Chapter 71 The Land Reform Begins
The next day.
Zhang Zuo hurried to the study room again with a decree.
While constantly improving the various regulations of the land reform policy, Chen Mu asked, "What's the matter?"
Zhang Zuo said with a bitter face: "Your Highness, you ...... Why did you only let the household approve one million taels of silver? ”
Chen Mu put down his pen and looked at Zhang Zuo: "What, is it too much?"
"This ...... This reclamation is facing the entire Jiangbei, Your Highness, your million taels are too little, I am afraid that it will be used up in less than two months. ”
Chen Mu smiled and nodded: "Two months is enough, the palace has never planned to open up three million acres of wasteland, this big project, even if the entire palace is built, I am afraid it will not be enough."
"What? Since you don't intend to do so, why do you ......?"
Being Chen Mu like this, Zhang Zuo's face suddenly changed, he is not a stupid person, even if the land reform policy has not been implemented now, but this news has long been known to the whole country.
Looking at the current prince's words, I am only afraid of ...... This excavation of the land is a disguise at all, but the prince is so excited, why is he?
Originally, he thought that he had seen the prince clearly, but he was just a reckless man, and he even regretted it a little in the past few days, and he boldly stood in line, with no way out.
But for now...... Suddenly, I couldn't see clearly.
"You can't go wrong with this palace, you just need to do what this palace wants."
"What this palace is going to do this time is not to provide disaster relief, but to plant a foundation for the future Dragon Dynasty Zhongxing, you go down."
Hearing these words, Zhang Zuo's heart suddenly warmed up, at least he knew, now that the prince is taking a big move, although he doesn't know what the prince's purpose is for the time being, he finally has a bottom in his heart.
"Yes!"
After Zhang Zuo left, Chen Mu called Mo Xun in again.
"Go and call all the imperial history to the main palace!"
"Yes!"
Soon, a group of imperial histories came to the Shang study, since the last time the imperial history platform was swept through, now these imperial histories are all the descendants promoted by Chen Mu.
"This land reform policy is extraordinary, related to the national fortune of the Dragon Dynasty, if it is done, then from this year onwards, our country will begin to go uphill."
"However, we are now in the officialdom of the Dragon Dynasty, there are always a lot of moths, and it is not for the country to eat Fenglu, but to do something harmful to the country and the people."
Chen Mu picked up the Shang Fang sword on the table and said in a deep voice, "Mo Xun."
Mo Xun suddenly knelt down: "The minister is here!"
"This is the sword of my court, from today onwards you are not only the imperial history, but also the minister of the palace with the name of the emperor!"
"Establish a heart for heaven and earth, set up a life for the common people, and open peace for everything, these words are not just words, this time I sent you to the people to visit, dare to collude with the government, delay the opening of the wasteland, you can kill it! No need to report! ”
The selected imperial historians are all young people, they have not been polluted by officialdom, and they all have a dream of governing the country with a family in their hearts.
The prince's words are too hot-blooded!
Not only that, Chen Mu also said that the Red Armor Army was all mobilized to cooperate with the inspection and supervision of the Yushitai.
The reason why the movement is so big is that the purpose is to make everyone not doubt the determination of the imperial court's land reform policy.
The next day, the Imperial Historians led the Red Armor Army out of Tokyo.
When the officials of the DPRK and China saw that the prince was playing for real, they all ridiculed and ridiculed behind their backs for a while.
There are famines of varying severity in almost all parts of Jiangbei, and the corpses are everywhere in serious places, and there are many tragedies of cannibalism.
In the end, this so-called land reform policy will not only cause a beginning and an end, but also develop an even bigger mess because the national treasury is depleted.
As the movement is getting bigger and bigger, there are already many officials in the court, waiting for the impeachment of the prince again afterwards!
A month later.
Mo Xun came to the study room with the news passed on by the people.
"Your Highness, now that the people around Tokyo have been mobilized, a total of 1,000 acres have been reclaimed in Gyeonggi Province during this time, and as for other places, they have also begun to prepare for the East Palace."
Chen Mu took a sip of tea and said lightly: "It's good around Tokyo, the central power can completely suppress the local officials to do things obediently, like Qinfeng Road in the northwest and Lizhou Road in the southwest?"
Mo Xun smiled: "Your Highness is right, the officials in these remote places collude with the local scholars, and according to the imperial history, the local prefects and county commanders are completely pretentious."
"For example, in Lizhou Mansion, they went to remind and warn again and again, but those officials and soldiers still did not act, and they continued to grind and perfunctory, and they went to ten days, but they did not call the people to start work."
Chen Mu frowned, and suddenly wanted to kill someone.
"And then?"
"Then, how can the lower officials tolerate these bastards interfering with the prince's plans for the benefit of the country? A total of 5,000 Red Armor troops were assembled, and all the officials of the Shi clan in Lizhou Mansion were directly arrested, and a total of ...... were cut down Seven hundred, right? ”
Chen Mu smiled and nodded: "That's how it should be, deal with this group of bastards, just kill them directly, reason with them, they think you are easy to talk to."
Not only were the officials and scholars in Lizhou bloodily suppressed, but in the following period of time, there were officials in many areas who did not act and were directly beheaded by the Red Armor Army.
The bloody wind swept through the various prefectures and cities in Jiangbei in an instant.
For a long time, Chen Mu's bloody brutality has only been experienced by high-level officials, and these prefects and county officials thought that it was the same as before, and the things ordered from above should be corrupted by the government and perfunctory.
It wasn't until the news of the killing of the officials reached their ears that they hurriedly took the money allocated from above and went to gather the people to dig the land!
For a time, the weeds and wastelands in various places were burned clean, and then the people began to dig the soil, and as soon as the day dawned, the prefects and county commanders organized thousands of people to go out of the city until they returned after dark.
For a while, the people of Jiangbei were in full swing, hoping to open up the wasteland as soon as possible, so that when they have their own land next year, they don't need to look at the faces of those landlords and old wealthy.
As for the scholars who would have ended up in nothing, there were even many rumors circulating when they saw the untouchables digging the land in the mountains outside the city.
"I heard that last time the crown prince helped Tubo repel the party members, and the Tubo people helped a lot of materials to support land reform in order to thank the Dragon Dynasty."
"I also heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince borrowed a lot of materials from the King of Tubo, and this time I am afraid that he will dig a new piece of land for our people."
"Hehe, look at it, this year, let's work hard to reclaim the new land, those landlords and old rich people don't say that they would rather be wasted than reduce rent? Just wait for their land to be barren for the rest of their lives! ”
When sending the Red Armor Army to various places, Chen Mu also assigned them a more important thing, that is, constantly spreading bad news and creating anxiety.
As Chen Mu expected, they were indeed a little panicked.
Under the seemingly general trend of the land reform policy, many landlords have taken out their originally precious fields and sold them openly at low prices.
After all, they have so much land in their hands that once the poor no longer need to rent it, the extra fields will become bubbles and rot in their own hands!