Just seeing the only 9 points of enlightenment left on the system panel, Su Hao couldn't help but sigh, this time it was really back to before liberation.

Before going from Jining Prefecture to Jinan Mansion with Fang Haichuan and others, Fang Haichuan and them were all flying fish suits, naturally there would be no mountain bandits stupid enough to do anything to them, and after leaving Jinan Mansion, he has been relying on the carriage to practice light skills, although it looks a little stupid, but others see that he has martial arts, and naturally they are also respectful.

In the past year, rebellions have risen one after another, and there have been signs of great chaos in the world, bandits have risen everywhere, some of them have to fall into the grass as a last resort, and there are also local squires who are inferior and heroic secretly as bandits, and the most serious is the deserters of the guards.

In the Ming Dynasty, the problem of deserters in the guard was a disease, and the guard system set up by Zhu Yuanzhang was actually not wrong, in the chaotic state at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the guard system calmed down the Ming Dynasty in the shortest possible time.

Moreover, Zhu Yuanzhang, as a beggar-born civilian, also personally experienced the suffering of the people, and when he set up the guard system, he equipped each guard with enough military households and tuntian, and the military households cultivated the tuntian, and then paid grain tax to feed the guard, so as to be self-sufficient.

It's a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang overestimated his authority and underestimated the greed of human nature, and the military households that occupied dozens of acres of land were no less than big fat sheep in the eyes of the guards and local gentry.

So the inside and the outside should be combined, the officers and gentry of the guard house divided up the tuntian of these military households, and bought off the hundreds of officials in the court, so that the military households had no way to sue, coupled with Zhu Yuanzhang's military household system at the beginning, these military households without land could only become the personal slaves of the officers of the guard, and some unbearable could only choose to flee and fall into the grass.

In addition to deserters, there are many people who are forced to live by harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and when it comes to harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the Ming Dynasty is better than other dynasties.

At the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang himself was born poor, and after becoming the emperor, he was also extremely harsh on officials, and the monthly salary of a dignified and high-quality official was only eighty-seven stones, and in normal years, the price of one stone of grain was about eight or nine yuan, and one tael was sixteen yuan, which meant that eighty-seven stones were exchanged for silver and about fifty taels.

Boy!

When the official reaches this level, who is not a big family, wants slaves to serve, clothes and food, pomp, and favors, and 50 taels of silver a month.

And the most miserable is the county of the seven products, the moon is only seven stones, and it is about four taels when it is exchanged for silver, when he heard He Liu say that the gold and clothing of the hundred households are ten stones, and when they are replaced by six taels of silver, he is also confused, he buys a treasure medicine to get more than a thousand taels, really relying on that bit of money, he can't afford to buy a treasure medicine for a lifetime.

But there is no worst, only worse, although this bit of silver is not enough to eat and drink, but it can also live, but the old Zhu family is not a person, this point of Yu Lu actually has to be deducted, when Zhu Yuanzhang was there, most of the Yu Lu sent rice, a small part of the money, and the officials of the seven or eight grades basically issued grain every month.

But when it came to Zhu Di, the heart of this product was even darker, and he actually invented the system of "folding color" that damaged his grandmother's family.

It is said that being an official for thousands of miles is only for money, and now he can't even live, so he naturally has to find a way to live, so all kinds of officialdom regular money has gradually become popular, what ice respect, charcoal respect, tea money, there are countless people, and it is also recognized by officialdom, and the court will not be held accountable if he takes it, because everyone has a share.

He also has these regular money, he can get thousands of taels of silver a year, and it is not okay not to take it, the entire Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, and only a few literati such as Hai Rui who believe in honesty and public service will refuse to take these regular rules, but these people are also outliers in the officialdom, and where these regular money comes from is self-evident.

Therefore, at the beginning, their Su family's big family business still had to be controlled by Zhang Jiatao, if it was not protected by Zhang Jiatao, after several rounds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the Su family would not be far from bankruptcy.

However, Su Hao has no pity for these people who were forced to fall into the grass, and said that poor people must have something to hate, and these people are the same.

Because these people are forced to fall into the grass, they are only to persecute those more pitiful ordinary people, if they are exposed, or against those wealthy families, he can still call the other party a hero, but unfortunately these people will only point their knives at the weaker people after becoming bandits, and become a member of the persecutors.

After passing through Qingzhou Mansion, Su Hao turned south, although the official road of the Ming Dynasty has run through the prefecture and city, and there are also official roads from the prefecture to the counties under the rule, but there are only a few official roads, he wants to Mengyin County, he has to go to Qingzhou Mansion first, go south through the official road of the prefecture, pass through Linqu, Yishui, Yinan County, and then reach Mengyin County through Yinan.

……

After a four-day long journey, Su Hao came to Yishui County.

After entering the county seat, Su Hao randomly found an inn to settle down, and after washing up a little, he ordered another table of wine and food, and feasted on it, although he was assisted by treasure medicine when he cultivated, and he didn't need to eat as much as ordinary martial artists, but he had been eating dry food with cold water for four or five days, and he was tired of eating.

Just as Su Hao was feasting, the conversation between the two diners on the side caught Su Hao's attention.

"Have you heard?"

One of the taller men said mysteriously: "There is a man surnamed Ma in the East Village, and the one surnamed Ma died a few years ago, but the mother-in-law surnamed Ma was pregnant again more than half a year ago, and gave birth to a big fat boy some time ago, and everyone said that she stole people, but she didn't say that her dead ghost husband came back from the underworld and gave birth to her." ”

"You're too slow to hear from you."

Another shorter smiled and said, "This matter was in front of the county lord yesterday, and I heard that the county lord is going to interrogate it in person." ”

"Really?"

The tall man was suspicious: "Can this matter alarm the county honor?" ”

"The mother-in-law of the Ma family said that this child was born to her by her dead ghost husband through a clay puppet."

The short man said helplessly: "Now the county is also worried about demons and evil spirits, I heard that some time ago, there were ghosts and things harming people in the city." ”

Hearing this, Su Hao suddenly frowned, according to the travelogues of the ancestors of the Su family, there is a difference between life and death, once you enter the underworld, it is basically impossible to return to the yang world, not to mention that people and ghosts have different paths, unless they borrow the body of a living person, it is very difficult for a ghost to touch a living person, let alone give birth to a child.

"What do you think, Fauber?"

I really couldn't figure it out, so Su Hao could only finish eating in a hurry, and then came to the carriage to ask Fu Bo.

"Soil puppets?"

After listening to Su Hao's words, Fu Bo pondered for a long time, and finally said slowly: "It may be a ghost fetus." ”

PS: This is from "Volume 10: Clay Puppets"