Duan Tiande stepped into his hall and saw that the number of people inside was only more than 60% of the time he left. Duan Tiande didn't want to know the reason why those people left. In the current changes, some people must have chosen the path they agree with.

Just as he was about to say something, Duan Tiande suddenly thought of the fundamental question at this time, and he asked: "Do you support me in continuing to be the head of the Duan family?"

"Class leader, we have always supported you." The elders below responded one after another.

"Since that's the case, I'll tell you about the current situation. There are only two things that make us so uncomfortable. The first is the land tax that is always paid for every acre of land. The second is the fine of three acres of acre of acre when abandoning the wasteland. Without these two taxes, our lives are actually pretty good."

The elders did not think that they were so optimistic, and some people immediately objected, "We can't survive two taxes. If we have more, we will die."

Duan Tiande didn't care about the elder's reaction at all. At worst, he wouldn't be the patriarch. What else is worth treating Duan Tiande carefully at this time? He said loudly: "The way the government can hold on to us is to pay money. If you want to keep our land, you can only earn money."

When Duan Tiande heard that he wanted to use the system to solve the problem, an elder immediately asked: "Can you not pay taxes? In the past, you could not pay taxes after becoming an official. Now is there a way to not pay taxes?"

"It seems that only the families of soldiers can not pay taxes." Some people remembered the current tax avoidance methods.

"That's useless." More than one elder had considered various ways to avoid taxes, and someone immediately objected: "Now a soldier can only be exempted from taxes on 20 acres of land. If he is already married, he can only be exempt from taxes on his own land. If he is not married, he will be exempt from taxes on his parents' home. The tax exemption period is only for three years of service."

Some people look gentle on weekdays, but when they fight, they immediately become sluts. Especially under such great pressure, some people shouted angrily: "Even if that is the case, you can also avoid 60 guan. If you have ten sons, it will be 600 guan. I heard that daughters can also join the army, so they can earn more."

The lever can easily stimulate new leverage, and some people said disdainfully: "It's not easy for me to raise children, so I don't want them to be thieves and soldiers."

"Then you have to let your son be the one first!"

"Enough! Stop it!" Duan Tiande shouted angrily, barely interrupting the elders' arguments with each other. 60 guan is not a small number that can be ignored, and the Duan family would not really take it seriously before. Now 60 guan is also completely in sight, which makes Duan Tiande almost shed tears in his sorrow. Not long ago, the people of the Duan family still used the contemptuous term "thief-matched army".

"The head of the family, some elders said they wanted to divide the land."

"If they want to make a difference, let them make a difference."

"If we disperse, we can't control many things."

"If we can control it, we will not be able to get to where we are today." Duan Tiande replied. Looking at the elders who showed great disappointment on their faces, Duan Tiande continued with a stern face: "It's time to get this point, everyone should admit it. If I were the same as before, all the children in our tribe will be sent to the city to go to school in the future. We can pay for this little money. In addition, those who want to leave will continue to leave, and I won't stop you."

The family meeting ended temporarily with a situation where the family was almost collapsed. Duan Tiande did not want to talk nonsense to the people in the clan afterwards. He took people back to his hometown and took everyone out to the city. If you want to make money, you need to open a shop, and if you want to open a shop, you need to work in a shop. Nothing is more reliable than your own family.

When he returned to the village, he saw many people gathering on the flat ground outside the town. When he got closer, he saw a huge banner hanging here, which was written on it according to the "Modern Chinese" model promoted by the court, and the "Duanjiazhuang Autumn Conscription Assessment of the 330th Song Dynasty" left and right. Duan Tiande was stunned. He did not expect that the elders quarreled with the army. It was not a whim, but the court was really recruiting soldiers at this time.

No one stopped the recruiting party, Duan Tiande brought his servants to see. He saw a young man in his thirty years old who was accepting orders from the soldiers. These young men were over 16 years old and under 22 years old. The soldiers asked them to stand up, squat down, and then stand up again. Duan Tiande felt like watching monkey plays, and he heard laughter from time to time from time to time, and couldn't help but smile.

However, the laughter on the other side was particularly loud. Duan Tiande walked around to a position where he could see it carefully, but saw seven or eight young ladies aged 16 to 20 who were also accepting orders from soldiers and doing similar actions as men. Duan Tiande did not laugh, he was just stunned. In the propaganda of the Song Dynasty, Mulan was a heroine, a representative of the courage, perseverance and courage to take responsibility in Chinese women. There are also female soldiers in the Song army now, and there are even female generals named Hu.

However, Duan Tiande did not expect that there were really women who chose to join the army. Although the Song Dynasty court confidently claimed that the new Song army was the army of the people, the army of benevolence and righteousness, and the army of kings. Any soldier who raped the enemy, kill him! So there is no need to be afraid of the Song army at all, but Duan Tiande realized after seeing it with his own eyes that there were actually women who dared to believe this kind of propaganda.

With his thoughts surged, Duan Tiande didn't know what he was thinking for a while. Suddenly, Duan Tiande found that these people who participated in the conscription assessment were all self-cultivated farmers or small landlords, and their families had more than 20 acres of land. The government did not only collect taxes on big landlords, but also those who were tenants for others, and as long as they had land at home, they had to pay taxes.

Seeing the children of small and medium-sized landlords desperately, Duan Tiande looked solemn. The elders of the Duan family were still shouting to let their children join the army. Now the tax revenue is so heavy, and the families with few land are much faster than the Duan family. Their children have begun to join the army enthusiastically. Once selected, they will not only reduce the three-year tax of 20 acres of land in their family, but also have a way out after retirement from the army. Even if they return to the village, they will be taken care of by the government.

The government relies on local retired soldiers to lend money to local areas. With this alone, the status of retired soldiers in the village has risen sharply.

After some trouble, 12 young men and 5 young ladies were selected from the number 40 people. In the envious eyes of everyone, the army issued certificates to them. The people from the government immediately shouted loudly: "Any families who are selected to join the army, wait until these young soldiers of the Song Dynasty are taken away by the army, and the training is completed in three months and they are officially enlisted. You can go to the Civil Affairs Bureau to apply for tax exemption and corresponding military family treatment."

Faced with the crowd of sad and happy people, Duan Tiande could no longer watch it, so he brought his servants back to the town. The court's strength in the countryside was getting stronger and stronger, which was something Duan Tiande didn't want to see. The Duan family could not look down on the small landlords near them. In the Duan family, the so-called small landlords were just future tenants who were a little bit landing. After watching the children's exercises, Duan Tiande felt that the children of the small landlords were actually not bad. At least the people selected by the Song army were no worse than the children of the Duan family.

After dealing with the matter among the clan, Duan Tiande and his family embarked on the road back to Jiangning. Although many people at home didn't want to come out at all, they could not refuse Duan Tiande's orders. As so many people walked on the road, they met two other groups of people. After careful look, the leaders were all retired soldiers from nearby villages.

Duan Tiande stepped forward and greeted the veterans in a friendly manner, asked about their whereabouts. The veterans told Duan Tiande, 'They are going back to their hometown in Henan'.

What the hell is his hometown in Henan? Duan Tiande was confused. Everyone is born and raised in Jiangning, so why did he become a hometown in Henan?

The retired soldier was also a little excited to see Duan Tiande, who was so arrogant in the local area, talking to him so politely. He took the cigarette handed over by Duan Tiande, lit it, and then started chatting with Duan Tiande while walking.

"My ancestors followed the imperial court to flee here from Henan. A while ago, I sent my relatives to the Henan Farm to come back. Now the farm in Henan is so short of people. As long as I go, I will have to. I will discuss with my family and go back to the farm in his hometown in Henan to work as a job. It is better than farming in Jiangning."

"What should I do with your home?" Duan Tiande asked tentatively.

"We gave our relatives to plant. They don't have to pay rent, they just need to pay the tax."

After talking to one team, they went to another team. The content was exactly the same, and they all went to Henan Farm to find an errand. However, the next team told me that they were taking a boat. "The Tongji Canal was repaired."

Duan Tiande didn't know what the Tongji Canal was, so he couldn't blame him for being ignorant. As a bald person in his previous life, Du Chong dug out the Yellow River when the Jin soldiers headed south, causing the Yellow River to flood, trying to stop the Jin soldiers. The Jin soldiers were not blocked. The rushing Yellow River water carried a huge amount of mud and sand into the Tongji Canal, which had a history of hundreds of years, silting this important canal that communicated between the Jianghuai and Kaifeng. After that, war continued and the Jin Kingdom did not engage in any infrastructure construction, and this famous canal disappeared from the Chinese land for more than 150 years.

Zhao Jiaren's Zhao's family not only allowed the Yellow River to return to the northern river channel, but now they have dug up the Tongji Canal again. The veterans who once participated in the Yellow River Battle told the Zhao's family's great achievements with full of longing.

Zhao Jiaren is best to become Emperor Yang of Sui who digs the canal! Duan Tiande maliciously evaluates Zhao Jiaren with his maximum historical knowledge. Then he asked with a smile: "But I don't know how to deal with your land."

The retired soldier replied decisively: "Sold to the government."

"Sell...sell?" Duan Tiande said in shock and heartbroken. After that, Duan Tiande couldn't help but ask: "How much land has he sold?"
Chapter completed!