The Ming Dynasty started with caution

When the people heard about the recruitment of force soldiers, they had the mentality of giving it a try.

From the Yamen, I went to Niutuo Town to have a look.

Although they know there is hot soup here, no one will bathe themselves. After all, if you bathe after bathing, you will feel hungry.

"Sir, have all the people filing lawsuits outside left?" the yamen servant reported.

Li Chao opened his eyes from his drowsiness. In the government hall, the couple who had been so noisy just now were nowhere to be seen.

The people lining up outside the government office, waiting to complain, also disappeared out of thin air.

"Where are the people?"

Li Chao muttered to himself.

The yamen servant next to him hurriedly came closer, with a slight smile on his face: "Some people came to recruit servants just now. They all left after eight points of silver in one day."

Li Chao rinsed his mouth with a vine stick and brushed his teeth. He spat out the water and choked several times.

"Is Tangchi here to recruit?"

"Yes, sir, now the common people don't come to make trouble anymore, it's great that the world is at peace!" The county magistrate, wearing a brown robe with wide sleeves, stood beside him with a smile.

"What a fart!"

Li Chao was so frightened that he dropped his porcelain bowl. Could it be that the new emperor wanted to build a Huaqing Palace in Gu'an?

If the emperor is addicted to wine and sex, then he will be a sinner through the ages if he brings Zhu Houzhao to him.

Thinking of this, Li Chao felt that he had lured a wolf into the house.

The county magistrate looked at Li Chao in surprise, as if he wanted to confirm whether Mr. Li was sick. At this time, a young eunuch and two royal guards walked in from the door.

"Master Li accepts the order!"

Li Chao was an official, and his speech was as elegant and easy-going as a scholar. He knelt down with a solemn face and said, "Your Majesty, Li Chao, accept the order."

"The Emperor of Heaven has ordered me to take a dip in the hot spring pool. I feel happy and comfortable. The county yamen should also move to the hot spring pool. I appreciate this."

Is this an imperial edict?

Li Chao raised his head and blinked: "No more?"

Little eunuch: "No more."

The county magistrate and government officials secretly complained that this was the first time they had received such an uneducated imperial edict.

The little eunuch looked at them as if they were fools: "This is the imperial edict in vernacular."

The cold wind blew slowly, and Li Chao felt heavy after receiving the imperial edict, and couldn't help but go to the soup pool to have a look.

Different from the previous days, there are two huge stones standing in the Tangchi, with big red letters on them:

Gu'an Tangchi is the best in the world!

Signed by Zhu Houzhao.

It is very prudent for the emperor to give calligraphy treasures.

But on the big rocks at the back, the characters Zhu Youtang, Li Dongyang, Jiang Mian, Zhang Sheng and others were seen in succession, like flower baskets celebrating the opening.

The flesh on Li Chao's face trembled, "May I ask the new emperor, when will the Supreme Emperor come to write the inscription? Why don't you know?"

"That's what they think."

"..." Li Chao.

Anyway, he can't be blamed for using the name of the Supreme Emperor and the princes.

Sighing softly, Li Chao took a few steps forward and realized something. Suddenly, he saw the force servants carrying the yamen's official cases and grievance drums to the soup pool.

…

Fengtian Temple,

The Supreme Emperor Hongzhi held a porcelain bowl and put a handful of pickled cabbage on it, "How is the matter in Gu'an?"

"The new emperor has written an inscription for you and the princes. Now that the rural road has not been built, many gentry are going to bathe. I heard that they are recruiting laborers and will be given eight cents of silver a day."

The Supreme Emperor Hongzhi paused slightly.

Yan Chengjin asked how he was enjoying the bath, and he guessed that he could write inscriptions, but this method could not alleviate the people's poverty, and the fields in Gu'an had to be given up.

After spooning two mouthfuls of porridge, he went to Fengtian Hall to attend court.

"Why does Yan Qing's family want to sell hot soup to relieve their poverty? Is it possible that the fertile land for thousands of miles has to be left idle?"

Yan Chengjin said meaningfully, which made the Supreme Emperor Hongzhi feel a little embarrassed.

"I am still investigating this matter, and perhaps it cannot be resolved."

It will take some time for him to involve tenants all over the world, and he may not be able to come up with a solution.

The Supreme Emperor Hongzhi thought about it and heard that there was a deeper meaning to this matter. As usual, he fell into deep thought.

Jiang Mian turned to look at Yan Chengjin in surprise, without saying anything more.

"Brother Bin, your son-in-law is going to make trouble again." Jiang Mian whispered.

The Supreme Emperor Hongzhi looked at Jiang Mian almost immediately, "What do you mean by Jiang Qing's family?"

"Is this...for Mr. Yan, or for me?"

Yan Chengjin pondered for a moment and said: "The tenants' fields are rented from the landlords. In times of disaster, relief money will be distributed to the landlords. The more disasters there are, the richer the landlords will be."

The landowners were the gentry.

During disaster years, they can receive two amounts of money, one is the rent paid by the tenants, and the other is the relief money issued by the court.

The Supreme Emperor Hongzhi remained motionless, which was a sign that he was listening very seriously.

"Opening a soup pool leaves thousands of miles of fertile fields idle. For this reason, tenants cannot receive money during disaster years."

Li Dongyang said: "During the reign of Emperor Yingzong, the court issued a law that the rent could only be 30% of the price of the land. But when the gentry saw this, they stopped renting."

The imperial court had policies, and the gentry also had countermeasures.

If you limit the rent, I won’t rent it out. In the end, it’s the tenants who will suffer.

Therefore, this law was soon abolished.

Yan Chengjin said there was no way to solve it. Here, although the rent could be stipulated by law, what could you do if the gentry stopped renting.

Just like in the previous life, the rental policy for a certain egg...

The previous new policy of paying a premium was targeted at farmers.

But farmers and tenants are different.

Farmers have land, but tenants do not have land and rely on renting land from the gentry.

Many people in the world are tenant farmers.

I returned to the Metropolitan Procuratorate and looked at the laws over the years. As Li Dongyang said, during the reign of Emperor Yingzong, tenants' rented fields had been controlled.

But these landlords, while raising rents, also provided usurious loans to tenants.

A leek, cut twice at the same time.

He is the originator of cutting leeks.

After staying up until midnight, I walked out of the Meridian Gate. Although it was only November, the evening wind still made people feel chilly.

"My lord...my lord!"

A crying sound broke the calm.

Yan Chengjin lifted the curtain slightly and saw a dozen gentry kneeling in front of the sedan, holding banknotes in their hands.

He Neng ran over with a smile and reported: "Master, they said they are Shanxi merchants and want to give money."

"Sir...please don't embarrass us."

Hu Changyue was the first to speak. Yan Chengjin had reduced the Anhui merchants in Jiangnan to ruins. He heard a few days ago that it was their turn now and was so frightened that he came from Shanxi.

"How many of you are Shanxi merchants?"

"Sir, we received the news first."

"You have contributed to the taxation. The Gu'an matter is not to punish you. You are too worried."

Yan Chengjin was thinking, should we engage these Shanxi merchants first, or should Shanxi merchants gather together to do it together?

Shanxi merchants must be weakened and disintegrated.

The court could not allow businessmen to gather too much money. Once they monopolized it, they would completely control the economy.

In the last life, it was said that ***...

Cixi also borrowed money from Shanxi merchants. It can be seen that the Shanxi merchants should be the most wary of the three major business gangs.

I went back to the study and thought about it all night.

The three major merchant gangs each have their own characteristics. Shanxi merchants are enclosures and occupy a large area.

The next day, Yan Chengjin went to Dongnuan Pavilion.

"I have thought of a way."

"you say."

"The new law stipulates that the rent for land leased by gentry shall not exceed 20%.

If the land exceeds 500 acres, an additional 10% tax will be charged for each additional 500 acres.

If the property is leased to tenants, no tax will be levied. If the property is violated, all property will be confiscated. "

There are many loopholes in the Ming Law.

But establishing a new law is very simple for the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

"Then you write the imperial edict and I will stamp it." Zhu Houzhao said happily.

Lao Gao wants to engage Shanxi merchants. Shanxi merchants are the gentry who own the most land. Not many people want to complain, which is interesting when you think about it.

"To send the Buddha to the West, the imperial edict should be written by the new emperor."

"But I gave you a salary."

Yan Chengjin took out the one hundred and fifty taels of silver he had just received and said, "I'll give it back to you."

"..." Zhu Houzhao.