The story of the levee burst tells us that when the pressure reaches a certain level, there will always be some weak link that will swell first.

Although the area around Gaoqiao was lucky last year, and did not suffer from the terrifying flood of tens of thousands of people drowned in the Qiantang River basin at one time, the low temperature during the Xiaoice River period was universal, and no one could avoid this.

Spherical hypothermia is not as simple as wearing more clothes. For agricultural production, the most significant expression of climate anomalies is the uneven drought and flood: the warm and humid air flow is retarded by low temperatures, and the mobility is insufficient, so there are invariably drought and flood outbreaks in various places. Either the rain will not come for months, or it will be rained down in the form of torrential rain or even hail.

This alternation of droughts and floods was devastating for agriculture in the Middle Ages. In the past 1628, the above scenes occurred to varying degrees in the entire Jiangnan region.

Therefore, the life of the Zuo family is actually not easy. Since last year, Chongzhen Liao's additional distribution in Nanzhili has been 380,000 taels, and the excessive taxes and miscellaneous taxes have not been adjusted to the wind and rain, which has made it even more difficult for the peasants who were already carrying a heavy burden. Needless to say, even many rich peasants and small landowners were already spinning on thin ice.

In such a situation, it is difficult for ordinary people who see great benefits in front of them to be restrained by morality, patriarchy and the like. In the face of the dimensionality reduction blow of bankruptcy and loss of land, all obstacles began to appear powerless.

So after the Land Acquisition Office announced the latest purchase price, there were insiders of the Zuo family who were ready to move.

In the beginning, some people were just "paying close attention" and did not put the land sale into action. However, when the Land Acquisition Office issued the latest Weibo post, someone secretly signed the contract with the title deed that night.

The content of this Weibo is: The preferential reward activity only lasts for seven days, and it does not wait for the expiration date.

It's a pity that in the 17th century, these people didn't have a lot of experience in dealing with demolition companies, so they were easily tricked, and they were shocked and emotionally mobilized and led by the nose.

The three single-handedness households who came to sell the land were all rich peasants. Like the previous Zuo Seventeen, they all belong to the kind of people who have no right to speak in the clan. @爱奇文学o*... gratis

They also need to work hard in the fields on weekdays, and they are also overwhelmed by various taxes. In fact, these few were slightly better than tenant farmers, and their families had more land to be shared—tenant rich peasants.

The three of them actually don't have much land on hand, and the total is less than 100 acres. However, the Land Acquisition Office still hurried to go through the formalities for them as soon as possible, because the significance they represent is very significant: if Zuo Seventeen is a special case of gambling sticks, these three families have pried open a large crack in the iron plate of the Zuo clan.

Zuo Hongtang and his senators really sat down.

This time, they can't put on the posture of three triages. After all, the three people who sold the land were all heads of the family in their own right, and they didn't have any gambling bad deeds on weekdays. Therefore, even the sect master can't deprive them of their property by inciting public anger like he did with Zuo Seventeen, so he can only be reasonable.

However, reasoning is not so easy. These three do not kill anyone, and they do not break the law - the Ming Law does not stipulate that land can only be sold to people of the same clan.

As for saying that the clan has already sold the title deed, the conventional patriarchal law is not very effective at this time. Could it be that all three of them were sunk in the pond? That's impossible: the teacher is unknown and doesn't say it, this is a family with old people, young people, sons and nephews. They are all relatives with relatives, and it is impossible for the Senate to call on the clansmen to be rude to so many people.

And what made Zuo Hongtang even more unable to move was that he could now feel the cold gaze from an old official behind him at any time. He had a hunch: once the clan gave that person some trick at this juncture, he was afraid that the next day he would come to the door.

So now he really has to sit on the wax: these three people can't beat or scold, he can only watch them sell their land and take their families to live a good life. And this time he couldn't even get rid of the clan: there were more than 20 people in three families, and if he continued to get rid of it like this, there would be no one in the Zuo family. So in the end, Zuo Hongtang could only pinch his nose and let the three families leave, which was regarded as the branch of the clan.

The results of the anticlimactic parliament have completely exposed the weaknesses of the traditional clans.

For traditional clans that live together and are always ready to resist natural and man-made disasters, in fact, the greater the pressure, the more united and connected they will be.

This model worked for the ancient ruling class, which was only cunning and plundering: if anyone tried to seize the land of their clansmen, it would provoke a revolt from all the clans of the same enemy.

And when this traditional mode of survival meets the ideas from the afterlife, it does not work for the first time. Because everyone in Zuojia Village, including Zuo Hongtang himself, has to admit that the gang of people from the Land Acquisition Office are not here to steal it.

Adhering to the standard entrepreneurial concept of "if you want to cut leeks, you must first burn money", there is no psychological pressure on the people who spend money to buy land, which is relatively stupid in the eyes of the ancients.

You must know that in the future, if a new industry such as takeaway hits the country, if you start with less than 10 billion yuan of money every year, you will be embarrassed to say hello when you go out.

Of course, when the country is defeated, you can cut the leeks. Look at what Meituan's delivery fees have risen now.

Therefore, in the face of the purchase price far exceeding the surrounding land price, the people of the Zuo clan had no way to mention the desire to fight. You know, people from neighboring villages have come to inquire with the title deed, just because there are people here who have paid a high price for the land. Some people also came to inquire whether Zuojia Village had gold mines buried underground

This is the fundamental reason why Zuo Hongtang has always been passive: he cannot portray a group of stupid-looking gentlemen as heinous villains, so he calls on his people to unite and resolutely resist everything related to land expropriation. No one is blind, and those who sell land in the clan voted with their feet.

In the seven days after the three members of the Zuo family sold their land, another group of people sold their land to the land acquisition office before the deadline came.

By this time, the situation was quite clear: all the yeoman and rich peasants had been wiped out by the land expropriation office, and the ministry had moved out of Zuojia Village.

Among those who remained, the class composition was already clearly defined: a large number of tenant farmers and a small number of large landowners.

Sharecroppers are the most numerous group of people in the village. Although they have the same surname Zuo, they are complete proletarians, they are the bottom of society, and they are also professional melon eaters - just like the workers of later generations, the factory boss will not be replaced, and it will not affect them much, anyway, they still have to do the same work every day.

In ancient times, the ownership and management rights of cultivated land were separated. The landlord has the ownership, while in most cases, the tenant farmer has the right to operate. In other words, the landlord does not actually have the right to designate the type of crop. The so-called "field bones" and "field skins" are said to be this.

In this situation, when the tenant farmers in Zuojia Village found that the new boss was business as usual, no one would be involved in the land requisition.

Of course, all this is just a façade: it's not that the tenants don't care, it's mainly that the new owners are not yet free to deal with them.

Now, everything is clear. When the Land Acquisition Office spent more than half a month to clean out the idle people in the village, the homesteaders, and the rich peasants, the big landlords were like light bulbs, shining and exposed.

The days that followed were not as easy as before. The stubborn landlords will not sell their land under any circumstances, so it is time to serve hard dishes.

First of all, a group of people were stationed in Zuojia Village. There are action team members under Xiong Dao, and there are also food shortages under Yu Bende, with a total of about 100 people.

The grain gap is a civil servant who is responsible for collecting taxes in the countryside during the summer and autumn taxes every year. However, when it comes to civil servants, in fact, most of these people are unstaffed white laborers, ruffians and scoundrels.

Yu Bende, as the head of the county government secretary's office, is naturally the natural big boss of the grain poor. So when the gang arrived, early the next morning, a paddy field three miles southeast of Zuojia Village was surrounded by grain messengers.

This paddy field is about 20 acres in size, and it is located at the bay of a small river, which is an excellent location for irrigation. Several members of the Zuo family who were working in the fields were also arrested.

After Zuo Hongtang heard the news, he immediately rushed to the place of the incident with his manpower.

"Master Yu, what do you mean by this?"

"What do you mean? These people are so bold and reckless that they dare not pay taxes, so they naturally want to take back the county government and send them back according to the law! ”

A red-faced man standing beside Zuo Hongtang heard the words and replied loudly: "Nonsense! My Zuo family's grain is paid every year, how can I resist taxes? ”

Generally speaking, when paying taxes in villages and townships every year, some "grain households" are responsible for collecting tax grain from small people first, and then handing over the grain to the grain poor.

These grain households are either large local households, or bullies and murderers. In short, they are all people who are "capable" to collect taxes and benefit from them.

And the person who has been responsible for the grain distribution in Zuojia Village over the years is this red-faced man named Zuo Hongwu. He is from the second room of the Zuo family, and he is of the same generation as Zuo Hongtang, and he still has a local chief's hat on his head.

After hearing Zuo Hongwu speak, Yu Bende shook his head with a smile: "Hehe, the words are true." But your tax package is 2,400 acres of registered land, and you can have the tax grain of this field? ”

When Yu Bende said this, he stretched out a finger and slowly pointed to his feet.

"This" The red-faced man suddenly opened his mouth and was speechless.

Yes, this land in the small river bay is a legendary hidden field.