"The county lieutenant said that in the autumn, the taxes paid will be less than half of last year. Do you believe it?"
"I never thought about it."
"I don't believe it."
The farmer who spoke was named Guan Amai. He recently sold the land leased to him to the Song family and is currently living in the farmhouse of his friend Liu Cai from the same village.
The reason why he didn't believe Xue Bai was that his grandfather had been a fugitive before, and later Yu Wenrong took over the household. The court had promised to "start the examination in six years", that is, the newly settled farmers would be exempted from the tax for six years. However,
In the third year, the land was not harvested yet, so the court imposed heavy taxes.
Guan Amai remembered the deep wrinkles on his grandpa's face and the sad brows, but he couldn't tell what happened.
"If you have land, just plant it." Liu Cai gnawed on his finger, feeling that it had a salty taste, and sucked it. Maybe it was because the salt made him more energetic, and he muttered again, "I believe in the county captain."
His grandfather originally wanted to name him Liu Cai, which means "leaving money", but the county official was too lazy to write more, so he was given the name Liu Cai.
Guan Amai asked: "When the farming season is slack, will you go to the county to sell vegetables?"
In fact, Guan Amai did not spend the ten copper coins given to him when the Song family bought the land. Instead, he hid most of them and buried them under the dung pile in Liu Cai's backyard.
Suddenly, someone pushed the door open and came in.
Guan Amai quickly stood up and called: "Guo Sanwulang."
"Liu Cai, do you know that you have occupied the Guo family's land?!"
"I didn't...the county captain divided my..."
"Eating dog intestines, you are still here with me as a 'county lieutenant', Wei Niang, please immediately hand over the lease deed given to you by the county office and get out!"
"The ground was plowed and the seeds were sown..."
While Liu Cai was still talking, he was slapped and knocked to the ground.
Guo Sanwu said: "If you pee on the Guo family's floor, do you still have to say that the ground belongs to you?!"
On the contrary, the steward of the Guo family who came with him was a nice person. He stepped forward to help Liu Cai up with a pleasant look and said with a smile: "My young man is straightforward. He actually knows your difficulties. If you run out of food, come to the Guo family to help farm the land. I will protect you."
Let the family survive."
These situations were completely beyond what a peasant who had never seen the world could handle. Liu Cai was still in a daze when a deed of identity was handed to him.
"Let's make a pledge. From now on, if you stay in this place, the Guo family will support you."
"I can't read."
"Do you need to know how to read?!" Guo Sanwu said impatiently, "Hurry up."
Guan Amai was more experienced. He raised his head and saw that the Guo family had brought many tribesmen, and the number of people was overwhelming. He then nodded and bowed and slipped out, saying: "A villain has no land, no land."
After leaving the house, he rushed outside first, ran across the field in a hurry, and grabbed a fellow villager who was also running in a panic.
"A Cai's mother-in-law and daughter are in the weaving workshop? Tell them not to come back yet!"
"The weaving shop is also fighting!"
"What's wrong?"
"The big family captured the escaped slaves and started a fight. Everyone died!"
Because his mother-in-law and children were also in the weaving workshop, Guan Amai suddenly became confused and asked: "Who died?"
"Xue Shuaitou didn't let the big family catch people, so he killed them..."
Guan Amai felt relieved, his mother-in-law was ugly, so she should be fine.
He felt that this situation was more and more like the time when my grandfather was suddenly taxed and the government changed again.
Fortunately, he was smart and sold the fields at a good price while Lieutenant Xue County was still there.
After Guo Sanwulang and his men dragged Liu Cai to the next house, he went back to the dung field in the backyard of Liu Cai's house, picked up a hoe and started digging.
This hoe was forged by Lieutenant Xue County, and it was very smooth. A deep hole was dug out in a short time, and there was a "ding" sound. Guan Amai was afraid of hurting the hoe, and the copper coins were not too dirty, so he dug directly with his hands.
, put forward a large sack.
He didn't care about anything else and ran away with the heavy money in his arms.
"Ouch!"
Suddenly two sticks stretched out and tripped him down. Several members of the Guo family stared at him for a long time.
Coins were scattered all over the floor.
"Thirty-five Lang, there is a thief!"
"I'm not a thief...this is my thing..."
"Can the things dug out from my master's land be yours?"
"It's really mine. I sold the field and Manager Song gave it to me. If you don't believe me, ask him..."
"What you are selling is also the land of my master's family. Also, the manager of the Song family is talking to Thirty-five Lang. Your lie will be exposed soon."
The Guo family members packed up their money and left.
Guan Amai rushed over and hugged the bag, shouting: "It's really my money! Manager Song is right there, ask him!"
"..."
Song Tianshou was discussing with Guo Sanwulang how to divide the land boundaries, including how to allocate the newly reclaimed wasteland by Xue Bai. Now the fields have sprouted seedlings. If the talks are good or bad, the difference can be tens of thousands of shi of food a year.
Suddenly they heard a quarrel and they all turned their heads to look.
Song Tianshou recognized that it was the farmer who had bought and rented the land from him a while ago, and secretly thought that something was wrong. Although he was testing Xue Bai at that time, he paid a high price because of Xue Bai's face. In addition, Xue Bai did give the farmers confidence.
Don't sell it if you don't have that much money.
At this time it became a joke.
At this time, Song Tianshou might be able to get the money back as long as he spoke, but he did not want to delay negotiating with the Guo family about dividing the land.
"Let's continue talking. The Guo family has lured the wolf into the house, and now they want to return to the original fields. Then don't get involved in the new fields."
"The Guo family suffered the greatest loss."
Guo Sanwulang's face became more serious, and he raised his hand to ask Buqu to drive Guan Amai away so as not to disturb his important affairs.
"My money! Mine!"
"Don't make any noise, hurry up and drag it down."
Guan Amai hugged the package tightly and refused to let go, shouting: "Manager Song, the money you gave me..."
But the more he yelled, the harder Guo Jiabuqu dragged him down and hit him on the head with a stick.
"Manager Song!"
Guan Amai could no longer care about the pain. Without the money, his family would really have no way to survive, so he hugged the coins tightly and called for Song Tianshou.
The sticks fell on him one after another. He really didn't understand why Manager Song refused to say a word for him even though he was so close.
"Manager Song..."
"puff."
There was a muffled sound when the stick hit the flesh. In the end, Guan Amai even forgot about the money and only stared at Manager Song's figure, wanting to see if he could turn around.
No.
He really doesn't deserve to be looked at by the other party.
"Dead?"
"尻! Don't let go until you die."
"Bury him. He is a fugitive. Who knows where he has gone."
Over there, Song Tianshou's face also became serious.
"Xue Bai built the canal with money from the Song family. The new fields must belong to the Song family!"
"That piece of land belonged to the Guo family fifty years ago." Guo Sanwulang shouted: "My family's ancestral graves are still on it!"
…
Guan Amai was buried that day, not far from the field.
In the field, a wheat seedling also broke through the soil. Together with the soil that gave birth to it, it entered a wealthy family's home.
~~
"The wheat seedlings are already out, why should they occupy our fields?!"
"This land is not yours!"
To the west of Huiguo Town, the resistance encountered by the wealthy families was extremely strong. The farmers of Jimin Society who had been taken in by Xue Bai for the whole winter gathered together and were very united.
"This land was originally wasteland. Because the county promised to open up wasteland for the Song family, the Song family paid to dig this canal. Xue County Lieutenant did not explain it clearly to you, so he let you occupy the land. What you eat is the food provided by the Song family.
It’s the Song family’s field, is that reasonable? If nothing else, the canal hasn’t been completed yet and it’s stopped now. Do you have water to irrigate the fields in the summer?!”
"No matter what you say, it's useless. The big dogs want to steal our fields, but they can't!"
"The county office has spoken. Do you want to fight against the imperial court? Do you want to rebel?!"
"We want Lieutenant Xue County to come back!"
The people who came to occupy the land were Song Mian and Guo Huan, but they did not come forward to speak and only watched from the carriage.
Song Mian was anxious to show his stance to his family by performing meritorious deeds, and kept urging his tribe to intimidate the farmers.
Guo Huan was a little absent-minded. He looked up at the ancestral graves in the distance and felt that he was too lazy to take care of the family's land occupation.
It's not that his moral character has improved after being with Xue Bai for a few days, but the hurt in his heart has not yet healed.
He has been thinking recently, what is the use of working hard to make money for these people?
As for the so-called profit-sharing interests, interests can change at any time, and interest relationships are most unstable... This is something I know only after personal experience.
In the past, he always thought that after his death, those houses and money would be left to his wife and children. No, they were swallowed up completely in the blink of an eye. The first ones to be swallowed up were the relatives in the family who had received the most help from him.
Suddenly, a loud shout pulled Guo Huan out of his thoughts.
"Come on, fight!"
"Do you know this is a rebellion?!"
"Kill me!"
"..."
Among the Jimin Society, the loudest shouter was a farmer named Zhao Yuliang. He was still a farmer at this time, but he stood next to Xue Xin and stretched his head towards the tribes.
"If you can, come to me for a moment!"
Pen'er was guarding Zhao Yuliang with a sickle in his hand, and shouted: "Who dares to touch it?!"
Their momentum was not weak, but it actually made the other side hesitate.
"How about giving these unruly people a lesson?"
Song Mian saw that there were more than a hundred big men on the opposite side, and they were not as submissive as the farmers beside him, so he asked Guo Huan, "What do you think Guo Lu said?"
"There's no rush." Guo Huan said: "Cut off their water and surround them for a few days, and they will naturally become discouraged."
The two of them then left their tribe behind and returned to the county town temporarily to discuss with others.
Large families nearby such as the Cui family and the Zheng family also contributed money to share the land of the Guo family. Now they have to return it to the Guo family, so they naturally have to make up for the losses, so they have been very busy in the past two days. The Cui family has occupied several hectares of Yishui today.
I had wanted to occupy the land on the south bank for a long time, but it was delayed because Xue Bai had to clear the land.
If Xue Baizhen could really ask the Prime Minister's Office to come forward, they would have to settle the matter of the fields as soon as possible. By then, if the law does not punish everyone, they would have to recognize those lands as theirs.
What I didn't expect was that we would encounter united resistance from the Jimin Society.
"This matter cannot be delayed any longer, otherwise unscrupulous people will follow suit."
"Simple, each family gathers their troops and suppresses them all at night."
"Is it necessary?" Guo Huan said, "According to the usual method, just spend more time..."
"Xue Xin killed someone in the weaving workshop today, I'm afraid it will increase his reputation."
"What should we do with the water workers? The water workers are all facing Xue Bai."
"The canal is busy, and we are halfway there. There are still many people who have been assigned to cultivate wasteland. Today, those who are unscrupulous often have worked as water workers. The remaining county magistrates will personally appease them, just because they are willing to spend money."
"Fortunately, Xue Bai's time is still short."
"Let's fight quickly. There are more than a hundred villains, and each family sends more than a hundred troops to defeat them."
"The ground has sprouted, don't trample on it..."
~~
At night, Zhao Yuliang turned over and couldn't fall asleep, so he simply sat up.
This movement alarmed Pen'er.
"Brother Yuliang? What's wrong?"
"I heard that the county magistrate burned the field records. Can the field still be defended?"
"Just wait until the county captain comes back." Pen'er rubbed his eyes and muttered nonchalantly.
Zhao Yuliang whispered: "Can the county captain really come back? Let me tell you, many people have no idea..."
"I'm sure, Bantou Xue, Shuai Qu, and Brother Ayi are all still in the weaving workshop."
Perhaps because Pen'er was still a child, it was easier to trust people, so he said in a matter-of-fact tone: "When the county captain comes back, we will punish these corrupt officials and evil gentry."
Zhao Yuliang actually believed it. His mother-in-law was still in the weaving workshop. If she was fine, he could spare no effort.
"Okay, go to sleep."
They lay down to sleep, but suddenly they heard a noise outside.
"Which one?!"
"Hold it all down!"
The next moment, a group of black figures holding wooden sticks rushed in and beat everyone in the room with their sticks.
"Calling you arrogant!"
The tribesmen are good at teaching unruly people in this way. They know how to hit the target in the most painful way without killing the person. They use the stick very hard.
Suddenly, there was a loud cry of pain.
The first thing Zhao Yuliang did was to hug Pan'er, block him under him, and put his back against the sticks.
"尻!" Pen'er roared angrily: "Hit you again and I will kill you!"
He had been hanging out on the dock and was more bloody than these farmers.
"Stop fighting!"
Zhao Yuliang cried loudly: "We were wrong... stop fighting, let's hand over the fields... hand over the fields..."
He had a hoe at hand, but the tribesmen were so numerous that he didn't dare to pick it up and wield it.
The farmers had no choice but to agree to hand over the land deeds, and then the sticks stopped.
"Jiaotian! Get out!"
Zhao Yuliang stood up with difficulty, and a figure rushed out, but it was Pen'er.
"Who dares to take our fields?!"
Pen'er screamed angrily, and the dagger in his hand was already stabbed into Yibu Qu's thigh. This was the method he and Ren Mulan learned to kill people and establish their authority.
But he couldn't see anyone clearly at night, so Buqu was not intimidated by the child. Instead, in pain, he swung his stick and knocked him to the ground.
"Baner!"
Zhao Yuliang was frightened and angry, so he picked up the hoe and smashed it.
"Bang!"
Something warm splashed on his face, and the situation finally got out of control.
At this moment, Zhao Yuliang killed someone in anger. He was no longer just a farmer. He himself was so scared that he froze there.
Pen'er stood up wiping tears, not knowing that someone had died, and shouted: "Our fields are not allowed!"
"..."
"Killed!"
"Those unruly people are causing trouble!"
Some people hurriedly ran to the county seat, and in their haste, they stepped on the newly sprouted wheat field.
Soon, more troops were sent over.
This kind of chaos has not happened before. The officials and gentry have also seen the whole village making trouble together. It is just to scare these unruly people.
~~
"Eating dog intestines and making trouble under my ancestral grave."
Sanwulang Guo was also awakened. The Guo family had sent more than 200 troops from the fields there, but they thought they were dealing with some lowly peasants. Without the master in charge, the troops couldn't let go. Therefore, it was necessary to
He went to calm the situation and told his subordinates that they could fight to death.
"Uncle Huan used to take care of this kind of thing, but now Ah Weng takes care of it. It's really true."
"Mr. Sir, please work harder. I think you will be the county clerk in the future."
"I'm afraid that Song Mian will fight with me, but I don't think he can do anything in the county office..."
I took some of the servants from the house and went back to Guo Town. Soon I was in Xintian, and there was a shouting over there.
Guo Sanshiwulang couldn't help but became furious after hearing the noise, and shouted: "The stick is soft, isn't it? If we don't restrain them tonight, they will be even more lawless. Go tell them, beat these unruly people hard, and you won't be afraid of death!"
"yes!"
The terrain of this new field is relatively high, and you can still see the Luoshui River to the east, from which the water canal was drawn.
At this time, several servants turned around and saw a fire on the Luoshui River, and someone holding a torch was walking along the canal.
"Where is what?"
"Moor the boat at night?"
"It shouldn't be. This is not a dock. There is nothing but new fields."
Guo Sanwulang was curious and hurried forward a few steps. He saw that there were probably less than ten people coming from the other side.
He then asked loudly: "Which family are you from? Are you also here to help suppress the unruly people?"
"What troublemaker?"
"The unruly people who occupied my new land before will tell you first that this land belongs to my family, and my ancestral graves are on the mountain to the north."
While shouting, the people on the opposite side also got closer and could already see the kerosene dripping from their torches from time to time.
One of the leaders asked: "How do you plan to occupy the land?"
"If you don't listen, I'll kill you!"
Guo Sanwulang put his hands on his hips and felt majestic, as if he were the head of a county.
Later, he realized that the voice just now sounded familiar.
"After asking for so long, which family do you mean you belong to? Could it be that the Song family wants to occupy the land again? No, you can't be..."
He suddenly remembered something and subconsciously stretched his head, trying to see clearly who was coming in the dark.
Sure enough, under the light of the torch, a handsome and disgusting face gradually appeared.
It's Xue Bai.
The strange thing is that Xue Bai pretended to be ill and left for so long, but he did not bring any high-ranking officials from the imperial court. There were no Jinwu Guards as they mentioned, or only those few guards. Why did they come from the east?
"Lieutenant Xue County, you still dare to go back..."
"Kill."
"call--"
"puff."
Before Guo Sanwulang finished speaking, a cold light flashed in the night, the wind blew, and his neck was roughly split open.
Blood spurted out and sprinkled on the ground beneath his feet.
Some dry soil is silent, quickly absorbing the blood, and remains silent, allowing people to fight for it endlessly. The land remains silent, taking thousands of years to resolve everything.
Tolerant yet disdainful.
Xue Bai wanted to solve the land problem, but he couldn't be so tolerant.
He gained some prestige by getting rid of Gao Chong, but it was not enough. The officials and gentry in Yanshi County obviously did not respect him enough. They even blocked his policy of liquidating land and household registration, and he had not yet started to suppress mergers and reform.
The tax system only intends to make Hidden pay taxes.
Either because these officials and gentry are determined not to change, or because they are not afraid of him enough... Then we have to use whatever method is effective, regardless of the consequences.
Without bloodshed, there is no change.
~~
Zhao Yuliang waved his hoe and gradually forgot about his fear.
He didn't care that there were more people on the other side than here, he just thought that it would be good if he could hold the field, otherwise his family would definitely not be able to survive this winter.
But there is still a sense of despair in his heart that the farmland is about to be lost, because this is not the first time that he has lost the farmland.
The last time it was because he owed money, he borrowed five guan from someone when Tianbao failed to harvest for three years, using the land as collateral. Unexpectedly, he paid back for three years, and the more he paid back, the more he paid. After three years of harvests were filled in, his
The field was lost.
Because of his name, he actually has no food left in his life. His mother-in-law scolded him as "he is born unable to keep money!"
Last winter, if the Xue County Weishe Jimin Society hadn't taken in their family, they would have had no choice but to sell their youngest daughter. It wasn't that he didn't feel sorry for her, but the whole family was starving to death, and only the youngest daughter could be sold at a high price.
…
At this time, Zhao Yuliang felt like a knife was twisting in his heart when he recalled how he felt when he was thinking about these things.
"Damn it! My field!"
"Beat him to death! Kill the leader, and the unruly people will become honest!"
As someone in the song shouted like this, all the sticks came towards Zhao Yuliang and beat him to death.
Suddenly, someone outside shouted: "I am the leader, come and beat me to death!"
Everyone turned around and saw more than ten people holding torches coming over.
The tribesmen were still in a daze, but the farmers already knew who it was.
"The county captain is here!"
"The county captain is here!"
The person walking in front was Lao Liang. He really dared to kill people even with a knife in hand, which scared the tribesmen and made them move out of the way.
"A bunch of trash!"
When Lao Liang opened his mouth, he cursed the farmers.
"The county captain fed and drank you all winter to keep you fat. He made you farm tools with iron, but you didn't bring handles? Did you let people beat you like this with a stick? You're useless!"
The farmers looked up and saw Xue Bai coming over, but with a cold face, no longer as gentle as usual.
"County captain." They shouted in grievance.
"Is there any use in shouting?! The county captain has given you the land, do you still have to keep an eye on it all the time?!"
Lao Liang cursed and stepped forward, snatched the hoe from Zhao Yuliang's hand, and walked towards the tribesmen who were still retreating in fear from him.
Without any explanation, he swung out the hoe and hit the leader directly on the head.
"Bang!"
Killing is difficult, but in his hands it is so easy.
Everyone around was frightened.
Pen'er clenched his fists, feeling scared and excited. Just now he stabbed someone with a dagger. This was what he wanted.
"Rob?!"
Lao Liang shouted: "The county captain asked you to wait and retreat. Anyone who refuses to retreat will be regarded as an official attacker and will not be killed!"
"What are you doing in a daze? Kill him without mercy!"
Zhao Yuliang was feeling ashamed. Hearing this, he picked up a shovel, shouted and rushed forward to beat him randomly.
The shovel broke the body of the person who bullied him, and the blood flowed into his field. He suddenly felt at ease. As long as he could keep this field, he would no longer have to sell his little daughter.
"Robbing the fields? Come on!"
"..."
Xue Bai finally saw the light of the waving iron weapon.
This is different from the last time when the Cao Gong was won over. In order for the Cao Gong to get a promise, it depends on whether he is on the same side as the officials and gentry. In other words, the small amount of money is not enough to make people fight against the entire Yanshi officials, or the master.
.
Gotta give land.
Bribing the refugees with a few biscuits to go to Lishan Mountain to assassinate him is to make people die. You have to give them land so that they can live and work in peace, and they know what they are guarding. Those who have permanent property and have perseverance will be the most determined in the future.
Support his strength.
~~
"Xue Bai is crazy."
Late at night, Lu Linghao hurried to the county office and put forward many of his opinions on these matters on the way.
"Isn't it just a few dozen hectares of farmland? It's not necessary. He must distribute it to those farmers. How many hectares are there?"
Just listen to this kind of words. In fact, Lu Linghao knows best. This is about the power of the county office and about who will compromise first between Xue Bai and the big families.
"He doesn't have a brain, and he doesn't do things lightly or seriously. It's just like a madman who is very strong. In the same way, this kind of person is very ruthless, so he has to stay away... Oh, where are the noble people?"
"Going to Luoyang."
"Quick, send a horse overnight to tell him the news."
"Here."
Lu Linghao rushed to the government office and saw that all the big families had gathered in front of the office.
After taking everyone to sit down in the lobby, he waved his hands and calmed everyone's emotions calmly.
"You guys are too anxious. If you are anxious, won't you be led away? Since Xue Bai is back, don't grab the land for the time being. Just continue the original method of cutting flesh with a soft knife. Guo Lu and I have been doing this for many years
, when did it trigger a civil uprising?"
"Don't use force anymore. Please invite Xue Bai back to the county office to discuss matters. He is polite on the surface. If you don't listen to him, just cut off the water source and spend some money to win over the unruly people. Will there be no trouble?"
"Mr. Guo, don't cry for now. It's true that Mr. Guo Sanwu is dead, but can you still avenge your private revenge? If we really fight, if something happens to your old man, he will have the final say. Slowly reason, you
He is so virtuous and respected by everyone, are you still afraid of him?"
"He is hot-tempered and impulsive, and he has a noble person behind him. It would be unwise to have a head-on conflict with him."
Lu Linghao did not need to explain this point. Gao Chong was easily angered by Xue Bai, and was involved in a major rebellion. The fierce conflict only lost the advantage of being a local leader. As a county magistrate, Lu Linghao acted upright and sat upright.
I can deal with the family members calmly.
When Xue Bai is here, they jointly squeeze out; when Xue Bai escapes, they take advantage of it; when Xue Bai comes back, they just continue to squeeze out. How can they lose their balance just because the other party goes back and forth?
After some reassurance, all the gentry calmed down and agreed to go home as if nothing had happened.
Nothing happened, it was just some villagers fighting for land and making a fuss, Xue County Lieutenant went to deal with it. No one died, and the county town did not catch fire, except for Guo Sanshilang's death, which happened to take advantage of Xue Bai
.
Finally, Lu Linghao said: "Don't worry, we are the rules in Yanshi County. The rules in the world will be broken occasionally, but they will not be defeated. No one can beat the rules."
~~
The person sent out to see Xue Bai was Lu Linghao's aide Yuan Yiheng.
He passed through the queue of farmers holding iron tools, and couldn't help but feel a little nervous. He felt that he was not facing farmers, but rebels.
After finally seeing Xue Bai still wearing the blue official uniform, Yuan Yiheng breathed a sigh of relief.
In his eyes, official uniforms represent rules. As long as Xue Bai abides by the rules, everything will be easy.
"I've seen the county captain. The villagers were causing trouble tonight. Thanks to the county captain's timely arrival, the commotion was stopped."
"So, I still have gong?" Xue Bai looked calm and had a smile on his face.
Yuan Yiheng smiled apologetically and said: "Of course I have merit. The county magistrate wants to repay his merits to the county captain, but he also has some misunderstandings about how to apologize to the county captain. Why don't we go back to the county office and talk about it?"
"weak."
"What?"
"It's a common problem for those who have vested interests and have enjoyed wealth for a long time. You are too soft and you are not as tough as the Gao brothers."
Yuan Yiheng was very embarrassed and secretly thought that Xue Bai's criticism in person was too much. However, he was a well-rounded person and could still answer the questions. He smiled and said: "Brothers from the Gao family are just ambitious. In terms of deep background, they must be county magistrates."
.”
If you replace "faith" with "face", it's actually very accurate.
Xue Bai knew what Lu Linghao's methods were and said: "Okay, let's go back to the county office to talk. I need to bring these farmers with me to talk about their fields."
"This... I'm afraid the county office won't be able to accommodate it."
"It doesn't matter, they are not squeamish, they can just stand."
Yuan Yiheng had no choice but to send someone to ask Lu Linghao for instructions to lead more than a hundred farmers into the city at night. He had to be prepared to avoid aggravating the conflict.
Just as Xue Bai was preparing to leave, a small figure hurriedly ran over, it was Ren Mulan.
"County Captain!"
Ren Mulan came from the weaving workshop, still panting, and said impatiently: "The county captain is back, kill them quickly..."
After hearing this, Yuan Yiheng's expression changed. He was actually a little frightened by this little girl's fierceness.
Xue Bai looked relaxed and took Ren Mulan to the side to talk.
"County Lieutenant, as soon as you were away, the wealthy family sent evil servants to rob people. They said that there were several slaves in the weaving workshop who had escaped from them, and they took out their deeds. Fortunately, Bantou Xue brought a few slaves with him.
Stop them, or they will snatch them away, and the county captain will have to teach them a severe lesson..."
Just as he was talking, someone from the county office over there came to report, and the county magistrate agreed to let Xue Bai take the farmers to the county office for talks.
"talk?"
Ren Mulan fully expected that tonight she would be fighting and killing like last time, and even the killing would be even more ruthless. She didn't expect that the battle was about to start, the weapons were raised, and they still wanted to talk?
She couldn't help but feel anxious and said: "County Lieutenant, you can't be deceived. They promised well, but when you are gone, they will grab land and people again. No matter how much you say, they will never repent...
…”
Actually, even a little girl knows this truth.
Xue Bai seemed unaware and said, "Don't worry, wait until I get to the county office first."
"How can you not be anxious? County Lieutenant, you didn't see what they wanted to do when they came to the weaving workshop." Ren Mulan almost cried. She unconsciously waved the knife in her hand as she spoke and said anxiously: "When we are fighting for the territory, let it out in one breath."
If you do, you will lose."
There was blood on the knife.
Xue Bai still didn't bother to explain to her and said casually: "I'll go to the county office first."
After saying that, he walked into the night, and Mulan turned around to look, fearing that the Xue County Lieutenant would also be swallowed up.
The influence of local clans is like water. It flows silently, but it often drowns people.
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The Luo River flowed slowly, and at the same time, a large ship docked.
First, an ordinary young man walked out of the darkness, followed by a series of figures.