Chapter 177: No more pretending

"It's all gone, who farms the land......" Rich Wu's lips turned iron-blue.

Until a young man behind him who was gray-faced and dressed as a long-term worker glanced at these tenants with envy on his face.

Rich Lord Wu's face sank suddenly.

"What do you see?! You are the master, I bought it back! Master, I have your deed of sale, and you will sell it to my Wu family for five years! ”

The glint in the young man's eyes dissipated in an instant.

Rich Wu's expression became more and more fierce.

It's just that those tenants who used to be obedient no longer have the obedience they used to be.

It's just that the rich man Wu is crazy at home.

After throwing down the hoe, he turned his head and left the Wu family.

I don't know how long it took for the rich man Wu to suddenly get up from the ground.

"How many people are left in our family?"

The young man bowed his head and said, "We're all gone, and the eight of us are left who have signed the deed of sale." ”

"Come into town! If you see someone who sells yourself, buy them all! Whatever the silver can be! Regardless of gender, as long as they can work, they can do it. ”

The rich man Wu was stunned for a long time.

"I can't afford it...... That's right, how troublesome it is to buy...... Let's go out and get some back. ”

The autumn harvest has just ended, and in some time, it will be time to plant wheat in the autumn.

There has been such a big change at this juncture, and if these 3,000 acres are abandoned this year, it will be a really important matter.

"Get the guy! Bring all the livestock in the village, and grab it back first when you meet a single person, I am agriculture-oriented, who misses the agricultural time of the imperial court, who is the sinner of the Ming Dynasty! ”

"Inform me, whether it is the tenant who signed the deed of sale or the tenant who stayed, all of them will follow the lord and I to go out and rob it, for Your Majesty's imperial grain, for the peace of the world!"

At this time, this old and new party and government were born in the court.

The so-called old and the new.

Finally faded away from those high-sounding rhetoric.

The old law, which focuses on the core interests of landlords, will directly collide with the new law that focuses on the release of labor.

Qiu Geng locked it on the heads of all the landlords in Xishan like a tight spell.

The landlords of the whole Xishan seemed to be crazy, and by noon on the second day, many landlords were haunted and arrested on the streets.

Ning Jue pressed too hard.

The landlords who were caught and imprisoned no longer had the time to calculate whether it was worth tossing it like this.

They just wanted to find someone to sow the wheat seeds as soon as possible.

Sitting on the ox cart, the rich man of Wu squatted for less than a moment on the way to the county seat, and then jumped out of the bushes.

"Take this family and bring it back to the village first!"

"Whoa!"

The tenant who was held down said angrily with a stunned face: "The county seat is less than forty miles away from here, do you dare to rob the official road, aren't you afraid that the court will blame you?!" ”

The rich man Wu stared at the tenant in front of him with scarlet eyes and said angrily: "Master, I only know that Emperor Taizu Gao has ancestral teachings, and those who mistake the agricultural time will be killed!" I can't watch so many fields in my house be so barren for a season! ”

"Take it!"

Several long-term workers rushed up, but before everyone could move, a slightly familiar voice came from behind them.

"Master Wu is so prestigious."

As soon as the rich man turned around, he found that Ning Jue was riding on a horse and leading a team of horses staring at him not far away.

"Which of the Da Ming laws says that the landlord's land can't be planted, so he can arrest people on the street?"

The desperate rich man Wu couldn't help it at all.

"Rather the end! I*you*! ”

"Do you really want to force the gentry of Xishan to a dead end?!"

Ning Jue didn't pay attention to the rich man Wu at all, but looked at the tenant.

"Do you want to go into the city or do you want to go back to the village with him? You boldly say, I'll call the shots for you. ”

The tenant almost didn't hesitate to pick up his bags and stand behind Ning Jue.

"It's not impossible to farm, but ...... This old man is going crazy to see it, and he can't ......."

"You are presumptuous!" The rich man of Wu stared at the tenant with a tearful eye, and then the two long-term workers stepped forward and pressed the tenant to the ground.

The tenant panicked and struggled on the ground, but he could not break free from the bondage of the two long-term workers.

"What do you want to do?" Ning Jue quietly looked at this rich man Wu.

"Rather the end! It's less than ten miles away from my Houbang Village! This is Lao Tzu's land! ”

"This official gives you time to call someone."

"Okay, okay, you wait, you wait!"

The rich man stepped forward and held down the tenant, and then kicked the ass of a long-term worker.

"Go and call all the old men from the neighboring village and let the big guys judge them!"

"Whoa!"

Not only did these landlords dare to arrest people on the street, but they didn't even feel that they had done anything wrong from the beginning to the end.

Because all dynasties have come over like this, the sky and the earth are big, and the agricultural time is the largest.

For the sake of farming, even the king of heaven and Lao Tzu has to be arbitrary.

After a short time, the gray-faced landlords who were already busy in the surrounding villages all gathered with their respective families.

Seeing that someone was coming, the rich man Wu also came to the spirit.

"Rather the end! You see it! Look at what you've tossed our folks in Xishan into?! ”

The landlords behind the rich man Wu also rushed towards Ning Jue with guns and sticks.

"You're a mess! Aren't you afraid that the Son of Heaven will blame you?! That is, the prince is still young, and he is messing around with you, others don't know, I know! When Your Majesty comes out, it will be the death of you cool officials! ”

Listening to the scolding of these landlords, Ning Jue rode up to the rich man Wu and said, "What do you do by talking so much nonsense, you just say that you can't let people go." ”

"Don't let go!"

Before Rich Master Wu's words fell, Ning Jue had already pulled out the Yanling knife on his waist, and when the knife fell, he inserted the knife into Rich Master Wu's chest.

Until the moment he poured into a pool of blood, the face of the rich man Wu was still full of disbelief, and even the few landlords who had just arrived were shocked by the scene in front of them.

"Ning Jue! The dynasty kills carefully, who gave you the power to kill?! ”

The surrounding landlords surrounded Ning Jue and his party.

Ning Jue casually rubbed the blood on his hands on the horse's back, and said in a loud voice: "Listen to everything!" ”

"It is a national policy to spread the land into the mu, and it is beneficial to the court and to you, if it can't be implemented, the official can only be killed."

Ning Jue paused for a moment and continued: "Xishan County, there are six city gates, he Wu Dongshun hangs in Xiguan, and there are still five gates left in Xishan, I hope you lords, be careful." ”

"You...... You are bold! There are more than six gentlemen in Xishan, you can still ......"

Without waiting for the landlord to finish speaking, Ning Jue interrupted and said: "The first circle is full, I will hang the second circle, and whoever wants to try it can continue to rob the tenants." ”

"Drag this Wu Dongshun back."

"Whoa!"

Ning Jue's gaze fell on the tenant who had just been brought down by the rich man of Wu.

"I don't dare to say it, in Xishan County, if you want to farm, you can farm, and if you want to go into the city to beg, you can go into the city to beg, no one dares to touch you."

Rao was like this, and the tenant was still frightened by the landlords behind him.

"Go forward boldly, I'll see who dares to move."

Ning Jue glanced at the landlords, but the landlords were all standing on end.

With the body of the rich man Wu being hung in Xiguan, all this that happened in Xishan spread to the surrounding Suzhou, Songjiang, Yingtian and other mansions as if he had grown legs.

The gentlemen, large and small, have reached the level of "talking about Ning and changing color".

So much so that in the surrounding provinces, the value of all tenants who are willing to sign the deed of sale has risen.

All this has little to do with those few taels of silver.

If this continues, the poor tenants will really be offered as Buddhas.

There is no original 30-year Ming and Qing Dynasty Dingge and 70 years of anti-Qing and Ming Dynasty boiled frogs.

These gentlemen are like frogs that have been thrown into boiling water.

But all the gentlemen who heard about this began to prepare to take a leap forward.

——

As Zhu Zaili's fleet got closer and closer to Jiangnan, the speed of learning about Jiangnan became faster and faster.

Yangzhou Caoyun Wharf.

"Brother Zaizhen, meet the imperial brother."

Soon after Ning Jue went south, Zhu Zaizhen went to Yangzhou to take up the domain, and when the fleet sailed to Yangzhou, Zhu Zaizhen also hurriedly came to Yangzhou Caoyun Wharf to greet the emperor's brother.

At this meeting, Zhu Zaili obviously felt that his fourth brother had obviously changed a lot.

"Are you still used to living in Yangzhou?"

Zhu Zaizhen wanted to speak and stopped.

"Brother ...... Emperor"

Without waiting for Zhu Zaizhen to finish speaking, Zhu Zaili patted Zhu Zaizhen's shoulder twice.

"I'll save it."

Yangzhou is very important, and at present, there are people in Yangzhou who are looking forward to Zhu Zaizhen having no children.

Zhu Zaili took a deep breath, looked at the bustling Yangzhou City in the distance and said, "Is my brother willing to serve the imperial court?" ”

"Brother is willing!"

"Yangzhou Wudang Palace Zhima Bridge has the former Emperor Wuzong Southern Tour Palace, changed to Jingwang Mansion, stopped Jingwang Mansion, lone good at making claims, restored your Jingfu three guards, how?"

Zhu Zaizhen's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"Is this true?"

"Seriously."

Stopping at Jingwangfu means that one day Zhu Zaizhen will be able to return to Beijing and not have to live in Yangzhou for the rest of his life.

It is impossible for people to miss home, Zhu Zaizhen was born in Beijing and grew up in Beijing, which is the prosperity of Yangzhou can not give Zhu Zaizhen.

For Zhu Zaili, the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty will be cut sooner or later, but now he still needs the help of his clan relatives, rather than building a flashy palace for Zhu Zaizhen, it is better to directly use this silver to recruit troops for Zhu Zaizhen, and turn Jingwang's mansion into a Dinghai Shenshen needle of the Ming Dynasty in the south of the Yangtze River.

After sending Zhu Zaizhen away, Zhang Juzheng came to Zhu Zaili's side.

"Your Highness, Xishan is already in the process of acreage, and the tenant rent given to the landlord has not been transferred to the tenant farmers."

"Tell me more."

"The tenant farmers have no burden of servitude, and the gentry will directly surrender the rent if they increase the rent, who will be stupid to continue planting, if the world is like this, it is absolutely a virtue that has not been seen in 3,000 years, and the common people are blessed."

Zhu Zaili pondered for a moment, and then said categorically: "Eight hundred miles to report to the clansmen of various prefectures, so that they can speed up the fields faster." ”

"Let's get out of the sea of suffering one day sooner."

Zhang Juzheng always felt that something was weird, but he couldn't say it, so he had to sing and act.

Just after Zhang Juzheng and Zhu Zaili finished drafting the edict and sent Zhu Zaili's warrant to the General Administration, the transcript was put on Lu Bing's desk after turning his head.

Lu Bing took the pen and changed a few words on Zhu Zaili's warrant, and then sighed.

"The errand that my father gave me is becoming more and more like a thief."

The general meaning of Zhu Zaili's warrant has not changed, but the words "unscrupulous means" were added by Lu Bing.

Behind the sect heads of the various prefectures, there is an invisible force that is forcing these people to push the whole thing in a bloodier direction.

This preparation for the new law is gradually turning sour.

This time, Jiajing didn't seem to want the Zhu family to turn against the scholars.

It's more like a pure desire to push the gentry into a corner.

(End of chapter)