The southwest corner of Zunyi City is the place where the people are most concentrated, and they can get some meager remuneration for helping the government on weekdays, but these incomes are not enough to support their families, so their family's main income still depends on the cultivated land outside the city. Fastest updates

But living in the city, the only advantage of dealing with people in the government on weekdays is that you can get to know some dignitaries and nobles, and if there is something at home, you can find acquaintances to help.

Just as the toasts began their march for the new day, they were also in a hurry to make breakfast, and after preparing to leave the city, they began their new day's work, but the officials of the government came to them one after another.

Everyone was an acquaintance, and after a few words of greeting each other, the officials said, "Brother, where are you going?" Do you want to work outside the city? ”

"Yes, if you don't work, how can you feed a large family...... Hey......"

"What are you doing with a long sigh? Isn't there enough land? ”

"The family has a large population, so they guard these few acres of thin land, if it weren't for the official to take care of them on weekdays, the children may not even have porridge to eat...... Thank you, sir, I want to get out of the city urgently, and the things in the field ......"

"Don't worry, brother, have you heard? The toasts were arrested, and I heard that anyone who reported it could quit the land they had occupied......"

"Ah...... Yesterday there was a commotion in the city, is it true......"

"Of course it's true, the Mandate of Heaven Army adheres to the gods, no, they call God, and they are here to save the people......"

"Really? My family's land...... It's the ancestor's business......"

"It can be done, the God they believe in is very powerful, it is said that the affairs of the ancestors can also be investigated, I see that you are more diligent on weekdays, hurry up to tell you, go and ......"

"Thank you, master, the villain will go ......"

In half a day, dozens of people gathered in front of the prefect's yamen, without exception, all of them sued the Tusi for encroaching on their fields, but the prefect Kong Lanchuan told them that these things were not under his control, and that there were judges in the south of the prefect's yamen, and there were judges in the Mandate of Heaven to deal with this kind of thing.

The crowd then crowded towards the judge's yamen, and the judge Du Rusu was very enthusiastic about the people who reported the toast, so they didn't need to be in a hurry, and lined up to say one by one.

The people complained about the Tusi's encroachment on the land, some of which happened in recent years, some of which happened before, and even happened to these ancestors whom the Tusi had never met, Du Rusu registered them one by one, telling them that the Mandate of Heaven Governor's Office must protect their legitimate interests, let them go back, wait patiently, and not completely spread their anger on the Tusi.

In the afternoon, there were bitter and bold people, began to throw mud on the toasts who marched, seeing that the white pole soldiers did not say anything, the people passed ten, ten to hundred, the people in the city, basically around the toasts, as long as they got the opportunity, they would throw mud blocks, vegetable leaves and even eggs on the toasts, venting their resentment for several lifetimes.

The white pole soldiers who escorted the toast basically turned a blind eye, as long as it was not a fatal injury such as stones and iron rods, they basically didn't care.

By dusk, the eight toasts had been tortured to the point that their lips had already been cracked due to the lack of drinking water, and three toasts had fainted directly when they returned to prison.

The white pole soldiers have no sympathy for these toasts, they are also born in poverty, and they have also encountered the disasters that the toasts have added to the heads of the local people, if it were not for the constraints of military status, they would all want to go up and kick a few feet......

The soldiers who fainted, there was still no water, only dry and hard leftovers, and they would not be treated until they confessed their crimes, and there was no humanity in the prison......

By the afternoon of the third day, there was finally a toast who couldn't bear it anymore and took the initiative to ask to confess his crime.

Du Rusu warmly received the two toasters, and gave each of them a small glass of white water, so that they could moisten their throats and speak slowly......

By the fourth day, six of the eight Tusi had already confessed their crimes, and Du Rusu was so good at seducing them that not only themselves, but also the things they had heard about their ancestors were dug up.

In the afternoon, a public trial meeting was held in the city, presided over by Du Rusu, and the judges took out a thick stack of white paper and confronted them one by one, while the people supervised them on the periphery.

Every time a crime was read, the six Tusi who had already confessed their crimes all nodded and confessed, but the two people who did not confess their crimes still refused to admit their crimes, which aroused the public indignation of the people, and they rushed to the front desk and beat them half to death.

Du Rusu was afraid of causing a fatality, so he suspended the public trial and asked the people to go home as soon as possible.

Li Zicheng looked at the results of Du Rusu's preliminary trial, and was overjoyed, according to the people's reports and the crimes confessed by the Tusi themselves, it was not enough to take out all the land owned by these Tusi, which was not enough to offset the land they occupied!

It doesn't matter whether the crime is serious or wronged, Li Zicheng only needs one result!

He told Du Rusu that for these eight Tusi, different judgments should be made according to the severity of the crime, the degree of repentance, and the strength of support for the Heavenly Mandate Army.

The result of the verdict was not announced in time, and Du Rusu led the people to let off steam: the people basically won this big lawsuit, and soon after, the people were likely to get their original land.

Li Zicheng handed over these matters to Du Rusu, and discussed with the prefect Kong Lanchuan, according to the output of local farmland and the difficulty of production, the limit of each ding was 25 acres, and then he took 3,000 Han prisoners of war who believed in Catholicism to Zunyi Mansion and Zunyi County, and began to widen the official road.

Inside and outside the city, for the matter of Tusi, they were dressed in a boil, but no one had accurate information, Du Rusu never pronounced the crime of Tusi in public, but continued to judge the eight Tusi in public.

Now that it is the harvest season of autumn grain, the crops on the land of the eight arrested Tusi have been harvested by the soldiers of the Heavenly Mandate Army, and according to the previous agreement, the people who rented the land still got the expected grain, and the rest of the grain went directly into the treasury.

The officials of Zunyi Mansion, under the instruction of Kong Lanchuan, began to walk the streets inside and outside the city, continuing to collect the crimes of the Tusi, and unconsciously, they would also release some messages to the people who were familiar with the city.

This kind of discussion fermented for several days, and finally the officials of the government gave full play to the advantage of being familiar with the people, and those people who lived in the city, their land outside the city, was mainly concentrated in the cross pass in the east of the city and the Xiaojia Pass in the west of the city, which were the two "li" closest to the city of the city.

After the people agreed to "become Han nationality and serve God", the prefect Kong Lanchuan re-registered the population, registered all the people as Han nationality, and determined a new lieutenant chief, and then redivided the land, each of which was 25 acres.

After the news of such a thing came out, the people were boiling, "twenty-five acres per ding", far beyond their imagination, much higher than their expectations......

However, the people found that these lands were all gifts from God, and only those who "became Han nationality and served God" could get the corresponding land.

Around the city of Zunyi, there are a total of sixteen "li", except for the cross pass and Xiaojiaao, which have divided the land, the people of the remaining fourteen "li" have stepped on the threshold of the Li Chang's house.

The people wanted to get more farmland, but they didn't want to "become Han nationality and serve God", so the lieutenants had to go to Fucheng and ask to see the prefect Kong Lanchuan.

Kong Lanchuan is not in the government, he is in the cross and Xiaojiaao, on the one hand to the people to issue a new land deed, on the other hand to promote the decree of the Mandate of Heaven, among which the "fifteen taxes one" tax rate, the most popular among the people, such a tax rate, not only lower than the previous tax rate of Zunyi Mansion, is much lower than the Tusi era!

The people were grateful to Kong Lanchuan, but Kong Lanchuan did not accept it, and asked them to thank the Governor of the Mandate of Heaven and the God they believed.

However, the people still did not know much about God and did not know how to thank him, so Kong Lanchuan suggested that the people should give a bucket of grain to each household, and the rest of the money should be paid by the government office, and build a Catholic church in a place where the population is concentrated, so that in their leisure time, the people can go to the city to worship God.

A bucket of grain, for the people, is only symbolic, such a thing, the two lieutenants of the cross pass and Xiao Jiaao, did it properly, Kong Lanchuan found an idle house in the south of the city, bought it in the name of the government office, as the Zunyi Mansion Catholic Church.

Li Zicheng has asked the Chengdu government to send a missionary pastor, and when the pastor arrives, the Catholic church will officially preach to the outside world.

Just when the fourteen lieutenant chiefs begged to see the prefect Kong Lanchuan and could not meet each other, Du Rusu, the independent judge of Zunyi Prefecture, finally made public the verdict of the eight captured Tusi.

These eight Tusi were divided into four categories according to the severity of their crimes and their degree of repentance: two who refused to confess their crimes and had their homes raided; A toast who committed a particularly serious crime was beheaded in public, all the land was recovered, and half of the family property was confiscated; The three Tusi took back all the land, but kept all their belongings and turned them into merchants; The two Tusi, who had committed lesser crimes and pleaded guilty well, recovered most of the land, but kept the most basic living land.

Correspondingly, as long as the people provide conclusive evidence, they can claim back the land that originally belonged to them without compensation.

Fourteen anxious lieutenant chiefs couldn't help but be overjoyed when they heard such information, they took Du Rusu's verdict, and finally waited at the gate of the government to wait for the prefect Kong Lanchuan, who was about to go out.

"Lord Prefect, we are the mayors of each village......

Kong Lanchuan pretended to be for a moment, but he had to frown, and summoned the fourteen lieutenant chiefs in the prefect's yamen, "This mansion is rehousing the people of Cross Pass and Xiao Jia'ao, and they are very busy at the moment, if you have anything to say, hurry up!" ”

"Yes, Lord Prefect," a lieutenant chief shuddered and took out Du Rusu's verdict, "My lord, since the government has made a verdict, the people want to get back their land in time...... The people have land, so they can pay taxes to the government! ”

"You are all good citizens, and this government is very pleased," Kong Lanchuan read the execution of the judgment and said, "Since it is Lord Du's judgment, this government must also enforce it......"

The lieutenants were overjoyed, "My lord, we are now taking back the land that belongs to them for the people, as well as the title deed...... I don't know when adults are free? ”

"This is a matter within the part of this government, this government is free at any time, this government is rushing to the cross pass and Xiaojiaao, it is also for the people," Kong Lanchuan remained silent, but stretched his hand forward, "You said, the land belongs to the people, please come up with evidence, this government will definitely make decisions for the people!" ”

"Ah......" The lieutenants were dumbfounded, the people had lost their land, if there was evidence, wouldn't they have filed a complaint in Shangfu County long ago?

The land they lost was all bought by Tusi, although they were suspected of taking advantage of the danger of others and forcibly buying and selling, but they did not blatantly rob it, how could they leave unfavorable evidence for the people?