Looking at the proud appearance of the imperial grandson, Yang Feng was also very emotional!

This is the result that the imperial grandson wants.

In fact, he just wanted to complete his recognition of his imperial identity in front of the subjects of the world in advance.

Anyway, his grandfather is not taboo about this kind of thing, he doesn't need to be like those princes of other dynasties, be honest, and don't make people feel very anxious......

Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't care about this.

He is like a pure old farmer, watching his children and grandchildren start to take charge of the family business, and then he can finally dry the roots of the wall, looking at the diligence of the heir with a gratifying gaze, this was the case for Zhu Biao before, but now he is getting older and older, and even more so for Zhu Yunxi, in fact, he never thought of changing the heir, whether he supported Zhu Yunxi or Zhu Di, his purpose was just to try to get Zhu Yunxi on the right path he thought.

That is, stay away from Yang Feng's bewitchment, and keep a distance from Yang Feng.

The Ming Dynasty needs the new technologies brought by Yang Feng, but it does not need the heresies brought by Yang Feng, just like our Westernists in the late Qing Dynasty.

Ming learning is the body, and summer learning is for use.

Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Di are just his tools.

And now Zhu Yunxi has solved the prestige of his two uncles in one fell swoop, and just took the opportunity to establish his status as emperor in front of the subjects of the world.

Tell Zhu Yunwen and Zhu Di......

Die!

It's useless.

I'm the real thing!

At this moment, in the long live of the mountain, the imperial grandson who walked on the hill with a crown seemed to be rehearsing his accession to the throne......

"The imperial grandson has grown up after all."

Yang Feng said.

"Ambassador, have you had enough?"

Xie Cheng said.

"Yongping Hou, I'm just fulfilling my promise, even if it's the common people, I have to do the same thing as I promised others, since you want me to be the middleman, then of course I want to be fair and just."

"Ah, fair and just, why didn't the river god come?"

"People are immortals, how can they keep staring at the mortal world, as long as you don't break your promise, of course there is no need for the river god to come, but if you break your promise, then it's hard to say."

"So what does the ambassador want us to deliver?"

Xie Cheng said.

Of course, it is impossible for the imperial grandson to come forward to negotiate such a thing.

Therefore, next, Zhaoyi, the protector of the country, and the commander-in-chief of the three societies in Hedong, will represent the more than 2 million people in Shanxi to which the three societies belong, and officially start negotiations with the Marquis of Yongping.

"First, amnesty."

Yang Feng said.

"However, Your Majesty has made it clear that once the rebellion in Shanxi is settled, that is, all the people involved during the amnesty period, whether it is the rebels in the counties during the initial northward trip to Taiyuan, or the capital elected afterwards, plus the previous warring with the imperial court in Tianjing Pass, will all be pardoned for their crimes, but these clubs, all of them must be disbanded afterwards, and as for those commanders, Your Majesty will reward them with a position."

Xie Cheng said.

"Then find an opportunity to seize their handles, and then settle accounts with the court law?"

"The ambassador laughed, as long as they don't break the law in the future, the court will have no handle to arrest if they want to!"

"Breaking the law or not breaking the law, in the end, it's not your official words, but you don't have to worry about this matter, I will hire them, from the commander to the capital, and then send them to Fengzhou River to open up wasteland and farm."

"If you have something to do in the future, send them back to raise your arms and shout?"

"Yongping Hou is really professional."

Yang Feng said with a smile.

Xie Cheng just smiled slightly.

Everyone understands that it is impossible not to settle accounts after the autumn.

Even if the imperial court doesn't settle accounts after the autumn, the magistrates, and the gentry who were forced to donate before, will also have to settle accounts with these people after the autumn.

During this time, of course, it was impossible for the people to pay for their own expenses, they were all forced to donate from the gentry from all over Shanxi, either you stood up and took the lead against the imperial court, or you paid for the food, and we stood up against the imperial court. Those gentry were afraid of the imperial court's settlement of accounts after the autumn, of course they didn't dare to come out and take the lead, in fact, their intestines were about to regret at this time, it was indeed they who followed the river god to do things first, but they just wanted to force the Jin clan away, but they came to the present step by step......

This is already a rebellion.

So I definitely don't dare to take the lead, so I can only cry and pay for food.

And after the order is restored, these gentry will eventually have some local power, and then collude with the magistrates and not retaliate against those leaders!

But Yang Feng's move made this knife always hang, if the court or local officials and gentry really retaliated against the people involved, then in this process, these have established prestige, and the commanders can come back at any time to raise their arms, and then let Shanxi fall into rebellion again in a very short time.

Xie Cheng is also a rebel, and he is a professional.

"Second, military households must divide the land."

Yang Feng said.

Xie Cheng nodded silently.

This is already a must, you must know that the imperial court still has to rely on Shanxi military households after all, and it is impossible for the emperor to change the batch of military households to garrison Shanxi.

Even not only Shanxi military households, but also military households in other places have begun to demand land division.

If the emperor refuses, then it is likely that it is not just the Shanxi military household, not to mention that he himself has no confidence in this system after knowing the erosion of the military household system, so the reform of the military household land system is necessary, but a new system has not been decided for the time being, after all, this is not just as simple as dividing the land, if the land is divided, then how to solve the military food in the future? There is also the problem of the transfer of military households, it is very common for military households to be transferred because of various problems, if the land is divided, then how can it be transferred? And if the land is divided, what will happen to the surplus land that will be added in the future? Originally, Yu Ding was also given the land by the guard, although it was halved compared to the regular soldiers, but their land was also given by the guard.

The surplus of military households is increasing, so how can the guard solve their land?

In short, it is not something that can be solved by simply dividing the land in one sentence.

"Third, the field is free of grain."

Yang Feng said.

"Ambassador, as long as you guarantee the food supply of Shanxi Xingdusi, and ensure that Shanxi's industrial and commercial tax revenue exceeds the current two million stone every year, the imperial court can be exempted from grain, and as for Juntian, it is the easiest, Your Majesty is just a holy decree. This does not require the court to pay, and the court has no loss, at most, His Majesty will compensate the landlords who have been divided into fields, and give their families a show of talent. ”

Xie Cheng said.

"So, why don't you contract me Shanxi's taxes?"

Yang Feng said.

As he spoke, he looked at the imperial grandson who had already begun to worship the heavens.

This ritual of sacrificing to the heavens is very cumbersome, and it must be done step by step in strict accordance with the procedure, and the process of Yuan Datou's sacrifice to the heavens takes more than an hour!

Although the imperial grandson is not as an emperor, the process must also be in accordance with etiquette.

"Just like those lustful people in Hu Yuan's time?"

Xie Cheng said.

That's a good idea.

In fact, for the imperial court, the key is this free grain, that is, Shanxi's annual more than two million stones, which is the largest tax in the north, especially the military supplies for Shanxi Xingdu, if Yang Feng can ensure that the imperial court will not lose this income, Shanxi Xingdu Division will not lack this supply, then simply like Hu Yuan to adopt the tax package system to contract Shanxi's tax revenue to Yang Feng, but let the imperial court save a lot of trouble.

After all, maintaining a tax system also requires a lot of investment.

Collection, storage, transportation, and management all have to support a certain amount of manpower alone, but if you use the tax package system, you don't have to worry about it at all.

It's all the tax contractor's own.

And this system is not without precedent, after all, the vast majority of taxes in the Hu Yuan era were contracted.

"But if I am allowed to collect taxes, then in addition to salt or the imperial court, other things such as tea will be liberalized in Shanxi."

Yang Feng said.

"I'll play Your Majesty."

Xie Cheng said.

In fact, as long as you don't let go of the salt industry.

Tea is indeed an important material for changing horses at present, but this is not about Shanxi.

Shanxi can't grow tea, and it's useless for Shanxi to open up, anyway, the outside is still imported by the imperial court, at most, it is more free to trade in Shanxi.

As for the rest, it's not worth mentioning.

"Fourth, the terms must be written in black and white as a covenant, and the emperor's grandson must sign it, and His Majesty will seal it."

Yang Feng said.

Xie Cheng nodded silently.

In fact, this is the most important question......

The Son of Heaven and the people were allied, and the emperor and the people were brought to an equal position.

Covenant......

First of all, equality can be a covenant, one is high, the other is kneeling, this is not called a covenant, although it can be beautified with some nice words, but as long as the emperor and the people make a covenant, in fact, there is no difference between the two sides. Fortunately, this is not something that Xie Cheng needs to worry about, and the emperor at this time originally started from the lowest level of the people, and he asked for food, no matter how low it is, no matter how low it is, it is a slave, but a slave and a maid are not ordinary people, and in terms of the identity of the common people, there is indeed no lower than the emperor.

So he shouldn't be too concerned about it.

In this way, in the process of the emperor's grandson's sacrifice to the sky, Yang Feng and Xie Cheng respectively represented the two sides of the negotiation and completed the core content of the negotiation ahead of schedule.

And the imperial grandson was on Huanqiu, in the eyes of hundreds of thousands of people, wearing a crown and continuing the ceremony of worshipping the sky.

The whole process lasted for half an hour, and with the burning of the sacrificial text announcing the heavens in the furnace, the river god incident that stirred up the panic of the entire northern people in Daming was officially over.

As for the next negotiations, there is no suspense.

Yang Feng's four all agreed.

Then there is the choice of returning to Ming or returning to Song, and there is no suspense as for this choice.

The conditions were agreed, of course, I chose to return to Daming.

After the news that the people of Shanxi chose to return to the Ming Dynasty reached the capital, His Majesty the Emperor announced an amnesty the next day, and not only an amnesty for Shanxi, but also an amnesty for the whole country, so that it was not coerced by the people of Shanxi, but His Majesty the Emperor was in a very good mood for a while because he dreamed that the emperors of the Great Song Dynasty came to thank him, so he was in a very good mood for a while, and he felt that he could finally be leveled in the four seas, so he was amnesty as soon as he was happy.

The division of military households has also become a reform of the military household system, but this reform cannot be rash, so a pilot is needed to test it, and the Shanxi Metropolitan Command Department was finally selected as the pilot.

Juntian ...... in Shanxi

This has become a Shanxi landlord enthusiastically donating land......

Offering soil for fame, offering 100 acres of land for a show of fame, offering 1,000 acres of land for a meritorious name.

Those who donate 10,000 acres of land will be directly given the same Jinshi background.

However, Shanxi does not have 10,000 acres of large landowners, so in fact, it is just a bunch of shows.

Then these lands were given by His Majesty the Emperor to those tenants to cultivate, not to divide the land, but those landlords for the sake of their descendants for the sake of the merits of their descendants, had to give the land to the Emperor, and of course it was useless for the Emperor to take it, so His Majesty the Merciful Emperor gave these lands to the tenants who originally cultivated, but these lands were official land, and the tenants had the right to cultivate but not the right to trade.

Guantian is to be re-endowed.

And Guantian can be traded.

However, these official fields in Shanxi are not heavily endowed, so they cannot be traded.

Food-free ......

Of course, it can't be exempted from grain, and the exemption of taxes in Shanxi is not exempt from other provinces, so isn't that forcing other provinces to rebel?

Grain exemption is definitely not exempt, but Shanxi's taxes are all contracted to Ambassador Yang, as for how he collects it has nothing to do with the imperial court, Shanxi is how to pay taxes and how to pay in the imperial court, but these taxes are collected by Ambassador Yang and then handed over, and it is his own business not to collect them, as long as he does not lose the share to the imperial court every year.

Shanxi's two classes in summer and autumn add up to 2.8 million stones.

As long as Yang Feng handed over 2.8 million stone millet and wheat to the imperial court a year, then he could collect taxes as he pleased.

But the salt industry cannot be touched.

The salt pond and salt introduction in the east of the river are still the same as in the past.

The covenant in black and white, of course, also exists, in duplicate, but the copy of the people of Shanxi is handed over to Ambassador Yang for safekeeping, and the imperial court's share is of course hidden in the palace like an iron coupon, so as long as Ambassador Yang does not hold the world's propaganda, it is equivalent to secrecy. If the people of Shanxi want to verify, of course they can ask Ambassador Yang to see it, but Ambassador Yang will not take the initiative to spread it, and there is no one that can be spread nationwide in this era.

The newspaper is from the imperial court and will definitely not be disseminated.

So Zhu Yuanzhang signed very happily.

One is that his mentality is not so high that he can never bow to Diao Min, which is very important, deep down he actually understands that he and the people are equal, and he has not knelt down when he asks for food, and second, he knows very well that as long as he does not tell the world, then this covenant will not be spread, at most it will be placed in Yang Feng's place, and this guy will be used to find trouble in the future.

On the one hand, the people of Shanxi recognized Zhu Yuanzhang's recovery of the Three Jin Dynasty and rescued them from Hu Yuan's tyranny, as a thank you to Zhu Yuanzhang, the people of the Three Jin Dynasty surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang for generations, took Zhu Yuanzhang as the ruler and protector of the Three Jin Dynasty, and claimed the right to rule and protect his heirs.

Although the essence is the same, the definition of imperial power has changed.

In fact, the Confucian scholars were already wary of this covenant, because it changed the doctrine of Destiny that they had been preaching.

They lost the right to interpret the legitimacy of imperial power.

But......

This covenant opened the door to a new world for them.

Because this is the choice of the people.

The choice of the people becomes the explanation of the legitimacy of the imperial power, in other words, if the people do not choose, the imperial power is not legitimate.

And the Confucian scholars, or the gentry behind them......

That's the people, too!

For the first time, they were given a basis to restrain imperial power.

Therefore, compared with the relatively illusory things, the benefits of reality are more important after all.

(End of chapter)