This incident is not difficult to understand, in fact, it is also one of the reasons why after the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in later generations, the inferior gentry spread all over the country.

The so-called vested interests really do not want any change in the situation in the world, and it is better to keep it like this forever.

After the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the old system was broken, the new system was never established, and the previous model of lifting people to rely on their own status, obtain the contributions of others, and then become the defenders of the system ended, and around them, the kind of inferior gentry that started with the clan as a starting point and grew up savagely, with the influx of cheap guns from abroad, became bad.

If it is said that the original landlords were still just fighting in and out, deliberately raising the price of grain in the famine year, usury forced the common people to sell their land, or when there was a famine, they moved the boundary monument a little, then in the era of the inferior gentry, because the Guo Party was basically the worst in the history of the Chinese nation, the people who basically lost control were the existence of the inferior gentry, and the good gentry basically could not survive.

The bad gentry expel the good gentry, it's very simple, people have guns, you don't have them.

Cao Juren was originally happy when he heard that the northerners were going to cancel the agricultural tax, but soon, there were doglegs to help him analyze the problem.

The system of "contribution" is like this.

If you win the promotion, you are eligible to be exempted from agricultural taxes on 400 acres of land, and Jinshi has 2,000 acres of land.

However, the Ming Dynasty, which basically collapsed at the grassroots level, how could it be possible to check the numbers, under the land annexation, a person can often get 1,000 acres of land to donate, these township party villagers, hang the land in the name of this person, and the rent given to the person is only a part of the national agricultural tax, and for this person, who doesn't want the benefits of nothing.

However, the most important thing is that once the agricultural tax is fully exempted, those villagers don't care about anything, and it was the same in the past, if a person does not become an official until he dies, the next generation cannot inherit the identity of the person, and the family is ruined, then in an instant, those who donate the land will directly "vote with their feet" and leave.

Cao Juren, who understood this "truth", immediately turned black, leaked his true face, began to transform into an evil guy, and began to act perversely.

This is the motive for Cao Juren to kill the propaganda personnel sent by the imperial capital.

Compared with other Tang and Song dynasties, as long as a county official does not rebel, scrape the place to the height of the sky, causing civil unrest, then theoretically has unlimited power, and a person is not bad.

After catching those people, Cao Juren quickly killed people, and afterwards, after the local gentry learned what happened, most of them did not pay much attention.

Quite simply, a whip method.

The Ming Dynasty paid agricultural taxes, many of which have become pure payment of silver, which is of course also a benefit, compared to transporting and warehousing, and being exploited again, to be efficient, but how can ordinary people have silver in their hands.

As a result, large households have the advantage of lending, and at the same time, it is also the right thing to collect grain cheaply.

If the agricultural tax is really exempted, although the grain households are nominally beneficial, they will not have to pay taxes in many cases.

Of course, according to Li Xiangqian's knowledge, it seems that this Cao Juren still has any great benefits in the process of collecting agricultural taxes, and naturally he doesn't like to be exempted even more.

"Let's go out and have a look."

Holding the Cao family, he walked out slowly, the city gate was not far away, but the city gate was still not opened, this time, Li Xiangqian went to the city, naturally someone did not have to command, shouted: "Open the door!" ”

The people in the city were still extremely nervous, and Li Xiangqian knew that there was almost no way to do it, so he lowered his head and looked at the things in his hand.

If you want to open the city gate, it is not difficult.

However, once the city is opened by force, it seems that this is the beginning, and the original ambiguous co-optation and game will become the armed confrontation of Chiguoguo.

Before, the reason why Li Xiangqian tolerated Jiangnan for a laissez-faire was because, under their investigation, Jiangnan rarely used his taxes for military preparations, and it was normal to take the opportunity to sell his official position and make a big profit.

These behaviors, in Li Xiangqian's view, should be encouraged, the people of the Ming Dynasty are not greedy, corrupt, corrupt and incompetent, how can they highlight the integrity of the elders?

But once they really do it, under the chilling effect, other people with evil intentions will inevitably invest money on a large scale and strengthen armaments.

It's still like summer ice that will disintegrate, but that's a problem.

This time, the group walked to the city under the far siege of the Cao family, but Li Xiangqian was under the service of others, after putting on the customary spacesuit, he gained a sense of security, he thought about it, took the megaphone, and said: "The people in the city, and the people of the Quartet listened, we came from the north, but not to bully people, but for the axiom of heaven and earth, this Cao Juren bullied men and women behind their backs, did all kinds of evil, killed people and oversold goods, since your county officials don't care, I will try them here and give the deceased an explanation!" ”

Don't care about anything, Li Xiangqian asked Cao Juren's mouth to open and said: "Old Cao, now I recruit myself, don't you have to save your children and grandchildren from suffering, gentlemen, don't embarrass the old and young masters of Jiangyin." ”

Cao Juren scolded: "You have harmed me, don't want to leave this place alive!" ”

Cao Juren completely thinks that there are so many people on the other side, and at least hundreds of people from his own clan are surrounded by them, if they don't use themselves as shields, where is it so easy?

Li Xiangqian scratched his head and said, "Hey, I'm really not such a violent person." ”

Of course, the punishment has the rules of whether to confess or not, and to collect evidence by evidence, but in this era, as long as Cao Juren gritted his teeth and refused to admit it, it was almost impossible for him to admit it without moving the punishment.

Li Xiangqian suddenly smiled and said: "I have to introduce, there are capable people around me, and there are capable people behind the capable people, it is the apprentice grandson of the big crotch head of Dongchang, who has learned the skills of torture to extract confessions, if you don't say it, I will let him give your son in front of everyone...... Isn't it good to be castrated, so toss him to death with torture? ”

Hearing this, the people of the Cao family became excited, and although they were strangled in their mouths, they all resisted.

When the soldiers saw it, they began to beat it with the butts of their guns, and at the same time the clansmen of the Cao family also wanted to come to the rescue, Li waved his hand forward, and twenty soldiers lined up in a double-layer line, semi-surrounded to protect them, and at the same time pushed the people of the Cao family in front as a shield, and twenty rifles with bayonets formed a gun forest, and the cold light flickered, making people shudder.

Although they also have scythes and rakes that they have temporarily taken out of their homes, they are not formal weapons in the end, and they can prepare all kinds of big guys under the command of the elders of the clan, and they will be coaxed all at once.

They stopped, but the soldiers shouted in unison: "Kill! ”

Everyone lifted their feet and took a step, which naturally forced everyone to take a step back.

In later generations, in the face of the attack of the Anglo-French alliance and the eight-nation coalition army, perhaps the shelling and shooting could be endured by shooting, but once these people launched a bayonet attack in a queue to shoot, basically many of them would be scattered.

This is the difference brought about by discipline, just as the French cuirassiers are considered the pinnacle of cavalry, discipline is the first combat strength of the army.

An anxious figure suddenly appeared behind him and shouted, "This, what does this mean?" ”

Yan Yingyuan hurried back and said hurriedly: "This lord, if you hurt someone, then the county order can't be controlled." ”

Li Xiangqian said: "Among these people, I'm afraid that there are people who really kill people." ”

His eyesight is still very good, and he knows that Cao Juren's family is a weak chicken with no power to restrain chickens, that is, the kind of woman who can't be too strong to play with women, so she can only bully those skinny horses and Lori, and the real killers are just these ignorant villagers.

But the biggest problem is that those people, who are fighting for these ignorant people, are killed by the people they want to save, it's really boring, isn't it.

Yan Yingyuan said: "My lord, the county order has an idea, for the sake of your family, I am willing to find their corpses again, bury them in a grand manner, and then compensate the family members with silver, and everything will naturally be fine." ”

Li glanced forward and said, "That's it." ”

"The Cao family is willing to hand over the people who killed your family, but in fact, they are among those people."

At this time, the student team had already driven the villagers away and returned, although Li Xiangqian was satisfied, he was not satisfied, and said: "In other words, there are still very good skills in throwing the pot, bad things are done by others, what do the people who gave the order say." ”

"The people of the Cao family said that you have to forgive people and forgive people, only then can you show that you have a lot of wrong, this is the teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and he is famous for forgiveness, and he is willing to ......"

"Wait a minute, I've already stewed a spoonful of the people of the Cao family, who is talking."

Yan Yingyuan was a little embarrassed and said, "The scribe of the county's household. ”

"The scribe is from the Cao family? Didn't it say that the family of Xu officials couldn't take the imperial examination? ”

"He went out after the passive, and he is Cao Juren's younger brother."

Li Xiangqian smiled and said, "It's really black and white, Niuren, if this is at that time, it will be ...... Ahem, do you think I'll take it. ”

Yan Yingyuan said: "At this time, people's hearts are fluctuating, and it is still necessary to calm down, otherwise, what kind of crooked hearts will people from all over the world...... In fact, at the beginning, the county order was quite dissatisfied with what kind of propaganda the adults sent to our county, but the lower officials felt that they couldn't do much, so they didn't do anything. ”

Li Xiangqian said: "Hey, it's that set again, if you do something bad, you ask others to have a lot of adults, and if they want to make up for it, they will immediately have a face." ”

Li Xiangqian seemed to think far away: "I have the impression that the people of Wanwan like this kind of shamelessness, and it turns out that this Cao family is also ...... Okay, to give you a word, this time I have to take revenge, kill people, kill people, kill people, the person who does it deserves to die, but I have always recognized the custom of killing people and punishing hearts, and it is the person who gives the order that should be killed, so don't be embarrassed here, go back and tell your county order, the people in this house, or move, otherwise, I will be in a hurry, I will go to a letter and find Mrs. Xing's people, and the people of the Cao family will have to be uprooted. ”

Although the strength of the imperial capital is much stronger, when it comes to threats, how can there be a powerful Mrs. Xing in Jiangbei?

Mrs. Xing's troops are now considered to be strong, and they are already semi-openly on the side of the imperial capital, as a very powerful grapevine, Mrs. Xing's son is "studying" in the imperial capital at this time, which means proton in the eyes of Jiangnan people.

At this time, it is not a change in Yidi, no one can lift their spirits to do anything big, and as a rogue official, the big income is really not a tax on agriculture.

As early as the Jiajing Dynasty, Jiajing himself was very wary of the eunuch forces, and at that time, due to land annexation, the agricultural tax was insufficient, and he grew up in the private sector and knew how much money the businessman had, but Zhu Yuanzhang did not attach importance to business, resulting in almost no commercial tax, and three to five percent thought it could be satisfied.

At the same time, the commercial tax of Europeans was basically more than 20% of the profits.

Such huge profits will give European governments the incentive to promote mercantilism.

The exemption of agricultural taxes is almost a blow to the small yamen of the household, and for those with vested interests, a tax collection is almost a carnival, and if someone takes away their "welfare", then what are they doing as officials?

This motivation is almost the biggest reason why Hufang and the Cao family behind him killed people.

But Li Xiangqian was quite unreasonable, and he didn't care about the other party's praise, and at this time, the scholars lost their enterprising spirit due to thousands of years, and Yangming's psychology also became empty talk, so the society was permeated with nihilism, even if it was dishonest, it was nothing.

You can be shameless and lewd, but when you are treated like this, you just say a few good words and ask others, you have to be generous, you are not generous, I will make your rumors in various places.

Thus, there is a situation in which the reputation of a ruler is not determined by what good governance he has done to the common people, but whether it is good for the scholars.

Therefore, Cao Cao, who is a meritocracy, has become a cannibal demon king, and the hypocritical and shameless Song Renzong has become a "Renzong", and the butt determines the head.

Li Xiangqian understood that if he let go of the Cao family in front of him, then they would give themselves a lot of money in shock, and the leaders of the surrounding clans who married them would also praise themselves for being sensible, with light and dust, and unparalleled benevolence and righteousness, as for the dead foreigners.

Well, in this era, only scholars are human beings.

For those scholars, the attitude of the imperial capital is very important, if the imperial capital puts on a posture to maintain their interests and ensure that they can live the previous days, then maybe, it is really a rumor, and they have surrendered.

Many people don't understand why Cao Cao has a bad reputation.

Because he killed Bian Jean.

Bian Rang, just like the great gentry of this era, has a great banner role.

(End of chapter)