The case in Yunyi County caused an uproar in Jiangnan officialdom, to be honest, no one could have imagined that Li Yuntian would be so heavy this time, usually speaking, as long as it does not involve a life lawsuit, he will open up to the people involved, and the matter of cutting off the heads of more than ten people at one time is unprecedented.

This sounded the alarm for the officials of all sizes in the Jiangnan officialdom, and it was obvious that Li Yuntian severely punished the officials of Yunyi County because they committed crimes against the wind, which was simply a provocation to Li Yuntian, and Li Yuntian naturally would not let them go.

However, there is a shrewd person who has already seen a little strange from the case in Yunyi County, since Li Yuntian can make people find out the filth of Yunyi County within seven days, then naturally he can also find out the corruption and bending the law in other states and counties in Jiangnan in a short time.

Therefore, considering the tragic fate of the officials of Yunyi County, who pretended to be smart, the officials of the other state capitals in Jiangnan were honest, and no one dared to touch other fancy intestines, so as not to anger Li Yuntian.

There is a good saying, the law does not blame the public, even if the corruption of those officials in Jiangnan is found out, then the court and Li Yuntian will definitely be dealt with leniently, there is no need to provoke Li Yuntian at this time.

At the end of October, Li Yuntian left Songjiang Prefecture by boat, and the case of corruption and perversion of the law by officials in Songjiang Prefecture had been clearly investigated at this time, and Wu Shan, the prefect of Songjiang Prefecture, was sentenced to 3,000 li to go to the border of Jiaozhi.

Originally, according to Wu Shan's guilt, he was going to be cut off his head, but Wu Shan honestly confessed his crimes, and he fought bravely against the Japanese people in Linyun County, so Li Yuntian reduced his punishment and sent him to Jiaozhi.

Not only Wu Shan, but because the officials of Songjiang Mansion took the initiative to confess their respective responsibilities under Li Yuntian's huge deterrence, except for the person who committed the life lawsuit who was sentenced to be beheaded, the rest of the people were either mismatched or sentenced to prison, and the ending was many times better than that of the unlucky people in Yunyi County.

The reason why Li Yuntian did this was naturally to stabilize the situation in Jiangnan, and since he had already found out the evidence of the corruption and perversion of the law by the officials of Songjiang Prefecture, he naturally would not deal a heavy hand to those officials involved in the case, which was enough to appease the Jiangnan officialdom.

At this moment, not to mention the officials of Jiangnan officialdom, even those high-ranking officials and magnates in the capital, no one knows what Li Yuntian's real purpose of strictly investigating Songjiang Mansion is, on the surface, it seems that Li Yuntian is just purging the discipline of Jiangnan officialdom.

Snowflakes fell from the sky one after another, and Li Yuntian, dressed in a red coat, stood on the deck of the bow of the three-masted warship, reaching out to catch the snowflakes falling from the sky, and the snowflakes turned into ice water after falling on his palm, making a burst of coolness in his palm.

"Lord Wang, the snow is heavy, let's go back to the cabin." Lin Xin walked out of the cabin, holding a bamboo umbrella to shield Li Yuntian from the falling snowflakes.

"You say, what will the court do with the king's recital?" Li Yuntian looked at the white water in front of him and asked quietly.

Li Yuntian had already sent the Songjiang Mansion case to the capital for 800 miles in an expedited manner, believing that the local yamen had abused the power of taxation and that officials at all levels had taken the opportunity to set up a name and fill their own pockets, which had departed from the original intention of Emperor Taizu and the people to recuperate.

Therefore, Li Yuntian suggested that the imperial court should take back the power of taxation, and the tax items in various localities should be uniformly drawn up by the imperial court according to the actual situation in the locality, and the silver required by the local yamen should be allocated by the household department.

In view of the fact that the Ming Dynasty has implemented the policy of collecting taxes from the central and local governments for 70 or 80 years, Li Yuntian believes that the matter of taxation cannot be achieved overnight, and should be promoted in the south of the Yangtze River as a pilot project.

Not only that, Li Yuntian also mentioned one thing in the chapter, since Emperor Taizu, the successive sons of heaven of the Ming Dynasty have been people-oriented, and now the Ming Dynasty has been recuperating for more than ten years, and the treasury is full.

Therefore, Li Yuntian implored the imperial court to reduce the burden of the people's lives, apportionment of the land into acres, and change the poll tax to land tax, so that the landless people would no longer have to pay the poll tax.

As for the effect of apportioning the land into the mu, Jiaozhi and Guangxi are the best examples, not only did not reduce grain production but also increased tax revenue, which is feasible in Daming.

Li Yuntian's hand can be described as killing two birds with one stone, using the case of Songjiang Mansion to achieve his goal of recovering tax rights and apportioning the land into the mu, and carrying out an earth-shaking reform of the tax system of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, Li Yuntian's actions will touch the interests of those who have vested interests in the Ming tax system, to be precise, the civil official group in the capital and the big landlords in the Ming Dynasty.

Li Yuntian is ready to accept the challenge, if any force wants to compete with him, then he will not show mercy this time, and will definitely fight back extremely sharply, you must know that this is related to the long-term peace and stability of the Ming Dynasty, and about the national fortune of the Ming Dynasty, he will not allow anyone to destroy his plan.

In fact, Li Yuntian originally wanted to promote a land-related matter, but he gave up after weighing left and right.

Land is the most important means of production in ancient times, is the basis for a family to survive, but those wealthy wealthy and powerful, local clans use their power to merge land, in the long run is a huge threat to the prosperity and stability of the Ming Dynasty, aggravating the gap between the rich and the poor in the Ming Dynasty, so in his opinion, laws should be formulated to prevent the annexation of land.

Considering that the recovery of tax rights and the apportionment of acres have brought a huge shock to the imperial court, Li Yuntian postponed the matter of land annexation, and if he became a fat man in one bite, he would easily choke.

"Lord Wang, in the eyes of his subordinates, unless those people in the court ask for money and don't want their lives, they will definitely compromise with the prince." Lin Xin knew that Li Yuntian attached great importance to the tax reform, so she smiled slightly and said in a coquettish voice.

Although the civil official group, the Xungui group, and the inner court in the imperial court all had their own interests in Jiangnan, the most profitable from it was naturally the civil official group in charge, and Li Yuntian's tax reform had a much greater impact on the civil official group than the Xungui group and the inner court.

Therefore, although the Xungui clique and the inner court will also be affected somewhat, they are absolutely willing to see Li Yuntian deprive Li Yuntian of the power of taxation from the civilian clique.

What is particularly important is that the Empress Dowager of the Zhang family will definitely support Li Yuntian to do this, although the Empress Dowager of the Zhang family is a woman, but she also knows that what Li Yuntian is doing is beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, and from the results of the tax reform in Jiaozhi and Guangxi, it will be of great benefit to the Ming Dynasty and the people, so neither the official group nor the Xungui group can change her mind.

As for the inner court, it is naturally acting in accordance with the orders of the Empress Dowager of the Zhang family, and the inner court has always been friendly with Li Yuntian, and the well water of both sides does not interfere with river water, so they will help Li Yuntian in public and private.

In the final analysis, Li Yuntian now has enough power to compete with the civilian clique and the Xungui clique, so that the civilian-official clique and the Xungui clique have to compromise and make concessions in the tax reform.

Moreover, Li Yuntian did this completely for the sake of the Ming Dynasty and not for his own personal gain, and first occupied the moral height, which made it difficult for the civil official group and the Xungui group to fight back against Li Yuntian, and people of insight among them would also support Li Yuntian in doing so.

After all, there are also many civil and military officials who are loyal to the Ming Dynasty, especially those young civil officials who regard themselves as loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, and will definitely support Li Yuntian's move to benefit the country and the people.

Therefore, Lin Xin was full of confidence in Li Yuntian's move, and the imperial court would definitely agree to take the lead in implementing tax reform in the Jiangnan region.

In this way, Li Yuntian will maintain the status quo of Jiangnan officialdom, so that the power camp to which the Jiangnan region belongs has not changed, and it is the exchange made by Li Yuntian that shows that he has no involvement in the Jiangnan region, and both sides are happy.

"I hope so." After listening to Lin Xin's words, Li Yuntian smiled slightly, and his eyes fell on a village shrouded in snow on the shore.

If the tax reform is successful, the lives of the villagers will be greatly improved, at least the landless people will be freed up, so that they can engage in other industries and promote social and economic development.

In front of the window of the cabin, Keiko Yamaguchi quietly looked at Li Yuntian and Lin Xin in the snow, her face was full of sadness, how she hoped that she was by Li Yuntian's side at this time, she had a lot to say to Li Yuntian.

"Lord, Lord Zhong was attacked in Linyun County this time, Da Ming will definitely not give up, and will definitely send troops to exterminate Chen Guangzong at that time, how should we deal with it?"

Soon after, a middle-aged man came to Keiko Yamaguchi's side, bowed down with a serious expression and asked, the imperial court was very angry at Li Yuntian's attack on Linyun County, and had unanimously agreed to send troops to the Wa State to teach the Wa State a lesson.

"No, Da Ming will not send troops." Keiko Yamaguchi shook her head when she heard this, and denied the middle-aged man's statement without looking back.

The middle-aged man couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this, and looked at Keiko Yamaguchi with some puzzlement, not knowing why Keiko Yamaguchi said this, you must know that Li Yuntian is not an ordinary person, and Daming will definitely retaliate because of Li Yuntian's attack.

Keiko Yamaguchi ignored the middle-aged man, but looked at Li Yuntian with a solemn expression, now the domestic situation in the Japanese country is complicated, the atmosphere is tense, and the daimyo of the eastern army camp and the daimyo of the western army camp often clash because of small frictions.

Obviously, Li Yuntian would prefer to see a tragic melee break out between the two camps of the Eastern Army and the Western Army of the Japanese State, so that the Ming army can take advantage of the exhaustion of both sides to profit from it.

Therefore, Keiko Yamaguchi did not answer the subordinate, she could not tell others about Li Yuntian sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, and she felt a little uneasy about the trend of the situation in the Japanese state.

Keiko Yamaguchi looked at Li Yuntian standing on the bow of the boat with a serious face, she was full of respect for Li Yuntian, so she was willing to do her best to help Li Yuntian, so that Li Yuntian could successfully overcome this difficult time in front of her.

And once the civil war of the Wa Kingdom hits, Keiko Yamaguchi will also take the opportunity to expand her territory and eliminate those opponents in the Wa Kingdom.