Sending these innocent villagers away, Yang Lin rearranged the affairs of the owners of each house and the chief of each security guard to collect grain, and strictly prevented everyone from playing tricks to oppress the innocent people.

It is okay for the owners of the houses and the chief of the security to levy ordinary farmers, but it is absolutely impossible for those official eunuchs to be levied. If you don't suppress these eunuchs, there will be chaos.

The largest eunuch in Yilong is the Hou family in the south of the city, Hou Yaozu Jin Shi and the first, now serving as a senator in other provinces (Zheng Sanpin), Hou Pan is also a tribute student, the Hou family is a man of all his word, the leader of Shilin.

Houjiazhuang is twenty miles south of the city, this morning Yang Lin led a general banner of soldiers to arrive, after the soldiers and horses set up camp one mile away, Qin Mintang of Zhixian County sat in a sedan chair, and Yang Lin rode a war horse to the front of the Zhuang Gate.

Hearing that a group of soldiers came from outside the village, Houjiazhuang beat gongs and drums up and down, and the men all went to the gate of the village, as if they were facing a great enemy.

Now hearing that the government came to collect the land endowment, Hou Pan was annoyed, so he said that he didn't open the door, and the two sides were deadlocked for half an hour.

Seeing such a result, Qin Mintang complained vigorously, but Yang Lin didn't care at all, turned the horse's head and left to return to the station.

Seeing that the dignified magistrate ran away with his tail between his legs, Hou Pan looked quite proud, looked at the strong man next to him and said, "Who does this Yang Lin think he is?" My Hou family's official eunuch family can't collect the rent and wants to use my Hou family, but he found the wrong way. ”

One by one, everyone looked quite proud, and everyone laughed and ignored it at all. Everyone was about to go down the wall to rest, and suddenly heard a shout from the back mountain, Hou Pan was shocked in his heart, leaving a part of Zhuang Ding to continue to monitor the movements of the officials and soldiers, and led everyone to run to the back mountain.

When I arrived, the gate of Houshan had already been opened, and I don't know when hundreds of people named Hanako poured in, and now they are shouting and running to the Hou family's compound to eat big households.

Although he usually works in the township, Hou Pan is just a scribe, and now when he sees so many hungry people, he suddenly panicked, and shouted loudly for people to rush outside.

Strange to say, the few practitioners in the village who boasted of their high martial arts skills were knocked over to the ground as soon as they went up and couldn't get up.

For a while, the Hou family's chickens and dogs were restless and chaotic, some people flocked to the Hou family's firewood room to cook rice, and more people were squirming in the Hou family's compound, which shocked the Hou family's wife and fell on the Taishi's chair, which frightened the Hou family's wife to cry and grab the ground, causing the Hou family to flee back to the boudoir in a hurry.

After half a sound, Hou Pan reacted and sent his family Ding Hou San to the barracks to move the soldiers, and the result of staying up for a long time was to go to the army in person.

There was no way, Hou Pan came to the outside of the barracks with one foot high and one foot short, but was stopped by the soldiers, and stayed like this for half an hour before being invited in.

Hou Pan was anxious, and after a lot of strength, Yang Lin looked at the other party with a smile and asked: "Hou Gongzi, this is difficult, you also know that the place has been hit by local riots this year, and now there are hungry people everywhere, if the soldiers forcibly suppress it, it may provoke a civil uprising."

Hou Gongzi, tell me, if this is the case, are you responsible or am I responsible? ”

Hou Pan was quite annoyed, and said bluntly that the government needs to protect local tranquility, and if the place is restless, of course the officials need to be responsible.

Yang Lin smiled, shook his head and said: "Hou Gongzi's words are wrong, my Pengzhou soldiers are local soldiers, and they are funded by local squires.

The emperor is not a hungry soldier, your Hou family doesn't even pay the normal field endowment, and when the matter comes, the soldiers will come forward to help you suppress the hungry people, what is the reason?

Your Hou family is rich but rich and unkind, causing local hunger and greed, what is the matter with the government? ”

The two sides are fighting outside this big tent, Yang Lin's reason is very simple, you have no obligation to protect you if you don't pay money in the past.

Now that the matter is approaching, you have to send the officers and soldiers, then I'm sorry, in addition to paying the normal taxes, you also need to be responsible for the aftermath and the payment of the soldiers' salaries in the past few days.

At first, he was unwilling, but the family was in a mess and repeatedly sent people to urge, and by noon the people in the vicinity were gathering more and more, and the hungry people in the nearby villages heard that the Hou family had opened a warehouse to release grain, and Hou Pan finally had no choice but to promise.

Qin Mintang, the magistrate of the county, entered Houjiazhuang with Hou Pan, Hou Pan promised to distribute a bucket of grain to each person, and the hungry people cheered loudly when they heard it, and then loaded the grain and left under the supervision of the officers and soldiers.

After that, the housekeeper of the Hou family took out the account books and paid the grain in full for the year, and Yang Linfang led the soldiers to leave.

On the way, Qin Mintang was bitter, and repeatedly asked if Yang Lin intended to spread the hunger and eat the big households?

Yang Lin swore an oath to deny that the few people who took the lead were locals and had nothing to do with him.

After hearing the news that the Hou family did not hand over the field and was not protected by the Pengzhou soldiers, some people sighed, and some even swore that they had to bring down Yang Lin.

But there is no doubt that after the Houjiazhuang incident, no big family in the whole county dares to resist the payment of money and grain.

If there is no resistance from powerful and powerful families, it will be much easier to collect this money and grain, especially this year, there is no indiscriminate apportionment, and the government can collect it in full accordance with the amount stipulated by the imperial court, if compared with previous years, it will be less than three or four percent.

Liu Xianfa, the head of the official house, was ordered to take three officials to Tiefotang, and the chief and the officials from all over the country greeted him.

Liu Xianfa took out a strip of Chen and levied it according to one bucket per mu of fertile land.

Personnel were dispatched to re-paint slogans on various traffic arteries, asking everyone to pay the field tax in full before the 28th day of the lunar month.

If the actual levy amount exceeds 80% but less than 90%, the part exceeding 80% will be rewarded with 1 percent of the collectors, and the part exceeding 90% will be rewarded with 2 percent of the collectors.

Everyone was overjoyed when they heard it, and everyone knew that what the villagers were opposed to was the government's indiscriminate apportionment, and now the people's grievances had already dispersed according to the levy of one bucket per mu.

In addition, there are huge rewards, take a single A chief, every ten households, each household seven or eight (looking at the ancient population statistics, Sichuan is different from other places, mostly large families, seven or eight people per household), each household of self-cultivated farmers need to pay two or three more quintals of autumn grain (the official statistics of the Ming Dynasty population of about 60 million, the field endowment is 25 million quintals, so as to calculate that the normal per capita annual payment of summer grain and autumn grain is about 4 buckets, but if you consider that there is no population on the fish scale register, it is actually only 3 buckets), a A can receive 30 quintals of autumn grain (considering the displaced people and the population that is no longer registered, the actual amount of local levy).

Even if you only receive 9 percent, there is also a reward of 1 load of grain, and the two of them share five buckets of food, if it exceeds 90%, then the reward is more.

First of all, the villagers who were released back spread the word of mouth, the chief of Lijia beat the gongs and drums, and the chief of the security department painted new slogans on the various traffic arteries, and the news of one bucket of autumn grain per mu spread all over the mountains and fields overnight.

Before Zhang Juzheng implemented a whip law, in order to pay the field tax, the government often coerced the first head to transport the grain to the county seat hundreds of miles away, and some even transported it to the capital city and the provincial capital.

After Zhang Juzheng implemented a whip law, although he no longer levied grain and levied silver, the grain merchants in the bazaar were better than monkeys, and the price of grain in the month when the field tax was levied was very low, and they often had to buy more than 20% of the grain in order to pay the field tax.

In addition, there is also the weight loss of silver taels, obviously one tael is said to be nine dollars and five cents, and it is clear that the high-quality silver servants are said below, and the people have no power and often become the head of the wrong.

Now there is no need to carry grain as long distances as in the past, and the labor force has been reduced a lot, and some honest villagers still feel that they have taken advantage of the government.

As seen in the previous life, as long as the government did not expropriate the tyrannical Sichuan people, they were scrambling to pay the money and grain, everyone dug up the grain from the cabinet and from the cellar, and the descendants of the family rushed to the various wharves, and for a while, the collection points lined up in a long line, and the officials were so busy that they had not finished measuring the lamp.