Red Mansion: Seizing Jiangdong, starting with pirates

Chapter 227: His Majesty Wants to Revolt

The Land Bureau is a new department set up by Fang Yong in the Ministry of Revenue.

The Ministry of Revenue itself is responsible for managing all the land in the world.

Fang Yong has now separated this power and established the Land Bureau.

In name, the Land Administration still belonged to the Ministry of Revenue and was managed by Cui Shu.

But in fact, the officials of this department are directly responsible to Fang Yong, and Cui Shu is only responsible for stamping and taking the blame.

Since the Land Bureau is directly under Fang Yong, joining the Land Bureau naturally means boarding Fang Yong's big ship.

This is also the most attractive point among the conditions.

However, for these big families, handing over half of the land in exchange for an official position is obviously a loss.

After all, the land of many families is the result of "hard work" of generations, and half of it is not a small number.

Many aristocratic families find it difficult to accept such conditions.

Among the four kings and eight dukes in the capital, except for the Jia, Niu and Ma families who chose to accept, the others were trying to delay.

Fang Yong wondered whether he should delete one person at random so that these people could face reality.

After final statistics, less than one-third of the families chose to compromise under Fang Yong's conditions, and the rest of the families chose to resist.

Some of them chose to incite the people to resist.

Some chose to bribe the officials sent by Fang Yong to evade the military farming policy.

There were also rumors that some people heard from somewhere, saying that they had chosen young girls from their families to give to Fang Yong in order to circumvent the military farming policy!

How whimsical!

Fang Yong accepted all the girls.

He is not lustful.

He just felt sorry for these women.

They were treated as goods and given away by their family. Even if I didn't accept them, their future would not be good. It would be better to accept them and give them a home.

You can also practice your martial arts at the same time.

As for land, of course we still need it.

Since you have taken in the woman from the other family, we are now one family. We should not have different opinions, so isn't it only natural for you to contribute your land?

Not to mention, after taking the women in, the resistance of these families was much weaker.

It’s not because of anything else, it’s just because Fang Yong’s behavior after accepting these women is different from others.

If other emperors or people in power encountered such a thing, they would just accept it as a pretense and would not really take action.

Because there are too many people, even if we want to, we are powerless.

My body can’t take it.

Fang Yong is different.

Fang Yong is in trouble, he is really serious!

Rain and dew are equally distributed, without favoritism.

It is hard to imagine that one can have the energy to balance all these while taking care of the affairs of half the country.

It is truly incomparable.

These families couldn't help but think that Fang Yong now had a huge foundation, but he had no heirs to inherit it.

In other words, the woman they sent there might be...

Although the chance is very small, what if it succeeds?
With this in mind, some families actually accepted it reluctantly.

Just half the land.

So what if it’s gone?
In the future they will have plenty of ways to take the land back from those peasants.

What's more, he was given an official position!
After donating the land, you can choose a family member to work in the Land Bureau.

Of course, the candidate cannot be too bad.

At least you should know about the world and understand the principles.

The job of these people after entering the Land Bureau is to deal with those who are unwilling to donate their land!
This is a very sinister plan.

For these people, their families have already honestly donated their land, so how dare others disobey?

Whether for political achievements or psychological balance, the children of aristocratic families who have already donated land will strictly implement the military farming policy and fiercely fight against those aristocratic families who are unwilling to donate land.

In this way, differentiation was completed among these families.

Fang Yong only needed to spend very little effort to implement the policy of military farming, which was very beneficial to him.

The blood debts incurred during the implementation of those policies naturally fell on the shoulders of the Minister of Revenue, Cui Shu.

The Hall of Mental Cultivation was tightly sealed off by the new Jinyiwei.

Emperor Longqing and the retired emperor lived in it, and they were served only by Xia Shouzhong, Dai Quan, and several other young eunuchs.

Except for Emperor Longqing's absence on the first and fifteenth day of each month when he attended court, no one was allowed to leave at other times.

Yesterday, the retired emperor asked Li Ni, who was guarding the palace, to let the old concubine dowager in the Cining Palace meet him on the grounds that he missed the old concubine dowager.

The result was naturally a ruthless rejection.

Emperor Longqing made a request today, saying that he wanted to see Concubine Zhou and asked her to come over to meet him, but he was still directly rejected.

"Princess Zhou is busy and has no time to meet you."

Returning to the Palace of Tranquil Longevity, Emperor Longqing looked gloomy.

He always felt that the other person's words had a hidden meaning, which made him feel inexplicably uncomfortable.

The Emperor remained calm and said:
"It seems that the other party's defense is very strict. These ordinary means are not enough for us to contact the outside world."

Emperor Longqing asked irritably:

"What should I do?"

The Emperor said:

"I can only wait for your chance to attend court."

Emperor Longqing was a little impatient.

"Then at the next court meeting I will..."

"no!"

The Emperor interrupted him and said:

"It would be too conspicuous to do this now. We need to wait until the other party lets down their guard. So, in the near future, you will mainly be responsible for distinguishing between friends and enemies in the court, and then wait for the right opportunity."

Emperor Longqing became impatient upon hearing this.

"What friends do we have? Apart from Yu Lian, the rest are traitors!"

The Emperor couldn't help but sigh and taught:
"There aren't so many traitors. The world is like the tide. When the tide rises, the momentum covers up different voices, which makes you feel that there are enemies everywhere. Just wait for the tide to recede, and then those friends will naturally surface."

Emperor Longqing:...

During the Waking of Insects, there was a thunder and spring rain began to fall in the capital.

Wei Xing's army returned safely, entered the palace in the rain, and reported to Fang Yong what had happened along the way.

"rice……"

Fang Yong was thinking about this.

He was aware of Wei Xing's concerns.

Wei Xing was worried that the rice was transported away by Xue Dacui.

That would be a big deal.

However, Fang Yong did not doubt Xue Dacuizi.

This is as ridiculous as if Xiang Yu was trapped at Gaixia and Xiao He suddenly chose to support Xiang Yu.

In Fang Yong's rebel group, Xue Dacui is the undisputed number two figure.

From the very beginning, it was Xue Dacui who provided Fang Yong with the initial funds for the rebellion.

Fang Yong fought many battles along the way, and all the logistical supplies were allocated by Xue Dacuizi, who was never in charge of the allocation. Fang Yong fought more than a hundred battles along the way, and never once worried about food and fodder.

His logistical capabilities are no worse than anyone else's, but he is not as prominent as Wu Yuan and Zhai Xun, so he is not well-known.

Under such circumstances, how could the other party choose to secretly join the alien race instead of being the second-in-command of Fang Yong's side?

This thing definitely couldn't have been done by Xue Dacuizi, it must have been done by some other big rat, but we don't know who it is.

Fang Yong will investigate this matter.

But now he has more important things to do.

"Wei Xing, listen to my orders!"

Wei Xing stood up straight instantly and said, "Yes!"

Fang Yongdao:
"I order you to lead our troops, 20,000 Huaiyin troops and 20,000 Shandong troops, to march south immediately and bring back Xu Shaobao's head for me!"

(End of this chapter)