Chapter 148 Harsh government is fiercer than a tiger
After Mu Sheng pulled Xiaomu and ran home, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Xiao Mu said with a smile: "Our big hero of Hongni Village, why did he run so fast?"
Mu Sheng picked up the bowl, poured a few sips of water, wiped his mouth with his arm and said, "I'd rather face thousands of troops than those villagers who are grateful for their kindness, awkward and uncomfortable." ”
Xiao Mu smiled and said, "You wait, you will be uncomfortable in the future." ”
Mu Sheng shook his head, "If I knew that I wouldn't have made a move, I just took you away." ”
Xiao Mu also poured a bowl of water and drank it, and said, "Then what can I do, don't forget, we are here to spread the Dharma, you are good, the villagers are dead, how can I spread the Dharma? In the future, the safety of the village will be handed over to you, okay, go to sleep." ”
After Xiao Mu finished speaking, he got up and walked to his bedroom, closed the door and went to sleep.
Mu Sheng disagreed and said: "Don't, I can't do it, I'll just farm honestly." ”
Seeing that Xiao Mu didn't take care of himself, walked to his bedroom and closed the door to rest, Mu Sheng could only shake his head helplessly and returned to the bedroom to sleep.
After chasing away the horse thieves, for more than a month, Mu Sheng didn't dare to go out or open the door.
Enthusiastic villagers either came to the door to thank Mu Sheng with some of their own agricultural products, or came to talk to Mu Sheng, well, this time it was to talk to Mu Sheng, in the war era, who doesn't like to find a son-in-law with outstanding force? As for Xiao Mu, everyone saw Xiao Mu's toughness that day, and ordinary men absolutely couldn't control it, but no one came to talk about matchmaking anymore.
After burning and burying the robber's body, Wang Li specially visited the village chief and wanted Mu Sheng to be the protector of Hongni Village.
When Mu Sheng didn't speak, Xiao Mu accepted it for Mu Sheng, and Mu Sheng could only reluctantly agree to be Baozheng.
There are also some people who either want to learn martial arts from Mu Sheng, or want their children to follow Mu Sheng to practice martial arts.
Xiao Mu took over this problem, and it didn't take long for Xiao Mu to open the Mu Family Martial Arts Hall. Naturally, learning martial arts is free, and while teaching martial arts, Kogi selects his loyal fans to spread the Pure Land Buddhism.
I have to say that the magic of the Pure Land Sect's exercises, in just one month, those people in Hongni Village who practiced the Pure Land Sect's exercises have cultivated their true qi and become masters of the inner family.
The magic of the Pure Land Buddhism has made more people begin to believe in Buddhism, and Xiaomu's path to spreading the Dharma has officially begun.
As time passed, two months later, after the enthusiasm of the villagers decreased, Mu Sheng dared to go out and farm normally. The members of the escort team all became Xiaomu's followers, and they practiced the Pure Land Sect exercises, and each of them had internal strength, and their skills improved greatly.
In his spare time, Mu Sheng led the villagers to build a wall to protect the village using stones, and the weapons of the captured horse thieves were also handed over to the guards to be armed.
The guardian power of Hongni Village is more beautiful than before.
Xiao Mu's martial arts hall is becoming more and more prosperous, and the Pure Land Sect believers who have cultivated their true qi will lead several families to cultivate together. Everyone has friends, relatives and neighbors, and these Pure Land followers who have cultivated internal strength are the best example of this, which can attract a group of people to Buddhism.
Xiao Mu openly advertised that as long as he believed in the Buddha and took refuge in the Three Jewels, everyone could become a master of internal strength.
Therefore, the elderly in their eighties, and the children of three or five years old, all follow to learn the Pure Land sect.
What's even more amazing is that as long as you sincerely believe in Buddhism, you can quickly cultivate your internal strength at the age of three and at the age of eighty, and advance to become a master of the inner family.
In just three months, the entire village became a follower of the Pure Land sect of Buddhism, and everyone became a master of the inner family. All the adult men also joined the Red Clay Village Guard, and after the last experience of sniping and robbers, the women and children of the village would cut some branches and throw guns to the guards in their spare time.
Now all the villagers have become masters of the inner family, picking up the throwing spear made of tree branches, infusing the internal force to throw it, and the lethality has skyrocketed.
If the horse thief comes again, the Red Clay Village Guard, which has internal strength, only needs to throw a round of wooden guns at the entrance of the village to wipe out the horse thief.
The whole Hongni Village is filled with a sense of happiness, and in the war era, it is the most important thing to be able to become a master of the inner family to practice martial arts to protect the safety of yourself and your family, and to have the power of self-preservation.
In an agrarian society, although the economy was in recession during the war, it was not starving to death, and it was possible to fill the stomach by hunting in the mountains, catching fish in the rivers, and digging some wild vegetables in the wild.
The real lethal is the problem of soldiers and bandits, and these are the culprits who cause a large number of casualties.
After experiencing horse thieves, Hongni Village has been living a peaceful life of male farmers and female weavers until the New Year's Pass.
In order to collect war materials, the government taxes were extremely heavy, and in addition, corrupt officials and corrupt officials extracted the people's fat and ointment from them, so that the vast majority of the people who made a living from farming could not afford to pay taxes.
In these families that cannot afford to pay taxes, the young children are often sold into brothels by the government, and the men are dragged into the army to serve as strong men, and finally end up with broken families.
Today, three tax collectors came to Hongni Village to collect taxes, and each family paid 20 taels of silver in taxes and 100 catties of grain per person.
The peasants who have worked hard for a year can only earn a dozen taels of silver at most, so how can they come up with as much as 20 taels? Not to mention the 100 catties of grain per person?
This kind of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes have to be paid every year, and they are getting heavier and heavier every year, and the people in Hongni Village cannot afford to pay them, so they can't save any money at all.
Standing at the gate of the village ancestral hall, the ostentatious tax collector had long coveted Xiaomu's beauty, so he temporarily raised the tax.
The tax collector said in a sharp voice: "How dare you say no? You should know that if you dare to refuse to pay the tax or hurt me, the next day you will wait for the army to clear it, and pay the tax quickly." But if you really don't have one, I happen to lack a concubine, and if any girl can serve me, I can ask the county lord to intercede and reduce some taxes. ”
After speaking, he raised his head and squinted at Xiao Mu, Mu Sheng held back his anger and asked, "How much tax can be reduced?"
The tax officer proudly stretched out his right hand, spread his five fingers and said, "Five taels."
The tax paid by each family at fifteen taels of silver was still extremely heavy.
Mu Sheng lifted his right foot and stomped on the bluestone slab under his feet, and the bluestone slab shattered directly. Then he kicked out a broken bluestone with his right foot, which directly pierced the tax officer's head.
The people of Hongni Village saw that Mu Sheng had killed the leading tax officer, and the remaining two tax collectors were also easily killed.
Now the whole Hongni Village has changed from what it used to be, not only everyone is a master of the family, but more importantly, the belief is unified, everyone believes in Buddhism.
After killing the tax officer, Mu Sheng climbed the stone steps at the entrance of the ancestral hall and said: "Fellow villagers, the taxes have been heavy year after year, and the people are not able to make a living, this kind of life is endless, even if you can pay taxes this year, what about next year? What about the year after next? Listen, now the Pure Land Sect exercises can make us strong quickly, why don't you work with me to achieve great things and build a peaceful and beautiful homeland together?" Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of the "Immortal Curse Emperor Claw Book House" for free for the first time.