As Hu Cao Peng, Wu Lun deeply felt that since the Qin and Han dynasties, the empire's statistics on household registration were very in place.

Not only can we know the general household registration of each county, but also require refinement, know the rich and poor of the people, how much to give, and level out the poor products.

Hucao had to count the farmlands, slaves, goods, and livestock of each household, and then divide them into different levels according to the amount of wealth.

Everyone (Gao Zi) has a family fortune of more than one million, such as the Fan family and the fifth family of this county; The middle family is more than 100,000, such as Jing Dan, a small landlord before he became a county official; Small households range from 10,000 to 100,000, corresponding to most homesteaders; The lowest level is the lower household, with a family wealth of less than 10,000 yuan, poor and no property, and no land, so they can only be tenant farmers.

Since the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in the previous dynasty, there were frequent wars and insufficient national use, so there was a tradition of levying endowments with money, and it was cold to come once. Therefore, the people think that there is nothing good about the plan, isn't it that the family family has less than 100,000 yuan and cannot be a official? They don't ask for this, they want to write down their wealth.

They felt that the fifth Lun, as a Hu Cao Peng, could completely change the book and change the number of people's families to less, wouldn't the military taxes paid by everyone also be less?

As a sect master, it's not too much to do such a small thing for the clan, right?

But no one expected that Fifth Lun would not give them a chance at all, and he would resign again!

"How many times has this been?" The crowd couldn't believe their ears and looked at each other.

"The Fifth Strike......"

The fifth Lun had already expected the situation today, and the things in the world were not unequal but uneven, and if he used his authority to change the fifth mile, of course the others should also be changed. But the household registration book is in duplicate, one is in him and the other is in Cao Peng's facial features, which cannot be seamless at all.

What if someone grabs the handle and sues him, and is disposed of by Wang Mang as a typical example?

And if the fifth Lun is to "enforce the law impartially", it is an errand that offends people, and it is still the kind that provokes the powerful and the common people. People in the world are suddenly taxed, who is happy? But the fault did not dare to be recorded on the emperor's head, so he could only hate the magistrates, as well as the officials who came to collect taxes and Cao Peng, who was directly responsible for this matter.

Why did he take the blame for the emperor of the Wang family? Resigned!

But this remark not only irresponsibly threw the mess to the county chief Yin Zhang Zhan alone, but also extinguished the hope of the clan.

The leader of the chicken crow glared at Wu Lun with an angry expression, and then he was also discouraged, and only discussed with others what to do.

"I have to pay a lot of rice for next year, alas, the farmer can't eat the grain he grows!"

"However, it seems that once the winter is over, you have to dig wild vegetables and mix chaff to survive."

"What if I don't pay?" A tenant farmer was indignant.

For Haoqiang and Zhongjia, this property tax is just a goose plucking and hurting. But for the tenant farmers, it was enough to be fatal, and they had to pay the rent of half of the land to the landlord, and they hardly had any savings, and it was difficult to produce three stones of grain.

"If you don't pay, you will be arrested by the government and become a prisoner and an official slave! Why bother. The fifth Pingdan interjected, he was glad that he was in the fifth mile, and he had Yicang Yiqian in his pocket, and he heard that the other Yicang had not yet been put into use.

"In the fifth, you don't have a backache when you stand and talk!"

"It's a big deal, it's a big deal to flee the famine, and the debt is gone, and there is no need to pay this increase......"

The rooster was angry: "Where to escape?" Guanzhong is not as good as other places, there are mountains, forests, lakes and marshes, there are bald mountains and mounds everywhere, and you can't even plane food, and the only one you can go to Shanglin Yuan is still watched. There is a famine on the northern edge, and the people on the other side are running south! When winter comes, running away is a dead end! ”

yes, there's nowhere to run.

Wu Lun listened to their chatter, as if he had heard the song "Wuzi Xing" again.

A pill is immediately sent into the black body, and the black soul flies to the sky.

The white deer is in the Shanglin West Garden, and the shooter has still recovered the white deer breast.

The yellow bird is flying very high, and the harem is still cooking.

The carp is in the abyss of Luoshui, and the hook is still the carp's mouth.

The world is full of dangers and tragedies, and chaos is rife with chaos. What everyone, the middle family, the small family, and the lower family, seem to be distinct. In fact, it's just the difference between yellow magpie, white deer, carp, and crow - fish and meat in the eyes of the emperor and nobles!

The decrees that change every day are fiercer than the harsh policies of the evil tigers, and the endless wars are like projectiles, bows and arrows, bird nets, and fishing hooks.

No matter where they come from, how well they hide, how deep they hide, or how far they migrate, they cannot escape the fate of being covered, shot, and slaughtered.

finally had a peaceful life, and as soon as Wang Mang slapped his head and decreed, the lives of ordinary people were shattered.

In today's world, the rich cannot separate themselves, and the poor cannot survive on their own. People have their own lifespans, so why do you need to return to life before and after!

The road ahead was cut off, and for a moment everyone was silent, and the peasants' faces turned even redder from the excitement, as if red blood would burst out of their skin at any moment.

Fifth Lun had been waiting for that moment, hoping to hear a voice from their mouths.

"Fuck it!"

Unfortunately, no. If it is in Bashu, Yuanbian, Guandong, Jingchu, and Haidai, these tenant farmers who have been repeatedly slaughtered, after they have no way to retreat, they may pick up their sons to rebel. Cast Lu Mu and green forests, rather drill the mountains and forests to be a rogue than be angry with this bird, rob the rich and help the poor, kill officials and behead them, and take revenge.

But this is Guanzhong, near Gyeonggi, where the imperial court is the most powerful, and any impulse will bring ruin, and their pain can only be endured in silence.

It seems that everyone can't be their own saviors for the time being.

When Fifth Lun had heard enough, he stood on the ox cart again and shouted to the crowd.

"Fellow clansmen!"

Ji Ming and everyone turned their eyes over, but saw Wu Lun and said loudly: "Although I have resigned from my official position. ”

"But there is another identity, the sect master of Linqu Township!"

Some people secretly scoffed, Wu Lun has taken the patriarchs to make a fortune for most of the past half a year, but it has not brought too many benefits to the ordinary clansmen.

But Wu Lun's next sentence made everyone so excited that they wanted to kneel.

"The great sect respects the unity, and the sect must unite the clansmen, and it cannot be broken."

"So, not only the fifth mile, but also the first, third, fourth, sixth, seventh, eighth, and the entire Zhudi clans...... No, not only clans, even if they are Chinese and foreign surnames, as long as they are willing to hand over a bucket of grain to the righteous warehouse, this time they will collect taxes and wait for the grain ...... to be paid."

Fifth Lun patted his chest and was full of pride: "It's all up to me!" ”

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As the housekeeper of the Fifth Clan, the mood of the Fifth Grid always fluctuates with the amount of money and grain in the warehouse - happy when there is more food, and sad when there is less food.

Since last year's suzerain's briquettes and this year's lime mortar has been added, the business has improved, and the grain in the fifth clan's warehouse has grown rapidly, and the harvest has just been harvested, even after deducting the field rent and expenses, there are still 4,000 stone of grain.

The fifth grid patrolled the overflowing clay jars, not to mention how happy they were.

But today, he was shocked to hear that when Fifth Lun was going to take half of the grain out and pay taxes on behalf of the poor ghosts in the clan, Fifth Grid subconsciously stretched out his arms and stopped in front of the granary.

"Sect Master!"

The voice of the fifth grid was very dissatisfied: "Does the sect master know how many families there are in the clan and how much food they have to consume?" ”

"Of course I do." Fifth Lun said: "Seven miles, excluding the large and middle families, a total of five hundred and sixty-three households. There are more than 400 self-cultivated small farmers, accounting for the largest 54 acres of land and the least 8 acres, in addition to more than 100 tenant farmers who have lost their land. ”

The fifth Lun's Cao Peng is not in vain, and he can even name someone's family: for example, the fifth Pingdan's family, a family of four, a house and a district, fifteen acres of land, and a total of 13,000 yuan, this is the fifth Lun personally calculated, if only rely on the land, his family will be hungry every year, but now the fifth Pingdan is a foreman in the coal kiln, and the fifth Lun gives his family four stone grains every month.

The situation of the rich and poor and the class composition of the whole township, even the whole county and the whole county, Wu Lun was already well understood, and there was nothing to dig deep into the information that could be obtained from Hu Cao Peng's position, so he resigned with satisfaction.

After two hundred years of annexation, most of the fields were concentrated in the main clan of the family, for example, the fifth tyrant occupied 50 hectares of land, the first Liu family had more, and 1% of the population of the township owned 60% of the land and wealth.

Although the gap between the rich and the poor is large, it may be the reason for the large landlords to live together, and the contradictions between the big landlords and the small families and tenant farmers have not yet intensified to an irreconcilable degree, and it is Wang Mang's new government that exploits them the most. This time, it can be increased by one-thirtieth, and next time, it will be able to expropriate half of the people's assets like what was done in Yizhou.

Fifth Lun has already settled the account, he only needs to pay more than 2,000 stone of grain, and he can pay all the taxes of the whole township's middle family, small family, and lower households, and there is still half of the grain left in the warehouse, what are you afraid of!

The fifth tyrant supported him, and the fifth Lun was speechless, and only shouted unconvinced: "The sect master said last year that he wanted to store grain and ten thousand stones, and now he has just seen a little hope, and he will disperse most of it. ”

Of course it's the people who figure them.

Fifth Lun said with a smile: "Isn't it a great good deed to damage my family, but to benefit the whole clan, so that the lower family does not have to break the family and go into exile?" There will be afterglow in the house of goodness, believe me, the daughter is gone, and it will come back! ”

He asked people to open warehouses and transport grain out, and one after another people and carts sent out the yellow corn.

This matter has spread all over the township, and soon, the eighth straight hurriedly came to visit, he met the fifth Lun in front of the Liren Hall, and said with a shameful face: "The ancients are cloudy, living in a different place and sharing the same wealth, if there is more, it will return to the sect, and if it is insufficient, it will be the sect of capital." I never thought that Bo Yu would be so generous, worthy of being the sect master, and I am willing to personally sponsor the Eighth Clan's subordinate households to tide over this difficulty. ”

Later, the first, third, fourth, sixth, and seventh patriarchs also heard the news, and they all said that they had put the Yicang into use in advance, hoping to make some contributions to the clan.

More and more people came to the door, and the dozen or so small landlords with a fortune of more than 100,000 yuan also took the initiative to report it, and they were able to bear the taxes and grain independently, and were even willing to help their own tenant farmers.

Even the first clan's rooster crow came to the head: "Although my family is only a small family, I can still afford more than ten stone grains, please don't worry about me!" ”

As for the tenant farmers who flocked to the village and expressed their willingness to work for the fifth clan to pay off the debt, there were even more.

It seems that next year, the Fifth Family's industry will have more workers.

But the fifth Lun refused, saying that not a single grain of grain sent out this time would return to the warehouse, so that everyone kept the grain for emergencies, which won him more praise and admiration.

Fifth Lun was clear in his heart: "Before that, my sect master was only a name, and the sect power was not low, and I had to rely on the assistance of the patriarchs to give orders." ”

Then from today onwards, he is the real sect master in the minds of more than 500 households and more than 4,000 people in the seventh mile!

And what will the people of this county and this county think when they hear about it?

In Liewei County, every time Wang Mang loses the hearts of the people, the fifth Lun will get a point.

Sooner or later, he will make a big news in the capital area, and the day when the center will bloom!

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Linqu Township Zhudi is only a special case among the special cases, in the counties of Liewei County, there are tragicomedy scenes, which is the real situation caused by the temporary increase of the imperial court.

Wang Mang's edict was apportioned layer by layer, from Nayan to county, from county to county, and then to township and li.

The emperor can just pat his head, and the princess and county Yin can just move his mouth, but the specific things have to be carried out by the grassroots officials.

Because the tax is collected according to the township and the district, the tax collector only takes care of the general account, and it doesn't matter where your grain comes from!

They didn't dare to supervise the Xiao family, the Fan family and other people in the county, so they bent on their intentions to tolerate their generations, but the total amount of grain was indispensable, so they turned to the small people and asked the middle family, the small family and the lower households to raise all the taxes and grain.

In addition, some officials want to make up for the few horses they have paid for no reason, and they are secretly profiting, and the court obviously levies 1/30 of the tax, but when it is actually implemented, it becomes one-tenth, or even one-third!

The small tenant farmers who are poor and cannot survive on their own are already difficult, the lower households are rugged, there is nothing to stand, the father and son bow their heads, and slave the rich and serve for them. If you come out like this again, the family will be ruined and killed.

Some of them took out the rice they were going to eat next year, sold their skinny livestock, or borrowed money to pay taxes; Some were unwilling to be exploited, and they only refused to pay their share, but they were beaten all over by the tax collector and detained for the crime of tax resistance; Some simply abandoned the rented fields, slipped away, and went into exile.

When the tenant farmers and tenants who remained in place and sighed sighed heard about the deeds of the fifth lun to help the clan, they were full of envy. If it hadn't been forbidden by the imperial decree, it would have been like flowing water a long time ago.

They only secretly warned each other: "If tomorrow is a disaster year, take refuge in Xiaoyi Wulang, maybe there is still a way to live." ”

Even Wu Lun's move of not wanting to resign from the blame was also glorified by word of mouth as "unwilling to abuse the people, and angrily throwing the seal".

By the beginning of October, at the beginning of winter, after a month of tossing and turning, the taxes from Liuwei County in Guanzhong had been collected, and together with the slave tax and silk, they were all sent to Chang'an.

There are even some families who really can't pay this heavy tax, so they can only be tied by ropes and become official slaves and chariots.

On the way, they also met the private slaves who were abandoned because the master was reluctant to spend 3,600 yuan, and only then did they get out of the wolf pit and enter the tiger's den, and the slaves and maids were at a loss for their future life.

There were more than a thousand such people in Lieutenant County, and they were tired to settle near the capital division.

During this period, people also came to check their physical condition, and the good and decent families were forcibly separated - the old and weak women and children were arranged to work as official slaves in the upper forest garden to do some light work, and the able-bodied men were gathered.

Such slaves, convicts, and death row prisoners, the total number of people in Liuwei County is 6,000, plus the total number gathered from all over the world is incalculable, and it will definitely not be enough to make up a million anyway.

They were asked to distinguish between the Shivu and even wore clean clothes.

His Majesty the Great Emperor sent the Yellow Gate to tell the people the good news that they had the opportunity to cease to be slaves.

"What chance?" And the people were exceedingly glad, and they wanted to give amnesty to the land?

The officer said: "The Son of Heaven conquered the Huns, and made you and others a sharp soldier!" ”

Everyone is stunned, go to the side and die for life, no, they would rather be slaves!

But the matter is not up to everyone, Wang Mang has happily decided, and has given this group of people a strange new name.

"Pig Sudden Pig (xī) Yong!"

And the two generals who commanded Zhu Tu Yong were none other than Lian Dan, the first general who had just returned to the dynasty after two years of fruitless campaigns in Nanzhong.

and the great Sima Yanyou, known as the famous general.

Tomorrow is the auspicious day to award the axe and declare them the "Second Signs", but Yan You looked at the armor that had been blessed to some ill-fitting in the bronze jian, but his face was full of worry.

"If the laws and regulations are not clear, the rewards and punishments are not believed, the money is not stopped, and the drums are not advanced, although there are millions, what good is it to use?"

"Fighting without teaching is called killing. Using such an army to attack the Xiongnu is tantamount to falling the weight of a thousand armies, and gathering on the eggs of birds will not be lucky. ”

Yan You made up his mind: "I must admonish, do my best, and persuade Your Majesty to cancel this campaign!" ”

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PS: According to the book of Zheng Lixiao, the No. 10 Han Tomb of Phoenix Mountain, Jiangling, Hubei Province, the 25 households in Zhengli occupy the most 54 acres of land, the least 8 acres, and the average land occupancy is 25 acres. The situation in Guanzhong will only get worse.