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Chapter 115 The scholars of the Ming Dynasty

"See through?" After Yan Fei received the affectionate loyalty message sent by Wu Sangui again, he immediately understood that Wu Sangui understood his own thoughts.

With Yan Fei's strength at this time, it was only a matter of slaughter to destroy the Guanning Army. But he just didn't want these traitors to die so simply, and wanted to squeeze out their last bit of value.

After thinking about it, Yan Fei gave Wu Sangui an order again, saying that he could send them to the Japanese archipelago after the North Korean issue was resolved. If he dared to refuse the order, don't talk nonsense and wait for death.

The Guanning Army was the most powerful soldier in the Ming Dynasty. Although they were not opponents of the Qing Dynasty, they had their own pride.

It’s a pity that their pride was broken when facing Yan Fei. The proud strong soldiers were simply vulnerable in front of Yan Fei, which made the many Guanning military generals have no channel to vent their dissatisfaction and anger.

From Wu Sangui down, everyone knew very well that Yan Fei had never thought of actually recruiting them. Even keeping them as a thug would probably be difficult. But they couldn't resist because the gap in strength between the two sides was too big, and even the Guanning Army could not even raise the mind to resist.

In this case, no matter how angry or dissatisfied with Yan Fei, they can only respect Yan Fei's orders.

The Guanning Army has a strong combat power, but unfortunately, it has long since lost the courage to die. If they had the same determination to die as the Qi family army and even the Baigang soldiers, Yan Fei would not have treated them like this.

The Guanning Army, who decided to obey the order, returned from the grassland. First, they went to Shenyang City to replace their various flag uniforms, etc., changed into the captured Qing army equipment, and then set off from Shenyang City to North Korea.

Yan Fei came here this time, originally planned to lead his troops back to the capital and go to Tianjin to take over the ocean fishing boat. However, now that this kind of accident occurred, Yan Fei simply continued to stay and prepare to send troops to North Korea and take back this place that has long been the inherent territory of China.

However, although Yan Fei and the army will not go back for the time being, things still have to continue to be done. Seed fertilizers transported from the modern world are continuously sent to various places for spring plowing. At the same time, a large amount of food is also transported to ensure that those trapped refugees can survive until the summer harvest.

As for the most acute contradictions in this era, it is also the land issue that led to the destruction of the dynasty. Yan Fei adopted the most direct and rough way to solve it.

First of all, the land of the royal family and the imperial villages and military garrisons belonging to the royal family and the imperial family and garrisons was taken over by Yan Fei directly in the name of the court. The military households of the garrisons were directly removed from the military households and divided the fields on the spot. Those officers who dared to bare their teeth and shot them directly.

Then there are those unparalleled lands that lost their masters due to natural disasters and wars. For example, the land in Qufu County was taken away directly after the Kong family declined. Then there are the land that was forcibly annexed by the powerful people from all over the country.

It’s okay to say that the imperial garrison and the uninhabited land in front of them are still a bit troublesome, but the land occupied by the powerful is a bit troublesome. No one will listen if he just talks with his mouth. If he spends money to buy, Yan Fei will not have that much money and is unwilling to waste it. So he simply forced himself to grab it.

First, officials from all over the country found those wealthy families with an average land of more than 100 acres, including men and women in direct orthopedics, and said that the court has now recovered Liaodong and wanted to exchange two acres of land for your one acre of land. Those who are willing to go can be exempted from tax for three years. Are you willing to exchange it?

This is a good thing that you must even rob in the modern world, but in the seventeenth century, no one was willing to go.

In the eyes of people of this era, Liaodong is a place where only those who are exiled will go. Moreover, the Tartars are in groups and beside the Mongols, and God knows when they will be killed by the Tartars.

Moreover, people in this era have a deep rural concept. They are not forced into a dead end and no one wants to leave their hometown to go to a distant and unknown place.

Yan Fei's gifts were first given by the soldiers and then the soldiers, so he could only use weapons.

The new army originally stationed everywhere began to dispatch. After arriving in a village, soldiers first surrounded everyone and concentrated everyone in an open place. Then the young people who graduated from the teenage class found ordinary villagers and asked what bad things XXX had done.

For example, those who occupy land, set up private punishment, robbed women, maliciously injured people, and those who were forced to be destroyed by usury, etc.

Not to mention that all the wealthy families in this era have done such evil deeds, at least most of them have done so. As long as someone reports and investigates a little, they can be convicted.

Then they directly confiscated the land and sent all the people to Liaodong, which is vast and sparsely populated. At this time, there will be no good things to divide the land. They will serve their whole life in the farm.

As for those things, they are indeed undeserved of any evil deeds. Of course, they are just as love is.

Those who dare to resist with armed force will be eliminated directly on the spot. The evil servants who can rush around the country are not much better than wild dogs in front of muskets. In the past, they can find famous posts from the government. In the eyes of the soldiers under Yan Fei, they are like wiping paper on their butts. Which official dares to show his head to solve the problem together.

Through these methods, Yan Fei became the largest landlord of the Ming Dynasty in a very short period of time. Of course, these lands were kept in the name of the court.

Both refugees and immigrants obtained at least 100 acres of land for each person, and they were gathered to experience those large farms. Using the seeds and fertilizers brought by Yan Fei from the modern world, it can be predicted that the summer harvest will inevitably be a bumper year.

The things Yan Fei did were concentrated in the northern Zhili, Shandong, Henan and Shanxi, but the news quickly spread throughout the country.

Many families in Jiangnan were really frightened by Yan Fei's ruthless methods. While fully funding the Fu King in Nanjing to oppose the imperial court, these people encouraged the scholars to slander Yan Fei in various ways. They described Yan Fei as an unparalleled evil ghost with three heads and six arms crawling out of hell.

Since Yan Fei cleared out the Donglin Party in the court, the Southern Si Lin has been incompatible with Yan Fei.

When Yan Fei took the world's terrible tyranny to solve the problem of land annexation, almost all scholars in the world criticized Yan Fei. The gorgeously lyrics and various poems were used to slander Yan Fei.

These literati and poets tried to use their pens to kill Yan Fei, but the reason was not complicated at all.

Zhu Yuanzhang said that after becoming a scholar, he could be exempted from some taxes and corvee, but after years of evolution, he became a scholar, not only without paying taxes, but also protecting taxes. For example, only a show can be exempted from 80 acres, a juren can be exempted from 400 acres, and a Jinshi can be exempted from 2,000 acres!

It is impossible for each of these scholars to have so much land, so it happened that the famous people attached their own land to the names of these scholars to evade taxes.

What's even more exaggerated is that as time goes by, these scholars have more and more land under the names of these scholars, even far exceeding the boundaries. However, because they are scholars and officials, no one can deal with it, which makes a large amount of land exempt from taxes in various ways.

These scholars also run a lot of business activities. Of course, they despise merchants on the surface and will not stand up on their own. However, they ask their servants or relatives to do these things. These business activities are also not taxable. Once the court and the emperor want to impose commercial taxes, these scholars will shout that they cannot compete with the people for profit!

If business taxes are not available, there are no tariffs these days. In addition, the land tax, as the main force of tax revenue, is getting less and less due to the greed of scholars. Under this situation, the Ming Dynasty was able to persist for so many years before it collapsed!

It can be said that the reason why the Ming Dynasty perished was that natural disasters and wars caused foreign invasions were just external causes. The real fatal injury lies in these scholars!

Because of these scholars who are insatiable and greedy as comparable to those of some bricks, the Ming Dynasty went to the abyss of destruction!

If there were no scholars, the natural disaster would be able to be overcome. After all, the war disasters caused by foreign invasions, looking at the Ming Dynasty's powerful soldiers swept the world in the early Ming Dynasty, we can understand that the Ming army's war was not a problem of soldiers, but caused by the decay of the upper class.

At this moment, the biggest internal and external troubles of the Ming Dynasty were solved by Yan Fei, but these scholars turned a blind eye to this in order to protect their own interests, and instead tried their best to slander Yan Fei like crazy.

In their writing, the vicious Cao Cao could only carry his shoes to Yan Fei, the vicious Wang Mang could barely watch the door for Yan Fei, the despicable Lu Buwei was at most Yan Fei's Changsui, the vicious Dong Zhuo was solemn to keep his feet guarding Yan Fei's toilet, the shameless Li Linfu was only worthy of Yan Fei's horse, and the vulgar Wei Zhongxian was not qualified to be a dog for Yan Fei.

To sum up in a word, Yan Fei was hacked by the entire network.

All the public-known big Vs are blasting Yan Fei. They believe that Yan Fei's existence is a humiliation to the whole world, which violates the Pythagorean Theorem's Newton's Law. Yan Fei's existence is an insult to natural evolution and relativity, etc.

Yan Fei, who was criticized by the scholars all over the world, was of course angry when he learned about this. Anyway, he couldn't be able to smile when he was scolded.

Yan Fei knew that these people were afraid that they would move their land, and he also knew that many of them were cursing at him for various reasons. But it didn't matter.

Take out the small notebook and write down all the names of these people one by one. When you go south, no one in the small notebook will run away!

After temporarily suppressing this anger, Yan Fei's attention returned to other matters.

Wu Sangui and Guanning Army had already crossed the Yalu River and began to roam around North Korea. Now it is not the time to follow, so you can temporarily put it aside. And the more important things at this time are of course land distribution and spring plowing.

The redistribution of civil land was responsible for the court officials, and Yan Fei just sent people to stare. Things that violated his orders happened and were shot directly from top to bottom, and then sent people to do it. What was important for Yan Fei was the military's land resettlement.

The people of China are simple and the soldiers of China are the best. The premise is to solve their worries.

According to Yan Fei's arrangement, each officer and soldier who served under him can receive merit points based on his years of service.

You can get a little points after serving for one year, and then you will get one more point every year. You will make a third-class merit score of one point, second-class merit score of two points, first-class merit score of five points, etc.
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