Like An Lu, in Shaxian, "Marquis Wuzhong's white helmet and white armor wore the first emperor's plain" has long been spread.

However, compared with the empty slogans that only big figures such as "Jingnan" cared about, Shaxian people watched more and more Anlu immigrants and Wuchang soldiers outside the city with more and more fear, for fear that this huge army and civilians living here would grab their own land, occupy their own houses, and then take away food, wives and daughters.

Fortunately, although there were some skirmishes in which the soldiers bullied men and women, the military judges under Wu Zhonghou had dealt with the offenders in a timely manner, and the most heinous ones were dragged to the center of the street and beheaded.

Seeing that the county guards are still maintaining order on the streets, this is undoubtedly telling Shaxian people:

"Although the sky has changed, Wang Fa is still there!"

The people used to hate Qin's harsh and strict laws, but now they only hope that this "righteous army" can still be bound by the law.

A troubled world without rules is a hundred times more cruel than an orderly tyranny.

In mid-March, a convoy drove out of the county temple and marched around the county seat.

"Second and third sons, listen well, this is what Marquis Wu Zhong said personally, and it is about your food and clothing!"

Someone in the car was banging on the gong, and when the people were almost gathered, several Confucian students from Chu under Lu Jia coughed and read the "Book of Marquis Wuzhong to the People":

"Since the beginning of the 30th year, the imperial court tax has increased day by day, and half of the Thai endowment has been collected, and the people are miserable, and the Marquis of Wuzhong has persuaded him several times, and the first emperor wanted to be easier, but the rebel traitors were greedy for their profits, disregarded the people's livelihood, and did not want to change the throne."

"Shang Jun has a saying, Gou can be a country, and it is illegal; Gou can benefit the people, not follow his etiquette. There is no immutable law in the world, and now Wu Zhonghou wants to set aside its chaos and reverse its righteousness, and the law of taxation is led by An Lu and Sha Xian before the world! From today onwards, the tax field is only for the May Day ......"

The crowd craned their necks and widened their eyes to listen, but there was no reaction at half-sound, and after a while, an old man shouted:

"Hou Sheng, can you speak human words?"

Everyone laughed, Confucian looked embarrassed, Lu Jia bit his bald pen and came up with several allusions, what Shang Jun's words, what chaos to set things right, Qianshou didn't understand.

Fortunately, Heifu had expected this, and the five hundred masters on the side, Sha Xian Renxing, immediately spoke and chatted with the villagers in the local dialect.

"Uncle, how much land rent did you pay last year?"

The old man had no worries about the shouting of several Confucian students in the car, and at this time he looked at Xing's armor, but he shrank back, not wanting to come out.

Confucian scholars only have mouths, but soldiers have spears and swords.

However, the old woman next to him was very bold, and interjected: "My family is a public scholar, the land is outside the city, there are a total of 100 acres of land, of which 50 acres are divided into tax fields, and each mu produces two stones of rice, how much do you say my family has paid?" ”

Simple math problems, this is also the way the Qin Dynasty paid the land rent.

According to the tax rate required by the imperial court this year, such as the 11th tax, 10 acres of 100 acres of land will be set aside and called tax fields, and the harvest of these 10 acres will be handed over to the government after the autumn harvest is completed in August and September.

But the eleventh tax will always exist only in the ideals depicted by the hundred schools of thought.

The Qin Dynasty had so many large-scale projects and expeditions, especially the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the southern expedition had to eat, and the eleventh tax could not be met at all, so the tax rate of land rent was higher than one year a year.

In Shaxian, this year's tax field ratio has accounted for half of the land, which is equivalent to half of the annual harvest, and the land rent has been paid! The food left in the field is only enough for the poor to barely make ends meet, and it is okay to have enough to eat, but it is basically impossible to have savings.

To add insult to injury, they often encounter unfavorable capital turnover of the local government, and they have to increase their salaries, and the poor families are surrounded by walls, of course, they can't pay it, so they owe the government money and grain, so they can only accept the imposed bonds with a bitter face and repay them with more hard labor.

Later generations said that Qin's taxes were "twenty times that of ancient times" and "half of the Tai tax", most of which was the case, high land rents, oral taxes and heavy forced labor, which was the most criticized place for Qin Zheng.

"It's the same with Anlu."

Sha Xian's people were afraid and didn't dare to say it, but the people from An Lu knew everything:

"At the beginning, when the harvest was bad in a famine year, the land rent could be paid less and the payment was delayed, but now it is ignored."

"I heard that since Anlu's Xijun was sentenced to relocate, the local officials no longer dared to say a word about the laws and decrees tampered with by the traitors, and they were all happy to use torture and death as a threat, and the court also regarded the people as good officials who were good at forcing the people to collect taxes, and those who did not pay enough were treated as mediocre officials and distributed to Lingnan."

For a time, the small street of Shaxian became a grievance meeting, and the people had great opinions about the heavy land rent of the imperial court.

"Now it's good!"

Xing raised his arms and shouted: "Marquis Wuzhong's southern government, from this year onwards, the land rent of Anlu and Shaxian will only be collected on May 1st!" Fifth! Of the 100 acres of land, only 20 acres of tax land are demarcated, and the rest of the grain can be kept by the people. ”

"In addition, the money and grain bonds that the people previously owed to the government due to insufficient payment were all handed over to the county seat, and Marquis Wu Zhong said that no matter how much they owed, they will be written off!"

Now, the illiterate Qianshou on the street also understands, and when they hear that the rent has been reduced, and all the debts owed in the past are not counted, who will be unhappy? They all smiled, but still asked suspiciously:

"Really?"

"It's really not true, and ask Marquis Wu Zhong!"

With Xing's finger in the direction, everyone turned around, but saw that Marquis Wu Zhong was standing on the city wall, waving towards An Lu and Sha Xian, and his voice was full of anger.

"I, the son of the head of the Qian, also know the suffering of the small people."

"From today onwards, all counties and counties that return to the righteous army will only be charged 51 May 10 for land rent, and they will never break their promises!"

"When we succeed and put things right, not only Anlu and Shaxian, not only in the south, but also in the whole world, the land rent and mouth endowment will be reduced even lower, less!"

……

Anlu people only obey Heifu's orders, he believes whatever he says, Wu Zhonghou is the savior of Anlu, can he still deceive the township party?

But for the Shaxian people, even if Heifu came forward to pack the ticket, not many people still believed that Wu Zhonghou's "new official mansion" would fulfill its promise.

After all, the rent collection is in August and September, and I don't know what will happen when the time comes.

It wasn't until two things happened that Sha Xian changed his attitude.

First, some poor Qiantou suspiciously sent the bonds owed to the official government to the county temple, and Wuzhong Hou Zhen threw them into the fire in public outside the door and burned them!

Now, similar bonds were sent like pieces of paper, and they were all burned, so there was a scene similar to Meng Weijun's burning of bonds:

Everyone who came worshipped, and even for a few years they couldn't pay their mouths, and the hooligans, who were already about to become permanent prisoners, shouted:

"Long live the Marquis of Wuzhong!"

"Long live the prince!"

The shouts were uneven, as there was no organization, and they were quickly drowned out by other sounds.

But the Sha Xian official in charge of this matter still heard it, and Sha Xian Ling asked Ji Ying with some uneasiness: "Captain Ji, I'm afraid it's not appropriate for his generation to shout like this......

"There is nothing wrong with the people shouting whatever they want."

Ji Ying smiled, this strategy was still from Lu Jia, burning useless false debt coupons, donating unobtainable false plans, so that the people of Sha Xian were pro-monarchs, and the good voice of the righteous army was also.

He looked up and down Sha Xianling, who had worked hard in the past two days, and said, "By the way, the prince also asked me to borrow something from the county order." ”

Sha Xian Ling was resigned: "What? ”

"The head of the county monarch!"

……

Sha Xianling's head is a little heavy.

This is the second thing that made Sha Xian people begin to believe in the promise of the "new government": Sha Xian Ling, who is very good at collecting taxes and collecting rent, and has forced many people to death, was directly wearing official uniforms, was dragged to the market and beheaded, and Wu Zhonghou's subordinates still carried bloody heads to show everyone.

"The traitorous ministers and rebels take advantage of His Majesty's long-term illness, control the government, take the tax collectors as good officials, kill more people as loyal ministers, and Sha Xian Ling is promoted to the rank of official, but he blindly forces the people, supervises too harshly, and commits the five mistakes of the officials, so that Sha Xian people are not able to live, and the people who die of freezing and starvation do not know how many, and the crime deserves death!"

The onlookers all clapped their hands and applauded, even louder than when they heard that the rent could be reduced, and the joy was almost the same as when the coupons were burned.

After all, one can only be seen in August and September, but the other is happening under the nose, and it can't be faked.

But with the latter two things as a foreshadowing, the rent reduction, Shaxian people have believed it for seven or eight points.

Heifu watched this scene from the castle tower, and his face was a little sad.

"Sha Xian Ling is still good, although he did a lot of things for the tiger during his official period, but in order to survive these days, he has done his best to arrange everything for me, and it is a pity to behead him like this......"

But there is no way, the local harsh government has been implemented for a long time, and since Heifu keeps saying that he wants to "put things right", someone must come out to take the black pot of "chaotic government".

The county commander, the lieutenant, the captain, the third-in-command, pick the one who is the most angry with the people to come out and take the blame, anyway, they are all officials in different places, and they have long been hated by the locals.

In this way, the public anger that had accumulated in the past can be quelled, and the remaining two chief officials will be more respectful, and Hefu will appoint another military official to replace the missing one, and local order can be maintained.

Kill one person and all the people are happy, then kill him!

"Punishment of officials, rent reduction, and burning coupons, these three things can be replicated to the south of Jianghuai, or even anywhere in the world, and they can be tried and tested repeatedly!"

This is the three-plate axe that Heifu used to win the hearts and minds of the people.

Although Heifu has been talking about "I am a farmer's son" recently, it is by no means a lie, he has indeed used his background advantages to take the perspective of the common people and carefully study their likes and dislikes.

We should not copy the experience of later generations at every turn, we must "fight local tyrants and divide the land", we must carry out "land reform", and analyze specific problems in detail.

The main contradiction in the Qin Dynasty was the contradiction between the government and the people, the contradiction between the heavy rent and heavy taxation of the imperial court, the heavy forced labor, and the people's desire to recuperate.

In the Jiangnan region, there is more land but not enough people, there are basically no local tyrants and inferior gentry, and the common people are not as eager for land as Guanzhong and Shandong, and it is useless to divide land.

Heifu has finalized a clever plan to win the support of the people in the long term in the future, and Lu Jia is full of praise for this, but Wu Chen still kindly reminded:

"Prince, although these are more benevolent and righteous, and they are quite popular with the people, they can't be exchanged for food......

Sha Xian's surplus food was only enough for the soldiers and civilians to eat for eight days.

Heifu seemed to remember this: "That's right, these are easier for a long time, not to solve the urgent need, those poor households in Qianshou who have really benefited, their families are also poor and white, even if they want to eat food, there is not a single grain of extra grain." ”

"However, the prince has a clever plan?"

Heifu suddenly asked Wu Chen a question: "How much is the reputation of the imperial court worth?" ”

Wu Chen is a little educated, and he knows the allusion of Shang Ying's time-shifting Mu Lixin, and said: "Shang Jun was worth a hundred gold when he was worth a hundred gold, and now he ...... it."

He shook his head and said, "Worthless!" ”

If the credibility of the imperial court was still useful, there would be no soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army following Heifu.

Heifu pointed at himself: "Then how much is I, the reputation of Marquis Wu Zhong, worth?" ”

Wu Chen said sycophantly: "The promise of the prince is worth a thousand gold!" ”

Heifu laughed: "Son, don't brag about me, my reputation is not worth a thousand gold at all, at most it is worth thirty stone of grain, and with rent reduction, burning coupons, and punishment, my reputation has risen to fifty stone of grain......"

He picked up a brand-new deed, which was evidence of the Qin Dynasty's common transactions and loans.

"The bonds owed by the people to the old government have been written off, and now, it is the turn of the new government to borrow grain from the people, Wu Chen."

"No!"

"Let Xing according to Hu Cao's book, find all the rich people in Shaxian County who have more than 100,000 yuan, I will feast them, let each family borrow 50 stone of grain, more than 20,000 yuan, less than 100,000 middle families, each family will borrow 30 stones, Ben Hou personally stamped it, and give them an IOU!"

Wu Chen was stunned for a moment, and understood what Heifu meant, but hesitated and said: "But the prince, the people of Shaxian have little food and little food, even if the rich families and the middle family are willing to borrow grain, they can only make up tens of thousands of stone rice, enough for the army and civilians to eat for three or five days......"

Heifu shook his head: "Of course I know, this is just to solve the urgent need, so that our army can get a few days' food and go elsewhere." ”

Wu Chen was overjoyed: "Elsewhere, where does the prince want the soldiers to go?" ”

"There are many places to go, but the most important thing is only one ......"

"There is food and people there, not only has the geographical advantage of dominating the situation in Jianghan, but also has the status of calling on the world to gather and respond!"

"That's the former capital of Chu State, the capital of Nanjun!"

Heifu looked to the west, to the upper reaches of the river: "Gangneung! ”

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