The sun rose, but Luoyang changed the sky.

Hundreds of officials of the small court of Luoyang defected, the army was defeated, and even the emperor was captured.

The streets and alleys of Luoyang were full of teams of Han officers and soldiers patrolling back and forth, while the people of the brigade were extinguishing some sporadic flames, carrying the wounded and carrying the dead.

Liu Yongzheng led his 100 militiamen to assist in the confiscation of the property.

At this time, for those big families in Luoyang City, it was a nightmare, and the thieves had just started killing and confiscated thousands of big families. As a result, everyone defected, and finally ushered in the Han official army, and after the official army entered the city, they soon began to investigate those traitors.

There was a row of soldiers standing next to the gate of Lu Qiqi, the first assistant of the Luoyang cabinet, with a big word "confiscation" posted on the door.

Liu Yong led his subordinates to move boxes and cages of gold, silver, calligraphy, and silk silk from the Lu family's houses.

The Lu family has a lot of property, many of which are piled up in the courtyard, and more than a dozen staff officers are busy recording them there.

"You said that this person surnamed Lu is so rich, why do you still want to rebel? It's stupid, it's not all gone all at once now. One of the militiamen shook his head and said, "I don't know what these people are up to." ”

Liu Yong instructed everyone to sort the copied property into categories, and replied with a smile, "So much property is not much from corruption, relying on the power of the past to be exempt from everything, it is all the people's fat and people's anointment." The emperor ordered them to pay some back taxes, and one by one they immediately seemed to kill their father's revenge, and now they all have to be confiscated. ”

"It won't be confiscated, isn't the surname Lu abandoning the darkness and turning to the light?"

"If you abandon the darkness and turn to the light, you don't want to do anything? Then he is too good at thinking, how can there be such a good thing in the world. Since he dared to rebel, he had to be prepared in his heart. "Liu Yong knows the emperor's temper, if Lu Weiqi and these gentry don't rebel, although there will be a reckoning.

But there will be a bottom limit, to recover the tax arrears for five years, and then let them return some of the fields that have been donated and occupied in the past, and at most they will borrow a property tax from the deed. That's it. With their net worth, it's just a little blood, but most of their property can still be saved.

But now these people are dying like this, and they want to rebel, that is to kill themselves. Even if you defect now, it won't end too well.

If they don't defect, these people will definitely exterminate their families, maybe the emperor will be gracious, some crimes will be reduced, and maybe they will be exiled and relocated overseas.

Now although the defection is anyway. Capital crimes may be forgiven, but living crimes cannot be escaped. At least they will be confiscated into the army, and at worst they will be executed, at least their property will definitely not be saved.

However, many of the rebellious gentry in Luoyang don't think so, they are still thinking that I have already done it anyway, and I should be a hero.

I am still a gentry, a local famous family, and the court should be treated preferentially.

Many scholars who had previously served as officials in the small court of Luoyang were even more so, shouting one after another to see Zhang Laohu and Cai Laopao.

"I can't punish the doctor. Besides, we are still the heroes of Pingluo, why are you keeping us here? We want to see Zhang Laohu, and we want to call Cai Lao Pao! ”

Zhang Huangyan looked back at the prisoners of war in the barracks.

There were thousands of them, and these people were no ordinary prisoners of war. are all puppet officials of the Luoyang puppet dynasty.

He sneered disdainfully, turned back again, and spat at the men.

It's really a shame for my generation to teach my children, and read the books of the sages in vain. It's all read into the dog's belly, and it's still so shameless.

Hurry up, and the news of Luoyang's recovery was quickly sent to Beijing.

"A great victory. The great victory, the official army recovered Luoyang, captured the rebel Zhu Changxun, and the 100,000 thieves were wiped out in one day, only leading more than 1,000 remnants to flee westward! ”

"Great victory, great victory"

In the blink of an eye, the entire Jingshi knew about the Luoyang victory. The people of Beijing, the officials and the people, heard the news, all rejoiced, and now the prices of the new dynasty are gradually stabilizing, life is peaceful, how can everyone want to see the restoration of the Ming Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, great victory!"

The privy envoy Fu Shan reported the good news to Liu Jun with a smile on his face, but Liu Jun had already known the news one step ahead of Fu Shan.

"Zhang Shan and Cai Yuan have also been holding back in Henan for more than half a year, and it is estimated that they are suffocated, and they finally held back a big victory."

Soon, Yuan Jixian and Jiuqing also entered the palace to congratulate him.

"Your Majesty, how to deal with Zhu Changxun and the rebels?"

Liu Jun asked rhetorically, "What do you think should be done?" ”

Ni Yuanlu and Li Banghua and others, you look at me, I look at you, and they are reluctant to speak.

Liu Jun snorted coldly, his face unhappy.

Yuan Jixian had to take the lead, "Your Majesty, Zhu Changxun is plotting a rebellion, and not killing is not enough to deter Xiaoxiao." ”

Fu Shan also expressed his opinion, "It should be killed, and it must be punished severely, the minister thought that it was late at noon, so that the hundred officials watched the punishment, and finally showed the public." ”

Li Banghua couldn't help but say, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it is better to give him a three-foot white silk and give him a whole corpse, which can be regarded as saving face for the previous dynasty, and at the same time appeasing the clan of the former dynasty in the world." ”

Liu Jun couldn't help but shake his head.

"It's not that I didn't give them a chance, but they still want to rebel, do I still have to tolerate the traitor? For Zhu Changxun, let's shoot him, and the public execution of the shooting in the suburbs can be regarded as leaving him a whole corpse. ”

As for the other rebellious people, Liu Jun didn't plan to spare them, but he didn't plan to kill them either.

"All of them will be sent and released to the overseas islands, and all three generations of their blood relatives will be exiled."

Liu Jun claimed that the emperor had minimized the death penalty, and unless he was executed for heinous crimes, he was generally exiled to the overseas islands. The punishment for lighter crimes was not imprisoned, but was changed to labor reform.

People are precious resources, labor is even more precious, and it is difficult to go to prison if you want to, so you have to be reformed through labor.

"All those who rebel shall have their property confiscated and exiled."

Depending on the severity of the crime, the heavier the offender, the farther the exile will be, as far as Singapore and the concession islands of Japan and Korea, then Taiwan and Hainan, then the coastal islands, and then the Kanwai area. In these places, there will be special labor camps, and everyone has to earn food by labor.

After the sentence expires, don't think about going back to the Central Plains, just send a piece of land on the spot, and take root there in the future.

"Your Majesty, those who are anyway?"

"Anyway, the sentence can be shortened according to the situation, and the rest will remain unchanged."

Liu Jun will not be polite to these people, and not killing them is the greatest forgiveness.

Throughout the day, Liu Jun was in a good mood. Not only because of the recovery of Luoyang, the destruction of the small court of Luoyang and the capture of Zhu Changxun, but also because of the failure of Li Zicheng, there are thousands of people left, what can they do.

In particular, many of Li Zicheng's subordinates were captured alive.

Li Yan and the Red Lady took the initiative to defect, Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance were captured alive, and only a group of henchmen such as Liu Zongmin and Yuan Zongdi and Liu Jianxiu protected Li Zicheng and escaped.

It is foreseeable that after this defeat, Li Zicheng will have no chance to turn over.

What's more, Luoyang's harvest this time is far more than that.

Zhang Shan reported that Luoyang was seized. It also made Liu Jun very happy.

The seized rebel lands owned no less than 300,000 hectares, and these fields were not limited to Luoyang Prefecture, but in Henan, Hubei, Shanxi and other places, and there were countless houses and shops, plus seized money, calligraphy and paintings, and so on.

There is nothing faster than this kind of gentry and businessmen who have confiscated nearly ninety percent of Henan Mansion at once.

The accumulation of hundreds of years of these big families all fell into the hands of the imperial court. If they don't rebel, Liu Jun will not be able to raid their house, and send it to the door now. Liu Jun would not let it go.

The change of dynasty is a process of redistribution of wealth, and Liu Jun's change of dynasty is relatively mild. The comparison is usurpation. But the current rebellion has given Liu Jun the opportunity to come to a big reckoning.

If you really do anything, you can't get money as fast as having the right to make money, let alone being an emperor.

Don't say anything else. After Liu Jun was proclaimed emperor alone, there were millions of hectares of military fields, official fields, Huangzhuang, and Wangzhuang in the world. Since the late Ming Dynasty, the land has been merged. The process of the Han Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty was also moderate, and there was no major regular reduction in the population, so the price of land in various places is still high.

In places such as Susong in the south of the Yangtze River, when the land price is the highest, one mu can reach more than 50 taels or even 100 taels. Even in the Huguang area, the price per mu can also reach thirty or forty taels. Even in the north, Guanzhong, southwest and other places, each mu of land has to count two pieces of silver.

Even if it is an average of five taels of silver per mu, it is ten silver dollars, and hundreds of millions of acres of land are billions.

However, these are all real estate, but if they are handed over to the common people, even if they can only be thirty and a half of the tenants, the annual income is very considerable.

But which one will be afraid of less money, Liu Jun can make money, and he needs money more urgently.

Liu Jun was a very ambitious emperor, and the expenses for raising the salaries of officials, raising the salaries of soldiers, changing equipment, etc., to maintain a large army of officials and a larger army, were quite staggering.

According to the report submitted by the Ministry of Households, this year's total military expenditure has reached 80 million yuan because of the expansion of the army and the need to equip it with ordnance, as well as because of this year's war expenses such as quelling the rebellion and defending the captives.

The Ministry of Industry proposed to change the Yellow River back to the north and let the Yellow River flow into the Bohai Sea, so as to improve the siltation of sand and soil in the Yellow River over the years, which has caused frequent flooding in the Huanghuai area. Changing back to the north will naturally greatly improve the situation, but to change the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, which is thousands of miles away, from the south to the north and back to the old north route into the Bohai Sea, this money will not cost 12,000 yuan, nor will it cost one month or two months.

According to the plan of the Ministry of Industry, this may take at least three years, and it will cost millions of migrant workers, and at least 20 million silver dollars will be required.

Liu Jun rejected the plan to repair Beijing's outer city last time, but he was very supportive of the plan to divert the Yellow River.

Although the Yellow River is the mother river of China, it is also the most harmful, and every time the embankment bursts, it will cause great disasters. Liu Jun supported the control of the Yellow River and changed it back to the old way, and at the same time he also asked the Ministry of Industry to control the Huai River at the same time.

The flooding of the Huai River is also extremely serious, but the Huanghuai Plain is the most important grain-producing area.

Liu Jun added 10 million to the 20 million budget for the control of the Yellow River to the Ministry of Industry, and asked the Ministry of Industry to form a Yamen for the control of the Yellow River and the Huai River, which was responsible for preparing for this super project.

Since ancient times, what the imperial court was most afraid of was this kind of large-scale water conservancy and civil engineering project that mobilized countless migrant workers, so it would be extremely burdensome and difficult to manage, and if it was not managed well, there would be chaos. For example, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the eastern capital was repaired to build a canal, and at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yellow River was repaired, all of which caused rebellion.

But Liu Jun still insisted on repairing, but he did not plan to levy the people and people, nor did he plan to increase the cost of river control, which would undoubtedly be the most likely to provoke public resentment.

Liu Jun prepared that the 30 million money for river governance would be paid by the imperial court, and at the same time, all the people who governed Huanghuai were not forcibly levied, but were hired instead, and the imperial court provided accommodation, food, and salary.

A major project that disturbed the people was changed to a project that benefited the people. Not only is it good to govern Huang Huaili for a long time, but it can also allow the people to take the opportunity to do work in their leisure time, and earn some extra money by the way.

In this way, there will naturally be no public resentment.

But in this way, all the expenses for water control fell on the shoulders of the imperial court.

In addition, now that the local government is not allowed to levy fire consumption, the imperial court has to take out another amount of money from the tax to hand over to the local government as office expenses, so that the imperial court's financial expenditure budget for this year is as high as 150 million silver dollars.

With such a large amount of expenses, Liu Jun felt a little heavy.

Now that there is an opportunity to confiscate these rebellious family assets to enrich the treasury, how can Liu Jun let it go.

Excluding real estate such as farmhouses, shops, and workshops, as well as treasures such as antique calligraphy, paintings, and jewelry, after the recovery of Luoyang this time, the confiscated gold and silver can reach no less than 80 million yuan.

Eighty million, converted, forty million taels of silver, but in fact, as long as more than thirty million taels of silver, eighty million silver dollars can be minted.

It looks like a lot, but it's actually quite normal.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the people were poor, the court was poor, and even the emperor was poor, but the gentry in the world were very rich. In the Jiangnan region, those with a family property of 1,000 taels of silver can only be regarded as a well-off family, those with 10,000 taels of free property are considered a middle class, and those with a property of 100,000 taels are a lot, and many small counties have many families with property of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.

There are not a few people who have millions of family assets, and there are also tens of millions.

Historically, Li Zi attacked the city and entered the Beijing division, made 5,000 clamping sticks, tortured hundreds of officials, and recovered stolen silver. In a short period of time, 70 million taels of silver were copied from the homes of hundreds of officials and relatives.

Among them, Zhou Kui, the father of Queen Zhou, before the death of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen asked Zhou Kui several times to donate silver and salary, and asked him to donate 100,000 taels, but Zhou Kui cried poor and said that he was poor and could only eat moldy rice. In the end, he couldn't resist and said to donate 10,000, Chongzhen felt that it was little, so he asked him to donate at least 20,000.

Zhou Kui couldn't hide, so he asked the queen Zhou for help, and Queen Zhou took 5,000 taels of silver to her father, asking him to take another 15,000 taels out and make up 20,000 to the emperor. As a result, Zhou Kui took the 5,000 taels of silver, but in the end he only donated 3,000 taels and deducted 2,000 taels.

When Li Zicheng entered Beijing and tortured Zhou Kui, Zhou Kui handed over 700,000 taels of silver at once, and Liu Zongmin's people also copied more than 500,000 taels of silver from his house.

In just a short period of time, the cash in Beijing amounted to more than 1.2 million taels of silver, which is not considered real estate, let alone real estate in other places.

Those gentry officials are mostly like this, they are rich and flowing, but they refuse to take out a dime to pay taxes, and they are unwilling to take out a piece to support the imperial court.

Liu Jun asked them to pay five years of tax arrears, and one by one they immediately embraced Zhu Changxun, but now, all of them have all their private wealth in Liu Jun's hands.

Liu Jun looked at this twist and turn, and couldn't even help thinking that if these big families from all over the world followed the stupid rebellion, it might not be a bad thing.

Liu Jun, who was in a good mood, had dinner, looked at the box that the female official had brought up, thought about it, and directly put Aixin Jueluo. The sign of Makata was overturned. (To be continued.) )