The reason why Hou Jinglin behaved so tough and arrogant was that he wanted to stand up and tell the locals in Hekou Town that the government was coming, and the Fei family would no longer cover the sky in Hekou Town from now on.

Take Hekou Town as an example, the Fei family controls the wharf and river, half of the shops in the town are the Fei family's business, more than half of the fields around the town are owned by the Fei family, and most of the remaining fields belong to the Fei family's side branches or relatives, and the number of yeoman farmers who really own their own fields is not many. It can be said that half of the people in Hekou Town are either slaves and tenants of the Fei family, or work in the Fei family's dock workshops and shops, and they all depend on the Fei family to live, and the Fei family is their heaven.

The imperial power does not go to the countryside, the Fei family in Hekou Town is the heaven of the local people, and whatever problems they encounter, the Fei family will come out to solve them. It can be said that the Fei family controls everything in Hekou Town.

Under such circumstances, it is conceivable how difficult it would be to carry out the restructuring of Juntian in Kawaguchi Town.

You can't lead the army to attack the Fei family as soon as you come, and directly raid the Fei family, the consequences of doing so are too serious, and it seems too unreasonable, which will bring a bad impression to the locals and is not conducive to future work. After all, the Fei family will become a bitter master, and the vast majority of locals will sympathize with them, and under the constraints of various interests and nostalgia, many people will choose to stand on the side of the Fei family. If the children of the Fei family take risks and gather people to rebel, even if they can be suppressed in the future, things will be very troublesome, and Hou Jinglin himself will be evaluated as incompetent.

Therefore, the best way is to establish authority and deterrence, and first use tough means to tell the people that the government is coming. At the same time, he shocked the Fei family and told them that he was going to deal with Juntian against them.

Next, you just need to wait for the Fei family's reaction.

At the same time, the imperial court policies such as the establishment of township governments were publicized among the local people to win the hearts of the people. But there is no peasant who does not want to own his own land, but there is no oppressed slave who does not want to turn over. Once the policy of freeing slaves in Juntian is promulgated and backed by a strong government armed force, it is conceivable how the local ordinary people and the slaves of the Fei family will react.

Wait until you gain the hearts and minds of the people, and it is easy to pay for it. At that time, it would not take much effort to take down the Fei family on the charge of supporting Zhu Yousong's rebellion, and even weaving some charges at will.

If the Fei family openly gathers people to rebel, then he can lead the army to suppress them justifiably, and the local people may not be willing to stand on the side of the Fei family, after all, as long as they survive, no one wants to be a rebel.

The Fei family may not be able to do this option, after all, there are more than 100,000 powerful Praetorian Guards in Jiangxi, and no one dares to rebel openly, because that means the real raid of the family and the extermination of the clan.

Therefore, the Fei family will choose to secretly oppose themselves and secretly resist the policy of freeing slaves from Juntian. But he has the identity of a court official, representing the emperor and representing the court, and he is not afraid of this kind of secret resistance at all.

Of course, the Fei family may also choose to bow their heads directly, so that things will be simpler. Directly according to the policy, it is to first complete the reform of Juntian's release of slaves, and then take them down on the charge of rebellion and confiscate their family property.

All in all, Hou Jinglin has made deductions about the possible responses of the Fei family, and he knows in his heart that he dares to be so domineering and tough. ….

"County Lieutenant, the inn has been taken, and all the innkeepers' accounting rooms are locked up in a cross-courtyard, what should be done with these people? Are you just driving them away?" Liu Wenbin walked over and said.

"Behind this inn is a warehouse, facing the river, isn't it?" Hou Jinglin asked.

Liu Wenbin nodded: "Behind is the warehouse, there are more than 20 rooms, there are porcelain, tea, silk and satin, all kinds of goods, I heard that the Fei family is going to ship to Zhejiang to sell to maritime merchants."

"Detain the account keeper who is in charge of the warehouse and the inn's operation alone, let them explain all the accounts of the inn, find out the details of these account keepers, and use what they can't, and take over by our own people if they can't." Hou Jinglin commanded.

Since he occupied the inn, Hou Jinglin naturally didn't want to let go of all the property and goods in the inn, and he had no intention of returning it to the Fei family at all.

"Isn't that wrong?" Liu Wenbin hesitated.

It is reasonable to forcibly recruit the inn as the county lieutenant yamen in the name of the government, but if you forcibly swallow other people's property again, it will not be good to spread it

Listened. In particular, the goods in the twenty or so warehouses are worth tens of thousands of taels of silver, and the quantity is too large.

"What's wrong? Investigate the accounts, especially the commercial tax that they should have paid over the years, and the commercial tax they have actually paid, and then seize all the goods in the name of tax evasion, and then issue a 100-fold fine to the Fei family to make them pay it." Hou Jinglin said as a matter of course.

"That's good." Liu Wenbin's eyes lit up, but all the gentry's business has never been said to pay business tax, and it is already a common practice to rely on their fame to be exempt from taxes. The Fei family's business is so big, and they don't know how much tax they have evaded over the years, so they naturally check it one by one. The key is that this teacher is famous, and you can test Fei's.

"Is the notice ready?" Hou Jinglin asked.

"It's already written, ten in all." Liu Wenbin said respectfully.

"Then send someone to post it, all over the docks and the main parts of town." Hou Jinglin commanded.

Liu Wenbin agreed, and went out to assign people to post it.

Since they chose to temporarily stay in Hekou Town and put the county governor's yamen here, it was natural to publicize it widely so that the people could know about the existence of the county governor's mansion and the policies to be implemented.

There are three contents of the notice, one is to announce the establishment of the county magistrate's yamen in Leadshan County, which will temporarily replace the county government to deal with the affairs of Leadshan County, the second is to be ordered by the emperor to be the first to carry out the equalization of fields in Hekou Town, Leadshan County, and the third is the policy of releasing slaves, which will be implemented from now on, and all slaves can register and make a register at the county governor's office and become civilians, and the previous deed of sale is completely invalid.

The content of the notice is only a rough introduction to the policy of the county lieutenant yamen, and there will be various detailed policy regulations and supporting implementation methods in the future, which will be posted one after another.

As Hou Jinglin and others imagined, as soon as the notice was posted, it immediately caused a sensation in Hekou Town, and hundreds of people rushed to watch and discuss. When the people passed by the inn where the county governor's yamen was located, they all slowed down, and their eyes were full of curiosity and longing when they looked at the inn.

I have to say that many people are very moved by Juntian's release of slaves. But for various reasons, they didn't dare to contact the county magistrate's yamen, and they were all waiting and waiting.

From occupying the inn to posting notices, most of the time has passed, and seeing that it is about to get dark, the Fei family has never sent anyone over, nor has they made any response, which is beyond Hou Jinglin's expectations.

Ren Guocheng