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Chapter 426 Shocking
What's more, at this time, all the members of the Huang clan have already been mobilized, one by one, not to mention that Huang Quan wants to stop them, I am afraid that they are the biggest support of the Huang clan, and Huang Wei may not be able to show up at this time. able to stop these people.

"Assault on the court officials, intending to rebel, you should be killed!"

He heard a cold snort from Lin Pingzhi's mouth, and then saw the Xiuchun knife in Lin Pingzhi's hand slashing fiercely at the men with ferocious faces who rushed in front of him.

At the same time as Lin Pingzhi made his move, the guards in Jinyi and the county government officers around him also waved their sharp weapons.

In the blink of an eye, blood flashed, accompanied by a shrill scream.

These people are just relying on their numbers to run amok in the countryside. In the past, with Huang Wei, the magistrate of a county, as a backer, no one dared to provoke people from Huangjia Village, so these people were made to act Unscrupulous.

Perhaps most of these people had their hands contaminated with human life, but for them, they had never really seen any bloody scenes.

Especially this kind of bloody and bloody fighting scene, it can be said that it is definitely the first time for people like them.

When strands of fresh blood flew and even sprayed on the face, the people who were originally hot-blooded were finally blown by a gust of wind and their minds became somewhat sober.

"Ah, dead, dead..."

Wang Yangming said to the Son of Heaven with a grateful face: "Thank you, Your Majesty, I will do my best to live up to your Majesty's expectations."

Not to mention these people, even Wang Yuan and other officials who came with Li Huan were also stunned at this time.

When these people came to their senses, they were immediately frightened by the dozens of corpses in front of them.

Hiding the population and land is a normal phenomenon in any era. Even the high-ranking emperor can compare it with the data of private land population counted by the courts of the past dynasties.

Thinking of the data about Dingkou and Tianmu in Yutian County that Zhang Ke, the magistrate of Yutian County, had previously submitted, the population and Tianmu they found out were almost twice as many as those in the yellow book.

Zhu Houzhao waved his hand to signal Li Huan to stand up, and said with a smile, "Did Li Qing gain anything from this inspection?"

When Zhu Houzhao heard the words, his eyes lit up and he said: "I really mean Cao Cao, Cao Cao will be here, hurry up!"

Soon under the attention of everyone, Li Huan walked into the imperial study room and bowed to the emperor: "I pay homage to Your Majesty."

The emperor and his ministers were right, but there was a look of disdain in the eyes of many civil and military ministers standing aside.

Wang Yuan nodded sternly and said: "Master Hou, according to our careful investigation, according to statistics, Yutian County now has a population of more than [-], with more than [-] acres of land."

This calculation alone means that at least two to three hundred million acres of private land have disappeared from the books inexplicably.

The population is better. At least the population counted over the years has maintained a steady growth rate. Even if the growth rate is abnormal at first glance, it is obvious that a considerable part of the new population has been hidden.But at least the population data is not so exaggerated by the people below, and it is still growing steadily.

No matter how unwilling they were, no one would be that stupid to ask them to take their own family's lives against Li Huan.

Zhu Houzhao, who is the emperor, has long been used to such situations, so after the impassioned and indignant impeachment of the censor, Zhu Houzhao just waved his hand lightly. Turning his gaze to Wang Yangming, he said, "Mr. Wang Ge, now that the imperial court is implementing tax reform, is everything going well?"

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In the Qianqing Palace, at the Xiaochaohui, a censor with a heartbroken expression complained to the emperor, impeaching Li Huan for allowing Jin Yiwei to slaughter innocent people in Yutian County.

Many people couldn't help showing doubts when they saw this, but Li Huan stepped forward and opened one of the yellow books, glanced at everyone present and said slowly: "In the 17th year of Hongzhi, Yutian County has a total of 43 acres of land. 65 mu, with a population of more than 13 people."

Taking a deep breath, Wang Yangming took a step forward and said to the emperor with a bit of hesitation and shame on his face: "Return to your majesty, the ministers are incompetent, so that the tax reform is progressing slowly, please punish me."

After all, Yutian County is not too far from the capital, and Li Huan's every move is watched by countless people.

Of course, Zhu Houzhao knew this matter clearly. As for Li Huan's killing in Yutian County, Zhu Houzhao only felt that Li Huan had done nothing wrong, let alone Li Huan. Will be like Li Huan.

Even if they didn't know that Li Huan had brought people to Yutian County for inspection at the beginning, it was obviously impossible to hide Li Huan's whereabouts for too long. Naturally, what happened in Yutian County was noticed and spread to the capital immediately.

Li Huan pondered for a while and said: "Dare to incite the people to fight against the imperial court, and they will be locked up and sent to the capital together with all the criminal officials in Yutian County, and punished according to law!"

There was a sound of footsteps, and a servant appeared at the door of the imperial study and respectfully said to the emperor, "Your Majesty, the champion please see me."

In a short period of time, the news that dozens of people in Huangjia Village were massacred by Jinyiwei spread immediately, but all local tyrants and gentry who heard the news were facing the counties sent by the county government to check the acres of land and the population. When they were officials, they became extremely honest one by one.

With a gentle look in his eyes, Zhu Hou looked at Wang Yangming with a light smile and said, "Wang Qing's family don't need to blame themselves. Tax reform is not an easy task. It is natural to have difficulties, but if you have difficulties, just tell me. If I can do it, I will definitely support it.”

We must know that there is still an increase in the newly reclaimed land. According to the data consulted by Li Huan, it is estimated that the newly reclaimed land in the Ming Dynasty is almost 300 to [-] million mu every year. The field mu on the book must increase by at least [-] million mu.

Lin Pingzhi nodded slightly, glanced at Huang who was slumped on the ground, and said, "My lord, what should I do with this person?"

At the same time, those who watched from a distance also clearly saw the scene where the people from Huangjia Village attacked Jin Yiwei but were killed by Jin Yiwei without hesitation.

After all, there is a precedent in Huangjia Village, and no one went back to doubt Li Huan's determination to carry out tax reform and his cruel methods.

Shocked by Li Huan's words, Wang Yuan and other officials almost instinctively said to Li Huan in a trembling voice: "The next official will take orders."

As the emperor who supported Li Huan and Wang Yangming's tax reform, Zhu Houzhao naturally paid close attention to the tax reform.

Speaking of which, Wang Yuan hesitated for a while and said, "Compared to the records in the Yutian County Government Population Yellow Book, both the number of Dingkou and the number of acres is obviously too much."

Li Huan waved his hand indifferently, then glanced at Wang Yuan and the others, and said to Lin Pingzhi after a moment of pondering, "Pingzhi, leave behind a small banner of Jin Yiwei to cooperate with Wang Yuan and the others, but there are obstacles Those who are killed will be killed!"

Li Huan looked at Wang Yuan standing in front of him with a smile on his face and said, "Wang Yuan, but the results of Tianmu and Dingkou in Yutian County have already been obtained?"

If the tax reform is really smooth sailing without any obstacles or ups and downs, then Zhu Houzhao will feel strange.

Flipping through the account book that Wang Yuan sent up that recorded the inventory data, Li Huan nodded slightly, looked at Wang Yuan with satisfaction and said, "It's time for you, Mr. Wang."

Seeing Wang Yangming's confident appearance, Zhu Houzhao said with a smile: "Okay, I will wait for the good news from the Qing family."

Even though they only had a short time to attack the Jinyiwei, there were no less than dozens of people who were killed by Lin Pingzhi on the spot.

Just like the censor impeached Li Huan just now for conniving Jinyiwei to slaughter the people in Yutian County, the detailed inside story was actually after the incident happened, and Li Huan had already reported it to the emperor in detail through Jinyiwei's channel.

All of a sudden, a group of censors and officials of science and Taoism jumped out to talk about He Lihuan.

It's a pity that the data calculated by the court not only did not increase, but inexplicably dropped by hundreds of millions compared to the beginning of the founding of the country.

Among the several carriages, some gentry who came to wait and see, with cold sweat on their foreheads, almost instinctively ordered their servants to drive the carriages away, as if they would be spotted by Jin Yiwei if they stayed longer.

That bloody scene can definitely be called horrifying, and some people even fainted from the fright on the spot.

But that doesn't mean they have no way to deal with it.

However, what is surprising and unbelievable is that from the beginning of the founding of the country to the present, in just a hundred years or so, the number of acres of land counted by the imperial court has decreased by as much as hundreds of millions of acres.

On the contrary, Li Huan was not surprised at all after hearing the data reported by Wang Yuan.

The current situation is the most normal situation. Historical reforms have never been so simple, and bloody incidents will even break out.

When everyone was in a daze, Li Huan's voice suddenly rang in the ears of Wang Yuan and the others: "Wang Yuan, I will leave it to you to check the population and the number of acres of fields in Huangjia Village."

These disappeared fields were obviously annexed and concealed by local tyrants, gentry, nobles, royal families, officials, etc. quietly.

However, the number of acres of fields according to the official statistics should not decrease even if it does not increase significantly.

Seeing this, many people couldn't help showing curiosity. What exactly did Li Huan bring back when he returned to Beijing this time?
All eyes couldn't help but turned to the door of the imperial study, and saw two servants walking in carrying a suitcase that was not too big or too small.

After all, as long as the land is not opened up, the number of acres in the world is a constant value, even if there are new fields that come from wasteland, that number will not fluctuate too much.

The thick bloody atmosphere spread, and the surrounding Huang clan members all looked pale and horrified at the group of Jinyi guards and county government officers who were covered in blood.

Don't look at how many of them there are at the moment, but at the moment they are more frightened than each other.

It has to be said that after a massacre, the effect can be said to be immediate. The efficiency of the officials sent to check the fields and Dingkou has greatly increased, and the statistics of the fields and Dingkou in the entire Yutian County have been counted in a short period of time.

Zhu Houzhao listened to the data about the population and acres of land in Yutian County read out by Li Huan, nodded slightly and said: "This is the official statistics of the population and acres of land in Yutian County in Hongzhi 17th. If I remember correctly, I Since ascension to the throne, there has been no unified statistics on the population and acres of land in the local area, and the imperial court has always used this data to collect money and grain and distribute labor services."

Although they had always known that Li Huan had a fierce reputation, it was the first time they encountered such an intuitive bloody scene.

Regarding Wang Yangming's reply, although Zhu Houzhao said he was a little disappointed, all of this was actually expected.

Hearing this, Li Huan just said to the outside of the hall: "Bring the things in."

With a thud, when the surroundings were completely silent, suddenly saw the patriarch Huang Quan sitting on the ground, his face was pale and frightening, his eyes were absent-mindedly looking at the corpses of the clansmen on the ground in front of him, and he murmured: "It's over, It's all over."

Just like this Yutian County, a single inspection made Yutian County official’s field data soar by a cup. If you look at the whole of Daming, you can imagine how amazing Daming’s current concealment of population and field is.

Some people couldn't help trembling when they saw the bloody and bloody corpse of their companions in front of them, and couldn't help screaming in horror.

It's not that they looked down on Li Huan, although Li Huan's murder in Huangjia Village in Yutian County was indeed able to shock people's hearts, which greatly reduced the resistance of the court to implement tax reform.

Wang Yuan didn't dare to say anything when he heard the words.

As he said that, Wang Yangming showed a look of expectation on his face: "This time the Champion will personally lead people to inspect the area, and he will definitely be able to grasp many problems that arise during the reform. When the Champion returns, the minister will discuss with the Champion. Discuss a more effective way to implement reforms."

With a soft sound, the box was placed on the ground, Li Huan opened it casually, and immediately saw a stack of yellow books appearing in everyone's sight.

Li Huan nodded slightly, then took out an obviously older yellow book, opened it and said slowly: "In the seventh year of Hongzhi, Yutian County had a total of 45 mu of land and a population of 870. More than four hundred people."

Zhu Houzhao was taken aback for a moment, then raised his eyebrows, but anyone who is not stupid can clearly see that in the past ten years, the number of acres in Yutian County has decreased by more than [-] acres, which does not seem like much, but compared with the entire Yutian County The number of acres of land is almost [-]% less.

This looks a little scary.

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