Master Kong Zhongni

Chapter 132 Zaizi repaid the people's loan
The old subordinate officials in the village were frightened, and they fell on the ground one by one and shouted.

"My lord, I am willing to pay for atonement."

"I would like to donate the land to the lord."

"I still have some food in my family, and I am willing to donate it for the deployment of the Lord."

Hearing this, Shen Jian was furious and said, "Who do you think the lord is? How could he accept your bribe?!"

Zai Yu also nodded in agreement: "I came to Tuqiu to protect the environment and the people, not to bully men and women and compete with the people for profit!"

The old peasants raised their heads and looked at him eagerly.

"What does the lord want to do?"

Zaiyu shouted: "Ziyou."

Ran Qiu came out: "Yes."

"Speak your calculations to them."

Ran Qiu held a thick account and read according to the words on it.

"Before the lord came to Tuqiu, he ordered us to calculate the number of acres that Tuqiu could reclaim within a year.

Calculated with reference to Feiyi, Ji's fiefdom, Feiyi is a big city with [-] households, and the new land reclaimed last year was no more than [-] mu.

So Tuqiu will add up to [-] mu of land this year..."

Hearing this, someone immediately said tremblingly: "But our tuqiu actually has more than three hundred households..."

Zaiyu closed his eyes and nodded: "That means you concealed your population, right? Since you concealed it...Zizhou!"

Shen Shu came out: "Yes!"

Jae Yu waved his hand: "Give him face."

When Shen Shu heard the words, he immediately took the hemp rope and put it around the neck of the person who spoke.

Then, like catching a chicken, he clamped the man in the creaking nest, and strode out.

"No! No! We didn't hide the truth. Your lord means what you say!"

As soon as these words came out, Shen Shuo let go of his hand and threw him to the ground.

At the end, he spat at him.

"Shameless stuff!"

The man didn't dare to argue with Shen Shu, so he could only crawl back to the hall and kneel down.

When Zaiyu saw it, he just ordered: "My son, please continue to read."

Ran Qiu said: "Tuqiu reclaims 60 mu a year, and it takes [-] years to reclaim [-] mu of new land.

That is to say, the land tax owed for 60 years for the earliest land reclamation was not paid, and the land tax for the newly cultivated land was also owed for one year.

For a [-]-acre field, considering the pest damage and damage, you need to pay about seven stones and five buckets of land tax every year.

Calculated according to this tax rate, Tuqiu owed a total of 620 five stones in land taxes! "

Sixty-eight thousand six hundred and twenty five stones!

As soon as this number came out, everyone present changed their colors.

Shen Sui, Ran Qiu and others blushed in popularity.

They really didn't expect that this group of local wealthy families would be so bold and reckless, that the country was emptied little by little like this!

The nobles were terrified.

They didn't expect that they owed so much tax, more than 6 shi. If this is settled after the fall, they will all go bankrupt!

As for Jae Yu, although there was no disturbance on his face, he was also shocked in his heart.

Sixty-eight thousand, six hundred and twenty five stones, two thousand tons of grain, enough to feed more than 620 people for a year.

Tsk!These insects!

Giving them the death penalty for betrayal and immediate execution is considered light.

Even if the death penalty is executed repeatedly, I don't think it's an exaggeration.

Zai Yu scanned the audience and asked, "This is just the land tax. I haven't calculated the military tax with you yet. What do you think?"

There was a deathly silence in the audience, and the old and subordinate officials did not dare to make a sound, for fear that Zai Yu's eyes would fall on them.

Seeing that they didn't speak, Zaiyu simply said, "I'm afraid you won't be able to gather more than 2 shi of grain for a while.

But you are now my retainers after all. Although you have made mistakes, as long as you are willing to correct your mistakes, I can still give you a chance. "

This group of people thought they were going to die, but now that they heard that there was hope of being alive, they hurriedly raised their heads and forced a smile from their faces to ask.

"No matter what request the Lord has, we will try our best to meet it."

Zaiyu said: "I heard that every rainy season, the Zishui River near Tuqiu will flood the fields, and sometimes they will be attacked by insects, and most of the year's harvest will be cut off.

In times of famine and calamity, the poor in Tuqiu often have to borrow money to survive, and some of them can only mortgage their land because they cannot pay the land tax.

And all of you here are people who have received Wanghua's benevolence and righteousness, so naturally you can't just sit back and watch your neighbors fall into the fire and water.

So they lent money and food from the family to the poor, so that they could have a full meal, or complete the payment of land taxes on time.

When encountering those who really can't afford the land tax, they buy the land in their hands at a 'high price'. Is there such a thing? "

That's what Jai Yu said, so they still don't know what Jai Yu meant.

They immediately said: "My lord cares about the people so much, please allow us to donate the proof of the loan to the hall."

Zai Yu nodded in satisfaction.

"How can I let you suffer? The food that the people lend to you will be paid out of the land tax you owe. If you pay off the debts of the people, there will be rich land taxes..."

They responded repeatedly: "We should fill the remaining grain into the warehouses in this city."

"If the land tax is not enough to repay the people's debts..."

They said in unison: "Didn't we still owe a lot of military taxes? Just use that part to make up for it!"

Zaiyu saw them so well-behaved, he couldn't help but said pleasantly: "You guys are making great progress!"

Everyone bowed down and said: "With the supervision and teaching of the Lord, how dare we not progress fast?"

After saying this, the white-bearded old man Sang Zhong was still not at ease, and he said again: "My lord, I, the Sang family, appreciate your kindness and are willing to donate [-] mu of land. Congratulations on taking office."

After hearing this, Zai Yu waved his hands and said, "Hey! What are you talking about, old man?"

Sang Zhong insisted: "If the lord does not accept it, I, Sang Zhong, will kneel here today and will not leave."

"Don't dare!"

Before Sang Zhong knelt down, Zai Yu rushed up in three steps and helped him up.

"The old man is over [-] years old, how can there be any reason for you to kneel for a day? I have accepted the [-] mu of land, please hurry up."

Sang Zhong looked at Zai Yu with a sincere face, and held back for a long time before he uttered a word in a trembling voice.

"Thank you, my lord."

With Sang Zhong taking the lead, how can the rest dare not donate?
The Yang family and the Yu family also donated [-] mu, and the other families pooled in another [-] mu, plus the [-] mu of public land originally owned by Tuqiu.

In just a short time of talking, the amount of land in Zaiyu's hands reached [-] mu.

Zigong stood watching with mixed feelings in his heart. He worked hard in Qufu for many years, and only saved one hill of land (14400 mu).

While talking and laughing, Zaiyu got more land than he had worked hard for many years.

Zigong couldn't help sighing in his heart: "I thought I was making huge profits by buying low and selling high. Now it seems that being a doctor is not only a huge profit, it is simply a robbery!"

It's fine if you rob it. After the people in Tuqiu know that Ziwo helps them repay their loans, they still have to remember Ziwo's friendship.

Is this what "Guanzi" said: it not only promotes etiquette education, but also meets the needs of the country? "

　It turned out that the author left a tear in my heart. I can fully feel how sad he was when he had no tickets.

　　——Excerpt from "Zaiyu's Diary"

　　
　
(End of this chapter)