The province of Chuzhou is safe. With the completion of the restructuring of the provinces and counties, the reorganization of the government offices of each county was completed. The former Zhuque Mansion was cut into three counties, the largest of which is the Zhuque County that surrounded Zhuque City.^//^

Zhuque County has six counties under its jurisdiction, and in the northeast, it is Dongxiang County, one of the six counties. Xiahuzhuang, Dongxiang County, is facing a river that is not wide. In this hot season, green rice seedlings are everywhere on both sides of the river, whirling by the scorching air waves, causing green waves.

Huzhuang is not prosperous, and there are few people coming and going in the entire village, because Huzhuang is the village of Hu Sanjin, a local rich man in Dongxiang. Half of the entire village is a Hu family courtyard. The courtyard walls of about twelve feet are made of bluestone, with a thickness of three feet. There are corner towers at four corners. On this flat plain, the surrounding wind and grass are all visible.

The Hu family is naturally not a good person to be able to build land near Zhuque City and have power and power in the local area. In addition to being well-managed, it depends on the relationship behind it.

Hu family courtyard, the current owner of the courtyard, Hu Sanjin, is sitting on a pear blossom wooden hat chair. Hu Sanjin is over fifty years old and looks a little thin, but his eyes are bright and shining, and there is a small goat beard under his jaw.

Hu Sanjin, who was holding the little goatee, narrowed his eyes, just like an old fox who was dozing off: "Everyone, come here, I think everyone is full of doubts. Hu Sanjin doesn't go around in circles. I am summoning everyone here today. I have something to discuss with you!"

The Hu family was in Dongxiang a few years ago, but now it is in decline. Everyone here knows that the Hu family is shaking because the Hu family once had a marriage relationship with the Pang family in Zhuque City, so his daughter married the old man of the Pang family to be a child.

Although he sold his daughter to seek honor, the Hu family was able to not only control the county government offices but also occupy half of the Dongxiang area for more than 20 years. However, with the fall of the Pang family, the Hu family turned to Xinchu very neatly, and was very respectful, like a grandson.

In recent years, the Great Chu issued several laws to weaken the local landlords and the clan families with mixed roots. After all, these landlords gathered almost a county, or even a county, and converted the land into private ownership. Their situation even affected the government affairs of a county, and even appeared. Local officials were not as good as those of these local families.

The whole country and the other people of Dachu naturally could not tolerate this situation. It was precisely because of the highly concentrated land of local aristocratic landlords who wantonly intervened in the operation of the government that the local government accelerated the local government's supreme, because the government had become a tool of interest.

The few people who were summoned by Hu Sanjin were also all from Dongxiang and headed by the Hu family. They can be said to be grasshoppers on a rope. Since the founding of the Great Chu, they can be said to have suffered a huge blow.

"Mr. Jin, I don't know what to tell us!"

Hu Sanjin moved his body, sat upright, and said, "In the past few years, our lives have not been very easy. Thinking about the beginning, our families were the heavens of Dongxiang. To put it bluntly, we are the local emperors!"

As soon as Hu Sanjin said this, the few people here also remembered the glorious days. However, the more they thought of the glory, the more they felt that they were now depressed. A sigh sounded in the lobby, but it resonated with the people here.

Hu Sanjin said, his voice a little heavier, saying, "The scenery in the past was like clouds outside, dissipating cleanly. Now, there are still people who care about us. As the founding of the Great Chu country, the officials of our empire have become stepmothers. The officials of our empire, who were bullied by those soldiers, were also trampled on their heads by those bully patrolmen sent by Chu!"

"In the local area, all the people have become Chu people. We have become the commanders of the bare hands. The people who can manage are not as good as before. In this case, they are still unwilling to give up. Now they don't even want face. They just tear their faces off and drove us to the yamen!"

"Now, it is rumored everywhere that this strange Chu is going to leave the empire and establish his own business. I think these ten things are true. The people of the empire have no right to choose, especially since the land restriction order was implemented in the past two years, many families like us have been broken up, and the huge family has become ordinary families!" Hu Sanjin said and slapped the table hard.

The few people here also looked dull when they heard Hu Sanjin's words. However, although Hu Sanjin said it was true, their lives were not as bad as they thought. Although the land at home was forcibly acquired, they changed their business registration and obtained some preferential policies. The money they earned in the past two years was much more than digging food in the fields.

However, because of the restriction order, large clans like them relied on the large tribe and were united, and they formed a large force in the local area and gained a lot of benefits. Once the family disintegrated, their clan leaders were not as good as chickens and they would no longer have the glory of the past.

According to the policy of this land limit order, each household has a maximum limit of land. Each household is only allowed to own a hundred acres of land at most. If you want to own more land, you can only have a title. Otherwise, no matter how rich a businessman or an official with great power, you can only own a maximum of 100 acres of land. Unless you divide the family and set up one more household, this household will not belong to you.

These people just couldn't bear to leave this, so they never joined the Da Chu household registration. However, although they did not join the Da Chu household registration, they did not receive too much unfair treatment in the local area, but instead had a lot of preferential policies.

Now that the Great Chu is about to leave the empire and establish its own business, the status of their empire's people is completely embarrassing. Although they have become a minority before, this place is still considered an imperialist. Although it is only nominal, they still have a soil for survival. Once the Great Chu leaves the empire, they will become guest citizens and have no support in terms of law.

And they will have no choice. Even if they do not join the Da Chu household registration, they will have to abide by the Da Chu laws and regulations. Due to the restriction order, they can only separate their families to ensure the land or sell the land at the market price. There are only these two options.

In addition, the Dachu Law Order does not allow the existence of private armed forces, and any weapon needs to be reported. If there are retired soldiers at home, the psychic will also go to the yamen to report. Moreover, there are strict restrictions on the number of such force. Unlike in the past, as long as you have money, no one will care about the hundreds of thugs and guards in your family.

It can be said that only these two laws and regulations completely dismantled the local tribes. Of course, you can also sell all the fields and still maintain the lifestyle of this big family, but obviously, Da Chu did not give any effort to deal with them.

Originally, they could do business after selling the land. Anyway, they had a lot of family businesses and could play around with them. Even if they opened a few workshops, they could make money every day. In order to split them up in Dachu, although there was no clear discrimination in the law, it stipulated that a family could only receive one business record, that is, only one person could do business, open a shop, and run a workshop.

This business book is actually a license and a legal representative certificate, which is protected by Dachu. If a large family is divided into multiple branches, and now the shops and workshops run by one person are all under the name of one person. Although it strengthens one person's authority, the question is, are others willing to do this?

Once the distribution within the family is unfair, Da Chu only protects the person with business, and the others who go to the yamen to sue will lose. They can only be a worker and become a vassal. Anyone with a little brain or ambition will not be willing to live in this family.

This has divided these local tribes from the inside. Now, even if they want to struggle, they have no chance. In the past few months, Da Chu has driven them out of the yamen. How could they not know that the huge sky palace in Zhuque City rose from the ground?

Some of them even compromised and planned to divide the family first to avoid being in trouble, which would hurt their family's kindness. So when Hu Sanjin said this, they only sighed, and what else could they do?

"Are you willing to become an ordinary family with nothing?" Hu Sanjin asked the people present after a long speech.

"So what if you don't want to do it? The Great Chu country has been established for several years and its foundation has been solid. The empire is far north and is thousands of miles away from Chuzhou. It can't control us at all. There is no way, so we can only give up. We can't make trouble for the family. It's better to just divide the family directly and get more benefits. Although it's not a family in the future, we can still stay together!"

"Hmph!" Hu Sanjin snorted coldly and said, "Stay together and look forward to this family. Who else can you listen to your patriarch? At that time, will a cat and a dog be able to ride on your head!"

"Hey, what else can I do? You can't rebel. Our strength is not enough for others to get stuck in their teeth!"

"This is not necessarily true. Since I have talked about this, I will not make a fuss. People from the empire have come. On the day when the Great Chu is established, Leng Zhuo's undead son will die. It is said that the empire has also made it clear that the empire will be able to make a mess. When Chu and Yang are in chaos, the army will immediately descend!"

"Is this true?"

"Then there is still a falsehood. Lord Liu, let's come out. Everyone, this Lord Liu is an envoy sent by the Empire. This time he represented the Empire to contact us loyal and righteous people who were loyal to the Empire, in order to ignite a fire at the critical moment and make Chuzhou chaotic to welcome the army to the south!"

The few people here looked at the young man walking into the back hall, and were a little surprised. This man was too young. Is he really an envoy of the empire?


Chapter completed!