"Please, don't bite me, I'm going to save my son!"

Xu Shuixian kept begging the snake in front of her, and the snake seemed to have heard her heart, climbed directly onto another tree trunk, and then lay on it motionless.

At this time, the slaves of the Guan family who came to hunt down Xu Shuixian were getting closer and closer.

Xu Shuixian had to hide in the grass, not daring to make a sound, and his heart was even more scared than when he saw the snake just now.

But when the slave of the Guan family was only ten steps away from Xu Shuixian, the snake lying on the trunk of the tree actually moved, which frightened Xu Shuixian's eyes wide, and cold sweat broke out on her back, but she didn't dare to move, for fear that the slave of the Guan family would find out if she moved.

Fortunately, the snake did not crawl towards Xu Shuixian, but crawled towards the opposite side.

"Ahh Just when Xu Shuixian breathed a sigh of relief, he saw the slave of the Guan family in front of him jump up, and then saw the slave of the Guan family roaring: "Lao Tzu was bitten by a snake!" ”

Several people behind him hurriedly came over to take a look, and one of them took a few steps back in shock: "Mom, this is a five-step snake!" ”

"Five-step snake!" Even Xu Shuixian trembled when she heard it, she heard Gongzi say that the most poisonous snake in eastern Sichuan is the five-step snake, once bitten, it is basically sentenced to death.

For this reason, Childe once held a special meeting to tell the villagers to be careful of the five-step snake when entering the mountain, but she didn't expect that the snake less than half a foot away from her just now was actually a five-step snake.

"You said that our master is true, in the middle of the night, he asked us to come to this wilderness to find the surnamed Xu, and he wanted to kill her on the way.

This is good, no one found it, Guan Long was bitten by a five-step snake. I think we'd better go back, lest we take another life."

Xu Shuixian heard one of the Guan family slaves complaining about Guan Jiaren and saying that he would kill himself, and he couldn't help but be secretly afraid, thinking that it was good that he was not discovered by them, otherwise he would have died.

Seeing these Guan family servants leave, Xu Shuixian quietly got out of the grass, but found that his clothes were already wet with sweat, his heart was pounding, and his legs were already weak.

But as soon as he thought that his beloved son was in danger, Xu Shuixian had to grit his teeth and continue to run.

……

Yang Ming didn't know that Zhai Xianghe, the county commander of Dongxiang County, wanted to harm him, and he didn't know that Guan Jiaren, the talented talent he recruited, had ulterior motives for coming to Hanjia Village.

As a modern person, Yang Ming's judgment on the direction of history, as well as his ideas and thoughts, are above those of the Ming Dynasty, but if it comes to scheming and conspiracy, Yang Ming is not as sophisticated as these feudal scholars.

What's more, Yang Ming also hopes that the government can recognize the fact of the existence of Hanjia Village, instead of dealing with it according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, where the displaced people have to be filled with troops and distributed.

"History of the Ming Dynasty: Food and Goods" explains that the homeless people are the ones who are hungry or avoid the army, and they are called homeless. In other words, migrants who have not received permission from the government and have not been registered in the place where they have moved are all migrants.

Hanjia Village is undoubtedly a village of displaced people who have not been registered in the local household register, and the government either suppresses or appeases the local officials.

Therefore, as soon as he received the invitation of the county magistrate of Dongxiang County, Yang Ming felt that this was an excellent opportunity for Hanjia Village to be recognized by the government, but he did not expect that the illegal existence of Hanjia Village in Dongxiang County was not only a problem of displaced people, but also aroused the greed of the local squire officials.

Thousands of acres of fertile land and nearly 10,000 stones of grain are coveted by anyone who sees them.

Yang Ming also knew that in the chaotic era of the late Ming Dynasty, it was an era when a large number of yeoman farmers went bankrupt, natural villages were frantically plundered by officials and soldiers, bureaucrats and gentry uncontrollably annexed land, and court officials endlessly increased taxes, and Hanjia Village was entirely likely to become the object of carve-up and plunder by these rulers.

But now the strength of Hanjia Village is weak, and it is possible to defeat a few bandits, but it really does not have the strength to oppose the entire ruling class of the empire.

Since ancient times, the rulers who control the state apparatus are the biggest bandits, and the weak Hanjia village must rely on the biggest bandits to survive and grow.

In order to be recognized by the Ming Dynasty, the biggest bandit and bandit, Yang Ming had already prepared that as long as the county decree allowed Hanjia Village to exist, he could pay taxes.

The effect of the collection of taxes was an important criterion for evaluating local officials in various dynasties, and perhaps the Dongxiang County Decree allowed Hanjia Village to register and enter the household in order to add points to his political achievements.

Moreover, since ancient times, the ruler will not play the role of eating too ugly for the sake of social stability, as long as you hand over a little thing to honor, he will not exploit too much, for example, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there are examples of re-registering the displaced people in the Xunyang area, and setting up a special governor agency for this purpose, rather than blindly exterminating and slaughtering.

It didn't take long for the sky to be bright, the moon was gradually dimming, and the mountains were gilded with a layer of gold in the sky, and the brilliant light shining on the gold edge made Yang Ming, who was walking on the official road at this time, have to block his eyes with a folding fan in his hand.

Since he was going to the county seat to meet the county order, Yang Ming specially changed into a jade-colored Huluo shirt, a wide-sleeved soap belt, black boots on a white background, a square scarf on his head, and a folding fan in his hand. And Chen Daharizi and Bai Qian are accompanied by slaves dressed as slaves, which makes people think that they are the best sons of big families.

"Childe, the front is Dongxiang County", Chen Daharizi put the blanket in his hand back on his shoulder, pointed to the Dongxiang County town looming in the distance, and said excitedly.

"It's finally here", Yang Ming saw this ancient building with blue bricks and green tiles for the first time, and when he was about to take a good look, he saw that there were countless displaced people living around the root of the city wall, most of them were skinny, only in tattered clothes, curled up in a small space, with empty eyes and numb expressions.

This scene in front of him made Yang Ming a little stunned, and he couldn't help but think that if he and his fellow villagers hadn't chosen an abandoned village to establish Hanjia Village, they would be like these displaced people who had lost their land and homes, so they could only live around the city wall and make a living by begging in the town.

Yang Ming was about to enter the city, when he saw an old man with silver hair and thin yellow muscles in front of him on his back, a cracked and swarthy hand was holding a little boy with a big belly and obvious ribs, while the other hand was holding a broken bowl with half missing and begged the soldiers guarding the city: "Master Jun, please let us in, my child hasn't eaten for two days." ”

But as soon as the old man finished speaking, he saw the soldier directly kick the old man aside: "Go away!" Don't even think about going into town if you don't have money! ”

Yang Ming hurriedly supported the old man: "Old man, it's okay", the old man thanked him and pulled the little boy to the side, and at this time, a few homeless people with broken bowls and children came over, but they were still driven out by the soldiers: "Those who have a road guide will take out the road guide, and those who don't have a road guide can enter the city after paying twenty yuan!" ”