Chapter 170: Suppressing Public Opinion

On this day, when he was at work, Governor Zhang Lang hurriedly came and said two jokes satirizing the New Deal and Yang Xuan. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

After taking a look, Yang Xuan was furious, these scholars were even more excessive than the five cents of beauty in their previous lives, and they were completely out of nowhere.

Lying on the Taishi chair, while listening to Zhang Lang's nagging, he was thinking about how to deal with these restless readers.

Zhu Yuanzhang founded the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination of officials, to provide a fair competition opportunity for poor children, as long as they can take the imperial examination high school, in the future, they will either be feudal officials, or worship the generals.

But on the other hand, it has caused many evil consequences, many talented people only seek a good reputation on weekdays, only seek to write a good eight shares, only seek the imperial examination high school, but in fact there is not much social experience, let alone the ability to solve practical problems, so for hundreds of years, many scholars and officials blindly pursue fame, blindly retreat, and are not pragmatic.

This is probably the same with these readers, in order to gain a good reputation for themselves, they make up some jokes to satirize the New Deal.

Thinking of this, listening carefully to Zhang Lang talking about the incident, everything seemed very simple.

The former Shunqing Mansion left guard Chen Yingrui's cousin Chen Yingyuan was from a high background, and he was dissatisfied when he saw Yang Xuan deliberately suppressing his cousin.

Since the rise of the Loyal Army, although a large number of scholars have been appointed in the local and military areas, if we carefully analyze and analyze, the vast majority of those appointed governors, prefectures, and township chiefs have been appointed to the shogunate, or have been experienced, governors, scribes, or so on, rather than being directly appointed because of their good reputation.

Chen Yingyuan was born in a person, and he could have been an official, and he was a master or a county official, but he threw himself into the shogunate because he was proud of his identity.

Every once in a while, he often gathered with some like-minded people to criticize the New Deal, and fought for Shi Jinchen, Chen Yingrui and others.

Since the Three Kingdoms Zhou Dynasty, the Qian family has been a wealthy family in Shunqing, although everyone felt that it was inappropriate, but they did not dare to report Yang Xuan, and Zhang Lang was still young and had no foundation in Shunqing, so he reported it.

Although he advocates freedom of speech, he still can't tolerate the beauty fans and five cents who turn black and white upside down, and besides, in the past few years, there have been five beetles circulating in the society, and idle and bullying scholars like Chen Yingyuan are one of the five beetles that the people hate.

Several leaders of the Literary Society were arrested and brought to justice, and after everyone was chained, they were dragged to the prefect's yamen by prisoner car.

This can make Chen Yingyuan angry, in the Ming Dynasty, Xiucai can see that the county does not kneel, they are even more exemplary scholars, I can't imagine that today I was locked and pulled to the prefect's yamen by a prisoner car.

The road is very long, Chen Yingyuan has never felt that the road is so long, after hearing that the old man and the old man Xiucai were locked with a prisoner car, everyone was very surprised, and some people even put down their farm work and came to see this strange thing.

In the distance, a servant beat gongs and drums and shouted slogans: "Come and see, the old man Qian Yingyuan has been detained by adults."

Although Chen Yingyuan is a scholar, he is insatiable and sweeps the ground, and the Qian family has thousands of acres of fertile land, and he is unwilling to pay the land and business taxes like ordinary people in the face of national disasters, and forces adults to increase taxes and taxes to ordinary people.

Come and see, people should be far away from encroaching on people's property, forcibly occupying thousands of acres of people's land is not self-sufficient, and they don't want to pay any taxes, and they still want to pass on taxes to the people. ”

The officials in front of them beat gongs and drums, and the sharp voices of the officials in the back kept shouting, and everyone was talking about it, although Chen Yingyuan wanted to quibble, but the people around him heard that this old man actually clamoured others to increase taxes, and they were quite disdainful.

"The History of Confucianism" Fan Jinzhongju is familiar to everyone, and after Fan Jinzhongju, he immediately lived a happy life.

The novel describes "those who have sent land to the property; Someone sent it to the store; There are also those who are broken and settled, and the two of them come to join the servants and try to shelter them.

In two or three months, Fan Jin's family had slaves and maids, and money and rice were needless to say.

Squire Zhang's family came to urge him to move again. moved to a new house, sang, set wine, and entertained for three days. On the fourth day, the old lady got up to eat snacks, walked to the third house, and saw Fan Jin's wife, Hu, who often wore a silver bun; At this time, it was the middle of October, the weather was still warm, and he was wearing a azure satin suit and an official green satin skirt; supervised the family, daughter-in-law, and maids, washing dishes and cups. ”

That is to say, after the poor boy was promoted in the examination, others gave land, real estate, and were willing to sell themselves as slaves, so in less than half a year, Fan Jin has become a big landlord and a rich man on the rich side.

Why is this so, mainly because the Ming Dynasty gave preferential treatment to scholars, and people were basically exempt from paying the field and Ding Fu, and some records recorded that the Ming Dynasty's first assistant Xu Jie's had tens of thousands of acres of land, and most of them were because of the identity of Xu Jie's first assistant, and others came to take refuge, so they were exempted from Tian Fu and Ding Fu.

The land of officials and scholars does not need to pay the land tax, and the people who take refuge in the officials and scholars do not need to pay the Ding Fu and do not need to serve hard labor, but the taxes in various parts of the Ming Dynasty have long been fixed, and the gap of the Tian Fu and Ding Fu is mainly collected from the ordinary people, coupled with the corruption and bribery of officials, and the ingenuity of the grabbing, so the Tian Fu and Ding Fu are several times that of the state, and the people are not happy.

The servants counted the land occupied by Qian Yingyuan next to him, and skillfully took the slaves that he had taken over, that is, he wanted to spur Chen Yingyuan as the five beetles that the people hated the most.

Along the way, many people whispered and scolded people like Chen Yingyuan, who were insatiably greedy, and lost face to their ancestors and scholars.

Some people loudly praise the New Deal, which is what others say from time to time, but they have actually experienced.

In the past, the Taiping Shengshi Tianfu levied 2 or 3 cents of silver per mu, but now it is only 6 cents of silver, and in the past, Ding Fu was 5 cents of silver, but now it is only 1 cent and 2 cents of silver.

The more everyone talked, the more energetic they became, and some people boldly grabbed a handful of cow dung and smashed it on the prisoner car of Qian Yingyuan, and what was surprising was that the officials did not stop it at all.

Everyone laughed, and many people did the same, deducting all kinds of dirty things on Chen Yingyuan and others.

People rely on clothes, Buddha relies on gold, and in the past, wearing gorgeous clothes was quite gentle, but now Chen Yingyuan is unkempt and dirty, and the whole person is worse than a beggar, which probably really responds to the sentence that the phoenix in the water is not as good as ****.

The prisoner's cart was opened in front of the government office, and several officials dragged everyone to the hall.

The three floors outside and the outer three floors were full of people, and there were rows of officials standing on both sides of the lobby, and at the top, it was not Yang Xuan who was sitting, but Fan Wenguang, the new governor of Shunqing Mansion, and Zhou Zheng, the magistrate.

Chen Yingyuan seemed to see the opportunity, his nose was sour, and he hugged his fist to Fan Wenguang from afar and said: "Boss, the student is informant, now I ask the boss for peace." ”

Fan Wenguang, who was born as a person, was in a dilemma, and he knew the reason for this case, mainly because the Ming Dynasty gave preferential treatment to scholars, and did not need to pay taxes or anything like ordinary people.

But this is just a folk custom, and many scholars do this, but Yang Xuan uses the excuse to rectify it, which makes sense and reason.

Besides, this is too much, a small person encroaches on more than 1,000 acres of land.

After pondering all night last night, after thinking about it left and right, he still decided to follow Yang Xuan's will.

Fan Wenguang slapped his face and said: "First remove the prisoner's reputation, and then let the prisoner report his name and place of origin one by one." ”

Chen Yingyuan repeatedly covered the top on his head and said, "My lord, I am a person, but I have worked hard to get it."

Adults are also from a good background, do you want to ruthlessly discredit me?

To the surprise of Chen Yingyuan, the left and right officials did not listen to his explanation at all, pressed him to the ground, and forced him to kneel.

Looking at Chen Yingyuan, who was quite unconvinced, Fan Wenguang asked: "Chen Yingyuan, can you be guilty?" ”

Chen Yingyuan burst into tears, shook his head and said, "Boss, the student was taken here by the official but I don't know what crime he committed." ”

Fan Wenguang said with a straight face: "In order to treat scholars well, Taizu stipulated that scholars were exempted from paying field taxes and exempting them from paying Ding taxes.

But you're good, after passing the exam, you actually forcibly occupied hundreds of acres of private land, forcibly occupied dozens of people's shops, and forcibly turned dozens of people into your own domestic slaves, how is your behavior different from that of the landlord and the bully?"

When Chen Yingyuan heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief, shook his head and said, "My lord, I am wronged."

After the students were promoted, it was the people who voluntarily took refuge in their fields and shops and voluntarily included them in the students' doors.

Although the students are ignorant, how can they forcibly occupy people's land and occupy people's shops? ”

The people outside the lobby were in an uproar, in ancient times, the government paid attention to an open trial, unlike the previous life, and all the people could watch outside the lobby.

Fan Wenguang's face sank, and he slapped the wood fiercely and said: "Nonsense, the fields are the place where the people live and live, and the shops and real estate are the places where the people's hard work is.

Although you should be far away in the past, how can you let the people give you the land where they live and the shops and real estate that the people have worked hard for? ”

Looking at Fan Wenguang, who didn't seem to understand, Chen Yingyuan didn't panic, and said slowly after giving his hand, in the Ming Dynasty, officials and scholars did not need to pay Tian Fu or Ding Fu.

In order to escape the hardships of Tian Fu and Ding Fu, some people are willing to take refuge and put their fields and real estate in the name of Qian Yingyuan, and they have become Qian Yingyuan's domestic servants.

There was a commotion outside the lobby, everyone was talking, and some people were shouting and scolding.

In the past two days, there have been many rumors outside, and now many people are beginning to understand that because of a brazen reader like Chen Yingyuan, the government has apportioned Tian Fu and Ding Fu to the people, so that Tian Fu reaches 2,3 yuan, and Ding Fu 3,4 yuan.

Fan Wenguang took several shocking shots in a row, and the people quieted down a little.

The government immediately summoned witnesses, that is, some slaves who had surrendered their land and shops to the Qian family.

In the past, scholars were exempted from levying Tian Fu, Ding Fu, and Shang Fu, but now the Loyal and Righteous Army, regardless of whether they are high or low, all Tian Fu, Ding Fu, and Shang Fu are levied at the same level, and these people who have taken refuge in the past are of course unwilling.

In order to claim back their fields and shops, of course these people will not tell the truth, and besides, yesterday there were also a few officials who secretly confessed that if they followed the script, they could help recover the land and property that had been encroached upon.

Above the lobby, one by one they wept and cried, accusing Chen Yingyuan of how he took advantage of the tricks, encroached on his own land, encroached on his own property, and forced himself to become his slave.

Chen Yingyuan was furious, the whole person was annoyed and ashamed, and when the time came, he actually roared in the court, and was slapped more than 30 times in a row by the officials, and the flesh and blood were blurred.

The facts are basically clear, just as the official declared, Qian Yingyuan relied on his status to steal more than 800 acres of people's land, more than 10 shops, and forced more than 10 good people to become his slaves.

In addition, Chen Yingyuan Swen swept the floor without shame, and Ma Ke of the Great Shun Army and Ma Yuanli of the Great West entered Shunqing one after another, and they all made friends to send money and gifts, which was full of ugliness.

Now that the new policy is being implemented, the people pay money and food as one, and Chen Yingrui can no longer rely on his status as a person to steal the people's money, so he is dissatisfied and maliciously attacks the new deal.

Chen Yingyuan repeatedly defended, but the people opposed the five beetles (one of the idle and bullying scholars), coupled with the fact that they had encroached on the people's land and money, it was really difficult to distinguish.

When the surrounding people saw that this person was so shameless, everyone shouted and cursed, and some even shouted loudly, not killing or venting the people's anger.

In the midst of applause, Chen Yingyuan was deprived of his fame, imprisoned for 20 years, and sent to various places to preach as a typical example of illegal scholars.

The land and shops occupied by the Qian family relying on their power were returned to the people one by one, and the occupied fields and houses were regained.

And after seeing the powerful and powerful Qian family being rectified, those scholars who still occupy people's homes and shops are silent one by one, and they have returned the occupied houses and shops to the people, let alone openly satirizing the new deal like Qian Yingyuan.