"The first thing is to grab water.The water source in Hu's hometown is limited, and it is fine on weekdays, but in summer, the water is often insufficient. ”"This water involves the lifeblood of the villagers, and you can't live without water.But there is only so much water, and every year there are a lot of troubles because of the water grabbing. ”"Even, a few years ago, there was a fatality.But later checked, he died in a water brawl, which was purely an accident.In the end, the sentence that should be judged, the punishment that should be punished, and the problem of lack of water has still not been resolved.So, now, as in previous years, how to rob and how to rob. ”Hearing this, Xiong Yan's first feeling was that there was a problem!
Glancing at the old patriarch, the old patriarch spoke."
In that case, why didn't the village dig more wells?
Or just build a dam and solve the problem?
”"It's useless, the village used to spend money and dig several wells.However, it slowly dried up, and I couldn't find out the reason when I came to investigate. ”"In the end, I reacted to the county At this time, the county sent a Taoist to check, and the Taoist priest was said to have some Taoism, but in the end, he shook his head and left directly.""
As for building the dam, it's complicated and expensive, and the villagers can't afford it.""
So, what about the second thing?"
Xiong Yan continued."
The second difficult thing is to collect taxes.When taxes are collected, some people do not pay them, and some people pay them later.Some of them really don't have money, and some of them are really bad people. ”Among them, the biggest Diao people are the Hu family.They, through lending and other means, are constantly annexing land.Today, more than half of the land in the entire Hujia Village belongs to their family. ”"Doesn't the imperial court have a rule that in agriculture, taxes are collected by steps?"
Xiong Yan asked directly.In Dachu, those with less than three acres of land belong to the dangerous and unstable people, and politically, these people must be eliminated.Therefore, they were all forcibly relocated by the imperial court, moved to the frontier, and divided the fields and land.From three acres to ten acres of land, only one penny is charged per acre.Ten acres to thirty acres is ten cents, and thirty acres to ......
In short, in the end, when the number reaches 10,000 acres of land, not only will it not make money, but it will also lose money.And this policy itself is, of course, aimed at the big families.The effect is also a little bit, at least on the surface, except for the land rewarded by the imperial court, no one can own tens of thousands of acres of land."
Tiered taxation, hey, this policy itself is quite good, but there is a policy at the top, and there are countermeasures at the bottom.The Hu family recorded the fields on different people, and each person's name was no more than 100 acres of land, and they could also enjoy the benefits of ladder taxation. ”"When collecting taxes, the court asked for copper coins and silver.However, ordinary small people's families, they don't need much money to live on weekdays, and even survive only by bartering, where can they store a lot of copper coins at home?
Even if I wanted to, I didn't. ”"And the Hu family's strategy is to suppress the price of grain when collecting taxes, so that the villagers' grain cannot be sold at a price and cannot be sold."
Diao Min, no, this is no longer something that can be described by the word Diao Min, this is a profiteer!"
And if the villagers want to go to the county seat to sell grain, they will be hit by the Hu family.Directly send thugs, steal food, or beat them up.Or, a fire burns the grain. ”"You don't care about any of this?
Regardless of the prefectural order?
”At this time, Xiong Yan's tone became serious.Is this already the point of making people and profiteers, this is definitely illegal, right?"
But how?
When the thugs finished beating people, they immediately fled.If they can't escape, they will directly admit the crime and go to prison, they are not afraid, and they will not confess to the Hu family, and they will confess all their crimes alone. ”"However, what is a big sin to rob some grain, even if it burns it and beats someone?
At most, it is just a few years of squatting, and after a few years, you can still come out openly. ”"The most I can do as a pavilion chief is to catch this thug and send him in for a few years.""
But more often than not, you can't even catch the thugs.These thugs are all gang members, all of them are homeless and unemployed, and they are mixed in the dark all day long, and some of them can fight better than me, and they can't be caught. ”Speaking of which, the pavilion chief's whole mood was much lower.He's just a little pavilion chief, what can he do?"
Moreover, those thugs, after grabbing the food, ran away.From our county, to Linxian or even to other counties, how can this be caught?
”"Speaking of which, this is not a major crime of homicide, and it is not enough to directly enforce the law across counties and counties.In the end, it often doesn't work out. ”(Cross-county law enforcement, or even cross-provincial law enforcement, what do you think of?)
）So, over time, the people got used to it.At most, when the price was lowered, I scolded the Hu family in my heart, what else could I do?
”Hearing this, Xiong Yan thought of more.How did the Hu family, who had the right to price grain and had little conscience, exploit ordinary people?"
Does the court care?""
How?
The Hu family didn't break the law, but the thugs committed crimes, what does it have to do with the Hu family?
Even, those thugs themselves are just street hooligans, and they have no direct contact with the Hu family. ”"Besides, the tax revenue of the entire Hujia Village mainly depends on the Hu family.Once they are dissatisfied, they pay their taxes late. ”"Hey, I've always treated the people preferentially.For small people, late tax payment is really not a big deal, but for village chiefs and pavilion chiefs, it directly affects political performance. ”Speaking of which, the pavilion chief shook his head again, compared with the history books, this dynasty is really boring!"
In this case, which village chief will take the initiative to offend them?
Don't want to be promoted?
And once left unchecked, there will be some bribes every year, so it's not surprising how to choose. ”After the pavilion chief finished speaking, he lay on the table and fell asleep directly.Xiong Yan, on the other hand, felt a little stuffy indoors and came outside.Walking back and forth, I really didn't expect that the countryside of Dachu would be so dark.Landlords, gentry and gang members colluded to suppress and exploit the peasants.Moreover, the people who did it were all hooligans, and the landlord himself was extremely innocent, clean and like a white lotus.You don't have to think about it to know that every time such a thug is dispatched, the landlord's family must have paid for it.Moreover, behind these gang members, more than eighty percent, are the white gloves of the upper class.Ordinary people can't defeat them, and even the network of relationships is dense, and it affects the whole body.It's a good cheat, it's dark, and the farmers are so hard, this is what Xiong Yan feels at this moment.The landlord class, in collusion with the upper classes, joined forces to exploit the peasants."
Hujia Village is like this, what about other villages?"
Xiong Yan looked at the old patriarch and asked directly."
The other villages, it's pretty much the same.This is not only the case in Gu County, but also in the entire Linshui County and Changzhou. ”"However, you don't have to worry, compared with the previous dynasty recorded in the history books, the peasants of this dynasty are much happier, at least their lives are still guaranteed.At most, it's just a lack of money. ”Xiong Yan knew that the old patriarch really thought so.Moreover, Xiong Yan also understood that all that he said was true.Compared with the previous dynasties recorded in the history books, Da Chu is already good.But despite this, Xiong Yan still remembered a sentence: everything must be studied to understand.In ancient times, people used to eat people, and I still remember it, but I don't know very well.I opened the history and checked, this history has no age, and the words "benevolence, righteousness and morality" are written on every crooked page.I couldn't fall asleep, and I looked carefully for half the night, only to see the words in the cracks, and there were two words written all over the book that were "cannibalism"!
(Hehe, this sentence is really what I said - Lu Xun.) ）()