It turns out that Xiaojie's surname is Qi, named Qi Shijie, who is thirteen years old this year, while Cui'er's surname is Tian, and her name is Tian Cui'er, who is only twelve years old this year. The Qi family is a small landowner in this village, with 80 acres of land, 4 tenants, 60 acres of land rented out, and 20 acres of land to be cultivated by their own family. This model of small landlords, which combines renting land and self-farming, was very common in ancient China, and it was also a bellwether in ancient Chinese society.

To a certain extent, such small landlords were the middle class of ancient Chinese society, they had a certain economic foundation and the ability to resist risks, and became the main taxpayers of the ancient Chinese dynasty, because they did not have enough privileges to evade taxes, and they had considerable economic conditions to pay various taxes to the government, and the exploitation of tenants was much lighter than that of large landlords.

In the old time and space, in some articles discussing landlords on the Internet, there was a theory that the landlords' exploitation of tenants was not serious, and even gave some goods to tenants during the New Year's holidays to pull these tenants, for fear that the tenants would no longer farm their own fields, and this kind of rent would not be collected. This statement is not coherent and unreasonable, but in fact, it refers to this kind of small landlords.

On the one hand, they have sufficient economic conditions to allow themselves and their children to receive a relatively good education, so that when the opportunity arises, they seize the opportunity through various methods to squeeze themselves into the class of large landlords, and the most effective way is the imperial examination, as long as they pass the examination, they can lead the entire family to leap forward in one fell swoop; and in the economically more developed areas, doing business is also one of the more effective ways, and in addition, through several generations of diligent cultivation and careful cultivation, coupled with certain objective conditions, it is also possible to complete the change from quantitative change to qualitative change。

Natural and man-made disasters, political fluctuations, and the squeezing and merger of large landlords can easily squeeze these small landlords, and once such small landlords go bankrupt in large numbers, it means that the social balance is broken, the contradictions in all aspects are intensified, and in serious cases, peasant riots and uprisings will break out.

The big landlord does not have to please his tenants, first, the big landlord has a solid family background, even if there are a few tenants who do not do it, they can resist such losses, and will not give in to the tenants, and if the tenants do not do it, their own survival also has its big risk, and they may not dare to easily pick on the landlord; Nursing homes, all of which are voluntary labor, no income, and tenants cannot unilaterally break the contract, otherwise the big landlord can punish the tenant who breaks the contract through the government, so in the game between the big landlord and the tenant, the big landlord has an absolute advantage, and the tenant's only hope is Hai Jui, an official who takes the principle of "the poor and the rich compete and must favor the poor". When the large landlord class perished in large numbers, it meant that a change of dynasty in society was coming.

The latter refers to the fact that men and women have set up a family affair at a young age, but men and women still grow up at home until they get married as adults, while child brides are married when they are young, and girls are raised in boys' homes until they grow up. To some extent, this is a disguised human trafficking, the family that gave birth to a daughter can't support the daughter, or for other reasons, giving the daughter to someone else as a child bride in exchange for some money, as for whether the daughter is good or bad in someone else's home, then it can only be left to fate.

The relationship between Qi Zhijie and Tian Cuier is like this. However, although the Qi family is a small place, it has a good reputation in the village, and has a good relationship with other yeoman farmers, although Tian Cuier is considered to have bought it back, but the Qi family treats Tian Cuier quite well, and basically raises her as a daughter, and Qi Zhijie and Tian Cuier have grown up together and have a clear relationship, so Qi Zhijie has loved Tian Cuier very much. Later, the Eight-Nation Coalition army killed the village, and both families died in the war, leaving only these two children to rely on each other.

After listening to Geng Jinyan's introduction, everyone was very sympathetic to the plight of these two children, and although the other children behaved wrongly, they were also victims of such a war, and everyone couldn't bear to blame them too much.

Therefore, Gao Jun gave Qi Zhijie and Tian Cuier a compressed biscuit, and then gave each of the other children a piece. The children who took the biscuits were overjoyed, and after taking the biscuits, they couldn't wait to open their mouths and chew and gobble up. Gao Jun said while handing out biscuits: "Don't be in a hurry, eat slowly, one piece per person, no less." Then he asked Geng Liu'an to fetch some water to avoid choking.

After a while, each child finished eating the biscuits and drank a little water, but they all looked at Gao Jun with blank eyes. They were all hungry for two or three days, and of course this biscuit was not enough, but they did not dare to ask for it again, because when the soldiers caught them just now, they were indeed frightened.

Gao Jun shook his head and said, "We only have so much food with us, and we will eat it later, so we can't give it to you anymore." ”

In fact, the compressed biscuits for the military are not as small and thin as the biscuits sold in the store, each piece is the size of a palm, about one centimeter thick, in addition to flour, a certain amount of olive oil, milk, and meat are added, and the nutrients and calories of this biscuit can basically maintain a person's minimum normal needs for a day. Therefore, even though each child is only given one biscuit, it is basically enough. And these children have been hungry for two or three days, but they can't be allowed to eat too much, otherwise they will have to survive.

Hearing Gao Jun say this, although the children were disappointed, no one dared to ask for it again. Gao Jun said again: "Although your robbery today is due to hunger, this is not a reason for you to rob at will, and we can give you limited food now, so if you want to eat enough, then come with us, we can guarantee that we will eat every day, are you willing." ”

When these children heard this, everyone was a little hesitant, and no one spoke, and then Geng Jinyan said: "You are like now, can you still say that you don't want to? Staying here will either starve to death or become bandits, so don't even think about it, all of them will come with us, not only will they have food, but they will also be able to study well, who dares not to go?"

At this time, the child who knew Geng Jinyan said: "Sister Yanzi, let's go with you, as long as we are fed, let me do anything." ”

Geng Jinyan snorted and said, "Don't worry, I won't let you do bad things, I will only teach you to follow the right path." ”

If there is a leader, there will naturally be someone who follows, and others can also see that they can't run away, so naturally no one dares to object. And Geng Jinyan turned to Qi Zhijie and Tian Cui'er and said, "Xiaojie, Cui'er, you two should also come with us." ”

The two of them listened, and they were also a little hesitant, then Geng Liu'an said: "Xiaojie, Cui'er, you two go with the swallows, you can't survive if you stay in the village, today there are swallows and they came to the village, so they saved you, and next time it will not be so good, either starve to death or be captured by others, follow Yan's children, and the two of you will have a way to live." The two of them listened and felt that it made sense, so they nodded in agreement.

Gao Jun saw that all the children agreed, and said: "Okay, you will live together in the future, in our place, you can eat your stomach, you can learn to read and write, but you must hear about it, and you are not allowed to grab things or beat people casually, otherwise we will drive him away. ”

After this episode, Li Songchen decided to leave the children in Qi Shijie's house, to be taken care of by Gao Jun, Geng Jinyan and the four soldiers, and the others went to the fields with Geng Liu'an to have a look.

In fact, Li Songchen's agricultural knowledge is basically equal to zero, and it can be said that except for a few common crops, he does not know the crops in his land. However, since it has been decided to start from the grassroots level and grasp the work in the rural areas, it is natural that the lesson of agricultural knowledge must be made up, and at least it is necessary to recognize the appearance of various crops.

The grain crops in Tianjin are mainly wheat, sorghum and corn, Li Songchen and other people followed Geng Liu'an around the field, and they got to know a lot of crops, and Li Songchen asked Geng Liu'an some agricultural knowledge, although many of them are common sense questions, but Geng Liu'an took the trouble to answer them one by one. Li Songchen also used his mobile phone to take some photos of various crops and also took a lot of videos, and as a result, he spent more than an hour in the field, which really made Li Songchen learn a lot of agricultural knowledge.

However, when Geng Liu'an saw it, he almost scared him to death, because he actually had a small self in the small brand in Li Songchen's hand. No wonder Geng Jinyan said that this group of overseas Chinese is much more powerful than the Boxers, and this magic weapon in Li Songchen's hand is simply unheard of.

Of course, I also met some other villagers who cultivated in the fields, but after Li Songchen and his party entered the village, they did not burn, kill and loot in the village as they imagined, but did not do anything, and they were accompanied by Geng Liu'an, it seemed that Geng Liu'an and their relationship was good, so the fear of Li Songchen and others was greatly reduced, and when Li Songchen took the initiative to greet them, he also got some kind responses.

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