The officer came up and unlocked the chain, put Xing Dachun's hands behind his back and locked them again.
"I haven't eaten yet, I haven't eaten yet, I want to eat, I want to eat." Wang Shuochen was unwilling to be beheaded and struggled to eat the leftovers scattered on the ground.
However, the officer didn't care about that at all and also locked his hands behind his back with iron chains.
"The time has come for the execution." Yang Jiachen threw out a fire sign.
The executioner picked up the wine bowl prepared nearby, sprayed wine on Guitou Daodao, and then cut off Wang Shuochen's neck with a knife.
Douda's head rolled to the ground, blood spraying from his neck.
Xing Dachun, who was kneeling aside, closed his eyes subconsciously and his body was trembling.
The executioner picked up another wine bowl and sprayed a sip of wine on the knife as before, washing away some of the blood stains on it.
Poof!
Another blow, and the decapitated Xing Dachun fell onto the high platform.
After the execution was over, the policemen in the yamen began to clean up the execution ground. The bodies were thrown on flatbed trucks and then taken to a mass grave outside the city for burial.
After the corpse was taken away, everyone in the yamen also left the execution ground. Several people in the crowd rushed to the execution place to collect the blood spilled on it.
Two people who took the lead in resisting the Tiger Character Banner's land-dividing policy were executed.
The policy of allocating farmland began to be promoted in various towns and villages, and everything went very smoothly. The remaining large households and squires in Lingqiu chose to hand over their excess farmland honestly and exchange it for corresponding money from the yamen.
Tenants and serfs in each village got their own fields and no longer needed to rent from landlords, and many exorbitant taxes and fees were also exempted.
After careful calculation, you only need to pay half of the output of the land to complete the tax, and the remaining half of the harvest belongs to you.
Farmers have their own intelligence. Although many of them are illiterate, they still have to figure it out even if they count on their fingers for the sake of their own fields.
The people who have received substantial benefits will only be able to get half of the harvest next year, but this is enough to make them happy. After all, they could only rent land before, but now the land belongs to them.
It means that without doing anything, one person can get several acres of land for free, and the taxes for the coming year will also be reduced a lot, which is a real benefit.
In addition to the tenants, the homesteaders also benefited.
Although they do not have as much free land as tenants because they own land, the reduction in taxes has given hope to a family that was originally living in difficulty.
The most unhappy people are only the squires and wealthy households who control large amounts of land.
Many of the land properties in these people's families have been accumulated over several generations, or perhaps someone in the family has achieved success in the scientific examination and received contributions from people around them. The land property accumulated slowly was all divided at once, and then shared with the family. Nothing to do.
Losing the land, even if it is exchanged for money, is not worth it to them. After all, the land can continuously produce, but the money is spent less and less, and there will always be a day when it is spent.
But in the face of the Tiger Flag's swords and guns, no one dared to resist. Even if they were unwilling, they could only knock out their teeth and swallow it in their stomachs.
The deaths of Wang Shuochen and Xing Dachun were right in front of them, and no one wanted to follow in their footsteps.
The Huzi Banner began to divide the fields, and other prefectures and counties in Lingqiu and the border guards also carried out the division of fields.
Throughout Datong, due to the division of land, those farmers and tenants who had gained real benefits changed from not supporting or opposing the rule of the Tiger Flag to supporting it.
For ordinary people, the rule of those who can bring them tangible benefits will be supported.
The division of land was carried out vigorously in Datong.
Documents documenting the results of the land allocation were sent to Liu Heng's desk in Datong Town.
"Proprietor, drink some water!" Zhao Wu picked up the tea jar Liu Heng specially drank from and poured half of the tea jar's hot water into it, making the tea leaves float, but they soon sank again.
The reason why the teapot is not filled is not because there is not enough water in the teapot, but because the weather is cold and the water in the teapot also cools quickly. In many cases, it has completely cooled down before it is finished.
Liu Heng rubbed his sore eyes, leaned back on the chair, and said in a good mood: "Remember to ask the attendant team to prepare a few commendations and send them to a few places that have excellent implementation of the Tianjin policy."
"I will tell the attendants soon." Zhao Wu agreed and put the teapot back on the stove.
Liu Heng said with a smile: "If we divide the fields this year and harvest next summer, our Tiger Flag will receive the first batch of taxes. As long as the people who are allocated the fields really feel the benefits of the land distribution, our Tiger Flag will be fine." Having completely established a foothold in Datong, no matter who comes in the future, as long as they don’t do what we do, don’t expect the people to support them.”
The common people are the easiest group of people to deceive, and they are also the most honest group of people. Whoever treats them well and who treats them badly has their own account in their hearts.
"It is also a blessing for the people of Datong to meet such a good lord like you, the proprietor." Zhao Wu complimented a little.
"Ha ha."
Liu Heng laughed twice, and then said: "The people don't have to live such a hard life. It's a pity that the officials are corrupt and the local gentry bullies them, causing the people to bear a lot of taxes that should not belong to them. How can life not be hard?" .”
There were so many exorbitant taxes and levies in the Ming Dynasty.
Many miscellaneous taxes are collected by local governments or even only local states and counties.
Money for water, bicycles, food, treasury, bamboo baskets, and places with rivers around will also collect money from gods and Buddhas. Even passenger ships passing by on the river have to offer incense to the gods and Buddhas along the coast and hand over the money. Incense money is also taxed.
There are so many taxes for various reasons. It can be said that there are only unexpected taxes and there are no taxes that the government does not collect.
Many wealthy gentry families would collude with the government and pass the taxes that belong to them to ordinary people, causing ordinary people to pay taxes for those wealthy gentry families.
If you wait like this, how can the people not be poor?
Even when the weather is good, the people can barely survive. When encountering natural or man-made disasters, they can only sell their children and daughters to survive. If they can't survive even if they sell their children and daughters, they will either rebel or starve to death.
"By the way, send an official document to the county magistrate of Yang Hewei, reprimanding him for why there has been no progress in allocating the fields so far. Whether it can still be done, if not, replace him as soon as possible." Liu Heng said coldly.
"According to the proprietor's request, when you return, you will form peasant associations in each village and village, and let each peasant association divide the land in its own village and village. As government officials, you must also participate to prevent corruption from happening. ." Huang Shian said to the people in front of him.
After clearing out a group of large gentry households that hindered the land distribution policy, Lingqiu finally began to carry out land distribution.
At the end of the meeting, the government officials from the three towns in Lingqiu left the county government together.
The only people left in the houyamen were those who were on errands in the county yamen.
