In the next few days, the Boling County Temple did not take much action, only Hu Puguang took the lawsuit and continued to sit in the county temple to resolve the disputes in the county.

At the same time, several counties near Boling were in full swing to carry out the field division movement, and there were constantly some stubborn local tyrants who were punished in public trials, and because only the fields of the local tyrants and the landlords were divided, this time the field division action was supported by a large number of homesteaders.

The isolated heroes generally did not dare to resist, because the five field armies of the Taishan Army were stationed nearby, and resistance was a dead end.

As a result, there are constantly heroes who take the initiative to donate their soil and accept their fate.

But there are always some people who can't give up this privileged life and status, so a quarrel takes place in the manor of the Bolingcui clan.

……

In the southeast of the water, there is a very large manor.

This is the largest manor of the Boling Cui clan, Dunbenbi, and it is also the main vein of the entire Cui clan.

As a family of scriptures that has lasted for 400 years, the Cui family has a great business, and all the lineages continue to spread out, and there are clans and industries in Anguo and Liwu.

Today, there are more than 60 of them on the dock wall, with 1,000 people and 3,000 tenants. The number of households in Boling County is only 10,000, and this family accounts for one-third.

However, there is still a difference between a subordinate and a tenant.

The apprentice is almost a slave, completely sold to the Cui family, and all the fruits of labor belong to the Cui family. The tenants are different, they just lease land from the Cui family, and after handing it over to the master's family, the rest is their own.

Then why didn't the Cui clan accept all these 3,000 tenants as apprentices?

The first one is no.

Because the Cui clan does not have enough clansmen to manage such a huge manpower, and the tenants have their own surplus, the enthusiasm for production is much higher than that of the disciples.

Therefore, generally speaking, the Cui family will not subordinate all the land they have seized to their own estate, but directly transfer it to others, as long as they collect the rent on time.

Cui's exploited the tenants very ruthlessly, and at first they wanted to take away seven or eight out of ten of the tenants' annual harvest.

But the yield per mu in this world is already low, and no one exploits it, but they are just barely living, not to mention being taken away by the Cui family, so naturally they can't survive.

Cui also knew that this level of rent rice was simply unaffordable for those tenants, so they would reduce it a little at this time.

This is where Choi's careful thinking comes in.

They have a good insight into what the people below are thinking. If a very low tax is set at the beginning, then if it is raised higher, it will inevitably be boiled with public resentment. And once it is reversed, first set a quota that the people below are completely unbearable, and then keep decreasing, but at this time you can reap the gratitude of others.

That's human nature.

In this way, after several generations of games, Cui's has come up with a set of standards that will not stir up public resentment and can maximize their own rice rent.

Moreover, in order to make the following people unclear about the levy standard of rented rice, Cui's also set up various names.

Nominally, the Cui family and the tenants below only charge one cent of land rent, which is the virtue that the Cui family flaunts. Don't say anything about thirty taxes and one, that's long in the past.

But in fact, Cui's has names such as "white land" and "growing grain".

This white land means that if you want to come to rent a tenant, you must first plant twenty acres of Cui's field. In other words, twenty acres is head money.

And then you don't have enough land, you still need seeds. The seeds are also lent to you, but you have to double them after harvesting. In other words, if you borrow one bucket of seeds, you will have to pay back two buckets of grain.

This doesn't sound like much, after all, isn't there such a sentence:

"Plant one grain of millet in the spring, and harvest 10,000 seeds in the autumn."

That's just double, not much.

But the poetry of the literati can not be taken seriously, in fact, in this generation, even if it is a canal field in Hebei, one bucket is planted, and the harvest is only three buckets.

And those who went to the field, and even sowed a bucket of grain, got only twice as much.

The normal yield per mu is about one stone, and even if a person does not put in the effort, he has to eat twelve stone millet that year. And millet is ripe once a year, although some large estates have developed agricultural technology and can achieve wheat and millet rotation to achieve two crops a year.

But this technique has not been widely promoted.

Therefore, for a farmer, just to feed himself, he needs to have 12 acres of land, and then he needs to keep one-third of it as grain for the next year, then he needs 16 acres of land.

This is still just one person, and once there is one more mouth in the family, the necessary rations must be prepared. In agriculture, we pay attention to three years of harvest and one year of famine. Therefore, a certain amount of reserves are needed every year to cope with the famine year.

In short, the name of the Cui's grain planting project alone can make the tenants work for nothing for a year if they have to collect twice the amount of grain planted.

Therefore, every autumn, after the grain is harvested in the field, Cui's field will lead the servants to come to the field with Dou and Hu to collect the grain.

They first deducted the grain they planted, then they collected the rent of rice, and then they deducted two deductions, and the tenants were either empty-handed or had little left.

At this time, you can't eat enough, what should you do. What should I do if I encounter a disaster year?

Don't worry, don't be in a hurry to rebel first, Master Cui is kind-hearted and lends it to you.

And this is Cui's other big business, which is lending. In short, Cui's arranged you clearly in all aspects of the front and back.

You won't starve to death, you won't rise up to resist, and you won't have any chance of turning over. In short, your children and grandchildren will pay off the debts of the Cui family and farm the land.

Of course, the premise is that you can still marry a wife in this situation, otherwise where will your children and grandchildren come from.

Therefore, outside Cui's manor, the apprentices and tenants in the fields are all bent over and working in the fields. It was their bent waist that carried the clear water surface of the Boling Cui family.

In this deep dock wall, Cui Si, the head of the Cui family, was angrily scolding his nephew Cui You below:

"Stubborn, Uncle Wei told you to read the Bible behind closed doors a few times, don't go around with those strong people, why don't you listen?"

Looking at the indifference on the face of his nephew Cui You below, Cui Si regretted it in his heart.

For this brother's young son, he really has a headache to the extreme. It is because he has no father or mother, and the teaching in the clan is not dedicated, that he has developed a tyrannical character like him.

Just as Cui Si was about to block Cui You with strong means, he listened to Cui You's words:

"Uncle, what kind of strong beams, aren't they all my friends of the Cui family?"

Cui Si was furious and opened his mouth:

"You ......"

But he couldn't go on.

Because what his nephew said was right, those nearby rangers and Haokou were indeed friends of the Cui family. Local bandits can become bigger, and they often can't get rid of the support of local clans.

Choi is no exception, because they also need people to do things they don't want to do.

A great family does not always live in the sun, and his dark side is as big as his size.

But is this kind of thing something that can be said?

Because in the final analysis, those who make friends with Haokou and Ranger are all partial houses and partial branches, what does it have to do with my main lineage of Boling Cui Clan? My children just want to read the Bible to keep the family's reputation alive, not to be willing to fall.

But Cui Si also knows this truth, even if it is useless to tell Cui You.

So he could only say gently:

"Now it's chaotic outside, and the Taishan army has begun to divide the fields in various places. Although we Qinghe don't know why, we haven't divided it yet. But this division of the land is always inescapable, I have discussed with several clan elders in the family, and I will also take the initiative to let each house hand over the land and accept the distribution. So don't cause trouble for the family during this time, understand? ”

This was supposed to be a reassuring word, but our Cui You blew up when he heard it:

"What? Kata? No way! Not at all. Hand over the field, what shall we eat? What a stupid idea this is. ”

Cui Si didn't come to listen to Cui You, he said quite toughly:

"What else are you going to do? Still want to resist? What if you just pull out thousands of people? Can compare to Lu Shuai's tiger soldiers? Don't bother to ask, you don't understand the affairs of the family. ”

When Cui You heard this, he didn't want to say more, but he was ruthless in his heart:

"Hmph, I don't understand? Boy, just look at how hard it is. ”

After Cui You was discharged from the hospital in a huff, he heard bad news.

His companion suddenly told him that his falcon had been killed by one of the tenants in the estate.

But Cui You is brave and ruthless, and he likes to hunt on weekdays, so he raised a group of big dog falcons for safari.

And on this day, a falcon flew out because it was not fed.

When Cui You's companions followed him all the way, they saw that the falcon had died at the hands of a tenant.

Cui You was already angry, and he asked ruthlessly:

"What's the name of the tenant?"

The companion was worried that this matter would affect him, so he hurriedly said:

"It's Wei Lezi."

Cui You didn't know this person, so he directly asked his companion to take him.

At this time, Wei Lezi, who had killed the eagle, was being tied up and kneeling in a grass hut, looking at the scars on his face, it was obvious that he had just been beaten.

When he saw Cui You coming, Wei Lezi, who was still moaning just now, got up and wailed:

"Lang Jun, really, I really didn't mean to. If I knew that it was your eagle, I wouldn't dare to move a single hair even if I ate the leopard's guts. Please, spare me this time, I'm willing to pay. I still have an old mother, please. ”

Wei Lezi felt that he was too wronged.

Just in the morning, he was chopping wood at home. Suddenly, he saw an eagle flying towards him and grabbing his chickens to eat.

This chicken is the meat of Wei Lezi's heart, how can he let this evil eagle succeed, saying that it is too late and that is fast, he will give an axe to the eagle's head.

Wei Lezi, who still thought that he could add more meat, suddenly saw a domino hanging from the eagle's neck, and he was frightened at that time.

Because he knew that this must be the Eagle of the Cui family.

Just when Wei Lezi was about to secretly hide this, Cui You's companions broke in outside.

The companions were also frightened, and without saying anything, they arrested Wei Lezi back to the manor.

But it is useless to be wronged, Wei Lezi, who has long known Cui You's ruthlessness, knows that if he doesn't bleed this time, he may die this time.

But fortunately, Wei Lezi is a bit of a thin name in this area. He used to be an old Ge in the Liyang battalion, but because he violated military law, he was kicked out of the barracks after piercing the camp.

After that, Wei Lezi returned to the township, while raising his orphan mother, while teaching some villagers to be childish.

And a few of Cui You's companions learned a little bit of Jiao Jiao under Wei Lezi back then, so they couldn't help but come up to persuade peace, and they whispered to Cui You of the Yin Owl:

"Since this Wei Lezi wants to accompany him, let him accompany him. This man has a little savings, just right. ”

Who knows that Cui You scolded back:

"Am I missing his family? Okay, isn't he going to pay for it? That's how it is compensated. My Cui family's dog, although it is a beast, is also the life of you and their tenants. Now that my dog is dead, this man is going to pay for my dog's life. ”

Just when Cui You took the knife and wanted to give Wei Lezi a result in person, a companion knew that his feelings were not good, and he was busy laughing and saying:

"Lang Jun, I have a way. Bao told this Wei leper to live more than to die. ”

Then, the man said a way.

He asked Wei Lezi to make a coffin, and then buried two chickens and ten rabbits, and then found eight drummers who blew white things to bury Cui You's eagle.

When the time comes, let Wei Lezi hold the eagle's sign and let him cry for the eagle like a dead father. Every step you take, you have to shout "Eagle Father".

It is to let the people of the whole dock wall see that our Cui's eagles are the fathers of you people, not to mention our Cui's.

Cui You shouted loudly about this method, and then gladly accepted it.

On the same day, Wei Lezi sold his family's land, and then found a few former apprentices to be blowers, holding the falcon's rank in humiliation all the way and shouting "Eagle father." ”

Originally, the family was ruined, and the name was ruined. No matter how sad and angry Wei Lizi was, he also felt that he was unlucky.

But who knew that in the end, Cui You led someone to dig up his father's grave and put the eagle coffin in it.

Pointing to Wei Lezi's head, Cui You said this:

"Since it's your father, how can you not be buried with your own father?"

Looking at the bones that had been dug up, Wei Lezi directly vomited a mouthful of blood and fainted to the ground.

And before he fainted, he heard his mother's cry of grief;

"I'm fighting with you."

……

This incident made a lot of trouble, and afterwards Cui You was slapped by the patriarch Cui Sizhong and taken away and grounded.

When Wei Lezi woke up, he saw that his mother had been placed on the mat. He didn't ask the villagers who were there who killed them.

Wei Lezi just silently kept tears.

The villagers present didn't say much, after all, it was about the Cui family, and they didn't dare to have anything to do with it. So after comforting Wei Lezi for a few words, these people also found an excuse and left.

In the end, only one dealer who often sold goods to the county town remained, he looked at Wei Lezi with empty eyes, thinking that he had received his favor in the past, so he gritted his teeth and spoke:

"Old Wei, if you can't do it, go to the county temple to find the county gentleman. Before, I saw that the county monarch opened the court to try the case in public, and he killed a group of city fox society rats in the county. I have heard others say that the current county temple is different from the past, and the Taishan Army is the master, and the Taishan Army is dedicated to us poor people. ”

Seeing that Wei Lezi still didn't react, the dealer didn't know what to say. He silently left a string of copper coins before leaving, and then left.

And Wei Lezi still had empty eyes and no response.

It wasn't until he lay on the ground for two days that his mother's body began to stink a little that Wei Lezi disappeared in the night.

When he appeared, he had already knocked on the door of Boling County, and he wanted to sue Cui Shi Cao Kan for his life.

At this time, Wei Lezi was desperate and could only put all his hopes on the Taishan army.

I just hope that they are really in charge of the poor, as others say.

The case is based on real events.

(End of chapter)