Chapter Forty-Eight: The Real Tang People
"Zhumen is drunk and smelly, and there are frozen bones on the road."
"Those who are all over Luo Qi are not silkworm breeders."
"There is no idle land in the four seas, and the farmers are still starving to death."
In the past, these poems in later generations seemed to be a bit exaggerated in Xu Yang's eyes, and Xu Yang felt that where could the people be so unbearable, so that a little clever would not starve to death.
But today, after a morning of strolling around the Zhuangzi, Xu Yang really realized the passage that Marx once wrote: "Labor produces amazing works (miracles) for the rich, but labor produces abject poverty for the laborers." Labor produces the palace, but it produces the cave for the laborer. Labor produces beauty, but it produces deformity for laborers. This sentence.
Xu Yang saw that the lives of the working people in these Zhuangzi were indeed deformed.
Just for one thing, eat.
Live to eat.
The splendid and colorful life in Youzhou City is insulated from them, they never know shopping, but they will simply barter, and the family's savings are only dozens of yuan, and they are all paid by the strong men of the family every year to participate in the military exercises in the inner government.
The grain produced throughout the year is not enough for even their own family to eat, so the strong men of the family go out to sea to fish together, and every time they can catch a fish back, they can open meat once.
The children in Zhuangzi are hungry all day long, they eat everything, and the beef jerky that Xu Yang gave them is regarded as a treasure, and they don't want to eat until they are extremely hungry, and they will chew slowly when they eat a grain, and chew it until it completely becomes minced meat before swallowing it.
The women of the peasant families lived by counting the grains of rice every day, and went to the fields every day to dig wild vegetables and come back to eat.
Dilapidation, misery, and poverty are the perfect portrayal of this Zhuangzi.
"Steward Liu, how do you pay the taxes of the people of the Tang Dynasty?" Xu Yang asked the long beard worriedly at noon.
Steward Liu thought that Xu Yang wanted to collect rent, and hurriedly said: "Sir, the rent we collect now is the rent of the average field, one-thirtieth of the yield per mu. ”
When Xu Yang heard that the long beard was still thinking about the harvest of this group of poor people, he stood up angrily, and the glass smashed on him at once, falling to the ground and shattering.
"Steward Liu! You're still not human, and you see how pitiful these farmers are! You still want to exploit their last bit of food! Xu Yang scolded.
The long beard didn't seem to react, and hurriedly knelt down, kowtowed, and said: "The villain is guilty, the villain deserves to die, the villain is guilty, the villain deserves to die." ”
Xu Yang sighed helplessly and sat down decadently.
As soon as he remembered that all the people in the entire Datang were as miserable as the people in this village, he blamed himself for a while, feeling like the compatriots in his own country had now become African refugees, but he didn't know how to save them.
Steward Liu is not guilty, what is guilty is this cannibalistic society.
"Get up." Xu Yang said helplessly.
Steward Liu stood up with a red and swollen head, "Lord Xie will not be punished." ”
Xu Yang sat on the chair and said to Steward Liu, who was standing respectfully next to him: "Steward Liu, you sue me, why do those children of the family in Youzhou City live so happily, and the four hundred bicycles are bought directly without even looking at them, and no one here asks if they are dying of hunger?" ”
Steward Liu didn't seem to have been punished just now, and said seriously: "The slave doesn't know, the slave only knows that he is born with fate, born in the emperor's house, he will become a dragon and a phoenix, and he will suffer and suffer if he is born in this rural area, this is fate, and he can't be forced." ”
"Fate? I've never believed in fate. Xu Yang sighed, he almost wanted to shout the slogan of the prince and the prince Xiangning, but he knew that he couldn't say it, and if he said it, he wouldn't be able to fall to the ground one day.
"The lord is kind-hearted, if you want to waive the rent of these farmers this year, it must be very popular, and these farmers can also have a better life." Steward Liu seemed to see Xu Yang's purpose.
"Alas, it is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish." Xu Yang spit out a sentence that Steward Liu couldn't understand.
In the afternoon, Xu Yang accompanied a group of children and four or five fishermen to the sea to fish.
Maozhuang is actually not far from the sea, walk for twenty minutes to the sea, looking at the golden sand, the majestic waves sweep the white sand, the blue sea, as if it is a flawless sapphire, smelling the sea breeze, all the unhappiness in Xu Yang's heart was thrown out of the clouds, he laughed, ran, took off his shoes, threw away his shirt and mobile phone, and rushed into the waves.
"Ahh Ocean! "Xu Yang was not far from the sea in J City in his previous life, but because he just worked this summer, in order to leave a good impression on his boss, Xu Yang had the opportunity to never go to the beach to play.
Unexpectedly, this time I played, it was already a matter of things and people, and I was in the Tang Dynasty 1,400 years ago.
With tears in his eyes, he shouted the names of his parents and wife, and this qiē said goodbye to him, he was not in a dream, it was really the Tang Dynasty thousands of years ago
Xu Yang wore a shirt that had just been changed, and got on the fishing boat with a group of farmers, the fishing boat was very small, the size of a speedboat in later generations, a total of eight people, Xu Yang and his two bodyguards came up to see and see.
There are three children, but they don't look like children at all, skillfully dialing the net, looking for wires, pulling lines, and bundling, the children of poor families are already in charge, Xu Yang looked at them lovingly and nodded like little adults.
Because there were guests on board today, the two fishermen did not dare to sail too far from the boat, and began to cast their nets to catch fish not very far from the coast.
The net they used was made of linen, gray-black, with dense holes, Xu Yang tried it, and the toughness was average.
It was too close to the coast, and it was destined not to be a big harvest today, with only five or six small fish as long as one hand. But you can also see the excitement of the two fishermen, who must have thought that there would be no harvest on such a close shore.
The three children looked at the small fish, their eyes glowing green, and they must have been hungry.
Everyone went home together, and the owner of the village had been waiting for a long time, because the farmers generally did not eat lunch, so dinner was relatively early, and it began at five o'clock.
"The lord is here, come and eat, countryman, there is nothing to entertain, please forgive me."
"It's okay, it's okay."
"How many more fish have you caught here? Great, just short of meat dishes, let the lord taste the flavor of our seaside. ”
Dinner was served, the place to eat was under the banyan tree at the head of the village, a low table was set up, Xu Yang saw those children who were foaming at the mouth, and thought that this meal should be very good, but when he knelt at the low table, he couldn't help crying.
Millet porridge, some black things, five grilled fish, a plate of green vegetables, this is the most sumptuous meal for the people of the Tang Dynasty.
Xu Yang finished the meal with tears in his eyes.
When Xu Yang returned to Youzhou City in half a month, a new slogan was added to the canteen of the chengguan brigade from then on, which was also the slogan that the chengguan remembered when eating.
'A porridge and a meal, when thinking about where it comes from, it is not easy; Half a thread and half a thread, the constant thought of material resources is difficult. ’
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