General Constitution of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 178

"They're all gone, who is farming..." Rich Man Wu's lips turned livid.

Until a gray-faced young man dressed as a long-term worker behind him glanced at these tenants enviously.

Rich Man Wu's complexion suddenly sank.

"What do you think?! You are the master, I bought it back! Master, I have your contract of sale, and you sold it to my Wu family for five years!"

The light in the young man's eyes disappeared instantly.

Rich Man Wu's expression became more and more serious.

It's just that those tenants who used to be submissive no longer have the obedience of the past.

It's just that rich man Wu is going crazy at his own house.

After throwing down the hoe, he turned his head and left Wu's house.

After an unknown amount of time, rich man Wu suddenly got up from the ground.

"How many people are left in our family?"

The young man bowed his head and said, "They're all gone, only the eight of us signed the contract of sale."

"Go to the city quickly! If you see any prostitutes, buy them all back! It doesn't matter how much money you have! No matter whether you are a man or a woman, as long as you can work."

Rich Man Wu was stunned for a while.

"I can't afford it... Yes, it's so troublesome to buy... It's something to bring, let's go out and grab some back first."

The autumn harvest has just ended, and after a while, it will be time to plow and plant wheat.

With such a big change at this juncture, if the [-] acres are left uncultivated this year, that would be the real big deal.

"Take the guy! Bring all the animals in the village, and grab the ones who are alone before you talk. Our Ming Dynasty is based on agriculture. Whoever misses the imperial court's farming time will be a sinner of Daming!"

"Inform me, whether it is the tenants who have signed the deed of sale or the tenants left behind, they will all go out with me to snatch them, for His Majesty's imperial food, for the peace of the world!"

Up to this time, this old and new party and government was born above the court.

The so-called old and new methods.

Finally faded those high-sounding rhetoric.

The old law centered on the core interests of landlords will directly collide with the new law centered on the release of labor.

Qiu Geng was locked on the heads of all the landlords in Xishan like a magic spell.

The landlords in Xishan seemed to be crazy. By noon the next day, many landlords appeared on the streets to arrest people.

Ning Jue pressed too hard.

The landlords who were caught in the confinement had no time to figure out whether it was worthwhile to go through such a toss.

They just want to quickly find someone to sow the wheat seeds.

Rich man Wu sat on the bullock cart, squatted for less than a moment on the only way to enter the county, and then jumped out of the bushes.

"Take this family and bring them back to the village first!"

"Here!"

The tenant who was held down said angrily with a look of astonishment: "The county is less than forty miles away, you dare to rob the official road, are you not afraid of the court's blame?!"

Rich Man Wu stared at the tenant in front of him with scarlet eyes and said angrily, "My lord, I only know that Emperor Gao, the great ancestor, had an ancestral precept that those who missed the time of farming would be cut off! I can't just watch my family's so many fields go barren for one season!"

"Take it!"

Several long-term workers rushed forward, but before everyone left, a slightly familiar voice came from behind.

"Master Wu is so famous."

When rich man Wu turned his head, he realized that Ning Jue was riding a horse and leading a team of horses staring at him not far away.

"Which law of the Ming Dynasty said that if the landlord's land can't be planted, he can arrest people in the street?"

The desperate Wu rich man couldn't bear it anymore.

"Ning Kezhong! I *you*!"

"Are you really going to force the gentry of Xishan to a dead end?!"

However, Ning Jue didn't pay attention to rich man Wu at all, instead he looked at the tenant.

"Do you want to go to the city or go back to the village with him? Say it boldly, and I'll make the decision for you."

The tenant picked up his bag almost without hesitation and stood behind Ning Jue.

"Qian Xian, it's not impossible to farm, but... this master looks like he's going crazy, he can't..."

"You're presumptuous!" Rich Man Wu stared at the tenant furiously and winked, then two long-term workers stepped forward and pushed the tenant down to the ground.

The tenant immediately panicked and struggled on the ground, but he couldn't break free from the shackles of the two long-term workers.

"What do you want to do?" Ning Jue looked at the rich man Wu quietly.

"Ning Kezhong! This place is less than ten miles away from my Houbang Village! This is Lao Tzu's land!"

"I will give you time to call someone."

"Okay, okay, you wait, you wait!"

Rich man Wu stepped forward to hold down the tenant and then kicked a long-term worker on the ass.

"Go and call all the masters from the neighboring villages, and let the big guys judge!"

"Here!"

These landlords not only dared to arrest people in the street, but they didn't even feel that they had done anything wrong from the beginning to the end.

Because all dynasties have come here like this, the sky is big and the earth is big, and the farming season is the biggest.

For the sake of farming time, even the king of heaven, Lao Tzu, has to act arbitrarily.

Not long after, the disgraced landlords who were already busy in the surrounding villages all gathered with their servants.

Seeing someone coming, rich man Wu immediately regained his spirits.

"Ning Kezhong! You saw it! Look at how much you have tormented our folks in Xishan?!"

The landlords behind rich man Wu also rushed towards Ning Jue with guns and sticks.

"You guys are messing around! Don't you, Ning, be afraid of being blamed by the emperor?! That is to say, the prince is still young and messing around with you. Others don't know, but I know! When your majesty leaves the customs, it's the time of your death! "

Hearing the yelling from these landlords, Ning Jue rode up to rich man Wu and said, "Why are you talking so much nonsense, just tell me whether you want to let him go or not."

"I won't let you go!"

Before Rich Man Wu finished speaking, Ning Jue had already pulled out the Yanling Saber from his waist, raised the knife in his hand and inserted it into Rich Man Wu's chest.

Until the moment when he was poured into a pool of blood, the rich man Wu's face was full of disbelief, and even the landlords who had just arrived were shocked by the scene in front of them.

"Ning Jue! Guochao carefully kills, who gave you the power to kill?!"

The surrounding landlords immediately surrounded Ning Jue and his party.

Ning Jue wiped the blood from his hands on the horse's back, and said loudly, "I've heard everything!"

"It is a national policy to benefit the imperial court and benefit you. If it cannot be carried out, I will have to kill it."

Ning Jue paused, and continued: "Xishan County has six gates. Wu Dongshun hangs in Xiguan, and there are five gates left in Xishan. Please be careful, gentlemen."

"You...you are bold! There are more than six gentry in Xishan, you can still..."

Before the landlord finished speaking, Ning Jue interrupted himself: "When the first round is full, I will hang the second round. If you want to try, you can continue to rob the tenants."

"Drag this Wu Dongshun back."

"Here!"

Ning Jue's eyes immediately fell on the tenant who was pushed down by rich man Wu just now.

"I dare not say anything else. In Xishan County, if you want to farm, you can farm. If you want to go to the city to beg for work, you can go to the city to beg for work. No one dares to touch you."

Even so, the tenant was still stunned by the few landlords behind him.

"Go forward boldly, let me see who dares to move."

Ning Jue glanced around at those landlords, but the hairs on all the landlords stood on end.

As rich man Wu's body was hung up in Xiguan, what happened in Xishan also spread to the surrounding Suzhou, Songjiang, Yingtian and other prefectures as if they had grown legs.

The gentry, big and small, have already reached the point of "changing face after talking about it".

As a result, in the surrounding provinces, the value of all tenants who are willing to sign the deed of sale will rise accordingly.

All this has little to do with the diding silver of those few taels of silver.

If this continues, the poor tenants will really be worshiped as Buddhas.

There is no original 30-year Ming-Qing Dingge and 70-year anti-Qing Fuming boiled frogs.

These gentry are like frogs that were suddenly thrown into boiling water.

But all the gentry who heard about it began to make preparations to stand up.
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As Zhu Zaiyu's fleet got closer and closer to Jiangnan, the speed of getting news from Jiangnan became faster and faster.

Yangzhou Water Transport Wharf.

"My brother, Zaizhen, pay my respects to the emperor."

Not long after Ning Jue went south, Zhu Zaizhen went to Yangzhou to become a vassal. When the fleet sailed to Yangzhou, Zhu Zaizhen also hurriedly came to Yangzhou Water Transport Wharf to meet the emperor's brother.

This time they met, Zhu Zaiyu clearly felt that his fourth brother had changed a lot.

"Are you still used to living in Yangzhou?"

Zhu Zaizhen hesitated to speak.

"Brother..."

Before Zhu Zaizhen finished speaking, Zhu Zaizhen patted Zhu Zaizhen's shoulder twice.

"I can save it."

Yangzhou is very important. At present, there are many people in Yangzhou who are looking forward to the eradication of Zhu Zaizhen's childless country.

Zhu Zaiyu took a deep breath, looked at the bustling Yangzhou city in the distance and said, "Would my younger brother be willing to serve the imperial court?"

"My brother is willing!"

"Beside the Zhima Bridge in the Wudang Palace in Yangzhou, there is the former Emperor Wuzong's southern tour palace. It was changed into King Jing's Mansion, and King Jing's Mansion was shut down. He made his own proposal and restored your Jing Mansion's three guards. How about it?"

Zhu Zaizhen's eyes lit up when he heard the words.

"Brother Huang, are you serious?"

"really."

Stopping King Jing's Mansion means that one day Zhu Zaizhen will be able to return to the capital and will not have to live in Yangzhou for the rest of his life.

It is impossible for a person to miss home. Zhu Zaizhen was born in the capital and grew up in the capital. The prosperity of Yangzhou cannot give Zhu Zaizhen.

For Zhu Zaizhen, the vassal king of Ming Dynasty will be cut sooner or later, but right now he still needs the help of his clan. Instead of building a flashy palace for Zhu Zaizhen, it is better to use this money to recruit soldiers for Zhu Zaizhen. Turn King Jing's Mansion into a sea god needle for Daming in the south of the Yangtze River.

After Zhu Zaizhen was sent away, Zhang Juzheng came to Zhu Zaizhen's side.

"Your Highness, Xishan has already been rented to the tenants, and the rent added to the landlord has not been transferred to the tenant farmers."

"Tell me in detail."

"The tenant farmers are free of the burden of corvee, and the gentry immediately withdraw the rent after increasing the rent. Who would foolishly continue planting? If this is the case in the world, it is definitely a virtuous government that has not been seen in 3000 years. Blessed are the common people. "

Zhu Zaiyu pondered for a moment, and then said decisively: "Babaili hastened to report to the clansmen in various prefectures, so that they can cut the fields faster."

"One day sooner, the people can get out of the sea of ​​suffering sooner."

Zhang Juzheng always felt that something was weird, but he couldn't say it, so he had to sing and act.

Just after Zhang Juzheng and Zhu Zaishun finished drafting the edict, and sent someone to send Zhu Zaishun's warrant to the Secretary of General Administration, the memorandum turned around and was placed on Lu Bing's desk.

Lu Bing took a pen and changed a few words on Zhu Zaiyu's warrant, and then heaved a long sigh.

"The errand given to me by Junfu is more and more like being a thief."

The general meaning of Zhu Zaiyu's warrant remained unchanged, but Lu Bing added the words "by all means".

Behind the clansmen of Litian in various prefectures, there is an invisible force that is forcing these people to push the whole thing in a bloodier direction.

This field of preparation for the new law is gradually changing.

This time, Jiajing didn't seem to be trying to turn Zhu's clan against the scholar-bureaucrats.

It's more like purely trying to push the gentry into a corner.

(End of this chapter)