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Since the seaside Chinese defeated the German army and occupied Jiaozhou Bay, the official affairs of Jiaozhou County have gradually decreased, as soon as the overseas Chinese took control of the Jiaozhou Bay area, they immediately carried out a large-scale clean-up of robbers, bandits, and bullies within dozens of miles around the area, and successively suppressed more than 10 bandits and bandit organizations with a scale of more than 100 people. There are more than 30 bandits, and as a result, the public security environment in the entire Jiaozhou area has also been greatly improved, even Jiaozhou County is much more peaceful, and Zhou Wenhuai, the magistrate of the county, is naturally much cleaner.

On the other hand, since December last year (referring to the lunar calendar), overseas Chinese have gradually taken control of the villages around Jiaozhou County, and each village has directly contracted the village land tax. In this era, it was very common to collect the land tax of a region in the capacity of an individual instead of the government, and ensure that the full amount of the land tax was paid to the government. And the people who collect taxes are often powerful people on the ground, even local bullies, or relatives of county officials, because only these people have enough ability to collect taxes from the people.

Of course, under normal circumstances, it is impossible for the tax collector to pay the full amount of the field tax to the government, and it is a very good result to be able to hand over seven or eight achievements, in fact, in ancient China, it is impossible to collect 100 percent of the field tax, and it is possible to pay the difference if you can receive seven or eight achievements, even if you only receive half of it, you can avoid being forced to deal with the past, and if you can really collect it in full, it can be regarded as a major achievement of local officials. And the extra part will naturally become the personal income of the tax bearer, otherwise he will do this thankless job.

However, the withheld land tax is only a small part of the personal income of the tax bearer, and the majority is over-levied, and the amount of over-levied varies from place to place and from time to time, generally over-levied at about 50 percent, and sometimes even more than doubled. The government generally ignores this, after all, this can reduce the trouble of the government, of course, every tax collector will not forget to check the government, and the top and bottom of the yamen, including the county lord, have a share.

Since you don't have to worry about it yourself, and you have an extra amount of money, why not. Although there are also some tax collectors who are powerful in the local area, they do not hand over a single cent to the government after collecting the land tax, and all of them are deducted by themselves, but this is only a very small number of cases.

In fact, the land tax formulated by the Qing court is not high, and generally a village is only a few dozen taels of silver, but the tax bearer himself increases the amount privately, and even if there is no tax collector, the errand who comes to the village to collect taxes will also find another name to ask for more, if it is a self-cultivated person, it is better, but if it is rented land, it is necessary to pay rent to the landlord, so there is not much that falls into the hands of the peasants.

However, although the overseas Chinese tax package is paid in full, there is no extra point, which naturally damages the interests of everyone in the yamen. The extra income from tax collection is their main source of income, although some of the full field tax paid by overseas Chinese can be deducted from the private ownership, but after all, this is the field tax of the imperial court, and most of it still has to be paid, and it is not much, so now the tax package behavior of overseas Chinese is equivalent to cutting off most of their income, and naturally it is also jealous of everyone in the yamen, so the officials and servants have complained to Zhou Wenhuai, the magistrate, hoping that the eldest master can manage the overseas Chinese.

In fact, Master Zhou's heart is also very unhappy, because there is also his share in it, but Zhou Wenhuai is an official of the imperial court after all, and his vision is much higher than that of the officials, and he also knows more information, he knows very well that he can't control overseas Chinese at all, let alone himself, I'm afraid that no one in the entire Qing Dynasty can control overseas Chinese, even the Queen Mother, The emperor has to look at the faces of overseas Chinese, and some time ago, Zhou Wenhuai also heard some rumors, knowing that the imperial court was planning to appease overseas Chinese, and it seemed that they had the intention of establishing a vassal and a king, and the fief was in Shandong. Zhou Wenhuai naturally knows the history of this dynasty, and knows that it is not a trivial matter to establish a feudal domain, no matter what the final result of overseas Chinese is, but it is definitely not something that his own small Qipinzhi County can afford to provoke. Therefore, for the appeal of the officials, Master Zhou could only pretend to be confused and play Tai Chi pusher.

After the New Year, all the villages and townships on the periphery of Jiaozhou County have been controlled by overseas Chinese, and Jiaozhou City has become an isolated city. Master Zhou's order can't even get out of Jiaozhou City.

Of course, there were also a few officials who did not believe in this evil, or were not sober-minded, and insisted on going to the villages outside the city to forcibly collect taxes, but within a few days, those few forced taxes were nowhere to be found, and later it was said that a few people who looked like them had been seen in a certain mine in overseas China, but since then, the officials and officials of Jiaozhou County have finally been honest, and no one dares to go to the villages of the city to forcibly collect taxes.

The ground is too peaceful, and the field tax does not have to worry about, plus the imperial court is touring the west, and the official business of the column is gone, so Zhou Wenhuai suddenly became a lot more leisurely, every day is either to read books, play chess, or walk around, visit the mountains and rivers. Although there is less income, it is also at ease. Moreover, Zhou Wenhuai is an official of the imperial court after all, and he still has a regular income, and the gentry and merchants in the city also have his routine share, even if there is no land tax, it is enough to live.

And on this day, the gate of the county government suddenly became lively, and more than a dozen people came at once, all of whom were local gentry, and they also prepared a lot of gifts, asking to meet Zhou Wenhuai. These people are all local powerful forces, and Zhou Wenhuai didn't dare to offend easily, not to mention that the other party also sent generous gifts, and there was a way to reach out and not hit smiling people, so Zhou Wenhuai ordered the messenger to invite them into the county government and receive everyone in the second hall.

The group entered the county government and sat down and explained their intentions. It turned out that this group of people came for the [Outline of the Land Reform System] issued by overseas Chinese.

After the Executive Committee adopted the "Outline of the Land Reform System", it is organizing personnel to set up a land reform team, and first distributing the "Outline of the Land Reform System" to all villages under its control, requiring all people to obey the arrangement and actively cooperate with the land reform work.

Originally, the land issue has always been a very sensitive issue, because generally in the middle and late dynasties, land annexation gradually became serious, which would lead to yeoman farmers, Small landlords have been greatly reduced, and the landlords who occupy a large amount of land are still trying their best to evade the field tax, because the landlords are often the local powerful forces, and the general government has no way, the field tax revenue of the imperial court will drop sharply, and the state finances will not be able to make ends meet, so in the middle of the dynasties, there is no shortage of people of insight who ask for the land to be cleared and the land verified, but the landlords will naturally try their best to obstruct it, and the result is that the success of clearing the fields is a minority, and most of them end up in vain, or end hastily.

The situation of the Qing court is more special, although the income of the field tax has been greatly reduced, but due to the entry into the period of global trade, although the customs of the Qing court is controlled by foreign countries, the tariff is very low, but after all, the trade volume has increased greatly, and it is the modern customs management mode used, so the income of customs and commercial tax has increased significantly, which can not only make up for the loss of field tax, but also increase the total amount. On the contrary, no one mentioned the matter of Qingtian, and it alleviated many domestic contradictions, which is the main reason why the Qing court was able to survive despite its abuse.

However, the landlords are still very sensitive to clearing the fields and checking the land, and the overseas Chinese are not just as simple as clearing the fields, but also have to collect all the excess land, so the big landlords, small landlords, and semi-landlords in the villages naturally can't sit still. But the landlords also know that overseas Chinese are different from ordinary forces, and Wangjiazhai is also famous in this area, but the overseas Chinese will be wiped out, and the whole family will be destroyed, and the land will really be distributed to those mud legs by the overseas Chinese, which also shows that this group of overseas Chinese can say it and do it. Although Wangjiazhai's reputation in this area is not very good, there is also a sense of sadness about the death of rabbits and foxes. So let's find Zhou Wenhuai, the county magistrate, hoping that the county master can think of a way.

After listening to everyone's complaints, Zhou Wenhuai also smiled bitterly, of course he knew the [Outline of the Land Reform System] issued by overseas Chinese, and he didn't expect that overseas Chinese would really dare to do it, not only to clear the fields, but also to collect the fields. Although it is said that "the tiller has his land" is regarded as the highest state of good governance in the past dynasties, this is just the way to say that land annexation is an inevitable thing in all dynasties, and it is by no means a reason to forcibly seize the land of the gentry of the world.

Prior to this, Zhou Wenhuai had faintly heard some rumors that overseas Chinese returned to China this time to establish themselves as kings, and even to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and establish a dynasty, and judging from what they did after occupying Qingdao, there was indeed some such meaning, but in all dynasties, no ruler dared to do such a thing as collecting all the squires' fields, didn't this offend all the squires? The squires have always been the basis of the rule of the dynasty, even if there is a change of dynasty, the new dynasty will have to rule the world with the scholars, at most it will be the squires who are more closely related to the old dynasty, but they will never target the entire squire group.

And overseas Chinese actually dared to do this, and they used to really look at them for a while. It seems that although overseas Chinese are also descendants of China, after all, they have been overseas for a long time, although they have learned some Western equipment, but they have forgotten the avenue of their Chinese ancestors. At most, it's just the second long hair (Taiping Heavenly Kingdom), but the Western equipment of overseas Chinese does have some doorways, far from being compared with long hair, so it is not enough to govern the world, but the chaos in the world is more than enough, and it will really make trouble in the future, I am afraid it is far beyond the harm of long hair, so it seems that this is not the blessing of China.

However, although Zhou Wenhuai was full of worries about the country and the people, the ardent hope of the local gentry in front of him could only sigh and said: "Fathers and fellow villagers, I am afraid that the official will not be able to help in this matter." ”