Just as all the tax-free classes of the Ming Dynasty were in panic and hating Shandong politics, Zhao Yan ordered the measurement of land in four provinces in early April, and at the same time announced the Shanxi Agricultural Tax Reform Act, with a total of five provinces carrying out agricultural tax reform.

Most of the arable land in Shaanxi has been measured, just the one under Zhao Quan's circle. Just measure the remaining arable land.

The measurement of land acres in Shanxi has long been completed, and before the agricultural tax reform was announced, the landlords cooperated very well.

In the three provinces of Sichuan, Huguang and Henan, there are a large number of landlords.

Although these three provinces have been ravaged by thieves, many of the landlords are safe and sound, because most of the landlords have built forts in the places to defend themselves. During the ravages, they generally do not attack those landlords walking in the countryside. First of all, time is not allowed, because many times the official army is behind, and secondly, the distribution is too scattered.

The measurement work is chaired by local officials, personnel are transferred from Shandong, and the armed police force is responsible for cooperation.

The measuring personnel have already arrived in various provinces. Since the announcement of the Agricultural Tax Reform Act, local officials in various places have begun to measure local arable land.

Any land belongs to whom must get the land deed again from the government, and the white deeds in the hands of those landlords will not be recognized.

The landlords in Sichuan, Huguang and Henan provinces were in a panic for a while, and teams of measuring personnel had already begun to measure the land under the protection of fully armed armed police.

Whoever belongs to the land must go to the government to get a new land deed. After the Shandong officials arrived, they had already registered their household registration.

This registration doesn't matter, but it was found that many people have never registered their household registration. In order to register all their household registrations, officials from all over the country had to vigorously publicize the policies.

Under the management of Shandong Zhengfu, people who have registered their household registration will not only not have to bear corvee service, but also not have to bear heavy taxes. In the future, children will also enjoy free education and free medical care.

However, the scope of free education and free medical care has not been fully expanded, which has a lot to do with the shortage of teachers and medical staff.

Financial deficiencies are also one of the major factors. Although Shandong has a lot of fiscal revenue, it is not enough if it is supported by the education and medical care of the entire Ming Dynasty. Under the strong publicity of governments in various places, those people who have never registered their household registration in the government went to the government to register.

During the process of measuring land, violent anti-French incidents broke out in various provinces.

Some landlords relied on their own fortresses to confront officials sent by Shandong Zhengfu.

The report on violent resistance to the law flew to Zhaojiabao like a piece of paper. Most local officials took a concession attitude before receiving the instructions from Zhaojiabao.

The concessions made by Shandong officials in various prefectures and counties in the measurement issue make those landlords even more arrogant.

Within half a month, landlords in Sichuan, Huguang and Henan provinces violently resisted the law. The government's concessions made the landlords think that they had enough strength to protect their ancestors' family business.

In mid-April, Zhao Yan ordered a suppression.

"All dynasties have never had so many privileged classes like the Ming Dynasty. A huge country was bullied by a small barbarian because of financial exhaustion. It is really a big deal that the world is full of chaos. If there is a landlord violently resisting the law, it will be suppressed and there will be no tolerance." Zhao Yan clearly expressed his position in the "Ming Dynasty Journey".

This is also a warning from Zhao Yan to the old forces of the Ming Dynasty. If he had no intention of repentance, he would use iron-fisted measures to eliminate all disobedient ones.

Officials from various provinces received instructions from Zhao Yan to suppress landlords who violently resisted France.

The armed police forces in various provinces began to be frequently mobilized, and used squadrons and squadrons to go to violently resist the French, bombarded the landlord's fortress with cannons, and arrested anti-French personnel.

There are many armed police in each province. Because of the advance arrangement, with sufficient troops, they quickly suppressed violent anti-French incidents in various places.

The front suppressed it, and the land was measured immediately afterwards.

The arrested landlords will be sent to Shandong for trial, and the Shandong court will make different judgments based on different anti-law circumstances.

If the circumstances are mild, they can be released after being detained in the local area for half a month. If the circumstances are serious, they will face different degrees of fines and cause harm. If the case is murdered, they may also face the fate of imprisonment. If the circumstances are particularly serious, all their property will be confiscated.

However, the vassal kings were the most violent resistance to the law. Each vassal king had some guards in his hands. I heard that Zhao Yan was going to carry out agricultural tax reform, and those vassal kings all sent escorts to confront the measuring personnel by force.

The Qin king was alive, and the king of Jin was Qiu Gui, the king of Zhou was Gongye of Taiyuan, the king of Chu, Huakui of Kaifeng, the king of Shu, Zhishu of Wuchang, the king of Shu, Naijun of Chengdu, the king of Liao, Shu, Shu, Shu, Datong, Datong, King of Jingzhou, Yiming of King Xiang, Xiangyang, Ji, and Changsha were the vassal kings of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Huguang and Henan. In addition to these vassal kings, there were countless princes.

During the Chongzhen period of the late Ming Dynasty, there were 25 vassal kings and 137 vassal kings. There were more than 60 vassal kings in these five provinces. These vassal kings and princes were the largest landlords. Almost all Sichuan was swallowed by these vassal kings and princes.

"In addition to the King of Chu who was more cooperative, all other vassal kings had engaged in a forceful confrontation with the measuring personnel, and many of those princes were the same. Lord, it was the time to attack." Mao Yuanyiduo Zhao Yan said.

"Well, let the armed police forces of various provinces serve as the vassal kings and princes who violently resisted the law." Zhao Yan laughed. It was just in line with Zhao Yan's wishes that these vassal kings and princes dared to violently resist the law.

Zhao Yan waved his hand and said, "After arresting, their land will be confiscated according to the severity of the circumstances."

The main purpose of dealing with these vassal kings is to obtain land.

"What should the King of Chu do?" Mao Yuanyi asked for instructions.

"I will issue a breeding license to the King of Chu, give him a limit of 20,000 acres, and allow him to enter and exit the city freely. I will write a letter to him later." Zhao Yan said that the King of Chu had provided military funds at the beginning, and the plot was much better than other vassal kings.

Besides, the King of Chu and Zhao Yan also had some friendship, so it was difficult to do so well.

"Yes." Mao Yuanyi got the instructions and went down to arrange it.

In the General Staff, Liu Yuan and Zhang Zhi were responsible for military operations, while Mao Yuanyi was responsible for commanding internal affairs. Any major actions were taken, the General Staff participated in the command.

Zhao Yan then wrote a letter to the King of Chu, and in which he moved him with emotion and reason was very considerate. After the letter was written, Zhao Yan asked someone to send it out. When the provinces received the order from Zhaojiabao, they also began to take action and arrested the vassal kings and county kings who violently resisted the law.

Armed police in the five provinces were frequently mobilized, and Shaanxi and Shanxi were the first to solve the thorns. Nearly half of the armed police in the two provinces were transferred to Sichuan and Huguang, which had insufficient staff.

Along with the reform of agricultural tax, there is also the work of changing land and returning to the current situation.

There were a large number of chieftains in the Ming Dynasty, and these chieftains were the leaders of ethnic minorities. This chieftain model was intolerable to Zhao Yan.

The workload of changing land and returning to the land is also very large. There are a large number of ethnic minorities in Sichuan and Huguang areas, and most of these ethnic minorities are exploited by chieftains.

Not to mention this, these chieftains are outside administrative management and are the ones that Zhao Yan can’t stand the most, so the chieftains must be banned.

...In the 12th year of Chongzhen, April to May, it was the darkest day in the entire Ming Dynasty royal family.

Shandong Zhengfu sent armed police forces to arrest seven vassal kings and fifty-three princes, including only the Zhou king Zhu Gongye of Kaifeng, the Tang king and Chu king were not stupid enough to fight against Zhao Yan.

However, according to the spy from the Intelligence Department, although the Tang King cooperated very well, he hated Zhao Yan the most and was actively contacting the old forces against Zhao Yan.

Chongzhen in the Forbidden City and the civil and military officials of the dynasty were shocked.

Zhao Yan actually arrested so many vassal kings and princes in just one month.

And not only that, the armed police forces in various provinces were still fighting with chieftains everywhere, and dozens of chieftains were removed within a month.

Most of the toasts are very cooperative, but a few are not obeying the king's laws, and some ethnic minorities also seem very barbaric.

In the Ming Dynasty, the chieftain soldiers often burned, killed, looted and annihilated the Yin Han women during wars. The armed police force was extremely fierce in suppressing the chieftains. Every time a chieftain was destroyed, they would inevitably forcibly move ethnic minorities hundreds of miles.

Migration was a common method used by the Ming Dynasty to deal with ethnic minorities, but it was often only a few dozen miles away. How could it be like Shandong Zhengfu?

Moreover, the Shandong Zhengfu moved this time, and often there were only a dozen households in one place, which means that these ethnic groups would be merged without a few generations. The only thing that is tolerant is that after the migration, some acres would be distributed to them for cultivation.

Chongzhen ignored the life and death of the chieftains, but the Zhu family's royal family was bullied. After being shocked, he was furious, but he was a little rational in his anger.

At this time, Chongzhen was still not ready. Although the old forces in various provinces were connected, they did not integrate well, and his 300,000 imperial guards were not well trained.

Most of the vassal kings and princes who were arrested were detained for half a month. Although the land was confiscated and released after the property was confiscated, all the land that bought land across provinces was confiscated.

The public opinion within this month was undoubtedly extremely surging, and almost the entire Ming elite class attacked Shandong Zhengfu in various newspapers.

Currently, there are several newspapers that can influence the entire Ming Dynasty, most of which are from Shandong, and the others are Chongzhen's "Royal Newspaper".

This incident caused all Shandong newspapers, including the newspaper sales outside the administrative area of ​​Daming Yuebao, to fail.

Zhao Yan shook the interests of the vast number of privileged classes, which were not only royal relatives, but also literary classes.

Only literati who passed the imperial examination can be exempted from taxes, but the problem is that Zhao Yan offended not only those who passed the imperial examination this time, but those who failed the imperial examination also offended because Zhao Yan killed their hopes.

No matter how poor a scholar is, as long as he passes the imperial examination, he is the juren master. Why is he called a juren? The title of juren is generally someone with more identities? That is because juren is exempt from tax after passing the imperial examination, and someone will take the initiative to post it to the door.

The public opinion of Shandong newspapers is on the side of Shandong Zhengfu, so most literati naturally do not buy it. Except for a few rational literati, other literati do not buy Shandong newspapers, so they all fail. Instead, the sales volume of Royal Daily is booming.

The Royal Daily criticized Zhao Yan's approach, and during this period, Zhao Yan and Chongzhen blew up several times in the newspaper.

Chongzhen angrily accused Zhao Yan of lawlessness and despising the law.

Zhao Yan retorted that the Contract did not stipulate this aspect. Shandong Zhengfu had autonomy in internal affairs and the provisions were clearly stipulated in the Contract. Those vassal kings and landlords violently resisted the law, so they naturally had to severely punish them. At the same time, they angrily accused the royal family of occupying the land and competing for profit with the people.

Zhao Yan didn't take Chongzhen seriously at all, and he would squirt whenever he wanted to. Chongzhen became angry and had a big fight with Zhao Yan.

The two sides had been criticizing each other for more than a month and had no military action. Many people were still looking forward to Emperor Chongzhen's ability to fight back in the military, but all their expectations were vain.

Chongzhen did not plan to take action now, and Zhao Yan's expectations were also dashed.

"It's really unexpected that Chongzhen can still tolerate it at this time!" Zhao Yan had been slandering Chongzhen in Zhaojiabao for more than a month, which was really surprising.

The four cavalry brigades of the Shandong Army were transferred back to Monan, and they were waiting for Chongzhen to take the move first. Once the agreement was broken, Zhao Yan would have an excuse.

In fact, you can do anything or not, but it’s not so open and upright. How could Zhao Yan destroy his glorious image?

But this is also good, so I slowly cooked Chongzhen to death.

Since he can tolerate this, then continue to be more aggressive! Cut his arms a few more times. When the conflict between the two sides begins, it will be seen that Chongzhen has some help.

At this time, after Zhao Yan defeated the vassal kings, county kings, and landlords of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan, Huguang and Henan Province, Chongzhen had lost a large part of his support.

The land of those vassal kings and princes was confiscated, and all of them were confiscated.

Those who have not been confiscated will inevitably be transferred under the implementation of the Agricultural Tax Reform Act. Or when they violently resist the law when paying the tax, they will confiscate the land directly.

Land is the most important means of production in this era. Without land, it means no money.

Without money, it means that you cannot help Chongzhen, so Chongzhen gradually lost the capital to make money.

Zhao Yan's behavior seriously violates the law because he did not even leave the cabinet's procedures, but who will pursue it?

As long as it is not too sensitive, Zhao Yan said that legality is legal.

The so-called sensitivity is military. The core is about the throne, and these are all sensitive. Although the vassal kings and landlords were sensitive, they shook the entire ruling class of the Ming Dynasty, they did not shake the emperor.

Since Chongzhen did not respond, Zhao Yan immediately issued an order to increase political propaganda.

The so-called political propaganda means going to other provinces to publicize the various benefits of Shandong's political axe to the people.

When the upper class collectively hated Zhao Yan, the lower class collectively longed for Zhao Yan to take charge of the world.
To be continued...