834 The Root of the Lost Country
Zheng Ying couldn't figure it out, but Zheng Ying knew Xiao Ruxun's order, he was absolutely loyal to Xiao Ruxun, as long as it was Xiao Ruxun's order, he would obey it unconditionally, so he didn't raise any objections.
Xie He needed him to provide two hundred elite soldiers, he provided it, he needed a capable general, he also provided it, Xie He also needed this force to be completely subordinate to Xie He himself, and he still agreed.
So, with a team of thirty-six people and a full four hundred soldiers, Xie He led the team in the direction of Dayan Village.
On the way, Xie He showed Rong's basic information to his colleagues in the working group.
In his early years, the Rong family was a homesteader farmer, and later because the third ancestor knew how to operate and had a business mind, he earned a lot of assets and trained two scholars.
After three generations, the Rong family has become a well-deserved supreme ruling family in Dayan Village, and it is the standard carrier for knowledge to change fate.
Over the course of three generations, the Rong clan married into other large and small landlords in the village, and established a strong prestige, living a life of earth tyrants in the densely populated Dayan Village, where 60 percent of the fertile land in the village was the property of the Rong family.
Naturally, in the process of making a fortune, with the help of the tax exemption privileges of those two lifters, the Rong family also did a lot of things to annex the land, and the yeoman farmers in the village who ran out of money went bankrupt one after another, either becoming tenants or landless farmers, and went to work in the city.
According to the rules of the Ming Dynasty, people have the privilege of tax exemption, but not all land can be exempt from tax, and each level of officials has the area of each level of officials' tax-free fields, but in practice, until today, there is no need to pay taxes on the land under the merit of raising people or more.
Therefore, the entire Dayan Village is still paying taxes to the group of yeoman farmers who are struggling to survive in the cracks, while more tenants are living a muddy life, unable to eat and starving to death.
From the fact that the Rong family has a net worth of hundreds of acres of land in the early years to the point where it now has 10,000 acres of fertile land, it is definitely not enough to rely on two people, what happened during the period, Xie He can figure it out with his toes.
It's just that now we can't see that kind of evil, the tenants live honestly, the yeoman farmers strive to survive, and the powerful landlords who occupy a lot of land live in relative luxury, and this orderly life actually produces a strange state of peace.
However, this is an illusion, an extremely hypocritical illusion, the powerful people who hold 90% of the fertile land do not pay a penny of taxes, and swallow the taxes that originally belonged to the imperial court into their stomachs, and now it looks peaceful, no one has died, everyone has a head, but the biggest victim is the whole country.
The Ming Dynasty was the biggest loser.
No one can see that the roots of the country are hidden in this vast field full of abundant fruits.
Peel back its seemingly prosperous and comfortable exterior to reveal the shocking and terrifying truth.
What Xie He wants to do is to completely cut off the roots of this ruined country, tear up this false prosperity and comfort, and return everything to the real track.
In order to achieve this goal, Xie He first needed these ruffians and hooligans.
The Rong family lives in the village, and there are branches of the family that run a shop business in the county, and together with the rest of the big families, they control the grain prices of the entire Yin County.
Now that the autumn harvest is approaching, it is the busiest time in the farmland, a large number of farmers are busy in the field, as the owner of these land and farmers, Rong is naturally not idle, today, Rong gathered all the people in the village together, held a brief meeting.
The central content of the meeting was that during the autumn harvest, everyone should seize the time to harvest the grain, save it, and not send a grain to the county seat to sell, and wait for the county town to run out of grain, and then use this as a threat to negotiate with the Zhennan Army.
They planned to attack the Zhennan army at the time of the autumn harvest.
After the Zhennan army came, they directly served the Shen family without asking about 3721, although it greatly deterred these people, but at the same time it also aroused the panic and hostility in their hearts.
In the face of the fact that the family of the first assistant of a country is so ruthless, and the family property is divided equally among those mud legs, this is simply incredible, these so-called Northern Expedition rebel armies are simply robbers and bandits, and they can't make them feel identified at all.
Not only did they do this, but they also used the army to carry out coercive deterrence, swept away the county government, and even sent another person to take control of the county government, and even sent people to check the accounts, saying that they were looking for them to recover the taxes they had accumulated over the years.
What is this?
Isn't this robbers and bandits?
If you can attack the Shen family today, you will be able to attack them next year, and the Rong family knows this, so these days not only actively contact the powerful people in other villages, but also gather the powerful forces in the village, organize them together, and greatly enhance the resistance ability of Dayan Village.
The same is true of some other villages that have been connected in series, everyone agrees to give Xiao Ruxun and the Zhennan Army a little color in the autumn harvest season, not to sell grain, not to enter the village, everyone to raise troops to resist at the same time, what can the Zhennan Army do?
Not only that, the Rong family and some other big families also sent people to leave Ningbo to move rescue troops in other places, although there is no news of the exact rescue of the troops, but these forces in their hands can already launch a counterattack on the Zhennan Army forces occupying Ningbo Mansion.
As long as the Zhennan Army is attacked by so many people at the same time, and then there is not enough food in hand, are you still worried that Ningbo Mansion will continue to be controlled and occupied by the Zhennan Army? Sooner or later, this group of rebels will be wiped out.
They believe in themselves so much.
The main content of today's meeting also includes how to move troops, how to act, who will be the commander-in-chief, and so on.
The rest is to constantly negotiate, such as the land confiscated by the Zhennan Army, and how to distribute it after the Zhennan Army is killed, which is the big deal, and the rest is not very important.
The head of the Rong family, Rong Shan, had the most say in this matter, because a woman in their family had married a man from the Shen family and became his wife, and the man's status in the Shen family was not low, so the Rong family thought that he should be able to get a part of the high-quality land.
In this regard, many families have objections.
Because they also married their clan daughters to the Shen family or several other confiscated families, they all thought that they had the right to inherit those lands, anyway, they were basically sure that those who were captured would not be able to come back, so if they didn't start fighting now, when would they wait?