After hearing this, Yuan Huai opened his mouth to speak, but he didn't dare, so he had to bang his crutch on the bluestone. He really couldn't imagine that his family, a dignified minister, had to have two tall memorial arches built by the government in front of his home. What does it feel like? He always feels that if this happens, his Yuan family will not be able to hold their head high in front of fellow gentry.
But Yuan Huai naturally didn't dare to disobey, he still knew what was appropriate.
However, because the emperor did not care about this, he did not go to do corvee anymore. Instead, he returned to the mansion and paid the corvee silver that had not been offset by work.
His Yuan family is not short of money. If they really want to be decent, they can buy it with money.
The gentry such as Hou Ke and Yang Donglai also gave up resisting the unity of officials and gentry by actively performing corvee service because the emperor said that labor is glorious and that scholars should be encouraged to work without shame. It's a matter of collecting food and doing errands.
After all, corvee service is indeed tiring, especially for scholars like them who are not diligent and have to do pole-skating when going out.
The students no longer took the initiative to perform corvee service, paid the corvee money, and continued to refer to it honestly, but they really did not have the courage to stop taking the exam.
Not long after, the "Honorable Taxpaying Households" and "Model Households" memorial arches in front of the Yuan Mansion were worked overtime to build.
Because the emperor also asked people from Xichang to visit here after arriving in Guide, Zhu Zhongpeng, the prefect of Guide, had to have people cut stones overnight to build the archway.
Yuan Huai felt very uncomfortable looking at the archway and kept sighing.
"The privileges and exemptions for the gentry began in the Taizu Dynasty. Now they have to pay for food and work as servants. It is really unexpected. The gentry is even advocated for hard work. How can it be true? All the gentry are inferior, but reading is the only one who is good. Why? At that time, what a farmer did was actually worthy of commendation, and he even built an archway. In my opinion, Old Madam Yuan, this is an insult to your government. I don’t know who gave His Majesty the idea to be so cunning. ruthless!?"
Hou Ke also came over at this time, took a look at the Yuan family's big archway, and said that he would fight for the Yuan family's injustice.
"I already know through the Qingke who is with my Da Lang that the idea of the current Yuanfu to pay for the officials and the gentry to work together as a cadre was the initiative of the current Yuan Fu. It was also proposed by him that it was first implemented in Guide Mansion. There is also this memorial archway because of this. His word stands!"
Yuan Huai sighed as he spoke: "Now His Majesty is determined to innovate, and our Yuanfu caters to his wishes and exploits the interests of our gentry. Moreover, because his Fang family is a merchant, he was a Zhejiang merchant in his early years, and later registered as a capital official. Now we have settled in the capital, but we are still merchants, not to mention that we are now participating in government-run businesses, so we are not willing to use the commercial interests of the merchant gentry, but only the local interests of us civilian gentry!"
"Damn thief Fang! This person is more treacherous than strict! Clearing the land to the father-in-law and dividing the land into acres. These new policies that hurt our gentry the most were all instituted when he was the leader. Now he has come to pay the grain to the officials and gentry together. In order to cater to the emperor's will, this person is really trying to deprive our civilian gentry of their benefits. When will one of our civilian gentry be able to serve as Yuan's assistant and bring down the Fang Party? Even if His Majesty still wants to collect money from the national treasury, Then when the time comes, we will reform commercial taxes and levy more commercial taxes. The revenue from the treasury will definitely be filled several times over! Your Majesty can afford to mobilize the nine-sided army to compete in Liaodong ten times!"
Hou Ke couldn't help but curse.
"But now it is the business gentry represented by Fang Dang who controls the government. Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of Xichang who came to Henan to guide this time, is also a businessman and has an old relationship with Songjiang Xuge. This shows!"
Yuan Huai said.
"well!"
Hou Ke sighed.
…
Zhu Xieyuan and the people from Xichang arrived at Guide Mansion shortly afterwards, and specially summoned the officials and gentry in front of the Yuan Family Archway to announce the cancellation of the privileges and exemptions of the officials and gentry, and issued an order to start the next step of requiring the officials and gentry to work together with the common people. A decree on landowners' standard payment of grain.
"This goes against the ancestral system! This is harsh government! The ministry clearly shows that the gentry can be one with the common people, and how can the Confucian scholars be treated with disrespect? Is this still a sage and benevolent dynasty?"
However, shortly after Zhu Xieyuan issued the decree, radical student members Lu Xun and others stood up, raised their arms, shouted and questioned.
Zhu Xieyuan was related to Xu Guangqi, was valued by Fang Congzhe, and was a merchant gentry. Therefore, he had no emotional or interest entanglements with the aristocratic families and the gentry class in Guide Mansion. In order to satisfy his superiors, he also knew that he had to Strictly implement the New Deal.
Therefore, Zhu Xieyuan immediately ordered the accompanying Henan governor Li Biao and the academic envoy Ni Yuanlu: "I will take down those who make loud noises and slander the government! Remove them from their honors, please show the king's flag and kill them immediately!"
"yes!"
Li Song and Ni Yuanlu hurriedly replied.
As a result, Lu Xun and other students were dragged down by the pacesetters of the Henan Governor's Biao Camp, and Ni Yuanlu also asked the sergeants of the Yamen to take away the square scarves of these students.
Lu Xun and others yelled: "Treacherous minister! You are not going to die well! You are not going to die well!"
Click!
Although these people like Lu Xun kept yelling, they were still executed in the city.
Then, the entire Yuanjia Archway area became quiet again. After the extreme radicals among the gentry were killed, no one dared to speak anymore.
Zhu Xieyuan turned a deaf ear to the accusations that he was a traitor.
As a former military commander of five provinces, he had a background of leading soldiers, and he had long had a decisive and decisive nature, so naturally he would not be moved by this.
These days, anyone who joins Xichang is not easy to mess with, no matter whether they are civil servants or military generals.
"The collection will begin now. All civil and military officials in Henan below the governor will cooperate. We will start with Guide Prefecture first. Guide Prefect Zhu Zhongpeng, please immediately get the fish scale register and household register of Guide Prefecture and align them with Xichang."
Zhu Xieyuan ordered.
As a result, Xichang officially began to collect grain taxes in Guide Mansion based on the new policy that officials and gentry would pay grain and serve as errands.
The first person to be called for payment was Yuan Mansion.
"What a sin! What a sin! When has my Yuan family ever paid so much land tax?"
But now, Yuan Huai watched helplessly as the new grain from his Hou family was being shipped out, and started crying because of it.
For Yuan Huai, paying so much grain tax to the court was indeed a heartache.
Next is the Hou Mansion.
The family of Hou Xun, the censor who was killed with a stick, was also a big bureaucratic family in Guide Mansion.
The current head of the Hou Mansion is Hou Ke.
Hou Ke wanted to delay, but because of his delay, Xichang directly surrounded his mansion that night.
"Open the door, the West Factory collects taxes!"
As shouts like a mountain roaring and a tsunami appeared, He Shixian, Ma Chengen and other proud soldiers who worked in the West Factory rushed in directly.
"Who are you? If you dare to break into my Hou family, get out!"
The young Hou Fangyu was so angry that he cursed.
He Shixian went over and beheaded Hou Fangyu on the ground with a knife, and said: "Does the Hou family want to resist the tax? The head of the family comes out quickly and pays the tax!"
"Chaozong! You, you, it was your uncle who harmed you!"
At this time, Hou Ke ran over because he saw Hou Fangyu being killed, and couldn't help shouting: "Open the warehouse! Give them the food!"
Then, Hou Ke cursed: "Fang Congzhe! You are such a traitor! You are also a gentry, why do you let your people treat us so harshly!"
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