When Zhou Qi and Xiang Hong led the war horses over, the big insects on the ground had been tied up.

There was a man standing next to Xu Chu. Although this person was not as majestic as Xu Chu, he was also majestic and had a little bookish look on his body.

The man saw the war horses that Zhou Qi and Xiang Hong brought over, and his eyes flashed slightly.

"Ziyi, Bode, this is my brother Xu Ding, whose name is Bokang!"

Although Xu Chu was also surprised by the divine horse on the two of them, he didn't think much about it and pulled the man beside him and introduced to the two.

"Bo Kang, Zhong Kang, it's interesting!"

If there were a few men in the ancient family, they would sometimes sort them according to Bo, Zhong, Shu, and Ji when they called them. For example, Jiang Wei and Jiang Boyue. Looking at their names, you can tell that Jiang Wei's family is ranked first.

For example, Sima Lang, whose courtesy name is Boda; Sima Yi, whose courtesy name is Zhongda; Sima Fu, whose courtesy name is Shuda; Sima Kui, whose courtesy name is Jida, is the same.

For example, Xiang Hongbiao's name is Bokang, which means that he has a younger brother in his family, but unfortunately he died prematurely.

Even though Zhou Qi claimed to be familiar with the history of the Three Kingdoms, he still had no impression of this person, but there was indeed someone in history.

According to the "Three Kingdoms" records: Brother Chu also used military merits as the general to promote power, and the governor issued an edict to the Hu Ben.

The Hu Ben refers to both the special guards guarding the monarch, and also to the brave and warriors in the army who are good at fighting. Xu Ding was able to rule the Hu Ben army, and it can also show that Cao Cao valued him.

Just as Cao Cao treated Shi Huan in history, he was to let these fellow villagers command the imperial guards and protect their own safety.

Therefore, most of these generals failed to make outstanding military achievements, and seemed a little unnamed.

Zhou Qi and Xiang Hong naturally did not dare to neglect them. The two hurriedly stepped forward to meet Xu Ding, and then rushed towards Xu family village at the enthusiastic invitation of the Xu brothers.

That night, many bonfires were lit in Xujia Village, and many young people in the village were drinking in front of the fire, making them very happy.

After drinking for three rounds, Zhou Qi couldn't help but sigh: "Xujiazhai is really a big village. The people in the village are relatively rich in life. Unlike my hometown, most of the people live very hard!"

Speaking of this, Zhou Qi couldn't help but drink a sip of wine.

This is not Zhou Qi's deliberate flattery.

Since arriving at Xujia Village, Zhou Qi has clearly felt the difference in the village.

Most of the people here have rosy faces. Although their clothes are not gorgeous, they are also very clean and neat. There is no one who is uncovered.

This also shows that Xujia Village has enough food and clothing, and is completely from different worlds with Zhoujiaji.

This situation was actually quite common in the late Han Dynasty, so Zhou Qi naturally knew the tricks.

Xujia Village is indeed very large, covering an area of ​​dozens of miles and is composed of many villages. The village is basically dominated by the Xu clan, so it is very united, and even officials dare not come to bully him.

They only pay the regular taxes of the court every year. As long as the government dares to collect heavy taxes from Xujiazhai, thousands of clan men will gather together to resist the tax.

Even those servants who came to pay taxes did not dare to come to Xujiazhai again after being beaten to death.

In fact, Xujiazhai pays very little regular tax every year.

Through coercion and inducement, they asked the servants responsible for measuring the land to help hide the land, and only eight cents of the area per acre of land can be paid less tax of two cents of the land.

As for the newly reclaimed land by the people of Xujiazhai, they simply did not report it to the government and did not have to pay a penny of taxes. With the support of a powerful clan behind it, no one dared to report or encroach on it.

As for the various household taxes, vocational taxes, calculation taxes, additional taxes, and donations fees that are required to pay according to the cap, Xujiazhai also paid very little.

Because Xujia Village is managed in the form of a clan, no matter what happens in the village, it almost does not have to go through the government, but is handled impartially by the clan elders.

Because the clan elders are relatively fair, many people in Xujiazhai pretended to die and took off their household registration in recent years, and then became black households and were hiding in the village.

Even many newborns do not have access to the government household registration.

In this way, these people don’t have to pay the complicated tax on the official service.

Of course, these hiding households must also pay the occupancy tax to the clan, and then the clan uses the occupancy tax paid by these hiding households to dilute the amount of hiding households that the remaining registered and naturalized villagers need to pay.

It is precisely because of this operation that the taxes in Xujiazhai have been distributed equally, and the per capita taxes are paid very little, ensuring that all the villagers can bear them.

Moreover, according to the clan law, private individuals are not allowed to purchase land from the people in the village. If someone needs to sell the land, they must sell it to the clan. The price given by the clan is not only fair, but also guarantees that the land can be redeemed unconditionally at the original price after the seller has money.

The land owned by the clan will also be rented to poor households without land on lower fields. The rent they need to pay is only 20% more than that of self-cultivated farmers.

This regulation not only eliminates the possibility of wealthy people annexing land, but also allows all the villagers in Xujiazhai to live in a relatively peaceful and stable environment.

The above strategies almost made Xujiazhai a paradise.

In fact, it was not uncommon to have a manor-style economic model in the late Han Dynasty, which was dominated by sect leaders, large clans, and powerful people, and grouped together to keep warm. This kind of force ranged from hundreds, thousands or even tens of thousands.

If they work together, even the government can only turn a blind eye.

Of course, it is not easy to achieve this model. It is not easy to have money or power to succeed. The most important thing is fairness and unity.

Needless to say, many local tribes do this, but it is more troublesome to hide households.

If you want to hide your household, you must first become a black household.

The social status of the black households is even worse than that of the refugees. They are completely cancelled by the government or have not registered their household registration in the government at all.

Such a person cannot enter the court and become an official.

Not only that, black households have no human rights, and the government will arrest and punish them. Even if they are forcibly occupied by land, property, or even beaten to death and injured by others, no one will care about them.

Therefore, even if ordinary people become refugees, they are unwilling to become hiding households.

However, things in the world are not absolute. Just like the villages like Xujiazhai that gathered mainly by clans. Everyone is from the same clan and has a relatively complete clan system.

Although the government will not protect the hiding households, the clan will formulate systems to protect them and treat them as normal village residents.

In this way, except for being unable to become an official, the life of the hidden households in the village will not be greatly affected.

Of course, the premise of doing this must be that everyone is united and that the elders responsible for managing the clan should not have too much selfishness.

Otherwise, once the clan management loses its fairness and the rights and interests of the households are not protected, making the people disunited. This seemingly peach blossom land economic model will soon collapse.
Chapter completed!