Chapter Seventy-One: Boiling

"Look, what's this posting?"

Next to a state city, two officials posted several new notices on the edge of the city gate, close to the graphic sea arrest document of the criminal department wanted the main culprit in the Jinyang case. People hula la-la gathered around, and a literate man was pushed up and read aloud:

"••••••• those who have fled their citizenship should immediately return to their villages and renew their household registration. Exempt them from tax arrears for many years, and allow them to return to their fields ••••••"

"Mr. Big, what is this talking about? We don't understand. ”

The big gentleman, who was shaking his head and reading his head, looked at the person who interrupted him dissatisfiedly, and when he saw that the onlookers were asking for this, he had to say:

"This is a new decree of the imperial court. That is to say, thirteen years after the Zhenyuan Dynasty, all the peasant households in Guanzhong who fled from their nationality could return to the township, re-declare their household registration, and receive land. However, it is necessary to report before the summer harvest and sowing, and if you report after the autumn harvest, then you can only receive half of the land. ”

"Cut, the land has been lost by big households, where is ours."

"Look, it's written here that the imperial court wants to re-measure the land and check the land sales in the past thirteen years of Zhenyuan. His Royal Highness King Mi was deposed as a concubine and exiled to Qianzhou for buying and selling land without permission, exceeding the imperial court land limit of 100 hectares. The land was taken into public ownership. King Mi is the emperor's son and son, the prince of his relatives. There is still here, so the lieutenant of the Shence Army, Dou Wenchangzi, because of the alteration of the field deed, changed the land purchased in the fifteenth year of Zhenyuan to the twelfth year of Zhenyuan, and the father and son were both given to death, and the three Jingzhao officials who participated in this matter were executed together•••••• tsk•••••• there is also here, oh, it is to order the temple and Taoist temple land to pay for food. ”

The crowd chattered again. Another humane:

"What if you have a field? Our family owes taxes to the imperial court, and we have to go back, but we must not be tossed to death by the township servants. ”

"This one doesn't care about state affairs either. Isn't it written on the notice? Exemption from tax arrears, this is exempted by the imperial court in the twenty-first year of Zhenyuan when the current emperor ascended the throne, and now I repeat it again•••••• you have to get it, don't ask nonsense, I'll tell you about it together." The court also said that in the first year of returning to the township, the government will not collect rent and tax, but will lend him rations, collect half of the rent tax in the second year, return the rations, and collect the full rent tax in the third year, but there is another rule, if anyone grows well and fights more grain than others, the rations should not be returned, and the best can even reduce the rent tax. ”

"Really?" "It would be nice if that were the case."

"Mr. Big, is this like this in Guanzhong or is it like this everywhere else?"

"Mr. Big, did it say what to do with the documents of Zhenyuan thirteen years ago?"

"Okay, okay, don't make any noise, the notice said, not only in Guanzhong, but also in all parts of Datang, but you have to hurry back. As for the displaced people before the thirteenth year of Zhenyuan, the above also ordered to reaffirm their household registration in this county, but the resettlement is not in this county, and they must be moved to Shannan, Hunan, Lingnan or Longyou to open up wasteland. Don't be noisy! However, the treatment given to the south is very better than that of going to Longyou, saying that the agricultural officials teach rice planting, and in the first year, the government does not collect rent and tax, and lends its rations, and in the second year, no rent tax is collected, and the rations are halved, and half of the rent tax is collected in the third year, and the rations are repaid. ”

"God open my eyes! Son, you can go back to farming! ”

"Dad, I don't want to farm, I do a good job in the blacksmith shop!"

"Good X, don't you just fall in love with the old blacksmith's girl? But the woman was strong, and she was very good at farming. ”

••••••

Next to the county government office in a certain county, displaced people are queuing up to register. The clerk knocked on the table and said:

"Next."

An old peasant came up to him in a trembling manner:

"Official••••••

"Well, you're not from here?"

"Official, the little old man is from Weizhou, I want to ask if Weizhou can be like this?"

The clerk put down the pen and said:

"Weizhou? You have to go back and ask Tian Xianggong. ”

••••••

"Whoosh"

A bamboo arrow passed through the ears of the two shouting officials and nailed it to the tree, the tail of the arrow swaying incessantly. The two officials were so frightened that they threw the gong and lay on the ground, and after a while they got up and shouted tremblingly:

"Don't shoot arrows. We are here to read the notice, and the Hunan Observation has an order from Master Wei that as long as you go out of the mountain, the past will not be investigated. Exemption from the old taxes owed in previous years, and only half a year's tax will be charged for three years••••••"

"Fuck the bullshit, look at the arrows!"

"Don't, don't, let's go."

The two officials hurriedly pasted the notice on the tree, pulled out the arrows from the tree, and said:

"Take it and go back to the errand."

Even the rolling belt crawled away. After a long time, a ragged man with a bow and arrow came down from the hillside, took down the notice, and wanted to tear it to pieces, but when he thought about it, he stopped and turned back to the mountain.

••••••

"Two adults, this is water brought from the Fen River, please taste it."

A white-haired veteran handed Li Yong a bowl of water, and behind him were veterans with tools in their hands, wearing old military uniforms. Li Yong handed it to Du Huangshang, and Du Huangshang tasted it and said:

"Sweet is sweet, it's just that the old man feels cold!"

The top and bottom burst into laughter together. Li Yongdao:

"This is our first new canal in the river! With this canal, the thousands of acres of land here will be turned into fertile land. According to the officials, it will not take three years for the displaced people who have been recruited back to be self-sufficient and gain a firm foothold. ”

Turning to the veteran, he said:

"Huangfu respects, right? When you are old, why do you have to come to repair water conservancy when you don't go to the government office to work as an errand boy? ”

Huangfu respectfully said:

"Your Excellency, do you remember us? My lord, our family is a generation of river workers, and this river repair canal is the best. ”

Li Yong laughed and said:

"Okay, you're the leader of this group. You'll have to fix the next canal too. ”

"Thank you, sir!"

At this time, it was March of the third year of Yongzhen, and Du Huangshang had been out of the dynasty for more than three months. Because of the credit for calming the crisis in Jinyang last year, Du Huangshang has been crowned as the Duke of the Kingdom, becoming the first person to be crowned the Duke of the State since Li Yu ascended the throne. Li Yong was also named the Marquis of Fan County. After the Jinyang incident was settled, Du Huangshang was changed to Hezhong Hedong Shuofang Tiande Xuan comfort and pacification envoy, under the escort of Adie Guangjin went to Hedong Shuofang, met with Fan Xichao in Shuofang, learned about the situation after the reorganization of the Shuofang army, and inspected the border defense, until he reached the Tiande army. Then he turned back to Hedong, and after talking with Yan Shou, the envoy of the same section as Hedong, about the reorganization of the Hedong Army, he returned to Hezhong.

The prime minister's patrol has not been seen for many years, and Du Huangsheng's patrol has a great impact, but he has also lost a lot of weight, so Li Yu specially ordered Du Huangshang to recuperate in Jinyang, the northern capital. After inspecting the water conservancy, Du Huangshang and Li Yong returned in the same car, and Du Huangshang said:

"Jianhou, in the past two or three years, the soldiers must be trained well, and the grain and grass must also be stockpiled."