In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 230 For barbaric peoples such as Mengjin, we must use love to influence them

From mid-November to March of the following year, within a few months, the imperial court mobilized troops and horses in Fujian, killing six big landlords and 48 related officials in one breath with thunderous means.

Among them, the whole family of the six major landlords was killed, and two of the officials were killed by the three clans.

While this news shocked Fujian, it also shocked the entire Song Dynasty. Even the Jin Dynasty and Dali and other countries felt incredible when they heard it.

Since the Song Dynasty, the old Zhao family has been more polite to scholars and landlords, because many landlords are gentry officials.

This is actually a reasonable cycle. After a scholar becomes an official, he will have money, power and opportunity to enclose land, so that future generations can become landlords. Similarly, wealthy landlords can train their descendants to become officials, and then continue to rely on power and money enclosure.

Landlords and gentry officials are basically a family.

In the Song Dynasty, there was a tradition of not killing scholar-officials. Except for Taizu and Taizong, almost no other emperors of the old Zhao family had done so.

Some officials were killed during the period of Taizu and Taizong, but the country was just established at that time, many people had not participated in the imperial examination, and some had their names, and it was not sure whether they were civil servants or military officials.

The only thing that can be determined in history is that Chu Dezhen in the Taizu Dynasty was a civil servant.

It was recorded at that time: "Dr. Guozi, he knew that Chu Dezhen of Rongzhou and the judge Zheng Meng had stolen official silver together.

This guy is a professor of the Imperial College, and he must be a civil servant.

After Zhenzong, the Zhao family seldom attacked literati until the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, and finally killed a literati.

It is said that the only civil official who was killed by the emperor in the Song Dynasty was Zhang Bangchang. This guy is unlucky. After the Jingkang Incident, he was elected emperor by Jin Ren. , as soon as the Jin man left, he also took off the imperial robe tactfully, and in the end Zhao Gou killed him. It is said that this release of the Ming Dynasty is enough to punish the nine clans. Brother Gou is very loyal, and his family is not involved, so there is no way , The two Song emperors did not do this.

The other Han Wuzhou was killed by Shi Miyuan in the name of the emperor, and had nothing to do with the emperor. Ningzong didn't know that Shi Miyuan had killed him until after his death.

The old Zhao family killed so few civil servants. As for the killing of the three clans and the nine clans, bah, my old Zhao family is a literati, and I will never be as low-quality as Lao Zhu and Zhu Di and his son.

But now everything has been changed by Zhao Yurui.

At the beginning of Zhao Yurui's seizure of power, they only killed one Li Zhixiao, and almost did not attack the powerful officials Shi Miyuan and his family. This made everyone think that the new emperor was also a soft persimmon.

Unexpectedly, the ruthlessness was not as good as a beast. Two officials and three families were directly punished in Fujian, and the family properties of 48 officials, officials, and servants were confiscated.

When the news came out, it immediately caused a sensation in the world.

But Zhao Yurui actually selectively killed landlords and officials. His main purpose was not really to kill people and seize land, but to kill chickens and monkeys to prepare for the later measurement of land and tax collection, and reduce resistance.

Most of the officials killed this time were people with a bad reputation among the people, and they did not have a big backer behind them.

The same is true of the landowners who were killed.

For other landlords and officials, the handling methods are much more tactful.

For example, Quanzhou Tongjuan also helped a landlord to conceal it at that time. The imperial court fined the landlord [-] guan, [-] shi of grain, and confiscated [-] acres of land.

Tong San was interviewed by Qian Hongzu, reprimanded, fined for two months, and demoted.

Zhao Yurui's land survey this time was mainly for the rectification of landlords and officials in counties and prefectures, and he used this incident to gradually complete his plan to reduce the number of officials.

After Zhao Yurui's thunderous tactics, starting from March of the third year of Baoqing, the landlords and officials from all walks of life in Fujian were honest, and no one dared to resist.

Qian Hongzu took advantage of this opportunity to fine grains and increase grain taxes in the whole province, and finally managed to meet the goal of 200 million stones given to him by the imperial court, but it was not completed until the next year.

After nearly half a year of rectification, the number of grain fields in Fujian has finally been cleared, with a total of 1000 to [-] million mu.

This data is similar to that of the Ming Dynasty, and more than 900 million more than the 200 million in the early Song Dynasty.

The fields in Fujian do not come and go much, because there are many mountains and there is not much arable land in Fujian, so there will be a gap of hundreds of millions of acres, more than doubled, as in the case of the North Five Roads.

There are not many fields in the upper four prefectures of Fujian, and the grain fields are basically concentrated in the lower four prefectures, especially near Fuzhou.

Fuzhou is the state capital that conceals the most fields.

This will result in low yields and fewer fields in the upper four prefectures of Fujian, and higher yields and more fields in the lower four prefectures.

The average yield per mu is about 1.8 shi, which is lower than that of Liangzhe and Jiangnan.

Assessed according to normal output, the annual output of grain and stone is 160 million stones.

The original two taxes in the Southern Song Dynasty were the summer tax and the autumn tax. As mentioned earlier, the summer tax can be money, silk, silk, etc., and the autumn tax is grain.

In the past, Jiangnan, including Liangzhe and other places, was about three buckets per mu.

Jiangnan and other places have high yields, with an average yield of three stones, and the tax per mu is [-]%.

Except for Jiangnan, the other places are seven liters to one bucket.

This tax is still relatively low, so it is not much taxed like Fujian.

Even if you count it as one bucket per mu, the entire Fujian is taxed on the current 1000 to 120 mu of land, and the autumn tax is [-] million shi.

Before Zhao Yurui ascended the throne, the food tax in Fujian province was only 50 shi, and they were often in arrears.

Now that this is done, the autumn tax has more than doubled, which is of great significance to the court and a good thing to the local government.

When someone is unlucky, someone will be proud.

Zhao Yurui desperately attacked and oppressed the landlords and officials, and he must have someone to support him.

This time, the imperial court confiscated and confiscated a large number of so-called unowned land in Fujian, which happened to be distributed to the working land of the military officer of the capital of Fujian.

At the same time, in order to further win over the military officers and sergeants, and cooperate with Zhao Yurui to reduce 20 civil servants across the country.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to measure the land, Fujian, in the name of covering up, killed and fired more than [-]% of the county government officials and security chiefs, and then ordered that one-fifth of the local officials must be killed. It is selected from the family members of military officers in the capital, and even from the families of sergeants. Most of the rest can be selected from the localities (and mainly concentrated in the families of craftsmen, ordinary small businessmen, ordinary scholars who have not obtained fame, etc.) and it is clearly stated that they cannot be hereditary.

In this way, the composition of local officials is much more complicated than before.

In the past, the officials and servants in the Song Dynasty were basically hereditary, and most of them came from the families of officials, gentry and landlords.

Now the officials and servants under Zhao Yurui's rule consisted of family members or relatives of military officials, family members or relatives of civil servants, family members or relatives of craftsmen, family members or relatives of ordinary small businessmen, scholars without fame, and even ordinary people.

With so many messy elements grouped together, it is difficult to work together at the grassroots level to do some deception.

Moreover, Zhao Yurui's butcher knife also gave them a deep warning.

Zhao Yurui thinks that it is very simple to manage officials and servants. Every year in each province and government, find a few people who do not do well and kill them every year.

Some people want to say, Lao Zhu also killed ruthlessly, but he still couldn't help it.

Lao Zhu's propaganda is not effective, and the supervision system is also lacking.

Xiao Zhao's publicity and supervision system must surpass Lao Zhu's.

Of course, in addition to the officials, the security chiefs below also had to be changed.

In ancient times, these Baochang and Dabaochang were all responsible for the most productive villages.

As soon as Zhao and Rui changed their normal routine, starting from the chief security officer, the person with the least farmland in the village took turns to be in charge, once every three years. After the three-year period, if the people in the whole insurance company agreed to continue to serve, they could continue to work, up to three times in a row. Expect.

And in the past, the security chief didn't get any wages.

Now Baochang provides five shi of grain every year. To be honest, it is not much, not enough to feed one person for a year, but it can be regarded as wages.

There is also a prerequisite for the supply of grain, that is, to complete the summer and autumn taxes of the imperial court on schedule, and you can get five stones of grain.

At the same time when the imperial court vigorously promoted the New Deal in Fujian and measured land and changed service, Zhao Yurui's behavior and cruelty of killing civil servants and landlords aroused the dissatisfaction of many nobles, civil servants and landlords in the capital.

Because everyone knows that after Fujian, the whole country will soon do the same.

This is exactly the same as when Wang Anshi was on Beiwulu back then.

Wang Anshi made more than 1 million new fields on the North Five Road, but afterwards he was still opposed by the landlords and officials all over the world, and the matter was left alone.

The emperor still wants to do this now, so of course he can't let him go.

At the beginning of the third year of Baoqing, civil officials in the capital, headed by Yuan Shao, Chen Wei, Wang Mai, etc., began to flee.

Before Zhao Yurui came to the throne, Yuan Shao was the governor of Lin'an Prefecture (equivalent to the prefect of Lin'an Prefecture, the top leader). He worked in this position for nearly ten years. He was good at handling complicated cases and rehabilitated many unjust, false and wrong cases. "Buddha son".

Later, after Zhao Yurui came to power, he basically changed the main leaders in all the provinces and provinces across the country, so naturally there was nothing wrong with him.

Historically, Yuan Shao has been a member of the leadership team at this time, having been a member of the political affairs committee (equivalent to a deputy prime minister) and a member of the Privy Council (equivalent to a deputy envoy of the Privy Council).

But of course he doesn't have any share now, he was consecrated to the temple in advance, which is equivalent to being left idle, and the emperor seems to have the intention of canceling the consecration, he is quite dangerous now.

After Jia She's death, Chen Wei was interviewed and approved by Shi Miyuan, and then served as an envoy of the Huaidong system for a short time, but he didn't continue. He couldn't hold back Li Quan and other military leaders. After Yu Rui came to power, similar to the history, he was recommended to provide some prisons for Huaidong, and then Zhao and Rui reformed the system. These messy things were merged into various departments of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and he returned to Beijing to serve as a doctor of the Ministry of Industry.

Wang Mai is a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. He was awarded the Tanzhou Observation and Promotion Officer after being a Jinshi. He has a good reputation and is known as Lian, Jing and Gong. He was quite dissatisfied with the emperor's frequent punishment of the three clans and the killing of civil officials.

These officials have two characteristics. One part is that they all had contact with Shi Miyuan before, and the other part is based on integrity and benevolence. You can't call them bad for the latter part of the officials.

Most of them are very talented and learned, and they are honest and righteous officials.

But they are somewhat similar to the Confucian master Liu Zongzhou of the Ming Dynasty.

Who is Liu Zongzhou?I know from reading another novel of the late Ming Dynasty by Ming Jing, that is, Emperor Chongzhen asked Tang Ruowang to build hundreds of cannons to deal with Houjin. Liu Zongzhou strongly opposed it, saying that it was against Tianhe, and he had to be aware of barbaric people like Houjin. Influence them with reason, move them with emotion, and influence them with love, in order to show the demeanor of our great tomorrow and the state of etiquette.

As a result, Chongzhen had no choice but to reduce from a few hundred to a dozen, so he had to follow Liu Zongzhou.

He was later stationed in Hangzhou, and after Hangzhou fell, he died of a hunger strike. He had a lot of backbone.

Do you think this kind of person is good or bad?What would the emperor do to such a person?
Now this kind of people and Yuan Shao and others have expressed considerable dissatisfaction with the emperor's killing of civil servants and landlords.

I am a state of etiquette in the Great Song Dynasty, and the kingdom of heaven, how can I kill and kill at every turn?Isn't it just a small mistake, a few acres of land?Did you charge a little money?Shouldn't we influence them with love?

　In addition, Liu Zongzhou's original words are not irrelevant to this book, because many civil officials in the Song and Ming Dynasties had this kind of thinking: "I heard about the way of using soldiers, the first is the benevolence and righteousness of Tang and Wu, and the second is the temperance of Huan Wen. This is not what I am talking about. ""Today, relying on weapons instead of waiting for others makes the country more powerful." "Firearms are ultimately useless to success or failure."

　　Liu Zongzhou said that the use of firearms is heresy, there is no martial virtue, there is no benevolence and righteousness in the Tang and Wu era, and Chongzhen is not allowed to build them.

　　
　
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