At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 24, There are always crimes suitable for the people
  "Why are you here?" When Xu Fan was still thinking about how to escape, he didn't expect that Chen Lin would also be captured here.

Chen Lin saw Xu Fan and said with a hint of anger: "These dog officials don't do human work. My family's fields are not planted with rice and wheat rotation. This year, we harvested 20 shi more wheat. But the county dog ​​officials found out about this. He Since I violated the farm reclamation order and evaded taxes, I was fined 2 armor and 2 shields. How could I get 5000 money to buy shields and armors, so these dog officials arrested me."

Xu Fan was stunned when he heard this and said: "This is increasing grain, how could it also violate the farming order?"

Isn’t the agricultural reclamation order intended to increase food?
  What on earth are going on in these officials' heads.

Zhou Zhang mocked: "Of course the First Emperor wanted the people to collect more food when he issued the farming order, but that may not be the case for the officials. It has nothing to do with the court getting more food, but punishing the people can increase their income. Now these Now that the prisoners are gone, who will farm the land for these officials?

In order to prevent their land from becoming desolate, officials must of course impose strict punishments. Even if you talk in the farmland, you will be punished. Not to mention that this brother does not farm according to the farming season. According to the laws of the Qin Dynasty, this is a heavy punishment. He is responsible for his crimes. This brother has also suffered an unreasonable disaster. Look, they will not stop until they catch enough believers cultivating official fields. "

In fact, the place where the Qin Law is most strictly implemented is Guanzhong. In occupied areas like Yang County, there are more than a dozen officials including the county magistrate who were born in Guanzhong, and even most of the other officials are originally from Chu. If we really want to follow the Qin Law Come and do it, the entire Yang County is a prisoner, so in order to maintain the rule of Qin Dynasty, officials also unite with local powerful people and ignore local customs, as long as it does not affect their political performance.

But when they are in need, they will strictly follow Qin laws. Mechanical law enforcement is the natural instinct of officials. The cumbersome laws and regulations of the Qin Dynasty became their biggest helper. If they want to punish people, they can always find laws to achieve it. their purpose.

Xu Fan suddenly realized that the role of the prisoners to the Qin Dynasty was mainly to restrain their respective weapons and armor, and to build roads and walls. In wartime, they became cannon fodder, which can be said to be of great effect.

But there have been no wars in these years. The city walls in Yang County have been repaired long ago, and the dirt roads are not bad. As long as Chi Road is not repaired, such dirt roads are enough. Therefore, most of the prisoners like Xu Fan They became slaves of officials, helping Yang County officials cut firewood and farm, of which farming was their main task. Yang County had 3 acres of official land, and the profits from these official fields belonged to Yang County officials.

The feudal dynasty had limited income and could not afford to support too many officials. The management was at the county level at most, so it was said that royal power did not go to the countryside. However, the Qin Dynasty was the most powerful bureaucratic machine in the feudal era, with vertical management down to the village level. , relying on this strict management system, the Qin Dynasty developed a strong mobilization ability, and finally destroyed the six countries and unified the world.

But this strict bureaucratic system consumes a lot of money. 4% of the Qin Dynasty's annual finance is swallowed up by this huge bureaucratic system.

An ordinary county like Yang County wants county magistrates, county magistrates, county lieutenants, and county magistrates. The annual salary of these officials is 600 shi, and the chief official receives 400 shi. Dozens of warehouse officials and other officials are needed. Most of these officials' salaries are more than a hundred shi. In addition, there are hundreds of government servants to assist them. There is also the chief of the pavilion, and his subordinates include Ting Zuo, Ting Hou, Qiu Pi, Ting Fu, and Ting Pawn. It can be said that the bureaucracy of the Qin Dynasty is not much different from that of later generations.

However, the productivity of the Qin Dynasty was far inferior to that of later generations. There were hundreds of officials in one county. Even if their average salary was only a hundred shi, this would cost tens of thousands of shi in field tax. In this era, the tax revenue of many counties in the Qin State could not reach this level. Standard, in order to solve the county's income, the Qin Dynasty usually reserved a piece of official land in a remote county, and the income from the official land was the salary of these officials. This is a low-cost management method that can save the consumption of warehousing and transportation, but it requires someone to farm the official land, and the prisoners have become the best slaves of these officials. They only need to pay one-tenth of the official land. If you use the income to help the prisoner survive, you can get 9% of the income.

But now that the First Emperor wants to escort all the believers in Yangxian County to Guanzhong, the officials of Yangxian County will naturally have fewer prisoners to cultivate their own fields.

The greed of feudal officials was not much worse than that of later generations of capitalists. Hiring tenants had to pay more than half of the income, while using prisoners they could keep 9% of the income. Needless to say, the officials in Yang County knew that they would continue to create a group of prisoners for themselves. Farmed.

And what happened next was the same. New prisoners were arrested almost every day, and the reasons why they broke the law were also varied. Most of them, like Chen Lin, did not follow the farm reclamation order. Several people were arrested for gathering. Some were arrested because they were unable to pay taxes, and some were even arrested for picking a few leaves from Mr. Huang out of boredom.

In short, everyone deserves their punishment. The total number of Dingkou in Yang County does not exceed 800, but the number of prisoners has exceeded . And half of the believers will go to Guanzhong to build a palace for the First Emperor.

At this time, Xu Fan also started his own plan. He spread the news among the prisoners that the prisoners in Yang County would be sent to Guanzhong to build the imperial mausoleum, and said that they would be taken there by the First Emperor after they finished building the palace and the imperial mausoleum. Burial. The First Emperor will continue to conquer the world after he reaches Huangquan. They are the First Emperor's soldiers underground.

After the news spread, the prisoners were all panic-stricken. They all believed this rumor, because the nobles of Chu State would always do evil things beyond the imagination of the people, and used them to sacrifice to the mountain gods and river gods. Especially for things like burials, the nobles of Chu State did too much, and the people saw too much. But now the First Emperor is a more powerful and cruel ruler than the nobles. The nobles can bring hundreds of people to be buried with them. The First Emperor The people at the bottom believed that the First Emperor could do it by burying tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people with him.

No matter how miserable the people's lives are, their survival instinct will always exist. The Qin Dynasty wants them to die, and their hatred for the Qin State has reached its highest peak at this time.

Xu Fan took the opportunity to connect all the prisoners, summoned the most prestigious leaders among the prisoners, and told them that if they go to Guanzhong, they will definitely die. If they rebel, they will escape death. Why don't we rebel and seek this only way to survive?

But these leaders still hesitated when they heard about the rebellion. They were all born after hearing about the brutality and power of the Qin Dynasty, and their fear of the Qin Dynasty was engraved in their bones.

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