The rich old man and his sons hurried home, for fear that those poor ghosts would trample their house, and even more so to prevent them from taking advantage of the fire to rob them.

By the time Hou Weidong and the others came back, it was almost noon. Hou Weidong came to report that many weapons had been found from the three families, as well as armor and war horses. Among them, the rich family has more than a dozen sets of armor, although it is only leather armor, but it is armor after all.

Lao Zhao watched the militiamen excitedly carrying bundles of weapons and armor and waiting over, and asked with a smile, "What else did you find?" ”

"Grain, a lot of grain, and a lot of gold and silver, and all kinds of jewelry and utensils."

Lao Zhao nodded, looking at the rich old man in front of him.

"The rich family has more than 5,000 acres of land, the Gao family and the Sha family each have more than 1,000 acres of land, and the rest are mostly landless tenants, and only a dozen or so families have a few acres or more than a dozen acres in their hands, adding up to only about 200 acres of land, and the vast majority of the land in this village is in the hands of this family."

"Yes." Hou Weidong said immediately.

"The Son of Heaven is very concerned about our people in Baekje, and he issued an edict to divide the land and grant land, so that the people can have land to cultivate and food to eat. But if there is no land, how can we plow and eat? ”

Hou Weidong and the others went to search the militiamen of the rich families just now, and saw the wealth of these families with their own eyes, and they were very unfair, and they were even more unfair when Lao Zhao said this.

"If only the three families of Fugaosha could take out the land and divide it."

Lao Zhao smiled and asked Hou Weidong to call the three families out again, and then asked them in front of the villagers, hoping that they could take the initiative to take out the land and divide it.

All three were silent.

"Let's go home for lunch first, and then we'll continue to meet and discuss after dinner."

The hearts of the villagers are a little messy, how can they be in the mood to go home for dinner, besides, they have already eaten a noodle soup from the landlord's house in the morning, and this meal can be saved at noon.

Lao Zhao and his gang ate at noon at the rich family, boiled noodles with kimchi and salted fish, the rich family did not dare to be stingy, more than 50 people, used more than 50 catties of flour, and made a lot of money.

When they were full, many villagers began to ask Hou Weidong and Changshan, the two village chiefs who had eaten with them.

"Did they say yes?"

"No, the pavilion chief at the dinner table mentioned it, but the rich old man and the other two families didn't talk, and then they didn't mention it." Hou Changshan stood there, touching his stomach, just now, he ate several large bowls of noodles, and really ate a round belly. "The old woman from the rich family was crying, and she said that the court was going to rob them in the back."

Hou Changshan's father sighed and said, "Hey, the three families of Fugaosha have been our landlords for generations, and this land is also placed one acre at a time, and now if they want to give it away for nothing, how can they be willing to give it away." ”

"Even if it is just a little bit for us, a family for one or two acres, our life will be much better." Some villagers said that in the past, of course, they didn't mention the slightest bit of this kind of non-existent thought, but now the imperial court doesn't support them and take the initiative to bring it up, which gives them hope.

Although this may seem like a slim hope, everyone hopes that something will be realized.

"What's the use of being reluctant, if the court really wants to take over the land, the three of them dare not give it? Didn't our king and the noble officials of the court also fight against each other before? But now it's not all convinced? I think there is hope for this, and since I mentioned it, it will definitely come to pass. A young man who had just joined the village militia.

The days are hard, the days are poor, and the poor are thinking about change, and people's hearts are like this.

A militiaman over there came over and called Hou Weidong and Changshan over, "The pavilion chief told you to come over." ”

After a while, the two returned to the villagers.

"What did you say?"

"The pavilion chief said that the villager meeting will be held in the afternoon, and everyone will remember the bitterness!"

"Bitterness?" Some villagers are puzzled, these days are all bitter, what do you remember?

"If everyone thinks that someone is oppressing the villagers, running rampant in the township, and has illegal acts, they can report it at the meeting."

"If you owe three debts, you can also put forward that now the imperial court has regulations that the annual interest shall not exceed three or six thirds, and the interest shall not exceed one time of the principal, otherwise the imperial court will punish the lender for the crime of usury."

In the afternoon, the conference had not yet begun.

But more and more news is flying.

Hou Weidong and Hou Changshan and other village heads, security chiefs, and captains began to run among the villagers, passing on some news to everyone from time to time.

"Reporting, criticism!"

"Harvest the fields, divide the land!"

These words constantly stimulated the villagers, the cold wind howled, but they didn't feel cold, and their hearts were hot.

Divide the land, reduce the interest rate······

By the time the sun had set in the west, the convention had finally begun.

In the middle of the venue, there were many weapons and equipment found from the three families, including knives, guns, spears, bows, arrows, shields, and even more than a dozen pairs of leather armor and crossbows, as well as more than a dozen war horses.

"This doesn't match what the guys said before, didn't you say no?"

Lao Zhao smiled.

The rich family had nothing to say for a while.

"We are willing to hand over all these weapons to the government." The rich old man spoke.

"Is there anything else?"

"It's all here."

Lao Zhao shook his head, "I don't believe it." ”

"We've all searched our homes." The rich old man said.

"Maybe there's some secret cellar or something like that you haven't found yet."

"It's true, it's gone."

Lao Zhao waved his hand.

The captain of the township militia came over.

"Chang Wei, you take the township militia to search again, remember to search carefully."

The rich old man changed color, "Pavilion Chief Zhao, why do you distrust us so much?" ”

"Trust is mutual, and you have betrayed my trust before."

Over there, Chang Wei and the militia continued to search the house, and here Hou Weidong and others have already begun to take the villagers to complain and report.

At first, he just told that he was miserable, but then finally someone began to report the loan sharks he owed to the three families.

Then, someone who had been bullied by the three families also began to say.

As soon as these words were opened, it was like the water of the Yellow River was endless.

"My family used to have a few acres of land, but there were many people, and life was hard, so they also planted the rich family's land, but the rich family stole their gold and silver in order to annex our few acres of land. My family's life is so hard, not to mention gold, even silver has never been seen, the women in the family don't even have a silver hairpin, and my little brother is only ten years old, he has always been honest, how can he steal their gold and silver? But they insisted on defiling my brother, and in the end they even planted the dirt and blamed my brother, beat my brother to death, and robbed my family of all the fields, and even my sister was robbed to pay off the debt and became a slave of his family. ”

The more a man spoke, the more excited he became, tears flowed down his face, because his father had gone out to learn some crafts before, so he earned some money and worked hard to save and hire someone to reclaim a few acres of land, but in the end, they were all taken away by the rich family, and the family was ruined.

Some people also began to tell how the loan sharks of the rich families hurt people, forcing them to sell their wives and pawn daughters, and their families were ruined, and now the interest has rolled out and I can't remember.

Some people were forced to sell their entire family to rich families to pay off their debts because of loans, and they became slaves of rich families ever since.

At this time, Chang Wei searched for a long time, and finally came back.

"Pavilion Chief, I found the secret room, and found a lot of privately hidden weapons and armor, all three of which have armor and crossbows!" Chang Wei said, and asked his militia to put the armor crossbow they found in front of everyone.

When the rich old man saw these things, he fainted at once.

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