Chapter 421

Lu Xiangsheng obviously could not understand the brain circuits of the Spaniards, and exchanged the fertile land of about three Sichuan, eight or nine Henan, for several thousand prisoners of war.

However, the problem is that Cheng Shijie understands the real intentions of the Spaniards very well, and their reactions and choices are actually similar to the intentions of my Cixi Lafayette in the Qing Dynasty, preferring to be friends rather than domestic slaves.

For the Spanish Empire, the Dutch, Portuguese and French, who are now fighting to their deaths, are all their house slaves, and now the Spanish Empire is gradually falling behind on the battlefield of Europa, especially the French Army has a method that can restrain the Spanish phalanx, seeing that the basic territory of Europa cannot be saved, where is there still so much energy to take care of the interests of South America.

Now the Spanish Empire, under the banner of redeeming prisoners of war, gave the Plain de La Plata to Daming and Cheng Shijie, in fact, their purpose is not simple, to talk about playing politics, the Spaniards really have the means and methods, this is a huge piece of fat, but the Spaniards have no way to develop because there are too few people.

The land that cannot be developed can actually produce little value, but Britain and France not only fought a full-scale war with the Spanish Empire in Europa, but also fought for Spanish colonies in the world, especially in the Americas, and even if Spain did not give it to the Ming Dynasty, they could not hold it.

Giving it to the Ming not only allowed the Ming army to resist the French and British in South America, but also gave a perfect explanation to the country.

Lu Xiangsheng listened to Cheng Shijie's analysis of Spain's strategy of killing two birds with one stone, and asked with some doubts: "Are you really going to release prisoners of war in exchange for that plain as the overseas territory of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Cheng Shijie nodded seriously and said: "Yes, yes, now is the best time, the Spaniards are not interested in the Plain de la Plata, and the natives of the Plains of Le Plata were slaughtered and expelled by them, and now there is not much left, if you don't occupy it at this time, when will you stay?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng sighed and said, "It's just...... That's too far, right? Even if you occupy it, it will be difficult to find people who are willing to emigrate there, isn't this still in vain? ”

"Nobody wants to emigrate there? Hehe, is there really no way? What a joke!! ”

Cheng Shijie thought for a while and said: "The people don't want to go over, so it's okay to be exiled!" ”

"Exile? Exile whom? ”

"You can build a big prison and exile two or three million people, won't it be done?"

Lu Xiangsheng was dumbfounded: "Xing...... Xingda Prison!? ”

Cheng Shijie said confidently: "Yes, as soon as Jiannu came, how many people did you see bending their knees and surrendering?" These guys are all guilty! Not only are they guilty, but their fellows are also implicated, and they can also find out all the people who have something to do with them, and then exile them. ”

"Why are you so vicious?"

"What kind of viciousness is this, I'm just picking up people's teeth!"

"Who's picking it up?"

"Emperor Taizu!"

Cheng Shijie smiled disapprovingly: "The Hu Weiyong case, the Lanyu case, the Guo Huan case, and the empty seal case that Emperor Taizu sorted out back then, and the Xulian Ten Clans that Chengzu sorted out, one played more slippery than the other, and the butcher's knife was directed, and the blood flowed like a river!" I don't kill people, I just exile them to South America, it's merciful enough! ”

Cheng Shijie actually didn't think about distributing those people forever, but divided them into three to five years according to their crimes, and if they served their sentences, they could choose whether to come back or settle there, which was already very humane. It can be said that the sin is in the present generation, and the merit is in the future.

Zhou Ning said: "Your Majesty, then I'll arrange it?" ”

"Arrange it!"

Cheng Shijie said lightly: "By the way, organize an expeditionary fleet, send twenty or thirty thousand people over so-so, and occupy the territory first!" ”

"Yes!"

Zhou Ning no longer attended the cabinet meeting, in fact, this cabinet meeting has little to do with the military.

This is the advantage of a large number of people, now Beijing, Shuntianfu, the prison has long been overcrowded, the traitors who took refuge in Jiannu that time were almost killed, but the problem is that those who follow the trend and have not had time to do evil are not a small number of people who are locked up, especially the officers who took refuge in Jiannu.

Punish the first evil, as the backbone not to kill them, it is merciful enough, originally Cheng Shijie was going to throw those people to Annan, but now that he has this land, he can use it.

In fact, now that Daming has become more crowded, Cheng Shijie has recovered the deserted Nuergandusi, but Cheng Shijie's appetite is more than so small.

Cheng Shijie pulled Lu Xiangsheng and said: "I won't bother you about the things over there, but this should be the place where you need to do it!" ”

Cheng Shijie smashed his fist on the map of the Lost Bil Khanate, he pointed to this map and said: "This is the jurisdiction of a descendant of Taibuhua Beji, but not after Jochi, and later a khan of the Xiban family, Ibak, took the Tyumen and Khan thrones from his descendants. However, their khanate had already perished more than thirty years ago, and the remnants of their people here had to pay a fur tax to the Dzungar Khanate, which means that it was still nominally part of the Dzungar Khanate? ”

Lu Xiangsheng was a little puzzled: "Daming is rich in resources and abundant products, although it is a bit of pressure to usher in the peak period of population growth in the future, but don't we still have a lot of places that have not been developed?" Huguang has not been fully developed, and Liaodi has not been developed at all, these are all good places for thousands of miles of fertile fields......"

The direction of Cheng Shijie's finger is between the middle reaches of the Ob River and the Tobol River. The administrative center was Chengji-Tula (present-day Tyumen). Cheng Shijie said: "You don't know what kind of treasure land this is, let's put it this way, there are countless timbers here, all of them are natural forests, together they are several times our entire Daming, you may not look down on wood, but the problem is that there is gold, diamond, iron, and copper here, even if the copper of the ten Daming is added together, it is not as good as a copper mine here, do you know what this means?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng's eyes widened: "So much copper? ”

"It's more than copper!"

Cheng Shijie did not tell Lu Xiangsheng that there is a huge amount of natural gas, oil, and more than 100 kinds of rich metal resources.

Cheng Shijie said: "Of course, there is also the world's largest freshwater lake, we are short of water in the entire north of the Ming Dynasty, and we only need to dig a canal from here to divert water to the north, do you know what this means?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng said: "The last general will definitely take this place down." ”

"In the future, the seat of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion of Anbei will be built here, on the shore of Hanhai (Lake Baikal)!"

Cheng Shijie said: "Jiannu is not a climate now, you don't have to underestimate the enemy too much, in our northwest direction, there is also a behemoth, this country is extremely aggressive, the Metropolitan Mansion of Anbei must follow them, their Cossack cavalry is still very powerful, not weaker than Jiannu's cavalry, it can even be said that Jiannu can't beat them!" ”

Lu Xiangsheng became interested instead: "This is a little interesting!" ”

"Prepare well!"

Cheng Shijie said: "I will prepare enough food, grass and equipment for you, and start setting off at the end of February, and you will need to walk at least two or three months before you can get there." ”

When the Anbei Army led by Lu Xiangsheng will face the Cossacks, it is not as good as what Cheng Shijie can care about, in fact, in the original historical time and space, as early as the ninth year of Chongzhen, the entire territory of Siberia has changed hands. However, now only Cossack cavalry arrived in Siberia, not regular troops.

However, these things are no longer very important, and at this time, Cheng Shijie received the content of the cabinet meeting, giving three suggestions for rectification of land reform.

First of all, the first article affirms that all the gentry of the Ming Dynasty originally owned land, which means that they are not prepared to adopt a one-size-fits-all principle.

In fact, there is no way to adopt a one-size-fits-all principle, the gentry have the privilege of tax exemption, and many people who own land will also take advantage of the policy to attach the land under their names to the gentry.

However, in the end, it was Song Xiance, who proposed that the gentry should be targeted at the gentry, and the original evasion and arrears of taxes must be supplemented. How much tax did the Chongzhen Dynasty collect in a year? Even if the three salaries are added together, it is less than half of the Wanli Dynasty.

Where did all that money and food go? Naturally, it will not disappear out of thin air, but it will take advantage of policy loopholes to escape, and everyone except ordinary people will evade taxes.

Paying taxes according to the law is not only not an honorable thing, but it will also make people laugh off their big teeth! Anyway, even if they don't pay taxes, the court can't do anything with them, if the court wants to move them, there is a large group of scholars who speak for them, accusing the emperor of competing with the people for profit, and they must not ......

In the eyes of those undisciplined guys, the "people" are limited to those who are scholars, as well as the gentry and giants, and as for the hundreds of millions of poor people, they ignore it.

In that case, why not tax evasion?

Now it's good, how much I owed before, now it's all going to be spit out, although the taxes of the Ming Dynasty are actually very low, but the arrears year after year are also quite scary.

The second article is to target the military field of the guard, the military field of the guard, but also spit out, the military field of the guard has a clear record, Song Xiance took the field is not the Chongzhen Dynasty, but the Yongle Dynasty in the Chengzu period, how many fields each guard, the record is clear.

Through the first two items, it is to check the household registration, only the people who are still in the local area, directly registered, and the household registration is no longer moved, because to escape the war, there are not many people left in the prefectures and counties of Beizhili, if the displaced people from all over the country are repatriated to their original places of origin, and then divide the fields equally, the fields will definitely not be enough.

If we only count the people now, then there should not be much of a problem with the fields.

Different from the Chongzhen Dynasty, the biggest feature of the Dingxin Dynasty is the execution, Emperor Chongzhen issued a holy decree, and it is almost useless to go out of the capital, but Cheng Shijie's order will be implemented very thoroughly.

Because Cheng Shijie controls the army, there are bandits in trouble? Destroy him!

Someone is lending usury? I think you're tired of it!

Grain merchants raise food prices? Grandma's, I'm with my broadsword!

In less than a month, more than 160 underground banks that lend usury were put in place, and Ding Xinchao immediately introduced a policy in due course, with an annual interest rate of no more than 20 percent, and if it exceeds 20 percent, the borrower has the right not to repay the excess.

During this period, Cheng Shijie also signed and approved, sealed and raided his home, a total of more than 600 grain shops that raised grain prices, and cut down more than 380 traffickers.

As for how many bandits were cut? I really didn't cut much, this time I went to South America, it was their share, and as for the bandits and bullies, they were also directly copied and packed, sent to Tianjin, ready to go to sea by boat.

Unconsciously, the first year of Dingxin has officially arrived.

In the new year, Cheng Shijie started two big moves.

The first major move was the establishment of a joint cabinet group, which was formed by the Ministry of Auditing, the Ministry of Taxation, the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the Ministry of Finance to re-measure the acres of land and audit the accounts. The gentry in all localities must spit out all the fertile land of unknown origin and hand over the tax and silver that has been in arrears for so many years.

As soon as this one came out, the entire Beizhili, Liaoxi, Shandong, and Henan were blown up, and the gentry jumped like thunder, almost pointing at Cheng Shijie's nose and roaring: "You go and ask others, see when I paid taxes, uncle!" ”

Cheng Shijie said that Lao Tzu was not convinced.

Originally, after the battle of the capital, a total of nine brigades of the Ming Royal Army gathered in the capital, together with the integrated Tianxiong Army and the remnants of the Western Liaoxi and the Ming Northern Expeditionary Army, a total of 11 brigades and nearly 300,000 horses.

These soldiers were directly encircled on the spot, and as soon as the deadline was reached, they went straight to the hometown of a major tax evader, broke down the door, arrested people, and raided the house......

It's not as simple as paying the tax arrears, you have to go bankrupt to save your life. For a time, the prisons in various prefectures were overcrowded, the crying was shocking, and the popularity of Sun Chuanting, the leader of the joint leading group, skyrocketed, to the point where he could stop children crying at night!

The gentry were surprisingly angry: "Sun Chuanting, your uncle, we can't help Cheng Shijie and put up with it, after all, he is now the regent of the Ming Dynasty, and he wants a gun with a gun and a silver with silver, which is very difficult, but you Sun Chuanting is a green onion in which temple, and you dare to ride on top of Lao Tzu's head to spread wild?" I can't take it anymore! ”

The excerpts of the complaint flew to the capital like a blizzard, and the number was so large that it was more than enough to cremate Sun Chuanting's whole family, and the gentry cried with tears and snot in the middle of the song and complained that Sun Chuanting was not, according to them, even if they invited Zhang Tang and Du Zhou, these famous cool officials, had to kneel when they met Sun Da Demon King!

Cheng Shijie was not interested in watching these folds, but directly backhanded, recorded the names of these officials who handed over the folds, and strictly checked whether they had broken the law.

Just when the army cooperated with the officials and jointly enforced the law to collect taxes and collect taxes, they also solved the problem of household registration and land of the common people, although these gentry were very angry, but the people were surprisingly silent, after all, they were a vested interest group.

Although the people have reformulated their household registration and obtained their land, the problem is that they still have the last meal and no next meal, what should they do?

Cheng Shijie promulgated the second policy to rebuild the official road, on the basis of the original official road, it is necessary to ensure that the county is connected, and work for relief. This is undoubtedly a far-sighted decision, if you want to get rich first to build roads, Cheng Shijie to win the whole world, it is only a matter of time, the world is about to usher in a big development.

In this case, if there is a road, it is definitely not generally good, the people who have newly acquired the land, go to build roads during the day, and learn how to scientifically grow cotton, wheat, barley, sunflower seeds, corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes and other crops in the classroom at night.

Daming because of drought, the official road has been used intermittently, said to be rebuilt, in fact, the amount of work is not very large, two months can be completely done, the investment is small, the efficiency is high, and will not delay the spring ploughing, these two months of construction work, but can earn a lot of food and money, not to do is stupid!

With the promulgation of Cheng Shijie's two decrees in the first year of Dingxin, the Ming Dynasty began to recover taxes, arresting people when soldiers disagreed, killing people if they didn't like it, and refusing to pay taxes and returning the illegally occupied fertile land to death!

In this way, Cheng Shijie has obtained great benefits at the lowest cost.

With the advent of these two decrees, the gentry officials were collectively angry, and it was useless for them to rebel, because their tenants, who had successively acquired their own fields, were unwilling to cultivate them for them.

Some gentry began to want to escape, but where could they escape, fleeing here, someone immediately reported the news, and the Ming royal army and cavalry went out one after another to arrest people directly.

Stay in prison and wait for the Americas.

Seeing Cheng Shijie coming indiscriminately, the bigwigs of the small court in Jiangnan were so excited that they wanted to cry, if Cheng Shijie directly sent troops south, they would have no chance at all, but under Cheng Shijie's operation, there were still many gentry officials with clever means who ran to Nanjing.

Of course, this was deliberately let go by Cheng Shijie, and they went to Nanjing to cry to Zhu Yihai about Cheng Shijie's atrocities, and let Zhu Yihai call the shots for them.

In short, the logic of these scholars and gentry is that the Ming Dynasty has always treated the gentry well, and their encroachment on good land, tax evasion or anything is not a big deal, and they will pay the tax if they are willing to pay it, and they will pay it back if they are willing to pay it, and if they refuse to pay it back, forget it, it is too much to arrest them or even kill them for this land tax silver.

Not only the court of the Southern Ming Dynasty was a troublesome affair of officials in the DPRK and China, but also the scholars of the provinces of the Southern Ming Dynasty also jumped up to make trouble, among which the most ferocious was the scholars in Jiangnan, Jiangnan is a paradise for tax evasion, this is a magical place where the salt tax and tea tax paid in a year add up to less than two hundred taels of silver!

Although Cheng Shijie can't control them at all now, it does not prevent these Jiangnan readers from jumping up, reciting poems, writing articles, and criticizing Cheng Shijie's behavior.

Among them, Sun Chuanting endured most of the firepower, and scholars kept coming to Nanjing to scold, and those vicious articles that could scold him to the point of cutting off his children and grandchildren also flew over like snowflakes, and he was embarrassed to go out to greet people if he didn't receive one or two hundred articles a day.

Although it is said that the order was given by Cheng Shijie and Sun Chuanting is only the executor, he has suffered an unwarranted disaster.

(End of chapter)