A total of 195 agricultural cooperatives have been set up in 22 counties in the five prefectures of Shuntianfu, of course, this is far from enough, according to Zhu Youxiao's meaning, there must be at least one agricultural cooperative in a township, but it is obviously not realistic now, and we can only take our time in the future.

The success of the rent reduction in Shuntianfu gave Zhu Youxiao great confidence. The newspaper published the rent reduction in Suncheonfu, and pointed out that the emperor had a decree to reduce the rent by 40% throughout the country, so as to realize a Datong society in which the cultivators had their own land and restore the glory of the rule of three generations.

In May, other prefectures in Beijing also began to reduce rents. Because a large amount of wasteland has been reclaimed for the people, there is no surplus public land to rent to tenants, so the landlords of Yongpyeong Province have a tough attitude, and most landlords are reluctant to reduce rent.

Zhu Youxiao ordered the construction of the first railway of the Ming Dynasty from the capital to Shanhaiguan, half of which was on the ground of Yongping Mansion. A large number of small officials from the capital recruited migrant workers in various parts of Yongping, and talked about three years, and the daily wage was 100 copper coins, including three meals and accommodation, and also recruited women to cook, 50 copper coins a day.

It took a lot of workers to build the railway, so a large number of Yongping laborers poured into the railway construction site, because it was much more cost-effective to earn a hundred copper coins a day. As a result, the atmosphere of Yongping changed, and a large number of landlords could not find tenants, so they became tenants to choose landlords. Most of the landlords accepted the imperial court's rent reduction to 40% and found tenants, while those who hesitated or resisted found that there were no tenants to help them cultivate the fields.

And the imperial court didn't care about their fields or didn't plant at all, they all had to collect taxes as usual, which was equivalent to losing money instead of constantly producing no output, and the panicked landlords had to find people everywhere to farm the land, and some people even hit the idea to Denglai, which was across the sea. And Yuan Keli set up a labor export trading company in Denglai, transported a large number of Denglai Liao people to Yongping Mansion, and planted fields for the landlord, but the fee was very high, including three meals plus 80 copper coins per day, such labor costs, only counting two kinds of planting and harvesting, if the weather is normal, the landlord may still have about two buckets left after paying taxes on one acre of land, not to mention that compared with the original fifty percent rent, even the forty percent rent stipulated by the imperial court is far inferior.

In addition to the forty percent rent stipulated by the imperial court, they also gave some small favors to the tenants every once in a while, so as to consolidate the affection with the tenants, so as not to have no one to farm the land in the next year.

Xuanfu Town, Yanqing Prefecture, and Baoan Prefecture were located on the borderlands, and after the repeal of the Kaizhong Law, a large amount of land reclaimed by salt merchants was left, which became public land, and the imperial court rented these public fields to landless farmers for planting, and the land rent was thirty into five, so that the landlords in these places accepted the government's forty percent of the land rent very happily, and the rent reduction movement was carried out without hindrance.

The situation of Baoding Mansion, Zhending Mansion, Hejian Mansion, Shunde Mansion, Guangping Mansion, and Daimyo Mansion is somewhat special, because these places have more people and less land, and the resistance to the rent reduction movement is also the greatest, so they can only immigrate in large numbers first, but for a while, it is unlikely that there will be much effect, and only about 30% of the landlords in these places are willing to accept 40% of the rent reduction.

Bi Ziyan and Yang Lian really have no choice now. They found that no matter how good the words were, no matter how correct the reasoning was, it was useless to deal with these landlords who did not buy oil and salt, and all they saw was money.

Even people like Yang Lian feel that the method of persuasion is no longer enough, and can only be forced by the imperial court. Bi Ziyan shook his head and said: "No, the emperor said that the army can't be internal, otherwise there will be endless troubles, what method do you use to enforce it?" ”

Yang Lian said irritably: "The emperor always said to use economic methods, how to use economic methods now, and you can't build a railway here, immigration is also an impossible thing to achieve overnight, those landlords know very well in their hearts, but they think that it can be delayed for a year." ”

Bi Ziyan said: "The matter of immigration is strange, it stands to reason that the immigrants from these provinces should be able to be transported away quickly, why did the military department delay it for so long this time?" ”

Yang Lian said: "Didn't the Yellow Army Department say that the sea capacity is insufficient? To transport from Tianjin to Taiwan is not something that can be completed in one moment. ”

Bi Ziyan shook his head and said: "Brother Wenru, you have not experienced world affairs, some things are not very clear, a sea ship can carry thousands of people, and now Taiwan and Japan are safe, and the ships of the Ministry of War can be used to transport immigrants, not to mention Jeju Island and Liaodong, even if it is far away from Taiwan, it will not take long." ”

Yang Lian said impatiently: "What's the use of talking about these now, the ships don't come, the immigrants can't leave, they always have to eat, and the landlord doesn't have to worry about no one farming, and then how can this rent reduction be implemented." ”

At this time, the head of the Dongchang outside came in and said: "Two adults, there is a message from above, demanding that in addition to the tenants of the landlord who has reduced the rent, the other tenants should be raised according to one hundred copper coins a day, and they are not allowed to rent the landlord's field. ”

Yang Lian hurriedly said: "Is it a holy decree?" How do so many people raise them? A day is not a small amount. ”

The palm said: "This news was passed down by the factory father, not a holy decree, but it should be the emperor's intention." The factory said that this time he wanted to teach the landlords a lesson that he would never forget. ”

Yang Lian said hatefully: "It's best to let their fields be barren and have no harvest, and see if they dare to go against the court in the future." ”

Bi Ziyan is also busy these days, but he is not as angry as Yang Lian, and said with a smile: "It's good to let them learn a lesson,"

As long as the landlord did not accept the rent standard of the imperial court, the tenants could not rent their fields, and each household could receive a subsidy of 100 yuan per day until the successful immigration or the first month of the fifth year of the Apocalypse.

A few days later, news came that the Daimyo Prefecture Wu'an had discovered a rich reserve of iron ore and a shallow, high-grade, and mine-friendly Fengfeng Coal Mine, which was in urgent need of a large number of miners. At this time, the ships of the military department were ready to transport immigrants to places such as Liaodong and Taiwan.

The household officials began to triumphantly publicize the imperial court's policies to the subsidized peasant households, asking them for their opinions on whether to emigrate or to work as miners in the mines.

According to the conditions offered by both sides and the actual situation of their families, most of the farmers chose to emigrate, and some of them chose to work as miners. At this time, the landlords, who vowed to abide by the rent reduction regulations of the imperial court, were despised by the majority of the people, and only a very small number of tenant farmers were recruited.

Yang Lian looked at the landlords who were in a hurry to open conditions everywhere, and smiled like a flower: "It's time to do something early." ”