Chapter 337: The Suffering of the Tenants
"Your Majesty is too worried, if you let Cai Cong go to Goryeo at this time, the people of the world still think that you want to kill the heroes! The minister's meaning is to let him lead the army to garrison and stay until the spring flowers bloom in the opening of the Goryeo sentence, which consumes a lot of time. ”
Fang Xuanling hurriedly said, if Cai Cong was allowed to go to Pyongyang at this time, Li Shimin would think that he was taking the opportunity to kill his opponent!
"That's fine, so you can arrange it! Let Cai Cong set off in a month, lead 20,000 troops, and supply them all over the way as needed, and send Meng Baolai too! His henchmen can better protect him. ”
Li Shimin immediately said, Fang Xuanling and the others immediately bent down and said yes, and when they went out, Chu Suiliang immediately stopped Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng from leaving.
"You need to help with this! My face is not so big, so I will inevitably be beaten out when I come to the door, so you go with me. ”
Chu Suiliang said pitifully, the two of them had a chill, this bastard is a person in his early forties, and he still blinks.
"Let go, let me go, you will be beaten out, and the two of us will not be beaten out? Let go. Fang Xuanling shook off Chu Suiliang's hand, pulled back his clothes, and said angrily.
Aren't these scholars arrogant? There is no first! Now this is forcing the reader to bow his head and admit that it is not as good as Huanshan Academy, isn't this forcing people to death? They don't wade into troubled waters, and the Ministry of Rites carries the things they do.
"Hey, don't go! Give me a hand! Follow me to Old Man Yan and Master Li for help! Don't go! ”
The louder Chu Suiliang shouted, the faster the two of them walked, and the last trot disappeared in front of him.
The autumn harvest is a good season, which means that there will be food in the coming year, and there is no need to go hungry.
However, this year's harvest is not good, it is not that this year is bad, Zhenguan is better than one year, and there are always major disasters in other years.
Ma Zhou got up early, put on his imperial official uniform, squinted at the small bronze mirror and looked at it for a while, and after confirming that he had not lost his appearance, he pushed open his small firewood door and left the rented leaky courtyard.
There are seven imperial histories waiting for him outside the courtyard, all of them are young faces, with a resolute and resolute face, and the bad habits of officialdom have not yet smoothed out their water chestnut.
"Just go according to the separate path that was said yesterday, but Chang'an is a big place, but only the eight of us, it's a little difficult, you are tired and speed up!"
Ma Zhou has a high prestige in the small team, and after he finished saying the meaning of the sentence in unison, he turned over and got on the horse.
They are all old horses, and two of them are riding donkeys, and Ma Zhou is also riding a donkey, this is not his donkey, it is borrowed by the yamen, it is not easy for him to support himself with his little money, how can he have the money to raise a donkey.
Ma Zhou is going to the Chai family, Chai Shao's eldest son is also leading troops in the field all the year round, and Chang'an is a Chai Lingwu to watch the family, although there is no evil behavior, but he only asks about family affairs, and the housekeeper is in charge, and it is difficult to guarantee that no one will make a profit from it.
The speed of his donkey is not slow, and the sun has just stretched out from the ground when he walked to the Zhuangzi of the Chai family.
The Zhuangzi of the Chai family is very ordinary, it should not have been repaired for a long time, the corners of the wall are covered with moss, and Ma Zhou got off the donkey from a distance and walked step by step.
I heard of a princess who once lived here, and he came to respect this woman.
Zhuangzi lined up in this long line, and everyone looked numb, and the burden around them was full of food. A few men at the door spread a large piece of coarse cloth on the ground, and the butler sat in a chair behind the door, flipping through the book and calling names.
Every time he called someone, Ma Zhou could see some people with painful expressions, pick up their burdens and walk to the gate.
At this time, the subordinate asked him to put the burden on the cloth, kicked it violently, and the grain was left on the ground with a loud bang, and then someone picked it up and weighed it with a large scale.
The person who looked at the weight shouted highly, and the housekeeper would tick the booklet, and said with the shelf: "The third child, you are not enough, according to the regulations, you rent ten acres of land, and you are still two buckets away!" ”
"Master housekeeper, go back and get the little one, I can't pick it up just now." The third man hurriedly said, and the butler answered and stopped looking at him.
Ma Zhou didn't expect the Chai family to take care of the tenants so much, ten acres of land needed a full 300 catties of rent, and the third child was afraid that it was only 100 catties.
It's just that this year's harvest is not good, and it is reasonable to harvest less. It's just that collecting 100 catties can already be regarded as a benevolent man, why is this farmer's face so ugly?
Thinking of this, Ma Zhou didn't go over again, turned into the path, and walked towards the third child.
"Fellow, fellow stay!"
"I've seen the big man, what are the instructions of the big man to call the little one?" The third child looked back and saw that he was an official, and immediately said respectfully.
"Don't be so restrained, this official is sent by the imperial court to check the landlord's old wealth, whether there is a history of bullying our fellow villagers. Just in the distance, the official heard that you collected a hundred catties of rent for ten acres of land, which is very reasonable! Why is the fellow still so unhappy, don't you think it's better not to pay the rent? ”
Ma Zhou was also born in a poor family, and his words made the people listen to them very well, especially the words of the landlord and old wealth, which said that they went to their hearts.
"What do you know about the hairless mouth? He also applauded? Phew! As soon as the third child heard that it was the imperial history, he changed his attitude, despised him for a while, and then spat in the direction of Chaizhuang.
"This official is new here, and I don't know the Tao, so I ask my fellow countryman to explain my doubts." Ma Zhou said politely, who is afraid of the imperial history in the court, but the people are not afraid of them, in the eyes of the people, the rights of a servant are higher than the imperial history, and there is no him, because the imperial history can't control them.
"Then the old man will give you this official and say, lest you treat the bad guy as a good guy and harm us bitterly haha."
The third squatted on the side of the road as he spoke, letting the weeds block his figure before he spoke: "Housheng, I see that you should have just become an official, I don't know the Tao inside, do you think the big housekeeper is really a good person, and if the harvest is not good this year, he will receive half of the rent?" The old man told you, you think too much, he is charging this year's interest, this 120 catties is interest, and the old man will pay back 600 catties next year, do you really think others are good? He is called the living Hades in our place, and it is the rule to collect rent and kick the bucket, who have you ever seen who also kicks the bucket when collecting interest? O livestock! ”
The third child said that the spittle flew, Ma Zhou's smiling face froze, and two waves of anger were about to erupt from his eyes, didn't he want the lives of the people by doing this in the year of famine?
"What if next year's harvest isn't good? It's not going to make you owe it all the time, is it? ”
"Hmph, how can there be such a good thing, if you can't afford to pay it back next year, you should arrest someone. Do you know the Da Liang family next door to me? His house has not been rented for two years this year, and last night the big housekeeper had already sent someone to arrest his daughter and sell it in the kiln, causing evil! ”
I just came out of KTV, and my friend will be in Yunnan tomorrow, and I'm tired to death
(End of chapter)