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

Chapter 83 New Deal Tax Law
Those with hair are obedient people, and those without hair are refugees.

This was an edict issued by Emperor Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty. While competing with the Northern Qing Dynasty for public support, it also reflected tolerance and care for the gentry and common people.

However, Zhu Yijiong was not as broad-minded as Emperor Longwu, nor was he as courageous as others.

He only knew that if he didn't take advantage of the two-month gap when the Qing government could not react, he would be doomed as soon as possible to turn Fujian into a piece of iron.

The reason why Emperor Longwu was able to do the trick of "there are prosperous people and no refugees" was because he still owned half...a little half of the country.

From a purely territorial start point of view, he is not even a little bit better than Brother Bei from the Three Kingdoms.

Coupled with the perverse actions of the Qing court at that time, there were indeed gentry, common people and military leaders in the world who were willing to side with Emperor Longwu.

But Zhu Yijiong is different now. Although Daming seems to be making a lot of noise and gaining momentum, in fact, their territory is only a small Fujian, plus a Taiwan bend.

Even in Fujian, there are two semi-independent prefectures. One is Yanping Prefecture, which is occupied by Tiandihui. This house is willing to listen to Zhu Jianguo's orders. The remaining one is Tingzhou Prefecture, which is occupied by Lin Junbu. If you don't listen to the announcement, and there is a high probability that you won't listen to the tune, it just depends on when the two sides will break up.

The other half is Shaowu Mansion, which is already on the border of Fujian and Jiangxi. If it weren't for Wuyi Mountain, Shaowu Mansion might not have surrendered to the Ming Dynasty so easily.

Even if they surrender now, Daming Lian Jianning and Yanping have not yet been completely dealt with, and their control over Shaowu Mansion is actually very weak.

Therefore, Zhu Yijiong urgently needs some tough and fast means to pull the entire Fujian onto the Ming Dynasty's warship.

Even if they seem to be inseparable, it is better than defecting in the face of battle.

This method, naturally, is to enforce braid cutting and hair shaving.

Fortunately, the people at the bottom don't have much resistance to cutting braids and shaving their hair.It's just a shaved head. As long as everyone can have enough to eat, it doesn't matter what they do.

In response, Zhu Yijiong asked the civil servants and soldiers responsible for going to the countryside to directly preach the Ming Dynasty's new tax laws. Often within a few waves, the people in those places would spontaneously go to the Ming army to shave their heads and cut their braids.

Some women even took the initiative to shave, but most of them were promptly dissuaded by the responsible clerk.

Yes, except for those who were forcibly recruited by Quanzhou Prefecture, these civil servants and soldiers are all high-ranking officials and high-ranking soldiers from Taiwan.

Although these people were actually kidnapped by the Ming Dynasty at first, after such a long time, and the Ming Dynasty only half a year, they developed from a small platform to a big rebel bandit that now separates a province.

Not to mention being completely disappointed with the Qing government, these people are basically used to it from the bottom of their hearts. What can they do if they are not used to it? They have been thieves for so long. Even if the Qing government immediately regains Fujian and Taiwan, it is estimated that they will not be able to escape the rebellion. The crime of being a thief.

Instead of doing this, it is better to keep working hard. Maybe, according to the current group of Ming thieves... no, the development speed of the Ming court, there is really a chance to defeat Southeast?
By then, these old people who were forcibly tied up to join the gang will be the heroes of Conglong.

With this idea in mind, these civil servants and soldiers from Taiwan worked very hard, from tempting the common people to being forced to the ground and shaved by diehard elements.

In just one week, all the prefectures in Fujian, except for the three prefectures of Shaowu, Yanping and Tingzhou, completed the hair-cutting order. Yanping, Shaowu and Shaowu all implemented it on their own, so the progress was slow. Only the border town near Jianning and Fuzhou completed the hair-cutting order.

Fujian also transformed from a maritime silk province into a bald province within seven days (no offense intended).

During this period, some large landowners, taking advantage of their large business, gathered their servants to protect their homes, and even recruited village warriors to resist cutting their hair.

Zhu Yijiong was naturally rude to this kind of thing. Those soldiers sent out together with the civil servants did just this.

The side soldiers are not as good as the regular army, but they are still an army that has killed people and seen blood. It is naturally more than enough to deal with the rural warriors recruited by ordinary landlords to protect the hospital.

In fact, Zhu Yijiong hoped that all the big landowners and gentry would resist violently, so that he could legitimately uproot the Fujian gentry class.

After all, if the idea of ​​sharing the land between farmers and farmers is really implemented, it may eventually lead to collective resistance from the landlord class, even if it is an improved version that is relatively mild and provides compensation measures (Xiamen Port).

It's a pity that most of the landowners of the Jin gentry are still smart people. They know that since the Ming army can completely occupy Fujian and even the 20 officers and soldiers of the imperial court have been defeated, if they want to resist, it is like being a fool in the arm of the mantis.

Most of the gentry landowners chose to wait for their heads to be shaved. At the same time, some of them had secretly sent away one or two of their collateral or even direct descendants.

As for the plan of dividing the basket, we can't expect people to really entrust their lives and fortunes to a group of thieves, even if the thieves are indeed quite powerful.In this regard, Zhu Yijiong's instructions to the following were to treat those who saw Quan as if they didn't see it, and not to push those people into panic, but remember to receive the benefits and report them at the same time.

The benefits belong to them, Zhu Yijiong only needs the account book testimony.

These are all excuses to completely uproot these people in the future...

The problem of braiding and shaving in most areas of Fujian has been solved, and the entire political stance of Fujian is basically tied to the Ming Dynasty.

Tu Yi, the governor of nearby Zhejiang, and Yang Lin, the governor of Guangdong, also cut off the source of news about Fujian almost at the same time.

As for what the Fujian rebels will do next, they already have a dark eye.

Out of caution, Tu Yiqiao, the governor of Zhejiang, used the power of the original imperial edict to order Admiral Huang Sheng to mobilize elite soldiers from various towns in Zhejiang and station them in Wenchu ​​and Chuzhou to prevent Ming thieves. At the same time, he reported to the imperial court to request for transfer orders and reinforcements.

The governor of Guangdong, Yang Lin, also did the same thing as the governor of Zhejiang, but as governor, he had greater power than Tu Yi.

Except for inter-provincial operations that required orders from the court, he could handle the mobilization of the rest of the army himself.

Of course, talking about cross-provincial operations, the current combat power of the Fujian Ming thieves alone is probably not enough for even the two Guangdong provinces.

Yang Lin realized that if she could single-handedly resist the Ming thief from going south, that would be her limit.

Just when Huang Sheng, the admiral of Zhejiang, followed the governor's order and sent more troops to garrison south, Yang Lin, the governor of Guangdong, also moved forward by land and water, and urgently transferred the main force of the navy to the waters of Nan'ao Island.

On the one hand, he also mobilized elite soldiers from various towns and added troops to Chaozhou Prefecture. He personally went to Guangzhou to urge the governors of Guangdong and Guangxi provinces to raise grain and grass to supply the army.

Not to mention Yang Lin and Tu Yi, the two Qing governors and governors who blocked Fujian on three sides. At this time, Zhu Yijiong had just issued the order to shave off his hair and forcibly gathered the hearts of the people in Fujian. He then began to strike while the iron was hot and quickly issued an order to fully implement the system of dividing the land into a single mu. New Deal Tax Code.

As expected, with the decree, an uproar broke out across Fujian in an instant.

Then... there is no more. The big landowners and the gentry class are basically like thunder and rain. They have even shaved their hair. How can they still rebel against the Ming Dynasty?

After rebelling, will you be able to dominate the world by yourself?
Isn't that a joke?
Drawing firepower from the bottom of the cauldron, real firewood from the bottom of the cauldron.

The previous order to shave their heads gave them no reason or courage to resist. Once they resisted, Ming Dynasty would like them to resist, and then he could kill them all and divide the land.

Now, all the hair has been shaved, and the family's future has been given away. If he wants to rebel, he has no chance.

Originally, they were ready, waiting for Daming to cut their flesh with a blunt knife, but they didn't expect that the first cut almost cut off their main arteries.

No one thought that this Ming Dynasty had such a big appetite and would directly attack their foundation. Should he be called a Ming thief?

However, despite all the resentment, they still had no choice but to submit honestly.

Because those who refused to submit had their ashes raised by Zhu Yijiong's army, and Zhu Yijiong did not let them implement the New Deal in vain. Wouldn't the seaport trade be opened later?

Once this maritime trade is opened, it can be said that it is even more powerful for the half-businessmen and half-farmers in Fujian. How much money can be made from a little land.

As a result, except for the two prefectures of Funing and Jianning who violently resisted the new tax law, almost all of the remaining four prefectures of Fuzhou, Xinghua, Quanzhou and Zhangzhou implemented it very smoothly.

Oh, those who dared to resist violently were defeated by the soldiers sent over, and Zhu Yijiong even used regular troops to assist.

The civil servants who were sent out were measuring the land almost day and night, and then re-planning the land tax per acre. As for the census, this was already completed when the hair was shaved.

Otherwise, it was just a matter of shaving one's hair. Why would it take so long with so many civil servants dispatched?

　Hiss...forget it

　　
　
(End of this chapter)