When everyone heard this, their hearts were moved for a while. According to the Ming system, the prince and the prince are 2,000 stones, the county king is 2,000 stones, the general of the Zhenguo is 1,000 stones, the auxiliary generals, the Fengguo generals, and the lieutenants of the Zhenguo are reduced by 200 stones, the auxiliary lieutenants and the lieutenants of Fengguo are reduced by 100 stones, the princess and the concubine are 2,000 stones, the county lord and the guest of honor are reduced by 200 stones, and the county monarch, the township monarch and the guest of honor are reduced by 100 stones. Since the 28th year of Hongwu, it has been formulated as a permanent system.

Prince Wanshi sounds like a lot, but the prince lives a luxurious life, and Wanshi actually can't meet the needs. Of course, they often open various shops in the name of their relatives, and they make a lot of profits, and their lives are not bad.

And some princes also set up tax cards in their fiefdoms, and collected tolls from passing merchants and even the public, making a lot of money, and living a very nourishing life. I don't have much interest in this kind of trading company or anything.

But the emperor summoned them and specially raised the matter, of course, because he wanted everyone to help, and no one dared to refuse, so for a while everyone didn't know what to do, and everyone began to talk in a whisper.

Zhu Youxiao didn't care about them, let them talk, and drank leisurely by himself. After a while, King Fu stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers are ignorant, please show your Majesty everything, and the ministers will not dare to disobey." ”

After Zhu Changxun came to Beijing, he asked to meet Emperor Zheng (his mother), and after the meeting, Emperor Zheng said that His Majesty intended to let him live in Luoyang with King Fu, which made King Fu very happy, so he just wanted to behave well this time and let his mother go back to Luoyang with him.

Zhu Youxiao said with a smile: "According to the ancestral system, the clan cannot participate in the business of the four people. But according to the report below, all the princes and princes have all kinds of shops, but they are in the names of relatives, so instead of being so sneaky, why not participate in my agricultural cooperatives openly? And you don't want to operate, you only need to pay money, and then there will naturally be dividends in your hands. ”

"There are also some princes who have set up tax cards and collected money privately, and there is a roster in Dongchang, and you also know it in your hearts. Why set up a card, of course, because there is no money, now the agricultural cooperatives make no less money than the tax card, and will soon be standardized in the country to set up a card, once found, you have to pay a year's income, this card, we had better go back to remove it quickly, otherwise it will be unclear then. ”

"My agricultural cooperative has 100,000 shares of 1,000 yuan each. Not to mention earning a thousand yuan a year, there is definitely a hundred yuan. This money is coming from the right way, don't be afraid, think about it. ”

King Fu said: "Your Majesty, the minister is willing to pay 100,000 yuan to buy 100 shares." ”

Zhu Youxiao looked at him with a smile and remained silent. King Fu gritted his teeth and said: "Your Majesty, the minister is confused, he undercalculated ten times less just now, and the minister is willing to pay one million to buy a thousand shares." ”

Zhu Youxiao nodded with satisfaction: "I'm tired of Uncle Wang." ”

King Fu's heart hurts to death, who knows when this money will have income, one percent a year, that is the emperor's coaxing words. The money came to the emperor, and he said that you can't do anything if you lose money. But in order for my mother to go back to Luoyang with me, let's give up some money.

Since there are people taking the lead, the other princes know that they can't escape, so they buy ten shares to hundreds of shares, and even King Xin, who has not yet become a vassal, buys a hundred shares. And Wang Chengen registered the amount promised by each person next to him, so that he could collect the money at that time.

A total of thirty-four princes and more than 600 county kings promised a total of 23,500 shares. That's 23.5 million yuan, and if Xu Guangqi said, the share capital required by the cooperative has already been completed by more than 70%.

After getting rid of the princes, Zhu Youxiao convened the public candidates for another meeting. These people are easier to handle than the princes, and Zhu Youxiao got another 21.5 million yuan from them.

Then there was the inner palace, Duan Ying and Wang Wan each bought fifty shares, but Zhang Yan didn't have one. Zhu Youxiao asked her strangely, and she said, "Isn't yours the concubine's, so the concubine gave the money to King Xin." He also had his mother die early, and he didn't get a vassal and got very little. And if the emperor's own brothers do not support His Majesty, other princes will have a say. ”

Zhu Youxiao said curiously: "Although you have more than the two of them on weekdays, you can't take out 100,000 yuan?" ”

Zhang Yan smiled: "Do you think you can buy fifty shares with their usual rewards?" They all took money from their families, and their concubines also took money from their families and gave it to the king. ”

Zhu Youxiao said: "The dividend is still yours, and I will reward him again if I believe in the king." ”

Zhang Yan mainly wanted to save face for the emperor, and the main money came from her father, so of course she would not refuse the emperor's proposal.

After Wei Zhongxian and others' Inner Palace was launched, the Inner Palace soon scraped together enough five million yuan. Wei Zhongxian said to some eunuchs who were unwilling to pay: "There are times when you regret it. ”

The total amount is 50 million yuan, and according to 1,000 counties, a county can have 50,000 yuan, which is more than enough. Moreover, agricultural cooperatives will only be developed in some areas in the early stage, and will slowly expand to the whole country.

During this period, the newspapers bombarded the issue of rent reduction indiscriminately, and constantly proved or tried to prove the legitimacy and necessity of the imperial court's intervention in the rent rate from the perspective of legal principles, people's livelihood, compassion for peasants, and the rise and fall of all dynasties. even appeared in advance Gu Yanwu's famous sentence: "The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband." ”

This sentence comes from Gu Yanwu's "Daily Knowledge", of course, Gu Yanwu is just a twelve-year-old kid now. And Gu Yanwu's original meaning was that if you protect the country, you are not responsible, but if you protect the world, you are responsible. Liang Qiqi simplified it to these eight words, and did not mention the difference between protecting the country and protecting the world at all. It is very appropriate to let Zhu Youxiao use it here, because now the country and the world are originally one, and Zhu Youxiao wants to establish a modern nation-state, and this sentence has an immeasurable effect.

The lethality of this famous sentence is indeed incomparable, and for a time it even made the voices supporting the imperial court prevail. Because the newspaper believes that if the rent reduction is not achieved, it seems that the death of the country is also possible from the situation of various dynasties in history. Most people know from the newspaper how Jiannu treated the Han people in Liaodong cruelly after they occupied Liaodong, so when they think of the loss of the country, they will naturally think of a sentence: "Rather be a peaceful dog than a troubled world." ”

Ye Xianggao contacted some of the more enlightened landlords, and they directly signed in the newspaper and swore that they would support the decision of the imperial court and were willing to rent the land to tenants for cultivation at the rent rate set by the imperial court.

The last straw was that the military department gathered a large number of landless peasants in Shuntianfu, that is, around the capital, and sent the land to Taiwan and other places one by one, so that a large number of rents were surrendered in these places for a while. Of course, whether the means are inducements or threats is not for outsiders.