Chapter 261: No face

Zhou Xinshu's eloquence is really good, this story was said by him in a clear manner, and Sun Dan didn't think so. But Sun Hao, Feng Zhen, Shi Wanquan and others around him all listened to the "mystery".

After listening, Shi Wanquan laughed: "This Hua Jinsheng family is really cunning, my old Shi can be regarded as a person who can settle accounts, they are smarter than me." gave all the land to the Guo family to evade taxes, even if a certain amount of rent was paid every year, it could be calculated, and it was much less handed over to the imperial court. ”

After speaking, he counted his fingers and enumerated the land endowment, labor, salaries, and progressive taxes of the imperial court, and came up with a figure that was quite high for ordinary people. Compared with the national tax on imperial grain, the land rent of the Guo family is so small that it can be ignored.

Sun Dan also smiled bitterly, the state tax was lost in vain, which is also a helpless thing, which is also the reason why the emperor sent him to Fangshan to pilot and clear the land.

However, Sun Dan did not want to touch the "milk" cheese of the big landlords and take a share of the ruling foundation of the Ming Dynasty, and he did not want to be an enemy of the entire scholar class. Open source does not need to open source the land, there are more profitable industries in this world than farming, and it is impossible for the Ming Empire to get rid of the financial crisis by relying on a single day of land endowment.

Sun Dan's consideration is at a higher level, but the matter in front of him has to be dealt with well, after all, this is the first case since he took office, and he needs to rely on things to establish his prestige, otherwise the new law will not be promoted at all.

Moreover, after finishing speaking, Zhou Xinshu had already knelt on the ground, his head was unkempt on the ground, and he cried loudly: "Lord Qingtian, you have to be the master of the grass people!" ”

Because he knocked too hard, in the blink of an eye, hot blood burst out of Zhou Xinshu's head, mixed with tears.

It didn't matter if he knocked this time, he alarmed the family, and only heard the voices of two women: "Master! "Daddy".

asked two women to pounce over and kneel in front of Sun Dan.

These two women, one in his forties and the other in his fourteen or fifteen years old, are estimated to be Zhou Xinshu's wife and daughter.

Sun Dan handed Feng Zhen and Sun Hao a look, and said to Zhou Xinshu's family: "Get up, this county will naturally handle it impartially." ”

Feng Zhen and Sun Hao hurriedly helped the family up from the ground.

The two women of the Zhou family hurriedly wrapped the wound on Zhou Xinshu's head.

Sun calmly looked at it, Zhou Xinshu's wife was just a dark and strong middle-aged "woman" girl, and she really didn't look very good. His daughter is also ordinary, but she has a slender figure, and she is not bad in the Zhuang family, no wonder the Hua family wants to do so many ghosts.

It is difficult for Qing officials to decide family affairs, and it is difficult to say the rights and wrongs of the Hua and Zhou families. However, according to the ethics and morality of feudal society, the truth occupies the side of the Zhou family.

For Sun Dan, this matter is also easy to deal with. It's a big deal to find the patriarchs and related people of the Hua and Zhou families together to talk about it, and then let the Hua Da Niu family lose some silver.

But now the Hua family actually went to ask someone to come over to help, and the Guo family was involved, so the matter was somewhat responsible. In the final analysis, it wasn't because of the old man Guo's family that took over the land of Hua Da Niu's family that caused such a big incident.

Looking at the problem at a deeper level, the root of the problem is that there is a big problem in the relationship between people and land and the taxation of the imperial court. The contradiction between man and land, between the privileged class and the common people, between the court and the scholars.

What Sun Dan needs to do is to smooth out the relationship and find a way to solve the problem.

He thought about it for a while, and asked Zhou Xinshu: "Old Zhou, what is the origin of this Master Guo?" ”

Zhou Xinshu had gauze wrapped around his head, which looked quite funny, and replied: "If you go back to the eldest master, the eldest master Guo was originally born and served as a county eldest in Guangdong. His family has 10,000 acres of fertile land and is the richest family in the county. In recent years, quite a few broken households have given him land and attached to him. ”

Sun Dan smiled: "It's just a county man from a high background, and it's nothing." He was born as a scholar, and he probably listened to the truth, and the county had just come to Fangshan, and he was about to interact with the big local households. Zhou Xinshu, wait a minute, you took my post to see this Master Guo, and said that the county asked him not to get involved in the affairs of the Zhou and Hua families. and asked him to return the land of the Hua family's family to the Hua family. The Hua family has land, and if they use no land as an excuse, they will not be able to occupy it in theory. When the time comes, the county will naturally give you a judgment. Also, let him get rid of the group of people who were fighting. My Ming Dynasty naturally has a legal system, so it's nothing to get a bunch of splashes over. Be careful that the county has arrested that group of people, and thrown them into the prison to drink the northwest wind. ”

Without that old man Guo in this matter, things would be easy to do.

Zhou Xinshu was overjoyed, kowtowed again, held Sun Dan's post with both hands, rode a big green donkey, and ran towards Guo's house with two descendants of the Zhou family.

Guo's family is more than 30 miles away from Zhoujiazhuang, and it takes more than half a day to come and go.

Sun Dan is a dignified county, naturally it is impossible to wait in Zhoujiazhuang, and after eating the hot noodle soup prepared by Zhou Xinshu's wife and daughter, his body was warm, so he said, "Disturb!" "Just go to Feng Zhen and the others to leave.

When it was time to go out, Zhou Xinshu's daughter suddenly shouted: "Master, please stay, the folk girl has something to say." ”

Sun Dan was stopped by a little girl, and she felt strange in her heart, according to the fact that women in the court are very shy, she can stop herself, a county official, and she doesn't know how much courage it takes.

So Sun Dan stopped and said kindly: "You say." ”

The little girl wept and said, "My lord, the little woman said that she gave it to Hua Da Niu, and this matter has spread throughout Fangshan County." Since the little girl has a marriage contract, she naturally wants to marry the Hua family. Please also ask the lord to give me a judgment, otherwise, what face will the little woman see. ”

Sun Danxiang smiled: "Okay, I want to find a way to say that the Hehua and Zhou families, in fact, you are the right people in Yemen, and it is not impossible to form a family, and there is no irreconcilable contradiction." ”

It can be seen that the little girl likes the boss of the flower family, and love really can't be looked at with common sense!

With Sun Dan's promise, the little girl of the Zhou family kowtowed happily again, and tears fell.

Sun Dan was unwilling to delay any longer, appeased the Zhou family for a few words, and then led everyone to ride all the way forward, walked for two hours, and finally arrived at Fangshan County at noon.

Before coming to Fangshan, Sun Dan had also heard that there were 100,000 households in Fangshan, and the total population was almost 300,000, which was also a big county in the capital.

According to the Ming system, a county with more than 30,000 households can be called an upper county, and a county can be set up. The power of the magistrate is greater than that of the county order of the lower county.

But as soon as he entered the county, Sun Dan found that the county seat was too small, as small as a modern township. There are two streets, one vertical and one horizontal, and if you walk, you can walk through the city in 20 minutes. There is not much population in the city, but it is estimated that there will be a maximum of 10,000 inhabitants. More of the population is scattered in the countryside.

Speaking of which, ancient China was actually a big rural village. To ordinary people, the city is nothing more than a seat of "government" and has nothing to do with them.

The entire county is full of low-slung houses, and the streets are dirty and narrow. The streets are not paved with bluestone slabs like in Beijing, and loess is "exposed" in many places. It was snowing for the past few days, but today it was a sunny day. As soon as the sun shone down, the temperature rose, but the ground was muddy, and the horses walked impatiently and snorted.

The county yamen is located on the street of the yamen at the crossroads.

The gate of the yamen was broken and broken, and only two old officials carried brooms and weakly swept the snow and cement water at the door.

Sun Dan showed the letter, and the two hurriedly welcomed Sun Dan and the others in.

The inside is still very dilapidated, the so-called officials do not repair the yamen, according to these two people, this yamen is still the old house when the ancestors were born.

However, the floor inside is paved with stone slabs, which makes it very comfortable to walk.

Entering the yamen, Sun Jia was already waiting there, and seeing that everyone had walked for a day, they were all half tired to death, so they hurriedly arranged Sun Dan and the others properly.

Sun Jia's current identity on the surface is Sun Dan's housekeeper, but in fact she is Sun Dan's agent of economic activities in Fangshan. She attaches great importance to filial piety, but because she has found something to do again, her spirit is much better than before.

After settling down, Sun Dan was about to ask Sun Jia how he was doing in Fangshan these days, when he heard someone beating a drum outside, and occasionally shouting: "Lord Qingtian, we are wronged!" ”

As soon as the butt touched the stool, someone came to beat the drum, what happened today?

Although Sun Dan was tired, he also raised his spirit and ordered him to go to the hall to ask about things.

As soon as he sat down in the main hall, he saw a group of people rushing in carrying a seriously wounded man, "Hula! "Kneeling on the ground, and then there was a lot of crying.

Sun calmly looked at it, but it was Zhou Xinshu's wife who took the lead.

She and her daughter had already cried into two tears, and cried out: "Lord Qingtian, you have to be the master for us!" ”

"Ah, it's Zhou Xinshu?" Sun Dan was taken aback.

"Yes." Zhou Xinshu's wife was busy getting out of the way.

Sun looked at it calmly, Zhou Xinshu was lying on the stretcher covered in blood, and he was already out of breath and out of breath.

Seeing Sun Dan looking over, Zhou Xinshu only moved his eyes, and two old tears flowed down his cheeks.

Sun Dan hurriedly asked: "What's the matter, didn't Zhou Xinshu go to Guo's house, it became like this in a blink of an eye, who beat it?" ”

Zhou Xinshu's wife said: "I went to Guo's house, but as soon as I arrived at Guo's house, I saw that the people from the Hua family and the people who fought were there. How is Lao Zhou their opponent...... Woo, after the beating, he was thrown into the snow. Master, you have to be the master of our Zhou family! ”

Sun Dan rushed up and asked, "Did Zhou Xinshu go to Zhou's house to show them the official's post?" ”

"I saw it, but Master Guo only sneered, and tore up your post, Master."

"Ahh So faceless? ”