A few days later, Zhu Yuanzhang finally received a detailed report.
"So this is land reform?"
"Isn't this taking advantage of us?”
It turned out that Qin Mu had used his connections to buy a large piece of mountainous land and tidal flat land.
Under normal circumstances, he would have to pay a lot of taxes every year.
However, this guy split up the 100,000 mu of land and divided it evenly among the 300 military households.
In this way, each military household only had 300 mu under their name, which was just right on the dividing line between tax collection and service.
Zhu Yuanzhang didn't mind being taken advantage of by his eldest grandson, but he was curious. Why did his eldest grandson buy so much land?
Most importantly, these lands could not produce food!
Without food, even if he was given a million mu of land, wouldn't he still lose money?
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't figure it out, so he simply didn't think about it.
After all, he was the emperor and had many things to deal with every day.
After another half a month, Zhu Yuanzhang finished reading the memorial and suddenly remembered that he hadn't seen Zhu Yunwen for a long time. He couldn't help but ask the people around him.
"What has the imperial grandson been busy with recently?"
The people around him were slightly stunned and immediately realized that the Emperor must be asking about Zhu Yunwen.
"Reporting to the emperor, His Highness Yun Wen is currently studying with Huang Zicheng's master.”
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, indicating that he understood.
However, he quickly raised his head again and asked Xiao Hu, who was standing beside him.
"What has our eldest grandson been busy with recently?”
This made the people around him very surprised. Wasn't the Emperor's eldest grandson Zhu Yunwen?
Ever since the Crown Princess, Madam Chang, passed away, Madam Lu had been made the official Crown Princess.
The son is noble because of his mother.
Zhu Yunwen naturally became the eldest son.
Why did it sound like the Emperor had a grandson?
Er Hu was one of the few people in the court who knew the inside story.
Hearing this, he hurriedly took out a stack of Jinyiwei records from his sleeve.
"Reporting to the emperor, all of the young master's whereabouts are here. Please take a look!”
Zhu Yuanzhang picked it up and flipped through it. The corners of his mouth could not help but curl up.
He had already informed the Ministry of Revenue yesterday to increase the "salted vegetable tax". He wanted to see how his grandson would respond to the court's new measures.
As for the time when he took advantage of the imperial court and bought nearly 100,000 mu of land for more than 300 military households, he did not let this kid take advantage of him.
He directly established a guard station in Black Tortoise Manor and named it Black Tortoise Guard. He also gave Qin Mu the position of commander.
It was just that he was clearly a commander in name only.
A normal guard station would have 5600 military households.
The three hundred over households under Qin Mu weren't even enough to be a thousand households.
However, wasn't the appointment and removal of officials in Great Ming just a word from Old Master Zhu?
As long as he was willing, he could even appoint a county magistrate to manage 300 households, let alone a commander.
The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang did this was for one purpose, and that was to cause trouble for Qin Mu!
He really wanted to see what kind of surprise this child could bring him after he blocked all his paths!
If Qin Mu could still resolve it perfectly, then the Black Tortoise Guards would become the future Six Duits of the Eastern Palace!
The so-called six rates of the Eastern Palace were respectively the rate of the Prince's left and right guards, the rate of the Prince's left and right guards, and the rate of the Prince's left and right guards.
The Six Commanders of the Eastern Palace were not under the jurisdiction of the Five Armies Governor's Office. They were under the direct command of the Crown Prince and were the Crown Prince's personal guards.
Zhu Yuanzhang had high expectations for Qin Mu.
The reason why he didn't acknowledge Qin Mu and restore his royal identity was because he was afraid that he would be like Zhu Yunwen and be taught silly by some rotten scholars.
Now, Zhu Yuanzhang felt a little regretful. If he hadn't sent so many pedantic scholars to be Zhu Biao's masters, he wouldn't have died so young, right?
However, it was too late for regrets now.
He only hoped that Zhu Xiongying would not be corrupted by those rotten scholars.
At the same time, he wondered if he should also give Zhu Yunwen a job to gain experience.
……
Xuanwu Manor.
Ever since he took over Black Tortoise Manor, Qin Mu had moved over from Liu Clan Village.
After all, this was the land that truly belonged to him!
After half a month of construction, Xuanwu Manor had changed greatly.
All the houses were made of green bricks and tiles, replacing the original thatched houses.
The road was also paved with green bricks.
Now, it would be used as a foundation. When the production of cement increased in the future, it would be poured with cement.
The land he had bought from the government had now been converted into a mine and a dock.
Originally, everything seemed to be moving towards a beautiful future. However, a piece of imperial edict directly shattered all his beautiful dreams.
Selling salted vegetables actually required taxes!
He had only gathered more than 300 prefecture soldiers, and he actually wanted to set up a guard station on his own land!
Xuanwu Guards!
Pah!
According to the Ming Dynasty's establishment, a Wei station should have 5,600 people. Zhu Yuanzhang, you've made up for it!
Sob…
It wasn't easy for me to get into the scholar examination!
His noble status had been changed to military status by that old butcher!
Qin Mu even wanted to die.
He did not know which bastard had leaked him into the Emperor's ears and made him remember this little salted fish.
Qin Mu thought about it and could only think of two people.
One was Lan Yu, and the other was Old Man Huang!
Through this matter, Qin Mu had a new understanding of the people of Great Ming.
This group of people was too mean!
Especially that guy called Blue Jade. On the surface, he gave me a manor, but in reality, he dug such a big pit for me. Sob, sob, sob…
No, I want revenge!
I absolutely can't let that old man Blue Jade's scheme succeed!
Just as Qin Mu was trying to mentally prepare himself, he suddenly saw a familiar figure.
He rubbed his eyes and took a closer look. Wasn't it that old cunning Blue Jade?
In an instant, new and old grudges surged into Qin Mu's heart.
He picked up a spear and rushed out.
"Blue Jade!"
"Today, either you die or I live. One of us must die!”
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