In ancient times, there were nine servals, and the inland Daze was also, and the official records were:

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There are still people who follow the ancient titles, according to Emperor Yu to divide the world into Kyushu, to the mountains and rivers to determine the direction.

The southeast is called Yangzhou: its mountain is called Huiji, "Serval is said to be the Gu District", Sichuan is said to be three rivers, and it is said to be immersed in the five lakes;

Jingzhou is said in the south: its mountain is called Heng, "Xue is said to be Yunmeng", Sichuan is said to be Jiang, Han, immersed in Ying, Zhan;

Henan Yuzhou: its mountains are called Hua, "Serval is said to be a garden", Sichuan is said to be Xing, Luo, and immersed in Bo and Xu;

Qingzhou is said to be in the east: its mountain is called Yi, "Xue is said to be Mengzhu", Sichuan is said to be Huai, Si, immersed in Yi, Shu;

Hedong is called Yanzhou: its mountain is called Dai, "Xue is said to be Taiye", its Sichuan is called He, Lu, Wei;

It is called Yongzhou in the west, its mountain is called Yue, "Xue Ri Xianpu", Sichuan is called Jing and Wei, and its immersion is called Wei and Luo;

The northeast is said to be Youzhou: its mountains are said to be medical without lu, "serval is said to be raised", Sichuan is said to be a river, and it is said to be a time;

Hanoi is called Jizhou: its mountains are called Huo, "Serval is said to be Yang", Sichuan is called Zhang, and immersed in Fen and Lu;

Due north is said to be the state: its mountain is called Heng Mountain, "Xue is said to be Zhao Yu Qi", Sichuan is said to be a pond, vomit, and immersed in Lai, Yi;

- "Mountains and Seas"

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Meng Zhuze, as the head of the nine ancient zes, is not only because of the area, but also because of its moisturizing quartet and giving birth to dragon luck.

During the "Great Flood" period in ancient times, the water area of Mengzhuze once reached 50,000 hectares, far exceeding that of other lakes.

At present, the lake has shrunk to about 11,500 hectares under the siltation of the Yu River.

Therefore, in terms of area alone, Yunmengze in the southwest border of the Miao tribe is the largest.

However, it is far away from the Central Plains, and the Central Plains area is still the largest in Mengzhuze.

As the former head of Jiuze, Meng Zhuze provided a large area of fertile land for the surrounding people, and there were also a large number of fresh and fat fish to hunt in the lake.

Its dreamy and ethereal natural scenery and indisputable geographical location have also attracted many high-ranking people to live in seclusion here.

A long time ago, the feng shui immortal "Renle Mountain" in the area of the famous earthquake and the four desecrations was again Meng Zhu Daze participated in the cultivation and enlightenment for more than 30 years.

The two Shengkun medical immortals in the early days of the Great Shang Dynasty were also from the area of Meng Zhuze.

Because of this, people here can often see the mysterious miracles!

After the fall of the Great Shang, the Yinghao Group moved a large number of people westward, but there were still some people who could not bear the high pressure of the Dahao Dynasty and went to settle in the area of Meng Zhuze on the edge of the dynasty.

Over the past 30 years, many towns and villages have also been formed.

During the heyday of the Great Shang Dynasty, it reached Yanshan and Juli River in the north, Qishan in the west, Canghai in the east, and Xiaoxiang in the south.

At the end of the dynasty, the actual area under its control was only a few thousand miles of land in the Central Plains.

After the establishment of the Dahao Dynasty, Yinghao did not expand everywhere, and ignored the vassal requests of the surrounding tribal forces, closed doors, stuck to the Central Plains, and established his own centralized power.

Although he also had control over some places on the fringes of the dynasty, he sometimes turned a blind eye and did not exert excessive pressure.

The relationship between the top ten families and Yinghao Group is somewhat strange and ambiguous. I don't know what I'm planning, this time Niuliushan may have some ulterior motives.

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The land in this area is fertile, and there is Mengzhu Daze, and the farmland irrigation water network is dense, most of the families make a living from farming, and only a few people fish professionally.

Unlike other places in the Central Plains, people here are not worried about drought, but they are very afraid of rain. In years with little rain, there is often a good harvest, and when there is a little more rain, it will reduce the yield due to flooding.

In addition, the slave-owning forces here colluded with each other to occupy public land, oppress yeoman farmers, and annex their land.

The locals angrily called them "local tyrants" and "landlords".

However, because this place is richer than the Central Plains, as long as the people at the bottom work hard, even if there is exploitation, they can make a living.

There are three major landlords in the western and northern areas of Meng Zhuze, Tan Lan, Lin Se, and Cai Mi.

They are not only local tyrants with thousands of dollars, but also martial artists with good martial arts.

Tan Lan is in his early sixties, in the middle of the Fifth Realm of Qi Refining, Lin Se is fast to the ancient rare, in the early stage of the Fifth Realm of Qi Refining, and Cai Mi is fifty-six, at the peak of the Fourth Realm of Qi Refining.

It is worth mentioning that Cai Guang, the eldest son of Cai Mi, is still a talented martial artist, forty-two years old, in the middle of the Qi Refining Quadruple Realm.

That's right, that means Cai Mi had a son when he was fourteen years old.

It is said that Cai Guang's mother, who used to be a widow, was forty years old that year.

This is a folk rumor, and its authenticity has yet to be verified......

Recently, these three landlords are not very happy.

Two days ago, the central government of the Dahao Dynasty came and secretly convened the three of them to discuss behind closed doors.

After coming out of the small dark room where the secret conversation was talking, the three landlords looked very bad, as if they had eaten something.

The Cai family's mansion.

Boom!

Another box of gold and silver was carried into the courtyard, and the two men who carried the box were blind.

At this time, it was the time when the green and yellow crops were scarce, and the ordinary people did not have much left over from the old grain at home; it was the time for the fish to reproduce and develop, and they could not be caught wantonly.

There is not enough food, no warm clothing, and they have to prepare for this spring ploughing, and the civilians are very dissatisfied.

And Cai Mi's family not only has a large amount of grain, but also so much gold and silver treasures, the exploiting class is really hateful!

"Alas~"

Cai Mi, who has always been a fan of money, looked at the several boxes stacked on the ground at this time, distressed and angry.

More or helpless!

Two days ago, the household department of the dynasty came to collect taxes.

The Dahao Dynasty implemented the "Nine Tributes", and collected bribes with nine endowments, that is, nine kinds of taxes were levied in Bangzhong, Sijiao, Bangdian, Jiaqiao, Bangxian, Bangdu, Guanshi, Shanze, and Yuanyu.

And the taxes in Meng Zhuze's area have always been very confused, and they haven't done much for so many years.

However, this time, the attitude of the people in the household department was very resolute, and they demanded that the three major landlords make up for the tributes that had been missed for more than 30 years.

After so many years, where do you know how much is owed?

So the three major landlords tacitly took out a few bags of money and wanted to bribe the people of the household department.

As a result, the man didn't know what to do, and humiliated the three of them.

The three landlords were also powerful warriors, and they wanted to use force to coerce those who came from the household department to submit.

Who knew that the man in his early thirties actually had the strength of the sixfold realm of qi refining, and he was not afraid of the three of them;

Moreover, after all, he was a central staff member of the dynasty, and the three landlords were not easy to provoke.

As soon as they got the news, several landlords a hundred miles to the west had asked someone to teach the people who were taxed by the household department, but that night the whole family was old and young, and none of them were left!

Although the murderer was not caught, some clever people could guess that it was a dark ghost!

So they were very helpless and unwilling, and they still had to carefully estimate the shortcomings and make up the money.

Now in ten chests on the ground, there are about 7,500 golden shells!

In order to make up so much money, Cai Mi even sold two restaurants in the town.

Son Cai Guang patted his father's shoulder on the side and comforted: "Dad! The situation is stronger than people, bear with it! Anyway, our fields are still here, and sooner or later we will make a comeback!"

"Alas~"

Cai Mi sighed again, and said weakly: "It's been thirty or forty years, and the previous foolishness has passed, but this time he suddenly came to such a hand, which made the heavens angry and resentful, aren't you really afraid of shaking him Dahao?"

Ying Hao's high pressure was promulgated half a month ago, and the Meng Zhuze area is relatively remote, so it came late.

During this period, the landlords rebelled, and the Ji clan of Xiqi Zhouyuan took the opportunity to unite with the powerful landlords, rushed out of Hangu, and killed the capital of the Dahao Dynasty [Cheng Hao].

The outcome is not yet known, but for now they must pay their taxes before sunset.

In the end, he reluctantly glanced at the gold and silver on the ground, and Cai Mi ordered someone to carry it away with tears.

……

Sunset over the West Mountains.

On the narrow streets of Luyi, nine young people are walking slowly.

It was evening, and the streets were sparsely populated, and they didn't look listless.

The only two rickety trees on the side of the road have not yet sprouted, like dying old men.

The small town of Luyi looks particularly bleak and bleak against the backdrop of the sunset.

"Woo~"

Zishang shuddered, frowned and looked around, and whispered:

"Do you think it's weird here? Why is everyone like the walking dead!"

Baili Cat glanced at it casually, and said flatly: "This is normal, in the past few years of our training, except for rich large and medium-sized cities, people in small places are generally like this." ”

Bailihu continued: "Yes, this is the life of the people at the bottom. ”

Zishang thought for a moment and asked again: "But when I was in Juanyi before, I didn't think the people there were so listless?"

Baili Mao said: "Juanyi is also a small traffic artery, there are roads in five directions outward, the commodity economy is more developed, the per capita income is okay, in addition to making a living, there can be a little surplus." ”

"And here it is more remote, and if you cultivate a little land, you can be self-sufficient. ”

"Looking at their skinny and yellow faces, most of them are exploited by powerful landlords here. ”

"Haoqiang...... Landowner. Zishang muttered, "What is the landlord?"

A few people glanced at Zishang strangely, although the appearance of the landlord has only been more than 30 years, but people with a little insight have basically heard of it.

Isn't the knowledge of the sub-merchants very rich? Why don't even the landlords know about it?

And...... King Wu Geng of Dayi Shang is a big landlord!

Bailihu asked in surprise: "Zishang, aren't you a Dayi merchant?

"Uh......" Zishang didn't know how to explain, and said vaguely: "I only studied and practiced martial arts in the family, and I haven't even been out of the city a few times. ”

The credibility of this is very low, but everyone has their own secrets, and the identity of the remnants of Yin Shang is a little sensitive, so it is understandable that Zishang is like this.

Baili Mao and Baili Lion glanced at each other, and they both secretly guessed in their hearts the status of Zishang in Dayi Shang.

Baili Hu replied for the merchant: "The landlord is a person who owns a large amount of land, but does not participate in labor himself. They distributed the land to ordinary peasants, who were to pay regular rents to the landlords. ”

"The landless hired peasants were directly called by the landlords, no different from servants. ”

"These landlords are poisonous! The peasant households have to extract 70 percent, or even 80 percent, or 90 percent of the annual harvest! The peasant households under the landlords are living in extremely difficult conditions. ”

"Oh, by the way, King Wu Geng of your Dayi merchants is also a big landowner, but he is not bad to the farmers, and only takes half of the rent. ”

When it came to King Wu Geng, Zishang couldn't help but be stunned, he couldn't imagine that his grandfather was also a landlord, although he only collected half of the rent, but it was quite a lot, and it was hard to imagine how those farmers lived.

Thinking about it, Zishang's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, and his face was ugly.

Baili Mao thought that Zishang was disgusted, and hurriedly said: "Actually, King Wu Geng is already very good to those farmers, if there is no protection of King Wu Geng, they will have to pay as much as sixty percent of the taxes of the Dahao Dynasty like other homesteaders." ”

"And all kinds of exorbitant taxes are not missing. Now they only need to hand over fifty percent of the taxes to King Wu Geng, and it is not a problem to make ends meet. ”

However, Zishang's face softened a little, but he still couldn't let go.

"Even so, 50 percent of the taxes are still too high. Is it true that man lives in the world only to make ends meet, and does man not want to develop?"

Baili Mao couldn't help sighing, and said earnestly: "Zishang! This really can't be blamed on King Wu Geng, as a remnant of the previous dynasty, the Dahao Dynasty is also very wary of you, and every year the Dayi merchants also have to pay tribute to the central government of the Dahao Dynasty, the consumption is very large, and King Wu Geng can't conjure these things out of thin air!"

"And the development of the people you mentioned, how many of the martial artists in the Qi Refining Realm are civilians? Even if the civilians are talented, where is there any possibility of development without a background! For them, being able to eat enough is the best development. ”

Baili Hu responded on the side and said: "Yes, if you want to blame that Ying Hao, the oppression and exploitation are too heavy!"

Ying Hao ...... The Dongyi undercover agent who inexplicably overthrew the Dahao Dynasty overnight.

His Dahao dynasty has persisted for more than 30 years and has not collapsed.

Objectively speaking, some of his measures have indeed increased the productivity a lot, but the treatment of the ruled class is too brutal and really unpopular.

But even so, the people still control the dynasty and are extending their influence to areas where they used to have weak control!

The rough and violent chariot of the Dahao Dynasty swayed and crushed outward!

Zishang secretly thought: Since you Dahao don't treat the people as people, sooner or later I want you Dahao to drown in the sea of people!

"It just so happens that this Meng Zhuze is the land of the dragons of the great merchants, so I will stay here for a while and look for an opportunity to break through the Qi Refining Realm!"