Yun Shu since he arrived in the Yan and Song Dynasty is most afraid of facing the cruelty of feudal society, most of the ordinary people in later generations only know the ancient talents and beauties and poetry and songs, and a little more are loyal ministers and famous generals and all kinds of battles that win more with less, as well as mediocre or virtuous emperors, but who cares about the real common people?

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But these refugees-like White Lotus Sect members in front of them are still struggling for survival, even sacrificing. What I saw in their eyes was despair and helplessness, and I finally knew why some people rebelled, the reason was very simple, because they couldn't live, people were forced to do anything.

As the movie says, "What if everyone wants to rebel when they have a good life!" When the children saw the cheers of Yun Shu's convoy and the satisfied sighs of the old people, Yun Shu felt that if he let them rejoin the White Lotus Sect, they would not have a second word, just because they had food in their hands that could keep them alive!

The children put the raw flour in the car directly into their mouths and swallowed it dryly, and from time to time they choked on the flour and coughed.

Looking at this hellish scene on earth blankly, Yun Shu has only seen the scene in front of him in movies, but if he really makes these movies, I am afraid that they will also fall within the scope of banning.

The water and noodles were roasted on wood, and because they did not bring a pot with them, they could only use this method of earth, and you can see how tired the children were of eating it from their dark teeth and mouths.

Yun Shu didn't want to complain about the feudal society, all this in front of him may not be anything at all in the thousands of years of dynastic changes, all he could do was to bring them back to Ping'an Village to make their lives better, that's all.

Looking at Zhao Qianyunshu, who was crying in her arms, she didn't know how to comfort her, so she could only keep patting her back.

When he was in college, the professor once talked about the life of the people at the bottom of the feudal society, and Yunshu, who came to the Yan Song Dynasty, also saw the appearance of Ping'an Village, although their life could not be called rich, but food and clothing should be no problem, and they could get supplies from Wangwu Mountain.

So who are these people in front of you? Why are they different from the villagers of Ping'an Village?

I got the answer from Zhao Qian, because these people are all yeoman farmers or tenants, to be precise, they are some yeoman farmers who have been annexed by land and tenants who have been exploited and exploited.

The tenants of the Yan and Song Dynasty do not mean that they are squeezed and exploited, if they meet a good landlord, they even pay less food than taxes, otherwise they will be squeezed by the landlord, if there are red and white things in the family or someone is sick, they can only go out to borrow, usury is not unique to later generations, this is actually the leftover things of the ancestors.

During the reign of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, many nobles took up the work of helping money lenders collect their debts. They use government power to collect accounts and then collect a share of them. There is a record of preparation in the Book of Han: "According to its rights, no one dares to bear the burden of the county." ”

There are even more bizarre things, in addition to the prosperity of private usury during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Buddhism was very popular in the Northern and Southern Dynasties at that time, and the emperor often took the lead in giving alms, resulting in many temples being very wealthy. At this time, those monks began to rely on money to make money, and started a usury business, which is called Changsheng Treasury.

And most of these people in front of them had borrowed the money from the Immortal Treasury and couldn't pay it back regularly, so they had no choice but to join the White Lotus Sect. Because the White Lotus Sect could give them food, they worked hard in exchange for money to pay back to those monks, but the more they owed the profits, the more they owed, and finally they became the object of oppression.

Most of the tenants in the White Lotus Sect in front of him were like this, and in Yun Shu's opinion, these so-called monks were simply a group of beasts dressed in monk's robes. The young and strong ones had already run away with Wang Ze, leaving behind the old men, women, and children.

The main idea of Taizu Zhao Kuangyin is to hide the wealth from the people, he believes that no matter how rich the annexor is, as long as it is within the land of the Great Song Dynasty, through taxation, it will eventually be owned by the state.

In the Yan and Song dynasties, agricultural productivity developed rapidly and the economy flourished unprecedentedly. In such an economically developed situation, such an important commodity as land will inevitably be swept into the market and become a commodity to be bought and sold.

But the Yan Song Dynasty did not suppress it, in the eyes of the officials, no matter how to buy and sell land, it had no impact on the country's taxes, because there was no tax-exempt land in the Yan Song Dynasty, even if it was ranked as the third public, it was necessary to pay taxes, and land annexation could only be more convenient to collect taxes.

Yun Shu originally had a very good impression of Yan Song, and seeing the life of Ping'an Village like a paradise and the magistrate of Zhou Yunlong made him have an illusion, mistakenly thinking that all the places in Yan Song were like Taoyuan County, but he made an extremely ridiculous mistake, and there were particularities in things.

How can a mountain village be compared to a rural village? Nature's gifts have given the mountain people more room to develop, and the scarcity of land has reduced the amount of taxes they need to pay, and mountain goods can also replace part of the taxes. Animal skins can also be exchanged for money when they enter the city.

Yun Shu, who discovered the truth, was disillusioned with the beauty of Yan Song, and in his imagination Yan Song should be an economically prosperous person, the rise of handicrafts and commerce made farmers shift from rural to urban areas, and at the same time led to the development of commerce, forming a virtuous circle.

But the strict hierarchy bound the people of Yan and Song like shackles.

Li Hu's ox cart came at a good time, and the refugees who had eaten and drunk enough had already begun to walk in the direction of Ping'an Village, and those who were sick or had broken feet got on the ox cart.

Yun Shu walked mechanically at the front of the team, and the impact of all this in front of him was too great, and when he came to Yan Song, he saw a person who was hungry and unclothed for the first time, which made him begin to doubt history.

The common disease of human beings is to love vanity, from the common people to a generation of emperors, the records in the history books will always only be like what they want, there are great achievements, there are loyal ministers and good looks, and there are Qin Hui who everyone gets and is punished, but who will record the ordinary people who are struggling on the poverty line? The history books don't say a word!

In the eyes of literati, including historiography like Sima Qian, the people who supported the empire still couldn't get on the table. It is only in the event of a great natural disaster that the tragic situation of the people is mentioned to warn future generations.

In Yun Shu's previous impression, Yan Song should be a country without worrying about food and clothing, because no matter how bad the business prosperity is, they will not starve to death if they go to the city to work, but from the mouths of these people, I know that the reason why they don't go to the city is actually because they don't want to give up their identity as farmers.

Among the four people, the peasants of the "Shinong Industrialist" had a higher status than the craftsmen and merchants, second only to the scholars, and even above the officials in the yamen!

Their children can participate in the imperial examination and have the possibility of transforming into scholars, but the children of the current Yan and Song merchants cannot participate in the imperial examination. This group of refugees who can't even eat is still thinking about keeping the household registration of the farmer and struggling on the line of life and death for the future generations of their children, Yun Shu doesn't know whether to admire them or scold.

With food, the hearts of the people were bottomed, the speed of the march was much faster, and the children also showed innocent smiles, and the wreaths of unknown wildflowers on their heads ran back and forth around the convoy.

Yang Wei didn't have a good impression of these refugees-like White Lotus Sect members, in his opinion, these were all unstable elements who threatened Yan Song, Yun Shu pointed to the skinny children and the old man and said, "These people are all your compatriots, look at which of them can pick up a long sword and a sharp sword?" People do not have the right to choose their own birth, but they have the right to control their own life and death. How many dynasties fell to peasant revolts?

It's just that these old people and children can't survive now, and it doesn't pose much of a threat to Yan Song, but if one day all the peasants can't survive, who else can stop them at that time? Taizu's wealth encouraged land annexation, and as long as the imperial court could receive taxes from the land, who cared if there was blood on those taxes? Finding the cold light flashing in Yang Wei's eyes, Yun Shu's heart was even more angry, could it be that the lives of these people were so cheap that they could be sacrificed at any time?

Yang Wei's words were creepy, and the land annexation that he was accustomed to had such a big drawback after Yun Shu's analysis.

"In that case, why didn't the ministers of the court explain it to the officials?"

"Which of these people who have annexed the most land does not have the shadow of a big man behind him? …… You know! Wang Xianggong's change was unanimously opposed by all officials from famous families as soon as it was proposed, and I don't need to say more about the reasons. ”

Yun Shu's words hit the nail on the head, and Yang Wei found himself speechless.

The people regained their vitality, and after learning that Yun Shu was actually an official and a gentleman of the school, the old man and the woman knelt down and begged Yun Shu to take in the children so that they could go to the school.

It wasn't until Yun Shu repeatedly promised that these children could read that the people on the ground were helped up, and the silent old Taoist finally sighed and said, "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable!" It's true that fortune and misfortune depend on each other, people who were about to starve to death before have now found a way to live, and they can still find a gentleman for these little dolls, which is really a blessing from Sanqing! ”

Yang Wei smiled noncommittally and asked, "Old Niubi, what kind of scene do you say if Brother Yun enters the court?" ”

Lao Dao took a breath and said, "I don't know what it is, at least it's better than those people who are on a vegetarian diet!" In his eyes, all people are human beings, and all lives are precious. He can run so far for these people to come to the rescue, who can do it among the ministers in the court? I'm afraid they sent not food and convoys, but an army with sharp shackles! ”

"You're speaking in a meaner tone!"

"Aren't you?"