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Chapter 400 The End of the Riot
Hearing Gao Pan's introduction of Gao Ming, Gao Guangcheng was also quite happy, and he seemed to greet Gao Ming very cordially, but Gao Ming was a little awkward.

"Seventh brother, I am here to compensate you for my mother. You and my sister have suffered all these years. Others say that my sister has drowned, but I have always believed that she is still alive. You, I am very happy..."

Seeing Gao Ming's shy look, Gao Guang thought he was thinking about what happened before, so he smiled and apologized to Gao Ming, and said softly.

This made Gao Ming shake his head hastily:

"Brother, it's not true. In fact, Fifth Brother made it clear to me, and I've already let go of it. It's just that my mother has suffered because she didn't have a good life."

After hearing this, Gao Guangcheng came to Gao Ming, patted him on the shoulder lightly, looked at Gao Pan again and said:

"Seventh brother, let's treat the past as the past. From now on, we will be brothers and a family. No matter where we go, we will help you."

Seeing this, Gao Pan hastily echoed:
"Elder brother is right. We brothers should help each other. Now the seventh brother is helping me. Don't worry, elder brother. I will never treat him badly."

Gao Ming listened to the words of the two of them, his face showed a touch of touch, and his heart was even more moved. These words made him think that he had completely integrated into Gao Pan and Gao Guangcheng's circle, and he obeyed Gao Pan's instructions even more up.

"Okay, big brother, hurry up and eat dinner, you can escort Liu Yuanliang to the capital overnight, so as not to have long nights and dreams."

Gao Pan suddenly remembered what happened, and hurriedly reminded Gao Guangcheng.

Gao Guangcheng also came to his senses. Now that Gao Pan had controlled Yuan Fangjun, fearing that Yuan Fangjun would suddenly wake up and things would be difficult, he nodded hastily.

Accompanied by Gao Pan and Gao Ming, after a hasty dinner, Gao Guangcheng led 1000 people under his command, escorted Liu Yuanliang and others, and left from the west of Dantang County.

Gao Pan, who watched Gao Guangcheng leave, also breathed a sigh of relief. Liu Yuanliang was detained in Beijing, which also declared that the "Northern Yan Restoration" operation had completely failed.

Perhaps from Gao Pan to Dongshan, he was already doomed to fail. Gao Pan didn't think it was surprising that he was able to collapse so quickly without enough ideological support.

After thinking for a while, Gao Pan turned around and went back to Xiangmanlou. Just at this moment, someone reported that several generals under Yuan Fangjun had fainted from drinking.

When Gao Pan heard the news, he sneered, and ordered people to send all these people back to their camps. At the same time, people falsely spread Yuan Fangjun's order, saying that they were going back to Pengcheng overnight.

Yuan Fangjun didn't wake up from the beginning to the end. When he woke up, he found that he had returned to Pengcheng.

He was extremely suspicious in his heart, and called to his side to ask, only then did he realize that all the property and beauties he had looted before were gone.

"Gao Pan!! I'm going to kill him!"

After more and more details were known to Yuan Fangjun, he yelled towards the sky with a distorted face, attracting the attention of outsiders.

But even if Yuan Fangjun looked up to the sky and screamed, it was of no avail. Now that they had returned to the territory of Jiangnan, he, as the garrison of Jiangnan, could not leave the territory of Jiangnan without a good reason.

At this moment, Yuan Fangjun could only vent his dissatisfaction in this way.

If there are cronies, they remind him to write a letter to impeach Gao Pan, all the little magistrates, isn't that just rubbing it casually?

After hearing this suggestion, Yuan Fangjun didn't think much about it, and hastily asked someone to concoct a "criminal letter" for Gao Pan, imagining that when this memorial went to Emperor Tianfeng's imperial court, Gao Pan would be punished immediately.

But Yuan Fangjun naturally did not expect that after receiving his memorial, the Secretary of the General Administration would be retained directly, and even the auxiliary government cabinet had not been passed on, and he did not know why.

……

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In the 16th year of Tianfeng, at the end of May, when Cui Fujin recovered the last county seat in Dongshan, he also officially announced that the riot provoked by the rebels was completely over.

From the middle of the first month to the end of May, in just five months, from the turmoil to the end, it can be said that it ended very quickly.

For the Dayu Dynasty, which has a history of hundreds of years, five months is not worth mentioning at all.

But the changes to the Dayu Dynasty are big enough, because last year, that is, the 15th year of Tianfeng, a soul from another world passed through here.

This riot, which was not mentioned at first, was called by later scholars as the event initiated by Zhongxing in the middle of the Yu Dynasty.

Because of Gao Pan's proposal, Ning Yan was moved to kill some gentry and landlords in Dongshan, and also forced some gentry and landlords to spit out some land to ordinary people.

This gave the originally difficult "New Deal" a place to take root. In Dantang County, Shangning Prefecture, Gao Pan, as the county magistrate, took the lead in launching the New Deal reform.

All the land in the county was re-measured, and the fields that were handed over after the death of the gentry or were forced to be handed over were allocated to ordinary people for cultivation.

In addition, Gao Pan announced that as long as it is his own land, except for taxes, all the harvest will be his own.

The land tax in the Dayu Dynasty was not high, only about [-]% was required, but in fact, local officials would increase a lot of miscellaneous taxes privately, far exceeding [-]%.

There are also quite a few common people who are tenants of the landlord’s family. The landlord alone has to collect [-]% or even more back, plus the government’s taxes. Throughout the year, the hardworking people can only get back [-]%, which is just enough to feed their family.

This is also one of the reasons why many people are willing to become tenants of the gentry's family. The representatives of the gentry can be exempted from the court tax, which is [-]% of the exemption. For ordinary people, it is also a helpless move.

But this time in Dantang County, the gentry and the common people paid the food together, even the gentry had to pay taxes obediently, and there was also a poll tax. It can be said that according to the rules, the taxes paid by the gentry must be much higher than that of ordinary people.

And Gao Pan distributed those fields to the people, and told them that apart from the taxes formally collected by the court, there would be no other taxes to pay, and these people had a lot of motivation.

Let many tenants who were originally under the name of the gentry do it alone, because in this way, there is no need to pay taxes to the gentry, and only pay taxes to the government, which will be less.

Under the ebb and flow, the land under the name of the gentry and landlords in Dantang County has shrunk significantly, and the land that they have spent a lot of effort to annex has returned to the hands of the people again.

In addition, at the beginning of the year, Gao Pan had already organized spring plowing, which did not have much impact due to the riots. By the beginning of June, good crops could be seen everywhere.

Gao Pan walked on the ridge of the field, seeing all this, felt that when the summer grain was collected, he would definitely give a satisfactory answer.

(End of this chapter)