Chapter 144: Li Fengniang, the Empress of the Southern Song Dynasty (22)

Half a month later, Lin'an Mansion was completely in control.

And the news of Qiao Mu's accession to the throne as emperor and the change of Emperor Yuan Wa has also completely spread throughout the Southern Song Dynasty, and even spread to the Jin Dynasty, Mongolia and Dali on the other side not far away.

Yes, the whole world is shocked.

Although there is already the emperor of Zetian in the sky in front of him, it is still an unbearable thing for all civilizations and countries that have been influenced by the Chinese cultural circle in Asia to be crowned emperor.

No one agreed with the approval, even if the hostile country felt that it might be better to deal with the empress of the Southern Song Dynasty, there was no one who agreed with it.

Because they feel that women are not qualified to sit in such a position at all, or that they are not qualified to contact politics at all, women's soft-heartedness will make a mess of politics, otherwise how can they always say that women are benevolent, in short, Qiao Mu's behavior of being the emperor can really be called a matter of public anger and being scolded by thousands of people.

Although Qiao Mu had already expected this situation, he was still very angry, and made people speed up the original advance, preparing to advance the army to the whole country as soon as possible, and then carry out land reform against those gentry, she is not a clay Buddha, she is cursed viciously by so many people every day, and it is already a good mentality if she doesn't cut them all down, is it difficult that you can't even be angry, not to mention, Qiao Mu itself is also very clear, don't look at the fierceness that everyone scolds now, In fact, the people who really scolded her were people with a certain social status, and the real ordinary people were still struggling to survive, so they were in a hurry about what to eat for the next meal, how could they be in the mood to pay attention to this.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about any peasant uprising, even if there is a problem on any side, it must be a rebellion by the local squire officials, so that Qiao Mu can at least be sure that there will be no large-scale turmoil in the country, and small-scale turmoil can be quickly quelled as long as the army arrives.

When the land reform is over, and then the abolition of the agricultural tax is announced by the way, the general situation will basically be stabilized, and even if there are people such as the squire secretly instigating, there should be few people who are stupid enough to join them in the rebellion.

As for whether the abolition of agricultural tax will affect national revenue, the proportion of agricultural tax in the Southern Song Dynasty is quite low, and the vast majority of national income depends on commercial taxes and various tariffs, so even if the agricultural tax is abolished, it will not have much impact.

This kind of thing of collecting taxes has always been to stare at the rich to collect, the poor have no money, and you can't loot much, the rich are different, you collect a rich man's tax, and the silver collected is 10,000 yuan, and even collect a county town poor man's tax, and you collect 10,000 poor people's tax, you have to collect half, and the 10,000 poor people can rebel, but if you collect a rich man's tax, let alone collect half, and then exceed a little, collect six or seven percent, and the rich will not dare to rebel.

Because if you collect half of the tax of the poor, then you will basically force the poor to death, but if you collect more than half of the tax of the rich, the rich will earn a little less at most, at most the abalone and sea cucumber will be replaced with chicken, duck and fish every day, and there may not even be any need to change it, as long as you buy less jewelry.

Therefore, the only thing that Qiao Mu needs to deal with at present is the turmoil caused by land reform, as long as this fluctuation stabilizes over, then there will be no problem next, after all, the land contradiction is the biggest contradiction that currently exists, this contradiction has been solved, and all the ordinary people in the country have to thank her, maybe they don't need to be greeted, they can compete to give her the tablet of the Lisheng Temple.

Of course, those ordinary squires and some nobles of the family did not know that Qiao Mu was already sharpening his knife and preparing to kill them, and they were still dancing happily one by one to make a statement, and some people even joined forces to order the generals on their side to send troops to defeat Lin'an.

However, Qiao Mu had already sent people to contact the military generals from all over the Southern Song Dynasty in advance, and promised them that in the future, there would be no difference between civil and military forces, so those military generals would not listen to the instigation of those literati who had always looked down on them.

It's another month, Qiao Mu finally let her own training army fully stationed in the Southern Song Dynasty, there are not many people in various places, but all of them are elite soldiers, and the military generals near the place also promised to cooperate with the action when the time comes, of course, Qiao Mu must also have a little blood, and reached a certain agreement with them, however, the problem of the military generals can be talked about later and in the future, the most important thing at present is to solve the problem of land reform first, and stabilize the national order.

With the arrival of the appointed date, the nationwide land reform in the Southern Song Dynasty officially kicked off, of course, this land reform did not completely deprive all the landed people of the land, because some small landlords, themselves may really be a small province thrifty savings for several lifetimes to save a hundred acres of land, such small landlords are naturally not within the scope of land reform, land reform is mainly aimed at people with more than 1,000 acres of land at home, of course, The most important target is the source of the land is unknown or the land is obtained through some improper means, these are the key targets, this kind of landlords, squires and nobles are all to be put in prison, sentenced according to the law, and the land is distributed to the surrounding landless or landless people, and if someone's land is plundered by such landlords, through clever means of robbery, and can produce evidence, can also get back their own land.

In short, the land reform of the Arbor Plan is not a one-size-fits-all approach, and although there is no guarantee that there will be no mistakes, this kind of nationwide activity can ensure that the overall situation is good, and that the general direction is good, and it is already good, so how can it be guaranteed to be 100% correct.

Of course, the turmoil caused by this reform was also great, and armed riots occurred in many places, but because Qiao Mu sent out to suppress the firearms army, and coupled with the early propaganda, many people were willing to spontaneously participate and spontaneously deal with those local tyrants and inferior gentry, so although there were a lot of bloody conflicts in the process, they were finally able to calm down and restore order.

In less than three months, the entire Southern Song Dynasty not only carried out a land reform throughout the country, but also redefined the number of household registration and land in the whole country, although this land reform killed many people and convicted many people, but the registered population of the whole country did not decrease, but also increased by more than 10 million, in more than 10 million is to include some hidden households in the past, most of them were rescued from the hands of large landlords, and only a small part of them were hidden households and black households produced by tax evasion.

Of course, in addition to the increase in the number of people registered, the land has also increased a lot, an increase of more than 3 million hectares, and these more than 3 million hectares of land are obviously hidden fields hidden by landlords and nobles, just for tax evasion.