Divide the field?

Reduced Government rent?

Chief Banner Shang Yongxin was struck by lightning after hearing Lu Yuan say this.

Although the original intention of the Ming Dynasty to set up the guard tuntian system was to allow military households to have their own land without the need for the imperial court to allocate military salaries.

But he Shang Yongxin is the hereditary chief flag officer of Shuiyang Village.

Therefore, the fields of Shuiyangzhai are in fact all his fields.

At most, Shang Yongxin will hand over part of the harvest to his superiors at all levels.

But.

Shang Yongxin didn't expect that Lu Yuan would directly divide his own land after becoming the defender of Qingshui Town, that is, his boss!

Shang Yongxin could not accept this arrangement.

"Okay, you Lu Yuan, you're taking revenge!"

"Just because I offended you, you don't hesitate to give up the income from the fields in Shuiyang Village and ask me to do so Shang Yongxin! How can you be so femme fatale! ”

Shang Yongxin was extremely angry in his heart.

But Shang Yongxin had no choice.

Shang Yongxin had to skip the level and report to Luan Qianhu to complain.

After all, the income from the fields of Shuiyang Village, Luan Qianhu, as the boss of the entire Qingshui Town, also has a part of the harvest that belongs to him.

But Luan Qianhu refused Shang Yongxin's request to see him, because in order to let Lu Yuan help him get rid of his crime and get a share of the credit in the suppression of bandits, he had already agreed to Lu Yuan and gave Lu Yuan all the land income of Shuiyang Village and Qingquan Village.

Other words.

Lu Yuan can freely distribute the income from the fields of Shuiyang Village and Qingquan Village, and he will not care about it anymore.

Shang Yongxin had no choice but to return to Shuiyang Village in a huff.

And this time.

Lu Yuan has been waiting for Shang Yongxin for a long time in Shang Yongxin's general banner office.

As soon as Shang Yongxin saw Lu Yuan, although he was extremely resentful, he still couldn't help but give up: "I've seen Lord Deputy Qianhu!" ”

"Mr. Shangqi, are you guilty?"

Lu Yuan asked.

Shang Yong's confidence chuckled, secretly thinking that Lu Yuan not only wanted to divide his own land, but also to punish his own crimes?

Shang Yongxin had no choice but to reply stubbornly: "The lower officials don't know!" ”

"Chuan Gu Xiaosi is coming!"

Lu Yuan replied.

Soon.

Zhou Gou'er brought Gu Xiaosi over.

This Gu Xiaosi knelt directly in front of Lu Yuan: "Master Lu! ”

"Gu Xiaosi, is it true that you sued the chief banner officer of Shuiyangzhai for trying a hundred households to conquer and extort violently, enslave military households, and force people to die?"

Lu Yuan asked.

"It's true!"

After Gu Xiaosi finished speaking, he glanced at Zhou Gou'er, and under Zhou Gou'er's instructions, he had decided to have the courage to denounce this Shang Yongxin.

After hearing this, Shang Yongxin naturally couldn't hold back any longer, pointed at Lu Yuan and shouted: "The surname is Lu, what do you want!" ”

"I don't want to, I just want you to die."

Lu Yuan said with a smile.

Shang Yongxin trembled, not knowing how to answer for a while.

"Come on, put Shang Yongxin in custody, and call all the people of Qingshui Town Fort to carry out a criticism meeting against him!"

Lu Yuan commanded.

Xiao Wu and Liuwazi came over and escorted Shang Yongxin away.

Shang Yongxin hurriedly shouted: "Lord Deputy Qianhu, the lower official only begs you to spare the lower official's life, and the lower official should not offend you!" The lower official is guilty! ”

Lu Yuan didn't pay any attention to Shang Yongxin.

Because Shang Yongxin must be eliminated, this aspect is not only because Shang Yongxin does not know how to provoke himself first, but also because his own territory naturally does not allow people who are not his own to be officials here.

The inhabitants of Fort Clearwater were all gathered.

On Qingquan Square, looking at the chief flag official and Shang Yongxin kneeling on the wooden platform facing him, these residents of Qingshui Town Fort were also quite surprised and happy about this.

"That winter, my widowed sister-in-law and my niece were killed by this beast, and he shut my niece out and took my sister-in-law in the house, and when I went to her house the next day, I saw that my niece had frozen to death, and my widowed sister-in-law had hanged herself! But the merchant also asked me to pay for the medical expenses, saying that my sister-in-law offended him and bit off a piece of his meat! If you don't believe it, just look at the scar on his left chest, which was bitten by my sister-in-law back then, this dog official who killed a thousand knives, but no one can deal with him, fortunately, the big man of Qingtian Lu Guanye is here, please Lu Guanye severely punish this dog official, woo! ”

At the criticism meeting, Gu Xiaosi first complained about his bitterness and exposed Shang Yongxin's crimes.

Followed by Wang Tiedan.

"This merchant beat my father alive with thirty sticks just because my family paid the rent three days late, and my father was suffering from tuberculosis at that time, so he was beaten to death! In the winter of last year, my mother was also arrested by this merchant and taken to the water prison for me to treat me because she gave me food for medicine, and forced me to take money to ransom people, but when I pooled some money to meet my mother in the water prison, my mother was already dead, and she didn't wear a single piece of clothing when she died. ”

Wang Tiedan also cried as he spoke.

"You deserve it, whoever tells you not to pay the rent, if you don't pay the rent, the thousands of households and the commander above will blame me, do you think I want to!"

Mr. Shang said.

"Nonsense! The total rent to be collected above is only 30%, but you have to collect 70%, which is 10% more than when your father was an official, and you have also received Chongzhen for 38 years! ”

Gu Xiaosi shouted.

"What can the official do, who let the official take more concubines than my father! It's not about having a son! ”

The general banner of the merchant said.

The people already knew about Shang Yongxin's evil deeds in Shuiyang Village, and they had long hated him, but now Shang Zongqi still didn't care, so he was naturally even more angry.

Especially after listening to the complaints of Gu Xiaosi and Wang Tiedan, these people were even more indignant, and asked Lu Yuan to deal with Shang Yongxin one after another.

This is what Lu Yuan wanted, and immediately ordered Shang Yongxin to be executed.

Shang Yongxin was still a little stubborn at first, instinctively thinking that these military households in front of him couldn't do anything to him, but when he saw the military judge of the mighty army coming over with a musket, he realized that it was not these people who executed him, but Lu Yuan, who was executing himself by provoking the people, and couldn't help shouting for a while: "Lord Lu, what do you have to do to let go of the lower officials." ”

Bang!

The military judge of the mighty army shot Shang Yongxin with one shot.

The people present immediately cheered.

And Lu Yuan's prestige among the people of Qingshui Town Fort has also risen a level as a result.

"Gu Xiaosi, divide the field into 12 acres, divide the land into 21 acres, in addition to the first ploughed field 5 acres and 6 points and 7 acres and 3 points of land directly divided, and then make up 6 acres and 4 acres of land and 13 acres and 7 points of land."

Next, to the delight of the people of Qingshui Town, the Civil Affairs Department has begun to divide the land for them and officially carry out land reform.

After Shang Yongxin was criticized and executed, there was no resistance to the land reform of Shuiyangzhai in Qingshui Town, and all the military households and fields annexed by Shang Yongxin were also divided, and the surplus was even distributed to the displaced people who were engaged in agriculture as before.

"Gu Xiaosi, this is the land rent collected by your family after copying the evil officials and merchants, and the total amount is converted into 26 taels and 7 cents of silver."

The Civil Affairs Department also repaid to the people the land rent that Shang Yongxin had levied and extorted before.

People like Gu Xiaosi cried with joy because of this: "Thank you Miss Erni, thank you Lord Lu!" ”

Gu Xiaosi also went to Qingquan Square for the first time to buy two catties of broth and went back.

Gu Xiaosi's daughter-in-law, Wu, had just given birth to a child and was in confinement, and when she saw Gu Xiaosi coming back, she asked, "The master, did the official really give us the land?" ”

"Naturally, it's true, not only did we divide the land, but also returned to us all the rent we had been levied before, and I also bought two catties of meat back."

Gu Xiaosi said with a smile.

Wu Shi looked at the meat in Gu Xiaosi's hand, and laughed happily, teasing his child, and said: "Son, you are really lucky, you have met such a good official in your life, and now you have broth for your mother to drink, and you don't have to worry about not having enough milk!" ”

Gu Xiaosi also smiled when he heard Wu Shi say this, and said, "Daughter-in-law, after you are out of confinement and can farm the family's fields, I want to go to the mighty army to be a soldier." ”

Wu Shi was stunned after hearing this: "Why? ”

"Since Lu Guanye was promoted to take charge of Shuiyang Town, our life is getting better and better, but everyone knows that if you want to have such a good life all the time, it is because of Lu Guanye's kindness, just like my brother-in-law Zhou Gou'er said, if you want to think that there will always be a good life, you have to defend the Lu family, defend our own homeland, and if you want to defend the Lu family, you have to become a soldier of the Lu family, and you have to dare to fight hard for the Lu family, my life was originally saved by Lu Guanye, if it wasn't for him, I would have been killed by the surname Shang."

Gu Xiaosi said.

Wu did not speak.

……

"Name?"

"Gu Xiaosi!"

"Name?"

"Wang Tiedan!"

……

Gu Hesheng nodded after asking the newly recruited first team of soldiers, and then shouted: "Instructor Xiong Zhiyuan, now they are temporarily organized into the second team of the first company of the recruits and handed over to you for training!" Are there any confidence that they will complete their recruit training program within the allotted time?! ”

"Report! Yes! ”

Xiong Zhiyuan replied.

Lu Yuan happened to pass by here at this time, and when he saw Gu Xiaosi and the others in the recruit camp, he couldn't help but smile slightly, and said to Zhou Gou'er: "Your people have done a good job, after the division of the fields and the execution of the general banner of Shang, there are indeed a lot of strong laborers from Shuiyang Village who have joined the mighty army!" ”

"It's not all taught by you, sir."

Zhou Gou'er replied.

Lu Yuan nodded: "Right now, you are already the propaganda commissioner of the mighty army, and I have to let you know that Jiannu is about to enter the customs, and this time you may come to plunder Shandong, and during this time, focus on Jiannu, so that the soldiers and the people know the cruelty and abomination of Jiannu." ”

"The little one understands!"

Zhou Gou'er replied.

Lu Yuan didn't say anything more, only went to the artillery casting base,