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14. Seventy-three

When Gao Yue finished saying this, the seventy-three households in the Chiya Pass Prison were even more uncomfortable than death. The whole atmosphere was as silent as an iceberg. They answered neither, nor did they answered nor did they answered nor did they answered nor did they answered their hearts. Each of them felt as if they were filled with thousands of ants bites.

After a long time, Gao Yue stood up and said that he could not find out what he could do today, but the construction of the patrol could not be delayed. He quickly asked Wei Zhiyi and Li Jie to lead all the painters and You Yi, with ropes, poles and bowstrings, books, drawing paper, and fields. According to the tax payment notes sent by the households in this group of situations, he carefully dug out the "hidden fields" that were not matched by Nanzheng and Chenggu counties. The 570,000 guan could only be used to make a fuss about this batch of hidden fields.

"Don't let people die in prison, quickly send more food and hot water to this group of people." The judge Wei Ping hurriedly said to the standing row of clerks.

As soon as the clerks took the order, Gao Yue said to the prison: "In terms of hidden fields, the fine Yin will give the other households in Baojia free of charge as Yongye fields, while the complete one is not official fields or academic fields. They will rent them to powerful merchants in Xingyuan Mansion at a preferential price. The Kufang households will set up workshops or turn them into cotton fields."

As soon as he finished speaking, the faces of several residents in the prison were pale or sallow. As the sound of the screams of the formation, blood vomited out from his mouth and nose, dyeing his clothes all over.

These tax-free lands are their lifelong efforts and reliance!

But Gao Yue was unmoved at all, and directly looked up and whispered loudly: "All this is for Dou Zhonglang's national economy and great cause!"

Next, the families of the seventy-three households lined up, crying and kneeling, begging other households who did not make trouble to appeal to the government and even the court, and said that they first came forward to stop Gao Yue from implementing the Jingjie Law. However, the other households in Xingyuan Prefecture really saw the situation and were all scared like a sieve. They said that the Jingjie Law was just to make us pay taxes and service in general. The tax was heavy and they could not die, and they could not destroy their families. The target of the corvee labor of the government would be to destroy the whole family! So the seventy-three households could not find any assistance. They heard that the head of the family could not eat well in Chiya Pass, and they would not be treated if they were sick, and they would be tortured from time to time. They were worried and could only line up again to bribe the various guards of the Chiya Pass Patrol. The family's wealth was instantly gone.

On the other hand, Gao Yue had already asked the county magistrate to carefully organize the clerks to quickly draw all the hidden fields in the two counties according to his previous requirements. This time, Gao Yue was impatient to let the situation households sign and announced that they were confiscated. The situation households who were not imprisoned in Chiya Pass were extremely frightened. They either knelt in front of Gao Yue, or asked his girl to go to Yun Shao and Yun and his sister to plead with him, and promised to register all his own fields on the base book of Xingyuan Mansion. In the future, he would pay taxes and serve according to the actual quantity. After all, Gao Yue agreed. However, the excess fields found in the seventy-three families could be affected. They were occupied by other households in Baojia, and were completely inserted into the stone tablet of the government field, and announced that they would become official fields and academic fields. Dr. Su Yan, who was aware of Xingyuan Academy, was stunned. Almost overnight, the academic fields of Taofen Academy suddenly increased by nearly 10,000 acres...

Then Gao Yue summoned the large merchants and Dakoufangmen in Xingyuan Prefecture (the workshop owner) and announced that all the confiscated land, whether it was official land or school land, were cut off two-thirds of the market price, and rented it to them for ten years, "cultivating tea trees, herbs, orchards, bamboos, sycamore trees, flat fields, setting up cotton weaving workshops, or setting up other workshops of various colors." Then the government distributed the money, or levying taxes, and the income was used to strengthen the army and run schools.

At first, the group of people were worried that they knew that Gao Dayin gave them cheap land, which was actually covered in blood, but Gao Yue said something profound to them: "There are people asking for business that beheads, and no one can do the business that loses money."

Yes, once they calculated, this business should not be too profitable. They did not accept it. Even if Gao Yue brought the third-class poor households in the group and occupied these land, it would be enough for them to make their fortunes within a few years. After thinking for a while, he finally signed the contract document.

In this way, six or seventy-seventy-tenths of the household wealth of the seventy-three detained households have been removed.

However, the matter was not over yet. After a few months, Gao Yue finally released them out of the Chiya Pass. However, he said that the construction cost of 570,000 yuan was also levied. The Yin decided to charge additional fees from Quanxingyuan Mansion. All households must pay, and you should be treated as "the first household" and let you collect taxes. You must collect them within two months, otherwise you will be killed.

At this time, these seventy-three families dared not say anything, but they just kept kowtowing to beg for mercy.

If it is really a "manager", ten lives are not enough to fill it.

Gao Yue said it would be fine if he was not a servant. There were 200,000 stones of grain in Chiya Pass. You were responsible for transporting them to the Fengzhou return lane hundreds of miles away. You would soon build a new two-tax envoy patrol there, and you needed to store grain for supply to the capital.

The seventy-three families had no choice but to sell their remaining wealth, gather all the vehicles and animals, hired porters, and set foot on the snowy Taurus Road in the severe winter, and then Chencang Road to the designated grain transport location.

This time, Gao Yue made them understand firmly:

In the past, you colluded with all kinds of powers and used all kinds of treacherous things to pass on rents, taxes and labor to truly good. When you are poor, what does it feel like when others are forced to walk on this snowy road?

When these ragged households passed by Fengzhou in tragic grief, Bai Juyi, who happened to visit his father's office, saw this scene. He was shocked. After asking the reason, he was even more moved and wrote: "If there is a daughter in the family, he will be a beggar when he is a strong man in the family, and once he is a servant, he will become a loser when he is a servant."

In late winter, when these seventy-three households returned from Fengzhou, except for Zhang Wanyao's banknotes, the wealth of each family was gone, and the land was 10 or so. During the prison and the transportation of grain, more than ten people died, which was equivalent to being uprooted.

What's even more amazing is that Gao Yue also has to pay the same amount for their tax payments this year, and said that the next year, they will be charged the same amount for the two taxes.

In the end, this group of people had no choice but to sell their land and prepare to escape.

But what's so bad is that because they refused to write a piece of paper on the anvil before, it means that their property is not legally recognized, and no one dares to even sell it, and the government will not stamp it.

In the end, some of these people hang themselves, some sold them into slavery, and some threw down their unbearable land, gathered some money to board the merchant ships in Hanchuan, and ran to Jingnan or Shandong to settle down.
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