Chapter 207: What a Tragedy

Wang Juren quickly began to act with a blood full of justice......

It's actually quite simple.

It is nothing more than sending domestic slaves to the villages to beat the gong to summon the tenants, and the fighting is not an unprecedented event, the fighting in the countryside is commonplace, the Wang family controls 80% of the land of the four surrounding Zhuangzi, and the remaining landlords and yeoman farmers are also members of the Wang family.

As for the reason, of course, it is not that Huangzhuang obstructs the Wang's family law.

This one can't be taken out.

After all, his father was arrested in accordance with legal procedures, and it was indeed a crime to occupy the property of the guard, at least this reason could not be used publicly, including the housekeeper and the family law was only done privately by loyal servants and clansmen in anger and indignation, so he hid in the distance to watch the excitement instead of playing in person. As for the reason for this large-scale fight, it is easy to find, it is nothing more than that Huangzhuang encroached on the water source, Huangzhuang scolded their people, and even the people of Huangzhuang urinated in the direction of their ancestral grave, which can be regarded as a reason, and the reason for the village fight is the best to find.

More than a thousand royal families and tenant youths were thus summoned and flocked to the militia.

Li Zhong saw that the situation was not right, and immediately escorted the four of them back to Huangzhuang, there was an earthen fence outside their Huangzhuang, and it was also a military camp, and then the Huangzhuang militia quickly deployed defenses, and even the women copied the issued crossbows. At the same time, he sent someone to report to Wu Shun, the commander of Xuancheng, and asked for help from the two nearest imperial villages.

But the other two estates were also surrounded by clansmen and tenants manipulated by the gentry.

None of the surrounding gentry who were close to the military camp encroached on the land of the guard, and once the Wang family fell, they couldn't escape, so they just took this opportunity to use force to confront and create a reason for those civil officials in the court to attack Yang Qing. Not to mention the new policy, at least they have to crack down on the investigation and encroachment on the land and property of the Wei Institute, and they don't believe that Yang Qingzhen dares to risk the chaos in the entire south of the Yangtze River. After all, this land is Yang Qing's big rear, and hundreds of thousands of Ming troops all rely on the taxes of this land to feed, if Jiangnan falls into chaos, how can the Ming armies of Luyu and Hunan and Jiangxi still fight?

It is said that the Jiangnan gentry have had enough.

Yang Qing's perverse actions again and again, they also pinched their noses and endured it, let them pay taxes, they also paid them, they also admitted to increasing commercial taxes, and they also endured the establishment of the tax department to repeat Wei Zhongxian's Bao Zheng, but this time Yang Qing wanted to attack them fundamentally, they really couldn't bear it.

They did miscalculate before, but they didn't expect Yang Qing's health center reform layout to be so deep.

In their opinion, the Huangzhuang militia is nothing more than changing the military household registration of the guard to the civilian register, which has not changed much in essence, but they didn't expect Yang Qing's various new tricks one after another, like pouring blood to revive the dead tree of the guard in an instant. After they reacted, they found that these imperial villages had become knives pointing at them like when Zhu Yuanzhang was stuffed into the guard, and they were sharper than when Zhu Yuanzhang was in the guard. Economically self-contained, educationally self-contained, politically privileged and militarized, these estates at once cut the gentry-controlled areas to pieces, and almost all of the gentry's estates were erected with militia muzzles next to them. They were like Yang Qing's tentacles reaching out to the villages, and Yang Qing, who had to rely on civil officials and gentry to control the place, only needed to sit in the city of Nanjing, and he could rely on these imperial villages to realize his influence on the place.

Now it's just the impact.

But if he expands the number of imperial estates through the inventory of the original Wei Sho's land, it will not be as simple as an impact.

How did Zhu Yuanzhang realize that he forcibly relocated the big families and sent some civil officials and their families into exile, even tens of millions of beheadings? Isn't it just that the guards who only obey him are stuffed into almost every prefecture and county, controlling almost every strategic location, and trapping the gentry first with the military household system isolated from the gentry system?

Yang Qing: This is repeating this set.

It's just that he knows how to develop the economy better than Zhu Yuanzhang.

As a result, the militia was paid more than the military and listened to him, and when the militia shouted that whatever their surname, as long as it was the people of the Huangzhuang, they were their people, the gentry already knew that they had to face a real crisis.

They must resist.

They must resist before Yang Qing's layout is truly completed.

Otherwise, they won't be able to resist.

"Rush up and slam the door open!"

Wang Juren's butler shouted with a sword.

The tenants looked at each other, and then looked at the militia on the earthen fence one by one, and, of course, at the spears and crossbows in the hands of the latter.

"Whoever will be rewarded with a hundred taels of silver first!"

The butler hurriedly shouted when he saw that he was going to be cold.

The tenants looked at each other, and finally a few stunned young men carried a ladder and began to charge with shouts, but the next moment the guns raised on the wall suddenly sprayed flames. This time it wasn't just gunpowder, the shotguns that erupted made them scream, and one by one they hurriedly covered their wounds and threw down the ladder and ran back crying wolves.

"A bunch of waste, the master raised you for nothing!"

The butler scolded angrily.

In fact, these people were not seriously injured, Li Zhong used the smallest shotgun very restrainedly, that is, a wound, even if it was hit in the face, it would not kill anyone, and as for the infection and death in the future, it was another matter.

"They have cannons!"

A clansman said weakly.

"If there is a cannon, there is only one, how many more can we fight with more than a thousand people?"

The butler shouted angrily.

"The young master said, the first twenty people who rushed in were rewarded with one hundred taels of silver, free of rent for three years, don't be afraid of killing people, the young master and the county are friends, and the young master has friends in the court, isn't it just a few poor soldiers who died? Rush in, rush in, it's all yours! ”

He then yelled.

But suddenly there was a whistling in his ears, and then a crossbow bolt pierced his shoulder, and the butler sat on the ground with a scream.

"Do you want to rebel?"

An angry shout rang out from the wall.

Then Li Zhong stood up on the wall with a steel crossbow on his shoulder, and at the same time held a copper roll of trumpets in his hand, and the other side of the trumpet was blocked by his mouth.

Then his voice sounded again:

"You fools, after the Wang family encroached on the official land, all the official land was collected by the imperial village, and all the tenants were organized into the imperial people, at most forty percent of the rent, no taxes were paid, and the children went to free schools, and there was a health center to treat them when they were sick. Zhongyong Marquis also rewarded with new seeds, we are already planting, the yield of sweet potatoes per mu can be thousands of catties, and the corn can also reach 1,000 catties, you don't want such a good day, but you have to follow the Wang family to pay the rent of sixty or seventy or even eighty percent? I have to work as a handyman for the Wang family, and even my daughter is good-looking, so I have to prevent being seen by the Wang family?

You don't want to be a royal citizen, but you want to continue to be a cow and a horse for the royal family?

Are you stupid?

Xu Er, didn't you cry last time you watched the white-haired girl? You don't want to think about how to settle the account with the Wang family that your daughter died in vain, but you came to fill in the trench for the Wang family, aren't you afraid that your daughter won't be able to close your eyes when she dies?

And you, Liu Gouzi, you didn't pay the rent last time, did you let your newly married daughter-in-law sleep with Steward Wang for one night before relieving it? And you, forgetting how your father owed the Wang family rent and said a cruel word, but he was broken by the Wang family's slave and died in bed in less than half a year? And you, you, you, have you forgotten how the Wang family did to you tenants?

The land you are planting now is all the official land of Xuanzhou Wei.

You could have been royalty like us.

And you, if the Wang family's crime of encroaching on the official land is confirmed, it will be confiscated, and after the seizure of the family, the Wang family's land and property will be completely unofficial, and you will all become imperial people, and you will all live the same life as us, you don't want such a day, but continue to suffer with the Wang family?

Are you stupid?

Are you cheap? ”

"Are you stupid, are you cheap?"

The militiamen on the earthen fence shouted in unison.

The tenants outside looked at each other, especially those who were named, and the expressions on their faces were obviously a little complicated, but after all, the Wang family was also a few hundred years of prestige, and it was still difficult for them to break through the paper-paste embankment in their minds for a while.

"Don't listen to his gossip to confuse the public, we are all members of the Wang family, and we are all surnamed Wang!"

The butler clutched his wounds and shouted.

"This is the Ming Dynasty, the emperor's surname is Zhu!"

Li Zhong immediately shouted.

"Do you know who we are? We are a militia team formed according to the orders of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and according to the laws of the imperial court, we are the imperial army under the control of the Imperial Governor's Office, and if you dare to besiege the imperial army, you will rebel! You don't care about coercion, but the mastermind of the Wang family is to rebel, that is, to raid the house, no matter what the case of the Wang family's encroachment on the official land, their crime of rebellion will not be able to escape, and if they raid the house, you will all be imperial people. According to the laws of the imperial court, the militia of Huangzhuang does not need to wait for the order of the Metropolitan Governor's Office to rebel nearby, and the militia can be quelled by the head of the village. ”

Li Zhong stood on the earthen fence and shouted.

"Don't listen to him, the Wang family has been kind to you for hundreds of years!"

The butler shouted in horror.

"The Wang family has oppressed you for hundreds of years! Today is the day of revenge and revenge, and there are grievances and complaints, let's go, go and open the Wang family's mansion, arrest Wang Juren and ask the court for merit, and then live a good life together as emperors! ”

Li Zhong shouted.

"He is talking nonsense, the Wang family did not rebel!"

The butler shouted weakly.

"Dare to plot to attack the imperial court's military tun, this is a rebellion, don't forget that this is the emperor's village, this is the emperor's Zhuangzi!"

Li Zhong shouted.

"Go to Wang's house and raid the house!"

The assistant next to him shouted waving a flag.

This sentence is more effective than anything else, more than a thousand Wang family members and tenants outside instantly sobered up, opening the Wang family's mansion through the Wang family's rebellion is not only to arrest Wang Juren, but also to raid the house, they don't dare to do it themselves, but this is led by the militia of the imperial court! This is an errand for the emperor!

The tenants almost subconsciously turned around.

The butler was horrified and tried to stop it, but then a crossbow bolt plunged into his chest, and twenty birds on the opposite earth opened fire in unison, as if it were a command, and all the tenants suddenly turned around with a roar, and instantly drowned his dead body under countless feet.