Chapter Thirty-Seven: Forcing Poor Households to Plant Sweet Potatoes
After breakfast, Yu Xiang was preparing materials for the meeting in the room, looking at the stack of debt documents left by Gu Batian, Yu Xiang showed an imperceptible smile on his face. He put away the debt slip, opened a letter of appointment from the governor with the seal of the imperial court, looked at it carefully, folded it and put it away.
At this time, the red lady came, holding two copper heart goggles in her hands, and behind her, there were two followers, needless to say, Zhou Zhengxin and Zhao Sizi.
The red lady said: "Xianggong, I found two heart goggles, and I will put them on for you." ”
Yu Xiang looked at the red lady and said behind her: "They are here, it's inconvenient." ”
The red lady smiled, knowing that Yu Xiang was still unhappy about what happened last night, so she turned back to them and said, "You can wait for me outside the Yihe Hall." ”
The two respectfully clasped their fists and said, "Yes, obey!" ”
Then they walked out in unison.
Yu Xiang joked: "What? Are they your royal henchmen? ”
"Let them not follow, they won't listen, and they can't take away their kindness, can they?" The red lady said.
"Why don't you transfer them to the militia for you to send?" Yu Xiang joked.
"Thank you for your success! I'm going to go through the formalities! The red lady did not show weakness, and deliberately borrowed the slope to get off the donkey.
Yu Xiang shook his head and said: "You are so beautiful, they did a good job under Jia Binjiu, these two goods, they really arrived at the militia regiment, and they were hanging, I am afraid that they will shake the hearts of the army!" ”
The red lady giggled, and stopped teasing Yu Xiang.
Yu Xiang took off his coat, and the red lady helped Yu Xiang help the heart guard.
At this moment, two beautiful women, Chen Xiuwen and Miss Xu San, walked in hand in hand.
Yu Xiang wondered in his heart: When did the two of them become so good?
The red lady also saw the second daughter, deliberately pretended not to see it, and continued to help Yu Xiang tie up her breasts.
"Sister Matchmaker, are you busy?" This is Sammi Chen's voice.
"Yes, I found two heart goggles for Xianggong and helped him." The red lady deliberately said the word "Xianggong" more heavily.
Yu Xiang looked at this scene, and it seemed that he was about to fight again. Busy said: "Third Miss, Miss Chen, do you have something to do with the two of you coming to me?" ”
Miss Xu San said coldly: "Is it only when there is something that can come to you?" "There is a smell of unreasonable reprimanding of his subordinates, full of domineering!
Yu Xiang said: "This @#%¥, I mean that the third lady has nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace." ”
"Then I'll have to move around more in the future, so that our Yu Dazhai master can find fault with us, matchmaker, do you say yes?" After that, he looked at the red lady with a smile.
Yu Xiang was depressed, these three women fought when they met, and no one could afford to provoke them.
The red lady has tied up the heart goggles and helped Yu Xiang put on his coat.
Yu Xiang said: "Thank you two girls for your concern, I'm about to leave, the matchmaker will go with me, you two don't go out today, stay in the new village." ”
After that, Yu Xiang wanted to drive them away in this way and save them unpleasantness.
"Wait! I'm so anxious to get rid of us, I really don't know the hearts of good people! Miss Xu San took out a net-like thing from behind her back. This net is woven with steel wire loops, and at first glance it is a rare thing and worth a lot of money.
"Put this net on your head, it's made of pure steel, it's very strong, and it can resist bows and arrows and knife wounds." Miss Xu San said.
Chen Xiuwen said: "Sister Xu, let's help the owner of Yu Zhai bring it." ”
"Okay, help people to the end." Miss Xu San.
The two women couldn't help but say, stepped forward, took off Yu Xiang's scarf from the Quartet, and carefully put on a pure steel head for Yu Xiang.
With a good head guard, the two women looked at Yu Xiang carefully, and Yu Xiang was embarrassed.
Miss Xu San chuckled and said, "There are still a few gestures, which are worth a second look at by Miss Ben." ”
This sentence made Yu Xiang almost angry.
Yu Xiang was dressed neatly, escorted by three beauties, out of the Yihe Hall, Qi Dayong, Shengying, Li Gang and Ai Lianchi and others were already waiting for him at the door of the Yihe Hall, seeing Yu Xiang being sent out of the house by the three beauties like the moon, everyone was envious and jealous, these three beauties, needless to say, in Xincun, even Dongshuanghe Town, and even Fucheng may be difficult to find more beautiful than them.
Yu Xiang saw everyone's envious, jealous and hateful eyes, and sighed in his heart: One is okay, if these three are together, they will be offended, these beauties are not easy to deal with.
Zhou Zhengxin and Zhao Si immediately walked behind the red lady and looked at Miss Xu San and Chen Xiuwen with their unique hateful eyes. Yu Xiang happened to see their eyes, and was shocked, these two bastard boys, don't do anything to hurt them for the sake of the red lady.
Let's deal with these things when we come back from the meeting.
Yu Xiang didn't say anything more, everyone in Zhangjia New Village was waiting for them today, Mu Xiaoqing and Ah Niu led Qingzhuang to guard the new village, and Zhang Erhu led a part of the people to prepare to respond.
Out of the new village, Qi Dayong had already set up a mandarin duck formation outside the new village, Yu Xiang was arranged in the formation, and the entire army array moved forward in the way of a straight formation at the beginning.
Qi Dayong blew the bamboo whistle, and the team moved forward neatly, and everywhere he passed, there was a murderous aura.
The journey was very smooth, and there was no interception or interception by the enemy. The team soon arrived in the town of Dongshuanghe.
People stood on both sides of the street, looking at the new village militia with all the short hair, standing up and collaring Tang costumes, and the young men were all full of energy, revealing a vigorous spirit. The militia marched forward in a neat and orderly manner, giving people a great spiritual shock.
Besides, this Dongshuanghe Town, the name comes from the east end of the village, there are two small rivers passing through, these two rivers are originally one river, because of geological changes, in this place of Dongshuanghe Town, divided into two rivers, the river water is sufficient, and it has never been interrupted in people's memory.
A few days ago, Yu Xiang had ordered people to pull nets to fish in Shuanghe, and the fish caught improved the life of the new village, and the juvenile fish were stocked in the pond of the new village.
Without further ado, Yu Xiang and the others had already come to the east of the village on the valley flat, and Qi Dayong gave an order, and the soldiers scattered in all directions and guarded the four sides of the valley flat. The Red Lady, Ai Lianchi, Shengying and Li Gang stood beside Yu Xiang and vigilantly guarded Yu Xiang.
The squires who came to the meeting, when they saw this situation, were already so frightened that their legs and stomachs turned and trembled with fear. The Jinyi guards standing in the crowd, seeing this formation, couldn't help but admire Xincun from the bottom of their hearts, and the sentry of the Black Tiger Gang hurriedly passed the news to any knife who was ambushed in the mountains and forests.
When any knife saw the gods and demons, the black rakshasa and the cold-blooded Saburo heard the news, their faces did not show a look, and they looked disdainful, and any knife thought about last night, and then looked at the expressions of these people, and was angry, since these people were so arrogant and arrogant, it was good to let them suffer.
So Ren Dao didn't say anything, and motioned for the detective to go back and probe again, Ren Dao had already thought of a countermeasure, he glanced at these people coldly, and a sly sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth.
Besides, on the sun-dried valley in the east of the town, under Yu Xiang's majestic gaze, everyone quieted down. In front of Yu Xiang sat a well-known local squire, who had the right to speak in the local area.
Yu Xiang took out a letter of appointment and said to the big guy: "I have been appointed as the mayor of Dongshuanghe Town, managing Dongshuanghe Town, this is a letter of appointment, please check the ......" After that, he handed the letter of appointment to the squire who was recently respected and respected.
After the inspection, an old squire stood up and said, "This letter of appointment is indeed stamped with the official seal, and Yu Lichang is welcome to take office." ”
The crowd of onlookers greeted them.
Yu Xiang said: "Since I hold the post of Dongshuanghe Town, it is my duty to collect taxes, and every household must pay taxes and grain in accordance with the laws of the imperial court. ”
After Yu Xiang finished speaking, everyone exchanged heads and talked about it, collecting taxes is the responsibility of each lieutenant, but how to pay is the thing that everyone is most concerned about.
In the past, Gu Batian urged * the grain to make it miserable, and those who owed Gu Batian debts were even more worried about the amount of taxes, everyone saw Yu Xiang's formation, I was afraid that it was even more powerful than Gu Batian, and everyone was extremely worried.
Yu Xiang continued: "Each family takes out one-third of the field, this field is called the official grain field, and sweet potatoes must be planted, and the sweet potatoes harvested in the one-third of the official grain field are used to pay the official grain. The seedlings are provided by the new village, and the new village sends people to guide the planting from village to village. ”
The people in the audience listened to it and almost didn't believe their ears, as long as one-third of the fields were still provided by the new village? It's incredible.
In the past, many families had basically no surplus food except for paying official food for a year, but now they have a good situation, and two-thirds of the income from the fields goes to themselves, and the poor see a way out.
Yu Xiang took out another stack of IOUs and said: "This is the original Gujiazhai, the current Zhangjia New Village's arrears of farmers' IOUs." After Yu Xiang finished speaking, he looked at the crowd coldly.
Immediately, several people in the crowd collapsed to the ground, thinking that the debtor had come.
Yu Xiang continued: "In your fields, except for the official grain field to grow sweet potatoes, all other fields must be planted with sweet potatoes, as long as you are willing to plant sweet potatoes, the seedlings are provided by the new village for free, and these debts are completely waived. Otherwise, you must repay the money within a certain time, and if you fail to repay it when due, you must confiscate all your land to pay your debts. ”
When the paralyzed men saw that there was a way to live, they trembled and got up again. Finally there is a way to live, although I don't know what this sweet potato is, but it must be something that can be eaten, and it is better to live than to starve to death.
Seeing that everyone had no more objections, Yu Xiang dispersed the meeting.
Many people in the audience were confused and didn't know the song Yu Xiang sang.
The rich man dismisses it, isn't it just to take out one-third of the land, his family has land, and it doesn't matter if he takes out one-third.
Some poor households are worried, their lives are tight, and what sweet potatoes to plant, but look at today's situation, don't plant it, you can't do it, you can plant it tax-free, debt-free, you can only plant sweet potatoes, but you feel confused about the future, in case the sweet potatoes are not harvested, the family will not starve to death.
The poor old man Xu Tou came to the door to comfort him: "Brother-in-law, let's count one day at a time, don't be afraid, don't you all grow sweet potatoes in the new village, with them, don't be afraid!" ”
Lao Xutou's wife, Sun, burst into tears and said, "Can you eat this sweet potato?" My family has eaten the last meal now and there is no next meal, what if this sweet potato can't be eaten? ”
Lao Xutou's son Duoshui said: "Xinyu is long, he is a good person and will not harm us, he does this to us poor, this is not obvious." ”
Lao Xu said: "You rebel, you don't intervene when adults speak, what do you know, Lao Tzu lives so old, I haven't heard of sweet potatoes, what if you can't eat it?" ”
Many waterways: "I heard people say that the construction of the new village is like a paradise, and it will definitely not miss us, so I believe in the owner of the Yu village, if the new village recruits workers one day, I must go to the new village." ”
Lao Xu Tou saw that his son was older, and his son couldn't help his father, and he had his own idea, so he sighed!