Emperor Zhu wanted to collect taxes.

The wealthy households below also took advantage of the loopholes and changed their fields into fields with less taxes, and registered the fields of ordinary farmers, homesteaders, and small landlords as upper fields.

Not to mention that the locals are now officials, and the officials are the children of local wealthy families.

Even when outsiders were officials in the past, local magistrates from wealthy families did not want to offend, and even colluded with each other most of the time to make money together.

Therefore.

Although the Ming Dynasty did collect a lot of taxes from the fields, those wealthy families did not dare to really anger Emperor Gangzhu, and they really didn't pull out a dime.

However, there are policies and countermeasures.

It's nothing more than passing on the big head to the small people.

These yeoman farmers who have their own land are not bad.

Those who have no land and can only work as tenant farmers are miserable.

Taxes had to be collected above, and these landlords and doctors did not want their income to be reduced, so they could only raise the rent.

Now, these burdens fell on the tenant farmers again.

So much so that now in the countryside, there are voices of complaining everywhere.

"In fact, there is nothing to check the fields, and there is no long-term and short-term price for this year's grain, and it is all collected at a flat price, so it is still cost-effective." Someone said.

"Of course your home is a good deal. Your family's fields are all on the field, and now that there is no long-term price collection, you will pay less than half of the field tax, and you can save more than ten stone of rice every year, I am afraid that it will be distributed soon. ”

"What can this be done, the few families in the village who are soldiers are really hairy, they are all the best paddy fields in Changzhou Prefecture, and I heard that after ten years, you can still get dozens of acres outside the Guan"

Speaking of which.

The crowd sighed again.

Bad luck!

When the imperial court ordered a large number of soldiers, many people hid for fear of being pulled.

As a result, people's recruitment depends on the conditions.

Don't be old.

Don't be too skinny.

Don't be too high.

Don't be too short.

Those who know know that they are recruiting.

I don't know, I thought it was a rabbit.

But who knew that there were so many benefits to being a big soldier?

If this had been known, everyone would have squeezed their heads.

Now it's good.

The Ming court didn't recruit much anymore.

Be a soldier.

You have to stuff red envelopes with the talent of the local recruitment department to get in.

And whether you can become a master after you get started, it's a matter of two words.

Or it's a teenage little doll who can enter the military school if he does well in the exam - but these farmers themselves can't read big words, how can the raw dolls pass the exam.

The road is also blocked.

Can't go up.

So for these farmers.

There is basically no way to get ahead.

Just when the big guy is complaining.

A man with a musket and a red tweed uniform with epaulettes off his shoulders walked with a limp and a long scar on his face.

Glance at it.

The peasants present did not dare to speak.

"Say anything! If anyone is caught by me speaking ill of the court, beware of Lao Tzu's musket being ruthless! ”

Zhang Baozai snorted coldly and said loudly.

He enlisted in the army from Zhanjiang, Guangdong, during the Battle of Nanxiongzhou.

Wounded during the Battle of Tohoku.

The lower leg of his right leg was crushed and fractured by a war horse.

After that, he became lame.

However, he received the title of lord because of his merits.

Settled in Changzhou.

He received 130 acres of military merit land in Changzhou.

is still a member of the Changzhou Prefecture Council - they were all elected by the votes of the wounded soldiers who had retired from the army and settled in Changzhou, and even the prefect was polite when he went to Changzhou Mansion for a meeting.

And there is also a magistrate at the local level.

The foot is lame though.

But as a veteran who fought from Guangdong to the Northeast.

He came out of the sea of corpses and blood.

Where would an ordinary peasant dare to have a hard top with him.

was stared at by his eyes, and there was some time Ai Ai, his hands were trembling, and he was afraid that this murderer would open his hands to beat people.

Right now.

A young Xiu in a red official uniform walked up.

Xiucai is a member of the local Li family, named Li Tong, who is famous for Xiucai, and is a local township official - equivalent to the township head.

The peasants were afraid of Zhang Baozai, but they were not afraid of Li Tong.

After all, it's a native of Hongo.

So they shouted one after another: "Li Xiucai, how can this field of my family be Ueda, this is too unfair!" ”

"Yes, yes, Li Xiucai, you talk to the above, it's not that we don't pay taxes, but this tax is too much."

"We can't live anymore."

Li Xiucai had a smile on his face.

But in my heart I didn't think so.

If you change these mud legs, then you will have to offend a large number of officials in the Changzhou government.

Who's going to do this stupid thing.

"Hey, why is your field also a field?"

Zhang Baozai looked fierce, stared at one of them and asked, he had dealt with the fight between this family and another family over water sources, but the family's terrain was high, so they didn't fight

In rural areas, disputes over water sources are a common occurrence.

The farmer could only sigh in the end: "Who said no, my house is all dry land, how can it be Ueda!" ”

"Show me your field certificate!"

Zhang Baozai said.

"Damn, these corrupt officials and corrupt officials should be killed one by one! Dare to fool the emperor like this, Lao Tzu will never spare it! ”

"Show me your field certificates, Lao Tzu can speak in Changzhou Mansion, if not, Lao Tzu will go to Zhongdu to find the emperor to complain!"

Zhang Baozai shouted loudly.

Li Xiucai's face froze, and he squinted at this foreign military attaché.

No.

Zhang Baozai is now not a military attaché, but a civilian official!

And he is also a civil official with a very backstage.

Local officials like Li Xiucai don't dare to offend.

Because they have the title of lord, and many of their comrades-in-arms are all big officials in China.

Those revolutionary comrades-in-arms are still alive.

What's more, Emperor Zhu attached the most importance to the future of these officers who retired due to injury, and often issued orders to reward, and there was also a reception office in the Generalissimo's Mansion that specially received petitions from "retired soldiers".

provoked people, and people really dared to poke things into the sky.

He hurriedly said, "Slow and slow! Ladies and gentlemen, what can you make by farming in the Guannai, it is better to go to the Guanwai to participate in the collective farm! ”

"A husband and wife have 50 acres of land, and they are exempt from land for three years, and the government will also pay for road expenses, seeds, rations, and building fees!"

"Outside the gates? It's bitter cold outside the gate, who is going to go! ”

"Yes, yes, I can't survive before I go to Guanwai, we still have a few acres of land, and we haven't reached the point yet."

The crowd shouted.

It's really to the point where you leave your family and business and go to the outside of the gate.

The peasants were reluctant again.

Because though it is registered as Ueda now.

However, the long price was abolished.

By paying taxes at parity, their burden is actually smaller than before.

But in this era, farmers always like the old rules, the old ways.

The attitude towards the rectification of the fields is the same.

How many people are willing to leave home thousands of miles away to go outside the border?

(End of chapter)