Chapter 552: Immortal Venerable Reform

Since Yang Feng's road is blocked, Liu Bingzhong and the northern Confucian group he represents have no choice but to continue to stand firmly under the banner of the Mongol Empire.

Fortunately, Kublai Khan is still the Holy Lord Mingjun.

Especially his heir, that is, Yanwang Zhenjin, who went with Liu Bingzhong to meet Yang Feng, is completely a Confucian believer, his first teacher is Yao Shu, the second teacher is Dou Mo, and his companion is Liu Bingzhong, these are all the core of Northern Confucianism, this eldest son of Kublai Khan can be said to be completely under the education of a group of Confucian students, he can be said to be the hope of Northern Confucianism. At this time, under the control of Kublai Khan, including the old Jin Kingdom and the Western Xia land, Confucianism all occupied the main position in thought, Guanzhong and Shanxi, needless to say, even the Western Xia was respected by Confucianism in the past, Kublai Khan wanted to firmly control this core land at present, and he must also unite with Confucianism.

In short, in this way, Yang Feng completely pushed Northern Confucianism into the arms of Kublai Khan.

Then he also left Kaiping.

On the same day that he stepped into Juyong Pass, Kublai Khan left Zhenjin behind to guard Kaiping, and he led a large army, including the Liu family of Taiyuan and other princes, to Helin to continue the war with his younger brother, and almost at the same time, a bird ship carrying Mongol envoys left Zhigu and headed south to Lin'an, where he went to negotiate with the Southern Song Dynasty to recognize Hebei and Shandong as the Southern Song Dynasty, in exchange for the Southern Song Dynasty to stop its attack on Xingyuan.

The negotiations will definitely be successful.

Because Jia Rudao had already received the telegram from the national teacher and completely agreed.

Jia Rudao was not interested in fighting again.

Although theoretically, if he tried hard, it would be no problem to recapture Henan and Xingyuan, but unfortunately he had no money to fight, just to maintain Lu Wende's recovery of northern Sichuan and Xia Gui's northward movement, he had already exhausted the savings of the Great Song Dynasty treasury, and although he picked up Hebei and Shandong in vain, he was also ready to temporarily let those princes in these two places continue to maintain warlordization, but after all, he also wanted to give others a part of the reward, and the Great Song court must also station some troops in the north, and also have to send some officials to the north.

These all cost money.

Henan and Xingyuan will not have too many benefits, if it was before, Henan could have been snatched over to save money for building forts along the Huai, but now the defense line along the Huai has been built.

Anyway, this money is really a bit wronged!

In short, Jia Rudao also agreed to restore peace, in the end, he, like Yang Feng, also understood that it was not good to weaken Kublai Khan too much at this time, and the best choice should be to let him have enough strength to continue to fight with his brother, after all, it was much more comfortable to watch the Mongols kill each other than to do it himself. In this way, the border between the Great Song Dynasty and Mongolia was temporarily determined, Yanshan, Taihang Mountain, Yellow River, Huaihe River, Daba Mountain, and then the western edge of the Sichuan Basin went south to the area of Daliang Mountain, this strange boundary line made Mongolia retain a salient in Henan, but this salient only went to Guide, and the Southern Song Dynasty had a land connection east of Xuzhou.

Of course, this salient is also a symbolic meaning to a large extent, and the Song army will immediately cut it off once the war starts again from the north and south.

Strategically there is no longer any value.

And this also makes the Southern Song Dynasty just built along the Huai defense line meaningless, of course, this kind of thing is not a bad thing after all, and it didn't cost much money to repair this defense line, almost all of them were copied from Pu Shougeng's family, so it was wasted, and there was no need to feel distressed about it.

After Yang Feng returned to Beiping, he did not immediately go south to return to Lin'an, but gathered all the princes here in the name of the plenipotentiary representative of the imperial court, including the acting local officials elected by the powerful people in various places, plus Li Pu, the king of Qi who had been officially appointed by the Southern Song Dynasty, and the warlords of the Zhangjia system who were named the king of the county and the prince of the country, all these large and small forces gathered in Beiping, and then issued a series of orders in response to the current situation in Hebei and Shandong, the first and most important one was ......

Abolition.

All the princes and Haoqiang families, whether they want to or not, must release their slaves and maids into the civil registry, and they can be hired like the Southern Song Dynasty, but they are no longer slaves, and the master can no longer kill if he wants.

They are legally equal to their masters.

Those freed slaves and maids, willing to continue to follow the master, in the future the master will start the work, unwilling to continue to follow the master, then the two sides break away from the relationship and then have a place to go casually, nowhere to go to the Taoist temples temporarily, and then Xianzun will send disciples to settle in various Taoist temples, according to the different situations of these people, arrange for them to rent public land and give them a batch of immortal seeds, open some factories for them to work, in short, Xianzun is responsible for arranging.

Another point is the public land system.

Originally, the land owned by the Tartars and Semu was forbidden to be seized by the princes and the powerful.

Their real estate, property, women, shops, etc., can be, but the land is not good, these fields are all collected as public land, but this public land is not owned by the government, but owned by Xianzun, the farmers who originally rented these lands continue to rent and plant, but the land rent has dropped to 20%, as for the taxes that should be paid, they must be paid. As for the original land of those princes and Haoqiang, of course, they still owned, including the fiefs given to them by the imperial court, but in addition to the wasteland that has not yet been reclaimed, these will also belong to Xianzun in the future, and others are not allowed to reclaim, and those who have reclaimed it are also considered Xianzun need to pay him 20% of the land rent, and these 20% of the land rent will be used to set up orphanages, nursing homes, compulsory education schools and even public hospitals in various places.

Yang Feng had to curb the large-scale land annexation in advance, and one can imagine how these princes and local tycoons would frantically annex land.

This is an inevitable result.

Originally, this was the main reason why the Mongols got the support of those gentry in history, Yang Feng did drive away the Mongols, but he couldn't let all the dividends fall into the hands of these guys, he had to let the common people also get benefits, and the public land system was his best way, he had a land rent, then the common people must rent his public land, even if it was to open up the land for him, it was better than planting those powerful land! They were not peasants at all in those powerful lands, but peasants.

Emancipation of slaves, communal land system, two are enough to solve this problem.

The welfare system can also be improved.

In addition, these tenants of the public land were used to spread his religion, to form agricultural cooperatives, to build water conservancy facilities, to promote new agricultural technologies, especially to promote immortal seeds, and to establish a reserve system, in short, to turn the whole of Hebei and Shandong, as in Chengdu, into his territory.

As for the heroes......

Who would dare to oppose Immortal Venerable at this time?

Even if they are reluctant in their hearts, they can only accept it, all of them have the blood of the Tartars and Semu on their hands, if there is no protection of the Immortal Zun, Kublai Khan will immediately kill back and destroy their Manmen, and everyone knows that it is not they who drove away the Tartars, but the Immortal Zun who drove away the Tartars, they just sit back and enjoy their success. The identity of the marquis and Haoqiang in Hebei is undecided, and Yang Feng can arrange them as he wants, and the situation of Li Pu and several others is a bit complicated, but Li Pu's fief is only the plain from Yidu to Qingdao, and the other fiefs are at most one state, in addition to this, the vast majority of states and counties still belong to the imperial court, but they are local officials, and these states and counties are also dealt with according to the situation in Hebei.

In fact, there is no land shortage in Hebei and Shandong at present, after all, the population is too small, and Yang Feng is preparing for the future.

And in the future, it's a big deal to play big politics and return it.

Anyway, it's not the first time he's played this kind of game.

In short, he solved the land problem in the north with great vigor and resoluteness.

Then there is the political problem, first of all, from the road to the government, all the roads to all the provinces, administratively and the Southern Song Dynasty consistent, Shandong into Shandong Road, subordinate to Jinan, Yidu, Dongping and Xuzhou and other prefectures, Hebei also changed to Hebei Road, subordinate to Beiping, Shuntian this changed to Baoding, Zhending and a series of prefectures. Shandong Road Xuanfu is still Li Pu, Hebei Road Xuanfu is still Li Pu, Hebei Road Xuanfu is nominated by Yang Feng for Lu Shikui to serve, Hebei Road Governance Office must be Beiping Mansion, the officials of various prefectures and counties are still those Shihou and Haoqiang agents for the time being, and Jia Yidao will give them another appointment in the future.

But Hebei Road will no longer seal the town, Feng Li Pu is because of his first righteousness, Zhangjia battlefield defection, others are not qualified, at most get a festival envoy, and then concurrently serve as a magistrate, so that he still holds the military and political power, but if you want a fief, you must not count on it.

After all, everyone understands that these guys are just picking up the bargain.

Another reform of Yang Feng is finance.

That is, his banking system.

The Mongols also learned from the Southern Song Dynasty to print money, that is, the Zhongtong banknotes, after all, the benefits of this method are too obvious, and after the Mongols were driven away, the north actually temporarily circulated the Zhongtong banknotes, and then Li Pu was there because of his proximity to the Southern Song Dynasty and he deliberately promoted, mainly to circulate the Southern Song Dynasty's Huizi.

However, both Huizi and Zhongtong banknotes have actually become notorious, and Yang Feng's reform is led by him, and the princes of various families jointly invest to establish a bank, Jia Rudao gave this bank the right to issue banknotes north of the Huai River in the name of the imperial court, and the bank absorbed Zhongtong banknotes in a certain proportion and exchanged them for new Longyuan banknotes, and the circulation of Huizi remained the same. The dragon yuan banknotes are guaranteed by gold, silver and copper coinage, of course, mainly because of the reputation of Xianzun, and the reputation of Xianzun is guaranteed by the gold mine just discovered in Dengzhou, in fact, there is no need to be so troublesome, Xianzun's reputation is enough, at least he is much more reliable than the Southern Song court.

What's more, he also has immortal seeds, and those exchanged dragon yuan banknotes can buy immortal seeds.

In short, Yang Feng stayed in the north until the second year, that is, the fourth year of Jingding, that is, at the end of 1263 in the Western calendar, and then hurriedly set off to return to Lin'an, because if nothing else, a big event would happen in Lin'an soon.

Zhao Yun died.