Chapter VI: Division of Fields and Judgment
In this era, corruption is rampant in the imperial court, and ordinary people want to sue the official, but they don't have a few taels of silver, so they want to see the county master?
You can see what you want, who do you think you are?
Even if you desperately beat the drum of grievances, you have to hit the twenty boards first, and if you don't die, then you will be lucky to see the county order.
But it is obviously impractical to ask the county magistrate to catch the thorn for a civilian like you, and it is okay to shoot it directly with a stick, if you are caught in prison for picking quarrels and provoking trouble, then you can basically wait for death.
Therefore, when the land gentry have no land, no money, and their previous relationships are as thin as smoke, how much difference is there between them and ordinary people?
In addition, Su Che shared the money and bribes, so it was even more impossible to move the Taiping Dao.
Zhang Bao felt that he had done something illegal, and subconsciously felt that he couldn't see the light of day, which was really the idea of honest and good people.
In fact, Taiping Dao can not only be above board, even if the behavior is more arrogant, it doesn't matter, there will be many officials who take the initiative to cover up, for fear that this thunder will blow up in his tenure.
As long as their term of office expires, then the Taiping Road has nothing to do with them, and they no longer need to be held responsible.
Zhang Bao thought about it, and felt more and more reasonable, and couldn't help but admire in his heart, the eldest brother is really far-sighted!
He asked, "What should we do with those slaves and vains?" ”
Su Che said without thinking: "They are all hard-working people, they are all oppressed by the landlords and gentry, and there is no need to hurt each other between the poor and the poor." Let them speak of grievances and bitterness, divide and divide them, dismantle and integrate into our congregation, and instill in them the dogma of our Taiping Tao every day, and so on. ”
"I see." Zhang Bao nodded.
At this moment, Zhang Liangxing rushed over, holding an account book in his hand, and said with a smile: "Big brother! I have roughly checked the assets of this Sunjiazhuang, which is their account book for this year. ”
"How's the catch?" Su Che asked.
"The total amount of land is 4,800 acres, of which 1,000 acres are high-grade fertile fields, 1,800 acres are medium-sized fields, and 2,000 acres are lower fields." Zhang Liang quickly said: "In addition, there are 3,867 stones of surplus grain, as soon as the granary is opened, it is piled up, the big guys are stunned, and they almost can't control it, and it is the first time I have seen so much grain......"
"In the year of the catastrophe, there is still so much surplus food?" Su Che was a little surprised.
"Yes, I didn't expect that this small Sunjiazhuang would be able to find nearly 4,000 stone of grain." Zhang Liang said with emotion.
"These people also said before that the landlord's family has no surplus grain......" Zhang Bao's face was a little ugly.
"If you go and take other people's food for nothing, others will definitely not want to." Su Che smiled.
"That's right." Zhang Bao nodded.
"What about the gold, silver, and copper coins?" Su Che asked.
"If you have gold, silver and copper money...... Zhang Liang lowered his head and flipped through the account book, and read: "There are more than two hundred taels of gold, more than four hundred taels of silver, and the most is five baht, and the numbers on the account book are totaling 68,000 yuan, so there shouldn't be too much difference." ”
"Okay." Su Che nodded, a little relieved, with so much money and food, the pressure was finally reduced a little.
Playing the landlord and dividing the land, this move seems to be not wrong here, since this is the case, then continue to carry it forward.
"What's next? Shall we bring all that food and money back? Zhang Liang asked.
"Nope." Su Che shook his head: "After a long journey here, I won another battle, how can I treat it well?" Pass the order, cook in the pot, kill pigs and sheep, and have a good celebration feast! ”
Saying that they were going to eat the celebration feast, the whole Taiping army was boiling, and everyone cheered and helped to start cooking, and after a while, the smoke of the cooking rose faintly, and after a while, the meat was cooked, and the rice was cooked.
For the first time in months, the big guys had eaten enough.
Many people ate and ate, and tears flowed down their eyes.
Although each person could only get a mouthful of meat, this mouthful of meat was already the first meat they had eaten in several years.
After the celebration banquet, it was the division of fields and the judgment meeting.
Su Che distributed the fields of Sunjiazhuang to the Taiping Taoists who were willing to stay here, and let them plough and fight here.
The ownership of these lands is Taiping Dao, and all the congregation has is the right to use it, so it cannot be bought or sold.
This seems to be the same as the tenants before it, but in reality it is very different.
Tenants cultivating the landlord's fields need to pay seventy percent of the grain to the landlord, and the tenants also need to give gifts to the landlord during the New Year's holidays.
When the landlord builds a house, the tenants have to help, provide labor, and go to weddings and funerals, only for a bite to eat, and there is no salary.
And the ploughing battle of Taiping Dao is also divided into three or seven, but Taiping Dao takes three percent, and the congregation takes seventy percent.
Originally, Su Che only wanted to take one percent, but he was strongly opposed by Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao, and only took one percent, what is the difference between that and giving it away for nothing?
The landlord who can share fifty-fifty with the tenants is already a good family, a good man with a kind heart!
When the people of Sunjiazhuang saw such a division, their eyes were red, and they were originally a little resistant to joining the Taiping Road, but now they have become extremely active.
Before that, they stood on the side of the Sun family, thinking that it was the Sun family who gave them a bite to eat and a little way to live, but now, there is no harm if there is no comparison!
At the end of the field division, it was the trial meeting, and the old man of the Sun family, the young master of the Sun family, and the old worshipper were all tied up and taken up.
Su Che simply announced his crime, "Sun Qi, the head of the Sun family, Sun Yue, his grandson, worship Ying Tianchang, force Liang to become a prostitute, kill people, and the physical witnesses are all there, I Taiping Dao for Tianxingdao, sentence you to wait for hanging!" Can you have any objections? ”
The three of them widened their eyes and struggled with excitement, but their mouths were stuffed with things, and they couldn't speak for a long time.
"Looking at your appearance, it seems that you are still not convinced, let Leng Gao come up!" Su Che said.
Soon, a somewhat thin old man came up, in fact he was not very old, only in his thirties, but so many tortures made him so weathered that he looked like an old man.
Leng Gao came to the stage and stared at the old man of the Sun family, Sun Qi, his eyes could almost spew fire, "You are really damned!" ”
"Don't be in a hurry, speak slowly, tell all your grievances, your pain." Su Che said seriously.
"Yes, Master." Leng Gao exhaled deeply, closed his eyes painfully, as if recalling the unbearable past.
Soon, he opened his eyes and slowly spoke: "I am from Sunjiazhuang, I used to be, but now I am not, that was last year...... Because of natural disasters, the harvest was very bad, but Sunjiazhuang still collected seventy percent of the tenant rent, and it was difficult for our family to persist even if we were frugal with that little grain. ”
"We starved for a month, and we couldn't stand it, so we wanted to borrow some food from the Sun family and pay it back next year, even if it added more interest."
"We have been farming for their families for so many years, and they are all honest farmers, and it is still easy to borrow, it is nothing more than how much interest is paid."
"I had already negotiated the interest with the steward of the Sun family, and we got the food, but as a result, because this Master Sun took a fancy to our daughter, he asked us to exchange our daughter for food, and snatched our life-saving food back!"
"How can I be willing to sell my daughter? Who will sell their daughter if they can survive? ”
As he spoke, Leng Gao's tears flowed down, he wiped his tears, and continued: "I can only borrow some food from my neighbors, but Master Sun gave an order, no one can lend us food, they also said that I don't know what to do, Master Sun has taken a fancy to my daughter, this is my blessing......"
"Later, my wife Li was sick, and the family had no food or money, so we couldn't just let her mother die, and in the end we could only watch our daughter enter the Sun family."
"Master Sun gave me some food and some money, and I finally had the money to treat my wife."
"But later, my wife's illness was still not cured, and she died after all, and my daughter wanted to see her mother for the last time, but she had a conflict with this grandfather, and she was beaten to death."
"I didn't have a daughter or a wife, so I found the Sun family theory, but I was beaten out of the Sun family village and thrown out of the Sun family village."
"Later, I slept in the open air, and I had to starve to death on the streets several times, but fortunately someone gave me some charity, and I survived."
"After that, I joined the Taiping Dao, and the sect leader said that he wanted to make the world peaceful, to make the world peaceful, to make the world free of grievances, and to let us no longer suffer and suffer, I didn't believe it, even if I said it many times, I didn't believe it."
"But now, I believe it!"