Compared with those villages in eastern Liaodong, this small village in the south of the Yangtze River in front of you can be called abject poor. Almost all of the villages are thatched houses, except for one family in the east of the village, which is a blue brick house or a three-hall courtyard.

"That household is a landlord." Li Xiao pointed to the blue brick house and asked.

"Most likely, in the former Jiangnan. The families in the village who can afford to live in blue brick houses are all rich families, and ordinary people will never want to live in such houses for the rest of their lives.

However, after my rectification, the landlords were generally killed. In some homes, even children fell to their deaths on trees. I really did eradicate the weeds, how do you think my reputation as a fierce beast came about? ”

Li Hao smiled helplessly, in the history books written by the Donglin Party, his reputation is considered to be stinking on the street, and it can be called the peak of the stinky three hundred miles.

Shi Kefa's family didn't care, and still married the pearl of the Shi family to Li Hao. Of course, in Li Xiao's view, this is a purely political marriage.

But fortunately, the granddaughter of Shi Kefa's family and Li Hao get along well, and the husband and wife can be called Qin Se and Ming, Lu Zhu said that the young couple has not quarreled since they got married, and they have not even blushed.

Although this is not the normal state of getting along with husband and wife, Li Xiao still thinks it is good. When a man fights the world outside, he must have a family behind him after all.

"Let's go! Go inside and have a look. Li Xiao walked into a house.

Three thatched huts, with a woman feeding chickens in the yard. Seeing a group of big men rushing in, he hurriedly got into the house in fright, and the two wooden doors "clanged" shut, and the sound of the door bolt was heard inside.

Li Xiao walked to the edge of the grain stack, stepped on the ladder and went up, and saw that most of the grain was left in the grain stack. The chickens raised in the yard eat leftover rice from human beings.

On the east side of the yard was the livestock shed, which was now empty, and it seemed that it had been led out to work by the men of the family.

"What do you guys do?" Several men jumped over the fence and rushed into the courtyard at once. Holding a wooden stick in his hand, he looked at these people in front of him with an unkind face.

Li Xiao looked at this guy, it is rare that there is a person here who can speak official language.

"You! Come here, just say you. Li Xiao pointed to the guy who took the lead.

"You're ......! What are you doing? The man who took the lead swallowed his saliva with a "grunt". He saw the guns in the waists of the guards!

Junko walked over, grabbed him by the neck like a sheep and carried the man over.

"You're the head of the village?" Li Xiao looked at the man and asked.

"No, my father went to the ground." The man shook his head.

"What's your name?"

"Hou Dazhuo."

Taken by the ferocity of these people, Li Xiao answered honestly when asked Hou Dazhuan. As for his companions, they have long since disappeared.

"It's strange, depending on your age, your father is probably not fifty this year. What's the matter with an old man working in the fields and you, a young man, staying at home? ”

"My daughter-in-law has just given birth, and there is no woman at home, so I can only stay at home and wait." Hou Dazhuan replied very honestly.

"They're too?" Li Xiao pointed to a few guys who ran to the corner and hid. They all looked to be over twenty years old, and they were all big and small.

"They were going to literacy classes, and my father left them in the village. My father said that it doesn't matter if they are old and illiterate, and the children will have a long time in the future, and they must learn to read. ”

"There are such literacy classes in the countryside, and the teachers are limited. Generally speaking, there is only one teacher in three or five villages. Each village takes turns to teach the big guys to read and write. I also teach a little bit of very basic addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, no way, Jiangnan is like this.

It is feasible to run a school in the city, but it is basically impossible to run a school in the countryside. These villages are located between Huating and Suzhou, which is quite a good village.

In remote places, even such literacy classes are not available.

There are no teachers! ”

Li Xiao nodded, it was difficult for a good woman to cook without rice. Without teachers, what can we talk about education?

"Some policies will be introduced this year, and people who have graduated from primary schools in Shandong can come to Jiangnan to teach if they are willing. In any case, let's eradicate illiteracy first.

Hou Dazhuan, this family is considered a rich family in the village? "In the countryside, people who have leftovers can almost be called rich.

"Now it's almost like this in the village, except for the widows and orphans who don't have a man in the family."

"Is there no one to take care of the widows and orphans?" Li Xiao frowned.

"Lonely old people or something, everyone in the village will give some food. Not to starve! These are the past two years, and the government no longer collects such heavy taxes. There is no landlord to collect rent, and the official family also buys grain every year.

The life of the big guys can be regarded as a person, if it had been a few days ago, these people would have starved to death. ”

"Oh, how much is the surplus of each family?"

"Basically, except for rations, they were all sold to the official family. Every household is required to pay a poll tax according to the Dingkou. However, there were only twenty dollars per person, and a family of five only paid one silver dollar.

Counting up, there are more left.

Every family is saving money, waiting to save enough money to build a house. There were many words to answer, and Hou Dazhuan didn't seem to be very afraid.

"Is that the landlord's house?" Li Xiao pointed to the blue brick house.

"Hmm!" Hou Dazhuan nodded.

"What about the people in their family?"

"There was a group of afterborn babies in the city, and they also brought soldiers. They called them bad people and drove their whole family into the cellar and burned them. ”

"Burned?" Li Xiao glanced back at Li Hao, who had only heard about it before, but now it was talked about by the person concerned. Li Xiao was still a little frightened, but he didn't expect the truth to be so fierce.

"Hmmm! It was in the cellar at the west end of the village, and after the big guy burned it, he buried the cellar. Now, no one dares to go there at night. I'd rather take a detour than walk. ”

"Oh!" Li Xiao glanced back at Li Hao.

Li Hao lowered his head and didn't speak, some of the things he knew were much more tragic than this.

"Is the landlord a bad person?"

"Mr. Tang is very good, he is knowledgeable and has been admitted to Xiucai, he always rewarded me with candy when I was a child. If you can't live any time, as long as you find Master Tang, there will be relief.

The government sometimes bullies people, and it is also Master Tang who takes our village people to the official's house to complain. If the tenants have difficulties at home, he will reduce the tenant rent as appropriate. ”

Li Xiao looked back at Li Hao again, but Li Hao still didn't speak.

"Do you think the official family killed a good person?" Li Xiao looked at Hou Dazhuan.

"Hmmm! The students took the soldiers, and my father told two words of love, and he was almost dragged by them to parade through the streets. Everyone, they don't dare to disobey them. ”

"What is the house for?" Li Xiao pointed to the three-entry blue brick house.

"It is used to live for the lonely and widowed elderly people in the village."

"Alright, let's go." Li Xiao waved his hand, and Hou Dazhuan immediately fled as if he had been pardoned.

He didn't know who the other party was, he only knew that this was a big official, a very big official.

"Big brother......!" Li Hao wanted to say something, but he couldn't say it.

"Huh! What do you want to say? Passing the buck to subordinates? You can't do this kind of thing, the five provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, such a big mess.

There are thousands of large and small villages, and you may also be able to identify each village from village to village. There's no way around it! ”

That's it, young people always have a fiery heart. They are very frizzy in doing things, and they think that the landlords are all bad. Pressed down from above, this is the only way to do it when you get to the place. ”

"I don't blame them for being frizzy, in fact I have another meaning that I haven't said.

This kind of country gentry has great prestige in the locality. To some extent, the existence of such a person is a headache for the government.

Therefore, the local officials are also willing to use this excuse to get rid of such people.

The reason is high-sounding and upright, fooling some of those hot-blooded young people. Those hairy children became executioners in this way.

Hehe! Do you think that the old fox only exists in the court, like Sun Chengzong or Zhang Huangyan?

The old officials in these places, that is really slippery.

That's why I asked the young people to go through a little training before they could be promoted gradually. Without experience, they can't fight these old loaches. ”