The New Year is approaching, and there is a noisy carnival in the south, but in the south of the Yangtze River, there is a sense of gloom everywhere.

Outside Jiading City, Taicang, a group of farmers gathered to chat after plowing the winter idle fields. The smoke blurred his face and covered the emotions in his words.

"I can't understand the new imperial court's set of land taxes, and I still know whether to pay more or less when I get the spring tax next year."

"It's still the old way before, there is a row of shouli assigned, and everyone has a bottom in their hearts."

"The government's Nong Zhengshang is not to mention, what Qingtian People's Loan, Catholicism, and Shentong Bureau people are also taking turns to check the details, do you want to learn from the previous year's Dashuai and Li Zhengtai to copy the house?"

"The faces of the southerners are really unaccustomed to it, the opening is silver, and the eyes of us are like looking at animals......"

"What do you care about? Let's bury our heads in ourselves, and we can't get in the way of anyone, so let's think more about what to plant next year. ”

The thread pulled by these words was too heavy, and the emotions drove away the smoke, revealing a simple face with resentment.

"We have been assigned to Luodian Town here, and those officials in the past have become serious officials, and I don't know what day it is. Do you know who the town lord Bo is? The horse clerk of the county government punishment room! Their Ma family has been lacking in virtue all their lives, and now they have actually achieved positive results, cut ......"

"Earlier, the butter lang in the village gave the Longmen oil industry a merchant dynasty, but now it is developed, but he doesn't miss the hometown affection at all, and drives away other oil langs, and the price of rapeseed beans is still down......"

"What are canola beans? In the past, grain was collected directly, but now it is converted into silver. The old grain merchants were all knocked down, and the group of merchants turned over and became homeowners, one pressed harder than the other! ”

"Well, the price of this rice is really unfair, and now in this winter, a stone of good rice can't be sold for four dollars of silver. What is the use of the new imperial court to reduce the rent and reduce the emperor's grain? Let's Jiading, in the past, one mu of land was handed over two buckets of grain, and five or six buckets of grain were added and consumed, no matter how the price of grain changed, it was so much. Now the silver of an acre of land collects one dollar and five cents of silver, which sounds less than before, but when we sell grain, the price of grain is the cheapest, and we have to sell seven or eight buckets to get one dollar and five cents of silver......"

Speaking of the price of grain, everyone sighed, and a person just walked over, and when he heard this, he said loudly: "That was the rule that the Qing court had in the past few years, and the new court just used it." ”

Although the visitor was still dressed as a peasant, he was arrogant, and he wore the fashionable Ince scarf of the city people on his head, which looked particularly eye-catching.

"A few years ago? A few years ago, the Qing Dynasty was only in charge of the leather noodles of the south of the Yangtze River, and the officials and businessmen below were all helping the southern court, and this rule was not forced by them to change the Qing Dynasty? ”

"No matter which imperial court, anyway, our common people are the ones who pay the emperor's grain, the difference is only that they pay more and pay less, and now that they are counted, the new court is more ruthless than the Qing Dynasty."

"Lao Lin, what kind of town house do you have this, should you help our fellow villagers talk."

The peasants were more resentful and complained, but they had the heart to turn the topic to the visitor, and everyone realized that the identity of the person who came was extraordinary, and immediately shut up.

Lao Lin took off his scarf, revealing his head with only a layer of green stubble, and the other farmers subconsciously shrank their heads, not daring to let their braids be exposed.

Lao Lin Mo rubbed his head and said: "When the Long Live Lord saw us earlier, he already said that we Jiangnan people will have a good life sooner or later!" It's just that now that I have just returned to the imperial court, things are too chaotic, and the imperial court has to do things step by step. ”

Speaking of "Long Live Lord", this old forest's face was full of brilliance, and the other farmers were disdainful and faintly afraid in their eyes, but at this time there was also an extra layer of envy.

That was a month ago, Your Majesty...... It is not the Qianlong Emperor who has just ascended the throne in the north, but the Shengdao Emperor in the south, who summoned all parties in the south of the Yangtze River in Suzhou, the official eunuchs and gentry, the merchant pawns, the small farmers in the fields, everything, this old forest does not know what virtues he has accumulated in his previous life, and he was actually selected as a representative of the peasants, went to Suzhou to face the king, and was ordered by the town to be the courtyard of the town after returning. This fortunate event is afraid that Lao Lin will show off in front of people for a lifetime. …,

Lao Lin hummed a little song and left, and the peasants ate cigarettes silently, and it took a long time before they were humane: "This Lao Lin's son works for the Qing Dynasty, and he works for the new imperial court, and the north and the south have benefits to enjoy ......."

Another humanitarian: "We will only bury our heads in life, and we will not be able to learn." ”

Here Qianmo is vertical and horizontal, and the ridges of the mountains are stretched into small paths, and people come and go constantly. From the price of grain to the price of firewood, rice, oil and salt, and then to the ban of private schools, all of them went to public schools, and they no longer read the Four Books and Five Classics, but messy things, and even practiced martial arts, and their complaints became louder and louder.

"I thought it was just us suffering there, it turns out that this place is also so bitter, we fled here, do you have a place to live a relaxed life?"

A group of people came down from the path, dressed in rags, with a Shandong accent, and the leader was a big girl, with bright eyes, and an inexplicable temperament, which made the peasants ashamed of themselves at the same time, and felt uncomfortable not to tell the truth to this big girl.

"It's nothing to suffer, you can always count your life, but now like this, I don't know how to calculate it. Take it, maybe we'll have to follow your example somewhere, and run away somewhere. ”

The peasants were simple, chattering, and at the same time found some scraps of grain and handed them to the group.

"How can we be favored by our uncles in vain, we also have some skills, draw talismans to cure diseases and drive away evil spirits, or help uncles clear the bad luck in the family!?"

The eldest girl's eyelashes flickered, making the peasants unwilling to refuse.

"Draw a talisman to ward off evil spirits...... Zhang Jiu Mazi used to do this, but it didn't work a few years ago, and everyone didn't pay much attention to him. Now he has voted for Catholicism, and he is making a fuss in the village about what kind of heavenly temple to build, and he also says that this talisman is a crooked way, and whoever does this will report it to the government of the new court. Big girl, you have a good intention, don't cause you trouble......"

The peasants thought about the eldest girl, but she smiled sweetly, waved her hand and said that this is a thief shouting to catch a thief, whether there is real ability, Bibi knows.

"It's a pity that a good big girl, but she is a witch......"

The peasants shook their heads and sighed as they responded.

Witches, gods, and men are all in the countryside, and the people are indispensable. But whenever there is a difference in illness, Lang Zhong and the witch Shenhan, whoever is cheaper will look for whomever it is, even for insurance, looking for both sides. And the witches and gods are all psychic mediums, full of bad luck, most of them are lonely and single, and ordinary people dare not approach.

There are few people in the countryside who don't believe in these people, even if they don't believe in a witch god, they don't dare not believe in drawing talismans to drive away evil spirits.

"Okay, let's take a look, let that Jiumazi take out his new supernatural powers in what Catholicism he is there, and we will also see it."

The peasants said this, but their tone was full of doubts about Zhang Jiu Mazi.

The eldest girl was greeting her companions, and suddenly there was a noise among the fields and ridges in the distance, and she saw two groups of people scolding each other, faintly hearing words such as "seizing property" and "destroying the clan".

After a while, the scolding turned into a scuffle, and everyone was watching the excitement, Lao Lin hurriedly came, and said with a white face: "The Fang family is making trouble about the clan field!" We can't control how their clan land is divided, but it will be terrible if someone dies, so let's go over and persuade together! ”

Some of the peasants moved their mouths and some moved their legs, and their opinions were different. Everyone who talks about it says that this family is prosperous, and they make trouble with the family property, how can they allow outsiders to mix. Some people even shook their heads and sighed, saying that a while ago, the neighboring Liu family was also making trouble with the clan property, and this Fang family was about to lose.

"Originally, this Fang family has accumulated virtue for several lifetimes and raised the eldest family, and there are 100 acres of clan land in this area, but now it has fallen ...... for no reason."

"What's the unknown? It is clear that the government of the new court does not recognize the clan field, and it must be hung under the households, and the whole Jiading, I heard that countless people have been broken, and the Qing Dynasty has not been so bad, this new dynasty ...... Hi ......"...,

"The rich and powerful families have fallen like this, and then it will be our turn to be small. I heard that the new imperial court expanded the city and built the town very much, and the fields were destroyed one by one. ”

"What's more, they also set up workshops, put steam engines, burn coal all day long, the sky is full of black smoke, and there are no crops around."

The front is lively, and the back is also scolding.

The group of refugees from Shandong looked at each other, a faint smile appeared on their faces, and a man next to the eldest girl whispered: "The new dynasty is really unpopular in this Jiangnan, and the words of the holy aunt are really effective......

The eldest girl chuckled smugly and said, "With the blessing of the childless old mother, the Holy Dao Emperor and the Yongzheng Emperor are also the same dog!" No, it's more tyrannical than Emperor Yongzheng! Our great cause has a place to settle down. ”

Most of the peasants were still watching the excitement, and the front was also more lively, and suddenly there was a bang, and it was actually a firecracker, a fight, a play, and an instant chaos. After a long time, the woman's cry was heard.

Jiading Acting Governor sentenced Hou An to be very irritable, initially from the red-clothed soldier to the subordinate of the Yamen of the Law Division, when he put on the green-clothed official robe, he also fluttered and consciously ascended to heaven, he was a poor child in Hunan, he was able to enter politics from the army, and was in charge of criminal and prison affairs, I don't know what virtue he accumulated in his previous life.

But what happened next made him fall into hell, and a large stack of documents such as "Huangying Criminal Law" and "Huangying Legal Interpretation" made him dizzy. There was not much time left for them to receive Jiangnan's legal personnel, so they could only swallow dates.

After studying hard in January, it was like taking off a layer of skin, and I finally passed this hurdle. I thought that I could do this errand step by step in Jiangnan, as if I were following military law, and handle this errand steadily according to the terms of French, but I didn't want to make it difficult for any case to be handled completely in French. I tried to deal with it for a month, and half of the cases were refuted by the government justice department, and I felt both panicked and uneasy.

Now that there is another big case under his rule, Hou An can't sit still. Luodian's family fought for the ownership of the clan land, and people died!

This is not the first time he has to wait for his life. In just one month, he has received more than a dozen such cases in his hands since the government began to register his acres of land in the township, and the degree of violence varies, and this is only the first case in which a person has been killed.

It's nothing to give a life, since Jiangnan returned to Yinghua, Yinghua hastily set up the government team, and after receiving Jiangnan, chaos was frequent. Robbers are wantoning, and the remnants of the Great Righteous Society are rampant, which are all matters of public security. If the police escort a person to commit a crime, he can be convicted by issuing a document mutatis mutandis.

But if the human life comes out of the civil case, it will be troublesome, and if the murder case is solved, the ownership of the clan land must be solved, which makes him have a headache. Let's not talk about being picky in every way, just for a person's peace of mind. Jiangnan people can read and break words, Yinghua also corrected the name of the lawyer, and local scholars frequently came forward to fight for the criminal, and he couldn't resist it at all.

The previous more than ten cases of clan fields, each with its own internal information, this one was so decisive, the next one was so decisive, and the two litigators were scolded for being unfair in judging the case. There is still a human life in his hand, and he doesn't know what to do with it.

"What to do!? What to do!? ”

Hou An in his general judgment yamen, the former salt patrol yamen is like ants on a hot pot turning around, this place was the place where countless souls fell into the underworld, and at this moment Hou An also felt that he was in the underworld, and was suffering from the knife mountain oil pot.

"Jiangnan leather noodles have been much calmer, but under the leather surface, there are fine oil flowers jumping, I don't know when it will be ignited by sparks."

Longmen Jiangnan camp, camp counselor Song both frowned, and his tone was calm.

"I'm staying here not only to do leather work, but also to take care of things under the skin. Jiangnan has been in the middle of the river for two months now, and the situation should be roughly grasped, let's say, I want to know, what went wrong? What problems are caused by the differences between the North and the South? ”

Li Xian went to Jiangnan from the north in November, and his appearance announced that Jiangnan was officially included in the rule of Yinghua, and the chaos in Jiangnan was determined by this.

But this is only the hearts of the people on the face, Yinghua became the leader of Jiangnan, bringing a set of governance methods that are completely different from the original pattern of Jiangnan, and at the same time, due to the different interests and status of the old and the new, the treatment is also poor, so that the people's hearts are still boiling in the face. Li Shi originally wanted to rush back to spend the New Year with his wife and children, but now he had to continue to stay in Longmen and personally inquire about Jiangnan political affairs.

Gangnam ...... Without Jiangnan, it would not be China, and Jiangnan is the foundation of Yinghua's take-off.

But what's wrong with Jiangnan?

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