Chapter 26: Good and Evil
After the news of the apparition of the land god spread, in just a few days, hundreds of people came to offer incense, and some even came three times a day.
Some came once, but they couldn't get what they wanted, and they returned disappointed.
When some came, they received help, and then they would come back to burn incense and make vows.
Some of them became Liu Qing's followers, and some of them just made a polite return visit after receiving help.
However, there are some who did not get Liu Qing's help, but saw that others succeeded, so they came to incense every day.
And it is also morning, noon and evening to come to the incense, as the temple keeper said, every time he holds the incense and kneels for a moment.
There are still a few of them who have become Liu Qing's followers.
I chose to do this in order to make myself appear more religious.
- This kind of behavior is stupid and indeed ignorant, but for those people, there is no other way but this.
In a dozen days, Liu Qing actually gained more than 20 believers.
However, while he gained believers, the Liu family also contributed a lot of money.
- To solve the difficulties of those people, what Liu Qing can do now is to use the ability of money to let the Liu family pay to solve it.
Part of the solution is similar to that of Zhu Qi's family, that is, free land rent.
There are also a few families who owe money to the Liu family, and the interest accumulates more and more, and they can't afford it at all, and they are also forgiven.
These were the problems that Liu Qing was able to solve, so he solved them.
After learning about the difficulties encountered by those people, Liu Qing also had some disdain for the old man Liu he possessed.
I used to have some respect for this person, and I felt that it was not easy for this person to accumulate virtue and do good deeds in his life.
At the same time, there are some wonders how this veteran has not made any technological inventions that can improve productivity, and how he can make so much money while doing good deeds.
Now I have some understanding.
The Liu family owns a large amount of land, and one-third of the land in Liu Town belongs to the Liu family.
In more than a dozen townships and towns in Bowu County, there are still large tracts of land.
Every year, a lot of land rent is collected.
In the year of the disaster, although the grain harvest is not high, they have a large amount of grain stored in the granary, which can be sold at a high price by taking advantage of this opportunity.
Or take advantage of this opportunity to exchange very little grain for other people's land, or even directly exchange them for slaves.
So there will be more and more land, and more and more slaves.
Then there's money lending.
Lend money to poor families when they are in need, and then charge interest.
It doesn't matter if you can't pay back the money by the date, you can add interest on the profit.
At the beginning, there will be no collection, so let the profits roll over until the day when they can't pay back, and then collect the debts.
Either they have to pay back with the land, or they have to work for free, or they sell themselves.
As the days went by, the rich became richer and richer, and the poor became poorer and poorer, and the land of Liuzhen slowly became the land of the Liu family.
It is not an exaggeration to say that the Liu family grew up by sucking the blood of the people of Liuzhen.
After understanding this, Liu Qing lost his original respect for the deeds of Liu Laowai, a great benevolent man who had accumulated virtue and done good deeds all his life.
But then again, this doesn't mean that Mr. Liu is a bad person.
It's true that you've done a lifetime of good deeds.
Mr. Liu has become the head of the Liu family, and he has been in charge of such a big Liu family for decades, and objectively he is sucking the blood of the surrounding people, but subjectively he does not have such malice.
The Liu family's business methods began to operate hundreds of years ago when they moved to Liuzhen.
This way of operation is not only the Liu family, but also many landlord families, relying on this way, step by step to become a big landlord family.
In comparison, the Liu family's eating appearance is not so ugly.
After Liu Laoyuan became the master of the house, he also lowered the standard of land rent, and often helped those tenants who could not eat, so as not to starve them to death.
The interest rate on the debts released is much lower than that of other landlords.
His title as a good person is not a ridicule of his neighbors, but an honorific title from the heart.
According to Liu Qing's modern standards, the land rent is still too high, and the interest on the money loan is also a proper usury.
All kinds of means of buying land at a low price are still relatively black-hearted.
It's just that compared with other landlords, he doesn't suck blood so fiercely, and his eating appearance is not so ugly, so he has become a great good man praised by everyone.
What's more, because it has been the case since ancient times, not only the neighbors think that Mr. Liu is a great good person, but even Mr. Liu himself also feels that he is a great good person.
After all, the door-to-door collection and household payment of grain are all done by the people below, and Liu Dashan himself has never done it.
He has never done evil with his own hands, nor has he made any rules for doing evil, but he just follows the old system.
The old system is evil, and following this evil system is considered evil, Liu Qing can't say whether it is evil, at least subjectively it is not evil.
Therefore, the system also judged that this old man Liu had accumulated virtue and done good deeds for a lifetime, and finally gave a reward for binding the system.
But if you want to say how kind it is, Liu Qing doesn't think so.
It can be said that every tael of silver earned by this Liu Dashan man is the blood and tears of poor people.
There is no way to say that this is good.
Therefore, it is not too much to use the Liu family's money to satisfy the wishes of some people, and Liu Qing does not feel that there is anything wrong with this.
Subjectively, it is to increase incense and believers for him, and objectively it has also done good deeds to those poor people.
This is also recognized by his merit system, and the past ten days of satisfying the wishes of those people have made the progress of the task of his merit system fast forward to 0.1%, which is much higher than the merit obtained by letting those ordinary people come to eat.
It's just that the Liu family seems to be a little unhappy.
The two brothers of the Liu family have never discounted Liu Qing's orders, and they have successfully completed the task every time, sometimes even better than Liu Qing's orders.
After that trip to Heaven, they were already Liu Qing's faithful believers, and what they thought about every day was no longer the wealth of the mortal world, but how to do it as the second generation of gods after death.
As long as Liu Qing can get more incense, they are willing.
However, the children and grandchildren below are a little unhappy.
They felt that the eldest master and the second master were a little stunned now, and they only knew that throwing the family's money out was ruining the Liu family's family business.
Although I didn't dare to say it to the two people in charge, I was already very dissatisfied in private.
When they were offering incense, Liu Qing could even hear these people scolding him and the two brothers.
In the evening, he drifted to the Liu family's compound and heard some such discussions.
Some of those people believed that Liu Qing had been made a god, but they felt that if they were a god, they should enjoy immortality and not waste the Liu family's money for the sake of their reputation.
Some don't believe it, thinking that the eldest and second masters can't bear the blow of losing their father, and they have mental problems, and they have become demonic people who have fallen into the lies of the gods.
There are so many bold people who are even plotting to find a famous doctor to treat the eldest and second masters.
Until they get well, they can't let these two masters continue to be in charge.
Several of them were already discussing who would be in charge of the Liu family during the treatment of the two masters.
even discussed, and when the time comes, the land temple will also be pushed.
Liu Qing listened to the descendants of the Liu family in this secret room in the state of consciousness and listened to those rebellious discussions made by the descendants of the Liu family here, and was quite angry.
- Everything else can be endured, if you want to push his land temple, you can't bear it!
- This is his inheritance!
- Whoever touches his inheritance is his enemy of life and death!