When Chu Ge had just finished handling his second case, Lu Heng had already started living his fourth life.
The process of playing the identity of a beggar is obviously different from other identities.
Every time he starts, the situation Lu Heng encounters is different.
For the first time, he was born in a tenant farmer's family. He lived in a thatched hut since he was a child, herded cattle for the landlord, and participated in corvee labor. He was lucky enough to return home, marry a wife and have children. His living standard was about to improve, but in the end a big disaster occurred.
, neither he nor his children could escape, and were swollen to death after eating Guanyin soil.
The second time, he was born into a family of homesteaders, and his living conditions were obviously much better than those of sharecroppers. However, he did not expect that his life span would be even shorter, because he encountered a sudden drought when he was young, and the land was devastated for thousands of miles, and his family members were all lost one after another.
The land will either starve to death or die of disease, and the whole group will be destroyed directly.
The third time, I was born in a rich farmer's family. Originally, my life was pretty good, and I could barely be called lively. However, I encountered the officials' excessive taxation and exploitation at all levels.
The imperial court had orders, but the lower levels increased the levy. The imperial court increased the levy by one centimeter, which became three centimeters in provinces, eight centimeters in prefectures and counties, and even more than one cent in subordinate officials. In the end, it increased to dozens
times.
Ordinary small farmers cannot afford to sell their houses, land or even their children, so they have no choice but to leave their homes.
After my fathers fled, almost all of the family property could not be taken away. Houses, fields, farm tools, bedding, etc. could only be left behind, with only a few belongings taken with them. After settling in a place, they had to buy new ones.
As a result, not long after, he encountered another brutal expropriation. This time he was unable to escape and was imprisoned. His family was ruined and his family was destroyed.
This time, it was already the fourth life that Lu Heng had experienced.
So he has become quite numb to all this.
The only good news is that each life is not very long and is experienced in a fragmented way.
In the fourth life, I was born into a sharecropper's family again. This time there was a flood during my childhood. As soon as the flood passed, all the few remaining relatives in the family were washed away and scattered.
Lu Heng managed to survive by clinging to a big tree, but looking back, the former village was no longer a vast country.
After walking a long way, I found a broken Taoist temple nearby. I went in to ask for some food, but found that it had been abandoned. I met two thieves with red eyes because of hunger, and they knocked him down without any reason.
As for what will happen next, Lu Heng doesn't dare to imagine.
In the fifth life, he finally had something to do with the experience of Sheng Taizu. After his family members died of the plague, Lu Heng found a temple after many inquiries and became a monk.
But not long after, famine came again, and even the old monks in the temple were so hungry that their bodies were swollen and their eyes were black. So Lu Heng and some other young monks were kicked out and left to fend for themselves.
Even though I was given a document and a broken bowl, saying I was going to beg for alms, in reality I was just going out to beg for food. With the head of a monk, it may not be any easier than a beggar.
So, Lu Heng had no choice but to hold the broken bowl and walk aimlessly.
A major disaster will be followed by a major epidemic, and all the nearby villages are already empty.
Lu Heng walked continuously for thirty miles with a broken bowl, and saw few living people along the way. If he was lucky, he would get a half-sour bun, but if he was unlucky, he would get a beating.
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In the end, he fell down from exhaustion in a far-off place and never got up again.
In the sixth life, he was too lazy to repeat the previous steps, so he simply took a broken bowl, stole some food, ran away from home, and lived a life of beggar in advance.
This time he planned to go to nearby wealthy prefectures and counties. He saw that when the famine came, thousands of people had nothing to eat. The hungry people attacked the government offices. The county magistrate said confidently: "Why don't you have anything to eat? There are plenty in the city.
I've never been hungry."
So the angry hungry people stormed the government office, drove away the county magistrate, and robbed the big households of food.
But not long after, the county magistrate returned with his troops, arrested all the leaders of the hungry people, beheaded them in public, and hung their bodies at the city gate as a warning to others.
In addition, he also saw wealthy people instructing their men to beat people to death in the streets, but it seemed as if nothing happened, and no government officials dared to punish the crime; the county magistrate imposed excessive taxes and lived a luxurious life, and the superior officials finally came to inspect, and after an inspection, he was fine
I left well.
Not to mention that the superior northern barbarians slaughtered them wantonly, leaving only body parts everywhere and fertile fields turned into pastures.
He also chatted with other beggars and heard people say that even if all officials above the county level were arrested and beheaded, a few would not be wronged.
Lu Heng echoed that this statement is not accurate. The accurate statement should be: all the officials above the county level must be arrested and killed. There must be injustice, but if you kill every ten, there must be someone who slips through the net, which attracts other beggars.
Applause in agreement.
Lu Heng traveled far and wide and came into contact with many farmers.
As far as he could see, only a very small number of the sufferings suffered by these people were due to laziness or bad luck.
Because in this era, hard work is a necessary condition for survival. People who are not hardworking would have starved to death long ago and would not be able to persist now.
However, they are so hard-working and yet still have no clothes to wear and no food to eat even though they work all day long. Most of the reasons are due to those high-ranking bureaucrats.
Sometimes he would chat with down-and-out scholars or other beggars with some education, saying that if there was such a law: any common people who were oppressed by officials could go to Beijing to complain with the law in their heads, and officials along the way would kill anyone who dared to stop them.
.that would be nice.
The other person either laughed out loud, or looked at him like a madman, thinking he was confused.
Officials are the minions of the emperor. The emperor and the officials are one and the same. How can it be possible for the people to sue the officials? How dare an ordinary person come to Beijing to meet the saint? What a wishful thinking.
In today's world, it is natural for officials to arrest people into prison and beat them to death for any crime they make up.
Lu Heng didn't say anything, he just silently picked up his broken bowl and gave the rancid bun inside to the beggar next to him. At the same time, he was once again grateful that he had the talent of "enduring hunger".
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At the same time, Huo Yunying, who plays the role of a rebel, is planning the next goal.
"Now the rebels have occupied Chuzhou City, and I already have three to four hundred soldiers. But the current situation is not very optimistic.
"The Northern Barbarian armies often come to attack. Although the ones they encountered before were vulnerable, we do not rule out the possibility of strong enemies in the future.
"It is said that a Northern Barbarian general named Dong is plotting to attack Chuzhou City, but we haven't received the exact information yet. Is there such a scene in history? However, judging from the records I have learned before, I have never heard of Chuzhou City being attacked.
News of the capture.
"But even if there are no powerful Northern Barbarian generals to attack, the situation in Chuzhou City may not be very good.
"There are four marshals in the city, and they don't like each other. Every time there is a discussion, there will be conflicts. But I am just a nobody, and I obviously can't get a word in...
"Of course, the most important thing is that Chu Ge told me that I must pay attention to Gu Yuan, who is Sheng Taizu's most trusted general. As long as I can embrace this golden thigh, many things will definitely be solved.
"But the problem is... so far, I haven't found anyone named Gu?"
