The rest are all okay, they are just public security cases, but if the rich buy the land of the poor, this is a very serious problem.

During the Hongwu period, although there was no explicit regulation, the sale of land was not allowed.

But Zhu Yuanzhang was born as a poor peasant, so he naturally knew that the biggest hope of farmers was the field under his feet.

It can be said that with this field, the people have a way out.

But there are always unexpected situations in the sky, and it is impossible to have a smooth life every year. When encountering these major events that require money, it is inevitable to use the land to mortgage it.

When the money is not paid back, the land will naturally be taken away, which is also the way for most wealthy families to annex the land.

Like in movies and TV dramas or operas, there are definitely very few people who often come to grab things and land.

Zhu Qi has to deal with these cases in a special way.

First of all, the government cannot recognize this method of wealthy households purchasing land for poor people.

Zhu Yuanzhang once said this in the first year of Hongwu:

"Those who farmer have their own strength and count the amount of acres to give it. The poor have some money, and the rich cannot merge. If the annexed people occupy more land to make their own business, and then turn them into the poor and let them take the plunder and plant their seeds, they will be punished."

Simply put, there are only three levels. First, the first is to divide the land for everyone who can farm. Second, the rich are strictly prohibited from annexing the land. Third, if you dare to swallow it, you will be guilty and imprisoned.

It is not to explain how serious the land annexation in the middle and late periods of the DPRK was. At least no one dared to do such a thing during the Hongwu period.

Only those who have gained interests in Huaixi are not taking this one seriously.

He has been annexing the surrounding land, which is one of the reasons why Zhu Yuanzhang later cleared them all.

If an ordinary wealthy family of officials and gentry dares to annex the land, let the government know, unless the local government protects you.

Otherwise, if you make this matter more, you will not only have to return the land you annexed, but even the property in your family will be confiscated and your family will be exiled to the frontier.

This is a very big punishment.

Therefore, except for those extremely powerful Huaixi nobles, ordinary landlord families really dare not embezzle farmers' property.

In addition to not daring, after the chaotic times at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the population on the Central Plains had already experienced a sharp decline.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty was still encouraging land reclamation, and the land was far more than people, so naturally there was no such urgent land conflict.

Many wealthy and powerful people would rather hire people to open up wastelands. After all, the land that is opened up is also considered among their own land property.

But it is difficult to ensure that some people who are obsessed with money and lose their minds want to seize those lands with good quality.

There are only a few in Jiangnan, but there is no need to mention the outcome.

In Liaodong, Zhu Qigang came to visit for a few days, but he encountered such cases every day.

The fundamental reason is that the people in Liaodong do not know much about the laws of the Ming Dynasty.

They were still used to doing things in the way they did during the Yuan Dynasty.

However, they are used to it, and the laws of the Ming Dynasty still need to be enforced, so they will naturally not be merciless.

These people first spit out the land, and then confiscate the property of their families. The landlord land that they took back can be distributed to the people below.

But Zhu Qi also understood that all this seemed beautiful and was only temporary.

At most, it will last for seventy or eighty years. After the population has doubled, this land will definitely not be enough.

It is even more impossible and unrealistic to eliminate those rich landlords.

As long as it is a feudal dynasty system, even if it is perfected, it is impossible to liberate the peasants on the land.

Because vested interests and the ruling class do not stand with the people at all.

This involves deeper institutional and philosophical issues, but this is not something Zhu Qi has considered. Anyway, it would be enough to live the current seventy or eighty years.

Zhu Qi was not verbally speaking. With a wave of his hand, he sent all these cases to trial. In short, it would be done if he robbed the rich and helped the poor.

However, Zhu Qi did not forget his mood, so he was prepared, that was the issue of opening a new school in Liaodong.

The people of the Ming Dynasty all wanted their children to take the imperial examination.

As long as you pass the imperial examination, you will not only be exempted from the land tax, but also become an official in the future. There are many benefits, so you don’t need to mention it too much.

It’s just the Four Books and Five Classics, these things may be very valuable for stabilizing social relations.

But it is of little use to the development of the country and science and technology.

Therefore, Zhu Qi's new school, regardless of the Four Books and Five Classics, mainly focuses on natural science and prefers science content.

Of course, there are also liberal arts, but liberal arts are not the Four Books and Five Classics, but directly they are Chinese, geography, and historical politics. They are arranged for you at once.

If you want to develop the country, education is the most important thing. If education cannot keep up, let alone anything else.

How many countries have achieved their rise in modern times? Isn’t it just to start with education and then overtake?

There is no problem of overtaking in the Ming Dynasty now. After all, he is the only one in the world.

Other countries are not in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty. Even if they are as powerful as the Northern Yuan Dynasty, they are now being hammered by the Ming Dynasty.

With such a great advantage, Zhu Qi naturally could not miss this wave of dividends during the Hongwu period when politics was the most clear.

Taking advantage of the fact that we should quickly set up new schools in Liaodong and promote new education, it will naturally have many benefits for the Ming Dynasty.

This is also considered a useful thing that Zhu Qi, the few princess who can do for the Ming Dynasty.

To build a new school, it is not just a whisper. The first thing to do is to build a school is to modify the house.

Zhu Qi naturally doesn't know how to build a house.

Although there is cement in hand, Zhu Qi does not intend to use cement to build a house, because Zhu Qi does not have the key props to build a house in cement - steel bars.

Cement production is very simple and not complicated, but the manufacturing of steel bars is much more complicated.

If you are not an industrial country, you can't even make screws, let alone things like steel bars.

When the founding of New China, it was impossible to create such things. It was later that with the help of the elder brother, that he successfully established his own industrial system.

Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, the current technology is already working hard to produce cement, so there is no need to think about steel bars or something.

Some people may say that, don’t the countryside use cement and bamboo to build houses?

Don’t make a mistake. In the countryside, cement and bamboo are not built on houses, but on the cement floor in the yard.

Cement and bamboo can indeed be used to build a house, but I won’t talk about the safety of the house built in this way, and it may collapse in two or three years.

How heavy is this cement? It can kill people by pressing it down.

However, if you build cement floors on the open space in the yard, bamboo can be used instead of the function of steel bars.

As for using cement to modify the fortifications, this is naturally OK. Just using cement to paste the wall will not pose too much threat to human lives, but if you use cement to build a house, it is really a joke about your life.

Because of this, the construction of a new school can make Zhu Qi not many choices.

After thinking about it, I should use cement to build walls and grounds, and the rest should be made using conventional construction methods.

The craftsmen are already very skilled in the use of cement. Zhu Qi brought so many craftsmen this time, so he is naturally well-manned.

However, some people were recruited in Liaodong to train these craftsmen and teach them how to use cement to build ground and walls.

As for other main buildings of the school, I directly asked local people to help build them.

Nowadays, every ordinary person is a good person in building houses. Not only that, he also decorates, which can be said to be almost omnipotent.

Of course, no one will be missing.

Zhu Qi may not have much money, but there are really a lot of things like money. Not to mention the money I earned in Yingtian Mansion in recent years, even Zhu Yuanzhang won’t count them clearly.

So, the people in Liaoyang saw His Highness, who had just arrived in Liaoyang, began to wield the gold, silver and jewelry in their hands, recruit craftsmen, and build houses for him.

Everyone thought that His Highness of the Liao King was going to build a new Liao King's Mansion.

Although the bedroom where His Highness the King of Liao lives is very large and grand, it was created by the Emperor of Northern Yuan before. Maybe people would like to think that this place is unclean and might want to build a separate palace!

However, the common people just guessed this way, and some people who knew the inside story said to the outside world:

"Your Highness the King of Liao is not going to build an palace!

His Highness, the King of Liao, is going to build a school.”

As for what the school is for? It must be used for us ordinary people to go to school!

Everyone was confused when they heard this. Private schools were not as popular as those in the middle and late Ming dynasties.

Even in the late Song Dynasty, a large number of private schools appeared, but after the destruction of the Yuan Dynasty, the private schools fell into decline again.

It was not until the middle and late Ming Dynasty that private schools began to flourish again, and reached their peak during the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, everyone’s first reaction to the concept of school is the Imperial College in Yingtianfu.

Then I heard others say that the school that His Highness of the Liao Dynasty was not a school like the Imperial College, and it was not for the imperial examination, but for the purpose of filling the talent gap in the Liao Dynasty's palace.

Anyway, all kinds of statements have come out, and the people don’t know which one is true and which one is false, but it’s not a bad thing to have a new school.

If your own child can really go to this school to study, even if he doesn’t take the imperial examination in the future, he can go to the Liao King to do things, which would be much more convenient.

These days, ordinary people have to pay taxes and labor according to their own household registration system.

But if you can surrender to the name of officials and nobles and become their servants, you will not have to pay taxes and labor. This is also a disadvantage of the Ming Dynasty's household registration system.

After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, many ordinary people became servants of other dignitaries in order to evade taxes and labor.
To be continued...