Daming Yinghua

Chapter 192
Zheng Haizhu said in his heart: Chongming magistrate, this old fox!
Previously, as soon as she received the imperial order as a reward from the imperial court, she asked her nephew Shoukuan to come to Chongming to buy land.Huang Zunsu had communicated with the Suzhou government in advance, and when the Suzhou government handed it over, Chongming County seemed to take special care of it, and recommended to Zheng Shoukuan the land in the south of the island, which he said was an abandoned Shatian. convenient.

After going to the island today, Zheng Haizhu got the land deed from the county magistrate, and deliberately made sure that "Tian Di" and "Tian Mian" belonged to her own name.

It was a common phenomenon in the late Ming Dynasty that the ownership and use rights of civilian land were sold separately.In the north, the ownership is called "Tiangu" and the right to use is called "Tianpi". In the Susong area of ​​southern Zhili, they are called "Tiandi" and "Tianmian".

When Zheng Haizhu bought the land in Chongming, Huang Zunsu told her in advance that she must indicate in the contract that "the bottom of the field and the surface of the field will be signed by Zheng Haizhu", and the amount of autumn grain should be written, and Zheng Haizhu will send it.Because of Zheng Haizhu's imperial status, the "corvement" on her land can only be exempted, and the land tax still has to be paid.Specifying the specific taxes to be paid means that the property rights and the right to rent and cultivate the thousands of acres of land have all been handed over to Zheng Haizhu.

Unexpectedly, now it seems that when it comes to the purchase of land in Chongming, although he was not deceived in terms of economic interests, he was clearly used by the county magistrate as a tool to maintain stability.

Zheng Haizhu said with three points of humility and five points of resignation: "Grandma Tang, the younger generation seems to have realized that you and I have been tricked. If you ask, grandma went to Suzhou Mansion to serve as a veteran because of a fruitless lawsuit in Chongming. Later generations handed over certificates?"

Grandma Tang nodded and said, "Yes, I went to Suzhou to hand in the case in the twelfth lunar month. I didn't see any movement. I went again after the beginning of spring. Yesterday I was complaining to the children at the gate of Suzhou Mansion."

This old lady has been involved in lawsuits for decades, and she is much clearer and quicker than ordinary people.

She quickly snorted and sneered and said, "Madam Zheng, old lady, I have said a few words to you, and I want to understand. The magistrate must see me and refuse to let me go. I'm afraid that if the censor intervenes, Suzhou will really investigate and deal with it." Get up, neither he nor the Qianhu who invaded the land have any good fruit to eat, so they simply transfer the land to you."

Zheng Haizhu sighed: "Yes, mother-in-law, after you are Zhongliang, the mansion will still enshrine the rank of Duke Min Zhong. After all, you are a person with status. They don't dare to threaten and suppress you like a farmer with a white body, so they will fight for you." The flames of the earth led me here. What’s more, if Suzhou and even Ying Tianfu asked, they would even have their words in mind. It’s just me, Mrs. Anyuan, who is domineering and cheating on the merits of Ming Dynasty. , half bought and half robbed land to occupy the original land of the sergeants.”

When she said this, she turned her head and sighed with Wu Bangde: "No wonder these fields are so cheap. Unfortunately, I thought it was Chongming County who respected me as the pillar of the country. Cough! In fact, it is a pit buried for us!"

Granny Tang listened to her self-deprecating very frankly, and her affection for this woman increased a bit.

After inquiring about the price on the land deed, Grandma Tang shook her head and said, "Of course this price is too unusually low. Mrs. Zheng and Mr. Wu, this place is near the sea, so it can be falsely reported as a salt stove field. Because originally, in order to encourage the people on the island to cook salt, The imperial court has a rule that in Chongming, if the salt cooking field collapses under the water, the stove owner can get 28 mu of tidal flat land as compensation. As soon as this order came out, many powerful people in Chongming tried their best to falsely report their own Shatian as Stove field. You have thousands of acres of sandy fields by the sea. If those thousands of households collude with the county to allocate hundreds of acres to report as stove fields, and then fool around with an excuse of flooding and collapse, you can get dozens of extra without much effort. It’s a waste of land. How could it be sold at such a low price for no reason.”

Zheng Haizhu understands, isn't this cheating financial subsidies?Sure enough, ancient and modern are similar, because the greed of human nature is even more unchanged.

Grandma Tang saw that Zheng Haizhu was standing all the time, not to mention respecting her elders, and also looked like a student respectfully asking for advice from her husband, she felt a little embarrassed for a while.

"Mrs. Zheng, just now the old lady has a bad temper, so please take care of me. Those big and small foxes in the county are three-pointed and seven-point hidden, saying that you have backers from south to north, which led me astray. I also thought that you They belonged to the same group, and they used your power to suppress this land invasion case. Alas, I am indeed old and easily confused."

Zheng Haizhu hurriedly wished another gift, but when he spoke again, he stopped talking about consoling empty words, but said bluntly: "Grandma, the cause and effect of the matter, the younger generation is clear, and I also sympathize with the descendants of the military households who were originally from Chongming. But the younger generation I can't accompany you to question the county magistrate, let alone go to suzhou to file a lawsuit. This place is already in my name, so I can't hand it over. Otherwise, it's like telling the whole county that I, Zheng Haizhu, either have a bad mind So, or the edict on my body is not good. My Liao tenants will definitely be bullied by thousands of households and county magistrates in the future. Granny, are they also hard-working people?"

Granny Tang's face was serious when she heard the words, but she didn't look angry. She even turned her head and looked at the Liao people in the twilight, watching them enter the huts like a flock of sheep returning home.

When her eyes fell on the face of the girl Hua Er, Hua Er said nervously: "Grandmother, why don't you ask the descendants of the soldiers to farm with us? They eat more, we eat less, they If they came from Daming near North Korea, their words should be similar to ours."

(I'm sorry, I'm too busy today, busy with my own and other people's livelihood. I only changed this little)
(End of this chapter)