I'm sure of the prosperous age of Kangxi and Qianlong!

Chapter 380 Breaking up the big players

Although the Jiangxi case is very involved, except for Jiangxi, the whole province is in ruins.

Lianghu, southern Anhui, and Fujian are actually not serious. Especially in southern Anhui and Fujian, they basically arrest those unscrupulous businessmen who act recklessly and take risks.

Zhu Yijiong directly issued an order to mobilize troops and arrest people. In these rotten provinces, the local officials had no power to resist.

Because there are so many involved, the trial alone will take a year and a half.

Although the case has not yet been completed, it is basically certain that all the stolen grain was sold to the Qing Dynasty, and some of it was sold to Shanxi.

There are no surprises about this result.

Fortunately, it was still the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and those merchants did not have the courage after all. They only dared to sell grain, but did not dare to resell strategic materials such as ironware and sugar.

A major earthquake hit the officialdom of the five provinces of Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Anhui, and Fujian.

Among them, Jiangxi, Hubei, and Hunan provinces have undergone the most radical changes. Half of the officials in the three provinces have been punished, and they were dismissed and investigated simultaneously.

Although the remaining half were not dismissed from their posts and investigated, they were also punished, demoted and fined, and no one was spared.

This is obviously knocking the mountain and shaking the tiger!
Removing so many officials at once puts a lot of pressure on the cabinet, because enough officials must be sent out to fill the vacancies in a short period of time, otherwise there will be chaos in the place.

This is only a change in local civil servants. As for the military generals, Huang Dian, the commander of the Fourth Army, has been officially dismissed from his post and is temporarily idle in the capital.

Moreover, the title of Duke of Fuguo, which had always been a headache for Zhu Yijiong, finally found a reason to be demoted from Duke to Marquis.

No one would say that the emperor treated his heroes unkindly.

The commander of the Fourth Army was Lieutenant General Li Yong, and the Privy Council sent a staff officer to assist.

The Fourth Army stationed in Jiangxi also had to undergo a major purge.

Of course, these are just to eliminate local rotten meat.

……

It had been cloudy for many days, but it finally rained, very hard.

cabinet.

Wang Li's face was full of surprise: "Everyone whose farmland exceeds [-] acres and whose household registration exceeds three households will be divided?"

Liang Wenxuan even hurriedly advised: "Your Majesty, think twice! Don't act out of anger, split up a big family, and affect the whole body."

Zhu Yijiong didn't wait for the other two cabinet ministers to speak, and directly shouted angrily: "If a single move affects the whole body, where will it be affected? I mean this Jiangxi case, this time it was just about stealing the grain stored in Changping warehouse and setting up the Ming Dynasty Zuo Sheji." Ignore it and support the enemies of the Puppet Qing Dynasty. What use do I have for such a large family? Let them continue to sell grain to the Puppet Qing Dynasty so that they can feed the Qing army and continue the bloody battle with my soldiers. Or should we imitate the eight major Shanxi merchants of the past and come to A better person?"

This is almost like pointing at the nose and cursing.

"His Majesty calm down, the minister is guilty!"

The four cabinet ministers immediately knelt down and shouted in unison.

Zhu Yijiong was too lazy to say anything more, and said directly: "I have made up my mind on this matter, and there is no need to persuade anymore. All families with more than [-] acres of land and more than three household registrations will be split up, regardless of whether they are responsible or not, and whether they are the same head clan or not. "

Not only must it be dismantled, but it must be dismantled quite thoroughly.

According to Zhu Yijiong's decree, the large clans that were separated could not own more than 20 acres of land at most, and the number of small households could not exceed three households (about [-] people).

Moreover, in order to prevent continued grouping after the split, these tribesmen after the split cannot live in the same county, but must live at least two or three counties apart.

The local wealthy families involved in this case moved directly to the three northern provinces, the southern Guangdong and Guangxi, and Taiwan, and their property and acres were also confiscated.

This can be called a major war, almost no less than a large-scale reform.

If it hadn't been for the great changes in the world at this time, people generally still have a small-scale peasant economy, and it would be impossible to truly eradicate landlords.Even if it is to be eliminated, it cannot be eliminated at once.I'm afraid Zhu Yijiong doesn't even plan to keep these three hundred acres of land.

According to the productivity of this era, an ordinary landlord's family could only have a dozen or so people at most.If all food, clothing, housing and transportation are included, fifty acres of land is more than enough.

It can be said that there are at least [-] acres of land that Zhu Yijiong has mercy on.

After a moment of silence, Wang Li raised his hands and said: "Your Majesty, if you go to war and act so forcefully, the people of the world will probably resent you..." Zhu Yijiong then sneered and said, "Anyone who resents you will be dismissed from his position and will never be hired."

So cruel!
The four cabinet ministers were instantly shocked.

Wang Li immediately understood that the emperor was not just trying to make excuses, but he was actually planning to do something serious.

……

The emperor's imperial edict was quickly issued through the Daming Moon Newspaper.

For a time, all the people in the world were in an uproar.

Nanjing.

In a private room of an ordinary restaurant, several young scholars were drinking and eating.

After three rounds of wine and five tastes of food, soon some scholars began to complain.

"Your Majesty is confused! First he banned brothels and human teeth, and now he wants to forcibly break up our kind family."

"What Brother Jing said is true, whether it is a brothel or a den of teeth. The former is a matter of elegance, and the latter has happened in all dynasties. Those untouchables have no food to eat and sell themselves. We will pay for them. , it is just and reasonable. Saving his life, not to mention building a seven-level pagoda, is definitely not an evil thing?"

"There are still tenants working in the farm, but you want me and the gentry to pay for the food together with the common people. Are you treating me and other good gentry and good families so harshly? Your Majesty is really..."

"Ahem, your Majesty is a wise king and a holy master, but it's a pity that there are traitors in the court. There are still too few upright people around your majesty, otherwise how could you listen to the slander."

"But even if I know, so what? Is it possible that I can still go to the temple?"

"..."

When it comes to knocking, the topic suddenly goes cold.

Not to mention that those who knocked on the que last time were all stripped of their honors.Now, many of them have taken the provincial examination, and all of them are on the list.

Well, although they sound like a confused majesty and sound like a traitor to the court, their bodies are very honest.

Not only does everyone in the family have a collection of tens of thousands of arithmetic books, but Han Chuang has also studied them diligently.The effort put into this alone is no less than that of those candidates who sincerely want to take the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty.

Opportunities are often reserved for those who are prepared. This saying is never wrong!

Several people then continued to exchange cups and cups, venting their complaints from time to time.

However, it is just limited to complaining.

After all, this imperial edict has been announced to the world from the Bright Moon News. The so-called golden words cannot be easily withdrawn just because of the opposition of people like them.

Moreover, Zhu Yijiong’s move to split up the wealthy family is not without reason. He is seriously using the Jiangxi case as a pretext.

Well, I'm still making use of the topic.

But who dares to say?Could it be that the Jiangxi case slipped through the net?

As for whether large local households will object, it should be said that they will definitely.

But Zhu Yijiong didn't care at all. Not only did he not care, but the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty also didn't care.

I think back then, the Yimen Chen family, a large family of 3900 people, refused to split up and resisted the imperial court.

Then, he was forcibly dismembered by the emperor's order, without the ability to resist at all.

Unless these big households rebel, they will never be able to resist the imperial court.

And if they really dare to rebel, Zhu Yijiong will probably wake up laughing in his dreams.

　a little bit Calvin

　　
　
(End of this chapter)