14. Seventy-three
By the time Gao Yue finished saying this, in the prison of the Chiya Pass Patrol Hospital, the seventy-three households were even more uncomfortable than death, and the whole atmosphere was as silent as an iceberg, whether they answered or not, and their hearts were as painful as crawling with thousands of ants biting.
After a long time, Gao Yue got up and said that he couldn't ask any clue today, but the two taxes made the construction of the patrol courtyard not delay, and quickly let Wei Zhiyi and Li Ji, the two county magistrates, lead all the painters and wanderers, with ropes, poles and bowstrings, as well as account books, drawing paper, and field styles, in accordance with the tax-paid banknotes sent by this group of households, and then carefully pull out the "hidden fields" that are not matched in Nanzheng and Chenggu counties, and 570,000 guan can only make a fuss from this batch of hidden fields.
"Don't let the prison die, quickly bring more food and hot water to this group." This will judge Wei Ping hurriedly said to the standing row of officials.
As soon as the officials received the order to leave, Gao Yue said to the prison: "As for the hidden fields, the small Benyin will be distributed to other households in Baojia for Yongye land free of charge, and the complete ones will not be official fields and school fields, and they will be rented to powerful merchants and Kuofang households in Xingyuan Mansion at a preferential price to set up workshops or turn them into cotton fields. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the faces of several of the inhabitants in the prison were pale or sallow, and with a burst of exclamations, blood vomited from their mouths and noses, and their clothes were stained all over the body.
These hidden tax-free fields are their life's work and reliance!
But Gao Yue was unmoved, directly raised his back, and said generously: "All this is for Dou Zhonglang's great cause of the national economy!" ”
Next, on the one hand, the families of seventy-three households in the situation lined up, crying and kneeling, begging other households in the situation who did not make trouble to sign a petition to the government and even the imperial court to intercede, and said that they came out at the beginning, but also to prevent Gao Yue from implementing the meridian law, but at this time, the other households in Xingyuan Mansion really saw the situation, and they were all scared like chaff, saying that the meridian law is just to let us pay taxes on behalf of the people, and the tax is heavier, and no one can break the home, and being targeted by the government's servitude will be ruined! So the helpless seventy-three families could not find any assistance, and heard that the head of the family did not eat well in Chiya Pass, and did not send him for treatment if he was sick, and was tortured from time to time.
On the other hand, Gao Yue had already let the county order carefully organize the team of officials, according to his previous requirements, very quickly draw out all the hidden fields in the two counties, this time Gao Yue was impatient to let the situation households sign and detain, and directly announced that they would all be confiscated, and the situation households who were not imprisoned in Chiya Pass were terrified, and found out all kinds of relationships, or knelt in front of Gao Yue, or let their own girls go to Yun Shao, Yun and sisters to intercede, and promised to register all their fields and properties in the anvil book of Xingyuan Mansion, and pay taxes and serve according to the actual amount in the future, It's good to say that Gao Yue should inherit it, but the surplus land of the seventy-three families that were found out can be damaged, and the fragments of other households in Baojia are occupied, and the stone tablet of the official mansion field is completely inserted, and it is announced that it has become the official field and the school field - Dr. Su Yan of Zhixingyuan Xuezheng was dumbfounded, and almost overnight, the school field of Taofen School Palace suddenly increased by nearly 10,000 acres......
Subsequently, Gao Yue summoned the big merchants and Dakou households (workshop owners) of Xingyuan Mansion and announced that all the confiscated land and property, regardless of whether it was official land or school land, would be cut by two-thirds from the market price and leased to them for a period of ten years. Then the government divided the profits, or taxed them, and the proceeds were used to strengthen the army and run schools.
At first, this group of people was worried in their hearts, they knew that the cheap land that Gao Dayin gave them was actually stained with blood, and it was a bloody land, but Gao Yue said something meaningful to them: "There are people who ask for the business of beheading, and no one does the business of losing money." ”
Yes, as soon as they calculated, this business should not be too profitable, they didn't accept it, even if Gao Yue pulled the third-class poor households and occupied these lands, it would be enough for them to soar in a few years, and after thinking about it for a while, they finally signed the contract documents.
If so, six or seven tenths of the 73 families in custody have been stripped of their family assets.
However, the matter is not over yet, a month later, Gao Yue finally released them from the Chiya Pass Patrol Courtyard, but said that the construction cost of 570,000 yuan, Ben Yin decided to levy an additional levy from the Quanxing Yuan Mansion, and all households must pay it, with you as the "head household", let you go to collect taxes, and you must collect them within two months, otherwise you will be killed with a cane.
At this time, these seventy-three families dared to say anything, but they kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.
If it's really a "head household", ten lives are not enough.
Gao Yue said that it is okay not to be the head of the service, there are 200,000 stone grains in Chiya Pass, and you are responsible for transporting them to Fengzhou, which is hundreds of miles away, and a new two-tax envoy will be built there immediately, and you need to reserve grain to supply the Jingshi.
These seventy-three families had no choice but to sell their remaining possessions, gather vehicles and livestock, hire porters, and set foot on the desert and snowy Golden Bull Road in the harsh winter, and then the Chencang Road, and went to the designated place for transporting grain.
This time, Gao Yue made them understand solidly:
In the past, when you colluded with all kinds of powers, resorted to all kinds of treachery, and transferred taxes and labor to the truly good and poor families, what was it like for others to be forced to walk on this snowy road?
When this group of ragged households in the situation cried out sadly through Fengzhou, Bai Juyi, who happened to go to his father's mansion and provincial relatives, saw this scene, and was shocked in his heart, and after asking the reason, he was even more emotional, so he wrote with a pen: "The family has a thousand gold, and once it is a servant, it is a beggar; If there is a strong man in the family, once he is the head of the service, he will become a dead family. ”
At the end of winter, when these 73 families returned from Fengzhou, except for the banknotes that had been completed, all their wealth was gone, their land was gone, and more than 10 people died in prison and on the way to transport grain, which was equivalent to being uprooted.
What's even worse is that Gao Yue also has to pay their taxes this year, saying that they will be levied the same amount according to the two taxes in the coming year.
In the end, this group of people had no choice but to sell their land and prepare to flee.
But what's worse is that because they refused to draw a pledge on the anvil book before, it means that their land is not recognized by law, and no one dares to even sell it, and the public party will not stamp it.
In the end, some of these people hanged themselves, some sold them as slaves and maids, and some directly threw down the fields and property that they could not take away, scraped together some money to board the merchant ships in Hanchuan, and went to Jingnan or Shannandong to settle down as a stream.
In this regard, the Xingyuan Mansion newspaper wrote impressively that there was a situation where every family's property was wiped out, so that the head of the household hanged himself, all because he had to make two taxes to make the hospital inspect! However, Dou Zhonglang did this for the sake of the long-term national plan of the Tang Dynasty, everything was just a labor pain, and the two taxes made the inspection court must complete it within a time limit.
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