After Han Jinxin captured the Shandong gentry who were plotting to "overthrow Li", control of Shandong returned to Li Zhi. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Previously, because Li Zhi withdrew all the relevant personnel to the six prefectures, when the gentry in Shandong were in turmoil, the gentry did not find a valuable object to counterattack. The gentry did not do much damage except for burning Li Zhi's tax office in Qixia County and other county seats.

Those tax offices were also empty yards that Li Zhi bought temporarily, and they burned down when they were burned, and they were not worth much. The gentry burned it to the ground, and it only served to vent their anger.

After regaining control of Shandong, Li Zhi's reporters, judges, policemen, and tax collectors resettled in Shandong, restoring local order. The court began to scrutinize the gentry's rebellion during this time, and severely punished the gentry who participated in the "Reverse Lee" movement.

The people of Shandong were very supportive of Li Zhi and enthusiastically reported the gentry who were in trouble, and the gentry in Shandong were in danger for a while.

On 18 September, Li Zhi brought more than 600,000 refugees from western Liaoning to Jinan, Shandong.

The refugees set up nests along the walls of Jinan, making the outside of the walls of Jinan look chaotic.

These more than 600,000 people really have to spend a lot of silver on plum plants, and they have to consume 5,000 stone of grain just to eat and drink every day. It is now the middle of September, and in the following winter, the refugees will freeze to death if they use simple nests, and they must be dispersed to various prefectures, prefectures, and counties to rent houses to live, but these refugees in western Liaoning are so poor that few have the money to rent a house. It seems that this money will also be given by Li Zhi. When winter comes, we have to make winter clothes and bedding for these refugees.

Each of these is a huge expenditure on a base of more than 600,000 people. For example, this ration will cost Li Zhi four million taels of silver in a year. Coupled with other expenses, I am afraid that the 10 million taels of silver that Li Zhi obtained from attacking Japan will be discounted into it.

Li Zhi rode a horse to patrol the refugee camp outside Jinan. Everywhere the Guogong honor guard went, the people of western Liaoning knelt one after another, and the people knew that this was the life-saving benefactor, and they kowtowed extremely religiously.

But no matter how sensible these refugees were, they couldn't alleviate Li Zhi's distress about Yinzi. Li Zhi regretted accepting these refugees a little.

However, this hot potato has been taken over, and no one has taken over if they want to throw it out, so they can't let the refugees in western Liaoning starve to death.

By Li Zhi's side, Jing Yishan, a senior water conservancy officer of the Water Conservancy Department of the Shogunate of Jinguogong, was so happy that he danced with his hands and said to Li Zhi: "Jinguogong, with these laborers, Shandong's water conservancy development will be on a big step this year. We can plan a couple of big projects! It is not a problem to develop tens of thousands of hectares of land. ”

Li Zhi looked at Jing Yishan, smiled, and did not speak.

This Jing Yishan's EQ is indeed relatively low, and I don't see that Li Zhi is distressed about the silver. Li Zhi asked him to be a water conservancy planner and designer, but he was not allowed to be the person in charge of the water conservancy project to hold power, and this Jing Yishan never understood the difference.

However, what Jing Yishan said also has some truth, although it costs a lot of money to hire refugees to develop water conservancy nowadays, as long as these refugees settle down and become tenant farmers, the income from land rent in the future will also be huge. In fact, being able to hire strong laborers for a low monthly salary of one or two silver is also one of the advantages of taking in these refugees.

Although the investment is huge, the future benefits are also considerable.

Li Zhi looked all the way, explained a few words to the person in charge of managing the refugees, and rode into Jinan City.

Today the gentry and officials who are going to behead the rebels at the entrance of the vegetable market.

There were a total of 311 Shandong gentry who participated in this rebellion, and they were all wealthy gentry with thousands of dollars. Li Zhi was very angry with these gentry, and this time he was very ruthless.

Basically, Li Zhi's punishment is to hit the board for every ten taels of silver in this "down-down" tide. and when he gave five hundred taels of silver, he struck fifty strokes of the board. Li Zhi's bailiff will not be soft when he hits the board, and he is basically killed after 50 hits.

If the capital exceeds five hundred taels, they will all be beheaded. contributed more than 1,000 taels, and beheaded at the same time as the house.

The work of raiding the house was jointly handled by Zhong Feng and Han Jinxin. This time, he copied the property of one hundred and eighty-two gentry at once, and Li Zhi can be said to have gained a lot. The exact number has not yet been calculated, but it is certainly a very encouraging number.

Li Zhi rode into Jinan City, and halfway through, he saw Zhong Feng who came to look for him.

"Commander, I'll wait for you to command at the execution ground."

Li Zhi took Zhong Feng to the entrance of the vegetable market and saw Shi Hanzhang, the governor of Denglai, Chen Wanxin, the governor of Guizhou, and dozens of other gentry from Jinan Mansion, kneeling there.

In Jinan, the leaders and important figures of this rebellion were beheaded, and the gentry of other prefectures and counties were beheaded at the same time in other prefectures and counties. The execution of the gentry in the place where the gentry belonged could also serve as a greater warning.

The people of Jinan have long been told by reading the newspaper in the past few days to understand the ins and outs of the matter, and know that these beheaded gentry are all thieves who rebelled against the Duke of Tianjin and tried to use conspiracy to keep the privilege of tax evasion. At this time, the people crowded under the execution table, looking at these condemned prisoners, one by one, filled with righteous indignation.

Most of the people who came to see the executions were peasants near the city of Jinan.

It was not that the citizens of the city were not interested in watching the execution, but that the peasants who ploughed the fields hated the gentry even more, and came to take their positions early. The citizens who were late to the city were left behind.

In recent years, the small farmers who have come from farming have been forced by the government to increase their land endowments several times, and their lives have become more and more difficult year by year. Even if they went to the gentry with the land, they would be levied two or three percent of the rent, and the people were exploited by these gentry layer by layer, and they were really fed up.

The official land endowment of the Ming Dynasty was actually very low, only a few liters per acre of land. However, because of tax evasion by the gentry, in the end, the land of the yeoman farmers often turned into a few buckets, and several percent of the harvest was directly deprived. If it weren't for these gentry and civil officials knocking on the bones and sucking the marrow, how could Li Zicheng's slogan of "eat his mother and drink his mother, and the king will not pay for food when he comes" would be so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people?

More and more peasants donated their land to the gentry who did not pay taxes, and the land taxes paid by yeoman farmers became heavier and heavier. The higher the land endowment of the yeoman peasants, the higher the rent collected by the gentry from the people who donated the land, and the peasants were exploited in any case.

For example, Suzhou Qian Qianyi, a rich party. In fact, his official position is just that of a servant of the Ministry of Rites of the Qingshui Yamen, but in more than ten years, he has accumulated more than 100,000 acres of fertile land by virtue of tax-free privileges. The seriousness of the field donation at the end of the Ming Dynasty can be seen.

If it weren't for the despicability and shamelessness of these gentry, how could the Ming Dynasty in history collapse under the impact of the peasant rebel army?

Now that Li Zhi is in the roots, the farmers' gratitude and support for Li Zhi are from the bottom of their hearts.

As soon as Li Zhi walked onto the execution platform, he heard a deafening shouting of killing from the audience.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill these dog officials and gentry!"