Zhangqiu County.

As truckloads of southern rice came in, grain prices in Zhangqiu County avalanche.

From the previous sky-high price of three taels of silver per bucket, it has dropped to three hundred wen per bucket, and no one wants it.

This made the local grain merchants and squires anxious, and they couldn't wait to find the grain depot of the imperial grandson and burn all the stored grain of the imperial grandson!

However, Zhu Yunxi had long distrusted the local government and guards after the Shandong Metropolitan Command Chen Zhi, and the people of Jinyiwei and Xingwuwei brought with him were responsible for all the grain from landing to transshipment.

In order to ensure the distribution of food, he also transferred the Shandong school administration and mobilized the students of the county schools and governments throughout Shandong, and let them be responsible for copying and writing.

At present, the students in the county school in Zhangqiu County, under the command of the local teacher, are responsible for registering the victims who came to receive food.

Each household is issued according to the registered population on the Yellow Book, regardless of whether it has been imported in the past two years, or whether the Ding Kou has not had time to be registered, the population is recorded according to the previous Yellow Book.

If you have more, you will not return, and if you have less, you will not make up for it!

Wang Dali was also in the army of relief food, listening to the people around him complaining, because of the lack of food at home, he sold his house and land to the local squire at a low price, and when he didn't know what to live on in the future, Wang Dali's heart was full of pride.

Fortunately, I married a good mother-in-law, and I would rather sell her than let us sell it, or we will have to worry like them now!

Wang Dali was fortunate to survive the disaster and keep what little land he had and two adobe houses.

But the others were not so lucky, and they were already out of the feast of this round of land annexation.

Zhu Yunxi wandered in Zhangqiu County, listening to the complaints of the people around him, and his heart rippled again.

"Master Gao, how can you get those squires to spit out the land they bought at a low price before?"

Gao Ming was very happy when he heard this, and he was happy that he could have a lord who was dedicated to the people.

But for what Zhu Yunxi said, he shook his head helplessly.

"It's hard!"

"It's very difficult!"

"Although the local tyrants and gentry are hateful, their actions are completely within the laws of the Ming Dynasty and have not violated the law!"

"Unless you use the Jinyi Guard, force them to return the land, and call on the local people to report it......

"But in this way, you can offend all the scholars and officials in the world to death, and I am afraid that the name of your future will not be much better than that of Your Majesty today."

Gao Ming's words can be regarded as heart-wrenching, and even his own class has betrayed, and he wholeheartedly supports Zhu Yunxi.

Zhu Yunxi was also very moved to see Gao Ming able to say this, and he was even more glad that he didn't recognize the wrong person.

"Thank you Master Gao for the reminder!"

"But Lone is never meant to be grateful, and he doesn't have to worry about any posthumous name!"

When Gao Ming heard this, after feeling Zhu Yunxi's firm confidence, he spoke again to dissuade him.

"Actually, if Your Highness wants the landless peasants to regain their land, you can be a little softer and don't have to make too much trouble......

"What's the solution?"

"Lend money to landless peasants and let them redeem it from their buyers. Then, you order the government to cooperate, and then let the Jinyi guard beat the side drum, and most of this thing can be done!"

Zhu Yunxi's eyes lit up when he heard this, he was not short of money or food, and he was fully capable of doing this.

If they were forced to surrender their land, it would inevitably lead to anger and resentment, and even shake the foundation of the Ming law.

But if the landless peasants are allowed to redeem their land, this is reasonable and legal!

"Yes!"

Gao Ming saw that Zhu Yunxi agreed so happily, and hurriedly reminded.

"Your Highness Shengming!"

"But Your Highness's move will cost a lot, I'm afraid it will not be less than tens of millions!"

This is also the reason why Gao Ming didn't say this strategy for the first time, because this strategy is too costly, even if the imperial grandson has the name of Tao Zhugong, it is difficult to come up with so much money, right?

Zhu Yunxi smiled slightly when he heard this.

"You don't have to worry about money!"

"Besides, doing this kind of thing doesn't necessarily cost money, maybe I can still make some money?"

"Make money?"

When Gao Ming heard this, he didn't believe it in his heart.

How can this kind of thing make money?

However, Zhu Yunxi didn't have the slightest idea of explaining, and happily got into the carriage and prepared to go back to pit people.

Qi Wangfu.

Although Zhu Rong, the king of Qi, entered Beijing, the machine of the Qi Wangfu was still running normally, and he kept in touch with the king of Qi through letters.

After Zhu Yunxi released the news of the draft, Wu Shou'an, the brother-in-law of Princess Qi and the Wu family, secretly collected folk women at the behest of Princess Qi.

For this reason, more than a dozen stunning beauties were collected, plus 10,000 palace maids.

They thought that this move could win the favor of the imperial grandson and seek greater power for the future Qi Palace.

Which Cheng thought, only ten days later, he received an order issued by the imperial grandson, saying that there had never been a matter of choosing a concubine, and it was completely a trick done by the unscrupulous eunuch Wang De privately!

When Princess Qi heard this, she was so angry that she almost vomited blood.

In order to choose a concubine for the emperor's grandson, she spent more than 100,000 taels of silver, plus thousands of stones of grain!

When the king of Qi comes back from the capital in the future, he learns that he has lost so much silver, and he still has to kill himself?

"It's all your fault, I have to come up with some bad idea to contribute a concubine to the imperial grandson, now it's okay, I have lost a lot of money, and the favor has not yet fallen!"

Wu Shou'an, who was standing respectfully on the side, was also very aggrieved, who knew that the eunuchs beside the imperial grandson could be so bold?

However, he did not admit to losing money.

Although this wave was played by the emperor's grandson, they collected millions of acres of land at the beginning of the drought, and they had already made a lot of money.

Compared with this wave of gains, the loss of more than 100,000 taels of silver is simply insignificant!

"Eldest sister, you can't say that, didn't we help His Royal Highness King Qi collect millions of acres of land, this is a lot of silver, how can it be regarded as a meritorious achievement, right?"

When Princess Qi heard this, her face looked slightly better.

But this thing was done disgracefully, if His Majesty the Emperor knew about it, their Qi Wangfu would definitely be reprimanded.

"Don't say this kind of thing anymore, if it reaches the ears of the imperial historian and impeachs our prince, we will all have to go around without food!"

Wu Shouan didn't care.

"Sister, you're too careful, aren't you?"

"The Yan Wangfu collects more than us, and the Zhou Wangfu is said to have received the entire Kaifeng land to his own home, and he didn't see His Majesty the Emperor reprimanding them?"

"Besides, a million acres is a lot?"

"There are so many officials and generals in our Qi Palace, thousands of households, hundreds of households, and it is nothing for each family to share a little!"

Princess Qi nodded when she heard this, and at the same time had some resentment towards His Majesty the Emperor.

His Majesty the Emperor is also yes, what is it enough to give only 10,000 taels of silver every year?

The palace is such a big mess, not to mention the annual expenses of the three guards and horses, just the expenses of the palace are enough for 108,000 yuan of silver a year.

If you move around a little more diligently with the officials and nobles in the capital, it will take 200,000 taels of silver to barely make ends meet.

There are also ladies in the palace, and they also have to be filial piety during the New Year's Festival, which is also a lot of expenses.

"You're right!"

"Your Majesty treats you princes very well, and you shouldn't get angry because of this little thing......

While the two were talking, the voice of a small eunuch suddenly came from outside the door.

"Princess Qiyu, the imperial grandson has sent someone to pass on the message, please come over!"

"Oh?"

Princess Qi couldn't help frowning when she heard this, and couldn't help but complain.

"What kind of moth is this imperial grandson doing?"

"If it weren't for his nosy disaster relief, how could our Qi Wangfu only collect a million acres of land, and it should be green

All the land in the state capital will be returned to our royal government......

"Eldest sister, you better go and take a look, what if there is anything big about the emperor's grandson?"

"Big deal?"

Princess Qi pursed her lips disdainfully.

"He can do anything big but reprimand us."

"But he's really, he's just a grandson of the emperor, so he dares to reprimand his elders. If we become emperors in the future, we must not be deceived into going to the capital and locked up!"

When Wu Shouan heard this, he hurriedly opened his mouth to persuade.

"Eldest sister, don't say this nonsense, if it reaches the ears of Jinyiwei, our Qi Wangfu won't be able to eat and walk around!"

Princess Qi regretted it after speaking, but she was embarrassed to admit it in front of her younger brother.

"It's just the two of us in the house, if you don't say it, if I don't say it, who else will know?"

At this moment, there was a crisp sound of "pop" outside the door.

When Princess Qi heard this voice, she trembled with fright.

"What's the sound?"

"Back to ...... Returning to the princess, the slave accidentally broke the teacup......

Princess Qi was furious when she heard this.

"Bastard!"

"Come on, drag this out and hit the *** board again!"

After Princess Qi disposed of the maid, she drove her younger brother out.

"You go and entertain the messenger first, and I'll change my clothes and then I'll go over."

"Okay!"

Wu Shouan came to the front hall and saw that the person who came to deliver the message was wearing a flying fish suit, and there was a waist tag pinned to his waist, and his heart suddenly sank.

"Are you all blind, why don't you hurry up and serve tea to the brothers of Jinyiwei!"

Hearing this, Jinyi Wei Baihe Tian Hiroshi hurriedly refused.

"No trouble!"

"Leave after passing the edict!"

Wu Shouan wanted to come forward when he heard this, but was pushed away by Tian Hong.

"Please Lord Wu respect yourself, I have the emperor's order in my humble position, and it is inconvenient to greet you!"

Wu Shouan directly made a big red face, and hated this brocade guard to death in his heart.

How did they say that the Wu family was also after the gate, and his father was also chasing Jiang Guogong, but he was ignored by a little brocade guard!

"Since this superior said so, then Weichen will not order someone to serve tea!"

"Remove the tea!"

"No!"

After the maid went down with the tea, the entire front hall fell into freezing point in an instant.

Tian Hong didn't want to speak, and Wu Shouan didn't want to speak, so he waited until Princess Qi was dressed neatly, and then Tian Hong took out a handwritten message from his arms with a businesslike attitude.

"The Emperor's Grandson's Edict!"

"I heard that recently, many squires, officials, and vassal kings in Shandong have bought land at low prices, forced to buy and sell, and have taken advantage of the ......."

"In line with the attitude of being responsible for the Ming Dynasty and the emperor's grandfather, I will send a messenger to strictly investigate the land sale."

"If anyone commits lawlessness, whether it is a vassal king or an official, he will be investigated and punished!"

Tian Hong finished reading the edict and left, leaving only Princess Qi's sister and brother looking at each other.

It was only after Tian Hong walked far away that Princess Qi came to her senses.

"What did he say?"

"He said he would crack down on land sales?"

"Why?"

"The King of Qin, the King of Jin, the King of Yan, and the King of Zhou have all done it, so why should they check us?"

"Is it because we're bullying?"

Wu Shouan was worried when he heard this.

"Sister, why don't we go back?"

"The imperial grandson is deeply loved by His Majesty, if the imperial grandson informs His Majesty about our affairs, Your Majesty will definitely send a thunderous fire......

Princess Qi has fallen into endless grievances, how can she still listen to her brother's words.

"No Return!"

"This is all the land we bought back with money and food, why should we return it!"

"We didn't take advantage of the power of the palace

It's already good to take it, why should he Zhu Yunxi care about us!"

The same drama was also played out in the Lu Palace.

Although King Lu died, he left behind a son, plus a princess of Lu.

Ge Shi is not a fuel-efficient lamp, taking advantage of the drought to buy a lot of land, for the Lu Wangfu and his own family.

Now that she suddenly heard the imperial grandson's edict, she was so angry that she went crazy directly.

"No Return!"

"I won't go back if I am killed!"

"If he, Zhu Yunxi, dares to come to the Lu Wangfu to find trouble, I will put on a command suit and go to beat the Dengwen drum, so that everyone in the world can see how he Zhu Yunxi bullied our orphans and widows, woo woo woo......

Jinan Mansion, the palace of the emperor's grandson.

Zhu Yunxi listened to the report of his subordinate Jin Yiwei and had a new understanding of his relatives.

"Princess Qi said that Lone would trick King Qi into going to the capital and lock him up?"

"Princess Lu said she was going to beat the drum?"

"Tut-tut......

"Sure enough, it's hard for a clean official to cut off family affairs!"

"Since they don't want to retreat, then don't blame me for being black-hearted, hehehe......

After Zhu Yunxi issued the first edict, he issued the second one every few days, followed by the third and fourth ones.

Princess Qi looked at the oracles in front of her, and her whole person was not good.

"What!"

"He, Zhu Yunxi, dared to overturn the law of the Ming Dynasty and collect taxes from our palace?"

"And the tax is levied according to the amount of land occupied, and the more land there is, the heavier the tax?"

"I'm not alive anymore, I'm going to Beijing to sue the royal court, woo woo woo ......

Princess Lu Ge Shi was relatively calm after seeing Zhu Yunxi's hand.

"Taxes based on the amount of land?"

"Cut!"

"What a big deal, if I put the land in the name of the tenant, won't I get it?"

Zhu Yunxi's new decrees mainly include several points, the first of which is to tax all landowners in Shandong. The second point is that those with less than five acres of land per capita are not taxed. The third point is that the land will be determined within one month, and the next 10 years will be subject to the confiscation determined this time, and the land will no longer be accepted for sale and transfer.

Princess Lu Ge immediately put the land under the name of King Lu's mansion under the name of the tenants, and each person had five acres of land, which was definitely not more than at all.

At the same time, the tenants were asked to sign a new deed with them, a deed for the sale and purchase of land, as a supplementary agreement.

In fact, this is also a routine often done by officials and squires in ancient times, that is, relying on various IOUs to restrain tenants.

Coupled with the armed forces they possess, they can fully exert their power on the ground.

After Princess Qi was angry, she also fully borrowed Princess Lu's methods.

Aren't you going to collect taxes on those who have more land, then I'll cut it into pieces and put all the land in the name of the tenants, and see what you do to collect taxes!

Under the vigorous encouragement of Princess Lu and Princess Qi, officials and squires throughout Shandong Province followed suit.

For a time, the local yamen were so busy that they couldn't touch the ground just by dealing with paperwork such as land name change and sale.

A month later, when everyone had completed the procedures for changing their names and transferring their names, Zhu Yunxi issued another novice edict......

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