The man must have been robbed by his own women many times, and he was not annoyed at all, he just had a silly smile on his face.

"Yes! The landlady is right. Children should learn a few more words to avoid suffering the same fate as us." A man at another table agreed.

When Xie Mingxuan entered the room first, he could already see that the guests at the other two tables were quite plainly dressed, and the food on the tables was relatively simple, not even meat, so his family must not be very wealthy.

Hearing the guest speak at this time, Xie Mingxuan turned to look over and said with a smile: "Several friends, we are new to your place and are not familiar with the place. We want to know more about Ningyuan. If you don't

We are in a hurry, how about we share a table and chat for a while? Boss, can we share a table? Is there anything else to eat? Is there any wine? "

The guests at the two tables were all northwest men from Ningyuan, with straightforward personalities. At this moment, Xie Mingxuan sounded like he wanted to invite everyone to eat meat and drink wine. He didn't refuse, so he got up and started to help move the tables and chairs.

When the woman saw that Xie Mingxuan wanted to add food and wine, she felt happy and hurriedly got up and went to the curtain with the man to work.

Soon after everyone sat at the table, hot pork elbows, beef with soy sauce and other delicacies were served.

After the wine was warmed and served, Xie Mingxuan and the other two censors had a few drinks with everyone since they were ready to ask questions.

After a few glasses of wine, the atmosphere at the table immediately became lively, and the names among the guys also changed.

After drinking another drink with everyone, Xie Mingxuan put down his glass and said to the man who had agreed with the woman before: "This brother just said that children should study more to avoid suffering in the future. What? Isn't life difficult in Ningyuan?

?"

The man was chewing a piece of elbow. When he heard Xie Mingxuan's words, he chewed a few times quickly, swallowed the elbow, wiped his mouth, and said: "Where are you talking? Our life now is comparable to that of our elders.

Too strong."

Among the crowd, an older man continued: "No! Today's life is much better than before."

"Oh? Where is this brother's strength?" Xie Mingxuan said.

The man put down his chopsticks, took a sip from the wine glass, put the glass down, and said, "If nothing else, let's just say that we have wine in a teahouse. How could I have dared to think about it when I was young?"

"Brother, what you said is too tragic. A meal of wine in a teahouse won't cost much money, right?" Xie Mingxuan said with a smile.

"You guys look like you are doing big business, you don't know the suffering of us farmers!" the man sighed and said.

"Brother, tell me!" Xie Mingxuan and his entourage said while adding wine to the man's cup.

"You guys tell me, what do we farmers rely on?" The man thanked his entourage, looked at Xie Mingxuan, and asked.

"Don't farmers rely on the harvest from the fields?" a censor said with a smile.

"Then do you think that if the harvest in the fields is good, our lives will be easier?" the man continued to ask.

"That's natural. The better the harvest, the better my life will be!" Another censor said.

Hearing this, the man couldn't help laughing. The other people also laughed.

"What? That's wrong?" Xie Mingxuan asked.

"It seems like you guys really don't know! In the past, when the harvest in the fields was not good, our lives were difficult. When the harvest in the fields was good, our lives were even more difficult!" said the older man.

"How do you say this?" Xie Mingxuan and the two censors were a little confused.

"In the past, we farmed land for wealthy families, and no matter whether the harvest was good or not, we could only get 10% of it," the older man said.

"According to this, the better the harvest in the fields, the more your 10% will be," asked a censor.

"That's what it is said. However, when the harvest is not good, the accounting offices of the big families will deduct seven or eight percent of the deductions, and they can always deduct another two or three cents from this. When the harvest is good, these accounting offices will deduct seven or eight percent of the deductions.

, and more will be deducted. When the harvest is good, what we can get is less than half, making life even more difficult." said the older man.

"Is there such a thing?" Xie Mingxuan's anger suddenly rose in his heart.

"Isn't that right? When the harvest is bad, we work day and night, and we still don't have enough to eat all year round. When the harvest is good, we work harder and are even more hungry. In disaster years,

It is common for people to starve to death. In good years, more people starve to death." Another man interjected.

"The government doesn't care?" one of the censors asked.

"Haha, the government?" The older man laughed sarcastically, with a look of anger on his face, and said: "Who does the government look after? The government takes the filial piety of the rich families, and it doesn't always pay to those rich families. Where?

Will you care about our lives?!"

When this man said this, the atmosphere in the place suddenly turned cold, and the other people also showed angry expressions.

The tea shop owner and his wife finished their work and were listening to people talking.

Hearing this, the woman said: "The previous government was just a group of people who killed a thousand people!"

Xie Mingxuan and the two censors looked at each other, and then looked at the expressions of other people in the room, secretly surprised in their hearts.

This woman was talking about the government, but no one in the room showed any signs of panic.

Xie Mingxuan took a deep breath, and while gesturing to his entourage to add wine to everyone, he deliberately acted cautiously and said, "Madam boss, be careful what you say! Be careful what you say! We came to Ningyuan to do business, but we don't want to cause any trouble.

."

Seeing Xie Mingxuan's worried look, the woman laughed and said, "What are you afraid of? Now in Ningyuan, the voices of our people are the most effective!"

"Oh? So what do you say? Don't we ordinary people have to listen to the government?" Xie Mingxuan said.

"That's the old almanac too!" The woman estimated that the wine jar on the table was about to be bottomed out. She asked her man to get another wine and said: "Now in our Ningyuan, the government must listen to us first."

"The government listens to the people? This is something new! Boss lady, please tell me in detail, what's going on?" said a censor.

"Let them talk! You've almost finished eating this dish. I'll give you a few more dishes, do you want me?" The woman stood up and looked at Xie Mingxuan.

"I want it! I want it! I'm sorry to the boss lady, bring me everything you have!" Xie Mingxuan said.

"Brother, what did the landlady say just now?" After the woman went to work behind the curtain again, Xie Mingxuan raised his glass, drank another drink with everyone, and said to the older man.

"Thank you to the Duke and the Marquis for this!" the older man sighed.

The rest of the people also nodded.

"Since the Duke and the Marquis came to our place, our lives have become easier!" The older man continued without waiting for Xie Mingxuan and others to speak.

"How do you say that?" Xie Mingxuan said calmly.

"Take the matter of farming for example. After the Duke and the Marquis came to our place, we farmed land for wealthy families, and our share of the land was increased to 30%." said the older man.

"So many mentions?" asked a censor.

"That's not all, our 30% is real money. We will take whatever the land produces, and the accountants of big families can no longer count on us." The older man's face glowed with brilliance.

"If you mention so much, it's still real money. What about the rent from the government?" the censor then asked.

"Big families pay it! The Duke and the Marquis have agreed that the share of the official rent will remain unchanged, but who owns the land will pay the rent," said the older man.

"You got 20% more. In this way, isn't the rent collected by the government less?" the censor asked again.

"Indispensable." said the older man.

"What do you mean?" The censor was confused again.

"The fields are so productive!" The older man began to feel that these nobles were a little silly.

"Don't you rely on the weather to grow crops? Good times don't happen every year, right?" The censor became more and more confused.

"Haha, we Ningyuan, we no longer rely on the sky for food!" The older man picked up the wine glass again, drank it down in one gulp, put a chopstick of vegetables in his mouth, chewed it and swallowed it, then said.

"Brother, keep talking!" Xie Mingxuan said with great interest.

"Since the Duke and the Marquis raised our share of the work, we no longer dare to work as foreigners!" said the older man.

"So, I used to work as a foreigner?" Xie Mingxuan said with a smile.

"No!" the older man laughed and said: "In the past, those wealthy families tried to deduct our share, and we were not allowed to work with them. Ask these people, which family's old people didn't do this before?

Teach them how to work hard?"

The other people also laughed.

"It is said that men in the northwest are bold, but they seem to be capable of cheating and cheating!" one of the imperial censors joked.

"This is not about us cheating!" The older man stopped laughing and said: "In the past, we didn't even have enough to eat, so how could we have the strength to work? We worked desperately for the rich family, and the rich family

But he never treats us as human beings. I really tire myself out, and I am the unlucky one. The rich family won't care at all."

"What I said, brother, does it mean that everyone is more motivated now?" Xie Mingxuan said.

"That's not true! The actual harvest from the fields is divided into 30%. Who wouldn't want to put in more effort? Work more and get more food!" said the older man.

Xie Mingxuan nodded, somewhat understanding.

"So, for the same land, although we were allocated more, the big families received more. After paying the official rent, they had more left than before." The older man continued.

"It seems that after the changes here, my life is indeed better than before, so I have enough money to go to the bar?" Xie Mingxuan asked again.

"That's not true." The older man said.

Xie Mingxuan and the two censors were stunned at the same time.

"After the changes made by the Duke and the Marquis, our lives are better than before, but we just have enough to eat. How can we have the spare money to go out to restaurants?" The older man saw the expressions of Xie Mingxuan and others and explained.

road.

"What do you mean, brother, is there any other income?" Xie Mingxuan became even more interested.

"We farmers don't have so much other income, so we still rely on what we harvest from the fields." The older man said.

Xie Mingxuan and the two censors became increasingly confused.

It goes around and around, but it's still farming.
Chapter completed!