Daming talker

Chapter 2 Different Rivers and Lakes
The entire An Le Tang courtyard is divided into three roads, except for the main courtyard in the middle road where the leaders live, and the east and west roads across the courtyard are allocated to the bottom members of the community as dormitories.

These low-level members also serve as handymen. They live in Kuayuan, so it is very convenient to be called up to do things.

In this era, the masses of the people scorned the members of the associations as "sticks", which means similar to the young and Dangerous, and called the associations "stick parties".

Of course, "stick man" and "stick party" are all rumors behind the scenes, and they are called heroes in person.

Lin Tailai was locked up in the firewood room of Dongkuayuan today because he rejected his elder brother's "good intentions".

He doesn't worry about his own safety, he can't really kill himself just because he refuses to recognize others as his father. This is not in line with the Confucian concept of loyalty and filial piety in the social environment.

Thinking back to what happened on the first day after time travel, Lin Tailai was also speechless.

First of all, the name An Le Tang is not very good. Maybe everyone thinks it means "live and work in peace".

But in the cognition of the traveler from 400 years later, it sounds like the meaning of waiting for death, which is not like the name of a serious underworld.

Secondly, the painting style of the association is a bit strange and weird, which is very unscientific from a historical and academic point of view.

Lin Tailai also has a little knowledge of history, and he understands the truth that the economic base determines the superstructure.

The activity of underworld associations is also based on a certain scale of industrial interests.

With the level of economic development in today's era, can it support a large-scale and dynamic community organization?

And the fact that his predecessor went to the countryside to collect protection fees is even weirder than being beaten unconscious.

In Lin Tailai's perception, collecting protection fees is a tertiary industry for eating, drinking and having fun. I have never heard of asking farming villagers to collect protection fees. Is this a feature of the Wanli Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty?

A community of dozens of people is not as large as a large clan, so why should it collect protection fees?

Suddenly the door of the firewood room was opened, and someone came in, interrupting Lin Tailai's train of thought.

Lin Tailai looked up, and it turned out to be Song Quan, the second leader of the society.

For some reason, a line of words appeared in Lin Tailai's mind, "Uncle Song is very angry, and the consequences will be serious".

Then he regained a little bit of Yuanchen's memory. The second leader of Song Dynasty seemed to have a little friendship with Yuanchen's father, and calling him "uncle" on the surface was acceptable.

"What did you do wrong, or were you fascinated by ghosts? Why did you reject the hall master?" Song Quan asked sternly.

Lin Tailai understood that Song Quan was justified in being angry.

Yuanzheng had previously promised Song Quan in private that he was willing to adopt a son for Hall Master Lu, but today he rejected Hall Master Lu, which is actually a backlash.

Lin Tailai, the time traveler, could only bear this blame, and didn't know how to explain it for a while.

But facing the "elder"'s questioning, he could only let out a long sigh, squatted on the pile of firewood, and said deeply: "Come out to mess around, and you will have to pay it back sooner or later!"

Return your mother's head!Song Quan became even more angry, and scolded: "Don't talk nonsense to fool me, talk like a human being!"

Lin Tailai said more bluntly: "Uncle, there is no future for gangsters!"

Song Quan was very surprised that he, the intellectual director of the society, didn't understand, and asked, "What do you mean? What kind of future do you want? Why is there no future for An Le Tang?"

Lin Tailai replied sharply and sharply: "In today's great tomorrow, the government is the parents of the people, and it is the blue sky high above!
Even if the society is popular for a while, it is actually robbing the government of its interests, and its fate will be to be cleared by the government in the end!
So there is no future for being black, unless you are brave enough to rebel and succeed, you can turn black into white! "

So Song Quan was even more surprised, "Are you really fascinated by ghosts? Or have you lost your mind? What kind of benefits did we rob? Why did the government want to clear us?"

Lin Tailai murmured in his heart, are the ideology and theory of today's social organizations so backward?Even Song Quan, who is so intellectually responsible, can't see clearly the essence of the society?

I heard Song Quan continue to say: "The government still relies on us to collect money, food, taxes and taxes. We, Anletang, are all doing things for the government. Why should the government eliminate us?"

Fuck!Lin Tailai was really surprised!The situation seems a little different from what I imagined?
Suddenly, Lin Tailai thought of a historical term - taking money and food!
To put it simply, many ordinary peasants are afraid of dealing with the government, because they often suffer from bottomless extortion and exploitation by subordinate officials.

Therefore, many people will hand over money and food to capable people, and let these capable people pay taxes instead, so that the people can avoid the pain of directly dealing with the government.

After a long time, the government has to rely on these capable people who "take money and food" to complete the tax collection task.

After all, the government also has a tradition of "imperial power does not go to the countryside". With the limited manpower in the yamen, it is almost impossible to cover the vast rural areas outside the city.

Not to mention tax collection, which is a particularly cumbersome matter, especially in Suzhou Prefecture, which is still the place with the heaviest taxation tasks in the Ming Dynasty. Tax collection is a huge systematic project.

Therefore, between the county government and the village, there is the soil for the survival of an association like An Le Tang.

Lin Tailai also understood why the original body would go to the countryside to collect money.

What An Le Tang collects is the "protection tax", which is the legal royal tax and national tax, not the "protection fee" that Lin Tailai misunderstood.

Associations such as An Le Tang are in nature an extension of government power, a tentacles of government offices bypassing the original system and reaching out to rural areas.

It is not the kind of illegal underground force that competes with the government for profits in Lin Tailai's perception.

That's why Song Quancai, the second leader of An Le Tang, said just now, why did the government want to eliminate us?

Looking at the speechless Lin Tailai, Song Quan couldn't help but think to himself: "Why do you act like a fool after waking up? Don't understand anything?"

Lin Tailai: "."

Unexpectedly, unexpectedly, I was despised first.But it's no wonder that others are really preconceived by themselves.

Who would have thought that in this world, there are underworld societies that can help the government to collect taxes legally?

Such associations, of course, will not be purged by the government.

However, Lin Tailai still doesn't want to join the club, this is the last stubbornness of the time traveler who studies stereotyped essays.

In the previous life, he had no choice but to waste his youth and study the useless stereotyped essays for several years. Who would be willing?
Now that the dragon-slaying skill finally has the opportunity to use it, if you miss it, will you be worthy of your past efforts!
And no matter how promising the society is, can it be more promising than studying in the imperial examination?The largest associations in the world are all in the imperial court!
Sensing Lin Tailai's determination to withdraw from the arena, Song Quan frowned and asked, "Have you noticed any rumors?"

Lin Tailai was baffled by this sentence, could there be something hidden that he didn't know?

But Lin Tailai still kept calm, deliberately saying: "I'm not really a fool, how can I not notice anything?"

Song Quan sighed again, probably thinking of a little incense, and told a little bit of the inside story he deduced by himself:
"You were attacked in the countryside the day before yesterday. On the surface, the biggest suspect is Heyitang, but there are other instigators behind it. I don't know if it is the Fan family or the Shen family."

Without Song Quan's detailed explanation, Lin Tailai has already found relevant information about the Fan family and the Shen family from his original memory.

"Fan Family in Tianping Mountain?" Lin Tailai asked nervously.

Song Quan nodded.

"The Shen family who started to build the family estate outside Xumen?" Lin Tailai asked tremblingly from the bottom of his heart.

Song Quan nodded again, and Lin Tailai almost knelt down.

The Fan family, whose ancestor was Fan Zhongyan, a famous official in the Northern Song Dynasty, was a famous family in Suzhou Mansion for hundreds of years and dozens of generations!
The Shen family, the Shen family of Shen Shihang, the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, is an upstart family in Suzhou Prefecture that has risen in the past ten years!
The Wanli Dynasty is too dangerous, Lin Tailai wants to travel back to the 21st century.

What kind of virtue and ability does he have as a young man, so that he can help Fan Zhongyan's descendants, or Shen Shoufu's close relatives to instigate a sneak attack?

According to historical records, most of the people who take money and food are "rogue and cunning".

Hao, rich and powerful family; cunning, club sticks leave their homes.

Where there are interests, there are rivers and lakes.

(End of this chapter)