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Chapter 144: Queen Li Fengniang of the Southern Song Dynasty (22)

Half a month later, Lin'an Mansion was completely in control.

The news that Qiao Mu ascended the throne and changed the Yuan Dynasty to the Emperor Wa spread throughout the Southern Song Dynasty, and even went to the Jin Dynasty, Mongolia and Dali on the other side, which was truly amazing and discussed by thousands of people.

Yes, the whole world is shocked.

Although there is already the Emperor Zetian who is facing the sky, the proclaimed emperor of women is still unbearable for all civilizations and countries influenced by the Asian Chinese cultural circle.

No one agreed and agreed. Even if the hostile country felt that an empress in the Southern Song Dynasty might be better to deal with it, he did not agree.

Because they feel that women are not qualified to sit in such a seat, or they are not qualified to be exposed to politics at all. Women's kindness and ruthlessness will make politics mess up. Otherwise, how can they always say that women are kind? In short, Qiao Mu's behavior of proclaiming emperor can really be called a matter of public anger and being scolded by thousands of people.

Although Qiao Mu had already expected this situation, he was still very angry, and it accelerated the original speed of advancement and was ready to push the army to the whole country as soon as possible. Then he carried out land reforms against those gentry. She was not a clay Buddha. She was cursed viciously by so many people every day. It was already considered a good mentality. Could it be that she could not even get angry? What's more, Qiao Mu himself knew very well. Although everyone was scolding now, in fact, those who were really scolding her were people with certain social status. The real ordinary people were still struggling to survive. They were worried about what to eat for the next meal, and they were not in the mood to pay attention to this.

Therefore, there is no need to worry about peasant uprisings. Even if there is a problem on one side, it must be the local gentry officials who cause trouble. In this way, Qiao Mu can at least be sure that there will be no large-scale unrest in the country. Small-scale unrest will be quickly calmed as long as the army arrives there.

When the land reform is over, and the agricultural tax is abolished, the overall situation will basically stabilize. Even if people like gentry secretly provoke it, few people will be so stupid that they will cause trouble with them.

As for whether the abolition of agricultural tax would affect national income, the proportion of agricultural tax in the Southern Song Dynasty was quite low. Most countries' income relied on commercial taxes and various tariffs. Therefore, even if the agricultural tax was abolished, it would not have much impact. At worst, it would be possible to increase the personal income tax at that time to ensure that the income collected from the personal income tax far exceeds the income obtained from the agricultural tax.

Tax collection has always been a matter of focusing on the rich. The poor have no money, and you can't find much more. The rich are different. If you collect taxes from a rich man, the silver you collect is more than 10,000, or even taxes from a county town. And if you collect taxes from a 10,000 poor people, you have to collect half of the taxes from a 10,000 poor people, and that 10,000 poor people can rebel, but if you collect taxes from a rich man, let alone half of it, if you collect taxes from a rich man, you will collect 60,000 or 70% or more, the rich will not dare to rebel.

Because you charge half of the taxes for the poor, you will basically force the poor to death. However, if you charge half of the taxes for the rich, the rich will earn less at most, and at most, you can change abalone, sea cucumber to chicken, duck, fish and meat every day, and you may not even need to change them, just buy less jewelry.

Therefore, the only thing Qiao Mu needs to deal with at present is the turmoil caused by land reform. As long as this turmoil has passed steadily, there will be no problem next. After all, the land conflict is the biggest contradiction currently. If this contradiction is resolved, all ordinary people in the country have to thank her. Maybe they can rush to establish a sacred tablet for her without anyone calling her.

Of course, the ordinary gentry and some nobles of aristocrats did not know that Qiao Mu was sharpening his knife and preparing to kill them, and they were still jumping happily to make comments. Some even joined forces to order the generals on their side to send troops to conquer Lin'an.

However, Qiao Mu had already sent people to contact military generals from all over the Southern Song Dynasty in advance, and promised them that the civil and military officials would be in line in the future, and there would be no difference between superiors and inferiority. Therefore, those military generals would not listen to the instigation of those literati who always looked down on them.

Another month, Qiaomu finally let the army she trained fully enter all parts of the Southern Song Dynasty. There were not many people in various places, but they were all elite soldiers. Moreover, the military generals nearby also promised to cooperate with each other to act. Of course, Qiaomu must have had some blood and reached a certain agreement with them. However, the problem of military generals can be discussed later and in the future. The most important thing at present is to solve the land reform issue first and stabilize the national order.

As the agreed day arrived, the land reform across the Southern Song Dynasty officially kicked off. Of course, this land reform did not completely deprive all the land of those with land, because some small landlords themselves may have saved up frugality and saved up more than 100 acres of land for several lifetimes. Such small landlords are naturally not within the scope of land reform. Land reform mainly targets people with more than 1,000 acres of land at home. Of course, the most important target is people whose land is unknown or whose land is obtained through some improper means. These are the key targets of crackdown. This type of landlord, gentry and nobles all need to be imprisoned, sentenced according to the law, and distribute the land to the people who have no land or little land around them. Moreover, if someone's land is plundered by such landlords by clever means and can produce evidence, they can also take back their own land.

In short, Qiao Mu's plan did not carry out a one-size-fits-all land reform. Although it cannot guarantee that there will be no errors, this kind of national activity can ensure that the overall situation is good and that the general direction is fine, so how can it ensure 100% correctness?

Of course, the turmoil caused by this reform was also huge, and there were force riots in many places. However, because Qiaomu sent out to suppress the firearm army, and with the early propaganda, many people were willing to spontaneously participate and spontaneously deal with the local tyrants and evil gentry. Therefore, although there were many bloody conflicts in the process, they could eventually be pacified and order was restored.

In less than three months, the entire Southern Song Dynasty not only carried out a land reform across the country, but also re-determined the population and land quantity. Although this land reform killed many people and convicted many people, the registered population in the country not only did not decrease, but also increased by more than 10 million. More than 10 million included some of the previous hidden households, most of which were rescued from the big landlords, and only a small number were hidden households caused by tax evasion.
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