Spring gradually became stronger in Xiangjing, the first capital of the Dashun regime. Xiangjing is the original Xiangyang Mansion, in March of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng called the "King of Xinshun" in the Xiongcheng on the bank of the Han River, and changed Xiangyang to Xiangjing, and formally established the Dashun regime.

From the establishment of Xiangjing to the present, it has been almost two years!

In the past two years, the Dashun regime has experienced a lot of ups and downs! "Xinshun King" Li Zicheng set off from Xiangjing, went east to the west to fight in the east and then ran away, it was really repeated, and suddenly took a sharp turn, not to mention how exciting.

However, for the poor people of Xiangjing Mansion, it has been two full years since the peaceful and prosperous era arrived!

In the past two years, Xiangjing Mansion, as one of the two capitals of Dashun, has always been the most core territory, with Yuan Zongdi left behind, and the nearby Ming officers and soldiers did not dare to think about it, let alone call.

The policy of "three-year exemption" has been implemented since the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, and it has been almost two years now. Although the three-year exemption is only a field tax rather than a field rent, but in the context of the hatred of the rich in the new dynasty of Dashun, there are no tenants who will be stupid to pay rent to the landlord. Rent and taxes are gone, and even the usury owed doesn't have to be repaid!

For two whole years, the farmer did not pay taxes, did not pay rent, did not repay usury, and was too peaceful and happy to stay away from the flames of war. In this Xiangjing Mansion, it is simply a paradise-like existence. And the poor middle peasants living here, in the past two years, there is no one who is not grateful for the benevolence and righteousness of Emperor Yongchang of Dashun, and there is no one who does not hope that Li Zicheng can dominate the world as soon as possible, drag the faint monarch Chongzhen down from the dragon chair, and drive the hateful Tartar from the city of Beijing.

However, the gratitude of the peasants of Xiangjing Province could not be translated into the combat effectiveness of the Dashun army. After the Battle of Shanhaiguan, the Dashun army fell into a cycle of defeat and defeat, and fled again and again.

Xiangjing Mansion, which was already far away from the war, was once again shrouded in the clouds of war after the spring of the second year of Yongchang.

Just after the fifteenth day of the first month of the second year of Yongchang, tens of thousands of Dashun officers and soldiers marched from Nanyang Mansion to Xiangjing Mansion with great vigor.

When they saw this group of Dashun Heavenly Soldiers who had been defeated many times, but were still in high spirits, the people of Xiangjing Mansion felt quite relieved at first - it seems that the Dashun Dynasty will not collapse for the time being, and the big guy can live a good life without paying food, paying rent and repaying usury for another year. Even after a year, there shouldn't be a rampant expropriation, right?

Xiangjing Mansion in the Ming Dynasty was the Xiangyang Mansion of Huguang, Huguang has more than 220 million mu of land, and the positive amount of land tax is only more than 2 million stones, and it is only one liter of rice flour per mu, which is insignificant at all.

As long as the Dashun Imperial Court can continue to stand on the side of the farmers and prevent the landlords from collecting rent and forcing debts, a little land endowment is really nothing.

However, the farmers of Xiangjing Prefecture have not been happy for too long, and the imperial list of "Qingtian Divided Fields" posted at the gates of Xiangjing City and the counties and counties under Xiangjing Prefecture is like a basin of ice water, and all of them have fallen on the heads of these farmers in Xiangjing Prefecture on this cold and cold spring day.

Outside the Linhan Gate of Xiangjing Prefecture, a group of peasants transporting rice and vegetables into the city to sell were gathering in front of the newly erected notice board outside the city gate, arguing with their mouths, and their words were full of astonishment and inexplicable emotions.

"What? Do you want to distribute all the fields of Xiangjing Mansion to the meritorious soldiers of the Dashun Army? How can this be? ”

"Then, then, can the rent be waived?"

"Rent-free? Do you want the general of the beautiful Dashun army to cut you off with one sword? ”

"If you don't pay rent, you want to be killed? It wasn't so fierce in the past."

"Alas, it's always the people who suffer!"

"The good days are over"

"But my family also has a few acres of land! Do you want to take it and distribute it to the soldiers of the Dashun Army? ”

"What did the official who read the emperor's list say? Whether it was official land, military land, private land, or hidden land in the past, it is now owned by the Yongchang Emperor, and it is forbidden to buy and sell, and it must be used to reward soldiers! ”

The division of land in the Dashun Dynasty is still different from that of the Ming Dynasty next door. Prince Zhu of the Ming Dynasty looked far away, and he knew that the Ming Dynasty, at least the southeast of the Ming Dynasty, was already standing on the threshold of capitalism. What restricts the southeast of the Ming Dynasty from crossing this threshold is that the marketization of agriculture is blocked by the system of sending in and offering money attached to the imperial examination -- don't even think about the planned economy in this year, if you want to improve the productivity of agriculture, there is only one way to marketize! The marketization of agriculture certainly requires a relatively fair competitive environment, and also needs the means of production, that is, the circulation of land must be marketized!

The Ming Dynasty's system of land circulation based on imperial examinations was simply impossible to effectively promote the development of agricultural productivity - land was not concentrated in the hands of farmers who were good at managing the land, but was taken by the masters of the Eight Shares.

Therefore, the ultimate goal of Zhu Cihong's "land reform" is actually to turn land into negotiable private property (by destroying the mailing system and gradually distributing it to the soldiers who conquered difficulties). Li Zicheng's version of "land reform" is the line of feudal land military service. The land was state-owned and then distributed to the military aristocracy of Dashun in exchange for military service.

For the peasants under the rule of Da Shun, this is in the land reform, but it is really difficult for them to turn over for generations!

"Ahh What can I do?"

"Why did Emperor Yongchang become bad?"

"Three-year exemption as promised"

"No, we have to go to Emperor Yongchang for comment!"

"The emperor is not in Xiangjing, and now Xiangjing is here for the marquis."

"Then go to Bo Hou!"

"Yes, let's go to the Imperial City (Xiangwangfu) to beat the drum and sound the grievances!"

"Go to the drums and cry out"

Many farmers who had already sold rice and vegetables did not care about going home, and all of them flocked to the imperial city of Xiangjing, where they beat drums to Li Guo, Marquis of Bo, and Yin Gu Junen of Xiangjing Mansion.

However, when they came to the main gate of the original Daming Xiangwang Mansion, they found that there were no drums to beat for them, only a large group of old Dashun soldiers in white hats and blue clothes, holding swords, spears, bows and arrows, guarding there menacingly!

A Dashun general with a Shaanxi accent saw another peasant running to beat the drum, so he waved his hand and shouted to pick people up.

"Let's go, let's go, let's go, there's no drum to beat here, and don't make any mistakes, it's all fucking fate! If you don't leave, the knives and spears in your hands won't be angry! ”

What? Don't even have a place to reason?

The peasants looked at the murderous old battalion soldiers, at the sharpened blades and spear tips in their hands, all of which were cool.

That's too cruel, isn't it?

Ah, by the way, they're murderous scoundrels!

What are you talking to the rogue?

The peasants were scared, and there was little they could do to resist. Although the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are bad, most of them have no combat effectiveness, and they can still make a peasant uprising or something.

But this group of Dashun Heavenly Soldiers looks ruthless, and the murderous spirit is almost irrepressible! Whoever moves forward is a dead end

At this moment, on the gate tower of the "Imperial City", Bohou Li Guo watched another group of people crying and leaving, and sighed: "These guys, when they fight with the Tartars, they must have half the strength they have now, why do we have today?" ”

"Master Hou, if Wu Sangui is the opponent who does not let the soldiers divide the field, I am afraid that the battle of Shanhaiguan will not wait for the Tartars to enter the field, and he will be defeated!

It was Gu Junen who took over the topic, he repeatedly summed up the lessons of the failure of the Great Shun Dynasty these days, and finally came to the conclusion that there was no division of land and population, otherwise with the momentum of the Great Shun Heavenly Soldiers sweeping the world, Wu Sangui's tens of thousands of miserable and panicked Guan Ning lone troops couldn't stop it for a while!

Li Guo snorted: "Now they are always satisfied, right?" By the way, the military division, how much land can Xiangjing Mansion and Meteoric Mansion probably collect? Is there enough 30,000 soldiers to distribute? ”

"Enough, enough!" Gu Junen said, "Xiangjing Mansion and Shenyang Mansion are now inspecting land and clearing fields, and it is estimated that there can be 7 million mu, most of which are fields. To divide it evenly among the soldiers, there are always more than 200 acres of paddy fields in Xiangjing, and they can be planted for two seasons, which is more laborious, so there are more household registrations. There are always 500,000 households on the 7 million acres of land, and if you share it evenly, you can get 15 households! ”

Li said: "More than 200 acres of land, fifteen tenants are also fine, worthy of the brothers!" ”