Although Master Liu of Xinglongji knew that the general trend had gone, he was unwilling to fail, so he invited one or two friends to come and say a fair word, just wanting to preserve his past power a little.

Yang Lin sat on the top head, several squires next to him sat on both sides, and Master Liu, the former chief of Xinglongji, sat on the bottom and sulked and smoked.

He Xiucai, who was emaciated, shook his head and said: "Ruzhen, if you really reduce the paddy field endowment to 1 bucket of grain per mu, and the dry land to 6 liters of grain, of course the villagers are grateful."

Even so, you have to think about Master Liu, it's too unfair to him.

On that day, you resisted paying taxes and was detained by the government, and the villagers were quite indignant, and this Master Liu responded. Think about how you repay Master Liu, as soon as you come back, you will take back the power of business expropriation, which is really unfair to Brother Liu. ”

Yang Lin smiled, saw Master Liu, who was sitting at the bottom and smoking a hookah, shook his head and said: "Extraordinary things should be used by extraordinary people, Master Liu is really a good person, and he can't offend anything if he is kind to others."

In the Taiping era, there was nothing, anyway, everything could be done slowly, but now the local tyrants have occupied the state city and the soldiers are under the city.

Why do you resist rent and tax, it is really because the field tax rises again and again, the villagers can no longer bear it, plant an acre of paddy field all year round and harvest two loads of millet, pay the field tax converted into more than 4 buckets and 5 buckets, farming is not cost-effective at all, some young descendants simply flee the famine, and some even defect to the local tyrants. ”

The patriarch of the Wang family in the east shook his head and said: "Ruzhen, having said that, you can't remove the ancestral Xinglong Jibao (Township) Governor of the Lao Liu family, what should you do if you live like a family?" ”

Standing up and walking back and forth for two steps, Yang Lin suddenly stopped and looked at everyone, Yang Lin smiled bitterly: "Think about it, don't the governors, political officials, prefects and other officials know that Li Yitian is tyrannical in the local area?"

One acre of high-quality fertile land is only 5 liters, and the three salaries should not exceed 1 bucket, but Li Yitian is good, and the silver collected is enough for the villagers to buy three or four buckets of grain? ”

Everyone was shocked, He Xiucai shook his head, widened his eyes and asked, "Ruzhen, you said that your lawsuit this time is really connived at by the prefect?" ”

Returning to his seat, Yang Lin sighed: "Everyone says that today is a troubled time that has not been seen in hundreds of years, but in fact, in my opinion, it is really because there is no money.

Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other rogues were in desperate situations several times and surrendered to the imperial court several times, but why did they surrender and rebel? It's really because the imperial court can't come up with the money to settle the homeless and the homeless.

The Central Plains is like this, our northern Sichuan is no exception, two months ago the imperial court decree strictly ordered the governor Chen Shiqi to exterminate the local tyrants within a time limit, although the governor of these two months sat in the city of Shunqing Fu, but because of the shortage of money and food, the imperial army has not been encircled, but let the local tyrants occupy three county seats.

I went to the governor's yamen to complain and was stopped halfway and thrown into prison, and now the governor is willing to let me back, because the government is short of money and food, and releasing me can stabilize the local situation and provide support for the officials and soldiers. ”

Everyone couldn't believe it, He Xiucai shook his head again and again: "This, this is unlikely, right?" The governor is from a correct background and is an upright person, which is really incredible. ”

Yang Lin smiled, took a sip of the teacup, and then put it down heavily: "The general trend of the world is mighty, those who go well prosper and those who rebel die, although the governor is a good person, but the situation is so that some are forced to be helpless."

As the saying goes, it is better to be a peaceful dog than a troubled world, now is a troubled world is not a peaceful and prosperous world, we are grasshoppers on a rope, we are a prosperous and a withered.

The governor's yamen asked me to organize regimental training to raise food and grass for the army, and if I couldn't do it, I would only be arrested and sent to prison again to eat.

Two months ago, I took the lead in resisting the payment of taxes, and now it is impossible to collect taxes arbitrarily and arbitrarily like Li Yitian did that day, whether it is Tian Fu, Ding Fu, Shang Fu, or Shang Fu, all of them are in accordance with the imperial court code and according to the rules of the government, that is, after adding three salaries, 1 bucket of high-grade fertile land, 6 liters of high-grade dry land, and I will not collect one more grain.

There is no way, I have to set up a township office in Xinglongji to collect the land and the business, after all, it is much better to cry all the way than to cry all the way.

It stands to reason that the taxes paid by the villagers are actually the people's fat and people's ointment, and they should not be swallowed by people. ”

Master Liu was quite dissatisfied, and said angrily: "Yang Ruzhen, don't you know that the grain harvest is poor and the people's livelihood is hard? You have to train the army, you have to collect money and food, but you shouldn't take away the old man's prosperity. ”

Yang Lin stood up, pressed the handle of the knife with both hands, glanced at everyone and said: "If there are no soldiers, the government army will inevitably poison the villagers, and there will inevitably be a tragic situation of being a peaceful dog rather than a troubled world."

The governor asked me to train a division of soldiers and horses, and I was going to train three bureaus (brigades) first, and there were only more than 400 people before and after.

In addition to these more than 400 official members, each mile and each jia will send strong men out for training, and they will be responsible for eating during the training period, and they will be compensated with 1 cent of silver every day.

Although everyone is a villager in the village, what is needed most for military training now is money, and six or seven hundred taels of silver can be collected in a year of prosperity alone.

If you can help me get through this time, I will be grateful from the bottom of my heart, and I will find a way to compensate you when I develop in the future.

If you don't do this or if you want to go against me, you know that cutting off people's wealth is like killing your parents, oh, if you destroy the township office, you will rebel against the soldiers, against the government, and against the court.

Although I recognize everyone, I can't recognize everyone with the knife in my hand? ”

Seeing that Yang Lin was angry, everyone didn't dare to say anything more, and they were all depressed, full of frustration.

Because of the ambassador, Master Liu and the squires didn't want to bear the culprit of the government's expropriation and tyranny, so they had no choice but to surrender and accept defeat in public.

Although Yang Lin knew that he was a bit overbearing in this matter, he didn't care much about himself when he saw the other party like this, and announced the governance plan in public in order to buy people's hearts:

In the future, Xinglongji will set up a township (security) chief and two officials, although the main salary is only 10 taels and 6 taels.

According to the amount of the levy and the amount of the local land endowment, the income of the township (guarantee) chief will not be less than 30 taels in a year, and the government service will not be less than 20 taels.

This is just for the township (security) chief who is being compiled by the government, and he also takes care of the chief of Lijia.

All the lieutenants are exempt from the Ding Fu of the year.

When rushing to the market, the township (security) chief and the official are too busy, and in the future, they will hire 2-3 lieutenant chiefs to help, and pay 7 cents of silver income for a day of work.

(In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the daily wage was only 3-5 cents, and the 7 cents was already very high.)

After working for a year, it is only 12-18 taels of silver, and the income of a middle-class family in the city is only 20 taels of silver a year, and the income of a rural family is even lower.

In the Qing Dynasty, the silver of the Republic of China depreciated greatly, and the old Mao family hired long-term workers in the early Republic of China with a salary of only 12 silver dollars a year, that is, 8 taels, 6 coins and 4 cents of silver. ）

Each Lijia assists in the collection of Tian Fu Ding Fu, as long as a certain proportion is completed, the excess part will be given a commission to the Li Changjia Chief.

As long as you don't mess around, you should be willing to work, and if you do a good job, you will have an income of 5-6 taels of silver, and a bad one will have 2-3 taels, which is worth half a year's salary for a long-term worker.

This is unexpected, in the past, the chief was like a rat in the bellows, and some of the wealthy families were forced by the government to paste the silver upside down (when I was a child, there was such a family in our village, and during the Republic of China, he was forced to be the chief of the village, and he made up a lot of money)

Now it is good to be able to receive a certain amount of money and remuneration from the township office every year, which is an unheard of good thing.

……

Although everyone is quite skeptical, most of them still applaud, and some even think about how to get a position and make money to supplement their families.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liu Xianfa, the head of Xinglongji Township (Bao), was busy taking over local affairs.