And then, Yang Shanlu still has one big thing to discuss with his father Yang Sichang.
Although he had discussed this matter with Hu Yuanmou and others first, and thought it was feasible, but in terms of the specific candidates, he still needs his father Yang Sichang to decide.
And this big event is also related to Yang Shanlu's next real big move... Even this big move can be called a winner! Will determine the success or failure of the entire Shanxi governance! If it is completed, the overall situation of Shanxi governance has been set, and a gratifying success will be ushered in! But if it fails... all previous efforts will be in vain! Therefore, it is very important as a pavement before this.
But when Yang Sichang, who was far away in the capital, received the handwritten pigeon biography written by Yang Shanlu, he was surprised and delighted... What was shocking was that his son's handwriting was so big that he didn't even have a father like him. With such a great courage, what is happy is that if this is the case, then his pressure on the court can be drastically reduced, at least he will no longer be outnumbered.
After fully understanding Yang Shanlu’s intentions, Yang Sichang wrote a reply letter to Yang Shanlu. He affirmed his thoughts in the letter, and then gave him a detailed list of names. There are a total of twenty people listed.
And these twenty people are the backbone members of the court. The grades start from the five-grade doctors of the various ministries, plus the three-grade servants of the ministries (this is the main candidate, and the level is almost equal to that of the deputy ministers of later national ministries). And even the existence of the highest ministers such as Shangshu, such as the Hubu Shangshu, the official Bu Shangshu, etc... Anyway, as long as it is not an enemy, they will all come over!
As for the sugar-coated cannonballs they played out... it is a large number of workshops recently established by Yang Shanlu! Anyway, let’s say you’re welcome. Almost all of these civil servants have a price tag at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it depends on whether you can impress them! In the past, Yang Shanlu didn't have such a bargaining chip, but now...
So Yang Shanlu was very happy after receiving the reply, and then he immediately took action, according to the list provided by the old man, took out 20 sweater workshops under his hand, and then each workshop took no more than 20% Of the stocks, used to gift these friends.
That's right, it's a gift! Although such a share of stock, the annual dividend created at least 20 thousand taels of silver! (Almost the salary of these senior officials for a lifetime) But now, in order to attract more allies, in order to maximize his winning side in the next victory and defeat, Yang Shanlu took it out without blinking his eyes. .
(And this is a coup that serves two purposes with one stone... You can start cultivating the capital/property class subtly, because Yang Shanlu has studied the predecessors, it seems that the biggest failure of Zhang Juzheng’s failure is that he did not make the capital/property class bigger and bigger. Strong! (At that time, most officials were of the land/owner class)
As a result, as soon as Zhang Juzheng fell, the land/owner class counterattacked effortlessly. But now? If so many people are allowed to taste the sweetness of industry, their dividends in one year can exceed the total profit of the land under their name, then will they still cling to their old brains? )
Then, after Yang Shanlu sent a special person to send the deeds with his autographs to the capital (the deeds divided by the workshops and shares, similar to the land deeds), his father Yang Sichang got the deeds. After that, it immediately began to vigorously engage in activities.
Then here, I have to say that Yang Sichang's vision is still very powerful, or how could he stay famous in the long river of history? When these people he selected suddenly received this gift, they were surprised and delighted, and they all made clear-cut statements. They will definitely stand in his camp in the future and wave the flag for him! Unanimously external!
Of course this is also very obvious, after all, this courtesy is too heavy! For example, even if all of these people have fertile fields under their names, but in such a year, there will be a drought, a locust plague or something, how many more can you get throughout the year
But these dry stocks are different. Now who doesn’t know, the sweaters produced in these workshops are like stealing money, so the profit...
And all they have to pay is to choose a camp, not to mention that the political risk of doing so is still very small.
Because Yang Sichang has clearly told them that our friends are all over the world while giving away the shares. It is not one or two who chose to join this time, but a full 20 middle and high-level officials! Even the first person in the inner court, Wang Cheng'en and Prince-in-law, belong to their faction, so what else should I worry about
(Including another major faction in the court, the Donglin Party headed by Liu Zongzhou and Huang Daozhou, originally supported Yang Shanlu's reform)
So just like that. After half a month, because Yang Shanlu was ruling Shanxi (killing corrupt officials, food price wars, etc.), which touched many interests, a large number of officials in the court tried desperately to impeach him, but gradually , They began to realize that the wind was not in the right direction. The very Yang faction headed by Yang Sichang began to grow bigger and bigger, and the voices they made were no longer lighter than them!
Then a few days later, when the first person in the inner court, the eunuch Wang Chengen, the eunuch of Bingbi, also returned to the capital (the so-called inner minister, equal to half the prime minister), and publicly expressed support for the Yang Shanlu Reform, those who opposed it The voice was suppressed at that time... No way, it's not that our army is incompetent, but that the enemy's strength is too strong! Our army can't stand it!
Of course, Yang Shanlu couldn’t see these battles in the court without gunpowder, but after he received the latest report from his father, he smiled with satisfaction... Hehe, not bad, it’s called sitting in Shanxi. Plan thousands of miles away!
And in this way, since the court regained the initiative (otherwise, although Emperor Chongzhen would support him, if a large group of people speak ill of Yang Shanlu in front of him every day, it will be easy to be suspicious after a long time. , But now...)
So Yang Shanlu immediately decided that with these foreshadowings, he could start a vital move next! Even this big move can be called the winner of Shanxi governance... If you win, the overall situation of Shanxi governance will be determined! And if you lose, then everything is forbidden! (Not only will his Yang Shanlu be beaten back to its original form! Even his Yang family may be uprooted!)
And this big move is to completely solve the core problem in the Shanxi problem-the land problem!
(Including the many measures that Yang Shanlu made before, killing corrupt officials and suppressing food prices, these are only improvements, a small fight, and the real decisive action has not yet begun! And only by pointing to the core of the contradiction can it be completely resolved. Social conflicts)
Of course, this also exists objectively. When Yang Shanlu first took office in Shanxi, why did he see refugees everywhere? Why don’t you see people everywhere? Apart from natural and man-made disasters, the most fundamental problem lies in the land issue!
To give the simplest example, when Ming Dynasty first founded the country, there were few people and more land (the dynasties changed, and the long-term war lost a lot of people), and no one planted land, so naturally there was no problem of land annexation.
However, after three hundred years of development, the family has multiplied, and land annexation has reached an extreme degree (and there are many methods, such as those powerful and powerful using the surveying machine to invade and occupy the field of the field, and even falsely use concealment to resist violations and invade. Xiaomin land), the land problem is becoming shocking! There are many large landlords who own several thousand acres and tens of thousands of acres!
(Just give an example, everyone knows Dong Qichang, a famous painter, Jinshi during the Wanli period, was a scholar of the Nanjing Ritual Department, excellent in painting and calligraphy, but such a person, how much land does he occupy? The land is over ten thousand hectares, and one hectare equals one. Hundred acres)
And from the perspective of the entire country, what extent has the land annexation reached? To give another example, in the twenty-sixth year of Ming Hongwu (AD 1393), after the survey, there were 8.5 million hectares of land in the world (that is, the private land that needed to pay taxes); by the 15th year of Hongzhi (AD 1502), this figure had already The sharp reduction was more than half, leaving only 4.2 million hectares.
Where did the missing land go? It is the land that was hidden from the scales after being invaded by the nobles at all levels (that is, from the land that the ordinary people need to pay taxes, it has become the land that the nobles do not need to pay taxes. For details, please refer to Gu Yanwu’s "Tianxia County National Benefits Sick Book")
In Shanxi, the situation is even more serious, because in addition to the privileged class, Shanxi also has a unique existence-it has three vassals.
(They were King Jin who established the vassal state in Taiyuan Prefecture, Shanxi, King Shen who established the vassal state in Luzhou Prefecture, Shanxi, and the acting king of Datong Prefecture in Shanxi. The three kings of Shanxi are one of the so-called nine frontier fortresses. Zhu Yuanzhang's original intention was to let his sons guard the frontier fortresses for Daming, but now, they have become three pussies).
And how much land do these three kings occupy in Shanxi? Nearly one tenth! Three million mu per capita! (Of course this is not the most outrageous among the feudal lords, just like the Sichuan King at this time, his family occupies 70% of the entire Chengdu Plain! And these lands are not taxed!)
Among these three kings, King Jin of Taiyuan Mansion has the highest status (both Dai King and King Shen are controlled by Jin King) and occupy the most land. He owns 90% of the entire Taiyuan Mansion, so it can Imagine that the three people occupy one-tenth of Shanxi's land, so can the remaining 10 million people in Shanxi still have their own fields
In other words, the princes, high-ranking officials, big landlords... the fields of these wealthy people are connected into a single piece, and you can't see it at a glance! But as for the low-level people, there is no house of tiles, no place to stand under their feet!
(Of course, this is also in the original history. After Li Zicheng put forward the slogan of killing local tyrants and equalizing the land, it received enthusiastic responses from farmers. They all have a realistic basis. Then this issue is the core issue, so Baima explained It’s a little bit more, everyone understand it)
Of course, the problem of land annexation is already so serious, but it is really difficult to deal with it... Because the situation in Shanxi is different from when Yangshanlu managed the East Road.
When Yang Shanlu governed the East Road, even if the farms were occupied by military officers at all levels, they were not visible. In terms of name, those farms belonged to the imperial court, so as long as Yang Shanlu obtained the corresponding status , Those farming fields can be taken back justifiably.
But the situation in Shanxi is different. Although these lands are also obtained by those powerful and powerful through various means, but if you say that they are not coming from the right way, they have a full range of official documents and contracts approved by the government. This was all they had taken advantage of the disaster year and scammed them from the hands of the small people at a very low price, but they had all the necessary procedures (they will not leave hidden dangers).
Therefore, how to nationalize these private fields that have belonged to the powerful and redistribute them to the general public is a tricky problem (after all, Yang Shanlu can't take a drastic method like Li Zicheng and smash all the old world! So I can only do a dojo in a snail shell, and use a careful way to change the law)
Of course, this is also difficult for Yang Shanlu. After all, he had thought about this problem before he crossed it... That is, if I travel back to ancient times, how should I deal with the land problem
So after some research with Hu Yuanmou, Zuo Maodi and others, he has worked out an excellent plan! (Although this plan is not as intense as Li Zicheng, but at this moment, it is already shocking enough to the world)
Of course, in order to ensure that he gains the greatest advantage, Yang Shanlu gave a secret melodrama to Emperor Chongzhen before he started, explaining in detail what he was going to do, and expounding the reasons for doing so, because he was very clear. This'reform' is even more shocking than the previous governance methods, so the emperor's support must be obtained.
Of course he also believed that as long as he explained the truth clearly, Emperor Chongzhen would definitely support him. After all, as an emperor who wanted to revitalize Daming, he didn't want Daming's country to be destroyed by a group of moths, right? He also didn’t want all of Daming’s land to be concentrated in the hands of a small group of people (they are all those that can’t collect taxes), and then because hundreds of millions of people don’t have land to live on, they can’t survive, they can only be Forced to rebel...
So six months after taking office in Shanxi, the conditions in all aspects are ripe, Yang Shanlu decided to take action on the land issue! That is to say, the horn of the'big battle' was officially sounded! Attack the land problem! (End of this chapter)