On the North River, the sail shadow is continuous, and the tall and masted ships are endlessly flowing on the river, coming and going wrong, and there are also thin and small fast boats, and the thin white waves are thrown behind the buttocks, and they are drilling in the gap between the big boats.

On the bank of the river, the ridges are dense, but the rice fields are rare, and all kinds of vegetable fields, fish ponds, and cane fields are spread out, decorating the earth with colorful colors. Occasionally, dozens of families gather into a village, with blue bricks and gray tiles, and the smoke is rising, which contrasts with the bustling scenery on the river, which is a poetic and picturesque scene.

In this small village, someone is reciting and reading articles in a high-spirited tone, but it is not the Four Books and Five Classics, but an anecdote about current affairs.

"In the fifty-first year of Kangxi, the price per mu of tax land in Nanhai County was only ten taels, and in the first year of the dynasty, it had risen to twenty-eight taels! The people who have lost their land, there is no land to cultivate, and in the long run, the country will not be a country! ”

"The land price of Dongguan has increased tenfold in three years! The seller was looking for a price according to the rules, and was severely beaten by the guards of Dongguan Machinery Company, and the district law was corrected and the county was sentenced, and Duyun sold the land through the deed of the government, which was a desperate sale, and the fault was the seller, and it was not announced. He also said that the Dongguan mechanical guard was injured, and it was good not to sue the seller for hurting people. Finding a price is a century-old practice, and the government does not help the weak, arson, and commit murder, isn't it the reversal of world reason!? ”

"Yangjiang County Haixun Le fishermen patrol money per boat, the township law is the same report, the county history said that this is the old policy of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and the county and township bureaus did not negotiate when the dynasty started. Fishermen gathered thousands of people to make trouble in the county government, and the police and people were injured countless times. The prefect of Yangjiang County has been suspended from his post pending investigation, and the judicial department will investigate and judge the prefect of Zhaoqing at the same time, and some of the prefects said that whether or not to cut the money for inspection needs to be reconsidered by the county and township public bureaus, and it is a serious crime to incite fishermen to make trouble and beat up public officials. ”

In the middle of the village, in Pingba, a middle-aged man in a Confucian shirt was reading with indignation, but was interrupted by an old man dressed as a peasant.

"Mr. Zhang, why do you always only recite "Righteousness" and "Righteousness"? We are more concerned about the price news in the "Business Times", as well as what new policies the emperor issued in the "Yinghua Newsletter". ”

The other peasants shouted one after another, looking disdainful and annoyed.

"Yes, isn't it a good thing that the price of land has risen? In the last year of Emperor Kangxi, I didn't have to say anything about losing the field, but now in this holy year, no one forced anyone to rob it, and there are two cents and four cents of Qingmiao loan money to help, this can lose the field, that is, gambling sticks and drunkards who eat and drink, who else can blame for this......"

"It's an old routine to find a price, but it's all sold and you're still looking for it, isn't that just a two-skin face? You deserve to be beaten! ”

"If you don't cut the money, don't go to the township public bureau first, let the bureau directors and old men speak, and go directly to the county government to do what? I think those fishermen are stupid, I don't know how to fight with the old man of the bureau, and they were used as a knife by the old man of the bureau! Ouch! Master Yang, we are wrong, we forgot that your old man is also a director of the bureau......"

The old man slapped the young man on the head who was talking about how to fight with the old man of the bureau, causing everyone to laugh, and then the old man looked at the middle-aged Confucian student: "Mr. Zhang, you are also a gentleman from our township, and you are an official from Jiupin, eating the imperial court, why do you specialize in picking up the imperial court?" ”

That Mr. Zhang hated iron and said: "Since there is no way, as a scholar, then you have to say!" This is Shaozhou Mansion, it is the land of Longxing, of course there are few such things, but in other places, although it is not a good life for the people, but it is also full of evil, and if it goes on like this, the first year of this holy road will become the last year of Yinghua! ”

Another voice sounded, full of annoyance: "I said open your mouth quickly, you are very well-behaved in the Kangxi years, but in this holy way years, you have become a righteous man who worries about the country and the people?" ”

A man with only one arm walked over, carrying a large leather bag on his back, his posture was straight, and every step was as neat as if he was measuring the land. ”

The township post is the eighth grade official, three levels higher than the Mr. Congjiu in the township school, Mr. Zhang also had to stand up and bow to the void, but said in his mouth: "Since this dynasty has opened the way of speech, we must allow our scholars to speak." ”

Liu Yizheng snorted: "The situation in our country, when it comes out of your mouth, is even worse than Kangxi's years, and you have to touch your conscience to speak!" ”

Mr. Zhang paused for a moment, waved up the newspaper and said, "The things on this are not fake, right!?" ”

Liu Yizheng, Yang Judong and others are speechless, of course it shouldn't be fake, otherwise the Information Department of Menxia Province would have gone to find trouble with these newspapers.

Mr. Zhang gained confidence, and continued: "In a certain opinion, this holy way years are really sadder than Kangxi's years!" Not to mention anything else, in the years of Kangxi, the money and grain per mu of land were only four or five cents, but now? The silver is four cents, the rice is three points, and the fish ponds, vegetable fields, sugar cane fields and tea fields should be changed to five or six cents or even one penny! This is a rampant expropriation! Not to mention the Kangxi years, Chongzhen has never been so harsh! ”,

Yang Judong sneered and said: "You scholar, you don't go through farming, you are messing around!" Regardless of Chongzhen or Kangxi, four or five cents of money and grain per mu of land is just a tax from the imperial court, plus the miscellaneous factions in the county, how to set sail to provide ghosts and might, and get more than one penny. The money and food collected now are all counted together! The silver is divided into nine grades, and the land difference is less paid, and what is planted is also divided into nine grades, and the cheap things are also paid less, which is fair. A farmer said: "Mr. Zhang, you are a talented person in the former dynasty, you can be exempted from military service by virtue of fame, and pay less money and grain, and now you have to pay it with us, just look at this matter is uncomfortable, right?" ”

Mr. Zhang stiffened his neck and said: "The gentry, officials and businessmen of this dynasty pay taxes together, this is good governance for the ages!" Zhang has no heart of disobedience! Zhang is just holding grievances for the small people, why do you still come to such desecrated words! The imperial court levied money and grain so hard, and the tax net was dense, so there was not much place for the people to breathe, and if the official master's hand slipped, it would be the disaster of a thousand families! ”

Liu Yizheng said: "Yang Bureau Dong also said just now, this silver and silver are so finely divided, it is for a bowl of water to be level, fairness can reach the hearts of the people, the court and the government naturally have to make great efforts, but no one can make any effort?" Then you have to raise more

people, this is also a helpless move. Besides, the imperial court is not just to support and collect taxes. If you are a teacher, you can get an official position and eat the court's money, isn't this money just the tax money collected from the people? ”

Mr. Zhang still shook his head: "Zhang is just eating the imperial court, so he is worried about the affairs of the imperial court." Let's just say that we Qujiang County, the land and silver have received more than 30,000 taels, although the land price is not as expensive as Dongguan Nanhai, but it is also a year to rise by three or four percent. If this continues, once the farmers lose their land, their livelihood will be lost......"

Yang Judong and the farmers were silent, not only the price of land has skyrocketed, but now the price of rice is also low, they are all living on other things with high prices, and their lives are quite comfortable. But once there is an accident, I have to sell the land to make a living, although the land price is expensive, you can get more silver, but if you want to buy it back, there is no hope.

"What's there, Hunan, Guangxi, Yungui, the land price is cheap, and there are even Nanyang, if you go, you will send the field, where can you not live!? Besides, you can't live without a field? The mechanic in Dongguan, Foshan, earns more than my post in January! ”

Liu Yizheng's horizons are broad, but the farmers are all smiling bitterly, who wants to leave their hometown? And what kind of mechanics, they only have a lot of strength, where can they do it?

Director Yang also sighed and said: "Mr. Zhang is also right, I see a lot of chaos at the moment, just in this land price is soaring, we have land, don't panic, those who don't have land, or sell the land, life is really not good." ”

Liu Yizheng said: "It was carried by people from other provinces!" Only by buying land and buying property can we settle down in our Guangdong Province, we have Mongolian schools and hospitals in a township in Guangdong, and we can also rely on the old man of the field and property promotion bureau to get close to the official master, and the words go straight to the ears of the official master. From the beginning of the year to the present, people from Hunan and Fujian have flocked to our Guangdong......"

Another farmer said: "Not only people from other provinces, but also merchants from Guangzhou and even Nanyang, who have a lot of silver in their hands, also buy land everywhere. Mr. Zhong from Guangzhou last year looked for my family a few times, and he took a fancy to my family's twenty acres of paddy fields, not that we have Master Fazheng, oh, Liu Yizheng also helped, and the town of Mr. Zhong did not dare to make a black hand, and in the Kangxi years, the field was already snatched away by Mr. Zhong. ”

Speaking of the old man Zhong, Yang Bureau Dong snorted angrily: "I don't know where the Zhong boss got so much silver, and the He Inspector of our township also hooked up with him, I heard that he also bought off the county's Li Dian, and built roads and bridges in the township to donate to Mengxue, my old Yang Tou's bureau director, I'm afraid he will be taken away by him this year." ”

The peasants all shouted: "Why can't we let an outsider come to spread the word to us, this year, our township public bureau, we have to keep Yang Bureau Dong!" ”

The topic turned to the old man Zhong, and the discussion was lively, when a team of gray-clothed patrol policemen rushed by, and the village was jumping with chickens and dogs. Liu Yizheng saw an acquaintance and shouted loudly: "Ma Da Nose, what's wrong!?" ”

The head of the patrol police squad who led the team responded from afar: "There was an accident in Mojiazhuang, the tenants made a rent, and they fought with the loafers hired by the landlord, and I heard that several have died!" ”

Liu Yizheng continued to yell towards the back of the horse leader: "The landlord of Mojiazhuang!? Who is it? ”

Ma Bantou's voice floated slowly: "Who else can be, that nouveau riche from Guangzhou, Zhong is on top!" Mojiazhuang, two groups of people are fighting together, hoes and sticks are rising and falling, and screams and wails continue to pop out of the angry shouts. In the distance, a fat man in an embroidered silk robe and wearing a hat outside the Ming Dynasty was still screaming under the support of his family: "Fight! You deserve it! They came to the door with their hoes, and we ...... Self-defence! Yes, He Patrol said that it is self-defense! ”

In the midst of the fighting, a young peasant shouted angrily: "Zhong is on the throne! You set up a scheme to deceive our fields, and forced us to bear the land and silver, you will not die well! Killing you today is to eliminate harm for the people! ”

After a dozen zhang separation, Zhong Shangwei smiled proudly: "Set up a bureau!?" It is clear that you don't want to go to the government to pass the deed, since the name of this land is still yours, you have to pay the land and silver! As for the ground rent, six ~ four is the duty, five

Fifth, human affection, Master Zhong, I keep my duty, what's wrong!? You don't look for bureau directors, don't look for justice, don't go to lawsuits, but you bewitch tenant farmers, gather people to kill, Deng Xiaotian, you are dead! ”

Deng Xiaotian shouted angrily: "The bureau director and you are all in the same group, and the official master is also in cahoots with you, and you are still hypocritically saying anything about the lawsuit, my Deng Xiaoxian's life is gone, and I must take your dog's life today!" ”

Zhong Shangwei looked at a group of gray-clothed people running over in the distance, smiled even brighter, patted his chest and said, "I'm so scared, I'm so scared of ......"

Deng Xiaotian pulled out a handful of long dicks from behind his back, and aimed at Zhong Shangwei, Zhong Shangwei's fat white face was stunned, and then he hugged his head and screamed.

There was a roar, and Zhong Shangwei lay on the ground, his face covered in blood, and a wanderer with round eyes on his back, who had not yet understood what was happening, and a wisp of green smoke floated from a gun hole in his chest. (To be continued) [This text is provided by the Ghost of Sailing]