Great Qin's son-in-law

Chapter 362 Understand the First Emperor's Mind! (seeking subscription)

The woman had a strange face, and said with a sneer, "You are strange, you have to ask and ask again and again about such an obvious matter."

"If it weren't for the government's connection with the lord, we would have no males in every household?"

"Judge?"

"What's that, judge?"

"Every time the government recruits, there are reasons and evidence. Which one dares to refuse? Those who refuse to obey have already been punished as prisoners. Then there is still land for you to cultivate?"

Qin Luoheng was silent.

In fact, he had guessed it a long time ago, but he didn't dare to confirm it.

But this is actually very normal. It is precisely because of the government's connection with the local tyrants that they can squeeze and exploit the local leaders so wantonly, forcing them to have nowhere to go, so that in the end they can only sell land and fields, and become servants, so as to ensure their own income. livelihood.

What's more.

Some families also trafficked their children.

Gu had been listening from the sidelines, and after hearing these words from the woman, he finally couldn't stand anymore, and stepped forward and said, "Why are local men so scarce?"

"Daqin has always attached great importance to the protection of farming time. Even those who live in debts are given special care during farming time. They are allowed to go home for 20 days to complete the farming and take care of the seedlings. Provisions."

"Furthermore."

"The law is clear."

"Even if the counties and counties need to recruit personnel due to urgent matters, they must give priority to conscripting prisoners. When the urgent task cannot be delayed, ordinary Qianshou can be conscripted. Moreover, it is clearly stipulated that 'Tian Shiyi also does not want to reinvigorate Qianshou'. How dare the government dare Expropriate the people wantonly?"

"As far as I know, there are three types of corvee imposed by the imperial court."

"The highest one is 'Yuzhong Fa Zheng', which is the corvée assigned by Xianyang, but the imperial court did not issue a large-scale conscript order to the Zhao land at this time."

"Secondly, people who require labor for various civil engineering and transportation, which are collected by the counties themselves, are also "constant work". If there is, it is to build a palace."

"This kind of money is basically not collected during farming season."

"The last category is the projects that need to be built by the local county government. This category is called '谳' (yan), but this kind of project must be approved by the higher-level government before the project can be approved. In theory, the imperial court does not advocate casual collection of corvée. "For "The Way of Officials" bluntly said, "When things happen from time to time, delay the order and urgently levy"!"

"In no way should this be the case."

The woman looked at Gu with mocking eyes, and said: "The people in the government are all smart, how can they not find an excuse, this year the heavy snow has blocked the roads, and the roads in many places have been destroyed, so the government is just trying to build roads." In the name of the Lord, all the men from our families were called away."

"As for the debt redemption you mentioned, how much can a booth have? With the increase of market rent in recent years, most of the merchants have run away, and the remaining few are basically unclear with the government. relationship."

Speaking of which.

The woman also looked sad.

sighed softly:
"We have a hard time."

"Our Yuan Pavilion is also considered a large pavilion. Normally, every household would not recruit men, but for some reason in the past few years, more and more people need to serve in our Yuan Pavilion, and the government has been stuck with us. 'To', making a man serve doesn't count."

"I can see that the government just wants us to have no men, and then let us women, weak, sick and disabled to cultivate the land, and then buy our fields for various reasons. Alas, these days are becoming more and more difficult. "

Qin Luoheng said: "Then the 'money people' and 'lords' you mentioned earlier, don't they need to serve corvee?"

The woman said:
"They also have to serve corvée."

"However, it's different from our men's service. They are basically repairing the city wall in the county, and it's over in ten days. Moreover, they have relations with the government, so they don't need to serve it by themselves. Tell the government and let their servants plow and replace it." Just wear it."

"They're pretty good at counting."

"It's better for those families who sold their fields. After serving themselves, they help the 'money' and 'lord' to serve together in corvee service, and then they are basically tied up in the fields. Those like us who haven't sold their land, that's terrible. It's miserable, all kinds of hard labor and labor are basically ours, and our men can't go home for half a month."

"Without a man in the family, many things cannot be done."

talking and talking.

The woman also looked miserable.

Obviously speaking of his own sadness.

Qin Luoheng sighed in his heart, he raised his head, looked around, and looked around, but he couldn't see a few men, they were all white-haired old men and children, and most of them were women. Without a male, there is no doubt that all aspects will be greatly reduced.

He understood everything by now.

The locality has long been mingled with the powerful. There is me in you, and you in me. It has long been a common practice to protect each other. Local officials are acting according to the law on the surface, but in fact they are taking advantage of various loopholes and changing tricks to exploit and squeeze the head of Guizhou, forcing the head of Guizhou to be helpless. In order to maintain their livelihood, they can only be forced to sell the fields cultivated by their ancestors for generations, or even sell their sons and daughters.

After listening.

Gu said angrily:

"It really makes no sense."

"Great Qin established the country by law, how can we allow such rats to disrupt the law? Qin's law is clear, and I will definitely bring all these law-breaking people to justice."

The others were also full of indignation.

They were also shocked by what happened to Kiting.

In the past when they were in Xianyang, they never thought that the place would be so dark, but now that they have just arrived there, they heard such a dark story, how dare they remain indifferent?How can you not feel angry?How dare you ignore it?Stand by?
but.

Qin Luoheng didn't say anything.

He didn't think he could expose this shady layer.

Local officials are different from Qianshou, these people understand the law, and from the woman's mouth, he did not hear that the officials have directly violated the law. He will be punished by the court, but he will not be severely punished, nor will he be directly sentenced to prison.

They won't stay in Jiexiu for too long. Unless they can directly uproot the local officials, they will treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and once they leave, these officials may come back to do more harm to the head of Guizhou.

But hearing such a shady scene, but being indifferent, Qin Luoheng couldn't do it either.

He stood for a long time, thinking about the way to break the situation.

Hearing Gu's words, the woman finally realized something, got up quickly, took a few steps back in panic, stared at Qin Luoheng and the others with vigilance, and asked, "Who are you?"

Gu Gongshou said:

"We are all officials of the Great Qin Dynasty."

"The person in front of you is the Minister of the imperial court, the rank is the same as that of the county magistrate, I am a 'superior official' in the Yushifu, this is a Langguan."

When Gu Yiben introduced it seriously, Qin Luoheng interrupted: "We came from Xianyang."

"Qin people?" The woman looked wary.

She obviously has a bad impression of the Qin people.

And this is actually the most straightforward performance of the people of Zhao to the people of Qin. Far from talking about the Battle of Changping, which made the people of Zhao land unrecognizable, it is said that after the destruction of Zhao, Shi Huang personally rushed to Handan to kill the people who bullied him back then. The nobles were all exterminated, and the taxes of the people of Zhao were raised. For various reasons, the people of Zhao were hostile to the people of Qin.

Qin Luoheng cupped his hands and said:

"Sister, don't worry about it."

"It is true that we are all Qin people, but today the unification is underway and the four seas are united. In fact, there is no distinction between Zhao people and old Qin people. I am an official of the Great Qin, and you are now a citizen of the Great Qin. The Great Qin established the country by law, and so on Encountered all kinds of injustice, I should speak up for you and others."

"It's just that I'm humble, and I'm afraid I can't change too much, but I also hope that the men who should have been working in the fields will return, so that the cattle that should have been allocated to you can also be provided to you again, so that your farming work Can take it easy."

"Really? Can you really bring my father back?" Before the woman could speak, the young man beside him turned his eyes away from the water bag, and looked at Qin Luoheng with a burning gaze, full of expectation.

Qin Luoheng said, "It's definitely not a lie."

The woman pulled the young man behind her and stared at Qin Luoheng and the others suspiciously. After hesitating for a moment, she said, "You really want the government to let my man back?"

Qin Luoheng raised his forehead and said: "I dare not say too absolutely, but it is indeed possible. As long as the government is recruiting improperly, I will let the men from your pavilion come back, and I will also punish the local government for buying and selling." Money man' and 'lord'."

"but."

"I need to ask one thing now."

"There is really a land sale in your county? Do you have relevant and definite evidence, as well as a land deed that can be directly convicted?"

Zhang Xi and the others also looked at the woman.

The woman nodded vigorously, and said: "My family's land is not for sale, so naturally we can't get the land deed, but our pavilion does have a business of buying and selling land, and basically everyone in the vicinity knows about it, you can find someone to talk to Ask, and you will be able to ask."

"I know those people in our Ting sold the land, and I can tell you, but you can't tell others that I said it."

Qin Luoheng nodded and said, "You can rest assured, I know the seriousness of the matter, and I won't tell you rashly."

heard.

The woman nodded this time.

She bent down and told Qin Luoheng the person who sold the field in the pavilion, and quietly pointed out the direction with her finger. After she finished speaking, she seemed to be afraid of implicating herself, so she took the iron lei, led the boy, and left in a hurry the fields.

Stand still.

Qin Luoheng looked a little dignified.

Zhang Xi stepped forward and said: "The imperial court has never approved the sale of land, and the officials in Jiexiu have ignored the law. When I was in Xianyang, I was a little surprised. How could there be so-called land annexation in Shandong? It turned out to be like this. of."

"These officials are really bold!"

Hua Yao said: "Everyone, don't be in a hurry to get angry. Although we now know that Yuanting has land annexation, it may not be easy to hold the officials accountable. The most urgent thing now is to get the land deed that the woman said. When it comes to land deeds and land deeds, we go to the government office, and the officials in Jiexiu can only argue without debate."

The others also nodded.

see.

Qin Luoheng said: "You all heard what the girl said just now, so you went your own way and asked Qianshou of Yuanting, if you are willing to hand over your respective sales contracts to us, let us make a statement for it, but you can't force it. Nor can it be forced."

"also."

"Don't be too ostentatious, so as not to attract the attention of county officials, which will affect our collection of evidence. In addition, we should try our best to find out the 'money people' and 'owners' who bought and sold land in Yuanting and Jiexiu counties. Our goal is not officials, but These established lawbreakers!"

Zhang Xi and the others frowned.

Qin Luoheng didn't explain too much, but said: "We won't stay in Jiexiu for too long, we have no right to hold officials accountable, it is the function of the supervisor to hold officials accountable, and the officials involved in Jiexiu this time will not be too If there are few, it will be difficult to eliminate them in a short time, what we have to do is to collect evidence and report it to the court."

"How these officials will be dealt with needs to be decided by the court."

"At the moment, we only solve the most practical problems of people's livelihood, that is, the problem of local cattle farming and the shortage of males. Other things are not within our purview."

heard.

Zhang Xi, Gu and the others looked at each other and could only nod.

A group of people walked towards the villagers who were farming around, wanting to collect evidence of Yuanting's land annexation. Qin Luoheng was also among them, but he was a little absent-minded. When no one was paying attention, he stood still, raised his head, He looked in the direction he had come from, with a look of dismay in his eyes.

Only now did he understand the meaning of Shi Huang's words.

As long as it is not written in the memorial or in the temple, it will never be heard of, but did the first emperor really know the truth about the place?
I'm afraid not.

But powerless.

There are many things that the court has to solve.

Sometimes it's a trade-off.

As for the annexation of Jiexiu's land, in fact, as long as the imperial court is serious about it, it is easy to uproot it. It aims to appease the turmoil in the six lands.

Once strictly investigated, the six places in Shandong may become more turbulent.

Qin Luoheng whispered:

"I'm afraid the first emperor knew the current situation of the local area long ago, so he told me that in advance, and also specifically told me that although I have the right to do things cheaply, I don't have the power to make decisions in various places, just in case I make things big, and eventually Difficult to end."

"It's just the local suffering, and I have been turning a blind eye, what is the solution?"

"Our trip can certainly reduce some dissatisfaction, but after all, it is a temporary solution, not a root cause. If the government is not cleaned up, sooner or later, it will still come back to itself. Even at that time, the local people have completely lost confidence in the imperial court."

"There are priorities."

"It's just that the court regards the remnants of the Six Kingdoms as the primary target. Maybe it's a mistake. It's just that the current situation is like this. I can only do my best."

Qin Luoheng shook his head.

He withdrew his mind and strode towards Tianlong.

At sunset, everyone gathered in Jiexiu County, but they did not stay overnight in the county government, but found a mansion in the county. The group sat around and placed the land deeds and land deeds collected today in the on the case.

At a glance, there are hundreds of bamboo pieces.

Looking at the clearly written contract, everyone looked very solemn.

Because this is a deed collected by one pavilion, there are dozens of pavilions in Jiexiu County, and they can already imagine the evil of land annexation in Jiexiu County.

It's shocking! ! !

(End of this chapter)