It's stuck here, how should it be written here? I had a headache for a day and didn't figure out how to start, so let's briefly describe it.

Gao Hongsheng really didn't have much impression of this village, just like many villages in that era.

The village is built on a high post, which is also a helpless way, the Yellow River frequently bursts, and the people have no choice but to continuously raise and strengthen the village, and the result is that the village is on the high platform.

It is even more because of the bandits' relationship that the earth fence more than three meters high is surrounded by it, and the entire village is wrapped in the earth fence.

These earthen enclosures were useless in Gao Hongsheng's eyes, but they were trapped to death after being blocked, but the common people really relied on these earthen enclosures to resist the bandits.

The adobe house, the straw hat top, the fence courtyard, the big locust tree at the door, the old well of the village zhōngyāng, the numb people, the ragged peasant households, the bare butt and the snotty doll, this is the impression that this village gives Gao Hongsheng.

Of the more than 100 households, there are more than 40 households who live by renting Gao Hongsheng's land, and there are still more than 20 households who have some land by themselves but not enough, and they have rented some of their arable land to supplement the shortage.

The other peasant households have nothing to do with Gao Hongsheng, most of them have their own land, and they also rent the land of several other landlords.

Gao Hongsheng is the biggest landlord here, and the others are about 100 acres to the sky, and even Li Zheng and the land protection family are only a few dozen acres.

But their two families have a large population, and relying only on their dozens of acres of thin fields, they are just a mix of food and clothing. There is no way, and they even have to rent Gao Hongsheng's arable land to make up for the lack of arable land.

Otherwise, they would not have come in the middle of the night to cause trouble as soon as they heard that they were going to take back the cultivated land, and if they really took the cultivated land, they would also face the problem of not having enough to eat.

This landlord is not so easy to be, and after waiting for the security to talk to Li Zheng and Gao Hongsheng, Gao Hongsheng realized that the landlord is not fun.

In this Qing Dynasty, the following management adopted the system of apportionment into the mu, that is, the tax was collected according to the land.

Originally, this tax was made in accordance with a whip law of the Ming Dynasty, which should be a very good tax system.

But when it came to the Qing Dynasty, the people directly read the scriptures crookedly, and the people began to increase the fees, at the beginning of the increase was the cost of fire consumption, and then the messy various expenses were spread in, and finally when Gao Hongsheng crossed the era, the taxes of the entire common people were simply described as many as cow hairs, and these additional taxes were not added by zhōngyāngzhèngfǔ, but could be added by a random name in the local government, so there were three years of Qing Governor's Mansion and the origin of 100,000 snowflakes and silver.

The type and quantity of tax revenue can be increased at will, and that is not like releasing the tiger out of the cage, and the cannibalism is obvious.

And the zhōngyāng regime of the Qing Dynasty was still the most lacking in virtue, and he did not know how to raise taxes on the common people, and he directly asked the local zhèngfǔ to "donate gold", that is, "filial piety".

The result of this is that the local zhèngfǔ is infamous for zhōngyāng, and he maintains his upright image to deceive the common people.

And the local government also happened to take the opportunity to increase taxes to fill their own pockets, which can be said to be quite tacit cooperation.

At the beginning, it was really good, and the Qing Dynasty slaughtered a few corrupt officials from time to time, so as to resolve the local contradictions.

But in the late Qing Dynasty, his system was ineffective, the local taxes were already high, and just killing a few corrupt officials was no longer effective, and the result was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and many peasant uprisings.

So what taxes were there in the late Qing Dynasty? So to speak, there is only what you can't think of, and there is nothing you can't think of.

It's time for Gao Hongsheng to pay taxes to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, huh! That's right, who called him a landlord.

However, he has an identity, that is, the history of the road protection group, and he is also a small official, but he also has a lot of cheapness, and he doesn't have to pay a lot of miscellaneous expenses.

Of course, there is another kind of person who doesn't pay those messy miscellaneous taxes, this kind of person is the sectarians, fortunately, Gao Hongsheng's village has not yet taught the people, otherwise it will be even more troublesome.

Originally, Gao Hongsheng also wanted to reduce the land rent he paid to everyone, but it was not okay to talk to Li Zheng and the land protection.

If you reduce the rent, then you will be against the entire landlord class, and you can reward the peasant households who rent your land with a lot of grain, but the rent must not be less, because this is the business of the whole class, not you as a landlord, and no one can break the rules, otherwise you will attract hatred, at least someone will make you a bad person or something.

As for the farmers who rent their own fields, Gao Hongsheng also saw them, but he really couldn't say anything.

That is, the son is too poor, and the wheat harvest is about to be harvested, and there are more than a dozen families that have run out of food, and now they live on loans, just waiting for new grain to come down and repay the loans.

What's even more infuriating is the lack of agricultural knowledge, and they don't even know how to plant cash crops, and the whole land is just a few, and there are no big peanuts and cotton that are special to Shandong.

There are basically no water conservancy facilities in the farmland, and the fields are irrigated by water from a small stream, and because of the problem of water sources, the upstream village has fought several times, but because the village is thin, it has never won the war.

Gao Hongsheng of the whole village had a general understanding and found that even the wealthy middle-class households were now eating bran vegetables, and they couldn't even afford to eat rice and white noodles.

At the same time, poor farmers do not even have basic agricultural tools, and most of the purpose of borrowing is to survive, so it is even more impossible to put fertilizer into the land.

On the whole, the investment in agriculture is insufficient, to put it simply, no one invests money in agriculture, most of them rent out the land like Gao Hongsheng, and the rent collection is done, and the land is concentrated in the hands of big businessmen and big bureaucrats like him.

But do you think that big businessmen like Gao Hongsheng and big bureaucrats will invest in the ground?

Whatever you do is much higher than the income in the field, how slow is the input and output of agriculture! Isn't it right, the benefits are not obvious, isn't it, besides, there is still the danger of flooding, who eats too much and invests so much!

At the same time, the most fatal thing is that the protection of the cattle at that time was not proper, and there were repeated cases of cattle theft.

In ancient times, there was no ploughing ox to help plough the land, which was a very scary thing, after all, you did not have the power to plough the ox! How can you play without ploughing cattle to help plough the land! In this era, there is no walk-behind tractor to help, and Made's cattle are so short of, isn't it nonsense?

Looking at the wrinkled old faces of these honest farmers, how did Gao Hongsheng feel that he had fallen into the pit.

What about these farmers? Send some food cloth? And then let them fend for themselves?

Or do you want to help them, send some farm tools, dig a few wells, organize them to plant some cash crops, send some good seeds or something, and help them become well-off?

But he just came to make a little fortune, is he really a good person?

But you can't ignore it when you see it, forget it, and do your own good deeds.

He signed the contract with the farmers again, extended the time as much as possible, and then promised to help them dig a few wells to solve the problem of watering the farmland, and also sent some food and farm tools when the time came.

Anyway, Gao Hongsheng has a lot of things, and sending some people to the farmers here can be regarded as an investment.

Cui Tou returned to the warehouse in Xicheng, Jinan Prefecture, and sent someone to send some grain and farm tools there.

In this way, Gao Hongsheng's goal of using land to tie up the little bandits was completely shattered.

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