At the time of the autumn harvest, the villages are very busy, the people collect the grain, the tenants pay the tenants' rent, and then wait for the government to collect the taxes.

But at this moment, Xia Jun asked people to post a tax exemption notice.

The payment of taxes has always been collected by the gentry of each village, and then handed over to the head of the township, and then handed over by the head of the township to the officials sent by the county yamen, and the prefect ate a part of it and then hand it over to the prefect, and the prefect eats a part and then pays it......

The bureaucratic system of [***] made the Qing court pay 400 million taels for every 100 million taels of silver, and the 300 million taels were swallowed up by those officials.

As soon as the tax exemption notice came out, the villages couldn't help but wait and see what the Jianzhou security group wanted to do, but the squires of the villages did not return the taxes collected.

On September 18, the county sent two officials to pull the taxes collected by the squires to the county seat, but as soon as the two officials arrived in Longcun, they were beaten away by Xia Jun.

"Go back and tell you that the county is already autonomous." Xia Jun said to them, and the two officials ate a meal of sticks and ran away.

Then Xia Jun hung up a sign in Longcun, which read: 'Xixiang Autonomous Civil Affairs Department', and the dozen or so cultural people of the security regiment also officially took office after more than a month of training.

Since the abolition of the imperial examination, these Confucian literati have also lost their arrogance and are now only running for life.

Xia Jun's requirement for them is to prohibit corruption and bribery, which he has repeatedly reiterated, but they don't know if they follow the rules or not, but Xia Jun must be strictly investigated from time to time.

The Ministry of Civil Affairs is an important department for Xia Jun to buy people's hearts, and the villagers in each village can find the Ministry of Civil Affairs if they have difficulties, and the Ministry of Civil Affairs should find a way to help them solve their difficulties, mainly to help poor households, and other needs, if the employment is relatively large, or if a certain amount of money is needed, it can be reported to Xia Jun himself.

At the same time, Xia Jun also established the 'Xixiang Ministry of Justice', and promulgated two laws, the Xixiang Autonomous Criminal Law and the Xixiang Autonomous Civil Procedure Law.

Autonomy, a policy implemented in the last years of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was being implemented at this time, but this autonomy was still selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, and did not solve the fundamental problem, but it also laid some foreshadowing for the reading power of the provinces during the Xinhai Revolution.

Xia Jun was engaged in autonomy at this time, unlike the autonomy of other places, he engaged in armed autonomy and refused to pay taxes to the Manchus, even if the Manchus sent troops to suppress them, Xia Jun was not afraid at all.

After beating away the officials in the two counties, Xia Jun immediately sent an infantry platoon and a machine gun squad out to set up a sentry post, a total of three outposts, one is the junction of Xixiang to Komatsu, one is the junction of Xixiang to Dongfeng, and the other is the junction of Xixiang and Jianyang, each post has a squad, and each has a machine gun.

In addition, there is a route from Xixiang to Chuanshi, but if the government sends troops to suppress, it is most likely that Jian'an and Jianyang counties will transfer troops, and Jian'an to Longcun is most likely from Xiaosong and Dongfeng, and it is generally impossible to send troops from Chuanshi.

While sending troops to defend the road into Xixiang, Xia Jun began to establish an administrative system, and the army was always just a violent institution, which could only be used for destruction. Production still depends on administration, and administration cannot do without the protection of the armed forces, a violent institution.

The two departments were established, and the checkpoints were also arranged, so it was almost actually controlled, so Xia Jun asked You Zhengbin to write an invitation and send people to the villages.

Xixiang is much larger than the Longcun Township in later generations, and the Longcun Township in later generations is only half of the original Xixiang, and at this time there are a total of 68 villages in Xixiang, and the squire Xia Jun of these 68 villages are all invited, and it is very formal to hand them the invitation, which states that they must be present, and then ......

This 'then' is the end, and there is no follow-up. But what, I'm afraid anyone who sees it will have a reverie. The date of the invitation is September 21, which is the time when the rice in Shiniu Mountain can be harvested.

After receiving the invitation, the squires of each village really thought about it for a long time, and when they saw that the invitation said that they were invited to discuss self-government and suppression of bandits, they set off for Longcun one after another.

Lin Debao also rushed to Longcun after handling the tenant matter, and the 'Xixiang Ministry of Agriculture' was also established.

On the day of September 20th, the squires of each village arrived early, Xia Jun set up ten tables of banquets in Longcun that night to entertain these squires, when Xia Jun walked out, Lin Debao introduced to everyone, these squires saw Xia Jun so young, they couldn't help but be stunned.

Xia Jun is just 20 years old this year, so he is naturally very young, but none of these squires dare to underestimate Xia Jun, and he can get rid of Lujia Village, and he can't do it without any ability.

"Thank you for coming to discuss the autonomy of the village, from today onwards, all the villages in our Xixiang will be autonomous and will no longer pay taxes to the imperial court, and our security regiment will be responsible for clearing bandits for the township and protecting the safety of the villages." Xia Jun said with a wine glass.

"Head Xia, we don't pay taxes to the imperial court, so do we pay taxes to you?" A squire asked on the spot.

"Of course, in the future, all villages will have to pay taxes to the security corps, but our security corps will never be as arbitrary as the government, we will cancel all miscellaneous taxes, only collect land taxes, as for how much, under normal circumstances, it is definitely less than the government to collect, but this year the whole township is exempt from tax." Xia Jun said bluntly that at the current stage, Xia Jun does not have long-term economic income other than agriculture, and it costs money to raise soldiers, so this agricultural tax will naturally be collected.

"Head Xia, how can this autonomy govern the law?" Then another squire asked.

"Hongo is self-governing! It is to set up an autonomous council in Long Village, and each village will send a representative to participate in the council. "The autonomy that Xia Jun said is actually not to let these squires govern themselves, but to govern themselves.

This 'autonomous assembly' does not usually have much power, but is in charge of health, education, and infrastructure. The five aspects of justice, taxation, military, finance, and supervision will be in Xia Jun's hands.

Of course, the autonomous parliament also has a certain amount of regulatory power, which Xia Jun cannot ask for in terms of anti-corruption. At the same time, Xia Jun will also share some finances to the parliament, but the specific amount is still determined by Xia Jun.

Under this system, it is equivalent to Xia Jun directly interfering in the administration of each village, but each village has a certain right of autonomy, which is convenient for Xia Jun to buy people's hearts.

Because of the existence of the people's support system, Xia Jun is naturally reluctant to let the villages really be autonomous, they are truly autonomous, how can he buy people's hearts.

"Isn't it a rebellion not to pay taxes to the government?" Suddenly, a squire said.

"You can't say that, we are self-government, what is autonomy, that is, it is not subject to the government, the imperial court has policies, and all provinces have local areas that have entered the stage of autonomy, how can this be a rebellion?" Xia Jun's behavior is indeed no different from rebellion, but he still can't say that for the time being.

Although Xia Jun is not afraid to find out this layer of things, once it is clear that it is a rebellion, it will scare these people present, and it will take more effort to control Xixiang.

Knock them out first!

"The rebellion is to destroy the imperial court, we are just self-governing, at most we can only be regarded as bandits occupying the mountain as the king, have you seen the imperial court everywhere to eliminate bandits? As long as we have a certain strength, the government will naturally not come to find trouble, if you don't believe that our Jianzhou Security Corps has the strength to make Xixiang autonomous, I will let you see the strength of our Jianzhou Security Corps......"

A group of squires were stunned by Xia Jun that night, and everyone understood the benefits of autonomy, once they broke away from the government, the taxes they had to bear would be much lighter.

It's just that can this security group stop the government's counterattack?