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Chapter 750 Confiscation of land and property

Not only did the thousands of people not give in, but instead roared in the crowd.

"Friends, let these treacherous ministers of the eunuch party break into the Huaihe River. The millions of people in the Huaihe River are incompatible with the eunuch party!" A green insect in the crowd shouted loudly.

"Who dares to come up! Stop the Jinyiwei's case handler, and kill him without mercy!" Zhang Shuheng drew his sword and shouted.

The two thousand Jinyiwei and the five hundred Dongchang men were arranged in neat formations, with the crossbow in their hands hanging and the long spear pointed at the front. As long as the people on the opposite side dared to attack the Jinyiwei, they would start a massacre at the unarmed people without hesitation.

"Brother, they are also innocent people, so we do this." An Jinyiwei was a little embarrassed and asked his biological brother.

"Third brother, remember, who gave us our lives? It was given by the Emperor Daming! We were all victims who were about to starve to death! If the Emperor Daming asked Grandpa Zhang to take us in, our family would have been starved from the north! Our brother's lives would have been sold to the Emperor!" Another Jinyiwei whispered.

Seeing that the Jinyiwei was at a strife, the people didn't dare to get on. They had heard of the evil names of these Jinyiwei.

There was a riot in the crowd, but no one dared to take a step forward, and some people still retreated slightly. At this time, only a noise was heard and people were talking.

"These Jinyiwei heard that they are so fierce."

"That's right, they really dare to suppress them in Linqing, Shandong."

"Many people died in Linqing, and the canal is dyed red."

"What a fool!"

"Shh, whisper! Don't die anymore? Although the emperor is a foolish monarch, we can't die in vain."

"Friends!" The green worm in the crowd roared with a dying struggle, "Don't be afraid of them! They dare not kill too many people! Friends, come on!"

No one dared to get on. Not only was the Jinyiwei's sword at the slightest, but the cavalry in heavy armor had already shown their weapons. Some cavalry behind them were all dismounted, and the muskets in their hands were aimed at him. Who dared to be the one who dared to take the lead? The opponent was really brave. No one wanted to be the first to get on and die.

Li Guodong rode his horse and walked out of the formation behind him, walked to the empty ground in the middle of the confrontation between the two sides, and opened his voice and said loudly: "Friends, you can call me the executioner who massacred innocent people, you can call me the eunuch party, and you can call me a traitor. Maybe you are afraid of the two thousand Jinyiwei and the five hundred east factory behind me, and also my three thousand cavalry. You are afraid and dare not come up. But today I came here not to wave the butcher knife at you, but to sue.

Let me tell you, Your Majesty has issued an imperial edict! Wang Yongji switches to the enemy, the evidence is conclusive, all the property of the nine Wang clans is confiscated, all the usury loans issued by the Wang clans are exempted from interest, and only the principal is recovered. All the land of the Wang clans are confiscated and confiscated, and converted into imperial land, and belongs to the Emperor's Emperor! The imperial farms are continued to farm by the original tenants, and rent is reduced to 40%, and all other taxes are exempted! All the usury loans you owed to the Wang clan are exempt from interest, and as long as the principal is returned."

There was silence in the crowd, and everyone was stunned: Is there such good things in the world?

Most of these people are tenants of the Wang family's nine tribes. The land rent they have to pay on weekdays is at least 60%! The better land rent even reaches 70%! If it is a good year with good weather, there will be food left. The ordinary year will only be able to support the family's life.

But in recent years, how can there be any good years? Over the years, disasters have been constant, either drought or floods. After paying the land rent, the remaining food is not enough to support the family. What should I do? Using slack farming to do some short-term work is not enough to support the family, so I have to borrow usury. Once I borrow usury, my descendants will never be able to pay it back.

"Wuweibo, is there really that good thing?" asked a tenant.

"Yes, is there such a good thing? Didn't the court confiscate the property of the criminals and be taken away by another official? Or was it sold to a gentry master?"

Li Guodong turned around and said, "Eunuch Wang, read the imperial edict!"

Wang Chengen opened the imperial edict and read it loudly: "Fu Tian Chengyun, the emperor said, Wang Yongji, the former governor of Ji Liao of Ming Dynasty, colluded with Jiannu, and led Jiannu into the pass to harm the people. The evidence is conclusive, and the nine clans should be destroyed..."

When everyone saw the imperial edict, they knelt on the ground and listened to Wang Chengen's announcement of the imperial edict.

The meaning of the imperial edict was very obvious. Wang Yongji committed a serious crime of treason and should have been killed in the nine clans, but the emperor was kind and polite, and could not bear to kill more people. He only killed Wang Yongji himself, his parents, his wife and children. All male members in the nine clans were exiled to Qiongzhou, and his female relatives were filled with Jiaofangsi, and all the land and property were confiscated.

All confiscated land was confiscated into the imperial farm. The original tenant stayed in the imperial farm and continued to farm. The identity became the tenant of the imperial farm. The land rent was reduced to 40%, and the tenant of the imperial farm was exempted from all taxes. Similarly, all the loan bans were regarded as the royal family's property was confiscated and confiscated, and belonged to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. The tenant who owed usury was just handed over the principal to the emperor. Whether it was the interest itself or the interest of the interest on the interest, they were exempted.

In addition, all the slaves and servants sold to the Wang family, whether they were slaves or maids, obtained the status of good men in the imperial village. They hired workers and long-term workers as usual, but they became hired workers and long-term workers in the imperial village, and the targets of their service were from the gentry of the Wang family to His Majesty the Emperor.

After Wang Chengen finished reciting the imperial edict, Li Guodong continued to speak: "Dear fellow villagers, do you still need to die for the Wang family for vain? What you are going to do now, isn't you reveal all the gentry who has a relationship with the Wang family? As long as they are involved in the case of rebellion, all their land will be returned to the emperor, and the usury you owe will be paid off soon!"

"The tyrant! The tyrant is the tyrant!" Some guys wearing silk clothes mixed in the crowd spit blood and fainted on the spot.

Li Guodong's ultimate move was released, and he persuaded all the tens of thousands of people who blocked the road without bloodshed. Not only did he persuaded the people who blocked the road, but these people also turned into the emperor's allies! The unlucky one was naturally the gentry within the nine tribes of the Wang family.

Moreover, as Wang Yongji's major rebellion case continues to be investigated, many officials, gentry, and merchants who collude with Wang Yongji will be involved in this case, and their fields will be confiscated. Wang Chengen, some corrupt officials, did not mind that Chongzhen would be punished by skinning and putting them on!

The "petitioner petition" storm organized by the gentry within the nine tribes of the Wang family was easily resolved by Li Guodong, but the nine tribes of the Wang family would not be willing to sit still and wait for death, and they were still making the final resistance.

A large group of local gentry from Xuzhou and scholars who came from across the river from the south of the Yangtze River surrounded outside Chongzhen's temporary palace and shouted for justice to Wang Yongji.

"The Wang family is innocent!"

"It was Wu Sangui, a traitor invader in Jiannu. Mr. Tieshan was just a hostage for him. What's more, even if Mr. Tieshan wanted to borrow troops to suppress the enemy, his original intention was to break into the rebels and invade the ancestral temple. He wanted to imitate the story of Emperor Suzong of Tang borrowing troops from the Uighurs to ease the Historical Rebellion. The loyal ones were still the Ming Dynasty was not rebellious."

"Yes, Mr. Tieshan borrowed troops to suppress the enemy for the sake of the Ming Dynasty. If the Qing soldiers went south to destroy the rebels, why would the Ming Dynasty lose the Central Plains!"

"Mr. Tieshan is a loyal and kind person in the Ming Dynasty!"

Chongzhen simply learned from his brother Tianqi and his grandfather Wanli, and hid in the palace and did not dare to show up, allowing those scholars to yell outside.

As for scholars who want to attack the palace? When is the Huai Army outside a vegetarian?

"The Sword of Shangfang is here! Those who trespassed into His Majesty's palace will be killed without mercy!" Sun Chuanting pulled out the Sword of Shangfang and yelled.
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