These landlords and gentry were full of the idea that the military governments of Jiangsu and Zhejiang would soon introduce some policies to appease them, or invite some of these "great Confucians" to come directly to the government to serve as officials without examination, so as to win them over and gain their support.

After all, since ancient times, every feudal dynasty has basically chosen to win over the landlord class, stabilize its rule, or increase its bargaining chips in the fight for the world.

However, Yan Ling did the opposite, which was extremely inconsistent with their expectations and undoubtedly shocked them.

Although they actually understand that for the sake of the stability of their own rule, the imperial court will definitely crack down on land annexation and the like, and seize the interests that belong to them, but that is also after the unification of the imperial court, you guys who are still in the entrepreneurial stage, do not come to please us, and even issued such an order.

Aren't you afraid that you will lose the hearts of the "people" and lead to the loss of the world?

Of course, they don't know that the head of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang military government does not belong to this time and space, and has ideas from later generations, and he doesn't want to fall into another cycle.

Moreover, at this time, except for the areas originally ruled by the family, the contradictions in the rest of the places were actually very acute.

Almost every last year of the dynasty, will face land annexation and other problems, and this will cause a huge peasant uprising, and after the impact of the peasant uprising, the land social contradictions will be alleviated, and then after a lot of competition, the world is determined, can open another prosperous era.

But the problem is that the Zhejiang area has not been hit by a large-scale rebel army at this time!

Whether it was Zhang Xianzhong or the previous Heaven Breaker, they were all defeated very quickly, and at this time, the main power in the interior of Zhejiang was still very large, and many people were still extremely oppressed.

In every respect, reform is imperative, and Yan Ling needs to use this to ease social contradictions.

As for the second article, not to mention, of course, Yan Ling would not appear in a new country with such a thing as the imperial power not going to the countryside, but this is also difficult for the landlords to accept - their rule over the countryside has always been their important power, and it is also one of the important ways to exploit the people, how can they be easily abandoned.

All of a sudden, voices of dissatisfaction rose one after another.

However, it is just a "voice of dissatisfaction".

This is the cleverness of Yan Ling's two policies, and the appropriate benefits for people's hearts.

They would make the gentry angry and dissatisfied, but they would not directly oppose them, in other words, although these two policies were a usurpation of the gentry's money and power, but they were still within their tolerance.

Although Yan Ling was not afraid of them going into battle, once the gentry in the world resisted with all their might, and then mixed with the likes of the second king of the imperial court, it would still cause certain obstacles after all, and it would be worth paying a greater price.

Of course, as the largest landlord, Yan Ling naturally set an example and adjusted the rent of the land under the Yue Guo Mansion to a very low level.

He did not directly confiscate all these fields, after all, public and private are also to be distinct, an important defect of the Ming Dynasty's fiscal policy is that the public and private are not separated, the royal finance encroaches on the national finance, the state has no money and asks for internal funds at every turn, resulting in financial chaos, Wanli is from time to time to send eunuchs to levy taxes into the internal funds, resulting in heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes, which are all criticized.

Although Yan Yinghui and some clan elders were distressed, they didn't say anything more when they thought that this was also for a big event.

And the landlords, seeing that the Yan family cut themselves, their grievances were much less.

After this, the officials of the various towns and villages soon arrived, and they also quickly began to carry out the orders issued by the superiors - many of them were born into civilian families, and they had received a new type of education, so they naturally did not show the slightest mercy to the landlord class, and they were meticulous in checking hidden households and reducing rents.

Although many landlords finally decided to cooperate with the military government of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, some were unwilling to compromise on this, and they took out gold and silver and tried to bribe officials.

Yan Ling was not a vegetarian either, and soon after, an official took a piece of paper and arrested people from house to house.

These people are all disobedient to orders, Yan Ling doesn't plan to keep them, and it just so happens that the new policy also needs to shed blood to show the government's determination and deter Xiaoxiao.

Many landlords had families and naturally did not want to be taken away in this way, but once they encountered resistance, the officials were also merciless - the soldiers of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang armies followed behind, and opened fire without saying a word.

Even in the end, Yan Ling simply took advantage of the problem and punished some landlords and gentry who were notorious in the township, and they themselves were either executed or imprisoned in the mining area to do hard labor, their property was confiscated, and their land was naturally distributed to the rest of the people.

Of course, there are also officials who can't resist the temptation and accept bribes, these people are all recorded by Yinlong, and they are soon found in the door, and the hard-working officials are directly exempted, and they also end up in prison.

This iron-clad tactics succeeded in intimidating the landlords and officials, and since then, at least on the surface, no one has dared to resist the orders of the junta.

And after this inventory, the total population of Zhejiang is also hundreds of thousands more - this is only the "results" of their unscrupulous behavior within a few years after Yan Chenhao's death, it can be seen how huge the number of these landlords is concealed, and the imperial court collects a lot of taxes from Jiangsu and Zhejiang every year, but in fact, this has been greatly castrated!

However, this system naturally no longer works, as much land as there is, you have to pay as much tax, and the hidden households have also been reinstated as tenant farmers, registered with household registration, enjoy the protection of the government, and are no longer allowed to be bullied.

All of a sudden, although the landlords of Jiangsu and Zhejiang were mourning, the people were jubilant, and they were more supportive of the newly established military government of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and Yan Yinghui, as the ruler, also reached its peak at the same time.

However, when the news spread and reached the imperial court, Emperor Wuxing was very angry and vigilant, thinking that the other party was buying the hearts of the people, and he lost his temper again, and executed several unfavorable generals and officials in prison.

Subsequently, he increased the commercial tax.

There is no way, the imperial court's annual tax revenue is now only seven million taels, and this value is still falling, and the Ming Dynasty is poor.

Anyway, compared with the Liukou and the Yan family in the southeast, his behavior can be said to be the least damaging to the interests of the landlord and the doctor.

Originally, because of his collection of commercial and mining taxes, the landlords and merchants complained a lot, but now compared with them, he looks like a good man.

If you don't support me, do you support them?

You don't have a choice.

(End of chapter)