As soon as the rooster crows, Sujia Village becomes noisy.
Su Que beat the gongs and drums and went from door to door to announce.
"Su He wants to kill Su Juren at Sujiazhuang. If he has enmity with other people in Sujiazhuang, he can go to redress his grievances."
"If your family is short of food, you can go to Sujiazhuang to borrow food without interest."
"Sujiazhuang is now giving out porridge, and everyone can receive a bowl of porridge for free."
This news made everyone in Sujiacun unable to sit still.
In this era when you can't have a bowl of rice a day, no one will miss a free meal.
Su Shanmao rushed to Sujiazhuang with his family of five on crutches.
He was far away from Zhuangzi and could smell the aroma of food.
At the entrance of Sujiazhuang, several large pots were cooking porridge.
There were three queues hundreds of meters long, and everyone in the village who could move came here to receive porridge.
There are people guarding the cauldron with knives to prevent hungry people from grabbing the food.
There is a person holding a wooden stick to direct the team next to it. If he sees someone trying to jump in the queue, he will just hit him with a stick.
The queue is long, but the pace is not slow.
Su Shanmao quickly walked to the front, and he saw nine large pots cooking porridge in front of him.
He took out the bowl with trembling hands and saw the porridge cook ladling a full bowl of porridge for him.
This porridge is very dense, with a lot of rice grains in it, and it won't fall over even if you hold up your chopsticks.
Su Shanmao and his family all served porridge and walked aside to eat.
He licked the bottom of the bowl clean with an unfinished expression on his face.
"Everyone only has one bowl. It would be great if we could give him another bowl!"
Su He walked out of the study, and Su Xiong was waiting for him with a team of people.
"Press all the prisoners and let's set off."
Su He led the team to suppress the Sujiazhuang prisoners and walked out of Sujiazhuang carrying several large boxes.
The villagers looked at the neatly arranged teams holding weapons.
They were chatting and immediately shut up.
In front of the main gate of Sujiazhuang, there is a row of tables and chairs placed in the open air.
Su He sat on the main seat, with several boxes placed next to him.
Today is an important moment for him to win over the people and strengthen his team's belief in rebellion.
In this era of prenatal education per capita, simple and direct methods are the best methods.
“Here are the IOUs from the whole village, and I’m burning them all now.
I declare that no one needs to repay any money they owe Su Juren.
Su Xiong, burned all this box of IOUs. "
Su Xiong moved a large copper basin with burning charcoal in it.
He lifted the box and poured all the IOUs into the copper basin, and burned them all in a fire.
When the villagers saw this, they shouted in joy.
Every household in the village owed usurious loans from Su Juren, and now they don't have to pay them back.
They felt like a big mountain had been lifted from their bodies, and their lives became much easier.
"My name is Su He, you can call me Commander Su from now on.
This village will be under my rule from today on, and I declare that from now on, we will not have to pay grain taxes to the Ming Dynasty. "
When Su Shanmao heard this, his voice trembled and he asked cautiously: "Su, Su, Commander Su, you mean that we don't have to pay taxes from now on."
“No, you will still have to pay taxes in the future, but you will just pay taxes to me.
But there is no need to pay taxes this year, and the grain tax is only 10% of the average local output that year. "
When Su He heard someone saying that he didn't have to pay taxes, he responded immediately.
You can't do it without paying taxes. In troubled times, if you have food, you will have soldiers. The scale of the explosion depends entirely on logistics.
He can only ensure that everyone has land to farm, and everyone has to pay taxes. There are no miscellaneous taxes or assessments.
“Brothers, folks.
We pay taxes to the Ming Dynasty every year. Have you ever seen Su Ju people pay taxes?
We don’t have our own land and we have to pay taxes.
Su Ju people have more than 30,000 acres of land, but they don't have to pay any taxes.
Should the Ming Dynasty rebel? "
The financial system of the Ming Dynasty had collapsed, and the peasants who owned less than 10% of the land were paying taxes.
In Sujia Village, the Su Ju people were not the right people. Most of the taxes paid by the tenants went into the Su Ju people's pockets.
Gentlemen who owned more than 90% of the land did not have to pay a cent of tax.
Merchants, who can make thousands of times more profit than farming, don’t have to pay any tax.
The court could not collect commercial taxes, mineral water, and salt taxes could only collect a little.
The pirate leader in Fujian who relied on collecting protection fees received more protection fees in a year than the taxes collected by Ming Dynasty.
How could the villagers know this knowledge? Su He explained it bluntly.
They were not fools, and they immediately understood who caused the suffering they had suffered over the years.
Seeing that the atmosphere was good, Su Ergou had an idea and realized that it was time for him to make a contribution.
"Support Commander Su and rebel against the Ming Dynasty."
His voice sounded, and the team also reacted, and they shouted in unison: "Support Commander Su and rebel against the Ming Dynasty."
Slogans also started to sound among the villagers. From a few people shouting slogans, it gradually expanded to the majority of people shouting slogans.
"Support Commander Su and rebel against the Ming Dynasty."
When Su He saw this situation, he knew that the rebellion was basically stable.
He pulled out the long knife from his waist and held it high: "Thank you for your trust. I will lead you from one victory to another."
After he saw the crowd calm down, Su Juren said with a knife pointed at him: "Today I am here to make the decision for everyone. Anyone who is harmed by Sujiazhuang and others can redress their grievances to me."
When Su Shanmao heard Su He's words, he leaned on crutches and said in a sad tone: "My little daughter has entered Sujiazhuang to be a maid.
She was beaten to death by Su Wangshi, Su Juren's wife.
Ask Commander Su to make the decision for me. "
"Bring someone to invade the Su Wang family."
Su He gave an order, and Wang Su was pressed over.
"Wang Su, please tell me honestly whether you want to kill Su Shanmao's daughter to avoid suffering physical pain."
Mrs. Su raised her head and glanced at Su Shanmao, and said: "I have killed so many little girls, who knows which one his daughter is, I don't remember.
Pretty little girls deserve to die, trying to compete with me for favor, huh! "
Wang Su's words immediately aroused public outrage.
Many families in the village sent their daughters to Sujiazhuang to pay off their debts. They originally wanted their daughters to have a way to live, but they died inexplicably.
Now when they heard what Wang Su said, they shouted angrily: "Commander Su will kill her and never let the evil woman live."
Su He saw that Su Wang's family had caused outrage among the people, so he calmed the villagers and continued to examine the case.
He wanted to expose the bad things the gentry had done one by one, so that everyone could see the ugly face of the gentry.
Evil deeds such as killing people, seizing fields, and raping other people's wives and daughters were announced one after another.
The villagers' anger was completely detonated. They wanted to break through the guards and beat Su Juren and others to death.
Su He immediately asked people to beat gongs to scare the villagers, and the guards also pulled away the excited villagers.
"The sentence is pronounced below. Su Juren will be sentenced to death, and Su Wang will be sentenced to death..."
Su Ju's wife, concubines, children, and cronies committed too many evil acts, which greatly angered the people, and they were all sentenced to death.
The execution soldiers strangled them to death with hemp ropes in front of everyone.
Su He continued to interrogate other people in Sujiazhuang.
With no life on his hands, he was sentenced to hard labor. Depending on the crime, they were sentenced to two to thirty years in prison.
The innocent servants and maids in Sujiazhuang were released.
This simple interrogation ended and the guards cleaned up the bodies.
The villagers shouted excitedly: "Commander Su, Su Qingtian."
Su He took out another box and grabbed a handful of land deeds.
