In the late winter month, more than half a month passed, and the land of gentry in Wuxi, including the Gu family, has been cleared nearly half of the land, and villages far away from the county town have not yet started. However, according to the current progress, even if the "legal holiday" in the first lunar month is abandoned, it will not be too big of a problem to complete the clearing of the land before spring plowing. If there is no big accident during this period, there will be no big accident.

Duanjutang, the old house of Gu family, is located in Jingli, which is northeast of Wuxi County, which is the later Zhangjing Town. The previous work team made a fuss to attack the east and west was actually just a trick. At least the first few days of the work team's clearance of the area near the county town, the work work did not officially start. However, after the first few days, the work team completed the work of clearing the land of the Gu family near the county town, and it was also officially started under the limited resistance of the Gu family's children, slaves and tenants.

"Sixty-one acres, four cents, six, write down."

With the assistance of the yamen runners, the intern officials of the work team are responsible for using tools to measure the area, reporting to the officials leading the team, and the garrison is responsible for escorting them, and everything is in order. If the children of gentry who are often whispering from time to time, then the work efficiency should be further improved.

"Old master, students are fame and fortune. According to the excellence of Emperor Xian, taxes must be exempted from this land."

The Tongzhi, who led the team, had just heard the number report and had some insights. The intern official who had not had time to ask for records heard this cliché again.

Everyone wants to complete the work of cleaning the archery early before the New Year. When he heard this, Tongzhi was displeased. He glanced at him coldly and continued to instruct the intern official. He knew that it was correct and he said coldly to him: "His Royal Highness of Qi admitted the system of exemption, and you don't need to remind me again. This land of cleaning the archery is calculated and recorded, and is not responsible for collecting taxes. When the measurement is completed, someone will notify you of tax geometry, supplementary geometry and accumulation geometry, and then tell them."

Tongzhi looked impatient. The child of the Gu family dared not touch his bad temper, but the gentry stopped talking. The neighbors could no longer bear the land as they saw that the land was recorded on the record.

"Master Qingtian, these dozens of acres of land contain two acres of land from the little ones. They are all industries passed down from the little ones."

"There are also one acre and two-part thin fields of small families here."

"There are villains, and there are villains."

“…”

The villagers came over and before the tutor could speak, the garrison led the troops forward. If the yamen runners were all locals and they were still kind, but these garrisons were dispatched from the recruit training camp, and there were people everywhere. They could do it under the military law of Bull, but they would not disturb the people. However, they would be unpolite to have a task in this time.

Most of the villagers here knew that the garrison was not easy to mess with. Seeing the garrison coming forward to guard, they quickly retreated. However, they did not dare to leave, but just kept a safe distance and watched the work team packing their things there.

The so-called contribution means that the gentry and the people exploit loopholes in the system and entrusted the land to the gentry to avoid taxes. The gentry only paid a certain amount of tenant rent. In this way, the gentry increased their income for no reason, and the people reduced the amount of "taxes" paid, and the only country was at a loss.

All these villagers devoted their land to the Gu family. The earliest ones were even counted when Gu Xian became a scholar. It has been ten years since then, and it has been a total of several generations.

The children of the Gu family looked at these villagers and were anxious. In just these dozens of acres of land, most of the land was invested. Although some of them had been "turned" into their own industries by the Gu family, many ants were bitten to death. If many of the land was lost, the annual income would be much smaller.

As expected, seeing the villagers like this, the comrades came out and said to them: "It is an illegal act, and it has been clearly stated in the "Regulations on Asking for Penalties". The matter of offering is an illegal act and should be eliminated. However, the accumulated tragedy among the people is like this. Your Highness, the King of Qi, pity for the soldiers and the people. If they can all belong to their own masters, the tax arrears will be cancelled. If they still violate the law, they will definitely be severely punished!"

This statement is said, not only the gentry is dissatisfied, but even the villagers who contributed their offerings are full of resentment. The matter of giving is originally a gentry. Both the villagers make profits, and some gentry use this to make a trick to seize it. However, under normal circumstances, most of them are mutually beneficial things, and the losses are nothing more than the country's taxes and finances.

After hearing this answer, the gentry of the Gu family had not spoken yet, but the villagers were quite dissatisfied. However, the Tongzhi had obviously seen a lot of this situation. He immediately asked sternly: "The country collects taxes, putting aside the management, litigation, and river repairs, and other expenses. The biggest thing is to raise soldiers. If you don't have money to support soldiers, how can the border areas be guarded? The border areas cannot be guarded, and the mainland is also inevitably ravaged by the Tartars. These years are the best examples."

"But when the late emperor was alive, he paid the regular tax and had to pay three wages. Isn't he still unable to defeat the Tartars?"

"That's because the people who are in power are incompetent. Wouldn't they be surrendered when they see them coming, and the captives come? Now Jiangsu and Zhejiang are under the leadership of His Highness King Qi, all of whom are loyal and righteous people who have fought bravely against the Tartars for many years. The soldiers have fought hard for many years to restore the clothes of the Han family here. If everyone learns from you, then what will Your Highness King Qi do to support soldiers? Should those soldiers who fought bloody battles cannot even eat? Are you thinking that this is fair?"

The Ming army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has been in control of Jiangnan for three years, and scholars, farmers, industry and commerce are still very commending for this administration that has already had a new atmosphere from the corner of Jinhua. However, after all, you can pay less taxes after all, and most of you can understand this truth. Even if you are not satisfied, you are mostly speechless. However, once interests are involved, someone will eventually blind you.

"What Master Qingtian said is that the current administration is good. Even when we go to the city to sell vegetables, we don't dare to give it money. I heard from my brother-in-law that there is no way to use the minor officials or yamen runners to use such tricks when collecting taxes, and we dare not force the people to pay the fire."

These words resonated with the people present, but when they said this, the villagers were full of worries, and even their tone was inevitably affected by the thoughts in their hearts.

"But, now His Highness the King of Qi is watching this. If His Highness the King of Qi doesn't pay attention to these things in the future, or His Highness the King of Qi no longer manages government affairs, can the current administration be guaranteed? At that time, if you lose even the offer, you will not be the one who suffers."

As soon as this statement was made, many people expressed their approval, even the gentry of the Gu family was the same. However, the Tongzhi shook his head and then said to them: "His Highness of the King of Qi said that the administration of officials is directly in contact with the people. If the administration of officials is **, Li Zicheng will come out. There is nothing new about this. There are too many such jokes in history books."

"So, the Qi Palace has been doing its best to purify the administration over the years. I may not believe it if I say so much, but the dignity of the court's laws starts from bit by bit. His Highness, as the leader of the army, was still able to be punished personally. Can he still tolerate those corrupt officials harming the people and the world will be in chaos again?"

After the Tongzhi said that, he took the work team away. They completed the land clearance of the village. Even if the cleaning of the village is finished, they always have to go to the next village before lunch so that they can start work as early as possible in the afternoon.

When the work team left, the gentry of the Gu family jumped out and encouraged the villagers present, saying that the offer was beneficial but not harmful. As for the soldiers that Tongzhi said, he was also evaded by the fact that he could collect taxes from other aspects. However, the "Tonglu" of the Gu family has not been cleaned yet, and the villagers present also used the reasons that they were still making water at home and had to go home to cook, and said that they did not want to have too much contact with the Gu family.

Seeing this, the gentry of the Gu family was helpless. The Qing Dynasty had committed a lot of blood debts in Jiangnan. The Qing army killed a mountain of corpses and blood in Changzhou Prefecture. Only fifty-three people were killed in Jiangyin County. In addition, the hype of Jiangnan Palace Newspapers in recent years, in the eyes of the people, the Qing Dynasty had long been the most evil existence in the world. Since the Gu family had been linked to Tonglu, no matter how reasonable it was, few people would believe it.

The gentry was rejected by many villagers and was furious, but the content of the meeting in the old house a few days ago was still remembered in his heart. At this moment, since the work team had left the village, he hurried back to the old house to report, and soon received news that the clan had made great progress in the second connection.

This time, the Gu family is no longer the protagonist here. Wuxi is just a county town after all, with a small influence. Among the powerful people connected, there are nearby Suzhou gentry and wealthy people. Chen Wen's Qingzhang land not only touches the interests of the gentry, but many wealthy businessmen also have a large amount of land in the countryside, so it is inevitable to try to avoid taxes.

Of course, no gentry, the merchants would not board these broken ships of Donglin because of the decrease in the income from their side jobs. They also have their demands, but both sides have common goals.

A few days later, the twelfth lunar month was approaching, and as the first lunar month approached, many people had already started purchasing New Year's goods in batches. However, in this twelfth lunar month of the twelfth year of Yongli, merchants in Suzhou all sold out brands. If one or two companies were not bad, but the same was true on the Suzhou market, then the two types of typing of the strike will be clearly revealed in everyone's hearts.

"The government clears the land of the archery house. If you are not satisfied with it, what is the ability to go to the government?

Although Suzhou Tiger Hill is a famous place, it is also the place for Suzhou people to exchange and gather. Peony City in spring, Suzhou City in cool air, Muxiang City in autumn, Qingming Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, and the "Three Markets and Three Festivals" in October, as well as the Mid-Autumn Festival Festival and Lantern Festival. The people of Suzhou invited me to gather here, how could it be a grand scene?

It is the twelfth lunar month, the cold food has passed, the Lantern Festival is not approaching, and there is no sight of empty city coming. However, people around here come to shops here to purchase New Year's goods, making some preparations for the not-far-distant first month, so it is better to be in a hurry when it is approaching, let alone come late and it will be sold out, so the whole year will be unhappy.

Suzhou is rich and has fought against tax supervisors, attacked the governor and the Dongchang man. For the people who are well-informed in the matter of a market strike, there is no wonder that such a scene is seen. However, the market strike in the twelfth lunar month and is tied to the New Year, which really makes people have to say a few words to relieve their anger.

"What are you going to clear the land? Do you think these unscrupulous merchants will leave the land in the countryside with the Prince Qi's mansion?"

"Brother, do you mean to crack down on smuggling?"

"Then can there be anything else? The huge profits of the sea trade, a certain commoner who is a commoner, knows that the Qi Palace is now forcing them to pay taxes. If these unscrupulous merchants are willing, it will be new."

"It makes sense, it makes sense. Brother, you see, you have insight, so let's talk about it."

"That's right, that's right, let's give it to our general."

“…”

The shop door was closed, and a group of people gathered at the door, carrying large baskets and small baskets, all of whom came to buy New Year’s goods. Now I can’t buy New Year’s goods, so I can listen to my experiences and hear more, so I can say something wrong when I go home.

The people praised him for a while, and the man who was talking just now was full of lust. After some thought, he started to tell the things he heard from his boss.

The tiger hill is like this. Yefangbang, which is across the river, is where cruise ships gather. People who visit Tiger Hill often have to "moor boats and have fun" here. At that time, "Wu Niang boat boaters" will also gather here and sing. Every year in spring, summer and autumn, there are pleasure boats gathering, and the boats are filled with wine and meat, and the music and music are singing every night, which is the most luxurious thing in the world.

Now that the twelfth lunar month has arrived, the river is full of grand occasions. The boats are in groups of three or two, and most of them are coming. However, in the nearby Deyue Tower, the rouge fragrance of the female musician has not completely dissipated. The gentry and wealthy people are looking at the tiger hill across the river outside the window, but there is a lot of laughter and joy, which is in sharp contrast with the angry crowd there.

"This is Suzhou, not a countryside like Jinhua. It is true that King Qi is so powerful that the world is the world, but what does a martial artist know about governing the country?"

"What Xun Weng said is very much. If King Qi continues like this, Jiangnan will sooner or later be in chaos. Our strike now will make the King Qi understand this truth and eliminate those chaos as soon as possible to benefit the people."

The rich businessman named Xun Weng Wang Shimin, who was the grandson of Wang Xijue, the chief minister of the Wanli Dynasty cabinet, and the son of Wang Heng, the Hanlin editor. The Wang family was already a wealthy man in Jiangnan during the Hongzhi Dynasty. Later, Wang Xijue was born, and later Wang Xijue was appointed as an official for many generations. In the Qing Dynasty, it was also called a family of soldiers.

It is precisely because of the dual identities of a wealthy businessman and a Confucian gentry that after receiving the letter from the Gu family, Wang Shimin quickly gathered the power of Suzhou merchants, and wanted to teach Chen Wen a lesson in this country's leading economic center to show the power of Jiangnan gentry and merchants.
Chapter completed!