The first thousand four hundred and fifty-four chapters are not as good as animals
Chapter 1,454: Worse than a beast
At the moment, Ma Jun had a bad premonition in his heart. Since Pang Xi kept saying that the wealthy Zhangjiacun was now like this, he could probably guess what was going on in other places.
Ma Jun shook his head and planned to walk behind the village entrance to see what the farmland was like. If he could confirm that the farmland was abandoned, Ma Jun planned to tell Pang Xi the truth.
He is not a god and cannot change things that have already been done. The overturning car is just a man-made tool. How can he have the ability to change the world?
However, at this moment, a faint voice came from the distant and dark depths of the village, which made several people present prick up their ears and cheer up.
"May I ask...what are you doing here so late?"
Pang Xi looked for the sound, only to find a rickety old man walking on crutches from the village path.
"Ah, old man, I want to ask you, is this Zhangjiacun?"
"It's Zhangjiacun, right."
"I remember that Zhangjia Village was not quite wealthy. How could it be like this now?
Where have all the people in the village gone?”
After receiving the affirmative answer, Pang Xi inevitably felt a little depressed.
Just with a bit of luck, I continued to ask, trying to get a reasonable explanation.
The old man walked out shakily, and Ma Jun faced the somewhat blurry sunlight and saw the face of the man clearly.
This is an old man who is probably in his seventies. The shabby clothes on his body and the messy sideburns all reveal the poverty of his current living situation.
In addition, the old man seemed to be injured in some way. One of his arms was drooped and one of his legs seemed weak. Seeing this man's appearance, Ma Jun quickly went up to help him.
"people?
People died and ran away, and I was the only old man left.
Haha... I don't know where this man comes from. His accent doesn't sound like he's from Chengdu... The prosperity of Zhangjiacun is a thing of the past. Things have changed in a blink of an eye. I regret that I let those children
It's a sin to go into the city and do that kind of thing."
The old man's voice was hoarse, almost out of breath. When Ma Jun went up to help him, he felt that the other man's body was exaggeratedly light. By the way, he also saw clearly that the other man's arm was hanging down - it was a broken arm, half of it.
The cuffs hang down on one side of the body, as if they are expressing some sorrow.
"What...what's going on?
In the end what happened?
Can the old man explain it to me in detail?
I just left Chengdu half a year ago, and no matter how things have changed, it was only half a year. How could a prosperous village turn into such a dejected state?"
Pang Xi really wants to understand what happened in the past six months. It would be a lie to say that he does not sympathize with the sufferings of these people. Of course, he also has some other purposes, but overall he is still well-intentioned.
Seeing that the old man had difficulty moving, Pang Xi also called to the coachman to help him. Unexpectedly, the old man waved his hands and asked the others to let go of him. He just walked to the base of a crumbling wall and sat cross-legged on the ground leaning on a stone.
"You don't have to pity me, old man. I don't have much life left. But if you want to know what happened before, I can tell you a little bit."
The old man opened his sleeves to make the position of his arms a little more comfortable. Ma Jun and Pang Xi looked at each other and simply sat down on the ground.
With the hoarse voice of the old man, some things that happened in this village in the past six months were once again revealed to outsiders.
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In fact, it is simple to say.
Just as Pang Xi remembered, Zhangjiacun was definitely the wealthiest village outside Chengdu.
Every household has its own farmland. There are less than a hundred people in a village, but there are more than a dozen strong buffaloes and several donkeys.
Relying on these animals and the fact that every household in the village is very close to each other, everyone helps each other, and the prosperity of the village continues like this.
The problem came in the past six months, because Liu Zhang went on a military rampage and raised taxes. From time to time, some wealthy people in the city wanted to take advantage of the situation and buy fields at low prices. Naturally, Zhangjiacun was also affected.
Zhangjiacun is not the first one to be affected. In the past, I have heard that surrounding villages were gradually abandoned due to the suppression of the rich in the city. After their good fields were taken away, they lost their source of livelihood. Women were forced into prostitution, and men were forced to work as prostitutes.
The only way to survive is as a sharecropper.
Therefore, when Zhangjiacun also suffered such treatment, the young people in the village reached a consensus.
They felt that this was not going to work, and someone had to speak up for the people. Even if Liu Zhang had his own problems, he didn't realize that his actions would have a profound impact on the whole of Yizhou in the future.
The local men and women in Yizhou actually have a kind of upright and fiery temperament, and they are young and energetic. They did not listen to the dissuasion of the elders in the village, so they united with people from several surrounding villages and entered the city together, saying that they wanted to denounce the city.
Officials.
The result can be imagined. Liu Zhang was mentally sensitive at the time. When he saw this posture, he thought that these people were planning to stage an uprising. Anyway, due to some strange combination of circumstances, Liu Zhang's reaction became more violent. The first group of people who condemned
The people were beaten to death by the police officers and soldiers in the city and suffered tragic consequences.
In fact, most people in Chengdu knew about this matter, but because food prices had not soared as they are now, and everyone wanted to protect themselves, everyone tacitly kept silent.
Nearly a hundred lives were lost to Liu Zhang's stupidity.
It just so happens that these people are still young and important laborers in various villages. Some have just gotten married, some have several children waiting to be fed, and some are serving the elderly. They have just reached the age of ignorance. A group of people
They were all beaten to death by officers and soldiers without distinction, which cost the lives of every village.
Zhangjiacun suffered the most serious losses. After several of the youngest and most powerful people were beaten to death, the unscrupulous wealthy businessmen from the city behind rushed over like wild dogs smelling the smell of blood.
After all, the rest were women, children and the elderly. The women were sold into the city and became prostitutes. The older children were taken into homes and worked as child laborers and servants. The younger ones were sometimes sold to the homes of wealthy businessmen who were unable to have children.
Being an adopted son, this kind of fate is not bad, but some children who are not favored by others live on the streets, and many of them die, and even more of them don't even have their bodies found.
How can such an end be described by a sinner?
"How could this happen...Is this Liu Zhang crazy?"
Ma Jun was dumbfounded. He could not have imagined that Liu Zhang, whom people always talked about as fatuous, would dare to do such a heinous act of disregarding human life.
Although he, Cai Zhaoji and others are businessmen, they usually do good deeds and are quite friendly to the poor. This is what the husband has always said, but now...the situation they are facing now is that they have to build a relationship with such a guy who is worse than a beast.
connect.
Ma Jun felt his teeth itch with hatred when he thought of this.
