Chapter 123: Declaration on Land Reform (1)

At the moment when Liu Hongjian stood up, all the people fell silent in unison, and the woman holding the child coaxed the crying child, hoping to hear Liu Hongji's speech on the desk.

Liu Hong gradually took out from under the desk the earthen megaphone that he had ordered the carpenter to make last night—a strange object bent into an arc of cardboard.

"Hey, hey—you can hear me!" Liu Hong gradually snorted, it seemed that the effect was not bad, and the few uncle-level people standing in front of him were startled.

"Let me introduce myself, I'm Daming An Guobo, the teacher of the current prince (although Mu You taught him something), the commander of Jinyiwei, and the Jiliao Governor Liu Hongchuan."

It's not that Liu Hong gradually wants to pretend to be thirteen, these flat-headed people have no knowledge, if you want them to believe what you say, you must package yourself, otherwise you won't say anything, just jump out and draw cakes for them, and the ghost will believe you.

The effect is indeed there, and most of the people began to talk to each other, asking if there was such a person in the imperial court, after all, any of these four official positions were all things they looked up to.

But the people did not show the appearance of joy, after all, no matter how big your official is, what does it matter to me, whether you give me food or give me silver, they only care about what they eat today, what they eat tomorrow, and whether they will starve to death the day after tomorrow.

The effect was achieved, and Liu Hong gradually waved his hand to silence everyone.

"Shanxi has been occupied by bandits for more than a year, I think you have learned about the recent changes in our Shanxi, that's right, Shanxi has been recovered under the heroic battle of my Ming soldiers!

These generals in front of you are the leaders of the bandit army, and for more than ten years, these bandits have been burning, killing, looting and doing all kinds of evil in my Daming, which is simply full of evil! ”

Liu Honggradually looked forward to the picture of the people indignantly reprimanding the bandits, but in fact, Liu Honggradually thought of these people too highly.

Most of the people looked at this big official of the court with expressionless faces, and they didn't know what was the big deal with this big official calling them here, could it be this?

When the bandit army ruled Shanxi, they had no food, could it be that when the Ming Dynasty ruled, they had food?

Heaven and earth are unkind to all things as dogs, saints are unkind to the people as dogs, thousands of palaces are complaining but the truth is true, prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer.

Liu Hong gradually became congested, soldiers are not soldiers to protect their families and defend the country, scholars are not officials to benefit the people, people farm just to have enough to eat, education, without education, where is there hope for the country!

"Behind the bandit leaders...... It is the eight profiteer families that occupy nearly sixty percent of the arable land in the entire Shanxi! ”

Liu Hong gradually paused and decided to do something real, and as soon as he finished speaking, it really had some effect, and the godless eyes of many people finally lit up.

In the two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, almost all the rulers wore a pair of pants with the gentry, and rarely attacked the landlord class for no reason, the reason is very simple, the old Zhu family treated the civil and military generals well, and most of the land was directly or indirectly in their hands.

As long as someone touches their interests, it will immediately be a joint suppression by all the bureaucracy, and then they will be criticized and punished, and you will be ruined and stinted for 10,000 years.

"These profiteers eat inside and out, fund the bandit army, collude with the Tartars to invade my Ming Dynasty, and steal and occupy the land that should belong to you, so that your wives are scattered and starved everywhere.

These profiteers have robbed you of your land, not only to make you continue to work hard for them, but also to make you grateful to Dade, who is saying that they have fed you!

Tired and busy for a year, in the end there is still not enough food and clothing, what about these profiteers? Take the grain you have grown with your sweat and sell it to you at a high price! Is there a more shameless and despicable person in the world? Why?

Those lands have been passed down from generation to generation by your ancestors to raise your children, I just want to ask.

Do you hate? ”

When it comes to land, many people are engrossed in their spirits, and land is their life.

In the past, the lifeblood of the common people was not so much controlled by the peasant army, but by these landlords and profiteers, who at least knew that they were poor in their families, and did not continue to exploit them.

But the landlords are different, they see that if a tenant is not pleasing to the eye, they can immediately cut off the food rations of this family, and the only thing waiting for them is to starve to death.

Hate? The word hatred does not express the resentment in the hearts of the people, who are eager to devour these landlords alive.

"Kill them!"

I don't know who shouted, and in an instant all the people raised their fists and shouted.

"Kill them! Kill them......"

The effect has been achieved! Liu Hongjian finally breathed a sigh of relief, the people's support is available, but it is really difficult to have a good effect.

At present, he has only knocked down two important towns in Shanxi, but Shanxi is not only these two cities garrisoned by peasant troops, but also in some prefectures and counties close to Shaanxi, there are also many thieves scattered around.

And he didn't have enough troops and time to sweep up, so he could only hand it over to these people, using their resentment against the landlords and their thirst for land to get twice the result with half the effort.

But that's not enough! Liu Hong waved his hand and waited for the people to settle down again.

"They are hateful, and it is not a pity to kill them! But that's not the point.

His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty sympathized with the misery of the people of Shanxi, and secretly ordered Ben Bo to take full authority to deal with the matter of cultivated land in Shanxi, and Ben Bo decided that all the cultivated land in Shanxi should be returned to you, and to the people who have lived in Shanxi for generations, and to you!

Shanxi will have no landlords from today onwards, Shanxi does not need tenant farmers, Shanxi is the Ming Dynasty, and it is also yours! Whoever wants to take away your land, don't be afraid, roll up your sleeves and beat him! ”

Liu Hong gradually held up the megaphone, stared at his eyes and yelled, what he said was cynical and earth-shattering, and Bi Zigong and Wei Penghong around him were shocked.

There are many nobles, civil servants, and military generals in the Ming Dynasty, who does not have hundreds of acres of fertile land in their hands? A few hundred acres are less, and I heard that some relatives who can be mixed are counting the land in their hands in 10,000 acres.

This is against all the bureaucrats and gentry, and all the people are silent! If Liu Hongjian said that these landlords should give them more grain, they might still believe it, but this ...... Happiness came too suddenly.

"More than that, all the territory of Shanxi, exempted from taxes for three years, when Ben Bo returns to the imperial court to resume his life, he will definitely win more rewards for the people of Shanxi! Bemble counts when he talks! ”

Liu Hongjian did not think of the counterattack of the gentry bureaucracy, but Shanxi has disappeared from the Ming Dynasty for more than a year, and the Ming bureaucracy is a vacuum here, the gentry? The gentry of Dashun?

Die!