Father can be an enemy country

Chapter 524: Li Jia's Prestige
"Oh, that's impossible." The pig-headed squire sighed and said, "The beggar said that His Highness the King of Chu is now their chief guild leader. Their guild leaders have all been promoted by the prince to be court officials, and they are now also the prince's observers and propagandists. Sorry!"

"Where they go around every day is arranged by the beggar gang. If you don't go back before dark, the beggar gang will come to find people immediately." Another squire who looked like a thin monkey answered: "A bunch of beggars gathered in front of the door. Noisy, yelling that if we don't let people go, let our whole family get out of Jiangxi!"

"Is it plausible! Beggars can threaten us, what kind of world is this?" the elders of the country gentry sect angrily said.

"It's the way of the world that a beggar can be an emperor..." The bald squire said bitterly, "So the beggar turned over and rode on the heads of us, shit and piss!"

"Speak carefully." The timid Elder Zong said worriedly, "If those people find out about this, we'll all lose our heads."

"What are you afraid of, will you tell the truth?" The bald squire was used to being domineering, and he gave the man a look.

"Of course not." The man shook his head hastily.

"Will you inform?" The bald man looked at the pig again.

"of course not."

"It's over?" The bald squire curled his lips.

"Okay, the more you talk, the farther away you get from the topic." Xia Dan finally couldn't listen anymore, and stopped them from continuing their meaningless nonsense.

"Are you guys talking to me?"

"Of course not." Everyone hurriedly shook their heads and said, "We are here to ask Mr. Tan to make up his mind."

"Yes, we all listened to Mr. Tan, let's push our strength to the same place, we must resist!" The bald squire also said loudly.

"Oh, why?" Xia Dan said with a sad face:
"In the past, there was Xiong Fantai, and Zhang Tianshi was at the head. Let's beat the side drums, cheering is enough. Now Xiong Fantai has been stripped of bark and weeds and hung on the top of Nanchang City, and Zhang Tianshi has also been deprived of the title of Tianshi. , under house arrest in Nanchang City. I heard that the 10,000+ households in Zhengyi Yiyi will be moved out of Jiangxi and resettled in Huguang.”

He said with a long sigh: "Oh, this time the imperial court captured the thief first and captured the king first, and cut off our two pillars as soon as they came up. Oh, the tree fell and the monkeys scattered, what can the monkeys do?"

"What's the matter, listen to Mr. Tan's meaning?" The faces of the leading gentry changed. "Are you going to let it be slaughtered?"

"Alas..." Xia Dan sighed again: "Man is the knife, I am the fish. Now the fish on our cutting board, even if they jump up, they will hit the edge of the knife, and they will only die even worse. Why bother? Or Lie down and let them do as they please, it’s nothing more than paying more royal rations, no one can die.”

"Tan Gong is confused, it's not a question of paying more taxes!" Several leaders hurriedly persuaded: "Once the land is cleared, it will be compiled into a yellow book; with the yellow book, you can get a lijia! That lijia system But it's too terrible!"

"That's right, if Lijia starts, we'll stop farting." The squires said gloomily, "Those poor ghosts are the ones riding on us!"

Because the method of organizing lijia is that every 110 households are organized into one li, and the ten households with the most rations are the head of the li, and the remaining one hundred households are called Jiashou.

Every year, a chief of the village leads ten officers who should be responsible for "managing the affairs of one mile".

In the second year, another head of the village will be replaced, and the other ten A chiefs will be in charge of the errands.In this way, one year for one person, and one cycle for ten years.

This is Boss Zhu's most proud invention. For one thing, ordinary people serve in the military only once in ten years, and they don't have to worry about anything for the remaining nine years. They can just farm and live.The burden is naturally greatly reduced.

Second, it has greatly changed the power structure at the grassroots level.

It used to be that in a village with a hundred or so households, one or two big households had the final say on everything.After the lijia system, the leadership of the village expanded to ten households at once, and the poor people also became the leaders.

As the saying goes, everyone should be an official, which means that no one should be an official...

For example, these people here, with their financial resources, can [-]% be a village chief, but so what?Within a mile, there are nine other chiefs who are equal to them, and they only take their turn once every ten years.For the other nine years, he could only obediently accept the management of the other nine people. Wouldn't it make him uncomfortable to kill them?
Moreover, the original influence of a big family like them is far more than that of a village or a village, and they even have the final say in the entire village.Now that he is being forcibly downgraded to be the head of the village, how can he stretch his hands elsewhere?

We are all chiefs, why should we listen to you?
Those elders were also very uncomfortable.They are a large family with at least a few hundred, at most a thousand families, and they had to obey them obediently.Now it is going to be divided into mile by mile by the government.

At that time, any conflicts such as lawsuits, disputes between neighbors, etc. among the clansmen will be resolved by the chief of the clan. What do you want these clan elders to do?

Therefore, paying taxes per mu is just a pain for them, and the Lijia system really breaks their defenses.

At first they thought that if the Lijia system was implemented, the officials in the county would not be able to go to the countryside, so why would corrupt officials live in the countryside?Therefore, the government will definitely stand up for them and disrupt the Lijia system.

Unexpectedly, after a big prison, officials and errands in the prefecture and county, as well as those who have anything to do with the household registration register, are all at a loss...

And Zhengyi also surrendered.They have no hope at all and can only rely on themselves.

The big households want to repeat the old tricks, let those teachers and failed scholars lead the rhythm, and fool the common people to fight against the government.Unexpectedly, he was strongly blocked by the beggar gang again.

Under the vigorous publicity of the beggars, the vernacular numbers have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.The common people have heard too much, and it will be difficult for them to fool around.

Scholars said: "The purpose of clearing the land is to make you pay more taxes!"

Old folks will ask: "Didn't you say 'Tian Duoduo pays taxes, Tian Shaoshao pays taxes'?"

Scholars said: "There are policies at the top, and countermeasures at the bottom. When the big households don't cooperate, the extra taxes will still fall on you."

"After Lijia, the officials will not go to the countryside anymore. We will take turns to be on the errands and collect taxes by ourselves. If anyone does not cooperate, everyone will never agree!" the villagers said loudly.

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"Such words, in the past, how can an old farmer say it?" The pig-headed squire said depressedly: "It's all because of those beggars who go around lying around to confuse the people, making the people's customs not simple."

"Yes, Mr. Tan." Everyone persuaded: "If we don't stand up this time, we will be lost forever!"

"Hey, then what do you think we should do?" Xia Dan sighed helplessly.

"This..." The squires were at a loss for words, and the bald heads said awkwardly, "Isn't this just to find Mr. Tan to find a solution?"

"I'm at the end of my rope." Xia Dan stood up slowly with both hands on the armrest.

"Where is Mr. Tan going?" Everyone asked hurriedly.

"Go to the meeting." Xia Dan took the cane and walked out slowly: "I advise you all to come with me, your arms can't hold your thighs."

"I won't go, whoever wants to go!" The bald squire said angrily, "Xia Dan, I really despise you!"

(End of this chapter)