Pi Xiaosan responded, and immediately slipped out and slid over like a yellow croaker. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 He walked to the house, stood there with a loud voice, and then shouted, "Is there anyone?"

The door of the house opened, revealing a head from inside, squinting at his face, "Who are you?"

Pi Xiaosan held his head high, "Let me tell you, the master collects protection money, this piece of land is now under the control of the master, you are doing business here, and you will have to pay the monthly fee in the future." ”

The man snorted, probably angry, "Where are you a monkey, come up here and talk nonsense, do you know what kind of place this is?"

"Naturally, I came here after inquiring, aren't you a private squatter here?"

When the man heard this, he became furious, "Blind your mother's eyes, and don't let me go." ”

Pi Xiaosan squinted his eyes and wanted to look inside, but at this time, several strong men rushed out of the gate, held him down and began to beat. The beat made Pi Xiaosan wail for a while, and the girl ran away. The men didn't chase them, but only cursed at the door, and there was a burst of cynicism, saying that he was also a madman out of nowhere.

Pi Xiaosan turned around in front before coming back, his face was swollen, he covered his cheeks and looked at Guo Wenying pitifully, "Boss, people didn't let me in." ”

Guo Wenying glared at him, looking like she hated iron but not steel. This person usually looks quite clever, why is he so lacking in heart today?

She said: "You pretend to buy a house, and you can come to see the house, you have to say that you will collect protection money, and you will not be killed if you are arrested." ”

Pi Xiaosan touched his face and said aggrievedly: "Boss, I only look like a person who collects protection money, I want to pretend to be a rich man, and people have to believe it." ”

Guo Wenying was helpless, but he didn't find out anything, at least he knew that there were a lot of thugs in it, and his martial arts were strong. One day call the road is new, bring a few masters over, and then explore the way.

When they found nothing, they did not linger any longer, and several of them went out of the city.

When she arrived outside the city, Guo Wenying deliberately took a detour, wanting to see what the salt fields with a lot of salt production said by the shopkeeper of the big ticket number Du were like.

Heading east, getting closer and closer to the sea, this way, riding a horse on a wooden wheel on a muddy country road, I found that the suburbs and tidal flats on this road were deserted, and there were salt pans of some sizes that could not be seen.

In Fuzhou and other places, due to war and banditry, many salt farms were abandoned, making it difficult to grow crops on the salt-soaked land. I really don't know what these local people are thinking, especially the salt farmers, who have lost their roots and have no fields to cultivate, what should they rely on to make a living?

They came all the way from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and saw that Jiangsu and Zhejiang were quite rich, but when they arrived in Fujian, they were obviously much poorer, the people were displaced, and many lands were barren. And now, are even the salt pans that have made a living on the coast deserted?

They searched for a while, and finally found the largest salt pan in this place, because they accompanied their personal guards and wore official uniforms, and a few salt farmers saw them coming from a distance, and they were so frightened that they threw away the long rake that swept the salt, and ran away.

Hengsan was quick with his hands and feet, grabbed the two old legs slowly, and said with a smile: "Fellow, what are you running?"

The two salt farmers were so frightened that they shouted in unison: "The king spares his life, the king spares his life." ”

Heng San Qi knotted, he was dressed in an official uniform, where did he look like a king?

He escorted the two to Guo Wenying, Guo Wenying saw that the two of them were so frightened that they kowtowed frequently, hurriedly helped people up, and said politely: "Don't be afraid, we are court officials, we are here to save the people, not mountain bandits." ”

"Yes, yes. The two salt farmers nodded, but they clearly didn't take what she said seriously.

Guo Wenying sighed in her heart, most of these people were also bullied by the government, only officials and bandits are the same, I am afraid that they are not as good as bandits.

She coughed lightly and asked, "Why is the salt field so depressed now?"

These salt farmers thought that there were officials and bandits who came to harass them, either asking for money and taxes, or looking for fault and beating people, so they were very scared when they were inertial and wanted to run, and then they saw Guo Wenying's kind attitude, so they replied tremblingly: "This official doesn't know that our salt works here were originally very prosperous, and there are hundreds of salt farms on the tidal flats, and there are not many people who come here every year to work for short-term salt drying." But since the war began a few years ago, the business here has been a little bad, and then out of nowhere, a group of Japanese pirates came from nowhere, occupied the land of Quanzhou, and sometimes came to Fuzhou along the coast, they blocked our salt road, forbade us to sell salt, and scuttled more than a dozen large ships transporting salt. The sea route could not be taken, the land freight rate was too high, and the owner of the salt farm sent people to arrest these widows, but the people sent were killed.

Guo Wenying was taken aback and asked him, "Does the government care?"

The salt farmer shook his head, "The government didn't say that it didn't matter before, and it also organized people to suppress it a few times, but in the end they all came back with a big defeat, and after a few defeats, the government no longer cares." The owners saw that the salt could not be sold, so they all took off the salt farm, and then it slowly became like this. ”

Another salt farmer said: "If it weren't for the fact that the family was really poor and couldn't eat, we wouldn't have ventured to the salt farm, thinking about digging some and selling it back, if we met the Japanese robbers, we would lose our lives." At the end of the day, the horror on that face didn't seem to be fake.

Guo Wenying frowned when she heard this, some time ago, Feng Jingting was collecting information about the Japanese and mountain bandits everywhere, and the conclusion was that the mountain bandits and the Japanese were rampant, and the official uniforms were ineffective in encirclement and suppression, resulting in the people of Fujian living in dire straits, and they were very difficult.

It is said that Nanling Gongjiang Taiping has no less than 100,000 soldiers in his hands, so how can he not even exterminate even a few bandits? If he does not suppress bandits, not many people curse him, and most of them are scolding the court for inaction. He, Jiang Taiping, also holds the imperial court, and with so much money to support private soldiers, why can't he suppress bandits?

Sure enough, as soon as she mentioned Nanling Gong, the two salt farmers said: "Nanling Gong is a good person, he opens a warehouse every year to release grain, and uses his own rice and silver money to subsidize our poor, and there are poor people who come to ask for help, and they are willing to help, and they also avenge our poor people's lawsuits, what a good person." ”

Guo Wenying's brows furrowed even tighter when he heard this, and he gave a small favor to win people's hearts, what is he doing behind his back? If he really thinks about the people, how can Fujian be in such a mess?

Now the people's grievances are boiling, and the people of Fujian are even more complaining about the imperial court, and if they want to gain a firm foothold here, the first thing to do is to stabilize the people's hearts. It's just that it is not easy for these people to realize that Nanling Gong is the biggest disaster.