Chapter 203:
Huang Shixing looked at Su Ze with resentful eyes and shouted: "The dignified Xinke Jieyuan! You actually colluded with eunuchs! Su Ze, you have disgraced all the scholars!" Su Ze ignored Huang Shixing,
but His words offended Eunuch Tao.
As soon as he left the palace, he was scolded as a castrated dog and labeled as a castrate or a powerful castrate. Eunuch Tao was often looked down upon by scholars along the way.
When he arrived in Nanping, he plunged into the mine to mint coins without resting for a moment.
Eunuch Tao has also seen all of Su Ze's water control plans. The land in Jiufeng Mountain was originally occupied by these big families. They dug rivers to open up wasteland and caused floods downstream. Now they are scolding themselves?
Eunuch Tao angrily slapped the sedan chair and said,
"The Za family was ordered by the emperor to mint coins, and today we are also ordered to redeem your family's house. How about invading people's land?"
Su Ze secretly complained. It turns out that his father-in-law's political consciousness is not high. These words gave Huang Shixing an excuse.
Sure enough, Huang Shixing immediately said:
"The emperor's order? Your Majesty only asked you to mint coins. When did you let you control the river? You, a powerful eunuch, took the opportunity to invade people's fields! I, Huang Shixing, will fight to the end even if I risk my life!" No wonder the eunuchs can't compete with the scholars
. Even Huang Shixing, who could not pass the imperial examination, had such fighting power. The only person in the Ming Dynasty who could suppress hundreds of officials was an illiterate eunuch.
Eunuchs should make full use of their professional advantages. It is really not your eunuch's business scope to argue with scholars.
Su Ze could only stand up and say: "The imperial court has an order, and Eunuch Tao is supervising all minting matters. The purpose of regulating the Minjiang River this time is to issue new coins, which is part of the dredging of money laws." "I am here to regulate the Minjiang River
. We're not here for personal gain."
Su Ze then took out the documents from the Huang family that were sent to the county government: "This is the number of acres of land that the Huang family has registered in Bijia Pavilion of the county government. The price of high-quality paddy fields in Taogong is the highest in Nanping. How can buying your family's land be considered competing for profit from the people?"
Huang Shixing's eyes turned green when he saw the document.
Reclaiming wasteland can only be tax-free for three years. Only a small part of the Huang family's land in Jiufeng Mountain was reclaimed by themselves. Some was reclaimed by annexing land from people fleeing famine, and some was forced to sell by small landowners.
Whether it is land reclaimed by disaster victims or land for sale, the area in acres reported to the county government is far less than the actual area.
The price of high-quality paddy fields is indeed not low, but if they purchase it according to this number of acres, the Huang family will suffer a big loss.
"This is the land of my Huang family! Not for sale!"
Su Ze pointed at Huang Shixing and said, "Your family has invaded the river embankment. The upper reaches of the Minjiang River cannot store water, causing flooding in the lower reaches. All this land must be cleared."
Huang Shixing knew. He couldn't argue with Su Ze. The imperial court had established a system to redeem land for water conservancy and road projects, so Su Ze used it in the name of river control.
Huang Shixing said to the servant behind him: "Go and mobilize the tenant farmers, saying that the government will take back the land so that they have no fields to farm!" The servant immediately left and went to the manor to
mobilize the tenant farmers.
Sure enough, when they heard that the government was going to occupy their fields, these tenant farmers immediately rushed over with farm tools.
Seeing the tenant farmers in Wuyangyang, Eunuch Tao was also scared.
Don't be cowardly. He, Eunuch Tao, can bully the squire in the name of the emperor. The squire also has a counterattack weapon, which is to threaten him in the name of the common people.
If a civil uprising really happened, given the character of the man in the palace, he would not hesitate to use Eunuch Tao's head to appease the place.
Eunuch Tao was scared, but Su Ze naturally couldn't be scared. He stood in front, and the tenant farmers who rushed up with farm tools saw Su Ze clearly and stopped immediately.
Su Ze came to the village to treat these people a few days ago. The old man who was the leader was the shirtless She people. The tenant farmers who had just shouted "Down with the gelded dogs" fell silent.
Su Ze said loudly: "Folks, the government wants to control the water and build a reservoir in Jiufeng Mountain. The Huang family's fields will be redeemed with money." "Eunuch Tao
also thought of you and hired you to build the dam. The construction period will be half a year, and the wages will be the same as those of building the dam. He is young and strong, and will be given two thousand yuan of new money every month, which is equivalent to one or two and a half yuan in silver!"
Su Ze then said it again in Sheren language, and then shouted to the old Jiangxi cousin in Jiangxi dialect.
The last time Su Ze treated people in the village, he had already accumulated some reputation. When he called him like this, everyone's hearts moved.
By farming for the Huang family, they can only earn a small amount of food rations all year round, and sometimes they even don't even earn rations.
According to Su Ze's conditions, a half-year construction period would be enough for them to make several years' worth of money.
Su Ze then said:
"I am Su Ze, who will be in charge of the Yuan Dynasty in Fujian Province this year. I will guarantee to Baizhi County that you will be registered as a household." At
this time, many people put down their farm tools and knelt down on the ground, crying bitterly. .
In the Ming Dynasty, without household registration, it was difficult to move forward. If the hometown was not in war, who would be willing to leave their hometown and become a black household.
The same is true for the She people in the mountains. Only when they can establish a household and unite the people can they have an identity. They have been looking forward to it for a long time.
Huang Shixing was so angry that he almost fainted when he saw that his tenant was turned against him by Su Ze's two words.
Eunuch Tao was happily sitting on the sedan chair.
Sure enough, it would be great to have some readers to help! Eunuch Tao once again realized the importance of knowledge.
Su Ze told these tenants to back off with just a few words, leaving Huang Shixing speechless.
Cool!
Eunuch Tao has never been so happy since he left the palace. Faced with the impeachment and abuse from these scholars, he had never been able to reply in the past.
I suffered the loss of being uneducated!
Today it seems that I have made up for everything, and I feel very proud.
Eunuch Tao simply asked someone to bring out a box of three-cent coins and paid him half a month's salary in person.
Anyway, the project is just for spreading money, and Zajia is just playing a tyrant!
After doing this, even the four servants around Huang Shixing's eyes went straight.
This eunuch really spends money!
Huang Shixing also realized something was wrong, and he immediately said to the four servants:
"Let's go down the mountain to the county seat!"
Huang Shixing quickly went down the mountain. Eunuch Tao looked at Su Ze and asked, "Mr. Xie Yuan, can we start work?"
Su Ze He shook his head and said, "Eunuch Tao, have you forgotten what we are here for?"
Eunuch Tao has been brought into the position of a righteous eunuch, a famous eunuch who has managed floods in the Minjiang River. He said righteously: "Of course
. Water control for the people of Fujian!"
Who doesn't want to stand up and do good things for the people? Even an uneducated eunuch like Eunuch Tao will have courage and pride when he controls water.
The young eunuchs and husbands around him all looked sideways, and their eyes were full of respect when they looked at Eunuch Tao.
Just when Eunuch Tao was enjoying the gaze, Su Ze reminded: "Eunuch, we are here for the Song money in the hands of those big families."
Eunuch Tao immediately came to his senses. His mission was to mint and distribute coins, and also to make money.
Why had he forgotten his original intention of making money? Eunuch Tao looked at Su Ze and said, "If the Huang family loses this village, will they spit out the old money in their hands?"
Su Ze shook his head and said, "The Huang family has a great business. Who is Zhuangzi? Anyone who can build a farm on Jiufeng Mountain will not be hurt by this small amount of land."
Eunuch Tao suddenly became anxious. He was too deep into the drama just now, but now he realized that he was just trying to make money. !
If the Huang family's village is flat, Eunuch Tao won't get any money either!
You are not afraid of offending these squires, but it is terrible to offend these squires and not get any money!
Su Ze smiled and said: "Such a farm will not hurt the Huang family, but a lawsuit will. Father, let's set up camp to survey the hydrology first, and wait for the Huang family to file a lawsuit. The bigger the lawsuit, the better!"
Eunuch Tao looked at Su Ze blankly, but out of trust in Su Ze, he asked the peasants to build a shed on a high ground, and actually led people to set up camp on the mountain.
Su Ze also didn't expect Eunuch Tao to be so able to endure hardships. Eunuch Tao said:
"What's the matter? When the Za family just entered the palace, it was much harder to wash the ceremony buckets in Yeting than it is now. Mr. Jie Yuan and the Za family's wealth are all under pressure." It's on you!"
Su Ze looked at the old eunuch's face, nodded and said: "Don't worry, father-in-law, we will make the Huang family spit out the old money they have hoarded!" Huang
Shixing hurriedly ran back to Nanping County and sent his trusted aide to report to the family. , while finding Zhang Sijing.
"That's unreasonable! You said this gelding is going to seize the people's land!"
Zhang Sijing slapped the handrail angrily. He stood up and walked around the hall and said,
"No! We must not let the gelding succeed!"
Zhang Sijing walked in the hall for three days. circle, and then said:
"Have you gone to the county government to file a complaint?"
Huang Shixing said blankly: "Sue? Who?"
Eunuch Tao was sent by the emperor to redeem the Huang family's land in the name of building a reservoir. Is it possible to pay it back? Do you want to go to the county government to sue Eunuch Tao?
Zhang Sijing said with a smile: "Who asked you to sue Eunuch Tao? You contact the people who have farms in Wufeng Mountain, and you sue each other to fight for the land!" "
As long as you sue, as an official of the Yanping Prefecture, I can do it in the name of the government office. , stop the construction work on Wufeng Mountain."
Huang Shixing's eyes lit up, that's right! As long as the lawsuit is fought and dragged until Eunuch Tao returns to the capital, won't the farm on Wufeng Mountain be saved?
Zhang Sijing said again: "As a government official, the government office cannot directly undertake the lawsuit. You first go to the Nanping County government office to file a lawsuit!"
Huang Shixing hurriedly came out of Zhang Sijing's house, and he immediately linked up in Nanping County. The large households with land on Wufeng Mountain immediately united and sued the county government for invading their own land.
Huang Shixing was busy communicating with each other in Nanping City these days and trying to establish relations with the county government. However, Eunuch Tao and Su Ze were stationed on Wufeng Mountain and had no intention of taking action.
As a scholar in Baizhi County, he naturally understood the calculations of these big households. According to the agreement with Su Ze, he temporarily suppressed the lawsuits of the big households. The big households in the city had another activity and sent a lot of money to the county government.
Huang Shixing soon discovered that he had miscalculated one thing, and that was the cost of litigation.
After all, Huang Shixing was young. He asked someone to write a petition and sent it to the county government to file a lawsuit. He spent a lot of effort, but the county government Sun Dianshi rejected the lawsuit.
Sun Dianshi, the executioner, had already received orders from Su Ze. As a veteran clerk in the county government, he first used Hongwu's ancestral precepts to block these big lawsuits.
According to Hong Wuye's rules, in order to prevent civil disputes, civil lawsuits must first be mediated at the Shenming Pavilion in front of the county government office.
Since ancient times, the yamen has been open to the south. If you have a reason or money, don't come in.
The county government office delayed filing the case, and there was news from the mountain that Eunuch Tao wanted to forcibly redeem the property again. Huang Shixing made a sudden decision and sent a large amount of money to the county government office.
Huang Shixing originally wanted to give old money as a gift, but Sun Dianshi refused to accept it. This forced the Huang family, which was already short of money, to pawn some antiques to get the money.
Finally bypassing the torture chamber's mediation, the case was delivered to Baizhi County, and another tug-of-war began.
It was time to supplement information again, and the county government sent people to the mountains and fields again, so it was delayed for several days.
Eunuch Tao is already preparing to dig up the river embankment, which will soon submerge the Huang family's newly opened paddy field.
Huang Shixing made a sudden move and put up the printing shop he acquired at a high price.
Huang Shixing spent hundreds of taels of silver in this printing shop, but before he could negotiate the price, the printing shop was blocked by the county government again.
Huang Shixing, who was furious, inquired and found out that it was Chen Chaoyuan from the editorial department who had made the case and filed a complaint with the county government, saying that the Huang Family Printing Shop had pirated copies of "Gu Wen Guan Zhi".
Huang Shixing's anger was relieved. If it were in other counties, this lawsuit could still be fought.
In Nanping, this lawsuit is impossible to fight.
There are two editors of "Gu Wen Guan Zhi", one is Su Ze, the Fujian Provincial Examination's Xie Yuan! One is Hai Rui, a county school teacher who was transferred to Zhejiang County Magistrate!
Without much effort, the yamen in the execution room found the ancient Wen Guan Zhi engravings that had been privately engraved in the Huang Family Printing Shop.
Now there is no need to quibble, the county government has directly closed the printing shop, and no one in Nanping City comes to inquire about the price.
Huang Shixing was so angry that he vomited blood, but when the lawsuit reached this point, it was obvious that he could no longer stop.
The person in charge of the criminal proceedings of the first government is Zhang Sijing, the official, but the government office is the superior government office of the county government, which means that Zhang Sijing's side is the intermediate court.
When the lower court, the county government, has not completed its decision, Zhang Tuiguan cannot bypass the county government and directly intervene in the case.
As long as the parties concerned are not satisfied with the county government's decision, they can appeal to the government government and Zhang Sijing has the opportunity to intervene.
Baizhi County was procrastinating, and Eunuch Tao asked for redemption. The Huang family could only continue to pawn their property and send the money to the county government. Finally, they waited for the county government's decision.
When Zhang Sijing heard the news, Huang Shixing immediately refused to accept the verdict and sued the government again.
Zhang Sijing issued a judgment on the spot, and the households in Wufeng Mountain competed for property. Before the investigation was clear, the government officials sealed off each farm!
The government officials went up the mountain and finally stopped to build the Wufeng Mountain Dam.
After struggling for seven days, the Huang family led these large households and spent nearly a thousand taels of silver before they finally got a government ruling that "the land under dispute is pending exploration and redemption is suspended."
The Huang family finally came to their senses. The fields on the mountain didn't seem to be worth so much money.
At this time, a rumor spread in Nanping City.
Eunuch Tao is willing to pay three times the price of paddy fields to redeem the land on Wufeng Mountain, but he wants the government to determine the area and there is no dispute over the land.
The various big families who originally followed the Huang family in filing a lawsuit have made secret moves again.
If you are interested in the story of lawsuits in the Ming Dynasty, you can read "The Ming Dynasty under the Microscope". There is a case in the book about a big family and a temple competing for ancestral tombs. The lawsuits between both sides were almost defeated.
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