Chapter 25: A Cruel World

Hu Zhuang was the first to come to Fang Nan, and in the last few months of the second school year, He Yan, Zhou Yi, and Wang Shengrong came to Fang Nan and told Fang Nan about their idea of overthrowing the Ming Dynasty.

Like Hu Zhuang, Fang Nan used words to dispel their thoughts of preparing to put into action, it was good to have the idea of overthrowing the Ming Dynasty, Fang Nan also said his thoughts, and easily included the three of them in the team, but the three of them did not directly owe to Fang Nan like Hu Zhuang, but they all said words like "obey the teacher's orders".

For the time being, Fang Nan gave the same instructions to Hu Zhuang, He Yan, Zhou Yi, and Wang Shengrong, let the four of them study hard and arm themselves with knowledge, so that they can gather the strength of the people all over the world to defeat the powerful enemy of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Fang Nan knew that among his forty-two students, not only Hu Zhuang, He Yan, Zhou Yi, and Wang Shengrong had the idea of "overthrowing the Ming Dynasty", but the others hid their thoughts in their hearts and would not reveal them easily, and the idea of "overthrowing the Ming Dynasty" itself was very dangerous, even if they lived in the mountains far away from the outside world and were not under the jurisdiction of the imperial court, they could not say it at will.

It is also because the idea of "overthrowing the Ming Dynasty" is too dangerous, and there are very few people who dare to target this idea, Fang Nan does not believe that he can make them all have the idea of "overthrowing the Ming Dynasty" just by influencing students through some stories, which is unrealistic.

In addition, Fang Nan guessed that the people who had the idea of "overthrowing the Ming Dynasty" should be boys, and girls would hardly have such thoughts, in the Ming Dynasty, whether it was Qingshanzhai or the outside world, women were all vassals of men, the world was dominated by men, and one of the main tasks of women was to give birth to offspring.

Of course Fang Nan wouldn't think so, there are many positions that can be used by women, even if women can't hold official positions due to the limitations of this era for the time being, they can also serve as their husband's assistants and share some of the pressure, which is also one of the reasons why Fang Nan vigorously cultivated Hu Xiaoya.

When the limitations of the times are broken, it will not be a problem for women to enter the factory to work, or even hold official positions, which will require Fang Nan's efforts in the future.

The second year ends, and the third year arrives.

In the first year, Fang Nan only taught the students some basic knowledge, in the second year, Fang Nan told some stories of the peasant uprising to guide the students' thoughts, and in the third year, Fang Nan was the most important, and Fang Nan had to take all the students into the team.

Half a month after the start of the third year, in a general studies class, an old man from the village appeared on the podium, and the old man would tell the students about his life in the outside world.

"At that time, life was really tiring and tiring, getting up early every day and being greedy for darkness, even in the harvest year, the family could only barely fill their stomachs, and in the disaster year, they could only live a life of hunger and a full meal, and many acquaintances starved to death......

"At the beginning, our family had land, not much land, but it was enough for our family to live and eat a little meat during the New Year.

Unfortunately, after two consecutive years of drought, the fields failed to harvest, so in order to survive, they had to sell their fields to get food to survive.

But those hateful landlords have lowered the purchase price of the fields, but we have to sell the fields at a low price, and if we don't sell them, we will only starve to death......"

"Finally, the disaster year has passed, and there is no land, so we can only rent the landlord's land in order to survive.

Every year during the autumn harvest, the landlord takes away most of the harvested grain, leaving us with only a small amount of grain, which is not enough for the family to eat, and we have to do some other things in exchange for food on weekdays, so that the family can barely get enough food to live on......"

"Our family was pretty good, at that time our family had several acres of fertile land across the door, and their family was the richest family in our first class.

Unfortunately, not long after, a landlord took a fancy to their family's fertile land, forced him to buy and sell it, bought the land at a very low price, and severely injured the pillars of the family, and swallowed his breath in a few days.

The family went to sue the official, but they didn't expect that the landlord had acquaintances in the official mansion, and the person who sued the official was beaten half to death and locked up in prison for a long time on the charge of 'false accusation'......

The old man on the stage cried while talking, and the students in the audience cried while listening, the students have been living in the mountains, living in Qingshanzhai, a place where there is no shortage of food, even if they occasionally hear how cruel the outside world is, they can't clearly understand the situation of the outside world.

Most of the old people have passed away, and the remaining old people are very reluctant to recall the sad past, and it was at Fang Nan's request that the old people told the juniors about their difficult life in the outside world.

The students listened to the stories of the old people, and the students kept sketching a cruel world in their minds, and for the first time, they clearly understood that the life of ordinary people in the outside world was so difficult, and the government and landlords continued to oppress and exploit them, and it was not easy to struggle to survive.

At this time, many students are glad that they live in Qingshanzhai, compared with the outside world described by the old man, the life of Qingshanzhai is really happy, at least the people in Qingshanzhai can eat enough, occasionally eat a little meat and drink some broth, and there is no vicious landlord and government oppression and exploitation of them.

When the old man was telling the story, Fang Nan could see that some of the students sitting in the audience were gritting their teeth, which was hatred for the landlord and the government.

After the old man's story was finished, a student asked, "Grandpa, why didn't you rebel in the first place?" ”

"Rebellion? It is true that there are many people who can't survive to rebel, but the official army is too strong, killing so many rebels, we dare not rebel, we can only flee into this deep mountain, lucky to find such a good place. ”

The old man replied with some sadness that some of the people he knew had rebelled and been killed, and he did not dare to rebel, so he fled into the mountains to survive to this day, and it was already a happy thing to be alive.

There is still the old man's grandson in this school, and even if the old man dies now, he will die without regrets.

[Note: In the Ming Dynasty, there was no grass-roots organization of 'village', which was replaced by the Lijia system, and every 110 households were organized into 1 li, and the 10 households with the most grain served as the chief in turn, and when they did not serve as the lichang, they were the first head]