Fang Yuan canceled the privilege of literati not to pay the land tax, and reduced more than half of the land tax, and his reputation in the hearts of homesteaders, tenants, and the common people was already in the sky.

After the autumn harvest three months later, the yeoman farmers and tenants who got the benefits were even more grateful to Dade, and brought their families and brought their local products to the gate of the governor's palace to thank them. Fang Yuan arranged for Wang Chengen to be specially responsible for receiving these thankful villagers.

In the three months since the abolition of the privileges of the literati, the squires and wealthy businessmen in Nanzhili have been fluctuating in people's hearts, and there are not a few people who have discussed in private. Gu Yanwu's Guangming Daily also published some satirical articles from time to time.

Fang Yuan smiled when he saw it, he was not gold or silver, he could make everyone like it. Those who squeeze a little less, just like a dead father and a dead mother, the squires and wealthy businessmen who are full of complaints, Fang Yuan doesn't bother to pay attention to them, and those who really have a long-term vision of vested interests know that fine water can flow for a long time, and blindly squeezing the people's power can only force the people to rebel and eat their bodies.

In three months, Taoyuan's welfare lottery was also successfully issued.

To open this kind of casino, those gamblers, especially those who spend a lot of money, value the credibility and strength of the casino the most.

The Xu family is Fang Yuan's big official businessman, and he has the Qinglou industry in Jiangnan, as well as Fang Yuan's silk and porcelain industries, and his strength is needless to say. As for the reputation, there is the Governor's Mansion backing it, if there is any stubble in Taoyuan, go directly to the Governor's Mansion to find Fang Yuan to pay.

Since ancient times, prostitution and gambling have not been separated, and those rich second-generation and scholarly sons in Jiangnan have a dirty atmosphere in ordinary casinos, and they can't look down on them. It's pure gambling, and it's a shame to say it. But going to the peach garden to buy lottery tickets, while you can study the lottery numbers, show the IQ that crushes everyone, and at the same time hug the Qinglou woman to have fun, it is also a chic enjoyment.

The welfare lottery has just been launched less than two months, after being familiar with the Arabic numerals corresponding to the Ming numbers, coupled with Chen Yuan's intentionally or unintentionally letting people spread the basic theory of probability given to her by Fang Yuan in the peach garden, the entire peach garden immediately set off a wave of research on lottery numbers. In front of the lottery spot outside the peach garden, several gamblers can be seen arguing about which set of numbers to open from time to time.

The fame of the Welfare Lottery gradually spread from Suzhou to the whole of Nanzhili, and other prefectures came to Suzhou to do business, and they were also willing to come to Taoyuan to buy a few hands. If you don't catch up with the day of the lottery, don't worry, buy a few bets back first, and wait for a month or two to come to Suzhou Mansion to redeem the prize.

Fang Yuan ordered the independent accounting team to count the accounts with Taoyuan, and in the first month, the welfare lottery sold 8,000 taels of silver, which was unsatisfactory, and paid 1,000 taels of silver;

In the second month, because the reputation of the welfare lottery gradually spread, the number of squires and wealthy merchants who bet increased, and the sales reached 100,000 taels of silver, and the compensation was 12,000 silver.

In the third month, Fang Yuan imitated the method of encouragement with a huge bonus before the crossing, and deliberately caused a Guangdong businessman who had business dealings with the Governor's Mansion of Fujian and Guangzhou to win a hundredfold rank three. In order to publicize it, Taoyuan held a celebration banquet with great fanfare, and 50,000 taels of silver were cashed in public. Afterwards, through business settlement, the Fujian merchant returned 45,000 taels of silver to Taoyuan, and 5,000 taels of silver as hush money, so that he could honestly return to Guangdong.

Because of the stimulus of a huge prize of 50,000 taels of silver won by a Guangdong businessman, the entire Nanzhili was boiling at this moment, and the bets of ten, fifty, and one hundred times gradually increased. By the third month, sales had reached a staggering 350,000 taels, and 57,000 taels had been paid.

Some of the money was not enough and wanted to use the land and houses as collateral, Fang Yuan drew a red line for the peach garden, and the people's only housing and land property were not accepted. Only squires, wealthy merchants, and rich second generations, and real estate such as fields, houses, and physical assets such as grain and silk can also be mortgaged. Afterwards, it will be settled by the Governor's Palace and Taoyuan.

At the same time as making a lot of money, the Governor's Office also issued an announcement through the cabinet, 'Lottery is risky, investment needs to be cautious'. Fang Yuan also ordered Liu Ru to be in the Jiangnan Daily, a special page to demonstrate the risks faced by buying lottery tickets. And gave a solemn suggestion through the mouthpiece of the official media, you can buy one if you have extra money, and you can use both hands to be small and big. If the family's livelihood is silver, don't come to gamble.

Through Gu Yanwu's Guangming Daily, Fang Yuan once again emphasized in three special articles that hard work and prosperity are the most valuable, and there will be no pie in the sky.

On the one hand, through the peach garden, he continued to loot the silver, fields, and houses of the rich second generation and the second ancestor of the ruined family; On the other hand, through two media mouthpieces, warnings are constantly issued. In this way, it would not only give a blow to the poor who tried to get rich through the lottery, but also dissociate the Doge's Mansion from the matter. No matter how much trouble there is in the future, there are two newspaper feature articles to testify, and don't come to the Governor's Palace to be unhappy.

The sales of welfare lottery tickets are also on the right track, and Fang Yuan has a more important matter, which is to set up another court in Jiangnan to confront the court in the capital.

Fang Yuan had proposed to the cabinet before going to Guangdong and Taiwan, but it was rejected by the cabinet. Now that Fang Yuan had taken advantage of the great military exploits and prestige of conquering Guangdong and Taiwan, as well as the excellent reputation of having just reduced the field tax, he once again proposed to the cabinet that another imperial court should be established in Nanjing.

In the Nanjing Imperial Court, Zhu Cihuan was the prince of the prison state in Nanjing, and the prince of the prison state in the capital was opposed to the title of the prince of the prison state. Fang Yuan was reappointed as regent and became the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, it was officially announced to the world that the crown prince of Beijing City had placed the current Chongzhen Emperor under house arrest, bullying his father and the king, and rebelling, and the people and gods were angry. The Nanjing Imperial Court was the side of the Qing monarch and officially drew a clear line with the Beijing Imperial Court.

The forces opposing Fang Yuan had been purged as early as the previous Tian Fu reform, and the Donglin Party, which had colluded to subvert Fang Yuan's regime behind the scenes, had also disappeared. If it has not been purged, the list is also filed with Jinyiwei. Whoever dares to come out to oppose the search will immediately start arresting according to the list, and the charges are ready-made, that is, colluding with the capital court and complying with the widows.

This time, the three cabinet members did not stop again, because they knew that Fang Yuan had now conquered the south, and he would inevitably use troops to the north and west. This great cause of unifying the world is the trend of the times, and it is by no means something that the three of them can stop by talking out of thin air.

If Fang Yuan's Northern Expedition or Western Expedition is successful, after the unification of the world, they will be the founding heroes; If they failed, it would not be too late for them to persuade Fang Yuan to give up the idea of unifying the world, and to concentrate on managing the land in the south of the Yangtze River.

Fang Yuan's proposal was approved by the cabinet without much setback, and in just half a month, the cabinet voted for it, the governor's palace approved it, and it was completed one by one, and the edict was issued smoothly.

Most of the officials before Nanjing City, under the torture of Jinyiwei, had already taken the initiative to write a letter, asking Zhu Cihuan to govern Nanjing and serve as the prince of the prison state, and Fang Yuan was promoted to regent.

After Zhu Cihuan took charge of Nanjing, he pardoned all of them and reinstated them as the backbone of his support.

As for Gao Hongtu and Jiang Yueguang, Zhu Cihuan personally went to Jinyiwei's edict, and as the prince of Daming, he painstakingly persuaded the two to write a letter to support this major event.

The imperial court in the capital is too far away, Fang Yuan is too close, and Zhu Cihuan, the prince of Chongzhen, is in charge of Nanjing City, which is a compromise method acceptable to Gao Hongtu and Jiang Yueguang. In addition, Zhu Cihuan was a condescending nobleman who came to visit the two of them in prison, and his demeanor and benevolent demeanor were far better than Zhu Cihong, the prince of the prison who burned and looted in Nanzhili before.

The two also surrendered to Zhu Cihuan and were willing to serve as dogs and horses in Zhu Cihuan's team.

Zhu Cihuan wantonly released the former ministers of Nanjing City in Nanjing City, and Jinyiwei, who got the news, also truthfully reported to the Governor's Palace.