Chapter 108: Niu Jin (3500 words)
The people in the field were all young and middle-aged, but they all had vegetable faces, and some of them were standing in the fields, and there was an overseer standing beside them, and whoever was slow in his hand was whipped with a whip.
They looked at the overseer in panic, and the overseer scolded for a while, and then ordered the two people next to him to carry it to the side of the road, and threw it away like garbage, and then continued to cultivate and sow again.
"How can there be an overseer?" Liu Wei said with fire in his chest.
Rao Wen replied cautiously: "Your Highness, the land in several counties near Jingshi has already been "bought" by the major families...... Those are all the overseers sent by the family above, and the nearby land is all theirs, not the ...... of the villagers."
"What about them?"
"It's all tenants......"
Liu Wei's face became more and more heavy, and the word "buy" was so good that he exhausted how many families were broken, and how many families were bitter, blood and tears.
No wonder he didn't see the old man and the woman, I'm afraid these people are not even qualified to be tenants, right?
Even if those families do not use their power to buy and sell, they can use the autumn harvest to reduce prices, and the commercial method of spring sowing and price increase can also make a lot of money.
Once the small peasants work hard for a year, after being exploited by the bullies, and then pay various taxes of the imperial court, whether they can eat enough is still two words, once they encounter natural disasters and man-made disasters, the imperial court raises taxes, and the small peasant economy at the bottom will immediately collapse, and the common people will have to sell their sons and daughters, and even have to sell their own land to make a living.
The families thought they were noble, but in private, while the people of Balabala were noble and the monarch was light, they did not hesitate to pull the grain from the mouths of the poor men into their own mouths, so that the mud-legged people would become their slaves for generations.
When they say that the people are precious, they do not include thousands of ordinary people at all, but themselves!
The tragedy of the world is that the family is always in front, and the world is always in the back, even for the emperor! They can sacrifice everything for the benefit of the royal family, and only hope that the country with their surname can last for ten thousand years......
"Is Nanyang like this?" Liu Wei asked Huang Zhong with a heavy heart.
Huang Zhong hesitated for a moment and replied, "The situation in Nanyang may be even more serious than here!" Mengjin didn't dare to be too presumptuous as the foot of the Son of Heaven, and the people here still had Mengjin Port to work to subsidize their families, and Nanyang ......"
"The families who fight the world with Guangwu Shizu can be all over Nanyang, and they are far away from the control of Guanzhong, so you can imagine how miserable the people at the bottom there are............
He suddenly realizes that he seems to be the villain in the history books who has been nailed to the pillar of shame forever. In the future, he will rule the country, both on the opposite side of the people and on the boiling oil......
How should I describe my image in the future generations? Incompetent? The fat of the land? Still is...... Wise and Martial......
Huang Zhong arched his hand and said: "Your Highness, as Your Highness's courtier, the minister has to tell the truth!" The places in Nanyang may be even more chaotic than His Highness imagined, but the county guards the places and suppresses them, just like Yang Hong, who covers the truth and does not report it! ”
"Nanyang has no danger of water passes, and there are many mountains and rivers everywhere, and the people can't bear the pain of being exploited, so they abandon their household registration, avoid the mountains and forests, and take wild beasts as companions. The displaced people are everywhere, the people have nothing to eat and plunder the crowds, Nanyang has long been ordered out of the county, the local gentry have built dock forts to prevent thieves from attacking, and the local people have become bandits! ”
The more Liu Wei listened, the more frightened he became, the scene described by Huang Zhong was the real late Han Dynasty......
Four hundred years ago, it was like this, the families led the people to shout "Destroy the tyrannical Qin!" The slogan extinguished the terrible kingdom of Fen VI and unified the six kingdoms.
But I didn't expect a pavilion chief named Liu Bang to jump to the front and pick peaches.
And now, the family has become a vested interest, and the common people have no way to live, Zhang Jiao led the people to shout slogans, but this time "Qin" has become "Han", and history is just a cycle of blood and tears, and these blood and tears are only the blood and tears of the people......
Liu Wei now understands why the end of the Han Dynasty, like the end of the Qin Dynasty, was the basic plate of the entire empire, and Guanzhong, which was the foundation of the entire empire, watched the destruction of his empire. Just as the old Qin people watched Xiang Yu burn down the Afang Palace, the people had already voted with their feet and kicked that dynasty into the abyss, and what was planted would bear fruit.
Xing, the people are bitter. Death, the people suffer.
Rao Wen couldn't help but say with relief: "Your Highness, some great Confucian celebrities still cherish their feathers......
Those celebrities may cherish their feathers, but will their side tribesmen cherish them? There is a Tao that is a person who attains the Tao, and the chickens and dogs ascend to heaven, and they ascend to heaven and will not care about the life or death of the people!
"Who is the biggest landlord in Mengjin?"
"Uh, this ......" Rao Wen knew that his master was up, and no one could persuade him, so he had to say frankly: "It's a side branch of the Wei family in Hedong......"
Hedong Weijia? It is the Wei family that married Wei Zhongdao, who died of illness within two years of Cai Wenji, this family that has produced Wei Qing, the god of war of the Han Dynasty, and the descendants of the descendants are more incompetent and corrupt than the other. Liu Wei remembered this family deeply. Since you are shameless, then I will help you trample them all to death!
"Let's go, go to our own grange." Liu Wei boarded the carriage and paused: "Also, help me find out what other industries are in the side branch of the Wei family, and report them all to me when the time comes!"
It is not appropriate for Liu Wei to use the power of officialdom to retaliate for himself now, but it does not mean that Liu Wei will stand by coldly.
Pure agriculture must not be able to meet the needs of a huge family, and their family has no bastard children? Liu Wei is not only a prince, but also has more than 2,000 years of experience, plus the Tongfu Commercial Bank, which has become increasingly large and has extended its tentacles to various fields, it is still simple to kill the side branch merchants who are attached to the Wei family.
Rao Wen fought a cold war, since he was a child, don't seem to be gentle and elegant, his master has a grudge against people, but there are few people who live comfortably......
There's another chapter in the evening.,Sorry.,I didn't add it yesterday.,Make it up today.。