Qiming 1158

Chapter 737 How can there be such a good court in the world?
The officials of the Southern Song Dynasty committed all kinds of crimes, including burning, killing, looting, and looting. They were even more ruthless than bandits, and they could not resist. Once they resisted, they would rebel, and they would kill them more ruthlessly.

In this regard, no villagers are against it.

Haven't seen or heard?

No matter who it is, there is no one who is completely free from family, relatives and friends who have not suffered the sins of the government.

Those officials were more vicious than the bandits. They treated the peasants for anything, kicking, beating and insulting. The peasants dared not speak out, so they could only bow their heads and let them bully them, and then they took away their precious rations.

There are even times when there is clearly no fault at all, perhaps the official is in a bad mood, and if he is caught, he will be beaten for no reason.

Some people can be cured after that, and some people just die, silent and meaningless.

This is a sad memory that is commonly held in everyone's mind.

So when Xu Tong said this, some villagers who were eager to go home and have a look at it suddenly did not dare to run away, and everyone was afraid that they would be caught and killed by the officials after returning home.

You must know that this official kills you regardless of whether you are guilty or not, but if you see it, as long as you are upset, or on a whim, you will be stabbed on the spot.

Are there still few people who have been dead souls under the sword of the official army since ancient times?

"It doesn't make sense for the officials to kill people, no matter if you are innocent or not. Back then, the Zhao Guan's family disturbed his wife because of the Ganzhou people, and they wanted to kill all the Ganzhou people. Whenever the officials and troops cross the border, let alone ordinary people, even if they are officials. afraid.

Generally, when officials and troops pass through the border, the officials will put the materials needed by the officials outside the city, and then close the city gate and keep it tightly shut, that is, the group of officials will not be allowed to enter the city until the officials have gone a long way. They dared to open the city gate.

Why?Afraid!Are you a well-informed officer?Why didn't they even dare to let the official army into the city?Obviously, there have been incidents where officials released their troops into the city before, and the officers and troops made a fuss. Maybe the officials themselves were killed. What reason do the officers and troops tell you?The knife in hand is the truth! "

Xu Tong talked to the villagers about a lot of related things, and made the villagers feel very close to what they said, and one or two were scared.

They remembered what they had done when they were crazy before, remembered the Jizhou Zhijun and Luling county magistrate who were beaten to death by them, and countless corrupt officials who died at their hands. .

If you understand this truth, you can temporarily stabilize people's hearts, so that the harsh conditions in the mountains will not cause large-scale escapes. Then, there will be a foundation for political and ideological education.

"Having said that, I don't think we need to be afraid of them either."

At the beginning, Xu Tong said that the villagers were trembling with fear, but suddenly he said that there is no need to be afraid, which caused some villagers to be puzzled.

"President, what do you mean by this? One moment said the officers and troops were scary, and then another moment there was no need to be afraid. Why?"

Seeing the puzzled expressions of the villagers, Xu Tong smiled.

"It's very simple. Didn't we break through four county towns in a row and kill hundreds of corrupt officials? Although the official army was vicious, wasn't it also defeated by us?"

The villagers were stunned, then looked at each other, nodding their heads involuntarily.

Xu Tong pulled out his knife and looked at the sharp blade.

"So although the officials are vicious, they are also human beings. When people are killed, they will die. As long as we have knives in our hands, aren't the officials afraid? They are afraid, even more than we are afraid of them, because there are many of us, and they are not afraid of them. Little, we have tens of millions, and they are only a few hundred thousand at most!"

"Tens of millions?"

The villagers raised their fingers and turned around, looking left and right, but they didn't know how to calculate the ten million-level arithmetic.

And this involves some more profound content, and for such content, it is necessary to proceed step by step.

Xu Tong led them to build their own homes, and told them from the beginning what a cow and a horse are, what a high-class person is, and how the high-class people get by themselves by sucking the flesh and blood of cows and horses.

In the process, he also creatively added the content of the Ming Dynasty to the political propaganda, and compared the current policies of the Ming Dynasty with the policies of the Southern Song Dynasty, making the facts even more bloody.

"Do you know how much the peasants need to pay the land rent in the Ming Kingdom?"

"do not know."

"Farmers who are still farming on leased land only need to pay a maximum of [-]% of the land rent, while farmers who do not rent land for farming and have their own land only need to pay one agricultural tax to the imperial court. Two liters, without any other extortionate taxes."

Hearing this, the villagers were surprised.

"impossible?"

"Anything like this?"

"President, don't lie to us."

"How can there be such a good court in the world?"

Xu Tong shook his head, feeling sad about it.

He studied history and knew that the agricultural policies of many ancient dynasties were originally frivolous, but later, with the change of time and the corruption of the ruling class, the pressure on the peasants increased.

But just in terms of agricultural policy, the pressure on farmers in the early days of the dynasty was not great, and the policies of the ten-tax one and the fifteen-tax one were often able to operate for decades.

But Song may not be so.

"I came from the Ming Kingdom in the north, how would I not know about such a thing? His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom in the north issued an imperial decree, requiring landowners not to collect more than [-]% of the land rent from the tenants who rent the land. would have to pay a very heavy price.

And farmers who own their own land do not have land rent at all. They only need to pay a farm tax to the imperial court during the tax season every year. All other taxes due are gone. By the way, even if they are levied, they will be paid for labor service. . "

The villagers were even more surprised.

"real or fake?"

"Do you get paid for labor?"

"Don't they all just care about the food and not pay?"

"I also heard that some places don't even care about meals. They only get one meal in two or three days. Many people starve to death."

"Yeah, my cousin just ran back from the construction site where no food was provided, and hid in the mountains for more than a year to avoid the limelight, but now he has changed his name."

The villagers talked about their experiences and what they saw and heard. Xu Tong listened. When they finished speaking, Xu Tong began to publicize the affairs of the Ming Kingdom.

For example, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty led the army to seize the land and distributed the land to the peasants, and then established the peasants to let the peasants take care of their own affairs.

The peasant associations in Ming Dynasty had a lot of power, and the county government could not go to the countryside to collect taxes at will. They could only contact the peasant associations during the tax season according to regulations to complete the tax collection. Don't even think about taxes.

The various extortionate taxes imposed by the Southern Song governments at all levels on the peasants were all abolished by the peasant associations, and even the landlords and gentry in the villages were eradicated, and the land belonged to the peasants.

For peasants, saying a thousand words and ten thousand is not as good as land and tax relief. What they care most about, at least at present, is land and tax relief.

How great would it be if most of what you received was yours?
Every farmer thinks so.

"In the Ming Dynasty, most of the grain that the peasants knocked down really belonged to them."

Many villagers did not believe Xu Tong's words.

"Before the disaster, we begged the master to reduce some rent, and the master cried to us that he was poor, saying that he had no surplus food at home, and he had to pay for the whole family. Can't you get enough to eat?"

Xu Tong laughed for a while.

"You also believe this kind of nonsense? Let me ask you, how much rent do you give the landlord each year?"

A villager raised his hand.

"We have four or six open there, we are four, and the main house is six. This is all right. There are many places around it, which are [-] open, and [-] open. It's too dark."

"How many tenants do you have there?"

"Probably more than 400 households."

"You survived with these four achievements alone, so why do you think that the main family who harvested 400% of the grain harvest from more than 1000 households would not be able to eat enough? How many people are there in the main family? There should not be [-] people? Then I guess you want It’s kind of hard to get enough.”

The villager who said this was a little embarrassed.

"This...I don't know either..."

Of course he didn't know. If he cleared it, he wouldn't ask such a question, and he wouldn't have such doubts.

From this we can see how deceptive the nonsense of the landlords and gentry is.

Lies need to be pierced, and the truth needs to be revealed!
(End of this chapter)