Chapter 2 How can land acquisition not be paid
Wanli, Taichang, Tianqi, Chongzhen, Hongguang, Longwu, Yongli...
Wei Liangchen, who was a writer of online history in his previous life, was stunned. He was very familiar with the history of the late Ming Dynasty. Now it is the 37th year of Wanli, which means that there are more than 30 years before the Manchus entered the pass.
If he could not change his destiny, Wei Liangchen was sure that he would probably be able to witness the iron hooves of Manhu coming from outside the pass and become a slave under Manhu's rule.
This was obviously something that Wei Liangchen could not accept.
Destiny must change, even if it is not for the major changes in more than thirty years, it must also be for yourself.
But in this era, all I learned in my previous life was useless. Either I became a scholar or a farmer, there were only these two ways before the good ministers.
He specializes in his profession, and the good minister thinks that he is not a farming material. But if he can't go to school, how should he change his destiny? Could it be that he stayed in the village, waited for the chaos during the Chongzhen period, and then rose up and learned from Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong to be a "big bandit" that can change history?
No, it took too long, and Liangchen denied this idea without hesitation. He really couldn't wait for that long.
But, what should he do?
Liangchen, full of thoughts, wandered around the village aimlessly, with surprise eyes all the way, because the mistress of the Wei family had disappeared from the villagers' eyes for three months. Now it suddenly appeared, which really made people feel uncomfortable. Those many contemptuous eyes made Wei Liangchen react. It seemed that he had been very unbearable in the villagers' hearts in the past two years.
When passing by a few women, Liangchen vaguely heard a woman saying that he was of the same virtue as his second uncle. This was the first time that Liangchen had heard someone discussing his second uncle. He was a little curious and wanted to go up and ask, but when the women saw him coming, they quickly dispersed.
Liangchen was very embarrassed and secretly wondered whether Wei Liangchen had the evil deeds of teasing good women in the past, otherwise why would these women hate him so much?
Of course, not all the villagers didn't want to mess with Liangchen. On the way, two elders of the family stopped when they saw Liangchen, asked about his injuries with concern, and then told Liangchen that his father and elder brother were in the ground at the east end of the village.
Liangchen thanked these two elders of the family, and had nothing to do anyway, so he went straight to the east end of the village.
The village where the Wei family is located is called Lishu Village. As the name suggests, there are many pear trees growing in the village. Every autumn, villagers will pick up the pears they harvest in the city and sell them. The money they get is used to supplement their livelihoods, which is also a "side job" in the local area.
There is a river at the east end of the village, and there are 100 acres of land on the beach, which is the best land in the entire Lishu Village. Wei Liangchen's family has two acres and eight cents of land here, and this land is also the best land for his family. Without this land, relying solely on the other few acres of thin land, I am afraid that Wei Jinde would not be able to support Liangchen's social studies for a few years.
When Liangchen arrived at the ground, he saw his father and brother from afar, one of his father and brothers were applying manure, and the other was weeding with a hoe. Seeing Liangchen coming, Wei Liangqing was surprised, and then put down his hoe and called him his father. Wei Jinde turned his head in response and saw his youngest son standing at him. He hurriedly put down the scoop and came to the edge of the field.
"What are you doing? The injury has not been cured yet. But the sir has told me that you cannot go to the ground. You kid were disobedient yesterday? If your legs are so unstraight, you will be lame in the future..."
As a father, Wei Jinde was very dissatisfied with his younger son's recklessness and got out of bed, especially when he saw his younger son walking so far, he was really anxious and angry. He was very worried that Liangchen had three long legs. If he was lame, how could he have a good life in the future? His eldest son was so old that he didn't marry a wife. If his younger son was so lame, he would not be able to get a wife. Then wouldn't his old Wei family be defeated?
Wei Liangqing also came over and was very dissatisfied with his younger brother's recklessness. He followed his father and accused him. Liangchen lowered his head slightly and let his father and brother scold him. He knew that his father and brother would talk about him because they care about him. If it were someone else, he would not care whether his injury was healed or not, and whether his legs would suffer from sequelae.
At this moment, Liangchen felt a warm feeling. Although the two men in front of him were not essentially his blood relatives, since he is Wei Liangchen, they are his relatives. This is a fact and can't be changed no matter how hard he is.
"Dad, my injury is not in the way. It's almost gone." Liangchen whispered.
The youngest son's "father" made Wei Jinde a little dazed. In the past two years, because his youngest son refused to study, he mingled with scoundrels all day long. Wei Jinde beat and scolded him a lot, but his younger son couldn't listen and repeatedly argued with his father. The relationship between the father and son was very tense. In short, Liangchen had not called Wei Jinde "father" for more than a year, especially after being injured, he never said a word to his father. If anything happened, Wei Liangqing, who is the elder brother, told him.
"Be careful, you are not wrong, but listen to you or the doctor?" Wei Jinde bent down and pulled out a handful of hay on the ground, letting Liangchen sit and talk.
"I know my son's injuries myself. If I can't walk around, my son will not dare to come out." The good minister sat honestly on the ground.
Seeing this, Wei Jinde was even more surprised because his youngest son was very stubborn. His father said he wanted to face the east, and his son would definitely face the west. Today, the sun really hit the west. He first called him dad, and then sat down honestly. Could it be that the good minister was not only hurt, but also had a good temperament?
Wei Liangqing didn't think as much as his father thought. Seeing that his younger brother was really fine, he asked Liangchen to sit and rest. He and his father finished their work and went home together.
Liangchen didn't want to go home, and he had nothing to do when he went back left and right, so he waited for his father and elder brother to finish their work together. After half an hour, Wei Jinde finished applying the manure, carried two empty buckets to wash it in the ditches, and then asked Liangqing to help his younger brother go home together.
When I passed by the entrance of the village, I saw a few people talking to me. Liangchen looked at the people who looked familiar, as if they were from six houses in the county. Many villagers were watching there, and many people looked anxious and worried.
"Dad, what happened?" Liangqing was a little surprised. It was not the time to collect taxes, so what did the people from the sixth house go to the village to do.
Wei Jinde didn't know what happened, and Liangchen was also a little curious, and the father and son squeezed into the crowd to find out. The appearance of the Wei family mistress attracted many villagers, but compared with this major event in the county, the Wei family mistress's affairs were not worth mentioning.
Soon, the news came from the Liufang people, saying that the county wanted to redeem the 100 acres of good land in Lishu Village into a farmland. Once the news spread, it immediately spread throughout Lishu Village. The villagers who knew about this were shocked and could not say a word. Many people were even more frightened and lost their composure, as if the sky had collapsed.
Wei Jinde was so scared that he didn't say anything for a long time. Liangqing squatted by the field, as if he had taken a dumb medicine, and only knew that he could stare at his paddy field in a daze.
Liangchen didn't understand what was going on at first, and only after he found out, he realized that something big was not good.
It turns out that the so-called farmland is the official land. According to the Ming Dynasty, once the land is conquered by the government as official land, the original owner of the land will become the tenant of the official land, and pay three cents of the rent of the land per acre, and the disaster year will not be reduced. Tenants who rent the official land will be able to fill their stomachs in a good year. Once the disaster year comes, they will be really unacceptable. Most of them have to borrow money to live, otherwise they can only sell their children and daughters. Once they borrow money, the final result will be to sell their children and daughters.
In a word, once the hundred acres of good land in Lishu Village are expropriated as a farmland, it means that the villagers of Lishu Village have lost their best land. Liangchen first thought that the government would give some compensation for land acquisition, so he comforted his father and elder brother, but his father said that the government would not have any compensation. Liangchen was anxious when he heard this. How could he not pay for land acquisition? If he failed, he had to sue them!
"What are you suing? The county said that the land was conquered by the court to King Fu. Can we sue King Fu?" Liangqing said in a muffled voice.
"King of Blessing?"
Liangchen was stunned for a moment and subconsciously said, "Zhu Changxun?"
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Thank you Feidu for the reward of 500 yuan, and thank you father Liu for having a small treasury for 100 yuan!
Chapter completed!