After the arrival of the Ming army, not only was the land rent reduced to 30%, but also the labor was exempted, the silver tax was abolished, and all taxes were restored to the tax in kind. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThese policies have benefited farmers immensely, like Liu Laogen, this year's grain harvest, after paying the rent, the remaining grain can not be eaten, take it out and buy it, you can exchange it for a lot of silver.

The tax is still the same as before, it is 15 taxes and 1, but without fire consumption, labor money, poll tax, and no yamen officials to extort money, the lives of the common people are much better.

Since you don't have to pay taxes on silver, you can avoid being exploited by profiteers. Thinking of those hateful profiteers, Liu Laogen hated them to the core. Every year when the grain is harvested, they come to buy grain at a low price. But you can't sell grain, you have to pay taxes and land rent. The profiteers bought the grain, hoarded it, and sold it at a higher price when the harvest was scarce. Food prices are even higher in disaster years.

Now after the Ming army came, I heard that those profiteers were all killed, because the grain was purchased by a wealthy merchant called Nanyang Company. The price at which Nanyang buys grain is reasonable, and the price at which it sells grain is also reasonable.

Since the arrival of the Nanyang Company, the profiteers could no longer get along in the Hunan territory, and fled to the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

However, Liu Laogen and Cuihua are more grateful to good people like Zhong Ping, if he hadn't lowered the rent, supported the villagers, and arrested some small officials who did evil, then even if the imperial court lowered taxes, the people would still be miserable.

When did the imperial court lower taxes and the common people could get benefits? It was the gentry who benefited from the reduction of taxes; The imperial court has increased taxes, and it is the common people who suffer!

It is precisely because of good people like Zhong Shaodong's family that the villagers are getting better day by day.

Zhong Ping smiled and persuaded the two kind villagers who were arguing: "Two, the matter of marrying a daughter-in-law is not in a hurry, there is about to be a war, and you will marry a daughter-in-law after this battle." ”

"Lord Zhong!" Zhong Ping suddenly heard someone calling him from behind.

He turned his head and saw that it was Liu Juren, who lived in the next village. Because Liu Juren did not resist the Ming army, nor did he participate in the formation of Xiangyong, nor did he contribute funds to Xiangyong, the Ming army did not embarrass him.

"Why did Master Liu come here?" Zhong Ping asked.

Zhong Ping knew Liu Juren, this person actually had a good reputation, and Liu Juren also had a daughter, and he was also a little fond of Zhong Ping, and often came to see him intentionally or unintentionally.

Liu Judao: "This is not a good place, please come to the cold house to sit." ”

When he came to Liu Ju's house, Zhong Ping asked, "I don't know what happened to Master Liu looking for so-and-so?" ”

Liu Juren saluted and said: "Lord Zhong, the land rent in our Huguang is fifty or sixty percent, but as soon as you come, you will adjust the land rent to three." We are no better than you in lowering the rent, your family has a great business, and there is a prince covering it, and even the cattle are provided. But we have the ancestral land, now it is not as good as the Ming Dynasty, the meritorious people do not pay taxes, we still have to pay taxes, thirty percent of the rent, after paying the tax, there is not much, if you encounter a bad harvest year, I am afraid you will have to lose money! ”

Zhong Ping said: "Master Liu, in fact, these things can't be the master, if Master Liu has any questions, you can go to the governor's yamen to find the governor, the governor, or directly find our prince." ”

Liu Juren sighed: "Lord Zhong, where do the grass people dare to go to them?" I heard that your prince is not good to scholars and is unwilling to treat the world's scholars well, so in the Shigu Academy, he arrested hundreds of scholars; In Changsha, a lot of people were arrested, and I heard that there is still something to distinguish between Huayi? ”

Zhong Ping smiled and said, "Master Liu's words are wrong! In fact, our prince is still kind to readers, and the readers he catches are all readers who are determined to be lackeys for the Tartars. A scholar like Master Liu, how could our prince arrest people for no reason? If you have any questions, Master Liu can follow one or the other. ”

"Lord Zhong!" A young woman walked out from behind the screen and blessed Zhong Ping, "The little woman has seen Lord Zhong!" I hope that Lord Zhong can help my father with this. ”

Zhong Ping bowed his hand and replied: "Miss Liu, don't worry, our prince is also for the people of the world." It is not our prince who really owes the world's scholars, but the Tartar court in the north! I think, Master Liu and Miss Liu, you should have heard of the three major cases in Jiangnan, right? In order to plunder the wealth of Jiangnan, the Tartars slaughtered the scholars of Jiangnan. And what about our prince? Although some Hunan scholars resisted the king, the prince has not killed a single scholar until now. ”

"The prince is benevolent!" Liu Juren arched his hand. But in his heart, he was slandering: they were all exiled overseas, how different is it from being killed?

Liu Juren walked into the Hunan Governor's Mansion, and many gentry had already come to the Governor's Mansion, and all they brought with them were a group of meritorious officers of the Ming Army who had been assigned to the meritorious field.

When the gentry saw Ren Shaojun walking out, they saluted one after another: "Ren Futai, you have to be the master of the grass people!" The nobles have lowered the land rent so low, how can the grass people survive? ”

In the eyes of these gentry, the officers of the Ming army who were assigned meritorious fields were naturally all nobles, just like Zhu Yuanzhang of the previous dynasty gave a lot of land to meritorious soldiers at that time, and they were all meritorious nobles, and the gentry still felt inferior to them in front of the nobles.

The power of the nobles of the previous dynasty is still fresh in the memory of the gentry, and the nobles of the Ming Dynasty were weakened after the change of the civil fort, but the nobles of all sizes are still unprovoked by ordinary people, if it were not for the gentry in the court who were not afraid to fight against the noble class, the gentry would really be suppressed by the nobles.

At that time, there were many gentry in Jiangnan, but there were also many nobles in Jiangnan. There are few nobles in the Huguang area, and there are few officials in the imperial court. However, Huguang still produced a few famous ministers, such as Zhang Juzheng, Xiong Tingbi and others, but the main force is still in the hands of Jiangnan.

At present, in Huguang, most of the civil officials brought by the Ming army are also Jiangnan people, and some local gentry who resisted the Ming army have been arrested, and the rest of the people are worried that Xungui and Jiangnan civil officials will completely control Huguang, so that Huguang scholars will never have a bright day. Now the meritorious fields allocated by the Ming army in Huguang are regarded by the gentry as a very unfavorable signal for themselves.

Recalling the party struggle in the previous dynasty, the Huguang gentry felt very uncomfortable in their hearts. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Zhejiang Party, which represented the gentry in Jiangnan, was too powerful, and could even plot against the emperor! After the death of Emperor Zhengde, Yan Song has been confronting the civil officials in Jiangnan, but in the end he failed and was charged with traitor; Zhang Juzheng, the representative of the Chu Party, died of illness, and the power fell into the hands of the Jiangnan people; Xiong Tingbi, who was unjustly killed at the end of the Ming Dynasty, was also killed by the Donglin Party in a poisonous scheme and used Wei Zhongxian to kill.

In the minds of many Huguang scholars, Yan Song was not a traitor, the Jiangnan civil official group was too powerful back then, Yan Song was just fighting against the Jiangnan civil official group, if Yan Song hadn't killed a group of so-called Qingliu, wouldn't those corrupt officials be more unscrupulous? Therefore, Yan Song has a role in influencing the civilian clique.

As for Xiong Tingbi, Xiong Tingbi was killed by Wei Zhongxian, there are many suspicions, Guangning was defeated, and the main responsibility was Wang Huazhen, a member of the Donglin Party, but Xiong Tingbi was wronged by the Donglin Party and put in prison. At first, Wei Zhongxian still wanted to protect Xiong Tingbi, but Wang Wenyan said that Xiong Tingbi wanted to take out 40,000 taels of silver for Wei Zhongxian to buy his life. In fact, where does Xiong Tingbi have 40,000 taels of silver? As a result, Wei Zhongxian was furious and killed Xiong Tingbi.

Looking back at this case, there are a lot of doubts, Xiong Tingbi is a Qing official, and he has no silver at all, how can he take out 40,000 taels of silver to buy his life? And Wang Wenyan is a member of the Donglin Party, how could he help Xiong Tingbi speak? From these doubts, it can be seen that Xiong Tingbi's death was a conspiracy of the Donglin Party from beginning to end.

It is precisely because Huguang Shizi is dissatisfied with Jiangnan Shizi that Hong Chengchou made a speech at Shigu Academy and won the support of many Huguang Shizi. Later, when the three major cases in Jiangnan occurred, many Huguang scholars even applauded.

After Wang Xinyu learned about the history of the struggle between the Zhejiang Party and the Chu Party, he sighed with great emotion: "Chinese people just like infighting!" ”

The dispute between the Zhejiang Party and the Chu Party is actually a kind of regional dispute. However, speaking of which, Jiangnan scholars are also self-inflicted, and they have an unshirkable responsibility for the demise of the Ming Dynasty. But Jiangnan Shizi later got retribution, and those who refused to shave their hair were killed; those who resisted were killed; Even if you become a Shunmin, there is still a text prison waiting for you!

Who let Jiangnan Shizi accumulate so much wealth in the Ming Dynasty, but the country was in trouble but refused to take it out? In the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu rulers did not come to shear sheep, but directly killed fat pigs.

Although most of the civil officials on Wang Xinyu's hand are from Jiangnan, most of them are no longer the original group of people. It turned out that those scholars were either killed by the Qing court, or by the Ming army, or they were still officials in the north.

Regarding the people in Huguang who believe that Xungui lowered the land rent to suppress them, Wang Xinyu believes that he did not suppress them and lowered the land rent, just for the sake of the people.

Several representatives of Huguang Shizi walked into the governor's yamen, and Wang Xinyu sat in the middle seat. He looked around and said straight to the point: "Do you know what Jiangnan people rely on to be rich?" ”

Liu Juren replied: "They are planting mulberry tea. However, our Huguang is not suitable for growing mulberry tea, and can only rely on grain income! We can't compare that to them. ”

"Growing mulberry tea is only superficial, in fact they rely on business! Think about it, after the mulberry trees and tea are grown, if they can't sell them, can they make money? Wang Xinyu laughed.

"Business?" Liu Juren was stunned, "Lord Wang, but we can only grow grain here, not for mulberry trees and tea, can we engage in business?" If you develop business, there is no source of raw materials! ”

"In fact, buying and selling grain is also a business, and grain transportation is also a business. Do you know that the grain merchants of the Tartar court have been driven away by us? Now the grain merchants in Huguang are monopolized by the Nanyang Company. Wang Xinyu shook his head and said. (To be continued.) )