Poor family mother and son

Chapter 1106 Familiar
One day later, Chu Qing arrived at Yun'an Village.

Yun'an Village is under the jurisdiction of Shigang County. It is in the westernmost part of Shigang County and the southernmost part of Shigang County is the sea.

In Daxuan, the county classification standard is clearly defined as a combination of status, household registration and geographical conditions. Based on this, the counties across the country are divided into seven categories: Chi, Ji, Wang, Qian, Shang, Zhong and Xia.

The county where Kyoto is located is Aka County.The counties immediately adjacent to several prefectures are Ji counties, and the rest of the areas are divided into five categories: Wang, Qian, Shang, middle, and lower according to the criteria of "land resources, beauty, and evil" and the number of household registrations.

Shigang County belongs to Zhongxia County, which means its population is less than [-] households.

Today's Shigang County has a population of less than [-] households.

There are still a few small villages like Yun'an Village with only thirty or forty households.

Ordinarily, they should gather near the county seat. After all, the county seat is located in the center of a county and has better conditions in all aspects.

But these small villages were far away from the gathering place and chose to live in the mountains, which seemed a bit abnormal, which Chu Xinghai couldn't understand.

"Foster mother, why would someone live in such a remote place?" Chu Xinghai asked.

Chu Qing sighed: "There are always people who can't pay the taxes, so they hide in the mountains to live."

There was once a saying that "poor mountains and harsh waters breed unruly people." This roughly means that places with poor living conditions tend to create ignorant, vicious, and selfish people.

Such people are usually disobedient and have distorted values, and are derided as "tough people."

But in Chu Qing's view, there is a kind of "tough people" who are forced to become "tough people" and have to live in poor mountains and rivers in order to survive.

For example, in order to avoid harsh taxes, or in troubled times where officers and soldiers are like bandits, the people at the bottom are defenseless and powerless to resist, so they hide in the mountains and rely on the mountains to eat the mountains.

I don’t know which type these villages belong to, but these are the general reasons.

Because Yong'an Mansion has always been a land of exiles, there are not many indigenous people, and ordinary people live here. The yamen wants to grow the economy, and most of the methods are to get money from the people.

As a result, exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are inevitable, and many people live worse than those assigned to the prison officials.

Although prisoners have their household registration changed to a lower status, they can usually find some clerical and other jobs and at least have enough to eat.

However, under the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the people had no food to eat and no clothing to cover their bodies. In troubled times, even their lives were at risk.

Chu Xinghai liked talking to Chu Qing, because his adoptive mother never treated him as a child. For the questions he asked, she would tell him if she knew it. If she didn't know, she would go back and study it, and then tell him after she understood it.

If it were Chu Yuan or Gan Lai, they would probably give him a slap in the face if he couldn't answer, and then say: "You big kid only knows how to ask questions in a day, go out and play!"

After talking to Chu Xinghai, he went up the mountain. Yun'an Village was halfway up the mountain, not high up.

Houses are scattered high and low on the hillside, but they have all carved out a small area in front of and behind the house to grow some vegetables.

But at this time, many villagers gathered on a slightly higher mountain flat, where the village chief's family lived.

Chu Qing and his party went up the mountain and walked through the woods without being noticed. When they got close to the mountain flat, they heard bursts of shouting. As soon as they heard it, Chu Qing started to gasp!

what did she hear?
Among the crowd, there was a man about 50 years old, standing on a big rock, talking to dozens of young and strong men in front of him. Judging from his posture, he was probably the village chief or clan elder.

He asked in a high-pitched voice: "Young men, do you want to have enough to eat and wear new clothes every day?"

Young people: "Think!"

Asked again: "Do you want to have enough money to marry a beautiful girl to be the wife of the house?"

Young people: "Think!"

The old man looked pleased: "Okay, just think about it!", and then asked: "The road depends on the person, and everything depends on the person. You must seize the opportunity in everything you do. Can you seize the opportunity?"

Young people: "Yes!"

The old man asked a question loudly, and the young people answered loudly.

The old man added: "Opportunities and wealth belong to those who are courageous and knowledgeable! Are you such a person?"

The young people raised their fists and shouted: "Yes, we are!"

Old man: "Are you afraid of suffering and death?"

The young people raised their fists and shouted: "Don't be afraid! We are not afraid!"

The old man showed a happy expression again: "Okay, they are all good young people! The quarry is unattended now. This is God taking pity on us and giving us an opportunity to make a fortune!"

Each of us must seize this opportunity to provide food and clothing for our families. We are men. We have to support our parents and feed our wives and children, so we have to work hard! "

The young people raised their fists and shouted: "Fight with all your strength! Work with all your strength!"

Old man: "Did you see it a while ago? A man from Yong'an came to our city and asked him to build a monument. He went up the mountain to pry the center stone of the monument by himself. He did all the work himself and had to pay 2000 taels to the county government. What do you think? Is this stone of ours worth anything?!”

The young people started talking: "2000 taels? So expensive? Just this stone?"

"The words of the village chief are still false?"

"I heard that the stone weighs more than [-] kilograms. It's so big, it should be valuable."

"No stone can be more expensive than meat, right?"

"Then food is more expensive than meat now. Our granite is so hard and not afraid of moisture or cracking. Why can't it be more expensive?"

Old man: "Don't believe it! This was found out by Yunwu Village. Otherwise, why do you think they dare to compete with us for territory now? Why didn't they dare before?
The quarry belongs to Yong'an Mansion. If Yunwu Village comes to steal the stones, then let's steal the money!Can we let Yunwu Village snatch this money? "

The young people raised their fists and shouted: "No! No!"

The old man waved his hand, which was shaking a little, but in the end the wave was strong: "Two good young people in our village have died, and a few others have been beaten to the ground. This makes me, the village chief, feel very sad... so painful...

Young people, do we have to take revenge? "

The young people raised their fists and shouted: "Revenge! Revenge!"

Old man: "Yes! For the sake of the dead and injured young people in our village, for the sake of our village being able to have money to buy food, and to have money to pay for medical treatment and injuries, do we have to drive away the people from Yunwu Village?!"

The young people are already filled with indignation: "They robbed our things and beat our brothers to death. We must kill them!"

"Yes, kill them!"

"The quarry belongs to our government, why should we let them take advantage?!"

"Brothers, copycat! Let's go right now!"

The old man's voice was a little higher, and it sounded a little hoarse: "Young students, there is one thing we have to follow Yunwu Village!"

The younger students calmed down and listened to the village chief's teachings.

Just listen to the old man say: "Why are Yunwu Village so desperate? Because they know a truth!
That is: if you want to succeed, you must go crazy first, and rush to money desperately!

Fight once, get rich for three generations, try your best not to fail! "

Hey!
It's really getting rich and full, successfully learning to brainwash!

Chu Qing's eyes widened - why did this set of words sound so familiar?
(End of this chapter)