Zhou Peigong also knew in his heart that once he did this, in the future in the year of the catastrophe, if he wanted those rich households to take out grain and sell it to the people, they would definitely push the price even lower, and they would definitely let those people make a document indicating that the land was voluntarily bought and sold, and they would never be held accountable afterwards.

Although sixty catties of rice for one acre of land is very excessive, but after all, it saved the lives of these people, and those landlords only have a crime of taking advantage of the fire to rob, but they just hit the muzzle of the gun, and Zhou Peigong can only be ruthless.

When Hai Jui was the governor of Yingtian, he would rather wronged the rich than wronged the poor; Rather than be wronged and stupid, I would rather be wronged and stubborn. There are many advantages to this, but there are also disadvantages, those poor people may not be good people, a small number of people seize this opportunity to blackmail large households can succeed, but on the whole, the atmosphere of oppression of the people by large households has been effectively curbed.

Zhou Peigong read through the annals of history, and naturally knew this allusion, with his predecessor Zhuyu in front, he only needed a little modification to be able to implement it.

The threat of these big families to the imperial court is just that they can incite their people and tenants to rebel against the imperial court, and now Zhou Peigong is drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle, relying on those big families alone, if they want to rebel, they have to weigh whether to lose the lives of their whole family and fight against the imperial court's army.

However, Zhou Peigong's reputation in Hubei is estimated to be stinky, since ancient times, the people who have controlled the speech are scholars and literati, and most of these people are from the family, or they are also inextricably related to the family, this is the end of the Ming Dynasty Chongzhen, but all those who have political disagreements with the Donglin Party are almost all written as traitors. What the? You say that our Donglin Party is not a good person, you go and take a look, which one of the left deputy capital Yushi Yang Lian, and the left Yushi Yushi Zuo Guangdou was not killed in prison to resist the eunuch disaster?

Zhou Peigong naturally knows that he can't have a good reputation, but he doesn't care about these, all these years of running around, he also understands a truth, as long as he does things, there will always be people to scold. I'm not afraid of being scolded, I'm afraid that I won't have a chance to do things.

The news of Zhang Sheng's killing was quickly transmitted back to the city, and everyone in those big families was in danger for a while, at this time everyone remembered the old lady of the Hu family who left early, and couldn't help but admire Jiang is still old and spicy, people can see the ending at a glance, but they are still dreaming of controlling Jiangling City.

Zhou Peigong deliberately did not bring people into the city, and besides, there are also soldiers of the mountain and river army who are responsible for defending the city in the city, unless those people want to break the net, otherwise Jiangling City will definitely not be able to mess up, Zhou Peigong must give them a certain amount of time at this time, let them calm down, and recognize the reality.

Those gentry were originally discussing matters in the Hu family's garden, but now that the family has left here, they can only choose another family's garden, of course, at this time they don't bother to care about the surrounding environment.

"Brother Sun, you have an idea, the adult outside has already started to take people, and it is Jinyiwei who guards him, if we touch a single hair of Jinyiwei, I am afraid that the army of the imperial court will kill us in a few days."

"But we can't sit and wait for death, haven't you heard, Zhang Sheng just bought the land of the people at a low price, and his head was cut off, and his family was exiled for 3,000 miles, and this family is ruined. Let's touch our conscience and say, who hasn't done a few such things, we are businessmen, not a temple of almsgiving. ”

"Why don't you go to Lord Qin, he promised us at the beginning, he wanted to protect us thoroughly, and he also promised to rule Jiangling City with us!"

At this time, everyone showed a look of remorse, Shinong Industry and Commerce, the rules handed down for thousands of years, the Ming Dynasty has been dead for thirty years, even if there are some scholars among them, they are all Manchu scholars, generally speaking, they are still businessmen in the eyes of others, why should people rule Jiangling with you? Presumably he hadn't sharpened his knife at the beginning, so he proposed a way to delay, and the old lady of the Hu family had already seen through this, so he didn't hesitate at all, and ran away after donating his family property.

At this time, a person suddenly said: "The old lady of the Hu family may have seen this point, so he donated all the family property in the city to avoid the disaster, let's learn from the old lady." ”

His proposal attracted a lot of approval: "That's right, we still have the capital to make a comeback in the countryside, and now it's just temporarily dormant, and when the wind passes, aren't we still able to make a comeback?" ”

Although there are a few people who are reluctant to run thousands of family fortunes, Zhang Sheng's head is hung on the city gate, who dares to defy the law.

If Cheng Xiaolian is here, he will be grateful that there is no such thing as a declaration of human rights in the world, and if the sentence of the sanctity of private property is accepted by these people, it is estimated that this action will be much more difficult.

However, Zhou Peigong did not have any psychological pressure, in his opinion, the wealth of these profiteers was only obtained by oppressing the people, and now they took their silver to stabilize the situation for those poor people, which can be regarded as taking it from the people for the people.

Of course, this is also opportunistic, under the banner that they once betrayed the Ming Dynasty, if they don't have this banner, it is estimated that they will soon become the next Li Zicheng, people hate dogs, grandma doesn't hurt, uncle doesn't love.

In general, the world is still in the hands of the gentry, which is why Li Zicheng will fail, he has offended all the gentry in the world, as long as the battle in front is defeated, he will immediately collapse for thousands of miles, running from Beijing to Hubei, and he can't even make a decent resistance.

So this method can only be used here, and can only be used once, but the process of filial piety is to make a lot of money, on the one hand, to those who died of the Ming Dynasty to give an explanation, so that the current Ming soldiers have comfort in their hearts, on the other hand, through this means, the gentry's property is distributed to the people, so that the people who have suffered from exploitation can enter the regular life, as long as they have food, they will read the good of the court, and there will be no rebellion.

Hearing the conditions proposed by the city, Zhou Peigong sneered: "The knife is on the neck, and I finally know that I am afraid, let them make a list of the property they are willing to hand over, let the official see their sincerity, and tell them another word, the official's patience is only this time, if there is no sincerity this time, then there is no need to talk about it in the future." ”

Zhou Peigong can be regarded as using a trick to empty the city, no matter how powerful Jinyiwei is, it is impossible to investigate the family's family background in such a short time, and it is much easier for them to estimate it themselves, as long as they are not allowed to connect, everyone will wonder if other families will hand over more property than their own in order to survive, and finally their own family will become an example to adults.

I'm most afraid of adding more suddenly, haha, thank you for your support all the time, there are fewer things in the morning, let's add more first!

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