Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Big Fish Has Been Hooked

Jiang Chuan handed the letter to Bai Jinxiu and said with a smile: "It seems that the fish has been hooked." And it's a big fish. ”

After reading it, Bai Jinxiu groaned: "Universiade Wharf? It is the largest terminal outside Jeju City, and the daily freight volume and passenger flow are very objective, so it can be said to be an important transit station on the Grand Canal. As a result, the area around the pier has become a bustling town, with a permanent population of tens of thousands. ”

"If that person chooses to do something to the Universiade Pier, does he have such great strength?" Bai Jinxiu said suspiciously.

"That's the problem. I thought that Qin Mu was a small character, but now it seems that he is a big fish. If it weren't for the reminder of this anonymous letter, we would still be arranging according to the original plan, then we might really have fallen into this person's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain. Jiang Chuan nodded and said in a deep voice.

"So who sent this anonymous letter? Could it be that there is something wrong with that person? Bai Jinxiu pondered.

"It is better to believe what you have than not to believe what you don't. That Qin Mu dared to do this, gambling that the government did not have enough strength to take care of both Universiade Wharf and Jining City. Originally, it was not wrong to think so, but in the eyes of outsiders, Jining City is now leaderless, and it is a good time to make trouble. But he didn't know I was here, and that was his biggest flaw. Jiang Chuan said confidently.

"I didn't expect so many things to be involved because of an assassination case, I really didn't expect it before I set off." Bai Jinxiu sighed.

"This world is far from calm at present, I don't know how many undercurrents are surging under the seemingly calm water, we still have a long way to go, and there are still many people to kill." Jiang Chuan let out a breath and said in a deep voice.

Egawa found the map, looked at it for a while, sat down at the table and quickly wrote a few letters, then stamped his seal, sealed the mouth with fire paint, and immediately sent it out.

Not long after the letter was sent, Xu Qinglang came again.

"Childe, that Zhang Xianzhong's meticulous trick has been made. From his mouth, we know that there is still a batch of fine works that continue to lurk in the capital. Even many people lurk in the mansions of some officials and ministers under pseudonyms. Xu Qinglang said to Jiang Chuan in a deep voice.

"Send someone to escort him to the capital secretly, Chen Zhaojun knows what to do." Jiang Chuan commanded in a deep voice.

Xu Qinglang received the order, and said: "Son, Jeju has sentenced Ma Bangde and those quick officials to recruit, this is the case file, please take a look." ”

After speaking, he presented a thick confession.

After Jiang Chuan quickly flipped through it, the more he looked at it, the more angry he became, and he burst out with murder in his heart, and said angrily: "It's not a pity that these people raided their homes and killed their clans. For the time being, he will be detained in prison first, and he will be dealt with together after that Qin Mu arrives at the case. ”

Xu Qinglang was taken aback by Jiang Chuan's sudden burst of momentum, and hurriedly took the order.

Jiang Chuan knew that although he had basically pacified the world in just two years with strong force, it was only on the surface.

After more than 200 years of rule, the Ming Dynasty has completely declined and decayed, causing a lot of old wounds to the land of Zhongzhou Continent.

If nothing else, let's just say what is the root cause of the rampant hoops of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong? It is on top of the growing land annexation.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, in order to crack down on the land annexation problem left by the previous dynasty and completely eradicate the root cause of the turmoil in the empire, he made a bold move, raised a butcher's knife and killed many gentry landlords, and distributed the land in their hands to the peasants for farming. At the same time, it cracked down on small landlords and wooed ordinary peasants. At the same time, there were many laws that strictly restricted the purchase and sale of land.

Under the heavy blows, the gentry landlords who owned a large amount of land in the world suffered heavy losses, and they were basically cleaned up.

Leaving some small landlords trembling, they did not dare to cross the thunder pond by half a step.

In this situation, the problem of land annexation left over from the previous dynasty was greatly alleviated, the Ming rule was rapid and stable, the population increased, the income skyrocketed, and the people at the bottom praised Taizu's fame.

But after the death of Taizu, the emperor who ascended the throne did not have the merits of Taizu, nor did he have the ambition of Taizu.

In order to succeed in the throne, it is necessary to enlist the support of those great families.

And these big families are actually the biggest landlords among the people.

As a result, many of the laws of the Taizu Dynasty slowly became null and void, and land annexation began to become more and more serious.

And once there are natural and man-made disasters, this situation will be even more serious.

In order to survive, the common people could only sell their land to those landlords and squires.

Even if the imperial court had a law prohibiting the purchase and sale of land, those landlords and gentry could come up with a way to attach land to exploit the loopholes in the law.

As a result, more and more land was in the hands of the landlords and gentry, and the landless peasants eventually became tenants of the landlords' families or had to go to the cities to work.

And the later the dynasty, the more serious this land annexation became.

Jiangchuan has now basically pacified the world, but it has not yet taken care of solving the problem of land annexation.

This is a big project, there is a lot of work to be done, and there are absolutely no fewer people to kill.

But killing is not an end, just a means.

If the light kills, the problem will not be substantively solved, and in the end, it will be just a busy work in the moonlight in the mirror.

Successive dynasties have adopted many methods to curb land annexation.

Historically, Wang Anshi's reform in the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhang Juzheng's whip law in the Ming Dynasty, and the apportionment into mu during the Kangxi reign of the Manchu Qing Dynasty were all reform measures taken to curb land annexation.

These measures did play a considerable role at that time, and the financial revenue of the imperial court also soared in a short period of time, and the population of the world also achieved rapid growth.

However, in the end, these measures did not achieve a complete solution to the problem of land annexation.

It was not until after the establishment of the New China Town that this problem was fundamentally resolved.

Land is nationalized, all land belongs to the state and collectives, and no individual can buy or sell land without permission. Individuals can only have the right to contract and use the land, but they do not have the right to own or buy and sell.

In this way, the seemingly unsolvable problems that have plagued all dynasties in history and become the decline and even demise of all dynasties have basically been ended.

Jiang Chuan, as a liberal arts student in his previous life, of course understands these things. It's just that he hasn't figured out whether he can do it in the current context.

Even if you do it, you need to carefully consider how best it will be.

After all, the social background is completely different.

When he was thinking about these questions, Ji Biao suddenly came to report: "Childe, that Xiao Ran girl is here, I want to see you, and I want to express my gratitude to you in person." ”

Jiang Chuan paused for a moment, nodded and said, "Let her wait in the living room, and I'll go over." ”