Masanuro was released from prison, and the people rejoiced.
Seeing his injured son, Mali from Yihe was holding his son and crying bitterly. The people gathered around them and also shed tears.
As the chief hero in rescuing Masanlang, the simple people also expressed their gratitude to Zhang Duanyang.
It's just that Zhang Duanyang's body muscles are really a bit off-limits to strangers, so everyone just surrounded him and didn't dare to lift Zhang Duanyang up like they did to welcome Ma Sanlang.
The people gathered at the gate of the Governor's Mansion to celebrate this hard-won victory. When Ma Sanlang returned to Yiheli, Li Daoyuan visited Ma Sanlang at night.
When he saw Zhang Duanyang, Ma Sanlang was about to kneel down and salute, but Zhang Duanyang dragged him up.
Li Daoyuan said on the side: "The main reason why Sanlang can be saved this time is that Sanlang would rather die than surrender. If you confess in the cell, everything will be over."
Masanlang was a naive man. He touched his head and said: "My brother died at the hands of the Tubo people. I am not convinced by anyone who says that I am a collaborator with the Tubo people. It is this tone that makes me hold on."
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Seeing that Masaburo's body was covered with bruises and bruises, Malichang was crying again.
Li Daoyuan said: "But Sanlang, you are released from prison. How will the people in Yihe survive until the end of the year?"
Chief Mali sighed and said: "Each household only has enough food until autumn. Now half of the land has been designated as a horse farm. The remaining harvest will be starving in winter."
Masanlang pulled his father and asked: "Aye, how is Qingmiao?"
The chief cried and said: "All the young crops have been trampled down by the officers and soldiers."
Masanlang clenched his fists and said: "What kind of officers and soldiers are these? They are obviously thieves! Thieves!"
Li Daoyuan saw that the relationship between the two father and son was almost brewing, and then he said: "This is to change horses into mulberries. The government organized the land of the horse farm and planted mulberry seedlings, and then sold it to those wealthy and powerful people. In the end, they are the ones who get rich.
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After all, Chief Mali is also the chief of Yiheli, so he naturally understands the key points. He nodded and said: "It is said that the land is sorted out and sold, but how can ordinary people like us have the money to buy land."
At this point, Masanuro stood up and said: "These dog officials! They are going to starve to death in the winter anyway, so it is better to rebel now!"
Chief Mali quickly grabbed his son and said, "Be careful with your words! Be careful with your words! Your traitor has healed his scars and forgotten the pain. If you hadn't been reckless and impulsive, my benefactor would have suffered so much!"
Masaburo then stopped cursing and just sat on the ground sulking.
When Chief Mali saw the injuries on his son's body, he couldn't bear it. He said, "Listen to what your benefactor has to say."
Masanlang hurriedly said: "My dear benefactor, can you please take action to save the more than 100 people in Yiheli? It's not just Yiheli. I heard it in the cell. There are dozens of people in Ganzhou.
They were all designated by the government as having occupied the land of the racecourse."
Li Daoyuan said: "Sanlang is right, you can't survive the winter just by living frugally."
Both the Ma family and his son looked at Li Daoyuan in surprise. They all knew that Li Daoyuan and his party were the messengers of King Jianning, and they were also from the government, but he said such words.
Li Daoyuan ignored the surprised looks in the eyes of the two father and son and continued: "If the people of Ganzhou want to save themselves, they cannot rely on other people's conscience to find out. They have to rely on themselves."
"On their own?"
Li Daoyuan said: "If you want to protect your fields, of course you have to rely on everyone. Do you still expect the conscience of those high-ranking officials to find out?"
Masanlang was young and impulsive, and he immediately asked: "My dear friend, please give us a trick, and we will do as you say!"
Chief Mali was a little worried, but they saved his son's life, so he let his son die.
Li Daoyuan then said: "This lawsuit has made Sanlang famous among the people of Ganzhou, so we want you to come forward and organize a mutual aid group."
Mutual aid club?
Masanlang looked at Li Daoyuan in confusion, this was another new word that he had never heard before.
Li Daoyuan said: "Mutual assistance naturally means watching and helping each other. This time Sanlang is acquitted, and the people know that you were arrested by the government for changing a horse into a mulberry. There must be people in every village who cannot survive because of the change from a horse to a mulberry.
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Chief Mali frowned and said: "But converting horses into mulberry is an order from the imperial court, and the land of Qingzhang's racecourse is an order from the governor's office. We just established this mutual aid association, can we stop the government?"
Wu Chudao, the governor of Ganzhou, was a shrewd man. The area of land he designated for each li to be converted from horses to mulberry was about 30 to 40% of the land in a li.
These people whose land has been occupied will not be unable to survive immediately. No matter how resentful they are, there are very few who dare to stand up like Masanlang.
Looking at the honest-looking Ma family father and son, Li Daoyuan could only sigh that these farmers are really the most honest people in the world.
As long as there is still a mouthful of food to survive, they will not rebel. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao raised his arms and shouted, and the whole family responded. How did the people of the Tang Dynasty live at that time?
Li Daoyuan said with a smile: "The conversion of horses to mulberry is an order from the court, but the land in Yiheli is not a horse farm. The government wants to take it by force. Is this the case?"
Masanuro said indignantly: "Of course we can't let that dog officer get his wish!"
Li Daoyuan said: "My master, King Jianning, was ordered to take charge of Longyou. There is a problem in changing the horse to mulberry. Naturally, His Highness can take charge of it."
When they heard the words "King Jianning", the eyes of the Ma family and his son lit up.
They knelt down again and said to Li Daoyuan: "Please help us tell His Highness to save our people in Ganzhou!"
Li Daoyuan and Zhang Duanyang helped the two of them up and said: "Your Highness is far away in Guazhou. The water from this distance cannot quench your thirst. By the time Your Highness comes to inquire about this matter, all your land has been sold. By then, Your Highness will have nothing to do."
Both Maricho and Masaburo were a little confused.
Zhou Shi said: "The land purchasers are all wealthy and powerful families with backgrounds. They spent money to buy the land from the governor's office. Even His Highness would have a hard time getting them to spit out the land they bought."
Chief Mali immediately understood the connection. If the land was sold, even if the emperor intervened, it would be extremely difficult to make the person who really paid for the land spit it out.
If you want to screw up this matter, you must stop them before the land deal is completed.
Li Daoyuan said: "I have only one way, and that is to delay!"
"Put this on until His Highness can reach out and ask about the affairs of Ganzhou. At that time, you can go to His Highness to file a lawsuit with the genealogy and get the land that belongs to you back."
"If it doesn't wait until this time, the land has been sold by the governor's office, and it won't be easy to get it back!"
Masanlang immediately said: "I understand, this mutual aid association is here to prevent these dog officials from selling land!"
Li Daoyuan nodded and said: "That's right, our mutual aid association is either going to kill officials and rebel, or it will ask you to delay and change the horse into a mulberry, so as to make time for His Highness."
Li Daoyuan looked directly into Ma Sanlang's eyes and said, "Sanlang, this road is not easy to walk. Are you sure you want to go?"
Masanlang immediately said: "My benefactor, my life was saved by my benefactor. At worst, I have to risk my life!"
Li Daoyuan said: "To establish this mutual aid association, we must have your reputation. Tomorrow we will go to the next few neighborhoods to explain the establishment of the mutual aid association to everyone clearly, and we will start the mutual aid association as soon as possible!"
In the next few days, Li Daoyuan and his party took Ma Sanlang to several miles near Yiheli.
Sure enough, with Masaburo's name on the list, things went smoothly for the mutual aid association. Within a few days, more than 20 people from around Shandan Racecourse joined the mutual aid association.
Zhangye City, Ganzhou Governor's Office.
Zhang Hun hurriedly walked into the study of Wu Chudao, the governor of Ganzhou.
"Brother-in-law! This bandit attacked the scribe who was out of the city to measure the land again!"
Wu Chudao stood up and said angrily: "Didn't we ask the cavalry from the military camp outside the city to follow us this time? Why did something happen again?"
Zhang Hun said with a sad face: "I followed, but the cavalry walked fast and the scribes walked slowly. Just when the cavalry went to the river to replenish water, the scribes were attacked. They were all stripped naked and hung in the river.
On the tree, several people were frightened and refused to leave the city!"
Zhang Hun wanted to cry but had no tears. Whether it was converting horses into mulberry trees or occupying people's land, he had to do it well on his books.
The land must be sold, and how the land should be divided into several pieces and sold. All this needs to be cleared by the scribes.
All the scribes from Cao, the governor's office, were dispatched, and Zhang Hun borrowed a few clerks who could write and calculate from the houses of big families in the city.
Originally, these things were progressing well, but suddenly bandits broke out outside Zhangye City.
This group of masked gangsters who call themselves Ma Bandits come and go without a trace. Every time they take advantage of the scribes leaving the city, they are immediately attacked by the Ma Bandits.
But these bandits didn't kill anyone. After robbing the scribes of all their belongings, they would strip them naked and put them back.
After doing this several times, Hucao's scribes gradually refused to leave the city.
Zhang Hun could only report to Wu Chudao, but Wu Chudao got angry and sent cavalry from outside the city to escort the scribes out of the city.
Unexpectedly, he had only been out of the city for half a day when he was robbed by this gang of bandits again.
Zhang Hun said with a bitter face: "Brother-in-law, we haven't even cleared the land for the racecourse, let alone the land behind it. You have to make up your mind. The big families in Zhangye City have urged me several times!"
Wu Chudao calmed down and said: "The public security in Ganzhou is good. Besides, where are the gangsters who would specifically rob the government team? Someone must have deliberately prevented the horse from being converted into a mulberry!"
Zhang Hun also nodded and said: "Brother-in-law, I heard that Ma Sanlang organized some kind of mutual aid group with the people! I already said that guy was a rebel, and I shouldn't have let him go at that time!"
Wu Chudao said: "Capture the thief first and capture the king first. You pass my order and send out the whole cavalry battalion outside the city to sweep Yiheli! As long as you find evidence that Masanlang attacked the officers and soldiers, this time King Jianning will come."