In Fengyang Fuzhong, water canals have been dredged in various places, many large waterwheels have been built, and irrigation wells have been dug.

Under the organization of Yang Tinglin, the prefect of Fengyang Mansion, a grand spring ploughing ceremony was held in Fengyang Mansion.

On the bank of the Huai River, gongs and drums roar, firecrackers are set off, and all kinds of blowing, playing and singing can be seen everywhere.

In front of an altar built on the spot, Zhu Cihong led the officials of various prefectures and counties in Fengyang Prefecture to burn incense to lay the emperor's heavenly soil, praying for a bumper harvest in the new year.

After paying tribute to heaven and earth, Zhu Cihong learned from Emperor Yongzheng in the TV series in later generations, and personally helped the plow to walk in the field, which attracted praise and applause from the onlookers and tunhuan.

Yang Tinglin also made an important speech, urging all the households to work hard and have a good harvest when the summer harvest comes.

After tossing and turning according to the procedure for a while, the spring ploughing ceremony officially ended.

At this time, the soldiers of Tuntian stopped training and began to work for their families, they were the pillars of the tuntian, and this kind of big work was inseparable from them.

In the spring ploughing season, all parts of Fengyang Mansion have begun to work intensively, and many places have completed the plowing when the spring ploughing is coming, and only the newly cultivated land of Bawei is the latest, so they have worked hard to catch up with the process.

In addition to one cow per household, some farming tools and seeds, each household can also receive two stone of grain every month, and the distribution will not stop until the autumn sowing for the usual household use of the tun households.

Everyone in Tunhu is excited, the government divides the fields, sends cattle, and distributes grain, this is really something that you can't dream of, God is really eye-opening.

Most of these tun households are tenants who have no land at home, and they usually pay rent for the landlord to farm the land, and the grain they grow all year round is not enough to pay the rent.

began to see the government's notice, many people didn't believe it, but just with the mentality of trying it out, let the men in the family sign up for the army, even if they can't get the land, the men who eat a lot of food at home also have a place to eat, which relieves a lot of burden on the family.

Unexpectedly, this bold attempt made these tunhu receive a huge unexpected surprise, and under the propaganda of these tunhu, the people of the surrounding provinces were all moved after hearing about it.

Only two buckets of rent are charged per mu of land, and all other taxes are exempted, who is willing to give the landlord such a good thing to farm and be exploited!

In the month after the spring ploughing began, the flow of people from all over Fengyang Mansion increased sharply, especially in front of the government office in Fengyang City, where many people crowded there every day, hoping that the prefect Lord Yang could share a piece of land.

Originally, the people wanted to go to the imperial city to find the crown prince, but they couldn't even enter the forbidden wall outside the imperial city, and thousands of tall and mighty soldiers around the forbidden wall were patrolling in shifts for twelve hours every day, and ordinary people couldn't enter at all.

More and more people poured into Fengyang Mansion, and Yang Tinglin had no choice but to go to the imperial city to discuss with the crown prince how to deal with this matter.

Zhu Cihong smiled and said, "Yang Qing, this is difficult? Isn't there still some inferior land in Fengyang Mansion? Just organize the people to reclaim the wasteland. ”

Yang Tinglin said: "Your Highness, that bit of land is completely insufficient, there are too many people from the surrounding provinces, there are hundreds of thousands of people, all waiting for the land to be divided!" ”

Zhu Cihong said: "Continue to recruit tuntian soldiers, recruit and register first, and then divide the fields after a while, there are still millions of acres of lower land in Fengyang Mansion that have not been cultivated, you can turn them into private tuntian, and distribute them to those who have not become tuntian soldiers, forty acres per household, the lower land in Fengyang Mansion will be used first, and the land that has not been planted and confiscated will also be divided!" ”

Yang Tinglin was puzzled: "The recruited Tuntian soldiers, where do they share the land?" ”

Zhu Cihong said with a smile: "Naturally, it is the land of other surrounding provinces!" ”

The system of health centers in various places has collapsed, and more than seventy percent of the land has been encroached upon by the officers of the guard stations. As for the remaining land occupied by military households, Zhu Cihong didn't plan to move, it was originally owned by others.

The recovered land is then divided, and whether it is a military tun or a civilian tun, it only has the right to use the land, but has no right to trade, that is, it cannot be sold, it can only be used for its own use, and it has to grow grain.

Zhu Cihong planned to slowly nationalize the land, and if he wanted to avoid land annexation, he could only nationalize the land and prohibit the sale and purchase of it, and it would be distributed and controlled by the imperial court.

Although this is very difficult, it must also be done, the issue of land annexation is an important factor in the demise of a dynasty, if left unchecked, and not to solve it, it will only be a cover-up.

Zhu Cihong sighed and said: Let's take things slowly, how much can be harvested, in the next few years, natural disasters will be more serious, affecting a wider area, if you want to carry the past, grain production must be increased.

In the small-scale peasant economy of feudal society, once a natural disaster reduces grain production or goes out of production, it can kill people every year, not to mention the drought that lasted for seven or eight consecutive years at the end of the year, and even the drought that lasted for more than ten years in some parts of Shaanxi.

The disaster relief system of the feudal dynasty is mainly divided into three stages: pre-disaster prevention, disaster relief and post-disaster relief.

At this time in the late Ming Dynasty, natural disasters that lasted for several years in many places, there was not even a single mouse in the granaries of the local governments, where there was still food relief, and the officials could only watch the people starve to death, or gather crowds to rebel and rob the big households.

After Yang Tinglin left the imperial city and returned to the palace, he immediately posted notices in various places to recruit reserve tuntian soldiers, but this time the quota was limited to 100,000 people, and he had to wait for a period of time before dividing the fields.

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In the Forbidden City of Beijing, in the Wenhua Palace, Emperor Chongzhen was looking at several books sent by Zhu Cihong.

First of all, about the Fengyang Bawei One Family, although Zhu Cihong did not write much, the attached evidence was very sufficient.

Chongzhen was very dissatisfied with Zhu Cihong's killing of so many Wenchen generals in Fengyang, and secretly said that this rebel was really bold, he had just arrived in Fengyang for a few days and made such a big deal and killed more than a thousand people, how dare he?

The cabinet ministers were also shocked, this little killer was really amazing, a few days after Suzhou killed dozens of corrupt officials, he actually killed hundreds more in Fengyang, fortunately he was sent away.......

Chongzhen wanted to give an order to reprimand, but when he saw the materials obtained by Zhu Cihong in Suzhou and Fengyang, he suddenly became angry and said: "These corrupt officials are really moths of the country!" A small person from Wupin Zhizhou is actually worth millions, and he is richer than me, he really deserves to be killed! ”

Chongzhen's anger has not completely disappeared, and when he saw the news of the Yongwei Battalion's victory in Mengcheng, his heart was much more comfortable.

However, he is still unhappy, this rebel has confiscated so much money and food, and he actually doesn't give some to himself? Just reported, I didn't see a tael of silver!

Chongzhen secretly said in his heart: "How many did you send me to deal with emergencies, what is this!" ”

Within a few days, the impeachment recitals of the various imperial histories in Jiangnan drowned out the dragon case of the Wenhua Hall like snowflakes, and its content was almost the same, all of which were to impeach Zhu Cihong, the governor of the five provinces, and hundreds of officials from the provinces south of the Yangtze River even jointly asked the Son of Heaven to issue an order for the crown prince to return to Beijing.

Chongzhen thought to himself, back to Beijing? Are you coming back to force the palace?

After reading it, several cabinet elders were also thinking, back to Beijing? Come back and kill people?

Chongzhen thought about it in the Wenhua Palace, and decided to send the next holy decree to Fengyang, and the general content of the holy decree was: The imperial court is short of money, and the taxes that Nanzhili has been in arrears for many years will be collected as soon as possible.

After the cabinet made a decision, there was also a brand-new Shang Fang sword sent to Fengyang with the holy decree.

Xue Guoguan and several other cabinet ministers of the eunuch party secretly rejoiced in their hearts, Jiangnan is the nest of the Donglin Party, even if you kill it, what we can do is to support it silently behind our backs.