Be the emperor from the postman

Chapter 207 Dare to Threaten Me (Part [-])
Leijiabao.

It is not very far from Pingyao County.

As the village's name suggests, the biggest landlord is the Lei family.

In fact, it was not called Leijiabao before.

Lei's family is also a self-cultivating farmer, but when a Jinshi became an official in the family, he crossed the class from a self-cultivating farmer to a local gentry.

Coupled with some disasters, the Lei family borrowed usury loans, and many self-cultivating farmers in the village had to sell their land in order to survive and became tenants of the Lei family.

So far, there are only seven or eight self-cultivating farmers left.

All the rest of the land belonged to the Lei family.

It is normal for the village to change its name.

The self-cultivating farmers still have about [-] to [-] mu of land, and their life is not very good.

Because a large number of self-cultivating farmers in the village have become tenants, they do not have to pay taxes.

The imperial court required that the total tax revenue in the area remain unchanged and still be distributed to each household.

There is no need to pay taxes for the Lei family to use the people in their hands to reclaim the land, and his family can also be exempted from most taxes.

These self-cultivating farmers not only have to pay excessive land taxes, but also have to pay miscellaneous taxes and apportionments.

I can have a full meal.

But the Lei family hoped that God would cause another disaster, and this Lei Family Fort would become the real Lei Family Fort.

The land rent is specified by the landlord, causing the tenants to work hard for a year as cattle and horses. They can't even keep their basic rations, and they are often hungry.

Their value is not as valuable as the big cattle in the landlord's house.

At least the landlord does not dare to use the big animals in the family as desperately as the tenants.

Leijiabao tenant Ma Shouying huddled in the shack.

His hungry stomach was howling, so he could only get up and drink a spoonful of water to satisfy his hunger.

His belly dangled like a donkey's stomach was full of water.

When he was plowing the land for the landlord yesterday, he was very moved when he heard that Pingyao County was occupied by hammer bandits and recruited soldiers for food.

But the head of the Lei family was very worried and forbade people in the village to go out.

Ma Shouying wanted to try his luck tonight.

He had had enough of this hard life.

Even if you can eat enough before you die.

There is a beautiful archway at the entrance of the village.

There are three doors and four pillars, only ceilings and no bright buildings.

Stone carvings are extremely meaningful.

It is engraved with a carp jumping over the dragon gate to represent the title of the scholar's gold list.

Lei's family has a Jinshi.

The rest are carved with fish and lotus, which symbolizes that the house is full of gold and jade, and there are more than one year after year.

What tortoise, crane, unicorn and wishful thinking express their pursuit of longevity, health, auspiciousness and so on.

He Jinzhao admired this kind of ancient architecture, and then saw a half-dead man hanging beside him.

Just now when he led the troops, many people gathered at the entrance of the village, and then dispersed.

He Jinzhao looked up at this person: "Brother, what happened?"

Ma Shouying opened his swollen eyes, and saw a group of people in blue clothes, all of them holding weapons, unlike people from the government, he immediately said excitedly:
"You're hammer bandits, aren't you?"

Seeing He Jinzhao nodding, Ma Shouying was even more excited:
"Master Hammer Bandit, the villain wanted to make a living with you, but was captured by the Lei family at night, and hung up here for public display."

He Jinchao sent people to put him down, and then sent people into the village to ask if this was true.

The accompanying military doctor bandaged his wound, and someone threw him a pancake.

Ma Shouying swallowed frantically, covering his mouth even when he coughed, reluctant to spit out the dregs.

When the hammer bandits forcibly knocked on the door and questioned the trembling people, they replied that He Jinzhao's matter was true.

He Jinzhao stepped across the stone archway and looked around.

There are messy thatched houses with low earthen walls in the village, and some people even built low shacks.

Then, in the center of the village, a blue brick wall appeared, which seemed out of place with the surrounding environment.

The hammer bandits had a very clear goal, they went straight to the most ornate house in the village.

The surrounding villagers closed their doors if they had one, and those without one hid themselves.

This morning, I heard Mr. Lei say that the hammer bandits kill people without blinking an eye, and they like to eat human flesh.

Especially those from Shaanxi, they all survived by cannibalizing human flesh and drinking human blood.

If you want to survive, you have to stay away from this kind of person.

Once Ma Shouying, a dog, came into contact with those people, he contracted the disease.

Everyone in our village wants to live!

He Jinzhao took Ma Shouying to the door of Lei's house.

Although the news spread slowly, the people around Pingyao County should have heard the news.

I can't complain that there are very few people who came to apply for the recruitment. It turns out that they were all stopped by these gentry bullies, and they wanted to beat him to death, so that everyone can see what happens.

"Master, the village chief is Lei's family."

Ma Shouying walked with a limp and a limp, and he suffered a lot just now.

The Lei family is really a wealthy family. Not only is Wen Kui's signboard hung on it, but there are also four small hexagonal logs with gold-plated patterns engraved on it, like the four characters of auspiciousness, happiness and longevity.

He Jinzhao remembers that it should be called Menzan, but it actually means to shine on the lintel.

"Good fellow, the ancestors of the Lei family had at least fourth-rank officials!"

Others didn't understand He Jinzhao's words, but the housekeeper who was observing inside the door understood.

This hammer bandit has at least been educated.

According to the system, only the mansion where the court officials live can mark the lintel on the main entrance.

Ordinary common people are not allowed to have a lintel. Even if you are a wealthy family and have no official status, you can't mark the lintel on the house door.

There are also distinctions between door lintels, generally in numbers of two, four, and twelve.

There are two door stalls on the lintel, corresponding to officials of the fifth to seventh grades;

If there are four, it corresponds to officials of rank four or above;
Twelve ones can only be used by princes and above.

He Jinzhao looked down and saw that there were five steps, and that was a third-rank official.

The fifth-rank official cannot exceed the third rank, and the first rank is the eighth rank.

A word that literati often talk about can also be explained. The ninth step can only be stepped on by the emperor.

"The hero outside the door, since you already know that my Lei family is not easy to mess with, you should quickly retreat.

My Lei family understands righteousness and will not pursue you.

If not, there will be nothing good for you. "

He Jinzhao snorted, he was just verifying his miscellaneous little knowledge, not because he was afraid of him as a third-rank official.

It seems that the Lei family is used to running rampant, and they don't know what to be afraid of.

"I heard that you dare to intercept people who defected to me. If you don't give me an explanation for this matter, I will destroy your whole family."

Hearing He Jinzhao's words, Mr. Lei inside was so frightened that he fell to the ground.

The corners of the tenant Ma Shouying's mouth were about to crack when he smiled.

He never expected that the hammer bandits would protect him like this.

I've been with him for the rest of my life.

There was a panic inside the door, they were used to oppressing the surrounding people with their identities as third-rank officials, even the county magistrate of Pingyao had to give him three points of favor from the Lei family.

Now suddenly came a person who was not only not threatened by Lei's family, but also threatened Lei's family on the contrary. Many people couldn't bear the scare.

"Captain, the brothers have surrounded the entire Lei family courtyard." Zhao Xiaowu ran over to report.

He is the son of Zhao Bancheng, who left Ganquan County and sent him to He Jinchao.

After several battles, he became literate again, and now he is the squadron leader.

"Go and recruit everyone in the village, that is, I want to distribute food and recruit soldiers."

"Yes."

　Thanks to the fainting bird of paradise for sponsoring 500 taels.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)