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Chapter 71: Extermination from the People

Yang Feng still trusts Li Shoujiao very much, after all, the two of them have shared hardships.

Of course, the most important thing is that he has no roots.

Unlike other subordinates, he had to worry about this and that. He had nothing to worry about. His family is Ganzhou, Shaanxi, so what else can he think about now? From this point of view, he, like those gangsters, was rootless duckweed. Everything about them was built on the emperor's pond water. Without the emperor, there would be nothing about them. They had no other choice except loyalty to the emperor. Such a person is truly worthy of trusting, and such a person is Yang Feng's true confidant.

Sometimes you have to open your heart a little bit about your confidant.

This is a kind of respect.

In fact, after understanding the emperor's true intentions, Li Shoufu then completely played his role as a traitor in the misleading state. With the infamy that was comparable to Wei Zhongxian, he led the Jinyiwei who was specially allocated to him by the emperor and began to fight against the local tyrants with cruel means. All the gentry of Zunhua, without exception, retained thirty acres of land each based on the population of his family, and all the extra land piles were used to calculate the imperial field. As for the tenants who originally rented these lands, they would plant them in the future, but they would not give the rent to the original landlords, but to the emperor. The emperor is your landlord, and you all planted the imperial field, but the emperor's wise will not exploit it like those landlords. Your future rent will be 10% if you hear it clearly, and you will have to pay another land tax.

The tenants are certainly happy now.

They don’t care who is the landlord? They know that the golden cakes are hit on their heads. Not to mention 10% of the rent, even less than 50% of the rent can be cheered for them. As for the land tax, the land tax in the Ming Dynasty was actually very low, and most places were hovering around 5%. The hunger and cold relationship between the people actually had nothing to do with land tax. What really forced them to the dead end were actually those tycoons and miscellaneous taxes, and the land rent that absolutely accounted for the largest proportion.

But all the gentry went crazy like this, and they were killed. The gentry in Zunhua took action without hesitation, organized slaves to resist, ran to the yamen to cause trouble, and even went to Jizhou to lead the king's army to save them.

Of course, this is impossible.

The king's army did not have it, only those Jinyiwei who searched his house like a wolf or a tiger.

And not only that, the next Hebei East Travel carried out a series of reforms in the control area.

The cap tax was completely abolished and incorporated into the land tax. That is, Yongzheng's stall was divided into a mu, and all the official land rents were 10% 10%. The Ming Dynasty had always had a large amount of official land, and many places even accounted for more than half of the official land rent. The official land rent was actually very heavy, but now the emperor was entitled to 10% , but the renters still needed to pay the land tax, and the land rent was given to the emperor, and the land tax was given to the government. As for private land only paying land tax, of course, how much rent the private land owner collects from the tenants is your own business.

Fire consumption is cancelled.

This is the most ruthless of taxes, because it has no standards.

Just like an ancient official looked at the food he brought from his carts and smiled and said that the big rats and sparrows were all determined by the officials' moral integrity.

Yongzheng played with fire consumption and then added the official to raise the silver for maintenance. To put it bluntly, local officials collected the fire consumption themselves, and changed it to him to collect it, and then subsidized it to officials according to the standards, but the specific operation was still the officials, and in the end they still had a lot of ways to drill holes. Yang Feng simply canceled the fire consumption directly. As long as there was this thing, the officials would have their own magic weapon to increase taxes. Therefore, this cancellation, as for the salaries of officials of the officials, the salaries of the Ming Dynasty were indeed a bit too low, and the salary was no longer calculated by those messy things, and it was directly calculated by silver.

The farmers' other miscellaneous taxes were cancelled, and they all received nothing else in the mess, and they just collected land taxes.

In fact, because Yang Feng had exempted a lot of land taxes from the charity people before, he couldn't even collect much of this. He was originally going to transition to not collecting agricultural taxes, but all commercial taxes were standardized, especially those tax-free before, including all tax-free taxes, whether gentry or officials, royal family or nobles, as long as there is land or industry, they will send them to others. Well, as long as the land and business names are above whoever they are above, they will pay taxes to me, and I am not afraid that you will send them to the vassal kings. What else can I do? It doesn't matter, there is a large area of ​​official land waiting for you to rent and plant, and only 10% of the land rent is available. Anyway, you pay the land tax to the landlord, and you pay the legal land tax to plant the official land.

How low is the landlord’s rent collection?

This series of reforms touched the interests of the gentry. Although the poll tax and heavy taxes were gone, they also benefited from it in theory, the question is when did they pay it before? There were officials and juren at home who were originally willing to enjoy various tax incentives and even tax exemptions. Even those who did not have these privileges would send their land to those with these privileges, or force the tenants who rented the land to them. When did they really pay such things themselves? The real tax subjects in the Ming Dynasty were ordinary people who were incapable.

But now, no one has the privilege of taxation.

In this way, ordinary people have not lost anything, but the gentry has lost too much.

With the implementation of these systems, not only Zunhua, but also in other parts of Yongping, gentry trouble began to occur. Last time, the emperor canceled the privileges of gentry and they endured it. After all, many of them also provided a large amount of food to the emperor. Afterwards, the emperor fulfilled his promise to return the silver worth ten times the value, and gave it to the Jinyiwei World. But this time they were really unbearable. They did not want to collect taxes, but the land rent of the official land.

Who rents the official land for 10% of the land? Who rents the private land for 50% of the land?

Isn't this killing them?

Could it be that they would also reduce their rent? It’s just a joke. Who doesn’t know that their land rent is several times the land tax? It’s a nonsense to pay that little land tax, and then they will come out after adding half a percent of the rent. However, 10% of the land rent in the official field directly smashed them back with one stick. It can be imagined that a large number of tenants will definitely withdraw their tenants and then turn to rent and plant official fields. They don’t want their land to be barren, so they can only choose to reduce their rent, which is something they absolutely cannot bear, but they can’t say anything. The owner of the official field is the emperor, and it is his own business to collect how much the emperor is willing to collect, so they can only make a fuss about the traitor’s disaster to the country.

The entire Jidong immediately cursed Li Yutian.

Even when he went out, he was secretly shooting arrows at him.

There were also those who provoked a strike and went out on the streets with the tablet of the late emperor.

But all this is in vain.

Because the emperor quickly transferred Tian Jianxiu, an old bandit with rich experience in fighting the local tyrants and his subordinates. The elite soldiers of the three thousand Dashun Army, who were murderous intent, drove into Jidong in Jinyiwei uniforms. Those who dared to make trouble were rattan cards and whistle sticks to serve them, and those who dared to rebel drove over and crushed them. The elite soldiers of the three thousand Shun Army, and the iron cavalry of the Jinyiwei, were not enough, and those who had been full of heavy armor and killed countless Tartars with the emperor, were ready to flatten any landlord manor at any time under the leadership of the commander Liang Cheng of the commander.

If not enough, there will be a new army of untouchables.

During this period, the number of untouchables reached the north has exceeded 150,000. Wang Chengen and Zheng Chenggong selected five thousand young and middle-aged people from it to form a new army, and all of them were firearmed. However, the bandit guns had not been produced many, and now they can only use old-fashioned bird guns. Except for the emperor's orders, they did not listen to anyone at all, and they would not care about other messy things. They were all untouchables. The emperor gave them everything. The emperor was their god. These people would not hesitate even if the emperor ordered them to kill all the living people in Jidong.

The bandits, the Jinyiwei, and the Untouchables smashed down three iron fists, which soon made the gentry of Jidong know what an arm can't twist its thigh.

Of course, the emperor completely cut off himself from the people.

Just as the news of Yang Feng swinging a big stick at the gentry spread, Dorgon in Beijing smiled. He now found that the dog emperor always gave him a big gift when he needed it the most. The more he tossed the dog emperor, the more dazzling the lord behind him, and the more attractive the Qing Dynasty's signs were in the eyes of the gentry. Now the officials of the previous dynasty and the gentry in Zhili in Beijing have completely classified the dog emperor as the ranks of monsters. Yan Shenggong even gave him a memorial that the mountains, rivers, sun and moon shine, and the country's destiny and the universe are together. It is truly a prosperous era of the eight desolate sings, which makes Dorgon a little shy.

Originally, he was still worried about whether he should go back outside the pass. After all, in this situation, Zhongyuan is not so easy to occupy. In fact, if the dog emperor came back and took the Ming army in Jidong to counterattack, he would have been ready to leave.

But now I see that I can’t leave!

It’s the prosperous era of all the Eight Desolations, how could he leave?

Of course, the main reason is that he is reluctant to let go of this world of flowers in Beijing, the magnificent imperial city of Forbidden City, the life of beautiful women, who can let go of it? Not to mention him, even the generals and soldiers under him are reluctant to let go of it. Compared with this, is Shenyang a life like a human being? What's more, the territory of the Qing Dynasty is still increasing day by day, and every day one prefecture after another is constantly pouring into the embrace of the Qing Dynasty. In just a few months, the Qing Dynasty's territory was almost at the Yellow River.

How did he leave this?

Isn't this his dream? It can be said that everything he dreamed of is being realized quickly. In this case, he wants to abandon all this and return to the broken place outside the pass. He really wants to shout:
Chapter completed!
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