Chapter 238. Hard steel in the end?
Even before this natural disaster, Xiao Wuzi had never eaten such a rich rice. The fat of a meaty yellow croaker was flowing in, exuding a strong aroma. The scones filled with pork were also stimulated every minute and every second. There were even two bowls of rice from Jiangnan, and I had only heard of it and had never eaten before.
But he was drooling, and he didn't dare to put down his chopsticks. He carefully curled up in the corner of the stool. Looking at Liu Zhuzi's gloomy and even murderous face, Xiao Wuzi held it in for a long time and persuaded carefully.
"Brother Zhuzi, you are so mourning! They are all forced by the dog officials, this... there is nothing we can do about it..."
"No! It has nothing to do with the government!"
Under Awu's incredible gaze, Liu Zhuzi actually defended the government as he shook his head. Nowadays, the common people speak for the government, which is as strange as rooster laying eggs. Moreover, Liu Zhuzi's father just hanged himself because of forced wages!
Looking at A Wu's astonished expression and his pupils were full of hatred, Liu Zhuzi said gloomyly: "I can't tell you exactly, but I've read the grain collection order issued by the provincial governor. The contract order clearly states that only collects land taxes but not dens. Who has land to collect whose food? A Wu, can our two families have one acre of land in the village?"
Awu couldn't help but feel silenced after hearing this. After a moment of silence, he exclaimed again: "So, it's Mr. Liu's house..."
"That's right! The person named Liu passed on all the taxes that should have been collected by his family to our tenant farmers! Damn it! Every household paid 60% of his crops in the autumn, and his family had 80,000 acres of land. In one autumn, he collected 100,000 stones of grain, but he refused to take out even a thousand handfuls of stones of grain, and he even had to plunder our people more! The person surnamed Liu didn't even think about leaving a way out for our tenants!"
The fists were twisting and Liu Zhuzi roared with gritting teeth, but Awu looked helpless when he heard it. So what if he knew? Isn’t this the world these days? Mr. Liu is rich and powerful and still has someone in the government. What can these people who fight to the ants?
But the next second, Awu's heart couldn't help but thump violently, his eyes staring at him like a knife, but Liu Zhuzi's voice lowered a little, and he asked in a low voice.
"Awu, our brothers are fellow townsmen. They grew up together with naked ass. Brother, I have a job here. To be honest, it is very dangerous! There may be a head loss crisis at any time, and you can't tell anyone that your father can't do it! But if you join the gang, you can immediately give your family twenty acres of fertile land, a house, seeds and farm tools, and enough food for your family to eat for autumn harvest. They are all recognized by the serious government. Can you do it?"
Awu's heart unconsciously contracted violently. Although the twenty acres of fat land were not considered landlords, they were at least at home. For tenants like them who had no meals after eating, it was simply something they dared not dream of! This is no longer a risk-taking benefit. This is a lottery winning prize. He focused on his head without even thinking about it.
"Zhong! Brother, I really do whatever you say you do!"
"Then hurry up and eat now, and you will follow me later! When you arrive at the place, you will listen to whatever people say. Remember, everything you hear is rotten in your stomach. You can't tell anyone, either, your own father can do it. If you tell me what you didn't tell me, I can't say it either!"
It was a rare sumptuous lunch full of meat, but Awu didn't taste anything. He swallowed the fish and the rice were dried. He couldn't bear to wrap the remaining fish and meat patties in straw. He couldn't wait to urge Liu Zhuzi to see what job he had.
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, in the military camp next to Linzi City, he continued to burn bricks and transport steel bars in the deep hatred of the gentry under his command, and built a small square cement building that made Jia Xu feel distressed.
The army was stationed in the military fortress, and the miscellaneous military soldiers who worked lived in these work sheds made of bricks. A layer of straw was laid out to make people live. Following Brother Zhuzi in, these auxiliary soldiers were busy building houses with cement and then building houses. Some were pushing wheelbarrows and transporting them to the first work point to build roads.
However, he took him around, Zhuzi took him to a small room in the innermost area, looking at the particularly inconspicuous second-story building. He raised his head and saw a few of them looking very simple, but unfortunately, Awu still had a big black-bottom golden sign that he didn't recognize.
"Look, this is called the Statistical Investigation Bureau of the Military Commission! Well, I don't know what it means. Anyway, it's just a very awesome yamen!"
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While the two little people were running for their livelihood, Wang Hou, the big guy, was also running for their livelihood. Not far away from the military fort and the big table in the office and yamen, a vegetable planted in a flowerpot, and the vegetable like a radish was silenced there. Wang Hou himself was also staring at it with a wilt like that vegetable.
He wanted sugar, and growing sugar cane in the north was like a fool! So he focused on beets.
But the beet he cultivated in a greenhouse is really not very good!
And just as he was sad about the beets, there were still a large group of flies buzzing around him and shouting non-stop.
"The state governor, you can't get any more expeditions! There are already seven or eight out of ten people in Anxin County who have destroyed their families, and there are also riots in Anyuan. The local officials in Xincheng wrote a letter, and hundreds of them committed suicide by hanging themselves in the territory! If this continues, it will be the officials who will force the people to rebel!"
With a worried face of the country and the people, Tian Rang slapped his thighs there with heartache and followed him. The thirty-year-old Linzi also sighed and helped him.
"Yes! The minister of the state, I can't survive!"
"State Governor, be considerate and considerate and understand the common people!"
If this scene was placed in a TV series, it would definitely be a group of positive characters who would plead for the people!
Wang Hou was really like a corrupt official, and he didn't even turn his head around. He still looked at his beet weakly and muttered lazily.
"I can't survive if I collect such a small amount of food and salary?"
"It's all illegal and unruly people who resist the government's trip, so don't worry about them! All counties still focus on collecting grain. This official has introduced more than 50 scholars from Langya. Those who can't do it will go home to farm as soon as possible to replace those with capable ones!"
"Prince, if the conquest continues like this, the people will really rebel!"
"Then let them come! The 60,000 elite soldiers in my hands are worried that there is no place to make achievements! I dare to fight back and kill them all! You don't need to say much, let's go all!"
A bunch of big clans, you look at me, I look at you, all of them look at each other. The best thing local gentry is to manipulate public opinion. If the fire is fire in the Xia County, smoke is generated in every village, and large groups of refugees are running around, if a normal state official, his throat will be swollen!
They never thought that Wang Hou was not a normal state official. He was so tough that he didn't take this trick. He would rather force the common people to rebel than continue to urge food.
He wanted to continue to say something, but Zang Hong had already brought a few personal soldiers to come towards him. At no cost, Tian Rang and the rich men had to leave the yamen in shame.
"Wen Tian! It really doesn't work. Open the warehouse and put some food in it! It doesn't matter if these mud legs starve to death, but they will soon be plowing!"
This kind of fishing in the extinction of the lake is also a harm to the chiefs of the rich. If the tenants escape all, who will plow the fields? If there is no land, what's the use of being deserted? Seeing that they are about to get on the carriage, I can't help it. Liu Hu, the chief of the Le'an clan, pulled an old face and sadly grabbed the fields and asked them to ask for their sleeves.
But Tian Rang's face was full of viciousness and shook his head heavily.
"I don't care about these tens of thousands of stones of food! But this month I've given up my food, will I have to let the king and the local thieves from Langya ride on our heads and pisses on our heads?"
A strong and vicious look was revealed on his originally old and kind face, and Tian Rang smiled extremely viciously.
"Didn't the Wang surname replace the county magistrate of Le'an with the Wang family from the Langya? Just use Le'an to perform surgery! After all, you have to shed some blood! Only the Wang surnamed knows how powerful it is!"
"What Mr. Tian said was very true!"
Listening to his murderous words, the dozen or so rich people next to him nodded, and their faces were flashing with extremely vicious and ferocious expressions. Looking from afar, they turned out to be like a group of evil ghosts. Baipandai said the latest chapter of "Following Mr. Cao to the Three Kingdoms Claw Bookstore" for free as soon as possible.
Chapter completed!