Liu Haojia briefly said what happened just now. Zhang Qiang was furious when he heard this, and he rushed to Li Li in three or two steps, raised his hand and slapped him down! While fighting, he scolded: "Okay, you bastard, you dare to take it big in front of the second son, what are you?" You ......"

Liu Haojia knew that this was Zhang Qiang's re-establishment of power, but he didn't want Zhang Qiang to succeed, at least not in the early stage. Because in the early stage, he needs the cooperation of all the dealers. So he said, "Okay, don't hit him yet!" Such a person is directly convicted. Hitting him dirty! ”

When Zhang Qiang heard this, he immediately turned around and said, "It's all up to the second son's orders." ”

Liu Haojia turned around and said loudly to the villagers: "Fellow villagers, my son was ordered to take over the entire Liuzhuang, I thought it was a very simple thing, but I didn't expect that there would be people doing evil here!" So today, this son will get rid of this scourge for everyone! If you had been oppressed in the past, today you all said to my son, and my son is in charge of disposing of them! ”

After Liu Haojia finished speaking, he looked at the surrounding villagers, hoping that they could present evidence of these people's crimes, but these villagers still looked at him numbly, and no one spoke.

At this time, Zhang Qiang was in a hurry! He turned out to be just an ordinary eunuch in the palace, and he was only sent here because he did things properly! If this errand is not done well, won't you lose the opportunity to climb up? So he also shouted loudly: "You mud-legged people don't know anything, the second son is doing things for the Lord of Long Live Lord, and the second son is in charge of you, why don't you hurry up and speak?" After this village, there is no such shop! ”

At this time, an old man in the crowd asked in a trembling voice: "This father-in-law, the little old man wants to ask, are you really here on behalf of Your Majesty?" ”

Zhang Qiang said loudly: "That's nature! Except for His Majesty today, who would dare to drive our family? Our family is a eunuch in the palace! ”

Liu Haojia, who was beside him, secretly said in his heart, there are many people who can drive low-level eunuchs like you! But he didn't want to find fault with this matter, and he also wanted to use Zhang Qiang's advantage as a eunuch to break the fear and suspicion of the villagers.

Sure enough, Zhang Qiang's identity as a eunuch gave the villagers great courage, because they knew that Huangzhuang had always been ruled by eunuchs. So the old man who spoke just now came out and pointed at Li Li and said, "This thief broke one of my son's legs because of the grain harvesting matter, and he barely got off the ground after raising him for half a year!" I don't know if the noble person can call the shots for the little old man? ”

Liu Haojia stepped forward and said: "You and the others are tenants here, and paying rent is also a matter of course, they beat you and your son, don't you pay enough food?" ”

When the old man heard this, he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground with a "poof", he thought that the other party Liu Haojia was looking for his fault, and hurriedly said: "It's not that they don't pay the grain, but they collect it too hard!" They actually want seventy percent of the income! I can't live anymore! ”

Liu Haojia has been in Daming for a long time, and he has some understanding of the situation of rent collection, so he frowned and said: "Seventy percent is a little higher, but it won't be so high that you can't afford to pay, right?" ”

The old man cried and said, "This noble man doesn't know, he receives seventy percent of all the interest!" ”

Liu Haojia said in astonishment: "What? All seventy percent! Is this bastard crazy? ”

Before the Republic of China, and even during the Republic of China, the ancient tradition of rent collection continued in some parts of China, that is, rent collection only collected one quarter's rent for the main grain!

This means that if a farmer rents the landlord's land this year, and he mainly grows rice this year, then he will share the rice with the landlord this season. Generally speaking, conscientious landlords are fifty-five or four-six, but seventy or eighty percent!

But after collecting the rent of rice, the other crops planted on the land by the farmers are not charged! In other words, in addition to rice, this farmer also grows beans and the like, and the harvest is all owned by the farmer, and has nothing to do with the landlord!

There are many sayings about land rent in China, including iron plate rent, poll rent, etc., etc., etc., which will not be described in detail one by one. And in this imperial village, he took charge of the stewardship and collected seven layers of rent for all the output of the peasant households, which is to exhaust the water and fish! Because only 30% of the harvest is left, it is just barely starving to death! That's why Liu Haojia said he was crazy!

Liu Haojia stepped forward and tore off the rags in Li Li's mouth and asked, "What the old man said is the truth?" ”

Li Li glared and said, "This is how everyone collects rent in the Imperial Village, not just my family!" ”

Liu Haojia flew up and kicked him to the ground, threw the rags in his hand on the ground, and said to the family: "Shut his mouth, I don't want to listen to him anymore!" ”

After speaking, he turned around and said, "What this old man said is true? ”

Seeing that Liu Haojia showed his attitude, everyone was much bolder, and they stepped forward to confirm that what the old man said was true! For a while, the voices were noisy, and I couldn't even hear the sound of speech clearly!

Liu Haojia shouted loudly: "The heads of each family come out to speak, and the others all stand back!" ”

Zhang Qiang also screamed: "Didn't you listen to the second young master?" All stand back, all stand back! ”

Several family members also came up to help maintain order, and quickly brought the crowd under control. Many of the bold farmers stayed where they were, and there were many people who were too timid to speak to retreat to the periphery with their families. Then Liu Haojia instructed the family to bring a table, and brought pen and paper, and the farmers who stayed in place called them one by one to ask.

With the addition of anger, Liu Haojia had a big explosion at this time! He summoned people to interrogate all kinds of news one by one, and kept making records in his hands, just like Pang Tong asking a case in the county, and everyone who watched it was stunned!

In just over an hour, Liu Haojia memorized a thick stack of papers! This records all kinds of evil deeds of the previous steward and his thugs!

In these records, beating and scolding, stealing chickens and touching dogs are common, and bullying men and women also happen a lot! In the past few years, there have been as many as five daughters-in-law and eldest girls who committed suicide after being bullied! Not to mention that there are still some people who suffer losses and do not make a noise! In addition, they also killed several people because of collecting grain, which was also recorded!

Liu Haojia finished asking the last person, rubbed his sore wrist, and said to the family members around him: "Arrange for these villagers to come forward to recognize people, and all the charges have been implemented!" ”

Several family members are all capable of writing and martial arts, and it is effortless to do this little thing, and the matter is quickly implemented. Then the housekeeper who led the team came over with a stack of papers and said angrily: "These bastards are almost done if they don't say bad things!" Except for seven or eight of them, which are a little smaller, the rest of them are all enough! Not to mention anything else, in the past few years, they have killed and disabled seven or eight villagers, and almost half of them have participated! ”