He Laosan picked up the teacup, but he was reluctant to drink it, so he thought about it and put the teacup down. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

He Laosan is a homesteader in Jixiang Town, and he came to the tea shop to listen to the "Shandong Daily". This Shandong Daily can only be heard in the Liujia tea shop in the town, and the tea here costs a penny, and there is no reason to lie on the table after drinking.

But if you don't drink a sip, no one will drive you away because of this, after all, many people buy a cup of tea and sit down to listen to the newspaper, and Xiao Er is used to it. Tables can be set up everywhere in this township, and the cost of running a tea shop is very low. The tea shop has a long table outside the store, which can seat many people.

And the person who listens to the newspaper will give a reward to the person who reads the newspaper when he hears the highlights, and the owner of the copper coin tea shop who gives this reward also has a share.

Standing on the high stage, the newspaper reader opened the "Shandong Daily" of the day, coughed, and read aloud in a low voice:

"There was a great drought in Shaanxi, Li Zicheng killed Taihang Mountain, gathered 30,000 people to capture Yunan County!"

Hearing the news, the crowd listening to the newspaper let out an exclamation of amazement. In this year, there are more and more famines, either drought here or locust plague there, and the imperial court is unable to provide disaster relief, so it does not care at all. I heard that there was a severe drought in Shaanxi last year and this year, and the people in southern Shaanxi changed their children to eat. Li Zicheng actually took advantage of this famine to make trouble again, and now the court is going to have a headache again.

Shandong has not been in harmony in recent years, and small disasters have continued. Thieves won't come to Shandong, right? If Shandong is also robbed, it will be over. Once Li Zicheng passes, where is there still a normal social order? As soon as they enter the city, they will rob all the food, and if they are thieves, they will have a bite to eat, and if they do not obey the thieves, they will starve to death.

The tea guests pricked up their ears and listened to the newspaper man finish reading the headline on the front page, and they were very concerned one by one.

This was only 10 days before Li Zicheng captured Luonan County, and the "Shandong Daily" reported it today. At such a speed, the Three Kings Daily is far from being able to keep up. The Sanwang Daily had to wait for the governor of Shaanxi to play this matter, and the chapter was dealt with by the Son of Heaven in the capital, and it was disclosed in a few days, and then it was transmitted to Shandong before it was published in the newspaper. In less than a month, the Sanwang Daily will not publish news about Shaanxi.

Sometimes the news from the market has come over, but the Three Kings Daily has not yet responded.

The newspaper reader finished reading the headlines, read a few more major events in the world, and then began to read the commentator's article. He Laosan didn't listen carefully to the previous article, but the last article caught He Laosan's attention.

"Ninety percent of the people in Tianjin have reduced their burden by fifty percent on average."

This article is about the great reduction of the burden on the people after the Tianjin Junping Tian Fu. This matter can be regarded as a matter of interest to the people, and the farmers who drink tea listen very carefully.

"After the flat land was paid, the burden on the small people who were originally burdened by the unfair land was greatly reduced. Even the peasants who had been dedicated to the gentry also tasted the benefits. In order to avoid the confiscation of the fields, the gentry actively and passively lowered the land rent to less than one bucket. Compared with the original land rent of two or three buckets at every turn, the burden on these farmers has also been greatly reduced. ”

"A policy of equalizing the land endowment has made Tianjin's towns and villages prosperous. The town, which used to be empty and uninhabited, is now full of tea shops and liquor shops. Traders selling meat, cloth, and oil were originally only found in the cities, but now they can be found everywhere in the towns and villages..."

Hearing the commentator's briefing on the situation in Tianjin, the people who listened to the newspaper fell silent. Who doesn't want to pay a few less rents and eat more meat? Seeing that the people of Tianjin have become rich because of the policies of the Duke of Tianjin, while the peasants of Shandong are still enduring the oppression of the gentry, this contrast...

If it weren't for a newspaper like Shandong Daily, the peasants of Shandong would not even know that such an earth-shaking event had taken place in Tianjin. It would be nice if Shandong could also equalize the fields one day, and that day would be better all of a sudden.

Some peasants shouted loudly for Tianjin's policy. Seeing that the atmosphere was good, the shopkeeper took out an iron basin to receive a reward, and the farmers who were not rich threw a penny into the basin for a penny, and finally threw a thin layer of money.

He Laosan was reluctant to reward copper coins, and after listening to the last editorial of the newspaper, he sighed. He drank the tea on the table in one gulp, stood up with a clapped hand, and walked towards his own Liuhe Village.

When he walked to the entrance of the village, he saw seven or eight men and women from the village standing next to Liang Qi, the family of Master Liang, listening to Liang Qi read the "Three Kings Daily".

Mr. Liang is a large landowner in the vicinity, and he has countless fields under his name. Since the advent of the "Three Kings Daily", Mr. Liang has sent his family members to several nearby villages to read the newspaper for free, and always conveys the articles of the "Three Kings Daily" to the villagers as soon as possible.

Some farmers who had nothing to do also often gathered around Liang Qi to listen to the newspaper.

However, the content of the "Three Kings Daily" is a bit boring, full of empty preaching about the morality of saints, and fewer and fewer people have listened to the newspaper in the past half month.

As a small farmer with private land, He Laosan has a very heavy land endowment. Over the years, Master Liang's account office often hinted that he had donated the land, but He Laosan didn't listen, and he relied on a lot of ambition to bear the unfair land endowment that pressed on him.

Seeing that Liang Qi came to promote the Sanwang Daily again, He Laosan snorted coldly and walked up to listen to what Liang Zhengdao was reading.

"I, the Ming Dynasty, rule the world with scholars and the Son of Heaven. For major national events, not only the Son of Heaven can be sacred, but also Jinshi can raise people to discuss it loudly. Local affairs can be managed not only by officials, but also by well-dressed people. The scholars rule the world, and the Son of Heaven gives the scholars preferential treatment and exempts the scholars from the fields of conscription..."

Hearing this, He Laosan laughed.

Liang Qi was a little afraid when he saw that it was He Laosan's thorn again, and snorted coldly: "He Laosan, what are you laughing at?" ”

He Laosan shouted: "If I hadn't gone to the town to listen to the Shandong Daily, I would have been deceived by your killing." Shandong Daily said that my Ming Dynasty has never had a policy of exempting scholars from Tian Fu, and it is all a lie made by the old men to bribe officials! ”

"If the gentry don't pay the land endowment, the land endowment will be all on us small people. The small people had no choice but to donate, and the small people who did not donate were even higher. So the gentry took the opportunity to raise the rent of the small people, one ring after another, and in the end all the people had to be exploited fiercely. ”

"We, the people, are living so hard, it's all because of you tax evaders!"

Hearing He Laosan's words, the people all looked at Liang Qi suspiciously.

Liang Qi was furious, pointed at He Laosan and scolded: "He Laosan, you are talking nonsense! This is a newspaper run by the princes! ”

He Laosan is an upright temper, and the villagers know it. Hearing He Laosan say that the Sanwang Daily was not good, the villagers who had been bored with listening to it glanced at each other, but they didn't bother to listen anymore and dispersed.

Seeing that He Laosan had told his audience to leave, Liang Qi was so angry that his face was flushed. But He Laosan is not a tenant farmer of his family, and he has no choice but to leave angrily with He Laosan.