When Qin Tai asked about Meng He and Ma Kui, Meng Chong originally wanted to mention it and ignore it.

But Meng Chong knew that Qin Tai would not be untargeted, it seemed that this Meng He and Ma Kui were really suspected by Qin Tai.

If Meng Chong does not confess, not only will he not only conceal it and not report it, but he may also be complicit in the same stream and cover for the betrayal of the party.

For the sake of his own life, in order not to be implicated by Meng He and others in the future, and in order not to step down because of this incident in the future, Meng Chong decided to tell Qin Tai the truth.

After learning this important information, Qin Tai finally understood King Jing's true intentions. King Jing made two preparations, he and Xu Jie, together with other vassal kings, went to force the palace, and it was best to force the little emperor to step down and become the emperor himself.

If the plan fails, King Jing will use his status as a prince to leave the capital openly. At the same time, Meng He here led people to control the domain, and King Jing could set himself up as the emperor after he returned, or he could leave the domain with his family.

As long as he has money and soldiers in his hands, King Jing is an emperor everywhere, and he can even confront the imperial court.

At that time, the common people will suffer, and the world will not be peaceful again. Qin Tai has personally experienced several turmoil, and knows that almost every disaster will affect the common people.

Whether it is the harassment of the coastal areas by the Japanese or the coup d'état in the palace, in fact, it is the common people who suffer the most.

The common people did not do anything, nor did they participate in it, but in the end, they are always the ones who suffer the most.

Jiangnan was originally a land of fish and rice, a paradise on earth, but now it has become like a hell on earth.

Under the surface of singing and dancing, the common people live in dire straits. Before the famine and war, officials and businessmen colluded to annex and embezzle a large number of people's living land.

Using various means to force the people to sell their real estate cheaply, the people dare not speak out against them.

After the outbreak of the Japanese Raiders, local forces and the government not only did not help the common people, but also took the opportunity to deal with the common people.

The common people dared not speak out against those who took advantage of the fire to rob, and they could not deal with the Japanese who dared to do anything with weapons in their hands, so they had to choose death or run away from home.

A large amount of land has been turned into wasteland because it is uncultivated, and to make matters worse, these displaced people have become displaced or refugees.

Exiled in a foreign land with no one to take care of them, they either starved to death or became tenants or slaves of large families, never to return to their homeland.

After the Japanese left, the government and local forces almost turned their faces in order to confiscate and annex the ownerless land, and even if the common people returned, their land became the government or large families.

Qin Tai once happened to see an incomplete statistic, when Qin Tai happened to pass by Zhejiang and visited Tan Lun, who held an important position in Zhejiang.

Tan Lun asked Qin Tai to sit for a while, and Qin Tai saw this secret statistics reported by his subordinates in Tan Lun's study.

Xiangshan is a small place, not even a county, if it were not for the fact that it is an outlet to the sea, it would not be well known to everyone.

But at that time, the reason why Xiangshan was famous in the whole country was because of the Japanese Invaders, who landed on the Zhejiang River on a large scale seven times, four of which came in from here.

There are more shocks on a small scale or on a small scale, almost every month, and Xiangshan has become the hardest hit area.

When Tan Lun was finishing up the extermination of the Japanese invaders, he secretly sent his cronies to Xiangshan to investigate the data, in order to count the direct evidence of the Japanese invaders in Jiangnan.

Before the large-scale invasion of the Japanese invaders, there were more than 3,800 households and more than 17,000 people, including 13 gentry households, 192 merchants, and more than 3,000 fishermen and fish households engaged in fishing.

After the Japanese invaded Xiangshan, the first time the army and people of Xiangshan resisted for three days, because of weapons and equipment, the officers and soldiers retreated, leaving the people who were unable to resist the field.

After occupying Xiangshan, the Japanese slaughtered a large number of ordinary people who had taken up arms to resist them on the grounds that the common people did not cooperate in resisting them.

In seven days and seven nights, nearly 1,000 people were killed, countless women were raped, and many families were robbed, killed, and killed.

After that, as if addicted, the Japanese invaders often came here, and this place became the backyard of the Japanese invaders' wanton behavior.

Ordinary people were forced to leave their hometowns, and some young fishermen organized themselves to go to sea to fight the pirates, who were later designated as pirates by the government.

Seventeen years of ravage, seventeen years of torture, and by the time the Japanese left, Xiangshan had almost become an empty city.

Young women were taken away by the pirates and became their toyers or slaves, and men were either killed or left.

Those who can't walk either become the eyeliner of the Japanese invaders, or let the Japanese slaughter for pleasure. There is a widow named Taro Sakai, every time he comes to Xiangshan, he will kill a few people to play, even the old man and the old woman who can't walk, the reason is that he needs to kill people and practice swordsmanship, these people are not people in his opinion, just training tools.

After the officers and men were stationed in Xiangshan, they roughly counted that there were more than 90 ordinary people in their 70s and 80s, and there were 19 owners of the three restaurants and brothels for the pleasure of the Japanese robbers, and none of them were gentry, and not a single household had adult male laborers.

Xiangshan has almost become an empty city, a place without popularity. A year later, some people returned, only to find that their fields had become someone else's, and their houses had either been torn down and rebuilt or belonged to other tenants.

They once went to the government to complain, but the government ignored the fact that the government and the local gentry decided together, and the decision was not allowed to change.

When Tan Lun's cronies counted, there were 78 households in Xiangshan, 17 large households, and almost all the merchants were under the names of large households, and the land annexation was very serious.

The relationship between the gentry and the common people was also very unstable, and it was very likely to cause conflict. A small elephant mountain is like this, it can be seen that the entire Zhejiang River, and even the entire Jiangnan will be like?

Taking the Fujian Putian where Qin Tai once stayed, for example, it turned out that the common people lived and worked in peace and contentment, although it was not a paradise, but it was also very prosperous.

But when Qin Tai came, all the big households had already escaped, all the shops were closed, and all the people who could walk left, leaving behind the old people who couldn't walk or didn't want to leave their hometowns.

They even have problems with their own safety and food and clothing, and of course they can't do business or trade anymore. A city or region is not rich without agriculture, instability, business, and Fujian, and the reason why Fujian is prosperous is because they are good at trading and doing business.

A large number of seafood products are traded, plus the import and export of goods from the mainland and foreign domains, which makes this lively and prosperous place.

But what Qin Tai felt after coming here was sadness and lifelessness, and in this environment and atmosphere, there was absolutely no way to have any development.

When Qin Tai left, the lives of the common people improved, but it was not much better, because the big families came back and the government was about to start measuring and dividing the land again.

Qin Tai has no power to intervene, and it is impossible for him to help the people really call the shots. These people represent local forces and governments, and it is impossible for Qin Tai to deal with these people.

In the following years, the villagers often brought messages to Qin Tai, and Qin Tai also secretly paid attention to the development here. Although the vitality has recovered, it is absolutely impossible to return to the previous peak.

The villagers secretly told Qin Tai that the people who are now serving as tenants and slaves all over the country are people from Zhejiang, Fujian, and Fujian.

Along the way, the fellow villagers met a lot of fellow villagers who they knew or didn't know, and they gave them some care.

The common people of a land of fish and rice have been reduced to the slaves of other people's families, and they can't go back to their hometowns for a lifetime, which is really sad.

Therefore, Qin Tai secretly swore that for the sake of the people, in order not to displace more people, Qin Tai would try his best to prevent the war from happening.

However, Qin Tai was too weak by himself and almost reversed the target situation, but Qin Tai never gave up, and he did 100% of the best possible thing if he could do his part.

Just like this time, Qin Tai also held this mentality of suffering less for the common people, and tried his best to calm down this turmoil within the royal family that outsiders may never know.