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Chapter 199 The army goes south
At the same time as checking the population of the fields, the clans of princes and princes in various places were also checked. The annual salary that Daming gave to clans was 150 million li, which was the eternal amount set by Tianqi.

Of course, these do not include the Lutian of the clan. The good land in Shanxi was basically annexed by the clan, while the land in Henan was "half entered into the vassal mansion", and the land of each vassal king reached tens of thousands of mu.If this cancer is not removed, the common people will still rebel.

Zhang Zongxian didn't care about the well-being of the descendants of the Zhu family, and directly sold the fields of the princes and clans in various places, as well as the land of the royal manor managed by the inner court.

Part of the land was allocated to the common people who joined the army, each with 25 mu of land, which was exempted from tax for ten years. After all, these fields were developed earlier than the fields outside the side wall, and the price was also more expensive than the land outside the side wall.

The rest of the land will be listed for sale. In the future, these provinces will be plagued by natural disasters for many years. If the land is distributed directly to the people, it will only make them reluctant to leave and stick to the land. At that time, it will only increase the cost of disaster relief, and the only way to relocate the people go out
Otherwise, how can the land with no harvest under natural disasters feed so many people.

The land that cannot be sold will still be leased to the common people for cultivation, but the rent will be reduced to two-tenths of the annual harvest, which will also be collected by the Taiping grain store.

As for the clan population in various places, all of them were relocated to the undeveloped land outside the side wall, and the land allocated to them was treated as ordinary people.

Just cleaning up these clans allowed Zhang Zongxian to get 2000 million taels of silver, 500 million shi of grain, various property, manors, and shops, and it took him a busy year to divide and deal with these assets.

With the full implementation of these three policies, enough soldiers have been easily recruited everywhere, and the burden on the people has been greatly reduced. Under the propaganda of the disciples of the school, the people understand who is good to them and who has lightened the burden for them .

This caused no turmoil in the provinces controlled by the Legislative Army. Except for the unwilling gentry who wanted to make trouble, the people all over the place supported Zhang Zongxian.

However, these policies caused great panic among the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. They denounced Zhang Zongxian for not following the rules, abolishing preferential treatment for scholars at will, and clamoring for the Qing Dynasty.

After seeing the treatment of the Jiangbei clan, the remaining clans also began to join forces with the gentry, wanting to establish a new king and recruit troops to stop the Legislative Army from going south.

However, the two sides quarreled over whether it was the Qing emperor's side or another new emperor. In the end, they were still afraid of the army in the north, so they did not establish a new emperor.

Of course, they still made some preparations. In addition to the [-] guards assembled by the Jinling Ministry of War, the provinces also began to organize their own troops.

At this time, the Legislative Faction has completed the task of recruiting troops. Just wait another three months, and the army that has completed the preliminary training can go south.

In order to prevent the ghosts from taking advantage of the fire, Zhang Zongxian, in the name of the cabinet, ordered the pirates in Fujian, Guangdong and other places, as long as they brought ships to seek refuge, they would be given corresponding military positions.

If you don’t want a position, you can also get the land reward silver for nothing. Zhang Zongxian, a Dafu boat, offered 3000 taels of silver reward. Of course, he also gave a deadline. Those who accept Zhao’an before September can enjoy this treatment, otherwise, after the expiration, All destroyed.

You can still be an official if you have money, and coupled with the prestige created by the navy with rockets, the pirates and maritime merchants in Fujian and Guangdong, who originally belonged to Li Dan and Yan Siqi (the two are dead), also went north one after another. Accept Zhao'an.

The Ming army, which was originally engaged in water transportation, was also merged into the navy after eliminating the old and weak. With the fleet and crew obtained by Zhao'an, the size of the navy expanded rapidly.

There are 260 Dafu Ships with a load of [-] tons, and [-] Guangzhou Ships with a load of [-] tons.

The navy's newly built fort on Chongming Island has also installed cannons, completely blocking the mouth of the Yangtze River.

At present, the navy just needs time to integrate the personnel in Zhao'an. Presumably, by next year, the navy will be able to go south to maintain the sea power of the Ming Empire.

After the official minister Wang of Nanzhili arrived in the capital in July in Jin Dynasty, he was directly put under house arrest by Zhang Zongxian, and together with the ministers recruited by the empress dowager, they were all under house arrest in the palace.

The first thing these recruited ministers got up every day was to scold Zhang Zongxian, calling him a disaster for the country and the people, and then Zhang Zongxian sent the policies he formulated to these ministers to see, and saw Zhang Zongxian treat nobles and clans so cruelly.

These famous ministers and Confucian scholars were completely speechless. It's not that they didn't know about Ming's problems, but they all ignored everything that happened, as if nothing would happen if they didn't think about it.

At this time, half of the population of the capital city has been forced to relocate, and the rest of the people have also left one after another. This city that has lost its vitality, without the consumption of the royal family, does not need so many off-duty people.

Under the education of Zhang Zongxian, the disciples of the school opposed waste and advocated frugality, and they also had a special supervision team. Unlike those rich and powerful scholars who were extravagant, the taverns and brothels in the capital had to be closed.

After the Empress Dowager came out of the Forbidden City, she has been living in the East Palace. There are only 1 court ladies around her. Zhang Zongxian pays the Empress Dowager [-] taels of silver every month. The Empress Dowager is also very sensible and has not caused trouble.

She already knew the fate of Gui Xun and the clan. Without the support of these two forces, the 24th Inspector of the Inner Court was abolished by Zhang Zongxian, completely losing the possibility of taking power.

Zhang Zongxian planned to move the academy in Xianshuofang City to the imperial city, and then move the capital after taking over the entire Ming Dynasty. The imperial city will be opened to the people of Ming Dynasty as a museum in the future.

Except for a few of the inner court eunuchs who were in charge of the imperial city to help maintain the imperial city, most of them were exiled outside the side walls, and there will be no need for eunuchs in the future.

Seeing that Wang Zaijin went to the capital in the south, they didn't respond. They also knew that they should be under house arrest, and they couldn't beat them again and again. They quarreled there all day long and couldn't come up with a way to deal with it.

Those who are capable of making troubles have been put under house arrest by Zhang Zongxian in advance, and the rest are mediocre. Otherwise, how could the Manchu Qing destroy Nanming so easily.

They could only stop the water transportation in an attempt to force Zhang Zongxian to compromise with them.

In October, the army that completed the expansion and training began to march into the south of the Yangtze River. With the assistance of the navy, Boren led an army of 30 troops, landed from Zhejiang, Guangdong, and Fujian, and then marched to Guangxi, Hunan, and Nanzhili.

Liangchen led an army of 20 from Sichuan to Hubei, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Jiangxi.

The places where the army passed by heard the wind and surrendered, and the army gathered in Jinling collapsed at the touch of a touch. In the twelfth lunar month, the entire Ming Dynasty was controlled by the school.

(End of this chapter)