Chapter 937: Qingzhang Begins

The next day, the morning dynasty.

As soon as he went to court today, Zhao Jun announced a major news.

After the autumn harvest this year, the imperial court officially carried out an inventory of all the acres of land in the entire Bianjing area.

Before the inventory begins, everyone is allowed to report all the land in their name, and there will be no blame for the past.

But if you wait until the inventory begins, and you find that someone has concealed, lied, falsely reported, or reported indiscriminately, you will have your home raided!

Once the inventory begins, no matter who is in Bianjing!

Focus!

Whether you are a nobleman or a relative of the emperor, you must not obstruct the Qing officials from checking the acres of land.

Otherwise, it will be regarded as anti-law! It will be dealt with strictly! No toleration!

As soon as this news came out, it immediately caused an uproar in the government and the opposition!

Who dares to say that all the fields of his family have been reported truthfully, and who dares to say that his family has not concealed the report?

No one! No one dares!

Your Majesty's sudden decision to clear the acres of land in Bianjing really caught everyone off guard.

The officials are very calm, the officials in question are going to the court with shackles, and now their lives are not in their hands, Your Majesty will check if you want to, there is nothing to hide.

The new entrants on the military general's side, such as the champion Hou Huo Qu C, are also very calm.

Their fields are all sealed by war, and they are not afraid of investigation, but some veterans of the national dynasty cannot.

However, looking at the group of civil officials with shackles on the opposite side, they didn't dare to jump out first.

Xungui's side has no fear, in their opinion, don't look at what His Majesty said so seriously, no matter who it is.

But can they count?

They are nobles, nobles who have been handed down from the beginning of the founding of the country and retired with the country.

Can Your Majesty embarrass them for such a trivial matter?

Isn't it just a hundred million points?

It's a big deal to be hanged, what else can the official family do.

The royal relatives did not panic.

Lao Tzu is a relative of the emperor, and when the time comes, it means that it means, hello, I'm good, everyone, everyone's good is really good!

If we give the official family a face, it won't be a big deal if the court looks good.

So don't panic.

Looking at the various expressions of the officials below, Zhao Jun was expressionless, but he had already begun to think about it in his heart.

You can ignore it now, so don't cry when I do it, the more fierce I cry, the harder I will start!

After the news came out that day, the imperial court began to prepare, and now the imperial court has either been domesticated by Zhao Jun into a flail official with a dog.

That's right, it's the flail officer.

Nowadays, those officials who went to court with shackles are famous throughout Bianjing, and the people of Bianjing affectionately call them flail officials.

These flail officials are all very honest, and they are not at all domineering in the past, and the people have taken a good look at their jokes.

Except for these flail officials, where did the rest of the officials dare to go against Zhao Jun?

So soon, all the preparations were basically completed.

Zhao Jun also deliberately transferred a full 200,000 people from the forbidden army guarding the capital.

Just wait until the time comes, and if you dare to do something, you will give someone a big tease!

With the yellowing of the leaves, the tender green leaves on the branches gradually become yellow.

The crops in the field have also turned golden, and the ears of wheat are full, and it will soon be harvest season.

After nearly two or three months of busyness, the busy autumn harvest finally came to an end.

Everywhere, the once golden fields have become bare.

Qingzhang, who has been preparing for a long time, has finally officially begun.

The matter of Qingzhang Tianmu was spread by the imperial court through newspapers as early as three months ago.

The people around Bianjing don't care about this, how much land their family has is where, and it doesn't make a difference to them whether they know or not.

And those landlords who concealed it were uncomfortable, and the imperial court wanted to clear the acres of land, and His Majesty personally issued an order and sent an army.

All of this looks like the court is going to come for real, not to make a show?

Then do they want to report the real situation of the fields?

They were all hesitant.

On the one hand, they were worried that if the court came to the truth, if they did not report it, they would be found out afterwards and their acres and property would be confiscated.

On the other hand, they were afraid that the imperial court would just make a show, and once they confessed the true amount, the others did not explain, and the imperial court did not carefully investigate, and in the end, their real number of acres was registered in the official register, and they had to pay taxes according to the real number of acres.

And those who have not been reported do not have to be paid.

In other words, they have to watch others earn more money and less themselves.

They will never accept that they will suffer from inequality.

In this state of entanglement, soon the landlords and powerful families were divided into two factions.

Some of the more timid or cautious families chose to report the true number of acres to the government within the specified time.

The local government also kept its promise and did not punish them in any way, but truthfully reported the number of acres of their fields and re-registered.

Others think that the imperial court will not really do it, and they have a little background, and want to play some tricks afterwards. Or those greedy landlords and powerful family owners choose to continue to die and carry the hidden amount without giving any account.

In this way, at the end of the specified time and before the start of Qingzhang, there were more than 13,000 hectares of land in the entire map around Bianjing, of which nearly 5,000 hectares were Huangzhuang.

However, by the time the Qingzhang fields began, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Households, the number of acres of arable land in Bianjing had reached more than 17,000 hectares.

That is, more than 1.7 million acres of land.

That's 400,000 acres more than before!

But Zhao Jun knows that this is probably less than half of the real number.

Imperial relatives, nobles, those landlords and powerful merchants, and big businessmen still have at least twice the number of acres of land in their hands today, or even more!

But he's already given them a chance, and since they don't want it, don't blame him!

In the fifth year of Xingwu, the first day of October.

The Qingzhang field in the Gyeonggi area around Bianjing officially began.

This operation was completely in charge of Zhang Zheng, and Zhang Tang, an experienced Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites, accompanied him as a deputy.

Zhao Jun gave Zhang Zheng the title of Gyeonggi pacification envoy for the Gyeonggi Qingzhang Tianmu matter, and gave Shang Fang a sword, and Zhang Tang served as the deputy envoy.

During the Qingzhang period, Zhang Zheng was responsible for all matters related to the Qingzhang.

If necessary, they may seek assistance from the Privy Council and mobilize the Forbidden Army.

Of course, it is only the acres of land in the surrounding area of Qingzhang Bianjing, and the 200,000 people that Zhao Jun prepared in advance are completely sufficient, and the right to assist in the latter is not needed at all.

As soon as the Qingzhang began, Zhang Zheng took a group of officials of the Qingzhang Division, who had just been established for three months, to start the inventory along the four directions of Bianjing City.

They didn't check the local government's land register, because they knew that it was not allowed, and everyone recorded all the acres along the way step by step.

The first thing they had to do was to confirm the real amount of land around Bianjing, and then compare it with the recorded land registers to know who had concealed the number of acres.

And as soon as their actions began, they frightened those who were lucky, and some secret actions began immediately.

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(End of chapter)