"Auntie, do you have enough harvest for one year?" Fu Manman asked.
When she heard that she had to hand over half of the food to her master, she felt sorry for these people in her heart!
It seems that the lives of the people of Nanling are not easy for these hateful blood-sucking nobles.
"Hey, there is not enough food. There are more than a dozen people in our family, old and young. Before dawn, we have to get up and go to the fields to do farm work. We have no time for a year. When things are good, one acre of land has seven stones.
The food is not in good condition, only four or five dan.
After paying half of the tax and paying half to the owner of the house, the rest is less than a hundred catties. The adults and children cannot eat enough for a day. In order to fill their stomachs, we can only work in the fields day and night.
Live." The woman sighed.
She looked at Fu Manman and the others, "You must have escaped from somewhere else!"
"Yes, aunt, we heard that Nanling is a good place, so we wanted to come here to make a living," Fu Manman said.
As she spoke, she recalled what her aunt had said. She felt really sad for this aunt. She had worked so hard all her life to plant the land for someone else.
Moreover, the yield of crops in ancient times was very low. One acre could produce a harvest of seven shi, or about seven hundred kilograms. That was when the weather was good, and it had to be fertile land. A family of young and old could only achieve such a harvest by serving the crops in the fields every day.
If there are insects in the field, you need to catch them. If there are weeds, you need to weed them. Otherwise, the crops will be eaten by insects and the living space will be taken up by weeds.
Farming is very hard and tiring. The farming life in ancient times was not as beautiful as what you see on TV. The people were really suffering.
Fu Manman looked at the fields in the distance. It was the spring plowing season. He saw patches of yellow land, with young and old, and the whole family working in the fields.
There were only two or three farm cattle seen, and most of them were digging the ground with shovels. Women were picking grass roots in the ground, and children were also doing farm work with the adults.
No matter how quiet the years are, it is all about hard work and hard work, with the face facing the loess and the back turned to the sky, just to have enough food to eat.
At first glance, everyone, regardless of gender or age, has a sad look on his face and his face is sallow.
"How good is this place? If I hadn't heard that there was a war outside, our family would have wanted to escape but find a way to live elsewhere. The life now is so sad. Yesterday, the adults from these thousands of families sent someone to pay the grain.
Five buckets of rice for a family, wouldn’t it cost us our lives!” The aunt’s eyes turned red as she said this.
"Qianhu? These are not officers, they are dedicated to protecting the people! They have their own forts and military households." Fu Manman asked curiously.
The aunt doesn't understand what kind of official or military household this is, "Girl, we don't understand what you're talking about. We just know that this new Qianhu has just come from Lige City and won some kind of arena. He was personally sealed by the head of the Zhongli family.
When someone came to our village, he enclosed the land as soon as he came. Our land became the land of these thousands of households, and we all have to pay him grain in the future."
After finishing speaking, the aunt poured out a bowl of water from the small earthen pot she brought from home and drank. "Girl, I won't chat with you anymore. I have to go to the fields to plow the fields. I borrowed this shovel from my master's house. I have to use it in the evening."
return."
The aunt got up and patted the ashes on her buttocks, bowed her body, picked up the hoe, and went to plow the ground.
Fu Manman was silent, it turned out that it was true that Li Gecheng won the fiefdom in the ring.
But what is the difference between this kind of direct enclosure of land and the oppression of the people by the landlords outside.
Is this behavior of enclosing land the default behavior of the Zhongli family?
If this is the case, it is really disappointing.
"All the officials are equally black!"
"In the final analysis, we the common people are the ones who suffer the most. Wherever we own the land, it is cultivated by the big men."
"Hey, they still have land to farm, but we don't even have land." Grandma Wang said with emotion, her eyes red.
Others also talked a lot, and then they all scolded those powerful people who eat people without spitting out their bones.
"Let's go!" Fu Manman said to everyone.
I've rested enough and I'm ready to go.
It's still a few days away from Lige City!
After walking for more than ten miles, Fu Manman and his party also encountered several other fleeing teams.
I saw that these teams looked very large, and they were all young and strong men and women.
Some also led horses and hitched carriages.
While resting in the woods, a member of the team came up to chat with him.
"Where did you come from? Are you going to Lige City too?" A middle-aged man came over, his eyes fell on Chang Zhong, and he said to Chang Zhong.
Chang Zhong looked at the other party warily and said calmly: "We are from the north."
"I heard that there is a war going on in the north. Da Zi has captured several cities. I heard that Fengcheng was defeated by Da Zi. The city owner is dead. The most beautiful lady jumped off the building rather than surrender.
"
"This Princess Ouyang is really beautiful and righteous, and her ambition is really admirable."
"It's a pity that I have never seen such a beauty."
"Dazi is hateful. I will not stop until I kill all of him."
These people all discussed the things they heard about the north side on the way.
When Chang Zhong heard what the other party said, he snorted coldly. As expected, the rumors were not credible. Princess Ouyang was ruthless and had killed so many innocent girls.
Now she is rumored to be a chaste and strange woman!
"Bah, you are all deceived by these rumors." Chang Zhong couldn't help but retort.
"Oh, brother, tell me how we were deceived?" the other party asked curiously.
At this time, Chen Zijian stepped forward and said: "You guys just heard about it, but we saw it with our own eyes. Princess Ouyang was a witch who killed many young girls. She was killed and her corpse was displayed on the city wall. At that time, we all
Saw it with my own eyes.”
"Ah! So that's how it is! Then this princess is really bad, then you have heard who killed that princess."
"We heard that the princess jumped from the city tower and died. King Xiao Beiyang was so sad that he held the princess's body and cried on the wall of Fengcheng for three days and three nights."
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Xiao Beiyang King himself, Huangfu Feiran, heard this and choked himself with a mouthful of water and kept coughing.
This rumor is really outrageous!
He looked at Fu Manman with worried eyes.
But Fu Manman couldn't misunderstand him. He didn't have any feelings for Ouyang Feiyue.
Fu Manman laughed muffledly when he heard this. It was so funny.
The rumors are really terrible!
"Why did you come to Nanling?" Fu Manman asked these people.
It's not like I've heard some rumors.
What Fu Manman heard from the people in Nanling along the way was very different from what he heard before.
"Nanling is great! I heard that as long as you can win at the Colosseum, you can get a fief. We passed through several towns along the way, and the thousands of households in several towns all had soldiers who won at the Colosseum.
I heard that as long as they win, they will have the right to enclose the land, and they will become prosperous and prosperous from then on."
"By enclosing the land, we also have land! We no longer have to go hungry."
A group of people on the other side, you said one sentence to another.
