Volume 4 Insight XXXVI

The First Jin Dynasty inherited the taxing system of the Western Jin Dynasty. The implementation of the land occupation system and the class field system is careful to count the seventeen-year-old Ding, and begin to bear the government's deferred taxes, Ding Nan occupies 70 acres of land, these 70 acres are private land, and part of the rent tax can be paid to the government, and there are 50 acres of class land, these 50 acres are official land, and all the income from cultivation is handed over to the government, which is equivalent to serving the government. Because the land is poor, the year is abundant, and in the year of the disaster, if the government does not have the policy of reducing or reducing taxes, then the yeoman farmers will go bankrupt because they are unable to pay the taxes, and many yeoman farmers will leave their hometowns, abandon their household registration, and enter the large estates of the Shi clan to hire and cultivate for the landlords of the Shi clan, and become hidden households who evade the tax of the swaying and taxation, and some yeoman farmers do not occupy 70 acres of private land, but they still have to pay so much rent and tax, and the tax becomes a tax according to the Ding, which also aggravates the bankruptcy of the yeoman farmers, and more and more hidden households flow into the Shi manor. There is no one in charge of the state, and taxes are lost

6 After listening to what the He clan had said about the expansion of land and the annexation of peasant households, the Chen clan said: "The school field is an official field, how can the Chen family take it for himself!" ”

He Zhu sneered: "This alone can ruin Chen Cao's body. ”

6 and He, who were more shrewd and knowledgeable about current affairs, said: "6 County Cheng, although the Qian Tang Chen family merged the class fields of those peasant households into the Chen family's estate, they still bore the taxes of the government, and these class fields were not involved in buying and selling, and those farmers brought them into the Chen manor, so it seems difficult to convict the Chen family if they want to sue the Chen family for embezzling the official land

6 Yu nodded and said, "This is reasonable. He lifted his eyes and looked at the tent that he wanted to say, and said, "If you have anything to say, just say it." If it can be done this time, I will reward you heavily. Your brother may come to my side as a servant.

The pawn hurriedly gave the city: "Thank you for the grace of the county, the villain thinks, then the Chen family has already paid the tax field, so it is not good to deal with it." However, there must be newly annexed peasant private land and class land, which have not yet reached the time of rent. If you want to sue the Chen family, you can start from here, and the villain bought two tenants of the original Chu family this time. At that time, it can be used as a witness, there is a yeoman farmer, there are 160 acres of high-quality fields, because the land is fertile, do not worry about not paying taxes, and refuse to rely on Chen's small wish to be self-sufficient, Chen feels that the more than 100 acres of fields lie in the middle, so that Chen's manor can not be connected together, so he sent people to use both soft and hard, and finally bought the land in early July this year, the farmer is very dissatisfied, but there is nothing to be done, Chen's is powerful, only the belly slander this farmer I have not been alarmed, and then persuade him to accuse Chen of seizing his land when the case of encroachment on the field, the two cases are taken at the same time, Chan will be defeated. ”

6 Yu Daxi: "Very good, you did a good job." "Immediately engaged. Fifty horses of silk were rewarded, and after the deed was completed, there was another generous reward.

After the three Zhuang guests retreated, it was already night, and He Zhu said: "Brother Zishan, this matter cannot be delayed. This matter should be reported to Ling Zun, and a reply must be made before the 23rd of this month to remove Chen Cao from his post as the soil envoy. ”

6 Yu said: "There are still 19 days before the review period, I will report this matter to the Tu Judge Division tomorrow with an urgent document of 400 li, and within half a month, there will be a reply, regardless of whether the Chen family's encroachment on the class field and the seizure of the neighboring land property are true, Chen Cao's land judgment envoy can be temporarily dismissed from his post and wait for review." ”

He Zhu said hatefully: "After Chen Caozhi is dismissed, I want to see what kind of faces the Yu family, the Wei family, the Kong family, and the Xie family have." I guess I will be sad to hand over so many hidden households, and naturally I can't return what I handed over, haha. ”

6 Yu said: "Dao Fang, your He clan also has to hand over another two hundred hidden households, and after the soil is broken, it is the same for another recruitment." ”

He Zhu thought about it, 6 Yu said it reasonably, Huiji and other big clans have handed over a large number of hidden households and small Duhe He clan, which is really inappropriate, and said: "Okay, I'll go back and discuss with my uncle, just hand over two hundred hidden households, and I will pay it after Chen Caozhi resigns." ”

6 Yu smiled.

In the afternoon of the next day, Dai Shu, the chief of the Huiji, urgently summoned Chen Caozhi to the county government to discuss the matter, saying that the six counties undertook to send a secret letter to Beijing with an expedited 400 li, and it was unknown what happened, but it must be aimed at Chen Caozhi, and Chen Caozhi should be careful and vigilant.

Chen Caozhi thanked Dai Neishi. Back to the post house, please Xie Daoyun to discuss, Xie Daoyun said: "Zizhong itself is blameless, I expect 6, He wants to find your gap, must start with your people, Zizhong should immediately go back to Qiantang to check whether the clansmen have violated the prohibition, and deal with it in advance." ”

Chen Caozhi nodded, and said about the matter of the Chen family's shade, Xie Daoyun approving: "The son is careful and far-sighted, but it is difficult to ensure that the Chen clan has no other forbidden things, and the clansmen have illegal things and can't even sit on the head of Zizhong, but now is the extraordinary period of the soil break, and the head of the soil break is dissatisfied with the son of the 6 Shangshu, so it is very easy to take advantage of this to make trouble." ”

Chen Caozhi said: "Brother Yingtai." I ask you for one thing, Xie Daoyun asked with a smile: "Zizhong is asking me to go to Chenjiawu to deal with this matter on your behalf?" ”

Chen Caozhi said: "Brother Yingtai is always so understanding. ”

Xie Daoyun said: "It's okay." I can hide people's eyes and ears more when I go, and I am willing to see Run'er more

Chen Cao's heart is round, Wang Ken's salary, and the children's day is to wash the stream, and the book mouth is four concave to concave 3 Butian pay)" The gap is complete. Blemishes. I couldn't help but stretch my head on Xie Daoyun's right side of the bookcase, and it was as cold as a knife, Xie Daoyun quietly withdrew his hand, his face turned red, and he quickly got up and said, "Zizhong, write a letter to Uncle Ling, I will say it immediately, go back to the room and pack my luggage."

Chen Caozhi was also a little stunned, and somehow wanted to take Xie Daoyun's hand. Do you really regard Brother Yingtai as Gu Kaizhi and Liu Shang, or do you feel something else?

Chen Caozhi didn't want to think about it, these were completely outside his control, he couldn't control it, he could have a clear belief in 6 Wei Rui, but he couldn't be one with Xie Daoyun

Chen Caozhi hurriedly wrote a letter to his fourth uncle Chen Xian, ordering Jing Nu and Lai Zhen to return to Chenjiawu with Xie Daoyun.

Before the sixth afternoon of the first month of winter, Xie Daoyun and his party of more than ten people came to Qiantang, and did not cross the river to Chenjiawu, Xie Daoyun only asked Laide and Jing Nu to go back to see the patriarch of the Chen clan with Chen Caozhi's letter, and she wanted to visit Feng Mengxiong in Qiantang County first. This matter must be helped by Feng Mengxiong, so that in just a few days, Ran can find out if anyone from other counties has come to inquire about the foundation of the Qian Tang Chen clan

Feng Mengxiong saw Xie Daoyun and listened to Xie Daoyun's words that someone wanted to frame Chen Cao, how could he be lazy, and immediately ordered two cronies and subordinates to lead ten messengers to wait for Xie Daoyun to dispatch. Xie Daoyun took the maid Liu Wu, as well as his own eight private soldiers, and thirteen county officials and servants to cross the river at Fenglin Ferry, and just arrived at the south bank, he saw Chen Xian, the patriarch of the Chen clan, and Chen Man, Chen Chang and his son in the north building, preparing to rush to the county seat

Chen Xian knew that his nephew Chen Caozhi's review of the soil decision was very offensive. After receiving Chen Caozhi's letter, he was quite frightened, and rushed to the county seat with Chen Man's father and son to see Zhu Langjun, and he was happy to meet him at the Fenglin Ferry.

Xie Daoyun told the two elders of the Chen family about Chen Caozhi's land break in Huiji, and Chen Xian and Chen Man heard that the 6 Hui Ji County Cheng and the He family of the Huiji clan were bent on obstructing the land break and vainly trying to frame Chen Caozhi, and both of them were worried. Wu County 6 clan Xiaohui Ji He clan is a wealthy family in Jiangzuo. The power is far from what he can compete with in the Qian Tang Chen family, and he can't get the strong support of the family, and he completely relies on him to support it alone!

Xie Daoyun comforted the two old men and said, "Don't worry about the two uncles. Zizhong expected that 6 He had this conspiracy, and sent me here to help the two uncles investigate this matter thoroughly, so there must be a way to deal with it. ”

Xie Daoyun was very quick to do things, so he ordered two Qian Tang officials to take ten county officials to visit Chen's Yin Hu at Fenglin Ferry. Ask with good words, don't be intimidated, and go to Chenjiawu in the evening to meet.

The two little officials led the servants to go separately, Xie Daoyun, Chen Xian and others came to Chenjiawu and hurriedly met Ding Youwei. I didn't have time to talk more, so I went to the Chen ancestral hall to listen to Chen Man's father and son explain to her the big and small things about the expansion of the Chen manor in the past three years, Chen Caozhi asked his uncle Chen Xianmo to hide anything from Zhu Langjun about the family manor exhibition, and the more justified the violation of the ban, the more he had to say it, so that there was a way to make up for it

Chen Chang held a large stack of thin books, and brought many matters from the four Qian Tang Chen clan scholars in Shengping together, Xie Daoyun gently rubbed a jade ruyi in his hand, and listened quietly. When he heard that the Chen family recruited farmers and paid taxes on behalf of them, he asked, "Isn't it a heavy burden for the Chen family to be so burdened?" ”

Chen Xian of the side explained: "This is proposed by Cao Zhi, Cao Zhi thinks that the manor can work together to resist natural disasters**, Ding Nan occupies more than 100 acres of land, how can he cultivate intensively, although there are many fields, the yield is low." It is better to start with increasing the yield per mu, I Chen Jiawu has experience, have long skills of the old farmers, the old nursery are reused, last year, the yield per mu of Chen's manor is significantly higher than other Shishu manors in the county, so don't worry about the tax Xie Daoyun asked: "Is the field listed separately?."

Chen Changdao: "It is not listed separately, but it is indicated in the field register. ”

Xie Daoyun said: "Don't be too tired, immediately list the class field separately overnight, indicating that this is the official land brought by the tenants, and the names of the tenants must be sorted out." ”

Although Chen Chang felt that this Zhu Langjun was a bit of a fuss, these official fields and their Chen family were all responsible for paying taxes, not encroaching on official fields, it was because of Chen's intensive cultivation and attention to the selection of high-quality seedlings that they could have a slight surplus in addition to paying taxes, but since Zhu Langjun said so, Chen Chang also agreed to personally supervise the steward and the pawn to complete the matter overnight.

Xie Daoyun asked: "In the three years of the Chen family, the land production has expanded from 40 hectares to 200 hectares, are those farmers willing to come and attach themselves?"

Chen Man said with some meaning: "Zhu Langjun, my Chen family has always been kind and generous, and the Chen tenants have poor harvests or poor diseases. Will be exempted or exempted as appropriate, those self-cultivated farmers attached to my Chen, then there is no worries, I don't know how many farmers want to settle in Chenjiawu, it is my sixteen nephews who suggested not to expand too much, is to refuse many farmers to depend. ”

Xie Daoyun smiled slightly. Seeing that the sky was already dark, he said, "Let's wait for the county officials and messengers to see what is happening." Let's talk about it again. ”