Section 148, Radical and Slow
It has never been a secret that the Emperor of Heaven wants to make a heavy blow on the land issue, and it can even be said that the civil and military officials know it but have nothing to do, and it has always only taken advantage of Zhang Tao's more nostalgic characteristics, so that the existing officials will not face the dilemma of having their land confiscated. In a sense, they can be regarded as successful, and the current officials can enjoy all kinds of preferential policies for those who have meritorious names in the Ming Dynasty before they die, but the problem is that when they die, these fields will not only not bring endless benefits to future generations of children and grandchildren, but will become a kind of burden that cannot be dropped. After all, there is a ladder threshold for taxation, and the more land you have, the higher the tax will be, so many people are now taking the method of concealing the actual number of land to avoid this problem, generally speaking, there will not be any local official who does not open his eyes to measure the land clearly, and underreporting and concealing is almost the unspoken rule of the whole country, and then at this time Qiu Tian's twists and turns appeared, and this illegal behavior was directly exposed, don't look at the cabinet has been planning to deal with this matter coldly, but there are still many people who have seen the "empty seal case" of the former Ming Dynasty of the shadows.
Speaking of the empty seal case, one of the four major cases of Hongwu, this is the only major case that Zhu Yuanzhang did not set off for political purposes, and its appearance was completely an accident, but it was this accident that touched the tense anti-corruption nerve in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, making a very simple unspoken rule of officialdom the cause of blood. Just imagine that just because of the unreasonable system and the birth of the unspoken rules, can make so many heads fall to the ground, now Qiu Tian will be one of the more prominent in the land ills to "expose", so the same black-hearted Emperor Tianjun will copy the glorious history of Emperor Hongwu? The answer seems obvious. How many people cursed Qiu Tian in their hearts This is not good statistics, but now no one will mention this issue in public, everyone seems to have figured out a question at the same time, who can stop the emperor if he wants to do it? The answer is no one!
The reason why those ministers in the officialdom of the former Ming Dynasty were able to succeed was that the emperor would not use the state's violence @ force @ machine @ guan to solve the problem, at most it was the court staff and the edict, usually this kind of means would not affect the family, but provoked a group of people who were not afraid of death to come and save the zài, and they had to leave a mark in the history books after fighting their lives. But when today's son is very in the style of the father and son emperors who founded the Ming Dynasty, as long as he does it, it will not be as simple as you offending the emperor, not only finding out your pile of evidence-based crimes, but also making your whole family unlucky together. Some people may ask if there is no Qing official like Hai Rui, who scolds the emperor and still makes people unable to grasp the handle? How many Hai Rui have been produced in the Ming Dynasty in the past three hundred years? Not to mention that there are very few such people, the key is that there are too many illegal things in the various unspoken rules left by the Ming Dynasty, in terms of land annexation and concealment of the actual number of land, I am afraid that tens of thousands of heads have fallen to the ground in Zhu Hongwu's hands, and there is no movement in this Chinese dynasty, which has already made many people realize the strangeness of things, but it is this kind of calm before the storm that is the most difficult.
Jiang Tian is in the eye of this storm, but the small life is tense and full without the feeling of wind and rain, as the only mathematics exam grader, he has to judge hundreds of exam papers, although the number of questions is relatively fast, but for the sake of insurance, he also has to review all the exam papers twice, in order to be foolproof, and because it is the first time in China to conduct a separate mathematics exam, he also has to be prepared for candidates to check the papers, in order to reduce the occurrence of fraud as much as possible, All the work has to be done by him alone, which shows how much work he has to do. As for the outside world since he knew the topic of this policy, he has been nervous and slaughtering, he has no time to take care of it, and his hometown is the hundreds of acres of meritorious fields of the emperor Qinzhun, in this regard, his father, who is like an old fox, is still very wise, he did not learn the methods of those colleagues to get rich, don't look at the land is not much, and the harvest cannot be compared with the paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River, but his old man still has a pension to receive, so the small day is also the first in the village, and naturally he will not go to other small abacus. As for Jiang Tian's name, except for the mansion given by Zhang Tao, there was not a single acre of land, so he watched those big landlords with peace of mind.
No matter how many exam papers there are, there will be a day when the review is completed, and the math test papers are not as good as Chinese, and there is no need to consider grammar, wording and other issues, let alone compare which font is neat for two equally wonderful articles, as long as you look at the standard answers, you will know how to give points, so although it was reviewed three times before and after, he Jiang Tian was the first to complete the work of judging the papers. Not to mention that although the ancients did not have systematic modern mathematics, the "Book of Changes" in the Five Classics itself is a classic mathematics textbook, and some academies in Jiangnan are even more proud to teach mathematics in the six arts, so it is difficult for Jiang Tian to make this exam paper difficult for those who have real talent and real learning. It's just that someone doesn't know how to answer the questionnaire and writes the answer in the wrong place, Jiang Tian didn't pursue these people for formatting errors, as long as they can be interpreted, they will be scored. This made many people who were staring at him really relieved, although this Lord Jiang is the emperor's dog, but at least he is open-minded, the candidates who participated in the exam this time are basically all qualified, and there are not even a few papers of sixty points, but Jiang Tian still asked people to post a standard answer exam paper on the outer wall of the Gongyuan, and explained that this time everyone is accommodating everyone because the emperor's grace is not an example, as for how many points they can score after reading the standard answers, many people have a bottom in their hearts, Therefore, the key to whether or not to be nominated for the gold list still falls on the eight-share text.
As for the chief examiner Ning Jiao, why he was worried about him, Jiang Tian didn't care, it stands to reason that as the deputy chief examiner, he should assist the examiner, but not to mention how bad his own Bagu Wen level is, even if he wants to intervene, these sub-civil officials don't dare to let him muddy the water, so he ends up idle on the grounds of avoiding suspicion. When he finished his work and returned home, the Su family had completely moved out of the Jiang Mansion and was arranged to the Huangzhuang of the Academy of Sciences outside the city, anyway, it didn't matter if there were more than a dozen women there, but what the land in the Huangzhuang was planted was basically the final decision of the royal family, and that land became the experimental field of the Academy of Sciences, so the life of the Su family could not be regarded as returning to the original track, and they would probably have to deal with the Academy of Sciences in the future. In particular, the College of Agriculture under the Academy of Sciences has recently become obsessed with variety improvement, and it is not good to get a bunch of seeds from overseas to try to plant in that field, if it is a bumper harvest, it is fine, but if the harvest fails, it can only receive the relief grain issued by the Academy of Sciences to survive, so from this result, it cannot be regarded as the Su family's bitterness.
Jiang Tian didn't worry about this problem, anyway, even if those women ate relief every year, it was better than being confiscated into the army or not being enslaved, as for whether they would be grateful Jiang Tian didn't care at all, but it was a secret decree from the emperor that made him upset. Just when he had just returned home and didn't have time to take a hot bath, a little eunuch followed him into the mansion on the grounds of the emperor's condolences, in addition to Zhang Tao's painless reward for rewarding him with a "hundred-year-old ginseng" to reward him for working for the country, the key was that a small note was also sandwiched into Jiang Tian's hand. After the eunuch left, he hurriedly found a room where no one was there and opened it, and there was only one line of small words written on it: "Shangjuan folds and checks the acres of land across the country!" ”
After reading this line, Jiang Tian's head grew in an instant, he didn't know that his predecessor was always thinking about land reform, but he didn't expect that this offending job would still fall on his head. Originally, he was also opposed to cracking down on local tyrants and dividing up the land, because he knew that this kind of vigorous mass movement was very prone to all kinds of fraud, and as for the communiqué personal vendetta or taking advantage of the opportunity to accumulate wealth, it was absolutely indispensable, so he always wanted Zhang Tao to follow a line of relying on the market economy to disintegrate the traditional small-scale peasant economy, and only by allowing the higher productive forces to naturally replace the lower productive forces could this kind of reform not fall into the chaos of the mass movement. In the history of China, a similar historical process is the so-called prosperous decade at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the decade that many national fans talk about, is the decade of the rise of China's national capital, and it is also a decade of prosperity and development on paper, but few national fans will mention that it is also the most cruel decade of the exploitation of the proletarian tenants by the rural landlord class. The level of its productive forces only hovered in light industry and low-end manufacturing, not to mention the foreign traitorous comprador class helping its masters to disrupt China's manufacturing industry, and the Hanyang Iron Works, which had been glorious in the Westernization Movement, was completely dismantled at this time, so that more peasants were ruined by this so-called prosperity, and the large-scale bankruptcy of yeoman farmers led to the annexation of rural land that should have been reshuffled, and there was a scene of brutal exploitation of tenants by landlords unique to the Republic of China. It can be said that even if there was no later Japanese invasion, the national capitalists born in those ten years would still not be able to complete the capitalist revolution in essence, not to mention the Kuomintang @ Kuomintang @ Party, which represents the interests of the landlords and comprador class, even shouted that it is better to buy than to build, which led to the strange incident of the bankruptcy of the steel plant in a state of war. Therefore, it is a fool's dream to rely on the Kuomintang@Democrat@Party to complete China's industrialization reform. This also shows that the word revolution @ life is as Taizu said, it is not a spring and white snow nor a dinner party, it is a bloody level @ level @ fight @ fight, in this process, even if Zhang Tao and Jiang Tian reduce the risk as much as possible, it will naturally make a large number of yeoman farmers who cannot adapt to the new economic environment bankrupt, and give birth to large landlords born because of the annexation of land, and it is impossible to avoid the "sheep eating people" in British history, but this can prevent the main contradiction from being concentrated in the central decision-making level, in other words, to transfer the hatred to the bourgeoisie, just like in British history, the peasants just hated the aristocratic landlords who saw the money, but they did not think that this was the inevitable product of Elizabeth's mercantilism after they began, even if Charles I was beheaded by Cromwell, no one thought that mercantilism was a mistake, in the final analysis, Jiang Tian did not want to avoid the bloody storm caused by the reform, but wanted to make the royal family as the winner of this reform as much as possible, and complete the constitutional monarchy of China. However, Zhang Tao, the proletarian revolutionary @ life fighter, not only did not appreciate it, but also fearlessly wanted to become the leader of reform, which could not help but make Jiang Tian cry and laugh.