I want to be a grandson

Chapter 606 Embarrassment!

On the official road from the capital to the east, a carriage, several followers, and a group of people have traveled for more than [-] li.

Tie Xuan and Qi Tai both rode a not-so-tall nauseous horse, and wore unremarkable casual clothes, walking side by side behind the carriage,

Qi Tai looked up at the weather and asked, "It's been two hours, where are we going?"

Tie Xuan said: "How do I know, since His Majesty is going to go, let's go."

"You are almost becoming a roundworm in His Majesty's stomach, don't you know?"

Tie Xuan immediately retorted: "That's what you said! How can I... speculate on the Sacred Heart is a serious crime, you are trying to harm me!"

The sky was slightly bright today, so Zhu Yunxi had people summon Tie Xuan and Qi Tai, and then they changed into casual clothes and left the capital. They didn't say where they were going or how long they were going, so they didn't know what to do. .

Inside the carriage, Zhu Yunxi closed his eyes and rested his mind, with a peaceful expression, holding a memorial in his hand, he didn't know if he was meditating or taking a nap.

The driver was Zhang Fu, and the eunuch Wang Zhong was sitting in a corner of the carriage, not daring to disturb him.

After a while, Zhang Fu was instructed to leave the official road and walk on a small path, and the farther he went, the farther he went from the official road.

This is a village, which is under the jurisdiction of Jurong County in Yingtian Prefecture. Usually, traders and hawkers pass by, as well as people returning home to visit their relatives.

There are more than 100 households in this village, which is a relatively large village. Occasionally, pedestrians who come and go will stay in the farmhouse, or use money to buy some food. The villagers are used to it and will not be surprised.

Therefore, when Zhu Yunxi entered the village in a carriage, he did not attract the attention of the villagers.

In front of the door of a family, the common people surrounded the house with three floors and three floors outside. Some even put a few stones under their feet and stretched their necks to watch the excitement.

"Liu Yong, now the village is going to build roads and canals. This is an order from the magistrate of the county government. If your family wants to send one person to do hard labor, your family should also send one person!"

A man in his forties, with a slightly fat body, wearing a silk-colored outer shirt, although worn out, it is also an enviable and rare item among the villagers.

A chair was placed at the door, and a dark-faced man was sitting on the chair, with wooden chips on his waist. It was obvious that his waist had been seriously injured.

He stared straight at the visitor with a bit of hostility, gritted his teeth, and said nothing. Obviously, this is the head of the family, Liu Yong.

The lady Zhang at the side had a bitter face, and begged: "Master Wang, Mr. Wang, my man fell down from the slope and broke his waist while working. You know that, and he still hasn't healed yet. I have to take several cans of medicine every day,

Where can I work now? Please, Mr. Wang, hold your hands high and let us go this time. "

The head of the king quickly raised his hand and stopped saying: "Sister-in-law of the Liu family, you can't say that, what do you mean by my high hand, as if deliberately finding fault with you to embarrass you,

As I have already said, this time it is the magistrate of the county who ordered the construction of roads and canals. Not only your family, but other families also have to serve in Lijia service. "

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, a unified grassroots organization framework was not immediately established. Some village organizations in various places were inherited from the Yuan Dynasty, and some were reorganized or established.

In the 14th year of Hongwu, the imperial court ordered the implementation of the Lijia system nationwide. The Lijia system was organized in such a way that every 110 households were organized into one li, and the ten households with the most rations served as the head of the lijia.

The remaining [-] households are called Jiashou, and the ten chiefs take turns to serve in a ten-year cycle. The sequence is arranged in advance according to the amount of food. Manage the affairs of a mile."

"I know I know……"

Mrs. Zhang hurriedly said: "We all understand what Master Wang said, and our family is not going to escape, but my man is really unable to do the work now. The doctor said that if he does heavy work again, in the future... he will never be able to stand up again. Already!"

Speaking of her sadness, Mrs. Zhang couldn't help crying: "If my man is really paralyzed, how will this family survive! I beg Mr. Wang to be merciful and considerate of our family's difficulties..."

"You can't ask me for this!"

Wang Lichang flatly refused: "You said that your family has difficulties, but whose family has no difficulties? If you say so, how can the orders of the county magistrate be carried out?

Stop talking nonsense, I have to start working the day after tomorrow. I have already told you what I said today, and it will be fine when the people arrive! "

Mrs. Zhang gritted her teeth, summoned up her courage and said, "Master Wang, can you see if this works? I'll go, I'll go to work!"

"What are you doing! I can still let you go to a woman's house!" Liu Yong, who was slumped on the chair, couldn't help it, and scolded his wife.

Although it is normal for women in the village to work, it is different to serve in the Lijia service. It is all men, and they get up early and stay late, and sometimes they don’t come back at night.
As a man, how could he let his wife get mixed up with men, how could he let her lie down among them at night!
He is the clearest man's virtue!
Even if An An is alive and there are no such nasty things happening, it is inevitable to catch a few of the teasing in the words and talk about nasty jokes.

Besides, when the time comes, rumors will inevitably spread in the village, and any dirty words can be made up!

Then his wife's reputation will be rotten!
And it's about a man's dignity and face, so he will never allow his wife to go.

Mrs. Zhang cried: "The head of the family, just let me go, our family will still count on you in the future, you can't have anything to do..."

Liu Yong beat the armrest of the chair, angrily said: "You can't go! Unless I die! If you dare to go, I will wipe my neck with a kitchen knife!"

Seeing this, the onlookers also felt pity, and the righteous people shouted in the crowd: "People are so pitiful, so what if there is one less person, and the work is still not done?!"

"That's right! Why are you being forced so hard? Even if Lao Liu goes, how much work can he do!"

"Forget it, forget it, don't embarrass others, they will still point at him in the future!"

Facing such a voice, there was even faint dissatisfaction with the head of the king, but he heard it, but his expression remained the same.

Stretching out his hand to suppress everyone's voices, Li Chang Wang said kindly: "I understand everyone's meaning, and I am not a hard-hearted person, so I will bear it anyway, but this is the order of the county master, and there is nothing I can do about it." ..."

He smiled again, and said to everyone: "Everyone, the work done by Lijia soldiers this time is also for ourselves. If we can make the road wider and smoother,
Then maybe there will be more merchants and pedestrians walking this way, and then the village can open a tea house, a restaurant, or even a small inn! "

Wang Lichang said in a bewitching tone: "Think about it, everyone, if teahouses, restaurants, and inns can be opened, they will be the property of our village. How much money will each household receive?

Among other things, it is easy and easy for everyone to have a good year during the Chinese New Year. If the business is really good, it can even exceed the harvest of the crops in the field! "

"If you don't make money, think about it, why do those rich and powerful men open shops? It's all wasted money, don't you want it?"

Hearing what he said, everyone looked forward to it.

According to the current number of peddlers passing by the village, the shops can't be opened yet, but if the roads are leveled and straight to the official road, the pedestrians will definitely prosper!
At that time, maybe every family can really make a lot of money!
Seeing that everyone was thinking and not talking, Wang Lichang stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Liu Yong, the day after tomorrow, remember to go."

"Black-hearted beast!"

Liu Yong, who was slumped on the chair, couldn't bear it any longer, and yelled: "I have done a lot of work for your family these years, but now that I broke my waist, you're going to make trouble. You tnd are really black-hearted! Conscience is being punished by dogs. I can't eat it!"

"Fathers and folks, uncles and brothers, Mr. Wang has no conscience at all! He is forcing our family so much because he wants me to sell our land to him!"

As soon as these words came out, the people onlookers suddenly showed surprise expressions!He looked up and down Wang Lichang, trying to get an answer from him.

When the trick was exposed, Wang Lichang's face froze, and he hurriedly said to everyone: "Don't listen to his nonsense! He is spitting blood!"

Liu Yong pointed at him and said angrily, "Do you dare to do it or not? Whoever came to our house and said he wanted to buy our land? You said that I was paralyzed, and the land would not be able to be planted in the future. It would be barren if I kept it. Sell ​​it to you for some money!
You also said that after the land is sold to you, let our family be your tenants, and you won’t be hungry in the future. How dare you say that you haven’t said that!Could it be some nonsense in the middle of the night! "

In this village, most of them are based on helping each other, and they rarely take the opportunity to plunder other people's fields. One reason is that the villagers in the village don't see each other when they look down, and everyone needs help for their wedding and white affairs.
The second reason is that all the big guys belong to the same village, with similar fields and similar family properties. Although there is a difference between rich and poor, the difference between them is not that big.

Therefore, even if there is some disagreement among the people, it will not take away people's property.

Although it is bought.

Seeing that the faces of the people changed, Li Chang Wang knew that something was wrong, so he ignored his family and hurriedly said to the people: "Fathers and folks, I said that I wanted to buy their family's field, but it was all out of kindness. !

When the government collected the land tax, their family was so poor that they couldn't get rid of the pot after paying the land water. In addition, he broke his waist and couldn't work for a year or two. The cost of soup and medicine alone could crush them to death! "

"I also feel pity in my heart, so I proposed to buy their land to help them tide over this difficulty, and I also promised to let them be tenants in the future, and I can help out if there is a disaster..."

Wang Lichang's words are high-sounding, but everyone knows that this is just a bureaucratic article, in order to reassure others, let them agree to sell the land!
After buying the field, the Liu family has no labor force, and the head of the Wang Li can still support their family!
Without waiting for everyone to express their support, Wang Lichang hurriedly said: "Folks, everyone is a discerning person, you all understand my painstaking efforts, and I don't blame Liu Yong for misunderstanding...

By the way, my eldest son opened a restaurant in the county town and earned some money. When there are more pedestrians in our village, let him come back to teach everyone and lead everyone to start a business shop!Time to make money together! "

There is no one who does not love money, and few people can resist the temptation of money, so in the face of interests, the only justice becomes thinner...

Even if there are one or two people who feel that what the head of the village has done is inappropriate, but without the indignation and support of everyone, they are not willing to be the ones who stand out.

This is human nature.

"Uncle Wang, you are an old man in the village. If you judge me, is it humane for the village chief to do this!"

Seeing that everyone was silent, Liu Yong turned to the "old man" standing in the crowd with the mentality of treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, in terms of grassroots construction, he established a system for the elderly in vast rural areas across the country,
The "elderly people" governing various affairs and disputes among the rural people, recommending talents, collecting taxes, and supervising the good and evil of officials have become the means of maintaining the bottom under the Ming Dynasty's "imperial power does not go to the countryside" system.

The "elderly" here does not refer to the elderly divided by age, but refers to those famous and status gentry in the local villages. Of course, it is not ruled out that some of them are elderly.

In fact, there has been a long history of using famous local people, even senior and virtuous old people, to manage township administration.

As early as the Warring States period, in order to stabilize their rule, the vassal states began to set up the "three elders" system in the countryside.

Later, the Tang Dynasty adopted the "Lizheng System", and the Song Dynasty adopted the "Xiangdu System", but their essence was to use the prestigious and experienced elderly people in the village to assist the magistrate in governing the township. power supplement.

The old man must order all the people in the book to recommend those who are fair and upright in normal times, or three, five, or ten, to sign up for the official and order them to be executed. ... "Jiaomin Bangwen".

The elderly in the village must accept the leadership and management of the magistrate, assist the magistrate to maintain local stability, deal with villagers' disputes, guarantee local taxation, and be responsible to the magistrate.

"Li Chief, look at their family... can they be exempted from the envoy this time?" the old man surnamed Wang asked hesitantly.

Wang Lichang cupped his hands and said politely: "Uncle, you are an old man in the village, I have always respected you, but I can't do anything about it this time, if there are not enough people, I can't do the job with the county elder... ..."

The old man nodded and said nothing more.

"You... you're working together! Join hands to seize the land from our family! The chief of the village is taking the field, the old man persuades me, this... is there any reason! God..."

Although he didn't report much hope, such a result shattered Liu Yong's last hope.

When the village head wanted to buy their field, he didn't agree. Later, the old man came to their house to persuade him to sell the field...

Although he looks kindly and kindly, the calculation and collusion between them couldn't be more clear!
Liu Yong knew that they would not make decisions for him, and felt pain and anger in his heart, but he was helpless, trembling with anger, and shed tears of resentment at the same time...

Standing on the periphery of the crowd, Zhu Yunxi heard everything they were talking about, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "Can a village chief decide the life and death of other people's whole families?"

Tie Xuan and Qi Tai beside them did not speak, which was equivalent to acquiescing.

The facts are right in front of you, what else is there to say.

(End of this chapter)