On the land issue in Hubei, Zhu Cihong had already made a decision, and there was no need to listen to the opinions of Huang Zongxi and Ji Kun. However, the entire Huguang area is vast, the situation is complicated, and there are the sequelae of catching up with the barbarian industry, and one size fits all will not work. That's why he summoned Ji Kun and Huang Zongxi, who had more ideas, to Wuhan and wanted to hear their opinions.

"The minister thinks that everything must be righteous, named, and upright, so that it can be smooth and prosperous, harmonious from top to bottom, and happy at home and abroad. The one who has lost in this dynasty is a great righteousness and a light name, and there is a seal but no building, so there is a son of heaven, and there is no feudal king, and there is no feudal king, and there is no vassal, and the seal of the guard is not right, but it is actually rotten......"

The person who is preaching righteousness is Ji Kun! He is a lawyer and a cool official, and naturally attaches importance to the law. At the same time, he was born in the military, and his ancestors were also heroes who followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world, and he was sealed in Yangzhou Wei.

In his opinion, Zhu Yuanzhang is actually a semi-feudal and semi-bureaucratic system! And the semi-feudal and semi-bureaucratic system is the failure of the Wei system.

If it's a full version of the feudal ...... Then there can not be so many guards, neither need nor control, and there is no feudalism in the world without the direct domain of the monarch.

The so-called feudalism is actually direct sales in places that can be managed, and contracts are issued in places where they can't be controlled.

In the case of the Ming Dynasty, at most dozens of feudal towns were sealed in the surrounding areas of the country, either guarded by kings or by meritorious heroes. The rest of the place has to be directly managed by the bureaucratic government.

In this way, the external and internal officials contain each other, maintain pressure, and it is easy to maintain vitality.

In addition, if the foreign feudal lords sealed on the border do not have the strength to rebel, they can only develop outward and toss the barbarian Tartars.

Of course, it is also possible for the internal officials and the external feudal clan to mess up! At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the king of the Jiusai domain was a bit of a rudimentary form of internal officials and external domains. However, the system of King Jiusai is also semi-feudal and semi-bureaucratic, and there is no upright law to restrain the upper and lower levels, and all kinds of twists and turns are continuous.

If it is a complete version of bureaucratic rule, it will be similar to Zhao Song......

"In the humble opinion of the ministers, the major affairs of the country should be in name and in fact, and upright. The feudal town is the feudal town, the official government is the official government, the public land is the public land, and the private belongs to the private land. ”

Ji Kun continued: "Now that the name of the southeast is a little correct, the government is much more accessible than before, the people are a little more peaceful, and the imperial court has increased a lot, and it can barely maintain a new army of two or three hundred thousand. However, in the land of Huguang, Bashu, Shandong, and Yunnan, there are many things that are difficult to live up to the truth. For example, it is a feudal town, but there are those who are called governors, governors, and ministers; In fact, they are vassals, and there are also those who are called commanders, commanders, and commanders; It is called Juntun Guantian, and it is actually a private vassal even more.

If the imperial court wants to rule Da'an for a long time, it should first correct its name, and then consolidate the fundamentals, so as to strengthen the strong branches! ”

His words seem to be a bit off-topic, but the root cause of the land problem in the Ming Dynasty is actually the chaos of the feudal system!

"How do you get the name right?" Zhu Cihong asked.

Ji Kun said: "Those who can be officials are officials, and those who can be officials are officials." ”

If he can hold it in his hand, then you're welcome...... Who doesn't know Prince Zhu's personality? But if you can't take it, you can't help it!

Daming is only in the southeast now, and there are still many opponents to clean up, how can it be possible to fight a bad battle with a group of local army leaders who have been trained to catch up with barbarians and expand their industry here in Huguang?

Of course, the plain area of Huguang is easy to do, but there are still large areas of mountains in the west and south of Huxi, and the primeval forest is grounded.

Ji Kun said again: "Those who are not in the government should practice feudalism, legislate, monarchs, ministers and ministers, and do their duty." ”

If we talk about human words, the meaning of these words is that there is no way to govern directly, and we cannot let it go, but we must be upright and feudal. Only in this way can the law be formulated, so that the feudal lords and vassals can fulfill their duties and contribute to the imperial court.

Don't think that the feudal lord will definitely rebel against the central government, in the last days of the Ming Dynasty in history, the old lady Qin Liangyu who has worked hard for the court for so many years is not a feudal lord! She is the "old queen" of Shizhu Tusi, and her white pole soldiers are Tusi soldiers. When it comes to merit and hard work, Jingying can't compare to them.

Zhu Cihong was noncommittal, and set his eyes on Huang Zongxi again. Huang Zongxi has also been a "cool official" for more than a year, and the whole person looks a little gloomy.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince," Huang Zongxi muttered, "Do you want to treat the fields of Hubei as official fields or as private fields?" ”

Zhu Cihong looked at Huang Zongxi, "What does Huang Qing think?" ”

Huang Zongxi said: "The land that counts the balance of the mouth should be the official field. Juntian is to suppress mergers and make up for the poor, so it should be official land, and it is not allowed to resell and sublease without permission...... However, now the official fields and military fields of the imperial court are not set up to suppress mergers and enrich the rich and poor, and not only allow subleases, but also evict the fields because of the tenants' rent arrears, and collect a lot of official rents. Can such a law of Guantian really be implemented in Hubei? ”

Zhu Cihong is not the founder of the country, so he can't take the road of "restarting the cycle", but can only suffocate and aggrieved to try to take 100 million people who have left the chaos to find a way out of the cycle of chaos.

Therefore, he does not count the land like Li Zicheng and Dolgon—the essence of the project is to restart the cycle of chaos, and the premise is that the population is greatly reduced because of the "chaos" and the contradiction between man and land is fully alleviated.

If you give a good land of ten acres and eight acres to a common person, you will naturally live and work in peace and contentment. Moreover, before the population swelled to a certain number, the interest in annexing land was not great - the feudal bureaucracy annexed land in order to collect rent, and the rent was high when there were more people and less land! Who do you rent to no one?

At the same time, when the land is abundant enough, it is not easy for farmers to lose money in farming, and it is easy for the small-scale peasant economy to sustain.

But when Hubei returned to the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, how could the results of Jikou Juntian be maintained? If the land of those provinces in Hubei is included in the Juntun Division, then not only will the rent be high, but there will also be the problem of driving tenants. Can those Hubei farmers be satisfied? They all got the fields from Li Zicheng, and they won't have to think about the king day and night in the future!

But if you don't collect so much rent, you won't drive tenants...... Then the peasants who rented the public land elsewhere should be aggrieved.

Huang Zongxi said again: "If all the fields of the thieves in Hubei are listed as private land, then the policy of exempting private land from taxation for five years should be implemented in Hubei?" Now that the number of gentry in Hubei has decreased greatly, it is difficult to recover in the short term, and it is not interesting for the rice grown by small farmers to be sold...... If they can't be sold, why don't they have a lot of them? ”

"Huang Qing has a good plan?" Zhu Cihong asked with a smile.

Huang Zongxi said: "The minister suggested that the land of the Hubei thieves should be listed as private land, but the small people of Hubei must pay a sum of money to buy the land. The capital for buying land can be set at the amount of white rice produced in two years per acre of land. It is about 5 to 4 stones and can be paid in five years.

There are about 30 or 40 million of the fields in Hubei. With three stones, you can get between 90 million stones and 120 million stones of white rice!

The imperial court could compensate part of it to the lord of the lost land who had the land deed, so that the imperial court would not have to use the official land of the Wuhan Prefecture to make up for their losses. And the rest can be owned by the imperial court. The minister estimated that there were still 50 or 60 million stones...... Once the law of buying land is fully implemented in Hubei, the imperial court will be able to obtain 20 million stone from Hubei within a few years, which can not only alleviate the grain shortage in the southeast, but also increase a large amount of revenue. ”

Isn't this a ransom land reform? Zhu Cihong thought: It should be possible, right? Later generations do not know who adopted it...... Since you have experienced it, you can't go wrong! It's just that this method is still far away, after all, sorting out the land in the four prefectures of Hubei and making a contract with the peasants to buy land is not a matter of lip service.

"Huang Qing's method is good!" Zhu Cihong nodded, "Ji Qing's suggestion is also good...... All have merit.

Just set up a Hubei Qingtian Division, which will be under the Military Field Division of the Ministry of War, and this Qingtian Division will be presided over by Huang Qing...... After a while, there will be a Huguang recruitment examination, and Huang Qing will also serve as the main exam, and by the way, a group of bureaucrats will be selected for the Qingtian Division. ”

"As for Ji Qing!" Zhu Cihong glanced at Ji Kun, who had a longing and expectant expression, obviously wanting to break away from the team of cool officials and become a respected Ming civil official!

Prince Zhu smiled: "Two thousand taels of silver!" ”