"Dad, dad, we can go home!"

Dagui ran all the way, shouting all the way, running towards the depths of the mountains.

Cen Dalang, who was sorting out the bamboo basket, heard the sound and stood up and looked at Dagui running all the way. When he arrived, Cen Dalang took the salt from Dagui's hand and touched his head: "Silly child, what stupid things are you saying. It's better to wait a few years later, when you grow up, no one knows you before coming out."

"No, Dad, we can really go home! I went to buy salt and saw a new white wall in Caoshi, with an official list posted on it. The person who knew the words read it, "What kind of Taiping County has been newly established? Our Jiangzhou is also under the jurisdiction of Taiping County. In the future, any punishment for beating people will be punished by the county. Dad, although you have not saved the little Yanei, you have not violated the national law. The county will not beat us to death if you make a case."

Cen Dalang shook his head: "Who did you hear these nonsense? We barbarians have been in charge of the heads for thousands of years. How could the heads still survive if they want you to die?"

Dagui said: "But that is the official's list. Could it be that the official will still lie?"

"Who in this world can't lie? Besides, in the eyes of those people, we are just cows and horses, so we can't be considered human. The weather is not good, so we should go back soon, and it will be too late to harvest the corn when it rains."

Cen Dalang said, holding Dagui's hand and walking towards the depths of the mountains.

Cen Dalang was originally a servant of Wei Zhizhou, Jiangzhou. He was smart and clever since he was a child. He learned the ability to treat external injuries from the doctor You Fang. He was willing to study and gradually became famous. With this ability, Cen Dalang was highly valued by Jiangzhou and his life was smooth. At the age of time, Jiangzhou even decided to marry a wife for him, who was also a slave of the Wei family, and gave birth to a son Dagui after marriage.

By two years ago, Wei Zhizhou's son Xiao Yane was accidentally bitten by a poisonous snake while playing outside, and broke his leg. Wei Zhizhou asked Cen Dalang to treat it. At that time, it happened that a medicine was missing, so Cen Dalang went out to collect herbs, so Xiao Yanei endured it first.

When he came back, he found that his wife was being hung up and beaten. After asking, he realized that Xiao Yanei couldn't help but feel pain and shouted. Wei Zhizhou felt heartbroken by his son, so he blamed Cen Dalang for going out to collect medicine too slowly, and beat his wife to vent his wife's wife.

As a servant, his life belongs to the master's family. Although Cen Dalang was dissatisfied, he had to resist the resentment in his heart and cure Xiao Yanei. Unexpectedly, he was treating Xiao Yanei's injuries here, and Wei Zhizhou didn't allow the people from Cen Dalang's family to stop. The injury here was not cured, so he beat the person to death first.

The life of a slave is not life? Cen Dalang's family is gone, how can the little Yanei's injuries be cured? Cen Dalang found an excuse to change the medicine the next day, and fled into the mountains with his son overnight. A few days later, Xiao Yanei died. Wei Zhizhou blamed Cen Dalang for the head and informed the local officials around him. He paid 50 ounces of money to capture Cen Dalang, swearing to peel him off and get revenge on his son.

For the past two years, Cen Dalang has lived in the mountains and dared not see anyone. Even if he buys daily necessities such as salt, his son has to exchange for prey from the mountains.

Today, my son came back and said that he could go home. Wei Zhizhou dared not beat his father and son to death. Isn’t this a joke? The rules in the mountains for thousands of years, when will the master change his words? If you die, you will die. The local officials from all families are connected together, and you have no place to run.

In the past, it was not that no one ran to the mountains, but most of them couldn't hold on for much time, and they ended up dead. The past two years have changed. The corn and sweet potatoes brought by Xu Ping gradually spread among the barbarians. These two crops were specially prepared for people in the mountains.

Corn is indiscriminately terrain and can grow by planting a small piece of land. Even if it is planted only one or two trees, it is harvested and resistant to storage, it can be used as a staple food crop. Sweet potatoes also have no requirements for the terrain. Although they are not resistant to storage, their growth period is short and can be used as a crop to save wasteland and will not be eaten for a year when encountering natural disasters.

As these two crops spread in the Yongzhou area, more and more escaped people under the rule of local officials in the past two years, and local officials have long been complaining about Xu Ping.

The trouble is that you have to burn mountains when you open up land, and your fertility cannot be retained. You can't grow things in three to five years, and you have to change places. However, the time is still short and the local people can't feel that they are in a state of depression.

Although I can survive in the mountains, it doesn’t matter. But what should I do in the future? No one knows me when I go out in a few years, and I have no house or land. Could it be that I will be a servant in the wealthy family? I will be slaves for generations and slaves for generations, and I will never make any progress. Cen Dalang really doesn’t want Dagui to go on his old path again.

What exactly is Kuoding Fa the son was talking about along the way? Could it be that the innocence in the mountains will change? Although Cen Dalang couldn't believe it, a desire arose in his heart.

Wei Zhizhou had long forgotten Cen Dalang, and now he has something more trouble.

Although Taiping County did not say when the "Kuoding Law" will be implemented, it has been rumored in the local area. As long as there are barbarians gathering to chat, most of them are talking about this matter. Seeing that when the autumn grain is harvested, they cannot be collected this year. They come to ask for it. In previous years, those Tian Zijia who came into the village were like mice and cats, and all the people of Titu were learning to stand up and say that they were registered as the imperial household and refused to pay. If they beat and arrested people, some of them also learned to sue the county.

The most hateful one is Duan Fang, who explicitly stated that the time for implementing the "Kuoding Law" is to be determined, but he began to intervene in the lawsuits under the rule of the local officials. If someone sues him, he will really arrest people, and the hard means of collecting grain will not be useful.

How could the money and grain be collected if people are not allowed to be beaten and rob things? Wei Zhizhou didn’t believe that the Han people in the mainland were not punished when collecting grain. Which farmer would pay the grain without forcing him?

If he couldn't collect money and grain, what would his family eat? In Jiangzhou, the small place, the Wei family had only more than 100 households. Even if these more than 100 households were allowed to drink every day, the money and grain they squeezed were not enough for the Wei family to have a good meal.

This is already the case with the new law. If it is implemented, can we still live this life?

In the Jiangzhou Village Official Department, Wei Zhizhou looked at the head of the official ritual under his rule and asked hatefully: "You said, can't you collect money and grain, so that the people in my family can drink? Without the horse-haired armor of hundreds of people here, you are all the meat in the mouths of the surrounding prefectures! If you don't pay money and grain, my soldiers and horses will not be able to move. Without my soldiers and horse protection, the money and food you saved will be stolen by others!"

The so-called official ritual is an official position appointed by the local officials themselves, assigned to various places to manage the local area. The most important thing is to help the Wei family collect grain and pay taxes, and arrest people to serve. As a result, when it comes to the autumn grain harvest, these people go to the state village to complain empty-handedly, and such a life is simply impossible to live.

The leaders pushed an older one out and said to Wei Zhizhou: "The state family, it's not that we can't take it for you, but we really can't take it! Everyone knows that Taiping County can make the decision. It's because the official family doesn't have so much money and grain, what can we do if we don't pay it to you?"

"Whoever dares not hand over it will fight! You won't be able to hit people?"

"The county has to ask about beating people."

"Okay, don't hit people, just take things if you don't hit people! Take their cows, steer their houses, and grab their young women, or catch the strong men to pay the bill. Now it's sold to Jiaozhi, a strong men are twenty cents of money, and a young woman is ten cents of money. I want you to teach you all these?"

"There are notices in the county, and those who plunder people as slaves will be killed. Who dares to arrest people and sell them!"

Wei Zhizhou was so angry that he was so angry that he wanted to burst into his belly. He pointed to the old man in front of him and said, "That's just a piece of paper. You think it's Tianxian! If you listen to the bullshit Taiping County, you dare not listen to my words! I have more than one hundred Tian Zijia here. Do you believe it or not and slaughter your village without leaving any money!"

The old man sighed: "What's the use of scaring us people in the state? Tian Zijia in the state can kill people, but the imperial army in Taiping County cannot kill people? I just came to command from Fujian a few days ago. I heard that I would have to command in a few days. Not to mention the more than 100 Tian Zijia in the state family, even the troops in the surrounding Zhoudong together cannot defeat the imperial army. If you can fight hard, you can fight. Rebellion is a disaster for extermination!"

Wei Zhizhou looked at the old man and didn't say anything for a long time. Finally, he sneered: "I also see that you are not the same as me! You have been living with my Wei family for many generations. When things are about to come, none of them can help me. It's not bad to be sad! Humph, I tell you, don't think that if you have any good things for you in the future, the benefits will be dependent on those poor people! Do you know what the Han land looks like? The servants there are all spread over the households. Yes, it's you, you will know that you will be great if you lose everything at that time!"

The old man turned around and looked at everyone and said to Wei Zhizhou: "We have heard of these things, so we don't need the Han area. The Changhua and Wuyuan counties under Yongzhou are not far away, and they are both practiced by Han people. But although we don't want to, we can't twist our arms, so how dare we fight against the court?"

"If you don't dare to go against the court, you dare to go against me, right?" Wei Zhizhou sneered, "I think you don't repent if you can't get a knife on your neck! Don't you know how powerful the court's law is? I'll let you taste it first! From tomorrow, I'll give you another half month to collect all the money and grains! If you don't pay it over the deadline, it will fall on him, and the family will hand over everything you should pay for! This is the court's method, otherwise why wouldn't anyone in the mainland dare to be a serious person! Follow me, you always have some soup and follow the court, but you will have to peel all your cramps! If you knife each hit your neck, you still don't know the word "death"!"

The old man complained in his heart, this method is the most spicy, and you can't help but put in your efforts to urge food. Either you offend all the people under your jurisdiction to death, or you lose money by yourself. How can you still establish a strong position in the local area if you do this?

However, the current plan is only one way to delay. Let’s see if the Taiping County constitution will let Wei Zhizhou do this.

(Stay tomorrow and strive for the third update. The recent foreplay seems to be a bit long. You have to pass it as soon as possible and get to the main topic and end tomorrow.)
Chapter completed!