readx; Half an hour later, Gu Yanwu, who had been instructed by Zhu Youzhen, re-interrogated Wang Zhifa and others, and first said sharply: "You and others deceived the king, bribed, and evaded Tianfu The amount is huge, and you should be beheaded according to the law!" ”

When Wang Zhifa and the others heard this, they were so frightened that they kowtowed and begged for mercy. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Wang Zhifa and the others saw that Gu Yanwu had the intention of exculpating himself, so they naturally desperately grasped this life-saving straw, and wept bitterly: "But according to the orders of the adults, as long as the lives of the grass people can be left, the grass people are willing to spend all their family wealth, and the whole family will make cattle and horses for the adults..."

"Okay, okay, how can a man be a livestock?" Gu Yanwu smiled sarcastically, "After all, this official is a newcomer, and you are a few local squires who are familiar with the customs and customs, and you can't do anything with your support." Therefore, despite your guilt, this official still wants to save you this time. It stands to reason that the sin of deceitful king is never forgivable, but if it is a real offering instead of a false offering, then it is not a crime of deceitful king. Your land in the name of the Emperor..."

Wang Zhifa and the others were not stupid, and naturally understood what Gu Yanwu meant. For the landlords, the land is the meat of their hearts, and it has been so much to accumulate after several lifetimes of skillful grabbing, and it is more painful to let them hand over the land than to rip the meat.

But looking at what Gu Yanwu meant, if he still held on to these fields, his head would have to move, and the landlords would still be able to distinguish which was more important. So Wang Zhifa hurriedly said: "As long as you don't kill the grass people, the grass people and others are willing to sacrifice all their fields to the Lord of Long Live to atone for their sins!" ”

The other three landlords also expressed their positions. Gu Yanwu shook his head lightly and said, "It stands to reason that this should be the case. But if you give up all your land, how can your family survive? In this way, this official is a good person to the end, as long as you offer half of the field property, and then make up for the half of the field property that has been underpaid in the past ten years, this official will give up his life in front of long live to intercede for you. Long live today is the Holy King of Forgiveness, and may be able to forgive you, but I don't know. ”

At this time, Wang Zhifa and the others dared to bargain, but felt that Gu Yanwu was really thinking about them, and they were all so grateful that they cried, and made a vow that no matter what Gu Yanwu wanted to do in the future, they would definitely give their full support.

Seeing that the goal was achieved, Gu Yanwu ordered the officials to release Wang Zhifa and the others, and sent someone to immediately get their land deeds and deliver them on the spot. These four people originally had a total of 3,000 hectares of land, but now 1,500 hectares were rowed away. Gu Yanwu also specially selected a place near the Tonghui River and the official road, and the problem of the resettlement points for the refugees was naturally solved.

Half a moment later, after listening to Gu Yanwu's detailed report, Zhu Youzhen sighed and said, "Alas, let them pick up a bargain!" In this case, you write down the matter and how to deal with it, and immediately submit it to the cabinet, and I want to see how the ministers react. If there is no big objection, I will take this as an example and send people to thoroughly investigate the national imperial village and clean up the issue of contributions. ”

In the evening of the same day, Gu Yanwu's recital was handed to the cabinet, which really stirred up a thousand waves with one stone. By the afternoon of the next day, the cabinet had turned a large stack of concerts directly, and Zhu Youjian was a little rougher, at least seventy or eighty copies.

Zhu Youzhen browsed them one by one, and couldn't help but frown. Originally, he thought that he had been lenient with Wang Zhifa and others, but he didn't expect that more than half of the ministers thought that the land should not be confiscated.

They really said that the donation was a disadvantage, and how much land was underpaid, because it was impossible to check it because it was too old, and if half of the field was confiscated, the punishment would be too heavy. Moreover, the landlord is the people, and the eunuch in charge of the village is considered an official, if it were not for the coercion and temptation of the eunuch in the village, the landlords would not dare to do this kind of thing, so the escaping Tian Fu mainly had to ask for it from those eunuchs. As for these landlords, at most they can pay a few years of land endowments, and the fields do not belong to the Huangzhuang originally, and they should be returned to themselves, so as to show the emperor's leniency.

Not surprisingly, the vast majority of those who hold this view are Donglin officials. Another part of the officials, headed by the king of the household department Shangshu in the Jin Dynasty and the household department squire Bi Ziyan, believed that it was not improper to confiscate half of the land and property, but it should not be classified into the imperial village, but should be classified into the official field.

Guantian is also called Gongtian, and as the name suggests, it is a field owned by the government. According to the Ming Dynasty system, official fields were cultivated by the government. Of course, the officials of the government will neither farm the land nor spend money to hire laborers, they only need to send labor, that is, let ordinary peasant households go out to work, to put it bluntly, they call the common people to work for them. Part of the production of the official land was handed over to the household department at a much higher tax rate than that of the private land, and the rest was at the disposal of the government, in other words, it went to the small treasury of the local yamen.

Wang Zaijin and Bi Ziyan have this proposition, but it is not unreasonable. As early as the Jiajing period, because the Huangzhuang occupies more and more land, the government and the opposition are full of complaints, the Jiajing Emperor has changed part of the Huangzhuang to "official land", withdrew the eunuchs in charge of the village, and was managed by the local department, and claimed that the number of Huangzhuang will not be increased. Wang Bi and the others naturally wanted to use this as a reason to assign these lands to the household department, collect more land endowments, and improve the dilemma of making ends meet.

Only a few officials, including Wen Tiren, Zhou Yanru, Huang Zongxi, and Wang Fuzhi, supported Gu Yanwu's plan. Huang Wang and the others are close friends of Gu Yanwu, and they think that this plan is relatively moderate and acceptable to all parties.

As for Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru, they had already seen through it, this plan could not have been proposed by Gu Yanwu himself, and it must have been instructed by the emperor. Since the emperor wants to do this, then he has to do this, and if anyone is against it, they will want to bite whom; Moreover, the more people who oppose it, the bigger the officials, the better, and it is best to let them bite down, so that they can continue to climb up and further expand their power.

After reading all the pieces, Zhu Youzhen asked Gu Yanwu: "Zhongqing (Gu Yanwu character Zhongqing), what do you think of what the ministers discussed?" ”

Gu Yanwu replied cautiously: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that not punishing the confiscated land is not enough to punish these traitors, and it is already a great grace for Your Majesty to only punish half of the confiscation. It is not enough for the ministers to excuse him. However, the performance of the two lords, Wang and Bi, seems to be reasonable, and His Majesty is invited to consider it. ”

Zhu Youzhen shook his head and smiled: "Zhongqing, do you think I am greedy for that little bit of Tianfu?" I have made up my mind, and all other places of sacrifice will be disposed of accordingly! ”

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