Lord Moyu was forced to open

"Who is in front of you? Why are you blocking the way of my army? Do you know that if you block the way of our army, we will treat you as a serious crime and kill you on the spot!"

Just as Guan Ning was leading people to a county east of Nanyang City.

As soon as they arrived in the county, a middle-aged man who looked to be in his sixties, with weathered face and red and chapped cheeks, suddenly appeared in front of the army and blocked the army's path with open hands.

"General! General! General, don't kill the old man. General, listen to me. The old man has no choice but to see the general like this!"

"Oh ~ you have no choice?"

Guan Ning, who was riding on the horse, became interested. He raised his hand to stop the movement of the army behind him. He looked at the old farmer in front of him and asked:

"What is the reason? Tell me quickly. If you can't convince me, you will be guilty of blocking the army."

"Yes, yes, yes, the old man said immediately!"

The old man's face showed joy and he quickly stated his purpose.

"General, this old man is from Xiaowangzhuang'er in Donglin County. His family owns two acres of thin farmland. My wife, my wife, and my old son can live a comfortable life."

Guan Ning nodded slightly as he listened, but also knew that the next step was probably the key point.

Sure enough, I heard this old man preaching:

"But the good times did not last long. Ten years ago, for some reason, the land tax of the old man's family suddenly increased sharply. If it was only a partial increase, I would bear it with gritted teeth.

However, how can there be any reason that the land tax has increased five times in just one year? !

The old man had to pay five times the original land tax of two acres, that is, ten acres of land tax! "

As a result, plus other taxes and so on, the old man's family can only get enough food for half a year at the end of the year, and they have to dig wild vegetables and eat tree roots to survive year after year. My old son From the age of fifteen to now twenty-five, I still haven’t married yet!

This is nothing more than that, at least he can still live!

But last year! last year! The land tax was increased again last year!

This time it’s five times again!

After all, they actually asked the old man to pay land tax on fifty acres of land!

How can this old man afford to befriend him?

Wuwuwu..."

At this point, the old man suddenly began to cry sadly.

Then he continued intermittently:

"General, they... they actually took away my family's only two acres of land, saying... they said it was used to offset taxes!

Those are the only two acres of land our family has... wu wu wu... without this land... we... how can our family survive!

Wuwuwu..."

The old man cried extremely sadly, and Guan Ning's brows furrowed deeply.

But he did not rush to express his position, but continued to ask calmly:

"Why did you come to me about this?"

After hearing this, the old man stretched out his hand to wipe away his tears and choked with sobs:

"Tian Xiucai from our village said a few days ago that the Holy Emperor sent people to check the fields. The old man asked him how he checked the fields. He said that checking the fields meant that the imperial court sent people to re-measure and record all the land in the world, and to confirm the status of the fields. Ownership.

Moreover, Tian Xiucai also said that this time the officials in the city offended the emperor, and the emperor would punish those who invaded the people's fields.

The old man thought that my land had been taken over by others, and I had paid too many taxes in those years. Tian Xiucai said that he might be paying taxes for others.

Then why should the old man pay other people's taxes? This is wrong! The old man refuses to accept it!

The old man was thinking that the emperor was the greatest official in the world. He was in charge of all the officials. The officials he sent out were afraid of other officials. So could I complain to the official he sent out and ask the officials in the city to do so? Return the old man's land, and don't let him pay taxes on other people's fields in the future.

But the day after I got the news, an official came to the village and warned that no one in the village was allowed to go out, let alone talk nonsense. Old man, I thought, there must be someone who scares the officials in the city. , otherwise they would not be like this on weekdays.

Then I thought that it must be the officials sent by the emperor, but those officials were guarding each intersection. The old man had no choice but to take a long detour from the back mountain at night before arriving here. He has been guarding here ever since. Unexpectedly, Met the general. "

After the old man finished speaking, he couldn't help scratching his arm. Guan Ning took a look and saw the red envelopes all over his body. They must have been bitten by mosquitoes!

Guan Ning believed most of what he said, but still asked:

"What evidence do you have that what you say is true?"

The old man hurriedly said: "Yes, yes! The old man here has the documents given by the tax yamen every year. The head of our village is a child. Every year, the village chief of our tax payment village will ask the yamen to give us documents and help us confirm the amount written on the document. right.

I always keep the paperwork. There is also my land, which I got from land reclamation back then. There is a land reclamation deed and these tax payment certificates, which can prove that the land is mine!

I brought all of these out! "

As he spoke, the old man immediately took out something wrapped in cloth from his arms and untied the cloth. Inside was a neat stack of documents.

Guan Ning immediately raised her eyebrows when she saw it, and she felt a little more happy in her heart.

If these are true, that would be easy!

Guan Ning immediately got off the horse, walked to the old man, picked up a book and read it.

A book clearly reads:

[In the autumn of the 25th year of Tiansheng's reign, Wang Dagen of Xiaowangzhuang, Donglin County owned two acres of farmland. He should pay thirty bushels of field tax and thirty bushels of grain as actual paid field tax, all of which were paid in full.

In the east of the county government, a tax collection document was written in the autumn of the 25th year of Tiansheng's reign. 】

At the bottom of the document, there is an official document stamped by the county government.

It is indeed a genuine tax collection document issued by the Yamen.

When he saw the field tax of 30 dou of grain for two acres of land, Guan Ning immediately laughed.

According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, only three dou of grain per mu of land per year in the Song Dynasty was enough.

There may be differences in some places, but two acres of land is definitely not as much as thirty buckets!

This is obviously a problem!

And they actually dared to write it out blatantly and stamp it with their official seal. They were really bold enough!

Putting the documents back, he picked up the bottom one of the stack of documents. On the cover, there were seven characters written on the deed of land reclamation of Xiaowangzhuang. When he opened it, he actually recorded the location and size of Wang Dagen's land reclamation, which was enough to prove the land here. Belongs to him.

He picked up a few tax documents and checked them, and there were no problems. Except for the year, they were exactly the same as the ones he had seen before. Then he nodded and said to the old man, Wang Dagen:

"I already know about you. Put these away and follow me to the county office. I will help you get your land back. By the way, I will also help you get the overpaid taxes over the years from the people who should pay them." !”

When Wang Dagen heard this, he waved his hands and said, "No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, as long as my land can be returned, I will be satisfied. I have no need to pay the previous taxes."

Looking at the panic on the old man's face, Guan Ning knew that he was afraid of causing trouble. If the land that his family relied on had not been taken away, he would not have dared to stop the army on the roadside. Things come up.

If I had known that the military's reputation these days was not very good, I would have killed someone's head and taken credit for it by accident.

This is all forced and there is no other way!

Thinking of this, Guan Ning turned to Wang Dagen with a solemn expression and solemnly warned:

"Wang Dagen, I will help you get the land back, but you have to remember that we are the emperor's soldiers and we work for the emperor, and those county officials are like dogs in front of the emperor. So you must tell the truth at any time.

If you suddenly change your story, I can guarantee that you will definitely end up worse than your family being destroyed!

do you understand? "

Wang Dagen's face turned pale with fright, but he nodded hurriedly to express his understanding.

Guan Ning nodded with satisfaction.

It wasn't that he wanted to scare the old man Wang deliberately, but he just suddenly realized that if these hundreds of people followed the idea of ​​not fighting with the officials, when they faced the county magistrate of that place, they might go to that county to avoid getting into trouble. Retract the confession before the order, thereby causing a situation that is unfavorable to oneself.

What he did was to let them understand which side was more powerful, so that they would have some confidence in their minds, weigh the pros and cons, and not dare to retract their confessions.

Although his approach may maliciously speculate on others and think too bad about others, he still has to do it in order to avoid accidents.

Guan Ning never hesitates to speculate on others with the greatest malice.

Human nature cannot stand the test, and he does not want to gamble on human nature.

It’s better to take precautions in advance than to have an unexpected incident!

...(End of chapter)