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Looking at the continuous wasteland outside the car, Chen Zhi couldn't help asking, the objects of this inquiry were Tao Ya and Zhao Xing.

Compared with Jiangnan scholars like Lu Ying, scholars like Tao Ya and Zhao Xing, who have traveled to many places, undoubtedly know more about some situations in various parts of the north.

Along the way, many things have happened in recent decades, and the collection of books in Chen Zhi's heart has not been recorded in detail, let alone the memories from later generations, so most of them have to ask Zhao Xing and Tao Ya.

However, the further he went north, the more Chen Zhi noticed a problem, that is, compared with Xuzhou, after entering Qingzhou, the number of wilderness and wasteland increased significantly.

The further north you go, the more obvious this becomes.

Tao Ya and Zhao Xing listened, glanced at each other, or Tao Ya spoke: "This is because of the war in the north before, which greatly reduced the population, and many places east of Luoyang, the national capital, have been densely forested and full of wild beasts until now. ”

Zhao Xing also nodded and said: "Even if it is a place with a large population, in fact, there are many yellow fields, Shu Huigong once said, the ten counties of the state division, the soil is narrow and the people are numerous, especially the three Wei, and the pigs, sheep and horses are herded, and the territory of Buqi." ”

Chen Zhi listened, but pondered.

"Where there is a dense population, there are also wastelands? Is that because of the war, or is it something else? ”

Along the way, he found a lot of problems, and faintly realized that in today's era, there are actually a lot of land contradictions, and there are contradictions about land, for the feudal dynasty......

"That's damning."

Shaking his head, Chen Zhi saw the shadow of the village in front of him, as well as the figures wandering around the village, these were undoubtedly local farmers, but at a glance, compared to those in Xuzhou, they were thinner and their clothes were more simple.

Looking at it, he couldn't help but say: "The people in this town don't seem to be doing very well." ”

"This is probably because this land is a gongtian." Zhao Xing was silent for a while and said this.

In Chen Zhi's mind, a corresponding memory suddenly emerged, although he went out to study, he could take the Spring and Autumn pillow with him, and still read and play chess in his dreams every night, so many books in his heart have been read, some of which are about the history of the founding of the New Han Dynasty.

This part of history is written quite obscurely, and there are actually praises and disapprovals for some big figures, but Chen Zhi is not interested in these, what kind of character those people are, he knew in his previous life, and there is no need to understand it at this time, so he pays attention to other information revealed when describing these characters.

"From those historical materials, it can be seen that in fact, the land ownership system of the New Han Dynasty has two major divisions, part of which is given by the state, and part of it is private trading, and the land granted by the state is generally related to military merits and official positions, and private trading is not something that ordinary people can do, and they are generally landlords and heroes."

Thinking about it, the group of them got out of the car, and the three elders and other township officials in the town also got the news and greeted them one after another, and immediately greeted them, and then the three of them walked into the village as before.

This entry into existence, Chen Zhi felt even more that the people here were different from the villagers in Xuzhou.

He remained silent for a while, and when someone in the town had a banquet and everyone had eaten and started chatting, he asked, "Are the villagers here also tenants?" ”

Tenants, that is, tenants who rent the landlord's land for farming, can easily form a complete dependency relationship in this era.

The man in the town said: "Yes, our entire village and town are tenants of Master Zhao, this Master Zhao is a good man, the two years have not been good, those who really can't get by, will be reduced by one or two percent of the land rent, so that the family will not be ruined, I don't know how much better than the lord in other places." ”

As soon as these words came out, there was a sudden silence at the dinner table, and even Tao Ya and Zhao Xing were stunned when they heard it, and then looked up and down, and looked at this husband carefully.

This person is about thirty or forty years old, although he has an official position, but at first glance he looks like a farmer in the field, he looks very simple, his clothes are even more ordinary, and his expression is as usual when he speaks, not as if he is fake, and he is obviously sincere, but this statement is very surprising.

You must know that Chen Zhi's convoy came all the way from the south, although they would only find a village and town to settle down and spend the night every night, but they passed through more than one village and town during the day, and they also met many landlords in villages and towns.

In the past two years, natural disasters and man-made disasters in Xuzhou, Qingzhou, have not only had a bad harvest, not only this place, but also many villages and towns along the way, and those wealthy families who occupied a large amount of land did have a dime a dime, forcing the tenants to be desperate, but more will be somewhat reduced, after all, they have to consider reputation.

Fame is very important in future generations where money is success and there is no fear, not to mention this era when fame equals the future?

Even many villages, towns, and county towns along the way, in order to win a good reputation and evaluate a good township product in the coming year, basically reduce the field rent, and most of them are reduced for every household, such as Mr. Qinghu of the Wuyuan royal family, in the land under his own name, is directly exempted from everyone's field rent.

In fact, this move is nothing to the scholars, and its significance to the people who have suffered from the disaster is very limited, but it is much better than the old man in the mouth of this Qiangfu, especially in the village and town not far from this village and town, over a mountain, where an old gentleman from the county official to the official gave the whole village fifty percent of the land rent.

In such a comparison, Master Zhao in this period is not at all related to the great good people, but the tone of the Qiang man is so determined.

At this time, Chen Zhi suddenly asked: "Zhang Qiangfu, have you ever traveled on weekdays?" ”

The Qiang man shook his head and said, "I only went to Lanling County seven years ago, and since then, I have been staying in my hometown because of natural disasters and thieves. ”

When the people heard this, they understood.

Living in one place for a long time, everything you see and hear is blocked, even if you can receive news from the outside world from certain channels, but even in the information age in the future, there is still no shortage of people who sit in the well and watch the sky, let alone now?

In fact, this is also the reason why the children of the family will try to travel the world if they have a little foundation, and it is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books, not just to raise hope.

After three rounds of drinking, Zhao Xing was interested and asked, "That Master Zhao, why is he missing?" ”

Qiang Fu said: "Master Zhao went to the field to supervise these two days, because the harvest is not good, there are many people in the field who are lazy and cheating, and Master Zhao is not worried about the people below, so he went over in person." ”

When Zhao Xing heard this, he couldn't help but smile and said, "It seems that this old man Zhao is from a businessman." ”

Qiang nodded.

Then the topic changed and said some other things, but whether it was the Qiang husband or the three elders, it was not a single acre and three points of land, either the Zhang family, or the Li family, or the farm work was not good.

After being full of wine and food, Qiang Fu and the others said goodbye, leaving Chen Zhi and them, Liu Gangxian couldn't help but mutter: "I listen to the words of that Qiang Fu, what is this Master Zhao, it's really not a thing, stingy and harsh, but he still makes people talk about his benefits everywhere, and it is really a loss that Qiang Fu can boast about." ”

Tao Ya laughed, shook his head and said: "Yunji, you are wrong, that Zhang Qiang is not boasting from his heart, but from the bottom of his heart." ”

"How is this possible?" Liu Gang looked surprised, at the previous banquet, Chen Zhi and the others roughly guessed the reason, but Liu Gang didn't think about it so much, this has nothing to do with wisdom, it is purely the accumulation of experience.

Chen Zhi smiled at this time: "The reason why you are surprised is because your Liu family often reduces the rent of tenants, and I don't think that this old man Zhao's behavior is merciful, but you know, before I came, I reduced all the land rent of my tenants this year, if you suddenly tell me that your Liu family is a great good person, do you think I will be surprised?" Am I more merciful than your family? ”

As soon as he said this, Liu Gang understood, and he also laughed: "Brother Shouyi, you are praising yourself in a different way." ”

The group burst into laughter.

After a few words, Lu Ying asked Chen Zhi's next plan: "I see that this village and town are quite poor, it seems that there is something inside, why don't you stay for two more days, investigate, and figure it out, how about it?" ”

Since it was a few friends who traveled together and found a problem, they must have the intention to investigate, Lu Ying's proposal is not strange, and everyone else agreed, anyway, their own team has prepared a lot of things, except for occupying a house, it has no actual impact on this village and town, so there is no need to be too scrupulous.

In this way, Chen Zhi and the others stayed here for the night.

For them, it was an ordinary night of study tours, but for Wei Ou and the others, it was a sleepless night, and they were waiting for the news to come back.

After sending fast horses, the county lieutenants of Wuyuan County, Fuyang County and Lanling County were notified.

What Yu Qi suggested at that time was that it was enough to give Wuyuan County a county notice, but Wei Ou felt that it was not safe, and notified three counties in his last breath, of which Wuyuan County and Fuyang County belonged to Pengcheng County, while Lanling County belonged to Donghai County.

Under the potential influence of Wei Ou and others, as well as the effect of the tiger skin of Xingtan Dao, the officialdom of these three counties did not dare to despise it, and immediately organized manpower, and even alarmed a foreign army stationed in the local area because they could not figure out the strength of the horse thief.

This is not the local garrison, but after Zhu Shou led the army over, according to Chen Zhi's military strategy, he left a soldier and horse in case of emergency, and the commander of this army was a deputy general of Zhu Shou, named Yang Shuo.

At this moment, Yang Shuo had just fallen asleep when he was woken up by the staff and informed of the incident.