Chapter 21 Drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle
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Shazhou set up a military town, Dunhuang City came to a Zhichong Mansion Lieutenant, these gossips are still on the tip of the tongue of the population, and Xiaohan performed such a play in front of the Zhichong Mansion Office that day.
unwittingly pity the tenants, complaining that the military government wants too much military rations; Knowingly, he quietly looked at the movements of Suofu, and secretly calculated that after this out, in the future, Dunhuang City and even the entire Shazhou will still be the final say of Suo's family, or only the order of the governor of Yandu will be obeyed.
On the third day agreed between Fu Tanyan and the tenants, the guards of the Zhichong Prefecture Office had just opened a crack in the vermilion lacquer gate when they were startled by the layers of crowds outside the door.
The two guards did not dare to open the door immediately, so one of them guarded the gate, and the other went to the backyard to urge the captain.
Feng Ling had ordered Ah Qi to go to the wine shop next to the Zhichong Mansion one day earlier, and still gave half a golden cake, and settled on the small compartment where the plates were stacked and the view was excellent last time.
After a while, Chen Zheng made a big drum, and the two guards pushed open the vermilion lacquer gate, and Fu Yanyan was still wearing a dark robe, and stepped out of the gate without being salty or light, as if he did not put the crowd of people watching in his eyes, but only glanced at the tenants who hung down the stone steps in a neat row.
The old tenant headed by him raised his head and arched his hand, he wanted to be the first to speak, he didn't want to bump into the gaze that swept by the flicker, he was born with a bearded appearance, thick eyebrows and low pressure, and his eyes were deep-set, at this time it seemed that he had his own majesty, the old tenant shrank back, swallowed back the words on his lips, and whispered in his heart: What rank is this captain? It's as if I've heard someone say it's a five-grade ......
"Du Wei ......" Zhang Boyong, who didn't know when he arrived, cleared his throat in a low voice behind Fu Yanyan, "But a few Tian Shelang, just send them away, why bother with them......"
"The county order came at the right time." Fu Yanyan turned around and arched his hand, and said aloud intentionally: "As a parent official in a place, I also ask Zhang Xianling to be a witness for me about today's events." ”
Zhang Boyong sighed lowly, lowered his head and clasped his hands, and said, "Okay, the lower officials will listen to the orders of the captain." ”
Fu Yanyan nodded slightly, and turned to the tenants under the stone steps, "The matter of paying rent is as determined three days ago, and eight cents of the income from the public land will be used as military rations, and two cents will be kept by you. In addition, because of the hard work of renting and planting public land, and the importance of military rations, Suier and the rest of the rents and conscripts were exempted. ”
At first glance, the tenants were still twenty-eight cents of grain, how could they listen to his words again, and even the onlookers coaxed, and immediately "boomed" to blow up the nest, shaking their heads and stomping their feet and muttering, but no one would agree.
"Captain, look at this ......" Zhang Boyong let out a long and short sigh behind Fu Yanyan.
Fu Yanyan ignored him and raised his voice, "So, you are still not satisfied with this official's treatment?" ”
The old tenant led by "poof" knelt on the ground, and the annoyance on his face was no longer suppressed, and he muttered loudly: "In this case, please ask the captain to find another person to rent the seeds, and I and other villagers still have to live hungry, this is absolutely impossible!" ”
The rest of the tenants fell to the ground with him. Someone in the crowd jumped out of the crowd, filled with righteous indignation, and raised their arms and shouted: "Isn't this to push people to death!" Twenty-seven tenant farmers, one hundred and ten people, old and young, should go to heaven and ask for a mouthful of living food? ”
In the small building, the Buddha Nu reached out to the person who came out, "Auntie, look, that's Yin Monkey." ”
Feng Ling still held the horsewhip in his hand, gritted his teeth and said: "The most hateful thing is this kind of villain, flattering, asking for merit and reward." I think that those tenants are just greedy for some small profits, or because of the power of the Suo family, none of them really dare to challenge the Zhichong Mansion. If it weren't for Yin Monkey's instigation, how could there be such verbosity. ”
As she spoke, she wrapped the horsewhip around her hand twice, and the Buddha slave was afraid that she would be angry for a while, so he rushed downstairs to teach the Yin monkey a lesson, and he was so shocked that he grabbed her sleeve, "Auntie, don't be patient, don't break it." ”
Feng Ling was stunned for a moment, then casually put the horsewhip aside, and rolled his eyelids, "Phew! He deserves it too! I'm afraid that pickled is going to dirty my whip. ”
Looking at the delay on the stone steps, he straightened the tendons on his face, and said coldly: "Since you feel that it is unfair and do not want to rent public land anymore, this official will not force public opinion, please take care of yourself." ”
This sentence was unexpectedly unexpected by most people, and the Yin monkey suddenly retracted, slowly lowered his arm, and looked around a little bewildered.
"Zhang County Order." Fu Yanyan suddenly said to Zhang Boyong: "Today, the county government will send people to post notices in various places inside and outside the city, stating the detailed rules, and recruiting tenant farmers who are willing to rent and plant public land. ”
This was said clearly and clearly, not only Zhang Boyong understood it, but also the tenants and onlookers under the stone steps heard it clearly, and this was to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle.
The tenants looked at each other at a loss, and when they came back to their senses and tried to look for Yin Hou'er again, he was long gone from the crowd.
"I'm willing to rent a farm!" One of the people in the crowd brushed away the encirclement of the crowd, and walked to the front of the stone steps, and saw Zhang Xianling and Du Wei standing in front of the steps, he didn't know what to do, so he just begged eagerly: "The villain is a native of Xianzhen outside the city, and the Yongye Tian at home has been pawned and sold to Fachang Temple in the early years, and for many years he has only relied on doing some scattered odd jobs for people everywhere to live, although he has done a good farm job, his family is still difficult. begged the captain for mercy, and taught the villain to rent a field so that he could feed the family. ”
Fu Yanyan nodded at him, "Today, the long history of Zhechong Mansion and Bing Cao will join the army with Zhang County's order to set up a case with the county government, if you really know how to do farm work, just go and apply." ”
Zhang Boyong replied with a sloppy bow, the situation took a turn for the worse, he couldn't figure out the current situation at all, where did he dare to disobey half a point.
Feng Linglin looked at Fu Yanyan's rigid and stiff expression, and couldn't help shaking his head in his heart, if he wanted to make a play, Fu Yanyan was far inferior to the old tenant who led the way. The matter that had been discussed in the head was taught to act so bluntly in front of him, but fortunately, the Buddha slave was clever and arranged for his subordinates to come forward to petition at the right time to make this play more realistic.
"That person is from your community?" The Wind Spirit lifted his chin to the petitioners downstairs.
Buddha Nu touched the head on his head and smiled: "Exactly, exactly." This person called Fan Liu, and he was indeed a farmer, and when the **** went to say, he was eager to ask for rent. He said, even if one cent of grain is more than enough to feed the whole family, needless to say that the lieutenant is willing to give two points, and he is exempt from taxation and servitude, a great errand is naturally twelve points willing. ”
At this time, there were more than a dozen people in front of the government office who asked for tenants to rent public land, all of whom were people who were good at farm work but were poor and helpless that the Buddha Nu had found from the community, and there were three or four people who had been hired by the tenants to work under the Dasha Mountain for several years.
The people in the Zhichong Mansion downstairs were obviously prepared, and Changshi, Bing Cao joined the army, and even the record room was already on standby in the vermilion lacquer gate.
After a few words of command, the governor of Zhichong Prefecture strode forward and preached loudly: "From today, within ten days, anyone who is willing to rent a public office field and is good at farming can go to the county yamen to file a book, and after the selection, give a document rent coupon, after the New Year's Festival, the soil will be frozen, and you can start farming." ”
The crowd under the stairs gathered, making a lot of noise, saying anything, some praising and some scolding, some coaxing and some pulling their legs and then exiting the crowd to occupy a place at the county office.
The wind spirit looked down from above, and the twenty-odd tenants looked very abrupt in the crowd, and they were depressed in place, and at this moment, it seemed that there was some real pain.
When her eyes moved to the vermilion lacquer gate again, there was no longer a figure of Fu Yanyan, and only a few government soldiers were left to evacuate and drive away the people.
Suddenly, I heard a muffled sound, as if the table, stool and chair were violently overturned to the ground, faintly coming from the next compartment. The wind spirit and the Buddha Nu glanced at each other, and suddenly there was a crisp sound of the cup falling to the ground, which was indeed from next door.
"Auntie, presumably next door is Suo Jia Lang." Buddha Nu was shocked when he heard this, suppressed his throat, and cautiously stretched out a finger and pointed to the next door, "If you want him to know what we are doing, can we still live in Shazhou?" ”
There was a chaotic sound of footsteps outside the door, as if a few people were walking quickly from the door of the compartment with anger, Feng Ling listened to it for a while, and the sound gradually subsided, and she gently shook the long braid hanging on one side of her chest, and replied casually: "What are you doing, don't you forget, now Captain Yan owes us a great favor, and he can always be relied on in times of crisis, right?" ”
She suddenly had a look in her mind that she didn't want to eat the oil and salt, and she felt that what she said was extremely unconfident, so she added weakly: "No matter how big it is, let's go back to Yuhang, horizontally and vertically...... There are also fathers and mothers, and they can always get by by eating and drinking. ”
Buddha Nu sighed faintly: "You don't count your age, if you really go back to Yuhang, how many days can Mrs. and Ah Lang let you stay at home?" It's not that he posted a dowry as soon as possible, and hurriedly sent him out of the cabinet. ”
Feng Lingxing's eyes widened and glared at him fiercely. The Buddha Nu hurriedly added: "Don't go out of the pavilion, don't go out of the pavilion, Mrs. loves the eldest mother so much, how can she be willing to let the eldest lady out of the pavilion, it must be to recruit a Langjun to return home......"
"Say it again, be careful with your ......" Feng Ling muttered and cursed fiercely, while chasing Buddha Nu out of the wine shop, taking advantage of the crowd, the two of them mixed in the crowd and quietly returned to the market.