Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 104 Burning the Inspector ([-])

Two years later

Yuanfeng four years
Yingchuan County

Cheng'an County

"You muddy legs, do you still dare to rebel?"

"The imperial court does not give us a way to survive, it is against the imperial court!"

"Crazy, you are all crazy!"

"You guys are crazy! We can't even afford food, yet you still charge us taxes!"

"Kill! Kill these dog officials!"

"Don't kill me! Ah—"

A refugee wrapped his head in a white scarf and killed the tax collector sent by the county government.

The rest of the refugees raised their arms and shouted: "Reverse! Rebel! Rebel!"

The three big battles of conquering South Vietnam, conquering North Korea, and conquering the Southwestern Yi, spent the money that Emperor Liu Che had spent for several years.

He wanted to continue to make money from the powerful, but found that the powerful who could be fished had already been fished out, and the remaining strong were hidden too deep to be caught, so he could only start to make money from the self-cultivated farmers.

Emperor Liu Che ordered to increase the poll tax from 120 qian per tax to 360 qian per tax, three times the previous amount!
Moreover, even babies who have just turned three years old have to pay taxes!
It also further lowered the requirements for suing orders. In the past, the defendants were all powerful and wealthy businessmen, but now even rich peasants can be sued. For the defendant rich peasants, half of their family assets belong to the imperial court.

All of a sudden, the trend of reporting each other pervaded the world.

I can't sue the powerful, and I can't sue you, a middle-class rich peasant?
The tyrants colluded with court officials, and most of those who dared to sue the tyrants were directly beaten to death. Of course, some tyrants gave too little money to the officials, so the officials did not protect him, so the defendant ordered the ransacking of his home.

But the middle class is different. They have nothing to do with the court, and both powerful and low-level people despise them.

Haoqiang thinks that the middle-class and rich peasants are also the bottom, so he looks down on them.

The people at the bottom think that the middle-class rich peasants are also powerful, so they hate them because they hate the powerful.

Both the upper and lower classes detested them. Suddenly, countless middle-class families were ordered to ransack their homes and destroy their families, and the imperial treasury was gradually enriched.

However, those people who don't have fields to plow still don't have fields to plow.

Although the imperial court moved a large number of refugees to the frontier to farm, the efficiency of the court's farming was far inferior to the efficiency of the refugees.

This year, 50 refugees were finally moved to the frontier to farm, and as a result, another 20 refugees appeared in the Kanto. Next year, another 100 refugees were moved to the frontier to farm, and another [-] million refugees appeared in the Kanto.

Over time, there are more than two million refugees in the counties of the Kanto region, and the world is as miserable as the troubled times at the end of Qin Dynasty.
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Changan
Weiyang Palace

boom!
A piece of exquisite jade was thrown to the ground.

"Troublemakers! They are all troublemakers!"

Hearing that there were refugees in Yingchuan County who rebelled, they broke into the county government office, killed the county magistrate, and slaughtered all the officials in the county government office. There were also refugees in several surrounding counties who followed suit, and Emperor Liu Che was furious.

"I expanded the territory, fought against the Xiongnu, and opened up the land under the sun for the people of the big man. Why do all the people in the world oppose me? Hateful! Hateful!!!"

"I'm planning for the world, how can I cherish the small people?"

"I increase taxes for the sake of the whole world, for the sake of expanding the territory!"

"Why can't the common people understand the difficulties of the court?"

"Why are the common people unwilling to endure hardship obediently? Isn't it okay to starve for a few days for the sake of the big man?"

"They're all a bunch of short-sighted thugs!"

"Six months! No! Three months! Let the prefect of Yingchuan quell the civil uprising within three months. If he can't do it, let him commit suicide!"

This was the first time since he became emperor that there was a large-scale common people rebellion, which annoyed him very much.
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Chang'an City

Royal Mansion
Wang Changjiong, who was promoted to Taicang Cheng because of "Tuntian Policy", is playing chess with his student Sima Qian.

"Angry!"

Wang Changjiong dropped a white chess piece and said.

"Angry? Teacher, are you talking about Your Majesty?" Sima Qian asked puzzledly, and immediately dropped a sunspot.

The emperor angrily asked the prefect of Yingchuan to quell the civil uprising within three months. Many people knew about it, and Sima Qian was no exception.

"No, I'm talking about... the world." Wang Changjiong dropped another white piece.

"The world?" Sima Qian was thoughtful, and dropped a sunspot to increase the power of the black dragon on his chessboard.

"Just like your black dragon, it looks ferocious, but..." Wang Changjiong made a metaphor, and then dropped a white letter on the upper left three squares of the black dragon going out to sea, killing him with one blow: "It's just a trapped dead dragon."

"This..." Sima Qian looked at the black dragon that was being fought on his chessboard, and finally understood what it meant, and then shook his head with a sigh: "The people's livelihood in the world is dying, but your Majesty is so unpredictable that today's disaster, alas... "

After all, Sima Qian continued to complain: "The emperor today is as tyrannical as the Emperor Qin."

Wang Changjiong just smiled and didn't speak. This time he didn't remind his students not to talk nonsense. Anyway, he was in his own home and no one else could hear them.

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Namyang County

Yang's
"Finally reversed."

"Father, the people rebelled, is this still a good thing?"

"Are you willing to continue to be tortured by the emperor?"

"I don't want to."

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Chenliu County

Zhaojia
"Secretly send some money to those rebellious mud legs, so that they can make more trouble, hum!"

"The dog emperor checks our fields every day, and even manages our family's salt and iron industry. It's really hateful. It's time for him to suffer, haha!"

"Hehe... I hope this group of anti-people can accomplish something."

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Runan County

Wu family
"Sneak the weapons we stored in the basement of the manor to the bandits we raised, and let those bandits sell these weapons to those anti-people."

"Sell it at a high price and make money?"

"No, give it cheap, as long as it is against the people, give them all at a low price."

"Why is this?"

"For our family."
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Liaodong County
"Hahaha!"

"Good! Good! Excellent!"

After hearing about the anti-people situation in Yingchuan County, the prefect Wang Changzhi laughed.

The Wang family was cut off by the emperor Liu Che for decades, and at least three thousand gold was taken away. If this was exchanged for the number of inspectors, he would have to be the prefect of Wang Changzhi for 15 years to earn [-] scholars in a row.

The royal family of Liaodong hides so deeply, and even the court can cut off three thousand gold leeks, and other tyrants will only be cut off more.

"The rebellion of the refugees in Yingchuan County this time may be a breather for us gentry." Zhang Shou, the prefect of the county, was also very happy.

In the next few years, the emperor Liu Che will be busy suppressing the troublesome people everywhere, so he will naturally slow down the cutting of leeks by the tyrants, and these powerful gentry can also take the opportunity to catch their breath. If they are cut off by the emperor again, Really going bankrupt.

The previous Lu family in Xiangping County had already been bankrupted by cutting leeks. Among the six major families after that, the Chen family in Liaoyang County, which was the weakest, also went bankrupt. One-third of the family’s farmland was sold to the three families of Wang, Zhang and Li. The remaining two-thirds were packaged and sold to the imperial court at a low price.

In just ten years, the Chen family has changed from an ordinary gentry family to a bankrupt low-level poor family. The current living standard of the Chen family is better than that of the self-cultivating farmers.

The reason why Wang, Zhang, and Li's family did not buy all the fields of the Chen family was mainly because their family had no spare money, so they had to save some money to pay the court, so as not to be cut off by the court and go bankrupt.

Even the most powerful Wang family had to suspend the construction of Taohuayuan Castle, ship construction, and overseas reclamation.

After all, there is a cost to reclaiming wasteland. It will take at least three or four years to reclaim a piece of wasteland into good farmland. These three or four years are pure investment without recovery, and the cost can only be paid back slowly from the fourth year, but this return process is very difficult. It will take several years.

Such a long cycle is obviously not something the current Wang family can afford, so they can only suspend overseas land reclamation, and the Wang family also sold some war horses to supplement funds to cope with the imperial court's leek cutting at any time.

When the Chen family in Liaoyang went bankrupt, the Lu family in Dashi County also went bankrupt and sold their fields. Naturally, these fields were bought by the Wang family at a low price.

After all, Dashi County is the Wang family's own sphere of influence, and the fields within their own sphere of influence must be merged no matter how tight the finances are, and the meat of their mouths must not be let go.

At the same time, the Lu family in Ping County, Xi'an was sued and brought to the court of Chang'an.

The Lu family was also unlucky, because half a year ago, after the death of the head of the Lu family, he passed his position as the head of the family to a more capable concubine. Reported.

The court immediately ordered the Lu family to be ransacked and exterminated.

After this incident, the remaining four major families in Liaodong, Wang Zhang Li Guo, all strengthened their control over their own family's children.

They are not afraid of the tenants reporting, because the tenants have no money to buy horses, so the tenants can't even leave the county, and the tenants who dare to report to the county government will be directly beaten to death by the county government.

But they were afraid that a few traitors would appear in their own family, and they would cause a brother-in-law incident like that of the Lu family.

Thinking back more than ten years ago, Liaodong still had eight families standing side by side.

Now, the bankrupt bankrupt, the ransacked house, the eight major families only have the four major families.

(End of this chapter)