151 It turned out to be a misunderstanding
From Lu Cunren's original intention, he wanted to show that he would rather die than give in, but Su Hao made a bad move as soon as he made a move, and went straight to his weakness.
Su Hao was holding a bright knife in his hand, and with a slight stroke on Lu Cunren's crotch, Lu Cunren felt a refreshing coolness in a certain part. In his impression, his pants were made of very good fabric, and they were lined with a layer of cotton, but Su Hao picked his pants open almost without force, and you can imagine how sharp the knife in his hand was. If such a sharp knife goes a little further, then the consequences are very serious.
"Heroes spare their lives!" Lu Cunren subconsciously shouted, and after shouting, he felt that his face was flushed, this was the first time he had been scared like this in decades of learning.
"Tell me, who sent you, why can't you get along with us?" Su Hao put away the knife and said lightly.
"Yes...... yes" Lu Cunren only felt that the two were trembling, and he couldn't get up anymore, he stammered: "It's my lord's ......, my lord is Wu Yuanwai, and I know my lord's name from far and near, and he called me...... Uh, call the villain......"
"What did he call you for?" Su Hao continued to ask.
"You are not allowed to measure our acres." Lu Cunren said.
Su Hao turned his head to He Bencheng and asked, "When you measured people's acres, did you ever step on the green seedlings?" ”
"Uh...... Back to Su Baihu, how can there be green seedlings in this field? He Bencheng said with a bitter face, it is the root of the year now, and the fields are full of weeds, how can the green seedlings come from? If it was surveying and mapping in other seasons, Su Hao had already formulated a discipline for them, requiring that they should not trample on the green seedlings, and when they were really forced to destroy the green seedlings, they would also be compensated according to the price. The soldiers in the survey camp are all from peasant families, and this truth is still understood.
Su Hao also found out that he had put on an oolong, in the winter, what does it have to do with stepping on the field? He turned back to Lu Cunren and asked, "Lu Scoop, our army has not trampled on your green seedlings, why does your master want to stop it?" ”
"I'm not called Scoop ......" Lu Cunren was so depressed that he claimed to be the scoop of the bodyguard, that was just a self-proclaim, not that Su Hao could also call him like that. His official position is the head of the guard, so Su Hao should call him Chief Lu. But now that Su Hao is a knife and Lu Cunren is a fish and meat, how can he be allowed to fight for any title, he can only sigh secretly and say: "My master is not because you are stepping on green seedlings, but I don't want you to measure our acres." ”
"Why is that?" Su Hao asked strangely.
Xu Guangqi heard some clues, and he whispered to Su Hao: "Su Baihu, let's take a step to speak." ”
Su Hao followed Xu Guangqi to the side and walked a few steps to the side, avoiding everyone, Xu Guangqi said: "Su Baihu, I understand Wu Yuanwai's worries, he is worried that you are here to survey his fields." ”
"What do you mean?" Su Hao asked.
Xu Guangqi said: "The acres of land of these large families are all subject to tax. The more acres you have, the more you pay taxes. If you can conceal some acres of land, you can pay less taxes, and I say this, can I understand it? ”
"I seem to get it." Su Hao nodded, he knew that he had been misunderstood, and this conflict was really a bit unjust.
In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the phenomenon of land annexation became increasingly serious, and many large landowners occupied a large amount of land, but they bore very little taxes and servitude, which made the burden of self-cultivated farmers continue to increase, and social contradictions continue to accumulate. In order to eliminate contradictions and balance the tax burden, in the early years of Jiajing, the government promulgated a whip law to spread all kinds of taxes and forced labor into the acres of land, so that the tax burden was linked to the number of acres of land. After Zhang Juzheng vigorously promoted a whip law in the early years of Wanli, it has basically spread throughout the country and has become the main tax collection system.
Under such circumstances, both landlords and yeoman farmers must try their best to conceal their acres of land in order to achieve the goal of evading taxes. The demand for self-cultivated farmers is still relatively weak, while the big landlords are different, they own tens of thousands of acres of land at every turn, and the taxes spread to their heads are very considerable, so they have a higher enthusiasm for concealing their acres.
During Zhang Juzheng's tenure as first assistant, he carried out a nationwide land clearance, and within the scope of a few provinces alone, he found out as much as 2.4 billion mu of land that had been concealed. Zhang Juzheng's move was strongly opposed by the vast number of landlords, and it was difficult to implement it. Zhang Juzheng was convicted of raiding his house after his death, and it cannot but be said that it was related to the fact that he offended the entire landlord class.
Su Hao came to Qiaoshe Town with an inexplicable team and began to survey the land without saying a word, which was difficult to misunderstand. It is estimated that this Wu Yuanwai also has a lot of tricks in terms of land, and when someone comes and goes with an instrument to his own fields, he naturally becomes suspicious, which leads to this conflict.
Thinking of this, Su Hao returned to Lu Cunren's side, and he waved his hand to his soldiers, signaling them to let go. The soldiers took a few steps back, and the Wu family guards who had been held down by the soldiers or threatened with their eyes and did not dare to get up looked at each other, and then stood up one by one hesitantly.
Lu Cunren also stood up, his crotch had been torn by Su Hao, and his lower body was cold and swishing, not to mention, the key was that he would appear at a glance when he moved, which made him so embarrassed. Su Hao walked in front of him, arched his hand, and said, "Lu Haotou, the matter of the right talent is purely a misunderstanding. I bother you to go back and tell Wu Yuan, we are a border army, and we are only practicing map mapping here, and there is no matter of clearing the acres of dry land, please rest assured. We have offended you a lot, and I ask your forgiveness. ”
Su Hao's words were very polite, but they were not soft. It is true that the brothers of the Xiong family were beaten, but on the contrary, the soldiers of the survey camp also beat each other enough, and it was the guards of the Wu family who suffered. Su Hao said forgiveness and exposed the matter, which is a typical behavior of being cheap and obedient.
Where did Lu Cunren not know this, at least he was cut by someone with a knife in the crotch of his pants, this is a shameful thing, how can he give up with a word of forgiveness. But he had seen the combat effectiveness of the soldiers in front of him, and knew that although he was superior in numbers, he would inevitably be defeated if he fought again, so he didn't dare to be tough. He snorted coldly, and then took his own people and walked away. When he walks, he inevitably has to hold a little crotch, which is really funny.
"Haha, this stupid person is embarrassed to be thrown to grandma's house today." The soldiers laughed, when there was a conflict just now, Lu Cunren was very upset, and the soldiers had already held their breath. Now seeing Su Hao using such a yin owl move, everyone felt a sense of pleasure.
"Anyway, I'm afraid there will be trouble in this matter, right?" Xu Guangqi stood beside Su Hao and reminded in a low voice.
Su Hao sighed lightly and said, "Little brother, didn't you know that there would be trouble, but you have already done it, and it is too late to regret it." If you want to blame it, we didn't think it through in advance and committed other people's taboos. ”
Xu Guangqi said: "The fact that this landlord conceals the land is well known to everyone in the world. The imperial court has also done nothing in this regard, which is really chilling. Today is that you are with soldiers, and there is some force. If an ordinary tax ambassador came to clear the fields, wouldn't he be beaten to death by these guards? The evasion of taxes by these landlords is already extremely hateful, and it is really a great harm to the country that they can still be so arrogant. ”
Su Hao said: "These things are not something that I can worry about as a small household, I just hope that this matter can be turned into a big thing and a small matter, and I will be content." ”
Xu Guangqi said: "But don't worry too much about changing it, your battalion of soldiers also has hundreds of people, and they don't dare to come outside this Wu if they want to come here, the crime of beating officers and soldiers is not small, and he is afraid that a small squire can't afford it." I pondered, if we injured their people, Wu Yuanwai was afraid that he would come to the door to ask for some money for the decoction and medicine, which could be regarded as saving face. If it doesn't cost much, the foolish brother thinks it's enough to give it to him. ”
After all, Xu Guangqi is a literati, and he has a mentality of calming things down. Su Hao has no objection to his suggestion, he is not the kind of arrogant person, when it is time to give face to others, he will naturally give it. He said to Xu Guangqi: "What Brother Xu said is very true, and the younger brother will respond to all changes with the same, and we will talk about how this Wu person makes a move." ”
After such a thing, surveying and mapping could not be done, and Su Hao announced that the class teacher would return to the camp. Chen Dao, Xiong Ji, Hao Tong, Deng Kui and others also came back, and Su Hao told them the cause and effect of the incident, and their reactions were quite different.
Chen Dao put on an attitude that he didn't care about himself, just nodded slightly, and didn't say anything.
From the perspective of a businessman, Xiong Ji analyzed the possible reaction of Wu Yuanwai for Su Hao, and said that if the other party wanted to ask for money for the medicine, he could pay on behalf of Su Hao, of course, provided that the other party's offer was more appropriate.
Hao Tong blamed himself, saying that he hadn't taken this into account in advance, otherwise he wouldn't have caused such a conflict. However, regarding Su Hao's taking people back to the field, he expressed a highly consistent position with Su Hao.
Deng Kui clenched his fists so loudly that he threatened that he was not present for today's incident, otherwise the provocateurs would have to break at least one leg or arm before they could leave. Regarding Su Hao's concern that Wu Yuanwai might come to find fault, Deng Kui disagreed, and said: "My old Deng is still afraid that he will not come, if he dares to come, it will be a big crime of attacking the official army camp, which is a big crime of rebellion." Lao Deng, I slaughtered this old boy first, and then went to report to the official, and I can still get a reward. ”
"The left and right are just some misunderstandings, Deng Zongqi should not talk about force." Su Hao dissuaded.
Chen Dao yawned and said, "It's too early for you to say this, maybe Wu Yuanwai didn't know our identity before, and now he knows that we are officials and soldiers, so how can he come to find trouble again." Everyone has been running for a long time, and they are all hungry, Brother Xiong said yesterday that he wanted to have a treat, but don't let this matter blow Brother Xiong's good intentions. ”
"Director Chen is right, let's eat first, and talk about other things later." Xiong Ji also hurriedly took over the conversation and said, he went to survey the survey and mapping of the public opinion camp with Chen Dao in the morning, and he already knew Chen Dao's identity, so he became more and more respectful to Chen Dao.
Su Hao didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Chen Dao's gourd, but since Chen Dao didn't want to discuss this matter anymore, he didn't want to say anything, so he laughed and said, "Then it's going to bother Brother Xiong." (To be continued.) Please search, the novel is better and faster!)