The order to summon the common people of the gentry who were being persecuted by the standard camp in Jinhua town had been issued, but it was still some time before they arrived. However, compared with Chen Wen's set of decrees that were bound to cause dissatisfaction and resistance, and even boycott, Sun Yu issued another decree in the name of the Jinhua prefect as a supplement to the requisition of the ownerless wasteland by the Wei Institute.

According to the government decree, from now on, the collection of taxes strictly prohibits local officials from collecting excessive fees such as fire consumption on administrative grounds, and also prohibits additional fees such as pouring tips and kicking the dunk, so as to increase the burden on the people. And it is clearly stated that personnel will be sent to conduct unannounced visits, and if there is a violation, it will be severely punished.

This decree has been implemented since the Lanshan era, when Wang Jiang issued such an order in order to win the hearts of the people and reduce corruption, but the implementation was not perfect, so there was the conflict between Chen Wen and Chu Suxian. This time, Sun Yu also raised the salaries of officials as subsidies for the effective implementation of the decree, but at the same time, at the suggestion of Chen Wen, he announced that he would conduct secret visits to further corruption.

Since this decree had already appeared in the Dalanshan era, it was not unusual for those officials from the five divisions of the old camp in Dalanshan, especially considering that Sun Yu, who was much more cheerful and would do things with a straight face even after recovering Jinhuafu City, and Chen Wen, who had beaten his colleagues in public standing behind Sun Yu, didn't dare to do anything, at least not to the same extent as before.

It's just that for the local officials in Jinhua, who have a larger proportion in the government, as well as those petty officials, officials and their helpers, this decree is undoubtedly robbing them of food and clothing. Especially the helpers, these people are not in the official government, and they rely on assisting the officials and officials to make ends meet, and this decree means that the proportion of their income will be reduced a lot.

Spring ploughing has not yet officially begun, and there are still a few months before the summer tax is collected, so these dissatisfaction is still accumulating. It is still some time before the outbreak will be, and it is not yet known what will happen. It was just a decree to requisition wasteland to establish a guardhouse, but it can be said that it stirred up a thousand waves with one stone.

The Ruquan Pavilion in front of the main gate of the county government in Dongyang County, before marching into Yiwu, Chen Wen and Sun Yu met here many times with representatives of the six clans and other gentry and common people in Dongyang. And at this moment, Yan Zhiheng, the magistrate of Dongyang County, who had just taken office, and these people gathered here. And what they were talking about was the decree that Chen Wen and Sun Yu had just issued.

It was only a few days after the decree on the requisition of wasteland to establish a guard tuntian was issued, but the gate of the county government was about to be broken, and those who didn't know thought it was Yan Zhixian's daughter Zhang Bang recruiting relatives, but such news was really shocking, especially involving a lot, and soon spread all over the streets and alleys, and even a more sensational version was transmitted.

"The county lord, the marshal and the villain of the mansion can understand, but most of the land in everyone's family is handed down from their ancestors. was requisitioned by the government like this, how can I go to see the ancestors and ancestors. ”

Yan Zhiheng was a little helpless about the rumors outside, not only because the decrees were all completed by Chen Wen and Sun Yu through separate consultations, and they were directly implemented without consulting the opinions of other old camp officials, but also the most speechless thing was that they had to wipe their butts if something happened.

It's just that Yan Zhiheng knows very well that if they want to gain a foothold here, they, the officials and soldiers from Dalan Mountain, must first be huddled together. Otherwise, he will be crushed by the local forces, and Sun Yu will be able to say it at that time. These Ning Shao people have to be pushed to the sidelines. So even if there is no displeasure in his heart, he has to continue to establish prestige for the government.

Seeing the old man in front of him crying about the hard work and difficulty of his ancestors and his family in cultivating the land, in order to prevent a larger-scale cry, Yan Zhiheng hurriedly explained to him and everyone present.

"Ladies and gentlemen, it has been written in the decree. This time, the land ordered by Chen Shuai and Sun Governor is all ownerless wasteland, and the land in your family will not be involved, so there is no need to worry. ”

Hearing this answer, the old man paused crying, but a scholar not far from him asked, "The student dares to ask the county honor." This expropriation of wasteland, which piece of land is wasted and which piece of land is not, is this matter up to the Wei to say, or the government government has the final say, or the county government has the final say, and I ask the county to explain it for me. ”

This scholar is a son of the Shuangquan Xu family among the six clans in Dongyang County, the six clans in Dongyang County are very powerful in this county, and many people are looking at it with their horses, and this question does ask the key point. After all, the official word is two-mouthed, who has the final say is very important, especially when it comes to the army, the martial arts have always been the most unreasonable, if the army decides whether the land is abandoned, then I am afraid that there will be no more land in Jinhua Mansion that is not a wasteland.

As soon as these words came out, everyone stopped the discussion between them and waited for Yan Zhiheng's explanation. As the magistrate, Sun Yu has already informed him of this matter, and the specific answer is naturally very clear.

"This matter is naturally decided by the government. For specific operations, the government and county government will send people to participate, and the elders can also put forward opinions and suggestions on the results of the review, while the health office only supervises from the side, and will not personally participate. ”

After all, the Ming Dynasty civil officials presided over the prefecture and county and the five military governors managed by the guard office are two sets of teams, not to mention the difference between civil and military, and the performance of tax collection is also assessed separately. It stands to reason that the government and county government will naturally favor some of them, rather than military households that are not within their jurisdiction.

It's just that when it comes to land, things are far from being as easy to solve as imagined. Yan Zhiheng then answered several questions, but he was just about to take a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and a more difficult question was placed in front of him.

"The county lord, the little old man has a relative's family in the mountains, I heard him mention that some of the fields in their village The original owners have died, and the Tatar officials have been expropriating and extorting money over the years, so many people are plowing the fields on these lands to feed their families, how does the government plan to deal with this kind of thing?"

This question does exist, but it is universal, and it is not limited to the mountain villages mentioned by the questioner. Although Yan Zhiheng had just taken office, he had not seen such things on Siming Mountain, but at that time, they only needed cultivators to pay taxes, and there was no question of ownership.

Yan Zhiheng thought for a while, and then replied: "It is true that Sun Fuzun has never mentioned this kind of thing to this official, but I also ask you to believe that the government will handle this matter, and after today's meeting, this official will send someone to Fucheng, and there will be news in a few days, and I also ask you to wait for a while." ”

In this way, if he could answer, Yan Zhiheng tried his best to answer, and if he didn't know how to solve it for the time being, he also recorded it in person, saying that he would definitely send someone to ask Chen Wen and Sun Yu for clarification.

However, compared with the expropriation of wasteland to build guards, the gentry and common people were still happy to see that corruption was strictly prohibited, and the same amount of taxes was collected in a completely different amount when the government was clean and when corruption was rampant, and the difference was in these fees. Although this decree issued by the government may not have much effect in the eyes of the gentry and the common people, the Ming army has just recovered this place, and what is needed is prestige.

The word prestige is prestige and faith is the other. Previously, the Ming army repelled the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army with a large number of recruits and in the case of inferior troops, and then completely annihilated the Fubiao battalion, executed the captured Fubiao battalion soldiers, and recovered the entire Jinhua Mansion at the same time. And now, the Ming army is credit, so the implementation of the decree will definitely be supervised more vigorously, at least less than under normal circumstances.

It's just that a few families are happy and a few are worried, and some of them have some families who serve as small officials and officials in the government, or help these small officials and officials, especially those who help them, and the matter of "raising wages" has nothing to do with them, so they are naturally full of complaints, and it is not good to appeal to the county magistrate in front of everyone at the moment, but they always have to talk about it after the end, so as to protect the interests of everyone from being harmed.

However, in any case, the problems encountered by Yan Zhiheng and other magistrates are not very related to the health office, especially those military households who own Yongye Field, and they don't need to pay attention to this matter, because if nothing else, they will not have to pay taxes for twenty years.

After the decree jointly signed by Chen Wen and Sun Yu was issued, the military families of the old battalion and the people accompanying the army outside Dongyang County were resettled in the camp. Whether it is a military family or a common man, as the remnants of the former Dalanshan Ming Army, the last Ming army in Zhejiang at present, they will be the beneficiaries of this series of decrees.

If you have the land, as long as you work hard, you can reap hope. Even the military leased land that the soldiers and civilians will be allocated will not have to bear the burden of conscription while paying taxes, which is better than when they were in Siming Mountain. The only point is that the land is still owned by the guard, although they followed the order to go south with the army, and then always followed the Ming army, Chen Wen announced that he would not take back the land on this ground, but after all, this land is still the guard's, far less reassuring than the name of their own family written on the title deed.

However, compared with the reserve soldiers and those who accompanied the army, the land allocated to the soldiers, the families of military martyrs, and the disabled soldiers did not need to pay taxes, and every harvest belonged to their own families, even if they needed tenants to cultivate, they could also collect tenant rent, after all, they could harvest without doing things at home, and with this time to do some other work, they could also have an additional income.

In a thatched hut on the east side of the camp, the widow and son of the Ding family were saluting the tablet of Ding Keji, a veteran who died in the battle behind the Siming Mountain Palace, telling the good news.

As the widow and only son of Ding Keji, the mother and son of the Ding family naturally enjoyed the treatment of the pension field, which Chen Wen promised on Tiantai Mountain, and today it has finally been implemented.

When the lady of the Ding family heard the good news, like other military martyrs, she was crying while rejoicing, but this was not crying with joy, but rejoicing that the sacrifice was rewarded, and the family members who were suffering from the sacrifice could never see each other again.

However, it is naturally a good thing to be able to get a pension field, at least for the Ding family's lady, with this land, she can support her only son as a weak woman, if she saves some and then does some other work, maybe she can send the child to study in the school, and change the fate of the family from then on.

At the very least, she can now see hope for the future, rather than despair after losing the breadwinner of her family. (To be continued.) )