This village is too big, and it is organized to oppose the redemption of the land. It cannot achieve its goal through careful and considerate persuasion like the previous villages.
So they can only use other means.
Before dawn, they all woke up, and now is the most relaxed time of the day, Bai Shan and the others got up, avoided the people staring at them and left quietly.
When the two village chiefs came to find them as agreed, only Mr. Tang was left.
They were slightly taken aback, and just about to ask, Tang He got up and said, "Let's go, hurry back, I haven't bathed for three or four days."
The two chiefs followed hesitantly, and only after walking a long distance did they find a chance to speak, "Master Tang, where are the other two lords and the officials?"
Tang He waved his hand indifferently and said, "They are going to the next village."
He glanced at them and said with a sneer, "There are a lot of troubles in your Qizhou. These fields belonged to the imperial court. You bought them at a low price. Now His Majesty bought them back at the original price. It has been cheap for you all these years." Now, what else is there to be dissatisfied with?"
The complexions of the district chiefs changed slightly, and before they could speak, Tang He pouted again and said, "But if the Shangguan hadn't told me about this hard work, I wouldn't be willing to come here to do thankless things. What the court is worried about now is These tenant farmers have been reduced to the mob, so as long as you can appease the tenant farmers, it is not impossible for the higher authorities to turn a blind eye and let them go."
The hearts of the two chiefs just flew up for nine days and then fell back again, and they almost couldn't bear it.
At this time, Bai Shan and the others had already circled to the end of the village and hid directly in the woods.
Ren Yushi stretched out his hand to hold down the big black mosquito on the back of his hand, his face was very dark, "It looks like a war."
Bai Shandao: "Looking at yesterday's posture and fighting, there are no more than eighty-nine households with their own land, and the most land is twelve mu, and the least is only two mu. The rest are basically The tenants who rely on the rent are also in this situation that caused the situation like yesterday."
Ren Yushi thought for a while and said: "When I enter the village later, Lord Bai will have to persuade the villagers. Your words will make people feel more friendly."
Bai Shan nodded, but he didn't leave immediately, but said: "Last night, Master Ren didn't say how to deal with these tenants in the future."
Ren Yushi glanced at him, "Master Tang told you to act with the camera, so Master Bai will obey."
Bai Shan raised his eyebrows slightly, he knew it in his heart.
Xuexiong Tang told him to make up his own mind, but isn't your censor here
Later, he made a promise to appease the hearts of the people. If you don't fulfill it, isn't he the one who was scolded
And what's the point of impeaching him for arresting him for not following the rules
Having received Ren Yushi's promise, Bai Shan led the people out, and he decided to follow his own heart.
The officers and soldiers went back and forth, and started sweeping from the end of the village where they hadn't paid the most attention, calling out people from house to house, and led them to the center of the village.
They only gathered people from the end of the village, and they gave up when they gathered eighty or ninety households, and the rest came when they heard the noise.
When the more active people at the head of the village arrived with sticks and hoes, Bai Shan and Ren Yushi were standing on a high platform temporarily set up by several tables.
He nodded to the guards on the side, and the guards drew out their knives, slashed at the wooden stakes beside him, and shouted loudly: "My lord has something to say, be quiet—"
The noisy people quieted down, and then Bai Shan looked at them and said: "Do you know that you can be defined as mobs and rebels just because of your attack on the court officials yesterday, and you can be killed without mercy?"
Everyone panicked, "But you have also seen that there are not as many people here today as there were yesterday, do you know why?"
"Why, why?"
"Because your chief went to the city to plead guilty on your behalf." Bai Shan opened his eyes and said nonsense, "What happened yesterday was not your chief's intention, and he also said that you are afraid that the land will be bought back by the yamen and there will be no land to cultivate. , Master Tang takes pity on you, and thinks that you are the first offender, so he decided to forgive you."
"But there are some things, I think it's okay not to clarify with you." Bai Shan said: "Do you know that this piece of land was originally the official land?"
Naturally, everyone knows this, even if they didn’t know it before, they all know it now. Recently, this matter has become so big that people say that the yamen’s work is not moral, and they were short of money a few years ago, so they sold the land to Their boss.
As a result, now that they are not short of money, they go back on their word and want to buy Diqiang back.
They have been planting fields for so many years, and they have planted seeds this year. Now they want to take back the fields, and the officials will force them to death.
As long as the thought of this happened, everyone's emotions were stirred up again.
Bai Shan said loudly: "All these official lands were sold at a low price by the former governor of Qizhou in collusion with local rich and aristocratic families, and the land price is less than one-third of the market price!"
Everyone remained silent, Bai Shan continued: "And these fields should have been yours!"
As soon as this sentence came out, everyone couldn't help clamoring.
Bai Shan slightly raised his hand and said: "According to the laws of the Jin Dynasty, every adult can get 20 acres of Yongye Field. How many adults in your village were allocated to the field last year, and how many adults were allocated to the field the year before last?" , but it was assigned to the field again?"
"These official lands were originally intended to be distributed to Cheng Ding's men, but because these official lands were sold, the registered official lands in your villages and towns are thin, and when it is your turn to divide the land, you will find that there is no land to divide! "
Everyone couldn't help discussing in low voices, "It seems to be true. Last year, Cheng Ding, the third boy of Zhuzi's family, didn't get a share of the land, and he didn't get a share in the past few years."
"The official said it nicely. It is not certain whether you will take the field back and divide it or not. Besides, how many households can there be in our village who have not divided the fields? What about the others?"
"Yeah, we don't have land, we don't have land to plant, and we starve to death within a year."
"Can so much land be divided?" Bai Shan said, "Of course not. The rest of the land still needs to be cultivated, and you have just changed from being tenant farmers of other people's families to being tenant farmers of the imperial court, and I can make the decision. The imperial court will never charge more than 40% of the rent from you."
Ren Yushi couldn't help turning his head to look at him, and began to wink at him, don't talk big, it's not more than 40%, then at most it's 40%, the new governor of Qizhou knew that Bai Shan would be torn apart
Bai Shan continued: "And the imperial court has already made a decree, and the announcement was pasted on the city wall. It has already stated that the harvest of the rented fields this year will still belong to you. The imperial court will redeem the land this year and will not take over the fields until the end of the autumn harvest. I don't know about you guys. Where did you hear the rumors that you destroy young crops, but do you know that destroying young crops is also a serious crime?"
After Bai Shan finished speaking, he gave Ren Yushi a wink, and Ren Yushi stepped forward and told them what crime it was to destroy young crops, and what crime it was to attack officials, and then pointed to the few people below who were still quietly stirring up people's hearts and said: "Master Bai doesn't care about you, but it's not something you can bully casually. Arrest these leaders. I suspect that they are related to the rumors that have been circulating recently!"