"Loyalist killing makes no sense, whether you are koo or not. In those days, Zhao’s regime was disturbed by Ganzhou people. His mother couldn’t wait to kill all Ganzhou people, but you don’t say that ordinary people are even afraid of being officials when loyalists cross the border.
Generally, when the loyalist crosses the border, the officials will put the materials needed by the loyalist outside the city, and then the gate will not be allowed to enter the city until the loyalist has gone far away.
What? Afraid! Being an official is well informed, right? What even they dare not let loyalist into the city? Obviously, officials have let loyalists into the city before, and as a result, loyalists made a scene. Maybe the officials themselves were killed. What did loyalists tell you? Knife in hand is the truth! "
Xu Tong told the villagers a lot of things, which scared the villagers to say that they were all in the same boat.
They think of the things they did before the fanaticism, and they think of being killed by them, the Jizhou Zhijun and the Luling County Order, and several corrupt officials who died in their hands. They can’t help but be afraid to go anywhere.
By telling this truth, we can temporarily calm people’s hearts and prevent the harsh conditions in the mountains from causing large-scale escape, and then we will have the basis for political and ideological education
"Having said that, I don’t think we need to be afraid of them."
Xu Tong said at first that the villagers were worried, but suddenly he said that he was not afraid, which caused some villagers to be puzzled.
"President, what do you mean? One minute, I said that the loyalist was terrible, and then I said that there is no need to be afraid of anything? "
Looking at the villagers puzzled expression Xu Tong smiled.
"It’s very simple. Didn’t we break through four counties in a row and kill several hundred corrupt officials? Although the loyalist is fierce, isn’t it defeated by us? "
The villagers qi qi froze and then looked at each other and nodded at each other involuntarily.
Xu Tong pulled out his knife and looked at the blade.
"The loyalist although fierce but also everyone will die if they are killed. Aren’t loyalists afraid to have a knife in our hands? They are afraid of them more than we are afraid of them. Because there are many of us, there are tens of millions of them, and they are only hundreds of thousands at most! "
"Tens of millions?"
The villagers put up their fingers and broke off, looking left and right, and they didn’t know how to calculate tens of millions of levels of arithmetic.
And this involves some profound things, and it needs to be done step by step
Xu Tong took them to build their own homes and told them from the beginning what cows and horses are, what people are waiting for, and what they get for nothing by eating cows and horses.
In this process, he also creatively added the current policy of the country to the political propaganda, which made the facts more bloody compared with the policy of the Southern Song Dynasty.
"Do you know how much Chinese farmers need to pay for land rent?"
I don’t know.
"Farmers who rent land for farming need to pay a maximum of 40% of the land rent instead of renting land for farming. Farmers who own their own land need to pay a farm tax to the court, and pay two liters per mu of land without other exorbitant taxes."
Hearing this, the villagers were surprised in succession.
"Impossible?"
"Is there such a good thing?"
"President, don’t lie to us."
"How can there be such a good court in the world?"
Xu Tong shook his head and felt sad about it.
He studied history and knew that many agricultural policies of ancient dynasties were frivolous and thin, but later, with the change of time, the pressure of the ruling class to corrupt farmers became more and more intense.
However, as far as agricultural policies are concerned, the pressure on farmers in the early dynasty was not great, and the policies of ten taxes and fifteen taxes often operated for decades.
But Song may not be the case.
"I just came from the northern countries I don’t know this kind of thing? The emperor of the northern country issued an imperial edict requiring landowners not to collect more than 40% of the rent from leased land, and those who disobey the edict will have to pay a heavy price.
And farmers who own their own land don’t pay rent at all. It’s only necessary to pay a farm tax to the court every tax season. All taxes are gone. By the way, even if they levy labor, they will give money. "
The villagers were even more surprised
"True or false?"
"Do you still pay for labor?"
"Don’t they all pay for rice?"
"I also heard that there are places where people starve to death after two or three days without even caring about their meals."
"Yes, my cousin ran back from the site where he didn’t give food and hid in the mountains for more than a year before avoiding the limelight, but now he has changed his name."
The villagers talked about their experiences and what they saw and heard. Xu Tong listened. When they had finished, Xu Tong began to declare the country again.
For example, after the emperor led the army to seize land, he distributed it to farmers and set up peasant associations to let farmers mind their own affairs.
The national farmers’ association has a lot of power, and the county government can’t collect taxes at will. The tax department can dock with the farmers’ association in the tax season according to the regulations, and can’t do the rest of the tax collection, let alone even think about it.
All kinds of exorbitant taxes and levies imposed on farmers by governments at all levels in the Southern Song Dynasty were abolished by the Ministry of Peasant Associations, and even the rural landlords and gentry were eradicated together, and the land was returned to farmers.
For farmers, a thousand roads and ten thousand roads are not as real as land and tax reduction. What they want most, at least at present, is land and tax reduction.
Wouldn’t it be great if most of it belonged to me?
Every farmer has thought like this.
"Most of the food sent by Chinese farmers really belongs to them."
Xu Tong’s words made many villagers disbelieve.
"Before the disaster, we begged the main family to reduce the rent. The main family cried to us that there was no surplus food in his family, so he had to get some roots and no food. If the emperor of the country was so good, he probably wouldn’t have enough to eat."
Xu Tong laughed for a while.
"You also believe this nonsense? I ask you how much rent do you pay the landlord every year? "
A villager raised his hand.
"Our place is four or six, our four main houses are six, which is all acceptable. Many places around it are three or seven, and the second one is too dark."
"How many tenants do you have there?"
"Probably more than four hundred."
"You live on these four achievements alone. What do you think that the main family with more than 400 people and 60% grain harvest will not have enough to eat? How many people are there in the main family? There shouldn’t be a thousand people, should there? It is estimated that it is a bit difficult to eat. "
That said, the villager was a little embarrassed.
"This … I don’t know …"
Of course he doesn’t know. If he cleared it, there wouldn’t be such a problem and such doubts.
This shows how deceptive the landlords and gentry are when they talk nonsense.
Lies need to be debunked, and the truth needs to be obtained!
Chapter 736 The second wave of peasant uprising broke out
Even if the emperor is at the end of his tether, the landlord’s house will not be without surplus food.
This is known to all members of the Renaissance Association.
They are very angry about this kind of lie and know it very well.
"At most, there are dozens of people in the main family, and hundreds of people in the servant’s hospital have overcharged you so much food that you can’t eat enough? Do you believe this? "
Xu Tong fumed, "Is there a word in the mouth of the landlord and gentry that can be trusted? Not a word! All they want is more rent, trying to squeeze us to death! Let’s not eat enough and starve to death, so we will be their cattle and horses, and they will be exhausted and live! "
Xu Tong listed the taxes that farmers in the Southern Song Dynasty needed to pay and the actual taxes, and told the villagers how much they paid and where these taxes were embezzled by who.
The villagers looked at each other. When they first heard such a thing, they felt at a loss and puzzled. They felt that everything in the past suddenly became very strange.
After the agricultural tax, Xu Tong said the salt tax.
"Is it difficult for you to eat salt? Do you think salt is expensive? "
"Of course!"
As soon as I arrived here, the villagers seemed to complain more than food, saying that salt was too expensive and bitter, and the quality was too poor and it was difficult to buy.
Others say that they have bought cheaper private salt and the quality is better, so they don’t want to buy official salt since then.
However, sometimes the government is so strict that it has to check the salt. When it sees white salt, it is said that it is private salt. It is necessary to punish the official salt that is bitter and yellowed with some wet salt.
Official salt and private salt were unexpectedly separated in this way!