The autumn harvest has passed and the New Year has not arrived. The land of China is full of bleakness, especially on both sides of the Yellow River.

Outside Jing'an City, Shenzhou, a group of farmers plowed their winter idle fields and gathered to chat. In their words, they were confused about their future destiny and uneasy about the new dynasty and the new policy.

"I can't understand what the new imperial court did. It was still fine in autumn, and I didn't force the land tax, measured the land acres, and I didn't force everyone to change the contract. Why did I need to clear the fields as soon as winter came?"

"It's not that the big family is too greedy. Nine acres of land are hidden in ten acres. The officers and soldiers of the Republican Army do not understand civil affairs and do not know the way to force them. They let them deceive them. As a result, the new court refused to agree!"

"In the end, we are small households, and customers will take care of it! When isn't the Qingtian clearing over us? The big households always have their own ways, and the clerks in the county government are all their people, so they are not afraid at all..."

"What do we do when we say these useless things? We just dig food from the soil. If we can continue, we will pass. If we can't, we will leave. If we go to Tianjin, Liaodong, and Goryeo, there will always be places to go! If we really don't have a place to go, then Taihang Mountain..."

When faces with sad faces floated, they immediately showed horror when they heard about going to Taihang Mountain.

Taihang Mountain has been no longer calm since the Liao Kingdom invaded Hedong. With the support of the Zhaoyi Army, many heroes from Hebei and Hedong formed a gang to Taihang, built a copycat under the banner of fighting against Liao, and then they could ask for a sesame military officer through the Zhaoyi Army. In addition to being able to earn some salary, they could also find the wealthy families and passers-by to ask for some money and property. Life was so comfortable!

Later, the Liao Kingdom was defeated by Wu Haogu, but the Zhou Kingdom rose up again. These mountain kings of Taihang Mountain replaced the banner of anti-Zhou and continued to be free. The Song Dynasty court was too lazy to go to suppress the enemy, so they let them entrench on the Taihang Mountain.

Now, both sides of Taihang Mountain are the world of the Great Zhou, and these kings on Taihang Mountain have suddenly become the mainstay of resisting Zhou behind enemy lines!

The Great Zhou Republic was willing to recruit appeasements, but they did not pay them military salaries, and they were not allowed to harass the local area or rob merchants.

But what is the point of such a pleading? Be a mountain lord in Taihang Mountains? Eat your own? Are you full?

Therefore, there are still many loyal and loyal people from the Song Dynasty on Taihang Mountain, who insist on the anti-Zhou cause behind enemy lines.

The Western Song court moved to Guanzhong also hoped to maintain its existence in Hedong and Hebei, so it expelled its empty official positions and gathered these mountain kings. At the same time, it also ordered the scattered soldiers from all over Hedong to bravely go up the Taihang Mountains to resist Zhou.

Therefore, in the Great Zhou Republic, Taihang was synonymous with rebellion!

Rebellion requires beheading! Maybe it will be implicated in the nine clans...

"Don't say nonsense, why do you mention Taihang Mountain? We don't have a few acres of land, and even if it is cleared, we won't lose much. At worst, we can rent the land of large households to farm. Anyway, everyone is renting it, just renting more and renting less..."

"It's okay to rent a little land. If the fields planted by one family are rented, you will know that they are amazing. How many of the villages can be passed down by renting land?"

"Oh, the rent is heavy, the profit is high, and I have to bear household tax, tax, and exemption from service... The money I earned from selling land was exhausted in a few years, so I had to endure it. The woman didn't dare to think about it, just not starve to death!"

"There are also people who have made a name for themselves! Didn't Wang Laosan in the village make a name for themselves?"

"Wang Laosan? Why haven't you heard of it?"

"You younger generations don't know that they were from the middle-aged Jian. There were three brothers in the family. They were exhausted from their family in order to marry their two brothers. They had to work hard to rent Zhang Dahu's land. But this guy is a slut, and he has only brute force and doesn't farm well. After a year, he couldn't even pay the rent and profit. He had to run away to Jiehe before the end of the year. It was now Tianjin. He first joined Jiehe Group Training, and later learned to ride a horse and became a Knight of Lawshi, and took both brothers away. A few years ago, he asked someone to send a message back, saying that his two sons had graduated from Tianjin Knight College and had become officials... I don't know if there is a son of Wang Laosan in the Zhou army stationed in our Shenzhou?"

When it comes to the Zhou army stationed in Shenzhou, everyone sighed. The Great Zhou stationed many soldiers and horses in Shenzhou, and there were nearly a thousand in Jing'an County alone!

Moreover, Zhou State was still engaged in military control in Shenzhou! The former Song Dynasty officials who remained in office were just running errands. The real thing was the battalion commander of the garrison. The first brigade of the commander of the brigade commander said that "a commander" was stipulated in the latest regulations issued by the Republican Army.

The Qingtian affairs will not be handled by the Republican army soldiers, right? If that is the case, the wealthy families will be in trouble. The scholars can’t explain it clearly when they meet soldiers!

While the farmers were talking, a group of people were coming, leading an old man wearing silk Confucian uniforms and Dongpo scarf, a donkey under his crotch, and there were also a few servants who looked like passports.

This old man is Zhang Chongde, the landlord of Zhang Wang Village. The old scholar frowned and seemed to be worried.

The old scholar's big landlord may not be able to continue working!

This terrible news came from Zhang An, the son of the old scholar who was in charge of the Jing'an County Office.

There have always been fewer Jinshi in Hebei, so there are fewer local Shangguan households. An old scholar who comes from a special title is an extraordinary existence! Although Old Scholar Zhang has been fighting for the special title for life, he has never even passed the test once, so he has no chance.

However, there is another way to maintain the status of a wealthy family in the Zhang family, which is to let their children become clerks in Jing'an County.

The clerks of the Song Dynasty can be hereditary. The Zhang family is a wealthy family in Jing'an. Naturally, many children have served as clerks such as guards and constables from generation to generation.

In addition, Baozheng from Zhangwang Village has been in front of Zhangwang Village for so many years.

Therefore, the Zhang family is a local snake in Jing'an County, and it is an existence that the county magistrate and the county magistrate is unwilling to provoke.

Since you are a local snake, you naturally have to do something about the land tax and household tax. Although the Zhang family is a situational household, it is never the focus when paying taxes! Because the person who collects taxes is basically his family.

As for the land in his hands, most of them concealed, while the smallest used a white contract, which means buying land but not buying land, and still added the land tax to the farmers who sold the land and became the tenant of the Zhang family.

Of course, this approach is nothing in the Song Dynasty, it is like this everywhere.

Hidden fields, white goods, usury and monopoly local businesses are the four major means for local tyrants to make money.

After the Great Zhou Republic occupied Shenzhou, the old scholar was a little nervous for a while because the Great Zhou Republic had to "change contracts" at the beginning and exchange the landlords of the Song Dynasty for the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Moreover, it is not a casual change, but a bucket of grain is required, a certificate of tax payment for the past year, and a land deed issued by the government of the Song Dynasty.

The requirements are so high that the powerful local households are not willing to exchange contracts. On the one hand, they are reluctant to give up a bucket of food; on the other hand, they do not have the certificate of tax payment or legal land contracts. They don’t change them!

Therefore, there are only some middle-aged peasants who have no reliance on it, and the rich peasants honestly exchanged their contracts.

When the food was paid in the autumn of the 10th year of the Republic, the rich and wealthy peasants who exchanged contracts according to law felt that they were at a disadvantage.

Because Jing'an County only collects taxes from them, and does not impose taxes on the wealthy people who conceal their land property, this is really confusing!

Even in the Song Dynasty, this was not possible... Ninety percent of the land in a county was not registered and taxed, and 10 percent was paid, and there was no more payment. Wouldn't the income of the court be sharply reduced?

Is the Great Zhou Republic so easy to talk about?

However, before Zhang Dahu and the others had time to be happy, bad news came!

The Great Zhou Republic decided to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the land conditions of new land such as Hebei, Jingdong, Jingjin, and Northwest Jingjin.

Any land without the legal land deeds issued by the Great Zhou Republic will be confiscated and returned to the public!

All confiscated!

Old scholar Zhang will lose everything in a blink of an eye!

However, the old scholar was not panicked at the beginning because there were so many people working in the county government, so if they wanted to clear the fields, they would not be the ones who came to clean the fields?

But even more terrifying bad news came immediately. This time, Qingtian will be under the responsibility of a battalion of Republican troops stationed in Jing'an County, and local officials will not be allowed to hear about it.

This is to be robbed openly! No wonder the Song Dynasty court called the Great Zhou Republic an Eastern thief. It turns out that they are really thieves...

As soon as Old Scholar Zhang heard the news, he couldn't sit still. He took his servants and gifts to Jing'an City early in the morning to find a way.

Chen Go, the current official of Shenzhou, is a former dynasty official who was retained and a civil servant who was a Jinshi. Can't he be so unreasonable, right?

A clear field will turn 90% of the people's land into official fields, and the harsh policies in the world will not be even more fierce.

This is a harsh government that is more powerful than a tiger!

...

Outside Chen Gou's prefecture yamen, at this time, there were large households in various counties who came to find their own way. They were all well-informed people, and they were almost progressing from big landlords to poor and lower-middle peasants, and they were almost dying of fear...

Chen Gou was almost in a hurry. It was not that he had a lot of land, but that this was really too much. This was to force the officials to rebel!

No wonder the Great Zhou Republic did not disband the army after the war. Instead, it stationed a brigade in Shenzhou, a place where no enemy could obtain it. This was to prepare for bloody suppression!

This Zhou Kingdom is too cruel, a real country of tigers and wolves! Why did I become blind and abandon the open and the dark? No, this official can no longer be here, otherwise it will be a bad reputation for a long time. I'd better give up the official position and leave quickly and go to Guanzhong or Jiangnan another lord...

Just as he was thinking about running away, Chen Gou heard a staff member report from him: "Prefect, many elders from Shenzhou have entered the prefecture yamen, and are coming to you!"

"Who let them in? Isn't it said that they will be blocked?" Chen Gou complained a few times, and he already understood what was going on. It was the clerk of the state yamen who was doing the blame.

These clerks are all from various major families. Now things are in critical condition. They don’t care about the orders of the state and put their elders in.
Chapter completed!