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Although in recent years, the emperor has issued several edicts to persuade the gentry and landlords to reduce or reduce the rent, but these people who regard human life as if they were a mustard can listen to them, that is, the estates of the important ministers of the court, and the land rents are often one to two percent higher than the usual. Not only that, as long as these people are attached, even if they are just a mere domestic slave, they no longer have to pay the poll tax, so there is always an endless stream of men, women and children who voluntarily sell themselves.

Xiao Yunchao is the same, his heart is darker than other magnates, ninety percent of the output of the village goes into his own pocket, and the remaining most worthless things can be the turn of those tenants. In addition, due to the deed of sale, these tenants could only endure hunger and cold, and could not see even a single minced meat all year round. They also tried every means to go to the government to ask for help, but it is the natural principle of the world for officials to protect each other, who will take care of these hillbillies who have no wealth and power, so they often beat out sticks without looking at the paper. If you encounter an official with a bad temperament, you will even be beaten to death. Xiao Yunchao even ordered someone to seal a lot of deeds of sale for his subordinates, and officials everywhere in Zhili had a copy in their hands, just to prevent them from suering. In the long run, these poor people have no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the ground, so they can only helplessly earn their lives in the village.

No one expected that Wei Jianglian, the governor of Zhili, who had only been in office for one year, was a tough guy, and he didn't know where to dig out the old files of the year, and he was quite dissatisfied with Xiao Yunchao's behavior of oppressing tenant farmers like this, but these deeds of sale were clearly according to everyone's handprints, so they could only leave it alone. If he hadn't seen the bloody scene with his own eyes that day, he might still have been helpless to watch these poor people suffer.

That day, the Weijiang Federation happened to have nothing to do, so he only took two small servants to hang out in the market. Although he is already a first-class member, he does not often appear on weekdays. It was so well maintained that at first glance he looked like a young man in his early forties, so no one recognized him when he walked around. Tired of walking.

He happened to see a porridge shop and looked at the crowd inside. Curious, he ordered the two little guys to find a place to look at it from a distance, and walked straight in.

Only after sitting down did he really realize the noise wei jianglian followed the flow and ordered a bowl of thin porridge and frowned after only taking a sip of the brown rice here grinds his teeth very much. Although it smells so fragrant, how can a pampered person like him drink it?

As soon as he put down the bowl, a straw-like unkempt head appeared next to him, and a black face that could not be seen looked at the bowl of porridge that had barely touched. Wei Jianglian distinguished for a while, only to find that this ragged and unclothed girl was actually a little girl in her early tens, and he didn't know where the interest came from, he suddenly asked, "How old are you?" Why do you still wear these clothes on such a cold day? ”

He saw that most of the porridge shops were civilians, but their clothes were often warm. Therefore, I am very curious about this little girl who is almost a beggar. The little girl didn't answer, and took advantage of the distraction of the Weijiang Federation to suddenly reach out and pick up the bowl of porridge. Tilted his neck and poured it down. A bowl of hot porridge that had just been served out of the pot was drunk in an instant, and the little girl seemed to have not eaten enough, so she stretched out her tongue and licked it back and forth in the bowl, looking unsatisfied.

"Little brute. Why do you snatch the porridge of the guests again? The tall and lanky boss rushed forward in a few steps and slapped the little girl hard. Lao Tzu kindly took you in and didn't let you get frozen, but you dared to snatch the guests' jobs again and again? Ungrateful little slut, do you know how many guests have been scared away by your embarrassment in the past month? ”

The little girl was already thin and weak, and she looked weak, and her face suddenly fell out with a slap, and her face was swollen and high. But she struggled to her feet, tears only rolling in her eyes, but never falling. Wei Jianglian couldn't bear it in his heart, so he stopped the boss and waved his hand, and scolded with a straight face: "Isn't it just a bowl of porridge, you need to beat and scold like this?" It's just a child, I'll take care of it. But she was dressed so ragged, what was going on? ”

The boss saw that Wei Jianglian was angry and neatly dressed, so he didn't dare to be reckless. "This guest, it's not that I'm too harsh. Originally, this porridge shop was a small business, and the customers only saw that my things here were cheap and clean, so they often visited. This child is not a relative of mine, and she was only taken in so that she would not freeze to death, so that she would be given a place to sleep at night. As for eating land, you don't see that there are many beggars on the street, how can I help solve it, I still have a lot of children to feed! It is really a sin, the dignified son of heaven and the close minister, actually oppressed his tenant farmers like this, and now I don't know how many families want to sell their sons and daughters to pay the rent, alas! The boss sighed, and stopped talking to Weijiang and went to work on his own.

Weijiang Lian's heart was shocked, I had heard that many manors in Zhili had such a phenomenon, no wonder there were so many beggars on the streets of Baoding this year, and they had to be sent to the Huaren field every day just because of the starvation. I heard the servants in the yamen say that this year is still a bumper harvest, so the tenant farmers are not very troublesome, if it is a year of such a catastrophe, the entire Zhili Governor's Mansion will go to help the manors of the princes and ministers to suppress, and many people will be hanged just for making trouble. He thought that these words were just exaggerations, but now it seems that the actions of these powerful people are too much.

Weijianglian has always studied under Haiguanyu, and what he learned was the great principles of Confucianism, and he was only well-off, so he pretended not to see it

Impossible. He didn't dislike the little girl's dirtiness, he bent down to help her up, pressed her on the stool, and then ordered his wife: "Three more bowls of porridge, it should be thicker!" ”

The boss has been running this porridge shop for more than ten years, and he has never seen an extraordinarily dressed official who can take care of other people's lives and deaths, so he was stunned for a long time before he was busy serving porridge. The little girl was not polite, three bowls of steaming porridge went down, her face suddenly looked much better, and after taking a deep look at Wei Jianglian, she pushed away the stool and fell to the ground, knocking her head three times in a row.

"Master, save my father! They were arrested by the steward of the village and sent to the yamen, and you will send kindness to save them! The little girl cried while pleading, and the bitterness made Wei Jianglian unable to come to her senses for a while.

The boss was immediately angry and rushed forward two steps. reprimanded fiercely: "Do you still dare to cry out for your father and mother, and you want to kill this kind guest official?" He turned his head and explained to the Weijiang Federation with a solemn face. I heard that her father and mother were the leaders of Lord Xiao's Zhuangzi, and a few stewards were angry. Therefore, the prefect was gifted, and he wanted to kill one and do a hundred, and destroy the majesty of those mud legs. The guests must not listen to this little slut, otherwise they will have to eat and hang up! ”

Weijiang Liandi's face was already extremely ugly. What he heard just now was really unheard of, and he slapped the table, and Huo Di stood up. "The prefect of Baoding agreed?" He asked, word by word, "I have many laws and regulations, but I have never heard of tenants who resist tenants and are to be executed. Is there a royal law here? ”

His voice was not low, and it immediately attracted the attention of the other guests, and the originally noisy porridge shop suddenly fell silent. The boss immediately panicked, and complained bitterly in his heart, he knew that he was so long-winded, and it would be impossible for this idiot to go to the ring with the government. It's good now, but it's become my own mouth when I spread it. Thinking of this, he slapped himself in the mouth several times. I didn't dare to say a word more, and I still went about my business, but my eyes glanced here from time to time.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Weijianglian's heart was as translucent as a mirror. It seems that under the authority of these rich and rich slaves, no one dares to stand up for this little girl. If he was just pitiful and didn't want to meddle in things, he really couldn't stand by now. This kind of emotion of righteous indignation is almost non-existent for a superb person like him, but at this moment, Weijianglian is thinking of the gossip that is intensifying at the moment, for the hot phase of the teacher Haiguanyu, whether it is He Furong or Xiao Yunchao, they may be the black hands who framed the teacher. And what is happening now is the best excuse to make trouble.

When he was thinking about countermeasures, several errand officers suddenly appeared outside the door, and the appearance of the fox and the tiger suddenly made the people who drank porridge shrink into a ball. The leader scolded loudly: "I heard that you have taken in a little girl of unknown origin here? ”

The boss was shocked, and suddenly saw a few errand servants cowering behind a guest just now, and immediately understood what had happened, and couldn't help but sigh. "A few officials, the younger one just looks at her pitiful, if she really has any sins, you can just take it." Although his words were weak, he had already scolded in his heart, how could he afford such a wolf-like servant.

The lead officer suddenly became angry, and he knew that these small people did not dare to confront him, so he turned his head to the mouth of the messenger Nunu behind him, and motioned for them to go in and arrest people. Before he could move, a powerful voice came from inside: "In broad daylight, who dares to take people without reason, and take the credentials of the government to talk about it!" ”

"Li Tou'er, the people inside don't seem to be ordinary characters!" A sharp-eyed officer muttered softly to the leader.

Li Tou'er pursed his lips nonchalantly, "No matter who he is, in this Baoding Mansion, no one dares to go against the Xiao family, don't you see that the prefect is so strong as to a steward in that district?" His eyes were focused on the shop again, and he shouted: "Lao Tzu is the prefect's constitutional decree!" If you know each other, don't protect that little girl, otherwise you will inevitably have to suffer a lawsuit! ”

Weijianglian was furious when he heard this, but he didn't want to lose his demeanor in front of such people, so he immediately ordered the little girl to follow him, and the two of them went out of the porridge shop one after the other. I saw him smile contemptuously, "I'm here, if you have the ability, you might as well take this official to eat a lawsuit!" ”

Li Tou'er didn't know much about people, but there was an errand officer behind him who had seen the Weijiang Federation, and when he heard the word "this official", he carefully recognized the person, and he was immediately frightened and fell to the ground with a thud. "Little knock, knock Lord Wei!"

The onlookers couldn't help but be stunned, if the people who were mixed in the one-third of an acre of land in Zhili, if they didn't know where Lord Wei was sacred, they were not idiots or fools. I don't know who got up, and the crowd in Hulala fell to their knees, and a few of the officers who were showing off their might just now were even more frightened, and they had already scolded the report thousands of times in their hearts. Lingyun Zhiwei Traceless Chapter 6 Xiao Wall Chapter 5 Borrowing Topic