As soon as Yan Laosi got home, he squatted under the eaves of his house and began to smoke old cigarettes, his daughter-in-law called him several times, he ignored it, and the daughter-in-law came out of the house again, but found that Yan Laosi was silently shedding tears, seeing his man crying, the woman's family immediately panicked, and asked repeatedly, what happened to the fourth?

Yan Laosi still didn't say a word, but his eyes couldn't stop.

It is said that men don't flick when they have tears, but they haven't reached the sad place, and Yan Laosi is a well-known tough guy in Yanjia Town, if he didn't really touch the sad place, how could he shed tears?

Looking at her own man who was squatting there empty-handed and crying, the woman asked, "Fourth, is the land rent cleared?" ”

Speaking of paying rent, it happened to touch the sadness of Yan Laosi, and he threw away the old pipe at the moment, and hugged his head with both hands and cried.

The reason why Yan Laosi is sad is because this year's rent interest has risen again, and it has risen a lot, and the half cart of wheat he pushed away in the morning only leveled the interest borrowed in previous years, and the capital borrowed in previous years, the two buckets of wheat borrowed from the Yan family when the spring of this year was not accepted, and this year's field rent, but it was not paid.

So he took the little wheat that was left in the house, and it was only enough to pay the rent of the fields.

In other words, after paying the field rent, Yan Laosi's hard work for half a year will have nothing left, if a family of five wants to survive, they have to borrow food from the Yan family, and then enter a vicious circle where the principal and interest are getting higher and higher, and more and more repayment.

The current days are dark, and Yan Laosi can't see hope at all.

Yan Laosi even wanted to rub a straw rope and hang it on the pear tree in his yard, when will this hard day be, and he will be relieved with a kick on his feet, but when he thinks of the three babies who are waiting to be fed in the house, the youngest one is even only half a year old, Yan Laosi is ruthless, he is gone, what should the three babies do?

"Fourth, you are talking, has the rent been cleared?" The woman was also a little anxious.

was asked in a hurry, and Yan Lao Si said with tears in his eyes: "Daughter-in-law, why don't we pawn the second girl?" ”

In the countryside, there are not a few people who pawn their daughters to other families as child daughters-in-law because of lack of green and yellow and insufficient rations, because they are pawned and sold, and it is impossible for child daughters-in-law to have status when they arrive at their husband's family, and they are usually called as animals, so even if they are miserable people, they will definitely not send their daughters to be child daughters-in-law until they are really desperate.

"What, what did you just say, fourth? Are you going to pawn Erya? You have no conscience, you are still a man, you are still a seven-foot-tall man, I will beat you, I will kill you......" The woman was anxious, and pounced on Yan Lao Si, but after a few beatings, the couple hugged each other and cried bitterly.

Such scenes are not uncommon in Yanjia Town, in Longkou County, in southern Anhui and even in the whole of China.

A group of chaotic soldiers crossing the border, raising rent and raising interest rates or forcibly levying and levying can make them bankrupt, and if they encounter a man-made disaster such as the bursting of the Yellow River and the Changsha fire, they can only close their eyes and wait for death.

However, Yan Laosi's family is still lucky, just when the couple was hugging and crying, there was a sudden sound of gongs on the street, Yan Laosi wiped away the tears on his cheeks, turned his head to look, and saw a large group of people holding signs in the street parade, and a young man in the middle was still shouting with a loudspeaker, because the voice was noisy, and he couldn't hear clearly.

"Fourth, what's going on?" The woman was a little flustered, could it be that she was going to be conscripted again?

The year before last and last year, the national government had come to the town to recruit soldiers, first three Ding drew one, and then two Ding drew one, this time it was to be recruited again, maybe even the single Ding had to be withdrawn, thinking of this, the woman subconsciously grabbed the sleeves of Yan Laosi, as if Yan Laosi was really going to be arrested.

Yan Laosi's face was full of confusion, so he naturally couldn't answer.

But someone answered for him, and a sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy ran over and shouted: "Fourth brother, there is a good thing"

"A good thing?" Yan Laosi raised his thin face, which was still stained with tears, and asked blankly, "What good things can we have?" ”

"Rent reduction and interest reduction, the government is going to reduce rent and interest rate" The young man replied while running back, "In the future, if you borrow Dai, the maximum profit shall not exceed one cent, and the maximum land rent shall not exceed thirty percent. ”

"What are you talking about, the Yan family still has to ask me for money?" Yan Laosi became more and more dazed.

But the boy said no more, and ran home to report the news.

The group of people holding the sign got closer and closer, and the Yan family and his wife could hear it clearly.

"Fellow villagers, fathers and fellow villagers, we are the working group of the anti-Japanese democratic government of Longkou County stationed in Yanjia Town, we are here this time not only to implement the policy of rent reduction and interest reduction, but also to elect and set up various institutions of the district government, the peasant association and the Women's Rescue Association, folks, from now on, you are the masters of Yanjia Town."

"Folks, if you have any questions, you can go to the ancestral hall outside the town, we have someone there to answer for you, how much land rent you have paid in previous years, how much more money you have repaid, there will be someone to calculate it for you, and there will be someone to ask for it from the Yan family for you, we are the people's government, you don't have to worry about it at all."

Yin Shangwen held a loudspeaker rolled up from cardboard and shouted loudly as he walked.

When the messengers from the three war zones were still on the way, the Southeast Bureau quickly dispatched a working group to Longkou County after receiving Shu Tongwen's report, and the group was headed by Yin Shangwen, who was to serve as the secretary of the county party committee of the anti-Japanese democratic government in Longkou County, and Yin Shangwen was also an acquaintance of Xu Shijiu.

At the beginning, Gao Shenxing escaped from the Shogunate Mountain with Xu 19 on his back, and fled all the way to the Yangtze River under the pursuit of the Ohara Heavy American Special Combat Team, and when he was about to be captured, it was Yin Shangwen who happened to save the two, and in the guerrilla station, Gao Shenxing, Xu 19 and Yin Shangwen, He Keqi, Hu Zhijing, they also had contact.

Therefore, Xu Shijiu easily accepted Yin Shangwen, and the anti-Japanese democratic government of Longkou County was quickly formed

The first thing Yin Shangwen chose was Yanjia Town, not only because Yanjia Town is the largest town in Longkou County, but also because Yanjia is the leading squire in Longkou County, which can be said to be the vane of the county's squires and local tyrants.

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The news soon spread throughout Yanjia Town, and the Yan family was also alarmed.

"Old lady, old lady is not good." The housekeeper Yan Qifei also rushed into the backyard and shouted at the old man Yan Zhongyan, who was watering a pot of orchids in the yard, "Old lady, something is wrong." ”

"Xiao Qi, don't panic, say something slowly." Old Man Yan put down the kettle and sat down on the Taishi chair.

Yan Qi took a moment of breath, and then said: "Old lady, what kind of anti-Japanese democratic government has been established in Longkou County, which is different from the previous national government, and a working group was sent to Yanjia Town, and there is nothing to send a working group, but what is hateful is to implement rent reduction and interest reduction, which is very unfavorable to our Yan family."

"Rent and interest reduction?" Old Man Yan said, "Tell me, what is this?" ”

If they really want to implement the policy of rent reduction and interest reduction of the working group, then their Yan family will have to hemorrhage this time and lose more than half of their family property, which is only a conservative estimate, and if they don't do it well, they will have to go bankrupt.

Because in previous years, the Yan family borrowed five cents of interest, if it is recalculated according to one cent of interest, each piece of ocean, every year has to find four cents and eight cents to the borrower, for example, Yan Lao Si, borrowed ten yuan of the Yan family, borrowed five years, so now, Yan Lao Si no longer has to pay back the Yan family's money, not to mention, the Yan family has to find him money, a total of fourteen

There is also tenant rent, which used to be collected according to 50%, but now the maximum must not exceed 30%, then you have to find tenants to rent 20% per year, hundreds of households in Yanjia Town, most of them are tenants of the Yan family, this number is also extremely amazing, at least the granary of the Yan family has to be empty.

But none of these are the worst of all.

The most terrible thing is the forced redemption of mortgages and pawn sales

The Yan family did not have the current situation from the beginning, but the family business that had been accumulated after several generations of dismal management.

How does it work? It's not glorious to say, that is, whenever there is a famine year, the villagers will raise debts to the Yan family, the debt is to be repaid, and the interest has to be paid, the villagers have a thin background, and the debt is basically not expected to be repaid, and the interest can not be repaid, so you can only pawn the mortgaged land.

It is by virtue of this accumulation that the Yan family has saved up its family business for decades.

Now that the anti-Japanese democratic government has implemented compulsory redemption and mortgage and pawn sale, it really has cost the Yan family their old life, because after the implementation of the rent and interest reduction policy, almost every tenant of the Yan family has a surplus, and these balances are enough to redeem and buy back the land they used to mortgage and pawn to the Yan family.