Qin Zhao smiled when he heard this.

"These big guys finally want to come to see me."

In the early Ming Dynasty, Emperor Gao of Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang governed the country's villages with the Lijia system. It stipulated that 110 households were one liter, and ten households with a large amount of money and grain were the Lijia family. The ten members of the Lijia family were responsible for collecting land taxes every year. In many cases in the early Ming Dynasty, this Lijia system did play a role and successfully collected land taxes for the Ming Dynasty.

But as time goes by, this system of multi-management was destroyed by the natural economy. On the one hand, the breeding of population and the sale of fields made the Lijia system more and more chaotic. On the other hand, the rise of the royal family and the gentry class. The royal family and the famous gentry often do not pay taxes, completely turning a blind eye to the Lijia system.

In the late Ming Dynasty, a large amount of taxes were avoided by the gentry and royal family, and they were all suppressed by the poorest common people, who were unable to bear it. The formerly glorious village chief turned into a labour that was both sides were suffering from anger. On the one hand, the government sent more and more layers, and the other was the wailing resistance of the poor in their own private people. Especially in the desert, if they were not careful, they would arouse civil unrest and often bear the serious crime of forcing the poor to follow the thief.

The hardest thing is that this labour is hereditary.

So by the late Ming Dynasty, the hereditary village chief had become a low-level business in the countryside and had a low social status. In Lingnan, Lijia had completely lost its original meaning. In rural society, people were powerful clan leaders in the clans. The gentry with fame and honor among each clan, or wealthy households with a lot of land served as clan leaders, managing the affairs of each village and one clan.

So after the patriarch of Qinjia Village was blackmailed to death by a tiger, the villagers of Qinjia Village were a little confused and could only barely follow the old accountant who could read the text.

Other villages in Renhoufang are managed by clan leaders. Some villages only have one surname, one clan leader, and they also serve as village chiefs. Some villages live in multiple ethnic groups, and there are only multiple clan leaders. Among these clan leaders, one of them is selected as village chiefs.

Now these people are coming to Qin Zhao.

Qin Zhao disbanded his servants and followed Qin Youli to go down the mountain.

Most people in Lingnan live together, and the most important ancestral hall is the most important. No matter how remote the poor village is, they will make the ancestral hall as tall as possible. The ancestral hall worships ancestors of the same clan, called Mr. XX. On the day of ancestor worship, the entire village and family come to worship their ancestors, kill pigs and eat them. For family friends who are kind and righteous to the clan, they also invite lively cheers. When dealing with major events in the clan, the ancestral hall is a place for the villagers to discuss and make decisions.

The Qin Family Ancestral Hall in Qinjia Village is a courtyard that is once in. There is a gatehouse at the entrance. A huge screen wall is built in the gatehouse to block the view. Bypassing the screen wall of the gatehouse, you can enter the large courtyard inside. There are many ancestral tablets in the main hall. The clay sculptures enshrined are "Qin Yan" Gong, the first generation of Emperor Gaozu of Qinjia Village in Renhoufang.

In the past, if an important person came to Qinjia Village to do business, the patriarch would come to the ancestral hall to discuss with the guests to show the truth and openness.

At this time, the 17 villages' yard had all the people who came to the ancestral hall. Some villages had two or three people, and some had four or five people, and a total of forty-five people. Some older people could not stand for a long time, so the people of Qinjia Village moved chairs for them to sit. The group of people with the highest status in Renhoufang sat in the yard of the ancestral hall. Many villagers in Qinjia Village ran in to watch the fun, but they squeezed the entire ancestral hall gate into the burly.

As soon as Qin Zhao entered the entrance of the village, villagers immediately shouted: "Brother Zhao is here! Brother Zhao is here who talks about my village!"

"Brother Zhao is here!"

"The old accountant is here too."

As soon as Qin Zhao walked in front of everyone, the crowd automatically divided a passage like the tide receding, allowing Qin Zhao and Qin Youli to walk into the cemetery of the ancestral hall.

Qin Zhao is actually the patriarch of Qinjia Village now, and everyone is grateful to him and afraid of him.

Seeing Qin Zhao flew in and brought the old accountant in, the clan leaders stood up one after another. Although Qin Zhao and the others did not know him, they all knew him. The old accountant followed Qin Zhao timidly like a follower, and Qin Zhao was obviously the master they were looking for.

Before Qin Youli could introduce Qin Zhao, Zhang Lai, a wealthy man from Zhangjia Village, stood up and bowed to Qin Zhao with fists.

This rich man was not only a landlord with a large amount of land, but also a scholar with fame and fortune, and a scholar. He was in his forties, wearing a square flat scarf that a scholar could wear, wearing a straight silk on his body, and a "deer-singing" incense bag on his waist. This was a very popular incense bag in the late Ming Dynasty in Lingnan area, and his outfit was very elegant.

This outfit has a transcendent feeling in this era of worshipping scholars.

The people from all the villages waiting in the ancestral hall stood up with him.

"This must be Brother Qin who led the crowd to kill the bandits on the Yunfeng Peak to death!"

Qin Zhao replied with a smile: "It's me."

Zhang Lai laughed and said, "Brother Qin is really young and promising. Heroic boy! Heroic boy!"

Qin Zhao smiled and said, "Class Zhang has over-rewarded!"

Zhang Lai said seriously: "This old thief who had planted Yunfeng into the trap of my Renhoufang three years ago. How many good family property have been plundered over the years? Seventeen of my Renhoufang villages have been blackmailed and plundered by them. We have lost countless wealth, and the robbers sleep on our looted wealth, singing day and night, and more and more robbers gather."

"When encountering a village with weak defense, it is often extorted two or three hundred taels of silver. At the end of last year, Huangjia Village was unable to pay the bank, but it was actually slaughtered by these robbers!"

Speaking of this, Zhang Lai's face darkened. It seemed that he had relatives and friends in Huangjia Village, and he was in trouble at that time.

"In recent years, the Peak of Yunfeng has become a major disaster for us to fear day and night. Even our Zhangjia Village, which is closely guarded by the strict Zhangjia Village, is worried that the thieves will destroy our rice fields and destroy our harvest. How hard is it to plant rice and fertilize and irrigate? How easy is it to trample and destroy the rice when it grows taller?"

"Sometimes I'm worried that I wake up from a nightmare in the middle of the night. I go to the county town many times to find my parents and officials to suppress the thieves. We, the gentry from Renhoufang, searched for the county magistrate together three times, but the parents and officials were reluctant to send troops."

"The thief is getting bigger and bigger, and our defense is getting harder. It is just when we are confused and have no choice but to be fooled by the time of being confused and eliminate these thieves in one fell swoop, and to get rid of these big thieves for my Renhoufang."

"Isn't such a young hero?"

When Qin Zhao heard the scholar praise him as a flower, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Son-Mr. Zhang is really too much. He just led people to wipe out a group of robbers. Those robbers are really tough, and they also took a lot of effort to repeatedly plot with a few people in the village to succeed. But there is no question of any young hero."

The patriarchs of other villages, the village masters, echoed: "Brother Qin is too modest. He is not just a young hero, but a hero who fights tigers!"

"It is not an exaggeration to say that Brother Qin saved the livelihood of more than 20 villages in Renhoufang!"

"It really saved the livelihoods of more than 20 villages. Otherwise, how much would that tiger have to suck bones and suck marrow?"

"We really can't catch up with Brother Qin's methods."
Chapter completed!