Chapter 240: The knife is not blunt and can kill

Just as the people of Fangzheng Village were talking, a group of masked people rushed into the archway of Fangzheng Village and waved the stick in their hands towards the place where the crowd gathered.

All of a sudden, the voices of crying fathers and mothers came and went...

When Zhao Xin found Chen Cao, Chen Cao was telling the people gathered in the city about the new policy of Songjiang Mansion.

An old woman trembled and took Chen Cao's hand, and said a local Wu Nong dialect in Songjiang: "It's a good thing for our Huating that Grandpa Guo is here... The old woman has gone into the loess from the neck down, and she can watch her family no longer pay taxes in her lifetime.

In my heart..."

The old woman wiped her tears as she spoke, Chen Cao patted her gently, and then looked at the elderly people around her: "You people probably have a doubt in their hearts, whether they will not pay this year and next year, or will they not pay in the future...

My duke can pat my chest here and tell you that as long as my duke lives, as long as my duke is still the governor of Songjiang, then your taxes will never be paid..."

"Okay..."

"The old man is here to wish the grandfather of the country a long life and many blessings..."

"I wish Grandpa Guo good health..."

"Bless Grandpa Guo..."

After finishing the mass work, Zhao Xin said: "Grandpa, something happened in Fangzheng Village..."

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"Lord Huang, there are still a lot of Diao people under your rule..."

Huang Shijing wiped her sweat, and then lowered her body: "Please forgive your grandfather, the lower officials are incompetent, I really don't know that there are so many tumors in Huating, and they still don't remember how good their grandfather is when the governor Yamen pays taxes on behalf of Songjiang, and these people should be killed..."

Huang Shijing felt that it was a good thing to follow Chen Cao's footsteps, since the order of never paying taxes came out, the people under the rule of Huating County have obviously been much more active in production, and Chen Cao's reputation is getting higher and higher...

Chen Cao turned to look at Zhao Xin: "Are there any casualties?" ”

"There were many injured among the people, and the perpetrator made cruel words, saying that he would go again..."

"Did they say anything about the new deal?"

Zhao Xin shook his head: "Lao Gao, they are in the village, and the people said that the gangsters tore up their ID cards, and then beat the people who had ID cards and cleared out the fields, and the rest of the people who had not had time to clear their ID cards and those who took their ID cards were not beaten." ”

Chen Cao glanced at Huang Shijing: "Let's go, Lord Huang, go with my father to visit the injured..."

The Li of Fangzheng Village is the rich gentry in the village, and the old lady Gao Fanghong is the Li Zheng of Fangzheng Village.

But at this moment, he was being supported by his family to meet Chen Cao's reasoning.

Although the official does not kneel only at the level of Xiucai, I don't know when the Ming Dynasty began, and the people of the wealthy gentry also have the right not to kneel when they see the local parents and officials.

It may be that the local parents and officials want to cure the people under their rule, and they need to use these gentry, so that there will be this breaking of the rules.

"This is the disadvantage of the imperial power not going to the countryside..."

Chen Cao read a sentence: "Mr. Gao, can there be an heir in the family who will become an official?" ”

Gao Fanghong bowed: "Returning to China, the eldest son is an official in Jinshanwei, and the second son just won the show last year..."

"Oh... Military? ”

Gao Fanghong hurriedly replied: "The old man's family is not a military household, and the eldest son is a Wuju person in the forty-second year of Wanli..."

Chen Cao looked at Huang Shijing: "Governor Huang, the governance of this Fangzheng Village depends on Mr. Gao?" ”

Huang Shijing bowed: "The local governance of Huating Mansion City and County Town must be governed by local celebrities, otherwise there will be times when there is no way to collect grain." ”

"That's a drawback, too..."

Chen Cao read it again: "The collection of grain tax in the local area depends on the local gentry and landlords, if the official eunuch family like Mr. Gao's family deliberately makes things difficult for the tax collectors, whether the grain can be collected in that year or what is collected depends on the local Lizheng?" ”

Liu Wenzheng bowed: "Grandpa Mingjian, that's exactly the case, it's like this in all parts of the Ming Dynasty, the magistrates say that they are parents officials, but they don't dare to easily offend the village and town Lizheng or the chief of security, they are generally filled by the local landlords, and the key is that most of the people are tenants of the landlords, if they deliberately can't collect all the grain, then..."

Before he finished speaking, Huang Shijing immediately said: "If the grain is not collected within the specified time, the government will not be able to send it to Nanzhili, and if the time is delayed, he will be almost the official." ”

Chen Cao felt that the words of the two of them were quite reasonable, but an old spirit like Gao Fanghong felt cold sweat on his forehead when he heard it.

"Grandpa Mingjian, Fangzheng Village, which is under the management of the old man, has never owed the grain tax to the imperial court every year, and it is all paid on time..."

Chen Cao looked at Gao Fanghong with interest: "Mr. Gao, my father-in-law didn't say anything about you, what are you worried about?" Besides, now that the Songjiang Prefecture has announced that it will not pay any taxes under the rule of this prince, your role as a local management class such as the Lizheng and the Baochang is not very important;

Therefore, another task in Songjiang Prefecture is to abolish the Lizheng and Baochang people in the local villages and towns under the jurisdiction of the prefecture and county one by one. ”

Gao Fanghong was shocked, if this continues, their privileges as local landlords will be gone, and who will be able to listen to them in Fangzheng Village in the future?

"Grandpa, the local countryside, fools and fools, if you don't educate more, how can you perceive the emperor's grace and the goodwill of the dynasty?"

"You're an official?"

Chen Cao turned around and looked at Gao Fanghong with a murderous expression: "You mean that this Fangzheng Village will be in chaos without your Gao family, and then the imperial court or Songjiang Mansion will not be able to manage it?" ”

Gao Fanghong bowed down in a big way: "That's not what the old man meant, my grandfather misunderstood..."

Chen Cao said: "Liu Zhixian, in my father's opinion, your so-called Huating Zhixian is just a decoration. ”

Liu Wenzheng immediately scolded: "Gao Fanghong, don't be embarrassed, it is already a great gift for Grandpa Guo to exempt the taxes of the Songjiang Mansion, since there is no tax, of course it will not be useful for you to wait for the chief of Lizheng and the like, what?"

Do you still want to set up a small court in Fangzheng Village? ”

Who would dare to wear such a big hat?

Gao Fanghong's legs were weak, and he shook his head again and again, Chen Cao felt that it would be enough to scare him first, this old guy is so old don t scare him into high blood pressure and die suddenly of cerebral hemorrhage.

"Mr. Gao, my father asks you, do you know the person who came to Fangzheng Village to commit murder?"

That's the right thing.

Gao Fanghong hurriedly surrendered his hand: "Grandpa Mingjian, the old man and they don't know each other..."

"Liu Zhi County, how is the land inventory in Fangzheng Village?"

Liu Wenzheng said: "Back to Grandpa, the land inventory in Fangzheng Village is basically completed, and only a dozen households have not been completely handed over, but the people behind Juntian have already obtained a new household register, and Grandpa can send someone to check..."

Chen Cao stood still and immediately looked at Gao Fanghong: "Mr. Gao, who are the people of the remaining dozen or so households?" ”

Gao Fanghong's legs trembled, and when Liu Wenzheng saw this, he spoke: "The remaining dozen or so families are all members of the Gao family. ”

"Zhao Xin, you can recite the background of the Gao family..."

"Gao Jialuo, the son of the Gao family of Fangzheng Village, was a martial artist in the forty-second year of Wanli, and was awarded the official camp of the town of Qianhu, in the forty-seventh year of Wanli, the Gao family paid to buy the town of the Nanjing Five Army Governor's Office, and transferred him to Jinshanwei Zhenfu, in the second year of the Apocalypse, he was promoted to the commander of Jinshanwei;

This time, Gao Jiaping, a Xiucai of Enke last year, studied in the county school in Fucheng. ”

After listening to this, Chen Cao nodded thoughtfully: "Among the Gao family, there are either high-ranking officials in the Wei Institute, or Xiucai Gong, this kind of identity is indeed a big family in the township, but even if there is such an identity, it does not make the Gao family different from others...

Gao Fanghong, my father is here to give you a chance, to be honest, who is the perpetrator, think about it and tell this father, if there is no answer before noon tomorrow, this father will kill the chicken and make an example of the monkey..."

After Chen Cao had made up his mind to dictate Songjiang Mansion, landlords like Gao Fanghong and other landlords of the Ming Dynasty were the targets of his key crackdowns, and now, what he wants to do is not only to exempt Juntian, but more importantly, to start a fighting trend hundreds of years in advance, to completely kill this landlord class that exploits the people at the bottom in the torrent of history, and no longer poison the people of later generations.

Liu Laosi's family never imagined that people would be able to see the top lords of the Ming Dynasty in middle age, and low-level people like him could be regarded as burning high incense when they could see the county on weekdays, even those who came to collect grain taxes to collect them, and they probably saw the level of pawns at most.

"Get up, don't kneel..."

Chen Cao personally picked up Liu Laosi and walked towards his courtyard, and then followed the example of the leaders of later generations, and sat in the courtyard of his house with a group of officials and Liu Laosi.

"How's the injury? But there is a big problem, if there is, my father will arrange the best doctor to treat you, you have paid blood and tears for the new policy of Songjiang, how can my father sit idly by..."

Liu Laosi was about to cry, he and his wife were about to kneel, but Huang Shijing on the side stretched out his hand to stop them: "Sitting and talking well with Grandpa Guo is like pulling a homely routine, don't kneel at every turn." ”

Liu Laosi wiped his tears: "The villain is fine, those strongmen just hit the villain's arm with a stick, but I don't know if these strongmen will come back." ”

Chen Cao patted Liu Laosi on the shoulder and said with a smile: "You don't have to worry, this kind of thief, this father will definitely give you a satisfactory explanation, now after Juntian, how much land does the family have?" ”

Liu Laosi nodded, and then replied: "The villain's family includes his daughter-in-law and granddaughter, a total of seven people, and the county has allocated seven acres of ration land, and my granddaughter has been planted by the family, and a lot of grain seeds have been given, no matter how you count it, she can't starve to death..."

"How much does a year come true?"

Liu Laosi shook his head when he said this: "In the past, our village was basically tenants of Mrs. Gao's family, but now we are taking the risk of Juntian, and if we can not be retaliated against, it will be regarded as burning high incense, how dare we beg for more income, as long as the family can make a living, life will be good." ”

"You have set an example for my father's implementation of the new policy, and my father can't let you be wronged, now the whole government of Songjiang has to be planned and built, and if you have idle labor at home, you should hurry up and find a job, as long as it is an industry under the rule of the governor Yamen, there is a good salary every month, and you can't starve to death, as long as you work hard, you can still save some extra money, why not?"