A long line of official ships meandered southward on the Chuanjiang River, drawing white waves on the water of the Minjiang River, which is still considered the source of the Yangtze River. The twelve dragon flags of the Emperor of Heaven were hunting in the spring breeze. Float.
On both sides of the Minjiang River, it is the busy farming season, the green fields are picturesque, and countless farmers are working in the vast fields.
After Zhu Youjian returned to Chengdu in triumph, he did not stay much. After personally supervising the handover of the Shuwang's farm (the Shuwang's farm was mainly located in Chengdu), and meeting with Mu Tianbo in Chengdu who came to see the emperor, I left Chengdu by boat with this young Yunnan leader.
The target of his trip is Chongqing Mansion, an important town in eastern Sichuan.
After staying in Chongqing for ten days and a half, Zhu Youjian had to continue eastward, leaving Sichuan and going to Xiangyang to join the main force of the begging army led by Bi Ziyan.
Bi Ziyan's begging skills are not good. If Zhu Youjian doesn't go, hundreds of thousands of people will run out of food! During this period, Bi Ziyan had written several memorials to Zhu Youjian, asking him to leave Sichuan and come to Henan as soon as possible.
So Zhu Youjian really can't learn from Liu Bei and stay here in Sichuan...
But he can't completely let go of Sichuan's bureaucratic landlord class!
Because he still has the trump card to govern Sichuan!
And there are two more!
He was sitting in the cabin of Yu Zhou, knocking on the tea cup and looking at Niu Jinxing and Li Jin quietly.
In Zhu Youjian's previous life, these two people caused great harm to the people of Sichuan! Fifty to sixty million acres of land were created, and the landlord class in Sichuan was kicked over and stepped on hard.
I heard that later on, the poor landlords in Sichuan cried secretly when they thought of Emperor Chongzhen... They all regretted it to death!
If I had known that the bandits were so ruthless, I should have paid more taxes to Emperor Chongzhen back then!
Zhu Youjian looked at these two capable men who had successfully governed Shu, and suddenly gave a helpless smile: "Niu Jinxing, you are the number one scholar, the number one scholar who wrote "The Death Procession of Scholar-officials", I need civil servants like you! You You have been in Sichuan for some time, do you want to stay in Sichuan and serve as an official?"
think! Special thoughts! Niu Jinxing was shocked and didn't know what was going on. As soon as he arrived in Sichuan and saw the mountains and rivers of Bashu, he liked it very much!
"Li Jin," Zhu Youjian looked at Li Jin with a smile, "You must also want to stay in Bashu, right?"
you do not say! Li Jin also liked it very much since he arrived in Sichuan. Every time he climbed high and looked into the distance, seeing the land of Bashu crawling under his feet, he felt heroic and ambitious. If he hadn't had no literary talent, he would have recited poems.
"Long live Lord, do you want me to be an official in Sichuan?" Li Jin was a cheerful person and asked with a smile.
"Yes!" Zhu Youjian nodded, "I want you to go to Chongqing to be an official."
Chongqing!
I like this place name!
"Okay," Li Jin nodded repeatedly, "Long live Lord, what kind of official do you want to be?"
It’s not like being an emperor anyway! Zhu Youjian looked at him like this and thought: Jin Yiwei must send someone to watch this Shun Taizong!
"As the deputy commander-in-chief of Sichuan and the commander of the Chongqing Guard," Zhu Youjian said, "you must firmly guard eastern Sichuan for me!"
"Okay!" Li Jin patted his chest, "With Li Jin here, no one can take away Chongqing Mansion!"
Zhu Youjian was noncommittal and looked at Niu Jinxing again.
"I am also willing to stay in Sichuan!" Niu Jinxing always has a feeling that Sichuan is his place of use!
Zhu Youjian nodded: "Okay! I will let you be the prefect of Chongqing. Chongqing is an important town in eastern Sichuan and the first prefecture of Bashu. From now on, I will leave it to you two to govern!"
In fact, the number one prefecture in Sichuan at this time was still Chengdu, but because most of the land in Chengdu was circled by the King of Shu, Chengdu's tax revenue was far inferior to that of Chongqing, so Chongqing became the number one prefecture.
Zhu Youjian said: "Sichuan's territory is not small, and there are many soldiers and guards in the state capitals, but what really matters are Chengdu and Chongqing. By mastering these two prefectures, Sichuan will be able to firmly control it sooner or later!
There are many royal houses in Chengdu, and there is nothing to rectify in civilian fields. As long as you control Huangzhuang, that's enough. Therefore, the most important task in governing Sichuan lies in Chongqing Prefecture! Can you two help me govern Chongqing? "
This job doesn't sound easy!
Niu Jinxing and Li Jin both felt a little bit offended. Previously, all the eight palaces in North Zhili were struggling, and all of them were called eunuchs and Donglin rebels. When eunuchs came out of the eight palaces in North Zhili, of course they also had eunuchs, so the eunuchs called them eunuchs. Donglin rebelled against the party, and Donglin called them eunuchs...
"Long live Lord, how do you want me to govern Chongqing Mansion?" Niu Jinxing asked.
Zhu Youjian laughed and said: "How the eight Shuntian prefectures are governed, this is how the Chongqing Prefecture is governed!"
Niu Jinxing was startled: "Long live my Lord, do you want to establish a system in Sichuan where the government and gentry will receive food from one person?"
"No," Zhu Youjian said, "It's just that in Chongqing... first find out how much land Chongqing Prefecture has? We also need to find out how much of it is hidden land and how much is wasteland. After checking, I will find out how much land there is. Distribute it to the victims moving south from Shaanxi, and all the hidden fields will be classified as official fields. Huang Du can be exempted from grain for three years, but the official fields will have to collect rent immediately!"
Because there are more hidden fields in Sichuan, the negative impact of preferential exemptions on agricultural taxes is far less than that of hidden fields. For example, here in Chongqing Prefecture, the number of hidden fields is at least 60-70%! As long as all hidden fields are dug out and taxed, exemptions and exemptions will not be a problem at all - exemptions and exemptions can only exempt private fields from taxes, but cannot exempt official fields from rent!
"Long live the Lord, sir..." Niu Jinxing certainly knew that this assignment was a hot one.
"You can do it!" Zhu Youjian interrupted Niu Jinxing, "I know you are the only one in the world who can do this!"
Niu Jinxing had done it in her previous life!
"Niu Jinxing," Zhu Youjian said to Niu Jinxing in a tone that left no room for doubt, "As long as this can be done... within ten years, I will guarantee you to be the elder!"
Zhu Youjian has found himself the "best old team", namely Hong Chengchou, Wei Zaode, Niu Jinxing, Li Xin, Shi Kefa and Shen Tingyang!
Become the elder, of course Niu Jinxing wants to be the elder.
Niu Jinxing took a deep breath, stood up and saluted Zhu Youjian: "I will definitely work hard for it!"
"It must succeed!" Zhu Youjian emphasized, "If it doesn't succeed... the scholar-bureaucrats will die!"
I'm going to die!
"I will definitely succeed!" Niu Jinxing said, "I'm just a scholar..."
"You can recruit officers and assistants, you can report things secretly, and you can ignore the orders of the Chief Envoy." Zhu Youjian said to Li Jin again, "Li Jin, I will leave you a group of officers, and I will give you two regiments of officers." The number of troops, equipment and food and pay...these two regiments bear the designation of the imperial guard army. The soldiers are provided by the fifty imperial guards in Sichuan and Guizhou. They are all squad troops, taking turns to go up and down. During this period, you will be trained strictly, you will also receive military pay, and you don’t have to prepare your own food.”
Zhu Youjian is authorizing Niu Jinxing and Li Jin!
What Zhang Heming said is right. Many places in the Ming Dynasty were apparently managed by officials from the imperial court, but in fact they were still ruled by wealthy families!
To govern these wealthy families, it is not enough to rely solely on officials to be honest and responsible, they must be authorized! That is to say, the imperial power was delegated to local bureaucrats and given them certain personnel, financial and military powers.
With these two powers, they can form a small power center far away from the emperor.
Only with power can we suppress local wealthy families! Just look at how those chieftains managed their one-third-acre land.
Therefore, the emperor cannot hold the power firmly in his hands and at the same time ask the civil servants below who have no real power to stand up and fight against the wealthy family.
No one will be able to do this kind of errand that makes it clear that nothing will be done and will involve themselves. And if it is an unsuccessful errand, no one will do it seriously.
Therefore, Zhu Youjian could only delegate power to Niu Jinxing and Li Jin.
But he didn't dare to let these two people take charge of Sichuan... These two were the founders of Dashun's rule in Sichuan! Let them take charge of a corner of Chongqing, then Qin Liangyu, who controls Guizhou's Shuixi, Shuidong and Chengdu Fuhuangzhuang, can also restrict them - of course they are also tools to contain Qin Liangyu.
However, if they go to govern the whole Sichuan, once they rebel, there will really be no governance.
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