"People's hearts are not ancient, people's hearts are not ancient..."
Mr. Ma stood tremblingly on crutches and looked at the thirty or forty people in the village who couldn't even cover the birds with their tattered pants when they went out. At this time, he put on the green and black military uniform made by Chushan, with a long knife on his waist and a hand in his hand.
He was practicing with his spear in a arrogant manner on the expropriated grain drying field of his family. Feeling angry and resentful, he stood under the old locust tree and cursed repeatedly.
"A bunch of ungrateful guys, they didn't even think about who gave them food to survive when they were so hungry in the past, but now they don't acknowledge it after they are full, and they turn around to help outsiders bully the countryside, forgetting their origins one by one
To betray one’s ancestors is to forget one’s ancestors and betray one’s ancestors…”
"Mr. Ma, if your family lends you a bucket of grain, you will have to take back two or three buckets of grain in the next year. If you can't get the grain, you will force them to sell their land, sell their bodies, and work as cattle or horses in your house, and you still have the nerve to say that this is charity.
Ah? In the past three or four years in Majiazhuang, there are not many paddy fields left. Which of them has not been merged into your family? Thanks to our seven or eight acres of thin farmland, we still have some harvests in the past few years. Otherwise, please ask Mr. Ma for your help.
How many layers of skin do you have to peel off from your head? Shihe!"
An old man squatted at the entrance of the village to watch the young people in the village practicing, twiddling his toes exposed from the straw sandals, and laughing with Mr. Ma with joy,
"The Recruiting Secretary Xingwen wants to reduce rents and loans for those who are recruited from the four counties. Mr. Ma feels sorry for the renters, so he doesn't want to give charity? Is it because he feels bad that he will never have the chance to skin people again?"
"What's going on with this old man asking Si Xingwen to reduce rent and loans?"
Because the Nancai Recruitment Division wanted to dig a new river channel in Zhangshan to connect Jiangling, the blockade section of the Han River was also expanded from Zekou in the north of Hualing to Zhangshan in the east of Jingmen.
There are no large wharves or towns on the east bank of the Han River near Zhangshan. Many business travelers who take big boats down the Xiangjiang River from Nanyang and Xiangyang can only disembark near Zhangshan and then find small boats to cross the Han River to Jingling.
County and then continue boarding the trip.
At this time, a group of businessmen came to Majiazhuang to hire a ferry to cross the Xiangjiang River. They stood under the old locust tree at the entrance of the village to rest and watched the Zhuangzi people performing drills. A young man couldn't help but curiously bowed to the old man in straw sandals and asked about the invitation.
What's going on with the writing?
The old man in straw sandals saw that the young man was about thirty years old, with a fair face and a short mustache. He looked very impressive. He quickly stood up and returned the courtesy and said:
"The Nancai Recruitment Division, which is located in Zhangshan, recruits people from all villages to practice to guard against lake bandits - those who successfully apply will not only be given weapons, uniforms and pay, but also order the clan gentry of each village to
, whenever land and money and grain are leased to Min Zhuang and small families, the tenancy rent shall not exceed 30%, and the interest on money and grain shall not exceed 20% per year. Repayments must be made back two years from the date of application, in order to reward Min Zhuang.
He has contributed to protecting the countryside. Mr. Ma is the largest landowner in our village. His family accounts for 60% of the 4,000 to 5,000 acres of land in our village. Now there are more than 40 tenants in our village who have applied for the Minzhuang of the Supervisory Department.
From now on, Mr. Ma will not only be unable to collect high rents and interest from these tenants, but he will also have to withdraw one or two thousand dan of grain. No, Mr. Ma is so angry that he is going to the west, and his son Ma Daguan is also anxious.
I went to Jiangxia to complain, and I heard that a group of people were gathered to go to Jianye to complain!"
"Isn't this a mess? The recruitment department has already exceeded the rules by setting up a patrol station privately. When did it have the right to intervene in private money and food matters? It's such a mess, what else do the state and county yamen do?" said a colleague.
The middle-aged man listened to the old man in straw sandals talking about rent reduction and loan reduction. He whispered beside the young man, "Does he really think he is the King of Jingxiang?" "..." The young man glanced at the middle-aged man and winked at him.
Talkative, he raised his hands to the old man in straw sandals and said, "This is within Jingmen County. Apart from each family going to Jiangxia to file a complaint with the Procurement Department, there is no other action? There is no response from the county?"
The old man in straw sandals was not completely ignorant. He looked at the group of people in front of him warily and said with a smile: "Yes, why not? The gentlemen in the city and outside the city have collected rents over the years, dressed in brocade and silk, and brought us
These poor old men are all cornered and have no way out, and there are rebels everywhere, how could they not take any action at all?"
The old man in straw sandals sneered a few words and walked towards the grain drying field.
Mr. Ma couldn't understand the background of the young man and his group. He was worried that they were recruiting spies sent by the Division, so he didn't dare to complain any more and limped away with a cane.
"Chushan established a patrol department in the north of Jingguang, ordered the counties to pay for the patrol department to recruit people and strong people for training, and then turned around and supported the people and Zhuang people to reduce the tenant loans. It is really a good plan. Brothers of the Zhong family, think about it, these shabby households will be eliminated
After opening up, you can enjoy low rents and low interest rates. Every household can now ask for more than ten or twenty dan or even more money and food at once. Are you still not happy? A villager has to dig out at least one tael to pay off the old tenants.
Thousands of dans of grain, and thousands of villages in the four counties of northern Jingbei could not squeeze out more than one or two million dans of grain. The tenants had more grain in their hands, so there was no shortage in the market. Chushan happened to buy it at a low price and pocketed it all.
What a good plan! In addition to recruiting six to seven thousand people who have no brains to follow and make noises at once, win over the hearts of these untouchables, and take advantage of the opportunity to make a lot of money, there are really not many people in the world who are so smart.
Why do these poor settlers think they are getting so much profit!" The middle-aged man was also born in Tongbai Mountain. He claimed to have known Chushan's tricks for a long time. He saw everyone showing off their strength during the training on the grain field and said angrily.
"We have already left Biyang, why are we talking about this?" the young man said with waning interest.
The young man was Zhong He who moved his family out of Nanyang and settled in Jianye.
During the bandit rebellion in Tongbai Mountain, Zhong He led his family members and clan members to participate in quelling the bandit rebellion. Together with Xu Huai, Tang Pan and Xu Xin'an, he was known as the Four Generals of Huaiyuan. After the bandit rebellion was quelled, Zhong He did not feel that troubled times were coming.
While studying hard at Tongbai Mountain, Xu Huai, Tang Pan, Xu Xin'an, Tang Qing, Han Qi, and Yin Peng followed Wang Zhen to Lanzhou and rose up during the two campaigns against Yanbei.
When Xu Huai, Tang Pan, Xu Xin'an and others returned to Tongbai Mountain, they were able to set up Chushan County and take control of it themselves. At that time, Zhongji Tang, a member of the Zhongji tribe, was able to command four to five hundred troops in Chushan.
Feeling depressed, Zhong He moved out of Tongbai Mountain and settled in Biyang City. Later, he was recommended by Cheng Lunying to join the Military and Horse Supervisory Department of Nanyang Prefecture as a military official.
However, last year, for the Nanyang Prefecture army's garrison of Rucai, Cheng Lunying led the army officials Kong Zhou, Liu Wugong and others to break with Ning Ci and Zhou Yunze and half-openly sided with Chushan. Zhong He Mingzhe withdrew from the Nanyang Prefecture Military and Horse Supervisor to protect himself.
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After the death of Emperor Jianji, Chushan took advantage of the campaign to suppress the Dongjinghu bandits and dispatched troops to various places in Nanyang. Zhonghe realized that there would be no place for him in Nanyang. In the past month, he would stay in Biyang.
He sold everything and took his family to settle in Jianye.
The middle-aged man's surname is Tian, and in his early years he was also the head of a family with a prominent surname in Tongbai Mountain.
After the Tongbai Mountain Bandit Rebellion, the Tian family did not rush to move to Biyang. The daughter of the Tian family boss even got engaged to Xu Xin of the Xu family. However, after Xu Xin followed Xu Huai from Shuozhou, the Xu family relied on Xu Huai's support.
The Tian brothers thought it was too unbelievable and unbecoming of a request to get married within three days, and they did not dare to refuse in person. However, they fled with their family overnight to settle in Biyang.
This time the Tian brothers also decided to move their family out of Nanyang, so as not to die without knowing how to live under the Xu family's roof.
The Zhong family and the Tian family have suffered a lot in recent years, but the emaciated camels are bigger than the horses. This time, they each took their families, twenty or thirty servants, and dozens of large and small boxes and cages, and took a boat south from Biyang.
The ship was forced to interrupt its trip when it arrived at Zhangshan because the Han River was blocked.
They could only go ashore temporarily, thinking of hiring a boat to go to Jingling County on the east bank of the Han River first, and then hiring a carriage to go to Jianye.
They didn't expect to stop at Zhangshan, but found that Chushan's tentacles had reached every corner of the four counties in northern Jingbei in less than a month.
Regardless of whether Chushan's ambitions had aroused the court's vigilance, Zhonghe knew that Chushan was no longer something they could slander at this time. In addition to sighing a few words, he quickly hired locals to hire boats and crossed the Han River to Jingjing.
Ling County hired a carriage and went around to Huangpi County, then transferred to the boat owner to enter Jianye.
After being delayed all the way, it was almost early November before we arrived in Jianye.
However, Zhong He had already sent his family to Jianye to buy a house. After arriving in Jianye, they would move directly into the new house without having to worry about being displaced. However, what was worrying was the way out in the future.
Zhong's Ruoda family property, after many twists and turns, was reduced to a house and a farm with more than 200 acres of grain land in Jianye.
Although the new emperor ascended the throne, it was said that the imperial court would restart the imperial examination next year, but these years have been chaotic, Zhong He married a wife and had children, and abandoned his studies early, and did not expect to be able to participate in the imperial examination and pursue an official career.
After he arrived in Jianye, he just sent someone to the Jin Mansion early to submit a name card. At this time, Zhong He lowered his profile. Of course, he did not expect to be appreciated by Jin Zhuangcheng, the Minister of Rites, but thought about his relationship with Jin Mansion, a famous figure in the Jin Mansion.
Longquan had known each other for many years, so he sent someone to give the famous post to Jin Longquan, hoping that Jin Longquan could give him some guidance in Jianye.
Jinlongquan was not alone, even if he couldn't get away for a while, he sent someone to give him a housewarming gift that day; two days later, Jinlongquan sent someone again to say that it was the Jin Mansion's arrangement for Mrs. Jinzhuang Chengsan to give birth to a son.
To celebrate at the banquet, he specially included Zhonghe in the banquet list and invited Zhonghe to come and have a banquet with him.
Zhong He prepared the gifts and rushed to the Jin Mansion early. He walked into the Jin family's house in Jianye City and found that many of the guests at the banquet were Zong Shen who had moved out of Biyang in the past month as if they were fleeing. They must have been jealous.
He could get the appreciation of Jin Zhuangchen and find a job in Jianye; among the many guests, Zhong He also saw his old acquaintance Deng Gui, who had fought side by side in Tongbai Mountain to suppress the banditry.
Before he became famous, Deng Gui was just a small patrol officer.
During the first invasion of the Chihu people to the south, Deng Gui, as a military official in the deployment department of the military and horse capital on the South-Western Road of Beijing, followed the King of Qin on the South-Western Road of Beijing | Soldiers and Horses, and listened to Hu Kai's command. Later, he was sent by Hu Kai to go to Gong.
The county helped the late emperor defend the city, and he prospered from then on. Together with Zhang Xin and Liu Yan, he was called one of the three generals of the Yuyingsi.
However, Zhong He also heard that Deng Gui had been unhappy recently because he had a close relationship with Chushan and was the late emperor's favorite general.
When the new emperor ascended the throne, Deng Gui was ordered to return to Jianye from his residence in Luzhou to report his duties. He had been staying in Jianye for more than half a month, and the new emperor had no intention of sending Deng Gui back to Luzhou to continue commanding the army.
Seeing Deng Gui sitting next to Jin Zhuangcheng with a gloomy look on his face, Zhong He thought to himself, could it be that Deng Gui would be the first big shot to be deposed by the new emperor because of his involvement with Chushan?
