Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 248 Hard steel in the end?

Even before this natural disaster and man-made disaster, Xiao Wuzi had never eaten such a sumptuous meal. A meaty large yellow croaker was roasted with fat and exuding a strong aroma, and the scones stuffed with pork were delicious every penny. Seconds stimulated him to salivate, and he even had two bowls of rice from Jiangnan, which he had only heard of but never eaten.

It was just drooling, and he didn't dare to put down his chopsticks. He carefully huddled in the corner of a stool, looking at Liu Zhuzi's sullen and even murderous face, Xiao Wuzi held back for a long time, and cautiously persuaded him.

"Brother Zhuzi, my condolences! It's all caused by the dog government's forced payment, this... there is no way to do it..."

"No! It has nothing to do with the government!"

Under A Wu's incredulous gaze, while shaking his head, Liu Zhuzi actually defended the government. These days, the common people speak up for the government, which is no less rare than a rooster laying eggs. Moreover, Liu Zhuzi's father hanged himself just because he was forced to pay wages!

Seeing Ah Wu's stunned expression and his pupils full of hatred, Liu Zhuzi said gloomyly: "I can't tell you the details, but I have seen the grain requisition order issued by the state pastor, and it is clearly stated in the requisition order that only the land will be requisitioned." If you don’t receive the tax, whoever has the land will receive the grain from whomever, Ah Wu, do our two families have an acre of land in the village?”

Ah Wu couldn't help being dumb when he heard this, he was dumbfounded for a moment, then exclaimed again: "So, it's Mr. Liu's house..."

"That's right! The surname Liu has transferred all the taxes that should have been collected from his family to us tenant farmers! Damn it! Every family pays [-]% of his crops in autumn. His family has [-] mu of land. He just collected [-] shi of grain, but he refused to take out even a thousand shi of grain, and even more aggressively took away ours! His surname Liu didn’t even think about leaving a way for our tenants to survive!”

Crackling his fists, Liu Zhuzi gritted his teeth and roared, but Ah Wu was full of helplessness when he heard it, so what if he knew?Isn't that the way things are in the world these days?Mr. Liu is rich and powerful and still has people in the government, so what can they do?

But in the next second, Ah Wu's heart couldn't help beating violently again, staring at him with gloomy eyes like knives, but Liu Zhuzi's voice was lowered a little, and he asked in a low voice .

"Ah Wu, our two brothers are from the same hometown. We grew up naked together. Brother, I have a job here. To tell you the truth, it is very dangerous! There may be a crisis of losing your head at any time, and you can't tell anyone, dear Dad can't even do it! But if you join the gang, you can immediately give your family [-] acres of fertile land, a house, seed farm tools, and enough grain for your family to eat until the autumn harvest. "

Ah Wu's heart contracted violently unconsciously. Although the [-] mu of fertile land is not considered a landlord, it is still at the level of a self-cultivator. For tenants like them who have eaten their last meal and never finished their meal, it is simply unthinkable. thing!This is no longer a desperate [-]% interest, this is a lottery jackpot, and he almost didn't even think about it before focusing heavily on it.

"Middle! Brother, I really do what you say!"

"Then hurry up and eat now, and you will follow me in a while! When you get to the place, you can listen to what people say. Remember, what you hear is rotten in your stomach. You can't tell anyone, even your own father. Tell you what you didn't tell me! I can't tell either!"

It’s rare to have a hearty lunch full of meat, but Ah Wu didn’t get much taste from it. He devoured the dried fish and made a bowl of rice. He couldn’t bear to wrap the remaining fish and meatloaf in straw. He couldn’t wait He urged Liu Zhuzi to hurry up and see what work he was doing.

When he came to Linzi, Wang Hou never entered the city except for accepting the surrender of the gentry landlords on the first day. However, he continued to burn bricks and transport steel bars in the military camp next to Linzi city, while the gentry under his command hated him deeply. A small square concrete building that pained Jia Xu's egg was built.

The main army is stationed in the military fort, and their miscellaneous army soldiers live in these work sheds that have been hastily built with bricks. Datong is paved with a layer of straw, which is the place for people to live. Follow Brother Zhuzi When they came in, these auxiliary soldiers were still busy building cement and building houses, and some pushed a wheelbarrow to transport sand and gravel to the first working point to repair the road.

But taking him around, Zhu Zi took him to the innermost room, which was a small two-story building that looked very inconspicuous. When he looked up, they looked very simple, but it was a pity that Ah Wu The big signboard with gold letters on a black background, which still didn't recognize a single word, came into his eyes.

"Look, this is the Bureau of Statistics and Investigation of the Military Commission! Well, I don't know what it means, anyway, it's just a very powerful Yamen!"

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While the two little people were running around for their livelihood, the big guy Wang Hou was also running around for his livelihood. On the big table of the office yamen not far from the military castle, a vegetable like a radish was planted in a flowerpot. Standing there listlessly, Wang Hou himself looked at it just as listlessly as the dish.

He wants sugar. Planting sugar cane in the north to extract sugar is like a dream!So he turned his attention to beets.

But the beets he cultivated in a greenhouse don't look very good!

And while he was mourning the beets, there was a swarm of flies buzzing around.

"State herdsman, there can be no further levy! Seven out of ten people in Anxin County have broken their homes, and riots broke out in Anyuan. The local officials in Xincheng wrote a letter, and there are hundreds of people who have hanged themselves in the territory! If this goes on like this, It’s the government forcing the people to rebel!”

With a face full of concern for the country and the people, Tian Rang patted his thigh in grief and followed behind him, and the thirty-something Linzi Haoshi also sighed and helped.

"Yes! Zhou Mu, I can't live anymore!"

"Zhou Mu, please be considerate and considerate of Dou Sheng!"

If this scene were put in a TV series, it would definitely be a group of positive characters pleading for the corrupt officials for the people!
And Wang Hou was really like a corrupt official, he didn't even turn his head, he still looked at his beets weakly, muttering lazily.

"Qidi has 800 million mu of land in the account book, and I can't survive if I collect such a small amount of food and salary?"

"It's all lawless people who are resisting the government. Don't worry about them! The counties are still mainly collecting food. I have introduced more than [-] Langya scholars. Those who can't do it will go home to farm as soon as possible, and replace them with capable ones. !"

"Zhou Mu, if the conquest continues like this, the people will really rebel!"

"Then let them come! I have [-] elite soldiers in my hands, and I am worried that there is nowhere to make contributions! If you dare to rebel, kill them all! You don't need to say more, you all go down!"

A group of powerful people, you look at me, I look at you, everyone looks at each other in blank dismay, the local gentry is best at manipulating public opinion, if the county under governance is on fire, the village is full of smoke, and large groups of refugees are chaotic Hey, if he was a normal state official, his throat would be swollen after being on fire for a while!
They never imagined that Wang Hou is not a normal state official, he is so tough, even if he doesn't follow this, he would rather force the common people to rebel than continue to press for food.

He still wanted to say something more, but Zang Hong had already walked over with a few personal soldiers. In desperation, Tian Rang and those wealthy families had to leave the yamen in desperation.

"Tian Weng! It really doesn't work, let's open a warehouse and put some food in! It doesn't matter if these mud legs starve to death, but spring plowing will begin soon!"

This kind of depletion of land for fishing is also harmful to the chiefs of the rich clans. If all the tenants escape, who will plow the fields?What's the use of leaving the land uncultivated if there is no one to till it!Seeing that they were about to get into the carriages, they couldn't bear it anymore. Liu Hu, the patriarch of Le'an, showed an old face, and sadly pulled Tian to let his sleeves please.

But Tian Rang who listened had a sullen face and shook his head heavily.

"I don't care about the tens of thousands of stones of grain! But this month's monthly grain collection has softened. In the future, won't the group of local thieves surnamed Wang and Langya ride on our heads to shit and pee?"

A strong venomous look was revealed on his seemingly old and kind face, and Tian Rang grinned incomparably viciously.

"Didn't Wang replace the county magistrate of Le'an with someone from the Wang family of Langya? Let's use Le'an for surgery! After all, some blood will be shed! This Wang will know how powerful he is!"

"What Tian Weng said is absolutely true!"

Hearing his murderous words, the dozen or so local tyrants next to him also nodded their heads together, all of them had extremely vicious and ferocious expressions on their faces, looking from a distance, they looked like a group of ghosts.

(End of this chapter)