Chapter 48: Wechen is willing to donate it all
After solving Chen Yuanyuan's problem, it will be Juntian. After the time has been discussed, the court will pretend to discuss and discuss them, and they will be officially implemented. Since ancient times, which emperor is not like this, what do you think, first call your cronies over to penetrate the rumors, and discuss politics in the early dynasty, but it's just a scene!
"I want Juntian, what do you think?"
"Your Majesty, you proposed Juntian before, although the hundred officials did not explicitly oppose it, they were secretly planning how to stop it. If you really want Juntian, then Juntian is made by the government, and most of the land in the Ming Dynasty is in the hands of officials and landlords, and if the government does not cooperate, it will be difficult to implement Juntian," Ni Yuanlu also said.
"Your Majesty, if someone sells the land after this Juntian, what should it do? During the time of Emperor Taizu, Taizu once stipulated: people will give 15 acres of land and 2 acres of vegetable land. Originally, everyone had land, but in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the land was concentrated in the hands of officials and big landlords, and the landless people were nine times out of ten! This is because once there is a natural disaster, there is no harvest, and the people can only sell their fields to make a living! Liu Lishun's family originally had land, but later encountered a natural disaster and had to sell the land to exchange for some food to survive. Liu Lishun was originally so poor that he didn't even have the trouble of going to the capital to take the exam, but fortunately, a rich family asked him to sponsor him, so he could take the exam.
"Li Yan, what do you think of this Juntian? As far as I know, you have a lot of land in your family. Chongzhen didn't respond to Liu Lishun, and asked Li Yan directly.
"Speaking of this, the minister is also ashamed, the minister's family originally only had 100 acres of land, and during the Apocalypse, he bought 500 acres of land one after another."
"How do you get so much land in exchange?"
"Originally, an acre of land was twenty taels of silver, but every time there was a natural disaster, the people sold one acre of land for five taels in exchange for food. When the grain is abundant, it is sold for more than a dozen taels of silver when it encounters natural disasters, and Weichen's family has 200 acres of land, so there is a lot of grain in stock. And other people's homes only have more than a dozen acres of land, so they can just be fed and clothed, and in the event of natural disasters, they can only sell their fields at a low price, and the fields in the minister's family are slowly accumulated in this way. This is only an ordinary rich household, and other large households can accumulate tens of thousands of acres of land in a few years! If there is a famine, the tenant farmers will have to take usury in the coming year, and their children and grandchildren will have to sell themselves into slavery."
This Li Yan was not ambiguous, and told the truth about the situation at home.
"This is the situation of Li Yan's family, the Li family is an ordinary wealthy family who can accumulate hundreds of acres of land. As soon as the famine came, they raised prices and took the opportunity to annex the people's land, and after the people lost their land, they could only sell themselves as tenant farmers! From now on, I will be even more hungry and cold! I heard that when Liu Lishun was still a person, he was also sponsored by wealthy businessmen to go to Beijing to catch the exam. This is lifting people, it is so difficult to lift people, what about those ordinary people? ”
Yes, the big landlords, big officials, royal relatives, and relatives all took the opportunity to raise prices and annex land in the disaster year, and their fields were obtained by sucking the blood of the people! The emperor is reasonable, Liu Lishun is a dignified person, and he is so poor that he doesn't have to go to Beijing to catch the exam! The land of these big landlords was obtained by sucking the fat of the people and the anointing of the people! If the emperor does not equalize the land, the people will have no way to live, and there will only be one way to live in rebellion!
Song Xiance said, "Those landlords and rich households are afraid that they will refuse, and the hundred officials will definitely obstruct it!" Weichen implored the emperor to give the minister a soldier and horse, and if anyone objected, give the minister the power to kill and kill! ”
"The power of life and death, I can't give it to you!"
Song Xiance and the others were stunned, they didn't give the power of life and death, and used morality to tell the landlord, you have too much land, do you want to give it to us?
"If I give you the power of life and death, wouldn't I let future generations say that I robbed the people's wealth? The purpose of Juntian is to give the people a way to live, and to get the support of the people! Try to let the big landlords take out the land and divide it themselves! ”
Let the landlord divide the land, Your Majesty, are you joking? Do you know what land means to a person? How many people have worked hard to accumulate these inheritances, and you let them share them? Your Majesty, I don't think you look like the Emperor Jin Hui who doesn't eat minced meat!
"I don't give you the power of life and death, only the law can decide! How many murders did these land-owning landlords have when they annexed land! When the time comes, Meng Zhaoxiang of the Famous Criminal Department will find out the case records of these big officials and landlords one by one! As soon as you find out, you can search your house immediately! Then immediately divide the land among the people! Li Yan, you make up some scripts, such as a poor man is oppressed by a big landlord or a big corrupt official, this big landlord is a villain who bullies men and women and robs people's land, and then the poor man was forced to have no way to live, and he was recruited to become a Tianziwei, and he was received by the emperor with his military exploits on the battlefield, and told the emperor about the evil deeds of the big landlord, and the emperor ordered people to punish the big landlord and then give the field to the people, and the people were grateful for this story of Tianziwei. I also want to go to the downtown to perform for the people! Wei Zheng and Tang Taizong said that water can carry a boat and also capsize a boat! The imperial court and Tianziwei have won the support of the people, what are you afraid of! This is also the purpose of my call to Chen Yuanyuan today, I hope that Chen Yuanyuan and you will understand my thoughts! ”
"Yes!" Li Yan happily took the task! The emperor used the way of acting to implement the policy of Juntian, which is the same as the way he spread rumors, but the emperor's approach is better, the art troupe is an institution of the imperial court, and every word and deed is the emperor's intention, and letting the art troupe convey the emperor's meaning is more credible than folk rumors. Moreover, the art troupe is conveyed in the form of singing, and the people can understand and accept it better!
"The concubine obeys the order" Chen Yuanyuan also bent down delicately to accept the order.
"Lord Wei, you also want to publicize the Juntian policy in the Daming Daily" Chongzhen looked at Wei Zaode and said, among the people present, Wei Zaode was the richest.
And at this moment, Wei Zaode broke out in a cold sweat! He also has more than 20,000 acres of land at home, and more than 10,000 acres have just been added in the past few years.
"Wei Zaode, I heard from Jinyiwei that your family also has 25,631 acres of land?" Chongzhen then asked Wei Zaode, deliberately accurate to the single digits!
"Maybe yes, ......" Wei Zaode scolded secretly, you are a dead Chunrou, you are still by the emperor's side, and you don't give your father a good voice!
"It seems that Lord Wei doesn't know how much land he has?"
"The minister's estimate is almost the same, and the specific number of ministers don't know ......" Wei Zaode's words are not wrong, he doesn't know how much land he has, and after becoming the first assistant of the cabinet, this field has become more and more!
"What does Lord Wei think of this Juntian?"
"Wechen is willing to donate it all!" Wei Zaode is worthy of the old fox of officialdom, the emperor first said that he should support Juntian in the Ming Dynasty, and the emperor meant that the emperor would still use him, but the emperor mentioned his family's land again, and the figures are still very accurate, the emperor's intentions could not be more obvious!
"Good! Li Yan, you can also write a script like Lord Wei, the Grand Duke selflessly supports the imperial court's policy of Juntian, and voluntarily donates all the fields to the imperial court! Master Wei is really a good example of leading by example! ”