If you want to kill a tree, you don't need to pick up a big axe and cut it down, you only need to peel off the bark of the main trunk to cut off the nutrient delivery channel, and the crown will soon die.

This method is especially useful for cash crops such as lychees, because there is no need to cut down trees and go back to the fire to cross the crowd. So that night, the fruit trees in the lychee orchard outside Chenshi Village were concocted in the same way, and the lychees that were about to ripen could no longer grow.

Next up is the fish pond. This one is simpler, and only needs to change the pH level of the pond water suddenly to kill the fish. Regarding this, Master Xiong in Jiangnan has a wealth of experience. At that time, under his chairmanship, the research group tested the tolerance relationship between a variety of commonly used chemicals and pond fish, and achieved rich scientific research results.

Bags of white powder were sprinkled into the surrounding fish ponds. In addition, the mulberry trees surrounding the fish pond did not escape the disaster, and all the bark was stripped of them.

Finally, there are the rice fields.

There is no choice but to choose the most laborious way, pull up the trouser leg, and take a long-handled sickle to go in and cut indiscriminately. Fortunately, destruction is always easier than construction, a row of people with long knives cut left and right and trample on the way, even without bending the waist to do things, the efficiency is very fast.

At dawn, when the early risers of Chenshi Village went out of the village with hoes, they found that all the fish in the pond had turned their white bellies, and the rice in the field seemed to have been cut down with the help of well-wishers.

"Poof", the people sat on the ground, and the sky fell.

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Chen Shi Village, Chen Family Ancestral Hall.

The old Chen Clan Ancestral Hall was renovated only the year before last, and the beams and pillars that have been painted several times stand there calmly, and with the long woodcut couplets next to the door and the plaque on the head, it exudes a majestic smell everywhere.

In today's ancestral hall, almost all the men of the Chen family were present.

In the main hall where the tablets of the ancestors of the past dynasties are enshrined, there are people at the head of each room, behind them stand their own children and nephews, and outside the door are dense ordinary people, all the way to the courtyard wall.

Sitting in the first place, it is naturally the head of the Chen family.

The patriarch's name is Chen Shiai. This person has a pointed face and thin eyebrows, a handful of gray beards, is in his fifties, wears a Wensheng scarf, wears a talent robe, and dresses in a gentle manner.

Chen Shiai is an old Xiucai in the Wanli period, the son of the eldest family, the patriarch of the Chen clan for many years, and is quite prestigious among the clansmen.

At this moment, Chen Shiai, with an angry face, was vigorously banging on the armrest of the seat: "Bastard, it's really lawless." Is the surname Cao trying to rebel? Reverse it, reverse it, this Qiu Ba must be a rebellion! ”

With the roar of the old patriarch, there was a lot of discussion in the hall, and most of the clansmen were also full of anger, and they cursed the surname Cao for not dying well, and having no son.

"Okay, don't be a king behind closed doors. The rice has been cut, and I'm still talking about this, curse and curse, can the surname Cao lose a cold hair? ”

The person who said this was a middle-aged man wearing a satin robe and a jade ring on his finger, with a fat body. This person's name is Chen Shicai, and he is a person who talks about things in the third room, ranking fifteenth among the generations in the world.

There's a reason why Chen Shicai's face is full of disdain. Because their energy for many years has been mainly used by merchants to do business, they are a little at odds with other houses that rely on agriculture as their main business, and they have a lot of discord with each other.

Sitting here today, seeing this group of people sitting in the well watching the sky, hugging the remnants of the clan, he originally made up his mind not to say a word, but finally couldn't help but say a word.

As Chen Shicai spoke sarcastically, the hall fell silent.

Patriarch Chen Shiai was not happy at this time, he would roll his eyelids at Chen Shicai, and said in a swishing voice: "Old Fifteen, you make it clear, what does it mean to be a king behind closed doors!?" Isn't this a countermeasure? ”

"Countermeasure? Hmph, joke. Is there a countermeasure to sitting in the hall and scolding the street? Chen Shicai looked helpless at this time, turned his head and said to everyone: "The fish are dead, and the rice is finished, what countermeasures can make the fish come back to life?" Didn't the people of Toushan Village and Weishan Village also be manipulated like this before, and what countermeasures did those people have in the end? Lie down and be hammered! ”

"Ridiculous!" Chen Shiai became more and more dissatisfied when he heard this, and after glancing at the old fifteen, he stood up from his chair and said loudly: "Since my Chen family moved south at the end of the Song Dynasty, they have been based here for hundreds of years, and natural disasters have gone through countless times, who have you ever been afraid of?" Hmph, as long as the township party is united, there is no hurdle that cannot be passed! ”

After saying this chicken soup, Chen Shiai thought about it and said to Chen Shicai: "Old fifteen, you don't want to fan the flames here, I know that you have a relationship with Cao Thief." ”

Pointing to the tablet behind him, Chen Shiai continued: "Today in this Chen family ancestral hall, in front of the ancestors and ancestors, you don't plan to do anything wrong. You need to know that sitting here are all your flesh and blood relatives, people are doing it, the sky is watching, the clan law can't cure you, and the ancestors won't be able to spare you in the future! ”

"It's that cliché again." After Chen Shicai listened to these words with guns and sticks and threatening words, not only did he not get angry, but showed an expression of "I knew it was like this", and he sneered a few times.

Next, Chen Shicai shook his head helplessly, and then said leisurely: "Deal, everyone is fighting with the surname Cao." Didn't every family enter the scrivener of the 'demolition office' of Raushzi from the new city? Isn't the land requisition charter given by people in every household? Oh, in black and white, I Chen Shicai also have a copy, no more copper plate than anyone! Chen Shiai, you don't want to pour dirty water on my third room, come, look at the regulations of my third room, can you take an extra copper plate? ”

Speaking of this, Chen Shicai took out three pieces of white A4 paper bound together from his arms and slapped them on the coffee table with a bang.

"It's this charter, the whole family, everyone has a copy! Chen Shiai, don't open your mouth and close your mouth to your ancestors, let me ask you, in the past six months, the charter has been in the hands of various families, as the patriarch, in addition to sitting and waiting for death, have you ever dealt with it a little? ”

Chen Shiai opened his mouth to refute when he heard this, but his tone couldn't help but weaken: "The stakes are very high, we always have to see how other families deal with it, so that we can pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages, right?" ”

"Seek advantage and avoid harm? Hmph, the rice has been destroyed, what kind of benefit is this? It's obviously to lure the wolf into the house! ”

Seeing that Chen Shiai was speechless for a while, Chen Shicai took two steps into the hall, shook his sleeves, and finally said with a sneer: "Even if you can't resist it, and you don't want to sell your land, isn't it just waiting for a dead end?" Well, this is the end of the matter, and I don't think you can wait any longer. Let me make it clear today: Sanfang will sign the charter when he turns back, and if you don't want to sign it, you can do it at will. ”

Chen Shicai said this, waved his hand, and strode out of the ancestral hall. Behind him were three rooms and a group of people.

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After Chen Shicai left, a new round of whispering began in the slightly embarrassed hall. It didn't take long for an old man with pure white hair and beard to open his mouth: "Shiai, looking at this situation, then General Cao is afraid that his eyes are red, and he is bound to win." People have soldiers and horses in their hands, and after looking at it in the past six months, I am afraid that the government will not be able to point to it. ”

"There are also tough ones in other villages, and everyone knows the end. We can't follow in the footsteps of the past,"

"Now I can't reach my thighs, so I signed the paperwork. Otherwise, the mulberry rice has been destroyed, don't say that the children have no food, and the autumn tax will arrive soon, then the ghost door is closed, what should we do? ”

Hearing the speech of this old and virtuous clan elder, Chen Shiai did not come out to scare people with righteousness again, but said with a bitter face: "Fourth uncle, it is not that the world loves stubbornly, but if I sign that document, my Chen family will really be in trouble!" ”

When Chen Shiai said this, his eyes were red: "Leaving the Tiantu family house, the clansmen scattered all over the world to carry the work for the surnamed Cao, who will run the clan school in the future?" Who will incense the ancestors? As soon as this one falls, the Chen family will be completely finished. ”

I have to say that Chen Shiai, an old talent, still has a good vision. His remarks clearly pointed out the hidden killing of clans by demolition and land expropriation: once the clans are deprived of the land on which they exploit and bind the peasants, the traditional clan structure will disappear in an instant.

A patriarch like Chen Shiai, demolition is equivalent to a dimensionality reduction blow, he can no longer use "public property", "sacrificial fields", "ethnology" and other means to exploit the clansmen, and there is no way to use righteousness and family law to deal with the clansmen in the ancestral hall, because the clansmen have gone to the collective dormitories in the north and south, and no one listens to him anymore.

This is the most fundamental reason why Chen Shiai would rather die in the face of the demolition and relocation office. He saw through everything and knew that if he gave in, he would lose his most precious thing: power.

However, seeing through is seeing through, and things have to be solved after all. Dead fish in the pond and seedlings in the rice paddy fields lie there, and the real problems cannot be solved by just preaching righteousness.

So Chen Shiai turned his head and said to an old man who was sitting next to him and had been silent: "Shiqi, say a few words." ”

Chen Shiqi, who was raised during the Wanli period, served two terms as a prefect and a sub-patrol, and now he is old in the township, which is the biggest reliance of the Chen family.

Chen Shiqi, who had a clear face, was dressed in black and had three long beards, shook his head slightly when he heard this, frowned and said: "Now that the imperial court is in an eventful season, that Cao is a Haikou who recruited Anlai, the soldiers are strong and strong, and he went to the capital Qinwang a few days ago, so the three divisions of Guangdong Xianfan want to let him have a few points, so he has to let this fang go crazy for a while." ”

"You can't just wait to die, can you?"

Chen Shiai stared at his only hope without blinking.

"Count the time, the letter from the capital is only a few days away. At that time, if you can play a copy of Cao Chuan in the court, it will probably be effective. ”

"So what should we do now?"

"Drag." Chen Shiqi said categorically: "Do some small actions, but don't go overboard, wait until I read the letter." ”

"That being the case......" Chen Shiai paced a few steps in the hall with his hands behind his back: "I will go to the county government tomorrow to beat the drum and sound the grievances." The county magistrate and I are accustomed to being friends, so I should be able to cause some trouble to the 'demolition and relocation office'. ”

"Good." Chen Shiqi nodded and said, "The documents come and go, and we will talk about it for a few days." ”