Once a new dynasty is more established, the fate of the emperor of ten thousand ways is quickly released.

After Liu Xing decided to let Yue Fei reorganize the Pingding Army and use the former division of the palace to make Zheng Erpin's position as the governor of New Liaozhou, Ma Kuo, Zeng Weijie and Wang Mingde almost did not raise too many objections to the series of personnel selections.

The three of them had no objections, and the remaining so-called six Shangshu, Ye Mengde, Wang Gao and others had no chance to oppose in the morning of the next day, so they could only accept a series of appointment proposals submitted by Liu Xing to Zhao Zhen for the appointment of local officials.

Regarding the appointment of local officials, Zhao Zhen originally wanted to take the opportunity to intervene and support a few cronies, so that he could fight against Liu Xing, whose intentions were already obvious, in the future.

As a result, he only objected a few words, and was choked by Ma Kuo and Su Quan, the envoy of the Salt and Iron Division, one after another, and soon he could only take out the "cheap seal" that he had just made with a piece of jade, and stamped a big seal on Liu Xing's long edict of appointment.

Zhao Zhen's seal set off a commotion in Wutai City that day.

The hustle and bustle mainly came from the old Red Turban Army and the crowd released by Wang Yu from Taiyuan City.

Within one day, the Zhizhou of Zezhou and the Zhizhou of Jinzhou were all from the people in Taiyuan City who had stayed in the city with Wang Yu, and the two Zhizhou were both from the people.

Xi Ci merged the state and formed a new Cizhou, the Jinning army was merged into Shizhou, the Lan army was merged into Lanzhou, the Ninghua army was merged into Xinzhou, and the Weisheng army was merged into Longde Province. The old generals of the Red Turban Army led by Sun Yujiang actually produced six prefects and prefects in one day, which made the entire Wutai City boil.

In the evening of the same day, Sun Yujiang was in the middle of tens of thousands of people's farewell. took the lead in leaving Wutai City with 500 personal soldiers, which can be regarded as a temporary end to the hustle and bustle of the whole day......

The city fell because of the hustle and bustle of six state capitals in one day, and Zhao Zhen thought that Liu Xing's new round of "usurpation" could come to an end. Liu Xing took Ma Kuo and Zeng Weijie into the "palace" again and came to him.

"Your Majesty. The minister has a matter, and you need your majesty's seal to approve it. As soon as he stood in front of Zhao Zhen, Liu Xing immediately pulled out a document from his sleeve.

After being forwarded to Zhao Zhen by a female guard, Liu Xing continued: "In the state capitals of Hedong, there are rich people or eunuchs who have reduced their gold and turned their backs on their ancestors. I ask Your Majesty to allow the new magistrate to confiscate all the land and family property of those who have turned their backs on their ancestors. Its fields became official fields, and its properties became official properties. According to the real local population, the magistrate will distribute the official land to the people in various places based on 15 mu per person. ”

The Juntian method is nothing new in the era of the Great Song Dynasty.

But Liu Xing thought of the Juntian method. Before coming to the "Imperial Palace", even Ma Kuo was shocked into a cold sweat after listening to it.

While listening to Liu Xing's words, Zhao Zhen lowered his head and opened the paperwork. After a quick look. also looked up at Liu Xing with a look of surprise on his face.

"Mrs. Liu, do you want the magistrate to wash all the rich families and the official eunuchs who have more than 100 hectares of land in various places at once!" Looking at Liu Xing, Zhao Zhen asked in surprise.

Nodding slightly, Liu Xing said, "Not bad." It is to kill all those who are rich and unkind. They are all local tyrants and inferior gentry. The name of my plan is to call it 'fighting landlords, fighting local tyrants, harvesting their production, and dividing the land'. ”

After getting Liu Xing's exact answer, Zhao Zhen's surprised look became even worse, and after he stood up "open-mindedly", he shouted loudly: "You are doing this to shake the foundation of the society!" Do you know? If you want to quickly stabilize Hedong, you are doing so to force those rich families and eunuchs who have invested in gold to become enemies of me! ”

"They are not enemies of Your Majesty, how can I have the mouth to clean up the endless oppression groups in Hedong for thousands of years." Seeing that Zhao Zhen was surprised, Liu Xing smiled secretly in his heart, and replied quietly and calmly on the surface.

Shocked and suspicious. Zhao Zhen heard this: "Clean, then how can I guarantee the tax revenue of this court in the future?" You killed them all. How can I ensure that my expenses will not be affected in the future? ”

Landlords, wealthy merchants, and eunuchs were the real and stable sources of tax revenue in the feudal era. Because of the concentration of their wealth, no matter which dynasty collects taxes, they will collect taxes and get twice the result with half the effort.

Now Liu Xing's proposal directly wants to kill all those people. It is equivalent to saying that if it wants to collect taxes in the future, the new imperial court can only send more tax collectors to collect from ordinary people door to door, which will undoubtedly increase the pressure and changes in taxation.

Zhao Zhen was suspicious because of this, and Liu Xing naturally knew it.

After he asked the question again, Liu Xing still replied with an indifferent smile: "Each township has a discussion, and each county also has a discussion. If you want to carry out this method of deliberation, it is better to expect those local tyrants and inferior gentry to be better, or to expect ordinary people who will really follow Your Majesty wholeheartedly? The minister thought that the local tyrants and inferior gentry were chameleons who were good at yin and yang, and ordinary people would be sincerely loyal to the new dynasty as long as His Majesty gave Long's grace. As long as the deliberations at all levels are supervised and assisted effectively, the ministers believe that not only will the expenditure not be affected, but on the contrary, it will greatly increase the tax revenue, so that the government treasury of our dynasty will be quickly filled. ”

"Impossible!"

After hearing this, Zhao Zhen immediately shook his head and said: "I hope that those ordinary people will fill my court treasury, I don't believe it, I will never believe it." They don't want to try to get away with paying taxes, that's a novelty. ”

In the hearts of the rulers of all dynasties, there was a deep-rooted belief that the poor people were accustomed to evading taxes.

Regarding the habitual thinking of him, the ruler of all rulers, Liu Xing is disdainful in his heart. The reason is very simple: why do people evade taxes? It's not that the taxes of the imperial court are unreasonable, they are too heavy!

In other words, if your court takes away one-tenth or even one-fifth of a year's income, so that I can't live in abundance, I will also escape......

"The law of deliberation is parallel to the armor protection system." Everything had already been thought about, and after Liu Xing heard Zhao Zhenxin's question, he immediately said: "If Baozheng can't ensure taxes, what else do you want Baozheng to do?" The main responsibility of the township is to supervise those who are right. The parallel implementation of the two laws can completely prevent the occurrence of people escaping taxes. ”

After a pause, Liu Xing said with a smile on his face: "What's more, as long as those local tyrants and inferior gentry who are rich and unkind and the first rat are killed, the families of ordinary people will have fifteen acres of land." Even if we pay another heavy tax of one out of ten, every common person will have thirty stone of grain left every year, is it necessary to risk killing the head to evade the tax again? ”

When Zhao Zhen heard this, he just wanted to open his mouth to answer, but was stopped by Liu Xing waving his hand.

After stopping him, Liu Xing continued: "It is also rich for the people and strong for the roots. What's more, the law that the minister is doing now will not make the people suffer in terms of taxes at all. The farmland tax of one out of twenty is also prepared by the king to formally determine the new law that must be given to the official warehouse. This move can not only prevent local tyrants and inferior gentry from making false declarations and concealing their fields, but also avoid taxes. It can also stimulate the people to engage in agriculture to the greatest extent, so as to increase grain production and ensure the grain revenue of the government and state treasury. At the same time, fifteen acres per person can make the people no longer hide their mouths. Therefore, Your Majesty does not need to worry, just promulgate it. ”

Falsely reporting and concealing the amount of land is what all local tyrants and inferior gentry have been doing throughout almost the entire feudal era in China.

At this point, Liu Xing felt a little resentful every time he saw some books in the past. Now that there is finally an opportunity to punish those local tyrants and gentry who are not benevolent to the country and the people, Liu Xing will naturally take countermeasures immediately.

Land being concealed is not uncommon in various places, and Zhao Zhen is also very clear. The land was concealed, and naturally there was a lot of grain produced in the fields, so the rich families no longer had to pay taxes, and the local government treasury and even the national treasury were naturally affected.

However, what made it most difficult for Zhao Zhen to continue to refuse was Liu Xing's last words.

"Fifteen acres per person can make the people no longer hide their mouths."

According to the head of the implementation of the Juntian law, in this case, which common people will hide the number of Ding Zhuang to conceal the report? If you hide a mouthful, you will receive fifteen acres of land. Zhao Zhen believes that no ordinary family will do this again in the face of Liu Xing's new law, which has become a "stupid" approach.

As long as the people don't hide their mouths, then when the new dynasty recruits soldiers in the future, there will naturally be a lot of strength to choose from. In this way, it is natural that while the people are rich, the new dynasty will truly have a stable and strong guarantee for its military strength......

Although he was killing local tyrants and equalizing the land, Zhao Zhen could no longer resist the new set of laws proposed by Liu Xing psychologically. But soon, another question came to his mind.

Looking sideways at Liu Xing again, Zhao Zhen said: "If there is not enough divisible land in a certain state capital, will your new law still work?" ”

With an indifferent smile, Liu Xing said: "Your Majesty still hasn't read it carefully, and the minister's writing is very clear." If the farmland is insufficient, the mountains and forests should be supplemented. If the mountains and forests are insufficient, mines and waterways can be replenished. Those who are willing to farm land are divided into fields, those who are willing to plant fruits and do silkworm work are divided into mountains and forests, and those who are willing to mine and raise fish are divided into mines and waterways. In short, the tiller has his land, and the laborer has his product. If it is really divided, then the government will fund and help the people who have no land and no property to share to move to other fields and buy real estate. ”

"Then what if the people's scoundrels sell the land after they are distributed to it?" Zhao Zhen had a question answered, and immediately raised another question.

Seeing him ask questions again and again, Liu Xing was a little more wary of this sixteen-year-old little emperor in his heart.

But precautions are precautions, Liu Xing still said his plan: "All the fields distributed by the government are only leased by the people." Like the Hunter Valley, the lease period is from 30 to 70 years. The tenant is not allowed to buy or sell the property, and the old and weak can sublet it or the servant to plant. Anyone who hires someone to farm the land is exempted from taxes. But those who are strong and fit and dare to eat and be lazy will all be put into the camp of indoctrination. (To be continued......)