Seng Lingqin's 100,000 horse army is a killer weapon in Yang Meng's hands, and the battle situation is unfavorable, they can intercept the offensive of the British and French forces, and constantly harass the British and French forces; The war went smoothly, and their high mobility was a powerful guarantee for the encirclement and annihilation of the Anglo-French forces.

Although he didn't know what the real combat power of the horse army was, Yang Meng knew that close combat, whether with or without guns, the cavalry with sabers was the god of death in the eyes of the infantry.

The cavalry is an elite force on a par with Wei Huozi's Jiangnan militia, and he is an important means to make up for the loopholes in the five major battalions of the infantry army.

The administration in the northwest finally went into chaos, and the people of the Yang family clashed with the local forces, which was expected by Yang Meng, but the news fed back by the military aircraft was not something Yang Meng expected.

hurriedly returned to Beijing, after Peng Yunzhang withdrew, Ye Mingchen was still on the road, Kuang Yuan, who was temporarily taking the post of the first assistant of the military aircraft, had an old face wrinkled and extremely ugly, it seemed that things were not too easy to handle.

"Master Kuang, what's going on in the northwest, tell me in detail!"

Yang Meng's face was a little gloomy, he knew where the problem in the northwest was, the northwest had not experienced war, the local forces were very strong, coupled with the local ethnic composition, it was not unpredictable that something would go wrong.

"Ministry, this time the northwest crackdown on corruption, the land involved accounts for the vast majority. And the problem in the northwest is also in the land. About how the land is distributed. The gentry of the northwest believed that the land should be sold or leased to them, and then leased by them to the common people.

After all, the land in the hands of the government is the most fertile and convenient land for irrigation in the northwest, and this batch of land can be said to be the guarantee of grain production in the northwest, and they want to take these lands. Distributed within the gentry of the Northwest! ”

The gentry is the basis of the imperial court administration, in Kuang Yuan's view, this request of the northwest gentry is not excessive, but what is difficult to do is the attitude of half the day, this person who is afraid that he will compromise lightly.

"Oh...... The problem of land! It's simple, sell it to them according to the best market in the fertile field, if you have money, you will have land, if you don't have money, you want to eat it? ”

The land of the Northwest. Yang Meng also has a general understanding of the Northwest Crackdown on corruption this time. The most received is not gold and silver but land, tens of millions of hectares of scale, almost all the good fields and fertile fields in the northwest, and the land in the northwest market is still good, these close to the Yellow River or the Yellow River tributaries of the good fields, its value is not lower than the two seasons of paddy fields in the south of the Yangtze River.

Tens of millions of hectares, that is, hundreds of millions of acres, according to the price of twenty or thirty taels of land, this price, no one can take it out, and the Yang family earns land, Yang Meng doesn't care who he is, this is looking for death!

How much is a country worth? How much is a city worth? I'm afraid that many people don't have this concept, not to mention other assets, the value of millions or tens of millions of acres of land belonging to a single city is a terrifying amount, calculated by ten taels of silver per mu, even if it is a small county town with poor land and only a few hundred thousand acres of land, its value is also above tens of millions of taels of silver, and the value of each state and county in the Qing Dynasty is hundreds of millions.

"The ministry, the difficulty is here, the gentry in the northwest do not have such strength, what they want is to slowly return the income of the land to the imperial court."

Sure enough, Yang Butang's trick is still a trick to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, tens of millions of acres of land, not to mention that the gentry in the northwest can't afford it, even the imperial court can't afford it!

"Then don't say anything? Give them that in vain, and then let them take the harvest of the land, and buy the land? What do you want to do?

Master Kuang, let me ask you, who will cultivate this land in the end? ”

Kuang Yuan's attitude was a little uncertain, Yang Meng could see that it was nothing more than taking into account the feelings of these gentry, and for Yang Meng, these gentry were his enemies, giving them the land for nothing, isn't this an enemy?

"People!"

"That's right! It's the people! Thirty percent of the land tax, no matter whose hands the land is, the imperial court will collect it, and give these lands to the gentry in the northwest, and they will peel off another layer of skin, then how much will the land tax become?

Fifty percent? Sixty percent? Seventy percent? Or eighty percent? Or is it ninety percent?

In the area south of the Yangtze River, there are not a few people who have a land rent tax of more than eighty or ninety, which is why the long-haired thieves were once unstoppable in the south of the Yangtze River. The Taipings?

Approve the government office in the northwest, the gentry in the northwest want the land is also simple, pay a sufficient amount of gold and silver, and pay 30% of the annual rent, this land is owned by the imperial court, not the private property of the northwest, and the court does not care who owns it, but the court wants a real 30% rent tax, and if you take this price, the court will sell the land to them.

Master Kuang informed the government office in the northwest that the purchase and sale of land was based on thousands of hectares, and that a thousand hectares was 15,000 mu, and the price was set at 50 taels of silver per mu, and 750,000 taels of silver for a piece of land. If the amount is less than 1,000 hectares, you will not buy anything! ”

Yang Meng's statement, Kuang Yuan actually supported it, but in the five provinces of Gansu, Shaanxi, and Xinning in the northwest, the people are extremely fierce, and I am afraid that if I don't obey them, this mess is in front of me!

"Ministry, the people in the northwest are fierce, I'm afraid that the gentry over there will incite the foolish people to make trouble!"

"Which one dare? Let Zuo Jigao's men and horses drive to the northwest, and whoever dares to mess up the overall situation at this time will kill them, according to the laws of the Qing Dynasty!

Who dares to storm the government, from the organizers to the troublemakers, will be punished according to the rebellion, and the family will be exterminated! ”

Yang Meng is not afraid of using a knife, the Qing Dynasty is a country after all, and the laws of the Qing Dynasty are also serious laws, and the land in the northwest, the way obtained by the imperial court, is very formal and normal, for personal interests to impact the government, Yang Meng doesn't care whether those people are bewitched or not!

As long as it endangers the local administration, it is a rebellion. For the rebellion. Just send the army to suppress it!

"Ministry. Wouldn't that be a bit harsh? ”

"Harsh? What's so harsh? Sue sù Zuo Jigao, the people are the foundation of the country, who dare to touch the country, there is no room for negotiation, all of them will be raided and destroyed, and all the participants will be punished in the same way. The military plane is drafting, Lao Tzu is going to ask the emperor's will, the gentry in the northwest? Today's imperial court enemy is currently uninteresting! All the raids on the family and exterminated the clan, and it just so happens that the court is short of money and food! ”

The conflict between the imperial court administration and the gentry in various places is only the beginning, but the gentry in the northwest have not been affected by the war, and the land obtained by the northwest is too large. Officials from the northwest are too attached to the land. This attachment reached the side of the gentry in the northwest, and it was only then that such an incident came about.

With the establishment of the Yang family grange, the landlords from the northwest to the south of the Yangtze River will soon feel the real pressure, and the three-percent land rent is a one-size-fits-all condition, which is an extremely favorable condition, and slowly many landlords' tenants and hired farmers will also circulate the Yang family's grange, and the landlord's field will soon be uncultivated.

Rent reduction and interest reduction, the landlord is afraid that he will not be able to fight against the Yang family, and in the end, the land in the hands of the landlord can only be abandoned, and the Yang family's land price will begin, and the land that Yang Meng wants to master is not the vast majority, but all the land.

The affairs of the northwest are not a bad thing, and they just set a rule for the future administration of the imperial court, which is a great blow to the landlords and gentry who are the basis of the Qing Dynasty's rule, and it is not impossible for the ruling foundation of the Qing Dynasty to collapse because of this.

With the support of the vast majority of ordinary people, for these so-called landlords and gentry, Yang Meng's attitude is that those who know each other can join the gang, and those who don't know each other can only be suppressed in the process of resistance.

"I know, after the emperor's will comes down, the military aircraft will focus on supervising this matter!"

Unlike Peng Yunzhang, Kuang Yuan can't confront Yang Laosan at all, and in today's military aircraft, Manchen Baojun, Wen Xiang, and Han member Du Han are all attached to this Yang Butang, and against Yang Butang, Kuang Yuan, who has been the emperor's master for a few days, will never be able to do it.

"Let Zuo Jigao's speed be faster, it's best to nip the chaos in the northwest in the bud!

Those who secretly collude with the gentry can be directly charged with being a traitor and destroying their homes! ”

I am afraid it is extremely rare for military aircraft to openly discuss the planting of false accusations and issue them as a government decree, but the reaction of all military aircraft is extremely indifferent, which should be regarded as a vigorous and resolute action, right?

Out of the military plane, Yang Meng came to Dongnuan Pavilion, these days the body bones of the four-color stick, more and more deteriorating, the body bones that have just improved a little in the first two months, are getting weaker and weaker, for no other reason, just spend energy on women for a long time!

"Fourth! Isn't it time for you to take a break? ”

The body of the four-color stick, the rapid rise and fall in a short period of time, also disrupted the deployment of Yang Meng's side, this one was a little lucky before, but it has only been a few days, and it has become a human to do it again, those few stand-ins are now a lot fatter, if the four-color stick dies during this time, it is hard to say whether the stand-ins can hide from Duanhua and Zaiyuan's eyes?

"Whew...... Third brother, I'm very tired these days, but I can't hold it! ”

"Humph! If you can't hold it, sooner or later you will die on a woman's belly, so be it! In the meantime, go to the east side of the temple and live in seclusion! Give the military aircraft a will, the war is coming, and you have to pray for the Qing Dynasty! ”

"But...... Third brother! I'm just afraid ......"

"What are you afraid of? Can't help yourself? Let Duanhua and Jaeyuan accompany you! Don't get close to women for three months! ”

"Third brother, I'm an emperor anyway, you can't be so strict, right?"

After listening to it for three months, the face of the four-color stick also became bitter, and some things were used to it, and they couldn't change it!

"You know you're the emperor, huh? How much have you done in politics during this time? ”

"Isn't this a third brother to share my worries?"

"That's it! Look at yourself, there's no one anymore!

After noon, I let Duanhua and Zaiyuan enter the palace, and during this time, the palace of nourishing the heart will be blocked, and if you don't take care of your body and bones, you won't come out! ”

"It's done! Rely on the third brother...... Alas...... Hard days are coming! ”

Enwei is used together, this is also Yang Meng's means of dealing with the four-color stick, with a somewhat inhuman-shaped four-color stick in the military aircraft circle, symbolically looked at the government affairs, the four-color stick entrusted the military aircraft power to Yang Meng, and then accompanied by Duanhua and Zaiyuan, in the name of praying for the country, lived in the East Buddha Hall of the Yangxin Palace.

This is not an uncommon thing, the emperor from time to time to worship the Buddha, hunting, that is a symbol of the stability of the regime, like Yang Meng, who was entrusted by the emperor with the power of governance, there have been more than one generation, this matter is not a big deal in the eyes of the military aircraft, and there is nothing abrupt.

The four-color stick returned to the Buddha to worship the Buddha, which is also a good thing for Yang Meng, during this time, there is no big problem with administration or anything, the main thing is the matter of foreign affairs, for foreign affairs, the four-color stick is also somewhat resistant, while he is not there, let the military plane do these things, without the emperor of the four-color stick, Yang Meng can also spend less lip and tongue.

Grinding with an emperor who has no real power, Yang Meng has been a little impatient during this time, the key is the pressure of the war, before the intelligence on the European side arrives, before there is no accurate assessment of the Anglo-French alliance, it is extremely difficult to make Yang Meng feel at ease! (To be continued......)