Chapter Seventy-Four: Golden Lotus Hates
PS: The original seventy-four chapters have been deleted, and this is a teardown and rewrite!
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Nanyang for the canal town also has the same benefit, because of the convenience of business, the family wealth of the people, once the ancients have spare money, the most like to buy a family business, the most important and the most common way is nothing more than two, up a house, buy a field.
There are many people who are willing to buy land, and the proximity to the canal, although irrigation is troublesome, it is not always dependent on the sky to eat, that is, there are too many hungry people, and the crops are uprooted and eaten after the seedlings emerge, which makes the fields around Nanyang barren.
It is precisely because of this that when Zhao Qing sold his business, there were many people who were tempted, but there were more people who watched and watched, and the price of the fields on the side of the canal was much higher than that of other places, and there were few who were willing to buy it at all, which made Zhang Zhen win it in one fell swoop.
The special geographical environment and the prosperity of commerce have made the ordinary fields in Nanyang unable to enter the hands of the surrounding wealthy families, creating a situation where there are many small landlords in Nanyang Town, and there is no one big landlord.
It is precisely because of this that only the purchase of Zhao Qing's family business, 300 acres of land made Zhang Zhen the third largest landowner in Nanyang Town.
And the day and night care of the tenants, coupled with Zhang Zhenshe's porridge, it is not a fluke to get a good harvest of wheat.
After all, no one can be as willing to die as the tenants of Wanghu Village, and no one has the confidence to have a good yield like Zhang Zhen.
Don't say anything about Nanyang, Zhang Zhen can be regarded as a bamboo in his chest, there are many small landlords, although it is not as easy to win as a single gentry, it can be controlled.
As soon as he arrived outside the town, Xia Zhongyong greeted him and briefly asked about the situation in the town, Zhang Zhen asked him to order people to raid the house first, as an example of killing chickens and monkeys, thinking that it was a deterrent.
I was walking down the East and West Streets, but an accident happened.
“... Wow wow wow wow...."
First the child's cry was heartbreaking, and soon a woman's cry was sandwiched between the crying.
“... Child, mother is for your good! Come back! Don't run! Which kind person is helping to stop the child? ”
The sound approached quickly in the alley, and after Zhang Zhen heard it, his footsteps suddenly became heavy, and a moment later, just as Zhang Zhen walked to the mouth of the alley, a petite figure quickly rushed out.
The guards were nervous, and at this moment, the figure fell forward with a weak footstep, and one stumbled forward, not waiting for the guards behind him to load their guns, Zhang Zhen rushed forward with two arrows, and picked up the small figure, saving her from the danger of being planted on the ground.
And the woman was not so lucky, and chased out of the alley, and was met with a dozen muskets, which instantly pointed at the vital points around her.
Zhang Zhen killed the imperial court power in Nanyang only yesterday, and the power of the musket was naturally greater by the people who were afraid of it under hearsay and adding fuel and vinegar.
Seeing the legendary musket aimed at her, the woman fell to the ground in panic and fear, and almost fainted with fright.
"The child is ignorant and collides with the uncle, begging the uncle to spare his life!" The woman cried.
Zhang Zhen hugged the child, looked at the frightened appearance of the delicate little girl in his arms, and the bare little feet that were running bloody, and asked the woman with a cold face: "Scare this child like this in broad daylight, and want to let you go?" Let me know what's going on! Without a reasonable explanation, what awaits you will be capital punishment!! ”
Zhang Zhen's last scolding was extremely fierce, and the woman was so frightened that she didn't possess her body, and she dared to speak for a long time: "Uncle Mingjian, this girl is my own child, and I am not afraid that this child will not be able to marry a good family when he grows up, but I want the child to grow up better, so I wrapped the child's feet, which was originally wrapped well, but I untied it last night, and I want to be entangled again today, the child is afraid of running away from pain, so it has become like this, I collided with the uncle, and I hope that the uncle will be merciful and spare my mother's life!" ”
"Hmph... Can you marry a good man by binding your feet? Zhang Zhen sneered and said: "If you want to live a good life, you rely on hard work, rely on the people-oriented court, and be less exploitative. Is this a way to hurt children?! The feet are mutilated, the steps are difficult, but there is a war and famine, and the first to die is afraid that this is the one who is bound to the feet!! Hou Jin and Li Chuang are eyeing each other, think for yourself! ”
When the woman heard this, every time she heard it, she felt distressed like a needle prick, looked at the child in Zhang Zhen's arms, and cried: "The world is like this, and the little woman is also forced to do so..."
"The way the world is! Hahahaha!! Zhang Zhen said hatefully: "Lao Xia, can you hear it?" Note!! In the future, every time we occupy a land, we can ignore the previous one, we still dare to bind the feet of the child, or dare to marry the one who only binds the feet after the occupation, within three generations, farming and doing business, there can be no reduction or exemption in taxes! Those who study and practice martial arts are not allowed to enter the ranks! Don't do it! If you dare to marry forcibly as an official, no matter how high your official position is, no matter how great your merits are, you will be stripped of your official position and removed from your lord! ! ! ”
"Yes! Lord!! Xia Zhongyong said with a bang.
The people present were either stunned or shocked, although Xia Zhongyong quietly responded to the order, he was still somewhat selfish, hearing this, although he missed his beloved daughter in his heart, he was more happy.
He is well-informed for the post man, and he knows best that this foot-binding wind is flourishing among the people, from the courtiers to ordinary scholars, over the ages, many of them are sparing no effort to tout this method, and they are proud of marrying a three-inch golden lotus lady with small feet.
The pen is in the hands of the reader, the style of emphasizing literature and ignoring martial arts, cheap businessmen and peasants prevails in the world, who makes this method too little, and has countless privileges after having fame, and even sees the county lord who calls himself a 'student', and there is no need to bow down at all.
Ordinary people, whether they want to get ahead or be less bullied or pay less taxes, one is that their son can gain fame, and the other is that their daughter is married to a person with fame.
Otherwise, how can there be so many things to compete for a son-in-law every time? Especially the champion Lang, when the first and second rank of the dynasty can give up their face to ask for marriage, and there are countless people who act as lobbyists for the old moon.
The ordinary people who raised people and scholars couldn't get stammered, so they could only retreat to the next best thing, aiming at the Xiucai and even ordinary scholars.
The world pursues readers, and a large number of readers openly praise these three-inch feet, and some of them do not marry non-small feet.
Under such a cycle, even if the founding queen of the Ming Dynasty is bigfooted, the royal family can only turn a blind eye.
I have been with Zhang Zhen for a long time, every time I see Zhang Zhen's little feet is weird, Yingying is still in Xianfu, although it is impossible to wrap her feet anymore when she is old, what if there is a three-inch golden lotus that makes the lord favor, and then falls out of favor?
Although Xia Zhongyong had a knot, he didn't dare to ask.
Now with Zhang Zhen's words in public, he still spoke in a resolute tone, letting his most loyal henchman carry it out, which shows that he attaches great importance to it, and Xia Zhongyong's last doubts have disappeared.
The lord is by no means a good little foot, and the position of the girl is completely stable.
And Zhang Zhen thought a little big.
Although 'the king of Chu starved to death in the palace with a thin waist' is exaggerated, it will not cause self-harm to the whole people, and it has not become a trend among the people.
And this three-inch golden lotus, since the age of four or five, began to bind her feet, and the pain in her feet has been with her for a lifetime, and she doesn't know how much shadow it has left on her psychologically.
This method of exterminating human nature, so destroying the body and castrating human nature, in Zhang Zhen's opinion, should be abolished more than the craftsman rules that pass on children but not women, otherwise how can he always have strange eyes, which Xia Zhongyong has seen countless times.
In the past, the timing was not right, and we couldn't rush forward for the sake of the great cause.
Now that they have rebelled, Zhang Zhen doesn't want to endure it for a moment, and he originally wanted to deter the squire of Nanyang when he took the opportunity to say, now that he meets this child, what kind of land do you care? Let's settle this matter first!