Three years of exemption or something, Shi Kefa, Zuo Maodi and Zhang Huang said that they can't be the masters. In addition to the emperor who can avoid the emperor's food, the king is the king of Chuang, and the king Li Zicheng is dead, even if he doesn't die, he can't care about Zhongzhou's affairs, so he can only let Daming be the son of Zhu Cihong and Emperor Zhu to call the shots.

Shi Kefa was busy with military affairs and lacked skills. Zuo Maodi wanted to send temporary county commanders and county lieutenants to the three prefectures of Jibei, Dongchang, and West Yanzhou, but he couldn't leave for a while. Therefore, Zhang Huangyan quickly went to Xuzhou, and on the tenth day of October, he went to Yunlong Mountain and met the great tomorrow.

When he went up the mountain to see the driver, Zhu Cihong was discussing with his new love Xu Erlin what God was? The Xu family in Shanghai is a Catholic family, and although Xu Erlin was not baptized (because of the controversy over Chinese rituals, many scholars and scholars began to alienate themselves from Catholicism), but they still believed in the existence of the Creator since childhood.

And Zhu Cihong's experience is there, and it is of course impossible for him to believe in the "theory of no immortals". Therefore, he also believes in the existence of "Heavenly Principles...... And he also believes in Destiny!

Because he himself has a destiny!

Anyone who has the same experience as him should believe that the "Manifest Destiny" has fallen on him, right?

In addition to having a common belief in heaven (the Creator) rather than religion (which is obvious, Zhu Cihong's soul crossed without the approval of the Pope), the two of them also had many common languages in philosophy, mathematics, and Gezhi.

Because he has received a half-Chinese and half-Western family education since he was a child, and he is extremely smart, Xu Erlin already has the potential to be a super scholar at a young age, and it also makes Emperor Zhu see the shadow of his first girlfriend from her...... And they look a little similar, with curved eyebrows, big eyes, a straight nose, small cherry lips, fair skin, and two small dimples on the cheeks when you smile. It's just too slender, a bit like the kind of girl who has lost too much weight.

"Xiaolin, you avoid it first," Zhu Cihong got Huang Xiaobao's report, so he said to Xu Erlin with a smile, "When I finish meeting Li Yan and Zhang Huangyan, let's go horseback riding together..... Your body is too thin, so it's good to exercise more. ”

"Then the concubine will retire first." Xu Erlin stood up, smiled and bowed, and then floated away.

Zhu Cihong looked at the girl's back, smiled slightly, and then said to Huang Xiaobao: "Xuan Li Yan, Zhang Huangyan!" ”

"Whoa!"

......

"Three-year exemption? Have you made up a ballad? How is it sung? ”

"Your Majesty, it's like this: Seeking ascension in the morning, seeking harmony in the evening, it is difficult for the poor to survive recently. Open the door early to welcome Daming, and discipline everyone is happy. Kill cattle and sheep, prepare wine syrup, open the city gate to welcome the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will not pay for the grain when it comes......"

is singing to Zhu Cihong is Li Yan, which sounds a bit like Henan Bangzi, and the lyrics are ...... It's familiar! Zhu Cihong said: I don't know how many times I have covered the song "Welcoming the King"! I wonder if I will use shamisen or violin to accompany me in the future?

"Okay, okay......" Zhu Cihong waved his hand, and then asked Zhang Huangyan, "Shi Kefa and Zuo Maodi both support?" ”

"Your Majesty, they all have no opinion."

"Don't accept ......grain," Zhu Cihong asked, "Don't accept the emperor's grain, don't pay the gentry's grain, or don't you accept it?" ”

"I don't accept it." Zhang Huang said.

Zhu Cihong asked again: "So...... What about the expenses of the three government offices in Jibei, West Yanzhou and Dongchang? There are dozens of counties in three prefectures, right? How many officials does a county get? How much does it cost? ”

"I'm afraid the court will have to put money inside!" Zhang Huangyan said.

That's a loss of money...... Emperor Zhu hates losing money the most!

"How much do you have to lose?" Zhu Cihong thought about it and asked, "How do you earn it back?" ”

Earn it back?

Li Yan and Zhang Huangyan couldn't help frowning.

"Your Majesty," Zhang Huang said, "if we can expel the Eastern Captives from Middle-earth, we will already earn it!" ”

Li Yan also said: "Henan and Shandong floods and droughts have continued one after another, and the people are like being in fire and water, and they are miserable!" Your Majesty is a benevolent monarch, can you be compassionate? ”

How can there be Henan? Emperor Zhu said in his heart: You Li Yan don't forget your hometown fathers! I think when I was searching in the four rivers and two lakes in Fujian and Guangdong, you were all applauding!

"Rong Zhen think about it again......" Zhu Cihong was noncommittal, and at the same time asked a question, "How to divide the land?" ”

Compared with exemption, this is a big problem!

"Your Majesty," Zhang Huangyan said, "the minister has a way...... In the land recovered in Shandong and Henan, the permanent tenant system and the official land rent were implemented. ”

The so-called perpetual tenant system is a tenancy system in which tenants enjoy long-term farming rights and the right to dispose of farming rights under the condition of paying rent according to the contract.

On the other hand, the government set a lower "fixed land rent" by the government to cooperate with the perpetual tenant system.

That is to say, meritorious landlords or other landlords who have obtained cultivated land on the recovered land in Shandong and Henan can only collect a lower fixed rent, and they are not allowed to evict tenants if the peasant households pay the rent according to the contract.

"This method looks very good, but ......" Zhu Cihong paused, "everyone is not satisfied!" ”

Zhang Huangyan's method is a bit like rent reduction and interest reduction in later generations, which sounds good, but neither the landlords nor the peasants will be satisfied!

The landlord, of course, has to charge more rent and interest...... And the peasants need to get ownership of the land!

"Your Majesty," Zhang Huangyan said that he was a big landlord, of course he understood what Emperor Zhu meant, he shook his head, "but right now, there is no other better way!" ”

Zhu Cihong looked at Li Yan again, and Li Yan said: "First announce the three-year free food, and the rest will be talked about later!" He paused, "As far as the minister knows, when the first plan of the Dongyu dictated the fields, the life of the people was indeed better for a while. But later, the Qing court trained a new army, ran a new policy, and reclaimed the Kanto region on a large scale...... The more money you need to spend, the higher the tax rate. At the beginning, it was said that it was one mu and four cents, but now it has been mentioned that there is more than one bucket, which is still collected by the Qing court, and the local officials are rarely allowed to take another share. If it is the territory managed by the Yamen of the Angbang Zhangjing or the three feudal clans of the Zhenglu Banner, it will be even more ruthless! Therefore, the people of the Central Plains all miss my great tomorrow dynasty! ”

Zhu Cihong snorted: "Are they missing Li Zicheng?" ”

Li Yan smiled awkwardly: "When Li Zicheng was here, they missed Daming...... But when Dongyu's fox tail was exposed, they felt that Li Zicheng was good again. ”

One is more ruthless than the other!

Zhu Cihong thought to himself: I don't know if in a few years, the people of the Central Plains will miss the Qing Dynasty?

Thinking so in his heart, of course he couldn't say so in his mouth, Emperor Zhu thought about it, and then asked: "Is it public land or private land that Dongyu Ji dictates to grant field?" ”

"It's public land," Li Yan said, "there is no private land in Dongyu...... For the so-called children of the Ten Banners in Dongyu, not only do they have no private land, but even the house they live in is not their own, but belongs to the banner or the internal affairs government where they are located. ”

"So...... The land in Fuzhou County is also temporarily used as public land, and the property rights will not be changed for three years, and no land rent will be levied. Let's talk about the rest in three years! ”

Zhu Cihong has already made a decision.

He's going to have to push it back...... He did not approve of the method proposed by Zhang Huangyan. It's not that he opposes perpetual tenants and fixed rents, but that this matter can't be handled by him, the emperor, otherwise no one will be satisfied. When the time comes, Emperor Zhu will complain!

In addition, Emperor Zhu also had a worry, the agricultural productivity of the four rivers and two lakes in the southeast of Fujian and Guangdong is developing rapidly-on the one hand, because of the collapse of the "import and transportation system", the degree of agricultural marketization has increased; On the one hand, there was the stimulus to agriculture in the southeast by industry and commerce and the colonies.

If the agriculture of the Central Plains continues to maintain the small-scale peasant model, I am afraid that the gap between the economy of the Central Plains and the southeast will become wider and wider in the future......

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