Chapter 86 The Life of the People of Yizhou

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Last night, I told the story to Cui Yingying very late, and in the end, talking and talking, Li Su fell asleep telling herself, this story is novel, interesting, and a little scary, but Cui Yingying was so excited that she didn't fall asleep in the middle of the night, and after Li Su got up in the morning, she still lay on the bed and refused to get up.

Pinching his fingers, Li Su thought that the days of Yizhou were ten days and eight days, and since he was the parent official of the people of Yizhou, he had to fulfill his duties, no, he could not lead the court's Yulu not to work, although this year's two hundred yuan of Yulu was only equivalent to a drop in the bucket for him, but he could not live up to Li Shimin's good intentions, so Li Su changed into a simple outfit and took twenty nursing homes out of Yizhou City, and the world outside the city can best reflect the real living conditions of the people.

There are a total of 14 county seats around Yizhou City, and the nearest county seat of Yizhou City is called Yangshu County, Li Su and his party did not take the road leading to the county seat, but chose the neighboring path, the people who can live in the city are generally good, how can they be regarded as rich households, and the real poor people are distributed in the villages outside the city.

Along the dirt path, Li Su from time to time to look at the road on both sides of the dense forest has never opened, from Chang'an to Yizhou journey, Li Su sighed the most is the original natural environment of the Tang Dynasty, the rare animals that were imprisoned in the park in the 21st century are here with no money, running around, once, Li Su even bumped into a tiger, but he was scared enough, so, every time he passed through the dense forest, Li Su's attention was highly concentrated, for fear of running out of the forest.

The high-quality environment makes the air visibility of the Tang Dynasty very high, and it is not an exaggeration to say that a hundred miles at a glance, after walking for a while, the group saw a village, Li Su accelerated his pace and walked three miles, and then he arrived in the village.

Li Su and the guards are now dressed like passing merchants, and the people who come and go in the village are busy with their own affairs at a glance, but there are some children who think it is funny and run around the front and back of the team.

As soon as he entered the village, Li Su carefully observed these villagers, compared with the people in Yizhou City, the living standards of these people have dropped by several grades, basically wearing ragged clothes, and the slightly better ones are also patched all over their bodies, and their faces are pale.

Passing by a house, Li Su saw an old woman in her forties tying up the firewood in her hand, Li Su stepped forward and asked, "Grandma, I am a passing merchant, can I beg for water?" ”

The old man hooked his waist, heard the sound, looked at Li Su and his party, the wrinkles on his face were in a ball, and said with a smile: "Wait a minute, I'll take it for you." As he spoke, he entered the thatched hut, and after a while, he came out with a scoop and said, "Xiao Langjun drink!" ”

The old man's pure eyes made Li Su feel cordial, he took the water scoop and said, "Grandma, are you alone at home?" ”

"No, I have a son!"

"Then why isn't he home?"

"Hey, this year's harvest is not good, there is no ration at home, he went hunting with the people in the village, and it hasn't been long since he left!"

Li Su took a sip of water and said, "I heard that Yizhou is rich, why is Grandma's family so poor, and now the Holy One has promulgated the "Juntian Order", haven't the officials here given you enough land?" ”

"It's divided!" , Grandma sighed: "It's just that this good land has been divided by the officials and wang clans in Yizhou, and the rest is the turn of us people, these lands are not irrigation fields, and we can't harvest much rice, and this year's autumn grain is two percent higher than last year's, how can there be anything left?" ”

Li Su frowned, it's just that the uneven distribution of this field is just that, in the past few years, Datang has recuperated, and there is no war, and there is no tax reduction, how can it still be raised?

"Thank you, Grandma!" Li Su casually asked a few words to get such information, the more he thought about it, it was not right, he returned the water scoop to Grandma and was about to leave, suddenly thought of something, and said: "Grandma, recently the King of Shu has been recruited to serve in Yizhou City, and you can get three cents for a day's work, and you can also provide food, you might as well let your family Langjun try it!" ”

"Really?" Grandma was shocked, he hadn't heard that he could still receive money for labor, and these three cents could buy a bucket of rice.

"Really!" Li Su said with a smile, and walked to other villages with the nursing home.

As soon as Li Su left, a lean young man walked into the courtyard with a look of disappointment, and the woman saw it and said, "Tie Niu, why are you back?" ”

"Don't mention it, the hares and pheasants around here are almost eaten up, and after a long time, we didn't find anything, so we simply came back."

"Hey, forget it if you can't catch it, I'll go find some wild vegetables later, and we'll just eat it!" There is also this bundle of firewood picked up by my mother, you will carry it to Yizhou City tomorrow to see if you can sell it. After the woman finished speaking, she continued: "By the way, just now a passing merchant said that the king of Shu recruited laborers in Yizhou City and gave three cents a day, and I don't know if it's true or not, or why don't you go to Yizhou City to have a look?" ”

"Mother, don't you know what kind of virtue this Yizhou official is? They can't wait to drink our blood and eat our flesh, how can they pay us back, they are probably lying to us again, have you forgotten the matter of digging a canal for the Gao family last time? What did you get in the end? ”

The old woman thought that what her son had said was justified, and said it no more.

After leaving, Li Su walked more than a dozen villages, until the sun was about to set before returning to Yizhou City, this visit once again proved that the prosperity he saw was only the luxury of the upper class, and the life of the people at the bottom was still very miserable.

"Your Highness, what are you?" Shangguan Yi looked at Li Su, who was covered in mud, in surprise.

When he returned to Yizhou City, Li Su called Shangguan Yi over, and he had a lot of questions to ask him.

"Your Highness went to the outside of Yizhou City today and visited a few villages privately, and I just came back!" Jin Daqian shook his head and sighed, he was worried all day.

"This!" Shangguan Yi was stunned for a moment, "Your Highness, just let the lower officials go to this matter, why did you go in person, in case something went wrong, how can you let the lower officials feel at ease?" ”

Li Su said: "With the protection of the nursing home, what can happen?" By the way, how much do you know about the situation in Yizhou now that you are meddling in the government affairs of Yizhou City? ”

Speaking of this, Shangguan Yi's face suddenly turned red, "Your Highness, in the past few days, I have first contacted Sima Wang Yinlong of Yizhou, this is a scholar from a poor family, and he has been unhappy in Yizhou, I hinted a little that His Royal Highness was dissatisfied with Gao Quan and others, and he told all the evil deeds of Gao Quan over the years of fishing and fleshing the people and using his power to make profits for his clan, including privately occupying fertile land, bullying people's daughters, raising taxes privately, setting up an inner treasury outside the treasury, etc. ”

"Is there any evidence?"

"It's... No. Shangguan Yi was filled with indignation, but Li Su beat him into the ice cave with a word.