Under the narration of this young man named Feng Niu'er, Zhao Ning learned what he needed to know.

Feng Niu'er and Feng San came out of the same village, they can barely be regarded as relatives, they were originally honest farmers, and their lives were no different from ordinary farmers.

I don't see meat a few times a year, but I can survive.

However, whether it is a farmer who cultivates the land of the Central Plains or a shepherd who grazes cattle and sheep on the grassland, he has to look at the eyes of God. But God is a brutal lord who has no virtue in life, and he will definitely not be smooth every year.

Low-level people like Feng San and Feng Niu'er, who barely survive all year round and have no surplus food at home, can't withstand the wind and rain at all. If there is a slight natural disaster and there is a shortage of food, the situation will be very difficult.

Small disasters and small disasters cannot alarm the imperial court, and the government will not open warehouses to release grain, but the annual taxes have to be paid as usual, so if the family is out of cooking, there will be insufficient food, or even none.

Green and yellow.

At such times, they need to borrow grain from the rich and noble, and although the interest rate is ridiculously high, they also have to borrow. If you don't borrow, you will immediately cut off your source of livelihood, and if you borrow, you can still hope to last until next year.

Of course, the rich and noble families need mortgages, and they can only mortgage their only assets - farmland.

If the next year is good, the harvest is good, they can still repay the borrowed grain, and if the year is bad, there will be no major natural disasters, and the borrowed grain will definitely not be repaid—after all, the interest rate is too high.

At this time, the rich and noble families will come and take away their fields.

"We all knelt down for the rich and prayed in every possible way, but they did not agree to delay it for another year, nor would they take half a grain less. If we can't get enough food, they're going to take our fields!

"There is no land, no one can live, some people's families are forced to sell their children and daughters to those big families as subordinates, in exchange for a one-year period, and some swear not to hand over the ancestral land, but they are beaten half to death by the other party's family.

"Those rich and noble families, their families have a lot of money, fine clothes and food, even if they don't collect rent for a few years, it won't affect their food, but they just won't let us delay for a year longer, and they must take away our fields, forcing us to have no way to live!

"These rich and noble families, for the sake of a few hundred catties of grain, do not hesitate to let our family ruin! Zhao Gongzi, tell me, they still have a little bit of humanity, have they ever treated us as human beings?!"

When Feng Niu'er said this, he was already in tears, and his grief and anger made him clench his fists and his eyes were scarlet.

Zhao Ning was silent for a moment.

According to the laws of the dynasty, these rich and noble families were not extremely evil, and they did not even break the law. After all, when you borrow grain and plant it, you and I are willing, and no one persecutes it.

The farmer borrowed grain as collateral from the farmland, and when it was time to repay it, the rich landlord could take their land, and it was logical. The government can't say anything.

Compared with the Liu family's various bad methods of encroaching on the people's fertile land, the behavior of these ordinary rich and noble families is not heinous at all.

In the face of any natural and man-made disasters, the rich and noble families are stronger than the poor ones. In many cases, the former can also take advantage of the trend to make the latter's fortune. The so-called law of the jungle is nothing more than that.

If you want to say that these rich and noble families have no humanity, it is indeed not.

But this is a moral issue, as long as these rich and noble families do not break the law, the dynasty will never put them in prison for moral issues.

So no one can stop this from happening.

This is land annexation.

The vast majority of people's pursuit of wealth and survival resources is endless and will never be satisfied, so it is inevitable to be unkind to be rich. Those wealthy and wealthy families took advantage of natural disasters to embezzle the farmland of ordinary people by means of loans, although despicable and shameless, but reasonable and legal.

This is the root cause of the land annexation problem, which cannot be completely resolved.

Unless the rich become benevolent and stop grabbing more wealth, unless the weather is good every year, more and more people will lose their land where they lived, and will have to be separated from their wives and wives, and then die in a foreign land.

In the face of such a reality, what can Zhao Ning say?

No matter how reasonable the land policy was at the beginning of the dynasty, it would eventually reach a dead end of land annexation over time.

Feng Niu'er was young in the end, and her mind was not so deep, and when she saw that Zhao Ning didn't speak, she choked up and continued:

"The big dog families took our fields, and we had no food, but fortunately they also needed people to farm, so we became their tenants.

"The big dog is with us,

In fact, the reputation is not bad, at least we have not done the measures of robbing the people's daughters and beating the people for no reason, we originally thought that being a tenant of his family, although they have to be controlled, it is also a way to live.

"The first two years were not bad, although there was no leisure time throughout the year, we got up early and stayed up late every day, and there was always a family supervisor with a big dog, but we all barely survived.

"On weekdays, the big dog family didn't scold us at will, and occasionally came to shush the cold and ask for warmth, and spoke politely, and did not stingy with a smile, which can be called peaceful.

"Just when we thought we could live a good life, the little son of the big dog family actually harmed the sister of the third brother's family, and refused to admit it afterwards!

"We went to the door, and the big dog who is kind and kind on weekdays actually turned his face when he said that he would turn his face, accusing us of wanting to climb the dragon and attach the phoenix, and deliberately instructed the third brother's sister to seduce his son!

"It happened to be a great drought that year, and the grain harvest in the fields we planted was very small, and there were many grains that had not been planted, so the big dog farmers cut our rations, so that we couldn't even drink a bowl of porridge a day!

"The third brother's sister-in-law because she couldn't stand the rumors, and finally jumped into the river to commit suicide, my mother was sick, and there was no money for treatment, no matter how I knelt in front of the dog's house and kowtowed, they just refused to borrow money, and finally my mother died of hunger......

"In the days when she was dying, she refused to drink a mouthful of porridge, saying that she was hopeless, and everything she ate was a waste, so let me eat more so that I could survive until next year......"

Speaking of this, Feng Niu'er cried loudly, so sad that people couldn't bear to hear it, like a baby.

Zhao Ning didn't know what to say for a while.

The reason why Feng Niu'er's "big dogs" are polite to them on weekdays is that he hopes that they will work hard, and he doesn't want to force them to be in a hurry, lest they run away or jump over the wall in a hurry.

Later, the son of the "big dog" scourged Feng San's sister, and in order to prevent the government from investigating this matter and causing trouble to his family, of course, he had to insist that it was the other party's ill-intentioned seduction.

All in all, it's all about profit. The interests of the "big dog" are guaranteed, he doesn't mind showing a smile, acting gentle and polite, and once he touches the interests of his family, he will not hesitate to look hideous.

Otherwise, during the great drought the year before last, the grain harvest in the fields was almost gone, and the "big dog households" would not have cut their rations, after all, it was not their fault.

In the final analysis, it is the "big dog" who has suffered his own losses, and he has to pass on some of them to the tenants, and he cannot bear all of them himself.

Speaking of which, the reduced rations add up, in fact, there is not too much.

The behavior of the "big dog" highlights that a baht must be compared, and it will not pull out a dime. This is also the disposition of most wealthy people. Generosity doesn't belong to them.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, and they are so poor that they can't survive in the end.

Thinking of this, Zhao Ning was not in a very good mood.

In the 100 years since the opening of the Great Qi Dynasty, today's prosperity has never been seen before, and it has been praised by countless literati and writers, but at such a point in time, the problem of land annexation has become extremely serious.

Every year, tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands, of people are losing their land and becoming homeless. In the end, they either went up the mountain to become thieves, or went down to the river to become bandits, or they were sold into slavery, or they died without a whole body.

There is nowhere to appeal for their grievances.

Because the means by which the rich embezzle their property and force them to have no way out of life are reasonable and legal on the surface. And whether it is the influence of the government or the control of public opinion, they are far better than the people at the bottom.

The so-called prosperous and prosperous world is actually just a deformed product of the upper class chasing wealth, no faith and no righteousness, drunk with money, and the lower class still living a difficult life despite their best efforts, and they cannot guarantee food, clothing, housing and transportation, so that they are full of resentment.

The prosperous age belongs to the rich and has nothing to do with the poor.

In this case, when the powerful Beihu army suddenly moved south, the Great Qi Dynasty, which seemed to be at the peak of the peaceful and prosperous era, how could it not be defeated like a mountain?

As a son of a family of generals, Zhao Ning played elementary school and saw all the battlefield battle formations and the art of war, and he also thought about how to make contributions on the battlefield and defend the country.

Zhao Ning had very little contact with these governance issues that should have been solved by civil officials. Even in the ten years of the national war in the previous life, the tragic situation of the people was not uncommon, and it was basically attributed to the military disaster, and there was no time to study it deeply.

And now, Zhao Ning found that these problems were all in front of him.

The Tian Yuan army was too strong, and if the Great Qi could not join forces, it would be really difficult to defeat the other party.

At this time, Feng San coughed twice and let out a strange laugh, "People can die, they can be killed, they can be killed by lightning, they can die of disease, but they just can't starve to death!"

"If a person dies of hunger, is it still called a man?

I'm a dignified seven-foot man, with both hands and feet, in the prime of life, if I starve to death, then I can't even get a dog from a big dog family!"

"This dog-mother-raised world, this dog-mother-raised rich family, since they don't let me live, forcing me to have no way to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth, forcing me to have no dignity, no human appearance, then I am not a human being!

"I killed his dog, took the cow and gave them a full meal, sneaked into the house of the big dog at night, killed his youngest son, avenged his sister-in-law, ordered his house, robbed the coil, and escaped with them!

"When I arrived in the capital, at the foot of this heaven, I thought that there would be no shortage of food, but I didn't expect that this place is no different from our small place. Oh, this world is really the same everywhere!

Speaking of this, Feng San's face turned a little hideous, his face became the appearance of a beast, and his voice was louder:

"Your Zhao family gave us a bite to eat, but that was after the government drove us away countless times and made my old father starve to death!

"Your Zhao family does have a good reputation, but what is the difference between you and that big dog family? When the natural disaster is in which year, the land is confiscated, you will still make us hungry, and the tragic situation of Niu Er's mother dying of illness and starvation will still happen!

"So, when someone comes to us and is willing to give us enough money to feed and clothe our family for the rest of our lives, why shouldn't we take the chance?

"Besides, they also gave us the cultivation elixir, so that the young children can have cultivation! When they become stronger, they will be able to have whatever they want, they will no longer be commoners, and they may become rich!

"This is our only chance to change the fate of our family, there will never be a second time, our few cheap lives, starve to death, death on the side of the road will not be much different from a dog, now can change a bright future for the family and future generations, what do we have to hesitate?!"

After saying this, Feng San was exhausted and gasped violently.

But he was still laughing, laughing heartily, laughing sadly, laughing angrily, laughing relieved, laughing bitterly, laughing proudly, laughing twisted, laughing pitifully.

In the end, he stared at Zhao Ning: "Zhao Gongzi, you were born with everything, even if you are really good-natured, even if you Zhao family are selfless, then it should be, what is there to think you are great?"

"I, Feng San, just want my family to live, just for future generations to be a real person, I have to pay for my life. But even if it is such an opportunity, I am grateful to Dade and thank God for finally opening his eyes!

"Zhao Gongzi, who is also a Qi person, Yanping City is prosperous for ten miles, so many people are ringing and eating, but we are like rats in the stinky ditch, no one wants to see us, what did we do wrong?

"Although I killed someone this time, I don't regret it, because this is a cannibalistic world, and I still look up to myself!

"Zhao Gongzi, if you want to kill or chop, I, Feng San, have nothing to say. Although we are all human beings, our lives are different, so in front of you, I am not actually a human being, just an ant! If you trample me to death, you can trample me to death.

"But if you want me to confess against the water, it's impossible!"

After listening to Feng Sanyi's words, Feng Niu'er and other villagers all looked painful and couldn't look back on the past.

Soon, their eyes became firm and resolute, and some of them were already looking around, as if they wanted to find a place to hit their heads and die.

Zhao Ning was silent for a moment.

To be honest, although he has not seen the ordinary people of Zhao's Zhuangzi, he actually does not have much understanding of the situation and life of the people at the bottom, that is, the people's livelihood and suffering.

The things Feng Niu'er told Feng San in front of him had a great impact on him.

He had always thought that only when a big family like the Liu family was in the fish and meat country, some people would encounter injustice, but he never thought that in the land of Daqi, countless ordinary people were in such a situation.

This is a big problem that needs to be solved.

But not now.

He sympathized with Feng San, Feng Niu'er and others.

There is no doubt about it.

But he also had to get the other party to confess.

Again, there is no room for this.

In any case, Feng San and the others all killed the villagers of Hekou Village who were just as hard as him, and Zhao Ning would not ignore this. What's more, in this war with Mendi, neither Zhao Ning nor the Zhao family can lose.

Otherwise, who will resist the invasion of Beihu?

Feng San and the others have family members they want to protect, and Zhao Ning also has them, and their will will will not be weaker than Feng San and them.

How can we get the other party to confess and be willing to change sides?

Zhao Ning couldn't find a solution to this question a moment ago, but now, he already had an answer in his heart.