Zhu Shuren in Huguang and Sichuan has already carried out two work to promote new agricultural production methods and confirm land rights.

Therefore, if you replicate it in Hanzhong again, there is no difficulty in the system at all, and you can directly transfer the mature experience to use.

When it comes to specific implementation, the difficulties are mainly concentrated in the different people's feelings in different regions, and it is necessary to solve the people's resistance in a targeted manner.

Even though it is still the end of the Ming Dynasty, the trend of folk customs in various places is already a bit close to that of later generations-

The southerners are relatively adventurous and easy to accept new things, while the north is a little more simple and conservative, but they are also more afraid of the government, even if they don't understand, they can rely on power to promote some new things, unless they can't bear it anymore and directly pull the flag and rebel.

Fortunately, Hanzhong is now isolated from the world, and there is no direct contact with other areas controlled by the Ming court, even if Zhu Shuren is here to be the emperor of the soil, no one can sue him for a year and a half - unless the person who wants to sue has the ability to directly penetrate the Li Zicheng ruling area in Guanzhong and go to Beijing to find Chongzhen to complain.

From mid-June, Zhu Shuren arrived in Nanzheng and began to deploy Hanzhong's civil affairs work, and to early August, in just one and a half months, the people and squires were sorted out.

The government promised that all those who switched to corn and potatoes this year would be exempt from taxes that year, so even if people did not know these crops and were worried about the harvest, they could barely overcome their fears and replant.

In order to speed up the promotion, Zhu Shuren also gave back the favor and power, and on the one hand, he asked Chen Junpet to persuade the farmers by normal means, and on the other hand, he also offered "after the winter harvest, the government promised to purchase and store unlimited corn as military rations according to the minimum price of one tael of silver and two stones of sun-dried corn kernels."

(Note: Corn planted in late summer takes about four months to grow and is harvested in winter.) The yield is slightly lower than that of corn planted in late spring. ）

Relevant commitments have been issued in every county and township, and they have been preached in various affirmation booths, so that the people must know about it.

In this process, Zhu Shuren inevitably asked the propaganda team in the countryside to publicize the perpetual tenant law that he had already implemented in Huguang.

Persuade the people to pay attention to the protection of cultivated land when farming, and to top fertilize and maintain water conservancy every year. It is emphasized that the government will severely punish the people who cultivate in a destructive manner and the inferior gentry who raise the rent to replace the good land.

Of course, Zhu Shuren is not just using words to propagandize, but each county will find fault and pick a few bad examples, arrest them and cut them directly, and punish them to show the public.

In order to change the people's customs as quickly as possible and eliminate the accumulated evils, there is no way to kill a few people.

In this one-and-a-half-month run-in, Zhu Shuren's original law provisions, which were not too mature, have been further checked and improved.

The law is like this, just by patting the head to legislate, or relying on the foreknowledge of the laws of later generations, it is impossible to be perfect, and the law always has its own rigidity. After the pilot, if the problem is found, it will be corrected in time, so as to better run in and adapt to the people.

After fine-tuning in the closed "special zone experimental field" in Hanzhong, the law of perpetual tenant rights established by Zhu Shuren can basically be summarized as follows:

"The imperial court protects the people's right to perpetual lease of the land, as long as a person cultivates the land well, has top dressing every year, and participates in the maintenance of irrigation and water conservancy facilities in the township where he is located. Then the landlord who rented the land to him could not demand that the tenant change the land, nor could he increase the rent. ”

"On the basis of protecting peasants' peace of mind, the rights of landlords are not completely unprotected. The lease term of the land is 20 years, and no rent increase is allowed under any circumstances during the 20 years.

After 20 years, if the tenant farmer dies of old age, and there is land inheritance or separation, then it is allowed to re-enter into a lease, and the rent can be adjusted as appropriate. If the tenant farmer does not die of old age, then he can plant until he dies of old age according to the original lease, and will remain unchanged for the rest of his life.

In addition, if the landlord increases the rent, he must bear the burden of proof to prove that the tenant has repeatedly failed to participate in the local water conservancy maintenance in the past many years, and has repeatedly farmed the land without top dressing for many years. ”

Zhu Shuren's set of operations is basically similar to the kind of "after the shop rent is opened for people to open a store, the operator can't raise the rent if he doesn't leave the landlord".

And considering the characteristics of the times, it is still a feudal society, Zhu Shuren is so determined, obviously more humane than later generations said that he himself - later generations said that capital pays attention to society, there is economic growth and inflation, if the rent is not increased for decades or hundreds of years, the landlord's income may be worthless after many years.

However, there is obviously no general economic growth in feudal society, basically the per capita GDP of two thousand years is in circulation, and there is no inflation.

Therefore, "as long as the other party is a good citizen to protect the sustainability of the land, the landlord is not allowed to increase the rent", and the landlord's income will not depreciate.

Of course, there may also be officials who will think, "This kind of operation has not made much progress, didn't the Ming Dynasty also have 'Tianpi and Tian Gu', isn't it that the right to lease can also be protected and even inherited for a long time?" It's not much different from the strict perpetual tenant legislation."

But thinking about it this way can only be said to be superficial in understanding the history of ancient law.

The Ming Dynasty is true that there are fields and bones, but to give an inappropriate example, the protective effect of that thing is similar to the clause in the Company Law that "when the shareholders of a limited company want to transfer their equity, the internal shareholders of the company have the right of first refusal under the same conditions than outsiders".

In fact, when trading the company's equity, if the minority shareholder feels that he has been bullied by the major shareholder and wants to transfer the equity and introduce the opponent to check the accounts, how can it give you the opportunity to do it "under the same conditions"?

When the company is valued at 100 million, 10% of the small equity will be transferred, and the major shareholder will offer 10 million, and the minority shareholder can pull an external opponent to sell 20 million, and the one with the highest price will win. At this time, the so-called "priority purchase under the same conditions" is meaningless at all, and the seller will not give you the opportunity to just have the same conditions.

In the previous Ming Dynasty, the landlords dealt with the Tianpi Tiangu system, in fact, the reason was similar. He will not directly ask for the illegal deprivation of the tenant's right to rent, he will only tell you that the rent will be increased when the term is up.

If you refuse to go up, there is a new person next to you who is willing to rise, or the tenant will also promise to increase the rent, or there is a way for you to not get along, or you will change to a piece of land of equal size that seems to be about the same on the surface at present, and give the good land to people who are more willing to be exploited at a higher price.

Therefore, the method of radical cure still depends on "as long as the parties concerned have top dressing and participate in water conservancy maintenance on time, the landlord will never have the right to increase the rent."

Of course, there must be advantages and disadvantages for Zhu Shuren to do this, and the landlords are not purely at a loss in this reform, but they also make money, because they have not increased the rent, but they can benefit from "the tenants have perseverance and no longer destroy the fields" in the long run.

The real losers in this change are actually the pure homeless people who want to flee to other places to escape the desert and rent land.

Because the biggest competitive advantage of the original displaced people is that they can withstand a higher degree of slavery, other local tenant farmers who can survive may be accustomed to the four public and six people, or five or five cents.

However, when the displaced people first came and wanted to rent land, they might be willing to accept the three-seven opening directly, and seventy percent of them belonged to the landlords. It is this kind of competitiveness that the displaced people have always relied on to squeeze out the share of local tenants a little, and to get a piece of land in the cracks and rent it first.

This is like the first time in later generations, when the north drifting and Shanghai drifting do not have a skill, it is often easier to accept 996/007. If the locals can't roll up, they can take the initiative to roll up, and they can squeeze out a little job opportunity to ensure that they don't starve to death, and first gain a firm foothold in Beihu.

Now Zhu Shuren's legislation forcibly prohibits the increase of land rent, which is tantamount to blocking the homeless people from lowering their prices to improve their competitiveness.

Just like the Swedish labor law in later generations forcibly prohibiting overtime, those employees who have no skills and are only willing to 996 will lose their competitiveness-

Later, in 2015, there was a once famous streaming music platform in Sweden, called Spotify, and there was a classic example, they hired several Chinese programmers to hide from their bosses maliciously and illegally work overtime (that is, the company and the leaders in charge told them to stop working overtime and work slowly, they also pretended to work overtime after work and secretly returned to the company to work overtime, and were caught by the big data monitoring of the labor inspection agency), and then they were arrested and detained, and the company was severely punished, so that they did not dare to hire Chinese programmers for a considerable period of time.

When the imperial court sets the minimum wage, if you employ people below this wage, it will be a direct offense.

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Zhu Shuren has such strict legislation, and has drastically formulated various "government guidance prices and government price limits" for economic operation.

Moreover, Zhu Shuren's current approach can already be called "domineering", how can he, a governor, talk to himself locally about this kind of reform?

Chen Junzhong considered that his intentions were not bad, so he persuaded him tactfully, feeling that the government should not take care of too much of the matter of words and benefits, and should be discussed by the people themselves.

He also took out the lesson that "Wang Mang also forbade the sale of land, stipulated the currency system, and all kinds of tossing, and finally did not solve the problem that the poor had no place to stand at the end of the Western Han Dynasty, and the country was lost", and felt that the politicians should be gentle and inactive in the economy.

Zhu Shuren also knew that this person was just ignorant, not that there was a moral problem, so he didn't embarrass him, and the sentence "In troubled times, use heavy codes, and at this point, if you don't protect the bottom price of the poor people's lives, it will be too late for them to be pulled away by the thieves", and directly exposed it.

At this time, if you can not use the reason of "overstepping your authority" to confront him, then you can win unity.

Zhu Shuren acted so resolutely, of course, he also encountered some resistance. After all, the gentry in Hanzhong were not completely killed by Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and Luo Rucai a few years ago, and still left a handful.

Some of these people were not known for raising land rents to force the peasants to destructively farm, and the butcher's knife did not hit them in the first place.

But Zhu Shuren gradually changed the law in the local area, and established the permanent prohibition of unconditional rent increases into the law, and these people also realized that something was wrong and wanted to resist - after all, there was still a big gap between the rent that was not raised much in the past, and the power to raise rent unconditionally forever in the future.

Who doesn't want to take advantage of the famine year to annex more land and increase the conditions for exploitation.

So these people moved out of the Great Ming Law, out of the ancestral system of Emperor Taizu, and even all kinds of excuses to obstruct it.

Of course, Zhu Shuren was unceremonious, and picked a few more thorns to punish him.

Among them, very few even dared to threaten Zhu Shuren, putting on the story of "There are people in my family in Beijing, which cabinet elder and which ministry squire is a distant relative of our family/old friends", reminding Zhu Shuren that "the governor is only temporary, and in the future, the elders in Beijing will free up their hands, and you will have to pay the price sooner or later for doing anything wrong here"!

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Shuren immediately arrested these people in the name of "interfering in local administration and slandering the reputation of certain ministries and cabinets in Beijing by pretending to be related."

"How can Zhou Ge Lao, Xu Butang, and Zhang Butang have a rat like you? Don't think that the emperor of Hanzhong Tiangao is far away, and if you pretend to ruin people's reputation here, you can get away with it! ”

Then directly picked a little typical killing, if the "impersonation" behavior involves the whole family, and the whole family comes forward to defend, then the whole family is killed!

After killing a dozen or so families a little, two or three in each county, the matter will be settled.

All parts of Hanzhong realized that this Governor of the country was definitely a thief. Now that resisting is looking for death, it is better to wait for Guanzhong to be pacified and the road out of Sichuan to be calm, so that you can rush to Beijing, and then it is not too late to sue this Zhu Shuren!

Heroes don't eat the losses in front of them, and now that Hanzhong is isolated by thieves, why should they die in vain at this juncture.

As everyone knows, Zhu Shuren dared to do this, because he was sure that these people would never be able to contact those old ministers in Beijing.

In Zhu Shuren's eyes, the high-ranking civil and official groups in Beijing are already dead.

Even if they dare to surrender to Li Zicheng in the future and not die for the time being, Zhu Shuren will not allow these people to take refuge in the three family slaves after the recovery of the north in the future.

The thieves will be short of scholars, and the orthodox court will never be short of scholars. Killing all of them and having another group of officials at the top does not require much sophisticated professional bureaucratic skills -- the imperial examination does not test specific professional management skills.

Science and technology talents may also have to cherish it, and management positions can be added one after another in any era, and they will not be broken.

Who doesn't want to be an official, Zhu Yuanzhang killed so many officials during the period, and he can find countless people who are willing to be officials.

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In this way, the iron fist and iron blood were pushed for a month and a half, and by August, the soldiers and civilians of Hanzhong had quickly passed the painful period and began to appreciate the benefits of the rule of the country.

At least now the people are no one who dares to cheat and play tricks, let them participate in the maintenance of water conservancy, they are all obediently maintained, and the corn planted, after a month and a half of growth, is also in good condition.

After the corn is planted, it generally takes less than ten days to see the ground budding out of the ground, and in about a month, the corn seedlings begin to joint, which can become hard and straight stalks, only softer than sugarcane.

At this point, the local farmers, although they have never planted corn, have seen sugarcane and know that the growth of this new crop is fine.

Farmers are the most particular about seeing is believing, seeing with their own eyes that this crop can still continue to rise in the case of such a scarce amount of irrigation, everyone will believe it, knowing that this thing really uses very little water, and it is very suitable for the surrounding areas of Shaanxi when Chongzhen was dry for many years.

The farmers' confidence and enthusiasm are also higher, and they work hard every day, waiting for another two and a half months, and a bumper harvest at the end of October.

Just when the civil armament of Hanzhong was gradually on the right track, the prince sent by the imperial court to announce the decree finally went around from Chongqing and came to Hanzhong again.

However, the victims of the Hanzhong gentry who were looking forward to regaining contact with the Beijing court were probably going to be disappointed.

Because when the prince was far away in the Golden Bull Road, Zhu Shuren had already targeted the other party in advance, every move of the court envoy, and where the daily itinerary was fast or slow, Zhu Shuren was all clear.

Therefore, when the prince arrived in Nanzheng, it was impossible to see the changes that actually took place in Hanzhong in the past month and a half.

He could only see what Zhu Shuren asked him to see, those things that were posed.

Zhu Shuren will also continue to play the appearance of loyalty and righteousness, and actively prepare for the posture of the Northern Expedition from Hanzhong, which seems that he has been worrying about Chongzhen.