On the other side, the lieutenant caught up with Steward Wang, who was one step ahead, and said angrily: "In previous years, the ladies of the Zhou family were the best to speak, but I didn't expect these two dogs to be so ignorant this year, I must teach him a good lesson and let him make up for the tax arrears." ”

All the lieutenants of Wangjiazhuang have already been controlled and bought by the Wang family, and before the lieutenants report to the county the population of each household, they all have to go through the Wang family's nod. As for the common people, they couldn't even read a single word, and of course the chief of the province filled out the paperwork for the land registration.

Steward Wang stopped the chief's words, snorted and said lightly, "What are you going to do?"

The lieutenant smiled slightly: "If you can't collect taxes, they will be subject to sitting in a row and ten households around them, even if I don't do it, his neighbors will make him feel good." If he still doesn't accept it, let Zhang Da and them go to the door, and it is ...... to subdue him."

Defeat ...... It's such a simple way, but after hearing this, Steward Wang nodded and didn't have any opinions.

This is a common situation in many villages in the Han Dynasty, and the local large households don't have to think too much about dealing with the poor, and they are directly subdued, that is, when the gap between the two sides in economic strength, political strength and force is too large, and the control power of the imperial court is insufficient, everything is so simple and rude, and there is no need to even collude with the six-room scribes in the county government to play any tricks.

Even if ordinary civilians want to go to the county to file a complaint, they will be regarded as skipping, and they will be directly rejected by the county and returned to the township elders for adjustment...... Naturally, the old man here has long been a squire in the village.

The squires are strong, the chief, the elders, the officials, and even the officials...... The many checkpoints set up by these imperial courts have already colluded into interest groups, and ordinary civilians are completely called heaven and earth in front of this set of heaven and earth nets, and they can only hang themselves except to obediently submit to softness or flee to be homeless.

The lieutenant took out a few pieces of broken silver from his sleeve and stuffed them into the arms of the steward Wang.

Steward Wang glanced at it and checked it, and the silver was estimated to be half a tael, but unfortunately the color looked yellow...... It must be mixed with copper, estimated to be worth two or three dollars.

However, Steward Wang can only earn twenty or thirty taels of silver a year, which is already a small fortune for him.

At that moment he silently took the silver and asked, "What's the matter?"

The lieutenant chief said flatteringly: "I heard that the housekeeper and the county yamen can talk, can you arrange for the little one to go to the yamen on an errand this year?"

Seeing that Steward Wang's brows were furrowed, he immediately said: "The messenger of the soap class will do, and there will be another thank you after the matter is completed." ”

"Soap class?" Steward Wang smiled.

Although the soap class in the county yali is a conscription, it is responsible for welcoming and sending it to the yamen.

As long as you send a message to the outside and hand something inside, when you are in a lawsuit, you will play with the plaintiff and the defendant and ask for benefits, and when you play the board, you can control the weight of the board......

It can be said that as long as he can operate, he can even have one or two silver of oil and water every month, and it is much easier than him farming and collecting grain in Wangjiazhuang, and he can also get a relationship in the county government.

"You're clever. Steward Wang said: "But there are a lot of people staring at this matter, and I can't give you a packing ticket." ”

The lieutenant hurriedly said: "In the lower province, if it doesn't work, I will never dare to blame the housekeeper......

......

On the other side, Chu Qiguang felt the comfort in his heart, but he shook his head, knowing that there was nothing he could do about this mental illness, he still thought about his current situation.

While thinking about it, he felt that after his addiction had passed, his mind seemed to be clearer, and all kinds of ideas came to him, and he was able to think about the current form more quickly.

It's as if after making up for my addiction, my brain has become smarter.

However, Chu Qiguang had something in his heart, he only thought that it was a psychological illusion, and he didn't take it to heart.

I've only driven them away for the time being, and I'm afraid revenge will come soon." ’

'Most of the things in the township are solved by the people and the squires in private. As small as robbers, ten miles and eight towns have formed their own righteous and brave arrests, and as large as public facilities such as building bridges and schools, they can be donated and built by the squires. ’

Chu Qiguang sighed in his heart: "The squires and wealthy families in the township, as well as the Taoist temples and eunuchs in the county, they are the real rulers of Qingyang County. Ordinary magistrates would never dare to easily make such an action as recovering past tax arrears, and this matter may not be simple.

The Wang family also tried to take this opportunity to annex the land, did they rely on it, or were they so greedy that they were confused?'

Before the trouble, Chu Qiguang had already seen the situation in the entire Wangjiazhuang. This kind of routine in the feudal dynasty, he saw too much when he studied history in the past.

For example, the Wang family's method of distributing grain taxes to other accounts such as Ergou has a name called sprinkling money and grain.

'And the land we sold to the Wang family in the past years is probably still recorded in our own households, so that those who sell the fields still have to pay taxes on the old fields, but the rich households do not record these new fields, and the so-called ...... is not cut off.'

Chu Qi just looked at the methods played by these local tyrants and inferior gentry like looking at the patterns in the palm of his hand, and he could basically guess the means that the other party could use.

'The methods of the Wang family are too rough, if it were me, there would be at least a dozen ways to turn Wangjiazhuang into an iron bucket, and the county wouldn't want to intervene easily. ’

Chu Qiguang thought that if he could go through the landlord start, he would not be as miserable as he is now.

Now as a common people, the other party's advantage is too great, and it will be more difficult for him to fight back, although Chu Qiguang has thought of several means in his heart, but for some reason in his heart, he has not decided which method to use.

'Do you want to go find the orange cat tonight?'

The second dog sister on the other side looked at the second dog with a comfortable face, and asked curiously, "Brother, are you pulling your pants?"

Chu Qiguang tugged at the corners of his mouth: "Yes, I was looking for something to wipe my ass." With that, he reached out and grabbed it.

The second dog sister was so frightened that she ran out with her head in her hands, shouting: "Mother! My brother pulled his pants on! and he wants to use me to wipe his ass!"

Chu Qiguang said angrily: "You shut up for me." He thought to himself that if his sister yelled at him in the village, it would be a rural death, and he would never be able to see the people of Wangjiazhuang in his life.

He hurriedly pressed his sister and said fiercely: "If you scream again, I won't give you food." ”

Hearing that she couldn't eat, her sister immediately covered her mouth and said in a muffled voice, "I don't know anything." ”

Then she carefully tugged at the rag clothes on Chu Qiguang's body, and said pitifully: "Brother, I don't tell others that you pull your pants on, don't use me to wipe your buttocks, okay?"

Chu Qiguang glanced at her angrily, and reluctantly explained: "Lao Tzu didn't pull it out, Lao Tzu is holding back!"

Seeing that his sister was quiet, Chu Qiguang sat on the low bench in the small courtyard and began to think about the current situation.

There are many ways to deal with the Wang family, but you can't use it too far. ’

Chu Qiguang also thought of several ways to use his knowledge on Earth to improve the quality of life in his mind, but the screams in Ergou's memory immediately made him firmly suppress this idea of himself, and he didn't dare to make the slightest move.

'Taoist Temple ......'

Chu Qiguang recalled the memories of Ergou, the scenes of people worshiping, worshiping, and sacrificing, and the figures who were thrown into the river and drowned directly.