Since the gentry is the heaven of the villagers, what Zhang Shuheng has to do now is to break this heaven. "Dear villagers, I'll ask you a question now: You worked hard for a year, besides leaving the seeds for the next year, who has a surplus? Who can save money? I'm afraid there is no? Because your land rent is between 60 and 70% and most of the labor income must be paid to the boss, leaving only a little food to support your family. If it is a disaster year, you will still owe the boss the usury that will never be paid. Do you think this is the case?" Zhang Shuheng opened his voice and shouted.

When several Jinyiwei translated what Zhang Shuheng said into Cantonese and Hakka dialect, all the villagers lowered their heads. The Jinyiwei commander said it well, and that's the fact.

Zhang Shuheng continued: "My Ming Dynasty emperor is kind and kind, and he wants the people of the world to live a life of food and clothing. Therefore, the land obtained by rebellion was confiscated and all the land obtained by rebellion was converted into imperial fields. All the original tenants of the tenants of the land were changed to the tenants of the land. All the tenants of the land would not be taxed or served in labor. We will set up a small banner office in the county town to be responsible for collecting the rent of the land."

Several Jinyiwei translated Zhang Shuheng's words into Cantonese and Hakka so that the villagers could understand them.

"Is there such a good thing?"

"If this is true, then we will have a better life in the future."

"Don't think too much, can these court hawks take what they say seriously?"

"If Chongzhen's tyrant monarch is really that good, how could he be driven out of the capital?"

The common people were talking, and they couldn't believe that there was such a good thing in the world. It was simply a pie that fell from the sky.

Someone in the crowd said, "I heard that Shangmakeng Village has divided the land in this way. Although the land is not owned, it has been transformed into imperial fields. Only 40% of the land rent will be reduced to 20% or 30% in the year of disaster. You can even not pay the rent at your discretion. The court can also distribute food."

"This is serious?"

"Of course, it's true that I have relatives in Shangmakeng. Many people went to the county government to handle the matter of renting the imperial field this morning."

At this moment, the Jinyiwei, who was searching the house, moved out the piles of grain, cloth, salt, silk, tea, porcelain, sausage and other items from the backyard of the fellow villager's house, and all piled them on the open ground in the middle of the village, forming a small hill. The Jinyiwei brought cattle, sheep, pigs, dogs and other animals, and drove chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry to the open ground.

These items were all obtained by the Jinyiwei's house search. In fact, gold, silver and treasures had been packed long ago and pulled out from the back door. The goods, livestock and poultry were moved to the open space and prepared to be distributed to farmers.

"Dear villagers, these foods, cloths, salt, tea, sausages, livestock and poultry were all copied from the home of this fellow villager. These things were originally plundered from the villagers. My Ming Dynasty, the emperor, was compassionate to the heavens and did not compete for profit with the people. All these items were returned to the original owner, and everyone in the village could receive a copy." Zhang Shuheng said.

"Is this true?" The farmers were stunned.

"Come one by one, as long as you are a person, you can get one!" Zhang Shuheng shouted.

Before the words were finished, thousands of villagers rushed forward like crazy. Although they were still trembling and trembling, they all lost their minds in front of food and salt, such as survival necessities, and it was the Jinyiwei who waved his whip and kept crackling on the ground, which barely maintained order.

The people were really excited. They rented land for fellow villagers, got up early and went into the dark. After working hard all year round, most of the harvest of production was paid. This is not counting. The county yamen runners came to the village and the fellow villagers' homes were holding weddings and funerals, and the people had to spend more money.

Therefore, the common people can only replace the remaining grains after paying the land rent with coarse grains such as sweet potatoes, so that they can barely support the family. As for some villagers who owe the usury loans, it is even worse. The annual income is basically sent to the homes of fellow villagers. They do not even have the food to support their families. They can only eat wild vegetables and drink porridge made of rice bran, but they cannot maintain basic living needs. It is common for such families to starve people to death.

The Jinyiwei worked hard to maintain order, and let the villagers line up to pick up food, salt, cloth, tea, sausages and poultry.

Livestock such as pigs, cattle and sheep are also divided, but it is impossible for each household to divide one animal, but the method of several households being divided one animal. For example, two households are divided into one sheep, four households are divided into one pig, and six households are divided into one cattle.

An old man held the food he had given him, grabbed a string of sausages with his left hand and cried in a dark place. The people in the village knew why the old man cried. A few years ago, his parents and young son starved to death. He owed the usury that his boss could not afford, so he had to pay his daughter to his boss as a maid. In this way, he could not afford the usury, so he had to sell his wife.

If the Jinyiwei had come to confiscate the homes of the fellow villager, how could this old man have lost his family?

The villagers happily received food and other daily necessities. When the people who received the things looked at the Jinyiwei's eyes, they felt that Jinyiwei was not as terrifying as the gentry said, but a group of friendly and kind people.

The fellow villager tied to the pillar watched this scene with his own eyes and felt that his heart was about to be broken. These things were all from his own family. He had accumulated so much food, the purpose was to be able to sell it at a good price in the event of a disaster. As for salt and silk, it was a hard currency equivalent to silver. Now, my things were all shared by the Jinyiwei to those mud legs!

The Jinyiwei took his family's things to win people's hearts. This is simply a business without a foundation!

The things that made the fellow villagers despair were still behind. The Jinyiwei dragged out a box and opened it. It was full of land deeds, body deeds, usury IOUs, land leases and other documents.

After these characters were taken out by the Jinyiwei, someone immediately moved out the tables and chairs. The Jinyiwei worked on the spot and changed all the original place deeds to the imperial field. Then he picked up the county government seal and stamped a seal on the new land deeds. All the usury IOUs were confiscated by the Jinyiwei. The sales deeds were taken out, registered and named, and the servant maid who called the name came up to receive the new household registration. The Jinyiwei held the county government seal and stamped the land deeds. The land lease contract was also re-signed, and the tenant pressed the handprint, and the Jinyiwei held the seal on the contract.

Next, the contract of selling the body, the old land lease and the original land deed were thrown into the fire and burned to ashes with a fire.

Watching his property turn into nothing, the fellow villager's body kept twitching. He screamed wildly, trying to pounce on him to stop the Jinyiwei, but the more he struggled, the tighter the rope became. The fellow villager finally screamed, a stream of blood spurted out of his mouth, and then rolled his eyes and stopped moving.

An Jinyiwei walked up, looked up among the fellow villagers, turned to Zhang Shuheng and said, "Sir, this old dog is dead."

"Is this dead? It's too cheap for him to escape the punishment of justice! But his immediate family members still have to accept our trial. The crime of corruption will be investigated within the nine clans." Zhang Shuheng sneered.

The people happily obtained a new land lease contract. Although they did not get a land contract, this new land lease contract means that they have the right to use the imperial field. Not to mention the low rent in the land, there is also the right to reduce or exempt in the disaster year. Moreover, this contract can be passed down from generation to generation, which is a guarantee for future generations.
Chapter completed!