Chapter 1401: Harsh government is as fierce as a tiger
The autumn harvest has passed, the New Year has not yet arrived, and the land of China can be seen everywhere in the sense of gloom, especially on both sides of the Yellow River.
Outside Jing'an City, Shenzhou, a group of farmers gathered in one place to chat after plowing the winter idle fields. In his words, he was confused about his future fate and uneasy about the new dynasty and new policy.
"I can't understand what the new court is doing, it's fine in the autumn, and it doesn't urge the fields, nor measure the acres, and don't force the big guys to change the deeds, so why do you have to clear the fields as soon as winter comes?"
"It's not that the big families are too greedy, nine acres of ten acres of land are hidden, and the officers and soldiers of the republican army don't understand civil affairs, and they don't know the way to urge, so they let them deceive, but the new court didn't agree!"
"Big households get into trouble, and in the end, it's us small households and customers who carry it! Which time Qingtian is not clear on our heads? The big families always have a way, and the officials of the county government are also their people, and they are not afraid of it at all......"
"What do you do with these useless words? We are just digging in the soil, we can get by, if we can't go on, we will leave, go to Tianjin, go to Liaodong, go to Goryeo, there is always a place to go! There's really nowhere to go, so it's too ...... to go."
When the faces with sad faces heard that they were going to Taihang Mountain, they suddenly showed horror.
With the support of the Zhaoyi Army, many heroes from Hebei and Hedong ganged up to Taihang and build a cottage under the banner of resisting Liao, and then they could ask for a big military attache through the Zhaoyi Army to do it. In addition to being able to eat some money, you can also find big households under the mountain and passing merchants to ask for money, and life is called a comfortable life!
Later, the Liao State was defeated by Wu Haogu, but the Zhou State rose up again. These mountain kings of Taihang Mountain changed to the banner of anti-Zhou and continued to escape. And the Great Song Dynasty didn't bother to suppress it, so they let them entrench on Taihang Mountain.
Now, both sides of Taihang Mountain are the world of the Great Zhou, and these kings on the Taihang Mountain have suddenly become the mainstay of the anti-Zhou behind the enemy!
The Great Zhou Republic was also willing to appease, but there was no military salary to pay them, and they were not allowed to harass the place and rob the merchants.
But what's the point of such a soothing? Be a cottage lord in Taihang Mountain? Eat your own? Are you well fed?
Therefore, there are still many loyal people of the Great Song Dynasty on Taihang Mountain, who insisted on the cause of resisting Zhou behind the enemy.
The Western Song Dynasty court, which moved to Guanzhong, also hoped to maintain its existence in Hedong and Hebei, so it spread empty official positions and held these mountain kings. At the same time, he also instructed stragglers from all over Hebei and Hedong to go up to Taihang Mountain to persist in resisting Zhou.
Therefore, Shangtaihang is synonymous with rebellion in the Great Zhou Republic!
Rebellion is to kill the head! Maybe even the Nine Clans......
"Mo Hu said, what do you want to mention Taihang Mountain? We don't have a few acres of land, and even if we clear it, we won't lose much. It's a big deal to rent the fields of big families to plow, anyway, everyone is renting, renting more and renting less......"
"It's okay to rent a little land, but if the family farms all the land, you know it's great. How many families in the village can be passed down from rented land? β
"Alas, the rent is heavy, the profit is high, and you have to bear household tax, Ding tax, and exemption...... The money from selling the land was consumed in a few years, so I had to endure hardship, and my mother-in-law didn't dare to think about it, so I didn't starve to death! β
"There are also those who come out! Didn't Wang Laosan in the village come out earlier? β
"Wang Laosan? Why haven't you heard of it? β
"You juniors don't know, it's a person in the middle of the country, a family of three brothers, in order to marry the two brothers-in-law, the family has been drained, and he can only rent the land of a big family to work hard. But this guy is a bastard, he has no brute strength, he can't farm well, and he can't even pay the rent and profits for a year. I had to run away to Jiehe before the New Year, which is now Tianjin, first joined the Jiehe group training, and later learned to ride a horse, became a Rausch knight, and took the two elder brothers away. A few years ago, the trustee brought a letter back, saying that his two sons had graduated from Tianjin Knight Academy and were both officials...... I don't know if there is a son of Wang Laosan in the Zhou army stationed in our Shenzhou? β
Speaking of the Zhou army stationed in Shenzhou, everyone sighed. Da Zhou stationed a lot of soldiers and horses in Shenzhou, and there were nearly a thousand in Jing'an County alone!
And what kind of military management is Zhou Guo still engaged in in Shenzhou! The former Song Dynasty officials who remained in office were just running errands, and the real thing to talk about was the battalion commander and brigade commander of the garrison - the commander of the brigade called "a certain commander" was stipulated in the latest regulations issued by the Republican Army.
Qingtian's affairs won't be handled by the Republican soldiers, right? If that's the case, the big families will be miserable, Xiucai met the soldiers, and it is unreasonable!
While the peasants were talking, a group of people were walking over, led by an old man wearing silk Confucian clothes and carrying a Dongpo scarf, with a donkey under his crotch and several passports that looked like domestic servants.
This old man is the land of Zhangwang Village, advocating the importance of virtue and Zhang Lao Xiucai. Lao Xiucai's brows were twisted, and he looked preoccupied.
The big landlord of the old Xiucai is probably going to be unable to do it!
This terrible news came from Zhang An, the son of Lao Xiucai in Jing'an County.
There have always been fewer Jinshi in Hebei, so there are few local official households. An old pedant born in a special performance is an amazing existence! Although Zhang Lao Xiucai has worked hard for the special performance name all his life, he has not even sent a release test, so he has no chance.
However, there is another way to maintain the status of the Zhang family, which is to let the children serve as officials in Jing'an County.
The Xu officials of the Song Dynasty can be hereditary, and the Zhang family is a large family in Jing'an, so naturally there are many children who have served as Xu officials such as the priest and the fast catcher for generations.
In addition, Zhang Wangcun's Baozheng has been in charge of Zhang Laoxiu for so many years.
Therefore, the Zhang family is the head snake of Jing'an County, and it is an existence that the county magistrate and the county lieutenant are unwilling to provoke.
Since it is a land snake, it is natural to do something about land tax and household tax. Although the Zhang family is a situation household, it is never the focus when it comes to paying taxes! Because it is the people of his family who collect taxes.
As for the land in their hands, most of them were concealed, and the small half was used in white deeds, that is, they bought the land without going to the household, and still added the land tax to the peasants who sold the land and became tenants of the Zhang family.
Of course, this kind of practice is nothing in the Great Song Dynasty, and it is like this everywhere.
Hidden fields, white deeds, usury and monopoly of local commerce are the four major means of collecting money by the local snakes.
After the Great Zhou Republic occupied Shenzhou, Lao Xiucai was a little nervous for a while, because the Great Zhou Republic asked the landlords to "exchange the deeds" at the beginning, and they wanted to exchange the land deeds of the Song Dynasty for the Great Zhou.
And it's not just a casual exchange, you have to pay a bucket of grain, you have to have the tax payment certificate of the past year, and you have to have the land deed issued by the government of the Great Song Dynasty.
The requirements are so high, and the local powerful families are not very willing to change the deed. On the one hand, he is reluctant to give up a bucket of grain; On the one hand, they do not have tax receipts or legal land deeds. People don't change it!
Therefore, only some middle peasants and rich peasants who had nothing to rely on honestly exchanged their deeds.
And when the grain was paid after the autumn of the 10th year of the republic, the rich peasants who had exchanged the contract according to the law felt that they had suffered a loss.
Because the Jing'an County government only collects their taxes, and does not collect taxes from the big families who hide their land and property - this is really confused to the extreme!
Even in the Song Dynasty, this was not possible...... Ninety percent of the land in a county is not registered and does not pay taxes, so one percent is paying taxes, and there is no overpayment, isn't the income of the imperial court going to drop sharply?
The Great Zhou Republic is too easy to talk to, right?
But before Zhang Dahu and them had time to be happy, the bad news came!
The ruling government of the Republic of the Great Zhou Dynasty decided to conduct a comprehensive inventory of the acres of land attached to the newly annexed lands in Hebei, Jingdong, Gyeonggi, and northwestern Beijing.
All land that has not been renewed by the Great Zhou Republic will be confiscated and returned to the public!
All of them will be confiscated!
Zhang Laoxiu will go bankrupt in a blink of an eye!
However, Lao Xiucai didn't panic at first, because so many people in his family worked in the county government, and he didn't want to clear the field himself?
But the more terrible news came immediately, this time Qingtian will be in charge of a battalion of republican troops stationed in Jing'an County, and the local government officials will not hear about it.
This is to be robbed! No wonder the Great Song Dynasty called the Great Zhou Republic an Eastern Thief, it turned out that they were really thieves......
As soon as Zhang Laoxiu heard the news, he immediately couldn't sit still, and went to Jing'an City early this morning with his family and gifts to find a way.
The current Zhishen Prefecture affairs Chen Yu is a former dynasty official who was retained, a civil official from Jinshi, can't be so unreasonable, right?
One Qingtian cleared ninety percent of the people's land into official fields, and there is no more fierce harsh government in the world.
This is harsh government and fiercer than a tiger!
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Outside Chen Yu's state office, at this time, it was crowded with big families from all over the county who came to find their way, all of them were well-informed people, and they were all about to progress from big landlords to poor middle peasants, and they were all about to die......
Chen Yu himself is about to die, not because of how much land he has, but because this matter is really too much. This is to force the government to rebel!
It is no wonder that the Great Zhou Republic did not disband its army after the war, but stationed a brigade in Shenzhou, a place where no enemy could reach at allβthis is to prepare for bloody suppression!
This Zhou country is too ruthless, the real country of tigers and wolves! Why is it that he is blind and turns to darkness? No, this official can't go down now, or he won't be able to stink for 10,000 years. It's better to abandon the official and leave quickly, and go to Guanzhong or Jiangnan to be the other master......
Just as he was thinking about to run away, Chen Yu heard one of his staff members report to him: "Taishou, many elders of Shenzhou have entered the state government and are coming to you!" β
"Who let them in? Isn't it called to be gone? Chen Yu complained twice, and he already understood what was going on in his heart, this was the official of the state government who was making trouble.
This group of officials are all from major families, and now that the matter is critical, they don't know the state's order, so they directly let their father in.
But Chen Yu's Zhizhou is empty, and Shenzhou is under military control, what can he do? Zhou Guo didn't pay more attention to literature than martial arts, and the officers of the garrison didn't take Chen Zhizhou seriously at all!
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