Sun Yuanhua asked worriedly: "The preferential treatment of the official gentry is the imperial court system, and the saints dare not break the rules of Taizu, is it appropriate for the Qiongzhou camp to do this?" ”

Xia Nan snorted: "What is breaking the rules, still holding on." The common people have no place to stand www.biquge.info, the gentry are so rich that they should collect taxes at a glance. As for whether it is suitable or not, my Qiongzhou battalion has done this, who dares to stand up and say no? ”

Sun Yuanhua was silent, the emperor of Qiongzhou Mansion was far away, the emperor was beyond the reach of the whip, and the governor would not easily provoke this thorn, who would come forward to call the shots for the local gentry?

Sima De asked: "It's easier to do in Lingao, but what about Chengmai and Danzhou?" ”

"I have an order from the prefect's yamen, and I will take care of the taxes of the three counties, and they dare to disobey? Besides, objectively it also helped them reduce their burden, anyway, the taxes they should pay are not less than a grain of rice, not a penny, why don't they do it? If the head is still a tendon, there is a lesson from Chengmai, who will let Huang Mengjia go to their county seat to eat big households without opening his mind! ”

One cold and lonely night, Gou Ergui secretly returned to Hefeng Village. He couldn't get along anymore in Fucheng, and before he was reduced to begging on the streets, he mustered up the courage to come back.

At the beginning, after being received by the prefect, everything was going in the direction he expected: the prefect decided to use the troops of the local guard to suppress the "Li Chao" in Lingao, and thousands of people and horses marched to Lingao.

Who knew that the news came back was like a thunderbolt in the air, and the three or four thousand troops were defeated, and less than a thousand people fled back to the city in a hurry. Gou Ergui, who heard the news, was stunned, Xia Nan and Huang Mengjia did not get rid of him for a day, and he did not dare to return to Lingao.

The army was defeated, the situation took a sharp turn, and he was also blasted out of the prefect's yamen, and it was obvious that the Qin prefect was unwilling to fight any further.

Fortunately, the peak turned around, and the then governor Wang Zunde mobilized tens of thousands of troops to cross the sea to suppress. Gou Ergui thought that the end of Xia Nan had come. But after waiting for more than a month, what he was waiting for was the news of the disastrous defeat of the army, and the general soldier He Rubin hid in Fucheng, neither daring to attack again, nor returning to Guangzhou.

It wasn't until Xia Nan went directly to Guangzhou City, and Wang Zunde and other Guangdong officials were forced to make an alliance under the city, that Gou Ergui recognized the reality, and no one in the whole Guangdong had no choice but to get Xia Nan.

In the summer, the southern climate has become a reality, and there is no one to control it, but he is in the city and cannot return to his home. Accustomed to a pampered life, he couldn't stand the suffering, and finally took the risk to sneak back.

Although the eldest brother Gou Dafu died under Huang Mengjia's knife, he lost a lot of floating wealth, and the land deed was also taken away, but the rotten ship still had three catties of nails, the Gou family's house was still there, and the Zhengtian under his name was gone, and there were still a lot of fields in the name of the Gou family, as well as good land that had not been transferred after the forced purchase.

After Gou Ergui returned home, he gathered several of his confidants' family members back and tried to make a comeback. Although the land deposited in his house was transferred to the Yamen, most of the land deeds were kept by the actual owner, and he only needed to pay rent to the Gou family every year. In addition, he is ready to go through all the formalities for the land that he bought through "production and grain storage" and has not been transferred to the yamen, and it is no longer important who pays for the money and grain, the key is to firmly grasp the land in his hands, and the revival of the Gou family is the most important thing, and he cannot lose a big one because of a small one.

The people of Hefeng Village all knew that Gou Ergui was back, but unlike before, they were no longer as afraid of the Gou family as before. Gou Ergui walked in the village, and saw that there was no longer fear and dodging in everyone's eyes, which made him very uncomfortable when he was used to looking up at this group of mud-legged people. He swore to himself that sooner or later, he would let these mud legs crawl again at his feet.

On this day, he secretly came to the county seat and made an appointment to meet with the bookstore of a household. In fact, even if he returned to the house, Xia Nan didn't know him, and Xia Nan didn't know that it had anything to do with him. But he has a ghost in his heart, and he doesn't dare to venture back to the house to continue working as a secretary, in case he lets the other party know that he ran to the city to complain, and killing him is not the same as stepping on an ant?

The agreed location was in a teahouse, and it was the one where the Su family's father and son had visited.

At the appointed time, the other party arrived as promised. This person's surname is Fang, and he used to work in the same house with Gou Ergui and had a close relationship.

After Fang Shuban saw Gou Ergui, he was surprised: "Brother Gou, why are you emaciated like this?" "In the days of refuge in Fucheng, Gou Ergui was exhausted, and the portrait was ten years old.

Gou Ergui sighed, waved his hand and said, "It's a long story, I'll talk about this another day." I asked Brother Fang out today to ask you for a favor. What he said was that all the land that was "produced and stored for grain storage" was transferred and completely turned into his own land.

"That's what happened. However, there are some things that you may not know yet, Brother Gou, the Qiongzhou camp moved the Shangfang Sword from the prefect's yamen to cover the taxes of Lingao, Chengmai, and Danzhou counties. ”

"There is still such a thing, and a martial artist can also do politics?" Gou Ergui was a little surprised, "But what does this have to do with me?" ”

Fang Shuban shook his head and sighed: "You don't know, the Qiongzhou battalion plans to clear the acres of land, find out all the land that was 'tricky', revise the fish scale book, cancel all preferential exemptions, and pay the grain for the officials and gentry." As for the land you mentioned, the buyer will have to pay for it, and even if you don't come today, the land will have to be transferred. ”

"What?" Gou Ergui almost got up with the case, "Check the hidden field and pay the grain in one piece?" ”

The Gou family was originally a "contracted household", and the yamen saved a lot of effort by collecting grain from the people through them, and the people could save part of the exploitation of the officials by paying grain through them, and they scavenged from it to earn benefits. The advantages of the Gou family are more obvious than those of other "contracted households", relying on Gou Ergui's relationship in the yamen, the amount of grain is insufficient, and the beige is poor, and many small households have "donated land" in order to be less exploited.

If all the hidden fields of the "treacherous" are found out and the grain is paid in one piece, then the Gou family's biggest reliance on the original development will be gone, and now the comeback has become an empty word.

Gou Ergui asked unwillingly: "Don't the government and the court care?" Just let him do whatever he wants? ”

Fang Shuban sneered a few times and said, "The government? Now in Qiongzhou Mansion, who can manage the Qiongzhou camp, and who dares to manage it? If anyone jumps out without opening his eyes, the Qiongzhou camp will definitely invite him to eat bandao noodles. ”

Gou Ergui was dejected when he heard this, the so-called one force will drop ten times, the Qiongzhou battalion has a gun in his hand, what can he do if he doesn't reason with you? What's more, this kind of "contractor" of the Gou family cannot be put on the stage, and it cannot be compared with the official gentry who enjoy the preferential exemption of the imperial court. (To be continued.) )