Daming: Lend the system to Emperor Hongwu at the beginning

Chapter 146 Lao Zhu's Land Policy 【Seeking Monthly Ticket】

Li Hongzhang, who was waiting quietly outside the gate, felt a little bitter in his heart.

According to his thinking, he didn't want to come this trip.

But there was no way, the Hongwu Emperor put a knife on his neck and persuaded him with emotion and reason, and he had no choice but to come.

If he comes, even if it doesn't help, he will die alone. If he doesn't come, the whole family will die.

This choice is not difficult to choose.

"Master Li, the Queen Mother invites you in!" The guard who went in and communicated finally came out.

Hearing these words, Li Hongzhang couldn't help but glanced down at his tattered clothes, took a deep breath, and strode into the gate.

Time to show your real acting skills….

"Queen Mother, the slave finally sees you!"

"The servant managed to escape from the hands of hypocrisy!"

"Slave... Slave is suffering!" Li Hongzhang knelt down on the ground as soon as he saw the Empress Dowager Cixi, covering his face and weeping bitterly.

Empress Dowager Cixi: "...!"

Her hopes of surrendering to the Ming Dynasty seem to have been dashed.

Li Hongzhang, who howled a few times, saw that Cixi had been silent, and the expression on his face was very unhappy.

As he thought about it, he quickly guessed what this person was thinking.

It is estimated that seeing that the general situation is over, this person also has the idea of ​​surrender.

It's a pity that Emperor Hongwu doesn't want you to surrender!
Li Hongzhang sighed in his heart and pretended to wipe away his tears. He straightened up and said excitedly, "Queen Mother, I have some great news for you this time."

"Ok?"

"What good news?" The Empress Dowager Cixi was taken aback when she heard the words, and became a little interested.

"Queen Mother, this slave has already contacted 23 families of gentry and aristocrats all the way north. They are all pure and good ministers who can't bear the bullying of hypocrisy and want to welcome me back to the Qing Dynasty."

"As long as the queen mother goes with the ministers, no matter whether she goes to Shaanxi or Shandong, tens of thousands of people can be recruited in an instant. With the queen mother and her majesty around, there will be countless brave fighters gathered to fight for the country!" Li Hongzhang said in a deep voice.

Cixi was taken aback, this was a path she had never imagined.

"However, the hypocrisy is so powerful, how can we be its opponent!"

"If you can fight, you won't even lose the city of Beiping before!" Cixi was not stupid, and quickly questioned it.

"The Empress Dowager probably doesn't know that this time, the 20-strong army of the hypocrisy to destroy our Qing Dynasty is actually just incidental. They are going to fight against Tsarist Russia in the north."

"Do you think... Tsarist Russia is easy to deal with, but I heard that Tsarist Russia is bigger than my Qing Dynasty's most extensive territory!"

"Besides, it's bitterly cold in the north. The false soldiers are basically southerners, and they can't adapt to the northern climate."

"Even if they are undefeated, they will definitely be dragged to the north, and this is our chance!"

"The gentry now lack a banner that can unite them, and this banner must be the queen mother or the emperor!" Li Hongzhang knelt down on the ground again, with a sincere expression on his face.

"This...!" Empress Dowager Cixi was a little moved, but felt that something was wrong.

But she couldn't figure it out for a while.

"Queen Mother!"

"Time waits for no one, this servant will protect you out of the city now!"

"If we wait for the hypocrisy to break through Shenyang, it will be too late to occupy the city gate." Li Hongzhang looked anxious.

"well!"

"Let's go now!"

Upon hearing the escape, the Empress Dowager Cixi immediately realized that nothing else was important, her life was the most important.

As for whether to go against the hypocrisy..., you can go out first and then talk!

Soon, Li Hongzhang escaped from Shenyang with the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Tongzhi who had made a certain disguise.

"Lord Li, I see that the man driving the carriage has a tense face, who is that?" Sitting in the carriage, the Empress Dowager Cixi felt more and more that something was wrong, so she couldn't help asking.

"Those are the people my minister recruited, and they are all trustworthy!" Li Hongzhang said.

"Then where are we going next?" The Empress Dowager Cixi heard that there was something wrong in Li Hongzhang's tone, and she couldn't help but tighten her arms around Emperor Tongzhi, and asked.

"Go to Shanxi!"

"The Empress Dowager can just sit comfortably, and all the affairs below will be arranged by the humble minister!" Li Hongzhang said.

Empress Dowager Cixi understood.

She has also studied history and knows what it means to hold the emperor to order the princes. Now she and the six-year-old Tongzhi emperor in her arms are such emperors, and Li Hongzhang in front of her is Cao Cao.

If Li Hongzhang knew what she was thinking, he would have spewed out a mouthful of old blood.

Is he considered Cao Cao?

He is just a bait, the real Cao Cao is sitting in Beiping City!
People want to sweep the hole in the courtyard. Taking advantage of the Northern Expedition and the lack of troops in the Central Plains, a Jiang Taigong fishing volunteer will take the bait and wipe out all the restless gentry in the Central Plains!

If anyone really can't stand the temptation and thinks that they want to rebel with the signboard of the Manchu Emperor, they will definitely die ugly.

time flies.

In the blink of an eye, a year has passed since Xu Da's army's northern expedition.

Over the past year, the whole of North China has been undercurrents.

Numerous gossips spread wantonly among the people. The false Northern Expedition army was wiped out by the Tsarist Russians, and the Tsarist Russians had already killed the Northeast.

There are even more outrageous ones.

For example, one of the most vicious rumors circulating nowadays is that the hypocritical Zhu Hongwu is actually the zombie king who has lived from the early Ming Dynasty to the present. He will go berserk and eat people every night when the moon is full. He has already eaten the people in Beiping city. half!
Some of these messages were sent by Zhu Yuanzhang to Jin Yiwei, but more of them were deliberately spread by people who fished in troubled waters.

As for why such news was released, Zhu Yuanzhang knew it well.

The various policies he has been promoting, such as land clearance, such as strict investigation of slavery of big families, such as the re-setting of taxes, have touched the interests of too many people. Some people don't want to make it easy for Daming!
And it just so happened that he didn't want to make those people feel better.

He also wants to come up with more stimulating policies.

"The land is owned by the public and distributed equally!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said these eight characters at the end of the Ming Dynasty, but at that time he was just talking about it, and he didn't make great efforts to implement it.

One is because he doesn't have enough time.

The second is because at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the country did not have industrialization, so it simply did not have the ability to manage, supervise and maintain the implementation of this policy.

Even if it is proposed, it is estimated that it will be useless in a few years.

He is too aware of the ability of those gentry bureaucrats to take advantage of loopholes.

But now it's different.

When the industrial revolution was going on in the early Ming Dynasty, it was also going on in the late Qing Dynasty, and the progress here was even faster.

Because there is a larger population here, and there are already some industrial bases in various coastal areas.

In addition, [-]% of the factories built were state-led as in the early Ming Dynasty, which allowed Zhu Yuanzhang to hold a lot of money.

With money, Zhu Yuanzhang will naturally turn around to solve the food problem.

Zhu Yuanzhang is very clear that industry must be developed, but agriculture cannot be left behind, because agriculture is the lifeblood of a country.

There are now [-] million people in China in the late Qing Dynasty. If these [-] million people have no food, no matter how many industrial products you have, it will be in vain.

And to make food affordable for everyone is the purpose of Zhu Yuanzhang's policy today.

Take the land into the hands of the government, all the land belongs to the government, and then distribute it equally to all the people to plant!
People only have the right to farm land, but not the right to sell it. Selling land privately is illegal.

At the same time, they must pay food to the country according to law.

This is the policy that Zhu Yuanzhang will implement.

Hu Weiyong next to him listened to Zhu Yuanzhang put forward these policies one by one. Even though he knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was going to do this a long time ago, and he has been improving administrative institutions in various places in the past two years to prepare for it, but the day has come to do it , he still couldn't help but tremble with fear.

Because this is to dig up the ancestral graves of all the gentry in the world!
In this era, the land is the lifeblood, and if you want to touch the land of the gentry, you are touching their old lives. How could they not work hard!

Although Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian are currently implementing such a policy, it is because Zhu Yuanzhang almost killed the local gentry by banning smoking.

But the provinces occupied later, especially those in the north that are not near the sea, are still dominated by gentry.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang advanced too fast later, and the Manchus were too careless to fight, he was directly flattened by him in two years, and there was no time to deal with these gentry.

Moreover, compared with the coastal provinces, the gentry in these inland provinces are more conservative and value land more.

It's okay to change the emperor.

Daming is gone, and Manqing is in the country, and they live on as usual, and now that Daming has come back and drove Manqing away, they still live on as usual.

Guarding the land, as long as there is food in the land, they will have no worries about food and drink from generation to generation.

No matter how powerful the emperor is, can he still control them?

But obviously, now the Emperor Zhu is really in charge of them.

When this policy was spread to the world, half of China was completely boiled.

Overnight, civil turmoil broke out everywhere, and beacon smoke was everywhere.

After all, from the old bureaucrats of the Qing Dynasty, to the local gentry and big landlords, to the small landlords in various villages and towns, almost all the people who have the right to speak in the local area are landlords, and their interests have been violated by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Even some officers, soldiers and generals recruited by Zhu Yuanzhang in this era were like this.

Especially those generals who merged in from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom have basically become big landlords now.

Now Zhu Yuanzhang wants to infringe on their interests, of course they don't agree.

Regarding these riots, Zhu Yuanzhang only gave one opinion: "Kill!"

"Anyone who dares to resist will be killed without mercy!"

"All those who refuse to cooperate will be killed without mercy!"

At this moment, Xu Da and Li Wenzhong's Northern Expeditionary Army has quietly returned, and has been scattered and stationed in various places.

In addition, Hu Weiyong has sorted out the civil service system that has been sorted out for three years, and the Empress Dowager Cixi and Li Hongzhang are hiding among the enemies as undercover agents.

All the preparatory work Zhu Yuanzhang has done properly, and nothing will go wrong.

Knowing that there will be bloodshed, there will be chaos.

But long-term pain is not as good as short-term pain. Scraping the bone to cure poison is to cure the disease.

If we don't take advantage of the present to completely complete this matter, it will only become more and more difficult to solve in the future.

During the period, someone came to Zhu Yuanzhang to intercede, even Shi Dakai came.

But everyone Zhu Yuanzhang did not meet.

At this moment, he is cold and iron-blooded.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang knows very well that for this country with a population of [-] million, this is the only way to release productivity and make this country quickly become prosperous and strong, surpassing the Xiyi people.

At the same time, he also understands that this is also a prerequisite for him to be able to complete the system tasks.

Wars are about logistics, and a thriving country that can be completely controlled by him is the most powerful guarantee for logistics.

He doesn't want to have another food crisis within the country when he leads the fleet to conquer the world in the future, and he needs to transfer food here from the early Ming Dynasty.

That would be funny.

Moreover, conquering the world can not only be accomplished by relying on one or two victories, he must have desperate national strength.

Only when China's strength far surpasses any country in the world, can those countries surrender willingly.

Liberating the land and the population is the first step for a country to become prosperous and strong.

If he can't even complete this first step, then although he has fifteen or sixteen years, his hope of completing this task will be very slim.

Time slipped away again.

It was another two years in a blink of an eye.

After two years of slaughter, the nascent nation has finally regained its peace.

Those old bureaucrats and gentry who made trouble have been killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, and those who knew how to advance and retreat, but did not do anything at the last moment, Zhu Yuanzhang did not question them too much.

However, after they handed over all the land, if there is no new business, they will just sit and eat.

This forced these gentry, who had a lot of money in their hands, to gather in the coastal areas in search of new ways to make money, and industry and commerce once again ushered in a wave of prosperity.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang also began to promote the treasure banknotes of the early Ming Dynasty here.

The same policy, the same process as the early Ming Dynasty, and even the whole promotion process of treasure banknotes was now promoted from the second-rank official, Shen Wansan, the president of the Royal Bank of Ming Dynasty, personally represented.

"Your Majesty, I have come here this time, and at the order of His Royal Highness, I have also brought a treasure, which can help Your Majesty rule the universe!"

Now Shen Wansan sees Zhu Yuanzhang again, although he is still habitually cautious, but when he met officials casually as a businessman, the feeling of trepidation and precarity has faded a lot.

"With such a big tone, we want to see what a treasure is?" Zhu Yuanzhang became interested when he heard that Zhu Biao asked Shen Wansan to bring it.

Shen Wansan took out something from his arms and placed it in front of Zhu Yuanzhang.

It was a khaki bead with exquisite patterns carved on it, and at the same time Zhu Yuanzhang felt a faint remnant of aura on it.

"What is this?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked suspiciously.

"His Royal Highness calls him Holy Bead!"

"There is a trace of spiritual energy left on it. If you soak it in water and drink tea, it will have a refreshing effect within two to three months!"

"Even if you are sick, drinking the water soaked in this holy bead can relieve some symptoms!"

"Of course, if the spiritual energy in the waiting period is exhausted, it will be useless!" Shen Wansan introduced in detail.

(End of this chapter)