Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1208
The land has been promised, and neither the army nor the nobles can be offended, and Wang Yan suspects that the officials, gentry, and merchants want to annex the land, so they recruit the army to share the fruits of the Central Plains War.

Although Wang Yan is the regent, his ability to sing depends entirely on the military and officials and great merchants who set up a stage for him. He cannot do without the support of these people.

Shang Kexi and Kong Youde have been the local emperors in Henan for ten years. [-]% of the property in the Central Plains is under their names, and in Luoyang, Kaifeng and other places, it is as high as [-]%. It can be said that a small half of the population of Henan is owned by them. tenant.

Wang Yan's many things are complicated, and his energy is limited. If he is a little careless, his subordinates will take advantage of the loopholes.

Of course, Wang Yan didn't want them to take advantage of it, but he couldn't hide it from him, and his eating habits couldn't be too ugly, and he couldn't affect the overall situation.

People say that the hearts of the people are like water, and now the tenants have all fled to the Kingdom of Jin. Isn't this a slap in the face of Wang Yan?

With a gloomy face, Wang Yan rode to the village in front of him and sat down directly under the locust tree in front of the village. Several trembling villagers were brought forward and knelt down to salute, "The little people kowtow to the king."

Wang Yan put away his gloomy expression, and asked with a gentle smile, "Are you all tenants of this manor?"

"Reporting to Your Majesty, our entire village is tenants, and we have been farming here for ten years!"

After planting it for ten years, it means that it has taken root here. If the government takes the land up, there will definitely be a lot of resentment.

Wang Yan turned his head, looked at Mrs. Wang complainingly, and said sullenly: "Brother, look at what you have done!"

"Your Highness, this matter is due to the lack of consideration by the lower officials, who did not consider the people in Henan!" Seeing that Wang Yan was unhappy, Wang Fuzhi bowed his head and said.

In fact, they were too impatient this time, and without careful study, they were bewitched by the rich and powerful below and made a decision.

Hundreds of thousands of hectares of fertile land are too tempting for the wealthy families in the south.This time, the policy of exchanging grain for land was also proposed by the rich families in Huguang and other places in the name of helping the court share its worries.

Wang Fuzhi must have thought that doing so would harm the tenants in Henan, but from the perspective of his own interests and emotions, he chose to ignore the tenants in Henan and sided with the rich and merchants.

In fact, the whole strategy is not a big problem, Wang Yan can accept it if he takes his time and helps the court find ways to settle these tenants, but he is dissatisfied if they eat too fast and ask Wang to wipe his ass.

At this time, an old man kneeling on the ground boldly asked, "My lord, is the government really going to take our land?"

Wang Yan's expression changed again, he got up and helped the old man up, and let them all sit on the ground, "The government didn't act well and didn't consider you. This is the lonely king's negligence."

The old man and the villagers behind him were so startled that they almost knelt down again when His Highness the King of Chu confessed to them.

Wang Yan lifted the old man up and did not let him bow down again. He said soothingly, "Villagers can rest assured that the lonely king will solve the field matter so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment."

His Highness the King of Chu is a good person, but the officials below are bastards. This idea was immediately injected into the minds of the old man and others.

Several people thanked them again and again, but Wang Yan asked the guards to take them back. When the villagers returned to the village, Wang Yan turned around and asked, "What countermeasures do you have?"

You Youlun immediately said, "His Royal Highness, I feel that some of the land that has not been exchanged for grain can be designated as official land and belong to the Henan Chief Political Officer, and the government will lease the land to tenant farmers to solve the livelihood problem of some tenant farmers on the land. , and then let the big clan who bought the land recruit a group of tenant farmers to act as long-term laborers in the manor, and most of the problems can be solved."

The big families and businessmen in the south took such a big advantage in Henan, and caused such a big problem for You Youlun, the Henan chief envoy. He should stop this matter from the perspective of people's livelihood and Henan officialdom.

It's just that he was also from the Chu sect after all, and he didn't dare to offend the army and nobles, so he could only stop the annexation of fertile land in Henan by the rich and merchants.

Wang Yan nodded after hearing this, but he couldn't help but look at Wang Fuzhi, "This matter was caused by the Ministry of Households! Has the Ministry of Households ever thought of a strategy to deal with the aftermath?"

With the annexation of land, a large number of tenants will have no arable land to cultivate. As the Minister of Household Affairs, Wang Fuzhi naturally knows that he is not willing to let something happen in Henan, which will affect his political performance and bring trouble to the court.

"Your Highness, the Household Department has already prepared a plan. For the landless people, the Household Department has two plans. One is to move to the south of Shanxi for resettlement, and the other is to move outside the customs after the imperial court restores the Liao Dynasty!" Wang Fuzhi said.

Shanxi suffered a great loss this time. Nearly one million people died in the war. Jin Guo also relocated 80 million people, and some of them can indeed be resettled.

As for the outside of the pass, Wang Yan will definitely move the people there in the future, otherwise even if the Liao land is recovered, without the people guarding it, it will still be occupied by the Jurchens sooner or later.

To control a place, there must be someone first, and if there is no one, how many years can it be occupied by the army alone?How can the court afford it?

Wang Yan couldn't help but glanced at Wang Fuzhi again, he somewhat understood that Wang Fuzhi and the officials of the court were not completely unconsidered.

Wang Yan squinted his eyes and pondered. Maybe they originally wanted to annex the fertile land in Shanxi and Hebei, and then drive those who lost their land out of the pass.

In this way, the rich clans and merchants made a lot of money, and Daming was able to regain control of the Liao land. It can be said that they killed two birds with one stone, but they did not care about the interests of the people.

People in Henan have houses to live in and fields to cultivate. If they are sent to other areas, everything will have to start all over again.

You Youlun is not wrong from the perspective of people's livelihood and Henan. It can be seen that he is a good and responsible official. Wang Fuzhi and others forced the tenants to relocate, which was beneficial to the grand strategy of the Ming Dynasty, but they could not benefit the gentry and merchants. accounted for, at the expense of the interests of ordinary people.

Wang Yan was silent for a while, sighed after a while, and still compromised with the evil forces, "Don't arrange them in Shanxi. After the imperial court takes over the pass, they all move to Liaodong. However, the imperial court must provide them with convenience, food and tax exemption. The policy should be formulated as soon as possible!"

Wang Fuzhi heaved a sigh of relief when he heard that, seeing that Wang Yan wasn't acting impulsively, he bowed quickly, expressing that he would handle it according to his request.

Wang Yan glanced at him angrily, and said angrily, "Don't be too complacent. If the people who moved there are cold or hungry, the Gu Wang will definitely investigate to the end. In addition, if the grain is exchanged for the land, the price of the land will be raised by the Gu. Go up to [-]%, and the extra money will be used for resettlement, so I can't make it easier for you!"

After moving to Tang and Lu, it didn't take long for Wang Yanqiankun to make his own decisions before he realized something was wrong.He was talking about you, not Wang Fuzhi, but the group of people behind him, and also the group of people behind Wang Yan.

This inspection made Wang Yan very helpless, and soon left the village and returned to Luoyang.

On the way, he asked Wang Fuzhi how much land the Hengyang Wang family had changed in Henan. Wang Fuzhi said an amount that made him vomit blood, a total of [-] hectares. This made Wang Yan rethink his position and the current politics of the Ming Dynasty along the way. pattern.

Before he knew it, Wang Yan returned to Luoyang Xingyuan, but just as he was leaning on the chair in the study, ready to take a nap for a while, a guard came to report that the envoy from the Qing Dynasty had arrived.

Fulin Xiaoer sent an envoy over, and Wang Yan had known for a long time that the front-line generals had his permission to release the Qing envoy.

The war has been entrusted for too long, and the matter in Beijing should be resolved.After hearing the report, Wang Yan decided to meet the Qing envoy, but he didn't want to negotiate with the Qing envoy, but directly issued an ultimatum.

With Wang Yan's permission, Feng Quan and Lu Gong, the old partners, slowly entered Luoyang from the east gate in a carriage under the supervision of more than a dozen Ming soldiers.

The two of them were ordered by Fulin to negotiate terms with the Ming Dynasty, expressing the Qing's willingness to return Beijing to the Ming Dynasty intact, and remove the title of emperor, and profess ministers to the Ming Dynasty, only hoping to establish a country in Liaodong.

For this mission, Lu Gong has no confidence at all. After fighting for more than 30 years, the two sides have formed a great deal. Although Lu Gong is pedantic, he judges others by himself. He can also know that the Ming Dynasty cannot let the Qing Dynasty go. .

Lu Gong in the carriage couldn't help sighing, but when he looked at Feng Quan in the carriage, there was no worry on his face, so he couldn't help asking: "Master Zhongtang, why are you not in a hurry at all?"

Feng Quan was like a bodhisattva, "What's the use of rushing to this point, let's talk about everything after seeing the King of Chu!"

The carriage stopped slowly in front of the shaft, the two raised the curtain and got out of the carriage, there were already Xingyuan officials waiting in front of the gate, leading them to the main hall.

Wang Yanduan was sitting on top of the main hall, surrounded by soldiers on both sides. When he saw the two people coming in, he frowned, and said in a cold voice, "Scholar Feng, you really did your best to die for the Manchu Qing! Tell me! You represent Fu Come on, what do you want to say?"

Feng Quan was a scholar of the Ming Dynasty. After he was sent to the Qing Dynasty, he could be said to be the chief assistant of the Qing court. He had been to Guangjing before, and Wang Yan was very familiar with him.

During this mission, Lu Gong thought that he would have to go through a lot of trouble before he could see Wang Yan. He never expected that Wang Yan would summon him as soon as he arrived in Luoyang. This gave him a glimmer of hope, thinking that Wang Yan also wanted to talk .

At that moment, he hurriedly took out the letter of credence from his sleeve and was about to speak, but Feng Quan at the side suddenly bowed down and cried loudly: "The sinful minister pays homage to His Highness, the sinful minister can't wait for His Highness to destroy the Manqing immediately and capture the captives alive. Man Qing speak!"

Lu Gong on the side was so startled that his eyes almost fell out, and Wang Yan in the hall was not ready for this.

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