The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 574 The wicked have their own grind

With Zhu Linmi's strong support, Hong Si had already led the Propaganda Department on the right track, and the head office of the Propaganda Office in Yuanzhou had 27 chief writers.

As soon as Tian Zhuangfei's order to publicize the Huangzhuang Contracting System came, Yuanzhou produced two scripts within a day and a half.One is about how the family lived a happy life after the farmer surnamed Li in Fujing contracted Huangzhuang.The second is that the gentry of the Hu family in Guangxin Prefecture, Jiangxi, maliciously slandered Huangzhuang in order to fight for tenants for their family, and did all kinds of bad things.In the end, he was found out by a young tenant, who collected his criminal evidence and sued the government.

With this pros and cons, the people of Fenyi suddenly started to try again. From time to time, some people went to the place where the contract was signed in Huangzhuang, but no one dared to take action for a while.

On the other side, Feng Guangguo sent his eunuchs to lead people from door to door to persuade the people and analyze the benefits of contracting Huangzhuang for them.

After the eunuch left, Dong Han's minions followed closely, claiming that they belonged to the Flying Whale Gang, and they would cover all the people who contracted Huangzhuang from now on.However, as much grain as is handed over to Huangzhuang every year, they have to be given the same amount of money to "buy peace". The Flying Whale Gang guarantees that no one dares to threaten the farmers because of the Huangzhuang incident.

In fact, Zhu Linmi originally arranged for Huangzhuang to temporarily collect double the "imperial grain", but after Dong Han said, the increased part became the protection fee.

But the common people at the bottom eat this trick very much.If it is said that the government has collected more taxes to help Huangzhuang contractors solve the problem of being threatened and intimidated by gangsters, no one will believe it.But these "heroes of the rivers and lakes" say that they take money to do things, but the common people firmly believe it.Coupled with the fierce appearance of these pirates, they can hold the place at first glance, and there are several families who can't live on now. They made a high-five agreement with Dong Han's minions, and turned around to contract Huangzhuang.

In the home of Dianshi Zhao Runbao in Fenyi County, Master Dianshi shut the door tightly and yelled at a strong man in his forties, "I have raised your Stone Tiger Gang for so many years, and you tell me there is nothing I can do?!

"There are more and more people going to contract Huangzhuang in the past few days, and the higher-ups have already reprimanded me! I don't care if you smash or scare, in short, stop this momentum quickly!"

That man is Shi Dagong, the head of the Stone Tiger Gang.He also had a gloomy face, and said in a deep voice: "Master Zhao, you have taken care of the Shihu Gang all these years, and Shi always remembers it in his heart. But recently, the Flying Whale Gang suddenly appeared, and they are extremely powerful. I am already Overwhelmed.

"Besides, the Flying Whale Gang seems to have taken advantage of the Huangzhuang eunuchs. The subordinates I sent to frighten the contractors before have been... not going well."

He couldn't help but think of all kinds of things that happened in the past two days - firstly, several subordinates who smashed up the Zhang family in Laoteng Village were beaten in the middle of the night, and when they woke up the next day, they found that their houses had been destroyed. For flat ground.

He poisoned the servants of the hen in Qian’s contractor’s household. All the livestock in the family were skinned and hung bloody in a row at the door. There were still a few empty seats behind, with the names of his family members written on them.

Those who beat the contractors had their arms and legs broken; those who poured feces and urine into the contractors' homes were filled with feces and thrown into the cesspool; ...

In short, the vicious methods of those people made him, a veteran who had been in the underworld for decades, terrified.Moreover, the Flying Whale Gang was extremely "serious and responsible" after receiving the money from the contractors of Huangzhuang.

What troubled him the most was the strength of the Flying Whale Gang.He took more than a hundred men to find a place, but was beaten to the ground by more than 30 opponents.

He didn't know that the so-called Flying Whale Gang were all pirates who had licked blood with their knives and dared to challenge the officers and soldiers. If they hadn't "accidentally" encountered Ruan Jin's Galen warship, they would never have fought in this life. These "weak" punks have an intersection.

Shi Dagong didn't wait for Zhao Dianshi to say anything, he put on his bamboo hat and said goodbye.

Recently, more than a dozen of his subordinate leaders were seriously injured or ran away, and more than [-]% of his subordinates were lost. Seeing that the Stone Tiger Gang is almost unable to survive.At this time, if he went to provoke those people who contracted Huangzhuang again, not to mention that the gang could not keep it, he was afraid that he would have his leg broken or something.

And he also heard that the situation of his old rival Haohantang was even worse than him.The hall master's sons were all thrown on a barren hill a hundred miles away from the city, and they almost never came back.It is said that in the past few days, the Hall of Heroes has begun to discuss bowing to the Flying Whale Gang...

In the second hall of the Fenyi county government office, Zeng Jian was staring at Chang Caifu, the magistrate, with some anger in his words, "Master Chang, the Hu clan has seized the one hundred and four that should have been confiscated by the captives Ma Yangyu and Li Zhe. It has been as long as one year and three months to pour fertile land!

"Earlier, you reasoned that the land books had not been sorted out, and the land deeds were not clear, so you didn't deal with it. Now that Mr. Feng has conclusive evidence and has collected these lands for Huangzhuang, why don't you send someone to help clear them? Take the land?"

"Master Zeng, you have to be considerate of the difficulty of being an official." Chang Cai said in a nonchalant way, "The Hu family has already planted seeds on these fields, and all of them are the county's taxes for the coming year. If it is next year's official food If the payment is not complete, the Ministry of Officials still has to count it on the head of the lower officials."

He didn't wait for Zeng Jian's rebuttal, and immediately said: "Furthermore, the Hu family is the largest wealthy family, with at least six or seven thousand members. And the three classes of government servants in our government office have only a little over 40 in total. People don't look at me."

Although the clan power in the Ming Dynasty was much weaker than that of the previous dynasty, they still had a lot of power in the local area. Ordinary local officials would give them three points. Make sure you do both.

"This is easy." Zeng Jiandao, "I have asked the Ministry of War for a transfer order, and the police can help you."

"Absolutely not!" Chang Zhixian waved his hands again and again, "If you lead troops to go, you will completely turn against the Hu family. If you fail to stir up a civil uprising, the lower officials will lose their heads..."

"Hmph! Aren't you afraid that the court will blame you?!"

"Here, Mr. Zeng, it's embarrassing for you to step down from office, why don't you give it another year or two..."

Although Chang Caifan had a bitter face, he was very confident in his heart, the court?So many good farmlands were allotted at Huangzhuang, and the land rent was lowered. Those high officials in the imperial court were much more anxious and angry than I was.Mr. Yuan promised me earlier that I would not take care of anything that is not good for Huangzhuang. Someone in the court will try to protect me, so why should I be afraid?

After a long time, Zeng Jian knew how to repeatedly evade the law, and had no intention of taking back the Hu family's occupation of Huangzhuang's land. He got up angrily and said, "Master Chang, are you determined not to do this matter?"

Chang Caifan was also very straightforward, "Master Zeng forgives the crime, but the lower officials are powerless."

(End of this chapter)