Chapter 514: Strike While the Iron Is Hot
The effect of the meeting was shocking, not only on the matter of cultivated land, but also on how the local government should treat the people, Su Tiancheng also made a clear request at the meeting, and at this time, the officials of Shaanxi understood that the governor was ready to do a big job after coming to Shaanxi.
There are even officials who compare Su Tiancheng's request with the proposition put forward by Liukou, and find that there are some similarities between the two, but such words, that is, discussing it in private, no one is willing to use their own head to try Shang Fang's sword, you must know that if you don't do what the governor says, you will not only lose your head, but your family will probably suffer.
As if it was an overnight change, the people of Shaanxi found that the attitude of the government and officials has undergone a great change, many of the taxes that were forcibly levied in the past have all been abolished, and the government has begun to implement cultivated land, and for those peasant households who lack arable land, a certain amount of cultivated land has been allocated, and the biggest change is the change in the attitude of the officials.
The town near Xingping County, that is, the town where Su Tiancheng visited, the shopkeeper and proprietress of the restaurant felt very deeply, because the governor ate in the restaurant, and because they saw the governor severely punishing the officials, the two felt that this governor was very different from many officials, and the key was to have a good attitude towards the people.
The people in the town began to shrink slowly, and many peasant households, what they lacked at home was manpower, and the government sent down winter wheat seeds and asked everyone to plant them, and some gentry and wealthy households cultivated land. It is also allocated to the heads of the farmers, and the planting is required, so that even the elderly and children can help with the farming.
The understanding of the peasants is very simple, as long as the land is cultivated. It indicates that when there is food, there is hope.
Most importantly, the government has issued a notice that the land cultivated by farmers will be exempted from all other taxes imposed on the land in strict accordance with the land tax determined by the government.
This is a notice pasted everywhere by the government, and it can be trusted.
Some careful farmers took down the notices. Keep it carefully, in the next year's harvest season, if the government goes back on its word, you can take these notices and go to the governor's yamen to complain, and if the governor's yamen can't sue down, you can also go to the capital to complain.
The government of Fuzhou and county also felt the change.
Diao people in their eyes. began to drastically reduce in the process of distributing winter wheat seeds. The peasant households took the initiative to lead the way for the officials, and in accordance with the demands put forward by the officials, they urged each other not to eat wheat seeds.
Important changes. Or the farmers began to complain to the government.
In the past, when there were conflicts and disputes among peasant households, they would not find the government at all, and they would either solve them privately by themselves, through armed fights and other means, or they would join the ranks of the rogues in a fit of anger. Taking advantage of special relationships to retaliate against each other, as for the government, the common people do not believe it, thinking that the government will not care about these things at all, and what the officials see in their eyes is money.
A lot of news, through the documents of the Fuzhou County Yamen, as well as the intelligence of the dark line, has been continuously gathered to the governor's yamen, looking at these rapid changes, Su Tiancheng is very happy, of course, these changes are expected, the government is originally out of a strong state, as long as the government makes changes first, the people will buy it.
What Su Tiancheng is most concerned about is the movements of the Liukou, 200,000 Liukou are eyeing him, which is his biggest heart disease, not to mention that the Liukou has a strong leader, Li Zicheng's fame, there is no need to emphasize, in the process of changing history, Su Tiancheng must face it directly.
The information sent by the dark line made Su Tiancheng a little proud, the Liukou were mainly concentrated in the area of Xianxian and Fengxian in Hanzhong Prefecture, this generation of Shanda was sparse, which was convenient for the activities of the Liukou, in order to survive, the Liukou had begun to learn the practices of the imperial court, and implemented the Tuntian system, relying on the looted property on weekdays, and the income obtained from their own farming, to maintain the operation, because the government began to relieve the people, encourage the people to farm, and a large number of soldiers have fled in the Liukou team.
The Jiangning battalion was stationed in Hanzhong County of Hanzhong Prefecture and Fengxiang County of Fengxiang Prefecture, and became a horn to closely monitor the Liukou's every move, Hanzhong Mansion is close to Sichuan and Gongchang Mansion, according to Su Tiancheng's judgment, after the situation in Shaanxi begins to gradually stabilize, the Liukou will definitely find a way to break through, either directly into Sichuan, or into Gongchang Mansion, judging from the current situation, the possibility of Liukou entering Sichuan is the greatest.
This is also the situation that Su Tiancheng is looking forward to, the Liukou enters Sichuan, he will not carry out a large-scale encirclement and suppression for the time being, after all, there is the imperial court army led by Lu Shanji, and it is also to fight the Liukou, taking advantage of this opportunity, Su Tiancheng stepped up the construction of Shaanxi, and disintegrated the fighting spirit of the Liukou to the greatest extent, and finally worked with Lu Shanji to completely exterminate the Liukou.
There is also bad news, Chen Yutai really wrote down the fold, the cabinet has begun to pay attention to this twist, a lot of imperial history and the matter, ready to impeach, this is accurate news, because all this is Sun Chengzong and others wrote to inform them.
Su Tiancheng was not idle, and also wrote a secret fold to the emperor, telling all the changes that had occurred in various parts of Shaanxi.
He once thought about whether to send Chen Yutai back to the capital, and after thinking about it carefully, he gave up this decision, no matter what, it is not necessarily a bad thing for someone to disagree, Chen Yutai always does it in the open, compared to some officials who secretly put cold arrows, it is much stronger.
Qin King Zhu Cunshu, Rui King Zhu Changhao and Han King Zhu Kanghuo Spine came to visit the governor's yamen together, which greatly surprised Su Tiancheng's expectations, although Zhu Cunshu is in Xi'an, and the fief is also here, but Su Tiancheng has too many things to do, and he has not had time to visit, plus Su Tiancheng proposed that the royal family can enter the court to do things, among the vassal kings, it has caused a huge response, and many vassal kings regard Su Tiancheng as their own family, not to mention that Su Tiancheng's wife Zhu Xianxin is the sister of King Jin.
To say that Zhu Cunshu, Zhu Changhao and Zhu Qin Huozhi are very supportive of Su Tiancheng, Zhu Xianxuan and Zhu Youxiang, to do their work, almost no trouble, the three vassal kings took out the silver very happily, from this aspect, Su Tiancheng needs to thank the three of them.
Su Tiancheng personally went to the door of the governor's office to pick up the three people into the house.
"His Royal Highness King Qin, His Royal Highness King Rui, His Royal Highness King Han, there are too many things in the lower officials during this time, and I haven't had time to visit, and I ask your Highnesses to forgive me."
Among the three, Zhu Cunshu's qualification was the oldest, and when he saw Su Tiancheng coming to the door to greet him, Zhu Cunshu smiled and spoke.
"Master Su, don't be so polite, we are all idle people, disturb Lord Su."
Su Tiancheng smiled slightly, the meaning of Zhu Cunshu's words is too clear, this is to be an official, I hope to be able to enter the court to do things like Zhu Xianxuan and Zhu Youxiang, to say that these vassal kings are pitiful enough, there is nothing, and there are many rules and precepts to abide by, and if you are negligent, you will be condemned.
Entering the second hall, several people sat down.
"Xiaguan has already instructed, prepared a banquet, and will drink with the three highnesses for a while, if you don't get drunk, you won't return, the lower officials have come to Shaanxi, and they have received strong support from the three highnesses, and they are grateful."
It was Zhu Cunshu who spoke.
"This is what we should do, Lord Su doesn't need to be so loving."
"Can you say that, the lower officials have already reported the support of your highnesses to the emperor, I believe the emperor must be very happy."
Zhu Cunshu, Zhu Changhao, and Zhu Qin Huoji's faces all showed brilliance, which was exactly what they were looking forward to, if they got the emperor's attention and Su Tiancheng's help, they would be able to enter the imperial court as officials.
In this, Zhu Changhao, the king of Rui, is the greatest, Zhu Xianxuan is the prefect in Hanzhong, he is busy every day, and there is almost no leisure time, which is a huge temptation for Zhu Changhao, who has nothing to do all day long, to be able to enter the imperial court as an official, and to be able to be busy, of course, it is a great thing, but it is a pity that they are in Shaanxi, and they cannot get the attention of Sun Chengzong and others for the time being.
"Thank you Lord Su for your uplift, we came to visit Lord Su today and have some ideas."
"His Royal Highness King Qin, please speak."
"In this Shaanxi, because of the invasion of the Liukou, suffered a heavy blow, especially the merchants, almost all left, now Su and Jiangning Ying have come to Shaanxi, the Liukou no longer dare to be arrogant, I heard Rui Wang said, the Liukou in Hanzhong, is very ruled, dare not cross the Lei Chi step, such a good opportunity, is not to consider the development of commerce, Su Daren for the development of Shaanxi, exhausted, lack of silver, not to mention, but also always worry about the elimination of the Liukou, so we have considered, in the business and trade to make a fuss."
"Oh, I don't know how His Royal Highness King Qin, His Royal Highness King Rui and His Royal Highness King Han thought about it."
Zhu Cunshu looked at the two of them and spoke with a serious face.
"We feel that it is most appropriate to open up border trade and implement mutual markets."
The house suddenly quieted down, the opening of border trade, in fact, refers to the opening of the border passes controlled by the Ningxia avant-garde, the rear guard, the middle guard and the Yulin Wei, so that the people of the Ming Dynasty and the people of Mongolia can trade freely, and the government extracts taxes from it, which is indeed a huge business opportunity, as long as it is opened, you can earn a lot of silver, the people of Mongolia, the lack of daily necessities is too much, in the past they relied on looting, but after the Jiangning battalion annihilated 30,000 Tartars, Houjin became cautious and did not dare to enter the customs easily, at such a time, Liberalizing border crossings and conducting mutual markets is indeed a way to make money.
Of course, the King of Qin, the King of Rui and the King of Han would not simply put forward such a suggestion, they must have huge interests in the border trade.
This is a very good way, but it needs to be approved by the imperial court, and no one dared to consider this issue in the past, and it was too late to fear, but Su Tiancheng's situation was different, because of the support of the Jiangning camp. (To be continued......)