Zijian leaned against a big tree that he cleaned up by himself, squinted his eyes and waited for time, touched his shriveled stomach, and sighed that this was not a human life.

Zijian's current profession is a low-level bandit, and he is affectionately called "monk" by many bandits.

Although this is a den of thieves, Zijian stayed after more than a month of learning the language of these bandits and his experience of inquiring about them, and then stayed and did not plan to escape.

The owner of this thief's nest is called Zhang San, the third in the family, and the family has no money to ask Xiucai to name it, so Zhang San will be named according to the order. It turned out to be a tenant of a landlord in the countryside, but later he didn't know what the landlord had done, and then he slaughtered the landlord's son.

Zhang San is usually a good person, but can he still have a good end if he kills the landlord's son? , so he took more than a dozen relatives to the mountain to become a bandit, and after half a year of operation, he killed two waves of county officials and landlords and servants, and gained a foothold in the mountains.

Although Zhang San has not studied the Four Books and Five Classics, but also knows the truth that there are many people, the last time he went out of the mountain to pull people into the gang, it was a homeless person, and when he came back, he found Zijian who fell in the mountain, and saw Zijian's short hair, as well as strange clothes, thinking that he was a monk, so he carried it back to the cottage by the way.

Zijian woke up and was silent, because he couldn't understand what these unkempt and ragged beggars were saying, but fortunately, he was strengthened by the aliens' body, which made his memory super strong, and after these days of beggar-like life, he learned about the situation of the bandits.

Although the owner of the village is a thief, Zijian sees that the people in this thief's den are still "conscientious", although he is called a thief by the government, but Zijian understands that in fact, the government and the landlord are even more gluttonous people who eat people and do not spit out bones.

The government wants tenants to pay all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, which add up to more than eighty percent, which is definitely forcing tenants to death. Therefore, some tenants will hang their land on tax-exempt scholars, Xiucai, and people, and hang it in the name of others, and of course they have to pay protection fees.

Asking tenants who rent land to hand over more than 60 percent of their grain is still a "conscience", and 70 percent of them are black-hearted, and less than 30 percent of the grain left for farming in a year is also better than those in the government.

When Zijian heard the other thieves complain, he scolded in his heart, such a high land rent can be borne by these people.

In Zijian's era, the state not to mention collecting rent, but also subsidizing farmers and uncles, but in the case of subsidies, there are still a large number of new generations who disdain this, and there are a few new generations who will farm land.

After hearing this, Zijian complained in his heart, it is really unreasonable for such a court not to die. Zijian doesn't know, there is a reason for this, after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the reading people are exempt from taxes, and the scholars must show their talents to be called readers, with the passage of time, the Ming Dynasty has been in the country for hundreds of years, there are more and more readers, and the tax-free group is getting bigger and bigger, and the taxes collected by the imperial court are less, so there is a showdown, but on the peasants, the peasants can only think of a way to deal with higher and higher land rents, what a way, is to attach their own land to the name of the tax-exempt person, so that the peasants do not have to pay taxes to the government, Of course, the peasants have to pay a part of the land rent to the people who are attached to it, and in this way, the wealth that originally belonged to the state flows into private wallets, and the key is that these people do not have to pay taxes, so a vicious circle is formed, because the land in the name of the court is less, but the taxes of the court can not be less, then the tax is increased to the peasants in the name of the court, and these farmers are not stupid, so they have attached the land out, and the land of the court is further reduced, and then another cycle.

Up to now, the taxes that the imperial court can collect are getting less and less, and finally the natural disaster strikes again, under the natural and man-made disasters, the peasants' land has not been harvested, and the government still requires taxes, what else can the peasants do, rise up and rebel! Li Zicheng and Zhang Zhaozhong started in this way, and no matter how the imperial court suppressed, they couldn't eliminate the anti-thieves, and if they eliminated one wave, there would be another wave of anti-thieves rebelling. The court and the thieves fought back and forth, and the final result was that there was no rooster crow for thousands of miles.

Zijian is not a historian, of course he doesn't know that a lot of wealth in the hands of landlords and merchants in the late Ming Dynasty was exempt from paying taxes, and the imperial court wanted to use money, so it could only be pinned on the commoners who farmed the land, and they all became commoners who farmed the land, and they could have a few dollars in their hands.

With such a poor ghost, the imperial court is still staring at it, and it wants to increase the intensity of taxation and exempt the landlords and merchant class from taxation on one side, and the truth is really not understood by Zijian, a person in the 21st century.

Zijian was half-asleep and half-awake, touching his shriveled stomach, there was nothing he could do, there were only two meals of gruel a day, a bowl of gruel without a few grains of rice, Zijian was collapsed when he saw it, such gruel in modern times not to mention that some people eat it, and don't take it to feed the dogs.

But there is no way, as a low-level thief, he can only drink such things, and after more than a month, Zijian can be said to be bored to walk.

In fact, the bandits here are all like this, maybe they are used to this kind of life, but for Zijian who used to have three meals a day, not enough to add supper, how to live such a day.

Today's weather is good, the owner of the village has no task, go down the mountain to rob, Zijian followed the leader, managing the second master of the five bandits, said to go to the mountain to see if he could find a little wild things, the second master agreed without saying anything.

These people are now bandits, but they used to be honest and responsible farming people, but now even if they are bandits, their nature is fine, Zijian said that he went out to find wild things and did not stop them.

If it turned out to be a hooligan, a bully, and a bandit, such a character would be terrible, Zijian dared to go out of the cottage like this, maybe he thought he wanted to be a deserter, and he was cut down with a knife, as an example of killing chickens and monkeys.

Although Zijian is a thief now, the owner of the village has not gone down to work these days, so he is still a rookie thief.

Zijian walked out of the cottage and took a broken knife that was sent down, it was really a broken knife, the blade was less than thirty centimeters, and the surface was covered with rust, but he was just a low-level thief, give him a weapon, and he still wanted Fang Tian to draw a halberd and dream.

Zijian walked in the deep mountains, feeling that he had walked less than five thousand meters, and he was too tired to walk, crossing through the forest, coupled with dense shrubs and wild grasses, Zijian knew why no thieves came in to hunt.

I had to take a break from the big trees that had been cleared, and the hot weather and the fact that I was walking through the forest made me feel dehydrated for a long time. I took out the bamboo tube hanging from my waist and drank half of it to feel better.

This bamboo tube is still made by Zijian himself, and the cottage also has water bags, and I don't know what it is made of, Zijian saw that those water bags were worn, and he didn't know how many people had used them, and he thought of being drunk by the thieves countless times with his mouth, so he gave up decisively.

Zijian Zijian found a bamboo with a larger diameter outside, cut a piece of wood as a stopper, and made a water cup.

Thinking of the alien who brought him to this era, Zi Jian hated him so much that he put him in the future era to see what the future looks like, at least in the future, science and technology will be developed, there will be no days when there is no food, what is it to leave him in this era.

Fight for hegemony in the world, be the emperor admired by thousands of people, hehe, dream, now Zijian is a thief who can't eat enough, I don't know when he was exterminated by the regular army.

Zijian didn't know what the specific situation was outside, but Zijian heard from other bandits that he was now Emperor Chongzhen, and he didn't know for how many years, and he knew if he thought about it, what news could you hear from the bandits, and it would be good to know who was the emperor now.

Zijian doesn't know much about history, but he also knows that this emperor buddy will hang himself on a crooked neck tree and become the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and then the Qing Dynasty will rule the Chinese nation for hundreds of years.

Alas! Zijian is helpless, although he is in this era now, but now, he can't eat enough, you let him save the people and save the country, it's all a fart.

Lao Tzu asked you to drink two bowls of gruel every day for a month, and then talked to you about the ideal of revitalizing the country, so that you would not be spit on your face when the time came.

Talking about ideals is the premise of having a full meal, and it is useless to say anything without this premise, at least Zijian does not have such ability.

Zijian remembered that he was thrown here by aliens like an ant, and he had no choice but to accept his fate, just like if you brought an ant from Hainan to the capital, would you ask the ant what he thought! Do you care about the opinion of the ants! Two words, no!

Now Zijian is in such a state, called every day.

The mountain wind is howling, the original hot feeling is blown by the wind and is a little cold, Zijian covered his face and was speechless, there is nothing wrong with the weather now, but when it comes to cooling down, what will be waiting for him, it is extremely poignant cold.

Alas, this day can't be lived! Zijian is incomparably desolate. I can't eat enough, I can't wear warm clothes, I live in a leaky shed, and now I can still bake a fire at night, and when it comes to rainy and cold days, Zijian can't imagine that there is a future for this day!