I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 635 Harvest
The four provinces of Huguang, Nanzhili, Jiangxi and Zhejiang were the places where the culture and education of the Ming Dynasty flourished the most, where the imperial examinations were most developed, where the economy of the south was the richest and most developed, where the gentry was the most numerous, and where the world's popular trends were set.
That is why Zhu Houxuan specifically stopped in Nanjing to deal with the affairs of the gentry in these four provinces. After dealing with the gentry and royal family in these four provinces, it would be equivalent to dealing with 70% of the gentry in the south.
Zhu Houxuan wanted to take this opportunity to completely solve the problems of the gentry and royal family of the Ming Dynasty. He now had the righteousness, ability, and willingness to deal with them.
I will not elaborate on the issue of the Ming Dynasty's royal family here, as the royal family system itself has huge problems.

The gentry class was also something Zhu Houxuan had to deal with, because the gentry class in the Ming Dynasty was a class that combined big landlords, big capitalists, big tycoons and university tycoons. If the Ming Dynasty wanted to move towards an industrial society, it had to first deal with the gentry class and gradually disintegrate feudalism.

The gentry of the four provinces had long anticipated the actions of the Northern Army. All the gentry of the four provinces were already inseparable from this unprecedented rebellion. It was just a matter of the degree of their participation. Therefore, everyone knew that they would be punished by Zhu Houxuan.
However, many people still have a fluke mentality, because there are too many people involved, there are always people who have the idea that the law does not punish everyone, and Zhu Houxuan has been in power for so many years, and he has always given people the impression of being relatively lenient. He has greatly reduced the death penalty and replaced it with exile. Therefore, although many people are a little uneasy, they all know that they can save their lives.
Zhu Houxuan established a military court in Nanjing to try various important officials of the pseudo-Nanjing government and the pseudo-Wuchang government.
At the same time, news about the gentry and royal family of the four provinces also continued to flow into Nanjing and was summarized on Zhu Houxuan's desk.
"These gentry and royal family members are really smart and omnipresent. They even think of buying up silver yuan coupons when the situation is bad," Zhu Houxun said with a sneer as he looked at the report.

"But this also saves us a lot of effort, and the people will focus their resentment on them, which will help us win the hearts of the people in the south. To be honest, we should thank them," Chen Hong said with a smile.

"That's true." Zhu Houxuan smiled.

"Order all troops to get the silver yuan certificates held by the gentry and royal family members!" Zhu Houxuan continued.

The attendant next to him wrote down the order and passed it on.
Before the war, the Royal Bank printed a large amount of silver dollar notes that were over-issued in the South. Before the North-South confrontation, that would disrupt the economic order of the South and weaken the South's war potential. But now that the war is over, the silver dollar notes that were over-issued in the South have become a big bomb.
The Royal Bank can use technical means to distinguish the over-issued silver dollar certificates in the South, and then announce that the over-issued silver dollar certificates cannot continue to circulate and cannot be exchanged for gold and silver in the Royal Bank.
This is the simplest way to solve this big problem, but it is also the worst way. Doing so will inevitably have a huge impact on the credibility of the silver dollar coupons and will also alienate the people in the south.
Now the actions of the southern gentry and clan members have given Zhu Houxuan a new option. The gentry now control 90% of the previously over-issued silver yuan notes in the south. Zhu Houxuan is going to forcibly confiscate these silver yuan notes, and then announce that the previously issued silver yuan notes in the south can still be exchanged for gold and silver. The remaining 10% of the over-issued silver yuan notes in the folk will not cause an impact on the silver yuan notes themselves, and can also win the hearts of the southern people. The gentry and clan members bear all the blame, which can be said to be killing two birds with one stone.
The forced confiscation of silver yuan coupons was only a small part of Zhu Houxun's harvesting plan. Zhu Houxun had already decided to harvest the entire gentry class and royal family, and turn the wealth held by the gentry and royal family into the driving force for the development of the Ming Dynasty.
The most important wealth is the land they control. Zhu Houxuan will definitely do the nationalization of the land, and he must complete it and do it well in his lifetime, so as not to leave any problems for future generations.
In fact, during this rebellion led by gentry and royal family members that lasted only ten months, the gentry also plundered the wealth of the people on a large scale during this period. Because they were the backbone of the rebellion, and both the Nanjing government and the Wuchang government relied on their support, so what was wrong with plundering a few ordinary people?
Before the war, they cooperated with the Royal Bank to purchase materials and transferred the over-issued silver dollar notes to ordinary southern people. During the war, they used their power and status to reap the wealth of the people with over-issued currency, and when the war situation changed, they collected silver dollar notes crazily.
In less than a year, the people in the South have been harvested several times by the gentry and the royal family, otherwise there would not be so many people supporting the Northern Army when it landed in the South.
The land held by many gentry has increased several times in less than a year, just because of the unscrupulous harvesting this year.
Of course, there are some gentry who are of relatively high character and do not harvest too much from the people, but if you do not harvest, others will harvest, and the actions of a small number of people cannot stop the tide of harvest.
Therefore, many gentry are now in a state of being well-fed and well-fed, which is a perfect opportunity for Zhu Houxuan to harvest.
As for the land nationalization policy, Zhu Houxuan was also prepared to copy the land nationalization policy of the later Dongda University. The ownership of the land was completely owned by the state, and ordinary people only had the right to use it.
Zhu Houxuan was preparing to nationalize the land and also began to distribute land to ordinary people in the four southern provinces. In fact, he was distributing the right to use the land to ordinary people, not the ownership.
However, the right to use the land distributed to the people can be extended indefinitely without any problems, and there is no usage fee, so in terms of physical sense, it is no different from distributing land.
During the war, people in many parts of the South shouted the slogan "Welcome King Jing, look forward to King Jing, King Jing comes and distribute the land and grain!" to resist, and also provided a lot of support to the Northern Army.
Zhu Houxuan had always acquiesced to this, so although this sentence was not shouted out by him, it had become his political commitment at this time, so he had to fulfill his political commitment and "divide the land and grain".
Only in this way can we win the hearts and minds of the people in the south, and Zhu Houxuan also believes that this policy is more suitable for this era.
The land nationalization reform in the four southern provinces must set a benchmark so that it can be promoted nationwide.
(End of this chapter)