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Chapter 304 I Seem To Understand But I Don't Understand
In the end, Chen Baxian was invited to the study of the government office in Wuxing City, because the young man in Chinese clothes was Wuxing prefect Xiao Ying, Xiao Yan's nephew, who had been an official in Wuxing for many years and had a good reputation.

Probably not because of Xiao Yan's own son, the inherent arrogance and self-righteousness of the Xiao family is not obvious in him.On the contrary, Xiao Ying has a lot of experience in knowing people with eyesight at a young age.

Chen Baxian was appreciated by Xiao Ying very early on, but Xiao Ying wanted him to be a political party at the grassroots level, to train a lot, and wait for a bigger stage.Xiao Ying had planned this wave of job transfers for a long time, and even bribed Zhu Yi, preparing to take Chen Baxian to fly together.

Xiao Ying has his sights set on Guangzhou, the southernmost point of the Liang Kingdom, and that is the stage for the future.Guangzhou is close to the wilderness, and there are many powerful and handsome people around. After he takes office, he will be in charge of the government, and he can make decisions on the fly without the constraints of the corrupt court.

However, many things are planned very well, and it is very gratifying to have seven or eight points of harvest.This wave of Xiao Ying's scheduling basically achieved his goal, including the power in his hands, the official positions he actually controlled, whether he could open a government office and recruit his followers, etc., all within his expectations.

Only the most crucial point is "missing the shot". The place he is going to is not Guangzhou, but Guoyang, which belongs to Nanyanzhou.

There are two biggest problems here, which make Xiao Ying worry about it.

The first problem is that at the beginning of this year, Guoyang and its surrounding areas were ransacked by Liu Yishou's army.These people are very civilized but very barbaric. They don't kill people, they just rob tenants, and they take away everything they can.

The local powerful family was almost ransacked, and even the heirloom stone mill was removed!Similar deep-processing farm tools are an important means for the aristocratic family to exploit the owner farmers.Wheat cannot be sold at a price, but when it is ground into flour, the price soars.If a self-cultivator wants to grind flour, he must find a powerful family.

He is in a good mood, so he rents it out for you. You have to queue up to make an appointment, and you have to charge a high rental fee!Now, the tenants fled in large numbers to the territory managed by Liu Yishou, and some even killed the owner to take refuge.

The local spring plowing has been greatly affected, and there is a high possibility of a poor harvest this autumn.Xiao Ying found sadly that it seemed that as soon as he arrived there, he would face the dilemma of autumn harvest.

If the first problem can be alleviated after a year or two of painstaking efforts, then the second dilemma is even more depressing.Guoyang is too close to the domain controlled by Liu Yishou!Even if the opponent wants to capture Nanyanzhou, it doesn't take much effort.

Liu Yishou's army "patronized" Guoyang before, do you dare to say that they will not come again?The army at the center of the imperial court was too far away, and it was really difficult to rescue them.

Therefore, after taking office, if Xiao Ying does not have an elite army in his hands, Xiao Ying may feel chilly in his neck even when he sleeps.This is really not a joke!

Xiao Ying pondered for a long time, Chen Baxian, who was under his command, seemed to be quite capable, with the style of a general, he was able to take the lead early on, and he could definitely rely on him.That's why he drove to the village in person and invited Chen Baxian to Wuxing City to discuss important matters.

"Xingguo (Chen Baxian's word) you know what the center looks like. This king (Xiao Ying was named the king of Linchuan) wanted to go to Guangzhou this time to show his fists, but he was transferred to Nanyanzhou by the court unexpectedly. It is very close to the territory of Wei State, but you probably have heard of what Wei State looks like now, and it will not be a fear in a few years.

The only thing this king is worried about is Liu Yishou. "

After speaking, Xiao Ying let out a long sigh.

This trip seems to be free, and there is no need to be trapped in a cage like Wu Xing, but it seems easy to guess what the court is up to.Left and right are nothing more than driving tigers to eat wolves and balancing each other.

Because the big family in Huainan was too weak, almost comparable to Liu Yishou's all-in-one enemy, that's why the court let Xiao Ying go to "suppress the field".Of course, Liu Yishou did not intend to suppress Xiao Ying.Xiao Yan's sons were not successful, but his nephew was successful instead. Those things that Xiao Yan didn't think about, the courtiers would help him think about them.

"Your Highness, this subordinate feels that the locals of Guoyang are no longer usable. I'm afraid there are Liu Yishou's eyes and ears everywhere."

Chen Baxian's face was also a bit ugly, because he had inquired about Liu Yishou's various deeds when he was free, and then found that this person, or this group of people, behaved far better than the gangsters who only knew how to smash and rob!

In other words, this force is very difficult to deal with.You tell them the rules, they talk to you about fists, you talk to them about fists, and you can't beat them.What's more, the real truth is not in the hands of those wealthy families in Huainan.

That's right, the big families in Huainan really hated Liu Yishou and his gang, and they united to resist, as if they were very powerful.However, Chen Baxian had been the head of the village for several years, and had contact with the villagers every day.Deep down in his heart, he firmly believed that those villagers seemed to have completely different ideas from those of the wealthy families.

"how do I say this?"

Xiao Ying frowned slightly and asked, he also planned to form an elite private army with local wealthy families to protect himself after he took office.These days, as long as you don't get dizzy, you can understand that the army of the imperial court has been corrupted, and the conscripts have to bring ropes to the soldiers' homes to tie people up.

Only the private army has the fighting power!
"Your Highness, as the saying goes: Don't worry about the few, but the unevenness. Forgive me for speaking bluntly, after Liu Yishou and others caused trouble in Nanyanzhou, I am afraid that many people will celebrate behind their backs, applaud secretly, or even take the initiative to seek refuge. The situation is similar to that of Your Highness. It might be very different from what I expected.”

Chen Baxian said boldly.

He has been at the grassroots level for a long time, and he knows who those villagers are.The villagers are simple and honest, and the villagers are also cunning and philistine.Human nature is multifaceted. It is often biased to summarize a group of people in one or two sentences.

For example, in the era of Liu Yishou, if the country introduced laws, it would impose heavy taxes of more than 90% on people with a net worth of more than one billion, and block all means of tax avoidance.

Those who work hard at the bottom, who can only get enough food and clothing after a busy day, will they all cry bitterly?Could it be that they complained about these rich people?

Hehe, people who think this way, go to the construction site to move bricks for a month, and they will definitely change their minds after they come back!

On the contrary, the vast majority of these low-level workers will applaud even if they don't get a penny!Even sleeps and wakes up laughing!

As for why, there is no reason, idle is idle, just watch it for fun!The former billionaire has been reduced to moving bricks with you, will you really feel sorry for him?

The complexity of the human heart is like this, you used to be so beautiful, lying down and counting money, going out is a luxury car BMW, entering a luxury club, with a bunch of licking dogs behind you.Xiao Ying, who has never been in contact with the bottom layer, may not understand, but Chen Baxian, who has been struggling in the world for many years, understands it too well.

Seeing that you are not doing well now, I feel at ease, even if I didn't eat an extra piece of meat.If you are well, there will be a bolt from the blue, this is the normal state of the world.Times have changed, but the truth has always been the same.

Xiao Ying frowned slightly, she didn't quite agree with Chen Baxian's words, and she didn't know where to refute, she just felt very blocked.

"Then what do you think it should be?"

Xiao Ying asked impatiently.

"Stones from other mountains can be used to attack jade. We can also follow what Liu Yishou did in Guoyang, but don't go too far like him. My subordinates are telling the truth that the big families in Huainan are hopeless. We can count on them. There is no doubt about death."

Chen Baxian wanted to scare Xiao Ying to death, so that the other party didn't want to take up the post now!
"and then?"

Xiao Ying asked with an unkind expression, you are responsible for putting out the fire you started, otherwise you will look good!

"His Royal Highness is very popular in Wu Xing, and has done a lot of good governance. Wu Xing has a large population, and it has been peaceful for decades, and the land has long been overwhelmed. In recent years, more and more people have lost their land and are idle.

It is better for His Royal Highness to call some villagers to migrate to Nanyanzhou, enrich them to the surrounding area of ​​Guoyang, and implement the military system.

Lighten the corvee, lighten the land tax, and divide the land widely. Naturally, Wu Xing's immigrants will return to their hearts, and they can be driven by His Highness.As for the powerful local families in Guoyang, His Highness just suppresses them.

With His Highness around, they just cut off their arms. If Liu Yishou comes, they are afraid that they will die and their family will be wiped out. What should they do? His Highness persuaded those people with kind words, and I believe they will understand. "

Chen Baxian said with a cold light in his eyes.Of course, if you still don’t understand after talking about it, you can only ask the Buddha to go out and let those people go to the Western Bliss to receive the Buddha’s teachings.

Only magic can defeat magic, learn Liu Yishou's method to deal with Liu Yishou, this idea is completely fine!
Hearing this, Xiao Ying was finally satisfied.

He nodded slightly, smiled and praised: "Xingguo's words made me suddenly enlightened. You might as well go to the village to gather the villagers. Each household has [-] mu of land, and the mulberry field is not counted. If the unmarried, [-] mu for the mature land."

Xiao Ying also wrote a big bad check.Anyway, Tian doesn't belong to him, and he doesn't feel bad for selling his grandfather Tian. This feeling is great!This scheme of allocating land will result in a lot of surplus acres allocated to each person, and one person cannot be busy at all.

Is there a way?In fact, there are, that is, to call on the locals to help.Wouldn't the group expand in this way?As for those local powerful families who disagree, let them go.

Anyway, they are a flock of fat sheep, so if they are killed by Liu Yishou, they are still killed, it is better to keep them for themselves.

For a while, Xiao Ying also figured it out.

"That matter should not be delayed. I will go to the village to gather the villagers to support His Highness. After someone makes the first one, the next thing will be easy to handle. However, His Highness still has to post a notice in Wuxing City."

Chen Baxian suggested modestly.

Xiao Ying nodded slightly, and accepted it graciously.

……

In the study room of Wang Wei's residence in Shouyang City, Liu Yishou specially called a few people who made suggestions to his house for a drink, and chatted about the next plan by the way.

"Fatty Yang, what do you think the big families are most afraid of besides refugees gathering to make trouble and the emperor wanting to exterminate the clan?"

Liu Yishou poured Yang Min a glass of wine and asked.

Although Liu Yishou talks casually with acquaintances on weekdays, he still respects them in private.Yang Min didn't mind the other party calling him Fatty Yang either.

"Uh, if you really want to talk about it, it is the most annoying thing to lower the rent of the neighboring family and farm."

Yang Min thought for a moment and said.

Neither Wang Wei nor Chen Yuankang came from a great family, so they have no personal experience of this.Hearing Yang Min say this, everyone was surprised.

"For the big landlords, the tenants are all mobile, fleeing is a normal phenomenon, as long as a general balance is maintained.

For example, Cui's and Yang's farms are adjacent to each other, and they have festivals with each other.In order to disgust Yang, Cui can adjust the land rent a little lower than the other party.

The Yang family received [-]%, and the Cui family received [-]%.In this way, Yang's tenants would flee to Cui's farm, which would make Yang extremely uncomfortable.

But the problem is, if the Cui family does this, it will also offend other aristocratic families around them. Whoever has the lowest land rent will be the most unpopular. "

That's it!

Wang Wei, Chen Yuankang and others suddenly realized that their farms and houses were not many, and even if they had no worries about food and clothing, there was no problem of a large number of tenants fleeing.But the Hongnong Yang family was a big family that dominated Gyeonggi back then, so there is no need to say much about the local situation.

Of course, what Yang Min said was only a theoretical situation. If it really came to that point, Yang would use the relationship of the court to make peace with Cui, and the land rent would be synchronized.

Let's exploit and oppress the tenants together, why bother fighting?
"That's good, then let's promulgate a new law after this year's autumn harvest, and start next year to reduce land rent!"

Liu Yishou laughed and said!
Chen Yuankang sighed, couldn't help pouring cold water on it and said: "If the land rent is lowered, I'm afraid our army will run out of food and grass, so we can't keep robbing the surrounding counties. Now even the barbarians in the north know Farming!"

That's right, you can lower the land rent, or even not collect the land rent. In that case, "the benevolent is invincible", and whoever dares to touch you, the local people will spontaneously organize to protect you!

But the question is, what do you eat if you don’t collect rent?

"Hey, don't be so narrow-minded."

Liu Yishou waved his hand and said, "Food is inconvenient to store. Farmers can't finish the food they receive, so they have to sell too much. The first supplementary decree I want to say is that the local people are not allowed to sell food to other places." , can only be sold to us. If there are any sneaky sellers, after they are caught, all the fields will be taken back."

"But what shall we collect?"

Yang Min is in charge of money, so he naturally knows that this kind of food purchase is definitely drinking poison to quench thirst, and there are too many future troubles to continue.

"Owners also need to wear clothes, right? Grain needs to be processed in order to be sold for money. Do you think you can collect some grain and you're done?"

Liu Yishou said with a smile, everyone was silent for a while, and they understood what the other party was trying to do.

"There was a rich family who bought a ghost from a Taoist priest. This ghost is so powerful that he can do anything. There is only one thing, you can't let him stop, he will eat people when he stops.

With this ghost, the big family will no longer have to worry about no one to work on the land, no one to take care of the housework, and life will soon become prosperous.

However, the elder in the family died suddenly, and did not explain how to use this ghost to the younger generation.Later, after the plowing was over, the ghosts had nothing to do and made troubles everywhere without getting new orders, and finally ate everyone in the big family. "

After the eerie story was told, Liu Yishou looked around at the crowd and said, "Although it's a bit unpleasant, all the people under our rule, when taken together, can actually be counted as the ghost of that big family.

What we have to do is not let this ghost stop, let it always have something to do, do good things and don't do bad things, that's all.If it stops, it will eat us back, do you understand this? "

It seems to understand, but it seems not to understand.

But very interesting!

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, as if they were inspired.

(End of this chapter)