How's it going?" , Long Thirteen asked after taking a sip of tea.

"Thank you for your care, everything is very good"

"Oh? I don't think so, your face is pale, your eyes are wandering, and you are not having a good time at first glance."

「......」

"I see, you have a heart disease, what kind of heart disease, it's very simple, you are a child of the royal family, and I am a rebel thief, although I took Nanyang Mansion, but you are still here as a child of the royal family, how can you be at ease?"

"I might as well tell you that the Tang King and the Tang Wang's county king and others did not stay there for long after returning to the capital, but were sealed to Fujian by Jinshang......

Speaking of this, Long Thirteen was also secretly wondering.

"Could it be that this Zhu Yujian's hit is to be with Zheng Zhilong?"

He continued, "Since you are uneasy here, you have two choices, and you may feel more at ease after doing so."

"I want to hear about it"

"First, leave Nanyang Mansion and go to Ruzhou Mansion, or Xiangyang Mansion, all of them, but I want to remind you that your affairs are estimated to be known to the imperial court, and you should know what will happen when you return to the capital, I have inquired, people like you will not end well, and the best ending is to spend your life within the high walls of Fengyang Mansion."

"What about the second?"

"It's to put down the royal family's shelf and completely join my little strong master, you have also seen it, since my little strong master came to Nanyang Mansion, except for depriving King Tang and King Lu of their land, the rest have not moved, Qiu did not dare to say anything, but it is definitely stronger than before."

"Besides, I've checked the files, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, only one percent of the land in Nanyang Mansion was in the hands of the vassal king, but now it's as high as seventy percent in their hands! How does this make the people live? Coupled with the excesses of taxes and miscellaneous taxes, local miscellaneous taxes, and complicated conscription, the common people can only sell their fields and make a household for you and other vassal kings and gentry."

"I've inquired, and now only one percent of the land is still in the hands of the taxpayers compiled by the early Republic of China, and Nanyangwei is even more powerful, and there is not a single acre of land in the hands of military households!"

"The remaining 10% of the peasant households actually sold or mortgaged their bones to the rich, just to avoid paying taxes and become eternal, but after selling the bones, they could not avoid forced labor, so there were many people who left Nanyang Mansion and went to Jingxiang Mountain."

"As a result, in fact, the entire land of Nanyang Province was in the hands of the feudal kings, gentry, and wealthy merchants, and even small and medium-sized merchants and landlords could only keep their fields and become the individual households of others."

"Now, if you take the yellow book of the early Ming Dynasty to collect taxes, you are sure that you will not find a person who matches the roster, they are all impostors, and since the gentry can pay less taxes, the court will not be able to collect taxes."

"And after Zhang Juzheng's inventory in the Wanli period, there were still half of the people who remained on the Yellow Book in name, and the taxes that the imperial court needed to pay in Nanyang Mansion were this half of the land, but only about 20% of the people were born, and I am afraid that only half of the people in the real register of these 20%!"

"I asked the officials that at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court could still collect about 30 million stone in taxes, but can it collect 7 million stone now? This is very problematic, and even if it is collected, it is also obtained by small merchants and small landlords who have a little wealth in the yellow book and make a fortune through hard work."

"Coupled with the income of the inspection department, warehouse ambassadors, mines, and salt farms, when I won the mining city of Ruzhou Prefecture, I also looked at the bottom account there, a mining city, plus four small cities of iron mines, copper mines, salt mines, and lead mines, can nominally produce millions of taels worth of materials every year."

"But the imperial court only collected about 100,000 taels, where did the rest go? In fact, like the field tax, they all went to other places."

"Also, if we continue to insist on the tax collection of these seven million stones, by the way, the seven million stones will still be added with the so-called Liaoyu, Lianyu, and Xuanyu, and there will only be more and more thieves like us."

"Let me tell you again, Shanxi, North Zhili, Shaanxi are all in a long period of drought, Henan is a little better, but it is also good limited, I personally cultivated 20 acres of fields, when turning the land, I found that the moisture in the field is not good, I have asked the local old farmers, this situation is only seen in a hundred years."

"This can only mean one thing, and that is that the drought in Hebei is about to spread to Henan! If my prediction is correct, within two years, there will be a surge of local thieves in Henan!"

"After my little strong master arrived, he distributed the fields to the landless people, according to the standard of twenty acres per household, and finally found that there was still a large amount of land left, what does it mean?"

"First, a large number of people fled, and compared with Henan, Huguang, Jiangnan, Sichuan, and other places further south were much better, and most of them fled there, or like the displaced people during the Chenghua period, they all fled to the mountains."

"Second, even if there are those who remain in the area, the households would rather sell their fields and bones to families who can be exempted from taxes than farm, and I found out that there are 100 households in a village, and now there are only 20 households left, but these 20 families still have to complete the taxes and forced labor of 100 households!"

"Although the tax is heavy, it can barely bear it, but once this conscription is spread, it will be fatal, I have asked, at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the field is larger, the field is fertile to appoint the chief, the long, let them bear the task of collecting taxes, paying the land to the designated place."

"At present, don't say that the middle is long, the shop is long, and even the small families who do not bear this conscription have fled completely, so they can only be sent by force, according to the small officials, they can be exempted from this conscription, but they need to pay for the government to find someone else to undertake."

"In the end, it developed to the point that every family had to give out cattle and horses every year to avoid this forced labor, and it is said that for this alone, the small officials of the household could sit and collect hundreds of taels of silver every year!"

"In the end, the only ones who really have the ability to pay the land tax to the designated place are the big merchants, and these merchants are all intertwined with the government, the vassal king, and the small officials of each house, and he has the means to make a lot of money after paying the short amount of land to the designated place."

"The whole country is estimated to be about the same, the gentry, the officials, the royal family, and the eunuchs have compiled an impenetrable net, and they are full of fat stomachs, while the ordinary people are hungry and cold, you don't know, in the barren northern Shaanxi, people who eat human flesh, tree bark, and soil are everywhere."

"Lao Tzu, I ......, and I'm almost going to eat human flesh!"

As Long Thirteen said it one by one, one by one, Zhu Qijun broke out in a cold sweat.

Compared with other vassal kings who are bent on making money and don't hear about human affairs, Zhu Qijun has the energy to figure it out because he doesn't have much land in his fiefdom, and he is not unaware of the various drawbacks that Long Thirteen said, but in the past, he didn't want to know at all, and he didn't bother to care if he knew.

"To tell you the truth, Da Ming is actually bankrupt, but as long as these vassal kings, gentry, and wealthy merchants take out one percent of their property, it is estimated that they will be tens of millions of taels!"

"But they won't take it out, and the purpose of their weaving of this big web is to be able to lie on this big web like a spider waiting for a rabbit forever, and if anyone dares to take it out, it will be the target of everyone, and everyone will be punished."

"In other words, Da Ming, there is no salvation, and it is time to change the dynasty!"

"Then again, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, your ancestor was just a beggar who couldn't get enough to eat, and by chance he sat in this position, three hundred years in the world, it was time to change the dynasty, don't you see that since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, which dynasty can exceed three hundred years?"

"This is the cycle of Heavenly Dao, and it cannot be reversed!"

"Therefore, for you and others, it is better to put down the face of the children of the royal family and do something specifically, not to mention doing things for my little strong master, even if you compensate the farmers, military households, and artisan households who laid down the world for the Ming Dynasty in the early days?"

"This world, after all, is still the world of the people, not the world of a certain family, if the lucky person in the position is sympathetic to the small people and follows the path of heaven, there is still a possibility of survival, if he goes against the way of heaven, at the end of the dynasty, he will lie on the Internet and suck the people's fat and ointment, and he will never recover!"

At this time, Zhu Qijun was already crumbling, sweating profusely, and his face was even more white and terrifying, but Long Thirteen still did not give up.

"I heard that your past behavior was not bad, so I left you behind, if you don't want to be here, go to Ruzhou Mansion or Xiangyang Mansion, all of them will be made to listen to you."

The hall fell silent for a moment.

After a while, Zhu Qijun finally broke free from fear, doubt, and resentment.

"Doing things? What can I do?"

"If you can go to the throne by yourself, keep only the fields and shops needed by the palace, and cultivate and operate them yourself, then you can do things, or you can go to my office to join the army and work as an official, and it is up to you."

"I'm going to think about it."

"Well, for such a big matter, I also need to discuss it with the whole palace, and tell you that I, Long someone, am not a madman who eats people and does not spit out bones, if you don't do anything sorry for me or Xiao Qiangshi, I won't hurt you."

"If you decide to leave here, I will also send troops to send you to the designated place, there is also Wang Heizi's caravan here, you can also leave by boat, when you leave, you can also take anyone you want to take with you, money, and materials, as long as you can get ships and carts to transport them away."

Zhu Qijun finally staggered away, and at this time, Long Xiaoshi flashed out of the apse.

"Big boss, for such a person, why bother to talk about it, just detain it and let the governor's yamen pay the ransom."

Long 13 shook his head, "I'm planning a big thing, it's naturally inconvenient to do it now, but it will definitely be done in the future, this kind of thing will definitely not be done by the old camp and local households, if someone like the king of the county takes the initiative to do it, the obstacle to doing this thing will be much smaller."

"And what if he's gone?"

"Let's go, once we are stronger and occupy more territory, enough to compete with the imperial court, it is naturally good to have these people take the lead, if not, it will be fine."

"What does the big boss think this man will choose in the end?"

"What do you think?"

"I don't think it's difficult, if it weren't for the fact that he was in the same water and fire with Tang Wang before, it would be impossible for him to stay here, and he would still leave Nanyang Mansion in the end."

Long 13 smiled and said: "Not necessarily, the current emperor is not a fuel-efficient lamp, now is the time of storm, it is said that his killing is extremely resolute, just a county king, or a distant branch of the lineage, it is very possible to use him to open the knife, otherwise how can he control the huge royal family?"

"But staying here is probably more difficult for him."

"No matter, let him go."

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