Zhang Hua walked out of the official office, wearing civilian clothes, the official uniform had been taken off, and he no longer wanted to wear it, the country was full of ills, the people were living in pain, he failed to advise the king, this was a dereliction of duty. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

was demoted to the city order to manage the West Market, and what he learned in his life was useless, so it didn't matter if he didn't do it.

"I am born to be useful, and I will come back when my daughter is gone..."

He repeated these words, half appreciation, half sadness, looking at the bustling crowd around him, Zhang Hua smiled bitterly and shook his head.

It is a good thing for the official army to recover Huainan, but the situation only seems to be good on the surface, but in fact it is dangerous.

Avoiding medical treatment, the country that was originally still saved has gradually become terminally ill.

"Isn't this a chapter city order?"

Zhang Hua raised his head when he heard the sound, but saw several men standing in front of him, and one of them said to him with a smile: "Yu didn't greet Zhang Shiling, it's really rude." ”

"Yu Langjun?"

"It's Yu, I don't know where Zhang Shiling is going to go in civilian clothes now?"

Seeing that Zhang Hua was a little confused, Yu Wenwen directly explained his intentions: "Yu just heard Zhang Shi's order say that the people are living in hardship, and I want to hear what the specific reason is. ”

"Yu Langjun, this is?"

"The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband."

Zhang Hua's eyes lit up when he heard this, these eight words really spoke to his heart.

"How, it's better to meet by chance, Yu has a fate with Zhang Shiling, why don't you move to the wine shop to talk in detail?"

Zhou Faming listened on the sidelines, this Zhangshi made him recognize, Wu Xing Zhanghua, the word Zhongnong, good at reading since childhood, often traveling with scholars to study, good at making articles, once served as the Nanhai Taishou in Guangzhou, and later went to Beijing to serve, often wrote to advise the king.

However, he was born from a bad background, he has been a farmer for generations, and he does not manage relationships, so he is excluded by those courtiers with prominent families, and he has never had any merits or outstanding qualifications.

When encountering the scene where Fang Cai Zhang Hua advised Chen Shubao, Zhou Faming had some respect for this city magistrate, but he didn't understand why Yu Wenwen would go out of his way to talk to him, he couldn't just inquire about the taxes in the West Market and the like, "for reference", right?

They came to a wine shop and asked for a quiet room, Yu Wenwen, Zhou Faming and Zhang Hua sat opposite each other, ordered some wine and food, and began to chat.

"Zhang Shiling, the official army is now fighting in Huainan, and the situation is very good, why do you say that the people are miserable?"

"Does Lang Jun know about military service?"

"I know that, according to the system, every Ding performs forty-five days of military service every year, but the actual military service far exceeds the time limit, and there is no compensation for exceeding the time limit, and there are many deductions for daily rations, especially military households and untouchables, so there are many people who have fled."

Zhang Hua nodded, it seemed that the other party was not ignorant of the world's fireworks, and then he asked: "How does the government ensure that the people serve in the military?" ”

Yuwenwen replied: "If there are fugitives, the family will make up for it, if there is a family fleeing, three households will sit together, if there are three or more families in the village fleeing, the whole village will sit together, and if one family escapes, the whole village will sit together." ”

"Does Lang Jun think that he can ensure military service for this?"

"This law is very strict, and I think the people will supervise each other and guard against the flight of those who serve."

"Definitely!"

Zhang Hua was a little excited, and he began to tell what he knew about the actual situation.

The method of continuous sitting seems to ensure that the people can honestly perform military service, but in fact this is not the case, and the 45-day service period every year is often extended for no reason, and the people are miserable.

During the 45-day service period, there was no food and clothing, and there was no military salary, but after the service period was over, he did not want to go back, because "the war was tight," and any banditry and civil uprising needed to use soldiers, anyway, excuses could be found casually.

In fact, he was driven by the generals to work in their respective mansions, and he didn't even get paid.

Ding Nan, who served in the service, is the pillar of the family, he has been away from home for a long time, there is no one to plant, his family members are bullied and no one cares, and the family's source of livelihood is not guaranteed.

If you encounter a war during your service, you have made meritorious service and are falsely claimed, and you are said to have a bereavement pension if you die in battle, but your family doesn't want to get a penny, and it is even more outrageous that those generals will classify these dead people as "fugitives"!

Even those who unfortunately died of illness were accused of "fleeing".

If he escaped, the monk could not run away from the temple, and the man's family had to send a man to replace him, and continue to serve in the military as free labor for the generals to drive.

's father "fled", Da Lang was on top, Da Lang was "on top", Erlang was on top, but how many men in a family can be so tossed? If the man is gone, where will the old and weak women and children live?

The so-called 45-day military service has become a sling around the necks of the people, and many people have lost their families and their wives because of this, so they would rather choose to flee with their families than serve in the military.

One family fled, three families sat together, no one was a fool, to serve the "forty-five days of military service", three families fled, one was guaranteed to sit together, one was guaranteed to escape, and the whole village sat together, then the whole village fled with their families.

Where to flee to? Flee to a wealthy family and become a tenant farmer!

With the wings of large households, these fleeing people are not registered, that is, they have become hidden households, and although they pay a lot of land rent, they at least do not have to serve in the military and forced labor, which is much better than the people who pay rent to the imperial court!

The head of the household fled, and the fields under his name were abandoned, and then they were invaded by large and small tycoons, and after some operation, they became "ancestral" fields, so that these lands did not have to pay rent to the imperial court.

Military service forced military households and ordinary people to flee on a large scale, people became hidden households, and land became wealthy and powerful family property, which led to less and less grain and cloth that the imperial court could collect.

If it is in peacetime, the income and expenditure of the imperial court can barely hold on, and Yin can always relieve his anger by eating grain, but now that Huainan is using troops on a large scale, problems will follow, and the consequences will be more serious.

"If you want to use soldiers, you have to requisition the people to serve in military service, force labor, soldiers to fight on the battlefield, soldiers to defend the city, young and strong to transport grain and grass, and young and strong to transport materials, not to mention repairing the city defenses and setting up sentry posts everywhere."

Yu Wenwen said slowly, Zhang Hua's concerns are not unreasonable, the large-scale use of troops can justifiably levy the people, and after the Chen army has fought Jiangbei, the land that is easy to recapture must be defended.

The Zhou army will definitely fight back, so the war can be expected to be protracted, and those people who have been requisitioned will want to go home in the short term It is wishful thinking.

Then spring arrived.

Strong laborers are requisitioned and sent out, regardless of life and death, how can the elderly, weak, women and children at home carry out spring ploughing? In these years, it is already great to have a cow in the family, and it is all up to the man to pull the plow and the woman to support the plow.

Without a man who pulls a plow, it is unlikely that he will have the money to hire people, and how many acres of land can be ploughed in a day by the old and weak women and children with weak strength?

If you miss the agricultural season, it will directly lead to a poor harvest in the autumn, and you will not be able to pay the rent after then, will the government give up? Not to mention that "the war in Huainan is tight", and it is inevitable to send more "Huainan salary", but where can the farmers who have failed the harvest pay it?

If you don't want your family to be ruined, you have to flee with your family!

The government needs to levy the people, and the more people flee, the more they have to levy, and then there is a vicious circle.

"Yes, the official army has won successive battles in Huainan, and a long-term confrontation with the Zhou army is inevitable, and the harvest in Huainan has decreased sharply, only relying on the support of money and grain in Jiangnan, and more people are needed to serve in the military and forced labor, so that the situation of the people fleeing will become more and more serious!"

Zhang Hua said that he was worried: "It's not obvious now, once the long-term confrontation in Huainan continues, in a few years, the imperial court will be greatly damaged, and it will be too late to find a way!" ”

"Zhang Shiling, these words are said to Yu Mou, in order to reach the heavens, right?"

"Exactly! Yu Langjun is outstanding in writing and is quite favored by the officials, if he can tell the truth, he wants to come to the official family..."

"Zhang Shiling, there is a certain question." Yu Wenwen interrupted the other party's speech, "I'm afraid that the hidden dangers of the imperial court are more than this, right?" (To be continued.) )