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The common people were already extremely grateful to the imperial court for its sudden 180-degree U-turn, punishing corrupt officials, killing local tyrants and evil gentry, reducing rents and burdens, and canceling various additional factions.

, and now I see that the imperial court has tried its best to bring in a large amount of food from other places and distribute relief to the victims, refugees and hungry people. Although it is not much, it has made them all feel grateful.

Some people among the people deliberately publicized these sudden court measures, saying that these were all the efforts of Marshal Yu, the supervisor of the current court. When the people heard this, they were even more grateful to Xiaotian. Many people at home were

A portrait of Yu Xiaotian was enshrined. If he couldn't get a portrait, he wrote a name and enshrined Yu Xiaotian as a living god.

The people are actually very easy to be satisfied. As long as anyone treats them a little better, they will be grateful to you. As long as they can have food to eat and not starve to death, few people will rebel and do such stupid things.

Therefore, in less than two years, the chaos in the entire north was fundamentally reversed. One after another, the refugee armies were wiped out by the official army, and large numbers of refugees began to return to their hometowns and return to the land they had abandoned.

During this period, local governments confiscated a lot of land owned by corrupt officials and profiteers and evil gentry, turning it into ownerless official land. Yu Xiaotian also issued an order to local governments to temporarily convert these ownerless official lands into landowners.

Low land rents were leased to some landless people, or they were leased to soldiers who had been laid off, so that they could have a piece of land that belonged to them.

As long as there is land, there is hope for the Chinese people, and they are willing to be fixed on the land and work hard.

In particular, the implementation of the evolved version of the system of dividing land into acres, which was modified by Yu Xiaotian, has caused many landowners to lose the motivation to continue to annex land. Even if they annex more land, they will not be able to obtain more land as before.

On the contrary, if they have large profits, the taxes they have to pay will also increase because of the large amount of land they have.

Yu Xiaotian proposed a step-by-step method for collecting land taxes. The smaller the amount of land owned, the lower the proportion of grain taxes that need to be paid. On the contrary, whoever owns more land will pay more for each mu of land.

The higher the tax rate, some landlords who have annexed large amounts of land over several generations will be in trouble.

Although some large landowners are not worthy of having their homes confiscated and exterminated by Yu Xiaotian, and they can continue to be rich, they do own a large amount of land, and some even own thousands of acres of land. The grain taxes these people have to pay every year are simply huge.

It’s an astronomical figure, which is really frustrating for them.

It used to be that whoever had more land was the unlucky one, but now whoever has more land is unlucky, and whoever has more land has to pay more land tax, and the proportion is higher. And these big landowners have too much land, and they can't all farm it by themselves, so they can only use tenant farming.

It is for landless farmers to grow. After farmers pay the rent, they must leave enough food for their livelihood, so the rent cannot be too high, otherwise they will not be able to find tenants to rent crops.

However, the rent paid by the tenants, calculated according to the new tax system, was not enough to pay the imperial government. In this way, the more land there was, the more money would be lost. Who would be interested in continuing to annex land.

Of course, the landlords would not agree to such a system. Landowners from all over the country also made a fuss about it. They jointly complained to the court and even caused trouble in some places and gathered force to try to fight against the government.

Yu Xiaotian made a slight adjustment to this, slightly reducing the burden on some of the landowners who owned a lot of land. However, it was also carefully calculated. Even after the reduction, these landowners could only survive on renting.

It's just that it's still impossible to continue to make a fortune through renting.

In this way, the momentum of land annexation has been fundamentally and temporarily curbed. Owning a lot of land does not bring much benefit to the landlords. Who is willing to annex land!

Of course, like some small landowners who have been able to earn some land through careful calculation and frugality for generations, Yu Xiaotian's policy still provides protection. As long as their land amount does not exceed a certain amount, then they can still use it in their land.

If you get a good harvest from the land, you will not be charged a high land tax for planting more land.

In this way, a large number of rich farmers or small landowners who have accumulated some land through their own efforts will be protected, and they will not be able to overturn a whole boat of people with one stroke. Those who really suffered the biggest losses were those who had earlier annexed a large amount of land through plunder.

The wealthy gentry of the land and the powerful nobles and relatives.

When Yu Xiaotian was in Chongzhen for thirteen years, he really dealt cruelly to the Zhu family's relatives and relatives who were placed all over the country. These princes and relatives who were enfeoffed and placed all over the country were all extremely rich.

Oil and occupied a large amount of land. Over the past few hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, they, the royal relatives, obtained a large amount of land through enfeoffment, rewards and plundering all over the country.

But just because their surname is Zhu or they are related to the Zhu family, they have never taken any responsibility for the country, but they have occupied a lot of resources. Yu Xiaotian has long been unable to stand it. He was busy dealing with those local tyrants and evil gentry before.

, did not touch these royal relatives first, but now that he has stabilized the situation in the Central Plains, he finally thought of these royal relatives.

In the name of Chongzhen, Yu Xiaotian issued an order to the vassal kings and relatives of the emperor in various places, informing them that since they are also the royal family of the Ming Dynasty and relatives of the emperor, they should bear the responsibility for the Ming Dynasty and cannot be like before.

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Therefore, from now on, in addition to leaving 100 to 300 acres of land for each of them to avoid collecting land taxes according to their rank, the rest of the extra fields will also be charged the same as ordinary fields, but considering the

In view of the fact that they are relatives of the emperor, the proportion of land tax they receive is lower than normal. Even if they rent it out, they can still earn some difference in price, which can be regarded as special preferential treatment for them.

As soon as this imperial edict came out, the royal relatives from all over the country went crazy! They have been enjoying the highest treatment for more than two hundred years since they have been in the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, lying on the merit books of their ancestors.

On their heads? Now the world is really going to change. Now the Yu Jianguo in the court actually wants to pluck the hair from their bodies. Is this okay?

So the relatives of the emperor from all over the country immediately quit and wrote letters angrily to Yu Xiaotian, saying that this move was definitely not the original intention of the emperor, but Yu Xiaotian was using the emperor's name to make an edict. They would never agree. If Yu Xiaotian

If God doesn't take back his fate, then they will raise troops to the capital to conquer King Qin and overthrow Yu Xiaotian and so on.

Moreover, some local vassal kings also received support from some local officials and gentry. Not long after Li Zicheng was annihilated here, in the 13th year of Chongzhen's reign, Zhu Changxun, the lucky king of Luoyang, Henan Province, did something that Yu Xiaotian had been waiting for.

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After Yu Xiaotian issued the imperial edict to collect the land tax from the vassal king, the new magistrate of Luoyang personally came to Prince Fu's mansion to inform him that from now on, your tens of thousands of hectares of land would no longer be free of tax. In addition to leaving 500 acres of land, you can

In addition to enjoying the tax-free treatment, the rest of the extra acres must be paid!

Prince Fu Zhu Changxun was furious when he heard this. He ordered the palace's servants and guards to beat the Luoyang magistrate on the spot, stripped off the Luoyang magistrate's official robe, knocked off his official hat, and threw him directly into the street.

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They were humiliated and uttered arrogant words. This world belongs to their Zhu family. There is no reason for the descendants of the Zhu family to pay taxes. If anyone dares to come and collect the land taxes from Prince Fu's Mansion, no one will be able to do it.

Rao.

The prefect of Luoyang was humiliated, so when he returned to the government office, he immediately went to the imperial court and reported the matter to Yu Xiaotian, who was overjoyed when he heard it.

Due to transportation problems, food is being brought in slowly in Henan. All the governments in Henan have been complaining about the difficulty in providing relief to the local hungry people. Moreover, Henan has suffered from military disasters for so many years, and the finances of all governments are very tight. Although Yu Xiaotian has allocated money to Henan

There are a lot of relief funds, but the food problem and funds have never been fundamentally solved.

And who in the world doesn’t know that Prince Fu’s Mansion is as rich as the country? This Prince Fu is the son of Emperor Wanli of Ming Shenzong, and is a brother of Emperor Wanli of Ming Dynasty. He has been favored by Emperor Wanli since he was a child and wanted to make him the crown prince many times, which caused the country’s internal turmoil.

Fortunately, the ministers persisted and Guangzong was not deposed.

Because Wanli loved Zhu Changxun, he later named him Prince Fu and granted him vassal status in Luoyang. However, Zhu Changxun lived in the capital and refused to go to Luoyang to join the vassal state. Later, he was forced by ministers to go to Luoyang to join the vassal state.

Wanli gave King Fu 20,000 hectares of land. It is said that the local land in Luoyang was not enough for King Fu. Later, he had to give him official land from other prefectures. As a result, King Fu’s fields were spread throughout Henan, and even Shanxi had his title.

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Moreover, King Fu was very greedy, and even after the vassal, he still felt that it was not enough, so he expropriated and annexed land in Luoyang. It is said that his family's wealth was as rich as that of the country.

This guy is greedy and stingy to death. In the history of another time and space, Li Zicheng attacked Luoyang. The Luoyang defenders had to pay whether they had food or not. The officials who defended the city knew that there was a lot of money and grain stored in Prince Fu's palace, so they came to ask for help.

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Wang came out with some money and food for emergencies, but Zhu Changxun was still penniless at that time and refused to provide money and food no matter what. As a result, the Luoyang defenders were distracted and resentful, and refused to work hard, which led to Luoyang being captured by Li Zicheng.

In the end, King Fu, a fat man, didn't get any benefits either. He was stripped naked and washed by Li Zicheng. He also killed a few deer and found an oversized iron pot. He cooked the deer and the men, and distributed the meat to the soldiers to eat.

It is jokingly called the Fulu Banquet!

Yu Xiaotian has been plotting against this guy for a long time, but because he is still wearing the Ming Dynasty's vest, it is not convenient to deal with this guy, so he has not touched this guy since he took over.

Now this guy is so arrogant that he beat up all the Luoyang magistrates he sent to him. He also stripped off the magistrate's official robes and knocked off his official hat. Whether this matter is big or small, it depends on the big deal.

Tell everyone, if he behaves like this, he is treason, and he dares to attack an official of the imperial court. Is this okay?

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