Upon arriving at the Wenhua Hall, Yang Shiqi said to Zhu Yunwen:

"I heard that Zhu Yunwen is not in the capital!"

"Indeed, he must have gone to visit a few vassal kings, but there's no need to worry about that," Zhu Yunwen smiled.

Yang Shiqi hesitated for a moment, about to say something, but Zhu Yunwen spoke first:

"They must have gone to see my second and third uncles. Just wait and see how this goes. I remember telling you about it on the way back."

These second and third uncles are unlucky; they don't have many years left. Now, the only one to be wary of is the fourth uncle. As for Zhu Yunwen, he went to contact his second and third uncles.

"Heh heh, you lot, just wait and see how this goes. Imagine him spending time contacting two dying men, only to end up with nothing. How would he feel?"

When Yang Shiqi heard Zhu Yunwen say this, he smiled and didn't ask any more questions about the topic.

For the next period of time, Zhu Yunwen only cared about two things: one was any news from the coast about ships at sea, and the other was to keep an eye on the fleet that Ma Sanbao had led out.

After all, this was of great importance, and in Zhu Yunwen's view, it was a matter of utmost importance.

Secondly, I am also concerned about the implementation of the two decrees, which have been in effect for one or two weeks.

According to the information Zhu Yunwen received, the reaction was huge. While ordinary people were very supportive, powerful families, noble landlords, and even some local officials strongly opposed the idea.

After all, this affected their interests.

Some officials, however, are quite clever; they know how to choose between land and official position, and even their lives.

Of course, this also included their own future prospects, so these officials would make a very wise choice to cooperate with the court and give up the land they had occupied.

In order to carry out the decrees of the imperial court, one can not only avoid putting oneself in danger, but also perform well in front of the court and pave a bright future for oneself.

However, some people, under this choice, go astray and openly or secretly try to shirk responsibility, deliberately failing to implement the plan properly.

Not only that, they were even secretly stirring up trouble and leading the opposition.

This also led to the abolition of land annexation, which was very troublesome to implement.

Zhu Yunwen was in the Wenhua Hall, looking at the memorial submitted by the Minister of Revenue. The data on it made him frown. He simply spoke:

"After half a month of implementation, why is the effect so low? Only one-third of the local government offices are actually pushing this forward? What are the other two-thirds of the local government offices doing?"

Zhang Shan, the Minister of Revenue, cautiously began to speak:

"Your Highness, in these places, either it is indeed very difficult to implement and has been strongly resisted by the local gentry, nobles and landlords, or the officials in these places are just going through the motions and don't want to do it properly."

This requires His Highness to issue an order to further strengthen the implementation requirements of this policy by local officials, and at the same time, the Ministry of Justice can basically step in.

Zhu Yunwen took a deep breath:

"I understand. Here's what we'll do: you go ahead. I'll choose a nearby county and take some people there to see for myself what kind of obstacles we've encountered. Only after we understand the situation will we know how to continue resolving the problem."

Zhang Shan bowed and left. Immediately afterwards, Zhu Yunwen, along with Zhao Qingzhu and ten Imperial Guards, left the palace. According to the memorial submitted by Zhang Shan, there was a place called Qingshui County, a hundred miles away from Nanjing, where the land annexation policy was being implemented with great difficulty, and they were at a loss for what to do.

Zhu Yunwen then wanted to see what kind of resistance this county had encountered and why implementing this decree was so troublesome.

After understanding the situation, he was able to provide solutions for how to deal with other counties, so that the Ministry of Justice could effectively address the issues.

It took only half a day to reach Qingshui County, after all, it was only a little over a hundred li.

Upon arrival, the county town seemed no different from usual.

Because it is located in the Jiangnan region, the local customs and culture are quite good, and the people are relatively well-off compared to other places.

But some still went hungry, and many tenant farmers continued to work for landlords and nobles in exchange for meager wages or food.

Qingshui County is a small county town, but it is about the same size as most county towns.

Coming here to address relatively serious and difficult-to-implement policy issues is also a good way to gain a better understanding.

Upon entering the city, one can hear many people discussing this matter.

It's all about what His Highness the Crown Prince is doing by promoting land consolidation and the subsequent implementation of the land redistribution order. Some people are praising it to the skies, while others are dismissive and even pessimistic about it.

Zhu Yunwen found this situation normal. The fact that the people had doubts about the policies the court had given them and were not optimistic about them only showed that the court had not done a good job in similar matters in the past.

That's why the people have this idea!

If this is successfully implemented, the people will trust the imperial court from now on.

Along the way, Zhu Yunwen heard many people expressing their great anticipation and expectation for this matter.

Many ordinary people no longer own any land; the land that originally belonged to them now belongs to noble and wealthy landowners.

And so they could only become slaves to these noble classes, relying on the meager wages they received as payment for employing them.

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