Jinhua silver is the tax grain into silver, the main guide to Zhizhi, Zhejiang, Huguang, Fujian, Guangdong area tax grain to the Beijing treasury of silver. At first, it was not so low, but later it became a fixed two dollars and five cents per stone, and this practice has been practiced for hundreds of years.

Why didn't the emperor want to change? First, the emperor was likely to be fooled by the ministers, and secondly, the money was originally into the emperor's pocket, so the courtiers naturally did not mention it. But now that the money has been transferred from the inner treasury to the account of the household department, the meaning has changed, so this discount adjustment is a matter of time.

Therefore, no matter how much the gentry in Jiangnan resisted and opposed, how could they overcome the will of the country?

It will take some time for the decree to reach Jiangnan, and the land clearance in Jiangnan is still going on, but it is being implemented quite slowly.

Land is always inseparable from the servitude system, so it is impossible to separate from the population in Qingzhang, but Jiangnan is an economically developed area, with a large population flow, and frequent land sales lead to changes in land rights and changes in the enslaved population, which are the reasons for the slow progress of Qingzhang.

Today's enslavement system has long been incompatible with the development of contemporary social economy, the old system is like a huge iceberg, under the surface of the water, and the current enslavement system is the tip of the iceberg that emerges from the water.

Now the tip of the iceberg in the south of the Yangtze River is melting, but it is mostly human factors, in a word: fraud. It's like a powerful person who buys a Xu official to make a book and send it to him, or exchanges other people's lightly taxed wheat for his own heavy tax Tian Qiu, etc.

In addition, due to the different nature of the land, the fields are divided into different land types and taxation standards, such as official fields, private fields, fish grains, reeds and field grains, etc., which also provide opportunities for Xu officials to move flowers and trees, move hills and change sections, and up and down their hands.

In addition, the changes in topography and landform caused by natural factors are also the cause, and it is generally believed that after the land is cleared, once the compilation of the fish scale book is completed, then all the land and land will be fixed in the book. However, this is not the case, and the topography is not always fixed, especially in the Yangtze River Delta region. When's fields are washed away, the losses are spread over other land, while the newly formed impact land is not included in the fish scale book, so it is easy to evade taxes.

It is difficult for even the most conscientious magistrate to solve all the problems, at best tinkering with the existing tax system.

With the deepening of Jinyiwei's secret investigation, more and more problems were found, and they became more and more alarming, and in the end, even they couldn't believe that such a fertile land in Jiangnan was 'no food'?

Yuan Bin, the commander, stared at the piles of material evidence on the table, which can be described as a mountain of materials and evidence, he has been in the south for more than a year, and the daily investigation and sorting work seems to have become commonplace. Nowadays, I feel more and more that the land problem in Jiangnan is like a cannon battle, which may explode anytime and anywhere.

I want to make an oath in front of His Majesty, but now I look back and experience it again, I don't know what it's like?

At this moment, the place where he is in a private house somewhere in Jiaxing County, Mingli is an ordinary well-off family in Jiaxing City, but secretly it is the foothold of Jinyiwei here.

Yuan Bin stared at the pile of 'hills' without blinking, until his eyes were sour, and he rubbed it with his hands, and the more he kneaded, the more he kneaded, the more flowery. He simply closed his eyes and leaned back to pretend to sleep.

In fact, his head was running all the time, without a moment's pause, and time did not allow him to rest. He had to grasp the direction of the imperial court's policies at all times, so that he could judge where he should go next and what to mention in his secret letter to His Majesty. In this way, you can avoid a small mistake that ruins your efforts for more than a year.

If this time he can successfully complete this time, then he will be promoted to commander and governor, and the matter of being crowned governor will be basically safe, as long as next year's military and political examination is passed, it will be a certainty.

In the morning, he had received the latest decree from the imperial court, and Jin Yiwei had his own messaging system, which would always arrive two or three days faster than the usual decree.

He had already seen it after he got it, but his brows didn't stretch out again, restricting the clan field, which couldn't help but remind him of an incident in the previous dynasty.

He knows that what he is good at is thinking and figuring, not investigation and prison, which is different from Sun Fuhai. Sun Fuhai was born in a martial arts, and he was a scholar who joined Jinyiwei, and he himself has a meritorious reputation, which belongs to abandoning literature and following martial arts, which is also the reason why he recommended himself and His Majesty could agree to come down.

I don't know who came up with the idea to restrict the clan, but he immediately remembered Jia Nidao in the Song Dynasty, and this decree is exactly the same as Jia Nidao's "Gongtian Law"!

The "Public Land Law" was not to set a land quota, and the part exceeding the limit was forcibly purchased by the Song court at that time from the landlords, and then leased to the peasants, and the court directly collected rent. Although the original intention was to restrict land annexation, the imperial court was to act as the landlord instead. Reform looks good, but what is the difference between substance and robbery? It's just blatant.

The land of many families is the ancestral land accumulated for several generations, and all of them are indiscriminately demarcated as illegal property, and the court forcibly buys it at half of the market price, and the purchase process is full of tricks, not to give cash silver or only give half of the silver, and the rest is discounted with degrees, sue and huizi.

That 'Huizi' prints 150,000 yuan a day, which is specially used to pay for the purchase of land, just like a piece of waste paper like treasure money, so ...... It was already a clear robbery, and it is no wonder that the Jiangnan bureaucracy at that time would unanimously resist the imperial court to the death, rather than a foreign enemy.

If the clan land is restricted, even if the big families are divided, he also knows very well in his heart that the land problem in Jiangnan cannot be solved all at once, and this is not something that can be completely solved by issuing one or two decrees.

Over the past year, the more and more he has secretly investigated, the more profound this experience has become.

At that time, in order to persuade other officials in the DPRK, Jia Rudao took the lead in donating 10,000 acres of his own fertile land as official land, and 10,000 acres is really ordinary for today's Jiangnan family. According to 10,000 mu and 500 clan land, it will also be divided by 20 descendants, but who will have 20 descendants at the same time?

What if it's like the Xu family? If you don't want to pay taxes, is it difficult for 200 children and grandchildren to divide it? Not to the side......

Therefore, after restricting the clan land, the land must be exceeded, and the excess part of the imperial court will not be exempted from preferential treatment according to the original amount of taxes, plus three times the gold and silver, so that the sale of land will inevitably become a trend, and it will lead to a sharp drop in land prices, and it is even possible to return to a few decades ago.

When the price of land falls, will the imperial court buy it? Or do you want to learn from the Song Dynasty at that time? Printing money to pay for the sale of land? If that's the case, it's no wonder that Jiangnan doesn't riot!

Thinking about the Song Dynasty at that time, when there were internal and external troubles, a faint move by Jia Rudao could be considered to have ruined the Han people, whose fault was it?

"Hey......" Thinking of this, Yuan Bin sighed deeply, and the feeling of powerlessness that he had never felt before spread from the bottom of his heart, reaching the limbs and bones, making him not want to move, and the fake sleep soon became the real sleep.

But he didn't sleep well, his eyeballs under his eyelids kept turning, and his whole body was like a ghost pressing down, no matter what kind of mind he used, he couldn't move, and he began to get anxious in his dream......

A thousand households under him happened to 'break in' at this time, and shouted recklessly: "Boss, I found it!" ”

The movement was so loud that it seemed to break the 'curse' on his body in an instant, he suddenly woke up in shock, and looked at this reckless man with his eyes leisurely.

"Li Qianhu, what did you find?" He asked as calmly as he could.

"Boss, the lower officials have found out why the grain in Jiangnan is coming from other places."

"Oh?" Yuan Bin cheered up a little, this news was very important, and it was also something he had spent a lot of effort trying to figure out.

"Tell me ...... specifics?"

"Hey! It's not complicated, it's just that we were all blinded at the beginning. Didn't you check before that the officials and the powerful were engaged in moving flowers and trees, moving hills and changing sections? Just like this kind of operation, it is estimated that more than ninety percent of the land in Zhejiang has been planted with mulberry tobacco leaves, and less than one percent of the remaining land is grain field. However, in the local fish scale book, the land is still the same land, and it has not changed. ”

Yuan Bin's brain began to run at high speed again, and he instantly understood his expression: "I wisps...... It's like making a yin and yang account: on the account, or on the account reported to the household department, the rice field is still the rice field, and the wheat field is still the wheat field. But the reality is that the rice fields and wheat fields have become mulberry fields and tobacco fields? ”

"Yes, that's it!"

"Then the question is, where does the 'white grain' that Jiangnan supplies to the capital come from every year? That's four million stones a year! ”

"This is even more interesting, you can't imagine that these Jiangnan officials are 'smart', and they actually think of transporting grain from other places to offset the annual white grain. And ah, boss, guess where they all bring in food? ”

Yuan Bin thought for a while and said, "Huguang! Maybe Sichuan! It is not difficult to transport it by the river. ”

"More than that! There are also Taiwan, Ryukyu, Nanyang, and even the Japanese Kingdom, boss, think about that picture, big grain ships are floating on the sea...... When they arrived at Ningbo Port and Shanghai Port to unload the ship, then the grain was transported to a certain grain warehouse, waiting for the next year's tax payment......"

Yuan Bin was actually brought in by his shriveled description, and a picture of the vast sea appeared in his mind, and there was a huge ship that hung sails in the wind and went down the ocean......

"Why do you think they're going to bother?"

"Trouble? But it's all for the money...... Haimao has huge profits, and there are white flowers and silver smacks, and everyone is crazy. ”

"Humph! But fraud on this scale is not something that can be done by one or two prefects. ”

"That is, maybe the officials and the giants have long been in cahoots, but now that the top has begun to check the land and raised the gold and silver, I'm afraid that the future will not be as comfortable as it is now."

"It's not just uncomfortable, it's going to start to be uncomfortable, but I don't think they can necessarily break their bones."

"Boss, you said that if Your Majesty knew that Jiangnan and Zhejiang were like this, would Your Majesty be angry?"

"How dare the Holy Will speculate? However, Jiangnan officialdom may have to have a big change. ”

"Where did you get the news?"

"There is a Tianfei Palace in the south of the city, which is repaired by Fujian merchants, also known as Fujian Hall, and it is easy to inquire about news there."