This is the top pick and I haven’t even taken the exam yet!
Grand Duke Luo looked at how angry Huang Zongxi was! He should have been the No. 1 pick himself, but now he has been robbed by the insidious villain Huang Zongxi! Aren't you "Huang Taichong"? Why don't you show off at all today, but instead make suggestions for Prince Zhu?
You should stand up and plead for the people! Why did you take refuge? You are a hypocrite!
Hou Fangyu, Mao Xiang, and Zhang Huangyan looked at Huang Zongxi and "Zhu Yaofei" with complicated expressions. Now they had roughly guessed who "Zhu Yaofei" was?
This must be the powerful Prince Fujun!
For the gentry in the southeast, Prince Fujun, an outsider, was here to steal money and people!
But now the prince has the power of the court and can distribute champions, Jinshi and official hats. If you want to be a Jinshi or become an official, you have to cooperate with His Highness the Prince!
Only when you become an official can you be greedy and protect your family's wealth for generations!
Now the prince comes incognito and talks about state affairs with everyone. This is Corporal Li Xian. If the "gentlemen" here can climb up the pole, they will be able to obtain glory and wealth at their fingertips.
If you don't want to climb up, but choose to fight, then you have to weigh your own strength!
Not only did Prince Zhu easily eradicate the ministers and nobles in Nanjing, but he also ransacked the houses and found flowers for the princes who wanted to live in each house to search for themselves! If you copy well, you will get a prize; if you copy poorly, you will have to go to Taiwan to fight various infectious diseases.
In this way, the efficiency of house confiscation was increased countless times, and all the land that the Southeast nobles and ministers had worked hard to embezzle for more than 200 years was squeezed out. The total number was tens of millions of acres!
In other words, the Prince Group will firmly control tens of millions of acres of land and a population of at least 700,000 households on these lands in a very short period of time.
Although this land and population only account for more than 10% of the actual land and about 10% of the population in southern Zhili, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places.
In addition, Prince Zhu also has 50,000 new army troops to defeat the new army. The combination of 50,000 new troops, 700,000 households and 35 million acres of land will be powerful. It is hard to say whether the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains can be achieved. Anyway, the southeastern half It's stable.
Now that the imperial court's situation in the southeast is stable, what else can we do if we don't surrender?
"Mr. Zhu, I think that when the imperial court first arrives in the southeast, it should show both kindness and power, and the best way to show kindness is to avoid giving gifts and avoiding accumulated debts."
Grand Duke Luo, who had lost the lead, also began to offer suggestions at this time. The No. 1 pick is gone, but the No. 2 pick and No. 3 pick can still be fought for!
You have to perform well, but you can't let Huang Zongxi, a hypocrite, get too proud.
He said, "There are a lot of gentry and hidden fields in the capitals of the southeastern states, and tax assessment has nothing to do with it. And the southeast has always been heavily taxed. The total tax and grain tax in South Zhili is as high as more than 6 million shi. Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces both have 256 One hundred thousand dan. This is just the full amount. If three wages and various assessments and expenses are added, the burden will be even heavier.
Most of these taxes, additional levies, apportionments, and expenditures have been transferred to poor households with little or no land. Therefore, the burden on poor households in the southeast is extremely heavy, and the public resentment is huge! If the imperial court conducts household checks in Qingtian in the southeast, these resentful people may be seduced by Xiao Xiao and make trouble in groups.
For the purpose of stabilizing the Southeast, it would be better to waive taxes on private land and increase allocations for three years, and waive accumulated arrears from previous years. When the people's hearts are stabilized, the imperial court can clean up the land and take back all the official, military and hidden fields. After taking it back, the land can be equalized. After the land is equalized, not only can rent be collected, but also the system of government soldiers can be implemented as in the Sui and Tang Dynasties! "
Zhu Cixiang smiled and nodded, thinking that the actual amount of land in Southern Zhili might be 1.5 billion acres! The total amount of taxes and grain is only over 6 million shi, and the average amount of rice and flour per acre is less than half a bucket, but they are still talking about heavy taxes. It is really abominable!
However, Grand Duke Luo's method is still feasible. Because the most important thing now is that the distribution of fields among the five divisions of the New Army has not yet been completed. Li Yan, Hong Niangzi and others have not yet completely settled Runing, the source of troops. Similarly, Zhu Chunchen had just arrived in Fengyang and needed time to master Fengyang's Eight Guards and One Hospital. At this time, it would also be beneficial to appease the scholar-officials and unruly people in the southeast so that they would cause less trouble.
"It makes sense," Zhu Cixiang smiled, "In the next spring's Enke, the eldest brother will definitely win the first prize."
There are three places in the first grade, number one, number two, and number three. Now that two of them have been approved, there is still one spot left. It depends on how Hou Fangyu and Maoxiang fight for it!
The two young men who returned to society were also a little anxious. Hou Fangyu is better off. His father is Hou Xun, a bachelor of the current dynasty, and he is not worried about his future. But Maoxiang is different. Although he comes from a famous family in Yangzhou and a family of officials, he himself is not good at taking exams. He failed in the Nanjing Provincial Examination six times and is still a scholar until now.
Scholars cannot participate in Enke. Now the prince is handing out the title of Jinshi, but he is not qualified to get it. Do you think you are in a hurry and not in a hurry?
"Mr. Zhu," Maoxiang, who is 33 years old this year and looks old, twirling his beard and looking as old as 40 years old, said, "I heard that the Tatars colluded with the eunuchs to destroy Kong Lin in Qufu. I will definitely do it when the time comes. There will be a war. And once the war begins, the consumption of food and salary will be staggering. Now the court has to exempt taxes and debts, and the national and military supplies are afraid of insufficient. Fortunately, there are many scholars in the southeast who are well off, and they are willing to protect Kong Lin's reputation. And if you give money, you will get food. It would be better if the imperial court could give scholars who donate more than a certain amount of money and food a meritorious title and let them participate in next year's Enko. It can not only win people's hearts, but also get a lot of money and food."
Zhu Cixiang's eyes lit up, this is a good idea! He glanced at Zheng Sen again. It seems that you don't have any meritorious service. Why don't you buy one too? In this way, you can take the Enke exam, take the exam well, and strive to be admitted as a Jinshi, so that my father-in-law, Lao Taishan, will also be happy.
Hou Fangyu, Zhang Huangyan, Luo Dagong and Huang Zongxi all looked at Maoxiang with disdain, you are a scumbag who couldn't pass the national examination. Now you actually think of buying it. It's so embarrassing.
"Master Zhu," Zhang Huangyan, who had been silent until now, finally spoke, "I heard that the Donglu and the rogue bandits are mobilizing their troops and preparing for a decisive battle. Is the imperial court just going to sit back and watch the two thieves decide the winner? Negative?"
What else can we do if we don’t just sit back and watch? Why don't you stand and watch? Zhu Cixiang sighed softly and said, "Brother Xuanzhu, do you have any clever ideas?"
"The imperial court should pay close attention to the war between the rogue bandits and the Tatars, and make preparations for both. If the rogue bandits win, the Tatars may abandon the capital and run to Liaodong. This is a good opportunity for the imperial court to seize the capital from the north. The rogue bandits must not be allowed to enter Beijing. city!
If the Tatars win, then the imperial court should launch an attack on Liao. You can send the navy to transport a group of elite troops, land on Guanglu Island and Xiaochangshan Island near Jinzhouwei, and reopen the Dongjiang Military Town! "
Well, the heroes think alike! Zhu Cixiang nodded, thinking that Zhang Huangyan actually went with him. He really deserves to be an anti-Qing hero in history!
"Brother Xuanzhu is indeed a talented man in both civil and military fields!" Zhu Cixiang smiled, "It seems that this time Enke, brother Xuanzhu can also go to high school."
Zhu Cixiang glanced at Hou Fangyu again. Hou Xun's young master just smiled and said nothing. It seemed that he didn't have any tricks up his sleeve.
He looked away, coughed, and said with a smile, "Next spring in Enke, there will be many Donglin successors gathered in Nanjing. For us Donglin successors, this is a time to hold the Donglin Conference and elect the new generation of Donglin Three Kings. Good opportunity!
In addition, the world is now in chaos, the capital has fallen into the hands of the Tartars, and Kong Lin in Qufu is also under the threat of the Tartar soldiers and is in danger. Duke Yansheng had already ascended to the high ground to speak out and issued a "Call to the Eastern Captives", calling on scholars all over the world to do their best to defend Confucius. And we, Dong Lin’s successors, should also respond positively.
Therefore, while recommending the three monarchs, we should also publish Donglin's "Call to Hulu" and make it known throughout the country. I wonder what you guys think? "
What else? Of course I agree!
Now Zhu Cixiang's situation in the southeast seems to be quite stable, but the Donglu and the eunuchs are linked again, and they are smeared as going to Qufu to fight. How can the Donglin Party members in the southeast stop talking so loudly? As soon as the rhetoric is released, the slogan is written, and the name is signed, it is best to arrest Sun Zhixian and publicly criticize him. Even if these Donglin Party members were kidnapped by Zhu Cixiang’s anti-Qing cause!
