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In the afternoon, the wind is beautiful and the weather is clear, which is a rare weather in early summer.

Linchuan-eup, outside the manor near a river bay, an old man in his fifties in fine clothes stood in front of a dense and neatly arranged group of more than 2,000 people, with his hands behind his back, as if waiting for something.

"Father, I heard the samurai sent by the little gentleman to deliver the message that our new master is a son, is it really okay for us to do this?"

Behind the old man, the man who spoke was a man in his thirties, dressed in the same way as him, but with a slight difference.

"What kind of son, today, how can there be any snake Yu Guo, but he is just a son of a dead country. The old man said disdainfully, and said, "Moreover, we do not want to confront him on the surface, but only to show our control of this manor a little, and then tell him that we should give him a share of the harvest, and a lot will be given to him." ”

"So, what else does he have to say?"

"If you look at many other manors in Linchuan, there are also small gentlemen from other places or their families who have settled here, but have you ever seen them come here in person?"

"These sons and gentlemen never take care of these things personally, they are all left to us subordinates, they only care about whether the annual income of the manor is as usual, whether they can support their squandering, as long as there is no problem here, there will be nothing. ”

"But father, I always feel a little uneasy in my heart, maybe it is not an ordinary person to ask our little gentleman to give away such a big manor?" the young man said worriedly, he had an instinctive fear of the superiors, especially the one with the name of the son, which made him even more unbearable.

"Heh!" The old man sneered: "Meng Ming, why do you think the old man did this, let me ask you, if we don't do this, what will happen if our new master, the snake Yu Gongzi, replaces us and sets up a new housekeeper here?"

"This is a large manor with a population of 600 households, 2,000 and 500 people, except for the part of the income that should be paid to the owner, as long as we run it well on weekdays, and then get a little more from each of them, this is not a small amount. ”

"I think that those scholars who have been sealed off in villages and towns may not have the scenery of our family. ”

"Think about the brocade clothes you are wearing, imagine the jade food in your mouth, and the beautiful women in the manor that you choose freely, and our grandson can even go to the capital to learn Wenluo martial arts, if the old man can no longer be a housekeeper, these will be lost at that time. ”

"Father!" a hint of horror flashed across the man's face, and it was clear that he was frightened by the situation.

"So, we have to do this, first give the dead prince a slap in the face and scare him. The old man said fiercely: "Give another sweet date to appease it, and even give more, so that we can continue to manage the affairs of the manor here, and continue to have everything we have." ”

"It's a pity, it's a pity that my grandson is still too young. ”

"If he has already attained the crown and become a talent, has the ability of a scribe and the strength of a warrior, and can make meritorious deeds, plus my family has been managing the manor and hard work, with the love of Lord Lu Li and the little gentleman, it may not be a problem to seal this manor to our Meng family. ”

"At that time, we will also be the home of a few scholars in Linchuanyi. ”

"Alas......" the old man sighed, obviously the little gentleman of Lu Li, who gave the manor to others, had disrupted all his plans.

"That's the only way to do it. ”

While the two were discussing, a burst of dust suddenly rose in the distance, not much at first, but then it faintly seemed to pull out a long dragon, and then it rose in the sky, with an overwhelming momentum, and swept towards this manor.

"Father, what is there, what happened?" Meng Ming looked at it, and his heart was shocked, and he shouted urgently.

"What's the matter, so babbling, it's all so big, and the whole person is not calm. The old man said unimpressedly, but he followed his son's guidance and looked into the distance, and his eyes were no better than those of a young man, until the dust and the man who stirred it up drew nearer.

Immediately, he was shocked and exclaimed: "It's not good, this seems to be a large army traveling, stepping on a dry dirt road to startle such a loud dust, there is an army coming." ”

"In Linchuan Yi, with such a large military force, the only one who can be mobilized freely is the little gentleman who has just returned from receiving his relatives, is it the little gentleman's military chariot?

"How is this possible, the little gentleman is going to pick up his relatives, and when he returns to Jingguo, he must go back to Luli first to get married, how can he delay here?"

"Could it be a bandit in the mountains?" Meng Ming said in disbelief.

"How is it possible? How do you have a long brain?" the old man scolded: "Our Linan Manor is not in the mountains outside Linchuan, how can there be any thieves, even if there are thieves, if you want to enter, unless you break the checkpoints of Linchuan first, then there will inevitably be beacon fires." ”

"Now that the beacon fire has not started, of course it will not be the bandits entering the country. He was a little uneasy and said: "Maybe the little gentleman values this snake prince very much, so he mobilized the Linchuan garrison, but he just took over a manor, can he use so many people?"

The old man thought so, but soon the men and horses from afar were getting closer and closer, and the convoy was getting closer and closer, causing the wild people behind him to start a commotion, and finally he saw the flags on the horses and chariots at the forefront.

"Snake Yu. The old man carefully recognized the words on the flag, as the steward of the manor, by managing the manor, he has been rich for several generations, of course he is literate, so he recognized the word, and then his face changed greatly, and his whole body trembled.

"How is it possible? How can a prince who died in the country come up with so many military vehicles? There are so many people, at least more than ten times, and Lu Li's family is in Linchuanyi, even if he initiates a summoning order to gather soldiers and peasants into an army, he can only gather hundreds of dozens of times. ”

"Father, what shall we do?"

Meng Ming had never seen such a force, and his legs were a little weak as he saw a long dragon pressing towards him with murderous energy.

The old man took a deep breath, forced himself to composure, his eyes flashed brightly, and hurriedly said to him: "Quick, go and greet everyone in the manor to kneel to greet him." ”

"Childe, this Huaishang is really a place of ointment, but it is much more prosperous than the northern countries. ”

Along the river, a lane winds its way to the Linan Manor.

Wang Yue's militia recruited from the Black Hu thieves and the team of a military vehicle sent by Dr. Yin Yin marched in an orderly manner on the lane, and after a few days of marching and integration, the army was a little better than the initial intake, and the militia had seen blood with Heihu, and it seemed to be a little elite at this time.

It was the snake that spoke just now, and he sighed as he looked at the endless fields and manors on the plains on the left and right of the river in this land near the river.

He was in the northern Shenguo, the most prosperous place he had ever seen, and the area around Puyang, the national capital, was nothing more than that.

"That's because you're only in Shenguo, and you haven't seen anything else. Wang Yue's right warrior Zhao Wu (Chao You) said.

"Shen is located between the forces of Chen, Cai and Jing, in recent hundreds of years, the countries have fought for hegemony, and there have been several major wars in Shen State, among which small wars are continuous, which can be called frequent wars, and Shen State has many mountains and forests, so it can not develop. ”

"Like the Chen State is different, there has been a prosperous place in the Central Plains since ancient times, although it also has many mountains, but mostly in the west, the east of the land, there are more vast plains, and there is a big river meandering from the east, crossing the plains, plus many tributaries, there is no shortage of water, it is easy to reclaim more arable land. ”

"Its national strength is the strongest in the world, and the battle for hegemony is mostly abroad, which does not affect the country, but because of the need of war, its domestic doctor lord has developed the territory very prosperously, and after hundreds of years of development, the dense population is far above Huaishang. ”

Although Cai Guo is inferior to Chen Guo, he is also not bad. ”

Zhao Wu followed Heihu from Cai Guo and moved to the north, but his knowledge and experience were much richer than that of the snake, and the snake had to nod and listen, and said no more.

Soon after, the manor was already in sight, and the samurai sent by the little gentleman to guide the way and assist in receiving it also came to report back.

"Childe, ahead is Linan Manor, in front of the manor, the housekeeper Meng Qi has already led the farmers under the jurisdiction of the manor to welcome the arrival of the son. ”

Wang Yue saw the battle in front of the manor early on, and said to Zhao Wu with a smile: "The battle to welcome this prince is really big, if I hadn't come with an army, wouldn't I have been scared by these thousands of people?"

Zhao Wu sneered: "It's nothing more than that the housekeeper of this manor wants to play a trick in front of the son, showing some prestige, so that the son can't touch him outside the manor, and also asks him to continue to be the manor steward and take care of the manor for the son." ”

"I offended my son, and he still wants to continue to be a housekeeper?" Wang Yueqi said.

"That's nature. Zhao Wu affirmed: "Slaves are born to bully their masters, and this kind of thing is also in the north." ”

"Many weak or not shrewd manor owners are often deceived by them, and these house slaves, although they are prestigious, are not excessive, and the benefits that should be given to the manor owner will still be given, and may even be more, better than his own management, so in the end most of them are resigned to it. ”

"Oh?" Wang Yue looked at the dense crowd in the distance, thinking in his heart.

Zhao Wu continued: "Where does the income that this housekeeper gives to the owner of the manor come from? In addition to the fact that they have been operating here for many years and are skilled in management, they can only continue to exploit the farmers who rent the land under the manor. ”

"Originally, they had to support the owner of the manor, but the burden on the farmer was quite heavy, and the remaining grain was not enough to eat, and the housekeeper also had to make money from managing the manor, so he had to exploit it again, so they were even more miserable. ”

"Just supporting the owner of the manor, the food is not enough to eat, and if they are exploited by the housekeeper again, how can they live?"

Wang Yue asked, he communicated with Ziyu and Zijing about major matters, but these things were never talked about.

Zhao Wu sneered: "The farmers don't have enough to eat, of course they have to borrow from the housekeeper, borrow 100 catties of grain, 10 catties a month, and repay 200 catties in the next year. ”

"Although the servants are still households, they are actually similar to slaves, and they carry debts that can never be repaid, and in order to repay the debts, they have to work for the estate for no one for many years until they die, and there is no hope in sight. ”

He sighed: "In the past, in the Northland countries, many manors were like this, these servants were different from other savages, once they were thieves, they were determined to do it, even if they died, they were willing, because their previous life was not as good as being a thief, and a cheap life was not as good as a dog." ”

Finally, he added in a low voice: "Before being sent to the mine as a mining slave and becoming a samurai, my family was first returned to the house of savages by the samurai family for some things, and then it also went through this process, alas!"

Wang Yue bowed slightly, he was actually not unfamiliar with these things that Zhao Wu said.

This kind of thing, in the past history, in the same era in various countries, and even in Tibet before liberation, the situation was much the same, and with this understanding, how to deal with this manor and its households, he also had a plan.