Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Chapter 152 Accepting fate but not obeying it

During the Ming Dynasty, taxes were divided into summer and autumn.

Summer taxes run from June to August.

The collection in autumn is called autumn grain, and must be paid before February of the next year.

Therefore, all land clearing work this time must be completed before June.

Many new Jinshi from lower sects encountered trouble at this step.

Including the new champion, Li Jin.

There are many troubles, depending on the place, the person and the time.

The most disgusting thing is that the subordinate officials below are using the tax reform to do evil. What was originally a good thing for the people has been turned into a bad thing.

As a result, the people misunderstood the new tax system and at the same time misunderstood the court even more.

Dingyuan County, Dingqingshan.

Two subordinate officials and several government servants were using the rulers in their hands to measure a newly reclaimed field.

"You are so unreasonable. We haven't finished the land yet, so why are we registering it as a mature field?" a girl shouted loudly.

This little girl is Hu Ye, the Hu father and daughter who took Li Jin in before.

"This is an order from the Imperial Envoy. In order to prepare for the new tax system that may be implemented next, all old and new fields in the territory must be cleared again." A fat subordinate official bowed his hands towards the south and at the same time asked those around him The men pushed Hu Ye away roughly.

Hu Ye could only watch as these big men registered and measured her fields, and then recorded them in a book.

Seeing the number registered in the booklet, Hu Ye became anxious. Her eyes turned red and she argued loudly: "All the land we have here, all added up, is only four acres and five cents at most. Why did you only measure five acres?" .”

"Sir, this size is incorrect!"

A tall and thin subordinate on the side glanced at Hu Ye with contempt, raised the corner of his mouth slightly, and said mockingly: "You are a farmer, do you know how to calculate Pythagorean, do you know what three days a week means?"

"I've been doing this job for 12 years, do you still need a little girl like you to teach me how to measure?"

"There is no education at all. This is what children without a mother teach them."

Seeing that this tall and thin subordinate official was getting more and more exaggerated, so much so that the colleagues around him couldn't stand it, so they interrupted.

"Okay, okay, don't talk nonsense to her. How big this field is will be determined by our official measurement."

With that said, he symbolically pushed the little girl Hu Ye away again.

"Isn't this a disguised form of asking us to increase food taxes?" Hu Ye said with a cry.

"Then I can't control it."

Where do these subordinates care about this? If the common people cry and they can show their respect, then the world will be peaceful.

Seeing his girl being bullied, the honest man Lao Hu, who had stood aside and remained silent from the beginning until now, finally exploded.

"You guys are too much of a bully. I will fight with you." Lao Hu suddenly picked up a hoe and threw it at a subordinate.

If the subordinate hadn't reacted quickly and hid in time, half of his life would have been lost if the hoe came down.

After a false alarm, when he came back to his senses, he saw that Lao Hu was about to swing his hoe a second time, and immediately shouted: "Come and catch him!"

"Stop him!"

As soon as the words fell, the government servants around him immediately stepped forward and held Lao Hu up.

Lao Hu, a farmer, was so strong that the two government officials couldn't hold him down, but he was able to restrain him at least.

"Let me go!" Lao Hu struggled and shouted.

Seeing that Lao Hu had been restrained, the tall and thin subordinate official became furious when he remembered that he had almost been knocked down by this mud-legged man with a hoe.

He took a step forward and slapped him directly.

"You old fool, how dare you beat us!" the tall and thin official said viciously.Seeing his father being bullied because of him, Hu Ye's eyes turned red, and the master cried: "Let my father go!"

Seeing that this tall and thin subordinate was about to slap him in the face for the second time.

A voice suddenly sounded.

"stop!"

Everyone heard the sound and turned to look.

"Scholar!" Hu Ye shouted with a look of surprise on his face after seeing the person coming.

The person who came was none other than Li Jin.

"Who are you?" the tall and thin official said, his nostrils pointed toward the person.

It seemed that he didn't recognize Li Jin.

Throughout Dingyuan County, there are so many people running errands.

Li Jin was an imperial envoy, so it was normal that they had not seen it.

"I'm just a reader."

"Students should go back to their studies and stop meddling in other people's business."

After listening to Hu Ye's complete story, Li Jin said angrily: "As subordinates, you are pretending to be powerful, oppressing the people, and using the imperial envoy's orders to torture the people. Believe it or not, I will go to Dingyuan County The Yamen will accuse you of a crime of violating the law."

After listening to Li Jin's words, a subordinate was not afraid at all. Instead, he smiled and said: "Actually, we are also very sympathetic to the hardships of the people, as long as we can repay the repair costs. Our rope ruler's tolerance can also be extended." Shrinking."

"Are you openly asking for bribes?" Li Jin said in a deep voice with veins on his forehead twitching.

"you!"

There are some things that cannot be said on the stage. This subordinate official who wanted to ask for a bribe was so choked up that he could not speak out when Li Jin said this.

The tall and thin official on the side changed his expression and said: "Huh? This young master is right. As government servants, we should act impartially. Brothers, please pay according to five acres!"

"If you have any dissatisfaction, please go to the Dingyuan County Yamen to lodge a complaint."

"go!"

With that said, he pushed Lao Hu to the ground, and the group of people left in a swaggering manner.

Li Jin stepped forward to help Old Hu up and asked, "Uncle Huber, are you okay?"

Lao Hu didn't speak, just shook his head.

"We have all been bullied like this, can we be okay?!" Hu Ye said impatiently.

"The magistrate of Dingyuan County will definitely punish them when they find out about this. Besides, there is still an imperial envoy here. The imperial envoy is a good and sensible official, and he will definitely give you justice." Li Jin said with relief.

"As long as there is an official who takes care of us, we will go to the mountains to open up wasteland." Hu Ye saw Li Jin returning the words to those officials, and immediately retorted, his face full of grievances.

"Xiaoye, Mr. Li is also kind-hearted. Today's incident is all thanks to Mr. Li."

"It's all because your father is incompetent. Your father is just a farmer who only knows how to farm. He has been tied to the land all his life. He always says that if God wants you to die, you must die. If God wants you to live, you can live."

Lao Hu looked up at the sky, then looked down at the land beneath his feet.

"But we farmers are the ones who understand the land. If we can't change the sky, why can't we change the land?"

"I don't believe it. Even with my old life, I can't grow five acres of food from these four acres of land."

An ordinary farmer in Ming Dynasty.

Accept fate,

But he refused to obey.

(End of this chapter)