In the days that followed, Yamazaki wandered around every day, going to Yashiro City to look for housekeepers and servants, while watching the landowners and farmers anxiously preparing to pay taxes and autumn crops.
Time was running out, so everyone had to reluctantly take out their savings, sell off antiques, calligraphy and paintings, or even sell their properties and mansions.
Many people fled over the mountains, but officers and soldiers blocked the road to arrest them. Although some successfully escaped, many were captured and thrown into prisons at the navy camp.
In addition to local dignitaries, there are also many outsiders who buy properties.
Like Yamasaki, many of them are from the southwest region and are wealthy families who escaped from there.
It is said that the special envoy Zhang Ming was there to target the government's collusion with spies and the Tsing Yi Sect's attack on the imperial edict. He raised his butcher's knife high, ransacked the family and exterminated the clan, and the blood flowed like a river.
Forget about the people involved, the people who are not involved can't live any longer and have no choice but to run away.
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However, Hancheng is not peaceful either.
As the time for paying taxes and autumn grain approaches, a strange atmosphere appears in Hancheng.
Before the violent storm arrives, it looks like it will break out at any time.
The officers and soldiers also felt that something was wrong, as it seemed that someone was always staring at them.
Yamazaki knew that his words about officials forcing the people to rebel might have caused the trouble.
Now there are more than 100,000 farmers and tenants in and outside the city, as well as servants and refugees who have lost their land.
Among them there are many super first-class masters, even top masters.
If this were really done, it would definitely give the officers and soldiers a headache.
They usually have no intention of taking action, but now they are really being forced to survive.
Some of them were famous, and the people gathered around them.
It's just that they can't make up their mind, so they can only wait and see what happens with the government.
Waiting to see what will happen to the government if all of them don't pay taxes and autumn grain.
If the government really doesn't care and arrests people, they will have no choice but to take action.
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Yamazaki secretly eavesdropped on their whispers and couldn't help but sigh as he watched them contact each other for ventilation.
He had already done what he had to do. If the government hadn't been aggressive and unyielding, it wouldn't have turned into what it is now.
Nowadays, the troubles caused by those powerful people are so extensive that I really don’t know how it will end in the future.
Yamazaki thought about it, and simply told the matter to some government servants and some powerful servants by talking through the wall without showing his face or leaving any trace.
Of course, on the surface, they overheard it accidentally, so they were convinced.
From this, let the government know what is happening now.
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September sixteenth.
The last day set by the government is tomorrow, but the government can't sit still. It feels like sitting in the crater of a volcano.
I have heard that many unscrupulous people are preparing to resist.
Not one or two, but tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.
The dignitaries in the city discussed with the city guard and the navy, and felt that if things continued like this, things might get out of hand.
But they don't have enough troops to guard it. If chaos breaks out, they can't send troops into the town to suppress it.
That will only make things worse, and it will be difficult for them to shirk responsibility. After all, Hancheng is now under their control.
After deliberation all night and sitting there until the next morning, we had to decide and put up a notice to suspend the collection of autumn grain taxes.
As the news was released, people cheered one after another, and the whole city was filled with joy.
Yamazaki also breathed a sigh of relief and went to visit Yahang and Renshi again.
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Although the government stopped urging, everyone knew that the matter was not over yet, and the autumn grain might still have to be paid by the end of the month.
Nowadays, I just have more time to sell things so that the price will not be too low.
Of course, it also gives you more time to escape. As long as you part with your family property, you can escape.
It's just that I don't have much to give up. At least I have to sell my family property and exchange it for money.
As Yamazaki wandered around, he discovered that people other than landowners and farmers were selling off their properties.
Needless to say, they were some alert businessmen who keenly sensed that something was going to happen and began to retreat.
If you can sell it, sell it. If you can't sell it, just put it there and come back when the time comes. Anyway, you have the deed of the house and the land in hand, so you don't have to worry about the government not recognizing it.
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Yamazaki looked at it and thought about it, but in the end he didn't make a move.
Otherwise, I want to see how the imperial court handles it and how it reacts to the death of Master Chang, the fifth-rank state official.
When the time comes, those who sell the property and run away may be the rich and powerful in this city, and the price will be very cheap.
No rush now, wait.
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Yamazaki went to the archway and looked around, but couldn't find Shandai after looking at three of them.
Not in the mood to look again, he decided to go back to the restaurant to teach Dong Fenglin and others martial arts.
There happened to be a sword dance practice over there, so Yamazaki only watched a section.
After dancing to the end of sheathing her sword, Dong Fenglin wiped her sweat and saluted, "Please give me some advice."
"It's okay, I'm just letting you stretch your muscles. Come on, come in with me."
"Yes, sir!"
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Inside the room.
Yamazaki asked Dong Fenglin to take off her shoes and socks and get on the bed. Dong Fenglin bowed shyly, "Master, my body is covered with sweat now. I want to take a bath first and then serve you."
Yamazaki was funny, "I'm going to teach you how to practice with the palms of your hands, the palms of your feet, and your four hearts facing each other."
"ah!"
Dong Fenglin was embarrassed, and the girls smiled, covering their mouths and laughing softly.
Yamazaki joked, "Why don't you go wash it first, Xiyu comes first?"
"No, I'll just follow the master's orders." Dong Fenglin quickly got on the bed and held hands with Yamazaki.
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"You all know the meridians of the human body, the five elements and the five internal organs, so I won't go into details."
"Today I will use my inner energy to help you become familiar with the meridians one by one, and then you can just follow the exercise route and practice it over and over again."
"Yes, sir." The girls responded.
Yamazaki continued, "You all have good looks and good talents, especially Madam Dong. It's a pity that you don't practice martial arts."
"Thank you for your trouble, sir."
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Yamazaki led six people one by one to practice the exercises, and taught them the method of breathing in and out of the Great and Small Zhou Dynasties.
The so-called dual cultivation is to use one's own inner energy to help them.
The reason why Yamazaki dared to praise Haikou and say that he had achieved success in three months was because he wanted to give his inner energy to them.
It's not that he is very generous, but he always feels that his inner energy is a bit messy, so it is better to give it away with the help of dual cultivation and condense new inner energy at the same time.
Anyway, his bones are very bad, so it is difficult to increase the total amount of internal energy, and his speed of condensing internal energy is relatively fast.
An ordinary person practices inner qi for one hour a day, but he can practice it for twelve hours a day.
By swallowing elixirs and using the method of transforming the five elements to dissolve the potency, you can swallow many elixirs in a day and gain dozens of times the amount of internal Qi as an ordinary person.
The reason for his poor skill is that he has poor roots and bones, and it is difficult for the total amount of internal energy to rise, so he can only slowly expand his muscles and meridians.
That involved road construction and overall reinforcement at the same time, which was quite slow.
That means he is great, otherwise his inner energy cultivation would have stopped long ago.
Unlike those with good bones, they are born with a high amount of internal energy.
Of course, you have to work diligently to improve your inner energy.
Dong Fenglin and others are all in their early twenties. With the help of this double cultivation method, they still have a chance to catch up with ordinary people of the same age.
As for the future, it depends on the hard work of each of them.
It was precisely because he didn't want to stay in Hancheng forever that he came to Dong Fenglin, the housekeeper.