"Who's ahead? Why are you blocking the way of my army, do you know that blocking the way of the army can be regarded as a meticulous killing on the spot! ”

Just as Guan Ning was leading people to a county in the east of Nanyang City.

As soon as he arrived in this county, a middle-aged man who looked to be in his sixties, with a frosty face and red and chapped cheeks, suddenly appeared in front of the army, and blocked the way of the army with open hands.

"General! Checkmate! The general is not going to kill the old man, the general and listen to me, the old man is really forced to see the general like this! ”

"Oh~ I have no choice?"

Guan Ning, who was riding on a horse, became interested, raised his hand to stop the movements of the army behind, looked at the old farmer in front of him on his horse and asked:

"Why? Come quickly, if you can't convince the general, your crime of blocking the army is not small! ”

"Yes, yes, the old man said immediately!"

The old man's face showed joy, and he hurriedly told his intentions.

"General, the old man is a person from Xiaowang Zhuang'er in Donglin County, and his family has two acres of thin fields, so I and my wife and an old son have lived on the three of them."

Guan Ning nodded slightly when he listened, and he also knew that the next step was probably the point.

Sure enough, I heard the old man say:

"But the good times didn't last long, ten years ago, for some reason, the old man's land tax suddenly soared, if it was just a part of it, I would put up with it if I gritted my teeth.

However, how can there be a reason that the land tax has increased fivefold after only one year?!

The original two-acre field tax, but the old man had to pay five times the original field tax, that is, ten acres of land tax! ”

In this way, plus other taxes or something, the old Han family can only get enough food for half a year all year round, and they have to dig wild vegetables and eat tree roots to survive year after year, and my old son has not yet married a wife from the age of fifteen to the present twenty-five!

That's all there is to it, at least you can live!

But last year! Last year! Last year, the tax on that field was doubled again!

This time it's five times again!

After all, they even asked the old man to pay a field tax of fifty acres of land!

Where can this old man be handed over?

Woowoo woo ......"

At this, the old man suddenly began to cry bitterly.

Then he said intermittently:

"General, they ...... They robbed my family of the only two acres of land, saying that it was ...... Said it was for tax deductions!

That's the only two acres of land in our family...... Woowoo...... There is no land...... We...... How can our family still live!

Woowoo woo ......"

The old man cried unusually sadly, and Guan Ning's brows furrowed deeply.

But he didn't rush to make a statement, but continued to ask quietly:

"Why did you come to me about this?"

When the old man heard this, he stretched out his hand to wipe his tears, and choked up:

"Tian Xiucai of our village said a few days ago that the saint sent someone to check the acres of fields, and the old man asked him how to check the acres of fields, and he said that the inventory of acres of acres is that the imperial court sent people to re-measure and record all the land in the world, and confirm the ownership of the fields.

Moreover, Tian Xiucai also said that this time the officials in the city offended the emperor, and the emperor wanted to punish those who encroached on the people's fields.

The old man felt that my land was taken by others, and there were too many taxes paid in those years, so Tian Xiucai said that maybe he was helping others pay taxes.

Why should other people's taxes be paid by old men, this is not right! The old man is not convinced!

The old man thought that the emperor was the biggest official in the world, he was in charge of all the officials, and the officials he sent out were afraid of other officials, so can I sue the officials he sent out, and let the officials in the city return the old man's land, and don't let the old man help other people's fields and pay taxes in the future.

But the day after I learned the news, an official came to the village to warn that the people in the village were not allowed to go out, let alone talk nonsense.

Thinking about it again, it must be that the officials sent by the emperor are coming, but those officials are guarding at various intersections, and the old man has no choice but to take advantage of the night from the back mountain to come a long way before coming here, and he has been guarding it, but he didn't expect to meet the general. ”

After the old man finished speaking, he couldn't stop scratching his arm, and Guan Ning saw the red envelopes all over his body, which were all bitten by mosquitoes!

Guan Ning believed most of what he said, but still asked:

"What proof do you have that what you say is true?"

The old man hurriedly said, "Yes, yes! The old man here has the documents given by the yamen to pay taxes every year, and the head of our village is a child, and every year we pay taxes, the village chief will ask the yamen to give us the documents to help us confirm whether the amount of the document is written correctly.

I've always kept the paperwork.

There is also my land, which I obtained from the land in the past, there is a deed of reclamation, and these tax payment certificates, which can prove that the land is mine!

I've brought them all out! ”

As he spoke, the old man immediately poked out of his arms a thing wrapped in a cloth, untied the cloth, and inside was a neatly placed pile of documents.

Guan Ning immediately raised his eyebrows when he saw it, and his heart was a little more happy.

If that's true, that's fine!

Immediately, Guan Ning got off the horse, walked in front of the old man, and picked up a copy and read it.

One book reads:

[In the autumn of the twenty-fifth year of Tiansheng, Wang Dagen of Xiaowangzhuang in Donglin County has two acres of land, and the field tax should be paid 30 buckets, and the actual field tax grain is 30 buckets, which have been paid in full.

The county government is adjacent to the east, and the tax collection documents of the twenty-fifth autumn book of Tiansheng are written. 】

At the bottom of the document, there is also the official document of the county government.

It is indeed a genuine tax collection document issued by the yamen.

And when he saw that three hundred buckets of grain field tax were collected for two acres of land, Guan Ning immediately smiled.

According to the law of the Great Song Dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty only needs to pay three buckets of grain per mu of land every year.

There may be a difference in the place, but two acres of land is definitely not as much as thirty buckets!

This is clearly problematic!

And they dare to write it blatantly and stamped it with the official seal, which is really bold enough!

Put back the paperwork, pick up the bottom of a pile of documents, the cover is written with seven big characters of Xiaowangzhuang's deed of reclamation, open it to see that it does record the location and size of Wang Dagen's wasteland field, which is enough to prove that the land here belongs to him.

I picked up a few tax payment papers, checked that there was no problem with Houdou, and after I saw it before, except for the year, the others were exactly the same, and then nodded and rushed to the old man, that is, Wang Dagen:

"I already know about you, put these away, follow me to the county office, I will help you get your land back, and by the way, I will also help you get back the taxes you have paid over the years to the people who should pay them!"

When Wang Dagen heard this, he waved his hand again and again and said: "I can't do it, as long as my land can be returned, I will be satisfied, and the previous taxes will be unacceptable." ”

Looking at the panic on the old man's face, Guan Ning knew that he was afraid of causing trouble, I am afraid that if the land that their family relied on for their livelihood had been robbed, he would not have been able to do such a thing as daring to stop the army on the side of the road.

I knew that the reputation of the army in these years was not very good, and if I was not careful, I would directly kill the leader of others.

It's all forced, there's no way!

Thinking of this, Guan Ning's face turned grim and turned his head to Wang Dagen and solemnly admonished:

"Wang Dagen, I will help you get it back, but you have to remember that we are the emperor's soldiers, we are doing things for the emperor, and those officials in the county are like dogs in front of the emperor, so you must tell the truth at any time.

If you suddenly change your mind, General Ben can guarantee that you will definitely end up worse than the destruction of your family!

Do you understand? ”

Wang Dagen's face turned pale with fright, but he still hurriedly nodded his head again and again to show that he understood.

Guan Ning nodded with satisfaction.

It's not that he wants to deliberately scare this old man, but he suddenly realized just now that if he followed the idea of not fighting with the officials in the name of these people, when he faced the county order of that place, maybe in order to avoid causing trouble, he would retract his confession in front of the county order, which would cause an unfavorable situation for himself.

What he did was to let them understand which side was more powerful, so that they would weigh the pros and cons and not dare to retract their confessions.

Although there is a possibility that he maliciously speculates that others think too badly, he still has to do it in order to avoid accidents.

Guan Ning never hesitated to speculate on others with the greatest malice.

Human nature cannot stand the test, and he does not want to gamble on human nature.

It's better to take precautions in advance than to have an accident when things happen!

……

(End of chapter)