"Xuan Qian Qianyi, Hou Xun, Zhu Chunchen, and Li Yan to the Qinzheng Palace!"

As soon as Jin Zhijun left, Zhu Cihong immediately asked the eunuchs on duty around him to announce his body to these important ministers in Fengyang.

Qian Qianyi is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and was hired by Zhu Cihong to be responsible for the reconstruction of the Fengyang Emperor's Mausoleum and the Ming Zu's Mausoleum (in Xuyi). In order to prevent the imperial tombs and ancestral tombs from being stolen and excavated by the Qing army, Zhu Cihong, the filial son and grandson of the Ming Dynasty, prepared to build two fortress-style imperial tombs...... But how to cultivate the law, you have to let Qian Qianyi, a great Confucian, study it, and it has to conform to the etiquette system!

And Hou Sui is the governor of Jiangbei and the governor of Fengyang, and Fengyang is a big official.

Zhu Chunchen is left behind in the central capital, and it sounds like he is on the same side as Hou Sui, but he is actually the chief military officer of Fengyang Mansion, responsible for the defense of Fengyang Mansion.

And Li Yan continued to serve as the commander of his generalissimo's palace military commander after the Qingliuxi War, that is, Zhu Cihong's army division.

When the four of them were summoned, they all hurried over, but what they saw in the Qinzheng Hall was a little melancholy Prince Zhu.

Zhu Cihong has always been smiling, even when Beijing was besieged, he did not have such a melancholy face.

Zhu Chunchen, who had followed Zhu Cihong for the longest time, immediately thought of Chongzhen, and immediately changed his sad expression, and before he could salute, he asked with concern: "Chitose Lord, is it the emperor's .....?"

Zhu Cihong looked at Zhu Chunchen, but didn't understand for a while, "What's wrong with my father?" ”

It's not that Chongzhen is dead...... Zhu Chunchen was also confused at this time, and hurriedly said: "It's nothing, it's nothing...... The minister just saw that the Chitose Lord had a worried face, thinking that you missed the emperor. ”

Missing Chongzhen? Zhu Cihong said in his heart: I don't have any feelings, I want to be a fart......

He thought so in his heart, but he said, "Yes, this palace really misses my father." ”

Zhu Chunchen let out a sigh, and then he saluted the prince together with Qian Qianyi, Hou Sui, and Li Yan.

The chair is placed in Zhu Cihong's diligent palace, and he will sit on his own after kowtowing, which is the etiquette formulated by Zhu Cihong - he originally wanted to exempt the kowtow procedure, but the people below are used to kowtowing, and they are not sure if they don't kowtow!

"Take a look at Dolgon's handwritten letter!" Zhu Cihong waved at one of the eunuchs waiting in the hall, who immediately handed the letter to Qian Qianyi.

Qian Qianyi opened the letter and looked at it, and he was also smiling at first, but halfway through it, his face changed drastically.

"What? The Tartar actually wants Juntian ......"

As soon as he shouted, Hou Sui, Zhu Chunchen, and Li Yan were also taken aback. Zhu Chunchen and Li Yan are better, Zhu Chunchen's mansion occupies a lot of military tun land in Beizhili, but there is not much legal private land, and his family's land is occupied by the Tartar circle. And Li Yan's family is just a middle-class landlord and does not have much land. Hou Sui is different, his family is the largest landlord in Guide Mansion! Isn't this Juntian all gone? When the Ming counterattack goes back in the future, it may not be able to take it back, right?

"What's going on?" Hou Sui hurriedly asked.

Zhu Cihong said: "Dolgon said in the letter that because the gentry in the north were instigated by the palace and were unwilling to be used by the eastern captives, the interests of the gentry would not be considered. Moreover, there are few people and more land in the north, and there are countless wastelands in Beizhi, Shanxi, Henan, and Shandong, so he is ready to follow the law of the Northern Zhou, Sui and Tang dynasties, and implement the uniform field system in the north. After granting the field, one acre will pay four liters of white flour...... Mr. Hou, what do you think? ”

Dolgon was honest and told the truth to his son-in-law - the gentry in the north, especially the gentry in Shandong, were fooled by Zhu Cihong into going against the Qing Dynasty. So the Qing Dynasty didn't count on them anymore, so they simply planned to dictate the fields!

Hou Sui just shook his head: "How can this be?" How so? This is a forcible seizure of people's land! What Dongyu is doing now is the same as that of the rogue......"

"Humph!" Zhu Cihong snorted coldly, "Did Mr. think that Donglu was better than Liukou before?" ”

Hou Sui was taken aback by Zhu Cihong's questioning, and hurriedly knelt down for Prince Zhu, "Master Chitose, the old minister didn't mean that, the old minister ......"

"Needless to say," Zhu Cihong raised his hand to signal Hou Sui to get up, "Mr. Hou, your family has a lot of land in Guide Mansion, right?" How did you collect rent before? ”

Hou Sui stood up tremblingly, "Master Chitose, the old minister's family doesn't have much land, and it's all left by his predecessors...... As for the rent, it varies from field to field, Henan is poor, and there are years of drought, so there is not much income. Usually two or three buckets of wheat are harvested per acre, and folded into white flour, that is, one bucket is counted to two buckets. ”

Zhu Cihong said: "Dongyu only accepts four liters!" You're so much more ruthless than Dongyu......"

"No, no, no......" Hou Sui waved his hand again and again, "The four liters of imperial grain in Dongyu are the amount in hand, and the small people must be more than enough...... The officials who handle it always have to make a little money, and the small people will always have no less than eight liters per acre. ”

"Hehe," Zhu Ci smiled and didn't smile, "That's half less...... And Mr. Hou is kind-hearted, ordinary landlords refuse to accept so little, right? Strategist, what do you say? ”

Li Yan's brows also furrowed tightly, "Master Chitose, Dolgon has indeed received less...... In an ordinary year, the rent collected by the courtiers is not less than three buckets per mu, and they also have to put the money in the seal and scrape again.

But that's all in the past, and now the landlords in Zhongzhou can't scrape so much! ”

"Why?" Zhu Cihong asked.

"No one!" Li Yan said, "In the past, there were more people and less land...... If you can't rent a field, you'll starve to death! rented the field, even if you pay three or five buckets of rent per acre, you can always struggle to survive. Now Zhongzhou has few people and a lot of land, and it is difficult to rent out the land. ”

"Chitose Lord," Zhu Chunchen interjected, "I heard that the Tartars are going to set up some green flag soldiers, it seems that they are changed with green camps...... Those who also want to enclose land and grant land should also make trouble by asking people to have less land and no more taxes to collect. ”

Zhu Cihong also knew about this, and he had a headache for a few days.

However, compared with the current dictation of the field, the enclosure of the green flag is nothing - the dictation of the field solves the most fundamental and most difficult social contradiction in feudal society!

This contradiction, Rao is Zhu Cihong, the "traverser", and I don't know how to solve it. But Dorgon easily solved the ...... Although he opened the "Thanos mode" and solved the problem on the basis of the population of the Northland decreasing by seven or eight percent, the problem was finally solved.

Moreover, a family of five can be granted 50 acres of land, and the annual payment of imperial grain is only two stones, even if the number of officials who are greedy for ink is added, it is at most four stones. And the average number of 50 acres of northern dry land produced in a year will not be less than 145 or 5 stones. After paying four and ten stones, it was enough to sustain five people, and it was very rich, so it could be maintained for a long time.

If this problem is solved, the rule of the Qing state in the north will be stabilized, and the northern expedition launched by Zhu Cihong will have a hard time gaining the support of the working people in the north. Because the days when ten acres of land are given and four buckets of imperial grain are paid, they can be fully fed and clothed, and they can be eaten until they die...... What benefits can the Ming Dynasty represented by Zhu Cihong bring to them?

Of course, those peasants in the north who were granted land would not spontaneously go to the army to protect the Qing Dynasty. Because Dolgon didn't have that kind of organizational skills, it would be nice to be able to collect the rent of one acre and four liters...... What he can really master is the organized Eight Banners and Green Flag Military Group, which is 200,000 households at the top, which is his foundation.

"So what are we going to do?" Zhu Cihong asked.

Li Yan said: "Master Chitose, we have no way to dictate the field in the southeast...... The southeast, already too populated, is now home to exiles from the north. There simply is not enough land to be granted, but the land clearance must be carried out as soon as possible. ”

The population density in the southeastern region of the Ming Dynasty was already very high, and the contradiction between man and land was very prominent. Moreover, because of the turmoil in the north, Huguang and Sichuan, a large number of refugees have poured into the southeast. Now the population of the southeast is likely to reach 80 million or even 100 million. The cultivated land is only 200 million mu at most, and it is necessary to deduct some of the land that is difficult to cultivate normally in the frontline areas along the border, such as Huaibei and Xuhai.

In addition, the practice of calculating and teaching fields cannot save the professional fields of officials, the meritorious fields of the army, and the fields of military tun. Otherwise, the feudal regime could not be maintained, and how could the land grant be implemented? Therefore, Zhu Cihong has to deduct tens of millions of mu. What can really be used for land granting is a little more than 100 million mu. It is evenly distributed to 100 million people, and the per capita is only one or two acres of thin fields, and a family of five has only six acres of thin fields at most. If it is a paddy field, it can be hard to maintain for some time. However, the southeast is not full of paddy fields, and there are also a lot of dry lands and slopes, and the yield is not too high. Six acres of dry land and sloping land is a small-scale peasant economy that cannot be sustained for a long time - even in New China, where the level of productivity is higher, did not there be differentiation in the next few years after the land reform?

What other tricks can Zhu Cihong have to solve the problems that New China can't solve? With the current level of agricultural production and the government's management capacity, I am afraid that the concentration of land and the differentiation of peasants in the southeast have already begun before the dictation of land has been completed.

What to do then? One more time?

Zhu Cihong shook his head and sighed: "It is necessary to clear the land in Qingtian, and in addition, we should also bulldoze Huguang as soon as possible...... Huguang has more than 200 million mu of cultivated land, of which most of them are Guantian and Juntun. How to manage it well, it is possible to earn tens of millions of stones a year.

There is another one, that is, the government and the people must pay the grain together, and the tax and servants must be apportioned into the acre. ”