Three days passed in the blink of an eye, and Li Hongfei officially went to serve in the cabinet. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

There were rumors about Li Hongfei's entry into the cabinet early on, so it was not any major news.

The only thing that made everyone feel unbelievable was that Li Hongfei actually held the post of chief of staff of the Ministry of National Defense, which was completely different from what Gao Hongtu and others had imagined before.

After a long time, he got rid of the position of president of a military academy without any real power, and as a result, he lost a cabinet position to the other party, and the deal seems to have been lost again.

After all, during Li Hongfei's southern tour, Gao Hongtu and others had already attacked the Nanjing Military Academy, and the new principal was their Donglin Party member - Song Yuan, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites.

originally wanted to use the influence of the Military Academy to gradually infiltrate the military into the upper echelons of the military, but after Song Yuan took office, he found that he, the principal, seemed to have no effect.

Because he did not understand military affairs, the instructors of the academy could only use the textbooks compiled by Li Hongfei, and the rejection of laymen by the soldiers was no less than the degree of dislike of the illiterate scholars.

In the end, the Donglin Party not only failed to reduce Li Hongfei's influence on the Military Academy, but because of Song Yuan's ignorance, Li Hongfei's military talent was further enhanced.

If you don't have a diamond, don't do porcelain work, and the Donglin Party once again pit themselves.

Today's Li Hongfei, although he has no position in the six ministries, is both political and military, and as soon as he entered the cabinet, he was above Shi Kefa, Gao Hongtu and other cabinet elders, and he can be regarded as an absolute figure of real power.

Many officials saw a hint of clue and wanted to take the opportunity to cling to Li Hongfei and pave the way for their political career.

In this regard, Li Hongfei does not mind, he needs to suppress and divide the Donglin Party, and at the same time, he is also preparing for the future formation of a cabinet and reserving his own strength (today's government team is determined by Zhu Youzhen, after Li Hongfei grasps the real power, he will inevitably eliminate most of the court officials, at least Li Hongfei in the harmony department must use people he trusts).

In China, factional disputes are inevitable, and the Donglin Party is declining, and if Li Hongfei wants to control the government, he must form his own party and share benefits with his officials.

But this is all a later story, and now Li Hongfei has just joined the cabinet, and he has been collectively ostracized by the Donglin Party.

The decree he issued could not leave Nanjing at all, and among the local officials, except for Suzhou, which could obey his decree, the rest of the provinces did not seem to buy face.

Political struggle is far more brutal than going on the battlefield with real knives and guns, and it is not possible to continue like this, and we must find ways to break the situation.

Fortunately, within a few days, Wang Chengen took the initiative to find Li Hongfei.

"The Holy Lord said that the land annexation matter needs to come up with a solution as soon as possible, and if the adults are worried that the officials below will disobey the law, the Holy Lord can personally come forward to mediate." Wang Chengen brought Zhu Youzhen's will.

If the Donglin Party occupies half of the control of local officials, then Zhu Youzhen also occupies half, and Zhu Youzhen has the identity of the royal family, unless he is a hardcore Donglin Party member, how can he sell Zhu Youzhen's face.

At the beginning, Zhu Youzhen was ruthless in such a difficult thing as the national reform, although there were some stumbles, but in the end it was implemented.

If he comes forward to help Li Hongfei, he will definitely be able to complete control of the national yamen in the shortest possible time.

"Thank you for your kindness, Weichen has a plan, and he will definitely be able to let the saint see the effect in a short period of time." Li Hongfei replied with an oath.

What are you kidding, it is impossible for him to ask Zhu Youzhen for this kind of thing, let alone the "agreement" between the two, once Li Hongfei asks for help, it means that he admits defeat, and he can't even handle this little thing, why should he ask the entire Zhu family dynasty to give him power?

Moreover, Li Hongfei's main task is to weaken the influence of the imperial family on the country, and if Zhu Youjian really wants to come forward to solve the land annexation issue, the influence of the entire imperial family will be raised to a higher level, which Li Hongfei does not want to see.

"I hope so, the Holy Lord has been preparing to move the capital recently, and it is indeed inconvenient to be distracted." Wang Chengen said casually.

This is actually Zhu Youzhen slowly delegating power to Li Hongfei, and the relocation of the capital is not big, but it is not small, and it will take about half a year to complete it all, and Li Hongfei just took advantage of this time to quickly gain a firm foothold in the court.

"Moving the capital? In fact, I think it is more appropriate to let the old Gao Ge preside over the relocation of the capital, people can be regarded as veterans, and they are more familiar with this aspect, what do you think? Li Hongfei's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly proposed to Wang Chengen.

This is a good opportunity, as long as Gao Hongtu doesn't have time to mess with it, Li Hongfei can complete his plan faster.

"Master Li's proposal is good, our family will talk to the saint in detail." Wang Chengen should admit it.

This kind of favor, Wang Chengen is naturally not stingy.

Sure enough, within two days, Zhu Youzhen sent a decree to Gao Hongtu and asked him to take full responsibility for the relocation of the capital.

Don't underestimate the relocation of the capital, the palace in Beijing, after the Northern Expedition, led to serious damage to some of the cities, and repairing the city is a huge project.

Naturally, repairs require a lot of money, and the profits involved in this are very considerable.

Even if Gao Hongtu is not greedy, it is not a small gain to deliver these projects in exchange for the friendship of a large number of businessmen.

Why did Li Hongfei dare to walk sideways in the court, isn't it because he has an irreversible relationship with businessmen, and is it Zhu Youzhen's half of a money bag?

And the most important thing is that now there are no court officials in Beijing except for the army, and the relocation of the capital is not only related to the royal family, but also the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.

Those ministers who want to enter the center of power, if they don't have lofty ambitions, maybe they won't even have the opportunity to be nominated, let alone finally enter Zhu Youzhen's field of vision.

Gao Hongtu was very happy to get such a holy decree, thinking that this was a sign of the rise of the Donglin Party, and even the plan to suppress Li Hongfei with all his might was put on hold.

In his opinion: At this critical moment, you must not fight with Li Hongfei, once you make the saint unhappy, you will be in trouble.

It's just that this lofty idea is good, but I don't know that there will be major changes in the court in the future............

Gao Hongtu began to integrate the imperial court officials, intending to completely occupy the center of power, while Li Hongfei vigorously developed the periphery and began to expand his influence to all parts of the country.

As I said earlier, the factions of provincial officials, the Donglin Party and Zhu Youzhen each account for half.

How does Li Hongfei divide these resources?

The answer is simple: start with the newly recovered provinces.

In the past, the Nanming Dynasty only occupied the boundary south of the Yangtze River, which is equivalent to one-third of the current Ming territory, even if Li Hongfei gave up the control of these places, the loss would not be much.

What's more, the relatively wealthy officials in Suzhou, Fujian, Yangzhou and other places have all received Li Hongfei's benefits, and the officials in these places can be converted into their own factions at any time as long as Li Hongfei is willing.

Li Hongfei first stabilized these places, and then sent officials who had no ambition before, or were newly promoted, energetic and willing to do things, to take up posts in the hinterland of the Central Plains.

The areas north of the Yangtze River are now under the garrison of the military, and local officials have taken up their posts, and with Li Hongfei's connections, they will soon be able to take over management from the military, which is the best choice for officials who are eager to perform.

In addition, Gao Hongtu temporarily gave up the suppression of Li Hongfei, so Li Hongfei only needs to arrange a "person of his own" in each state capital, and he will soon be able to overpower the Donglin Party and Zhu Youzhen in terms of the share of local officials.

Even in terms of land annexation, Li Hongfei also used the same method.

The annexation of land in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River is nearing the end, and those big landlords have invested a lot of money in it.

However, in the Central Plains, due to perennial wars, the population has shrunk significantly, and many houses and fields have become ownerless, which is the resource that Li Hongfei can use.

The first thing all the officials of Li Hongfei's faction did when they went to the localities was to take stock and measure the local land, distinguish between owned and unowned land, and classify agricultural land and industrial land.

Once the distinction is complete, these officials will reclaim the ownerless land, and at the same time impose penalties on the landlords of more than 100 acres of arable land, and increase the farming tax.

The Northern Expedition had just ended, and those big landlords had empty land, but not many tenant farmers to cultivate, how could they afford such a heavy farming tax?

Li Hongfei even had to be grateful to Dolgon, if it weren't for Dolgon's looting of the Central Plains in the later period, the landlord's family not only had no surplus grain, but even valuable items were swept away.

With the character of those landlords and old money, they must have made a lot of war money by taking advantage of this, not to mention anything else, the land in the north is now incredibly cheap, if it weren't for the fact that these landlords and old money had no money to spare, they would have bought it on a large scale.

The agricultural tax was heavy, and the landlords had no cash in their hands, so they could only sell their land to the government in the end, and Dolgon robbed them of their property, and the court bought their land.

As for the revolt?

But people come with an army to collect taxes, who would dare to resist?

In fact, this is also a helpless thing, there must be some sacrifices in reform, and the previous government, in order to gain the support of the squires and wealthy people, chose to sacrifice the common people.

For example, the implementation of the tax exemption policy in the areas rebuilt after the war actually harmed the ordinary people, and the imperial court was exempt from taxes, but the landlords still had to collect rents, and the common people could not get any benefits at all, but on the contrary, the landlord class accelerated the accumulation of wealth and accelerated the annexation of land.

And this time, Li Hongfei chose to sacrifice these squires and rich people..........

But if you really want to talk about the matter, Li Hongfei's measure is to a large extent to help these people, after all, the cash in his hand has been robbed by Dolgon, and they have no other way than to sell the land, and they have no other way to quickly accumulate wealth.

The government repossessed a large amount of arable land and sold some of it to the local people in installments, so that they could actually own the land if they worked hard for seven or eight years.

This move soon spread throughout the north and aroused the enthusiastic support of the common people.

But even so, due to the perennial war, the population in the north is sparse, so that in the hands of the government, there is still a lot of land left.

This arable land must be planted with crops in order to be harvested, otherwise what is the use of keeping it in your hands? It is better to let these landlords annex the past!

For the people who fled to the south a few years ago, it was their ultimate dream to return to their homeland and have a piece of land of their own.

The migration of a large number of people to the north not only solved the problem of farmland in the north, but also caused a shortage of labor in many factories in the south.

However, in Li Hongfei's view, this is a good thing, after the end of the Northern Expedition, some military enterprises and even military-related enterprises, the number of orders has decreased sharply, and layoffs have become an inevitable trend.

What worries industrial society the most? Workers are unemployed, of course.

As a result, the wave of northward migration came too timely, and instead of making workers unemployed, it caused a labor shortage.

Many manufacturers have had to increase wages in order to retain or recruit enough workers.

As a result, the chain effect became bigger and bigger, and eventually many tenant farmers in the south could not stand the temptation of high salaries and chose to work in factories.

Even if they don't plough the land, they don't have to pay a penny of farming tax, but the landlords are different, and the government doesn't care whether their land is idle or not, and the farming tax that should be collected will not be less.

In order to retain the tenant farmers, the landlords also racked their brains, the most common is to reduce the rent and interest, from the previous 70 percent of the land rent, to 6 percent of the 5 or 60 percent, and at the same time, when the tenant farmers have a bad harvest, the grain borrowed is also reduced or exempted from the corresponding interest.

Although the interests of landlords and merchants were harmed, the interests of ordinary people were greatly increased, and even the problem of land annexation in agriculture was successfully resolved.

The only thing left seems to be the issue of industrial land.

Fortunately, the entire Daming industrial system is still in the development stage, and many things can be solved in advance.

In this regard, Li Hongfei made a bold move, and he personally formulated policies in combination with the actual situation in various localities to divide all parts of the country into different economic zones.

As the initiator of the national reform, Li Hongfei naturally understands how to rationally allocate land resources.

In other words, not all provinces are suitable for industrial development, such as those inland areas with inconvenient transportation, such as those grain production bases with fertile soil, so that the people there can get rich through industry, isn't that putting the cart before the horse?

Therefore, the officials of the same faction as him, at the beginning of their tenure, were given a detailed development plan, which places are suitable for what to do, and which places should be led by what kind of economic development, all of which have detailed explanations.

Cities with excellent waterways and suitable for the transportation of goods will focus on the development of industry and commerce.

Where the soil is fertile and suitable for growing food, agriculture will continue to be the foundation.

The area where the ancients lived was still selective, and if it was not suitable for agricultural development, then this place would soon become a wasteland.

Therefore, in order to obtain sufficient industrial land, land reclamation has become an imperative measure.

Moreover, there are still a large number of idle troops in the north, and the use of the army to open up the wasteland has become a big killer in Li Hongfei's hands.

Isn't there a landlord in the south who buys industrial land on a large scale?

Then encourage businessmen to invest in the north to build factories, and let the land speculation gangs in the south pay a lot of money.

All in all, Li Hongfei's way of dealing with land annexation was very simple, that is, to develop the northern provinces.

As the saying goes: break and then stand.

Anyway, after the Northern Expedition, the whole north was in a depression, and using the north as a pilot place for reform was easier to control the rhythm than the complicated south.

As for funding......... At the beginning, Li Dingguo intercepted the huge amount of property worth nearly 30 million taels of silver from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it was impossible to return it to those big families, and now it is just right for Li Hongfei to pick up a big bargain and use it to carry out the reconstruction work in the north.

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