Yang Shiqi left.
He returned to his mansion in a daze.
Seeing his appearance, his wife, Yan, couldn't help asking a slightly uneasy question.
Yan is Yang Shiqi's first wife. After so many years, the relationship between the couple has always been very good.
Even if Yang Shiqi went to Nanyang many times to govern, Yang Shiqi would take his wife with him.
Since the death of his old mother, Yang Shiqi seemed to have only one relative he truly valued.
"Ms. sir, what's wrong with you? Have you encountered any difficulty?"
Yan asked softly, stretching out his rough hands and caressing Yang Shiqi's eyebrows.
For so many years, Yang Shiqi has been living a simple life. The house has never maintained a maid or a maid, and there is not even a person to wash and cook. As a result, Yan has never enjoyed the blessing of a wife after following him for so many years. You have to do your own laundry and cooking.
But even so, Yan never complained.
She knew that her husband had ambitions that were unimaginable to ordinary people, so she did not want to support domestic servants and maids. She had always kept herself clean and did not leave any excuses for her political opponents.
As Yang Shiqi's wife, Yan chose to support him silently, with the most suffering.
This means marrying a chicken and following the chicken, marrying a dog and following the dog. As a wife, Mrs. Yan is worthy of admiration.
Yang Shiqi reached out and took Yan's hands.
Feeling the roughness on his hands, Yang Shiqi's eyes suddenly turned red.
"I've suffered a lot from you these past years!"
Yan was originally a wealthy lady, but she had followed Yang Shiqi for so many years without any regrets. She had to wash and cook by herself and never enjoyed a single day of happiness.
When he thought of this, Yang Shiqi felt more guilty.
"Ms. sir, what are you talking about?"
"But there's something very wrong with your state today!"
Yan's cheeks turned red, and her eyes looking at Yang Shiqi were filled with unspeakable tenderness.
Yang Shiqi was not going to hide it from her. Now he really needed his pillow to give him some advice.
After all, the choice Prince Zhu Gaoxu gave him to Yang Shiqi was really embarrassing.
"Today I went to see His Highness the Crown Prince and wanted to leave the cabinet."
"After all, I am nearly sixty years old. If I continue to hang out in the cabinet, I am afraid that my whole life will end like this."
When Yan heard this, he was not surprised at all.
She had always known that her husband had great ambitions, so how could she be willing to hang around in the cabinet all the time.
"Then how did His Highness the Crown Prince respond?"
"He gave me an assignment I couldn't refuse!"
Yang Shiqi said with a wry smile, and then took out the booklet.
Yan took it and looked at it, feeling a little confused.
"Dividing a small family into an acre?"
"Ms. sir, what do you mean?"
Yang Shiqi looked a little solemn.
"The so-called 'divide the land into the acres' is nothing more than the abolition of the poll tax, and then the local governments in each province will find out the number of acres of land in each place, and directly divide the tax evenly based on the acres!"
With Yang Shiqi's knowledge and vision, it is not difficult to see what this "spreading a small person into an acre" is.
But it is precisely because of this that he is afraid, so scared that his spine shivers!
Mrs. Yan saw Yang Shiqi's fear and immediately asked curiously: "So what are the hidden dangers in this little farm?"
"It's not a hidden danger, it's just too much resistance!" Yang Shiqi explained with a wry smile.
"If we want to implement the new policy of sharing land with farmers, we must first find out the land in the world. This will undoubtedly touch the fundamental interests of those local gentry!"
"Although the previous whipping method was vigorously promoted, it was mostly in Jiangnan and other places, where the imperial court paid attention. Even if the whipping method was implemented in other provinces, the tricks in it were very serious. It’s intriguing.”
"After all, no one is willing to expose all of their family background, and no one is willing to abandon the fields that their family has invaded. That is their family inheritance through farming and studying!"
After a pause, Yang Shiqi looked at the booklet.
"But this one is completely different!"
"Once the imperial court really wants to implement this new policy, it will definitely strictly investigate the villages and fields all over the world, not just the five Jiangnan prefectures, but also all over the world!"
"Because finding out the specific number of farmland in the world is the prerequisite for implementing the new policy of dividing households into acres. I'm afraid that the prince has already started this work."
"No wonder he wants to train new disciples, no wonder he wants to implement a whipping method. These are just a cover to hide from others. This prince has really played a big game of chess!"
Having said this, Yang Shiqi suddenly woke up from a dream, with a look of horror on his face.
Zhu Gaoxu created and promoted new learning in order to cultivate trustworthy grassroots forces!
Zhu Gaoxu implemented a whipping method in order to find out the specific number of fields in the world and lay the foundation for the imperial court to implement this method of putting a small amount of land into an acre!
He, Zhu Gaoxu, had started this arrangement ten years ago, and his ultimate goal was to spread the land among his own people!
What a big game of chess!
Yang Shiqi was a little frightened.
Yan still didn't understand.
"My lord, didn't the imperial court implement a whipping method just a few years ago?"
"It is said that the new law is very good and is supported by people all over the world. Then why is it still implemented?"
"The whip method is good, but it still has hidden dangers."
Yang Shiqi patiently explained: "Just like the poll tax, a whip law did not abolish the poll tax. It only simplified the process of tax collection by the court and restricted officials from corruptly seeking profits and collecting other exorbitant taxes."
"The biggest advantage of sharing an acre of land is that it directly abolishes the poll tax. From now on, landless farmers will no longer have to bear taxes!"
"In the past, when conscription was based on people, the number of farmers was the largest, and the burdens were often passed on by the gentry, powerful people and other powerful people. Therefore, their burdens far exceeded the proportion that should be borne based on their land and property. Simply put, they were borne Heavy taxes that they don’t deserve.”
"After the taxation, the tax of dingyin was evenly distributed according to the number of land or field tax. The owner-operated farmers had less land, so the burden was naturally lighter than before. After all, the people who owned the most fields in the world were the local gentry and dignitaries. The prince's taxation was They are the ones being attacked by Ding Rumu!"
This is what Yang Shiqi is really worried about!
"Once the land is divided into acres, the privileges and exemptions of the gentry will naturally be cancelled, and their land will be divided into silver coins one by one. This will increase the amount of land that bears the silver coins, and also make the burden on the farmers relatively lighter. But how can these gentry agree?"
"They relied on their fame and privileges to annex fields on a large scale, which were passed down from generation to generation through farming and education. Now that the imperial court wants to implement the method of apportioning farmers into acres, it will undoubtedly directly abolish their fame and privileges. No matter who you are or what your status is, your family has As much tax as there is land!”
Yan finally understood this explanation.
In other words, the prince is dissatisfied with the gentry in the world, so he wants to slash at them with a sword and kill them with one strike!
"But what does this have to do with my husband?"
"Ha, it does matter." Yang Shiqi said with a wry smile.
"Your husband-in-law is the sword chosen by the prince!"
"What? This is too... dangerous!"
