The new Hukou magistrate is named Shen Zhengxin, who was originally an officer of 100 households in the army, but was temporarily appointed to the post of magistrate because of his coarse writing and cleverness. The other adjutants in the county were all promoted from the original officials in Hukou.

Hukou has experienced the strong attack of the western thieves, in addition to the people in the county town still survived, the people outside the city died in the war, especially in those days when the thieves ran out of food, the villages within a radius of 100 miles outside the city were poisoned, and a large number of people were robbed of grain or killed or starved to death. After the post-war statistics, the government was shocked to find that there were not even one in the county......

In the face of war, the people naturally have no intention of planting grain, even the crops planted are not taken care of, the autumn harvest barely harvested a little grain, fortunately, the number of people is less and there is less food, adjacent to Poyang Lake and there are a lot of catches, life can barely get by.

Under the auspices of Chen Yue, the king of Qi, grain purchased from other places was continuously transported into Jiangxi, and there was no shortage of grain, which was the main factor in Jiangxi's rapid stabilization. The biggest problem facing Hukou now is the lack of population, and a large amount of land outside the city is uncultivated.

Shen Zhengxin, in accordance with the instructions of the Qi Wangfu, ordered on behalf of the government that all ownerless land should be confiscated, and part of it would be distributed to the soldiers in the army as military land. In the eyes of all Ming people, the land is the foundation of life, and having their own land is the most important thing.

According to the order issued by the Qi Palace, ordinary soldiers were all rewarded with 20 acres of land, and the officers increased in turn, and the land of the soldiers who had families could be cultivated by their families, and those who did not have families could be managed by the local government, and the displaced people were recruited to cultivate, and part of the harvested grain went to the soldiers and part to the displaced people who farmed the land, and some of them were handed over to the government as tax grain.

All of a sudden, all the soldiers under the King of Qi became landlords, like some officials of thousands of households owned more than 100 acres of land, and the deputy generals even owned thousands of acres of land. This kind of treatment also made the prisoners of the Western Army and the local people of Jiangxi enthusiastically join the army, even if they have to go through harsh military training and fight hard.

Relying on this method, the Qi Wangfu quickly recruited as many as 150,000 soldiers and launched a vigorous training, and recruiting so many new troops did not cost Chen Yue too much money, and even the rewards of meritorious soldiers after the war were also rewarded with land, which made the huge amount of silver seized from Zhang Xianzhong in Chen Yue's hands useless at all, and also made him rich to buy food and other materials from other provinces. Of course, it also caused grain prices in Jiangdong, Jianghuai and other places to rise, which is a later story.

The soldiers became the landlords, the displaced people were responsible for cultivating the land for the soldiers, and sixty percent of the grain harvested went to the displaced people who cultivated the land, thirty percent went to the soldiers, and one percent was paid to the government as a tax. Although the homeless people did not have land, they could get sixty percent of the harvest much better than they gave to the gentry as tenant farmers, and if the young and strong people in the family were lucky enough to be recruited into the army, they could have completely their own land, which is also the reason why the people of Chizhou, which is adjacent to Jiangxi, left their homes and came to Hukou.

For soldiers, although they can only get 30% of the land income, they already have a lot of military salaries, plus the income from the land, they become rich in an instant. Of course, there are also restrictions on others, and anyone who disobeys military orders and violates military discipline and is expelled from the army will have everything they have in an instant.

All the beginnings, although the Qi Wangfu formulated detailed and strict rules, the land can be distributed to settle the displaced people to organize farming, all these affairs are too much, if according to the original official establishment, close to the county order and a few officials are simply not busy.

However, now the Qi Wangfu has changed the official system in Jiangxi, and has set up two levels of government agencies in the countryside below the county level. The chief officer of the township is called the township zheng, the official of the eighth grade, and there are several deputy subordinates of the ninth grade to help, responsible for the affairs of the township, and the village has a village head, from the ninth grade, the most is the lowest grade but also the official of the eight classics, responsible for organizing the production affairs of a village.

Officials at both levels in the villages are leaders directly under the county, and most of the officials are wounded and retired soldiers.

In order to supervise these local officials, there were supervision envoys under the county order, and there were several supervisors under the seven officials, who were specially responsible for picketing the discipline of officialdom and investigating the officials' lawlessness. The inspectors are directly appointed from above and are not subject to the control of the county order.

Hearing that his officers came to report that a person had come to Hukou, Shen Zhengxin specially met with Zhang Huangyan, and after some investigation, he confirmed Zhang Huangyan's identity, thinking that it was harmless to Hukou, so he ordered him to go down and let him do as he pleased.

Zhang Huangyan was able to have his own activities in Hukou, and after a few days of understanding, the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became. Because Hukou is completely different from other Ming conditions!

It was the characteristic of the Ming Dynasty that the imperial power did not go to the countryside, and in addition to setting up an official office in the county seat, it was completely laissez-faire to the vast rural court. The main force of the countryside is the gentry, so the countryside is the world of the gentry, many times the government has to rely on the gentry's breath, the implementation of the court decree must also be agreed by the gentry, otherwise it cannot be implemented at all, and the officials and the gentry are a group, into the official, to the squire, since the family will naturally not be difficult with each other. Therefore, in most places in the Ming Dynasty, the government and the squires are in collusion, and only the small people are oppressed, and there is nowhere to redress their grievances.

However, Hukou is completely different from most places in the Ming Dynasty, where the government is directly set up at the village level, which allows the government to directly manage the people of each household, and any state below can be known in time.

If the control is strong, the efficiency of the government will be high, and the government's decrees can be conveyed in a timely manner, and the possibility of deceiving the government will be greatly reduced.

Of course, this situation requires much more officials than before, but the extra officials are all officials and retired officers and soldiers, and many things can be done without reading too many books.

Zhang Huangyan can imagine that if this situation can continue for two or three years, the rule of the King of Qi over Jiangxi will penetrate deep into every remote mountain village, and such a situation as the rebellion of the displaced people will not happen again!

And if the whole country is such a system, then the majesty of the imperial court will penetrate into every corner, and the government and the imperial court will know what happens anywhere in time, and then eliminate the hidden dangers in the bud.

Of course, this system is a complete subversion of the previous imperial examinations, because the number of officials needed is too much, and the number of jinshi selected for the imperial examination every three years is far from enough, which may also be the main reason why the king of Qi took the retired soldiers and officers as officials.

And if any kind of person can be an official, the status of scholars will be greatly reduced. Therefore, it may be difficult for the Jiangxi system to be implemented throughout the country, because it will be completely resisted by all readers! Therefore, even if Yan Yingyuan, the governor of Jiangxi, agreed to the red of Princess Kunxing, he was also refuted by the six branches.

Therefore, the officials appointed by King Qi such as Shen Zhengxin who he knew could not be recognized by the imperial court at all. But after the imperial examination, when the non-commissioned officers appointed by the imperial court arrived in Jiangxi, it would be at least until the next year, and these officials appointed by the King of Qi had been in office for nearly a year, and the rule had long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Compared with Jiangxi's current system, the original system of the Ming Dynasty is too crude. And Chen Yue, the king of Qi who could come up with this kind of method and system, made Zhang Huangyan even more admired in his heart!

Of course, Zhang Huangyan, who is familiar with historical books, also knows that the old system of the Qin and Han dynasties implemented in Jiangxi is clearly drawn, in the Qin and Han dynasties, there are rank and rank in the township, you pay, there are li chiefs, pavilions have pavilion chiefs, and the imperial court's jurisdiction over the people has penetrated deep into every village, which is why the Qin and Han dynasties are strong!

In the hearts of the people, the squires are greater than the government, which leads to a weak foundation of court rule, and the squires rely on their fame to arbitrarily annex the land without paying any taxes, the court is powerless to prevent this situation, because the government is a member of the squires, for a long time, most of the land is gathered in the hands of the squires, the income of the court has declined year after year, the court is poor and the people are poor, and the squires are rich, this strange scene is unprecedented!

As a member of the gentry, Zhang Huangyan knows this situation best, because his father and son are both people, and they are also famous in Yin County, although his family's fields are not much, but there are thousands of acres, all of which are donated by nearby villagers, and they will not be harvested.

There is a fixed number of taxes in a county, and there are many people who do not pay taxes, and these evaded taxes can only be added to the heads of the powerless and powerless people, causing the poor to become poorer, which is the rich Jiangdong, and there are countless people waiting to be fed, Zhang Huangyan's Yin County belongs to Ningbo Prefecture, with more mountainous land and less flat land, and barren land, and there are many people who can't survive or are forbidden to go to sea, or avoid entering the Siming Mountains as bandits.

According to Jiangxi's system, there will be no more big squires across prefectures and counties, because even the surviving squires in Jiangxi must provide proof of previous land deeds if they want to continue to own the previous land, and according to the system of the imperial court, a person can have a maximum of 400 acres of tax-free land, and a jinshi can have a maximum of 2,000 acres, and it is illegal to exceed this amount. In the past, even if the amount of land donated to the gentry was too large, the government would choose to turn a blind eye, because they themselves were vested interests and would not embarrass the squires at all.

But now it is different, after the war in Jiangxi, the power of the gentry has been reduced to the minimum, and the power of the Qi Wangfu has reached its peak. You say that these fields are yours, even if you have a land deed, and according to the imperial court system, you can only own 400 acres of tax-free land for a person, and you can make up the field tax of previous years for more than this 400 acres of land, and then you must be punished for tax evasion, and then punish two or three times, just the payment of the penalty is enough to make a gentry bankrupt!

At the beginning, there were squires who relied on their own fame and the family members who were high-ranking officials in the court, but the current government and county officials were not from Jinshi, and the officials were good to say that they had an instinctive fear of the squires, but the Qiu Ba were different, they only listened to the orders of the Qi Wangfu, and there was no ambiguity in saying that they would raid the house.

And as the first batch of squires were found out, the other squires also became honest and spit out the fields they occupied one by one with heartache. And without land, naturally I can't afford to raise too many servants and maids, and it will be a matter of one or two years if I decline. Therefore, as long as Jiangxi's current policy can continue, it will not take a few years for the gentry's presence in Jiangxi to be weakened to the limit.

And the government suddenly increased tens of millions of acres of cultivated land that needed to pay field tax, that is, only one bucket of grain per mu, and one million quintals of tax grain were also increased every year! Of course, the government has more than one bucket of taxes.

Some of the extra fields were rewarded to the meritorious soldiers, and the rest were recruited to cultivate the landless people, and the taxes and grain were all collected at 30 percent, plus the poll tax was 40 percent, which was already half of the burden compared to the past, so the people of neighboring provinces came to vote one after another.

Of course, Jiangxi's new policy seriously damaged the interests of the gentry, and also led to intensifying strife in the court. The officials from Jiangxi could not get a reason to put their land on the table, so they could only attack the king of Qi and the governor of Jiangxi for violating the ancestral system and should not let Qiu Ba be an official. Other officials were also afraid that Chen Yue would implement this system in other provinces, so they began a joint boycott, and there was a refutation incident.

After figuring out the ins and outs of the matter, Zhang Huangyan could only sigh, the superiority of the Jiangxi system is obvious, the control of the government is not only greatly strengthened, but the tax revenue of the imperial court is bound to increase greatly, but such a system has been collectively resisted by the civil officials, who is for the public, who is for personal gain? Needless to say!

Of course, this system is too difficult to implement, and it is still acceptable in Jiangxi, which has gone through war, but it cannot be implemented in other places at all, because the resistance in other places is much greater than in Jiangxi. Even if the King of Qi is gaining power now, just like the sky!

More than 200 years of the imperial examination system has created the deep-rooted power of the gentry in the Ming Dynasty, and it is not easy for one person to set it off, unless that person really has the power to uproot all the gentry. And the current Qi King Chen Yue does not have this ability, otherwise he will not compromise in the face of the refutation given to the people in the matter.

After a big circle in Jiangxi, Zhang Huangyan had an in-depth understanding of the situation in Jiangxi, so he got up and left Jiangxi, and rushed down the river to Nanjing by boat.

And at this moment, another major event happened in the imperial court, which directly affected Zhang Huangyan's scientific expedition, and then affected the fate of his life.

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