In the letter, Liu Lian first told Zhu Zhen about the dilemma he encountered in implementing the Yellow Book - Qingzhang Tianmu encountered great obstacles.

The officials he sent to the countryside were often expelled, abused, and even beaten by the common people. In more than a year, more than a dozen poor people died, so much so that they paid double their wages, and they didn't want to go to the countryside anymore.

In order to solve this problem, Liu Lian also spent a lot of effort. He organized people to preach to the people that the purpose of clearing the acres of land and fabricating the Yellow Book was to give the imperial court a basis for collecting taxes. So that those who have more land pay more taxes, and those who have less fields pay less taxes!

In the past, the local tyrants and gentry, who owned a large amount of land, bought off the government and hid their land and passed on the tax burden through various methods, so that the poor people could bear most of the taxes for them.

The poor people could not afford the overload of taxes, so they had to sell their land to large households to cope with the urging of the government.

So 'the rich have no land, but the poor have no land.' ''Although the Yuan and Ming dynasties have been reformed, there has been no improvement in the slightest'......

Therefore, re-clearing the acres of land and compiling the yellow book is a great thing for the broad masses of poor people to lighten their burdens. The people should vigorously support it, and they should not try their best to obstruct it!

However, the obvious truth does not make sense to the common people.

Liu Lian investigated the reason for this, and felt that it was because since ancient times, the imperial power was not lower than that of the county, and the vast countryside was ruled by the squires and elders.

With the help of the power of clans and rituals, these people have ruled the countryside and the peasants for thousands of years. Although the change of dynasties is not easy.

These squires and elders relied on their privileges to grab land and become large landlords. Then, with the wealth produced by the land, they monopolized the opportunities for culture, etiquette, justice, and dealing with the government, and constantly consolidated their position by making the common people unable to see, hear, or think.

As a result, as they grew older and deep-rooted, the poor people became puppets who couldn't think, and their every move was manipulated by the squires hidden behind the scenes.

What effect can I have when I speak to a puppet? That is, it will not help to break the skin.

Therefore, Liu Lian understood that only by cutting off the threads in the hands of those squires and elders could it be possible to change this status quo.

Only then did he know that before he left Beijing, when the emperor gave him the opportunity, why did he emphasize that if he wanted the Yellow Book to succeed, he needed to clear the acres of land, and the implementation of the Lijia system went hand in hand.

Only by using the Lijia system, an artifact that fragments the inherent power structure of the countryside, to break the control of the squires and elders over the poor people, can it be possible to successfully clear the acres of land and successfully implement the Yellow Book!

However, when he implemented the Lijia system, he also encountered huge resistance. The clans did not agree to be divided and reorganized, and the squires objected to the common people being appointed as lieutenant chiefs, as that would dilute their power.

They gathered together to complain to the government, accusing Liu Lian of 'breaking the clan, breaking the township covenant, inciting the people, and exterminating the gentry', and calling him 'the source of chaos'. It won't take long to predict that the customs in the countryside of Jiangxi will be bad, and the conscience will be lost, and disasters will arise!

What Liu Lian didn't expect was that even the bull noses of Zhengyi began to oppose him.

When they opened the altar to preach the Fa, they wantonly slandered him to the believers, saying that he was a black Jiao who had come into the world to stir up trouble, confuse people's minds, and do evil. But anyone who cooperates with him and signs the 'Lijia Township Covenant' is a ghost who has been bewitched by the black Jiao, and sooner or later he will be annihilated......

It has been inherited for more than 1,200 years, and its influence in Jiangxi is beyond imagination. They stood up against it, which put great pressure on Liu Lian, making him 'struggling and struggling'......

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Seeing this, Zhu Zhen had to stop first and calm down.

This was the first time he had learned from Liu Lian's letter that it was difficult for his senior brother to implement the Yellow Book in Jiangxi, and the hostility he encountered was so strong.

Zhu Zhen had also read a few letters from Liu Lian's family before, and the senior brother had always been full of confidence. Even if some difficulties are mentioned, they also mean that "although there are many setbacks, they are the same", and "they will be able to overcome obstacles and achieve success".

But he never expected that the old brother would encounter such a malicious and monstrous situation.

"Alas, the big gentry in Jiangxi, like those in Jiangnan, were spoiled by the tax system of the Yuan Dynasty." Shen Liben on the side sighed and whispered:

"For nearly a hundred years, the imperial court has been in vain, and the local government is all maintained by the autonomy of the gentry, and it is certainly not customary to suddenly divide the power in their hands......"

"It's Da Ming now!" Zhu Zhen suddenly raised his voice and said: "I miss the Yuan Dynasty so much, so I will all go to Mobei and find their Yuan Dynasty emperor!" ”

"Yes, yes." Seeing His Royal Highness's anger, Shen Liben hurriedly changed his words: "In fact, in the Song Dynasty, the government accurately controlled the fields and property of large households, and the taxes were all paid by the rich households, and they didn't obediently suffer from ......."

"These dogs are not cleaned up!" The sixth scolded and continued to turn the pages to read the letter.

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After turning the page, Liu Lian's tone changed from depressed to excited-he told Zhu Zhen that things had taken a huge turn!

A political secretary named Pang Yi secretly gave him a copy of "No Matter the Account Book", which helped him uncover the reason why the implementation of the new policy always achieved half the result; also solved the mystery that had been hanging over his heart.

He carefully studied the account books and found that there were still huge fields and people in Jiangxi, which were completely out of the official books!

The grasp of the government's clearing of acres of land is the census of Hongwu in the third year. According to Boss Zhu's top-level design, as long as the household stickers are properly compiled, the family information of each household will be mastered.

I know where your home is, how many people there are, and how many hidden fields can be dug up for you!

But Boss Zhu didn't expect that there were policies and countermeasures. In the census of the third year of Hongwu, the Jiangxi government actually hid one-third of the population and did not report it! Naturally, there is no household sticker!

The land occupied by these people was naturally left out when the acres of land were cleared!

In particular, Jiangxi is not as flat as Susong, except for the plains in the north, most of the areas are mainly hilly and mountainous, and the basins and valleys are widely distributed.

If you don't have locals to lead the way, you won't be able to find the villages dotted with mountain basins and valley floors.

As a result, the population and land scattered in the mountainous areas of Jiangxi disappeared from the sight of the imperial court in this way......

If that's all, it can be inferred that local officials are slacking off on their duties and doing their jobs ineffectively.

But there is still such a book, which records in detail the existence of the "Regardless of Account Book" of that part of the hidden field and hidden households! The nature of the problem has changed all at once!

It is not that the government is slacking off and the work is not effective, but that the upper and lower levels collude and collude inside and outside, and deliberately conceal a large number of household registrations and land in order to evade the taxes of the imperial court!

As for why this "Regardless of Accounts" was established? Isn't this nonsense? Helping the Gongon Princes who are hiding together, are they working for those big dogs in vain?

Protection money will definitely be charged!

This account book is the basis for the local government to collect protection fees from large dog households!

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