Chapter 147: Conflict?
Early the next morning, Zhangjiazhuang.
"Cousin, what to do with this beggar?" Zhang Chengen looked at a shabby man in shabby clothes leaning against the corner basking in the sun in disgust, and smiled disdainfully.
"Let him be!" Wu Jinlai sneered, pointed at the man and shouted: "Hey, the master doesn't have any free food here, since he has lived here for so long, now hurry up and go to the mill to process it!"
The young man who looked like a beggar just touched his head and smiled innocently: "Okay master, the little one will go, don't bother with it!"
Then the beggar got up and went to the mill.
No one noticed the glint in his eyes.
"Hurry up, you!" Zhang Chengen was irritable, and kicked the man in the back with one leg, wanting to vent the hardships he had endured in the past two years on that man.
Unexpectedly, the man only turned to one side slightly, and dodged his sneak attack.
Wu Jinlai stopped Zhang Chengen, who wanted to do it again, and shouted in a low voice: "Fool, don't you surrender your identity when you deal with this kind of person!"
Zhang Chengen had no choice but to follow Wu Jinlai to the road outside the farm.
Today is the day when Dong Ping and his people come to the counties and villages every year to inspect the villages, and all the peasants have already rushed to the scene.
Although Dong Ping has repeatedly stressed that the people should not gather around the roadside, the heartfelt emotion of these peasants cannot be eliminated.
However, today's Yuncheng Zhangjiazhuang is bound to have an earth-shattering conspiracy.
"Folks, let me go!" Liu Yun jumped off his horse, walked in front, smiled and shouted loudly.
"We are here today to see if everyone's grain harvest and government subsidies have been implemented, if we are too enthusiastic, we will not be able to enter!"
The crowd of onlookers laughed when they saw that Dong Ping was so cordial and did not have the slightest official pretension.
Dong Ping also jumped off his horse and smiled and waved at the thousands of farmers nearby.
Everyone looked at it again, Dong Ping actually only brought Liu Yun and Pei Xuan over!
Some old men suddenly felt that their eyes were a little moist, and they couldn't help but wipe their eyes.
In the past, when Cheng Wanli was in office, every time he said it nicely, he went to the countryside to observe the people's feelings.
To put it mildly, it is a large number of devils entering the village.
In particular, when the bandits were suppressed, hundreds of people rushed into the village to sweep away the few chickens, ducks and geese, and it was impossible to distinguish who was the official and who was the bandit!
In terms of taxation, Cheng Wanli is even more inhumane to the people of his subordinate counties and villages, and seventy percent of the annual grain must be handed over, which is also called "the rich tax at that time"!
Of course, this rule has been in place for a hundred years, and it is not a new invention of Cheng Wanli.
What does it mean, that is, if you pay the money first, the government will use it for everyone in other aspects, and slowly become rich.
These old people thought so at first, but as they went from running around the ground to gray-bearded old men, Taishou changed several times, and naturally no one believed these nonsense anymore!
That's it, the remaining thirty percent, the landlord has to take away most of it, and the rest can only guarantee a maximum of one gruel a day!
Usually, they can only dig wild vegetables and eat tree roots, and the grain of the landlord's family is piled up in the barn!
Compared with the people in the city, it is even more heaven and earth, and those most ordinary people have dozens of times higher incomes than farmers, and it is not a problem to feed their families!
At that time, the crowd was excited, and it was Dong Ping who came forward to save the lives of these landlords.
As a result, in the past two years, these uneducated mud legs have been used as guns by big landlords such as Wu Jinlai and Zhang Chengen!
At this time, Wu Jinlai and Zhang Chengen were crowded at the back of the crowd, looking at the more than 300 young men with hoes and sickles mixed in the crowd nearby, but there was a sneer on the corner of their mouths.
These mud legs, just find a reason, you can fool over and be a gunman! Wu Jinlai laughed secretly in his heart, Dong Ping, Dongping, you have calculated everything, but you never thought that you would die of your own woman's kindness!
Dong Ping walked to the vicinity of the farmland, saw that the golden wheat in October had been harvested, bundled into a pile and piled on the ridges, and nodded with a smile.
However, the fields on the right are empty.
"What's going on?"
Dong Ping raised his hand and pointed to the field, and asked the people behind him, "Fellow villagers, where is the grain on that field?"
"With such a thief here, those crops are probably scared and run away!"
"Who is it?!!
Liu Yun was irritable and shouted to the rear.
"It's Lao Tzu who said it, how is it?"
A young man squeezed out with a hoe, staring at Liu Yun coldly.
"What, it's not big or small? Didn't your father teach you? Liu Yun sneered.
"You want to do it, don't you?" The young man laughed: "Brothers, come out!"
With a loud shout, hundreds of young men with hoes and sickles poured out together, staring at Dong Ping and the three of them fiercely, and surrounded them to death.
Seeing that Liu Yun was still angry, Dong Ping waved his hand and motioned for him to retreat first.
"Brothers." Although Dong Ping's voice was low, the more than 1,000 people present could hear it clearly.
"Don't listen to the villain's slander, I believe you all know what kind of person I Dong Ping is."
Dong Ping glanced at everyone, and said in a calm tone: "If anyone is obsessed again, you might as well ask your conscience and the law if you can do this!"
"Dong Ping, don't you pour us ecstasy soup here!" A leading young man squeezed out of the crowd, pointed at him and scolded: "Do you want us to give your ambition to death and rebel!"
"What, to rebel?" The nearby peasants were agitated.
"Everyone, be still!" Pei Xuan stepped forward, waved his hand at everyone, and said, "You might as well tell me, where did you hear these words?"
"yes!" Liu Yun also shouted loudly: "The governor has always obeyed the laws of the imperial court, how can it be like what you say!"
"Hey, everyone, be quiet!" Wu Jinlai and Zhang Chengen also squeezed in, and said with a smile: "Fellow villagers, I think it's better to listen to the governor."
Everyone was a little quieter, Dong Ping's complexion sank, and he said loudly: "Everyone, I, Dong Ping, can swear here that I will never sacrifice anyone for my own interests!"
The leading young man just snorted coldly: "How do you explain that you have changed the Great Song Dynasty system on a large scale in the city, and put our peasant children at the forefront of every expedition?"
"Hehe, Lord Governor, I really didn't expect that!" Wu Jinlai sneered again and again: "You actually want to be a traitor, no wonder the villagers are so disappointed!"
"That's it!"
Zhang Chengen shouted: "We are living a good life, why should we give up our lives in vain in the Taiping World!"
In an instant, in this frenzied atmosphere, almost everyone became emotional!
"Give an explanation, give an explanation!"
"We want to live, not die!"
Liu Yun saw that Dong Ping had been gloomy and didn't speak, and his brows were twisted into a line, and he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Wu Jinlai, you two brutes are really good at it, say, did you incite the people today!"
He knew in his heart that the last time he dealt with Gaotang Prefecture was fortunately a surrendered bandit soldier, otherwise, with the temper of these people, I am afraid that today it would be even bigger!
Of course, the 20,000 horses and horses placed in Liangshan were all bandits and displaced people recruited from various places, but there were no local people.
However, it is not this that worries Liu Yun.
The loyalty of these people to the Song Dynasty made Liu Yun's heart extremely shocked.
Although Dong Ping helped them get rich, they still had their hearts set on the Song Dynasty, and whenever a villain provoked them, even if there was a little sign of it, they would rise up and rebel!
Wang Mang back then, didn't he also deal with the loyal ministers of the Han family, underestimated the huge appeal of those people among the people, and finally ended up as a thief and died tragically.
Strategist, it seems that it is not so easy to unify the world! Liu Yun sighed a few times in his heart.
If there is no reasonable reason, these people who live a stable life are not like those outcasts, who will not follow you to rebel honestly!
Wu Jinlai just sneered: "I haven't done anything, it's just that people are watching the sky, you are just doing your own evil!"
"It seems that I should have persuaded my eldest brother to kill you and Wu Yi together!" Liu Yun shouted fiercely with fierce eyes: "To deal with a beast like you, there is no need to talk about any laws!"
"Shut up!"
Dong Ping's voice quieted everyone, and the eyes of thousands of people instantly focused on him.
At this moment, the young man who looked like a beggar next to him also came out of the mill, leaned against the wall, and looked at the chaos in front of him with a smile on his face.
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