Xu Budai was the Xifan soldier who was captured by the Tang army in the Battle of Pingrong Road, and then most of the captives accepted the placement of Gao Yue and Wei Gao, and some were slaughtered by the Xiongqi army, but he insisted on walking thousands of miles, and actually walked back to his hometown on the plateau from Jiannan Xishan.

When he returned, Xu Budai found that the four sides of his hometown village were full of crops that no one had harvested, swaying in the bleak sun:

The men were killed and captured in battle on Ping Rong Road, and the women and children were simply unable to do the farm work.

As soon as Xu Budai arrived home, he saw a group of nobles wearing Zanxia hats, wearing silk clothes bought from Tang Tu, riding on horses and pointing fingers, and the women and children in the village kneeling in front of them.

The words of the nobles were simple: I can let our slaves harvest your fields and send them to mill out the grain and flour, for I am the only one who has water for hundreds of miles. I will feed you women and children with my generosity, but remember that I am your creditor henceforth.

The endorsement of "money lending by the rich" was the law approved during Trisong Detsen's reign.

"If you can't do this, you'll be a slave!" Xu Budai said to his mother and wife, and then he took off his robe, harvested frantically in his fields every day and night, and then prepared to grind the grain with the most rudimentary stones to support himself.

He sweated like rain, tired until his eyes were black, his legs were shaking, and he thought that after his own fields were harvested immediately, he would go to help the same people in the village.

But in the end, the wife cried and ran through the long ridge.

He asked his wife why she was crying.

The wife pointed to the west side of the field, where towering mountains and a rushing river flowed, and the fields were all irrigated by the river.

"Lord Ruben, after witchcraft, the river was cut off by them, and it will never flow into our village again!"

When Xu Budai saw the scene on the other side of the mountain, he couldn't help but sit down.

It was not some kind of witchcraft, the nobles and officials colluded to build a weir with domestic slaves to divert the river water to their own fields......

Who called them powerful and powerful, and now they have the money and cloth delivered by Tang Tu, and their power is even more arrogant.

In the end, all the freedmen, including Xu Budai, succumbed to it, and they were all in debt, unable to manage their fields, so they sold them to the arrogant nobles, and became the serf tenants of the nobility: the nobles were not satisfied with planting all the grain in the fields, and began to destroy the fields and build larger pastures, because cattle and sheep were the bulk of the trade between Chiling (Qinghai) and Tongliang Army (Jiannan), and the Tang people liked to buy them, exchanging them for money and tea.

In this way, they have to make offerings to the nobles, to offer to the Three Jewels of Buddhist temples, and to provide for the Bon teachers.

In the past two years, Xu Budaize's life has been extremely miserable, but fortunately, his family still has his strong laborer, and other families who have lost their men are miserable - the old man assigns women and children casually, as if breeding livestock.

When Muni Zampu announced that the rich and the poor should be equal to the poor, Xu Budai saw hope and traveled with his family to the city of Raksha, hoping to see the wooden tablets of the new law.

But Muni died.

And then the old Zamp also ascended.

Xu Budai faintly felt that this world was about to be chaotic and collapse.

But what can a grass like him change? At the beginning, he returned thousands of miles for his mother, his wife, and his children, but in the fierce and cruel power struggle on this plateau, he could only be taken in, but he could not balance it.

I heard that the Cai Bang family was about to overturn the order issued by the old Zampu to welcome Prince Mu Ru back from the penal colony, and the Cai Bang family was the spokesperson for the group of nobles, bureaucrats, and teachers Ben.

In despair, Xu Budai could only carry his mother, his wife and children lowered their heads, their bare feet full of blood scabs, followed him, and returned to their hometown together with the rest of the suffering people of Xibo.

At the end of spring, in the political hall of Chang'an Daming Palace, the scribes are like clouds, and now this institution is even stronger, because the affairs that are handled by him have increased, not only the prime minister's pen team, but also the Chinese scholar team, not to mention the prime minister's five rooms integrated with the political hall.

However, a dispute broke out between the four prime ministers today.

Zheng Qi was not particularly willing to sign the joint signature of "Torture and Killing Li Qi's One Room".

"Civilization, you made this decision at the beginning." Du Huangshang said.

Hearing this, Zheng Qi's face turned red, but he stubbornly did not reply.

Previously, the tone of other prime ministers convicted Li Qi of rebellion, which was to be connected to the entire family of the descendants of King Li Shentong of Huai'an, Zheng Qi, who had just come to the political hall, disagreed, so he bluntly said: "King Huai'an is a meritorious minister who founded my Tang Dynasty, how can he end up like this, just sin Li Qi in one room." ”

As a result, it doesn't matter, but it is strange to say that Du Huangsheng, Lu Zhen and Han Wei all agreed with Zheng Qi's plan.

At this time, Zheng Qi realized that they were deliberately waiting for themselves to say this.

That is, to kill Li Qi's entire family, the four prime ministers, including Zheng Qi, all agreed.

These three are equivalent to using Li Qi's head to induce Zheng Qi to accept the "letter of nomination" to the political affairs hall.

"I said that the senior was so good that he recommended me to join the government...... I see...... "Zheng Qi's great regret is also great hatred."

After he gained insight into the situation in Jingshi, he knew that the prime minister's Nanya, and the emperor's Beisi, I am afraid that the rift in the future will not be repaired, "The third year of high school is pulling me into the water!" ”

In the end, Zheng Qi had no choice but to sign his name on the pleading.

In the Yanying Palace, the emperor slowly put down the recital, and said in a soft and weak voice: It seems that Zheng Menlang's disposition is the most fair!

Then the emperor looked at Zheng Qi meaningfully.

At that time, you and Gao Yue were both in green shirts, and they were drunk in Dutingyi, riding a horse around Xingqing Palace, and I could see it clearly in the Qinzheng Building.

You're also a friend of Gao Yue, right?

Zheng Qi, who was holding a wat board in his hand, heard the emperor's answer, and also felt the emperor's eyes, so he could only close his eyes in pain......

For this war, they unanimously agreed to allocate all the salt profits in the southeast of Jianghuai to Gao Yue as military expenses, and when the summer storm passed, they would let Gao Yue go to Lingnan by sea to conquer Dongman.

The emperor routinely swept the recital, the accounting books of the army, and the budget books of the treasury, and then asked, "Is it necessary to conquer the south?" ”

"Steady." The prime ministers replied unanimously.

Zheng Qi was caught in it, and he didn't deny it.

Soon, the edict of Daming Palace, with a speed of 300 miles a day, went to Yangzhou:

With Wei Guogong, Shangzhu Guo, the prince and the young master, the Huainan Jiedu Yingtian observation envoy, the governor of Yangzhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, the Jianghuai two taxes salt and iron transfer envoy, and Wu Yijun envoy Gao Yue for the Lingnan Huangdong barbarian camp to recruit envoys, all of them unified Huainan, Xuanshe, western Zhejiang, eastern Zhejiang, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangnan West Province, Jingnan, Qianzhong, Lingnan five provinces and ten soldiers and horses, and entered Huang Shaoqing.