Chapter 23: Returning Home in Style
The next day, he left Fucheng, hired a few carts, and returned to Luojiabao with Wang Guangxian, Yao Chonglie, and others with some weapons.
The autumn harvest has been completed, and the fields are full of straw, and the rice is drying in the courtyards of each house.
In order to force the tenants to pay rent, some landlords ran to the edge of the fields, ran to the courtyard, and forced the tenants to pay rent with a loud voice.
Due to the riots in northern Sichuan, everyone was quite nervous, and they were all on guard when they saw strangers passing by, and the local grass and trees were all soldiers.
Yang Cheng led more than a dozen brothers to greet him, and when he saw it, the whole person cried like tears.
At the time of Yang Lin's arrest, Shunqing Mansion garrison Chen Yingrui led 500 soldiers to arrest people, at that time, there was Luo Jiatan, the original chief of Luojiabao, to make a rebellion inside, and there were officers and troops outside the border, many people were confused, and some people advised everyone to flee to Bazhou to join the local rioters.
At that time, many people had already moved their hearts, but Yang Wei, Yang Cheng, Long Zhijiao and others thought that adults were now in prison and if they escaped, there would be no one to rescue them, so everyone immediately tied up Luo Jiatan, and then set up an ambush on the way.
When the two sides were deadlocked, Xiucai Liu Xianfa led the villagers of the surrounding two miles to arrive, and the morale of the officers and soldiers fell sharply, and finally turned defeat into victory and victory.
In the past two months, they have contacted the villagers in the surrounding twenty or thirty miles to resist the payment of taxes together, and the control area is almost two or three times larger, and everyone has two polar opinions, some people suggest taking refuge in the local tyrants, and some people are worried about endangering Yang Lin's life.
Now that they have finally returned safely, they have the backbone and will no longer suffer from division.
Crying and laughing, one by one quite happy, in this short period of more than two months, everyone has suffered a lot.
On the same day, Yang Lin worshiped Luo Jiatan, hoping to settle his enmity.
Thirty acres were left for his young son, and other property was taken into public ownership for the daily expenses of the soldiers.
The other party is corrupt and bribe-taking, and he also wants to dismantle the soldiers from within, but after all, he has the grace of support, and it is really difficult to distinguish between benefactors and enemies.
On the morning of the second day after returning, Yang Lin summoned the squires, security chiefs, and lieutenants of the three surrounding markets to meet as the general manager of the regimental training, just like the county warden, and everyone gathered together.
When they first heard that Yang Lin was arrested and put in prison, although everyone regretted it in their hearts, they didn't dare to go against the government at all, and some even secretly communicated with the government.
Who expected that Yang Wei would lead more than 100 troops to defeat 500 officials and troops, although the officials and troops gathered and the war was about to break out, who expected that the local rioters would take advantage of the chaos to occupy Pengzhou, and the government would have to fight against the fierce local tyrants, and there was no strength to deal with the people who resisted rent.
Yang Lin took out the official document of the governor's yamen and read it out in public, then arched his hand to the surroundings and said: "Everyone, everyone knows what we have encountered in the past few months, we have all suffered injustices, and we have also seen that tragedies are constantly being staged.
Yao Tiandong and Huang Long were originally Shaanxi thieves who occupied the mountains and forests after entering Sichuan, kidnapped and ransom, and did all kinds of evil.
During this period, although there were some local tyrants who were dissatisfied with the government's rampant expropriation and rebellion, what the local tyrants did was seen and heard by everyone, and it was simply unconscionable.
Now that they occupy the state and county, the climate has become unexpected, and the dogs can't change their, and they forcibly kidnap and kill people in their jurisdiction.
They kidnap for ransom, kill people and set fires like bandits.
They expropriated the localities and extorted them violently, and the people suffered unspeakably.
They wander all day long, not producing, but plundering.
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Ladies and gentlemen, although this thug has become the climate now, he just can't change his bandit nature.
Ladies and gentlemen, everyone knows that I have just been in a black prison, but although the court is not in a thousand ways, the court is the court after all, and we are all cultivating and reading for generations. ”
In recent years, there has been less and less production in the land, and more and more taxes have been levied by the government, although some people have complained, but seeing what the local tyrants have done, everyone is more willing to believe the government.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Yang Lin announced on the spot that he would select and form three bureaus from the localities, and appoint Yang Wei, Yang Cheng, and Long Zhijiao as the general managers respectively, and step up military training to protect the township and transport grain and grass for the front line.
If the communist army fought a crowd tactic, then in ancient times it was even more so, when opposing the government's arbitrary expropriation and excessive collection of taxes, these spontaneous villager organizations were formed in each region near Luojiabao.
Now that the campaign against the government's excessive collection of taxes has ended, it is of course necessary to reorganize the villagers' spontaneous organizations at that time.
In order to control the local area and avoid being soaked by local tyrants, and in order to collect local business endowments, Yang Lin decided to set up township offices in each market, appointing township (security) chiefs and 2-3 officials to manage the market and the surrounding villages, maintain local law and order, and collect money and grain.
According to the principle of three grades and nine rules, 5 liters per mu of high-grade fertile land and 3 liters of dry land are taxed, and after the addition of three salaries and various assessments, the tax on fertile land is 10 liters and the tax on dry land is 6 liters.
Announcing that there is money to contribute power, in addition to the Jinshi exempted from 5 quintals, the juren exempted from 3 quintals, and the tributes are not exempted (5 buckets of grain are distributed every month), except for the Jinshi Juren Gongsheng soldiers and the disabled are exempted from the levy of Dingfu, all adult males are exempted from the levy of 1 money and 2 cents of silver.
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As soon as he heard that the government was ready to directly control the market, the other two Bao (township) chiefs resisted repeatedly, but Yang Lin had official appointment documents and heavy troops, and these people had nothing to do.
And the other squires in the first division saw that Tian Fu could not get four or five CDs in the past, and nodded yes again and again.
In ancient times, the population was small and the households were not as dense as they are now, and the area of a market and the surrounding Lijia was probably equivalent to a district in the previous life. (At the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a special form of organization between the county and township levels, and that was the district office.)
After the establishment of the Republic, the district people's government was specially established, under the jurisdiction of 4 or 5 townships and towns.
After the reform of government institutions in the 90s, all provinces withdrew districts and merged townships, and strengthened the responsibilities of townships, so that the administrative units of rural areas in the country gradually disappeared.
Even so, there are now two county districts in the country, which are responsible for local affairs.
In addition, in China's Mamaru Province, there are also preservation areas such administrative units, such as New Taipei City, which contains 29 districts. )
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the local population was small, and only a bazaar was set up in several townships in the previous life, just like the central area in the eighties, radiating the surrounding Lijia, which was a place for the distribution and trade of goods.
As the saying goes, cutting off people's money still hurts people's parents, how easy is it to take over the market controlled by Haoqiang?
Just like a gang grabbing territory, Long Zhijiao led a squadron of soldiers to Xinglongji, and Master Liu also responded actively.
As a powerful party, Master Liu also raised some ruffians, although these people are brave and ruthless, they can only scare the countrymen.
Yang Lin had the official document of the governor's yamen and hundreds of soldiers and brothers, and the two sides were immediately compared.
Wu can't compare, so he has to write, Master Liu set up a banquet and invited local leaders to come to mediate, in a vain attempt to rely on public discussion to force the other party to make concessions.
Rumors are flying all over the place, and the most worrying thing is that if the government cannot establish a township office to recover the power of commercial levy, it will have to levie 2 buckets of rice per mu of fertile land.
In the past, the government apportioned layers of land, and the land was levied to 2 buckets of grain per mu.
The local area has long been fried, everyone is talking about it, and many local squires have been urging them to focus on the overall situation, if they let the villagers pay more taxes because they dominate the tax, it is the nearby villagers who suffer.
Seeing that Yang Lin arrived, many strong men turned against each other, and everyone said hello one after another, and the atmosphere was so lively.