This is not just a village, Li Xie only knew it when he walked out of this small mountain village. This is the inside of the bag, but all the things that are taken to the feed as tribute are not allowed to be taken home, so where do these things go?

Is it really just sitting there, putting it in stink, and throwing it away after it stinks? Li Xie felt that it was not like this, those so-called guards of the ancestral hall and those who guarded the temple really couldn't hold back their desires so much.

Back in the village, no matter how disgusted they were. Li Xie still has to participate in such activities every year.

On the 10th day of the new year, after visiting every household in the village. Following the casual snacks of the Volkswagen family, the time soon came to the evening.

Every family in the village gathered outside the ancestral hall with a large torch. The village chief respectfully invited the family tree from the ancestral hall.

A table of eight immortals was set up, and the only Taishi chair in the village was brought up.

Then, a literate person in the village who was found from outside from ten miles and eight towns began to show his might. They sat there in a big way, and then the brides began to come forward one by one to report their names, hand them their red envelopes, and ask the person to record their names on the family tree.

It is worth mentioning that when Li Xie began to learn words, Li Gui actually had this idea, since Li Xie was already literate, why not let him go up and write? Left and right, fertilizer and water don't flow into outsiders' fields, right?

And in this way, when you come to the village, you don't have to go outside every year to invite a scholar back.

However, Li Xie is unwilling to do such a thing, first, because Li Xie does not want to exploit these people. Don't look at the generosity given by these people when they give red envelopes, I'm afraid this is the family's savings for half a year.

And this thing is not to be given according to personal wishes, but to be given compulsorily in the village. The specific amount in each red envelope is negotiated in the village, and you have to give so much, even if you borrow it.

Li Xie is most unaccustomed to these, so how can he start? You said that if all these things are given voluntarily, then it is better to say, you are willing to do it, even if you give me all your net worth, I will accept it safely.

But as soon as such a mandatory requirement was added, Li Xie was a little disdainful. not only rejected Li Gui's request, but also scolded the village chief who knew the news and came to ask for help.

This scolding is not tight, it can be regarded as offending the people in the village. is so out of place and can't blend in with everyone, it's no wonder that the people in the village are all called two fools when they see Li Xie.

I originally thought that this show was just coming to see it, and there was nothing going on at home. But I don't want to, when the brides write their names one by one. Yixue pulled Cao Ying and walked up, and also handed over a red envelope.

This time Cao Ying was confused, and after reporting his name in a daze, he came back to see Li Xie with a confused face.

"Didn't you invite people from the village to eat last time? I told the village chief about this by the way, and the village chief agreed, so there is today's play. ”

Li Xie nodded and didn't say anything. Li Gui has raised himself for more than ten years, and that is his parents. Now that he is married to his family, it is natural for Cao Ying to go to the family tree.

This is just a small episode, after doing these tedious customs. The family returned to their home in the county again, and at this time, Li Xie's trip back to Luotianfu was almost on the agenda.

However, the family lives here, and Li Xie does not count the amount of money left behind, which is not safe. It's normal for someone to steal it, so it's certainly unreliable to leave the money.

As the saying goes, it is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish.

Li Xie directly found the county order and asked Li Tong for the identity of the administrator in the county office. Li Tong doesn't know a single word, so the position given to him is relatively simple, as long as he manages people.

It is enough to instruct others to clean, clean, and tidy things up every day, and he doesn't need to do it himself. There is also the previous one by his side to assist, and when he gets acquainted with it, it will become simple.

has Li Xie's identity there, as long as it should not be a generational change, I think it can be a lifelong career.

Then Li Xie bought the best restaurant in the small county. Let the people of the secret guard arrange for two people to go in and help manage it. Li Gui even has a career of his own, although this career is relatively simple, he goes there twice a day. But I still have a stable income.

After arranging these things, it was already the fifteenth day of New Year's Day, and after having the last reunion dinner at home, Li Xie and Cao Ying kowtowed to Li Gui and Yixue and set off.

Now the situation is not right, Li Xie's identity was exposed at this cusp again, and he originally thought that he would be targeted by the family in many ways.

At least sending one or two waves of people to assassinate Li Xie seems to have become very easy to understand. However, it did not develop as we Li Xie imagined. The three of them hurried all the way back, not even hiding their whereabouts, but no one came to chase and kill the three of them.

In fact, those families had already gotten the news that they were rushing back. I also really want to send someone to assassinate them, but I really don't have enough power.

was first assassinated by Jue Yan, and the highest-end combat power in the family, the grandmaster, was wiped out.

Originally, the people of the four major families, each family had a grandmaster-level figure in charge. But now they have all been cleaned up by Jue Yan, and as for the masters of the family who are so lower than the four great families, there are masters, but there are no grandmasters.

And because of the ambush of Juyan some time ago, those master-level masters were also tempted by money, borrowing what they could borrow, and digging what they could dig up. It can be said that the combined force of all the Luo Tianfu families is really not much, and they can only support them to protect themselves reluctantly, and it is far from enough to attack.

That's why the three of them were able to arrive at Luotianfu so safely and quickly.

When Li Xie came back, it was just in time for the outbreak of the battle between Li Zhanji and the family. Being able to catch up with this juncture is not about how quickly the three of them can hurry.

It's because Li Zhanji really underestimated the endurance of those families. Li Zhanji originally thought that when he completely eradicated the lonely family, the people of those families in the court would rise up to resist.

After all, there is a saying called "cold lips and cold teeth", the lonely family is one of the four great families, when it is completely eradicated, other families will definitely be worried that they are Li Zhanji's next target.

But what Li Zhanji never expected was that these people from the family could really endure it. The drought for most of the previous year continued to be hot, and anyone could have predicted that this year will definitely be a difficult time before the autumn harvest.

The family has nearly 30% of the business in the world, and nearly 40% of the land in the world. There are tens of millions of domestic farmers, so they are already aware of these things.

It is precisely because of this that they endured so much in order to wait for the current situation of food shortage, so as to threaten the imperial court.

What if the lonely family is destroyed?

As long as their plan can succeed, this period of threat can bring the imperial court to its knees. From now on, even if there are only three major families left in the world, they are still existences that can confront the imperial power.

As it turned out, they succeeded.

After a year, Li Xie finally returned to this Luotianfu after nearly two months of traveling. But what he saw was that the number of refugees outside the city had increased dramatically, and the number of people begging on the streets of the city was at least thirty percent higher than when he left here.

What is this concept? Ordinary people, even if they are hungry every day, as long as they can barely get by, they will not go to begging.

Now the number of people begging on both sides of the street has increased by nearly 30 percent, which shows that the food deficit in this city has reached an outrageous level.

Li Xie Guangguang can roughly estimate the situation in the city just by walking from the city, and there are certainly reasons why he has seen people in it. But it is not without circumstances, and it has indeed reached the point where a discerning person can see it at a glance.

Li Xie looked at it for a moment or two, and he still felt that it was very tricky. Li Zhanji sat in the palace, and the data was presented one by one. Looking at the situation that is getting worse every day, he also has a brain ache to watch.

Succumb?

This may be the way to go.

Li Zhanji clearly knew that those family hands must have food in them. But he never let go of the current market, waiting for his first head.

At the same time, Li Zhanji also knows very well that as long as his head is lowered, it is difficult to raise it. At the same time, it also means that those families have further controlled the world.

It's easy to bow your head for a while, it's just empty promises of some conditions. Even further, Li Zhanji even knew what conditions they proposed. It's nothing more than that the family's land and property are not taxed, and there are so many more places to be elected as officials. Give them a lot of publicity, let them establish a good image in the hearts of the people, and then give them a glorification of virtue.

But Li Zhanji clearly knows that as long as he opens his mouth and promises these conditions, it doesn't matter whether he gives them or not, the important thing is that people in the world will feel that these families already have this power in their hands.

If the fields are exempt from taxes, then those who are already poor in their families will increasingly join them and become their domestic farmers.

Give them one or two more official positions to be selected, it's nothing, anyway, it's just a matter of one sentence, and they can be recalled at any time. But it also means that they have more resources, making it more difficult for those poor people to get ahead.

After all, there are so many official positions, and if Jia Duo has to go to so many places, then the people born in commoners will have so many fewer places when they take the imperial examination.

After singing praises to them, their image is established, and in the minds of the people, they become great people. Then they exploit the people, and it becomes more severe and convenient.

It's a vicious circle, and once the opening is opened, it's like throwing a small snowball on the top of a mountain, and the snowball will get bigger and bigger. In the end, it was a sea change. This is something that Li Zhanji can't control, so he can't open this mouth.

Seeing that the people at the foot of the imperial city are becoming more and more difficult to live, this is still the case at the feet of the Son of Heaven, let alone those more remote and impoverished areas. Li Zhanji can even imagine that except for the other places under the feet of the Son of Heaven, I am afraid that the people have reached the point where they can be eaten.

If you promise the family, you will become a puppet, and if you don't promise the family, the country will be in chaos. Li Zhanji fell into a dilemma for a while.

At this time, Li Xie and his entourage came back. As a prince, after returning to this Luotian Mansion, of course, he had to come to meet Li Zhanji, the emperor, as soon as possible. This is the most basic courtesy, and it is also respect.

Of course, Li Xie is not exempt from vulgarity, so when he started a group of three, he entered the palace to face the saint.

When I came to ask for peace, Li Zhanji happened to be commenting on the recital, and I just ordered the people below to arrange two chairs, let the two of them sit aside, serve snacks, give them some food and drink, and then deal with it on their own.

The affairs of the country and the world are far more important than the love of children. Because being in charge of this world is not only a power, but also a responsibility.

After the two sat down, Li Xie was calm and calm, drinking tea by himself, and at the same time did not forget to look around. And Cao Ying stared at Li Zhanji directly, this is the third time Cao Ying has seen Li Zhanji, and it is also the second time to meet as a daughter-in-law.

At this time, Cao Ying was a little less apprehensive and a little more curious, she was very curious about the emperor who was high up on weekdays. What will it be like to sit in this imperial study and look at the world and be in charge of the overall situation.

Cao Ying, who was born in a family since she was a child, has been instilled by historians, and has not yet escaped from the theories of those piles of books, Cao Ying, who was born, has always believed that imperial power is supreme.

Therefore, Cao Ying is really full of curiosity about this supreme person in the world, who sits in the highest position in the world, and he is curious about how such a person can control this world?

After taking two more looks, Cao Ying found something that shocked her. When Li Zhanji read the recital, he would frown twice from time to time.

Li Zhanji is the most powerful person in the world, what will make him feel difficult and troubled?

Li Xie and Cao Ying sat there and waited quietly for nearly half an hour. Li Zhanji rubbed his head and put down the brush in his hand.

"What's so hard to do?" When Li Xie came in, he saluted, and only came to see the emperor with the etiquette of a common person, and when he opened his mouth at this time, he neither called people nor got up, and asked directly when he opened his mouth.

This is a very rude thing, not to mention that Li Zhanji is the emperor, even if he is in a family of ordinary people, talking to an elder, he can't be so rude.

"Yes, it's very difficult, nine paths, five of which have caused famine. The family obviously has food in their hands, but they refuse to let go and put it on the market. Li Zhanji didn't say anything about them forcing him, but he knew that with his son's smart head, he would definitely want to get this.

"Didn't those civil and military officials in the DPRK make any suggestions?" As if it was none of his business, Li Xie picked up the teacup and blew it gently, and asked slowly.

This is already the fifth cup of tea he has drunk, and although he has drunk it to the point of wanting to vomit, Li Xie is still pretending to hold the teacup.

Li Xie is not a person who loves tea, how could Li Zhanji not know about this point when he sent someone to secretly observe him? At this time, seeing that Li Xie was still elegantly holding the teacup and blowing it after drinking four cups of tea, he felt funny but not broken. He also wanted to see how many cups of tea his son could drink.

Seeing Li Xie take two sips and take a sip, put down the teacup, Li Zhanji glanced at the eunuch next to him, and motioned for him to add water to Li Xie while speaking:

"Now this is a dead end, what can be done? Calling them over is nothing more than an argument, and I don't bother to listen to them. ”

"We still have food in our own homes." Li Xie nodded, he also felt that with the theoretical knowledge and means of the current society, it seemed that there was indeed no feasible means in the face of such a situation.

"There are still some of them, but they are just a drop in the bucket in the face of the current situation." There are more than 3,000 people in Li Zhanji's palace, and of course there are private people who store grain in normal times.

It's just that the food he stored was only enough for a palace to eat for a year. Put this grain on the market, not to mention whether these people in the palace will go hungry. Even if this amount of grain is put on the market, it can only make a small splash, and it will not play any role.

"The imperial court should also have stored grain and grass."

"Yes, but these are military rations, and there are not many in storage. If it were to be distributed, the officers of the frontier would be hungry, and it would not be enough for the people of the whole country. ”

Perhaps because of the "qi", the rice in this world is not as low as he knew in the history books in his previous life.

It is no exaggeration to say that the current rice yield is even higher than that of the world before Li Xie.

Rice is like one of the many food crops that has awakened "qi". Yield, that's really not ordinarily high.

However, all the rice is now grown in the south. And because of geography and the country's capital, the south has always been considered a southern wilderness.

Although there is enough food because of the grain rice, the population has not been able to develop. The road is one thing, the mountains are heavy, the water is far away, and the forest is also one thing.

The combination of various factors makes it really difficult for the population there to develop.

And most of these populations, which are difficult to develop, are controlled by the family.