"Your Majesty, the statistics are out!"
I don't know how long it took, but Yuan Keli's voice interrupted Chongzhen's wandering thoughts.
Without waiting for Chongzhen's response, Yuan Keli took the statistics book and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, the two houses sold a total of 5,860 hectares on the first day, which is more than half of the total."
"Half percent? So little?"
"Your Majesty, each county that sent the letter came back with a letter explaining that it was the first day and I was not familiar with the operation process.
In addition, some people are causing trouble and many people have a wait-and-see attitude, which has slowed down the progress.
The pace will pick up in the next few days. The sales time is from morning to Maozheng time to Youzheng time in the afternoon. It is expected to reach about 10,000 hectares tomorrow.
In addition, in the later period, the exchange of cultivated land among the common people, adjustment, registration, etc. are expected to be completed before the tenth of April. "
After hearing the explanation, Chongzhen breathed a sigh of relief. If the people didn't buy it, then the next thing would be passive.
"How many people are making trouble?"
"There are more than 1,200 people, and they are basically drawn because they think the land is too far away, or the location is not good, and because of the order of the draw, etc.
But because they were all neighbors, the officials gave them a warning! "
"If you follow this order and find something similar, all purchases will be cancelled. Anyone who shows favoritism will be punished with thirty sticks!"
"I understand!"
After Yuan Keli responded, he hesitated and said, "Your Majesty, in the past few days we have discovered that wealthy businessmen from all over the country often gather together and seem to be plotting something. Do you want to pay more attention to it?"
"No, let them be!"
Chongzhen waved his hand. The wealthy businessmen in both houses had minor problems and he didn't bother to pay attention to them.
His main targets were the feudal kings, clans, nobles, and gentry.
The thirty feudal princes have at least six to seven hundred thousand hectares of cultivated land. Once this is done, fifteen million people will have cultivated land.
In addition to the cultivated land owned by the people, 30 million people have cultivated land, and this public opinion is enough.
There were too many wealthy merchants and gentry in the entire Ming Dynasty, and the interests involved were too many and too wide to be touched temporarily, but the vassal kings could.
"Yuan Aiqing, do you think these feudal princes will cause trouble?"
Yuan Keli was silent for a while and whispered: "I don't know!"
"Yuan Aiqing, how to deal with the vassal king gives me a headache!"
After listening to Chongzhen's words, Yuan Keli trembled slightly, sweating slightly on his forehead, but remained silent.
This is the emperor's family matter, and it's really hard for him to open his mouth.
His tone was full of uncertainty. If we look at the situation in the Qin Palace and the Jin Palace, the other vassal kings must have colluded with the local gentry and wealthy businessmen.
The vassal king does not control the military, does not discuss government affairs, and does not care about state affairs. This is the ancestral system, and it is also the most important thing for emperors of all dynasties.
But it doesn't mean that the vassal king has no strength at all. They are short of everything else, except money.
They used money to clear the way, bribed and supported the gentry and wealthy businessmen, and allowed them to slowly become powerful ministers from the bottom.
This is the reason why the vassal king can control the wind and rain and dominate the city locally, but has not spread it back to Beijing.
The feudal king is probably thinking in his heart, because I have so much money, do I deserve to have my house confiscated?
Chongzhen has never determined what to do with the vassal king.
Should he be imprisoned in Beijing like King Qin, or should he take the opportunity to kill a group of people? Or is it just taking back the farmland in their hands?
"That's all, let's take it one step at a time. I hope they will be honest, otherwise I will really go on a killing spree!"
Chongzhen sighed in his heart.
It was really too involved, and if it wasn't handled well, everyone in the industry would be in danger, which he didn't want to see.
Others will think: You can even kill members of your own clan, what else can you not dare to do?
"Yuan Aiqing, are you wondering why I didn't wait a few years until the situation was completely stable before implementing this strategy?"
Yuan Keli immediately shook his head and said in a very firm voice: "No, I think the time is just right! Any earlier or later, the problem will be bigger, and it will be harder to do!"
"oh?"
Chongzhen's eyes lit up and he immediately said: "Then tell me why?"
He originally thought that Yuan Keli would tell him to lie dormant for a few years, but he didn't expect that it would be such an answer.
Du Yinxi and others who were waiting on the side also had doubts on their faces, and they were obviously curious.
When they learned that the imperial court was going to sell farmland a few days ago, they all felt that the emperor was a little too hasty.
After getting rid of the eunuchs, raiding the palaces of Qin and Jin, and the eight major locust merchants, there will be no shortage of money within five or six years.
With the emperor's means and mind, the military and officialdom will be reorganized in five or six years. By that time, will the gentry and wealthy businessmen be able to do whatever they want?
Although they had doubts, they couldn't stop the strategy they had started, so they didn't dare to say anything.
Now Yuan Keli actually said that the time was just right. Why didn't this make them curious?
"Your Majesty, what you say next is a bit disrespectful. Please forgive me!"
"Go ahead, I'll forgive you for whatever I say. Let's just talk like ordinary people."
Yuan Keli bowed his hand towards Chongzhen: "Since the First Emperor unified China, counting all the dynasties in detail, the country's destiny has been three hundred years. This has almost become a foregone conclusion.
Even those as powerful as the Han and Tang dynasties did not escape this fate.
It has been 260 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and it has gone through fifteen emperors. According to this calculation, it is already in the later stage.
If His Majesty had not appeared, the situation of Apocalypse seven years ago, within fifty years, the Ming Dynasty would have..."
Everyone's expressions suddenly changed, and their whole bodies trembled. Even though the emperor just said that he could speak freely, was this too presumptuous?
Chongzhen's face was indifferent and he sneered in his heart.
Can it last another fifty years? You really overestimate Daming.
However, this three-hundred-year number is really magical. Chongzhen reigned for seventeen years, plus the eighteen years of the Nanming regime, not counting the continuation of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty had a total of 295 years of national destiny, but it still did not escape the fate of 300 years.
"At this point in time, it can be said that the dynasty is in a period of decline. Problems are piling up, internal reforms are weak, and external crises are everywhere.
Even though His Majesty has done so much, the fundamental problem has not changed.
What are the most essential problems are land annexation, businessmen out of control, military and political ruin, and the corruption of the gentry. "
"Mr. Yuan Ge, now we have confiscated the Eight Locust Bounty, the King of Qin, and the King of Jin. There are at least more than 30 million taels of silver in the treasury. He has been dormant for a period of time and has taken control of the military. If he doesn't obey, he will be killed..."
Facing Zhou Yuji's killing attack, Yuan Keli chuckled: "It would be nice if it was so simple.
If you think about it carefully, Zhang Juzheng's reforms were obviously beneficial to the Ming Dynasty. Why were they abolished after his death, and why were they frantically liquidated against him? "
“If such a situation can be reversed through reforms, it will not be called a period of decline, but a period of resurgence.
Your Majesty understands that reform can only be temporary and cannot last long, so at this moment, he violently forced reorganization, bankruptcy and liquidation to completely solve the problem. "
