Chapter 257 The landlords and gentry can rob it

Huang Xinggui, the head of Shangli Village, Changzhou County, the largest household in the village, just received the news from Changzhou County last night, so he gathered the tenants at home overnight, and then arranged a matter of resisting Juntian, and promised to be rent-free for two years after the completion of the matter.

This is a great favor for those tenants, who can get two years' worth of food for nothing.

"Let me tell you, you also have to think about it carefully, it was originally your family's field, which was given to you by the imperial court, and the field passed down from the time of Emperor Taizu, but because the prime ministers of the court implemented a policy that made you unable to live, this will dedicate the field to the village chief's house, and every year in addition to farming for them for free, you can only get 30% of the generation in your own field, which can feed your family;

When you want to marry and take a daughter-in-law, when you can't get the money, you have to mortgage your own land to them at a discount. ”

The second child of the Xu family is an honest man, his eldest brother was sent to Mufu in Yunnan Province as a soldier because of breaking the law, and the third child was transferred to Liaodong as a civilian husband for the guards during the first war in Salhu, and now there is no news, the Xu family is now orphans and widows and parents all rely on him to support alone, and the seven acres of paddy fields in the family are all dedicated to Huang Xinggui's family, of which five acres of fields are mortgaged to the Huang family because of their own relatives, and they now only have two acres of paddy fields, and the grain wheat they get is not enough to feed a family of nine.

"How can we beat the village chief?"

The second child of the Xu family sighed, only to see the person who came to answer seriously: "Even if you go to contact the tenants who want to share your situation, Liang Guogong will naturally support you, not only let you get your own land, but you will no longer have to pay land taxes in the future, and it will be a matter of time before your life gets better." ”

The second child of the Xu family was refreshed when he heard this, he had already heard that the Songjiang Mansion next door had implemented the exemption of Juntian, and the lives of the common people had been greatly improved, and even many peasants who could not survive secretly went to Songjiang to join their relatives.

"Okay, the little one is going to contact the villagers."

Huang Xinggui and Huang Sihai of Zhejiang Dusi are still of the same clan, relying on the relationship of Huang Sihai, Huang Xinggui's branch in Shangli Village is prosperous, the village has more than 800 people, ninety percent of them are tenants of his family, and the villagers of Shangli Village even laughed and said that it should be renamed Huangjia Village.

Huang Xinggui's life was very comfortable, although he heard about Juntian's exemption, but nothing happened in the past few days, he couldn't help relaxing, early in the morning and the concubine who had just been put in the partial house came to do an early morning errand, and when he was drinking the fresh milk squeezed out by the concubine, the housekeeper pushed open his door in a panic, and the concubine was so frightened that when the concubine turned around, he milked Huang Xinggui's face.

"Bastard, what kind of place do you dare to break into, are you tired of it?"

"The old man is angry," the butler said in a panic, "in the village... Wrong... The tenants of the house... No, the second child of the Xu family rebelled with those mud legs in the village..."

Huang Xinggui heard it in a fog, but the last sentence of rebellion shocked him: "What? Did they cooperate with the traitors from Matsue? ”

The housekeeper shook his head again and again: "No, they shouted slogans saying that they wanted to bring down the landlord and gentry, and those people came to the house with their hands." ”

"The dog stuff has turned upside down..."

Huang Xinggui buttoned up his clothes: "Quick, you go to the inspection department in person and ask them to send people, in addition, gather the people in the family If anyone dares to storm the house, they will be beaten out." ”

Before Huang Xinggui had time to go to the front to see what was going on, the door of the house was blown to pieces, and the flesh and blood of the son of the family behind the door were blurred, and the second child of the Xu family couldn't help but be ashamed when he saw this, it turned out that it was the people from the Dingwu Army who came to them in the past few days.

They are the only ones who can use firearms.

However, at this time, he was already the leader, and when he saw that Huang Xinggui's home was opened, he rushed in with more than 100 tenants from Shangli Village with hoes and pig dung forks according to the plan he had previously explained, looking like bandits entering the village.

This is something that I didn't dare to think of in previous years, but I am comfortable in the chaos.

The second child of the Xu family buckled the white hat that had been prepared a long time ago on Huang Xinggui's head, which was shaped like a vertebrae, and the words 'common people sinners' and 'fighting landlords' were written on it, which was no different from the high hats of later generations.

"Let's go, take their family to the entrance of the village, and let the villagers judge them together..."

"Fight the landlord..."

"Fight the landlord..."

"Fight the landlord..."

Hundreds of people shouted slogans, escorted Huang Xinggui's family to the entrance of the village...

This situation began to play out in Suzhou on the same day, and the people became more and more unscrupulous and began to act arrogantly after discovering that there were no officials to inspect them.

After Huang Chunyao told Chen Cao the matter concisely, Chen Cao nodded and put down the official document in his hand: "They have been oppressed by these people for a long time, and it is common for them to vent their emotions.

By the way, the matter of rape and adultery with the daughters of the landlord's family can not happen again, especially the case of gang rape, which is really bad, let the people who supervise these people watch these people, and if necessary, they must kill the chickens and make an example of the monkeys..."

When Zhang Cai went to find Zhang Shihuang, there had just been a big incident in his hometown in Wu County, where the father was seriously injured by the mob, and his third brother's daughter-in-law was even raped to death by the mob, and the body was not even spared.

"Outside, something is wrong..."

Before Zhang Cai finished speaking, Zhang Shihuang came out in a panic, his hometown is also in Wu County, but he is not from a different township than Zhang Cai's family.

"Nephew, something is wrong..."

Zhang Shihuang took Zhang Cai's hand and almost cried: "The old man's house was robbed by a mob and suffered heavy losses... It's terrible..."

Zhang Shihuang hasn't finished his words yet, the little concubines he raised in Wu County have all been gang-raped by mobs, and now life and death are uncertain, but how can such things be said.

"Outside, I can't hide it, my home was also robbed, and even someone died."

Zhang Cai can imagine the initiator of this matter at this moment, there are no officials in the three counties of Suzhou, everything is in the hands of the Dingwu army, and the local government has not intervened in the mob rebellion at all, even a fool can see the direction of this matter.

With these considerations in mind, Zhang Cai and Zhang Shihuang rushed to the governor's yamen to ask to see Chen Cao, but they were turned away.

"Grandpa has urgent business and is not in the yamen, let's go back separately..."

Hearing this, some of them immediately retreated, these people are rich in Suzhou, Songjiang is not unaware, but they don't want to leave their family's decades or even hundreds of years of industry away, and now, although the landlord has not affected Suzhou for the time being, but Wu County and Changzhou have begun, and time is not waiting for anyone.

Before Zhang Cai and Zhang Shihuang said their next move, more than a dozen people had their own choice in their hearts, and they apologized and left one after another.

In the evening, Zhang Cai got a thunderbolt news, his old father and old mother were publicly tried by the villagers in the township, the crimes of the Zhang family are too numerous to mention, the villagers' assembly unanimously agreed to sentence the Zhang family to death, and after the meeting was approved by the people, the execution was carried out at that time, and the parents were hanged on the spot.

Zhang Cai fainted after spitting blood from his mouth after learning the news, Zhang Shihuang's situation was no different from Zhang Cai, although he was not affected, but all the people who stayed in his hometown suffered, several of his brothers were hanged, and all the female relatives were detained and sent to the local government.

This matter is that a fool can see that it is inseparable from Chen Cao, with the experience of several leaders, two or three hundred of the hundreds of people who were arrested at that time went to the governor's yamen to ask to see Chen Cao, and were willing to cooperate with Juntian to exempt from taxation and hand over those hidden fields.

It's just that these people didn't see Chen Cao in the end, and the notice they learned was that Chen Cao went to appease the people.

The people's hearts really need to be appeased, but Chen Cao's efforts to appease the people's hearts obviously have an element of adding oil and vinegar.

"My father knows that you are wronged, and you also want to know how much land my father's family has, but I don't hide it, when my father was degraded to Songjiang, there was no good land in Shanghai County, and it all depended on business.

Your villagers' meeting is good, these landlords and gentry don't treat you as people, but you were not born as his slaves, from today on, you are all free, you don't have to worry about the taxes of the year in the future, you don't have to worry about whether the whole family will starve to death after paying the taxes, and you don't have to worry about whether you need to pay money and grain to your father;

If anyone robs or forcibly requisitions grain under any banner, even if you come to this father, remember, if I ask for your grain, it must be bought with money, and it is the market price, and I will never ask you to pay for food for any reason;

The revolution is not guilty, the rebellion is justified, the landlords and gentry are overthrown, and the people live and work in peace and contentment..."

"The revolution is innocent, the rebellion is justified, the landlords and gentry are overthrown, and the people live and work in peace and contentment..."

"The revolution is innocent, the rebellion is justified, the landlords and gentry are overthrown, and the people live and work in peace and contentment..."

"The revolution is innocent, the rebellion is justified, the landlords and gentry are overthrown, and the people live and work in peace and contentment..."

The crowd was excited, the slogan was loud, Chen Cao nodded with satisfaction, and then arranged for someone to deal with the follow-up matters, and he took people back to Suzhou City. &

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