Seeing that the villagers did not open the village gate, the guards beside Li Zhi walked up and patted the door. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, after a long time, there was no response from inside the door.

One of the more experienced soldiers beside Li Xing snorted coldly, walked up and raised the butt of his rifle and slammed the door, smashing the gate as if it was about to be broken. After a while, the people in the village finally couldn't resist the pressure and opened the gate.

It was a middle-aged man who opened the door, and after opening the door, he didn't let Li Zhi's people in, blocked the door and asked, "Why did the official come to our village?" ”

Li Xing's face darkened.

"Presumptuous! Do you know who's coming? ”

Li Xing waved his hand forward, and the soldiers around him immediately rushed up. The soldiers pushed the middle-aged man who opened the door and opened the gate so that Li Zhi's honor guard and personal guards could enter the village.

Li Zhi walked into the village and looked at the situation in the village.

When the people in the village saw Li Zhi coming in, they all hid in the house and closed the door. There was not a single child on the threshing floor in the middle of the village. Not only did the people hide, but the peasants in this village even hid their grain. The village where the smoke was curling just now had all stopped cooking, and the smoke on the chimney had stopped.

Li Xing snorted coldly and scolded: "Ignorant little peasant! ”

Li Laosi sighed and said, "Boss, these small farmers have received too much favor from the thieves, and they are very hostile to us. I'm afraid the governance of Henan is not so easy. ”

Li Zhi rode back and forth on the road in the middle of the village and looked at the villagers' houses. Seeing that the villagers in Henan were so defensive of themselves, Li Zhi didn't have the heart to go into the house to inquire in detail, and after turning around, he was about to go back.

However, when he arrived at the gate of the village, Li Zhi saw a big house at the gate of the village open the door, and two middle-aged men walked out with an old man with a white beard.

The three of them walked up to Li Zhi, knelt down and kowtowed to Li Zhi, got up and said, "I'll wait for Xiaomin to meet the prince." ”

Although these peasants were ignorant, they also heard the news and knew that Li Zhi had been promoted to the king of Tianjin, so they called it correctly.

Li Zhi saw that the villager finally came out to see him, and nodded on his horse.

The villager slowly got up from the ground, arched his hand and said: "Lord, Lao Suo came to find the prince because he hoped that the prince would have a benevolent heart and not take away the land that the people of Henan had shared. ”

The beard on the old man's lips trembled slightly, and he said excitedly: "Lord Wang, the gentry have no way, and the people are fishy." I heard that the prince severely punished the unscrupulous gentry in Tianjin and Shandong, killed the heads of the people, and finally kept the peace of the party, so that the people of Tianjin and Shandong had enough food and clothing. ”

"Speaking of which, although King Chuang was called a thief by the government, in fact, what he did was the same thing as what the prince did. King Chuang led the people to kill the gentry and divide the land, so that the people of Henan could live a life of food and clothing. The so-called heaven and man induction, after the army divided the fields in Henan, last year Henan was in a good weather, and the people ate a full meal for a whole year. ”

"Juntian's exemption from taxation is a good thing. Now that the prince rules Henan, I hope that the prince will not open up the fields again, let alone rob the people's fields. If the prince really collects the land and urges the endowment as rumored, I am afraid that the whole of Henan will complain. ”

Li Zhi frowned when he heard the old man's words.

Li Xing shouted angrily on the horse: "Old man! It is a matter of course for you to collect the land tax, and when you have received a temporary favor from the thief, do you want to never pay the tax? ”

"As for the land that the thieves have given you, it is up to the prince to decide whether you can continue to farm, how can an old man like you put his beak on it?"

The old man looked at Li Xing and arched his hand and said, "If the prince really collects the land and levies the endowment according to the rumors, I am afraid that the name of the prince's benevolence and virtue will come to naught." ”

Li Zhi looked at the old man and was a little unhappy.

Li Zhi couldn't imagine that the people of Henan, under Li Zicheng's bewitchment, had completely thrown away their responsibilities as the people of the Ming Dynasty. Not only did these peasants not think that the looted fields were illegal, but they also hoped that Li Zhi would carry out the unrealistic policy of the thieves to the end, and that he would not have to pay the land tax.

Looking at the momentum of these villagers, it seems that if Li Zhi does not agree to them, they will curse Li Zhi, and even use various means to privately resist Li Zhi's rule.

For example, just like letting Li Zhi eat behind closed doors today, the tax officer can't open the village gate when he comes, so the tax officer can't enter the village. Unless the tax collector comes with soldiers, let the tax collector go home empty-handed.

Li Zhi asked Li Laosi: "Does the Ming Law stipulate that the people can not pay for the land?" ”

Li Laosi arched his hand and said: "When I go back to the east, I will look at the Ming Law, and there is no provision that the people can be exempted from the field tax. ”

Li Zhi asked again: "Li Laosi, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, can the people keep the land they robbed?" ”

Li Laosi replied: "Go back to the east, according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, if there is a robbery of property, the leader will be beheaded." All the looted materials should be returned to their original owners. If the owner is dead, the supplies will be filled into the yamen treasury. ”

When the old man on the ground heard Li Laosi's words, his face was flushed with excitement, and he argued loudly: "Lord Wang! What we and the people are doing is the same as what the prince did in Tianjin and Shandong, which is to fight against the gentry, and to kill the gentry who forced the people to rebel! ”

Li Zhi frowned and said, "What do you mean, that you are helpful to my Li Zhi's career?" ”

The old man on the ground said loudly: "The prince and the gentry of the world are enemies, and everyone knows it. The gentry of Henan were killed by the people, and the prince's enemies were a little weaker! Although the people of Henan were not the prince's people before, they are also sharing the pressure for the prince's achievements! ”

Li Zhi sneered and asked Li Laosi: "Li Laosi, why do the widows want to fight to the death with the gentry of the world?" ”

Li Laosi replied: "Back to the east, the reason why the owner fought to the death with the gentry was because the gentry broke the rules, did not pay the field tax, and pressed their own land tax on the small people of Dousheng. ”

"Well said, what the widow has done over the years is to establish rules." Li Zhi asked again: "What will happen to the rules of widows like the people of Henan who bloody rich households divide the fields?" ”

After listening to Li Zhi's words, Li Laosi already understood what Li Zhi wanted to do, and replied: "If everyone in the world is like the people of Henan, the rules of the world will be worse than the gentry will be broken." The poor will loot the rich at any time, no one dares to build water conservancy and develop new fields, no one dares to recruit idle factories to set up factories, and even the good fertile fields will be barren because no one dares to be a landlord and collect land rent! ”

"If the owner lets the peasants in Henan go, I'm afraid there will be no rules and order in the world, and the one town and six provinces of the owner will all be chaotic."

Li Zhi nodded with a smile, and said again: "Li Laosi said it very well!" ”

Turning to look at the old man standing on the ground, Li Zhi said again: "Laosuo, after the king's army entered Henan, the people of Henan refused to sell grain. If it weren't for the Tiger Ben Army's forcible requisition of grain, the army's grain and grass would have been cut off by the thieves. ”

"The people of Henan will become the people under the rule of this king in the future and make meritorious deeds. But at this stage, the people of Henan have not made any contribution to the cause of the king. ”

With a wave of his sleeves, Li Zhi made a decision: "The fields that the Henan peasants snatched from the gentry the year before last will all be confiscated as public land, and the land rent will be fifty percent. The peasants' original land taxes are not exempt from the tax, and the land tax is levied according to Shandong's standards. ”

"Mobilize 50,000 tiger troops to enter Henan, carefully inspect in Henan, check the land deeds, register the fields, and establish a detailed yellow book of land rent and land endowment."