Chapter 673 0668 [This World Should Be Reasonable]
Twenty-six days ago.
The Zhang River was about to freeze, but it was not possible to ride on the ice, and it was difficult to sail because of the floating ice.
The fast horses passed through the ankle-deep snow, and the cavalry shouted at the door of the post office: "The prince won a great victory, 200 miles in an emergency!"
The post office officials immediately brought people to hand over, and sent cavalry to continue to pass the message to the south, while someone held up the proclamation and rode into the county town.
Soon, officials and post office soldiers ran back and forth in Feixiang County.
They announced the victory news from the front along the street, and then posted the proclamation as a notice.
The owner of a stationery store was called Jia Zongfu. He was looking at the fire in the store with his sleeves gathered up. He vaguely heard the key words such as "great victory" and hurried to the street to inquire about the situation.
A moment later, Jia Zongfu took his wife and children and rode a donkey cart out of the city to a country house in the suburbs.
He ran into the inner courtyard, knelt in the snow and cried and screamed: "Father, the king's army won a great victory, and my Jia family can return home!"
The Jia family is the most prominent family in Zhending.
Its ancestor was Jia Dan, Duke of Wei in the Tang Dynasty. He lived in Nanpi for generations. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the whole family moved to Zhending and gradually became an ordinary family.
One of his descendants, Jia Wei, was recommended in the Five Dynasties and gradually rose to prominence, and even participated in the compilation of the "Old Book of Tang".
Another descendant, Jia Yan, was Zhao Guangyi's minister in the palace, and he became the deputy envoy of the three divisions.
The Zhending Jia family prospered again.
Its marriage families are spread across Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Jinghu, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and the marriage targets include civil officials, military generals and royal family members.
Jia Fan is the second son-in-law of Fan Zhongyan. Because he opposed Wang Anshi's reform, he instigated and encouraged the people under his rule to petition higher authorities.
Fan Chunren, son of Fan Zhongyan, Wen Yanbo, privy councilor, Han Wei, censor Yang Hui, and Liu Zhi, censor, all cooperated in this petitioning incident, and they all joined forces to obstruct the implementation of the new law.
From then on, the Jia family of Zhending was involved in the struggle between the new and old parties, and became the focus of the new party's attack. The Jia family gradually declined.
The last two high-ranking officials of the Jia family, one could not stand Cai Jing's excessive casting of tin-plated coins, and resigned in anger to retire, and died of illness seven years ago. The other was the deputy envoy of Jianghuai Shipping, actively supported the Flower and Stone Gang, and destroyed the Southeast Transfer Law, which won the appreciation of Song Huizong, and died of illness while serving as the assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice.
When the Jin people first established a puppet emperor in Zhending Prefecture, the Jia family of Zhending fled south one after another, unwilling to serve the pseudo-dynasty, and unwilling to be dogs for the Jin people.
In terms of national justice, the Jia family of Zhending still had a clear mind - there were a few people who did not leave, but the family power was very little. Those Jia clan members who stayed behind could only rely on Huang Qianshan and were dealt with by Liu Yu.
The Zhending Jia clan went to join the Kaifeng Jia clan. As a result, after the two Jia clans merged, more than a thousand clan members were targeted by the court and became the third group of families to be split and migrated.
After these split families obtained household registration in the new place, they were not allowed to move their household registration at will within 30 years.
There were only more than 30 Jia clan members who migrated to Feixiang County.
Some bought shops in the county to do business, and some spent money to buy land in the countryside to cultivate (it was free to open up wasteland, and the government would provide seeds, but it was necessary to pay for unowned good land).
Upon learning that the king's army had recovered Zhending Prefecture, the Jia family members who moved to Feixiang County ran to the county government to request to return home.
Because in Zhending Prefecture, the Jia clan once owned tens of thousands of acres of good land!
Compared with the Zhending Jia clan, the majestic Gaocheng Dong clan was just a small local tyrant in the countryside.
"You want to go back home?" Feixiang County Magistrate Wang Dalin frowned.
The Jia clan members who moved to Feixiang, led by Jia Yijian, bowed and said, "It's hard to leave my hometown. I'm nearly 70 years old. I just want to return to my roots and be buried next to my ancestors' graves."
Wang Dalin said, "This is the great filial piety. Why don't you let your descendants escort your coffin back to your hometown for burial when you are 100 years old?"
This almost made Jia Yijian's lungs explode. He wanted to return to his hometown alive to take back his property, not to return to his hometown to be buried in a coffin!
"Please let the county magistrate decide!" Jia Yijian bowed again.
Wang Dalin said in embarrassment: "The splitting up and relocating of the great families was decided by the ministers in the court. How can I, a county magistrate, change it? You have already settled in Feixiang, and your descendants are not allowed to migrate again within 30 years. If you want to return to your hometown, you must get the consent of the Minister of Revenue. Why don’t you write a letter to the Ministry of Revenue?"
Jia Yijian finally became furious and pointed at Wang Dalin with his crutches: "Zhending Jia family has been a prominent official for generations, with relatives all over the country and countless talented descendants. You, a small county magistrate, dare to bully Jia family. Aren’t you afraid of retribution in the future?"
Wang Dalin was also angry, and slammed the table and said: "You Jia family has been a prominent official for generations in the old Song Dynasty, but I am a county magistrate of the new Ming Dynasty. Don’t use the wealth of the previous dynasty to show off your power. If you dare to roar in the court again, I will fork you out!"
The two sides parted unhappily.
Wang Dalin also came from a prominent family in the south, and he originally sympathized with Jia family.
But the splitting up of the migrating clans was a central government order. How could he go to the court to ask the Ministry of Revenue to change its order every day in order to help the Jia family return home?
In the following year, the Jia family members who were split up in various places began to communicate with each other and sent people to Kaifeng to beg old friends for help.
But it was useless. This matter had to be signed and sealed by the Minister of Revenue Qian Chen!
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There are many similar families, and the Jia family is the most powerful one.
It is precisely because of its strength that it was targeted by the court, and the smaller families were able to run back to their hometowns on their own.
Zhu Ming said to Zong Ze: "In many cases of property disputes, the families that fled south should be more inclined. They know the righteousness of the country and are unwilling to submit to the Jurchen barbarians, but because they fled south to the Ming Dynasty, their property was occupied by the families that surrendered to the Jin Dynasty. This is unreasonable, and they cannot be wronged!"
"yes."
Zongze doesn't care about this. Although his family has been scholarly for generations, they are still far from becoming a wealthy family.
Zong's ancestral home is Nanyang, and he moved to the south of the Yangtze River during the Five Dynasties. Because he could not bear the heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes, he moved his family to the mountains of Yiwu, where they struggled to survive and reproduce by clearing wasteland and farming.
At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, taxes were slightly lighter, and the Zong family moved out of the mountains.
But it was still a family from a small place in the countryside, and after more than a hundred years of reproduction, the family was unable to survive with too few people and so Zongze's father moved with some of his clan members.
Ju Ming said: "Whether it is a wealthy family that invested money or a wealthy family that returned to their hometown to Ming Dynasty, everything will be based on the land deed. If the land deed cannot be obtained, the land property will be fully distributed to the homeless tenants. Hebei officers and soldiers and the anti-Jin rebels should give priority Get the unclaimed farmland!”
"Yes." Zongze wrote it down.
Ju Ming continued: "Those who have more than 300 members and still haven't divided their families will be ordered to divide their property and households immediately. Those who have more than 500 members and still haven't divided their families will be forcibly separated and moved to other places. Taking advantage of the fact that the war has just ended, we must cut the mess quickly. They hold it down!"
Zongze reminded: "Your Highness, this kind of thing is difficult to handle. The local big families must unite with the officials to disobey orders. They dare not defy openly, but they can do it in disguise. The county magistrate and the chief registrar will be deceived if they are not careful. If the county magistrate, The chief registrar is incapable of even issuing orders out of the county seat.”
Ju Ming said: "Then I will send an order to the county chiefs and officials. If they cannot control the local big families, they can apply for the deployment of troops to handle the matter. I will give them three hundred troops in each county. I will not think that they are incompetent. If they can handle the matter well, Instead, they will be rewarded!”
"yes!"
Zongze sighed in his heart, the disobedient Hebei clan was going to suffer, and His Highness the Crown Prince actually directly used the army.
Hebei is in a mess, and the counties are full of waste and are waiting to be revitalized, just in time to set up stalls. (In fact, the establishment of land-sharing and land-sharing right now is not conducive to the resumption of production in Hebei, because it will dampen the enthusiasm for opening up more wasteland. But it is conducive to the recovery of Hebei's population, and people will be more willing to register for household registration and have more children. When the population increases, one or two Ten years later, I was naturally keen on opening up wasteland.)
Zongze, as the political envoy to the left of Hebei Province, finally moved the provincial capital to Zhending a few days ago.
The right chief envoy is in charge of the relocation of the provincial capital, and all officials will be on duty before spring begins.
The prince is here and located in the palace of the puppet dynasty.
The Chief Secretary's Yamen was located in the Dazai's official residence in the Puppet Dynasty.
Zongze returned to the Chief Secretary by car. Dong Ti had been waiting outside the door for a long time.
"Go in." Zongze said angrily.
Dong Ti quickly lowered his head to follow and entered the Chief Secretary's Yamen together.
As soon as he arrived at the inner hall, Dong Ti knelt down and cried, "Please save the Dong family!"
Zongze asked, "What happened to the Dong family?"
Dong Ti said: "The county magistrate of Gaocheng asked the soldiers to replace the yamen, and set up a room next to the county yamen lobby to receive complaints. He also ordered all the members of the Dong family to hand over their land and house deeds to the county yamen. Register..."
Zongze pretended to be confused and said: "Isn't this the right thing to do? If the Dong family's properties are not submitted to the county government for registration, is it possible that you are still planning to evade taxes?"
"No..." Dong Ti said anxiously, "Many shops and properties have been damaged and lost over time. How can we get them back at once?"
Zongze sneered: "It's not just these things, right?"
Dong Ti said in a panic: "The prince had orders when fighting against the Jin people, and past sins should be forgotten. But...but the county magistrate of Gaocheng, after receiving the complaint, went so far as to settle old scores. This is to destroy the prince's reputation and prestige!"
Zongze said: "The prince's words of forgetting the past are specifically referring to someone. Your Excellency helped to seize Zhending and made meritorious service. Of course, the prince will let things go. But you can't make a great contribution and the entire Dong family has contributed, right? In that case, if there is a Dong in the future, The clan members commit murder and violate the law, but you just abide by the law and don't deal with them? "
Dong Ti was speechless because Zongze made sense.
Zongze said: "The magistrate of Zhending County is about to take office. The Dong family in Zhending County must also produce the house deeds and land deeds. If they cannot be produced, those properties do not belong to the Dong family. If someone comes to complain, say If the Dong family occupies their property, the deed signed by the Dong family will also be invalidated. "
Dong Ti felt weak after hearing this and almost collapsed on the spot.
The Jia family, the largest family in Zhending Prefecture, fled south to join the Ming Dynasty. All the properties they could not take with them were divided up by the officials of the puppet dynasty.
Now, whatever you eat must be vomited out!
How can there be such a good thing in the world? You treat the golden man as a dog and take the opportunity to seize other people's property. Now that the Ming Dynasty has returned, you have become successful ministers again. Not only have you not suffered any losses, your industry has also expanded several times.
Zongze stared at Dong Ti and said: "His Royal Highness, you are true to your word. Since you have made meritorious service, let it be forgotten. If you honestly hand over the property you have embezzled in the past two years and stop caring about other people's bad affairs, the prince will definitely not do it." I will investigate your fault again, and even let you continue to be an official. The entire Dong family is limited to you!"
Dong Ti knelt on the spot for a long time, and finally made up his mind: "Please recommend me, Mr. Zong, to recommend me. I am willing to take my wife, children, and children to live in the place where I am serving, and never return to Zhending Mansion and Gaocheng!"
"That's right." Zongze said with a smile.
This means that Dong Ti moved with his parents, wife and children, cutting himself off from the entire Dong family. From now on, he will no longer be able to contact his hometown, not even Dong Ti's biological brothers.
In this way, the Dong family was dealt with and the prince's credibility was ensured.