Section 45 Rent Collection by the Landlord's Family (2)

Lao Qian lost the chess game, naturally unhappy, let the servant get himself a pot of wine back, there are pig ears mixed with a plate, the main book is an old friend, will not be surprised, a pot of wine, a plate of pig ears, the two of them are ready to restart the battle, and start again.

Every time it is time to collect rent, the imperial court will have the imperial history to inspect the countryside, the task is very clear, that is, to check whether there is any bullying of the peasant households, to investigate the treachery is their main job, and they have the power to dispose of it cheaply in the township, so that all the landlords and old wealth are miserable, without him, at this time, if the peasant households have a dispute with the master's family, the imperial historians will be unprincipled to favor the peasants, and give themselves the title of the lord of the blue sky.

Among the three counties under Chang'an, Chang'an County is in the city, Wannian County is also in the city, Lantian County is newly divided, there must be full of all kinds of darkness and all kinds of inequality, the young imperial historians with their attachés, bypassing Chang'an, Wannian two counties, directly to Lantian County, which has never been illuminated by the sun.

There is no one in the county government, the county is in the township, the main book is in the township, the county lieutenant takes the official to check why three cows died in Niujia Village in succession, all of them are on official business, the imperial historians still have a positive attitude towards the diligence of the officials in Lantian County, no need to greet them, they go to the place where the landlord has the most money, where there should be a chance to make themselves famous.

Needless to say, Yushan is the first choice, the Yun family is the home of bullies, the lawless things that run rampant in Chang'an are too numerous to write, the Cheng family and the Niu family are not good people, and I don't know how many good people will be forced to leave their hometowns in the days of paying rent, abandon their wives, sell their children and daughters, it's sad to think about, how can you be less self at this time?

The imperial history that was sent out were all young talents who were drawn up from the state capitals, and they developed the atmosphere of daring to speak and do in the atmosphere of enlightened officialdom in the Tang Dynasty. I can only consider myself unlucky. However, this kind of thing is very rare, and the people will not lightly look for trouble with the lord's family with the mind that the people will not fight with the officials, and once they want to find it, they will really have no way to live.

The fat horse walked lightly on the mo, and the young man was proud of the good time, and the willow was draped on his body, as if he wanted to keep these young officials for a while to appreciate his graceful demeanor, but it was a pity. The people are in the midst of fire and water, the high-ranking families are in a hurry, and no matter how good the beautiful scenery is, they have no intention of watching, only hope that those landlords and old fortunes will not be too dark-hearted.

The Cheng family paid the rent happily, and the farmers supported each other to go home, showing off how much more harvest their family had this year. The way for the Cheng family to express their gratitude is wine, the old Cheng Xiaocheng is not there, Cheng Chubi was called back by the old lady from the academy to preside over the rent collection event, the farmers poured the grain into the warehouse indiscriminately, the housekeeper, the account room smiled and kept the accounts, and the farmers said as much as they wanted. Even the big scales are saved.

After paying the rent, he gnawed the pot helmet under the shed. Drink the broth, and by the way, drink a large bowl of spirits. You can't drink it, Cheng Chubi is already drunk, showing his heart hair with his clothes open, and the sixteen-year-old child doesn't know how to bring so much hair.

There was no injustice here, and the few people lying in the shed were not knocked unconscious, but because they were drunk because they were too drunk, and the mother-in-law stayed by her side, and ate a few more pot helmets by the way.

The Cheng family's households are all veterans who have followed the old Cheng for many years, so they don't care about collecting more than three or five buckets of food, the Cheng family never lives on the output of the field, the hearts of the farmers are the most important, the main family determines the character of the villagers, the people of the Cheng family Zhuangzi have always been temperamental, but they are bold, in the Cheng family Zhuangzi will be treated well, and a little arrogant will definitely be beaten, for example, now there are four or five bastards who don't have long eyes, galloping in the Zhuangzi, and don't see the old man, the child and the woman still walking in the middle of the road?

They are all veterans, who don't know how to deal with cavalry, and immediately there are flat shoulders stuffed into the middle of the horse's legs, and several horses immediately fall to the ground, and those who have a lot of alcohol still stay sober, and when they see the official uniform, they know that it is not good, in order not to make trouble for the master's family, they quietly pick up the flat burden, and help their drunk companions to staggering home, and when they ask tomorrow, everyone is drunk, who knows what happened.

It is actually very dangerous to fall off the horse, and it is not one or two who break the neck, but fortunately, the speed of the horse is not too fast, and the dealers have no further action, and it is generally time to play with a horizontal knife on the battlefield. The young official trembled angrily, and looked angrily at the drunken farmers on the street, there was nowhere to vent his anger, even if there was really a grievance in this place, it was deserved and not worthy of sympathy.

Don't welcome the natural turn around and leave, the horse's legs are a little lame, so I have to lead the way, Cheng Biting Jin has never had good things at home, he is here to support the villagers, if he finds trouble with the villagers, he will become a laughing stock, and he would rather be wronged than spoil His Majesty's plan.

Staggered to the cow's house, the same here, many of the farmers are missing arms and legs, think about it and know that they are all old subordinates of the old cow, who will treat their old subordinates badly? Just look at the dealers who tapped the butler on the shoulder and called brother, and you could see that there was nothing they hoped for.

Fortunately, there is one of the biggest bullies who did not check there, washed their faces on the side of the river, simply sewed up the broken official uniforms, chewed a little dry food on the river, lifted their spirits, comforted their attachés, and led the horse on the road to Yunjia, the people were simple, and when they saw a few injured officials, they vacated their ox carts and invited them to sit on them, this was the first time they felt the care of humanity since they arrived in Yushan.

"Old man, you are also a Zhuangzi of the Yun family? I saw you coming from Chang'an with a load of grain just now, why is that? It's just the summer harvest that is over, and the food at home is not enough to eat? ”

"My family is different from other families, the main family only needs copper money, and the little old man sells the family's grain, buys some grain and comes back, and leaves some copper money for the main family to pay rent."

"How much do you have to pay?"

"The officials don't believe it, Xiao Lao'er's family needs to pay six yuan and three hundred yuan to the master's family." The old farmer replied with a smile.

The chest of the young Yushi is about to burst, what kind of black-hearted master will ask for so much money and grain from the farmer, a cow is only eight dollars, a poor farmer's whole family is not worth these money, and he wants a cow every year, is this a human thing? The East China Sea has a bottom, but people's greed is endless, the Yun family invests a lot of money in Yushan Academy every year, what is the reincarnation of Tao Zhu, his money was originally scavenged from the poor people, and everyone will be punished for selling their fame and reputation.

The first of the three evils of Chang'an is his true face, poor majesty Xià was deceived by traitors, and kept saying that he was a model among officials, where to think, he was the tiger that devoured the people.

Seeing the tattered clothes on the old man's body, his heart was miserable, although he entered the Imperial History Hall from the Guozi Prison, now he is only from the eighth-rank official position, and he is nothing in front of Yun Ye's third-grade official position, but even if he breaks his teeth today, he will bite off a piece of flesh and blood of this thief who harms the people.

"The old man paid less this year, and the second child in the family fought outside the country with the Cheng family, so the Hou Ye exempted the second child of my family, and there was a whole two pieces of money, the Yun family is a good person, and they have never treated the Zhuang family badly, Wang Da's confused family has no such good thing this year, and he insisted that the old and young of his family were only out of confinement, and he was not a mouthful, hahaha, he was kicked twice by the housekeeper Lao Qian, and in the end, he still handed over the money."

The young Yushi looked at the elated old man sadly, the illiterate old man didn't know, the government soldiers went to war, they didn't need to pay money and food at all, and the people who were bullied by the evil servants of the Yun family didn't know either, the child grew up to adulthood, and only when he received the mouth of the field and Yongye Tian did he start to pay taxes officially, God, the royal family didn't dare to start collecting taxes on the dolls in the confinement, why did the Yun family dare? Who gave him such guts?

The old man opened his mouth and sang a minor tune that he couldn't understand, and the pair of dark feet in the ox ears and linen shoes showed that he didn't know how much he had suffered, and singing mountain songs might be his last bit of fun.

Yunjia Zhuangzi is very prosperous, people come and go in the market, the tall tiled houses on both sides of the road all show his wealth, a horse unscrupulously eats a bite in the east and west on the stall of a small trader, not only no one dares to stop it, but he scratches the neck of the horse with a smiling face, he even sees some vendors putting money in the money bag of the horse, a horse is so domineering, let alone a person.

Raising his eyes to look at the tall houses on both sides of the road, and looking down at the clean and tidy bluestone slabs under his feet, he almost didn't dare to step on them, only felt that they were all the souls of the people, the snow-white walls slowly turned blood red in his eyes, those false smiles on the streets, the disguised prosperity, like a huge mountain pressed down on him, he gasped with difficulty, and put his hand into his arms. Clutching the warrant that allowed him to act cheaply, it seemed that this would give him courage.

Out of the gate of the Yun family came out of a big man, with open clothes, full of meat, walking swaying, passers-by dodged one after another, took a crisp melon from the stall casually, broke it in half and buckled it on his mouth to eat, the melon juice flowed down the corners of his mouth, describing rudeness, the vendor was attentive to the call of a treasure, and took out the best fruit for the big man to eat more. After eating, he didn't pay the bill, said that it was tasteless, and picked up the crispy melon of the next house and continued to gnaw, and the vendor dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.

Wind and words were originally the duty of the imperial history, not to mention that now that I have witnessed it with my own eyes, the imperial history has calmed down at this time, such evil deeds have existed in the sinful land of Yushan for at least six years, and the place where the filth and dirt are hidden, dare to say that it is the place where the earth spirits are masterful?

Li Gang is not worthy of a generation of Wenzong, Xin Yushan has a grandson-in-law who is so vainly called a great Confucian, Mr. Yuanzhang is conceited and moral, it turned out to be just a joke, today, he is desperate, and he wants to get back a justice for the people of Yunjia Zhuangzi, and return this land to a blue sky (to be continued. )

PS: The second section is delivered