Emperor Ming Dynasty

From usury, Zhu Yixi suddenly woke up.

The high private lending is actually a fuel for land mergers.

The interest rate, from the house to the land, and then to the individual, gradually spread, and the disease spread, and it sucked the ordinary farmers to the bone and sucked them clean.

Restricting usury is tantamount to curbing land mergers.

Wait, high land rent is also a mountain that oppresses the people, and it is the biggest one.

As the saying goes, the government forces the people to rebel. In fact, in feudal society, the government did not go to the countryside, and the governance of the people relied on the gentry.

The imperial court raised taxes on them, and they passed the taxes on to the tenants, and even reaped benefits from it, which led to the occurrence of official rebellion.

The pot is borne by the imperial court, the county magistrates, subordinate officials, gentry and landlord class benefited, and ordinary people suffered.

"By the way, how come the double reduction policy of rent reduction and interest rate reduction is so familiar?"

Emperor Zhu thought about it in every possible way, and finally found it from his distant memory. This is the united front strategy during the Anti-Japanese War, uniting all forces that can be united.

And this kind of compromise is just right for his feudal court!

"I don't dare to divide the land evenly, but I can give it a try by reducing rent and interest."

Zhu Yixi nodded secretly, and suddenly a tinge of fire surged in her heart.

Undoubtedly, the reason why the new Ming Dynasty he established was able to unify the world in just a few years, the greatest contribution is the issue of the united front:

Expel Jiannu and restore Daming.

Therefore, after the South took Nanjing, it was pacified in an instant, and after the North occupied Beijing, the prefectures and counties surrendered.

The foundation of the entire imperial court was the owner-peasants and landlords and gentry.

If it is practiced that the tiller will have his land, then the foundation of the building will be firmly established, and the gentry will be able to support another clan in a blink of an eye.

At the same time, the army will also abandon him, because the land of the army is based on wasteland, if it is redistributed, wouldn't it be plundering them?
What's more, the people were exhausted to fight the war, not because Zhu Yixi was handsome and belonged to the clan or something, but purely because he could divide the land and distribute money.

And the land, on top of rewards, allows the Beijing camp to maintain a strong combat capability.

So, as Mr. Lu Xun said, if you can’t lift the roof, open the windows!

Of course, it’s not that Zhu Yixi didn’t think about learning from the Sui and Tang Dynasties and creating a shrunk version of the land equalization system.

But when he thought about it again, he had already failed once before, and if he did it again, he would be courting death.

This is a society ruled by people, as long as people are people, they can take advantage of loopholes, and there is no law that cannot be broken.

It is well said in the history books that the foundation of the law is not to guarantee any fairness and freedom, but to safeguard the interests of the ruling class.

Therefore, to measure the birth of a country, one of the important signs is the prison.

Far away, anyway, in this feudal era, talking about democracy, freedom, rule of law, human rights, etc. is so out of date, it can only be acclimatized and self-explode.

If he came here through time travel, if he didn't want to be an emperor, but insisted on being a president, then wouldn't he just time travel in vain?

"Reducing rent and interest rates must be done."

The emperor touched the short beard on his chin, and his mind returned to this policy:
"This is like the rent restriction in later generations. The people at the bottom of the profit will be able to take a breather. They can save more food in good years, and they can survive for a few more months in bad years."

"The people who are more resistant to stress, the less likely they are to rebel."

"Do it, you have to do it—"

There is no doubt that this is a good policy, but it is also a difficult policy. Although it is not as deadly as dividing the land, it is also like cutting flesh.

Although most of the gentry are scholars, it is common to be strict with others and neglect self-discipline, and there are too few words and deeds.

Therefore, he must have a reliable bureaucratic system in order to continue to promote this policy, otherwise it will be superficial and have a good reputation.

But before that, you have to understand the knowledge of Xiatian rent, and it is too one-sided to directly reduce rent and interest.

"Announce Zhang Qi to enter the palace."

The emperor gave an order, and the minister in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs ran away.

Zhang Qi came here in a hurry, but the emperor looked calm, and he couldn't figure it out for a while.

"Folk tenants, do you know the details?"

The sudden sentence really stunned Zhang Qiwen.

Your Majesty is a commoner, how could he not understand this?
By the way, he was born in the clan. He has been staying in Xi'an City, and he has never pulled weeds in the fields. Naturally, he doesn't understand.

Zhang Qi patted his sleeves: "Reporting to the Holy Majesty, the old minister also has a few acres of Susukida in his home, so I know a thing or two."

How many acres of Susukida?Tens of thousands of acres!
Zhu Yixi was too lazy to find fault and just listened.

Zhang Qi didn't dare to hide it, so he came out in every possible way.

Land rent is divided into three types. One is labor rent, which is free for the landlord to work for a period of time;

The third type is money and rent, which are widely distributed in the south of the Yangtze River, because it is difficult for people to grow cash crops such as cotton to get food.

For example, during the Jiajing and Longqing periods, Xu Jie’s family owned more than 2400 hectares of land, and only Huating County collected about 10,000 taels of rent each year.

There are all kinds of other extortion methods, such as rent deposit (deposit), land approval money (deposit), pre-rent (pay rent in advance, such as annual payment, half-year payment), small rent (extra extortion of fruits and vegetables, weddings and funerals, etc.)...

In addition, the tenants were personally attached to the landlord and served as handymen, etc., and there were countless bullying and persecution.

"Okay!" After half an hour passed, Zhu Yixi's expression turned ugly.

As the spokesperson of the landlord class, he feels ashamed, what the hell is this?

Reform must be done step by step.

"Go down!" The emperor waved his hand: "Don't talk nonsense when you go back."

Good guy, the rent reduction and interest rate reduction are really one-sided.

The key to the rural predicament lies in personal attachment.

As long as the landlord and tenant are disassembled into the relationship between landlord and tenant in later generations, it will be a great success.

There is a long way to go!
Thinking like this, Zhu Yixi asked someone to get a fine brush and started writing on the paper.

People who can be used: Enlightened gentry, young scholars, petty officials who have just entered the officialdom, and officials in the officialdom.

Opponents: the huge gentry class, and the low-level officials affected...

After thinking about it, Zhu Yixi blotted out the word "opponent" and wrote the word "obstructor".

Because this is an internal contradiction of the landlord class, not a life-and-death struggle.

What's more, these people have to applaud on the surface, but secretly obstruct it.

After looking at it, Emperor Zhu added another line of words behind this pedestrian: officials who do nothing in the officialdom and follow the crowd.

Obstructors have two advantages, one is public opinion, and the other is officialdom.

"In terms of public opinion, I must have the upper hand in Shilin. This is relying on righteousness to suppress people."

Zhu Yixi put down his pen and thought about it: "As for the people, there are bulletins in the cities that can influence the citizens, but they do little to help the countryside, and the gentry in the countryside are in the hands of the gentry."

"As long as they pretend to be deaf and dumb, as if this incident didn't happen, the tenants will naturally lie down and dare not resist for the sake of their future livelihood."

Suddenly, Zhu Yixi wrote down the word "resistance", with thick ink and heavy strokes: "You have to master the fire."

"Don't cause public outrage and set my dragon chair on fire."

There are many hidden forces among the people, careerists, clans, White Lotus Sect and other rebels, if they use Dashi, it will be troublesome.