In a grass market twenty miles outside Jiangling City, Yu Wenwen, dressed in cloth, was buying fish, of course, he was actually accosting a village girl who sold fish through a local person as a "general officer". Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Garrisoned outside Jiangling City for nearly 20 days, in order to prevent the Sui army from killing a horse gun, Yu Wenwen, who had nothing to do, could not go into the city to spend all day drinking and having fun, so he took advantage of the rare opportunity to collect intelligence.

Collecting intelligence is naturally by asking, and asking the officials of Liang State is boring, from ancient times to the present, the skills of officials to deceive and conceal are full, so Yuwenwen wants to "micro-service private interview".

During this time, he traveled in casual clothes, and went to the fields, neighborhoods, cities in the city, and grass markets where farmers outside the city spontaneously gathered.

Today's Liang State is just a small country, but all kinds of systems have followed the Liang State of the Southern Dynasty back then, and the enslavement system is also inherited from the Southern Dynasty, which just allows him to understand the living conditions of the people of the Chen State of the Southern Dynasty from the side.

When it comes to the servitude system, it has been handed down from the Wei and Jin dynasties and has lasted for hundreds of years, and of course it has undergone improvements, but it has remained the same: the various exemptions of the nobles and bureaucrats have been put on the people.

Of course, this matter is like that in both the north and the south, it is nothing more than the degree of severity, and the more tragic thing in the southern dynasty is that because the military pressure is very high and the population is less than that of the northern dynasty, the burden on the people is not light.

Taking field rent as an example, the system of Liang State and the current Chen State follows the tradition of the Southern Dynasties, not only receiving physical goods, but one-third or even half of them to be converted into copper coins.

Yu Wenwen had already heard Zhang Hua talk about this question in Jiankang, so he didn't mention it, he was concerned about the household survey.

The household survey of the Southern Dynasty was reformed during the reign of Emperor Wu of Liang, and the collection of the household was changed from a household unit to a Ding unit, and in fact, the household survey has been changed to a Ding survey.

What is Ding? Men and women aged 16 to 60 are considered Ding, of which 18 are married women and 20 are unmarried.

Why change it? Because when collecting household surveys, the government must investigate the situation of each household, and then divide it into nine grades according to the principle of "nine products are the same".

The "upper" households naturally paid more, each household paid five horses of silk, and the "lower" households paid the least, each household paid one horse of silk.

Then, in the case of corruption in the rule of officials, all the households of the big families were low, and the households of the poor people were all high, and black and white were reversed.

Therefore, during the Xiao Liang period, the household was changed to collection by Ding, which seemed to reduce the burden on the peasants more than the collection by household, but in fact it was not the case at all.

What's the problem?

The landlord's family has a lot of land and many slaves, but these are all hidden households, and there is no population in the household registration of the government.

The rich have five members of a family of 1,000 mu of fertile land, and a few acres of thin land in a poor family's family are also five members of a household.

This is true of today's Liang State, and the same is true of Chen Guo in Jiangnan.

Then there are a variety of miscellaneous taxes and miscellaneous adjustments, such as money for grain loans, taxes on ponds, money for repairing cities, and money for sending welcome money to prefectures and counties.

In the year of famine and the lack of success, the government nominally opened a warehouse for disaster relief, but in fact it was a loan, and the same is true for grain seeds, and the people would not only have to return all of them, but also have to add a certain amount of interest, which is the money for lending grain seeds.

Speaking of interest on the money you borrowed from grain and seeds... Hehe.

The so-called Tangding tax is that when the peasants spontaneously build some small water conservancy projects, the imperial court has to collect taxes, which is called "management fees", but there is no money to manage, and the farmers themselves have to come for daily maintenance.

The cost of repairing the city was also spread to the people, called the money for repairing the city, which was actually the first extortion of the new official when he took office; If a local official wants to leave office, he needs to "send off his old man", and then when a new official arrives, he needs to "welcome the new", and all this money is paid by the people.

Then there is the military requisition money, which is a temporary apportionment, the amount is determined by the expenditure, it is said to be borrowed from the people, but in fact there is a loan but not repayment, when there is no war on weekdays, at most the "bandits" need to be requisitioned, but once the name becomes the "Northern Expedition"?

Is this different from the Liao salary at the end of the Ming Dynasty?

Yuwen Wen carried a few fish to the city, pondering the information collected as he walked, the Liang State of the projectile country is so virtuous, then the situation of the Chen country will only be worse, if it was in the past, it would be fine, but now for the "Northern Expedition to the Central Plains", it will be an accident.

In order to keep Liaodong, the Ming court levied Liaodong, but most of them were drifted by officials and swallowed by Liaodong generals, which had no effect at all, but forced the peasants to rebel.

In order to keep Huainan, today's Chen State will probably levy all kinds of miscellaneous taxes, and levy the people to serve in the military and military service, and in the case of corruption among officials, the side effects will be multiplied.

According to the information collected from Jiankang before, the life of the people of Chen State has become more and more difficult in the past two years, although there has been no civil uprising in Chen State during this period of time in history, but Chen Guo at that time did not have the burden of Huainan ulcer.

Coupled with the fact that he sells cheap water-spun fabrics to Jiangnan, it will probably make the situation worse a lot.

The big families of the Chen State occupy the mountains and protect the Ze, and the hidden households under their names do not know how many, but they basically do not have to pay taxes and rents, and there are fewer and fewer yeoman farmers as the tax base of the imperial court, but more and more taxes, forced labor, and military service are pressed on these people.

The people are about to die, and your house is about to catch fire, and you still want to engage in the east and west? Who's afraid of whom!

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In the evening, Wuxing County, Wuzhou, Wukang, Chenguo.

In a village, smoke rose from each house, and Wu Dou hid in the grass, quietly watching the situation in the village.

He risked fleeing from Huainan in order to flee with his family and join a large family to work as a tenant farmer, although the treatment was not much better, but it was better than staying here and waiting for death.

Wu Dou was requisitioned to Huainan to build a city more than a year ago, and it was easy to survive until the city wall was repaired, but he was continued to be conscripted for military service.

Wu Dou was afraid of endangering his parents, wives and children at home, so he had been honestly "serving", but seeing the hope of not returning home for more than a year, he couldn't sit still.

As the only strong labor force in the family, what should I do at home all the year round? Is it possible for the parents to be old and frail, and the daughter-in-law has to take care of the younger and the old alone, and has to do farm work to support the family?

Definitely not!

So Wu Douyi gritted his teeth, took advantage of the dark moon and high wind, and went south all the way to the south without knowing how much hardship he endured before returning to Jiangnan, he met a fellow villager of his in Jiankang, and the other party also went to Huainan with him to serve, and later escaped home without permission.

After asking the address, Wu Dou Xing went south at night, waited to go home tonight, and fled with his parents, wife and children.

Fleeing while serving is a violation of the king's law, Wu Dou did not dare to enter the village during the day, after all, this matter would be sitting, for fear of being seen by the neighbors and arrested to see the official, so he could only wait in the grass at the edge of the village.

Just waiting, he felt that something was wrong, because there was no smoke coming out of his yard.

What's going on? Is there nothing to cook?

Wu Dou touched the two cookcakes in his arms, which he stole from the cookcake stall on Zhoucheng Street, and only ate one all the way back, and the remaining two were to be kept for his family.

Thinking that something would happen at home, he couldn't wait any longer, and desperately went to his small courtyard.

I haven't seen my family for more than a year, and I don't know what the situation is now, Wu Dou, who is a little anxious, tiptoed to his dilapidated courtyard and climbed the wall to climb in.

The courtyard was bleak, the room was dark, where was there a trace of a figure, Wu Dou was anxious to push open the door, only to see that the four walls of the house were empty, and the bedding on the couch had already accumulated dust.

"What about people, what about people..."

Wu Dou's family had no relatives elsewhere, and it was impossible for his parents to move elsewhere, so he only felt that the uneasiness in his heart was getting bigger and bigger, and he kept rummaging in his small courtyard.

It seems that the kitchen has not had a fire for a long time, the broken bowls used for eating are dusty, and the few shabby clothes are also full of dust, and the whole home looks dilapidated for a long time.

"You're... Fools? ”

There was a voice at the door, Wu Dou turned around and saw that it was Cheng Er next door, who was a playmate who grew up since childhood, because he broke his leg in battle with the army a few years ago, so he escaped the bad luck of being requisitioned, but he still couldn't escape the exemption money.

"Ah Er! Oh my mother! Where's my daughter-in-law! What about my son! ”

"Don't! Don't be so loud! You're not afraid of being heard! ”

Wu Dou pulled Cheng Er into the room, and asked in a low voice as low as possible, "What's wrong with my family?" Where have all the people gone? ”

"Why are you only coming back now!" Cheng Er leaned on crutches and was heartbroken: "Why did you only come back now..."

"Say! What about them!! ”

Wu Dou roared, and from the other party's expression, he could see an ominous sign.

"Your home... Alas..."

Cheng Er told the cruel truth: Wu Dou was requisitioned and sent out for more than a year, the old and weak women and children in the family could only support themselves, borrowed money to buy seeds in the spring, the old man and his daughter-in-law pulled the plow, the old woman carried her grandson to support the plow, and it was easy to plow and sow the seeds, and a heavy rainstorm that lasted for several days in the summer destroyed everything.

In the autumn, when the harvest was poor, how could the harvest be repaid when the creditor came to collect the debt, the land was rented and could not be mortgaged, and all the valuable items in the house were taken away.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, Wu Dou's son was sick, and died in the arms of Wu Dou's daughter-in-law because he had no money for treatment.

Wu Dou never came back, and there was no news, the two elders didn't believe that their son was dead, and they struggled to survive, and there was no movement after they survived.

"We didn't see the two elders come out on the first day, we didn't pay attention to it, but on the morning of the second day, we felt that something was wrong, so we came in and took a look..."

Speaking of this, Cheng Er cried silently: "The two elders have starved to death..."

"I... I don't have enough food at home, but if I knew this, I would have to give it to the two elders... Adou, I'm sorry for you..."

Wu Dou was stunned when he heard this, and it took a long time to come back to his senses, he helped Cheng Er, who was kneeling on the ground, and asked, "What about people?" Where are they? ”

"Everyone help bury your parents, daughter-in-law, and son together, in the cemetery at the head of the village, twenty steps east of the crooked neck tree."

"I don't have the money to buy a coffin, so I can only wrap it in a broken mat at your house..."

Without waiting for Cheng Er to finish speaking, Wu Dou rushed out of the door like crazy and ran towards the cemetery at the head of the village, the sound and smile of his family came to mind, and he imagined the scene when he returned home countless times, but he never thought that it would end like this.

It's gone, the son is gone, the daughter-in-law is gone, the mother is gone, the home is gone, it's gone!

After a while, there was a terrible cry from the direction of the village, and the villagers heard the movement just now, everyone knew that it was Wu Dou who fled back, but no one had the courage to report to the official.

One person fled, three households sat together, Wu Dou was conscripted to serve in forced labor, and his family was ruined, if the official said that he had fled, those officials would use their conscience to levy more people to serve in forced labor, which was called "deterring Xiaoxiao".

No, there is no need to report to the official, once the Huainan side finds out that Wu Dou has fled, the government will immediately send someone over and draw Ding from the three families to serve in the military and military service, and what happened to the Wu Dou family will be repeated in these three families at that time.

I can't stay any longer, and if I don't run again, I'll ruin my family! (To be continued.) )