"The horses of the two dead ghosts were left behind and confiscated by the Yongle Army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Gao Fangping said very obscenely.

"You!" The Jurchen warrior, who had already disarmed and dismounted, was finally annoyed and glared angrily.

"It's useless to look at me, Lao Tzu just killed them on the grounds of the enemy's invasion, damn it, since it is to kill the enemy, their war horses are the spoils of the Yongle Army. Don't pretend to be pure for Lao Tzu, this is the rule of the battlefield, you Jurchens know better than anyone else. I'll count to three, don't push me to shoot again. Gao Fangping said coldly.

"Hooligans, scum, bandits, robbers!"

After some mental curses, the pigtail left two horses behind, stamped his feet and ran away. It is said that the road is very long, and it takes a long time to walk, because the city of Sotou is really large.

This is almost equivalent to declaring war on the Zeng family, the county lieutenant trembled a little, and said in a low voice: "Xianggong, since we have reached this point, I should not rush in, go back to the county seat to do a good job of security work, in case of changes, and then bring the whole army of Yongle Army, let's talk again?" ”

"The county lieutenant is thinking too much. Zeng Lane was a businessman, not a soldier. They are the people, and even if they have a size of nearly 1,000 people, most of them are Han Chinese, and they are all people rather than an army. The full cavalry lineup of the Hutou Battalion, 250 people, is enough to defeat 3,000 militiamen and 5,000 farmers. The advantage of having fewer people and fewer people can see more clearly what kind of people they are, otherwise if an army of one million comes in, even if they are devils who absorb bone marrow, they will pretend to be better than their grandsons, and the officials are not in vain, and they can't see their hearts. If someone dares to use force, of course, it is better, it is not difficult for me to break through on horseback, and finally make an appointment with someone to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots. This official is also worried that the Yongle Army does not have enough horses and money. I'm worried that no one will come out to jump. Gao Fangping smiled and waved his hand and said, "All of them, follow this official to inspect the Yongle Army." ”

After entering, walking slowly all the way, Gao Fangping frowned, it was an honor to have just killed two people, because they were really powerful bandits. In the so-called city of Zengtou, large tracts of farmland have been destroyed.

Many of them are actually arable land in Gao Fangping's eyes, the lifeblood of farmers, but now they have been abandoned and used as pasture for them to raise horses.

Horse breeding is important, but it must not go so far as to trample on the red line of arable land. After coming in, Gao Fangping also realized that the reason why Zengtou City was arrogant was actually because Zeng Lane thought that Yuncheng County couldn't manage him.

In the words of later generations, Zeng Lane is a shell attached to the central enterprise "Ma Zhengsi".

Yes, when he saw the flags of Zengtou City hanging in some places, and there were also signs of "Ma Zhengsi of the Great Song Dynasty" on the flags, Gao Fangping also realized a lot of truths. Why can this place become bigger, why the previous generations, including Shi Wenbin, have no way to take Zengtou City.

In addition to the fact that their Jurchens were at war with the Liao and were invisible allies of the Great Song Dynasty, Ma Zheng was also an independent institution directly under the imperial court and was not subject to the control of Yuncheng County.

Thinking of the county lieutenant and Wang Qinfei, who were so afraid of Zengtou City, Gao Fangping suddenly asked: "County lieutenant, in my impression, it is mentioned in the preserved documents that it seems that two county lords in Yuncheng died of assassination?" ”

"There is this thing, the age is a little older, at that time I was still a child, and the inside story is not very clear. In the end, it was all gone. The county lieutenant said casually.

"You just tell me that they like the Jurchens?" Gao Fangping said curiously.

The county lieutenant shook his head and said: "I definitely don't like it, during that period, my Great Song Dynasty had a lot of wars with foreign races, but all barbarians were very unpopular." ”

Gao Fangping nodded, not to say more, from a distance, there was a village-like place in front of him, the scale was not large, but there were also some simple wooden city walls, similar to the prison camp in Mengzhou.

Duan Jinzhu leaned in and said: "My lord, that is the so-called rich village of the so-called joint defense of Qizhai in Zengtou City." ”

“？” Gao Fangping is speechless, he won't be a descendant of Fubi, a distant relative of Fu'an, right?

Riding past the horse, although this small village has a city gate, it is not closed.

Because they saw that it was the honor guard of the county government that came, they were Han natives here, not Jurchens. So the way they treat the official frame is completely different, a little scared, most of them are respectful, the village chief also came out to greet him, hugged his fists and said: "But the military minister came to inspect." ”

After a few words, they walked into the village together.

The scale here is not large, it seems that there are at most 200 people, and women, children and the elderly account for the majority, and as for the young and middle-aged people, of course, they have entered the Zeng family to work.

Of course, it is impossible for all people to live in the county, in fact, there are many such situations in the Great Song Dynasty, and many villages stationed in the wilderness have to guard the fertile fields of their ancestors for generations to live, and they cannot leave. Then, limited to the harsh environment of ancient times, in order to resist risks, villages were formed, and there would also be some militias.

Then there were too many bandits limited to the Great Song Dynasty, so the so-called concept of "joint defense of several villages and joint defense of several villages" was very common. For example, when Liangshan fought Zhujiazhuang, they were the so-called Sanzhai joint defense.

From here, the county magistrate of Yuncheng is more like Zeng Lane than Gao Fangping, the so-called seven villages in Zengtou City, in fact, are all branches in this Han village within a radius of 100 miles, but because of the cowardice and elegance of the Han people, after a long time, slowly the seven villages were conquered and included in Zengtou City, forming the so-called Qizhai joint defense. In fact, it is the slave of the Zeng family.

Damn, as a Jurchen, dare to disarm the Yongle Army in the land of the Song people, Gao Fangping couldn't cry or laugh at this, can you expect them to be merciful to the people around them?

The land that was originally fertile land and is now pasture has of course been robbed, or perhaps it is ...... Forcibly leased to breed horses is a more civilized way of saying it.

"Zengtou City has never been taken seriously, why did the old man come to inspect this time?" The old village chief's name was Fu Ling, and he asked curiously.

Gao Fangping stopped and said: "This is a rich village, the surname is rich but not Zeng, don't insult this surname." ”

Fu Ling paused, stopped talking a little, and finally sighed and stopped talking.

Passing by a yard, a few children were playing at home, which reminded Gao Fangping of the egg pain when he was a child.

Seeing that Gao Fangping stopped, the old man Fuling ordered the children to come out and said, "Come and meet the county master." ”

The children ran out and knelt down and kowtowed, "Meet the county master, do you know when Daddy and Auntie will come back?" ”

Gao Fangping shook his head and said, "I don't know, tell me first, where did they go." ”

"They don't go home often, and they're doing things for the rich man Zeng." A little boy stuttered clearly.

Gao Fangping knocked him a chestnut: "Your lord is my Gao Fangping, not Zeng Rong, Zeng Lang is an expatriate, he has a few dollars but it will not be as much as me." First-class Han, second-class Hu, third-class Japanese and fourth-class barbarians. This is Lao Tzu's new compilation of smooth slips, remember to memorize it. In the Great Song Dynasty, you are pariahs compared to those surnamed Zhao, but you are first-class subjects among the commoners, this is not the tone set by Lao Tzu, the group of corrupt Confucians of the school of science is also set in this way, and the emperor is also in this tone. Boy, you have to keep that in mind all the time. ”

The little boy covered his head and said embarrassedly: "Khan, the kid knows, it's just that my grandmother, grandfather, and little sister have to eat, so Daddy and they have to do things to work, and grandpa said that only labor can eat." ”

"Good boy, I see that you have a wonderful bones, but anyone who knows how to work to eat is a good citizen, and there are still vacancies in the juvenile school in Yuncheng, are you willing to go and study?" Gao Fangping said with a smile.

"The kid also heard about the juvenile school in Yuncheng, I heard that you can read, you can learn skills, and you can also learn the skills of fighting, but the children of the tenants of the county government are eligible, otherwise Daddy would have signed up a long time ago. The boy really wants to study, I heard that the food is good. The little boy said.

"The food is okay, it used to be limited to funding and the initial stage of running the school, and the degree of accommodation was limited, but the scale is always expanding. can be in the dignitaries. Gao Fangping said.

"We're going too, so take us." When the other children heard this, they also ran around them.

In this way, the rules of the county government cannot be abolished, and only tenants are eligible. If your family has good land and sells it to the county government, and then the county government hires your father and aunt, of course you are the children of tenants. Gao Fangping said.

When the children heard this, they all had red eyes and lowered their heads, knowing that there was no hope.

The old man Fu Ling couldn't hold back any longer, and sighed: "We don't have any land anymore...... Therefore, the prime of life in the village will not be able to make a living if he does not work for the Shu family. ”

Gao Fangping looked into the distance and thought about it, and muttered: "The robbery methods are all with me, have you ever been against the sky, Wang Qinfei and Chao Gai and others are not as good as you." ”

Fu Ling felt that although this little minister was young, he was a bold and capable person, but after hesitating for a long time, he stopped talking and never said anything.

Gao Fangping didn't want to stay here anymore, and when he left, he said to the group of children: "I believe that your family used to have some fertile land, of course it will be lost for various reasons." But since this is under the rule of Yuncheng, and Yuncheng has a county office, it is used to sue the weak. Go tell your parents that you want to go to the academy and tell them that the official is waiting for them. ”

"County Honor...... Will it really be useful in your period? The old man named Fu Ling finally couldn't help it, and asked out with hope.

When Gao Fangping stepped on the horse, he raised his head and thought for a while: "If the people don't sue the officials, they won't be investigated, so if you don't try it, how do you know." If you want it, you have to tell the officer that you want it. If you lose your own things and don't fight for them, do you expect the Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable or the Buddha? The Great Song Dynasty is still an agrarian society, and I may not be able to manage it if someone sues me for the annexation of the land, but if someone sues the cultivated land for other purposes, then the official will not be merciful when he kills people. ”

The people of Fujia Village watched the little minister's men leave with a strange mood.

I don't know if Fu An will run away after knowing that his people were robbed and didn't dare to speak...... (To be continued.) )