Zhang Guowei hurriedly bowed and replied:

"Reporting to Your Majesty, the land inventory of the guard station is still in progress, and some obstacles have been encountered during the process, so the inventory work is progressing slowly..."

After Zhang Guowei finished speaking, he looked at the distinguished nobles and snorted softly...

A dozen Nanjing dignitaries suddenly frowned and secretly cursed Zhang Guowei for not knowing how to commend himself.

Zhang Guowei has recently begun to boldly inspect the guards and their land every day, even without asking for any money. Today he even hinted to the little emperor in person.

After more than 200 years of changes, more than half of the land belonging to dozens of military households in southern Zhili has become the private land of nobles.

Zhang Guowei's forceful inspection of the guard's land was obviously against the nobles. Of course, the nobles would not cooperate and had been stumbling in secret.

If Emperor Shenwu hadn't suddenly gone south, they would most likely have asked Zhang Guowei to meet Hong Chengchou...

Of course Zhu Cihong understood Zhang Guowei's intention. He looked at Wei Guogong Xu Hongji and asked lightly:

"Wei Guogong, you are in charge of the Rear Army Governor's Mansion. I would like to know why the land inventory of the South Zhili Guard Station has been repeatedly obstructed?"

Xu Hongji hurriedly bowed and saluted:

"Your Majesty, I have not obstructed the land inventory. The land of the guard station is the public land of the country. There may be some generals of the guard station who privately occupy the land of military households. This is actually an act of corruption and perversion of the law. I will send someone to investigate in detail and I will definitely give it to you."

Your Majesty, give me an explanation!"

"Oh 6"

Zhu Cixi couldn't help but exclaimed. He looked at Wei Guogong Xu Hongji with some surprise. Could it be that this old fox was going to enforce the law impartially?

After thinking for a moment, Zhu Cihong guessed what the old fox was thinking. He nodded and said:

"Wei Guogong understands justice well. In this case, I will give you five days. If there is no progress after five days, I will ask you."

Before Wei Guogong could speak, Zhu Cixiang continued:

"Zhang Aiqing, please assist Wei Guogong in the investigation. I will see the new yellow book in five days."

"I obey the decree!"

Zhang Guowei accepted the order happily. While secretly happy, he glanced at the nobles whose expressions changed slightly from the corner of his eye and thought to himself:

"Aren't you nobles awesome? I want to see if I dare to expose the Shenwu Emperor..."

…

After retreating from the court, Wei Guogong Xu Hongji and the Minister of War Zhang Guowei immediately launched an investigation. This time, the reaction of the generals of the various guards was not as intense as imagined.

Emperor Shenwu Fengyang went on a killing spree and even Zuo Liangyu of Jiujiang was killed, which has frightened many people.

This time he is leading his troops south again. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that land reform is inevitable. Who dares to resist...

However, there are policies and countermeasures, and it is obviously unrealistic to expect them to hand over all the land they have acquired in the past two hundred years at once.

Zhu Cixiang was of course not worried about these moths. He had already sent people to keep an eye on them and was fully aware of their methods.

Some nobles in Nanjing found people to pretend to be military households to increase their income, and they also wanted to use these military households to continue to eat the free wages of the Nanjing camp.

It has to be said that this group of nobles is very distinguished. The yellow list of the guard station sent by Wei Guogong has some changes compared with the previous period, and a small group of officers who invaded and occupied the farmland were found.

Duke Xu Hongji of Wei ordered them to be executed, which was an explanation to Emperor Shenwu.

But Zhu Cixi was an economical lamp. He could not be fooled by them, so he immediately issued an order:

"Anyone who pretends to be a military household will be beheaded. All officers who instigate others to pretend to be military households will be beheaded and their homes will be confiscated once found."

At the same time as the imperial edict was issued, tens of thousands of national defense troops were mobilized to go to various prefectures in southern Zhili to carefully check the land of nobles and guards, and re-register the fields...

From then on, South Zhili was in a state of chaos, and the national defense troops were divided into groups to conduct large-scale inspections in Yingtian Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture, Songjiang Prefecture, Changzhou Prefecture, Zhenjiang Prefecture, Yangzhou Prefecture and other prefectures and counties.

The Protectorate Army is not only composed of generals and soldiers, but also a large number of Imperial College graduates and failed literati who gave up writing and joined the army in their early years.

After two years of training with the army, they have become civilian officers of the National Guard Army and can carry out some investigation work without any pressure.

In order to get opportunities for promotion and salary increase, they, who could not go to the battlefield to fight, worked very hard in this land survey and found out almost all the nobles and guards officers.

With the help of the intelligence department, the investigation progressed extremely quickly. After obtaining the evidence, teams of sergeants and guards began to search homes and seize people...

Amidst the shouts and shouts from all over the place, a large number of gentry who colluded with the officers to invade and occupy the military camps were imprisoned. There were also a group of nobles who were reluctant to hand over the land they had invaded and occupied the military camps. Their homes were also confiscated by the Jin Yiwei, and the resisters were killed on the spot...

…

There were imperial prisons not only in Beijing, but also in Nanjing. During the Hongwu and Yongle years, Jin Yiwei handled many major cases in Nanjing imperial prisons...

Today, Gao Wencai is temporarily appointed as the commander of the Nanjing Jinyiwei. The secret agents of the Jinyiwei he has trained can now legitimately work as Jinyiwei and recruit people.

For a time, Nanjing's imperial prison was crowded with offending guards officers. After interrogation, they were immediately dragged away and executed by the Jin Yiwei...

Anyuan Hou Liuzuo, Changhe Linhuai Hou Li Hongji and other five noble nobles were greedy and failed to hand over the occupied guard land in time, and they were also captured.

Because he was worried about scaring other nobles and causing them to dare not take action again, Zhu Cixiang did not kill them for the time being, and planned to settle the accounts together in the end.

Wei Guogong is really an old fox. During the land inventory, he felt that the wind was going in a bad direction, so he took the initiative to hand over a large amount of occupied land to escape disaster.

Some other nobles who surrendered their occupied fields in advance were not executed. Seeing that Li Hongji and Liu Zuochang were arrested, they all secretly rejoiced. Fortunately, they were ruthless and took the initiative to hand over the fields, otherwise they would have been the ones to be executed.

No one could have guessed that Emperor Shenwu would ignore the protests and demonstrators everywhere and still wantonly massacred the gentry and landlords who resisted the land reform. Even nobles and nobles could not escape death.

After doing this, the nobles in Nanjing became obviously more honest. At the same time, everyone hoped that this murderer would leave quickly and stop staying in Nanjing.

However, the scale of the demonstration did not decrease. On the contrary, more and more people joined in. Most of the new joiners were almost all arrested noble gentry and servants. The gentry also cleverly removed the clause of opposing land reform...

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After this, all the land of the guards in Southern Zhili were taken back by Zhu Cixiang and then redistributed, and the excess land became state-owned farms again...

All the land occupied by the nobles of Nanjing for more than two hundred years was taken back by Emperor Shenwu, and was soon distributed to the common people and military households in need of land...

The main cause of the collapse of the Ming Dynasty was that officers occupied military households' land and asked military households under their jurisdiction to farm it for them.

Eventually, the military households became tenants, without their own land, their lives became increasingly difficult, and more and more military households fled.

Zhu Cixiang has included the above in national laws and requires future generations to strictly abide by them...

As for the taxes on the allocated land, except for the families of the soldiers who died in battle, the rest of the people have to pay as they should.

Since he decided to eliminate the privileges of the gentry class, Zhu Cixiang would naturally not allow the new class to have privileges...

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After Emperor Shenwu entered Nanjing, he did not suppress the demonstrators and gentry.

The originally frightened gentry and merchants all thought that the emperor did not dare to touch them for fear of causing public anger. This self-righteous thought made them frantically jump around in front of the God of Death...

After Zhang Pu, founder of the Fushe, launched an anti-tax rally, it quickly aroused responses from anti-New Deal scholars across Jiangnan.

Hou Fangyu lobbied everywhere, like the god of death, to get most of the Gongyuan students in Nanjing to join the anti-tax rally and openly resist Emperor Shenwu's new policies.

Next to the ruins of Donglin Academy, which was burned down by Huben's army, there were more than ten thousand gentry and literati from all over the Yangtze River. The momentum was huge and rare!

At the conference, Zhang Pu and Hou Fangyu stood on a wooden platform in front of thousands of people. They climbed up and raised their arms and shouted. The surrounding people immediately responded, and the shouts were loud.

Looking at the dense crowd of scholars from all over the world looking up at him below, Zhang Pu couldn't hide the excitement in his heart, and he shouted:

"Emperor Shenwu's new policies are all about competing for interests with the people and are destined to be unpopular. We, our loyal ministers, are all indignant..."

Zhang Pu actually openly pointed the finger at Emperor Shenwu's new policies, and received bursts of warm applause from thousands of people around him...

Hou Fangyu also shouted: "That's right! The new emperor appointed former princelings, excluded all Donglin officials from the center, and paid bounties for scientific research. I really don't know what it means. Without the south to pay taxes and protect the country's army,

Can we suppress the bandits and destroy the slaves?"

Hou Fangyu's speech immediately aroused a burst of applause from the attending scholars, who responded with cheers.

Among the crowd, a northern scholar slapped the loudest. He was Wei Zaode who went south with Hou Fangyu after he failed to pass the exam. He did not dare to speak publicly, so he could only respond with all his strength below...

When Zhang Pu saw this, his face flushed with excitement. He immediately stood in front of Hou Fangyu and shouted:

"We are full of passion, following Donglin, uniting the righteous people, and asking Emperor Shenwu to ban the new policy that harms others and benefits ourselves..."

The more Zhang Pu talked, the more excited he became, and the atmosphere at the scene became more and more enthusiastic. Everyone in the meeting felt that he was the savior of the Ming Dynasty at this time, turning the tide from falling and helping the building to collapse.

Because Zhang Pu was particularly excited, Hou Fangyu wanted to show his style again. He came forward several times before he could speak, but was immediately pulled behind Zhang Pu. Hou Fangyu was so angry that he secretly greeted all eighteen generations of Zhang Pu's ancestors...

However, he remained calm on the surface. He couldn't hold it in any longer, so he could only step forward and say:

"Teacher, let the students say a few more words..."

Zhang Pu had already entered a certain level, but was forcibly interrupted by Hou Fangyu at this time, which made Zhang Pu very unhappy. He was just about to say a few more words to give way, when suddenly several students from Jiangnan Gongyuan hurried over and shouted:

"Sir, something bad is going on. A large number of national defense troops are coming. At this time, we are less than three miles away from our meeting place!!"

Zhang Pu was not nervous when he heard this. He waved his hand disdainfully and said:

"Ignore them, our gathering of scholars is only concerned with national political affairs, and represents the people's support. No matter how unscrupulous Emperor Shenwu is, he will not dare to go against the entire world of scholars, merchants, gentry! As long as we can hold on, Emperor Shenwu will be extremely powerful.

It’s possible to repeal the New Deal…!

Hou Fangyu said hurriedly:

"Yes, what you said is absolutely true. If the little emperor doesn't surrender this time, every scholar present can write a book and scold him to death, and he will be infamy for thousands of years..."

…

Hou Fangyu finally seized the opportunity and hurriedly began to express himself. Zhang Pu had no chance to speak anymore and was so angry that he wanted to vomit blood, but he could not express himself yet.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of neat footsteps:
To be continued...