The gunshots outside the county office crackled for more than half an hour before all the prisoners were finally shot.

When the gunfire stopped, the soldiers stepped forward to mend their knives and kill the prisoner who was still dying, and at this time, a group of people holding steamed buns in their hands rushed in and dipped the steamed buns with the blood left by the prisoners, until the line infantry dispersed them and had to leave.

After the execution, there were special people who came to pull more than 200 corpses to the mass graves outside the city to bury them.

Su Yan did not supervise the entire execution process, and after shooting a round of prisoners, he turned around and returned to the county office to check the measures to implement land reform that Liu Wenmin had conceived and written yesterday.

The first point of Liu Wenmin's reform measures is to re-measure the acres of cultivated land in the county; The second point is to conduct a census of the population under his rule, and register the population hidden by the gentry and landlords; The third point is to abolish the provision of tax exemption for lifting people (sorry, I made a mistake before), change it to a certain subsidy, and levy it into the county office, collect taxes from the squires and landlords, and levy anti-Qing taxes according to the reputation of each family; Fourth, the poll tax was abolished, and Ding Yin was incorporated into the field endowment, and the tax object was changed from the common people themselves to acres of land, and at the same time, those with more land paid more taxes, those with less land paid less taxes, and those without land did not pay taxes.

The four-point measures are actually put forward around Su Yan's proposal yesterday to spread the land into the mu, and the clearing of the acres of land is conducive to determining the object of expropriation, avoiding the squire and landlords from lying and concealing the report, and the census is to determine how many people and strong men there are under the rule. As for the third point...... It was purely aimed at the squire landlords, who wanted to get wool from them.

It's one thing to find out whether or not you can find out, as long as those squires and landlords don't cooperate, Su Yan naturally has many ways to deal with them, so that they can obediently spit out the money and grain.

What? Su Yan had promised them that as long as they obeyed the Da Ming Law, he wouldn't attack them?

Please, now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty is about to unify the world, who still pays attention to the law of the Ming Dynasty, if there is no cooperation, Su Yan will have a big deal to forge evidence of their tax evasion, so as to attack them openly.

However, this abolition of tax exemption for people is replaced by subsidies, and the requisition into the county government office is not the same as Su Yan's central idea yesterday.

Facing Su Yan's puzzled gaze, Liu Wenmin took the initiative to explain:

"After a night of deliberation yesterday, my subordinates still think that the direct abolition of the tax exemption is too radical, and that the annual distribution of subsidies and the requisition of allegiance to us will reduce the determination of the squires and landlords to resist, and will bring us closer together, and tie them to our ships.

Moreover, we are still too short of talents, and there are only a few people available in the huge county government, and the recruitment of people into the county government is also to better govern this place. ”

"Well, you have a point." Su Yan couldn't help nodding when he heard this, and said, "Just change it according to what you say, this is also my negligence." ”

After speaking, he continued: "The land survey and population census will start tomorrow, first around the county seat of Dehua, I will send soldiers to carry out security work, and announce the new policy in the afternoon, you will send people to collect anti-Qing taxes from the squires and landlords." ”

"What if someone doesn't cooperate?" Liu Wenmin asked.

"If you don't cooperate, the rebels will be killed on the spot, and the rest will be arrested and imprisoned, and their homes will be raided!" The corners of Su Yan's mouth were hooked, revealing a cold smile, and he said murderously.

When the words fell, he added: "In troubled times, we should use heavy codes, and there are Manchu Qing Dynasty eyeing us outside, and we don't have the energy to talk to those moths." ”

"Yes."

Liu Wenmin clenched his fists and promised.

……

An hour later, Liu Wenmin's handwritten notices were posted on the streets and alleys, and the officials in the county government also went out one after another to personally come to the door to inform several gentry and landlords inside and outside the county of the notice of the heavy collection of taxes and the collection of anti-Qing taxes.

As soon as the new notice came out, the whole county exploded, and the common people rushed to tell each other, crying with joy, they had been weighed down by the burden of poll tax for more than a thousand years, and now it was finally abolished, even if they did not know how long this regulation would last, it was enough to make them feel happy.

What made them even happier was that those high-ranking squires and landlords were also required to collect taxes, and they were angry at those old men who did not have to pay taxes on weekdays, and now the iron fist finally smashed on the heads of those old men.

Compared with the joy of the common people, the mood of the squires and lords is not so good, they are all worried, although they do not want to comply with the new regulations of the county government, but the group of rebels is not so easy to deal with in the past, the government has the law pressing, dare not do anything to them, that gang of rebels is not worried, cut them down, they can only consider themselves unlucky.

And that Shilaozi resisted the Qing tax, isn't it just a different way to get their wool? If they don't, they will be found the next day.

"This Su Yan actually dared to abolish the ancestral motto of tax exemption formulated since Taizu, who does he think he is?! Isn't it just a change of way to ask us for money, it's really greedy! ”

In the Li Mansion in the east of the city, Li Sirun was furious, and he had smashed a beautiful white porcelain tea lid on the ground.

His eldest son, Li Daotai, looked at his father helplessly, and persuaded beside him: "Dad, now is not the era when Ming scholars give priority, and that Su Yan is not surnamed Zhu, what does the ancestral precept formulated by Emperor Taizu have to do with him?" ”

"Hey, you rebel, you also want to be angry with that Su Yan, do you?" Li Sirun almost kicked his eldest son's buttocks, but as soon as his feet were raised, he realized that this was his most precious son, so he could only stomp on the ground angrily.

Li Daotai didn't care about Li Sirun's attitude, he asked rhetorically: "Father, this is the best time to make friends with Su Yan, do you know why Su Yan wants to attack us as soon as he comes back?" ”

"Why?" Li Sirun saw that he was serious, so his face became serious, his eldest son was smart and studious since he was a child, and his words were very valuable.

"Su Yan came back this time and brought back more than 2,000 homeless people outside the city, he chose to attack us now, the drunkard's intention is not to drink, it is for the acres of money and grain in our hands, if we refuse to cooperate, I believe it will not be long before Su Yan can find some letters from our home to contact the Qing army......"

Hearing him say this, Li Sirun also understood, his eyes widened, and he couldn't believe it: "Su Yan is so bold? Isn't he afraid that all the squires and landlords of Dehua will join forces to rebel against him? ”

"Father, Su Yan's prestige among the people is extremely high now, do you think we join forces to resist him, whose side will the common people stand on?"

Li Daotai said quietly: "Water can carry a boat and capsize a boat, and now Su Yan is the head snake of the ground." ”