Yang Lian first gathered the big landlords of his county in Lulong County and held a meeting in the county yamen. Yang Lian said: "I invite all the villagers to come here today to ask for everyone's opinions on the issue of rent reduction. As you know, my Daming is now suffering from internal and external troubles, with Jiannu raging outside, and wind and rain inside. The people suffered, and the court couldn't bear it, so they wanted to release grain for disaster relief. It's just that the villagers also know that this is a symptomatic thing, and it seems that it will be the day of rent payment, if it is still according to the original forty percent, then the tenants are only afraid that they will have to take out relief grain to pay the rent. Lian is here to plead today, can you collect 40% of the actual income to give the tenants a way to live? ”

The landlords were silent, Yang Lian looked over, and everyone avoided his gaze. One of them wanted to stand up, but his body moved slightly, and several stern eyes shot at him, and his legs went limp, and he sat back unwillingly.

Yang Lian sighed, his heart full of sorrow. Obviously, with just a little income, you can live a lot of people, but these squires who are usually sanctimonious are not willing to do it at all.

At this time, a middle-aged man who looked very imposing stood up and said: "Lord Qincha, it's not that the small people are unwilling to reduce the rent, but the imperial court has already reduced the rent once, set at forty percent, and now the year has not yet arrived, and the rent will be reduced on this basis. ”

Some people took the lead, and other people who were still a little afraid of the prestige of the Qincha began to complain, some complained about the salary, some complained about the low standard of rent collection, and some complained that their own families were also seriously affected.

Yang Lian listened patiently for a while, and finally couldn't stand it anymore, he slapped the table and stood up and said, "Since everyone is in such a difficult situation, it seems that Ben Qin has to send you relief food." ”

When everyone saw that Qin Cha was angry, they did not dare to speak for a while. Yang Lian said again: "If you don't listen to Ben Qincha, then don't blame the court for being ruthless, if you are willing to reduce the rent at the latest, come and talk to Ben Qin before noon tomorrow at the latest. ”

The landlords poured out, and everyone discussed: "What can the imperial court do to us now, last time it threatened to let the tenants emigrate, that can scare us, what can we do now, go to emigrate, who is afraid of whom?" ”

"Now when I go to emigrate, the tenants will starve to death, where will the court pick up food? Jokes, a method used a second time will not work, and when we are pigs, will we always be fooled? ”

That night, a few sporadic landlords quietly came to the county yamen and complained to the chincha: "If we listen to the chincha, they will unite to resist us, and the chincha can rest assured that we will not reduce the rent, but we will definitely collect the rent according to 40% of the actual harvest." ”

Yang Lian said gratefully: "There are still people who understand things, in fact, the court has no choice, they don't reduce the rent, and the court can't punish them, Your Majesty said that you can't force the rent reduction, you can only negotiate the rent reduction." Negotiation and negotiation must be done if both parties are willing. Your deeds will be reported to the court, and you will be rewarded at that time. ”

A landlord said: "Why do we come here to read the books of the sages, isn't it just to share the worries of the monarch?" If we can still get by, why oppress the tenants too much. It's all from the villagers, and they can't do it. ”

There are also some people who were frightened by Lord Qincha's last words, and now they know that the court has no way at all, Lord Qincha is really just empty words and threats, and secretly regrets it in their hearts, and there are some hesitations in their words, which is nothing more than putting some difficulties, hoping that Lord Qincha will have mercy.

And there are some people who came to inquire about the news, and did not actively speak, and now that they have the letter, they are even more lazy to perfunctory with the Qincha, and under the pretext that there is something, they go to report the good news to the people who are waiting for the news.

So in the end, they swore that they would reduce the rent according to the Qin mission, and it is said that only three or five gentry who had scholars at home secretly reduced the rent. Yang Lian comforted them with kind words and sent them out of the yamen.

At noon the next day, no one came to tell Qin Cha that he wanted to reduce the rent, so Yang Lian asked people to post a recruitment notice at the entrance of the yamen: because the imperial court wanted to expand the Qian'an Iron Mine and Kaiping Coal Mine, a large number of miners were recruited. When a family goes, they will be provided with housing, and the man will become a miner, according to the amount of work, a hundred to three hundred copper coins a day. Women can cook or work in a down jacket factory for 100 copper coins a day. Children can study in the local new-style school, live in front of one person, can live in a collective dormitory, have a month off during the Spring Festival every year, can go home for the New Year, during the vacation, the salary will be paid.

In addition to the notices at the entrance of the yamen, there were also many Jinyi guards who took the notices to various villages to carry out propaganda, so that the illiterate villagers could directly hear the exact news without being deceived by the literate landlords.

And when the villagers asked about their land this year, and the rent had not been paid, the propaganda Jinyiwei replied: "The recruitment matter is so urgent, and it is not impossible to put down the fields in advance." ”

This is not a hint, this is a special indication, the villagers hesitated for a long time, and it seemed that they could not make up their minds, and the Jinyi Wei would burn a fire again: "Lord Qincha said that he would consult with the landlords and would not let the land be abandoned." ”

This calmed down the conscience of the villagers, a large number of villagers are willing to sign up, when asking the location of Jinyiwei's registration, Jinyiwei said directly: "Just sign here with us, it doesn't matter if you can't write, we write that you can draw a charge on the line, pack up your things today, go to Qian'an tomorrow, and we will help you look good at home." ”

There are Jinyi guards to watch the house, how can you not worry, for a while most of the villagers have directly registered, and some of them signed up to go back, and helped the family to register together, ready to go to Qian'an.

Except for the five tenants of the landlord's family who were sure to reduce the rent, the other tenants did not refuse to sign up. When the evening was assembled, it was found that the tenants had gone by ten.

Among the conditions offered by the imperial court, there are two most attractive, one is that children can read for free, and the idea of hoping for Jackie Chan in the countryside is extremely serious in this era, and it is a great event to be able to read, for the sake of future generations, of course, it is necessary to go.

The other is the annual leave once a year, and you can go home during the New Year, which is a custom of the Chinese. It's much better than going to immigrate. Immigration can't be done once a year.

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