Chenliu County is located in the southeast of Kaifeng City, less than 100 miles away from Kaifeng, and the Bianhe River, the main artery of Caoyun that communicates the capital and Jianghuai, flows through the north of Chenliu City; If the cargo ship takes the waterway, it is just a day's journey from Chenliu to Kaifeng, and the businessmen who enter and leave the capital usually stay overnight in Chenliu, and there are countless boats docked at the wharf in the north of the city every day; Therefore, although the county seat of Chenliu is not large, it is extremely prosperous, and there are many merchants with a north-south accent like a carp crossing the river.

At noon on this day, a dusty carriage drove into Chen Liuximen, through the half-rolled curtain, it can be seen that there is a scholar and a scholar sitting inside, in addition, there is a young female crown sitting in the car, the three of them are Han Bi'er and his party who came to Chen Liu to check the wolfberry market, in order to travel conveniently, she and Qingye have changed into men's clothes.

The procurement of the pharmacy is a very important position, once something goes wrong, it will have a significant impact on the operation of the pharmacy, after a little suspicion of Ding Shijiu, Han Bi'er immediately decided to find out in person, someone is thinking that she is playing tricks under her nose, which Han Bi'er will never allow.

But as soon as she entered the county, Han Bier immediately felt that the atmosphere was abnormal, hundreds of people gathered on the street, some were depressed, some were indignant, and they were discussing in a noisy manner.

"Guo Erlang, stop the car quickly, you hurry up and inquire, what are these people doing, go quickly!"

The new tax law was proposed by Yang Yi, and clearing the land is the premise of the implementation of the new tax law.

Guo Erlang, who was driving the car, got the order, hurriedly parked the car, and ran to inquire among the people, and the hindsighted Aoba persuaded: "Lady, what are we going to do with this idle matter?" It's better to hurry up and inquire about the market of wolfberries, otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to return to the capital tonight! ”

"You stupid girl, didn't you listen to them shouting about the land clearance? What is wolfberry, this is a serious matter! Look at this situation, if Chen leaves a big mess, I am afraid that it will affect Yang Lang. ”

"Great officials? Oh, then I'll inquire too. Aoba couldn't help but say something, and jumped out of the car.

At this time, Lin Miao, who had been closing his eyes and recuperating his mind, said softly: "Someone is deliberately inciting the people to make trouble. ”

She never opened her eyes from beginning to end, Han Bi'er couldn't help but look at her suspiciously, the noise outside the car was loud, she couldn't hear who was inciting, could it be that this fake Taoist priest could really pinch it?

"Believe it or not!" Lin Daochang still closed his eyes, but the words he said made Han Bi'er angry, and her heart became more vigilant.

Soon, Guo Erguo ran back and reported: "Han Dongjia, the little one has inquired, that's the case, Chen Liushang's family refused to return the land that the original people sent in his family's name, and the people took the lawsuit to the county government, and the county ruled that Shang's family won the lawsuit, and the people were not convinced, and there have been several troubles these days, and the number of troublemakers is increasing......"

"Chen Liushang's family?" Han Bi'er was even more suspicious, most of the wolfberries in the pharmacy were purchased from the Shang family, and she naturally had a certain understanding of the Shang family.

In fact, as long as there are people who often come and go to Chen Liu, there is no one who does not know Chen Liushang's family, and thirty percent of the shops in the city belong to the Shang family, in addition, there are at least 30,000 acres of land outside the city that fall under the name of Shang Yuanwai.

The Shang family is not only rich, but also powerful and not to be underestimated, Shang Yunzhi, the second lang of the Shang family, is now the governor of Qizhou, which is not enough, and what is even more remarkable is that it is said that Shang Yuanwai's younger brother is the steward eunuch of Longyou Palace.

What is Ryuyu Palace? That is the palace where the Empress Dowager Xiang lives today.

With such power, Shang Yuanwai can say that stomping his feet can also make Chen Liu's tremble, and his speech is more effective than that of the county magistrate, so there are countless people who are attached to the Shang family in the entire Chen Liu.

After Guo Erlang and Aoba's addition, things are basically clear:

It turned out that the Shang family had more than 30,000 acres of land in name, but in fact, half of the land was sent to the Shang family by ordinary people. Some are forced and some are voluntary.

The people take their own land to send it, the rent collected by the Shang family is less than the original two taxes of the imperial court, don't underestimate this bucket, although it is only worth seventy or eighty dollars, but for the people who live in poverty, a bucket of rice is often their life-saving food when they survive the green and yellow crops, so there are still a lot of people who voluntarily send the fields to the name of the Shang family.

As a result, as soon as the new tax law of Shaosheng was introduced, it was chaotic, and the biggest feature of the new tax law of Shaosheng was that all miscellaneous taxes were exempted, and the positive tax became the collection of acres, that is, no matter whose name you sent it to, it could not be exempt from tax.

As a result, most of the people wanted to recover their land, because the imperial court exempted all miscellaneous taxes, and although the regular taxes increased, the total amount of taxes that the people needed to pay was nearly 10% less than the original, and they were quite happy to accept it.

Shang Yuanwai is not happy, not only does his family's more than 10,000 acres of land have to pay taxes, but once the people want to return to their own fields, his family will have to collect more than 10,000 acres of rent, and the loss will be big, which is simply the life of Shang Yuanwai!

The monk is outside his own power, and he has a heart, pay the tax, pay the tax, anyway, he can't return the land to you bitter haha; It's okay, the rent you gave to my family in the past was less than the tax of the imperial court for one acre, and it took advantage of my family for so many years, now don't want to pat your ass and even take people away; Let's hand over the rent I owe me first, I didn't bully people like this, the court bullied me, you bitter haha also want to bully me, no way!

The people are no longer dry, the land was originally mine, and it was sent to your Shang family's name, but we have paid you rent every year according to the amount we have discussed, and now you have to add another bucket, what is the difference between that and the original court tax?

If that's the case, why did we send the land to your Shang family in the first place? Why don't we pay taxes directly to the imperial court, so that we can still win the title of loyal taxpayers!

The two sides said that the public was reasonable, and the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was reasonable, and there was a lot of trouble, the Shang family held the land deed, and the people held the white deed.

The so-called white deed should be explained here, the Great Song Dynasty is allowed to buy and sell land freely, but in order to curb land annexation, the government has to charge a high handling fee during the sale process, and then stamp the official seal on the contract between the two parties to the transaction, and officially recognize the validity of this contract.

There is red and white, and many people are reluctant to pay this fee, so they spread the official mansion and trade privately, and the contract they signed privately has no official seal, so it is called white deed; Like the common people and the Shang family, this kind of trickery also involves the white deed, the two sides first go to the government to sign a red deed, and transfer the land to the Shang family's name in the official face, because the Shang family is the official family, can be exempt from tax, transferred to the Shang family's name of these land, the people do not have to pay taxes.

Then the people then signed a white deed with the monk's family, which stated that the fields belonged to the people, and at the same time stipulated how much rent should be paid to the Shang family each year.

Before the promulgation of the new tax law in Shaosheng, if the two parties were divided due to the transaction, if they used this kind of white deed to file a lawsuit, it would not be recognized by the government.

However, when the new tax law was promulgated, Yang Yi and Zhang Dian had already thought of this, and they also made new explicit regulations for the Baiqi court.

In response to this kind of fraudulent behavior, the new regulations stipulate that if the white deed is signed after the red deed, the government will recognize it, and the official eunuch's house must return the land to the people.

In case the white deed is signed before the red deed, I'm sorry, the field is someone else's, the government does not recognize it, you can only consider yourself unlucky, the government has not investigated you for tax evasion for so many years, your family has no land, and you will not have to pay taxes in the future, so be it!

Of course, the government is encouraging land reclamation, and there is no tax on newly opened fields for five years, which is also a way out, and you can try it.

The court disposed of it separately in this way, which was considered holistically, and the fields involved in the treacherous mail were usually signed after the white deed and the red deed, that is, most of the people's fields could be returned; But if the white deed is the standard, doesn't that mean that the red deed stamped by the government is invalid? So where is the credibility of the government? Due to this concern, the imperial court can only determine whether the red contract is valid or the white contract is valid according to the order in which the contract is signed.

But here in the Shang family, most of the fields sent by the scheming are signed before the red deed, the reason is that the Shang family has a very bad reputation, before the people signed the red deed, the Shang family no longer renewed the white deed with the people, and directly occupied the land that signed the red deed, so the people are extremely distrustful of the Shang family, and most of them choose to sign the white deed first, and then sign the red deed to the government.

This kind of behavior is extremely rare, but it happened in Chenliu.

The Shang family occupied the reason, refused to return the people's land, the people sued the county government, the county Qianlong is a person who admits death, and directly awarded the field to the Shang family according to the regulations, if it is only one or twenty households of people, no one dares to make trouble, but more than 10,000 acres of land, involving thousands of people.

After many times to find the Shang family to negotiate to no avail, people became more and more emotional, which has caused several small-scale brawls, injuring more than a dozen people; This kind of brawl caused by the land of Qingzhang also occurs from time to time in various counties now, and in the end it is all over, probably because it has not attracted enough attention from Qianlong, the magistrate of the county.

But when Han Bi'er heard this, she immediately realized that the situation was very serious, the brawls in other states and counties, the people involved were not so big, and it was easy to solve, and Chen Liu's here involved thousands of people, so there were at least a few thousand people, it was really chaotic, then it was okay, I really don't know what this Qian Zhixian was eating?

Not good! No matter how stupid this magistrate is, it is impossible not to think of this! This matter arose because the Shang family refused to return the land, thinking of the relationship between the Shang family and Longyou Palace, Han Bi'er quickly understood that things were not as simple as they appeared.

It's a conspiracy! Calm down! Calm down! Seeing that more and more people were gathered, Han Bi'er was very anxious, and her mind was spinning quickly.

"Guo Erlang, you immediately hurry back to Beijing, report the situation to the officials, remember to point out the relationship between the Shang family and Longyou Palace, this matter is urgent! Be quick! ”

(To be continued)