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

Chapter 184 Annexation of Da Township ([-])

Liaodong
Ta Township, Liaonan County

Wang's relatives were pushed to the end by Emperor Liu Xin, not only lost the positions of the Sangong and Jiuqing, but also lost the position of Liaodong prefect, and even the positions of county magistrate and coward.

If it weren't for the gentry who were all on the side of the Wang family, Liu Xin would have wanted to raid the Wang family and destroy it.

Although there are no officials to do in Liaodong, the problem is actually not that big.

The newly-appointed Liaodong prefect is the head of the Lu family, the newly-appointed Liaonan magistrate is a descendant of the Li family, and the newly-appointed Daxiang miser is a bastard of the Zhang family.

The fact that the Wang family has no officials does not mean that the Wang family cannot continue to control Liaodong.

The four major families work together, no matter which family temporarily loses power, the other three families will take care of it.

After decades of encroachment, the entire 20 mu of land in Dongda was annexed by the royal family, and the people in every village in Dongda became tenant farmers.

In the Dongda area, there is no longer a single owner.

Since two years ago, the Wang family began to transfer the direction of mergers to the Xita area.

In the entire Ta Township (formerly Dashi County area), there are only Xida and 11 mu of land left, and there are only some self-cultivating farmers in the Xida area.

西沓
"That's it, let's start collecting!"

A son of the Wang family came to Xita to collect usury loans. If he couldn't pay back, he would use the family's land to pay back. If the land was sold to the Wang family, he still couldn't pay back, so he sold his son and daughter.

Officials in several counties followed behind the Wang family's children, trying to curry favor with the Wang family's children.

Behind the official was followed by dozens of rangers who had nothing to do all day long and made a living by collecting usury from the four major families.

These rangers are very aggressive and fierce, making excellent fighters.

If any common people dare not pay back the money, the rangers will threaten the common people who do not pay back the money every day. They put the big words "paying debts and repaying money is justified", and they also publicized the scandals of the common people everywhere, and compiled romantic stories about themselves and the daughters of the common people.

In short, it is to use various methods to torture the owner farmers who do not pay back the money.

If the owner-cultivator dared to fight back, the ranger would not show mercy, and directly beat the owner-cultivator into a cripple, or even killed him directly.

Even if it is reported to the government, the government can still characterize this tragedy as two people beating each other, each hitting [-] boards, and such a judgment is justified, because it is indeed the hands of the self-cultivating peasants first, and the ranger is justified. It is the party of legitimate defense. Instead, the Ranger can stand on the moral high ground and justly accuse the yeoman who was beaten and disabled.

Even if you really accidentally made things big and caused public resentment to boil.

The big deal for the four big families is to execute the ranger who beat people up to justice, so as to calm the anger of the people, but the four big families are still the four big families, and no one can shake them.

What's more, when the four big families executed the rangers who beat others, the people would clap their hands and applaud, praising the four big families for their conscience and boasting that the four big families are good people who are indifferent to fame and fortune.

In the end, the four major families are still the four major families, the tenant farmers are still tenant farmers, and the land annexation is still going on. The only difference is that the four major families have replaced a group of new rangers to serve as white gloves.

"I beg you to give me another year. Next year, I will definitely pay off my debts." An old farmer knelt down and cried and begged.

In order to allow the Wang family to better annex the fields of Ta Township, the prefect of Liaodong (the head of the Lu family) ordered all the counties in Liaodong to prohibit the sale of grain to Liaonan County, and the county magistrate of Liaonan County (children of the Li family) also ordered to prohibit the relief of Daxiang, and let Taxiang The self-cultivating farmers in the township suffered from famine, so they had to sell their fields during the famine.

Although the Wang family made 200 billion yuan, even if they bought it at a high price, they could easily annex all the fields in Daxiang.

But if you can merge at a low price, why do you want to merge at a high price?
It's not like a strong wind blows money, so save as much as you can.

"Old man, you, you borrowed money from our Wang family last year to buy grain for the winter, and now it's been a year, and it's time to repay the debt. I beg you to be honest, fulfill the contract, and have a contract spirit." The children of the Wang family smiled kindly at the old farmer and were very polite, and even bowed to the old farmer, and added softly: "Lao Tzu said: There is no greater disaster than not being satisfied, so contentment is always enough."

To be a man, you must be content. You have survived last year’s famine by borrowing usury loans from the Wang family, allowing yourself to live for another year. How can you greedily want to postpone the repayment and let yourself live for a few more years? Woolen cloth?How can you be so despicable, is it in accordance with Zhou etiquette?

"I!—" The old farmer didn't understand these polite words, let alone Zhou etiquette, but he didn't know how to refute, especially when he saw the vicious rangers behind his children, he became even more frightened.

"In the past, King Zhou Nan had a lot of debts, and he didn't pay back his debts, so he was scolded by later history books for a lifetime. Do you want to end up with a foolish king like King Zhou Nan?" A salute, what he said was very reasonable, as if the old farmer did not repay the usury, then he would be the reincarnation of King Zhou Nan, the faint king.

"I!—" The old farmer's eyes widened. He didn't expect that if he delayed repaying the usury, he would be tantamount to a foolish emperor, it would be tantamount to the unacceptable nature, and it would be tantamount to violating the rituals of Zhou.

The children of the Wang family continued to gently educate the old peasants who did not pay back their debts: "The Master said: if you do not have a possession, but if you occupy it, you will be in danger."

"The great sage Confucius once said that if you occupy wealth that does not belong to you, you will suffer death. You have occupied the wealth of our royal family, and now you refuse to repay it. What will you do if you are killed in the future? We The Wang family has read the classics of sages, all of them are concerned about the country and the people, and most of all they don't want to see the people suffer the disaster of killing themselves."

The children of the Wang family not only quoted scriptures, but also worried that the old farmer would not understand, so they translated the words of the sage into vernacular for the old farmer to listen to, and continued to kindly persuade the old farmer to pay off the usury, otherwise it would lead to death as the sage said.

These are the teachings of the Wang family to their children.

The Wang family is a family of etiquette, so when collecting usury, it must comply with Zhou etiquette.

To collect money in a polite and ceremonial manner, make a bow before collecting money, salute, smile, quote scriptures from time to time, use the words of the saints to urge the people to pay back the money, so that the people can't refute you, because refusing you is tantamount to To refute the saint, to refute the saint is treason!
When collecting usury, give the debtees a spring-like warmth, let them feel the benevolent government and care for them from the gentry children, and move the people with the indifferent fame, fortune and virtue education of the gentry children.

"You are a man of culture, and what you said is right, but I really have no money to pay back. Even if you say a thousand or ten thousand sentences of saintly principles, I still have no money to pay back. Even if Confucius is resurrected in front of me, I still have no money to pay back." Pay back the money, please give me another year to repay the debt next year, okay?" The old farmer doesn't understand the bells and whistles of these cultural people, he only knows that he has no money to pay back, and he still has no money to pay if he quotes [-] scriptures. This is an objective fact, not based on the words of saints.

"Alas... rotten wood can't be carved!" The son of the Wang family sighed. He didn't expect the people to be so ignorant, unwilling to accept the teachings of the sage, unwilling to bathe in Zhou rituals, and not moved by the words of the sage, and then sold the fields. Pay off the debt to the Wang family.

The people are actually indifferent to my sage's words. These people who don't understand the sage's words, and those who are unwilling to accept the sage's principles, are they different from the barbarians who fear authority and fear no virtue?This year, the people are not doing well!
The children of the Wang family complained in their hearts.

The barbarians are afraid of authority but not of morality!To deal with these uneducated "barbarians" who don't understand Zhou etiquette, it can only be forced by the ruthless rangers to collect them.

Use Zhou Li to educate them well!

(End of this chapter)