Master Ye finally coaxed the so-called military men of the Debt Settlement Division to be accommodating for a few days, and then sent someone out of Yejiazhuang overnight. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The info dial is in the direction of the county, and the other dial is in the direction of Yangzhou, Jiangbei.

To the county seat is the head of the second steward Song Sanling, and to Yangzhou is Ye Fangming, the nephew of Master Ye. The former went to the county seat to inquire about the news, and the latter went to Yangzhou to let Tanhualang hurry up and move.

Yejiazhuang is located in Huaqiao, this place is dozens of miles away from Zhiyu Mountain in Kunshan County, although the road in the south of the Yangtze River is built strongly, it is also wide, and the carriage on the road is very bento, but after all, it is night, and it is not fast to go. Song San took the two family members until the east put Bai Fang into the county seat.

As soon as he entered the city, Song San went straight to the county office. When I arrived at the county office, I was dumbfounded, except for an old man who was a gatekeeper in the originally lively Kunshan County office, there was no single figure. From the mouth of the half-deaf old man, Song San learned that just three days ago, Wang Daoling, the magistrate of the county, and Bo Cui Youjiu, the lord of the county, and others were dismissed from their posts and dismissed by the debtors from the city because of the disadvantage of paying off the debts. In addition to the magistrate and the main officer, the three classes and six rooms of Kunshan County, the officials and errands did not run, and they were all captured by the soldiers sent by the Debt Clearance Division, and now the Kunshan County Ya is paralyzed, and the county's affairs have been taken over by the Debt Clearance Division located in the south of the city.

"Is this court really moving?!"

Song San was shocked by this news, throughout the ages, there have been changes of dynasty, there have been rebellions and kings, and there have been Hu people who have called, but I have never heard of the county government calling people to abolish it.

Song San, who came back to his senses, did not dare to stay outside the county office, let alone go to the debt settlement division in the south of the city, but went to the east of the city to be friendly with the Ye family and the Lu family, who had in-laws.

The Lu family is no worse than the Ye family, its ancestors had a book in the Hongzhi period, and they were father and son in the Wanli period, and the current head of the family is also a Tongjinshi in the Apocalypse, which is much stronger than the Ye family. Back then, the Lu and Ye families got married, which one didn't say that the Ye family had climbed high, if it weren't for the Ye family's Tanhualang, the Lu family wouldn't have taken the Ye family's in-laws in their eyes at all.

When it comes to the relationship in the officialdom, the Lu family is also very far-reaching, not to mention anything else, in today's Dingwu court, there is a bachelor of the Lu family. The great Confucian Huang Zongxi also received a lot of favors from the Lu family in his early years, and it was Taifu Qian Qianyi who also received a lot of "anti-Qing" secret donations from the Lu family over the years, so if the Lu family had something, there must be someone in the court who would do activities for his family. Of course, Song San didn't know about this, even his master Ye Tiancheng didn't know much about it, after all, such a rebellion, just by virtue of the relationship between in-laws, how could the Lu family dare to let his family know. What's more, the Ye family is still a Tanhualang of the Qing Dynasty, a new upstart in the new dynasty, can the Lu family not guard against it?

Song San only knew that before leaving, the old man repeatedly told him that if something really happened in the county, he would go to the Lu family no matter what, and tell the Lu family what happened to the Ye family. Ye Tiancheng explained like this, of course, it did not mean that the Lu family could help the Ye family for the sake of their in-laws, but that they wanted to use the Lu family to reveal the news. To put it bigger, the Jiangnan gentry are united in the same breath and support each other, and they are called each family, but they are actually one; To put it mildly, everyone is a gentry in Kunshan, the Ye family has suffered a catastrophe, and the rest of the families have no reason to be alone, will they not come out to fight against the court, when will they wait?

However, before Song San arrived at Lu's house, he saw a group of soldiers escorting a group of people to the south of the city to clear the arrears. A family member who came with Song San was sharp-eyed, and at a glance he saw Lu Wanyuan, the head of the Lu family, who was among the people, and he screamed in surprise at that time.

Who is Lu Wanyuan?

That was the Tongjin Shi in the Apocalypse, the household member of the Chongzhen Dynasty, the Shaoqing of the General Administration of the Hongguang Dynasty, and the big man who surrendered with the Duke of Wei Xu Jiujue, the Duke of Baoguo Zhu Chengbi, and the Duke of Xincheng Zhao Zhilong. Although after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Lu Wanyuan's conscience repented, and he resigned from the official position of the Qing court and returned to his hometown, but over the years, in terms of influence, which one in Kunshan can compare to Lu Wanyuan? Even the Qing Dynasty did not despise Lu Wanyuan because he refused to go out of office, the year before last, Jiangning political envoy Zhu Guozhi also personally visited Lu Wanyuan in Kunshan, and Lang Tingzuo, the governor of Liangjiang, was sent to the Lu family with the words "Jishan Home" in handwriting.

Song San couldn't understand why Lu Wanyuan also asked the soldiers to take it. You must know that after Shunzhi changed to Dingwu, the Lu family was the first to advocate that the Kunshan gentry welcome Emperor Dingwu, and for this reason, Nanjing also sent people to Kunshan to commend the Lu family, and I heard that the emperor had mentioned Lu Wanyuan's name. What a glory and what a merit this is, but how can this Dingwu Imperial Court turn its face when it says it?

Song San asked people again and again, and only then did he find out how Lu Wanyuan was taken by the soldiers. It turned out that like his Ye family, the Lu family was also taken by the newly established Debt Settlement Division because they refused to pay any tax arrears.

I heard that they were all transferred from other places, and there was no Suzhou native, except for the person who presided, the following were all illiterate soldiers. As soon as they arrived in Kunshan, they collected all the yellow books and archives of the county's houses, and then bought many local scoundrels, and told them to go to the bottom of the big households, and make the fields of each family clear, and then they sent troops to the door to ask people to pay taxes. If you don't pay it, you will break down the door and take people, as if you are raiding your home, and make Kunshan restless.

After exploring the city for a long time, Song San became more and more frightened, only to feel that something big was about to happen, because people from all big families said that the Ming Dynasty was not as good as the Qing Dynasty, and that the Qing Dynasty was a dog, and the Ming Dynasty was a wolf. A dog can send a bone, and this wolf will not give up until he bites a piece of meat. And this Ming Dynasty is really a nonsense, think Jiangnan since the Hongguang years called the Qing Dynasty to occupy, a full fifteen years, the Ming officers and soldiers have not come, now it's good, the Jiangnan gentry are looking forward to the Ming soldiers, but this group of soldiers arrived but asked them to pay the tax arrears from the first year of Chongzhen, and the fifteen years of the Qing Dynasty's rule were counted, what is this, and what is the account?

Song San also learned that the Suzhou government had set up two debt settlement divisions, one for Kunshan and the other for Taicang. Songjiang also set up two debt settlement divisions, one for Jiading and the other for Qingpu. I heard that the two debt settlement divisions in Suzhou are under the overall management of the debt settlement yamen located in Suzhou, and the person in charge of this yamen is a person named Wang Shirong. This person is very ruthless, only half a year after taking office, he actually arrested more than 300 gentry in Suzhou, and even threatened that he owed no money to the yamen, but there were many prison cells. If the gentry in Suzhou do not pay their tax arrears for a day, Wang Shirong will not leave for a day.