Duan Tiande walked into his hall and saw that the number of people inside was only more than sixty percent of the number when he left. Why did those people leave, Duan Tiande didn't want to know the reason at all. In the midst of the changes of the moment, there are certainly those who choose the path they identify with.

Just as he was about to say something, Duan Tiande suddenly thought of the fundamental problem at this time, and he asked, "Do you support me to continue to be the head of the Duan family?" ”

"Patriarch, we have always supported you." The elders below answered one after another.

"In that case, I'll tell you about the current situation. There are only two things that make us so uncomfortable, the first is the land tax that is always paid per acre. The second is a fine of three times per mu when abandoning. Without these two taxes, we would have been doing pretty well. ”

The elder did not think of such an optimistic view, and some people immediately objected, "Two taxes will make it impossible for us to live, and a few more, and we will die." ”

Duan Tiande didn't care about the elder's reaction at all, it was just a big deal that he didn't become a patriarch, what else was worthy of Duan Tiande's careful treatment at this time. He said loudly: "The way the government can hold us is to hand over the money." If you want to keep our land, you can only earn money. ”

Hearing that Duan Tiande still wanted to solve the problem through the system, an elder immediately asked, "Can you not pay taxes?" In the past, after becoming an official, you could not pay taxes, but now there is no way not to pay taxes. ”

"It seems that only the family members of the soldiers can not pay taxes." Someone remembered the current means of tax avoidance.

"That didn't work." More than one elder considered various ways to avoid taxes, and one immediately objected: "Now a soldier can only be exempted from taxes on 20 acres of land, and if he is married, he can only be exempted from taxes on his own land." If he is not married, he is exempt from the taxes of his father's family. The tax-free period is only for three years in the army. ”

Some people usually look quite mild, but when they fight against it, they immediately become barriers. Especially under such a great pressure, some people have already shouted angrily: "That's it, you can also avoid 60 times." If there are ten sons, it is 600 guan. I've heard that my daughter can also be a soldier, and that makes me even more. ”

It is easy for the bar spirit to inspire a new bar head, and someone said disdainfully: "It's not easy for me to raise children, so I don't want them to be thieves and soldiers." ”

"Then you have to make your son worthy of it first!"

"Enough! Shut up! Duan Tiande shouted angrily, and reluctantly interrupted the elders to raise the bar to each other. 60 guan is not a small number that can be ignored, and the Duan family did not really put it in the eyes before. Now 60 Guan also has to see it in his eyes, which makes Duan Tiande almost shed tears of sadness. Not too long ago, the people of the Duan family still used the contemptuous term 'thief with army' to call Song Jun.

"The head of the family, some elders said that the land would be divided."

"If they want to share, let them share."

"If we are scattered, we will not be able to manage many things."

"If we could manage it, we wouldn't be able to get to where we are today." Duan Tiande replied. Looking at those elders with great disappointment on their faces, Duan Tiande continued with a straight face: "When things come to this point, everyone should admit it. I still said the same as before, all the children in our clan will be sent to the city to go to school in the future. This money, we pay out. In addition, if you want to go, you can keep walking, and I will not stop you. ”

The family meeting finally ended temporarily with the family almost collapsing, and Duan Tiande didn't want to talk nonsense with the people in the clan after that, so he took people back to his hometown and took everyone in his family out and brought them to the city. If you want to make money, you need to open a shop, and if you want to open a shop, you need manpower. Nothing is more reliable than your own family.

When I returned to the village, I saw a large number of people gathered on the flat ground outside the town. If you look closer, there is a huge banner hanging here, on which according to the 'modern Chinese' model implemented by the imperial court, it reads 'Duanjiazhuang Great Song Dynasty 330 Autumn Conscription Assessment' from left to right. Duan Tiande was stunned, he didn't expect the elders to be soldiers noisily, not on a whim, but because the imperial court was really recruiting soldiers at this time.

No one stopped the conscription, so Duan Tiande brought his family to take a look. I saw that there were more than 30 young men receiving orders from soldiers. The lads were all over 16 and under 22. The soldiers told them to stand up straight, crouch, lie down. Then stand up again. Duan Tiande felt that he was like watching a monkey show, listening to the laughter of the onlookers from time to time, and he couldn't help but smile.

However, the laughter on the other side was particularly loud, and Duan Tiande went around to a position where he could see it carefully, but saw that seven or eight young ladies between the ages of 16 and 20 were also receiving orders from the soldiers, doing similar actions as men. Duan Tiande didn't laugh, he just looked dumbfounded. In the propaganda of the Great Song Dynasty, Mulan is a heroine, a representative of Chinese women who are brave, persevering, and brave to take responsibility. There are also female soldiers in the current Song army, and there are even female generals named Hu What.

But Duan Tiande didn't expect that there were really women who chose to join the army, although the Great Song Dynasty court confidently declared that the new Great Song army was the people's army, the army of benevolence and righteousness, and the army of kings. Whoever commits adultery in a soldier shall be killed!" So everyone doesn't have to be afraid of Song Jun at all, but after Duan Tiande saw it with his own eyes, he realized that there were really women who dared to believe this kind of propaganda.

With his thoughts surging, Duan Tiande didn't know what he was thinking for a while. Suddenly, Duan Tiande found that these people who participated in the conscription assessment were actually homesteaders or small landlords, and their families had more than 20 acres of land. The government not only collects taxes from large landowners, but also those who work as tenants for others, as long as their families have land, they have to pay taxes.

Looking at the desperate performance of those small and medium-sized landlords, Duan Tiande's expression was solemn. The elders of the Duan family are still clamoring for their children to become soldiers, and now that the taxes are so heavy, those families who do not have much land are much faster than the Duan family, and their children have begun to join the army enthusiastically. Once selected, not only will you be able to reduce the tax on your family's 20 acres of land for three years, but you will also have a way out after retiring from the army. Even when you return to the village, you will be taken care of by the government.

When the government lends money and grain to the localities, it relies on local retired soldiers. For this alone, the status of retired soldiers in the village has skyrocketed.

After some tossing, 12 guys and 5 little ladies were finally selected from the forty people. In the envious gaze of the crowd, the people of the army awarded them certificates. The people in the government also immediately shouted: "All the families who have been selected to enlist in the army, wait until these young Great Song soldiers are picked up by the army, and the three-month training is completed, and they will officially enlist." You can go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to apply for tax exemption and the corresponding military family treatment. ”

Facing the crowd of sorrows and joys, Duan Tiande couldn't stand it anymore, and returned to the town with his family. The power of the imperial court in the countryside is getting stronger and stronger, which is something that Duan Tiande doesn't want to see at all. The Duan family has always looked down on the small landlords in their vicinity, and in the Duan family's view, those so-called small landlords are just future tenants of some land. After watching those babies' performances this time, Duan Tiande felt that the children of those small landlords' families were actually not bad. At least these people who were selected by the Song army were no worse than the children of the Duan family.

After dealing with the affairs of the clan, Duan Tiande took a large family to embark on the road back to Jiangning. Although many people in the family didn't want to come out at all, they couldn't refuse Duan Tiande's order. With so many people walking on the road, they met two other groups of people. If you look closely, you can see that the leaders are all retired soldiers from nearby villages.

Duan Tiande stepped forward to greet the retired soldier and asked the others where they were, and the retired soldier told Duan Tiande, 'They want to go back to their hometown in Henan'.

What the hell is Henan's hometown? Duan Tiande was stunned. Everyone is a native of Jiangning, why did they turn into a hometown in Henan.

The retired soldier also felt a little excited when he saw Duan Tiande, who was high in the local area talking to him so politely, he took the cigarette handed over by Duan Tiande, lit it, and chatted with Duan Tiande as he walked.

"My ancestors fled from Henan to this side with the imperial court, and some time ago I sent my relatives to the big farm in Henan came back to say that now the big farm in Henan is in short supply. As long as you go, you want it. I discussed with my family, and the whole family went back to the big farm in my hometown in Henan to work as an errand boy. It's better than farming here in Jiangning. ”

"What about your land?" Duan Tiande asked tentatively.

"We gave the relatives seeds. They don't have to pay rent, they just have to pay the tax. ”

After talking about one team, I went to the other team. The content is exactly the same, they are all about moving their families to Henan Farm to find an errand. However, the latter team said that they were going by boat. "The Tongji Canal has been repaired".

Duan Tiande didn't know what Tongji Canal was, and he couldn't be blamed for being lonely and unheard. As a bald man in his previous life, Du Chong dug up the Yellow River when the Jin soldiers went south, creating a flood of the Yellow River, trying to stop the Jin soldiers. The Jin soldiers were not hindered, and the rushing water of the Yellow River carried huge amounts of sediment into the centuries-old Tongji Canal, silting up this important canal connecting the Yangtze River to Kaifeng. After the wars continued, and the Jin State did not engage in any infrastructure construction, this famous canal disappeared from the land of China for more than 150 years.

Zhao Jiaren and Zhao Guanjia not only let the Yellow River return to the northern river, but now they have dug the Tongji Canal again, and the retired soldiers who participated in the Yellow River Battle are full of longing to tell the great achievements of the Zhao Guanjia.

Zhao Jiaren had better become Emperor Yang of Sui who dug the canal! Duan Tiande used his maximum historical knowledge to maliciously evaluate Zhao Jiaren. Then he asked kindly, "But I don't know what to do with your land." ”

The retired soldier replied decisively: "Sold to the government." ”

"Sell...... Sold? Duan Tiande said in shock and distress, and after finishing speaking, Duan Tiande couldn't help but ask, "How much land has been sold?" ”

"Three hundred acres." The retired soldier replied with some surprise. Maybe it was because Duan Tiande's expression was too weird, and the retired soldier also said, "We are poor, and more than a dozen families have 300 acres of land." After all the way back to Henan, you always have to settle down. So I sold all the land and scraped together the money for the road. ”