On the Jinming Pond, several painting boats swim on the lake.

The concubines of the palace and the east palace chatted with the officials' families lively, asking questions and not even caring to listen to the music.

After being lively for a long time, Zhu Ming beckoned to Bai Chongyan, and the two walked to the bow of the boat.

The spring breeze blew the lake sparkling, Zhu Ming casually sprinkled some steamed bread crumbs to feed the fish, and asked, "Do you know what to do in Henan Province?" ”

"Spread into acres." Bai Chongyan said.

Zhu Ming said: "Hunan and Hubei are the first to push the spread into the mu because of the lack of ding, but it is enough to give the local officials a headache. Then there were Gyeonggi, Huainan, Shandong, and Hebei, all of which experienced famine and war, and the resistance was relatively small, but it still could not be fully rolled out. ”

Bai Chongyan worried: "There is no chaos and famine in Henan, I'm afraid there will be many resistances." ”

Zhu Ming said: "I went back and gave you some official documents, all of which are related to the spread of the acres into the mu. Resistance came not only from the landlords, but also from some small peasants who had more land and less land. ”

Bai Chongyan was surprised: "Since there is more land and less land, it should be beneficial to them to spread the land into the mu." ”

Zhu Ming shook his head: "It depends on the actual situation in each province." Because of the construction of water conservancy or other reasons, some prefectures and counties have temporarily run short of grain and heavy grain, and in the past, even the destitute and landless had to share the labor. Now that all of them are spread into the acres of land, the small people who have more land and less land will suffer losses, and the landlords who have less land will suffer even more. Therefore, as long as there is land in the name, both large and small people will make trouble and oppose it. ”

"There are also the legacy of the previous dynasty, where a lot of land is not private land and needs to pay less taxes. Even if you only have a small amount of land in your hands, the total amount of taxes you need to pay will increase. ”

"There is also a prefecture where some prefectures and counties have more fields, and some counties have more fields. When the prefect apportioned the land into the mu, he used the rich county to help the poor county, which caused not only the people of the rich county to oppose it, but even the county order of the rich county did not cooperate. But if it is not supported in this way, it will burden the poor county heavily. ”

"Last year, the Huainan political envoy made the province evenly shared, which almost caused a popular uprising, which made the people of Fuxian County excited. In many rich counties, more than 20 people have been dismissed one after another, impeaching the government and making the remnants of the people unkind. The provincial equalization is excellent, and the imperial court is very supportive, but many rich county officials do not cooperate. Even if they are forced to carry out the decrees, they will disobey them one by one. ”

"There are people making trouble in a county, there are people making trouble in the state capital, and there are still people making trouble in the province. Moreover, the person who makes trouble is different every time. The central court and local officials constantly summed up experience and made adjustments, but after each adjustment, there was always another group of people whose interests were damaged. ”

"It's harder than you think to really implement it, especially in provinces like Henan and Jiangxi."

"As for Shaanxi, I don't dare to move for the time being. Because Shaanxi has a large number of barren border lands, a large number of military servants need to be levied every year. Daming was not afraid of Western Xia, and many Shaanxi border troops were also transferred to other provinces, but there were a large number of walled forts in the Xihe and Hengshan areas, and these walled forts had to be maintained by levying and distributing military money from the whole province. ”

"Shaanxi has less land and more poverty, once the land is apportioned into the mu, the burden of the people is heavy, and the people will inevitably be in a crowd. The imperial court is asking the cabinet to come up with a plan to allocate more money and grain from the center every year to reduce the amount of Ding in Shaanxi Province, and only after the arrangements are made are made will they dare to apportionment the Ding into the mu. ”

"Of course, the biggest problem with the allocation of acres is to thoroughly check the acres of land in various places. This is also the reason for the most trouble, we must reformulate the fish scale book, sort out the messy land ownership, and the roots of the fields (bones) and the surface of the fields (skins) must be smooth. Otherwise, countless land dispute lawsuits can exhaust the county officials half to death. ”

After Bai Chongyan heard this, he suddenly felt that his head was as big as a fight.

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "I have asked Lu Benzhong to open the way for you, and let the Lu family go to check the Luoyang clan, and split and relocated a batch last year." Otherwise, after you go to Henan, you will have a hard time in Luoyang. ”

Bai Chongyan arched his hand and said: "The minister will do his best to do it well." ”

Zhu Ming said: "Don't worry, if you don't succeed in three years, then six years." When you step down from Henan, at least a Shangshu position. ”

There is a very serious problem in Henan, that is, Luoyang and a few other prefectures and counties, the current situation is that there is little land and many people, and land annexation is very serious. And there are many prefectures and counties, with few people and even large areas of land.

If it is directly apportioned into the mu, it must be shared equally by the province, resulting in a heavy burden on the people of wealthy prefectures and counties.

If it is not shared equally by the province, poor counties with fewer people and more land will also bear a heavy burden.

Therefore, Bai Chongyan needed to arrange immigrants in the province first, and relocate the densely populated people of rich counties to poor counties with few people in batches. In the process of migration and resettlement, all counties must cooperate with each other, take the opportunity to check the land, and smooth out the mess of land rights and confirm rights.

It is more difficult to spread the land in Henan than in Jiangxi, because it gathers all the problems encountered in the provinces.

Jiangxi is relatively simple, as long as the head is hard, bold, and an iron fist can hit the gentry!

Zhu Ming patted Bai Chongyan on the shoulder: "After you open up the situation in Henan, I can rest assured that I can move the capital here." Later, the surrounding area of Luoyang was changed to Gyeonggi, and Kaifeng became the capital of Henan Province. ”

"Do you really want to move the capital?" Bai Chongyan was taken aback, he felt that the burden on his shoulders was heavier, this was laying the foundation for the imperial court to move the capital.

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "Yellow Turtle Nian has good ability, and he is not from a big family, so I asked him to go to Henan to be your deputy." ”

"That's fine." Bai Chongyan knew Huang Yaoshi.

The Qing Dynasty's paving into mu was a continuation of a whip law in the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, in some areas of the Ming Dynasty, there were already officials doing this. That is, when the reform of a whip law was carried out, the money of Ding was also whipped, and it was called "Ding Suitian Office" and "Ding Sui Grain Paiding" at that time.

Zhu Ming's current apportionment into the mu is not linked to silver, and he can also pay copper coins or grain.

In addition, Zhu Ming, a servant of merchants and craftsmen, did not dare to go directly to Tianfuli.

This stems from the deformed urbanization of the Song Dynasty, which led to an excessively high rate of urbanization. If the money from merchants and craftsmen was spread over the fields, it would inevitably be unbearable for the peasants.

The Ming and Qing dynasties were different, and due to the rapid development of productive forces, a large number of out-of-city towns emerged. With small towns as the center, China's unique rural economic model has been born, and farmers can obtain daily necessities by going to the town to catch the market.

Speaking of data, it is clear that the number of small towns in the Jiangnan region during the heyday of the Southern Song Dynasty was only a quarter of that of the Ming Dynasty.

The two Song Dynasty were landless peasants, who ran to the city in one go, and did not form so many small towns. It is equivalent to the small town residents of the Ming and Qing dynasties, most of whom became urban residents, so can the urbanization rate not be high?

The lack of development of productive forces is one reason for this phenomenon, and the government's excessively ruthless exploitation of the peasants is also a reason.

Even Zhu Guoxiang and Zhu Ming's father and son have canceled a large number of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes. However, the tradition of heavy taxation left over from the Song Dynasty led to the fact that the actual tax revenue of the new Ming Dynasty was still very heavy compared with that of previous dynasties.

Bai Chongyan took a bunch of materials on the spread into the mu, all of which were typical cases when they were implemented in various provinces.

Zhu Ming was afraid that the magistrates would be restrained, and for those officials who carried out the popular rebellion, as long as they did not do too outrageously, they would not be severely punished, but only a symbolic fine for one or two months. Then, find another time to commend it.

There were even county orders to send errands out of the city to arrest troublemakers. Frightened, the people fled in panic, scrambled to cross the bridge by the moat, fell into the water and drowned more than 80 people, and the court only fined them for three months.

That county order didn't have a, but was a series of troublemakers, and was sent to Youzhou by the whole family to farm.

The political signal is very obvious, and many officials who want to climb up are recklessly promoting the apportionment of the land.

Bai Chongyan came to Luoyang, and Huang Guinian led the officials out of the city to greet him.

Bai Chongyan, the political envoy of the left, Huang Guinian, the political envoy of the right, Zhang Yi, the envoy of the procuratorate, Zhang Jin, the prefect of Luoyang, Lu Benzhong, and some political participation, general judgment, county orders, etc., are the officials in the third-level yamen of Luoyang.

Zhang Yi is a descendant of Zhang Yi's clan, and he usually seems to be a good person, but he can make a decision at a critical time.

Historically, he was promoted by Zhao Gou to be the head of the household department because he solved the problem of money and food many times. He also put forward reasonable suggestions during the Miao Liu Mutiny, and also knew how to attract investment and Tuntian, and belonged to the Southern Song Dynasty pragmatic officials.

At this time and space, Zhang Yi was promoted by Zhu Guoxiang to be the envoy of Henan because of his ability to implement the apportionment into the mu.

Zhang Jin was an old man who followed Zhu Ming to raise troops in Jinzhou, and when he was the chief general, he was good at killing disobedient deputy generals, which seriously affected his normal promotion later. Because he broke a finger in battle, he was thrown by Zhu Ming to the inspection system, and after many military reforms, he was promoted to the commander of Henan.

The officials in Luoyang washed the dust for Bai Chongyan, and they talked very happily and harmoniously.

The next day, Bai Chongyan asked Huang Guinian: "Brother De Shao came to take office first and is more familiar with Henan, which officials can work together?" ”

Huang Guinian smiled: "It's all right." ”

Bai Chongyan suddenly realized that the crown prince had already arranged it, and he immediately summoned Zhang Yi, Zhang Jin, and Lu Ben to discuss the matter.

Lu Benzhong was the most active, he was fooled to Luoyang by Zhu Ming, and as the son of the Lu family, he was responsible for investigating the Lu family. Although they have long been separated, the two Lu are of the same origin, and the Luoyang Lu family hates Lu Benzhong so much that his reputation in Luoyang is completely ruined.

Without doing anything, Lu Benzhong simply went out and cleaned up the Luoyang clan wholeheartedly, and there were nearly 100 children of various ethnic groups who were sent by him to Shaanxi and Youzhou. Last year, it split up the big tribes and relocated more than 2,000 people to the northern counties.

"The people of the counties of Luoyang Prefecture still have a lot of people and little land, so they must move to the south and reclaim all the wasteland in the southern prefectures and counties!" Lu Benzhong became more and more iron-fisted.

Huang Guinian said: "Brother Yisuo (Zhang Yi) is good at managing money, and the money, grain, seeds, cattle, and farming tools needed to migrate the people must also be planned a lot. ”

Zhang Yi said: "I am just an inspector, and I have no right to do these things. ”

Bai Chongyan said: "Then get a temporary dispatch, and Mr. Zhang will take the lead." ”

Huang Guinian said: "General Yang and I are keeping an eye on the immigration matter to prevent any chaos." ”

Zhang Jin arched his hand and said: "If there is a small chaos, I will transfer troops to sweep it away!" ”

Zhang Yi reminded: "The county orders and gentry in various places are strong, so they need to be appeased even more, and they really can't be strong." ”

Bai Chongyan said: "I will leave in a few days to inspect all the prefectures and counties in the province and talk to the magistrates and gentry in person. Understand their thoughts and demands, appease them if they can, and use tough measures if they can't! The prince said that he was not in a hurry, and it would take six years to spread out the acres in Henan, but how could we delay as courtiers? Set a date today to complete this within three years! ”

(End of chapter)

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