People in the rivers and lakes value the most reputation and worship the most famous festivals, especially the disciples of the famous and righteous path.

Today, the old slave casually gave the young man an official body, and when the young man walked the rivers and lakes in the future, as long as he used it to do things, he owed us a favor.

At that time, even if the old slave doesn't say anything, the other party will find an opportunity to repay the favor.

Those who do not seek eternity are not enough to seek a moment. Those who do not seek the overall situation are not enough to seek a domain!

In exchange for the friendship of a master and the forces behind him with a nominal identity, this deal is a bargain no matter how you look at it!"

"The companion is really far-sighted, and Xiao Wang has been taught. ”

"Haha, hahaha......"

Under the shadow of the lamp, the old man surnamed Wei let out bursts of shrill laughter, which seemed to be a reward for his accurate eyesight, and he smiled so confidently and leisurely.

Nothing was said all night.

Early the next morning, after having breakfast in a hurry and paying for the boarding, Han Cheng took all his belongings and set out on the way home.

When I got out of the inn, I found that the stables in the courtyard were empty, and the parking place was also empty, obviously the old man surnamed Wei and his convoy had left first.

From the memories of the original owner of the body, Han Cheng learned that the host's hometown was in Sangmuzhuang, more than 100 miles away from Mount Emei.

There are many coincidences in the place names of the Shushan world, even including history and previous lives, but the difference is that the area is dozens of times larger than the area of the Shenzhou Continent in the previous life.

In the previous life, a state capital was only a few hundred miles away, and a state capital in the Shushan world was thousands of miles, and some even tens of thousands of miles!

For example, the CD Mansion where the Emei faction is located has a radius of more than 12,000 miles, and only one Emei mountain range occupies a radius of thousands of miles.

There are even some small tribal countries in many remote state capitals, especially in the area of West Kunlun and the southern Xinjiang and northern ice fields, the number of small tribal countries is particularly large, dotted all over the place, roughly counted, I am afraid that there are no less than hundreds, the small ones are thousands of miles in radius, and the large ones are tens of thousands of miles, each of which is almost as large as the land area of a China in the previous life!

Their language, clothing, living customs, and even appearance are very different from those of the Central Plains.

The most typical is a small people's country located in southern Xinjiang, the land is only thousands of miles around, but tens of millions of people live, of which the average height of men is less than five decimeters, and the women are shorter, less than three meters.

In the vast Central Plains, it was difficult for each central dynasty to govern, and the imperial court only sent a few officials to rule extensively, and most places were in a state of high autonomy. The gentry and gangs ran rampant and almost monopolized the dominance of the local state capital.

Now it is the sixth year of the Great Apocalypse, the Emperor of the Apocalypse is easy to play, does not do his job, the party strife between the DPRK and China is continuous, political corruption, local uprisings, bandits everywhere, just like a chaotic world.

Along the way, Han Cheng saw a lot of ragged homeless people and beggars, compared with the miserable homeless beggars on both sides of the official road, it was the brightly dressed businessmen and powerful people on the road, they went in and out of the front and back, and everything they wore was luxurious and extravagant.

Looking at these people, the homeless beggars on both sides were numb, some envious, and some were full of hatred.

This situation fell in Han Cheng's eyes, and he sighed slightly in his heart, he really responded to that sentence, Zhumen's wine and meat stink, and there were frozen bones on the road.

On the one hand, the rich have continuous land and vast houses, but on the other hand, the poor have no land to stand. If you don't suffer from a few but suffer from unevenness, this Ming country with a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles is afraid that it will be in chaos in a few years.

......

Towards evening, the remnant sun hangs alone.

In the open space of the threshing floor of Sangmuzhuang, Anxian County, a middle-aged man in a silk robe sat on a temporary chair, and behind him stood five or six young men in various costumes, holding various swords, guns and clubs in their hands, looking arrogant and arrogant.

Surrounded by villagers, carrying rice bags and baskets, they lined up in a long line on the grain harvesting ground, and their faces were not full of joy of harvest, but were full of sorrow.

A man in Tsing Yi crossed the brocade-robed man sitting in front of him, walked to the field with a big husk, and put it down heavily, and then two fierce men in Tsing Yi came over with a large scale, and the scale stood still. Its power resembles that of Hell Yama.

After everything was arranged, a very clever young man trotted over to the man in a silk robe, hurriedly saluted, and whispered, "Steward Zhou, you can start." When the middle-aged man heard this, he nodded proudly, got up and walked to the middle of the field with his brocade robe.

He said loudly: "Everyone, listen up! Because in recent years, bandits have been rampant in various places, and they have been disturbing the four towns and eight towns from time to time, although our Sangmuzhuang is in a remote terrain, we cannot be careless.

In order to protect Sangzi and prevent the villagers from being harmed by the bandits, my lord has contacted the steward of the Huoshan Gang, and in the future, he only needs to pay 1,000 taels of silver every year to get the protection of the Huoshan Gang.

Therefore, this year, my lord plans to raise the rent by one and a half on the original basis, and use the increased rent as the annual money to offer to the Huoshan Gang. ”

Before the Zhou steward could finish speaking, there was an uproar among the villagers.

"I just added one percent to the county government last year, why did I add it again this year, and if I continue to add it like this, I won't let people live!"

"The Huoshan Gang has no way to protect the people, and they have the skills to disturb the people, so why should they pay them?"

"Bandits and robbers don't rob the poor, they rob the rich, we are not afraid, why should we be paid?"

"What are you yelling about, the steward of the Huoshan Gang has already put down his words, who dares to disobey? You are so indignant, do you want to rebel?"

Steward Zhou was annoyed and angry, the rat whiskers trembled, stared at a pair of triangular eyes, swept over everyone's faces one by one, seeing their angry, desperate eyes, and the hand holding the rice bag, he was not afraid at all, but had a strong pleasure.

Seeing that the villagers seemed to be frightened by his words, he snorted twice proudly and continued: "You all listen to the steward, each household has to pay according to the number, and there is no less than one or two —— money. ”