Liu Haojia simply told what had just happened. Zhang Qiang was furious after hearing this. He rushed to Li Li in a few steps, raised his hand and slapped him hard! While slapping him, he cursed: "What a bastard!"
You dare to show off in front of the Second Young Master, who are you? You..."
Liu Haojia knew that this was Zhang Qiang's re-establishment of power, but he didn't want Zhang Qiang to succeed, at least not in the early stage. Because he needed the cooperation of all the bankers in the early stage. So he said: "Okay, don't beat him yet! Such a person can be directly convicted.
Yes. Hitting him would make your hands dirty!"
Upon hearing this, Zhang Qiang immediately turned back and said, "It all depends on the Second Young Master's instructions."
Liu Haojia turned around and said loudly to the villagers: "Dear fellow villagers, I have been ordered to take over the entire Liuzhuang. I thought it was a very simple matter, but I didn't expect that there are still people doing evil here! So today I will do this for everyone.
They are helping to cause trouble! If you accepted the bullying in the past, tell me today that I am the one who decided to deal with them!"
After Liu Haojia finished speaking, he looked at the surrounding villagers, hoping that they could provide evidence against these people, but the villagers still looked at him numbly, and no one said anything.
At this time, Zhang Qiang was anxious! It turned out that he was just an ordinary eunuch in the palace, and he was only sent here because he did things properly! If this errand was not done well, wouldn't he lose the opportunity to climb up? So he
He also shouted loudly: "You mud-legged people are so ignorant. The second young master is working for Long Live Lord. The second young master makes the decision for you. Why don't you speak quickly? There is no such shop after passing this village!"
At this time, an old man in the crowd asked in a trembling voice: "My father-in-law, I would like to ask, are you really here on behalf of His Majesty?"
Zhang Qiang said loudly: "That's natural! Who else but your majesty would dare to control our family? We are the eunuchs in the palace!"
Liu Haojia beside him thought to himself, there are many people who can drive low-level eunuchs like you! But he did not want to make this matter clear. He also wanted to use Zhang Qiang's advantage as an eunuch to break the fear and suspicion of the villagers.
Sure enough, Zhang Qiang's identity as eunuch gave the villagers great courage, because they knew that eunuchs had always made the decision in Huangzhuang. So the old man who just spoke came out and pointed at Li Li and said: "This evil thief interrupted because of the grain collection."
I lost one of my son's legs and raised him for half a year before he could barely go to the ground! I wonder if you can make the decision for me?"
Liu Haojia took a step forward and said: "You are all tenants here, and paying rent is a matter of course. They beat you and your son, don't you pay enough?"
When the old man heard this, he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground with a thud. He thought that the other party Liu Haojia was trying to find trouble with him, so he hurriedly said: "It's not that they don't pay the food, but that they collect it too harshly! They actually want 70% of the interest."
!Can’t live anymore!”
Liu Haojia had been in Daming for a long time and was somewhat familiar with the situation of rent collection. He frowned and said, "Seventy percent is a bit high, but it's not like you can't afford it, right?"
The old man cried loudly and said: "This noble man doesn't know that he only charges 70% of all interest rates!"
Liu Haojia was shocked and said: "What? All 70%! Is this bastard crazy?"
Before the Republic of China, and even during the Republic of China, some areas in China continued the ancient tradition of rent collection, which was to only collect one season's rent from the main grain production!
This means that if a farmer rents land from a landlord this year, and he mainly grows rice this year, he will share the rice this season with the landlord. Generally speaking, conscientious landowners will split it 50-50 or 40-50.
Sixty percent, but there are also seventy and eighty percent!
But after collecting the land rent for rice, the farmer does not charge rent for other crops grown on the land! In other words, in addition to rice, the farmer also planted beans and the like, and all the harvest belongs to the farmer.
It has nothing to do with the landlord!
There are many terms for land rent in China, including iron plate rent, head rent, etc., so I won’t go into details one by one. But when he took office in this imperial estate, he collected seven levels of land rent from all farmers’ output.
Land rent is a waste of money! Because only 30% of the harvest is just barely enough to keep people from starving to death! That’s why Liu Haojia said he was crazy!
Liu Haojia stepped forward and pulled off the rag from Li Li's mouth and asked, "Is what the old man said the truth?"
Li Li stared and said, "Everyone in the Imperial Mansion collects rent like this, not just my family!"
Liu Haojia kicked him to the ground, threw the rag in his hand, and said to his family: "Shut his mouth, I don't want to listen to him anymore!"
After saying that, he turned around and said, "Is what this old man said true?"
Seeing that Liu Haojia had expressed his attitude, everyone became more courageous and stepped forward to confirm that what the old man said was true! For a while, there was so much noise that they could not even hear the words clearly!
Liu Haojia shouted loudly: "Every household head comes out to speak, and everyone else steps back!"
Zhang Qiang also screamed: "Didn't you hear what the second young master said? Everyone, step back, everyone, step back!"
Several servants also came up to help maintain order, and the crowd was quickly controlled. Many bold bankers stayed where they were, and many who were timid and dared not speak retreated to the outside with their families. Then Liu Haojia gave instructions
The servants brought a table, paper and pen, and called the farmers who were left behind one by one for questioning.
Under the influence of anger, Liu Haojia had a big outburst at this time! He called the master to interrogate various information one by one, and kept taking notes in his hands, just like Pang Tong questioning a case in the county, and everyone was dumbfounded.
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In just over an hour, Liu Haojia memorized a thick stack of paper! It recorded all the evil deeds of the previous supervisor and his thugs!
Among these records, beating and cursing, stealing and molesting are commonplace, and bullying of men and women also happens frequently! In the past few years, five daughters-in-law and eldest girls have committed suicide after being bullied.
That’s a lot! Not to mention that there are some people who suffered the loss without saying anything! In addition, they were recorded as beating several people to death for harvesting grain!
After Liu Haojia asked the last person, he rubbed his sore wrist and said to the servants beside him: "Arrange for these villagers to come forward and identify the person, so that all the charges will be confirmed!"
Several servants were all capable of both literary and military skills. It took little effort to handle such a small matter, and the matter was quickly implemented. Then the servant who led the team came over with a stack of papers and said angrily: "These bastards don't say bad things but do bad things."
That’s pretty much it! Except for seven or eight of them with smaller charges, it’s enough to behead all the rest! Not to mention anything else, they have killed and crippled seven or eight bankers in the past few years, and almost half of them were