New Year's Eve in the 20th year of Qianlong's reign
It’s cold and it’s snowing in northern Guangdong
As the saying goes since ancient times: Fengxue heralds auspicious years. In winter when there is snow, when the snow turns into water, the earth will be moist. Then the crops planted will be well maintained.
Damucun, Shaoguan, Guangdong
Market Street in the south of the village
"Hey, Ergouzi. Are you coming to go shopping too?" Wu Liudi shouted to Jiang Ergou on the street.
"Yes, isn't this the Sixth Brother (land)! Why are you here? Are you rich?" Jiang Ergou asked after answering.
After listening to Jiang Ergou's words, Wu Liudi felt embarrassed and touched his short hair after the braids were cut off. Then he said: "Isn't it thanks to my Han family's Wang division to suppress the bandits? Since I cut my hair, my family has been given eight acres of land!"
"That's right, I can tell just by looking at your hair. Calculating what the bandit-suppressing army said, your family does have eight acres of land to divide." Jiang Ergou thought for a while and said
"It seems like you! It shouldn't be called Wu Liu Di, but eight acres."
"Haha, it's all thanks to the bandit army that I was lucky enough to have my own land. Otherwise, if I rented land from others and farmed it, I wouldn't be able to make enough food and clothing. It's better now." Wu Liudi said with emotion.
"Hey, no, sometimes it's not enough to rent for 50 to 50 cents. Sometimes it's even 40 to 60 cents or 30 to 70 cents. I've even seen people renting for 28 or 28 cents. It's impossible to survive. But if you don't rent for a year, you don't know. What else can you eat?" Jiang Ergou replied, with a secretly sad expression on his face.
"No, with Master Wang of our Han family here, we won't be afraid anymore. It looks like you have just divided the land!" Wu Liudi pointed at Jiang Ergou's short hair and said.
"Yes! Why don't you cut off that ugly pigtail when you have land? I told you I wasn't afraid of your jokes, I've wanted to cut off that pigtail for a long time. It's really ugly." Jiang Ergou said with a completely indifferent expression.
"But, you can keep your hair but not your hair, and you can keep your hair but not your hair. Aren't you afraid?" Wu Liudi said still feeling a little worried.
"Afraid? What is there to be afraid of? It's not like you don't know how powerful our Han family's Wang Shi is. They surrender wherever they go, and those who don't surrender are killed." Jiang Ergou said with pride. At this time, He has completely regarded himself as a member of the bandit suppression army.
"You haven't seen that it doesn't take half a day for our Han family's bandit suppressing army to capture a city. They fired shots at the city wall outside the city and captured the entire city in a short time."
"Is it really that powerful?" Wu Liudi even doubted Jiang Ergou's words.
"I'm kidding, it was true at the time. I saw with my own eyes that not many of our Han family's bandit suppressing troops were injured." Jiang Ergou looked up at the sky, and his tone was very dissatisfied with Wu Liudi's suspicion.
"Yes, yes. My fault, Master Wang should not be suspected." Wu Liudi apologized sensibly.
"Okay, you know. To be honest, if I hadn't met the recruitment standards of the Bandit Suppression Army, maybe I would have been a glorious member of the King's Division of the Han Family." Jiang Ergou said with expectation.
"That's where Master Wang can go if you just say so?" Wu Liudi replied.
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At this time, the people throughout Guangdong were surprised that the government would change like this this year. Fortunately, despite the war, this bandit-suppression force did not affect people's lives.
After all, the vast majority of the anti-bandit troops at this time were from Guangdong and Guangxi, and the military discipline was also very strict, which was not comparable to the previous Manchu and Qing green battalions.
Compared with worrying about the military discipline of the bandit-suppressing army, the people of Guangdong, who had been laid low by the bandit-suppressing army at this time, were more concerned about the taxes promoted by the bandit-suppressing army. Even in the prosperous times, there was no such good thing.
The land tax was two bushels per mu, and there were no other additional corvees and no small amount of silver. In other words, after the farmer pays two measures of grain per mu of land, you will have nothing else to do.
It was no longer like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, with countless miscellaneous taxes and unpaid corvee that killed people.
Everything stems from Zhang Rui's modern habits. Although removing the corvee will cause a lot of financial expenditure for the entire bandit suppression army, he has not experienced this in modern times, so he just went to the corvee.
Regarding Zhang Rui's approach, there were also many objections among the bandit suppressing army. After all, they have experienced this since they were young, and everything seems to be taken for granted. This change makes them feel very uncomfortable.
More scholars who wanted to follow the bandit-suppressing army all expressed their concerns to Zhang Rui. Although the bandit-suppressing army rose instantly at this time and the money and food seized were sufficient, if the financial expenditure was too large, it would easily cause the bandit-suppressing army to go bankrupt.
Naturally, Zhang Rui listened humbly to the enthusiastic suggestions from the people below. However, he still insisted on abolishing corvée. Although no one understands Zhang Rui's approach, they will not strongly oppose it.
It was no longer like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, with countless miscellaneous taxes and unpaid corvee that killed people.
Everything stems from Zhang Rui's modern habits. Although removing the corvee will cause a lot of financial expenditure for the entire bandit suppression army, he has not experienced this in modern times, so he just went to the corvee.
Regarding Zhang Rui's approach, there were also many objections among the bandit suppressing army. After all, they have experienced this since they were young, and everything seems to be taken for granted. This change makes them feel very uncomfortable.
More scholars who wanted to follow the bandit-suppressing army all expressed their concerns to Zhang Rui. Although the bandit-suppressing army rose instantly at this time and the money and food seized were sufficient, if the financial expenditure was too large, it would easily cause the bandit-suppressing army to go bankrupt.
Naturally, Zhang Rui listened humbly to the enthusiastic suggestions from the people below. However, he still insisted on abolishing corvée. Although no one understands Zhang Rui's approach, they will not strongly oppose it.
It was no longer like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, with countless miscellaneous taxes and unpaid corvee that killed people.
Everything stems from Zhang Rui's modern habits. Although removing the corvee will cause a lot of financial expenditure for the entire bandit suppression army, he has not experienced this in modern times, so he just went to the corvee.
Regarding Zhang Rui's approach, there were also many objections among the bandit suppressing army. After all, they have experienced this since they were young, and everything seems to be taken for granted. This change makes them feel very uncomfortable.
More scholars who wanted to follow the bandit-suppressing army all expressed their concerns to Zhang Rui. Although the bandit-suppressing army rose instantly at this time and the money and food seized were sufficient, if the financial expenditure was too large, it would easily cause the bandit-suppressing army to go bankrupt.
Naturally, Zhang Rui listened humbly to the enthusiastic suggestions from the people below. However, he still insisted on abolishing corvée. Although no one understands Zhang Rui's approach, they will not strongly oppose it.
