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

Chapter 167 Annexation of Da Township ([-])

one year later
Yongguang five years
The torrential rain lasted for a month, and the officials who built the embankments were corrupt, causing the embankments to be bean curd projects. As a result, the Yellow River suddenly burst, and more than a dozen counties in the Kanto region became flooded areas. Countless farmlands were flooded, and countless people were displaced. With the increase of hundreds of thousands of refugees, the life of the common people in the world is getting more and more difficult, and the prosperity of Emperor Xuan's period will no longer be restored.

When the Han court was anxiously thinking about how to deal with more and more refugees, Liaodong at this moment.

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Liaodong County

Liaonan County

Pingxiang Government Office (formerly the county seat of Pingguo County)
The government of Liaonan County was established in Pingxiang (formerly Pingguo County) at the beginning of the merger. Daxiang, as an area that the Wang family has been trying to encroach on, does not allow the existence of government agencies of the imperial court, so Liaonan County was established at that time. The government office was established in Pingxiang.

During the period of Wang Changzhi, it took more than 20 years to carefully annex all the areas south of Da Township (about [-] mu).

During the period of Wang Hongyin, he did not dare to annex the land for the first 30 years, fearing that it would attract the attention of Emperor Xuan. Until Liu Shi ascended the throne, Wang Hongyin considered carefully and still did not annex land in the past few years. After several years of observation, he found that Liu Shi did not know how to restrain the land. After the land was annexed, he sent Chaoge to assassinate the governor of Youzhou, and resumed the cause that generations of royal family heads had been fighting for.

In the next few years, Wang Hongyin swallowed [-] mu of land near the Ta Township Government, turned all the farmers here into tenant farmers, and then forcibly relocated them overseas.

At the same time, it was reported to the imperial court that an earthquake occurred in Liaodong, causing countless casualties.

In the end, the population of Liaodong County was reduced openly, and these reduced populations were tenant farmers who were forcibly relocated overseas.

The new governor of Youzhou is the patriarch of the Langya Wang family, and the other party just wants to get along in peace and stability, and add a bit of glorious qualifications to the family, and doesn't want to do something that is easy to offend, such as checking the population of the land.

It is precisely because this new governor is a rotten person that the Wang family decided to spare his life and let him continue to be the governor of Youzhou, otherwise they would have to send another assassin to assassinate him.

The imperial court was busy with disaster relief and party struggles, the governor of Youzhou just wanted to show his disgrace, and Liaodong County was full of royal marriages and former officials.

In this case, can we not wantonly merge?
Although [-] mu have been swallowed up by whales, it is far from enough.

The entire Ta Township originally had 45 mu of land. Later, the imperial court relocated more than 4000 refugees to Ta Township to reclaim wasteland, and reclaimed another 53 mu of land. The entire Ta Township has a total of [-] mu of land.

Of the 53 mu, Wang Tairan annexed 12 mu, Wang Changzhi annexed another [-] mu, and Wang Hongyin swallowed another [-] mu in recent years. The Wang family annexed a total of [-] mu in Daxiang.

Now there are 41 mu of land left in Taxiang.

Among them, there are 11 mu in Nanta, 20 mu in Xida, and [-] mu in Dongda.

Beida is a hilly area in eastern Liaodong. There are no acres of land, but a lot of kudzu is planted, which is one of the raw materials for making cloth.

The method of merger is also very simple. It is impossible for farmers to have a good harvest every year, and there will always be times of bad harvest.

They bought their grain at a low price when the harvest was good, and sold it to them at a high price when the harvest was bad. They couldn't afford it, so they had to borrow the Wang family's usury to buy grain, and use the land deed as collateral. He could only transfer his own land to the Wang family to pay off the debt.

There are also casinos set up in Daxiang. There are always self-cultivated farmers who think they are lucky, but end up bankrupt, and then have to use their own land to pay off their gambling debts.

There is no casino on the Wang family's own site, and private gambling is strictly prohibited. Those who are found will be severely punished. The tenant farmers should honestly engage in production and construction, and don't participate in these things that destroy production.

However, the Wang family opened many casinos on the imperial court's territory, and while making money, they assisted in land mergers. Even if the productivity was destroyed, it was also the imperial court's productivity that was destroyed.

Even so, Liaodong prefect Wang Hongyin still felt that the efficiency was too low and the speed of mergers was too slow.

Why are there floods in all the counties of the Kanto, but not in our Liaodong?
This is too unfair!
After much deliberation, Wang Hongyin decided to seize the land directly.

Originally, he wanted to destroy the dikes and flood the fields. It would be less risky to do so, but there are no big rivers in southern Liaoning, they are all small streams.

Forcibly relocating the self-cultivated farmers in the Nanda area, the land of no man in Nanda will naturally belong to the Wang family.

But to do so is very risky, and the news needs to be tightly blocked, and the full cooperation of the other three major families is needed.

"Block Taxiang and prohibit anyone from entering or leaving!"

Wang Hongzheng, the magistrate of Liaonan County, issued an order to all officials, big and small.

"promise!"

The crowd responded.

After the private soldiers of the Wang family retire, they will be assigned to serve as officials in various counties in Liaodong. After the servants of the Wang family retire, they will also be assigned to serve as officials in various counties of Liaodong. (Equivalent to the aunt of the neighborhood committee), assisting the Wang family in managing overseas people.

These can also be regarded as the Wang family's care for those close to them.

This time, the Wang family will completely seal off the Nanta area of ​​Ta Township, and forcibly relocate the self-cultivated farmers in the Nanda area to Luoyueyuan.

But doing so requires a lot of manpower, otherwise it is easy for fish to slip through the net and escape. Once the escaped farmers leak the truth, the consequences will be extremely serious.

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One month later

Taxiang Government Office (formerly the county seat of Dashi County)
The members of the Wang family were responsible for sealing off the four city gates of the Ta Township Administration to prevent people from leaving the city, and the members of the three major families were responsible for sealing off the outer areas to prevent people from other villages from entering this area.

Officials from various counties also came to help, and they were all members of the Wang family.

All the roads were blocked with boulders in advance, and officials were sent to patrol around.

Daxiang has a total population of [-], including self-cultivating farmers, craftsmen, handicraftsmen, rich peasants, small landlords, poor families, private prostitutes, refugees, beggars, etc.

"There is an order from the government to move to Pingxiang, and a new field and home will be arranged for you!"

The head of Liaonan County rushed into the city on a horse and shouted to the people in the city that he was a soldier of the Wang family. Nanxian is the master book.

The stingy man in Daxiang is also a servant of the royal family, so he also rode a horse and shouted to the people in Daxiang with beating gongs and drums: "Fathers, folks, as long as they are willing to migrate to their new homes, each person will be given [-] acres of land!"

The refugees and beggars without land were naturally too lazy to resist, and happily followed the Wang family's private soldiers to migrate. Even if they were cheated, they would not lose anything, anyway, they already had nothing.

But the people in Nanta Arita didn't want to move. They kept silent, hid in their homes, closed the doors and windows, thinking that they would be safe and sound.

After all the people willing to migrate left the city and were loaded into carriages by the Wang family's private soldiers, Wang Hongzheng, the county magistrate of Liaonan County, ordered indifferently: "Set fire to the city!"

"promise!"

All the officials started lighting the fire from the north of the city and burned it all the way to the south of the city.

crackle crackle crackle!

Only the south gate of the entire Taxiang City was opened, and the people in the north of the city had to leave the city from the south to escape the fire.

"what--"

"Officers and soldiers set fire to the city!"

"Run!"

(End of this chapter)