The Yangtze River south of the Zhili section, on the river surface, the axes and oars are connected, the tall masted big ships are endlessly on the river, the back and forth are wrong, and there are also mixed with the ferries driven by oars and struts on both sides of the Yangtze River to rush to carry passengers, and the needles are drilled in the gap between the big ships.

On both sides of the Yangtze River, the ridges are dense, all are continuous rice, which has matured, and the golden rice is hanging down and swaying gently in the wind, and the edge can not be seen at a glance, and it is a scene of a bumper harvest in sight.

At a small ferry on the bank of the river, someone was reciting an article in Wu Nong's soft language, but it was not a sage's study, but a newspaper in his hand that he didn't know what kind of Tao he was reading. There are also many passing travelers gathered in the surrounding area.

"In Gai County, there are many flower households, and the disaster is exempt, and they listen to the scriptures and books. The big family, the harvest can also be slowed down, the small household, and the apologetic ones are still full of recruits. And the large households only complete the correct amount, and the small households are even more arbitrary. …… The floating income of small households is offset by the shortage of large households. The officials do not levy well, and the small people have complaints, and in the long run, they will make the same mistakes as 200 years ago......"

"Today, the Soviet Union belongs to the law of complete endowment, and the strength and weakness of the noble and the low are the most. Not only are the gentry and the people not uniform, that is, the gentry and the gentry are not uniform, and the people are not uniform with the people; The gentry fold more silver, the least two or three buckets as a stone, the more increases, and the most one stone is a stone; The weakest people in the household are about three or four stones of silver as one stone, the strong ones have more than two stones of rice as one stone, and the strongest ones are also less than two stones of rice as one stone. Is it against the desire of the officials to force the people to support the gentry and suppress the people? ”

"Today, the family of the wealthy families in the south of Zhili has a wide range of land properties, and among them, those who have land tithe, and those who have no land tithe. And the rent of the field is high, and the few ones have to get out of the stone, and the heavy ones have a stone and five buckets. Although the tenants' houses are full of agricultural tools, they are also good at the quality of field tools. The field is exhausted and the yellow calf is sold. Those who are desperate or sell themselves to go to the South Seas and go to the Americas. Or take the family to the farm outside the border to survive. In such a world, how can there be a peaceful and prosperous world? ”

On a wooden bench, a middle-aged man in a Confucian shirt was reading with indignation, but was interrupted by a young man in Western clothes and a top hat.

"This gentleman, isn't the Emperor of Restoration the Holy Son of Heaven in the court now? The Ming Dynasty received Manchuria, and Korea, aided Japan, and saw that it was going to conquer Annam. The strength of the country is to catch up with the Tang Dynasty. How can there be so many things that make a living for the people? ”

As soon as the young man's words fell, the people waiting for the ferry on the ferry began to talk one after another, saying that Da Ming was good, and there were also those who said that Da Ming was not good.

"It's a bit heavy to say that the people don't have a good life, but the life of ordinary people is not much better than that of the Qing Dynasty, but the gentry and big families are much better. Their children have become local officials, can they not take care of their own people? Moreover, now that Emperor Zhu does not levy taxes, it means that they are exempted from half of the tax, but the rent they collect from the tenants only rises and does not fall, and the common people are still bitter after all. ”

"It's much better than when I was clearing. After all, the endowment is exempted, and even small families can pay two or three percent less tax than the original. And the price of food is also expensive, if you have your own land, you can always get by. It's that the land rent is still high, and it's hard to be a tenant! ”

"Fortunately, there are three ways for poor men to go to the South Seas, go to the Kanto, and run to the Americas...... Liangjiang here has no home here to work in the South Seas, go to the Americas to dig gold, this way is far away, the sea is stormy, I don't know how many people in the road were recruited by the Sea Dragon King! But there are still people who have made a fortune......"

"If you have a family, you can't go that far, and if you can't survive, you can only sign up for a collective farm to go to Kanto, and if you stay in Qingtar for a while, I'm afraid you can only wait to starve to death."

When the young man heard that he had broken into the eastern part of the country, his brows furrowed: "Why do you want to join the collective farm?" Can't you go on your own? ”

"I can't go by myself, I can't afford to pay for the money, I move my family, I have to eat and drink along the way, I have to have seeds and farm tools outside the border, I have to build my own house, and I have to prepare rations for more than half a year, which is not a small amount of money; Second, the land in the south of Kanto was either arranged for the military households of Liaodong Town, or given to the collective farms that had passed earlier, while the ground in the north was a bit chaotic, and the government did not allow individual peasant households to go, for fear that they would be captured by the Qing Tartars and the Mongol Tartars as clothed slaves. ”

Hearing someone talk about Tartar, some of the people present were filled with righteous indignation.

"Damn the Tartars, they have already become the Bohai Kingdom and are not giving up, they have voted for Lao Maozi and want to restore and turn our Han people into slaves of the Tartars and Lao Maozi! I heard that the Han people who were captured in the Northeast were worse than dead, their wives and daughters were raped, and they were still slaves to death! ”

"Yes, when will the imperial court send troops to wipe out the Tartars, there are so many lands outside the Guanwai and Mongolia, if only they could be reclaimed, there would be no one without land to plant......"

Hearing the words of these people, the young man's face became gloomy, and just as he wanted to say something, he was pulled by another man in a suit who came out of nowhere: "Yuanbao, a boat is coming, let's get on the boat." ”

This young man turned out to be Guerga. Yuanbao, I don't know how Lu Dao came to Liangjiang. The other man was born upright, with red lips and white teeth, a straight nose and a square mouth, and he was Su Shun, the leading guard of Bohai Gong Yixin. The two of them also took a lot of merchants everywhere, leading dozens of healthy horses carrying goods. I don't know what Lu Dao is doing in Jiangnan?

A sand boat had already docked, not an ordinary passenger carry, but a cargo ship, which seemed to have been taken down by Su Shun and them. Su Shun's retinue really pulled the horses onto the boat, and Su Shun also dragged Guerja. Yuan Bao got on the boat, sat down on the boat gang on the left and said in a low voice: "What do ordinary people know!" It's not Zhu ...... Blinded? ”

"You can't say that! Now it's not the time of the ancestors, how dare we! I read that these newspapers of the southerners are all ill-intentioned! ”

Su Shun sighed: "I'm afraid it's not the newspaper's ill-intentioned intentions, but the Zhu family's immortal heart of the Qing Dynasty, he is inciting public anger!" ”

"Hmph, he doesn't look at what kind of virtue he has in his country! Filthy officials are rampant, inferior gentry are domineering, and the small people are unbearable, compared to Emperor Yang of Sui at that time, they are not as good as Emperor Yang of Sui, and they still want to use troops abroad! ”

"Okay, don't talk about it, someone is coming."

A man with a crutch and a beard came over and sat on the other side of Su Shun, and Su Shun and Yuan Bao both bowed to the man: "Master Cao, when will you start the boat?" ”

The person who came was the owner of this sand boat, surnamed Cao, who was originally a disciple of the Cao Gang who ran the Grand Canal, and now the Cao Gang is weakened, and the Cao Gang disciples go ashore (go ashore as an underworld), and many people go to the South Seas to the Americas. But this Master Cao is still begging for a living on the water, and with a group of disciples driving a few sand boats to run transportation along the Yangtze River and canals near Yangzhou, the business is not good or bad, and he can always make a living.

Master Cao hugged his fist: "The two guest officers are going to Nanjing, right?" ”

"Go to Nanjing Xiaguan." Yuan Bao laughed almost like a way. "Our brother sells leather goods and grain, and when the leather goods are out, we will hire Master Cao's ship to transport the grain to the north, okay?"

Master Cao waved his hand and said: "It is cost-effective to transport grain to the north or hire a sea boat, now is not the time to clear the Tartar, the sea ship can be built as big as it wants, there is no limit, some big ships can hold 10,000 stone of rice grain, our Cao Gang's small boats can not be compared." ”

Yuan Bao snorted: "As soon as this big sea ship appeared, I don't know how many brothers who ran the boat lost their jobs!" In a certain opinion, today's world is just a poor toss, and the rules left by the ancestors are not very good, so what to do with it? The originally good peaceful and prosperous world has changed to a poor life! ”

Su Shun is the first to return to the Ming Dynasty on the territory of the Ming Dynasty, I don't know that the Ming Dynasty does not control speech much, almost no people who have been convicted for words, hearing Yuanbao's words, hurriedly said: "Yuanbao, don't say it, state affairs have nothing to do with us, state affairs are all in the hands of the masters, we are businessmen who run business." ”

Master Cao sneered, "Isn't this brother from the North?" ”

Su Shun was stunned for a moment, and smiled reluctantly: "The north and the south are all one family, and the above things have nothing to do with our business." ”

Master Cao smiled: "It's not completely irrelevant, in the eight southeastern provinces, as long as you pay enough taxes, you can discuss the government and politics, and you can also elect members of the public bureau, it's not a secret, brother, I am a member of the public bureau of Yizheng County!" We can't take care of state affairs, we can ask about the affairs of this county. (To be continued......)