Baoji County, Monk Yuan.

There were no monks in the monk's original place, and it was not a plain, but a loess plateau. It is a large flat land on the hillside, because there is no reliable water source and the land is not fertile, so you can only grow some drought-tolerant and barren crops such as millet and sweet potatoes, which is a barren land. If Sima Yu had been a monk for seventeen or eighteen years earlier, he would not have had to dress up as a Ming army at all, and would have directly displayed the signboard of King Chuang, and he could hear a song to welcome King Chuang.

At that time, the people of the monk Yuan were really poor! Not only are people poor, but there are many people! Nearly 2,000 people with the three surnames of Zhu, Wang, and Li are crowded on the small monk plain, and most of them have no land of their own, and they have to pay a piece of gentry grain to the lord of the three major surnames, and after paying the gentry grain, they have to pay another official grain to the official lord in Baoji County. In addition to the gentry grain and official grain, most of the farmers in the monk Yuan carried the seal money on their backs, and they couldn't pay it back for a lifetime, and the interest alone could crush people to death.

Heavy rent, a lot of profits, coupled with the extortion of officials and various additional levies, forced the farmers on the monk's original to have no way to live. Therefore, everyone wants to break into the king and want to break into the king...... Later, King Chuang really came, free of food and taxes, and did not pay rent or interest, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

But only in one breath.

Because the monk is poor in the original and has a large population, it is not enough to eat by relying on a few acres of thin fields. Fortunately, there are still Qinling Mountains where people can live, engage in some mountain goods and game, and go into the mountains to cut wood under the organization of the three surnamed masters. You can always get something to sell to the merchants in Baoji County for food, so that everyone can survive.

Although it is bitter, although there is no hope, although sometimes some people will starve to death, most people will always survive.

But such a hard time, with the arrival of King Li Zicheng, is gone forever.

Since the king entered the customs, no one wants the mountain goods and timber in the Qinling Mountains...... The big lords in Xi'an City have been arrested and tortured, and the new lords do not have high requirements for luxury life, and they are very satisfied if they can have mutton soup and meat sandwich buns, and they do not need furs, medicinal herbs and high-quality wood in the mountains.

After another period of time, because Li Zicheng suffered defeats in Shanhaiguan and Shanxi, the three-year exemption was yellow again, and Baoji County sent officials to Monk Yuan to levy grain and soldiers! And he's heavily armed...... In the past, Emperor Chongzhen sent people to ask for money and food, and everyone could still rely on it and not give it, but now Li Zicheng's people are here, which of you won't give it a try!

You can't give it slowly...... Kill your head!

Later, the endless tug-of-war started in Guanzhong!

Dashun, Daqing, Daxi, and Wu Sangui, all kinds of forces are on the scene. Whoever comes has to conscript soldiers and levy food, and after the conscription, they will still kill people and set fires! Especially that old man Zhang Xianzhong, who kills people like a demon king, sometimes it doesn't make sense, and he kills if he wants to.

and that Wu Sangui is not a thing, the Liao soldiers and Gan soldiers under him are not very good at fighting, and they were killed and injured by Zhang Xianzhong's four godsons, but they are not soft at all when they grab things!

What's even more hateful is that he also distributed the land population below to the thousands of households under him, and let those thousands of households knock out the marrow!

And the most hateful thing is that these thousands of households under Wu Sangui still have to arrest people to fight in the Western Regions to fight and reclaim! If you don't go, you can't do it, if you don't go to kill your head...... Is there any reason for this?

In the end, the people of Shaanxi unanimously missed the Ming Dynasty...... It turns out that the imperial court is still good!

The imperial court is still more reasonable, even if the corrupt officials under the court are better than Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Wu Sangui, and it is estimated that they are better than Dongyu - the Qing Dynasty did not really occupy the entire Guanzhong, but they fought a tug-of-war with Li Zicheng in Guanzhong for a period of time, and they were not soft on grabbing people, and they did not blink an eye when they killed people!

Under the repeated tossing of this group of murderous demon kings, the population of Shaanxi has plummeted - dead, or ran, in short, it is no longer in Shaanxi! Originally, there were 2,000 monks, but later there were only 4 or 500 left......

I don't know if God has opened his eyes, just when Shaanxi was "about to be empty", the Ming court really came back! He also sent Zhang Juzheng's great-grandson to overcome the difficulties of Jiangling, and Zhang Tongchang became the governor of Shaanxi and the governor of Xi'an.

That's Zhang Qingtian!

is really a good official who does not embezzle, does not accept bribes, and is dedicated to being the master of the people.

In addition to the blue sky, Daming actually produced a Ming Jun! Era name Hongxing...... It's very intimidating when you hear it!

It was these Hongxing Emperors who sent Zhang Daqingtian to Shaanxi, first tax exemption for three years, then strict rectification of officials, and then inventory of land - all those marked as official and military fields in the fish scale atlas were all returned to the public, and the peasants who rented crops did not have to pay the gentry grain, and they were rent-free for three years!

Any field that is not listed in the fish scale atlas can be counted as private land, but it can only be owned by the cultivator, and the field contract is reissued, and it is exempt from tax for three years.

For all the land marked as private land in the fish scale atlas, the landlord must take out at least one copy of the field deed and the tax payment certificate before the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, otherwise it will belong to the cultivator, of course, it is also exempt for three years!

In addition, after the expiration of the three-year tax exemption period, the apportionment will be divided into the mu, and the officials and gentry will pay the grain in one piece!

Look at this, this gentleman is very clear!

If there was such a gentleman earlier, why would Daming be like this!

Under the leadership of Mingjun Qingtian, the people of Baoji County and Shangyuan finally lived a good life!

First of all, there is enough food to eat!

The monk was originally barren, but it was not a problem to feed four or five hundred people!

Secondly, some people bought mountain goods again.

This imperial court was more merchant-oriented, and the mountain goods of Qinling were easier to export to Huguang.

In the end, the common people of Monk Yuan, under the leadership of the local Wang Dabeard, started to smuggle salt to the Dashun Kingdom opposite the Qinling Mountains!

Of course, Wang Dabeard is not a smuggler in Daming, because he purchased through Shuofang Town Salt Industry - Shuofang Salt Industry controls the Huamachi Salt Mine, and also has the monopoly right of Shaanxi Salt Industry, which is similar to the general tax package of Huaiyan Four Salts, and needs to pay a tax package to the imperial court every year. According to the Chongzhen Salt Law established by the Ming Dynasty, there are usually only two or four tax-paid salt in a province. And they are not allowed to sell salt out of the province unless they also have a salt license in another province. But selling salt south of the Qinling Mountains is not out of the province (and not out of the province), but out of the province!

Moreover, Da Ming Da Shun has no diplomatic relations, let alone a "trade agreement". Therefore, selling salt to Dashun does not violate the laws of the Ming Dynasty......

However, the government of the Dashun Dynasty didn't like this group of bad people who sold smuggled salt, and the soldiers of Liuba Mansion fought with them.

In order to merge with the Liuba Mansion, Wang Dahu raised 100 men who rushed to his death, and spent a lot of money to buy a flintlock pistol from Hankou, and donated a monk to the original village head. Because the monk was close to the Qinling Mountains, he was easily attacked by the Dashun army that came down from the mountain, and he also paid for the construction of a fortress in the village. If the Dashun army came under the banner of the word "Chuang", with the fortress in the village and one hundred and ten men armed with arquebuses, flintlock pistols and bows and arrows, it would be okay to defend it for ten days and half a month - the Qinling Mountains can leave, but they will definitely not be able to walk.

Therefore, after the war between the two families of Mingshun and Shun, Wang Dahu was still very determined, and even patted his chest in the Yamen of Baoji County, and played a package ticket, and would never let the rogues steal the monk's original.

But this package of tickets is obviously early...... He never dreamed that Liukou would pretend to be an officer and soldier, and he pretended to be so similar that he coaxed the gate of the monk's original fortress open.

Wang Dahu was caught off guard, not only did he not keep the fortress, but even the family was detained, and only one son ran out.

Of course, there was no good end for a person like him in the hands of the Dashun army, and he was imprisoned for two or three days.

Wang Dahu, who was tied up by people and gagged, has been led to the open space outside the monk's original fortress. The villagers of Monk Yuan were standing on both sides of the road leading to Qinling, and they also sang the ballad of welcoming King Chuang in a sad voice.

"Seeking ascension in the morning, seeking harmony in the evening, it is difficult for the poor to survive recently. Open the door early to worship the king, and discipline everyone is happy......"

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