Fu Changzong was preparing to build the 'Suyanghangzhou Agricultural Reform Demonstration Zone' in the south of the Yangtze River, meeting with people one after another, holding meetings, implementing the power and responsibility to the people, supervising the use of money and grain, and other aspects, and most importantly, they were preparing to draw up a detailed reform plan, which should be submitted to the cabinet and the Qianqing Palace. ∥ This is an ambitious and huge plan, involving a lot of money and huge investment, and the shock caused in Jiangnan can be imagined.
Seventy-six Xinzhi counties in the three northern provinces, Beizhili, Shandong, and Shanxi, most of whom were from political academies, were protégés of the Son of Heaven and staunch supporters of the 'New Deal'.
The impact on the three northern provinces was like an earthquake, and I don't know how many people were panicked and couldn't sleep day and night.
For the political faculties, it is natural to rejoice, indicating that they will enter the formal officialdom on a large scale, breaking the barriers.
At the end of April, the Cabinet issued a decree prohibiting all land transactions, and the transactions before the decree must be reviewed at the prefectural level, which was filed with the General Qingtian Group, and required all land owners in the Ming Dynasty to be re-registered, clarifying the owner, location, and quantity, and those who refused to register were confirmed by the ownerless and returned to the imperial court.
Again, the purpose of the decree is to ascertain the status of the land and to provide support for land surveying.
This decree is different from the household register, where the household can hide, but the land cannot be hidden.
In particular, the impact of the three northern provinces has been very severe, and it is tantamount to thunderstorm.
Most of the current land transactions are 'private', and the government's filing is also dispensable, and with the gradual standardization of various reforms in the imperial court, those things that are taken for granted have gradually become 'illegal'.
When it comes to land, more than seventy percent of them are 'illegal', and the imperial court's increasingly tough land acquisition has brought the three provinces to a boil.
The reform of the Ming Dynasty is entering a substantive stage, and every move has a major impact on the local area and causes a series of shocks.
In response to a series of cabinet decrees, opponents gave speeches in major academies, strongly opposed the 'new policy', and even tried to launch another polemic in the newspapers.
The reformers were relatively calm, and kept writing letters, calling for the imperial court to be controlled, not one-size-fits-all, and slowly plotting the clouds.
Sun Chuanting shrugged off these and pressed the cabinet like a mountain, forcing all parties to speed up the pace of reform and advance the established plan.
At the beginning of May, as the leader of the Qingtian group, Li Banghua, the head of the household department, left Beijing and went to Shandong to preside over land registration and measurement.
Governor Feng Jiangfeng also entered the front line, giving those new prefects and county governors a platform, promoting the reform of official governance, determining the rights and responsibilities of the new yamen at all levels, and promoting the development of a series of affairs.
On the twelfth day of the month, a carriage from Nanzhili slowly entered Beijing from Yongding Gate and drove straight to the Forbidden City.
In the carriage, sitting was Li Youtang, who had served as the chairman of the Royal Trading Group for several months.
Beside him was a half-hundred-year-old man like a 'staff', he looked at Li Youtang and said, "My lord, I am afraid that there will be a lot of pressure when I enter Beijing this time, so I must be prepared." ” Li Youtang nodded calmly, his expression was calm, and he did not see panic.
The reason why there is 'multiple pressures' is because the Royal Trading Group has a huge amount of money and food in its hands.
Not only is the scale of the Royal Trading Group itself huge, and the profits are endless, the Royal Bank's '40,000 Silver Plan', the most important undertaker, the executor, is the Royal Trading Group, not to mention the most important land resumption plan.
Therefore, the amount of money and food that comes and goes in his hand is unimaginable, and Li Youtang, as the chairman, is facing pressure from all sides.
The old man looked at Li Youtang, paused for a moment, and said: "Now the gentry all over the country have hoarded more than 300 million mu of fields, and the total amount of fertilizer produced by the ploughs and cattle cultivated is also 10,000 taels.
I can still hold it now, but if it takes another month, I'm afraid there will be a big mess......"
If these people go bankrupt, to put it mildly, the bankruptcy of the gentry is equivalent to the collapse of the grassroots of the Ming Dynasty, and the people have become duckweed without sustenance; The big businessmen went bankrupt, the business order was disordered, and the whole Ming Dynasty would be in chaos.
The consequences are unimaginable!
Li Youtang glanced at him, and said in a tone without sadness or joy, "There are a lot of people looking for you?"
” The old man hurriedly bowed down and said, "It's not just the villain, I don't know how many people have come to the door up and down the Shenlong Mansion in the past half a month, and there are more than 20 banquets that the villain has to go to." ” Li Youtang's face was as usual, but he felt a big headache.
It's not just them, even Li Youtang is the same.
Some officials of Nan Zhili went to the Shenlong Mansion to talk about things, and the words were also temptations, and he couldn't avoid these officials, but fortunately, he really didn't know about the arrangements of the cabinet, and he was at ease.
Li Youtang entered the palace through the Donghua Gate and entered the cabinet building.
Sun Chuanting and the three cabinet ministers in the cabinet received him and talked for half an hour, and Sun Chuanting took Li Youtang to the Qianqing Palace.
In terms of establishment, the Royal Trade Group is subordinate to the cabinet, although there is no establishment, but Li Youtang is a member of the Sanpin, and in disguise, the Royal Trade Group has been promoted to the position of a 'Sanpin Yamen'.
Sun Chuanting took Li Youtang to the gate of Qianqing Palace, looked at Li Deyong, who walked out quickly, and asked, "Gonggong Li, can the emperor be in the palace?"
” Li Deyong hurriedly raised his hand and said, "Looking back, Your Majesty just went to the Queen Mother's place, and now it should be in Yonghe Palace." ” Yonghe Palace, that is, the noble concubine Xingzi Niangniang.
The queen and this concubine are about to give birth, and Sun Chuanting can understand, and said, "Okay, then the official will wait." ” Li Deyong was under great pressure in the face of Sun Chuanting, how dare he really let him stand here and wait, and said with a smile: "There is a pantry in it that has just been cleaned up, Shoufu and Master Li sit for a while, Your Majesty must be back soon." ” Sun Chuanting nodded slightly, and took Li Youtang into the pantry.
Zhu Xu was indeed in Yonghe Palace at this time, chatting with Xingzi.
Xingzi is nine months pregnant, and she is about to give birth.
She sat on the soft chair, touched her stomach with both hands, looked at Zhu Xu with a smile on her face, and said, "Your Majesty has a lot of opportunities, you don't have to work hard to come to the concubine, the queen mother takes care of her very thoughtfully, and it should be arranged, which is not much different from Kunning Palace." ” Zhu Xu was very relieved of Zhang Yun, looked at Xingzi and said, "Originally, I wanted you and the queen to go to the imperial sister-in-law, but the queen felt that it was not appropriate to trouble the imperial sister-in-law to go out of the palace, and she was still better in the palace, and she was about to give birth, so if you need anything, just tell me." ” Although Xingzi was once a tiānhuáng of the Wa Kingdom, he didn't have so many pampering and countless needs, and said with a smile: "The concubines don't lack anything, please Your Majesty don't need to worry about it." ” Zhu Xu glanced at Hezi standing beside her, but she was relieved, and said some more words, and then returned to the Qianqing Palace.
Sun Chuanting and Li Youtang followed Zhu Xu into the Qianqing Palace, and reported on the development and future planning of the Shenlong Mansion and the Royal Commerce and Trade Group.