The king behind the empress

Chapter 295 Inspecting the Land
What happened in Fuyuan County is not an isolated case.

When Geng Qi beheaded Wang Shou, the former county magistrate of Fuyuan County, the county magistrates of the other ten counties and some powerful figures in the counties were also beheaded by the Yuzhi Army at the same time, and replaced with new ones. For a while, the entire county town near Nanjun experienced major changes in the officialdom.

And after these things happened, before those aristocratic families could react, the soldiers of the Habayashi Army led professional personnel and began to measure the land in Nanjun.

Measuring the land is a huge and cumbersome project, so Shi Zhipei didn't plan to clear the land all at once. He just asked the soldiers of the Habayashi Army, along with some small officials in charge of cadastral, to go straight to the The aristocratic family hid the land and went away.

Some of these hidden fields were reclaimed by aristocratic families or bought or plundered by aristocratic families from those who reclaimed the fields.

According to the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty, this kind of newly reclaimed land needs to be included in the cadastre of the imperial court. It can be exempted from tax in the past few years, but after a certain period of time, it needs to pay tax.

But those aristocratic families underreported or concealed these fields through their relationships. For example, if they reclaimed one hundred acres, he would say that they had reclaimed ten acres, five acres, one acres, or even not even one acres. Do not report.

After so many years, the number of hidden fields in the hands of the aristocratic family can be imagined.

As a result, the population of Dazhou has been soaring, but the available arable land has remained the same or even decreased. In this way, the taxes collected by Dazhou, which is based on agriculture, will naturally not be able to support so many people. of the population.

And after not being able to feed so many people, those extra people will either starve to death, or rise up and start the next dynasty.

This kind of thing seems to be fate. In the feudal dynasty, it seems that every dynasty cannot escape this kind of reincarnation.

What Shi Zhipei has to do now is to find out those hidden fields and let them change from the private property of the aristocratic family to the registered state-owned assets again.

But his behavior is digging the lifeblood of the family, and it is naturally impossible for those families to allow this to happen.

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On a piece of cultivated land, Jiang Ran of the Habayashi Army, with a dozen soldiers and seven or eight small officials, was gesticulating against the land that had not been enthroned on the official cadastre.

It didn't take long for their behavior to reach the ears of the owner of this land.

The owner of this piece of cultivated land is Yuan Xing, who is a member of the Yuan family's branch, but the field is said to belong to him, but the actual ownership is still under the control of the Yuan family. This land is still the Yuan family's land.

Yuan Xing only owns the right to cultivate this piece of land. If the head of the Yuan family is dissatisfied with Yuan Xing, they can take away the cultivated land at any time. However, within the Yuan family, there are still many such fields that can only be leased for cultivation. Most of the offshoots of the Yuan family only have farming rights.

To really own this land, one must either have made some significant contribution to the Yuan family, or have a certain status in the Yuan family. Therefore, over the years, the Yuan family has firmly controlled it just by relying on these lands. All the people in the branch of the Yuan family lived.

As the actual cultivator of this field today, when he heard that someone in the government was actually measuring his land, he felt a little angry and frightened.

What made him angry was that someone dared to stroke the Yuan family's tiger's beard, and came to break ground on Tai Sui's head.

What is surprising is that the main line attaches great importance to these cultivated lands. If these cultivated lands are registered by the government in their own hands, then their fate will definitely be miserable.

Thinking of this, Yuan Xing didn't have time to think at all, he directly called dozens of clansmen, and brought hundreds of servants with him, and headed towards his land in a mighty manner.

Jiang Ran was in charge of commanding the Divine Bow Battalion in the Yulin Army, so naturally he had no eyesight and saw Yuan Xing and his party from a long distance away.

Looking at the hundreds of people, he was not in a hurry, and he waited for the carriages brought by others to form a circle, while the dozen or so soldiers under his command were holding bows and arrows, hiding behind the circle formed by the carriages and watching calmly. There were hundreds of people who were in bad shape.

"Whoosh~"

When Yuan Xing led the people closer to about a hundred paces, Jiang Ran shot out with an arrow and went straight to the land in front of Yuan Xing.

Jiang Ran's arrow was for warning, so he was planning to shoot the arrow at Yuan Xing's feet, but he didn't expect that Yuan Xing had a master under his command. After seeing the arrow shot by Jiang Ran, An old man behind Yuan Xing rushed to Yuan Xing in a dodge, and then grabbed the sharp arrow.

"Hacking someone in the back is what a villain did!"

The old man snorted coldly, and with a flick of his wrist, he threw out the arrow he had just caught. The arrow went straight to Jiang Ran's face at a faster speed than when it came.

Looking at the oncoming sharp arrow, Jiang Ran was not too excited. He just wanted to warn Yuan Xing, so the hard bow in his hand was only pulled a little bit. Even if the arrow came back much faster, it did not Did not pose a great threat to him.

So when the arrow branch was approaching his face, he tilted his head slightly and easily avoided the arrow that the old man returned.

As for the behavior of catching arrows with his hands, although Jiang Ran could do it, he didn't take it lightly. In his opinion, although this kind of behavior is pretentious, it is indeed a kind of brain-dead behavior on the battlefield.

After all, the types of arrow branches are all kinds of strange things. The ghost knows what kind of arrow is shooting at you. In case of a poisoned barbed spike arrow, just catch it empty-handed. The best result is to use up a hand. As for the bad result , that may even have to confess his life to this pretentious behavior.

Therefore, Jiang Ran would not do this kind of brainless behavior even if he was killed.

"Who is coming, stop!"

Jiang Ran didn't seem to mind the man's arrow in return, and according to the original plan, he gave a loud warning.

However, after the scolding, he immediately lowered his voice and said to the soldiers under his command: "The old man is at least in the Yuan Condensation state. If he dares to rush over by himself later, don't worry about other things, just shoot him to death!" This old bastard!"

"clear."

The soldiers under Jiang Ran knew Jiang Ran very well, and naturally knew that Jiang Ran was a person who never suffered, so they didn't wait for Jiang Ran to say anything, and directly pointed the bow and arrow in their hands at the old man just now.

Jiang Ran looked at the old man viciously, and whispered cruel words in his mouth, "You bastard, you actually want to shoot me to death with my arrows, I want to see how many arrows you, an old bastard, can take today!" arrow!"

"If I can't shoot you into a hedgehog, Jiang Ran is incompetent!"

The old man who had just returned Jiang Ran's arrow, didn't know why he suddenly felt a little cold. He looked up at Jiang Ran who was unharmed, and he was not too surprised. After all, he was not good at using hidden weapons. The distance was really far, and it was normal not to shoot Jiang Ran to death.

However, this can also prove that Jiang Ran is not weak, so he said to Yuan Xing in a low voice, "Patriarch, this person is quite strong."

(End of this chapter)