Chapter 33: A Tragic Life

"To tell you the truth, we are Huaiyuanwei's military households."

On the way, the robber Li Bin honestly confessed his identity to Zhu Yunxi.

A few steps behind him was a team of brocade guards in plain clothes.

The Jinyi guard led by the commander of the Tongzhi Song Zhong, who was close to the kings, stared at Li Bin like a tiger and wolf, and his sharp eyes swept back and forth on his body.

If Li Bin dares to make a slight move, it will be detrimental to the kings, and he is afraid that he will be in a different place on the spot.

Being a guard for the royal family is a proper and lofty profession, but there is also danger in wealth.

If an accident happens, either you die or I die.

Therefore, Jinyiwei would rather kill by mistake than let dangerous people go.

Song Zhong was able to hold back and not move, which was already a great mercy.

"Military?"

Acting King Zhu Gui shouted: "You are a good soldier, why did you come out to do such a thing?" ”

"If you can live, why not?" Li Bin let out a long sigh, and there was no longer half of the gangsterism on his body.

Zhu Yunxi said: "You can talk about it in detail." ”

"Yes."

The black man Li Bin is cautious and serious, and the young men in front of him are extraordinary.

Although he was wearing ordinary clothes, the rich atmosphere on his body was difficult to hide.

I think it should be a noble son.

Fengyang Mansion is the cradle of the founding heroes of the Ming Dynasty, and there have been dozens of dukes and counts, and the most important thing is the honor.

Li Bin's father, Li Xin, also followed Zhu Yuanzhang and accumulated merit to General Mingwei.

Just passed away a few years ago.

Li Bin said: "I was originally from Dingyuan, Fengyang Mansion, and my father commanded Jichuan Wei, but I had no choice but to become a robber because of changes in my family. ”

Jichuanwei is a naval army patrolling the river, stationed at the mouth of the Xinjiang River in Beijing.

Zhu Yunxi asked: "The size of the commander is also a fourth-grade military attachΓ©, and he can be hereditary, why don't you go to the post and come to be a bandit?" ”

The guard system of the Ming Dynasty, from the commander of the guard of the three products to the general banner of the seven products, the official positions are hereditary.

"My brother took office, but he died in Saibei, and I offended the magnates who stayed in the Central Capital Division, so I couldn't take office......"

Li Bin said that he was completely learning from Kaiping Wang Chang Yuchun, and he heard Zhu Yunxi's black line.

Decades ago, Chang Yuchun was dissatisfied with the status quo of life, and defected to Liu Ju, a green forest thief who was active in Huaiyuan and Dingyuan, and followed Liu Ju to block the road and rob, and entered the house as a thief.

At first, I often felt fresh in spring, and I could not only eat meat in a large bowl, but also get silver taels.

Only a few months later, Chang Yuchun germinated: life must do something meaningful in the world, and the thoughts together, so they broke away from the group of thieves and found another way.

So Chang Yuchun met Zhu Yuanzhang and did a great career.

The story of Chang Yuchun circulated throughout the Ming Dynasty, especially in the hometown area, and the celebrity effect drove some small fans.

Chang Yuchun's hometown is Huaiyuan, and Li Bin is also in Huaiyuan now, and even the territory where the mountain is the king is the place where Chang Yuchun was active.

Of course, this kind of thing is not caused by hobbies, but by life.

In peacetime, who is idle to do such a headless business?

"What's going on in your family that you have to fall into the grass and destroy your future?" Zhu Yunxi frowned.

Li Bin sighed and said: "My father died in Jiangnan, my brother died in the north, I love my concubine to sleep in the monk's house, and my wife lives in the Taoist house." ”

β€œ......”

The crowd fell silent.

This is indeed a big change.

The whole family died, and he still wore green hats one after another, and there was nothing worse in life than this.

I think it was during Li Bin's filial piety, his wife and concubine couldn't bear the loneliness.......

"All of this is caused by the fact that I offended someone I shouldn't have messed with......"

Li Bin looked around, looked at Zhu Yunxi and the others, and then looked at the brothers behind him, and finally gritted his teeth and decided to speak boldly.

It turned out that these people were all military households under him, and each family was originally given 50 acres of fertile land, and the family lived a very nourishing life.

However, because the fertile land was occupied by the nobles, he was forced to become a tenant.

The land of the military camp is the official field of the imperial court, and it is very simple to clean up the big soldiers.

Li Bin, who was a hundred households at the time, couldn't get used to the oppression from above, so he planned to go to Beijing to sue.

However, before he reached the capital division, he was caught by Xungui's house slave and sent to the government.

In the end, Li Bin was convicted of defamation and sentenced to death.

In the Ming Dynasty, the punishment for the crime of defamation and false accusation was very severe, ranging from a rod of 100,000 miles to death.

Li Bin finally escaped.

"In order to humiliate me, they deliberately sent my wife and concubine to the monk's house!"

Li Bin's eyes were red, as if there were signs of an outbreak.

In the next second, he quickly calmed down.

Jin Yiwei commanded Tongzhi Song Zhong's knife, put it on his neck, and said coldly: "If you don't calm down, I don't recommend helping you to bleed." ”

"Brother Tai misunderstood." Li Bin sneered.

He can be sure that these noble sons are not his enemies.

There are so many nobles in Fengyang Mansion, the reason why Li Bin doesn't know which nobles the enemy is, secretly has the intention of temptation, and more because he wants to save his life.

"Don't worry, as long as what you say is true, I will find a way to help you get rid of it."

Zhu Yunxi comforted Li Bin and motioned for Song Zhong to put down the knife.

At the same time, he was thoughtful.

In any dynasty, the land distribution system was good at the beginning of the country, and after a few decades, the land became more and more concentrated in the hands of the magnates and nobles.

With the passage of time, land annexation reached a certain level, and the contradictions were irreconcilable.

The people could not survive, and eventually a large-scale uprising would be caused to completely overthrow the dynasty.

For two thousand years, history has been repeating itself, and this problem existed in all dynasties, and it was simply impossible to solve it.

Because people have selfish desires, they all know that doing so will destroy the country, but they don't care, they only think about the interests of themselves and their families.

The drawbacks of the Wei system, a hundred years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, penetrated into the bone marrow.

At this time, it is just the first glimpse.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, these noble generals who relied on land annexation to earn a lot of wealth already showed signs of land annexation.

Some Huaixi nobles encroached on fertile land in Fengyang and other places, and connived at domestic servants to cause trouble to the township.

Someone began to expose it, and then Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang denounced it.

Of course, the literati bureaucracy was more problematic, representing the interests of the gentry and landlords, resulting in more serious land annexation, which belonged to digging the corners of the state.

Relying on them to check and balance the imperial power and fight against the nobles is obviously very unreliable.

Along the way, Huiwang Zhu Yunwen was in a good mood, and from time to time he caused a topic and asked about Li Bin's suppression by Xungui.

For him, the Huaixi Xungui thunderstorm is a good event!

Looking at Zhu Yunxi's happy expression, Zhu Yunxi frowned slightly.

"In the eyes of many people, Huaixi Xungui is my person, could it be that this is Lao Zhu's test for me?"

Zhu Yunxi thought about it all the way, and even thought: "If I can't solve the problem of Xungui, will Lao Zhu go on a killing spree?" ”

There are still fifty miles to go from Zhongdu.

I heard a heavy sound of horses' hooves ahead, as if the earth was shaking under the blow of iron hooves.

Zhu Yunxi looked up and saw a group of cavalry rushing.

They all had bright helmets and dark armor, all bright red, like a red wave.

"It's not good, it's the cloud rider of the founding father!"

Li Bin recognized the other party, thought that he was coming to arrest them, and was about to slip away.

But he saw that Engong and the others were as stable as Mount Tai, and their faces did not change.