Of course, to the people in the city, whatever they say, they are just trembling.

Hu Sanqi was still very ignorant of what was happening, and he and a few clansmen could only circle around the store, eager for the court to raise soldiers and save their entire clan as soon as possible.

However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was such a paradox, the literati despised the generals, hoping that they would endure their inferior status, assume full responsibility, and fight to the death with a strong enemy without any command or sufficient food and equipment, just like the lowest-level minions in real-time strategy games will still obey orders to attack the enemy's heavily guarded bases.

But when they talk about the imperial court, they often threaten those tenants who are hungry and cold and forced to resist rent: If you fight against the lord and me, you will fight against the imperial court, and the court will send soldiers to crush you into powder!

That is to say, while not paying taxes to actually military generals, on the other hand, he has also built an army in his mind that can be recruited at any time, completely for his own drive!

This is excessive.

When it was evening, I went to see the master again, but the master didn't see it at all, and only heard that the county official was raising the "ransom tax" in the whole city, so he naturally collected it fiercely.

On the second day, the city gate was actually opened, and it seemed that there was nothing to do, and several uncles went to investigate the situation first, Hu Sanqi was young, and stayed in the city, waiting for news in the restaurant like ants on a hot pot.

Until noon, there was no news, and the shopkeeper with a face that was not yin or yang suddenly appeared, not at all like the smiling face he had a few days ago, but he didn't make his own move, but asked the guy who ran the hall to ask: "Young Master Hu, what kind of meal do you want to use at noon, I will tell the kitchen to prepare it for you." ”

Hu Sanqi was still ignorant, waved his hand and said, "Just follow the usual ones." ”

In fact, he didn't want to eat at this time, but he was just polite, but the mouth of the soup was very sharp: "The small shop is a small business, and it really can't stand the arrears, do you settle yesterday's account first." ”

Hu Sanqi was taken aback and said: "Where do I have this money, let's talk about it when my adults come." ”

The running hall smiled coldly and said: "It's not easy to say, against the imperial court, is the emperor easy to provoke, I think it's hanging, let's settle the bill first, Young Master Hu." ”

Hu Sanqi was forced to can't, but he had to settle yesterday's account, fortunately, he came to the county to bribe, and he also had broken silver from his mother, no one thought about it, just to buy some new things, recently a small commodity wholesale market somewhere in the imperial capital of Tofford, even a small place like Linyi has mirrors and all kinds of beautiful clothes and other good things.

Kill all the lepers who occupy the wasteland of the Hu family, and then naturally celebrate fiercely, it is appropriate to eat and drink a lot to worship ancestors, but now it seems that nothing can be done.

Hu Sanqi paid the bill, but he found that he only had a few taels of silver on him, and then bribed the county master, I don't know how much money it will cost, but he didn't dare to move anymore, thought about it, but he endured it and didn't eat lunch.

But in the evening, there was still no news, I went to the gate of the county office, and no one paid attention to it when I went to find someone to ask for help, and it seemed that no one paid attention to the pleading, which was not the scenery of the previous days at all.

This night was so difficult, Hu Sanqi's money was spent, and it was impossible to live in a shop with a family, but he didn't dare to leave here, for fear that his uncles would not find him when he came back.

It would be difficult to beg the shopkeeper again, and Hu Sanqi had nowhere to go, so he could only stay outside for one night.

This night can be said to be his lifelong torment, dare not sleep, Linyi is too close to the place of Yan Shenggong, naturally it is a place where literature gathers, attaches importance to the morale, and the corresponding people's days are naturally like hell, the beggars wandering around the street look at him from time to time, fortunately, he came to be vigilant, and came to wait for the uncle to come back, but he has always been at the door of the store, but the shopkeeper does not want to do things desperately, these landlords are ruthless, kill people without blinking, but they do not seem to deal with other people to drive people.

Of course, this was only for one night, and the next morning, it is estimated that the city gate had just been opened, and several of Hu Sanqi's uncles ran back, and the withered trees seemed to be dead, but they couldn't even cry.

Hu Sanqi hurriedly asked what happened, but several uncles couldn't even say anything, back and forth that people were arrested, Zhuangzi had been occupied, and the family didn't know where to go, they observed outside for a night, originally Hujiazhuang has become a thing of the past, and those people from the imperial capital who held long shotguns led to help those displaced people who opened up the wasteland to occupy Zhuangzi, which can be said to have been leveled.

"My father and my mother, what about them."

"How do I know this, I don't dare to go over, those guns are too vicious, they ......"

Hu Sanqi cried for a long time, but he followed his uncle to the county government to report to the official, hoping that the county lord would quickly raise the soldiers and seek justice for himself.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Confucian scholars of the Ming Dynasty in this year were indeed very similar to those gods, obviously they had no ability, but they felt that they were so good, first of all, they felt that no matter who won the country, they were noble scholars who were first-class people, and they could drive the lowly martial artists to sit on an equal footing with the king, and the second was that they felt that they were born with the power to evade taxes and commit adultery, and no one could touch them, and the third was that they had no obligation to endure each other and contribute to the country, but the country should worship itself as an ancestor.

In the eyes of the county lord, since these landlords have already occupied the land and the courtyard, it is equivalent to losing the use value, as for his obligation to protect the residents under his rule as a magistrate, what kind of bullshit is that?

In fact, this is a common thing for any power that is held by unproductive groups, and the big banker conglomerates in the United States in later generations are also developing in this direction, no matter how bad the situation in the country is, their interests must not be touched. Even if we cut relief money for the poor and food stamps, we would use tax dollars from the treasury to support Wall Street.

In contrast, even if it is the **** of the martial arts country, it is much stronger to do this way, at least it is to use swords and guns to plunder wealth from foreign countries, only from the perspective of the country, it can be regarded as a special form of development and production.

In this era, land is wealth, and this is tried in both the East and the West.

The gentry's main means of investment was to buy land, and in their eyes, only good land that could grow crops was the only stable and reliable property security. Or they would have minted gold or silver into a large ingot of hundreds of pounds each, and hid them in the cellar or secret room of the house, so that the thieves could not be dragged away even if they got in, and of course, if they encountered robbers, they would not be able to do anything.

According to the ideas of the gentry and landlords, buying land and collecting rent was the safest way to operate. In ancient Chinese society, land was always the most valuable property, and it did not require complex knowledge or a lot of effort to have a stable income. Even in the event of war, as long as the land deed is hidden, and the world is restored to peace before taking out the land deed, no matter whether there is a change of dynasty, the government will admit it, even if the tenants die in the war, it doesn't matter, as long as they recruit tenants again, anyway, there are many displaced people. (Of course, the premise is that the governor of the government will not have a brother-in-law who suddenly takes a fancy to your land)

Although the agricultural capitalist who runs the farm may be able to make more profits, after all, it is troublesome and energy-consuming, and there is also the risk of business failure and bankruptcy and loss of capital. How can it be so easy to release land to collect rent and transfer all risks to tenants? Just like in modern society, if someone inherits a company to do business, it is definitely much more difficult and risky than inheriting a house to collect rent.

But there is a premise of this easy way of living, that is, it is necessary to let the tenants in the world only honestly farm for the landlord is the only way out. If the lowliest tenants have a better way to live, live a harmonious and beautiful life, and drink and eat meat all day long, can they still make cattle and horses for the landlords with peace of mind? Even if they still grow crops for the lords, they themselves have to eat a large part of it, and they can still have surplus grain to hand over to the landlord?

To put it simply, for the landlords under the tenant system, in order to ensure the cheapness of labor, if the poor mud legs live too well, it is an unforgivable sin, so whether it is capitalism or socialism, if we want to develop the economy and achieve industrialization, we must eliminate the landlord class, so as to release a large number of rural labor forces who are bound to the land.

In the same way, even in order to maintain this extremely cruel exploitation system, the landlords and old wealth have to make most of the world's poor people struggle on the death line, and they have to drum up a set of theories to justify themselves to support their own ingenuity and cruel exploitation. Such a long-term and persistent reversal of black and white, over time, has created an extremely deformed social concept, and the words "people will cannibalize" have been created, which is naturally unforgettable for the refugees in hell. But for the official eunuchs and gentry, it is just four words, no different from "moral degradation" and "bad customs", compared to the "why not eat minced meat" Emperor Jin Hui, they may have a little more common sense, knowing that meat is more valuable than bran.

What if the hungry people are dying of hunger? Abide by the teachings of the saints, starvation is a small matter, and a loss of festival is a big matter, so you should do "peace and starvation".

The thieves in the imperial capital let the hungry people who were dying of hunger eat? It's just a small favor, how can we have a great kindness to educate the people? Since you can't support yourself, you should follow the teachings of the saints and die with peace of mind, how can you shamelessly commit yourself to the thief? is really without a king and a father, let the ancestors be disgraced, and the sin deserves death! Although you have never read a book, you must not eat Zhou Huang like Boyi and Shuqi and starve to death in Shouyang Mountain, so you can be called backbone.

The scholars of the Ming Dynasty always liked to use the standards of saints to demand others, but at the same time they were only willing to enjoy the treatment of saints, because in their cognition, the world should revolve around them, and if something violates this cognition, it means that this thing should not exist.

Of course, there is no harmony among the landlords, and it is not impossible for a landlord who has no backer or has lost his backer to find out that his land belongs to someone else in the archives of the government, and then the whole family has become a slave.

It is almost common to have a fixed armed struggle every year to seize water and land, which is an opportunity to compete for interests and take advantage of the patriarch to seize power, so naturally some people are enthusiastic about it.

Therefore, people do not have any thoughts of class brotherhood, and they are completely naked annexation and robbery.

The Hu family was originally regarded as a tyrant in Linyi, with a large population and strong strength, and they also relied on dedicating the young daughter of the family to the dozens of years old Yan Shenggong to play, and got a post, so they can claim to be the outer line of the Yan Sheng family, which is naturally even more fierce, which is why they can directly exterminate those displaced people who returned to Linyi to occupy the fields.

But now after being unlucky, no one is willing to admit it, the master doesn't meet, the county order is not accepted at all, and no one even writes a letter to complain.

"You wait, I'll go to Qufu to complain! I'm going to sue the royal court! ”

After listening to the drama a lot, the people have grievances and grievances, and they always have to sue the royal court, and there is always someone who can solve them.

But the next moment, a strong man at the door said casually, and all arrogance was dispelled, "People are from the imperial capital." ”

The people of the Hu family just woke up, who did they provoke, God is pitiful, why did the characters from the imperial capital stay in the house of that group of useless homeless people, even if they came to the Hu family, they still had to be treated desperately?

Hu Sanqi had no idea, in fact, several uncles or something, and when the martial arts team raided the night before, it was not that there were no people who escaped, and there were a few people gathered in the county seat.

They gossiped, some said that they were going to the imperial capital to sue the emperor, but the little people in the local area didn't even know where the imperial capital was, and after arguing for a long time, they found out that it was time to eat, and everyone had been hungry for a few days.

Suddenly, someone had an idea, saying that they were going to the Yansheng Mansion to shout grievances, this idea was not bad, but the clan sent a seven or eight-year-old daughter to the mansion as a slave, such a big face, it is not to be rewarded.

Here, the money in Hu Sanqi's hands became fragrant buns, although Hu Sanqi said in every possible way that he still had to use the money to find a way to bribe the army and save his parents, but those uncles yelled a few times and snatched them directly.

Hu Sanqi wanted to ask what he should do, but he was directly pushed away by his uncle and left by himself.

There is no other way, Hu Sanqi has been wandering around the city for a long time, but there is no way out, but for now, he can only go out of the city.

He walked back to his Zhuangzi step by step, but he only dared to look at it from a distance, and the brightly lit appearance was with infinite hatred, looking at the enemies who occupied his home in the distance.

I cried for a long time, and then I slept in the wilderness, until I heard a loud noise, and I was woken up, it was the sound of gunshots!

And it's a continuous stream of gunfire!

Hu Sanqi was woken up like this.

(End of chapter)