On November 15, Pei Xiaoer left Yun County and rushed to Baihe County that night, preparing to rest for one night, and continued to set off the next day.

However, that night, Pei Xiaoer just lay down when Liu Xianchun pulled out of the quilt and discussed whether it was.

"Zhongfang, what's the matter? You're so anxious? You can make your own decisions about some small matters, and there's no need to report to me in facts." Pei Xiaoer yawned, tied his clothes buttons and walked out of the bedroom.

After two months of preparation, several civil servants in the Pei family's rear army had already taken over the position of magistrates in various counties in Yunyang Prefecture, among which Liu Xianchun was temporarily acting as magistrate.

This time, after returning to Yunxian, Pei Xiaoer didn't even have time to see Zhao Xinlan, so he hurriedly rushed west to Hanzhong, but unexpectedly, Liu Xianchun was found by Liu Xianchun halfway.

When he arrived at the side hall, Liu Xianchun had been waiting for a long time. Seeing Pei Xiaoer coming, he stood up to greet him. Pei Xiaoer pressed Liu Xianchun who was about to speak, pulled his arm and sat down together, and then smiled and said, "It seems that this matter is not small. It actually made Zhongfang, who has always been steady, anxious like this."

Liu Xianchun smiled bitterly, "General, it's my fault for speaking. If I had discovered it earlier, I might have avoided such things." As he said that, Liu Xianchun told Pei Xiaoer what he knew.

It turned out that since Pei Xiaoer ordered the magistrates of each county to replant winter grain as soon as possible in the fields last time, the prefectures and counties below began to post notices in the city, requiring replant grain.

At the same time, the re-established tax collection department is already eager to try it out. Compared with the traditional bureaucrats, the tax collection department led by Xu Ze has been carefully trained by Pei Xiaoer in Shanxi. Its "combat power" has far exceeded the ability of tax officials in all dynasties and has reached the point of perfection.

Not only that, as the main force of tax revenue, the Taxation Department also collects literate people everywhere, such as scholars, children, students who failed the exam, gather them together, participate in temporary training classes, and teaches various professional knowledge of the Pei family's tax law, mathematics, accounting, and even grain quality inspection, silver inspection, authenticity and false identification of silver notes, so as to ensure that the comprehensive collection does not leave any blind spots.

In addition, in order to prevent anyone from resisting taxes, the Taxation Department has now recruited more than 520 strong men to serve as thugs. All of these people hold sharp blades, wear leather armor, and practice day and night. Their combat effectiveness is comparable to that of ordinary troops. It can be said that they are from paying taxes, resisting taxes, and being killed.

That is, a month after the Pei family army captured Yunyang, the various tax collectors trained by the Taxation Department had successfully graduated and could participate in the glorious and sacred tax collection cause. Therefore, in just a few days, the streets and alleys of the seven counties under Yunyang Prefecture, and the fields were filled with surveys of tax collectors.

During these days, the land tax has not yet begun to be collected, but the commercial tax in the city has already begun to be paid, which has caused various tax resistance incidents to occur frequently. Moreover, these tax resistance people often have a big family, hundreds of servants in their families, and they are guarding their families. Most people really have no choice but to do anything to them.

At this time, it was the 500 armed personnel recruited to be dispatched. They were well-trained, had clear goals, and were well-equipped. They even had two or three cannons as auxiliary. When they came to the tax-resistant house, they often smashed the resistance of the people inside in a few shots and could only kneel down and pay the tax obediently.

If the commercial tax in the city allows these big households to cut their losses, the land surveyors distributed in the countryside will directly take the lives of these big households.

Since the Hongwu period, the amount of land in the imperial court was a mess. It was not until Zhang Juzheng was in power. Although he had to vigorously investigate the land, there was still a loud thunder and little rain. One very important thing is that the officials of the Ming Dynasty did not leave the county town or go deep into the countryside. All the figures depended on the moral consciousness of the people below.

This time, the tax collection department of the Pei family army actually sent people to various fields to conduct in-depth investigations into the total number of land owned by each family, and some people even took out a measure to measure the land area.

How could this work? If you continue to check, your underwear will be almost wiped out by the Pei family army. The rich gentry in Yunyang Mansion quit and they began to join forces to oppose it.

At the beginning, these people first went to the government office. The new magistrate of the local area naturally knew the various policies of the Pei family army. Their salary was entirely due to tax burdens. If these people didn't pay taxes, what would they eat? In addition, how much tax should they pay and who would collect taxes from, they couldn't control this kind of thing, so they blasted them back without hesitation.

According to Shanxi's past experience, these people were in chaos for a while, and after they finally found that they had no effect, they had to appoint them, pay as much tax as they should, and pay fines at the same time.

Unexpectedly, perhaps it was because of the remote and unlucky people. Seeing that the matter was not done, these local tyrants and gentry actually connected together and openly disobeyed the order. First, a number of shops in the city closed down and stopped selling various daily necessities, such as salt, iron, rice, vegetables, etc.

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Later, two days after development, the situation suddenly escalated. These gentry actually sent people to various farms and fields to evacuate the tenants who originally replanted grain, resulting in a large area of ​​land being deserted and weeds all over the ground.

Things suddenly happened. You should know what is the most important pillar in this chaotic world. It must be food. If you have food, you are not panic. With food, you will have a source of troops, victory, and the ability to further expand the territory and guard against the encirclement of officers and soldiers. Now these large families would rather be deserted than resist the taxes of the Pei family army.

This practice is not so much like killing ten thousand enemies and losing eight thousand of them, but they still do it.

The taxation department was the first to discover the problem and quickly reported it to the magistrates of each county. The magistrates knew that this was a major event and did not dare to neglect them. So they went down to the fields to investigate. After confirming the matter, many magistrates gave up their prestige and directly contacted the big households in each county to discuss.

However, no matter how they persuaded them, these wealthy families were determined to be ruthless, which was to require the Pei family army to recognize their juren and jinshi in accordance with the Ming Dynasty, and to exempt them from taxes, corvee and other treatments in accordance with the Ming Dynasty.

The magistrate below naturally could not make the decision, and the negotiations between the two sides ended here. The magistrates came back in vain and wrote all their anger and helplessness into official documents and gave them to Liu Xianchun.

Liu Xianchun knew that the matter was serious, but this kind of thing was not easy to criticize the magistrates below. They had no right to make decisions and could only implement various policies of the Pei family army and had no right to argue. Therefore, when he received the news, he scolded the magistrates a few words and asked them why they didn't report it as early as possible, so he asked them to go back.

Afterwards, Liu Xianchun went around the streets and made secret investigations. With the help of the tax department, he finally found that the initiator of the incident was Liu Kaiwen, a gentry gentry in Fang County.

Liu Kaiwen is over 60 years old this year. The Liu family also had a Shangshu. At that time, the Liu family's land was 10,000 mu. Almost half of the land in Yunyang belonged to his old Liu family, which was almost a domineering. Although it was declining later, it was still a few large families in the entire Yunyang Prefecture. When the Pei family army attacked Zhushan County, Liu Hanhui, who was killed by the rebel army, was also considered a distant nephew of his Liu family.

Later, the taxation department went to check the land, and the one who lost the most was Liu Kaiwen's Liu family. In addition, Liu Hanhui's death was also counted on the Pei family army by him. New resentment and old resentment all burst out. Therefore, Liu Kaiwen took the initiative to join forces with all the gentry and merchants in Yunyang Prefecture that were worth a few, and resisted the Pei family army's policies together.

After finding out the person behind the scenes, the next thing would be easier. At least Liu Xianchun felt this way, so he took the initiative to find Liu Kaiwen, declare his purpose, and offered to propose that if there were real difficulties, some taxes could be reduced and exempted. In short, he was looking for a peaceful solution.

However, sometimes, it is not that they take a step back, but that the other party takes a step back, but instead, the other party presses step by step, and makes a fuss, asking the Pei family army to abolish the law of gentry tax payment, and other commercial tax and land tax rates to restore the level of thirty-one tax specified by Emperor Taizu. The two sides broke down on this.
Chapter completed!