As soon as the cock crow sounded, Sujia Village became noisy.
Su Que beat the gongs and drums and went from door to door to announce.
"Su He wants to kill Su Juren in Sujiazhuang. If he has enmity with other people in Sujiazhuang, he can go to redress his grievances."
"If your family is short of food, you can go to Sujiazhuang to borrow food without interest."
"Sujiazhuang is currently giving out porridge, and everyone can receive a bowl of porridge for free."
This news made everyone in Sujiacun unable to sit still.
In this era where you can't have a bowl of rice a day, no one will miss a free meal.
Su Shanmao rushed to Sujiazhuang with his family of five on crutches.
He was far away from Zhuangzi and could smell the aroma of food.
At the entrance of Sujiazhuang, several large pots were cooking porridge.
There were three queues several hundred meters long, and everyone in the village who could move came here to receive porridge.
There are people guarding the cauldron with knives to prevent hungry people from grabbing the food.
There is a person holding a wooden stick to direct the team. If he sees someone trying to jump in the queue, he will directly hit him with a stick.
The queue is very long, but the progress is not slow.
Su Shanmao quickly walked to the front, and he saw nine large pots cooking porridge in front of him.
He took out the bowl with trembling hands and saw the porridge cook ladling a full bowl of porridge for him.
This porridge is very dense, with so many rice grains in it that it won't fall over even if you hold up your chopsticks.
Su Shanmao and his family all served porridge and walked aside to eat.
He licked the bottom of the bowl clean with an unfinished expression on his face.
"Everyone only has one bowl. It would be great if we could give him another bowl!"
Su He walked out of the study, and Su Xiong was waiting for him with a team of people.
"Gather all the prisoners and let's set off."
Su He led the team to suppress the Sujiazhuang prisoners and walked out of Sujiazhuang carrying several large boxes.
The villagers looked at the neatly arranged teams holding weapons.
They were chatting and immediately shut up.
In front of the main gate of Sujiazhuang, there is a row of tables and chairs placed in the open air.
Su He sat on the main seat, with several boxes placed next to him.
Today is an important moment for him to win over the people and strengthen his team's belief in rebellion.
In this era of prenatal education per capita, simple and direct methods are the best methods.
"Here are the IOUs from the whole village, and I'm burning them all now.
I declare that no one needs to repay any money they owe Su Juren.
Su Xiong, burn this box of IOUs."
Su Xiong moved a large copper basin with burning charcoal in it.
He lifted the box and poured all the IOUs into the copper basin, and burned them all in a fire.
When the villagers saw this, they shouted in joy.
Every household in the village owes usurious loans from Su Juren, and now they don’t have to pay them back.
They felt as if a huge mountain had been lifted from their bodies, and their lives became much easier.
"My name is Su He, you can call me Commander Su from now on.
This village will be under my rule from today on, and I declare that from now on, we will not have to pay grain taxes to the Ming Dynasty."
When Su Shanmao heard this, his voice trembled, and he asked cautiously: "Su, Su, Commander Su, you mean that we don't have to pay taxes from now on."
"No, you will still have to pay taxes in the future, but you will just pay taxes on me.
But there is no need to pay taxes this year, and the grain tax is only 10% of the average local output that year."
When Su He heard someone saying that he didn't have to pay taxes, he responded immediately.
You can't do it without paying taxes. In troubled times, if you have food, you will have soldiers. The scale of the explosion depends entirely on logistics.
He can only ensure that everyone has land and everyone must pay taxes, and there are no miscellaneous taxes or apportionments.
"Brothers, folks.
We pay taxes to the Ming Dynasty every year. Have you ever seen Su Ju people pay taxes?
We don’t have our own land and we have to pay taxes.
The Suju people have more than 30,000 acres of land, but they don't have to pay any taxes.
Should the Ming Dynasty rebel?"
The financial system of the Ming Dynasty had collapsed, and farmers who owned less than 10% of the land had to pay taxes.
In Sujia Village, the Su Ju people were not the right people. Most of the taxes paid by the tenant farmers went into the Su Ju people's pockets.
Gentlemen who owned more than 90% of the land did not have to pay a cent of tax.
Merchants, who can make thousands of times more profit than farming, don't have to pay any tax.
The court could not collect commercial taxes and mineral water, and could only collect a small amount of salt taxes.
The pirate leaders in Fujian who relied on collecting protection fees received more protection fees in a year than the taxes collected by the Ming Dynasty.
How could the villagers know this knowledge? Su He explained it straightforwardly.
They are not fools, and they immediately understand who caused the suffering they have suffered over the years.
Seeing that the atmosphere was good, Su Ergou had an idea and realized that it was time for him to make a contribution.
"Supporting Commander Su and rebelling against the Ming Dynasty."
His voice sounded, and the team also reacted, and they shouted in unison: "Support Commander Su and rebel against the Ming Dynasty."
Slogans also started to sound among the villagers. From a few people shouting slogans, it gradually expanded to the majority of people shouting slogans.
"Supporting Commander Su and rebelling against the Ming Dynasty."
When Su He saw this situation, he knew that the rebellion was basically stable.
He pulled out the long knife from his waist and held it high: "Thank you for your trust. I will lead you from one victory to another."
After he saw the crowd calm down, Su Juren said with a knife pointed at him: "Today I am here to make the decision for everyone. Anyone who is harmed by Sujiazhuang and others can redress their grievances to me."
When Su Shanmao heard what Su He said, he leaned on crutches and said in a sad tone: "My little daughter has entered Sujiazhuang to be a maid.
She was beaten to death by Su Wang's wife, Su Juren.
Please Commander Su, let me make the decision."
"Bring someone to invade the Su Wang family."
Su He gave an order, and Wang Su was pressed over.
"Ms. Su Wang, please tell me honestly whether you want to kill Su Shanmao's daughter to avoid suffering physical pain."
Mrs. Su Wang raised her head and glanced at Su Shanmao and said: "I have killed so many little girls, who knows which daughter he is, I don't remember.
Pretty little girls deserve to die if they want to compete with me for favor, huh!"
Su Wangshi's words immediately aroused public outrage.
Many families in the village sent their daughters to Sujiazhuang to pay off their debts. They originally wanted their daughters to have a chance to survive, but ended up dying under mysterious circumstances.
Now when they heard Wang Su say this, they yelled angrily: "Commander Su, kill her and never let the evil woman live."
When Su He saw that Su Wang's family was causing outrage among the people, he calmed the villagers and continued to examine the case.
He wanted to expose the bad things the gentry had done one by one, so that everyone could see the ugly face of the gentry.
Evil deeds such as murder, land seizure, and robbery of other people's wives and daughters were announced one after another.
The villagers' anger was completely detonated. They wanted to break through the guards and beat Su Juren and others to death.
Su He immediately asked people to beat gongs to scare the villagers, and the guards also pulled away the excited villagers.
"The following sentence is pronounced: Su Juren will be sentenced to death, and Su Wang will be sentenced to death..."
Su Ju's wife, concubines, children and cronies had committed too many evil acts and the people were very angry, so they were all sentenced to death.
The execution soldiers strangled them to death with hemp ropes in front of everyone.
Su He continued to interrogate other people in Sujiazhuang.
Since there was no life on his hands, he was sentenced to a labor camp. Depending on the crime, he was sentenced to two to thirty years in prison.
The innocent servants and maids in Sujiazhuang were released.
This simple interrogation ended and the guards cleaned up the bodies.
The villagers shouted excitedly: "Commander Su, Su Qingtian."
Su He took out another box and grabbed a handful of land deeds.