The weather in March in Luoyang, Chang'an, may be a little cold in the morning and evening, but for Shuzhong, it is a matter of temperature. Zhangjia Village was selected as the place to build the Banzai Pond, and now hundreds of people are working hard to excavate it. The monthly salary is 1,500 yuan, if you can't work on a monthly basis, calculated on a daily basis, it is 50 yuan per day, which is a lot of income for ordinary people.

Because of this, no matter how busy Chūn is, there are many people who want to join. Contrary to the reluctance to send errands to the official government, this time, there was almost a long queue at the place where the employment was done, until finally the sign that the quota was full, and those young and strong people who still wanted to earn some money to supplement their families reluctantly returned home. And as they came and went, in addition to the people who came together, other people who were living together gradually became acquainted, and there were more words.

Although the salary is good, Wang Rong knows that there is always a difference between people who are slippery and diligent, and the most important thing in building a pond is to dig the soil, so he naturally established a quantitative assessment index. A very few people wanted to come and mess around, but as soon as they were asked back, they were invited back. As for those who are extra diligent, after every rì accounting, they can also receive a piece of meat to go home, and they will naturally work harder in life.

Early in the morning, most of the people who went to work came, and after greeting each other in twos and threes, they took their respective tools and buried their heads in it. And when a middle-aged farmer who has always been diligent came half an hour late, someone who recognized him joked: "Kang Si, is your lady too pestering today, and she will come sooner or later?" When the time comes, you'll have to wait until the moon comes out."

Kang Siping was straightforward, and when he heard this joke, he sneered: "My family's mouth is pestering, but when your family's mouth knows the news, it will definitely be the same pestering person, you have heard, the field that was registered before, the original land tax will be halved, and from next year, it will be levied as it is."

"What"

As soon as these words came out, many people around stood up straight and looked over, but soon someone smiled and said: "Kang Si, you are hiding deep enough, your family was actually taken out of the field before?" Tsk, my own fields are just enough to plant, by the way, forget you're a customer......"

Those who come here to work, there are residents and customers, although they are not clearly distinguished, it is inevitable to occasionally stab each other. Kang Si, who was already burning like a charcoal fire in his heart, was ridiculed by this person, and immediately became even more annoyed, and immediately said coldly: "My family's field is only a dozen acres, and my family members are all domestic servants in the city.

As soon as these words came out, there was an uproar among customers. In the past, the government was in the household, and it was really up and down for a long time. If it weren't for the fact that the punishment was too severe, and the whole country was covering the household, no one would be willing to re-register the household registration. And the promise of five years of exemption from servitude also gave them at least a corresponding buffer period, and everyone expected that after three and five years, the imperial court would issue corresponding preferential policies.

I didn't expect this thunderbolt to come so quickly

"Kang Si, are you serious?"

"I have a distant relative in the government who has some access to the government, and I just asked him about the previous thing, and said that it was true, and there was an official document if it was not rì. As for the latter thing, the halving of the land tax will be abolished, let alone the five-year exemption from servitude? I knew it wasn't going to happen, I knew it."

Kang Si said, while throwing the hoe in his hand suddenly, his face showed deep despair: "It was because my grandfather was seriously ill back then, and the government drew government soldiers, one household and one ding, but he still wanted him to go, my brother had to leave his pregnant sister-in-law, and as a result, he never came back, and his grandfather couldn't afford to be sick, so he died, my sister-in-law gave birth to a son, and waited for three years, but what he waited for was death, and he threw himself into the river in despair." As a result, the government still had to come to collect the family's land, saying that they should be returned to the public after death, why didn't those big families look at them to collect it"

He sat on the ground with his buttocks, covered his face and said in a mournful voice: "There are more and more people fleeing from my hometown, and the servitude assigned to my body is getting heavier and heavier, I fled all the way to Shuzhong with my family, and it has only been how many years have passed, and it is easy to look forward to such a peaceful and prosperous era, and Weishenme can't let me live in peace and stability."

These words immediately resonated with many customers. Everyone has a heart for the countryside, if it is not really impossible to live, who is willing to leave the land where their ancestors have lived for generations, and leave their hometown to go to those unknown foreign lands? Even if the climate in Shuzhong is suitable, even if the land in Shuzhong is fertile, even if Shuzhong is rich and prosperous...... But in their hearts, they naturally still think about their hometown. It's just that since they have been in Shuzhong for so many years, they are also willing to continue to live in this place for a long time and in peace, but the premise is not to carry such a heavy burden so quickly

I don't know how long that unspeakable silence lasted, and finally someone said: "Even if we don't give it back next year, we can still earn a lot of money in the next few months......

"This kind of good errand is only a few months, do you think there are years and months? Save this money, even a year can't support it" The one who spoke was a young and strong descendant, when he saw clearly the thin young man who spoke, he finally sneered, "Your family still has more than 100 acres of land, of course you can say this, my family only has a dozen acres of thin land, but there are three Dingkou, where to pay the rent of 300 acres, the mediocrity of the three people?" ”

According to the news revealed by Kang Si, the customers who have little field at home or have no field at home, and can only survive by working for others have the greatest impact. As a result, the dispute in this corner soon spread to the entire construction site, and it caused an uproar in a moment. When the people on patrol found this sign and hurriedly reported it, and finally reached the ears of people from all sides, immediately someone who woke up and went to Du Shiyi to report it.

The conflicts and disputes between locals and outsiders, the dissatisfaction of locals with the living space of outsiders, and the dissatisfaction of outsiders with their living conditions have not been resolved until thousands of years later, not to mention the more profound contradictions in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, Du Shiyi did not dare to slack off at all, and after carefully asking a few groups of people who came to report various specific details, he suddenly frowned.

He knew all the preparations before Feng Chan, and he knew that the huge expenses would be canceled next year, and he had already heard the rumors, and he would be exempted from servitude for five years and end next year, why hadn't he heard such rumors?

"Come on, go and invite Sihu Lieutenant Wu Shaofu"

Maybe it's because the officials don't have the time to take care of a small Chengdu lieutenant, or maybe there are a few states and counties that lack subordinate officials in the whole world, all in all, although Wang Ming has been hanging the crown for a few months, but another vacancy in Chengdu lieutenant has not been filled, and Wu Zhiming can only live alone in two people. At this moment, when Wu Zhiming came at the order, he could see a clear bloodshot in his eyes, obviously he was really busy these days.

"Wu Shaofu, there are rumors outside that the imperial court will cancel the five-year exemption of customers from service next year, have you heard of it?"

Wu Zhiming was suddenly a little dazed: "Is there such a thing?" Although I am in charge of Cao Tian Cao, neither the Yizhou Assassin Mansion nor the Dadu Governor's Mansion have such documents. ”

"So, it's a rumor." Du Shiyi knew that Wu Zhiming was not a dull person, but he didn't turn his mind for a while because he was busy. Sure enough, as soon as he said this, the other party immediately realized, and his face became extremely solemn. He nodded slightly, and then said, "This matter was first spread from the place where the Banzai Pond was built, but I'm afraid there are already signs of this outside." Don't delay, hand over what you have to those officials in advance, and go and summon the village leaders everywhere first. If that's the case, come back to me at three o'clock."

"Yes, I'll go"

Although Wu Zhiming went immediately, Du Shiyi remembered what he had said to Wei Li before, and his heart couldn't help but feel heavy. Now, it has developed as I expected, and rumors cannot be dispelled by ingenuity. The old saying has proven this time and time again. Although he is a Chengdu Order, and he is a popular Chengdu Order, it is a real test in the sinister situation that may develop into the future.

Sure enough, before Wu Zhiming went to investigate, news came from the east and west gates of Chengdu City almost at the same time - someone left the city with his family and children under an impostor name, but he was stopped, and the two groups of people had all been sent to the Yizhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and it should be a customer depending on the situation

Hearing this news, Du Shiyi almost didn't think about it, so he immediately left the county party and rushed to the Yizhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion to see Fan Chengming. And this time, Fan Chengming did not avoid it, but met him in the study, but his tone did not have the usual kindness, but brought a little sternness.

"Impostor, trying to flee with his children, it is simply unreasonable, rumors are everywhere now, saying that the reduction and exemption of land tax will be cancelled, and customers will no longer be exempted from servitude for five years, this is all official information from the DPRK and China, many of which I have never even heard of, but I don't know where it came from If I didn't notice the signs and let the city gate be strictly checked, I don't know how many people will follow suit after these two rounds."

After losing his temper like this, Fan Chengming seemed to be a little tired, took a deep breath and said lightly: "People sent to the Yizhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion are just those city gate guards who took my orders." This case should have been managed by you, the Chengdu Order, and you should bring back the people of the Four Realms to move, and at this moment, you need to go all out to do so."

Seeing Fan Chengming's expression of course and high hopes, Du Shiyi sneered in his heart, and after respectfully agreeing on his face, he turned around and walked out of the study. And after he went out, a figure came out from behind the screen on the side, it was none other than the former prime minister Zhang Jiazhen's favorite general, Miao Yanhei, who once served as a scholar in the official residence However, now he is wearing a civilian robe, which looks better.

"Before this trip to Yaozhou, it was also a great pleasure to be able to see Du Shijiu's advance and retreat."

From the middle scholar all the way to the debasement, now he has to go to the most remote southwest Yaozhou to serve as a assassin, Miao Yansi gritted his teeth not to mention. Although Zhang Shuo and Zhang Jiazhen were not in harmony, he was so depressed, but he deliberately went to Yizhou on this trip in the hope that he could express his heart to Zhang Shuo through Fan Chengming. Because, he never wants his career to be ruined in a remote place like Yaozhou

"If the young man can't suffer some setbacks, how can he grow?"

For Miao Yansi, Fan Chengming is naturally no stranger. I think that this person, as Zhang Jiazhen's heart, didn't know how many stumbling blocks Zhang Shuo had made, so as soon as Zhang Shuo came to power, he immediately sent such an ignorant guy far away, and after the time passed, he directly drove people to Yaozhou, a place that borders the barbarians. Even so, when Miao Yansi wanted to see him when he crossed the border, he did not refuse to leave.

"Fan makes Jun clever and calculating, I can't do it." Miao Yansi bowed deeply as if he was convinced, and then said sincerely, "This is a long way to Yaozhou Mountain, and it is inconvenient for me to stay in Chengdu any longer. However, my two sons are now in Chang'an, and I also ask Fan to help you when you are promoted. Shangdang Miao has made some achievements in Jinshike over the years, and my derogation is just enough, if it affects them......"

This means that the children of the Shangdang Miao clan can be recruited as his disciples?

Fan Chengming's heart moved, but he didn't say whether he agreed or not, and after a haha, he sent Miao Yansi out. When he learned that he had left the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and set off immediately, he raised his eyebrows thoughtfully.

Even if it is a famous family, it is not so easy to produce a jinshi, but in the past few years, the Shangdang Miao family has produced three jinshi, Miao Jinqing, Miao Hanye, Miao Hanze, and the strong hematopoietic ability of the family can be seen If it can be taken under the door, it is also an arm to help. This favor, he can help Miao Yanhe. But if he hated Miao Yansi himself, he would be insensitive to him

When Du Shiyi brought these two groups of a total of fifteen people from the Yizhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion back to Chengdu County, it happened that Wu Zhiming came out of it. He had also heard about the two cases intercepted by the east and west gates of Chengdu City, and the case of impersonation, so for the dozen men, women, and children strung together by this rope, he only glanced at it and then withdrew his gaze, and arched his hand to Du Shiyi: "Ming Gong, I have something to tell." ”

"Hold the people first. The breath in the prison was turbid, except for the two heads of households, the rest of the people were divided into men and women, and they were first locked up in the front yard and porch, and sent guards to not treat them harshly. After I saw Wu Shaofu, I will be tried immediately. ”

Hearing Du Shiyi say this, the two families who had just been depressed had different faces, and the two heads of the family were a little chilled by the consequences of implicating the whole family, and most of the female dependents thought of Du Shiyi's fair and upright reputation and had expectations. Therefore, when Du Shiyi and Wu Zhiming hurriedly entered, the people strung by the two ropes looked at me, and suddenly Kang Si, who was forty years old, knelt down with a plop.

"Du Mingfu, I really heard what people said, and the customer's exempted service will be gone from next year, so I have the courage to cross the ......."

Without waiting for these words to be finished, Du Shiyi turned his head and shouted: "Chengdu County Party will be tried according to the law, don't say anything about it, take it down."

When he arrived at the study with a calm face and a silent voice, Du Shiyi temporarily sent Chen Baoer and Cui Jaw back, and then asked Wu Zhiming, "How?" ”

"Du Ming Mansion, due to a momentary emergency, there are only three lizheng, and two village zhengzheng rushed over immediately. None of them revealed the same time. At the earliest, seven or eight days ago, I heard the news that the customer's land tax would also be paid according to the register, and in the past few days, I heard that the exemption from servitude would be abolished. And the latest, it was a fang in the city, and it was said that although there were many customers in the shop, he had not heard the news, and this person was honest and should not talk nonsense. ”

"Take the map of Chengdu"

Du Shiyi commanded, and Chibi hurriedly spread out the map on the huge desk. And Du Shiyi outlined the villages and towns on the map one by one with charcoal according to Wu Zhiming's words, and then thoughtfully listed them according to the distance and time, and finally put down the pen and clapped his hands again, and sneered heavily.

"According to common sense, such news should have been leaked from the government, and it should have been spread from Chengdu City. But this time, the news began to spread to the city from outside, with ill intentions

"Then Ming Gong, what should I do next? Shall I send people down to punish those who spread rumors? ”

"Nope." Du Shiyi stretched out his hand to stop, and after a moment of silence, he shook his head and said, "Many people are the same as the clouds, and now I am afraid that the people who spread these things at the beginning have already retreated safely, and the rest are either some good things for the people, or customers related to their vital interests." This kind of false rumor, that is something that can't be stopped, until now, it is better to be sparse, first quickly cut through the chaos and solve these two impostors, and then talk about others

Speaking of this, he said to Wu Zhiming, who nodded again and again: "I remember asking you to count a few years ago, how much wasteland is there in the four realms of Chengdu outside the register?" ”

"Yes, but time is pressing, I can only make a rough count, most of them are barren hills that can't even be planted with tea trees, and as for the flat land that can be cultivated, there are less than 3,000 acres. There are about 3,000 acres of mountainous land where tea trees can be planted. ”

The amount of 3,000 mu seems to be very large, but on the basis of huge customers, it is simply a drop in the bucket, and it is not enough to even fill the gaps. This is also because Chengdu is too rich and has a large population, year after year, and now the government does not give enough land, let alone wasteland. And when Du Shiyi asked how much of this batch of vocational land was collected by the civil and military officials before, and only gave Su Erdou per mu, and then distributed to the fugitive households, Wu Zhiming hesitated for a moment, and then sighed.

"When this was implemented, there were many complaints." He saw Du Shiyi's solemn face, knowing that this former Beijing official of Chengdu Ling, I was afraid that he didn't know the inside story at all, so he explained it one by one.

"The foreign official is less than the Beijing official, but the foreign official is higher than the Beijing official. For example, Ming Gong is a six-pin county order, and the vocational field is 500 mu, and the annual rent per mu ranges from 2 to 6 dou, which is at least 1,000 to 3,000 dou a year. Nowadays, in the peaceful and prosperous times, the price of rice is cheap, a bucket of rice is only a dozen Wen, and the most expensive is only twenty or thirty Wen, even if you collect six buckets a year, how much is this? Now each acre of professional land is only given by the official to two buckets, but it is less and less than before, and it seems that I am difficult to maintain. In fact, most of these jobs are the land of the people who have encroached upon, and many of the so-called rented crops are forcibly apportioned additional taxes, and there is no way to talk about whether they are distributed to the fugitive households. ”

For most officials, the so-called vocational field is just another income, because no one will spend that god, and he will send people to hire tenants to farm, but it is just the general charge of the Tuntian Langzhong of the Ministry of Industry of Shangshu Province, and the subordinate officials at the bottom will collect such an extra amount of rice through the officials of various states and counties, and then distribute it to the officials at all levels. If it wasn't Wu Zhiming who came up from the officials, most officials wouldn't know that the vocational fields that had been used until the beginning of the Ming Dynasty still had such a greasy. So, Du Shiyi knew that it was absolutely impossible to hope to solve the problem of landlessness, and immediately took a deep breath.

"Let's go, first solve the two cases that directly alarmed Fan Yuanjun, and then talk about your trial, and I'll listen to it

Du Shiyi focused on the three words of Fan Yuanjun. And Wu Zhiming heard that it was his own trial, although it was according to the law, he was also familiar with the deeds of these criminal household laws, but just now the clear expectation of Du Shiyi to come forward, he suddenly showed a little hesitation, and nodded after a while. Seeing that he agreed, Du Shiyi summoned him over and whispered a few words, which immediately made Wu Zhiming suddenly realize.

"Thank you Ming Gong for raising your ......"

"Don't thank me, you are now a captain and a thief hunter, this trial was originally your duty, as long as you have actual performance, why is it difficult to take a step forward?"

When more than a dozen men, women, and children were caught up in the punishment hall, and noticed that it was not Du Shiyi who was sitting on the main seat, but the middle-aged man who seemed to be a subordinate official of the county party before, Du Shiyi was just sitting diagonally next to him and flipping through a book, many people in the two families showed disappointed expressions, especially Kang Si.

Sure enough, compared to Du Shiyi, the county lieutenant known as Wu Shaofu was even more outspoken, and when the two parents reluctantly admitted that it was indeed an impostor who had asked for a place, the other party's shocking slap was extremely loud.

"According to the laws of Yonghui, those who impersonate themselves will be imprisoned for one year" Wu Zhiming's voice was more high-pitched than Du Shiyi, and he saw that many women and children were trembling, so he slowed down and said in a calm tone, "However, Nian Zaier and others listened to people's words, not intentionally, and the two families were all impersonated by listening to their parents, only blaming the parents, not other people, and putting the parents of these two families out, according to the sentence of one young and two grades, ninety rods"

As soon as this order came out, not only Kang Si, who was paralyzed on the ground at first, and another parent were stunned, but the dozen or so people behind them were all on the spot. Ninety canes seem to be too heavy to ordinary people, but for them who were found to be impostors at the city gate and then intercepted, this is simply a light punishment, you know, whether it is according to the household, or according to the fake place, together, all the adults in the family are not too much to spend three years, and the woman in such a heavy labor, ten of them are either unable to support it, or become the plaything of the servants

"Thank you Wu Shaofu, thank you Wu Shaofu"

Seeing Kang Si, who was in his forties, suddenly kowtow and thanked him, Du Shiyi dropped the scroll and stood up.

"Whether the imperial decree will be changed, there is a public announcement by the government, and hearsay cannot be taken from the first offense such as Er, Wu Shaofu will be lightly punished, even if I try it, although the unjust case should be peaceful, but the one who should be punished will never be tolerated I know that many landless floating households have always been poor, and they are more afraid of changing the decree, since the Ming rì, there will be various policies and decrees made public."

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