Jia Lian of the Red Chamber

At this point, some of them finally felt fear and began to repent.

Jia Lian agreed.

This time, more than [-] households were withdrawn.

Zheng Xing and Wu De scolded angrily: "These soft bones without integrity should be a stepping stone for the rest of their lives."

Jia Lian ordered the 37 people who rebelled against the water to be taken out of the hall, and then ordered the gentry from the two prefectures to be brought into the hall. Because there were too many people, Jia Lian ordered the gate of the governor's hall to be removed, and the outer governor's compound was also turned into a governor's hall. .

These people stood neatly in two rows.

Jia Lian slapped the gavel: "The government is asking questions now, and you must report the truth, otherwise, you will bear the consequences."

All the gentry bowed together: "Take the stage to ask questions, we know everything, and we can say everything."

Jia Lian nodded: "Very well, look at these people in the hall on the left. They are now representing the family against the new government land tax policy. I would like to ask you, do you have the same thoughts and support them to oppose the new policy?"

Many people immediately shouted: "No, Mr. Futai, don't listen to their nonsense. Our family is preparing money and food. There is no such thing as tax resistance."

When Jia Lian saw that more than half of the people opposed him, he immediately felt at ease.

He said: "Okay, in front of these tax-resisting people, I would like to ask the second government of Quanzhou and Fuzhou, how is the autumn harvest this year? Three hundred catties, [-] catties of sweet potatoes. I want to know, is it your chief minister who is lying, or these people who have nothing to cover their bodies and cannot eat enough to eat?"

When Jia Lian asked, the gentry immediately exploded: "Who is talking nonsense? We have convenient transportation in Quanzhou, and this year's weather is smooth, and under the guidance of the agricultural technicians sent by the governor's office, we have a bumper harvest in both flood and drought seasons. Compared with last year's The harvest is good. Our middle-level families in Quanzhou now have surplus food, and a very small number of impoverished families have also received subsidies from the county government and donations from relatives and friends. Since this spring, no one has gone out to flee the famine. Instead, more than a dozen people have returned The people who fled from home."

Jia Lian ordered to put a pen and paper: "What do you say, dare to testify in black and white?"

"dare!"

Subsequently, more than 200 people stepped forward to sign the pledge.

The clerk finally told Jia Lian that among the 37 clans, in addition to [-] people who repented, there were [-] families who opposed it.

Jia Lian nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, let me just say, Quanzhou and Fuzhou have gathered great Confucian scholars since ancient times. How can there be troublesome people in such a place with outstanding people! Well, now, all the elders who support the New Deal are invited to leave the hall. , go to the side hall to rest, and wait for the governor to personally hold the lamp, thank you for your support."

As Jia Lian said, he got up and asked.

Those old men went out in a hurry.

The remaining 23 households are already an absolute minority.

Jia Lian still decided to give these people a chance, so he said to the patriarch of their family: "This governor is kind and will give you a chance to persuade them at last. As long as you can persuade them to change their minds and return from their mistakes, I Never blame the past.”

Jia Lian endured again and again, because the war reduced too many people. If people from the north were transferred to the south, it would involve land disputes and clan fights.Therefore, generally speaking, local residents are retained.

If it wasn't for the sharp drop in population after the war, Jia Lian would have thrown these people to the north and south of Lingnan to let them have a taste.

As a result, the remaining 23 people were all diehards, and they would not accept hard and soft.

The patriarch who failed to persuade was very angry, and knelt together to plead guilty to Jia Lian, only begging Jia Lian not to be involved.

Jia Lian waved his hand: "My folks are overthinking. Although there is a law of continuous sitting in this dynasty, the Governor will decide according to the situation. It depends on your performance. Now I will give you a chance to survive by cutting off your tail. As long as these people no longer belong to your clan, the Governor will definitely not implicate them indiscriminately."

This time, the 23 people were not calm, pointing at Jia Lian and cursing: "You are shameless!"

Jia Lian looked at Yaozi and Fengshou calmly.

Kite and Fengshou waved their hands, and a group of child soldiers went away like lightning, and there was a sound of pa, pa, pa, pa, pa, pa, pa, papa, and the person who had just cursed suddenly turned into a pig's head with blue nose and swollen face.

There are quite a few kites, no more than twenty mouths per person.

This time, everyone is honest.

Afterwards, a scene of tail-docking to survive was staged in the lobby.

The chief of the clan to which the 23 belonged had the chief of the clan write, and expelled these people from the clan.

There are also three people who are the patriarchs themselves. Such people will be revoked from the position of patriarch after a joint discussion by several elders of the clan, and then expelled.

In the end, Jia Lian announced the punishment for these people. They were sent to northern Xinjiang to serve for three years for the two major crimes of inciting people to gather crowds to make trouble and inciting people to resist taxes.

Zheng Xing and Wu De had another thirteen prefectural and county magistrates dismissed from their posts and sent them to northern Xinjiang for three years of hard labor.

Jia Lian ordered the governor, Du Biao, to personally escort these people to northern Xinjiang, and handed Fang Kun a letter, requesting that these people be sent to the most difficult areas to dig trenches, paid according to their work, and no food without work.He also asked Fang Kun to confiscate the money from these people, and they were not allowed to eat or drink unless they were sick.Let them scramble for food and drink.

Jia Lian believed that after three years of hard labor, they would be completely reborn, and they would never dream of anything else.

At the same time, Jia Lian said that if the family members of these people are willing to go to northern Xinjiang with them, Jia Lian can arrange for them to settle there.

As a result, no one was willing to go to northern Xinjiang.

Later, Jia Lian made a decision to confiscate the land under his name from these people.

Of course, Jia Lian is very humane, leaving enough ration fields for these people's wives and children, five acres of fertile land each, and the rest as official land.

At lunch time, Jia Lian had a big banquet for the guests. More than 300 famous gentry at the table all made promises that they would hand over the family's taxes and food immediately after returning.

Later, with a swipe of a pen, Jia Lian transferred Jia Yun to Quanzhou as the magistrate, and Lu Ping's brother-in-law Zhang Song to Fuzhou as the magistrate.

For the remaining thirteen prefectural and county yamen, Jia Lian arranged for his disciples to serve as them.Then, Jia Zhu Jialan and Jialan were sent to the county government under the jurisdiction of Quanzhou as pawns to learn criminal names.The child soldiers brought out from Kyoto, including 37 children from the Jia family, were arranged to serve as head arresters in [-] yamen under the jurisdiction of the two prefectures.

There was a mutiny in these two prefectures, and Jia Lian had to guard against it.

In November of this year, Zhejiang received a full 380 million tax silver, and Fujian received a full 230 million.

According to the imperial government's policy of maintaining integrity, 37 of the fire consumption can be included in Jia Lian's Fanku.

Although the money belongs to Yanglian Bank, it should be distributed to hundreds of officials. Jia Lian doesn't want to take more, but Jia Lian wants to go back to Kyoto to make connections.Especially those cabinet bachelors, they must not be offended, and they must be enshrined properly.Otherwise, if he was making such a fuss in Haijiang, no one in the capital would back him up, and he would have stopped working long ago.

Fortunately, Jia Lian also received a gift money of about [-] yuan for his birthday last year, and she has already asked Sister Feng to bring some of them back to Kyoto. There are many western things in Fujian and Zhejiang. It only takes a few hundred taels of silver to buy and exchange, but it costs thousands in the capital. Rare things are more expensive.

This kind of Western gold jewelry is generally worth the money when it comes to Beijing.

Of course, these clever things alone are not enough, and real money must be offered.

Therefore, Jia Lian withheld [-] yuan from Yanglian's money and brought it back to the capital for favors. This kind of behavior in official circles is open, which is called ice respect and charcoal respect.

This time, Jia Lian handed over the escort to the tax bank, because the mother of the little leopard had already run out of oil lamps and was just living. The spiritual wine produced by Jia's mansion could not stop her condition from deteriorating. I support my son, looking forward to seeing my son for the last time.

Only then did Jia Lian decide to let the little leopard come to Beijing, so that the mother and son could meet.

In addition to bringing the money into Beijing, the little leopard also brought private goods to the Jia family, mainly as tribute to the cabinet scholars.

After the little leopard's mother saw the little leopard, she left peacefully.

Because of this, Little Leopard went to Ding You, and the new emperor granted him a one-year vacation to send his mother back to his hometown for burial.But the little leopard sent her mother's kick back to Huguang and buried it on the mountain behind the fishing village.

The little leopard left, leaving Jia Lianshu as his right-hand man. Later, Jia Lian transferred his son-in-law Lu Yingjun to the governor's office to manage the bid for him.

On New Year's Eve of this year, Sister Feng went to the palace to congratulate her, but was choked up by Yu Liuyue's words.

Yu Liuyue left Sister Feng to give her food, and said: "You once said that you like our peace, but is it true?" Sister Feng snorted: "I dare to fool you, the queen, and I will not let myself down. That's right, I I just like Princess Anning's straightforwardness, and I wish she was my daughter."

Yu Liuyue smiled: "I will make the decision today and give her to you as my wife!"

Sister Feng was stunned, she liked the valiant Princess Anning very much, but Jia Lian repeatedly warned that she should not get involved in a lawsuit with the royal family, Yuan Chun really dragged down the Rongguo Mansion.

Seeing Sister Feng's silence, Yu Liuyue said angrily, "Just now I said that I like it very much, what's the matter now?"

Sister Feng took a deep breath and said, "Our family, our eldest aunt used to be selected as a servant by the inner court. Do you know the empress?"

Yu Liuyue nodded, Jia Yuanchun was still in the palace when she entered the palace for draft, why didn't she know.

Sister Feng said: "To tell you the truth, our family is almost doomed because of this aunt, and everyone in the family is terrified."

Yu Liuyue smirked: "I don't want to have anything to do with the royal family anymore. Could it be that my sister-in-law doesn't agree to the marriage, so I can break up with the royal family? Who doesn't know that the Rongguo Mansion was the empress's heir family at that time?"

Sister Feng bared her teeth: "You are right, I have to give your brother a break!"