Chapter 238. Hard steel in the end?
Even before this natural and man-made disaster, Xiao Wuzi had never eaten such a sumptuous meal, a meaty big yellow croaker roasted with fat flowed, exuding a rich aroma, and the scones with pork filling also stimulated his saliva every minute and second, and there were even two bowls of rice from Jiangnan, which he had never heard of before.
It's just that he drooled, he didn't dare to put down his chopsticks, he carefully shrunk in the corner of a stool, looking at Liu Zhuzi's gloomy and even murderous face, Xiao Wuzi held back for a long time, and cautiously persuaded again.
"Brother Zhuzi, you mourn! It's all the dog's government forcing trouble, this ...... There's no way around it......"
"Nope! It has nothing to do with the government! ”
Under Ah Wu's incredible gaze, shaking his head, Liu Zhuzi actually defended the government, these years the common people speak for the government, it is no less strange than a rooster laying eggs, and Liu Zhuzi's father has just hanged himself because of forced salary!
Looking at Ah Wu's stunned expression, a pair of pupils full of hatred, Liu Zhuzi said gloomily: "I can't tell you specifically, but I have read the grain requisition order issued by the state pastor, and it is clearly written in the requisition order that only the land will be collected and not the Dingkou, who has the land to collect whose grain, Ah Wu, can our two families have an acre of land in the village?" ”
Ah Wu, who heard this, couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and after being stupid for a moment, he exclaimed again: "So, it's Master Liu's ......."
"That's right! The surname Liu has passed on all the taxes that should have been collected from his family to our tenant farmers! Damn it! Every household pays rent in the autumn and pays sixty percent of his crops, and his family's 80,000 acres of land has collected 100,000 stone grain in one autumn, but he refuses to take out even a thousand stone grains, and he has to intensify his efforts to scrape ours! His surname Liu didn't even think about leaving a way for us tenants to live! ”
The fist clenched, Liu Zhuzi gritted his teeth and roared, but Ah Wu, who listened to it, was full of helplessness, even if he knew? Isn't that the way of the world these days? Master Liu is rich and powerful, and there are still people in the government, what can they do?
But in the next second, Ah Wu's heart couldn't help but pound violently, and his eyes stared at him like a knife, but Liu Zhuzi's voice was a little lowered, and he asked in a low voice.
"Ah Wu, our brothers are fellow villagers, they grew up together with bare buttocks, brother, I have a job here, I won't tell you, it's very dangerous! There may be a crisis of losing your head at any time, and you can't tell anyone, not even your own father! However, if you join the house, you can immediately give your family 20 acres of fertile land, a house, as well as seeds and farm tools and enough grain for your family to eat the autumn harvest, all of which are recognized by the government. ”
Ah Wu's heart contracted violently unconsciously, although twenty acres of fertile land was not considered a landlord, it was also at the level of a yeoman farmer, and for tenants like them who had eaten the last meal but not the next meal, it was simply something they could not dream of! This is no longer a reckless 200% benefit, this is a lottery jackpot, and he almost didn't even think about it.
"Medium! Brother, what do you say, I'll do it! ”
"Then hurry up and eat now, and you will come with me later!" When you get to the place, you can listen to what people say, remember, what you hear is rotten in your stomach, you can't say it to anyone, not even your own father, if you didn't tell me! I can't say either! ”
It's rare to have a hearty lunch full of meat, but Ah Wu didn't taste anything, gobbled up a bowl of rice on this dried fish, and reluctantly wrapped the remaining fish and meat patties in straw, and he couldn't wait to urge Liu Zhuzi to hurry up and see what work.
When he came to Linzi, except for the first day to accept the surrender of the landlords of the Shi clan, Wang Hou never entered the city, but next to the military tun on the edge of Linzi City, he continued to burn bricks and transport steel bars in the deep hatred of the Shi clan under his command, and built a square cement building that made Jia Xu Dan hurt.
The regular army is stationed in the military fort, and their miscellaneous soldiers who work live in these shacks that are hurriedly built with bricks, and the Datong paves a layer of straw that is where people live, and follows Brother Zhuzi in, these auxiliaries are also busy building houses with cement, and some are pushing wheelbarrows with sand and gravel to transport them to the first work point to build roads.
However, with him around, the pillar took him to the innermost two-story building, which looked particularly inconspicuous, and when he raised his head, a few of them looked very simple, but unfortunately Ah Wu still didn't know a word of the big black-on-gold signboard that caught his eye.
"Look, this is called the Statistical Survey Bureau of the Military Commission! Eh, I don't know what it means, anyway, it's a very awesome yamen! ”
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When the two little people were running for a living, Wang Hou, a big man, was actually running for a living, not far from the military fort, on the big table in the office yamen, a vegetable planted in a flower pot, like a radish was placed there, and Wang Hou himself was also looking at it with the same wilting.
He wants sugar, and growing sugar cane in the north to squeeze sugar is tantamount to a fool's dream! So he set his sights on the beets.
But the beets he cultivated in the greenhouse really don't grow well!
And even as he mourned the beets, there was a swarm of flies buzzing around the side.
"State pastor, you can't levy it anymore! The number of people in Anxin County who have broken their homes has reached seven or eight out of ten, and there was also a riot in Anyuan, and the magistrate of Xincheng wrote a letter, and there were hundreds of hanged suicides in the territory! If it goes on like this, it is the government that forces the people to rebel! ”
With a face full of worries about the country and the people, Tian Rang patted his thigh there in pain, and followed behind him, and the thirty-odd Linzi Haoshi also sighed and followed to help.
"Yes! State pastor, I can't live anymore! ”
"State pastor, be considerate and considerate of the small people of Dousheng!"
If this scene is put in a TV series, it is definitely a group of positive characters asking for the lives of corrupt officials for the people!
And Wang Hou is really like a big corrupt official, he didn't even turn his head, he still looked at his beets weakly, and muttered lazily.
"Eight million acres of land in the account book of Qidi, and this official will not be able to survive if he receives such a small amount of food?"
"It's all illegal people who resist the government, don't worry about them! The counties are still mainly based on grain collection, and the official can introduce more than 50 Langya scholars, and those who can't do it should go home to farm as soon as possible, and exchange for those who have the ability! ”
"State pastor, if you continue to levy like this, the people will really rebel!"
"Then let them come! The 60,000 elite soldiers in the hands of this official are worried that there is nowhere to make meritorious contributions! Dare to fight back and kill them all! You don't have to say more, go down! ”
A group of sub-gate valves, you look at me, I look at you, all of them look at each other, the local scholars are best at manipulating public opinion, if the counties under the governance are on fire, the villages are smoking, and the large groups of displaced people are running around, if it is a normal state official, the throat of this fire will be swollen!
They couldn't have imagined that Wang Hou was not a normal state official, he was actually tough to such an extent, that is, he didn't eat this set, and would rather force the small people to rebel than continue to urge food.
I wanted to continue to say something, but Zang Hong had already walked over with a few personal soldiers, and in desperation, Tian Rang had to walk out of the yamen with those wealthy families.
"Tian Weng! It's really not good, open a warehouse and put some grain! It's okay if these mud-legged people starve to death, but it's about to start spring ploughing! ”
This kind of exhaustion and fishing is also harmful to the chieftains of the wealthy clan, if the tenants escape, who will plow the fields? If there is land and no one cultivates it, what is the use of the land being barren! Seeing that they were about to get into the carriage, they couldn't help it, and Liu Hu, the patriarch of Le'an's clan, pulled an old face, and sadly pulled Tian Rang's sleeve and invited.
But Tian Rang, who listened to it, was full of cruelty and shook his head heavily.
"I don't care about these tens of thousands of stone grain! But this month's monthly grain collection has softened, won't we have to let the group of thieves surnamed Wang and Langya ride on our heads to and pee in the future? ”
The rich and vicious color was revealed on his face that seemed to be old and kind, and Tian Rang laughed with incomparably vicious cruelty.
"Didn't the person surnamed Wang replace the county official of Le'an with someone from the Langya Wang family? Let's take this Le'an to open the knife! After all, there will be some blood! This surnamed Wang knows that it is amazing! ”
"Tian Weng said it is very true!"
Listening to his murderous words, more than a dozen local tyrants next to him also nodded down together, and their faces flashed with extremely vicious and hideous looks, looking from afar, they looked like a group of powerful ghosts. Take a hundred plating and read the latest chapter of "Follow Mr. Cao and the Three Kingdoms Claw Book House" for free for the first time.