Chapter Seventy-One: Cutting Himself Off from the People
For Li Shoufu, Yang Feng still trusts him very much, after all, the two of them can be regarded as having shared hardships. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Of course, the main thing is that he has no roots.
He is not like other subordinates, they all have to worry about this and that, he has nothing to worry about, his home is Qianzhou, Shaanxi, where is there anything to worry about now? From this point of view, he is the same as those Tan people, they are rootless duckweed, everything they have is built on the emperor's pond water, without the emperor there is nothing they have, they have no other choice but to be loyal to the emperor, such a talent is really worth believing, such a talent is Yang Feng's real henchman.
Sometimes you have to be a little open to your confidants.
It's a form of respect.
In fact, after understanding the emperor's true intentions, Li Shoufu then completely played his role as a traitor to the country, and he took the brocade guard specially allocated to him by the emperor with the infamy comparable to Wei Zhongxian, and began to fight the local tyrants with murderous means. All the gentry in Zunhua without exception, according to the population of the family, each person kept 30 acres of land, and all the excess land was staked to count the emperor's land, as for the tenants who originally rented these lands, how to plant them in the future, but the rent was no longer handed over to the original landlord, but to the emperor. The emperor is your landlord, and all you plant is imperial land, but the emperor will not exploit it like those landlords, and your future rent will be one percent, listen clearly, you will have one percent of the rent, but you have to pay another land endowment.
Of course, the tenants were happy at this time.
They don't care who is the landlord, they know that the gold cake is smashed on the head, not to mention a rent, that is, a rent of less than fifty percent, they can cheer, as for the field is not worth mentioning, the Ming Dynasty's land is actually very low, the vast majority of places are hovering around five percent, the common people are hungry and cold and Tian Fu actually has nothing to do with it, what really drives them to a dead end, in fact, it is those harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and there is the absolute largest proportion of land rent.
But in this way, those gentry are all crazy, this is to kill them, the gentry in Zunhua did not hesitate to act, organized domestic slaves to resist, ran to the yamen to make trouble, and even went to Jizhou to lead the king to save them.
Of course, this is impossible.
There is no Wang Shi, only those brocade guards who copy the house like wolves and tigers.
And not only that, the next Ji eastbound in the control area is a series of reforms.
The poll tax was completely abolished, and it was incorporated into the field endowment, that is, Yongzheng's apportionment into the mu, all the official land rent was all one percent, the Ming Dynasty has always had a large number of official fields, and many of these official fields even accounted for more than half, and the official land rent was actually very heavy, but now the emperor's grace is all one, but the tenant still needs to pay the land tax, and the land rent is for the emperor, the land is for the government, as for the private land only pays the land tax, of course, how much rent the owner of the private land collects from the tenants, this is your own business.
Fire consumption is canceled.
This is the most severe of the harsh taxes, because it has no standard to speak of.
Just like an official in ancient times who looked at his carload of grain and said with a smile that there were big mice and sparrows, this completely depends on the official's discipline.
Yongzheng played with fire consumption and returned to the public, and then used it to raise incorruptible silver, to put it bluntly, it was originally collected by the local officials themselves, and he collected it, and then he subsidized the officials according to the standard, but the specific operation was still officials, and in the end they still had a bunch of methods to drill holes. And Yang Feng simply canceled the fire consumption directly, as long as there is this thing, those officials have their own magic weapon to raise taxes, so this cancellation, as for the officials' Yulu has increased significantly, the Ming Dynasty officials' Yulu is indeed a little too low, and Yulu no longer uses those messy things to calculate, it is directly calculated in silver.
The peasants' other miscellaneous taxes were abolished, and all the other miscellaneous taxes were abolished, and the other messy ones were not collected, and the land tax was collected.
In fact, because Yang Feng had exempted a lot of righteous people from land before, even this could not collect much, he was originally in the transition to not collecting agricultural taxes, but all the taxes in commerce were standardized, especially those who were exempt from taxation before, regardless of the gentry and officials, regardless of the clan nobles, as long as there was land and property, all taxes were paid. What land and business names are sent to others? Well, as long as the land and business are in whose head, he will pay me taxes, and I am not afraid that you will send it to the head of the vassal king. And what else to sprinkle? It doesn't matter, there is a large area of official land waiting for you to rent and plant, and it will be a land rent, anyway, you pay the flying field to the landlord, and you also pay the legal field to plant the official field.
No matter how low the landlord's rent is, can it be as low as 10%?
This series of reforms touched the interests of the gentry, although the poll tax and the exorbitant taxes were gone, and theoretically they also benefited together, but the question is when did they pay it before? If there are officials in the family who raise people or something, they are originally entitled to all kinds of tax incentives or even simply exempt from taxes, and even those who do not have these privileges send their land to those who have these privileges, or force those tenants who rent land to pay for them, when did they really pay this kind of thing themselves? The main body of real tax payment in the Ming Dynasty was those ordinary people who could not afford it.
But now, without discrimination, no one has a privilege in taxes.
In this way, the common people did not lose anything, but the gentry lost too much.
With the implementation of these systems, not only Zunhua, but even other places in Yongping began to appear gentry trouble, the last time the emperor canceled the gentry privileges they endured, after all, many of them also provided a large amount of food to the emperor, and afterwards the emperor fulfilled his promise to return the silver taels worth ten times, and gave the Jinyi Wei Shi position, but this time they really couldn't bear it, they were not to collect their taxes, but the rent of the official land.
Who rents their private land with 50% rent?
Isn't that killing them?
Do you want them to reduce their rent? It's just a joke, who doesn't know that their land rent is several times that of Tianfu? It's a fart to pay that little bit of land endowment, and it will come out with an extra half of the rent, but the Yicheng rent of the official land directly smashes them back, and it is conceivable that a large number of tenants will definitely quit the tenants and then turn to rent the official land. And they don't want their land to be barren, so they can only choose to reduce the rent, and this is absolutely unbearable for them, but they can't say anything, the owner of the official land is the emperor, and how much the emperor is willing to collect is his own business, so he can only make a fuss about the traitorous ministers and the country.
The entire Jidong immediately scolded Li Yutian.
Even when he went out, he was secretly shot at him.
There are also those who instigated a boycott and protested and took to the streets with the tablet of the first emperor.
But all in vain.
Because the emperor quickly transferred Tian Jianxiu, an old bandit with rich experience in fighting local tyrants, and the old bandits of his subordinates, the elite of the old battalion of the 3,000 Dashun Army drove into eastern Hebei in a murderous uniform of the Jinyi Guard, and those who dared to make trouble were served with a rattan card and a whistle stick, and those who dared to rebel drove over to crush it, and the elite of the old battalion of the 3,000 Shun Army was not enough and there were Jinyi Guard Iron Cavalry, and those murderous demon kings who had followed the emperor in heavy armor and killed countless Tartars were ready to set foot on any landlord's manor at any time under the leadership of Liang Cheng, the commander of the capital.
There is no longer enough to have a new army of untouchables.
During this time, the number of untouchables who arrived in the north had exceeded 150,000, and Wang Chengen and Zheng Chenggong selected 5,000 young and middle-aged people from it to form a new army according to Yang Feng's order, all of which were firearms. Except for the emperor's orders, they don't listen to anyone at all, they don't care about other messy things, they are all untouchables who have nothing, the emperor gives them everything, the emperor is their heaven, these people don't let them kill a few gentry, even if the emperor orders to kill all the living people in eastern Hebei, they will not hesitate.
The bandits, the Jinyi guards, and the untouchable army smashed down with three iron fists, and soon let the Jidong gentry know what it means that the arms can't twist the thighs.
Of course, it also made the emperor completely cut himself off from the people.
Just after the news of Yang Feng picking up the stick against the gentry spread, Dolgon in Beijing City smiled, he now found that this dog emperor always gave him a big gift when he needed it most, the more the dog emperor tossed, the more brilliant the aura of the Holy Lord Mingjun behind him, and the more attractive the signboard of the Qing Dynasty was in the eyes of the gentry. Now the officials of the previous dynasty and the gentry from all over Beijing have completely classified the dog emperor into the ranks of demons, and Yan Shenggong even specially gave him a song of mountains and rivers and the sun and the moon, and the country and the universe are eternal.
Originally, he was still entangled in whether he should retreat to the Guanwai, after all, in the current situation, this Central Plains is not so easy to occupy, in fact, if the dog emperor comes back with the Jidong Ming army to counterattack, he is really ready to leave.
But now that I look at it, I can't go!
It's all prosperous, how can he just leave?
Of course, the main thing is that he is reluctant, this world of flowers in Beijing, the magnificent imperial city of the Forbidden City, the life of brocade clothes and jade food, and beautiful women, who can be willing to do it? Don't talk about him, even the generals and soldiers under him are reluctant, compared to here, is it the life of Shenyang? What's more, the territory of the Qing Dynasty is still increasing day by day, and every day one after another prefectures and counties are constantly thrown into the arms of the Qing Dynasty, and in just a few months, the territory of the Qing Dynasty is about to reach the Yellow River.
How does this make him go?
Isn't that exactly what he dreamed of? It can be said that everything he dreamed of was being realized quickly, and in this case, let him abandon all this, and then return to the place outside the gate, he really wanted to shout:
The concubine can't do it!