Chapter 231: Her Ancestral Family Law Has Been Corrupted By Her
"Besides, alas, this little Princess Li has brought all the people under the rule of Prince Li's Mansion. The further north we go, the more prosperous and prosperous we are. We are businessmen. Without people, how can we have business?"
Li Yuanwai's face was full of helplessness, he shook his head and got into the carriage, continuing to go north.
Leaving Mr. Yu alone where he was, he felt like he was struck by lightning.
Coming and going around him were people dragging their families with them. Everyone was afraid that if they ran too slowly, all the cattle, sheep, and horses would be picked up.
"Humph, this little Princess Li is just messing around! She has ruined the family law of our ancestors."
Mr. Yu took a tough stance, cursed Hua Jin, and returned to Yujia Village in a state of confusion.
He felt that no matter how good Hua Jin’s welfare was, so what? No matter how rich Li Yunqing was, she couldn’t stand what Hua Jin had done. She gave free cattle, sheep, and horses to so many people. Would Li Yunqing allow her, a little woman?
How long have people been wandering around?
When the losses increase, Li Yunqing will definitely come out to stop it.
Soon, those who were deceived into going to the Northland will find that they have been deceived. After going to the Northland, it is impossible to receive free cattle, sheep, and horses.
Maybe the cattle, sheep, and horses we brought back were all sick.
That must be the case.
The more Mr. Yu thought about it, the more he scorned women like Hua Jin who behaved wildly. It was true that it was hard for a villain to raise a woman. What on earth do women know?
He just entered the village. When he came back, he found that many people in the village were packing their things.
Someone secretly told him that before Mr. Yu came back, many slaves had secretly escaped from Yujia Village.
These words made Duke Yu angry. He stood in the barn and roared,
"What are you doing? What are you packing?"
There are many branches of the Yu family in Yujia Village, and these branches together form the upper structure of Yujia Village.
But more people in Yujia Village are the slaves of the Yu family.
This village has existed for hundreds of years. The children of domestic slaves were born in this village, grew up in this village, and when they grew up, they got married and had children in this village.
Hearing Mr. Yu's roar, people in a circle around the barn stopped packing their things.
A woman came out tremblingly and saluted Mr. Yu.
"Master, now that Sun Guogong is dead, our village no longer has to be trapped here. I heard that there is a government decree in the north, so... the children all want to go to the north to make a living."
As soon as she finished speaking, Mr. Yu raised his hand and slapped the old woman.
"Who allowed you to leave? Your ancestors were sold to my Yu family, and that was a death contract. You will be born as members of the Yu family, and die as the ghosts of the Yu family!"
The old woman was slapped to the ground by him, and was helped up by several strong young men next to her.
A young boy stared at Mr. Yu very unconvinced,
"Master, we don't even have enough food to eat now. If we stay here all the time, we will be dead. As long as we leave Yujia Village, we can become good members. We are neither from the Yu family nor from the Yu family.
It’s a ghost.”
"How presumptuous! Who allowed you to say such rebellious words? You heartless people deserve to be beaten to death, severely beaten to death!"
Mr. Yu was so angry that he picked up a stick on the grain field and whipped the boy across from him, cursing at the same time.
"Back then, your ancestors were sold to my Yu family, and it was my Yu family that gave you a full meal. You were born in my Yu family's village, and you grew up eating my Yu family's rice and drinking my Yu family's water.
Now that your death contract is with the Yu family, I will kill you ungrateful people."
The young man who was beaten lowered his head and let the whip hit him.
He said nothing.
The few burly young men next to him didn't speak, but they clenched their fists tightly.
They are indeed slaves.
Their ancestors were sold to the Yu family, and it was the Yu family that gave their ancestors a bite to eat. This is not wrong.
Therefore, their ancestors served the Yu family, and their children will also serve the master of the Yu family for generations.
In all this, Mr. Yu was not wrong at all.
But...
Not without complaints.
It’s not like I didn’t think about resisting.
But they are slaves, so they can only swallow their inner reluctance, because even if they resist, their resistance will not go very far.
The system is here, they don’t have household registration documents, and wherever they go in Tianjing Country, they will be caught and sent back to their place of origin.
If an escaped slave is sent back, he will be beaten to death by his master.
Originally, everyone accepted their fate. Their parents were slaves, they were slaves, and their children would also be slaves.
I have really accepted my fate.
However, Princess Xiao Li's decree came to the north of Yujia Village.
Yes, the decree was only issued to the north of Yujia Village.
The government officials didn't even enter Yujia Village, so they posted a notice on the north side.
All people under the rule of Prince Li can re-establish their household registration and apply for cattle, sheep and horses according to their households.
However, Huajin's decrees do not enter Yujia Village, which means that the people living in Yujia Village and to the south cannot enjoy the benefits of these decrees at all.
Countless slaves are thinking about this issue. If they want to get rid of their slave status, they only need to move to the north of Yujia Village to regain a good status.
If you don’t run now, when will you wait?
It’s no wonder that these people are running north, because everyone has been slaves for several generations. Even if they don’t think about themselves, who would want their children and grandchildren to still be slaves?
The sound of sticks sounded, and the skin and flesh of the beaten young man were already torn.
He still said nothing, but there was silence around him. More and more domestic slaves gathered, more and more...
I don’t know who it was, but whispered,
"Although we were born here, we eat, drink and wear Yu family food, but we are not idle, we are also working."
Someone else whispered,
"Yeah, working day and night."
"We've been working since we were kids."
"I want to read and write. I can't do these things, but I hope my son can. Maybe, maybe if my son learns to read and write, he can be an official."
...
More and more voices sounded, from small whispers to loud conversations. Finally, the young man who was beaten stretched out his bloody hand and grabbed Yu Gong's stick.
He lowered his head and said,
"When my great-grandfather was young, he was beaten almost to death. In the end, the then head of the Yu family bought my great-grandfather."
"From then on, my great-grandfather, grandpa, my father, and I all worked as cows and horses in the Yu family, serving them conscientiously."
"It's a huge kindness. I think I can repay it with this beating."
He spoke sentence by sentence, raised his face, his eyes were shining brightly,
"Master, we just want to live like individuals. I want to join the army, I want to be a general, I want to guard the border and protect our country!"
This, as long as he becomes a good citizen and is no longer just someone's private property, he can pursue and realize it.
Why not?
He can do it just by stepping out of Yujiacun!
The man covered in blood easily took the wooden stick from Yu Gong's hand and broke it into two pieces.
In the past, it wasn't that he didn't have the ability to resist, he couldn't resist.
A slave cannot resist the beatings of his master.
And today, no one can stop him from leaving.
No one can stop it!
The young man left, took his bag and strode away.
Behind him were the slaves of the Yu family one after another.
Men, women, old people, children... no matter how angry Gong Yu roared, they packed their bags and left impatiently.
"Report to the official, I want to report to the official, how can it be unreasonable, simply unreasonable!"
Mr. Yu was furious. Looking at the people in the Yu family village, most of them left in an instant. He hurried back to the Yu family.
As soon as he entered the house, Mr. Yu shouted,
"Butler, butler, hurry up and hook up the car for me. I'm going to the government office! I want the government officials to catch all those dog slaves!"
Where is the shadow of the butler?
A few of his aunts were left in the hall, holding a few young boys in their arms and crying.
Seeing Mr. Yu entering the door, the aunts cried:
"Sir, all the women who worked for me have run away, and I haven't eaten yet."
"Sir, my girl has also run away, saying she is going to the north to herd horses and sheep. Look at my hair. I haven't combed it for two days. Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu."
The aunt is also the master. She is pampered and pampered. How can she be without someone to serve her?
However, in this empty Yu family's house, there was not a single servant to serve them, and their lives were all in chaos.
Duke Yu was upset and kicked an aunt in the heart.
"Stop mourning and go cook. When the meal is finished, bring the sedan over and we'll go to the government office to report the crime."
Duke Yu was accustomed to riding in a sedan when he went out. Even during the days when he was besieged by Duke Sun, when he went out for a stroll in the village, he also sat in a sedan.
Without the carriage and sedan chair, Mr. Yu would have been unable to move even an inch.
But now most of the servants of the Yu family have fled, and the grooms and waiters who took Mr. Yu into the village have also disappeared.
I just want to pack my luggage and sneak away to the north with the slaves in Yujia Village.
"Sooner or later I will catch them one by one and immerse them all in the pig cage!"
Mr. Yu is so angry that he is itching his teeth. Just wait, he has always taken care of the people in the government office and they will definitely help him.
Those aunts were crying and pushing me in the dark. They finally managed to get a table of food. They were all haggard and full of dissatisfaction.
I won’t say whether the food is delicious or not. After all, they are good-looking. The reason why they became Yu Gong’s aunts means that their previous birth status was not high.
But when you become an aunt, you are a master. Now that you are a master, how can you ever do the things that low-class people do again?
It's fine if they are asked to prepare a table of meals, but if they are asked to cook three meals a day plus late-night snacks, they will definitely not be able to live like this forever.
Duke Yu couldn't see the fighting between his aunts and his aunts because they couldn't eat at the table.
He sat alone at the big round table and finished his meal, then asked his aunts to carry him in a sedan chair and went out to the government office.
The government office is located in a small county town near Yujia Village. At this time, a new group of government officials came in, and they didn't know who Mr. Yu was at all.
Mr. Yu wanted to go into the yamen to report the crime, but the new yamen officer pushed him away.
"Go, go, go, where did you come from? Our official is busy and has no time to deal with your case."
"Are you new here? Where is the original Wang Er?"
Looking at the yamen servant in front of him, Mr. Yu asked a few familiar names. The people he mentioned were all well-known in the yamen, and they were also the leaders in the yamen team.
As a result, the new Yamen servant laughed and said:
"Are you a local of Hushan County? Don't you know that Hushan County has been harmed by Sun Guogong for several times? The people you mentioned have run away long ago. We came to office with the new county magistrate. My county magistrate is the elder.
How can it be that you, in a white body, meet the princess and the prince's disciple at the first sight?"
Before Mr. Yu could speak, a family dragging a cart happened to pass by behind him.
I just heard the man from that family muttering,
"There are no such rules under Princess Li's rule. It is said that there is a law firm next to the Yamen. As long as there are grievances to complain about, they will write complaints to poor people for free."
"I haven't heard of such a thing as being invisible to the public. It is said that under the rule of Princess Xiao Li, if the official in the government office refuses to see the official, he will be dismissed immediately from his official position, and in serious cases, he will be executed."
The woman sitting on the cart, holding a baby in her arms, and two half-year-old children sitting next to her, heard her husband's muttering and quickly urged her,
"Go quickly and don't offend these people."
She couldn't stand her husband's habit of talking nonsense. Knowing that Princess Xiao Li was good, she quickly went to Princess Xiao Li and talked nonsense under the rule of the imperial capital.
The officials in this imperial capital are all emotionally unstable masters. They can do whatever they want. There are no rules at all. To them, the laws of the country are simply a decoration.
The people dare not fight with the officials because they cannot win.
But it is said that it can be done under the rule of Princess Xiao Li. Princess Xiao Li has a beggar gang among the people. As long as the people have grievances and the officials do not deal with them in time, the beggar gang will directly present them to Princess Xiao Li.
What greeted this official was the crime of dereliction of duty.
There is no such thing as going to the government office for free and not being allowed to see the official.
This is simply unbelievable under the rule of Princess Xiaoli.
Mr. Yu turned around and glanced at the couple. Although he didn't want to admit that Hua Jin did a good job, he couldn't help but secretly praise this system.
Under the control, Duke Yu angrily took out a large amount of broken silver from his sleeve and stuffed it into the hand of the government servant in front of him.
"I am Mr. Yu, the head of the family in Yujia Village. Please tell me, sir, that all the slaves in my family have escaped. Please make the decision for the common people and severely punish these unruly slaves."
The money was collected by the new government official, but instead of calling the county magistrate, the new government official took out a thick stack of notebooks and
"Write it yourself, isn't it just a few slaves who ran away? To tell you the truth, your Yu family is not the only one who has complained to our county government in the past few days and asked us to help catch the slaves.
It’s here.”
There are many wealthy households who have run away as slaves, and some rich households have run away with their families, so what can we say?
If you don't deal with some things now, as time goes by, these white people who come to complain to the officials will be able to handle them themselves, so why waste the entertainment time of the government officials.