Chapter 761: Yao Shoufu's troubles

Nanjing City.

The streets are getting more beautiful and prosperous day by day, but the surface is glamorous, and the dark tide underneath is raging, causing some officials to have a headache.

Shoufu Yao Minggong finished his work for the day, returned home, sat down in the backyard, and did not think about eating or drinking. His mind echoed with the mournful words of the afternoon Huguang petition: "No one’s land fell from the sky, all of a sudden. The tax increase is doubled, and the rent cannot be collected more than 30%... Shengmin, how bad!"

Indeed, no one’s land has fallen from the sky. Some have relied on occupying the land, and there are also honest and practical silver buying land at the market price. Take Yao Minggong for example, his own land is indeed bought, dare to say that he did not force it. Strong selling, always invisible, buying and selling through an intermediary, even the seller does not know his name!

A landlord in his hometown he knew owned two hundred acres of land, which he earned from hard work and hardships.

The landlord’s family also had no surplus. They could not eat meat a few times a year. They saved every copper plate. It took three generations to change from ten acres of land to 200 acres. His family didn’t have any. Scholars, no powerful friends, and no acquaintance with Yamen.

The imperial court decreed land reform, "The landlord cannot collect more than 30% of the tenant's land rent!

The agricultural tax is paid according to the land, the tax is one for the door under one hundred acres, the tax is one for 15 to 500 acres, and the tax is one for all taxes over 500 acres! "

As a result, some landlords’ farm taxes doubled all at once, but the problem is that they cannot collect more than 30% of the rent!

With two attacks, the landlords have a sad day!

In Huguang, the imperial minister and the left capital Yushi Ruan Dacheng pushed the land reform plan on behalf of the imperial court. The results were outstanding and he also encountered strong opposition. Ruan Dacheng's brutal and brutal style led to opposition from all parts of Hunan and Guangxi. The squire sent a petition team to the capital to see the governor. , The language is very sad, please the court to take it back.

In the past dynasties of China, the land issue has always been a big problem.

Reforms that do not move the land are all small troubles, and once the land is moved, it will often trigger severe political turmoil.

For example, Shang Yang's reforms started from the land, and they met with a lot of opposition, and the car broke after his death. Wu Qi suggested that the nobles of Chu moved to enrich the frontier, and they were directly killed by the angry nobles...

In the early Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to increase tax revenue, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu issued an order to dutian. The so-called dutian was merely measuring the land, in order to limit the number of magnates who annexed land and enslaved the population. After killing some tycoons, the surnames of the county and country rebelled one after another, and finally settled down.

Zhang Juzheng in this dynasty, as an emperor, was quite prominent, but he did not go as far as Yan Changwu when he implemented the "one whip method". As a result, he was liquidated after his death and was deprived of all honor (recovered later). dead.

Now it is just a petition group, but Yao Minggong has no doubt that the undercurrent is surging, the crisis in Huguang and even in Nanming is brewing, and some big clans are already sharpening their swords and preparing to rebel.

It is not a joke, the intelligence agency has issued an alarm, saying that some big clans have changed their people and property.

Yes, Yan Changwu talked to him and explained that the end of the peasant uprising was caused by the loss of land. There are tens of millions of landless peasants who have to pay a poll tax. There is no land, no money, nothing, and rebellion is inevitable.

But now this kind of fierce sharing, the gentry pays the grain together, it is the world's property class who offends, thinking of their power, Yao Ming's heart is trembling.

The relatives of the emperor, the nobles, scholars, landlords and even military commanders, these are almost all classes except agriculture, industry and commerce. They are rich and powerful, not good crops.

Yao Minggong must find a way to reassure them so as not to worsen the situation.

The troubles are more than these, there are many local officials begging to go!

The reason is that the officials have changed the evaluation standards for officials, that is, economic indicators are in charge! Eliminated last!

In the Ming Dynasty, officials were evaluated for eight items, namely, greedy, cool, impetuous, inadequate, old, sick, stop, and inadvertent. The indicators are a bit general. As long as you don’t fail and your luck is not bad, everyone is happy and will not be easy. Lost official.

Of course, there was fierce partisanship during the Ming Dynasty, which was a general trend, and there was no way to avoid losing office.

At present, the official appraisal of officials requires officials to hand in more money and grain. Money wins, and the last few officials in a province will leave their posts in the appraisal.

That is to say, the local officials who hand in more money and food can get promoted, but will step down.

There are fat and thin places, and some places have fertile land and pay a lot of money and food. Of course, that local official is happy.

But don’t worry about the poor, young and old. There is another part of the staff assessment that is "per capita!"

Your locality pays a lot of money and food, but there are more people. On average, the per capita is less, so work harder to improve the per capita level.

Some places are barren, but after a big project, the per capita increase suddenly, that is the ability of the magistrate.

Therefore, the appraisal of the officials is a comprehensive balance. Wait a minute. Paying money and food cannot violate the law. If excessive exploitation will trigger a backlash from the people under the jurisdiction, the local officials will be held accountable if they are sued to the court!

New requirements were put forward on the level of local officials. Some local officials used "development of the economy, leading to officials to search for places and exploit the people" as the excuse, thinking that they were different and seeking to go.

There are also officials who are not capable and have to beg to go.

More officials used this to coerce the court and force the court to change course.

The training of court officials is by no means a trifle, and it is not just a study class.

In terms of economic development, the local officials of the Ming Dynasty were inferior to the officials of the Southeastern government, but they were unable to stabilize the society.

Also, the scholars are dissatisfied with the imperial examination system, what kind of science does the imperial examination require?

A word difference is a thousand miles away.

Because of the "list case" (referring to the list of personnel preparing to rebel hidden in the family of the honorable Zhao Zhilong and was searched out~www.wuxiaspot.com~ a major case), the deposed nobles have a deep hatred for the leader!

Not to mention Daming’s fat pigs, those relatives, who hate the leader because the leader has deducted their salary, changed their inheritance law, and asked them to pay more taxes.

Enemies everywhere, Yao Minggong feels the deep malice of the upper class.

What comforts Yao Minggong is that the Ming army seems to listen to the leader's words, and at least feel at ease with the army in hand.

The big deal is that Yao Minggong's "ship ticket" is indispensable for being guarded by the army and going to Taiwan by boat.

What makes him angry is that the certain young and old who caused all this, actually patted his **** and walked, handed him the mess, and said shamelessly, "You do things, I don't worry!"

I don't worry about you when you do things, let alone worry about it!

You ran away as you ran away, and your eyes were clear. You also transferred the main force of the Ming army away. What do you want me to do!

Maybe the ticket will be invalidated!

In the past, Yao Minggong looked at Sun Chengzong deeply trusted by the leader, almost saying that he was indifferent and very envied, but after he took office, he realized that the leader was a lazy person and shamelessly handed over political affairs to his concubines and ministers. Disposal.

In a stable society, these rulers are of course very familiar. For example, Yang Ying'er, the mother of Southeast Asia, no one opposes her.

Here is a gunpowder keg, bursting out at any time!

Yao Minggong, who was in trouble, was finally coaxed by her concubine. After dinner and drinking tea, the butler came up and said, "Governor He is here to worship!"

Governor He, Governor of Huguang, He Tengjiao, because Ruan Dacheng was making trouble in Huguang and participating in business with He Tengjiao, the disposal of the officials in Xinjiang was not a trivial matter. Yao Minggong summoned He Tengjiao to the capital for temporary residence.

Yao Minggong thought for a moment: "Please meet him at Yuexie!"

"Yes!" the butler replied.