With Chongzhen's support, Tian Ergeng struck while the iron was hot, gathered the villagers at noon the next day, and hanged eight criminal Zhuangtou companions in front of them.

After watching these objects of hatred being hanged, the bankers felt that a big stone had gone to their hearts, and there seemed to be a feeling that a sunny spring had arrived.

Tian Ergeng then announced that the judge representatives who had been elected by the villagers would be appointed as the new village heads to manage the village, and these village heads would be re-elected every five years. They will be responsible for the collection of taxes and land rents in the village, and will manage the construction of public buildings such as water conservancy, roads, and schools in the village.

When the villagers heard that this year's autumn grain could leave a complete forty percent, their emotions suddenly reached the highest point, and the new field division plan proposed by Tian Ergeng also won the support of the villagers.

After re-approving the land of the village, according to the situation of the village's population, Ye Qi finally suggested that the land should be divided according to the standard of 20 acres for adult men and 10 acres for adult women. Since there was a representative elected by the dealer himself to preside over the division of the land, it took only three days for all the fields to be redivided.

After observing and recording the entire process of dividing the fields, Gao Qiqian left the village and returned to the palace. The other villages in the three Huangzhuang that were still waiting, after hearing about the reform of Huangerlizhuang, also asked Tian Ergeng and other Jinyiwei to go to their villages to carry out reforms.

With the reform experience of Huangerli Village, Tian Ergeng's Jinyiwei is obviously more experienced. And Ye Qi also organized several teenagers to be his helpers in measuring the fields.

Ye Qi's experience of jumping from a banker to a Jinyi guard officer has also become a role model for the dreams of young bankers in the imperial village.

All of a sudden, in the villages where the Jinyi Guards led by Tian Ergeng passed, there were villagers who were unwilling to dig in the soil to come up, wanting to do something for these officers, hoping that they could get into the eyes of these Jinyi Guards and make a Jinyi Guard.

For the first time in his life, the soldiers in brocade clothes who could stop crying in the capital and the local area were actually welcomed by the people here. This made some of the people in the brocade guard blush deeply, and under the admiring gaze of the villagers, they began to pay attention to their words and deeds.

And those Zhuangtou and companions who refused to leave Huangzhuang and wanted to scrape another sum from the autumn grain, after hearing about the fate of the Zhang brothers, a large number of Zhuangtou and companions with bad deeds quickly left Huangzhuang.

In just over a month, when the autumn harvest came to an end, the reform of the Huangzhuang and this year's tax were almost collected.

There were 9,000 tilts in the accounts of the three imperial villages, but after Ye Qi led people to re-measure, it reached 17,000 tilts. In previous years, only 27,000 taels of silver were handed over to the palace, which was still a whole year's harvest.

But now the three imperial villages have collected 1.02 million stone corn, and according to the previous official price, the stone corn is worth 255,000 taels of silver for two dollars and five cents of silver. In other words, even if it is calculated according to the book value, after the eunuchs in charge of the Huangzhuang and the eunuchs in the palace colluded, they also embezzled nearly ninety percent of the income of the Huangzhuang.

But this price is only the price on the books, in fact, after the autumn harvest, although the price of rice is cheaper, but at least three coins of stone millet, and this price is still Shandong, Henan and other inland regions.

In the border town area, the market price is five or six coins of stone millet, and in the spring of the next year, it is nominally eight coins of stone millet, but the market price often exceeds one tael. Although Shunyi belongs to Shuntianfu, its location is not far from the border town, so the price of stone millet is between four or five yuan.

Just the difference between the market price and the book price is another 200,000 taels of silver. As long as the eunuch Guan Zhuang is not too stupid, and leaves a part of the grain to be sold in the spring of the next year, there will be at least more than 30 taels of income.

Seeing the account in his hand, Rao is Tian Ergeng was also sweating profusely, and his face was pale. He was not angry, but fearful.

Only three imperial villages, these eunuchs in the palace have scooped up nearly 700,000 taels of silver a year, and this only accounts for one-third of the imperial villages near the capital, which means that the wealth of the palace attendants from the imperial village every year is close to 2 million taels, which is already twice the gold and silver in Jiangnan.

With such a huge entanglement of interests, Tian Ergeng was a little suspicious, if he handed over this account, how many heads would be lost in the palace, and he would also erect an unknown number of enemies.

However, now, even if he wants to hide it, he can't hide it, the previous information has been reported to the palace, even if he doesn't report it, Chongzhen himself can calculate a ** not far from ten.

The only thing that comforted him was that Chongzhen had never been out of the capital, so he shouldn't be aware of the problem of the difference in grain prices in various places. Therefore, in Chongzhen's eyes, the income of these imperial villages has been embezzled by seven or eight out of ten.

Tian Ergeng finally put his heart on the side, sealed the account and sent it directly to the palace. He was disturbed by this for several days, but there was no news of the execution of many eunuchs in the palace, but several stewards and eunuchs of the Imperial Horse Supervisor and Shangshan Supervisor heard that their family property was confiscated, and then ordered to leave the palace to retire, and Gao Qiqian was also appointed as the Imperial Horse Supervisor to supervise the eunuchs, and began to preside over the reform of the ranch, imperial village, and imperial store managed by the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

Soon Tian Ergeng and Ye Qi received a new order from Chongzhen, Tian Ergeng was appointed as the ambassador for the military guard restructuring and the military tun cleanup, and Ye Qi was appointed as the deputy envoy for the military tun cleanup, and began to carry out the restructuring of the three guards in Yingzhou.

At the same time, Ye Qi was also appointed as the manager of the three imperial estates, and agreed to his proposal to sell 200,000 stone corn at a price of 4 yuan and 5 cents per stone in order to pay the imperial tax. Chongzhen also proposed that the tax reform of apportionment into mu should be carried out on a trial basis in these three imperial villages.

Subsequently, Tian Ergeng put forward a request to the villagers of the three Huangzhuang who had completed the reform of the Huangzhuang to convert them into military households.

After receiving a commitment to serve for a period of 5 years and not to be transferred to the South for service except in exceptional circumstances. These bankers, who had received tax cuts and redress their grievances, chose to turn into military households with a skeptical mentality.

Lu Qi, who was in the carriage, finished reading the last page of information in his hand, which was a detailed description of Tian Ergeng and Ye Qi in the process of Huangzhuang's restructuring. Regarding the affairs of the military and health reform and the clean-up of the military cantonment, in order to ensure that the news is not leaked, His Majesty allowed Tian Ergeng and others not to report for the time being.

This is why, when the nobles and the imperial historian were impeached, His Majesty still needed him to personally find out what happened.

Lu Qi also vaguely knew that the reason why His Majesty asked Tian Ergeng and others not to report back on the affairs of the military and health restructuring and the clean-up of the military tun was because there were also eunuchs in the palace who invaded the military tuntian. His Majesty wants to guard against those palace stewards and eunuchs.

At the end of the day, before a third of the way out of the capital, it was already dark. The Dongchang reporter who was guarding on horseback on the side couldn't help but run to the side of the carriage and asked Lu Qi for instructions on whether to find a place to rest first, and then hurry up tomorrow morning.

Lu Qi poked his head out and looked outside, as soon as it was dark in the north, he immediately lost his five fingers, and the temperature dropped quickly.

His face suddenly cooled, "Is it snowing?" Let's find a village to live in near the left, and leave early tomorrow morning. ”

In the dead of night, Zhu Youzhen was still watching in the upper study, and Wang Chengen and others were selected from the celebrant prison to impeach the honorable relatives.

These nobles are basically bold in making big mistakes, and they are constantly making small mistakes. And those imperial histories, it is estimated that they are brushing experience points on these nobles, and the impeachment is not a big problem, either the long street of the horse smashed the merchant's belongings, or the pedestrians were beaten by the slaves after colliding with these nobles.

When Zhu Youzhen was bored, a letter finally caught his attention. When he was watching intently, Wang Chengen brought a bowl of millet porridge and a few dishes to him.

"Your Majesty, it's starting to snow outside, it's cold and heavy in the middle of the night, Your Majesty has used supper, it's better to rest early today."

"Is it snowing?" Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but put down the piece in his hand, looked at Wang Chengen with some surprise and asked.

"Yes, Your Majesty. Isn't this snow small? It had only been half an hour, and there was a thin layer of snow on the ground. ”

"I'll go out and see, this is the first snow of the year." Zhu Youzhen's interest couldn't help but rise.

Seeing that Chongzhen was about to walk out like this regardless of it, Wang Chengen immediately stopped in front of him, bent down and said, "Your Majesty, please wait a moment." Immediately, Wang Chengen turned around and instructed the little eunuch behind him, "Go and get Your Majesty's cloak here." ”

On the white marble steps outside the Qianqing Palace, there were two lanterns in the dim candlelight, and Zhu Youzhen could only see the scene on the ground in front of him.

Snowflakes kept falling from the dark and unknowable sky, as if an endless army was on its way.

Looking at the ground in front of him that was gradually dyed white by snowflakes, Zhu Youzhen didn't think of the northern scenery of thousands of miles of ice and snow. But I remembered a sentence, as if the birds had eaten all and thrown themselves into the forest, and the white land was really clean.

Zhu Youzhen shook his head, laughing at himself and thinking, "Xibei goods are Xibei goods, even if you stand in the position of the emperor, you still can't find it, the pride of using heaven and earth as a blank paper and faith as a brush to paint." ”

Wang Chengen stood outside and felt that he was trembling a little, so he carefully said to Zhu Youzhen, who was looking at the falling snow in a daze: "Your Majesty, let's go back, it's freezing this day, if you catch a cold, it's not good." ”

Zhu Youzhen turned around and looked at him, and said with some interest: "It's okay, let's go back." By the way, you instruct the chief eunuchs of the yamen in the palace to let them take the stewards and eunuchs on duty to inspect the chambers of their yamen, which may have been in short supply, and let people inspect the palaces and rooms, and there can be candles that no one takes care of. ”

Wang Chengen agreed, and immediately instructed his relatives to notify everywhere and implement Chongzhen's explanation.

When Zhu Youzhen was about to return, he saw a few fires in the distance to the west. Wang Chengen also noticed it, and he personally ran forward to check, but soon he grovelled in front of him and walked over with a group of people.