The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 477

Song Zhiyan is quite cruel and intends to make matters worse.

He organized his manpower, led by the county government servants, and soon gathered a team of more than 300 people.

More than 300 people circle outside every day. First, they encounter waves of more than a dozen hoarding soldiers to measure the land.

Soon the hoarders also knew that the resistance here was a bit strong, and immediately gathered a wave of more than 500 people.

On the 22nd, the two sides fought a battle in a farmland beside the Dagu River in the west of Laiyang City.

The hoarders are all sharpened bamboo spears, wooden spears, and wooden shields, but they are extremely brave and insidious in fighting.

Poke your face from above, squat down and poke your feet.

The troops of Song Zhizhen were not even as good as the ordinary Ming army. They were opponents hoarding troops after two or three years of queue training.

The two sides met face to face, and Song Zhishan's men and horses were defeated, with countless casualties, and less than 50 people fled back.

The hoarders were also ruthless, stabbing all those who caught up all the way to death, got hundreds of armor and weapons, and quickly rushed to Laiyang County.

Song Zhiyan and the others turned pale with shock and closed the city gate tightly.

This Song Dynasty boasted before, that Kong Youde's soldiers and horses did not capture them back then, it was because of the guerrilla Xu Yuanqi's soldiers and horses from Jimo, and the guards of the squires in the city helped.

But now many of our guards rushed out to fight in the field, and were recruited by hoarders. The total number of soldiers in the city was less than a hundred, and the number of guards was less than 500 including everyone's guards.

Fortunately, the county is tall and the number of rioters is small, Song Zhizheng and others felt that they could still hold on, so they rushed out to ask for help.

But after their messengers went out, they found out that Ding Yi's Fort on the official road is now impossible to pass.

Not long after, a group of [-]-man cavalry and officers and soldiers from the [-]-step battalion appeared outside Laiyang County.

The other party claimed to be Dengzhou General Yang Zhen.

Yang Zhen was riding a horse in the middle, with Zhou Yougen on the left and Yan Xiong on the right. He had a smile on his face, but it was uglier than crying.

Because there are all Ding Yi's soldiers and horses behind him.

Of course he knew what his identity was, he was the one to blame.

Yang Zhen came to call for the door, but Song Zhishan refused to open it, and asked him to exterminate the rioters.

Yang Zhen couldn't help it, so he turned around and left with his soldiers. Not long after, there were shouts of killing nearby, and many people watched from a distance from the top of the city. Correction, back and forth, it seems that the fierce fighting is very tragic.

After a while, it seemed that the hoarders were defeated and fled in all directions.

He was overjoyed to watch the battle at the top of the city, but he saw that Yang Zhen also led his soldiers and horses to pursue him.

Soon the surroundings became peaceful.

It was getting dark at this time, and Song Zhizhen was not in a hurry to send people out, and planned to send people out of the city to check tomorrow.

That night, because the officers and soldiers came, the people in the city were also very relaxed.

Unexpectedly, at about eight o'clock in the evening, there was a sudden loud bang.

The city gate was bombed.

Then the shouts of killing shook the sky, and a large number of hoarders rushed in.

The hoarders first defeated the yamen servants and nursing homes, and then found the leading tyrants and gentry homes one by one, including Song Zhizheng, and brought them to the city gate near dawn, and stabbed them all to death.

At this time, Yang Zhen came in with soldiers and horses, and the city shouted loudly, and the common people closed their doors one after another, and no one dared to come out.

At dawn, some officers and soldiers took to the streets and shouted that the officers and soldiers had succeeded in suppressing the rebellion and wiped out this wave of bandits, and they are now beheading at the gate of the city.

The brave ones ran out to watch, and saw that the officers and soldiers were beheading, all with disheveled hair, and they couldn't tell who it was, anyway, they were wearing the clothes of hoarders.

On that day, more than 100 heads were beheaded in one bite, and then the whole county was notified that the bandits had been put down, but the magistrate and the others died in battle unfortunately.

Many people clapped their hands and applauded. After Song Zhizhen took office, he bought and sold by force, and kept scraping, encroaching on tens of thousands of mu of grain fields, and the people were ruthless.

After clearing the scene, Yang Zhen summoned the remaining squires and tyrants in Laiyang County, as well as the family members of the slain squires, and also called the local county magistrates.

"The imperial court wants to clear the land and collect taxes again. Does anyone have any opinions?" Yang Zhen asked.

Everyone trembled, and no one dared to have an opinion.

I dare not mention it now.

On the contrary, Song Pingan, the county magistrate, raised his hand: "How much is the tax?"

"According to the actual number of fields, three buckets of tax are levied per mu."

There was a fryer on the spot. In the early Ming Dynasty, only five to eight liters were charged per household.

They are all people who have not paid so much tax in tens or hundreds of years.

But looking at the motionless elite soldiers and the indifferent expressions of the soldiers, no one dared to speak out against it.

Ding Yi's levy is already very small, about [-]% of the output, and a part of it will be handed over to the court. In fact, he will not get [-]% of it.

Someone asked: "Can it be replaced by silver?"

"Yes, five coins per mu."

Everyone cursed in their hearts again, like Song Zhishen, who has more than 5000 mu, the annual tax is [-] taels. This is cutting their blood and eating their flesh.

In comparison, everyone would rather pay food than pay money because there is more money.

Ding Yi was forcing them to pay food, because he didn't want money, and the food could be sold for money.

Yang Zhen didn't fight with them, leaving more than 300 people behind, saying that there were no soldiers in the county and he wanted to send troops to garrison them.

He also recruited [-] arresters and yamen servants from the people on the grounds that all the yamen servants in the county government were killed in the rebellion.

But everyone doesn't know these people at all, and they don't know where they come from.

Soon, Song Pingan, the county magistrate, under the watchful eyes of Yang Zhen, sent a good news to the imperial court.

In mid-September, there were bandits who broke Laiyang County for food, and the county magistrate died heroically in battle.

Yang Zhen, the general of Dengzhou, led the troops to put down the rebellion, beheaded more than [-] rebellious bandits, and won a complete victory.

The good news was that Liu Yuan, governor of Denglai, polished it and reported it to the court. Not long after, Song Pingan was appointed as the new county magistrate.

Song Ping'an's expression turned extremely ugly.

At this time, the interior of Daming was in chaos, bandits were everywhere, and counties and prefectures were demolished every day in other places. Small counties like Laiyang, in the eyes of the Ming court, were trivial matters.

What's more, the communication in this era is really difficult to describe in one word. After Zu Dashou Dalinghe surrendered to Jin, why Kegang refused to follow, Zu Dashou killed him directly, and finally played "Ke Gang comforts the cabinet, dedicated his life for food." No one in the court doubted, Not to mention the fact that Zu Dashou gave gold.

Lu Xiangsheng killed Julu in battle, Yang Sichang insisted that he escaped before the battle, and Chongzhen actually believed him.

Sun Chuanting was deaf and asked to resign. Chongzhen didn't believe him, so he sent people to question him twice. He didn't even believe the person who came back and told him he was really deaf, so he also arrested the person who made the investigation.

So in this era, the key is not what you have done, but what your superiors say. As long as someone at the higher levels believes it, it doesn't matter whether you did it or not.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty and Chongzhen liked to tell black and white, and Ding Yi also showed them black and white.

With the example of Laiyang County, the entire Dengzhou Prefecture suddenly became easier to measure the land.

So at the end of that year, with the cooperation of Ding Yi's soldiers and horses, a total of 160 million mu of grain fields in one prefecture and seven counties in Dengzhou was obtained.

The original nuclear tax of the imperial court was more than 8000. At the end of the year, Liu Yuan said that after the latest land survey, the tax was increased by [-], and [-] was handed over.

The imperial court was overjoyed, and issued a decree to reward, and made all the prefectures and prefectures in the world learn from it.

Song Ping'an, magistrate of Laiyang County, also received the award, and suddenly felt that it was not bad.

In fact, the money was all paid by Ding Yi.

Ding Yi now only needs grain, among which the common people pay five liters per mu for grain fields, and the gentry pay three buckets per mu, for a total of 34 shi.

After being controlled by Ding Yi for several years, Dengzhou can finally make ends meet and even make money.

Ding Yi later told Liu Yuan that in the future, you will pay [-] more tax dollars every year to ensure that the court will continue to reward you and will not transfer you to other prefectures.

Liu Yuan couldn't understand why the imperial court didn't want to reuse me as a tax collector.
(End of this chapter)