Hong Jinglai's posthumous affairs have been dealt with, but Hong Jinglai's career will continue. This is what Li Xizhu insists on, and what everyone in Shidao insists on. We have come to this point, and there is no way back.

Moreover, the entire reform environment has been extremely conducive to Li Xizhu and others. The historically powerful Liangban class became obedient under the gunfire of the Japanese invaders. After all, Hong Jinglai did not dare to kill people casually, but Japanese pirates are brave. Hong Jinglai wants face, but Japanese pirates are shameless.

Now because Hong Jinglai was anxious to die, Li Xi raised his butcher knife high and cut it down hard, doing something that no one in North Korea dared to do. After finishing it, he found that it was just like this, and it didn't seem to be a big deal.

The Japanese pirates in history also knew how to fight against each other. On the one hand, they recognized the aristocratic class of some Jinghua gentry, and on the other hand, they attacked those who were uncooperative. Li Xi made it even simpler here. The uncooperative ones basically anointed his sword, and the cooperative ones They are all united within the politics of the Hong clan in Fengshan.

There is no need to fight against each other, just identify them completely!

The Jinghua nobles in the Hanyang court were forced to retreat by Li Xizhuo, and the local Liangban also suffered heavy losses. First, Hong Jinglai inspected the academy, which effectively dealt a blow to the local financial power controlled by the Xiangban. If there were no follow-up measures, then this would also be Just maintain peace for decades.

But this is not the case when we meet the pair of Li Xizhu and Ding Ruoyong. Li Xizhu dares to kill people, but Ding Ruoyong understands politics. He went directly to attack Qicun of the township class, and after paying taxes under the real-name system for the property under his name, he made it clear through Li Xizhu The Steel Knife promulgated the new land system.

I don’t know why it is so similar to the Meiji Restoration in Japan next door. From then on, the fields of the Li Dynasty were no longer levied based on the quantity of output, but agricultural taxes were levied only on the value of the fields.

The tax amount is set very low, only 2.5% of the land price. But everyone knows that this is enough to rob the villagers of everything, and there is no reason to explain it.

Land has been concentrated on a large scale in the hands of landlords and township class landlords, and the number of people who have lost their land has exceeded 40% of the population. What does this mean? It means that the actual bearers of agricultural taxes are mainly township class landlords.

Of course, according to popular saying, untouchables are just like bones. As long as you squeeze them hard, you can always squeeze out the oil. This is certainly true, but it is a pity that this word is used in the wrong place.

Because Korea is a semi-feudal and semi-slavery country!

More than 40% of the common people are the slaves of the rural class landlords, they are the property of the rural class landlords, and they are the pigs, dogs, cattle and horses that can be inherited from generation to generation. The man who led the Qing Dynasty next door grabbed the poor people to death and he didn't I feel bad, anyway, like leeks, they can be harvested one after another and cannot be cut off. It is a pity that rural landowners like North Korea are willing to kill their slaves?

If they are all clenched to death, they will die faster!

Therefore, 2.5% of the annual farmland can only be produced by the masters themselves after the slaves are taken over in the first two years. At this time, one acre of good irrigated land is worth about twenty taels, and the annual agricultural tax is only a mere Five taels of silver, it seems like there is nothing wrong with it, that's how much it is.

It is a pity that one acre of land can be grown twice a year, with rice grown in one season and sweet potatoes, potatoes, soybeans, buckwheat and other miscellaneous grains in the other season. How much money can the harvested grain be sold for?

Two taels to three taels!

After deducting the cost of labor and the like, you already have to grit your teeth to pay the agricultural tax every year. If the harvest is slightly worse, the money will have to be paid by the villagers.

Don't pay? Have you not seen the thousands of stinky meats of Jinghua nobles and Li Wang's clan outside Hanyang City? Or do you think your head is harder than the steel knife in Li Xi's hand?

Inciting unruly people to rebel? Haha, this is not the old society anymore! In the old society, you could rebel with a kitchen knife. In the new society, do you want to try it? I don’t think Li Xi can do it with the cannon made in the Netherlands and the flintlock musket imitating the Russian and British standards. Your kitchen knife?

He wished that a few blind idiots would jump out and try to make that chicken so that Li Xi could kill it and show the monkeys what the outcome would be.

In short, within a few days, the two groups that could have manipulated the royal power and even decided the direction of the entire country were beaten into thin air by Li Xizhu. Now they have either become local steamed buns outside Hanyang City, or they have become disgraceful people. Lick that thing.

The criticism of the fist is far better than the fist of criticism!

Don’t deceive me!

The remaining things were developed and arranged by Hong Jinglai before. Railways needed to be built, mines needed to be opened, military industry needed to be prepared, and warships needed to be built. Incheon North School needed to be expanded, and local rural schools also needed to be promoted. Of course, being a Jinshi was a good thing. However, he studied in Beijing and after twelve years of education from the rural school all the way to Sungkyunkwan Shangshe, he graduated, and he could also become an official.

Knowledge will no longer be monopolized by your rural classes, and civilians can also change their own class through study and examinations. Modern Western scientific knowledge is no longer the hobby of a small number of scholars from the Northern School and the Practical School, but will gradually become a popular study among ordinary people. of outstanding learning.

The only thing that Li Xizhu deeply regretted was that Hong Miaozhen and Min Ziying almost gave birth to a child. Unfortunately, Hong Miaozhen gave birth to a prince for the old Li family, but Min Ziying gave birth to a daughter.

What's the solution? Of course Li Xizhu asked Ding Ruoyong for advice. Ding Ruoyong thought for a while and pointed out a way for Li Xizhu. Zhao Wanyong's eldest son is six years old this year, which is a good match. Besides, Hong Jinglai and Zhao Wanyong had already agreed that the two of them would There is a marriage. With the power of the Pongyang Cho family in North Korea's political arena, it is very necessary to help the Fengshan Hong family win over the Pongyang Cho family.

The issue of the successor to the Fengshan Hong family's political power is difficult, but it is not completely unsolvable. Since he wants to marry the Xiao Zhao family and is willing to have a daughter, Xiao Zhao looks like he is in great shape. Not long ago, he My wife has just become pregnant and is pregnant now. She may give birth to a second son (actually this child is for Queen Shen Zhen in history).

He directly brought his son over and inherited Hong Jinglai's family business as his son-in-law and adopted son. In this way, not only was he one of his own, but the child born also carried Hong Jinglai's blood, and he also received the full support of the Fengyang Zhao family.

As for King Li's matter, wait until the child is canonized by the Qing Dynasty and becomes the official crown prince of Joseon. At that time, Jin Sang can fall down on his horse, drink alcohol, fall asleep, or even take too much elixir.
Chapter completed!