The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 538 Dog

Early the next morning, the five Wang Yongji, who thought they had escaped from the dead, set off to work and behaved very positively.

Soon King Lu and Marquis Dongping got along happily and often listened to music and played chess together. Too many high-ranking officials and nobles learned about it. Everyone also knew that Marquis Dongping had already paid the tax that King Lu got. .

After returning to Houjiazhuang, Huang Han immediately sent a memorial to Chongzhen, attaching a copy of the agreement with King Lu, praising King Lu for not competing with the people for the land tax and land rent that he collected was more reasonable, and asking the Holy Son of Heaven to call on all princes to follow suit.

Next, there will be a legal basis for dealing with the entangled fields with the prince. The prince who agrees to this process will immediately be able to get this year's income, and this will be the case every year in the future.

The princes settled their calculations and felt that they should not suffer too much. Naturally, they admitted that such an income would weaken their minds about dealing with Dongpinghou.

Huang Han and the lord were able to negotiate the conditions, those landlords who were waiting and watching would dare to jump out and make things difficult.

In the end, the 50 mu of land with landowners signed a ten-year land rent contract. According to the upper, middle and lower classes, the land rent is paid according to eight cents, six cents and five cents, and five cents per mu. Harvest [-]% of the mu field.

The land tax and land rent were paid uniformly by the "Red Banner Army" and were deducted from half of the harvest received by the "Red Banner Army".

After negotiating with the prince and the landlord, the circle planted is close to 100 million mu of land, and Huang Han needs to spend close to 10 taels of silver every year including taxes and land rent. The Sifang Bank will give the bank notes to the household department.

The land tax of the Ming Dynasty was actually not high, and it was the exorbitant miscellaneous taxes and land rent that forced the common people to go to a dead end.

The Huang Han colonized the land and accepted to pay the imperial grain and national tax, and respected the ownership of the land and agreed to pay the land rent. If he could not let the village households and farmers under his management feel at ease to produce, the next step would be to use a knife to kill people.

The "Red Banner Army" is being repaired. King Gao Chuang, General Li Chuang, Eight Great Kings, Cao Cao, Hongniang Xing, Chuang Tate Tian, ​​Lao Hui Hui, etc. have not stopped for a day.

However, the news that Dongping Hou killed Zijin Liang Wang Ziyong and Wang Jiayin's younger brother Wang Jiayun and more than [-] bandit leaders spread throughout Shanshan and Henan.

The rogues gave the "Red Banner Army" led by Huang Han an ugly name "Red Devils", implying that the "Red Banner Army" is a group of devils wearing red uniforms who kill people without blinking an eye.

Many rogues who entered Taihang Mountain found out that the "Red Banner Army" was stationed in Houjiazhuang, and none of them dared to provoke.

The bandits didn't dare to go east to plunder, so they went south one after another, and fought against Deng Qi's Sichuan army in Lin County, beating thousands of unarmed troops under Deng Qi's command.

Huang Han didn't know if Deng Qi only had the Jiading team left in his hands, but he could judge that the Sichuan army suffered a lot of losses. It may be because many Sichuan children knew that Houjiazhuang had hundreds of white soldiers who were also from the Sichuan army, so they were a little broken. People and horses come here to find them.

Due to this situation, Huang Han, Zhang Fengyi, Qin Yuyi, and Zhao Kun each personally led a general infantry movement to the Taihang Mountains and the Great Plains to gather the defeated Sichuan Army.

Deducting the general cavalry who sent the refugees to Tianjin Wei, there are more than a thousand cavalry, of course they will not go up the mountain, but will support them nearby.

Huang Han came to a place called Laoye Mountain and guarded a mountain road and waited for the rabbit. People from the west had to pass through here to go down to the plain, otherwise they would have to go north or south on the mountain road for dozens of miles.

Three days passed and hundreds of thousands of refugees, without exception, the youths of the "Red Banner Army" gave them two grain cakes to guide them to Houjiazhuang. There was a white soldier with a small flag Zhang Fengyi in the team, and they really attracted people by shouting in Sichuan accent. More than 100 broken Sichuan troops came to defect.

On the fourth day, a strange thing happened. A short and sturdy man ran with a big hound in his arms, followed by seven or eight soldiers with long guns and sabers in pursuit.

"Brother, don't run away, we are not bandits, we are officers and soldiers, as long as you are willing to keep that dog, we will not make things difficult for you!"

"Brother, are you stupid? That dog's leg is broken, how can it survive? You don't have the heart to do it. Our brothers did it for you, so that the dog won't suffer any more, and we will give you a few pieces of meat at that time."

The people running in front ignored him at all, and ran wildly on the mountain road like walking on the ground. Although he was holding a big dog weighing several tens of kilograms, the people behind couldn't catch up.

This man was only running eastward, but he didn't expect that there was an ambush here, and the "Red Banner Army" would not kill people indiscriminately. At this time, Gu Kui and the others shouted loudly and led more than [-] people to stand in the way.

"'Red Banner Army' is here, everyone must throw away their weapons and accept interrogation, officers and soldiers are no exception!"

The running man stopped and found that there were dozens of people blocking the way in armor. He didn't resist or raise his hands. He spoke and almost made Gu Kui laugh.

"Master Jun, can you please give me something to eat? The little one can still bear it. The villain's 'winged tiger' will soon die if he has nothing to eat."

Gu Kui asked: "The big dog you hold in your arms is called 'Winged Tiger'?"

"Yes, it broke its legs trying to save the little one from the bandits. This morning when the little one was holding it down the mountain and wanted to find a doctor to save it, it happened to be seen by some soldiers. Those soldiers wanted to eat my cut Winged tiger'."

Of course the guards around Huang Han knew about "Winged Tiger". Seeing a big dog with this name, you couldn't help but burst out laughing.

The brawny man still hugged the dog and stared at the soldiers with vigilant eyes. Seeing them burst into laughter, he thought he was about to suffer, and said harshly: "Don't come here, anyone who dares to touch the 'winged tiger' will definitely kill you!" Fight him hard."

Huang Han saw that this man was interesting, so he ordered the medical soldiers accompanying the army: "Run over there to see if the dog can be saved. If it is a broken leg, you can also use the method of setting bones."

He said to Gu Jixiang again: "Prescribe a can of pork to that man. In case that dog dies, let him eat to his full stomach, so that man will have no regrets."

Gu Jixiang moved swiftly, and it didn't take long before he came to the man with a ceramic pot filled with pork and said, "You are lucky, you have met a good man with a bodhisattva heart."

As he spoke, he dug a piece of canned meat made of pork, starch, salt, and spices with a small copper spoon and brought it to the big dog's mouth, but the dog looked at it but didn't eat it.

The man said: "Little brother, unless it is a living thing, the 'winged tiger' will not eat anything thrown by strangers, let me come!"

(End of this chapter)