Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 628 The Conjectures and Plans of the Honorables

"I think there are two intentions in this move today.

One is to prevent the reappearance of the aristocratic families of the Sui and Tang Dynasties in the Jiangnan area, thus forming a force that is difficult for the imperial court to control.

The second is that they are afraid that the officials and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River will form a group with us and other nobles to form a whole. In the situation where food is needed, money is needed, and people are needed, if someone with great ambitions takes the opportunity to cause chaos and kill everyone. When all of them are coerced together, cutting off the canal, the lifeblood of the Ming Dynasty, blocking the great rivers, and then forming a state of separation between the north and the south, it can be called a catastrophe for the north that has just experienced natural and man-made disasters! "

Everyone was silent for a long time. After Lingbihou Tang Guozuo hesitated for a while, he mustered up the courage to speak out his opinion.

He is a descendant of Tang He, the founding hero of the country at the beginning of the country. After Tang He died of illness, his title of Duke of Xin was downgraded to the hereditary Marquis of Lingbi and has been passed down to this day.

Tang He was one of the few founding heroes in the early Ming Dynasty who died well, which was mainly due to his cautious and temperamental character.

And Tang Guozuo inherited the cautiousness of his ancestors. When encountering anything, he always thinks of the worst, and always leaves a way out. He is the most low-key and simple one among Nanjing nobles, and he also speaks the least. One of the rare times when such a tirade like today.

"Hey, Lao Tang, you're worrying too much. If you don't say anything else, just say that these so-called gentry can't pee in the same pot as us.

If you want to say that I am greedy and lustful, then we will admit it, but we can enjoy the glory and wealth, because our ancestors fought hard with swords and guns. The blood and sweat of our ancestors in today's Ming Dynasty, so it is reasonable for us to enjoy these things what should be done.

But those stinky literati and sour scholars, just because they have read the so-called sage books for a few years, once they passed the mid-term entrance examination and became herdsmen in the sky, they accumulated a family business within a few years, why?
If today is really worried about this, it is really unfounded.We are all families who live together with the country, how can we mix with those literati who are in office today and dismissed tomorrow?
But since Lao Tang mentioned this, should we jointly write the book, just to show that we will never have any connection with others, and I beg for mercy by the way, please look at us differently, all uncles and brothers how about?"

Deng Wenyu, Marquis of Dingyuan, who had the same rough appearance and personality, first refuted Tang Guozuo's wild thinking with disapproval, and then put forward his own suggestion.

Deng Wenyu is a descendant of Deng Yu, the founding hero. Among this group of nobles, he is one of the few who don't like reading, but only like to wield knives and guns. He also likes to use his hands without using his brain, but today's rare speech made everyone look at him with admiration: Xiao Dengzi actually learned to read people's hearts. These words seem to be quite reasonable, but they are not bad.

Everyone here immediately praised Deng Wenyu's proposal, and Deng Wenyu was also very proud for a while: Huh, I don't just like to use my fists, I just don't bother to use my brain. Look, today I just said it casually. Think this idea works?

"The Marquis Dingyuan's proposal is quite feasible. The joint name expresses our heart. As long as we guard here, the land in the south of the Yangtze River will still be the land of the Ming Dynasty. If this is the case, the Holy Majesty may appropriately revise the strategy that will be released soon. Distinguished nobles from gentry, after all, this policy has been launched, and our loss is not small.

However, this alone is not enough!
If we want to suffer the least loss from this matter, or even benefit from it, we have to think carefully about it! "

Zhu Guobi first praised Deng Wenyu a lot, then he paused, and scanned the people in the room with piercing eyes.

Deng Wenyu's strategy cannot be said to be bad, but this strategy is only to appease the emperor's possible worries. Perhaps the emperor has no worries about this situation at all.

If you want to keep the property of each government without huge losses, you must come up with a better method.

All the nobles present here are people who have been operating in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time. Whether in the current Jiangsu Province or Zhejiang Province, there are large fields and Zhuangzi. As for other commercial shops, there are not a few. Less fertile fields.

If calculated on average, each prefecture has about 10,000+ mu of land. If taxes are paid according to Thirteen, except for the 5000 mu of rent-free tax, then at least [-] shi should be paid for grain, rice or other crops every year. If the market price is converted into silver When it is above [-] taels.

This is the amount that has to be paid every year in the future. No matter how low the food price is in the future, it will always be a few thousand taels more, right?This is equivalent to several shops working in vain for a year.

Although this amount of money is not a lot of money for everyone with a big family and a big business, but for 200 years, they are the only ones who have made money from the government. How can there be any reason to hand over money to others?

It just doesn't make sense.

When Zhu Guobi mentioned this, he felt aggrieved in his heart, but when he thought of the words he said the first time, the injustice disappeared in an instant.

The emperor has a gun in his hand, and it is a huge number of guns.

Deng Wenyu's original remarks were not so much a show of loyalty, but deep down, it seemed that he was eager to beg for mercy because he was afraid of being angered and liquidated by the emperor.

Zhu Guobi knew in his heart, how could the emperor not have considered that there would be turmoil in the south of the Yangtze River?
What are the [-] official troops who just finished the war of destroying the country doing?
That is an elite teacher who has sufficient food and is extremely loyal to the emperor. To put it bluntly, as long as 1 people are sent, no, as long as 5000 people go to the south of the Yangtze River, no matter how big the turmoil is, it will happen sooner or later.

If the emperor wants to take this opportunity to clean up their group of ineffective nobles, as long as they are charged with any crime, these centuries-old wealthy families here will be uprooted in the blink of an eye, and all their wealth will be turned into silver taels rewarded by the emperor. With the blood of them and their families.

Don't think it's impossible.

Aren't Cheng Guogong, Xiangcheng Bo, and Chengyi Bo all descendants of the founding heroes?Didn't you also have been operating in the capital for 200 years, relying on yourself to control 10,000+ people in the capital, and no one in the world dares to move?

It didn't turn into gray in the blink of an eye.

What Lingbi Hou Tang Guozuo said seems to make sense, but in fact it is not bullshit.

The family knows their own affairs.

It is true that Jiangnan has money, food and people, but can these be used by birds?

The richer people are, the more they want to keep their current wealth. Who would use their wealth and life to fight against swords and guns?
"The most important thing right now is to expel the private slaves kept by everyone's houses as soon as possible, so as not to give up the truth when there is discord in the future!
Afterwards, let's have a good discussion about the plan, and we must be fully prepared to see what will happen to these big gentry, and then we will wait for the opportunity! "

(End of this chapter)