Chapter 47: It's Not Easy to Live in the Qing Dynasty (5)
first ate a lot of Zhuang farmers and tenants, and then the third master ran away with diarrhea, Ding Baojun was also in a hurry to sweat profusely, and asked to fetch water, Ding Baojun almost didn't kill this bastard.
It's good to hit cold water, but this dog's day, I didn't get water from the well, and scooped a bucket of cold water directly in the drinking horse trough at the door, and the anger and unclean water almost overturned the third master of the Yang family.
After most of the day's work, Ding Baojun's mouth was full of burning bubbles, this burning taste, he hadn't tasted it for a long time, and he hadn't encountered many things in his life.
Ding Baojun was uncomfortable, and Yang Meng was the same, although he was angry, his mouth was also full of bubbles, and Tang Youwu, who was waiting on the side, was extremely uncomfortable in his heart.
Today's such a scumbag thing is also Yang Meng has never encountered it, when he was in prison, as a mercenary, and as a drug lord, although he lived a somewhat lowly and unsightly life, but at that time, he could be angry if he was uncomfortable, and now he is so angry that he can only squat on the toilet to solve it, and this slump matter also made him reconsider his rebirth.
On the first day, I encountered opium, and in the following days, almost all the people I saw were the faces of all living beings in the Qing Dynasty, up to the governor of a province, the parents of a county, to the rich merchant Laozi, Zhou Da livestock, down to all kinds of craftsmen, mountain people of all ethnic groups, and the lowliest life is the one I see these farmers and tenants today.
The opium itself can be refined and sold back, not only to make money, but also to take revenge on the great powers. Although it is not easy for officials, merchants, and landlords to live, compared with those craftsmen, mountain people, and tenants of farms, it is as if they are living in heaven.
What should I do if these people at the bottom let me meet them? To live again, Yang Meng wants to live better, and this opportunity to live again also makes him fear ghosts and gods and believe in fate.
The misery of these people's lives is their life, and meeting them, seeing them, and having pity on them is his Yang Meng's life.
It's hard to change your life, and you have been changed by gods and Buddhas, what about those who live on the line of life and death? Did the gods and Buddhas want to change their lives for them? If it was only because of Zhou's livestock, their lives could have changed somewhat.
But if the whole of Yiliang, the whole of Yunnan, and the whole of the Qing Dynasty are all people who live on the line of life and death like this, how can I change my life for them? The body that was out of the void seemed to be unable to withstand such a great pressure, bursts of light and shadow flashed in front of Yang Meng's eyes, and his body shook a little.
"Third master, what's wrong with you, I'll go find Lang Zhong."
Yang Meng was swinging on the bed, but Tang Meiyi was frightened, this swing was an emergency, and if he didn't get it right, it would kill him.
"Don't Lang Zhong, find Uncle Ding to come over!"
Yang Meng shouted these words, he wanted to listen to this Qing Dynasty through Ding Baojun's mouth, look at this Qing Dynasty, if it is really as he thinks, he will destroy this Qing Dynasty.
Ding Baojun, who was full of bubbles, looked at Yang Meng, whose face was like gold paper, and felt a pain in his heart, that damn thing, why did he hit a bucket of dirty water, if the third master had a good one, he would have picked up the flesh and skin of the beast alive.
"Uncle Ding, is there a lot of people like this today? Is there more in Yunnan? Is there a lot of Daqing? ”
Yang Meng shuddered his chapped lips and asked the question in his heart, hoping in his heart that it would not be what he thought.
"Third master, why are you asking this? You are angry, you must recuperate. ”
Ding Baojun has seen such a thing of supporting people to die today, and he also pities those people, but in this Qing Dynasty, there are many people like them, and Ding Baojun can't save so many people when he demolishes him Ding Baojun squeezes out oil and water.
He Ding Baojun can't do it, the Yang family is the same, although the Yang family's money is a lot, it can be spread to the entire Qing Dynasty, but it's just a drop in the bucket, save! How to save? What to save?
The eldest brother Yang Shiqin is still doing well, and every year he takes out hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of silver to spend on this, which is not a small amount, the Yang family has a Yang Buddha with countless living people, and it is enough for the Yang family to have countless living people, plus one, the Yang family is holding the gold mountain, and they can't fill this bottomless pit.
"To answer my question, I want to know Lu Dao, are there many people like that?"
Yang Meng was in a hurry, and his speaking movements were a little bigger, and blood oozed from his chapped lips.
"I say! Third master, don't be angry and hurt your body! Like today, there are many tenants in Yiliang and Yunnan, and there are too many to be counted in the entire Qing Dynasty. Although they can't be counted, compared with the population of the Qing Dynasty, these people are not much.
Slightly stronger than them, barely able to eat the farmer tenants, more! A few more, more than a dozen, but what can be done, although our Yang family has a big business, it can be compared with them, Mao is not counted, and we can't save these people even if we fight hard!
Third Master! Do you know why there are fewer girls than boys among these people? It's because you can't afford to raise a girl, you have to get married at the age of fourteen or fifteen, and you have to pay a dowry, who dare to support your daughter more? In ordinary households, when a girl is born, she either drowns or gives it to another family as a child daughter-in-law.
This child daughter-in-law is also a way to save money, it doesn't cost much to marry, and when you are older, you can still do some work for the family, not because they live hard, but because this world is difficult, and they can't afford to live!
Our servants, swordsmen, compared with them, that is, living in a honey pot, although the servants have little money, they can still do it so that the family does not starve. Although the knife hands said that the knife head licked the blood, they lived more comfortably.
Knife hands? Don't say that you give them five taels, that is, one tael, half a tael, don't give money, just take care of the food! The number of people who are willing to do it cannot be counted in the whole of Yunnan, and these are also forced by the world.
Although our family's business is business, it has also harmed people's lives, and those corrupt officials do not embarrass us, it is because the old man made a large amount of silver.
Half of our family's income has to be bought off the government, and the rest has to be paid for various expenses, and the old man has to give hundreds of thousands of dollars every year to help those hungry people who can't survive, so that they can have a way to live.
Murdering people for money, bribing corrupt officials, and giving relief to the hungry, what are we doing all this for? Isn't it to ensure the smooth flow of trade routes, in order to live well? It is said that we business people should not be so cruel, but we can't live without this, what is this for? Isn't it forced by the world?
Zhou Shiqing is alive and moist, but what he does is not personnel, the people who work for him eat bran vegetables, he has big fish and meat. The person who smokes his tobacco soil, sells his sons, sells his daughters, sells his mother-in-law, he counts the silver at home, but if he does this, he will be punished, the third master, you are his retribution in this world.
Our family's way of living is already good, we can't change it anymore, and if we change it, we will break our family! ”
Today's events also touched Ding Baojun, but if it is touched, it must not be moved. Relief? You don't need the whole Yunnan Province, just one Yunnan Mansion can make the Yang family father and son so poor that they can be pants.
Rebel? Land rent tax, commercial tax, more than half of the Qing Dynasty's money and grain, all in the hands of the imperial court, the Yang family has a good reputation in Yunnan, but against Yunnan, can it be reversed over the entire Qing Dynasty? Rebellion is a dead end, and it will also affect countless people.
In order to convince Yang Meng, Ding Baojun took out all his skills, but what he didn't expect was that these were even more firm, Yang Meng's determination.
"I know the way, do what is in front of you, do things in this life, and do something earth-shattering! I will come step by step, step by step to change the way of the world, step by step to change the life of the people! ”
Yang Meng's eyes lit up, and although the words he said were weak, the weight was not light, and he smashed between the hearts of Ding Baojun and Tang Meiyi word by word.
When Tang Meiyi heard this, her beautiful eyes turned into a flood of spring water. When Ding Baojun heard this, in addition to lifting his spirit, his eyes also showed a strong sense of worry.
The long table banquet in Yiliang Yang Mansion stopped for three days, and Yang Meng also recuperated for three days, and when his body was half recovered, he reopened the long table banquet. This long table banquet was very shabby, and there was only one thing to eat, that is, gruel with vegetable leaves and salt.
The last time Yang Meng supported the death, Yang Meng spent money and grain, those farmer tenants not only did not blame and resent, but were very grateful to Yang Meng, those money and grain, enough for these people, not to starve for a year, although they can't eat good things, but they don't have to starve, it is a great thing.
The long table banquet was reopened, and the first wave of banquets was still the wave of people who had suffered crimes, and this time they drank the gruel to death, and their thin bodies all stood up.
This somewhat funny scene did not make Yang Meng laugh, the burden in his heart, under the pressure of these big bellies, became heavier and heavier.
Yang Meng also accompanied the smiling face, and asked from table to table, how many fields can support a family, these farmer tenants are not small, seven or eight people are small, more than a dozen people are average, and there are not a few twenty or thirty people.
There is no exact number of how many fields can feed a family, but to feed an adult, the output of one acre of fertile land is enough. Of course, it has to be rice, and if you change it to sorghum, sweet potatoes, and corn, it will be a little reluctant, but if you add some wild vegetables or something, you won't starve to death.
The land rent set by Zhouda livestock is outrageously fine, and there is one household here, and most of them can only have some grain left after paying the rent, and then there are things like rice bran and straw.
The fields can only sustain themselves from starvation, and the people who are starving consume most of their strength to work with the land, and no one wants to ask for a place to work for the scrawny people.
The poorer and poorer, but barely alive, is the portrayal of these people, the things that are obtained from the account room are almost the same, in terms of fertile land, one acre of land can barely feed an adult, this first long table banquet, let Yang Meng have a rough bottom in his heart.
The following long table banquet lasted for a few days, and Yang Meng had met most of the farmer tenants, and the statement he came up with was not much different. After eating the long table banquet, Yang Meng alone gave some scattered silver and dozens of catties of grain.
After the end of the long table banquet, Ding Baojun calculated that the cost this time was all combined into silver taels, and there must be a large number of tens of thousands. But Yang Meng's harvest is not small, and the use of money and grain has left a deep imprint in the hearts of these farmers and tenants.
Yang Meng strongly suppressed the fight, and the name of the Three Yama Kings was also changed to Little Buddha by these farmer tenants, and this initial prestige was built.
In order to distribute the mountain fields and good fields obtained from Zhou Da's livestock, Yang Meng and the account offices also took a lot of effort, but Yang Meng's ideas were contrary to those of the account rooms, and Yang Meng's ideas were good.
But this is good for those farmer tenants, but the damage is the interests of the Yang family, as an account office, you must not do this, and the matter stopped in the Yang family's account office.
Although the old man Yang Shiqin handed over the matter of Yiliang to Yang Meng, the gentlemen in the accounting room only recognized Yang Buddha, not the little Buddha, and Yang Meng, who was helpless, could only go back to Kunming and ask the old man to call the shots.
Yang Meng's words that night were also passed on to Yang Shiqin through Ding Baojun, and he also made unconditional concessions to the third Yang Shiqin.
"You just have to do it, it's a big deal to be Lao Tzu's life, but there is one, follow what you say step by step."
Yang Shiqin only had this sentence, and Ding Baojun also became the chief housekeeper of the Yang Mansion in Yiliang, and only obeyed Yang Laosan's orders from then on.