Chapter 70 Interests

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Xi Yongtai's spearhead was directed at the landlord class, and he couldn't help but gasp in the entire court. Why the landlord class was formed, everyone in His Highness is clear. When the Great Zhao Empire was first established, it was in ruins, and it was indeed re-divided according to household registration. But as the times pass little by little, how can those powerful families who have managed to get through the way pin all their hopes on the imperial court? When you are developed, you naturally have a lot of money, so why do you have more money? Naturally, it is necessary to buy more fields, hire people to take care of them, and have a fixed income every year. Ten acres and eight acres will naturally not have much benefit. But thousands of acres, even tens of thousands, tens of thousands of acres. It will form a very exaggerated gain. What's more, I don't know which of the unvirtuous ghosts came up with the idea first, that is, regardless of the harvest or the disaster, the rent to be paid by the tenant is fixed. If it is not enough, it will be deducted again next year.

In this way, with a field in hand, you can enjoy a luxurious life without having to work. It also guarantees the harvest in drought and flood. Where can I find this kind of thing? As a result, more and more people are acquiring or using the power of their reign to annex land. There are those who are officials, and there are those who make money running businesses. Although one acre of good land costs dozens of dollars, it will basically return to the capital after twenty or thirty years. But it can't stand stability. What's more, the land is in the hand, it is also a fixed asset, and more or less, the price will rise. Passing it on to children and grandchildren is also a rich and continuous family property.

For example, Shen Yijun and other court officials who are almost extremely popular ministers, when it is time to return to their hometowns, I am afraid that they have already exchanged the money they have accumulated over the years for a large amount of fertile land. If he uses his ability to accumulate wealth, it is not completely impossible to accumulate 80,000,000 mu of land in his lifetime.

And a family like his, which lasts for another one or two hundred years or something, has accumulated money, connections, and even cultivated outstanding offspring, and has also relied on relationships and imperial examinations to become officials, and has formed a well-known family.

Naturally, it is not too common for a large landowner to be regarded as a well-known family. The whole country combined, but there are only more than 100 families that have survived. Among them, there are constantly century-old families collapsing, and new families standing up. In addition to the family, there are thousands of large landlords who own more than 10,000 acres, thousands of landlords who have thousands of acres, countless small landlords who have hundreds of acres and thousands of acres, and many rich peasants who have tens of acres and hundreds of acres.

And most of the scholars and doctors are from this. The vast majority of ordinary peasants can barely eat enough, and how many families can afford to study?

This Manchu dynasty is civil and military. Even if there is an occasional one from a poor family. mixed into this position, he has long been among the landlord class. It can also be seen from this that Xi Yongtai attacked the powerful landlord family to annex the land and suck the people's fat and ointment, how shocking it is. It is this Xi Yongtai himself who was born in a large landowner family. It can be said unceremoniously that the entire ruling class of the Great Zhao Empire, from top to bottom, is basically composed of the landlord class. And they are also the supporters of the Great Zhao Empire. Because no landlord wants too much turmoil in the country, nor does he want the country to be overthrown, because that will touch the interests of their fundamental surname.

For example, Zhao Zhe quelled the rebellion this time, and even prepared to use troops against Houjin later, not many people would oppose it. Even if it is to let them bleed more or less, they are willing. After all, if the country is finished, the possibility of their extended family being broken and ruined will also increase.

The means by which the Taizu of this dynasty killed the sovereign nobles of the previous dynasty seem to be vivid even after hundreds of years. If there really was a cloth cloth as powerful as Taizu who overthrew Da Zhao, the fate of them, including their family, would not necessarily be much better than those landlords in the previous dynasty. The land that has taken generations of the family to accumulate will also be redivided.

After everyone came back to their senses a little, they immediately began to spit foam at Xi Yongtai. There were all kinds of reasons, and the most serious one even began to accuse Xi Yongtai of being sent by the enemy country to try to destroy the foundation of the Great Zhao Empire.

Only a few ministers with high positions and powers, such as Yan Yu and Shen Yijun, who knew something about Zhao Zhe, lowered their heads and remained silent.

Zhao Zhe didn't understand that if part of the interests of the landlord class were squeezed out to the peasant households, the living standards of the peasant households in the world would immediately rise by a large margin. But God knows what the ripple effects will be. The biggest possible surname is that all the worlds in the world and the big landlords will unite against him, and he will do everything possible to oust himself from the throne.

Even, even the morale of his own pro-guards is by no means much better. After all, among them, there are also a large number of people who come from very good backgrounds. The most important thing is that he, the emperor, is himself the largest landowner in the whole world. If the interests of the landlords are moved, this will not only be difficult with countless ministers, but also, in a sense, with themselves. The emperor and the local sovereign nobility are grasshoppers on a rope.

Even Zhao Zhe was a little sideways to that Xi Yongtai. Although it is necessary to improve the living environment of farmers, we must not be unable to get along with ourselves and our own throne, right?

But seeing that they were arguing and scolding, Zhao Zhe also had a headache when he heard it. Unconsciously slapped the table and said angrily: "Enough, is this the court, or the vegetable market?" ”

Zhao Zhe drank like this, but he began to be silent again. Zhao Zhe also glared at Xi Yongtai and said, "Xi Aiqing, what kind of idea are you messing with?" Reading and reading dizzy, right? Leave me aside to sober up for a while. ”

Xi Yongtai didn't dare to refute, but just ran to the side.

After hearing what the emperor said, many people in the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty breathed a sigh of relief. The fierce performance just now was not done in vain, at least let the emperor see their attitude.

Instead, Zhao Zhe glared at He Hongqing again and said, "He Aiqing, you are still a scholar." Just put forward such a bad idea as a tax reduction? You're still smug. If you have less taxes, you will be able to use your family property to cover it? I'll also stay and reflect. ”

He Hongqing, who had just gloated about Xi Yongtai, couldn't help but blush. There was a snort, and after kowtowing, it flashed to the side.

Zhao Zhe rubbed his head, which was a little dizzy from the noise, and drank most of the cup of ginseng tea in one gulp. Only then did he say to the courtiers: "Ladies and gentlemen, why don't you change your thinking." Put the idea on how to increase the per capita yield, or there is a way to increase the number of yields per mu. ”

These ministers, at first you look at me, I look at you, and suddenly I have no idea.

However, Zhao Zhe had another opinion in his heart, although the emperor and the landlords looked like grasshoppers on a rope on the surface. If you analyze it carefully, you can still find a big difference.

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