In spring, a hundred flowers bloom, and after a rain, the petals on the ground that were blown down by the wind are stirred together, like a bowl of soup that has not been opened. On this day, the three of them were riding horses on the road, and Xi Zhi wanted to go south, but she was too embarrassed to tell Qiao Luoyu, Qiao Luoyu and Zhong Liyu were both empty-minded and did not know the direction. All of a sudden, the three of them were all in this Jiangxi Province.

The three of them walked and walked together, and they came to a huge village, where the shouting continued, and the three of them looked at it, but it was the Yuan soldiers who were conscripting.

Xi Zhi saw it and said hatefully: "Not long after the conscription, this Tartar came to recruit people again." We have to help the people of this village. Qiao Luoyu and Zhong Libei agreed, and the three of them didn't want Yuan Bing to interrogate, so they found a haystack on a fairly high place, and lay down inside to look out.

However, the conscription of the Yuan soldiers was originally to be mainly recruited by young men, but these Yuan soldiers, regardless of whether they were young or old, strong or weak, as long as they saw men, they all asked to participate in the conscription, and if a family did not want to leave, then they had to pay enough money to offset it.

But he said that most of the poor peasants in this village had to rely on young men to do farm work, and if they didn't want to send people to do forced labor, they wouldn't be able to come up with so much money to cover it, and for a while, there was a cry in this village. When the three of them saw it, they couldn't help but feel sad and angry in their hearts.

After a while, I heard Zhong Li's words: "The imperial court has actually reduced the forced labor!" Xi Zhi turned her head and asked softly, "How does my sister know?"

Li Bei said: "You see that these Yuan soldiers put part of the money that the peasant family didn't want to go out of the bag and put it in their bags, and part of it was actually carried by themselves, and almost every family who paid the money had to rub oil." It stands to reason that this peasant family is generally dissatisfied with the money that has been paid for the conscription, so how can these soldiers collect their own money if they can't pay enough money in the first place?

Ruan Xizhi said angrily: "Then why are these Yuan soldiers still levied according to the original number of conscriptions?" Qiao Luo sighed stupidly: "The Tartars are not right-hearted and oppress our Han people, you don't know this. Taking this opportunity, I'm afraid these little minions are going to make a fortune!"

It turned out that the Yuan court saw that in recent years, there were Han uprisings in all parts of the world, and in order to suppress them, it was very costly for the state. Therefore, the Mongols issued a policy to exempt the Mongols, Semu, Nan and Han from forced labor and taxes, and temporarily used it as a policy of resuming the people.

Generally speaking, the rich families have more fertile land and property, and more people have to be levied and pay more taxes, but they often dissect the households under false names, and usually the rich families are still Mengren or Semu people, and it is because the Tartar soldiers who levy conscription suffer from these rich households' actions, so they have to collect taxes from the suffering poor, so in peacetime, these Tartar soldiers can only levy enough taxes and levies for the generals, and sometimes they are not enough, so take advantage of the opportunity of the Yuan court to reduce and reduce taxes, if they don't make a lot of money, how can they be worthy of themselves?

But I saw a rich family saying to those soldiers: "My field is only thirty acres, and the remaining seventy acres are all his." He pointed to a Han farmer's family, and his tone was very reasonable, apparently to avoid paying too much money to transfer the land to others.

The peasant family he pointed to looked like a poor man at first glance, how could he have so many fields, and when the peasant family saw that the rich family had said that the land belonged to theirs, they couldn't help but be anxious, and hurriedly said: "Master, you said last time that this field belonged to someone else's, why is it that it is our family today! How can our family have so many fields? Isn't this your family's!"

The color eyes said: "Hugh wants to pay less money and even deny the property!" Qiao Luoyu and the others couldn't help but laugh dumbly when they heard this, this is clearly himself!

How did the Tartar soldiers not know that this field belonged to the people of this color, but they did not dare to offend these people of the rich people, so they had to turn to oppress the poor people of the Han people, and only listened to the Tartar soldiers say to the Han farmers: "This land is yours, quickly pay the money, if you don't pay the money, you will hand it over!" The Han family was so shocked that they knelt down and cried: "Lord Qingtian, you can take a good look! These fields were said to be someone else's last time! Why did they become ours again this time?" The cry was fierce, and the scene was very sad and pitiful.

Ruan Xizhi's heart was sore, she couldn't stand it, and said to Qiao Luoyu and Zhong Liyu: "Sir, Sister Zhong, let's help them." Zhong Lifei said: "It's okay to help, but I'm afraid our whereabouts will be exposed." But it doesn't matter, we always need to save people. What's more......" She smiled slightly and said, "Young Master Qiao already has an idea." Qiao Luo turned his head and said, "How do you know?" Li Yu said: "Your eyes were blazing just now, and you seemed to be looking at everything below, but your mind has already drifted away, and you must be thinking about how to help them!"

Qiao Luo smiled stupidly: "Miss Zhong is so smart!" Zhong Li said: "Compared with Gongzi, what am I?" After saying this, she realized that she didn't admit herself just now, and she recognized that she had been looking at Qiao Luoyu just now, and her face couldn't help but heat up.

Xi Zhi said: "Mr. and Sister Zhong are both smart people, I am with you, it seems that I am very clumsy!" "Sister Ruan, where are you talking about, you Zhong Linghuixiu, I don't think you are clumsy at all, but I think you are very clumsy, poetic and spiritual!" Xi Zhi was embarrassed to be praised, her face turned red, and said: "How can I be as good as my sister said!"

Qiao Luo sneered: "The two girls don't cheer each other on, let's save people!"

Ruan Xizhi and Zhong Libei were ashamed of each other, and hurriedly said yes. Qiao Luoyu told the two of them the idea he had just come up with, and when Ruan and Zhong heard it, they secretly praised it in their hearts.

Qiao Luo smirked and said: "Miss Zhong, the Tartars will issue official documents to the provinces, and it is up to you how to get this official document! If this official document really exists, it can also be seen that your guess just now is correct." Zhong Liyu looked at Qiao Luoyu and smiled slightly, and said, "Childe, you just look at me! I promise to go and come back quickly!" With that, he left the haystack lightly and rode away quietly.

Xi Zhi said to Luo Yu: "Sister Zhong is very smart, cautious and decisive, she is really a beautiful woman!" Qiao Luoyu naturally knew what she meant by saying this, and she snorted slightly, but she didn't answer Xi Zhi. Xi Zhi's face was flushed, and she was sad in her heart. After a while, Qiao Luoyu said softly, "Don't move here, watch how I play the Tartar and the Lustful Man!"

But I saw this Qiao Luo foolishly shaking the fan in his hand and came to the Yuan Bing and the rich man with colored eyes. Seeing the helpless look on his face, he quietly pulled his sleeve and said in a low voice: "Master, I have a good plan to collect all the money." ”

When the Yuan soldier heard this, his heart moved, and he came to the side with the weak scholar in front of him, and the rest of the Yuan soldiers still surrounded those people, so that everyone didn't notice the movement here. I only heard Qiao Luoyu whisper: "Master, if you say such a thing to that rich man, he will definitely say that those fields are his own!"

The Yuan soldier asked, "What are you talking about?" Qiao Luoyu whispered to him, and the Yuan Bing listened to it, frowned, and said: "Talking nonsense about policy, can this work?" Qiao Luo smiled foolishly: "Han farmers definitely can't pay so much money, they are at most handing over people." And whether the old man can collect the money or not is all based on this strategy. Actually, this is not a nonsense policy, after he recognizes Natian, you tell him that this is just a ploy of yours, and that's it. Seeing that Yuan Bing was silent, he smiled slightly and said, "Do you make yourself sad, or do you make the rich man sad?"

As soon as Yuan Bing heard this, his resentment against the rich man who had always been in charge of him came to his heart, and he thought that if he didn't treat him well, he would always say the same thing in the future, would he really never be able to collect the money? Not to mention that now that the conscription and taxes were being reduced, it would be useless for him to ask for the Han peasant family. It was because of his heart that he decided to use Qiao Luo's foolish strategy.

Jolo shook his fan and stopped to watch. But he saw the Yuan soldiers led by him walk up to the rich and Han farmers, and said: "I forgot to tell you, the policy has changed recently, and part of your private land will be handed over to the public and will be taken care of by the government, and it will not be your field from now on." The policy says that each household should hand over the land according to its own proportion, and if the family has more land and more land, it can pay less, and if the family has less land and more land, it will have to pay more. He turned his head to the Han man and said, "There are only a few people in your family, and the seventy acres of land will definitely be taken away from sixty acres." He said to the surprised eyes: "You have a lot of family, and you only need to pay fifteen acres of thirty acres of land." So saying, he made a gesture to command them to measure the field.

The Han family was stunned, no longer weeping, and remained motionless, and the man shouted, "Why do you want to confiscate?" Yuan Bing said: "This is the policy of the above, not you and I can ask why." ”

As soon as the Semu man heard that his field was gone in an instant, how could he still tell the name of the household? Hurriedly asked, "If I had a hundred acres of land, how much would I take away?" Yuan Bing said: "Take away fifty acres." When the man heard this, he calculated that it was still more cost-effective to take away 50 acres than to take away 75 acres, and hurriedly said: "Official, let me tell you the truth, I do have 100 acres of land in my family, and the 70 acres are also mine." ”

When the Yuan soldier heard this, his heart was overjoyed, and he hated it: "If you don't use this method to provoke you, you still refuse to say that the field belongs to your family!" The rich man was stunned for a moment and asked, "What provoked me?" Yuan Bing said: "There is no private land confiscated at all, I say this just to make you admit the fact that your family has a hundred acres of land! And then you don't want to give up, so you honestly pay me according to your family's land!"

When the rich man heard this, he woke up like a dream, his face turned pale, he glared at the Yuan Bing fiercely, and said, "I remember your kindness!" Then he turned around and went home to get the money.

Qiao Luo was foolish when he saw this scene, and he was secretly happy in his heart, he came up with this plan, in addition to helping the Han farmers, he also had the intention of separating the relationship between the Semu people and the Mongolian people. At this time, how can he not be happy?

After a long time, the Semu took the money, and it was obviously very reluctant. When the soldiers got this lot of money, they were overjoyed, so they no longer cared about this place, but continued to conscript.

The man was still standing on the ground, staring at those soldiers fiercely, obviously angry in his heart. But at this moment, Zhong Libei came over on a red horse, and there was some blood stains on the white robe. She asked Qiao Luoyu, "Has it been done?" Qiao Luoyu nodded, Zhong Liyu dismounted, took out a document from his arms, gave it to the rich man, and said, "You can take a good look." Immediately, Qiao Luoyu and Zhong Li got on the red horse, and the two left quickly.

Xi Zhi was already waiting here, Qiao Luo foolishly got on another horse, and the three of them rode away quickly.

Qiao Luoyu asked Zhong Liyu, "Why are you so fast?" Also, why is there blood on your clothes?" Zhong Liyu smiled and told Qiao Luoyu and Ruan Xizhi what had happened.

It turned out that Zhong Libei rode a red horse, asked questions from east to west, and flew all the way to the mansion of Lord Pingzhang of Jiangxi Province. In order to be able to enter the mansion, she, the guard at the door, and the people in the mansion all said that Lord Heizhang asked her to come. Zhong Lifei was born stunningly, and everyone who saw her thought that she was the new love found by Lord Pingzhang, and she didn't have any ideas, so she didn't dare to offend Pingzhang, so she let Zhong Lifeng enter the inner hall of the mansion without any hindrance.

When Zhong Liyu entered the inner hall, she was napping in the inner room just when this Pingzhang was napping, and she secretly said that there was a godsend, and hurriedly rummaged through the tables outside to see if there were any documents to reduce forced labor. It was also not long after the document came down, and it was still on the plane of this table, and she didn't take long to find it. She put the paperwork away, and saw that Jiangxi Pingzhang in the house there was still sleeping, so she thought that she would not stop doing it, and with a sword, she would give the Mongolian account. That's how the blood on her clothes came from.

After Zhong Libei finished killing people, he covered the quilt with that Pingzhang well, as if he was still sleeping. Now that she had obtained the paperwork, she still quarreled with those people, so she performed a light skill, turned out of the wall, and rode away. As for whether she attracted attention when she flipped out, she couldn't care so much.

The red horse was fast, carrying her back and forth quickly, and it didn't take long for her to return. Ruan Xizhi listened to Zhong Libei's experience, and couldn't help but praise: "Sister Zhong is brave and strategic, and she is so powerful!"

Qiao Luo said foolishly: "Let's show the document of relieving the conscription to the Semu man, I don't know what he will do with those Tartars, besides, Miss Zhong has now killed Pingzhang in Jiangxi Province, it seems that it will not be long before there will be a lot of turmoil in Jiangxi Province." Ruan Xizhi said: "At that time, maybe the streets were full of notices to arrest us. Then Hylasu will surely follow in his tracks. ”

Qiao Luo looked at Xi Zhi foolishly and said, "Then look at your look, it seems that I don't care." Xi Zhi said indifferently: "This is really nothing to be afraid of!" Qiao Luo smiled and said: "I didn't expect you to be so bold!" Xi Zhi smiled: "If you are afraid of the wind and rain that is still shadowless, then you don't have to go to the rivers and lakes." ”

When Zhong Libei and Qiao Luo heard this, they couldn't help but laugh, Zhong Liyu smiled and said, "Sister Ruan is right! I like your arrogance! But we should be careful these days, so as not to run into that Hailasu!"

That night, the three of them were still staying in the suburbs, and the air was still filled with the quiet fragrance of rain, and they sat together, discussing where to flee next.

Ruan Xizhi naturally wanted to go south, but she didn't know how to say this. Qiao Luo said foolishly: "Xi Zhi, let's go all the way to the north! Hai Lasu came from the south with us, we can't go south!" Xi Zhi said: "But it's been so long, and I don't know if Hai Lasu has gone to the north in this Jiangxi Province." We'll go north, and we might just run into her. Qiao Luoyu said for a long time, seeing that Xi Zhi was persistent, his heart was cold, and after a while, he said softly: "Xi Zhi, don't you want to go back to see your father and mother?"

Xi Zhijian said, her heart moved, thinking that sir, you finally said this. She sighed slightly, but still said, "I must see Brother Lu!"

Zhong Liyu saw that Qiao Luoyu was so persistent in taking Ruan Xizhi to the south, and her heart couldn't help but cool down inch by inch, and she couldn't help but want to say to Qiao Luoyu that Xizhi had the second general Lu in her heart, even if you took her back to her hometown, would she marry you! She couldn't listen to it anymore, and she was really worried that this Hai Lasu had learned their whereabouts, so she said softly: "Sister Ruan, Qiao Gongzi, you talk first, I'll go around to see if there is any danger!"

The night is cold, the moon is silver, and the heaven and earth are like an empty fairyland. Zhong Libei walked alone, just hoping to be able to relax, but she didn't think that she would be lonely alone, but the more she walked, the more sad she became. She thought that Qiao Luoyu had no affection for herself, since she was a child, how could she have been ignored by others like this, and her heart couldn't help but feel extremely sour, and after a while, she actually shed tears while walking, wetting the boundless moonlight.

Walking and walking, Zhong Libei came to a river, there were many boats gathered on the river at this time, and the boats were all on the lanterns. There was faint orchestral music coming from the river, mixed with the singing of the people, as if they were celebrating some kind of festival.

Zhong Liying thought to herself, today is March 29th, not a holiday, and they gather here but don't know why.

It turned out that the river was filled with some undesirable scholars, who were suffering from the abolition of the imperial examination and had no way to study, and gradually became depressed, and often gathered together to drink and have fun, compose some poems, and complain in their stomachs.

Zhong Libei sat on the riverside, staring blankly at the long grass by the river, the breeze blows, the grass sways and floats, this scene is also quite pleasant.

After a long time, her thoughts still fluttered like butterflies and flew to Qiao Luoyu. She thought about why this Qiao Luoyu was so stubborn, this Xi Zhi had already expressed his attitude, why he still couldn't let go like this!

He can't let it go, but she can't let it go herself!

Zhong Liyu secretly made up her mind that no matter where this Qiao Luoyu went, she would always protect him and follow him! Since she saw Qiao Luoyu, she was destined to be inseparable from him in this life!

As soon as I thought of this, my mind suddenly cleared, and I was sad and happy for a while, and the five flavors were mixed in my heart, and tears couldn't help rolling down.

The distant singing became more and more blurred, and the boat sailed farther away, but this vague singing reflected the starry sky and the brilliant river, which was more clear than the others.

But at this moment, Zhong Libei heard the soft sound of horses' hooves behind the bushes not far away. Suddenly suspicious, she ran to the bushes and quietly looked inside.

But he saw a man in a brown robe standing beside the horse, holding a long stick on his side, and stretched it out to the surface of the river. Zhong Libei saw this person holding a weapon, and couldn't help but have three points of caution in his heart, only to see that he was long, quite thin, and his side face was very handsome, Zhong Libei looked at him, and suddenly felt that this person gave him such a familiar feeling, as if he had seen it somewhere, but he couldn't remember where for a while.