I am in the Qing Dynasty, Guangdong, Huichao Jiadao, northwest of Jiaying Prefecture.

At the entrance of a large mansion that occupies almost one-third of the entire street, Master Li Wenxin, who was wearing a round robe, was standing listlessly.

Although it is already August in the lunar calendar, Jiaying Prefecture in Tiannan is still very hot, and Master Li, who is wearing a robe, is already hot and sweaty, but he seems to be unconscious, letting the sweat run down his cheeks wantonly, and he doesn't even move.

No matter how hot the weather is, how can it be as cold as Master Li's heart!

At the end of last year, it was rumored that Lin Shuangwen, who had caused trouble in Taiwan, was going to cross the sea to Guangdong, and Sun Shiyi, the governor of Liangguang, personally went to Chaozhou Mansion to guard against it.

After more than half a year, Master Li thought that he had finally survived, but just a few days ago, a letter from the governor's yamen directly swept Master Li and rushed home to eat himself.

He is not bad, because he has a reputation for showing talent, and people see that he is a scholar, although he is a bought official, but he is also an official who has been selected by the Ministry of Officials, which can be regarded as giving him a little face, and let him go home to participate.

The ambassadors of the tax department, the ambassadors of the warehouse, and the team leaders below him were all beaten to death and then driven out of the county office.

But even so, Master Li Wenxin and Master Li still feel like the end is coming!

Because of his more than ten years of career in the sea, he started from a bought master, saved a huge family business, and also made a lot of enemies.

But what about the road?

The year before last, he had assassinated a pirate who had come ashore and obtained his property.

But who knows, the pirate who looked very cowardly turned out to be the younger brother of the big pirate Pigtails, and those family properties were also prepared by Pigtails for himself to go ashore.

According to the acquaintance of Hongmen Xijiangtang, the third pigtail made a vow in front of the Bodhisattva, and he must be on the head of Master Li!

In the past, he was covered by an official body, and people couldn't move him, but now, he is a criminal official to be joined, an old showman, what should he do?

Although he lives in a town like Jiaying Prefecture, the big pigtail three will not dare to enter the city to rob and kill a local gentry and celebrity like him, but he can't stay in Jiaying Prefecture for the rest of his life and not go out, right?

Even if he can't go out, what about his sons, the eldest lives in Guangzhou City, and the second is in Dapu, Chaozhou next door, and people can't get him, so they will definitely go to his sons for trouble.

Moreover, since he returned to his hometown after Master Li returned to his hometown, many people knew that he had offended Da Braidsan, and the rent of his more than 20,000 acres of land was not collected much.

Don't think that the current tenants are the kind of Yang Bailao in later dramas and movies, there are indeed them, but most of them are in the north.

Compared with Guangdong, the Qing government in the north controlled it tightly, and ordinary peasants did not have the two Guangxi and Fujian to go to Nanyang, and they were tied to the land all their lives.

Therefore, when facing the landlord and gentry class, they are always in the position of being enslaved, because once they lose their tenants, it is basically a situation where the whole family starves to death.

But Guangdong is different, the farmers here still retain the trend of martial arts, and the boxing gyms and martial arts halls everywhere in Guangdong in later generations are proof.

Moreover, they have many ways out, and they can't continue farming, so they borrow money to go to the South Seas, and if they can't do it, they can go up to the mountains to be bandits, and go to the sea to be boat bandits.

They will not tie themselves to the land for the rest of their lives, and if they have the confidence not to be afraid of losing their tenants, the peasants in Guangdong will be much more arrogant than in other places.

The peasants in the north have no choice but to suffer a lot, and few dare to go out.

Guangdong is more daring to go out, less bitter, in this place of the local master, no wrist and power, you can't collect a single hair!

Because of the anger, those tenants will become a mob shouting as big as they can and openly resist rent.

In extreme cases, they even dare to sell the grain and farm tools belonging to the landlords, and then go to Nanyang, leaving you with no money and no money.

Li Wenxin used to rely on his official status and the Li family's advantage of being a big family in Jiaying Prefecture and Chaozhou to collect rent.

But now that he has lost his official position, he has also provoked a fatal pigtail, and now it is the autumn harvest, and there are tens of thousands of acres of fertile land, and only three or two kittens have come to pay the rent for him.

Alas! Master Li sighed, looked back at the tall lintel of his house, if he couldn't solve the threat brought by the big braid, the Li family was likely to decline.

If in the past, his cunning old man like a fox could still help him with a word or two, but recently, the old man's body is getting worse and worse, and he is shouting every day to see his little sister and little daughter.

Thinking of his little sister, Li Wenxin's heart was also full of feelings, in order to raise money to buy him an official, the old man married his favorite little daughter to Nanyang with tears in his eyes.

As a result, only six or seven years, before the daughter could return to her parents' home with the child, the news of her death came, and since then, the old man's body has begun to decline.

He, an official, and his Li family's current big house and good land, all earned by selling his sister's 30,000 taels of silver.

He still remembers the tears of his sister when she got married, the sister who was more than ten years younger than him, was so well-behaved, literate and polite, and proficient in female popularity.

She could have married to the wild Nanyang without going far away, she could have married a good man, but she hurt her!

"Abba! Abba! When Li Wenxin was in a trance, there was a terrible shout from the opposite street, which sounded like his second daughter-in-law.

In a trance, a young woman with a gray face wearing muslin clothes pulled two boys who were also gray-faced and knelt down in front of Li Wenxin with a pop.

Master Li looked at it, it turned out to be his second daughter-in-law, and the two children were also his grandsons, and before he could ask about the situation, the second daughter-in-law pulled her throat and began to cry.

"Abba! You want to save Zhenghui! After he went out to collect rent yesterday, he didn't come back, and this morning someone threw a note in, saying that if he didn't take out 10,000 taels of silver, he would ask Zhenghui's hands, and you have to save him! Abba! ”

Li Wenxin shook for a while, his ears buzzed violently, as if the whole world had slowed down, only the panicked shouts of his second daughter-in-law and the crying of his two grandsons in his ears, and then his eyes went dark and he couldn't see anything.

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Ye Kai touched the braid on the back of his head a little uncomfortably, of course, it was not that he left another braid for himself so quickly, but that this braid and the melon skin hat on his head were bought.

He was also wearing a rose purple horse coat and a round robe, which looked like he was in the official house.

But Ye Kai always felt a burst of unprovoked breathlessness, since he stepped on the land of my Daqing Dynasty, he didn't like it anywhere.

Jiaying Prefecture is now Mei County, the state city is not big, not very prosperous, Mei County is the famous hometown of overseas Chinese in later generations, but with this name, it must be poor, not poor, where did so many people leave their hometowns?

This can be seen from the braids on people's heads walking by the roadside, if in Guangzhou, most people's foreheads are shaved and shiny, and now it is the late Qianlong period, money rat tails are rare, and yin and yang heads are the mainstream.

Do you think that the Manchurians do not find their money rat tail ugly?

Dog pun!

If you don't think it's ugly, how can Kang Mazi have sideburns, so as time goes by, from the tall and perfect old man to the fart people below, there is more and more hair on his head.

In Guangzhou City, where the economic conditions are good, people are still willing to spend some money to take care of their yin and yang.

In Jiaying Prefecture, most of the people with a big braid on their heads should be the first half of the light, and they basically look overgrown with weeds.

That's because they are reluctant to spend a few big bucks to find a job to be shaved, and choose to leave it after shaving themselves.

And the melon skin hat with braids that Ye Kai bought can actually be seen by those who are interested in it as fake.

But I didn't care about this idle matter, in fact, in the Manchu Qing Dynasty at this time, the business of selling fake braids was very prosperous, and there were always a few of the 40,000 people who didn't have much hair.

Ye Kai's grandfather's house is still easy to find, after all, a county is still a celebrity in the local area, and he is at least the top executive deputy county magistrate in later generations.

It's just that the eyes of those people looking at Ye Kai always have a bit of a strange feeling, and some people muttered that the Li family was going to be unlucky.

Bad luck?

What's the bad luck?

Isn't it his uncle Li Wenxin, who was driven home by the governor's yamen to eat himself?

What's that?