Jiajing gradually calmed down from his anger and chewed Xiao Feng's words carefully.

He understood what Xiao Feng meant, and admitted that what Xiao Feng said was very reasonable. But this matter itself has an unspeakable mind.

That was the clan pig breeding system of the Ming Dynasty. Since the martyrdom of Zhu Di, the ancestor of Chengzu, he has asked all the clans to not work, and can only enter the pig breeding mode.

Give you fiefdoms, give you money, give you judicial privileges. You give me a comfortable life, don't think about what you have and don't, the main thing is that you don't want to be an emperor.

In fact, this kind of good life that is born with the end of life is happiness for some people, but pain for others.

People who feel happy will enter the mode of enjoyment, and those who feel pain will enter the mode of perversion, such as extreme representatives such as King Yi and King Hui.

For the emperor, as long as the vassal king did not rebel and killed a few ordinary people, it was not a matter at all, and even killing a few petty officials was nothing.

Now Xiao Feng has carried out a clan reform, and the court has defeated the kings and debaters with a mouth cannon, and the court has eliminated King Yi, who has jumped the highest, and greatly deducted the pig feed.

The royal clans were already very angry and breathless, otherwise King Hui would not have provoked Xiao Feng at this time and won a reputation and status in the clan.

If even judicial privileges are not given, then these clans may really be unbearable, and it will be another wave of undercurrents surging and headaches!

Jiajing expressed his meaning euphemistically: "Senior brother, I understand your thoughts, but if you govern a big country, you can't blindly attack with fire."

Which prince's clan is too much, let's clean him up, after all, it's just a case, you don't have to waste food because of choking, the overall change, right? ”

Xiao Feng said with a straight face: "Senior brother has concerns in his heart, and I know it. The reduction of the title is already dissatisfied, and if it is pressed tightly, I am afraid that the situation in the DPRK will be unstable.

But please think about it again, the senior brother worked hard to destroy the White Lotus Sect, and tried his best to make the people have enough food and clothing, just to make the world stable and let the thieves have no chance.

Now the Ming Dynasty is prosperous, the people are happy, if anyone dares to rebel, it is tantamount to raising fire in the river, there is nowhere to light. A mere firefly can be extinguished with a snap of a finger.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about clan rebellion. And if the national fortune of the Ming Dynasty wants to take another step, it is actually to reduce the grievances of the people.

If the fortune of the Ming Dynasty is like a pool of clear water, the people's grievances are like ink. Even if it's just a little bit, if you blend into it, you will eventually make the whole pool of water gradually darker.

The establishment of the Institute of Integrity by the Ming Dynasty was to eradicate corrupt officials and reduce public resentment.

But the fiefdoms of those clan princes have become the extralegal places of the Ming Dynasty. Fish and meat people, rampant, how can the people's grievances not be prosperous? How can the fortunes of the country not be dirty?

At the beginning, the imperial court issued an edict to cancel the rules that conflicted with the laws of the Ming Dynasty in the autonomy of the clan, because of the autonomy of the clan, it would make the clan a country within a country, and luck would not be connected with the Ming Dynasty.

Nowadays, the royal clan is even better than those autonomous clans! The luck of the feudal king's fiefdom will naturally not be integrated into the Ming Dynasty.

The punishment for crimes committed by the clan can be appropriately mitigated, but it must not be left unchecked, so that the clans are unscrupulous. Senior brother, you have to think twice! ”

Jiajing didn't say a word, and the few people next to him didn't speak, only Xiao Feng's aftermath lingered in the fine house. After a long time.

"The proposed decree, from today onwards, shall be subject to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the prince is guilty, the crime will be reduced by three degrees, the county king will be guilty, the crime will be reduced by two degrees, and the clan below the county king will be reduced by one degree."

This is Jiajing's final decision, and it is also the best balance he can find between the law of his ancestors and the luck of the Ming Dynasty. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiao Feng knew that he couldn't be forced to be ruthless, although Da Ming's luck was a carrot with incomparable benefits, but he threw it too many times, even if Jiajing's immortal brain was strong, it would inevitably backlash.

"Long live the wisdom, which not only preserves the dignity of the clan, but also gives the people hope. However, the Zongren Mansion and the Zongjia are in the same breath, and I am afraid that it will be inconvenient to implement.

The magistrate should be given the right to judge the clan below the county king, and of course, the clan government should have the right to hear the trial. The cases of the prince and the prince were tried jointly by the Criminal Department and the Zongren Mansion. ”

Jiajing thought about it, since it was carried out according to the Da Ming Law, it was natural to let the magistrate work, and the Zongren Mansion had never studied the Da Ming Law very much, so he nodded.

"Long live, human life is at stake, although it can be reduced to execution, but if there is a person who kills civilians for no reason, he should be offset with another title.

If the prince has a homicide, after the execution is reduced, the attacker will be demoted to the king of the county, and if the prince of the county has a homicide, he will be demoted to the general of the town after the execution, and so on.

In this way, it will not only deter the clan, but also allow the law-abiding clan to retain the title, and let the clan that has done evil gradually withdraw from the clan. ”

This time Jiajing didn't hesitate too much, originally the last clan reform was to find a way to reduce the number of people in the clan to reduce the burden on the imperial court.

Since you have committed a crime, you will just be downshifted, and after you can't be lowered, you will directly kick out the family that loves each other, which is good.

Two holy decrees, one is to give death to King Hui, and the palace of King Hui is reduced to the common people;

The other is that in order to prevent the recurrence of crimes such as King Yi and King Hui, the imperial court implements the education of love for the clan and implements the law of the Ming Dynasty.

Wherever the second holy decree went, all the clans everywhere were as angry as they were mourning and approving them.

But at this time, the White Lotus Sect had been destroyed, and there was no force to discuss rebellion with them, so they could only pinch their noses and accept it.

Local officials cheered and wept. Finally waited for this day, who knows how aggrieved it is to be a magistrate with a prince's fiefdom!

It feels like nominally the head of the family, but in fact you can't do anything, as long as people get out, you have to get out, otherwise it will be against the will of the prince.

Then when people need you, just say hello, and you have to run over and get busy, otherwise it will be against the will of the prince.

If you really make trouble, the prince should beat you, and if you dare to beat the prince, it will be a big rebellion. If you want to file a complaint, this is how the court etiquette law stipulates.

In the future, it will be different, it will be equal, and local officials will have the right to supervise, and they will stand up from now on!

After the first decree arrived at the Huiwang Mansion, the officials of the Zongren Mansion went to announce the decree together with the local officials.

After announcing the decree, the officials of the Zongren Mansion told the process of Xiyuan's trial again according to Jiajing's instructions.

The case that I tried in person did not take sides, and the whole process told you, so that you can die clearly, and you don't have to shout injustice in front of your ancestors.

After hearing this, King Hui laughed wildly, like an owl injured in the middle of the night.

Correspondingly, the cry of the entire Huiwang Mansion shook the sky, mixed with the sound of hungry tigers.

"I lost, I lost convincingly! It's only to blame me for taking a wrong step and burying the entire Huiwang Mansion. Before I die, I ask the court one last thing! ”

The magistrate and the official of the Zongren Mansion glanced at each other: "Lord Wang, please speak." ”

"After I die, I'm afraid that none of the people in the entire Huiwang Mansion will survive.

The people of Junzhou hate me to the core, and now my children and grandchildren have become commoners. When they walked out of the house, they were bound to be beaten to death by the crowd.

I only ask the two lords to accumulate virtue and do good, escort them to the fiefdom of the king of Zhou, and ask him to take in my children and grandchildren for the sake of blood connection. ”

The official of the Zongren Mansion nodded: "There should be no problem with this." Even if he becomes a commoner, whoever dares to kill it is a capital crime, and the prefect will not let it go. ”

The local official nodded yes, and immediately ordered to arrange for the catchers and soldiers to be in place, and prepare to escort the prince of Hui out of the fiefdom.

King Hui looked at the three-foot white silk and a pot of poisonous wine in front of him, laughed, picked up the poisonous wine, and strode to the tiger cage.

"I'm dead, and you can't live, so you might as well come with me!"

After saying that, he raised the flask and poured it into his mouth! The butler ran over with a crawl, snatched the poisoned wine, and laughed miserably when he saw that there was still half a pot left.

"Lord Wang, it's a dead end for the slave to go out, and half a pot of wine is left, reward it to the slave, and the slave will accompany the prince on the road!"

King Hui nodded, kicked open the small door of the iron cage, and went straight in. The butler drank the remaining half of the pot and got into it.

After King Hui was imprisoned pending trial, there was no one to feed the tigers at all, and the tigers had long been hungry to death, and they had long since gotten rid of their picky eaters.

The two of them stared at the cage door every day, just like older single men and women as they grew older, and their hearts changed day by day.

Two days ago, why didn't you send people in? Don't fool us with whole chickens, ducks, live sheep and the like, we don't like to eat!

After two days, why don't you send live sheep in? Don't whole chickens and ducks or anything like that, live sheep are still big meat, chickens and ducks can't!

In two days, why don't you send chickens and ducks in? Chickens and ducks are alive, and we don't eat the dead!

In two days, why don't you bring food in, just eat, whether he is alive or dead, even if it stinks!

At this moment, two big living people came in, just like a single old cow who suddenly saw tender grass......

The two tigers pounced frantically, and they didn't care about picking fat and thin, one tiger pressed down the other, and began to bite wildly, but the two of them were already poisonous, and they didn't let out a scream.

The magistrate and the officials of the Zongren Mansion didn't have time to evade, and witnessed a scene of tigers eating people, and couldn't help but vomit frantically on their desks.

By the time they had finished spitting, the two tigers had eaten almost the people, and then let out an earth-shattering tiger roar and began to hit the iron cage frantically.

The huge iron cage was buzzed and swayed, and after a long time, the tiger finally couldn't bear the poisonous attack, and fell on the edge of the tiger cage, black blood flowing from its mouth and nose.

The 300 soldiers of the Huiwang Mansion were confiscated by the soldiers defending the city and sent to the capital military headquarters for other arrangements. The two masters of the rivers and lakes saw that the situation was not good, and they had already fled.

As King Hui expected, as soon as King Hui's wife and daughter Sun went out, the people who had already surrounded King Hui's mansion were instantly furious, and stones and clods of soil fell like raindrops.

King Hui's princess did not leave the house, she committed suicide by hanging herself. Although Xiao Feng tried her best to avoid indiscriminate killing of innocents, some people were destined to not survive, even if she was not guilty.

King Hui has many family members, and the soldiers escort a large number of people forward, and it is inevitable that there will be loopholes. The people whose families were killed by King Hui were like wolves following cattle and sheep, chasing after them.

From time to time, there are soldiers who cannot protect people in time, and then they are instantly pulled into the crowd by the people, and when the soldiers want to turn back and save them, it is too late.

In the back, the soldiers no longer cared about the people who fell behind, and only cared about the core personnel running wildly, finally highlighting the encirclement of the people and sending them to the fief of King Zhou.

Xuanhe's Huiwang Mansion disappeared for a while. Since then, no clan or local official has dared to offer any immortal prescription to Jiajing.

Because they suddenly found that they don't know why, everyone who has offered immortal prescriptions has not ended up well.

Whether it is the Yan father and son who used the red lead pill, or Zhao Wenhua who offered the Baihua Immortal Wine, and the King Hui who paid tribute to the true cake, each one died worse than the other.

It seems that someone is deliberately blocking this kind of thing, and the messy immortal medicine is gradually integrated into a universal elixir - Daming Guoyun.

Far away in the old mansion of Xu Mansion in Songjiang Mansion, Xu Fan was dressed in white, sitting under the loquat tree in front of the court, playing chess on the chessboard alone.

The chess pieces on the chessboard were chaotic and seemed to be a chaotic game, but he concentrated and did not lose a single piece for half a day.

A concubine brought him hot tea, replaced the old tea he had at hand, and stood behind him to help him knead his shoulders.

"Master, this chess game is so strange, above Tianyuan, white three black and one, above the corners, black and white entangled, but there are so many empty hinterlands, how can there be such a chess game?"

Xu Fan was silent, sighed, and picked up the white chess pieces on the hinterland for a long time, thought about it, and picked up more than a dozen white chess pieces with similar positions.

Then, in the blank space of the hinterland, seven or eight white seeds fell, and a few black seeds were directly replaced with white seeds. This is not a game of Go, but it is also a means of conquering cities.

"King Hui is finished, and the two holy decrees are over, and those princes like him have also become wasted chess. The power of the magistrates has become greater, but it is not known whether it is black or white.

After Tan Tong and Liu Tai were arrested, seven or eight former Yan Party officials had already taken refuge with their fathers. Even a few who originally took refuge in the Xiao Party have reversed.

This game of chess has just begun, and there is still room to be played. Ting'er, you are helping your wife take care of the accounts, how is your income this month? ”

Ting'er squeezed her shoulders and smiled: "It's not bad." Now the wharf is under construction, but many foreign ships can't wait anymore and secretly send people ashore to negotiate business.

Our Xu family and other clans have already negotiated the distribution ratio, at least the merchant ships in Songjiang Mansion are in the hands of our families.

Originally, those smuggling boats were also ours, the people were still those people, and the ships were still those ships, but they were repaired and changed their names. ”

Xu Fan nodded: "The matter of land must be grasped quickly." For example, in today's seed giving shop, the seeds of new crops are sold every six months.

Those are all they got from overseas, and like the sweet potatoes before, the yield is very large, and they can make money just by farming.

What's more, the construction of the port terminal is faster than expected, and silk and porcelain will become the most profitable business. These also require land! ”

Ting'er nodded: "Don't worry, the prefect of Songjiang Mansion is also a student of the master, he said, land donation is a matter of the people not raising officials and not holding officials accountable in the entire Ming Dynasty."

We just set the conditions for donation lower than other people's families, and attract others to donate, not corruption and bribery, as long as no one sues. ”

It's time for popular science that is loved by the majority of readers:

Land donation is a folk wisdom that has been inherited for a long time in the feudal era, and it is also an important form of civil land annexation.

And of all the forms of land annexation, this method can be said to be the most peaceful, gentle, and bizarre one.

When people think of land annexation in the feudal era, they often think of the classic cases of Huang Shiren and Yang Bailao.

Yang Bailao originally had some land, but as soon as his daughter-in-law fell ill, she couldn't afford to repay the loan shark borrowed from Huang Shiren, not only was the land gone, but even her daughter was robbed.

Homeymans fell back into poverty due to illness and became landless tenants again, and then from tenants to tenants who could not afford to pay rent, and finally became long-term laborers.

This is indeed a classic case of land annexation in the feudal era, but it is only one of them. There are more ruthless and unreasonable than Huang Shiren.

For example, the staking that was popular in the Qing Dynasty was not intended to encroach on the land of civilians, but how to divide the land left by the Ming Dynasty royal family.

As we all know, the Ming clan is very capable of giving birth, and if you give birth to a child, you have to give a fief. Moreover, Emperor Daming later built a lot of imperial villages for himself, all of which were good land.

With the fall of the Ming Dynasty, these clans are naturally not clans, but they are just ordinary people with the surname Zhu, and they are not qualified to keep the land.

The new clan must have the surname Aixin Jueluo, and of course there were other Manchu nobles, that is, high-ranking cadres among the children of the Eight Banners, who wanted to redistribute these lands.

The children of the Eight Banners were still brave warriors at that time, so they came up with a very creative distribution plan, horse racing!

If you are eligible to allocate land, you can ride a horse and run a lap, and how many laps you can run within a limited time (such as an hour), and the land in this circle is yours!

It has to be said that this program has a certain fairness to the participating allocators. Because the Eight Banners attach great importance to military exploits, riding is the basic skill. The better you ride, the bigger the lap you run and the more land you get!

It's a pity that it's out of shape when you run, whether intentionally or not, the children of the Eight Banners began to expand their scope, the circle is getting bigger and bigger, and many civilians are trapped in it.

It is impossible to spit out the meat that has been eaten in the mouth. So these commoners had only two choices, one was to hand over the land and stay as tenants; The second is to hand over the land and be driven away.

This was probably the most intense form of conflict in land annexation, and it also caused a lot of violence, and was finally abolished during the Kangxi period.

There are so many words, in fact, to let everyone have a comparison, why it is said that this way of land annexation is the most gentle, the most peaceful, and the most wonderful.

Because he did it of his own free will! Not only is it voluntary, but he even has to come to the door to beg, begging to be a slave and a servant, and even change his surname!

This strange act is because of a strange rule, many dynasties stipulate that scholars with meritorious names are not subject to forced labor and taxes! And his family and slaves also enjoyed this policy.

The family members are easy to understand, why can the slaves also enjoy it? Because theoretically, the slave has no property of his own, and all the property of the slave belongs to the master, so ......

So the common people settled the accounts, and signed a contract with the famous scholars, and the land was sold to you, and I became your slave, but you didn't have to give me money.

On the contrary, if I give you money, it will definitely be much less than what the government wants. But you asked me to continue to lease your land and promised not to confiscate my property or to take back my lease.

This is called selling land instead of tenants, selling one's body without selling one's wealth, and I am a tenant and a slave on the official side, so the government cannot levy my taxes and servitude.

We have a contract in private, you can't break the contract and turn your face and deny it, and really embezzle my property, otherwise I will sue you with the contract, and you are also guilty!

This is similar to the fake marriage that is now being carried out in order to obtain a hukou in a big city:

Although my wife has obtained a certificate with you in person, you don't have the right to use it! According to the contract, she is actually still my wife!

So is there anything wrong with this situation? In fact, like fake marriages, it is true that there are fake marriages in the end, and it is not uncommon to go to court in the end.

Of course, with the different treatment of meritorious people in different dynasties, the way of dedication is also different, and the wisdom of the people is sufficient.

For example, when tenants can enjoy relevant treatment, they will naturally not take the initiative to ask to be slaves. Keep that in mind, we'll need to use that later.

Xu Fan took a sip of tea and nodded: "This water is very good!" It's all water, but it's better than other water!

The terms of the offer can continue to be lowered, and I want to get enough land as soon as possible.

Once the port is open for trade, I don't want to sell the stuff of Guofang! The more profitable Guofang is, the more stable Xiao Feng's position will be!

If I want to bring down Xiao Feng's tall building, I can't add bricks and tiles to him! Tell the other families to do the same! ”