The imperial flag of the Han Dynasty fluttered again at the head of Datong City.

The Datong garrison was still in the north and had not returned, but the rebels in Datong had been defeated. The Datong Rebellion, which caused a lot of momentum, was eventually overthrown by a bank security captain, a group of bank security guards, shopping mall security guards, grain collection teams of grain stations, salt transportation teams of salt warehouses, shopping mall porters, and many ordinary people.

Overnight, the city's head changed into a king's flag.

Those gentlemen and businessmen who were triumphant yesterday have all become prisoners today. The ruffians who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to make waves were all locked up with the families of the rebellious gentry.

Zhang Quan, the captain of the security team, has now become the highest temporary military and political chief in Datong City. In the Chu army, he was only a platoon commander at the highest, but now he has become the supreme commander of this large town in northern Shanxi.

Compared with Zhang Quan's high spirits, the officials and gentry in the prison who failed in the rebellion were gloomy.

When they learned that it was not the Han officers and soldiers who were transferred back from the north who overturned them in one fell swoop, but just a group of security guards and porters in Datong City, they were all angry and ashamed.

They kept shouting that they would go to Luoyang and Beijing, but as a result, a group of security guards in Liu Jiye's private industrial bank overturned them.

"Hey, that's a big deal."

A sigh can't change the outcome of their failure.

Compared with these chaotic parties who are imprisoned in prison, Datong City is now full of lights and lively. Whether it was ordinary shopkeepers or artisans, everyone poured into the streets.

It's really like a festival, and there's a relaxed atmosphere everywhere.

When people see each other, they always greet each other with a smile.

"Have you heard, those troublesome old men will all be sent to the army, and their fields and shops will all be confiscated."

"Isn't it, yes. Your Majesty was so kind to them. I don't know how to be satisfied with gratitude, but I still want to rebel. didn't punish them all over the house, implicated the three clans, just sent them to fill the army, which is already quite benevolent. ”

"That is, when today's son is the son of Shengren, reducing rent and interest, how can there be such a good thing in the world, and it is only in this dynasty."

The palace of the Datong Dynasty has now been sealed. Zhang Quan set up his temporary command yamen in the former governor's yamen. On the eight-character wall at the entrance is a newly posted notice of peace and mind.

At the door stood two rows of soldiers with rifles on their backs, standing straight.

The noon sun in May was already very hot, but everyone didn't care about it at all, and they all stood and swam around near the yamen.

Someone asked, "I heard that after confiscating the land of the rebellious party, they will return the land they forcibly occupied in the past to the original owner." ”

"No, I've heard about it. It is said that in the past, the rebellious merchants borrowed high loans to take advantage of the people's money. Part of the portion will also be returned to the original owner. ”

"Hey, really, then I used to borrow the debts of the owner of Taibai Mansion, can I offset it?"

"That also depends. Didn't the notice say that it should be done according to the laws of the imperial court. As long as the interest payment reaches twice the principal, the principal and interest will be completely eliminated and the principal will be doubled. Only the principal is repaid and no interest is paid. and if it is more than twice as much, the excess will be paid back to the creditor after the account is cleared. ”

Hear this clearly said. Immediately, a crowd of people gathered around.

An old man said, "My family used to borrow money from the Zhao family's pawn shop, and after the profits couldn't be repaid, my daughter was dragged to pay off the debt, can I get the person back?" ”

"This is definitely going to work, and the notice also said that this kind of forcing people to repay their debts can bring people back. Wait, we will soon begin to clear the accounts of these rebellious parties, and then the fields that they have usurped, the high loans owed to them, and the children who have been sold to their families to pay off their debts, will be able to get them back. ”

Zhang Quan was also very busy at this time, on the one hand, he sent people to the north to report to the officials and soldiers, on the other hand, he had to organize people to maintain order in Datong, and he was also busy sealing up the farms and courtyards of these chaotic parties, and he wanted to hunt down those chaotic parties who had slipped through the net.

Zhang Quan had already assembled the reservists, township soldiers, and militia from the counties in the city and suburbs to be responsible for maintaining the situation and guarding the city.

The gentry and merchants, who did not participate in the rebellion, closed their doors and shrank in their homes uneasily and carefully.

Zhao Changsheng took a pair of ladders and put them on the courtyard wall, stood on them, and showed his head and carefully looked at the lively street outside. Behind him, the whole house was nervous, men young and old all picked up all kinds of guys, kitchen knives, rolling pins, guillotins, and women, all hiding in the basement of the backyard garden.

The Zhao family is a family of scholars, and their ancestors have also been officials, but no one has been out of office in Zhao Changsheng's father's generation, his father was born in school, and turned to business, the Zhao family has a good family background, and the business is also smooth, and it is also a middle-class family in Datong Mansion, and the family has ten hectares of land outside the city, and there are several shops in the city, and life is still very good.

Zhao Changsheng's father also donated to him and his son, which can be regarded as a meritorious person.

After the establishment of the new dynasty, the implementation of various new policies still had a great impact on these big households. Many people were dissatisfied with the new emperor because of this, and when Luoyang rebelled, these people in Datong could no longer sit still, and immediately embraced the acting king. At that time, someone also came to contact Zhao Changsheng's father, but Zhao refused to see the guest under the pretext that he was sick.

He also told his family not to go out to mix.

At that time, Zhao Changsheng was a little enthusiastic, and he didn't understand his father's thoughts.

"Today, I may owe some to the Zhu family, but I definitely don't owe anything to the officials and businessmen in the world. Even if they owe the Zhu family, it is nothing, and that little debt, if they are willing to settle down, they can exchange it for a rich and noble. But they were not satisfied, and in the end they just brought about their own destruction, and our Zhao family must not be involved. ”

Zhao Changsheng was puzzled, "Father, after the new emperor established the country, the implementation of various new policies is really chaotic. This is to take the rich people of the world, this is a robbery. ”

Old Man Zhao coldly interrupted his son's words, "I don't think so, isn't it just emptying the debt, and the chase is only five years." Shouldn't there be a shortfall, shouldn't there be recourse? Corruption was rampant in the Ming Dynasty, so there were rebellions in various places and invasions by foreign captives. In the end, the imperial court had to increase salaries and levies, and the people had a hard time, and we, the rich families, also paid a lot of price for it. ”

The old man taught him to look at things from the other side.

"Clearing the debts and recovering them, although it seems that those past officials and local bigwigs are going to make a sum of blood, but if you calculate the opposite, where did they get this bit of blood? That's what they embezzled in the past. The imperial court only owes five years. What are they not satisfied with, pay some money, and the past corruption crimes can be written off, what is there to be dissatisfied with? ”

"As for the gentry preferential exemption privilege, it is not a big deal, originally in the Ming Dynasty, there were restrictions on preferential exemption, and there has never been any complete preferential exemption. Now that the new dynasty wants to abolish preferential exemptions, it is not a big deal in itself. Qingzhang acres and so on. That's what every new dynasty should have. ”

Zhao Changsheng was still dissatisfied, "The new emperor is too greedy. ”

"You are wrong, it is not the emperor who is greedy, but the gentry of the world, everyone is used to living a good life in Qianming, and they forget that there is such a thing as the imperial court. What is Imperial Court? The whole world belongs to the imperial court. "Old man Zhao has worked hard for half his life, and he has rich life experience, what kind of world he has never seen.

Although he was also one of those privileged members in the past, he also did not like that kind of court in his heart.

"Don't worry about that little bit of money. As long as the new policy of the imperial court is implemented and the rule of officials is renewed, although it seems that we have paid more taxes, but in fact. Business is better, and there are fewer rules and regulations we have handed in in the past, and there are fewer filial piety and various dots, and in terms of it, I prefer this set of the new dynasty. No matter what it is, it is clearly put on the table, rather than relying on personal favors and relationships. ”

"Rent and interest reductions. It's not just the poor who benefit, we benefit too. With the bank and the ever-decreasing interest rate, it is also very convenient for us to borrow funds to do business. ”

The old man didn't care about the reduced ground rent, "How much can the ground rent be collected in a year?" Now that the world is peaceful and business is doing well, this is more beneficial. If we invest more money from buying land in this business, it will be ten or eight times stronger than land rent. ”

At that time, although Zhao Changsheng was unconvinced, he finally followed the old man's persuasion and did not participate. In just a few days, things changed, and the rebellion was whirling and crushing.

However, as a member of the big family, Zhao Changsheng was still very worried that it would be liquidated to them at this time.

But it turned out that he was still overthinking.

For a whole day, I didn't find a single thing of burning, killing, looting, or looting while the fire was burning. The Zhao Mansion was not disturbed, only in the evening, someone sent a post from the Yamen, saying that he invited the master of the Zhao family to participate in the Yamen's deliberations tomorrow.

"Dad, it can't be a weasel giving a New Year's greeting to a chicken, right?"

After Mr. Zhao read the post, he was silent with his beard, and finally called a few guys who had written to go out to inquire about the news.

Half a day later, the guys came back to report.

It was lively outside, but it was in good order and there was no chaos. Those chaotic parties were all locked up in prison for the time being, and they did not kill anyone, and their lives were still preserved. But all the houses and shops involved in the rebellion were seized.

"Master, they only pursue the rebellion, and those who do not participate in the rebellion, whether they are gentry or not, will not be investigated."

There was no chaos, no killings, and no expanded prosecutions. Old Man Zhao breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, indicating that the situation was very good. This turmoil does not seem to be involved in the Zhao family.

"Changsheng, you go and find out the contracts of the family's mansion, grange and shop, and I will use them tomorrow."

"Dad, you're going to change the deed?"

The old man nodded, "Not only do we exchange the old deed for the new deed, but you and the housekeeper and the account office will sort it out well, and according to the decree of the imperial court to reduce rent and interest, we will pay off all the debts that we owed in the past." Those who are still in debt and pay twice the principal interest, they will no longer receive interest, and if the interest paid is twice the principal, the debt will be abolished. If they have paid more than twice the interest, they must pay back the excess in addition to the debt. Even those who have borrowed money from us in the past five years but paid off their debts will be checked again according to this, and the overpaid interest will be returned to them. ”

"Daddy?"

"Don't be reluctant to give up that money." The old man snorted coldly.

"Moreover, let those who have been sacrificed to our house, those who have taken refuge in slavery, and those who are willing to leave, let them go and return the deed. and all the land that was sacrificed was returned to them with the contract. ”

Zhao Changsheng is very painful, and he has donated a lot of land over the years.

But his father's attitude was very resolute, and Zhao Changsheng thought of the worldly families who were still locked up in prison, and finally did not object.

The storm is coming, and it turns out that Daming's ship is bound to sink, and the only way to get out of the broken ship as soon as possible and board this new ship of Dahan as soon as possible is the top priority. (To be continued.) )

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