Most locals don’t understand Zhang Shuheng’s words, but it doesn’t matter. More than ten captains in the Jinyiwei who knows local dialects translated Zhang Shuheng’s words into local dialects. More than ten people opened their voices and shouted in unison to tell the local people the meaning of the imperial edict. The local people who were bewitched by gentry and pushed out to stop the Jinyiwei from handling the case were all stunned. The air seemed to frozen in an instant. Everyone looked at the Jinyiwei in disbelief. Someone murmured in a low voice: “Is this true or false? Will these eagle claw grandsons do good things for us poor people?”

"Maybe it is true, after all, they have the emperor's decree in their hands." A man next to him said.

"Isn't Chongzhen a foolish monarch who was driven out of the capital by the bandits? How could he do good things for us poor people?" the man asked.

"Maybe the one who learned the lesson today and changed it in order not to let the poor rebel again." The man just said. In fact, the person who was speaking was also an Jinyiwei, a plainclothes spy who had mixed up with the local people.

"Friends! Don't listen to these silly words from the Eagle Claws, they are lying you!" A gentry in the crowd was anxious and shouted, "Will we lie to you from our neighbors in the countryside? They are the tyrants of the monarchs, and have you heard of them? You can stop the children from crying at night! They kill people like numb and harm the people!"

"Friends, go and don't listen to the bewitching of the factory guards! Be careful that they deceive you and then arrest you all in Zhao Prison!"

"Friends, we will not lie to you in our neighbors. Those eagle claw grandsons are not relatives or not, they are all lying to you for the sake of the foolish lord, don't believe them!"

The Jinyiwei also shouted: "We have the imperial edict, so you may not believe us, but can you change your orders every day if your Majesty said? Isn't that equivalent to slapping yourself in the face? You should believe in the Emperor's Emperor! This world is all the Emperor, and today I will not lie to you."

Zhang Shuheng opened a big wooden box. He walked to the wooden box and took out a stack of paper from it: "Friends, look, this is the land deed of the Ye family! Now that the land deed is confiscated, we will send all to the capital, and the fields here will be the imperial field in the future! If you rent the imperial field, as long as you pay 40% of the land rent, all other taxes and laborers will be exempted!" As he said, he took out another stack of paper and shook it a few times and shouted: "This is your land lease contract with the Ye family. We will re-register you. On behalf of the emperor, we will sign a new land lease contract with you! However, we must take the criminal back to the county government for trial first. You will bring the land lease contract in your hands to the county town at noon tomorrow. Of course, some people will re-apply for you."

Although the people still blocked their way, the crowd had loosened.

Li Guodong saw that the time was almost right, so he rode his horse on his body, pointed forward with a long spear in his hand: "My Duke escorted the Jinyiwei to handle the case, escorted the prisoners back to the city, and the idle people avoided it! If he did not listen to the persuasion and insisted on blocking the road, he would be killed without mercy!"

"Tiger!" After the heavy armored infantry of the Huai Army was loud and loud, he pointed his neatly tidied spears forward.

The dense crowds loosened, and everyone obediently gave way. Five hundred armored infantry in front passed by, and behind were prison vans escorting prisoners passing by the official road. On both sides were neatly arranged long-range Huai Army soldiers followed closely for protection.

This is an elite force. When the Huai Army walked through the crowd of people who were being made aside, the people who were bewitched by the gentry felt a murderous aura coming from the formation. It was the murderous aura unique to the elite troops that had been through the battlefield. This elite force that even the Qing Tianjun could defeat, revealed a powerful aura that was beyond the reach of ordinary border troops and recruiting soldiers.

The Huai Army and the Jinyiwei carried the Ye family back to Longchuan City, but the Longchuan gentry were afraid of the upcoming failure. They were desperately bewitching the people in the Makeng to not go to the county government tomorrow. They also spread rumors that the hawks and dogs of the imperial court were cruel and ruthless, but they did not dare to attack the people rashly in public occasions. The Eagle Claws wanted to trick the villagers into the county town and then throw them into Zhaozhu. As we all know, how many people who entered Zhaozhu can come out alive?

However, the imperial edict in Zhang Shuheng's hand was too tempting to these tenants. They had to pay 60% or even 70% of the land rent to the Ye family on weekdays. After working hard for a year, if the weather was good, it would only be enough for the family to not be hungry, and it would be impossible to eat enough. If the year was a little bit short, they could only owe rent first, but the rent owed was automatically converted to usury for the Ye family!

The usury that is profitable is a mountain that is pressing on the tenants. It can’t be paid back, and it’s getting more and more.

How credible is the words of the local gentry? What the people know on weekdays that many gentry are famous miseres in the local area and are silent on weekdays. Even if some poor relatives of some gentry come to borrow money, they can lend usury and not give their relatives any affection.

Of course, the Jinyiwei may repent and turn against others. But after all, there is an imperial edict there. If it is really not fulfilled, it will be a defiance of the emperor. Since there is such a good thing, the people would rather believe it than not. What if the imperial edict said is true? Then isn’t it a mud-legged turn over from now on?

The emperor confiscated the land of the gentry and turned it into imperial fields. As long as the people rented the land of the imperial fields, they only had to pay the land rent of the imperial fields every year, and they didn't have to worry about any taxes or labor. That would be a good thing for all their descendants to make profits.

The people of other villages mobilized by the gentry were in a very complicated mood. Some of them hoped that what the Jinyiwei said was fake, so that the people of Shangmakeng Village would be unlucky. In fact, many Chinese people have a gloating mentality in their hearts. When they see others being unlucky, they will be happy; when they see others being better than themselves, they will be unhappy.

Of course, there are also some people who look at the problem for a long time. From the bottom of their hearts, I hope that the Jinyiwei is telling the truth. If it is true, will the factory guards come to their own village and arrest the gentry that has been suppressed by themselves as rebellion? If all the gentry are arrested and the land they rented becomes the imperial field, then good days will come.

Ye Chunsheng is a villager in Shangmakeng Village. He is 32 years old. When Ye Chunsheng was young, his family had five acres of his own rice fields and lived a pretty good life. However, a few years ago, the imperial court increased its wages, and once again, it was a disaster year. The court could not pay the taxes. It is said that the yamen runners in the yamen wanted to take him to question him. Ye Chunsheng was so scared that he hurriedly borrowed two stones of grain from Ye Jingzhou's family to pay the taxes.

Who knew that the two stone grains were usury loans, and the second year was still bad. Not to mention paying off the principal, I didn’t even pay off the interest. As a result, the profits in the third year were over, and it was even less likely to be paid back in the fourth year. In the end, Ye Chunsheng had to give all the five acres of paddy fields he mortgaged to Ye Jingzhou to Ye Jingzhou to pay off the debt, and he became a tenant of Ye Jingzhou’s family.

After becoming a tenant, Ye Chunsheng's life became even more difficult. He could not pay enough land rent several times and owed Ye Jingzhou's usury loans, but in the end he was forced to send his nine-year-old daughter to Ye Jingzhou's house as a maid to pay off his debts.

I heard that after my daughter arrived at Ye Jingzhou's house, the young child became a maid, doing the heaviest work and ate the worst things. He was often beaten by several young men and evil servants in the Ye family. He was hungry once and stole the leftovers of the Ye family (who were going to be used as dog food), and was beaten to pieces.

Who knew that this child who was so grown up in bitter water was so graceful when he was fourteen years old. As a result, a young man from the Ye family raped her.
Chapter completed!