Chapter 53 Spread into acres

The spring breeze in March blew away the remnants of the cold on the land, and Danzhou began to prosper.

However, today there is a peculiar scenery in the direction of the city gate. Five small platforms about two meters high rose from the ground near the city gates. On each stood a young man holding a small, large tin bucket (the original version of the megaphone).

"Fellow villagers, the decree issued by Lord Thorn Shi is to measure the field, and those who have no arable land, or less than 30 acres of arable land, can go to the Thorn Shi Mansion to register. The government will issue 30 acres of barren land for everyone to cultivate, and the first year will be exempt from tax, half of the tax will be exempted in the second year, and the normal tax collection will begin in the third year! Also, folks, you can hear clearly! Lord Thorn has decided to waive the poll tax! Spread into the mu, one of the ten taxes per mu. ”

The loud voice of the announcer was clearly transmitted through the loudspeaker to the ears of everyone who walked by, and there was a notice in the direction of the city gate. The notice was issued in the name of the Danzhou regimental training envoy and the assassin history.

Hundreds of years later, Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty was established. The spread of the land into the mu allowed the population to surge during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty and solved the problem of hidden households. At the same time, it also eased the contradictions between the landlords and the peasants, but also greatly increased the burden on the landlords. As a result, the emperor, who was no less talented than Kangxi and Qianlong, was attacked by a large number of scholars, which made Yongzheng's reputation stink.

Li Cunhuan had just issued this order, and someone immediately came to ask for a meeting. This person is not a landlord, but Yu Qingfeng, a local Confucian in Danzhou, Yu Qingfeng is over seventy years old, has participated in the imperial examination, and passed the Ming Jing examination and became a jinshi.

(Ming Jing, which means to be familiar with the scriptures, these scriptures are mainly scriptures written by saints, such as "The Book of Rites", "Spring and Autumn Zuochuan", "Zhou Li", "Zhou Yi" and other scriptures.) ）

So he is also a respected old man in Danzhou, Li Cunhuan originally thought that this guy was a Confucian on the surface, but in fact he was a big landowner. As a result, I asked Wu Bifu, but I found that this old guy only had fifty acres of land at home, although it was very good among ordinary people, but he could only be regarded as a rich peasant. Li Cunhuan's policy did not have a big impact on them, but Li Cunhuan couldn't imagine that the first person to come to him was such a guy.

However, Li Cunhuan still gave enough courtesy to Yu Qingfeng, although Yu Qingfeng was just a Guozi assistant teacher from Liupin before returning to his hometown. And Li Cunhuan is a state assassin history, although it is just a history of Xiazhou assassination, which is considered to be a positive fourth grade, but it is also much higher than Yu Qingfeng, but Yu Qingfeng's old man really reads and reads bad heads, or for some reason, he actually accepted Li Cunhuan's politeness to him, without a little modesty, or sincere fear, which made Li Cunhuan feel so boring.

The two sat down separately, Li Cunhuan asked his subordinates to serve fragrant tea, and immediately got straight to the point: "I don't know what Mr. is looking for me?" If there is no important matter, Mr. Wan Wang is not surprised, I still have a lot of official documents to deal with here. This is related to the livelihood of 150,000 people in Danzhou. ”

Although Li Cunhuan smiled and spoke, the meaning of expulsion in his words was already obvious.

Although Yu Qingfeng usually specializes in studying scriptures, he is not an idiot to this extent, he is very conceited, and the most despised are those martial artists, who can't be safe, can't settle the country, and fights all day long, so that a good Tang Dynasty will be shattered. Now when he heard Li Cunhuan's words, his face turned red with anger, and he snorted coldly and said: "The old man just came to ask Li Tingshi, Li Tingshi, are you an official of the Tang Dynasty or a general of the rebels!" ”

Li Cunhuan was furious when he heard this, mainly because of Yu Qingfeng's title, Yu Qingfeng also called Li Cunhuan an adult before, but now he actually kicked his nose on Li Tingshi. On the surface, there is nothing special about Li Tingshi, but it is generally between the same level, and the superior is the name of the subordinate. There are still rebel generals behind, and Li Cunhuan is clearly placed in a very dark position.

"Old Master, what do you mean by that? Could it be that this official still needs your Guozi teaching assistant to teach? Li Cunhuan also changed his tone and title, and he didn't call Yu Qingfeng Mr. anymore, but directly called him the old master. I don't call myself casually, but I call myself my own official, and I clearly use my official position to suppress Yu Qingfeng.

Yu Qingfeng's chin and beard stood up, and he couldn't care about Li Cunhuan's face, and reprimanded angrily: "You are an official of the Tang Dynasty, but you have changed the tax system privately. How is this different from the rebels? ”

When Li Cunhuan heard this, he immediately realized that he couldn't help but feel a crying and laughing feeling in his heart. This old guy is actually a stupid person who reads books. Now the world is in turmoil, and some local feudal towns are exempting taxes in order to recuperate. In some places, in order to increase the number of troops, some feudal towns increased taxes. There are so many such things, not ten thousand, but nine thousand nine.

In particular, Li Cunhuan's Lulong is one of the three towns in Hebei, and the three towns in Hebei are the three towns of Lulong, Weibo, and Chengde, which are the three generals of the rebel army who surrendered to the Tang Dynasty in the later period of the Anshi Rebellion. In order to encompass these three generals, the Tang Dynasty set up three towns. However, it has also formed a situation where the tail is too big to fall.

Although the three towns nominally submitted to the Tang Dynasty, in fact, the envoys of the three towns were not designated by the imperial court, but were auto-heirlooms of sons and nephews, or subordinates who seized the throne. At the same time, unlike other feudal towns, they would more or less provide some taxes to the imperial court. Instead, all tax collection is for their own use, and the soldiers and horses in their hands only know the envoys of the festival, but not the imperial court. It's like a small kingdom of reading.

The three towns of Hebei have long been entrenched, and even a Ming monarch like Tang Xianzong did not solve such a problem in the end. It's just to make the three towns of Hebei superficially surrender.

That's why Li Cunhuan had a feeling of crying and laughing, feeling that this old guy was too stupid. Things that the imperial court can't control, you old guy actually came up. The anger in Li Cunhuan's heart also went by three points, and he didn't talk to Yu Qingfeng much, and directly asked Sha Yuke to bring people in, and set up this old guy to send him out.

Yu Qingfeng, the old master, scolded even more on the way, but Li Cunhuan just didn't hear it, and he didn't want to deal with this nerd who reads and reads and hurts his head.

PS: I'm sorry to delay the update because of some personal matters. Tomorrow's three watches! There may be five more! It's up to you to make recommendations! Come on, everyone!

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