When Han Qing heard this, he immediately understood why the old man was so mysterious, because according to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, his family had to be separated into separate households.

This old man must have bribed Li Zheng, or had a bug in the pornographic book, so he registered all three sons under his account.

After the old man finished speaking triumphantly, a look of disappointment immediately appeared on his face.

"But this will only be an advantage for a few years. When the Yellow Book is re-opened in two years, our sons will have to live alone. The land will have to be re-divided by then. Let's see how we can use it.

Pay food..."

Han Qing chatted with the old man for a while, and left angrily when he learned that most of the young people in the village had gone to work in the city, leaving mostly the elderly and children.

However, as soon as he reached the end of the village, he was stopped by a woman from a Gaomen compound.

"Hey that salesman, do you have any good silk thread?"

Han Qing didn't want to talk to this woman at first, but when he saw two people wearing official uniforms at the entrance of the village, he could only turn around and go back to deal with the fat woman with a full finger.

"What color silk thread does this eldest lady want?"

The middle-aged woman raised her eyebrows when she heard this and said with disdain.

"What are you interested in?"

"We have all kinds of colors here, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, we even have gold and silver threads used by wealthy people in the capital!"

When the middle-aged woman heard this, she looked at Han Qing in surprise and thought, this guy has such a big voice, and he even has gold and silver threads?

"Really or not?"

"Let me tell you, we have seen the world, don't fool us with copper wire!"

Han Qing didn't talk nonsense to him. He rummaged through the cargo basket and pulled out a bunch of gold thread and handed it over. The middle-aged woman looked at it and saw that it was indeed shining with gold, like gold threads pulled out of pure gold. The look on her face

It's just a little more solemn.

"It looks good, so why don't you give us a peach..."

"Okay!"

Han Qing bent down and rummaged through the cargo again, but while doing so, he kept looking at the two people in official uniforms at the entrance of the village with the corner of his eye.

When he saw the two officers walking straight towards him, his heart suddenly lifted. He also stretched one hand to the innermost part of the cargo pole, holding the handle of the knife tightly, ready to use it to cool these people at any time.

Two people have a knife.

However, just when Han Qing thought there was going to be a fierce battle, he saw the two officials passing him and walking towards the middle-aged woman.

"Wang Saihua, please give me a quick word as to whether your land is for sale or not."

When the middle-aged woman heard this, she tore off her hair and sat on the ground crying.

"The villagers came out to judge and judge, and the government forced them to buy and sell, woo woo woo..."

When the two officials saw this, they quickly took a few steps back and were two feet away from Wang Saihua.

"Wang Saihua, put away your reckless behavior!"

"We just followed the order of the county magistrate and came to deliver a message to you."

"If you sell the land now, and the county charges it according to the market price, it will be better than if you can't find a tenant and have to pay the imperial grain in vain every year, right?"

When Wang Saihua heard this, she "poofed" at the two officials.

"What does it mean to charge according to the market price?"

"The market price of an acre of land is eighty taels of silver, and it has to be settled in ten years without any interest at all. Do you think we are fools?"

"Three generations of my family have saved hundreds of acres of land through frugality and frugality. We can't afford to be defeated here!"

Seeing that Wang Saihua was so stubborn, the two officials could only say a few harsh words and leave.

In fact, the order given by the county magistrate is freedom of buying and selling, which is entirely voluntary.

If it weren't for the county magistrate's pressure, the two of them wouldn't even want to come to the countryside, and they could just send a lieutenant here to deliver the message.

"Okay, okay, okay!"

"Since you don't want to sell it, just keep it for yourself. Anyway, the county magistrate has said that you can't pay a penny less for taxes. If you don't pay the taxes, the county will take your land and won't give you a penny at that time!"

When Wang Saihua heard this, she burst into tears again, and finally used her own ultrasonic cry to cry away the two officials. After the officials left, Han Qing stepped forward curiously and asked.

"Sister, what were you talking about to the two officials just now? Why can't I understand you?"

Wang Saihua said bitterly after hearing this.

"What else could it be, but the female ministers in the imperial court came up with the New Deal, with more land and less taxation..."

"Fortunately, my son is still a civil servant. In the early years, as long as he paid some grain, he was exempted from any corvee."

"Now that I have made some random changes, my family will have to pay hundreds of extra bushels of food a year for no reason. How will we live like this? Woohoo..."

Han Qing had known about this for a long time, but he was curious about another thing.

"Sister, I'm asking about the sale of land. I just heard from the official that the government wants to buy your land?"

Wang Saihua wiped her tears and said with disdain.

"There is such a thing!"

"It is said that this is a new trick devised by the emperor's grandson. He wants to take over our land at the market price, but we are not paying for it now. We will pay a little every year, and we can pay it all in ten years..."

After Han Qing heard this, he lowered his head and calculated, and felt that this business was not a loss.

In other words, the imperial court was merciful by not openly robbing it, but now she has given money to buy the land and she still refuses to sell it?

"Sister, is this fair to the government?"

When Wang Saihua heard this, she immediately cursed.

"Fair enough!"

"In the past, I could sell one acre of land for one tael of silver for a year's harvest. In ten years, that would be 10 taels of silver!"

"The government wiped out two taels of silver from me for no reason. Is this fair?"

"Besides, when have you ever seen the government give money to buy things?"

"Even if the county magistrate gives it to me this year, can you guarantee that the county magistrate in the future will pay it back?"

"When the government doesn't give you the money, how dare you go to the Yamen to complain!"

After Wang Saihua said this, she got up from the ground angrily, wiped the dust off her butt and returned to her yard without looking back.

"Sister, your line..."

"No more!"

Hearing this, Han Qing could only smile bitterly and put the thread back into the cargo pole, then picked up the cargo pole and rushed to the next village. However, after visiting a few villages, Han Qing felt that there was no need to leave anymore.

Because the villages near Yingtianfu are all similar, young people are either deceived by the government to open up wasteland in other places, or they are recruited by labor recruiters to work in workshops in the city.

Han Qing walked out of the last village, looked at the green rice fields at the entrance of the village, and felt endless sympathy for the landlords who were clinging to the fields and not letting go.

According to the emperor's approach, in a few years there will be no tenants in the village. Who will farm the land rented from these landlords? Could it be that the landlords lead their wives and concubines to farm the land?

The more Han Qing thought about it, the more interesting it became, and at the same time he had a new understanding of Zhu Yuntong's policies.

He finally understood why the emperor's grandson dared to reform the tax system despite the disapproval of the world. He dared to love that the emperor's grandson and Zhu Butcher were both good and evil, one was black and the other was white.

One is hell-bent on collecting taxes, the other is hell-bent on poaching people.

If the landowner cannot find tenants, the land owned by the landowner will naturally become worthless, and the court can take it away at a very low price!

You don’t even need to spend money. As long as the landlord cannot pay the taxes, the court can justifiably confiscate it!

Han Qing wanted to understand this and was full of worries about his future rebellion.
Chapter completed!