Chapter 606: The Prefect Lying Down

"Sir, I want to identify them. They robbed my shop. The grain shop on the street of the west city gate belongs to us!" Another middle-aged man stood up and shouted.

"Do you have any evidence?"

The middle-aged man said, "I have it in my house!"

"Go and get it! As long as the evidence is solid, I will return the shop to you!"

The middle-aged man was enlightened and ran home to get the evidence.

The evidence is a deed, or an official deed.

The so-called official deed is a deed with the official seal of the prefecture or county, which can also be called a red deed.

The corresponding to the red deed is the white deed, which is a contract signed privately by the people without going through the government.

Even with an official deed, the shop cannot be saved. This is really unfair!

Glancing at the deed, Yang Mingzhao said, "Ma Yan, make a new official deed for him! Register it!"

Ma Yan, who had been prepared for a long time, immediately took the deed, then re-made it, and asked the people to register it.

In just a few minutes, a new contract was ready, and it was stamped with the official seal of the county government.

"Take it! You can take over this shop now, and it will be yours from now on!" Yang Mingzhao said.

The middle-aged man took the contract, tears welled up in his eyes, and he knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly.

"My lord, you are kind and righteous, I am grateful to you!"

"Wow, thank you for your kindness!"

"Go, go, hey, wait, I still have to try the case, and I will punish you with the crime later! You can stay here and continue to watch!" Yang Mingzhao almost forgot about the business.

With the first person taking the lead, the next step was simple, and many people jumped out to identify the crime.

Yang Mingzhao's way of judging was also very simple. If there were many people who identified the crime, then the family must have committed many crimes and must be severely punished. If it involved human lives, then they would be beheaded. If it did not involve human lives, then they would be imprisoned first and do hard labor later.

If there are few people who point out, it is possible that they are false accusations, or that they have done less evil, so they should be kept for later.

One by one, the officials, yamen runners, and wealthy gentry were brought up, and the people pointed out the names of the people.

At the beginning, there were only a few hundred people gathered, but by noon, there were already two or three thousand people gathered in the streets in front of the county government.

Most of the people in the city came running.

"Should this dog county magistrate be killed!" Finally, it was the turn of Li Zhongping, the county magistrate, and Yang Mingzhao shouted while holding a teapot in one hand.

"He should be killed, he should be killed!"

The people were excited and shouted one after another.

Pa Pa Pa~~

Yang Mingzhao knocked on the gavel, "Silence, silence!"

"Since he should be killed, then kill him!"

"Have you remembered everything?"

He looked at Ma Yan next to him.

"I have remembered it!" Ma Yan replied.

"Very good, kill now! Cut off those who are guilty of heinous crimes first!" Yang Mingzhao said.

Including the county magistrate Li Zhongping, 23 officials and wealthy families were dragged out again. Seeing this, the people around were both afraid and excited.

They were afraid of the bloody thing of beheading, and excited that these damned officials were finally punished.

Lin Botao stood in the crowd and looked at the officials who were tied up, especially the official who killed his parents, his eyes were full of excitement.

He looked at Yang Mingzhao again. At this time, Yang Mingzhao was still standing on the chair, holding the teapot to his mouth and drinking water without any image.

It has been shouting for most of the day, and Yang Mingzhao is also dry in the mouth.

On the execution ground, those officials and wealthy families are still struggling and crying, but their mouths are blocked and they can only make whimpering sounds.

Yang Mingzhao did not give them a chance to speak at all, and did not even ask them. As long as there are enough people who complain, it is a capital crime.

They cried bitterly, and some were even scared to pee.

The people around were extremely excited.

"Kill them, kill them!"

"Kill them!"

The people shouted.

Yang Mingzhao laughed, "Execute!"

The young and strong men held long knives, held down the officials and rich people, and chopped them down hard.

However, these guys' skills were not very good, and their knives were not professional ghost-headed swords. They didn't kill any of them after one chop.

There were also good aspects. None of these young and strong men were afraid, and they all behaved very seriously.

They were qualified warriors only after killing people and seeing blood.

Today was to train their courage.

The next scene was a bloody scene with heads rolling.

Looking at the blood all over the ground, the people who were shouting around finally quieted down.

Yang Mingzhao shouted again: "From today on, I am the county magistrate of Taiping County. You are all citizens of Taiping County. If anyone has grievances, you can come to the county government to file a complaint at any time!"

"From tomorrow on, the county government will recompile the Yellow Book. All citizens who have real estate in the county need to come to the county government to register. If you don't come, your real estate can be treated as ownerless real estate!"

"When the county government sells your real estate, don't blame me for being unreasonable!"

"Okay, that's all for today. I'm tired. Let's all go!"

After that, Yang Mingzhao turned around and walked back to the county government.

They were going to recompile the Yellow Book of Taiping County. The so-called Yellow Book is the household registration, which records the hometown, name, age, number of people, land and property, and assets in detail. It also defines the household registration according to occupation, which is mainly divided into three categories: civilian, military, and craftsman.

Fish scale book, also known as fish scale map book and measurement book, is a land registration book that draws houses, forests, ponds, and fields in order and indicates the corresponding names. It is a general book of folk fields.

The most important information in the county government office is the yellow book and the fish scale book. With the yellow book and the fish scale book, you can know how many people there are, how much land there are, how much taxes should be collected, etc.

However, people sometimes are unwilling to register and make registrations because once they have household notes, they will have to pay various taxes and serve corvee services for the government. Many people would rather be hidden households than register and make registrations.

Hidden houses and hidden fields are common in Darong, and if Yang Mingzhao wants to distribute land to the people, he must clarify all the population and fields in the county.

The people in the city do not need to divide the land, but they have real estate and shops, so they have to collect industrial and commercial taxes, so they also have to register.

On the third day after Yang Mingzhao and his friends entered the city, Deng Xing and Han Lin each led a hundred young and strong men to the county town.

In the county yamen, Yang Mingzhao asked them, "How is it? Is things going well?"

"So smoothly, the inspection department has taken it down, and I have cut off both the inspection and the deputy inspection. As for the archer, I killed a few people who have done a lot of evil on weekdays. The remaining ones, I gave them three dou of food and dismissed them. It's "" "" "" "" "

"Those archers were holding the food and thanking each other repeatedly. Hahaha, they even had a problem with eating on weekdays, let alone sending them food. Don't worry, young master, they won't make trouble again!"

Deng Xing said.

Yang Mingzhao nodded with a smile, "Very good. If we occupy the inspection department, we will block the northern gate of Taiping County."

They left a hundred young and strong men in the inspection department. These hundred young and strong men certainly could not stop the army, but there was no problem in blocking the official road.

"My side is also very smooth. The Yan family is a bit powerful, but that's it. As soon as I took a little action, the Yan family was wiped out!" Han Lin said a little funny.

"The Yan family has a lot of assets, no money and grain, and a lot of land. It is difficult to sort out in a short period of time, so I left Lin Liu there. The young master can arrange people to go over and check it!"

Yang Mingzhao shook his head and said, "Don't worry, don't worry, you can't run away when you put things there. Next, we should divide the land for the people!"

"Tomorrow, two young and strong men will stay in the city, and will be responsible for registering and building the people in the city."

"Old Deng, Lao Han, Zhao Kai, Zhang Mo, Li Cheng, Yu Qiyan, you six each lead 50 people and two civil servants. With the county as the center, you go to the surrounding villages and towns to share the land for the people!"

"As long as the people are willing to register and settle down, we will allocate land to them. Any 16-year-old Dingkou, regardless of gender, will be distributed to them."

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

"Tea farmers divide tea mountains, medicine farmers divide medicine fields, and in short, divide the fields first!"

These are all plans they have formulated before, and the fields are allocated according to the fertility of the fields and the type of planting.

Any Dingkou, who is over 16 years old, can be divided into three acres of paddy fields per person. If there is no paddy field, it can be divided into five acres of dry land. If it is too barren, it can be divided into eight acres as appropriate.

Tea farmers will not only give tea mountains, but also divide some fields where food can be grown.

Similarly, pesticide farmers will not only give medicinal fields, but will also divide them into fields for growing grain.

There may be some unfair distribution in this way, but rules must be set, otherwise the more you divide, the more you will become, the more chaotic it will become.

"By the way, try to keep the fields around the county town, and allocate those fields to our people in Sanjian Valley!"

Yang Mingzhao did not forget these brothers under his command. If he was willing to work hard, he would definitely give him more land.

After giving the instructions, everyone started to get busy the next day.

Register the city and measure the land allocation outside the city.

The people in the city had accepted the existence of Yang Mingzhao and others and cooperated very much to register.

The people outside the city did not believe that there was such a good thing in this world at first, but as long as someone was willing to try it, the rest would be simple.

Moreover, the first village completed the land division, and the later villages began to look forward to their arrival.

As for the gentry in the villages and towns, the same thing is said: Those who do evil things will kill them directly. If they are pretty good, then leave them a few more acres of land, and all the rest will be given to the tenants and slaves.

That's right, even the slaves are distributed, so things like selling their bodies will naturally be abandoned.

All the usury loans issued by the gentry before were abolished, and all the land was given to tenants and slaves. As for the family and wealth, as long as they were willing to cooperate in the distribution of the land, Yang Mingzhao would not deliberately kill them.

Once the land is distributed to the tenants and slaves, the tenants and slaves will definitely not want to be a cattle or a horse for the gentry and landlords. If the gentry and landlords want to force the land in the future, Yang Mingzhao and others may not need to take action, and the tenants and slaves will be Kill these squire landlords.

There will be riots and fights, but under strong force, all struggles will be futile.

At the beginning, there were still people who would resist, but as the work of dividing the land was on track, the gentry and landlords would no longer dare to resist.

Many gentry and landlords even fled Taiping County with their families, and Yang Mingzhao didn't stop them. They ran away if they wanted to, because they could not take the fields away anyway.

In the end, some people even took the initiative to capture the gentry and landlords and sent them to the county government office to ask Yang Mingzhao to distribute the land for them.

This chaotic situation lasted for two months and did not end until the end of the work of dividing the land.

We are working harder and more convenient to fight the landlords and divide the land.

Yang Mingzhao sat in the county government office and kept counting small coins. Today, he killed a landlord, and the young and strong men sent hundreds of taels of silver. Tomorrow, he killed another squire, and the young and strong men sent thousands of taels of silver.

Soon, the county government's treasury and the Changping warehouse were filled with silver and grain.

In just two months, they actually harvested nearly 100,000 taels of silver and more than 50,000 stones of grain.

Looking at the carts of grain being loaded into the Changping warehouse, Yang Mingzhao said angrily: "These squires and landlords are really hateful. They would rather let the grain rot in the warehouse than reduce the rent for the tenants!"

Chen Buyu said: "If they had a little conscience, the tenants would not have lived so miserably!"

Is Taiping County very poor?

No, Taiping County is not poor. Taiping County with good weather and good harvests is enough for more than 100,000 people to eat and wear warmly.

However, there were too many gentry landlords in Taiping County, who occupied a large amount of land, making the tenants miserable.

Coupled with the heavy taxes imposed by the government, the people could not survive.

It was only the ordinary people who were poor.

…

Just when Taiping County was measuring and dividing the land, the news that bandits were causing chaos in Taiping County spread quickly.

To the south of Taiping County was Dongxiang County, to the east was Mingtong County, to the west was Tongjiang County of Baoning Prefecture, and to the north was Ziyang County of Hanzhong Prefecture in Longnan.

Yang Mingzhao did not block the news, and he could not block the news, so on the third day after they started the uprising in the county, the news spread out of Taiping County.

Moreover, after the land was divided, many gentry landlords in Taiping County fled Taiping County.

Kuizhou Prefecture City.

"Mr. Futai, there are mobs in Taiping County. Mr. Qingfutai, please send troops to suppress them!"

There were two people standing in the hall, one was Yan Jifei, a direct descendant of the Yan family, and the other was Huang Hengtai, a squire in Taiping County.

Yan Jifei was lucky. When Deng Xing led people to attack the Yan family, Yan Jifei was not at home. When he returned home, he found that the Yan family had been surrounded. He did not dare to go forward, but secretly observed for a while. After seeing his father and brothers all being chopped, he was scared and fled from Taiping County.

Huang Hengtai's home was in the south of Taiping County. The land distribution started from the county seat. He received the news early and fled to Kuizhou Prefecture in advance.

There were many Yan family children and squires like them. Many of them fled to Kuizhou Prefecture and wanted to ask the prefectural government to send troops to quell the rebellion.

The prefect, Su Muye, stroked his beard and said, "I already know about this. I have asked the Dusi Yamen to summon soldiers to quell the rebellion. You go back and wait!"

He sent the two away with a simple sentence, but after they left, Su Muye sighed.

It is said that the prefect who exterminated the family ruined the county magistrate, but this is aimed at ordinary people.

Faced with a group of rioters, what can Su Muye, the prefect, do?

Ask the Dusi Yamen to summon soldiers to quell the rebellion?

Don't be ridiculous. If the Dusi Yamen could quell the rebellion, then the Black Tiger King and the Nine Heavenly Kings would not have been eliminated for several years.

As for those guards, they can't be relied on at all.

And the government office has no money and grain. The money and grain have long been requisitioned by the Provincial Administration Commissioner in the name of quelling the rebellion. Now the granary of the government office can starve to death.

Without money, food and soldiers, what else can Su Muye do?

Su Muye thought about it and felt that he should go to bed!

Since there's nothing you can do, you might as well just lie down.