Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Liu Tichun and Hao Yaoqi came to Zhu Youjian side by side:

"Your Majesty, fortunately not humiliated!"

The smell of blood on the two men was so strong that it almost became a substance, and mixed with the pungent smell of sulfur from gunpowder, it was almost nauseating.

The gentry along the way all lowered their heads, not daring to look at the two murderous gods.

Liu Tichun, an idiot, actually grinned at Li Shusheng when he passed by him.

The big man with bloody foam on his face and his big yellow teeth looked like a demon from hell.

"you you……"

Li Shusheng's expression changed drastically. Before he could finish his words, he let out a grunt in his throat and started to scream. He held his neck with both hands and fell down.

His face turned purple instantly.

Zhu Youjian raised his eyebrows, this guy...

Is this bitch scared to death?

Liu Tichun was also startled. He innocently took off his phoenix wing with two pheasant feathers on it, scratched his head, messed up his neatly combed hair, and said in his mouth:

"Your Majesty, don't do my business. I didn't touch him!"

Li Laiheng was holding back laughter behind the emperor, his body twitching.

Liu Tichun, Liu Tichun!

This guy, in His Majesty's words, you are saying, "You really don't have any respect for yourself." You have blood on your face, don't you know it?

Hao Yaoqi also rolled his eyes at Liu Tichun and subconsciously took a few steps to the side.

This is a fool, don’t play with him again...

……

Zhu Youjian glared at Liu Tichun and looked around at everyone with questioning eyes.

Fang Zhenghua stepped forward and whispered:

"Your Majesty, this guy was so frightened by General Liu that he was confused by phlegm. Do you want to wake him up?"

"Wake him up!"

Zhu Youjian nodded.

Although these bastards are very hateful, Zhu Youjian can't wait to peel off their skin!

But how to put it, at any time, agriculture and business are the two legs of the country.

Focusing on any one side is not good for the country!

For these gentry in Nanyang, Zhu Youjian's plan was just to scare the monkeys, force these people to hand over the land in their hands, and then lead them to develop into big businessmen and factory owners.

You may not agree with them, but you have to say that the vision of the gentry is indeed not comparable to that of small farmers.

Of course, the premise is that these people must be obedient!

Agriculture is the foundation of the country, the flesh and blood that supports the country, and business is the flowing blood!

The army is the backbone that supports a country's strength!

Indispensable!

When Fang Zhenghua saw the emperor's permission, he walked to Li Shusheng's side, grabbed Li Shusheng's collar with one hand, made him lean up, and slapped him twice with his hand.

After the beating, Li Shusheng's clenched teeth relaxed.

Fang Zhenghua reached out and pinched Li Shusheng's cheek, forcing him to open his mouth involuntarily.

Then he turned Li Shusheng's face to one side, Fang Zheng turned his palm into a fist and pressed hard on Li Shusheng's stomach.

"Wow, cough, bah!"

Li Shusheng spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm, took a few sharp breaths, and his eyes gradually regained their luster.

"Little one, thank you very much for saving your life, Your Majesty!"

Li Shusheng lay on the ground and kowtowed vigorously to thank him.

He clearly understood that his trachea had been blocked by phlegm just now.

My consciousness was clear and clear, but I just couldn't breathe, couldn't take a breath, and almost suffocated to death...

"Humph!"

In response to Li Shusheng's thanks, Zhu Youjian snorted coldly and said:

"I just want to ask you one question: how far is Dengzhou?"

In the Ming Dynasty, 110 households constituted one mile (village), which was the basis of the land register.

In the land register of Dengzhou obtained by Zhu Youjian, only 12 villages were left that paid taxes to the state!

At the beginning of Chongzhen's succession, there were still 37 li to pay taxes to the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Li Yongmao petitioned Chongzhen to turn the 37 tax-collecting villages into 12 on the grounds that his hometown suffered from military disasters, droughts, and locust plagues, and the people fled.

"Ugh!"

It seemed like he had died once, and Li Shusheng was a little uninterested.

Hearing this, he sighed:

"Dengzhou suffered severe disasters in the past few years, and many people fled to the mountains..."

Halfway through, Li Shusheng shook his head and smiled bitterly:

"Your Majesty, twelve miles is certainly more than that.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters, many people abandon the land, and..."

Li Shusheng glanced at the emperor and gritted his teeth:

"The gentry took the opportunity to rob the people's land in Dengzhou, and [-]% of it has gone into the hands of the mansion...

There are only 12 villages left that pay taxes to the government..."

Li Shusheng sighed in his heart.

That time, out of the 25 hidden villages, because it was the Li family who came forward to petition, my own family took 15 of them, and the taxes of the remaining eight villages were divided among the major families...

"Ha ha!"

Zhu Youjian sighed.

Dengzhou!

This is Dengzhou!

The largest basin in the world, it is only slightly smaller than the Guanzhong Plain among the ten major plains, the Nanyang Basin!

A great plain of nearly [-] square kilometers!

This is China’s traditional grain-producing area!

And Dengzhou is a scattered state directly belonging to Henan Province!

It’s Dengzhou, which occupies two-fifths of the Nanyang Basin!

(Dengzhou was directly affiliated with Henan Province at this time, and governed the three counties of Xinye, Neixiang, and Xichuan.)

Those who paid taxes to the imperial court were only a mere 12 miles away!

1320 households!

ridiculous!

Funny!

Zhu Youjian closed his eyes to prevent his tears from falling.

He is angry!

This is the good deed done by the special gentry!

Who swallowed the land?

Who swallowed up the population?

In a place like Nanyang Basin, which is surrounded by mountains, even if there is a war, at least half of the people will be able to flee into the mountains for refuge.

Because no matter where you are in Nanyang, the nearest mountain is within two hundred miles! (The Nanyang Basin is 263 kilometers long from east to west and 168 kilometers wide from north to south. Take the maximum value.)

What's more, around Nanyang Fucheng, there are nine solitary mountains - Zishan, Dushan, Pushan, Fengshan, etc.

Even outside Nanyang City, there is a mountainous area like Wollongong!

It can be said that there have always been military disasters. It is impossible to kill all the people in Nanyang!

however……

The land registered with the imperial court is gone!

People are gone!

……

Zhu Youjian opened his eyes, and the trace of guilt that he had just wiped out Peng Ershu's family had disappeared.

The emperor's face was ashen, and a cold voice sounded in Li Shusheng's ears:

"The number of refugees pouring into Nanyang has exceeded the 150 million mark, and the people need land to feed them."

Hearing this, Li Shusheng gritted his teeth:

"The younger one is willing to give half of his family property..."

family property?

Zhu Youjian was furious, stared at him and said coldly:

“What the refugees need is land!

Not food!

I’m not short of food either! "

Li Shusheng fell to his knees with a thud:

"Please spare your life, Your Majesty. Although I am the leader of the clan, I cannot decide the affairs within the clan with just one word!

Land has always been the lifeblood of the family. The family's land has no right to interfere with it!

The younger one is willing to donate all three thousand acres of his private land to His Majesty.

However, the land of the Li family cannot be taken out by the small ones!

Please have mercy, Your Majesty! "