Chapter 126: Ninghua Huang Clan

This is one of the reasons for the rapid growth of the Huang family.

There are even a group of people who say that they are dead, but in fact they have already gone up the mountain to become bandits.

This is the reason why the Huang family must not let the county order go to the village to collect taxes one by one.

Most things are hidden.

A lot of things, checked above, it is a headless case, and it is not clear at all, but it can't be hidden from relatives and neighbors.

If it's just once, and the Huang family is already a habitual offender. There may be people in the village who don't know, but many people are like mirrors in their hearts.

It's just that the common people in ancient times didn't want to sue so easily.

However, if the county order arrives in the village, this matter cannot be hidden.

The Huang family is not friendly to those people with foreign surnames, and there are many big hatreds among them.

"Patriarch, this matter, in general, is just a salute before a soldier." A gloomy middle-aged man said, "Tomorrow, the patriarch will bring gold and silver to the door to see what the great blue sky does?" If you can't. There's only one way. ”

This middle-aged man is the only one among these people who is not surnamed Huang. But he married the daughter of the Huang family, and in the court register, there is no life for him.

Li Dongyang has been in Ninghua these days, although in Li Dongyang's opinion, he has not made any achievements, but the people know that this magistrate is a powerful character, and it is rare to hide from him, and he is already famous.

He was one of Deng Mao's seven rebel armies that escaped. Taken in by the Huang family.

After all, this person has fought with officials and soldiers with real swords and guns, and in many places, his views are clever enough to be relied on by the Huang family.

"This is absolutely unacceptable. This is a matter of killing officials. Someone said.

The gloomy middle-aged man smiled coldly and said, "In this deep mountain and old forest, who knows that we killed it." And this matter, we don't need to do it personally, the third child has been living happily outside for so long, and it is time to help the family do something. ”

The so-called third child is the leader of the Huang family who is a bandit outside.

Of course, rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest, these people are not in Ninghua County, but in Jiangxi, once Jiangxi suppresses bandits, they hide back home.

The imperial court generally does not cross provinces to encircle and suppress.

In this way, the matter is over.

Of course, Ninghua County is not far from Jiangxi, and it is a matter of one sentence to recall them.

Even so, the matter of killing the official is too important, and there are many discussions in the following rooms, and it cannot be decided.

"Alright." Huang Tong said: "That's it. ”

Huang Tong also understands that as far as the Huang family's affairs are concerned, they will not implicate the nine clans. Therefore, these people in each room hesitated, without him, most of the interests of the Huang family were eaten by Huang Tong.

Even if the East Window incident happened, Huang Tong and Huang Tong's family would not end well, but the rest of the people may not be.

The same is death.

Is there any difference between a person who dies in an ambush and a person who dies by cutting a whole house?

So Huang Tong made a decision, even if someone objected, he didn't dare to say it.

On the second day, Huang Tong brought ten taels of gold and secretly sent it to Li Dongyang.

Ten taels of gold is already the largest bribe that the Huang family can come up with. After all, this is not Beijing, and the fact that the Huang family can come up with ten taels of gold already shows that the family has a good background.

It's just that this bit of money, how can it get into Li Dongyang's eyes, speaking of which, ten taels of gold is worth one hundred taels of silver, or one hundred yuan, according to the Daming County Order, it is enough for two years of a county order.

It's just that Li Dongyang's family background is thick. I don't care about this money.

Li Dongyang first reprimanded him heavily and said, "What do you mean? Bribing the imperial court is a felony. Then he said earnestly: "Huang Tong, I know that the people below have more or less some things. Now I am doing this, just for the sake of the smooth government decree, not to grasp your handle, to put it mildly, the entire Ninghua Huang family may not be in my eyes, let alone your family, take it back, do things well, be a good person, don't worry, those who don't have it. ”

Huang Tong could only bow to the ground and said, "This is a villain, fainting." I would never dare to use this to defile the virtue of the county monarch. ”

Li Dongyang helped Huang Tong up again and said, "Okay, let's go to the mountain first." ”

"Yes, yes." Huang Tong personally led people to be guides in front, so he entered the mountain.

The villages in this area are hidden among the mountains, and many of the land is terraced, and Li Dongyang saw that many people were unclothed.

It is inevitable that there will be compassion in the heart.

But there is nothing to be done.

Of course, he knows the suffering of the people, but the court also has to support people, not to mention anything else, these officials who came to help, these people's rations and treatment must be given.

The reason why he was so eager to go to the countryside and collect grain instead of the grain chief was also to reduce the leeway for his upper and lower hands. It can be regarded as relieving a little burden for the people.

It's just that now, he found that this thing was not so smooth.

Now that a large number of capable officials have arrived in Ninghua, Li Dongyang has done things easily. It's just that in this way, even if Ninghua's annual tax revenue is unlucky, it is estimated that it will not be able to support so many people.

You know, they are not those officials, they can be sent away with a very low amount of money. This time when I came here, almost everyone was around ten taels, and even Han Tiecheng was at the highest of twenty taels.

It's a little higher than many officials in Beijing.

After all, from Beijing and Tianjin to this ravine, you always have to give people subsidies.

This sum of money was pressed on the head of Ninghua County.

Li Dongyang, who was preoccupied, didn't notice that Huang Tong's eyes were a little wrong, but Han Tiecheng on the side saw it in his eyes, and Han Tiecheng secretly pressed the long knife on his waist.

Walking in the mountains, all were armed.

It's not that I'm worried about any danger, but the pristine ecology of this era, there are all kinds of wild beasts in the mountains. There are even South China tigers.

When entering the mountains and forests, it is natural to bring some weapons.

For several days, there was no movement.

But Li Dongyang personally led the team and found many problems. The Yellow Book has almost been rewritten. You must know that the land was cleared before, and Ninghua County was also clear.

But Li Dongyang asked carefully, only to find that when the land was cleared, there was no clear zhang in these mountain villages. It was also Li Dongyang who brought people and siblings, and he never cleared his hands again.

Then the taxes of each village were redetermined, and everywhere they went, each village was grateful to Dade and shouted Lord Qingtian.

Without him, the taxes paid by each village were several times higher than those set by the imperial court. Even if Li Dongyang rearranged the taxes according to the actual situation, which was much higher than the taxes set by the original imperial court, it was for the people. This is already a tax cut.

As for the taxes that the people paid, but the court did not receive, where did they go?

Li Dongyang didn't ask.

But Huang Tong felt very hot and had been sweating for the past few days.

Li Dongyang also summoned the elders of each village and asked the stonemasons to carve a large stone tablet, so that the names of each household in the village, the land property, and the amount of taxes that need to be paid are engraved on the stone tablet.

He also stated that in the future, the county government will come every year to collect the spring and autumn taxes, and they will be levied according to the number on this stone tablet. However, the people needed help to transport the grain to the county.

Although the mountain road is difficult to walk, and it takes a long time to get from here to the county, the people are cheering.

When he rested that night, Li Dongyang also heard a lot of things about the Huang family.

Li Dongyang had a slight thought in his heart, and said secretly: "The Huang family can't stay." I had to figure out a way. ”

Li Dongyang's mind changed, not because he found out that the Huang family had done any evil deeds, but because the Huang family's influence in this area was too great. If the influence of the Huang family is not eradicated, everything Li Dongyang has done now will be swept away by the Huang family one by one in the future.

But Li Dongyang didn't want to kill the Huang family.

But because in Ninghua County, that big family does not have such a black history as the Huang family, and once the killing ring is opened today, it will be troublesome in the future.

Before you do anything, you have to think about how to end it.

Just when Li Dongyang was worried about this matter, he didn't know that people don't hurt the tiger, and the tiger harms people's hearts. Now the Huang family's killing game against Li Dongyang has all been put in place.

The night is high and windy, and it is a good time to kill people and set fires.