"This is no problem. Your Majesty, in the opinion of the minister, you can ask the officials and gentry to sell vacant fields to the court as official farms, and then the court will distribute these fields to self-cultivated farmers with few land and few land, or ask the self-cultivated farmers with wealthy labor to apply for contracts. Of course, the officials and gentry can also not sell them, but they must be wary of forcing the common people to be tenants."

Fang Congzhe said at this time.

Zhu Youxiao nodded and smiled, "What Yuan Fu said is very good! Just do it!"

Fang Congzhe was obviously good at understanding the thoughts of Emperor Zhu Youxiao, and knew that the emperor wanted to curb land annexation or even reduce land annexation, so he suggested that the gentry sell vacant land to the court.

Yuan Keli glanced at Fang Congzhe, and he had to admit that he was still in a way to please the emperor compared to Fang Congzhe.

...

"Mr. Song, I believe he already knows the imperial edict for the arrested tenant farmers?"

Huang Liji asked Song Quan with a depressed look on his face.

Song Quan nodded and said, "All the tenants were exiled, but in this case, who would cultivate our fields? Besides, many of these tenants are the tribe members and fellow villagers of the officials and gentry, and the foundation for our officials and gentry to fight against the government in the local area! Now, if these tenants are exiled, what is damaged is the foundation for our officials and gentry."

"Who said no? The officials, gentry and tenant farmers who were causing trouble had never fought against His Majesty! However, His Majesty's methods are really cruel. First, suppress them cruelly, and don't care about their reputation. Then exil all the arrested tenant farmers, so that your officials, gentry forces will be dismembered!"

Huang Liji replied with a wry smile.

At this moment, Huang Liji heard crying outside.

"Lost your companion!"

Huang Liji had to say something to Song Quan, then walked out of his pavilion, called his butler Qin Rui and asked, "What's going on?"

Qin Rui hurriedly replied: "Go back to the master! The scholars from the fellow countrymen also came to Beijing with a group of tenant farmers from our Huang family, saying that they also followed the officials, gentry, tenant farmers from Shuntian Prefecture to participate in yesterday's trouble. Now several of their relatives and friends have been arrested and said they were going to exile. Now they are here to find you and ask you to help!"

After hearing this, Huang Liji suddenly felt a cold sweat all over his body and shouted: "What are you talking about? Our tenant farmers have always abide by the rules, so how dare they go to Beijing to cause trouble! Besides, my Huang family has always been law-abiding the public. How could they go against the court because the officials and gentry paid food together? Those people outside must be slandering my Huang family and driving them away! No, let's tie them up and send them to the government."

"yes!"

The butler replied quickly.

Soon, several Huang family tenants who came to Huang Liji were also very angry when they learned that Huang Liji refused to help them.

Someone directly scolded: "The surname is Huang! When you came to school, you relied on the money you borrowed from your family by my father. Now you have donated your land to you. Why are you now becoming more developed and you don't recognize others!"

"That's right, this time we are here to speak for you scholars, why don't you come out to speak for us!"

"Yes! Didn't you guys say that the court would not do anything to the people? Why did the people from the West Factory bombard us directly with gunfire!"

Then, the others also questioned.

Huang Liji was a little distressed and couldn't help but come back and said to Song Quan: "I didn't instruct them to oppose the court, why did I blame me for coming? These unruly people are really!"

"What Huang Gong said is that these unreasonable people are so unreasonable! I thought that if I had a few words for the scholars, the scholars would have to disobey the court for them? It's really funny!"

Song Quan said with a smile.

At this time, Huang Liji's butler Qin Rui had already brought the Huang family slaves to the outside and shouted to the tenants: "Whatever you want to say, tie them up and send them to the government!"

...

Huang Liji is not the only civil servant to do so.

Although these rural brave men gathered together to demonstrate to the scholars.

However, the scholars who have been in the capital who have been an official or studied do not buy their accounts, and are even in a hurry to separate themselves from them, and take the initiative to arrest the tenant farmers who are causing trouble in the government.

Therefore, the tenant farmers did not do anything in the end. Even if some tenant farmers wanted to rebel, they were first informed by the officials and gentry from the hometown, and were suppressed by the government.

The officials and gentry were very cowardly and very different in this incident.

There is no way out. The class position of officials and gentry determines that he cannot turn against the court for the sake of the tenants.

After all, they still need to rely on the court to maintain their other interests.

Therefore, except for ordinary scholars like Jiang Hede and Gao Eryan who were executed for participating in the agitation, most of the officials and gentry in Northern Zhili were not implicated because of the gathering of local brave men to demonstrate this time, and continued to actively write New Year's greetings to His Majesty the Emperor on the seventh year of the Apocalypse, and naturally there were many praises in the greetings.

The tenant farmers involved in the trouble were miserable. They had to tie up their hands and then boarded the ship in batches to Taiwan and Nagasaki, leaving their hometowns.

Some of them felt resentful because of this, thinking that the officials betrayed them and harmed them, but they had no choice but to do anything about it.

"I heard that Huang Liji, Wei Zaode and his court officials took the initiative to send the tenant farmers who came to find them to the government?"

In the Political Affairs Hall, Zhu Youxiao also asked Fang Congzhe about this.

Fang Congzhe replied with a smile: "Your Majesty, this is indeed true."

Zhu Youxiao nodded: "Everyone knows the right position. The officials and gentry of Shuntian Prefecture, which has been implemented in the same way as the officials and gentry of Shuntian Prefecture. Once Shuntian Prefecture is over, we will first implement the policy of the government of Shanxi to pay the same way as the officials and gentry of food and gentry, and then in Shandong, Shaanxi, and all the way to the whole country."

"When the officials and gentry paid the food together, they should be reformed in the opinion of the ministers. Today, especially in Jiangnan, the scholars and people are no longer mainly engaged in agriculture, and commercial tax should begin to be the main source of taxation in the Ming Dynasty."

Yuan Keli said this at this time.

After hearing this, Fang Congzhe glanced at Yuan Keli. He knew that Yuan Keli suddenly raised the commercial tax and came to him.

Zhu Youxiao also saw this and knew it in his heart, but he intended to let civil gentry and civil officials who appeared in the business gentry class check and balance each other. Now, the civil gentry on Yuan Keli's side suffered losses because the officials and gentry paid the food and paid the profits together, so he naturally needed to support civil gentry and crack down on the business gentry, and said: "The commercial tax needs to be changed! Yuan Fu will preside over a court discussion with the participation of the cabinet and ministers of the Ministry and the court, and the court discusses the commercial tax matter."

"I obey the order! However, there is still something now, I have to report to Your Majesty."

Fang Congzhe replied.

"speak!"

Zhu Youxiao had to admit that as his emperor became more and more powerful, the open and secret struggles between ministers were much more obscure than those of Wanli Taichang and his first ascension to the throne. They were all very cautious and abide by the rules, unlike before, who were directly impeached by the white-faced impeachment, and even kept their concealment and cried and advised them at any time. Moreover, political enemies were either dead or alive, only stating whether they were accomplices, whether they were right or wrong.

He found that even though Fang Congzhe did not want Yuan Keli to discuss the commercial tax matter proposed by him, he did not directly object to refute it, but instead changed the topic.

"What I want to report is that the eldest son of the emperor is now four years old and I don't know if he should leave the cabinet and study. I would like to ask His Majesty for instructions."

Fang Congzhe asked.
Chapter completed!