the new acre system is a very important matter for Ningyu, because it is related to whether the peasants, who account for ninety percent of the peasants, can be stabilized under the system of the new dynasty.
Ning Yu did not expect all the peasants to follow the Fu Han army from the bottom of their hearts, because Ning Yu could not use enough benefits to envelop them, as long as they could stabilize them, it would be a victory for Ning Yu.
To put it bluntly, this era is a worse era, as long as the Fu Han Army is stronger than the Qing Court, the White Lotus Sect and Zhu Yigui, it is enough to ensure that the hearts and minds of the people are in hand. As for the things that are favored by the people, it can only be considered in the future, when sufficient benefits are plundered from other places.
The winter of the ninety-fifth year of Chongzhen is particularly cold, since Ning Zhongyuan became the king, he announced the use of the Chongzhen era, so the sixty-first year of Kangxi became the ninety-fifth year of Chongzhen.
By the end of November, the Fu Han army had completely taken the whole territory of Zhejiang, of which the 5th Division was stationed on the Huaibei line to prevent the Qing army in Shandong from moving south, and the 6th Division was stationed at the junction of Anhui and Henan to prevent the Qing army in Henan from advancing eastward. The 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 7th Divisions, led by Cheng Ming and Ujijing, began to advance at full speed in the direction of Fujian.
Of course, the titular generalissimo is naturally Ning Yu, but Ning Yu did not follow the troops to fight Fujian, he still has to stay in Jiangning, planning for his father's accession to the throne in Jiangning in the coming year, at this time, Jiangning's big and small affairs, all need Ning Yu to deal with, so he is also busy.
On the issue of ascending the throne, Ning Yu and Wuchang have actually communicated many times, and the main problem is still reflected in one point, that is, whether to ascend the throne in Wuchang or Jiangning, divided into two waves of people quarrelling.
Some old people like the Ning family, the Cheng family and the Zheng family, mainly led by Cheng Yuanzhi and Ning Zhongjing, think that it is more secure to ascend the throne in Wuchang, after all, this is the place where the Fu Han army started, loyalty can be guaranteed, and Wuchang has not been destroyed for a long time, so it is more appropriate to use it to ascend the throne.
But the young people led by Ning Yu all thought that Jiangning was not only the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties, but also the capital of the Ming Dynasty, which had a very far-reaching meaning, after all, the Fu Han army has always been based on Zhu Yuanzhang as the benchmark, with the goal of expelling the Tatars to revive the Han family.
Although the Fu Han Army will not really rebuild the Ming Dynasty, it is also a very good choice to absorb the hearts of some of the people of the Ming Dynasty through this kind of benevolent and costless way.
Especially in Ning Yu's heart, there is another idea, that is, at the beginning of the establishment of the new dynasty, it should be drastic to implement reforms, if it is still in Wuchang, it will inevitably be checked and balanced by the conservative forces within the Fu Han army, which is unacceptable for Ning Yu, in this case, it is better to put the capital in Jiangning, which can also weaken these forces.
In early December, the troops of the Fu Han army had advanced to the areas of Shaowu Mansion, Jianning Mansion and Funing Mansion, and the remnants of the Qing army led by Manbao no longer dared to defend Fuzhou and began to retreat towards Zhangzhou, but at this time, Zhu Yigui's army on Kinmen Island also attacked repeatedly, and fought with the Qing army many times in the Quanzhou area, all of which achieved certain advantages.
The fall of Fujian has become a foregone conclusion, but for the Fu Han army, the upcoming Zhu Yigui Ming army has become a problem, to a certain extent, each other is allies, but at present, the complete defeat of the Qing army in the south is already a predictable thing, between the Fu Han army and the Ming army, there is less such a buffer, and it is inevitable to face the collision.
Before marching into Fujian, Ning Yu had actually reserved such a situation, and the orders he gave to Cheng Ming and Uzhijing and other division commanders were very simple, the southern provinces would be the territory of the Fu Han army in the future, if the Ming army made any moves, it would be correct, and there was no need to show mercy to his subordinates.
In Ning Yu's opinion, in the future, after the Fu Han Army becomes emperor, the relationship between Zhu Yigui and the White Lotus Sect should change greatly, and it will only take a moment to change from an ally to an enemy, so there is no need to stay when encountered.
Of course, because it has not been long before the Chinese New Year, the Fu Han army has temporarily stopped its pace, and Ning Yu is also hurrying back to Wuchang, this time in Wuchang will be held the largest meeting of the Fu Han army, the purpose of which is naturally for the next year to ascend the throne, and this will become the most critical thing for the Fu Han army at present.
On the Yangtze River, more than ten big ships sail in the rivers and mountains, the snowflakes that float down from the sky will dye this piece of heaven and earth into a white expanse, no one can tell where this is the sky, where is the earth, only feel that what you see in front of you is beautiful.
Ning Yu was dressed in a thick coat and stood on the bow of the boat, enjoying the river view.
Chen Caiwei on the side secretly looked at his face, but the more she looked at it, the more she liked this face, her demeanor was bright, her eyes were sparse, especially the temperament of the whole person seemed to be very polite and polite, and she didn't look like a general who scolded Fang Xuan, but she blushed a little when she looked at it.
Ning Yu was thinking about the big things he was going to plan in the future, but he didn't see that blushing look, which was a bit of a pity.
"Husband, go back to Wuchang this time...... How should I ...... when I see my sister" Chen Caiwei suddenly thought of one thing, and couldn't help but be a little nervous, speaking of which, since she married Ning Yu, she has not been able to return to Wuchang, this time it is the first time to go back to Wuchang, and there are a lot of people to see at that time, especially Ning Yu's other wife, Cui Xi.
Chen Caiwei knows Cui Xi, the daughter of the Left Senator of the Fuhan Military and Political Affairs Hall, and even the younger sister of Ning Yu, her status is by no means comparable to her, the so-called White Lotus Holy Maiden, in fact, in the current Fu Han Army, almost no one will take the White Lotus Sect in their eyes, because it is too weak, and it is too unscrupulous, plus her father Chen Daoxian, now it is like being imprisoned, and as for her, the holy daughter, is even more worthless.
Ning Yu reached out and held Chen Caiwei's little hand, but she felt a little cold, so she subconsciously put it to her mouth and then sighed lightly, and said with a smile: "It's okay, Ji'er has a calm temperament, and she must like it very much when she sees you...... Your hands are too cold, so you'd better go back to the cabin. ”
"No......" Chen Caiwei didn't have the slightest intention of pulling away her little hand, but snuggled up to Ning Yu's side, although the expression on her face did not change, her eyes had bent into a crescent moon.
"Husband, if only this scenery could go on forever......"