Of course Zhan Du won't come out to greet him...

In fact, he ignored Wang Yue at all. What else can I say at this time? He said that he was blocking Wang Yue from entering the court as a local official in the court?

Ignore.

Besides, there is no reason to say this.

Just hit it!

Of course, it is still unlikely to fight directly, and King Wang is not prepared to attack forcefully.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Yue's army of 20,000 troops camped outside Zhending City, and then began to siege the city, mainly making various siege equipment, mainly counterweight catapults, anyway, they were their own territory behind them. At this time, the people of Zhongshan who had just completed the division of land and had harvested their own food in the first season were happily transporting military supplies here in small cars one by one.

Food, meat, and even canned sea fish...

In crock pots.

This season has not been frozen yet, so it is transported directly from Tianjin Water Transport Dingzhou.

In short, 20,000 troops set up twenty military camps outside Zhending City in early winter, and then made siege equipment in sight on the city wall.

The 50,000 defenders on the city wall were watching silently.

They also did not attack, and there were real and victorious troops outside, so field battles were definitely not possible, just using defending to drag them down. The gentry of Hebei did not think of really defeating Wang Yue. They used this war to show their strength to force Wang Yue to give up the idea of ​​harming them. After all, they did not think that Wang Yue was really determined to equalize the fields. In their opinion, Wang Yue just wanted to bribe the unruly people and then use it as the basic foundation to fulfill his ambition to usurp the throne.

The gentry from Hebei did not mind that he planned to usurp the throne.

In fact, no one minded that the gentry or the people of the Song Dynasty knew very well that the Zhao family was the one who bullied orphans and widows to seize the world.

The Zhao family itself is the country that we have obtained from usurping the throne.

So why can’t others seize this country in the same way?

But Wang Yue's way of cleaning up the gentry and then dividing the fields was unacceptable to these gentry. If he could use this war to let him know that the gentry was too eager to stop him, he could let him give up this way of playing, and then the rest would depend on whether he could reform himself. If he could reform himself and protect the interests of the gentry, he would ask the gentry in Hebei to persuade him to advance. Hebei would happily persuade him to advance, and then praise him as a wise lord.

It doesn't matter if he doesn't like Confucianism.

Some of the messy monarchs of the Five Dynasties did not like Confucianism.

Speaking of which, if the Southern Han Dynasty asked the literati to cut off the literati to become an official, then would it stop the literati from cutting off and making an official in the Liu family happily?

After all, this is not a fundamental contradiction.

Whether Confucianism or Confucianism is not the key. Whether the fundamental contradiction is with the gentry or the poor, whether to continue to suppress the merger or equalize the land, other issues are not the problem, and the route is the fundamental problem.

How much better are the alien invaders than Wang Yue?

Don't the gentry kneel?

The key is that the alien invaders protect the gentry like the same. The gentry under the alien invaders are serf owners, happier than the landlords under the Han emperor. The landlords of Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty missed me, Dayuan. Under the rule of the Dayuan, they could be serf owners as they pleased, and they would exploit serfs as they wanted. It is obvious that Dayuan did not respect Confucianism. Eight prostitutes, nine confucians and ten beggars were the Dayuan system, and all of them listed Confucians behind prostitution. This prevented the Ming Dynasty from praising the prosperity of the Dayuan period?

So this question is not the key.

They missed the prosperous era of the Yuan Dynasty not because Zhu Yuanzhang did not respect Confucian scholars, and at least they would not list Confucian scholars behind prostitution. They missed the prosperous era of the Yuan Dynasty only because Zhu Yuanzhang played the trick that Wang Yue was following.

This is the route error!

"The route is the real mistake!"

Wang Yue sighed.

In the drizzle of early winter, he quietly climbed up the Zhending City Wall. In the sleep of the soldiers guarding the city, he silently walked to the city, and then threw the black cloak aside. He was wearing a torn fur coat of ordinary soldiers but still armor inside. Then he squeezed into a group of soldiers sleeping under the eaves...

"Squeeze, squeeze warm!"

He said.

While speaking, he lifted the broken felt of the soldiers beside him.

"Who are you?"

The latter said dissatisfiedly.

Wang Yue took out a handful of copper coins very simply...

"Uh, they are all my brothers, why be so polite!"

The latter instantly changed to a smile and took it, then moved his butt and gave him some place.

A 50,000 army suddenly flooded into the city, and there were gentry outside the city and the surrounding counties who hid in with money, the female servants and bodyguards they brought with them, and countless civilians who transported supplies, the merchants and even prostitutes who came to make the money of these soldiers, were already overcrowded. In addition, most of the commanders were civil servants and scholars, so these people would not consider the treatment of soldiers, give them enough military pay and give them enough food. This was already rare, and they would not consider their housing issues.

Besides, this is a wartime period, you have to try to be near the city wall.

Sleeping in the open is inevitable.

Those who take turns sleeping on the city walls, those who don’t serve under the city crowd around like this.

"The rain is not over?"

Wang Yue complained.

"It's good to rain, but it's better than not. I hope the weather will be good next year."

The soldier said.

"So what? You still have to pay the rent. Are you a customer?"

Wang Yue asked.

"It's not the customer who will make money for life. There is no land left and right, and they are farmed for the main household. Maybe they can make a fortune if they work hard."

The soldier said in confusion.

"I heard that the opposite side will give you land."

Wang Yue whispered.

"Don't it be that the King of Zhongshan is like Li Yan, who has enclosed land to make public fields, and the farming of his tenants are all his tenants?

We have not planted official land, and rented it is only 20% lower than private rent. This is the rule of official land. It has always been like this. It is a good thing to say that it is really 20% lower. However, there are 20% lower foods. The amount of grain we grow needs to be sold to places every year. This is the final decision of the price of the official land. However, all the money is paid, but the official land has to charge an additional 20% or 30% of the rice consumption, not to mention that the tax has to be paid. In the end, it may be worse than the land of the main household. This thing is a scam.

The main house is at least clearly clear.

This depends on the faces of the officials and the clerks. This fire pit is deeper than the land of the main household."

The soldier said.

Official land or public land in the Song Dynasty always accounted for a large proportion.

But this system is definitely not beneficial to the people, but it is related to the country, but in fact it is beneficial to the emperor and officials.

The rent of public land is 20% lower than that of private land, but when the actual rent is collected, officials and clerks often add various losses to their personal pockets. Even if they originally collected brown rice, they would be broken if they did not receive the refined rice. They would pay an additional portion of the supplement, and they would also use a big bucket to collect it. This is the same as the landlord. However, the tenants of public land still have a task that must be completed, which is to sell it to the grain office. This is an important reason why the Song Dynasty's military rations can always be maintained, and the amount of grains can be increased and reduced according to needs.

The Northern Song Dynasty was better.

At least the Northern Song Dynasty really gave money.

The Southern Song Dynasty gave paper money.

It also needs to be collected and lost when buying, and the loss is generally as high as 20% or 30%. No matter what you harvest, you must complete this number. As for the time of harvest, you will be even more likely to make trouble.

In short, public land is a good thing in theory, but in fact no one takes it as a good thing. All the emperor wants is to increase income other than taxes. What officials and clerks want is to take the opportunity to make money. In the end, the people who rent public land are not better than those who farm.

In fact, it is impossible to be strong.

Otherwise, if you all go to plant public land, the landlords will have to reduce the rent and attract people.

Those officials will not let the planting happen. They will only make public land less cost-effective than private land through operations, so as to ensure that the tenants of the landlords will not resent the landlords. After all, there are worse public land to compare. Some officials have tricks in this kind of thing. Even if it is Zhu Yuanzhang, which has no land rent, and only a heavy tax, it will be played by officials until the people cannot escape. They only need to force the rent to pay when natural disasters are eliminated, and when corvee labor, they force the official land to serve in the farming period, and when taxes are collected, they can collect more losses. In short, some methods are used to deal with it.

The key is whether you dare or not.

Zhu Yuanzhang really didn't dare to do it when he was alive.

This tyrant was really chopping down a bunch of people.

And the Song Dynasty would definitely not kill scholars and officials, so these things are just fun.

"No, what I heard is that no rent is collected."

Wang Yue said.

He also wants to play with the food purchase. Wouldn't he let the profiteer manipulate the food price if he doesn't buy food?

He became his manipulation of the price of grain.

“No rent collection?”

The soldier suddenly became energetic and pushed the broken felt away and sat up. At the same time, someone who was also listening to them came over and looked at Wang Yue in confusion.

"If you really don't collect rent, where are you from? This is what the King of Zhongshan said in person. If you don't collect rent, the annual land tax will double compared to private land."

Wang Yue said.

"Isn't that just a fight?"

The soldier said in shock.

The land tax rate in the Song Dynasty was very different. The highest was in the Jiangnan area, but it was only a few liters of rice. The high one was more than one dou of rice per acre, and fewer than two dou of rice. That was the case with high yield paddy fields such as Hangzhou, Xuancheng and Poyang Lake, but it was generally less than one dou, and most of them were only four or five liters or even lower in the north.

At this time, several people had come over, but most of them were so cold that they couldn't sleep on such rainy nights.

"Are you lying to others?"

A soldier said.

"How do I cheat people? We have already divided the land across the streets. When we go to Zhongshan and Hejian, we will know it. Not only that, the messy taxes will not be collected. It is said that the king of Zhongshan has promised in public that he will not even collect dits in the future. The official fields will only collect land taxes and no losses. This is the case with Yanshan Mansion. Those who farm will not collect dits and no messy taxes will only collect land taxes, and there will be no additional losses when collecting land taxes. This year's summer tax is collected according to this."
Chapter completed!