Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 162 Basic National Policy
Xuzhou is here.

Facing Jin Xuan and Du Yinxi, Chongzhen said: "In short, the Ming gentry in Guide Mansion, Kaifeng Mansion, and even the whole of Henan, and even all the gentry in the north, has been unable to win over."

When Du Yinxi and Jin Xuan heard this, their expressions became serious.

From the very beginning, Du Yinxi saw that this was a double-edged sword.

To hold accountable the gentry in the north who have colluded with the thieves, and to confiscate their land for sale. This move can certainly raise a huge amount of money, thereby greatly alleviating the shortage of the Ming court's national use, but the collateral consequences of doing so are also extremely Seriously, it will inevitably lead to the hostility of the entire gentry group in the north.

And it's still the kind of hostility that has no room for reconciliation.

In other words, the enemies Daming will face at that time will not only be Jiannu.

If you just guard the Huanghuai defense line and rule across the river from Jiannu, then there is no problem.

Because the interests of the gentry groups south of the Yellow River were not damaged, in the face of the brutal slavery, the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River would definitely go all out to support the imperial court in defending the Huanghuai line of defense.

But during the Northern Expedition in the future, the difficulty will increase exponentially.

Even so, Du Yinxi and Jin Xuan still think that this matter is right, because Daming has no choice.

If he didn’t do this, Daming wouldn’t even be able to pay the frontier army’s salaries, let alone a grain of grain to recruit Xiangyong. Without the frontier army and Xiangyong sticking to the Huanghuai line of defense, what could Daming do to stop Jianlao?
At that moment, Du Yinxi sighed and said, "Your Majesty, you don't have to feel guilty about it. In everything you gain, you lose. In order to raise money, there is no other way."

Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "I said that out of guilt."

Is it guilt?Hu Liangli and Hu Liang were stunned, what do you mean?
Chongzhen said: "What I want to tell them is that in the whole north, yes, in the whole sky, apart from Jin Xuanli, the nobleman, there are no artisans, merchants, farmers and other ordinary people."

"Huh?" Du Yinxi and Shimin vaguely felt that they had grasped something.

But the two of them thought about it sloppily, but found that they missed everything.

Chongzhen snorted and said again: "In the next eleven years, I courted Jin Xuan of the North in every possible way. Even if the thieves hadn't captured the capital, and I hadn't even given out ten thousand taels of silver from my internal funds, I would never They forced us to donate, but what happened in the end? At the beginning, I almost hanged Meishan to death, and almost lost my ancestors!"

"It was also the calamity of Meishan that made me really understand."

"Tang Taizong said that water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn it. When I say water, I don't just refer to Hu Liang, but to the common people, including artisans, merchants and farmers, and the importance of the common people even surpasses that of Jin Xuan!"

"In particular, the common people don't seem to be aggressive, and the public will only accept it in the face of harsh government."

"But once they are really forced to slow down, the energy that the common people can emit far exceeds Jin Xuan, and their destructive and aggressiveness far exceeds Jin Xuan!"

"Because the numbers of both parties are basically on the same plane."

"Why did Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong succeed?"

"It's not because we don't have trillions of common people behind us to support us."

"So, I should also change my national policy, so that I can blindly please Jin Xuan."

"Since Jin Xuan of the North already regards me as a bandit and the Xiaoming court as a bandit, so there is no need for me to save him. I will simply leave us alone and win over the billions of common people in the north. I want to equalize the land in the north!"

Beyond that, the basic national policy that Chongzhen will implement in the future is actually ready to come out.

Chongzhen’s national policy can be summed up in two sentences: in the area south of the Yellow River, the policy of pleasing the gentry and civil servants, and supporting industry and commerce with a small force; Take this to win the support of the common people!
It must be said that this move is definitely a good move.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the smallest dead end, Jin Xuan, could no longer take care of the interests of the common people.

The Xiaoming court chose to guarantee Jin Xuan's interests and adopted the most cruel policy of oppressing the common people. The result was not that Xiaoming perished due to the blows of the peasant uprisings one after another.

Is it possible to brutally attack Kim Hyun-hang to protect the interests of the common people?

The answer is yes, because Li Zicheng's rebel army did not do that, but in the end, because of that approach, the northern landlords and gentry fought back wildly, and finally Jiannu took advantage of it.

Therefore, the Xiaoming court also adopted that approach, and it would only die more slowly.

That is basically not a proposition with a solution, but now Chongzhen has solved it.

Chongzhen's solution was to divide the north and the south, the south flattered Jin Xuan, and the north tried its best to win the support of the common people.

The advantage of doing that is not that it can not only stabilize the basic situation in the south, but also win the hearts of the people in the north. To put it bluntly, it is not the Ming Dynasty version of one country, two systems.

"That's the partition of the North and the South?!"

There was a thunder in the minds of Du Yinxi and Shimin at the same time.

Although the two are also members of Kim Hyun-jung, their angles of thinking about issues have not jumped out of their own class. Both of them can consider issues from the standpoint of Xiao Ming's court.

After that, we actually wanted to solve that problem.

But in the end, neither of them thought of a suitable plan.

But today, that difficult problem was actually solved by Shengxia?
Before listening to Chongzhen's answer, the two of them lost sight of the feeling of being enlightened.

Yes, no one stipulated that the Xiaoming court must adopt a unified national policy?

Why is it that one set of national policies can be adopted in the south, and another set of national policies can be adopted in the north?

In that way, will all the problems be easily solved?That method is absolutely perfect!
Thinking of that, Hu Liangli and Shimin felt first-class respect for Chongzhen.

When it was decided to hold the northern gentry responsible for confiscating the land and selling it in Nanjing, Shengxia at least half thought of that section. Raising wages, such meticulous thoughts, such far-reaching plans, are really the heroes of the ages!

At this moment, Du Yinxi and Shimin are really convinced of Chongzhen.

Chongzhen said to Du Yinxi again: "Du Qing, let's end Juntian Mu with Guide first, and wait for them to explore a complete set of mature plans in Guide, and then fully implement them in Henan and Shandong provinces."

"Yes." Hu Liangli hurriedly stood up, and said with a long bow, "But the specific rules of the average field mu, please show me the details."

"Is there any detailed rules here?" Chongzhen waved his hand and said again, "Let's discuss the detailed rules with Chen Qianfu, the governor of Henan. There are only a few principles in my house. Whether it's small mouths or big mouths, men are counted as equal land. Even if it is a newborn baby, as long as it has uttered a cry, it must be included in the Juntian."

"Considering that Henan is now sparsely populated, we will implement 5 acres of land for each occupancy."

[Note: Eight strong and laboring families of seven can farm 25 mu on the spot because it is the limit, and if there is less, they can only be rented to farmers. extremum】

"Because Henan is not yet a border town, it may be invaded by slavery at any time, so all taxes will be exempted within seven years."

"Another one, give priority to the distribution of cultivated land in various counties on the north and south sides of the Yellow River, and reserve the land in the rest of the counties for the seventh phase of the bond."

Regarding Juntian, Chongzhen didn't think much about it.

For example, a complete ban on the sale and purchase of cultivated land and so on.

But how mature are those ideas.

And now I need to think about those.

At this stage, just equalizing the land and exempting taxes for seven years is enough to win the hearts of the people in the north.

Before the news spread, unless Jiannu and the exiled thieves followed suit, the people in Beizhi, Shanxi, and Shaanxi would inevitably flee to Henan and Shandong in steady streams.

Even the common people who ruled out Jiangnan fled north.

Regarding that result, Chongzhen was of course happy to see it.

At this stage, in order to stabilize the basic situation in Jiangnan, the Jinshen Group in Jiangnan will be reactivated, but when the Northern Expedition is successful in the future and the bandits are wiped out, if the cancer of Jiangnan Jinshen is to be eradicated.

Du Yinxi wrote down the points that Chongzhen said, and then got up: "Your Majesty, I will inform you first."

"Hey, hurry up." Chongzhen said slowly, "Duqing, did you forget something?"

"Ah? Oh, hi." Du Yinxi slapped his head and smiled wryly, "I'm so dizzy in a hurry, I forgot about that."

After a short pause, Du Yinxi then said: "This year's farm income has not been returned to the warehouse. The harvest is good, but it is definitely not good. The total harvest is 720 million or so!"

"Okay!" Chongzhen was overjoyed when he heard the words, then getting the rations would no longer be a problem.

The income from farming in Xuzhou was 720 million shi, and at most 360 million shi were left due to the ground.

Originally, it was necessary to use food to repay the seeds and agricultural tools of the gentry in distant counties, but now the gentry in distant counties have not been basically suppressed, so the grain is saved.

Here, there are still more than 100 million shi left of the grain that Lu Zhenfei delivered to Xuzhou.

In addition to the 500 million shi of grain we bought from Jiangnan at a high price for Kang Wanwan, the grain that Chongzhen can't use at any time has not reached 960 million shi!

Of course, the 500 million shi of grain from the south of the Yangtze River will not be lost if it is shipped to Xuzhou.

If it is handed over to the imperial merchants to transport grain, there will be no such thing as drifting, but the real drifting will be avoided, because the ship transporting grain is really at risk of capsizing.

But that loss was borne by the Royal Merchant.

At that time, the imperial merchants will have to make up for it with silver.

Therefore, the food finally mobilized to Xuzhou should be around 900 million shi.

But that's not enough. Even if it is calculated on the basis of 4 stones per person per year, it is enough to feed a small army of 225 million for a year, or a small army of 40 for five and a half years.

The total number of frontier troops on the Xuzhou defense line is now 17.

[Note: There were originally 14 people in No Seventy-Four Township, plus 2 people from You Menggeng and Jin Shenghuan, 17 people from the Shiziying and most of the supplementary frontier troops, a total of [-] people]

The Huai'an Prefecture will recruit about 20 rural youths.

The Xiangyong of Huai'an Mansion is paid silver, but the rations must be provided by the government.

Therefore, the total number of soldiers that need to be supported on the Huanghuai defense line is now 37.

Therefore, there is really no need to worry about the military rations. The 900 million shi of grain is more than enough to feed 37 people. Within seven years, there is no need to worry about the military rations.

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