Chapter eight hundred and sixty-five mixed doubles of young couples
After finishing a meal of whole grains, Ye An drank tea that looked like grass roots and said to Ma Shouguan: "I wonder what difficulties Ma Juren has? I would like to hear the details!"
Ma Shouguan's expression of bitterness and hatred finally regained a glimmer of hope. He looked at Ye An and knelt down with a plop: "Please ask the Heavenly Official to stay for a few days to help An Village survive the catastrophe!"
Ye An frowned and pulled Ma Shouguan up from the ground: "Although An Village is not a critical place, it is also where the river and Huang River intersect. The state capital of the two places should not ignore it! What disaster is there?"
Ma Shouguan smiled bitterly and said: "Hezhou and Huangzhou don't care about it! Not to mention my village, even excluding military villages, the same is true for the villages and towns outside the big cities. The yamen of Hehuang and Huangzhou... eh, they just want to take care of it.
It doesn’t matter, tomorrow is the day to pay the summer tax, and it is also the day to collect rent at the Liujiaxia Stall Venomous Snake Village. The Heavenly Official has also seen that the wheat in the fields has not been harvested yet, and I, An Village, really can’t afford that much.
Food is coming! Then the government will collect the summer tax and the bandits will collect the rent. Our village will have to pay for it with people. I have to pity the girls in my village..."
"Huh?!" Ye An looked at Ma Shouguan and said strangely: "The summer tax is in August, why should it be collected in June? Besides, why do you have to pay rent to the bandits? Don't the government care?!"
Ma Shouguan looked at Ye An and stood up helplessly and said: "The Heavenly Officials don't know. The Hehuang and Huangzhous always collect summer taxes in June. They say they are pre-taxes. The same goes for autumn taxes. They say they are exempt from other miscellaneous taxes."
, but this is worse than miscellaneous taxes. We rural farmers do not do business and rarely go to the city. The reduced and exempted business taxes, personal taxes, and Dingkou taxes are really useless! There are also apportionments and transfers, which are even more important.
Life-threatening drudgery... As for the bandits' rent, there is nothing they can do about it. Except for those military villages and cities, the land has long been divided by bandits from all sides. The land cultivated by our common people is equivalent to the land of the bandits' families. If
If we don’t pay the grain on time, we will have to take away the grain to pay for it. They say we are free, but in fact we are not as good as tenants!”
Good guy, Ye An looked at Chen Lin in shock. He didn't expect that the people in the Hehuang land had been divided up by the bandits and became tenants in the actual sense. This shows how corrupt the Hehuang two states are, and
The government's inaction allowed the people to be bullied and exploited. Not only that, the government also wanted to exploit them again!
Is this still the Song Dynasty? When did this happen? Such a situation of overturning the country has already occurred!
What does it mean to pay with a small amount of money? It is obviously the buying and selling of human beings. This hugely profitable industry has never ceased since ancient times and even in later generations.
When men become laborers, women will naturally be forced into prostitution and sold into brothels, even children. In Ma Shouguan's words, there are not a few boys and girls who die every year.
Bang! With a crisp sound, Ma Shouguan was shocked to see that the thin, beardless old man actually crushed the thick bowl of water with one hand, and the water spilled all over the floor. Chen Lin opened her eyes angrily and said: "The corpse of an official is a vegetarian, and the bandits and beasts
Why not! The situation in Hehuang and Huangzhou?!" After saying that, he stared at Ma Shouguan closely and said: "Do you dare to swear to heaven that you are not lying?"
Ma Shouguan was grabbed by the front and strangled so hard that he couldn't breathe, but he got the courage from nowhere and blushed and said: "Young man is not lying. If you tell lies, I will go to hell!"
Chen Lin slowly let go. He also knew that Ma Shouguan didn't need to lie to them like this, but he still couldn't believe it was true. What Ma Shouguan said completely overturned his understanding of the Song Dynasty. Thinking about it, he had always been there
Most places are either big cities or important towns. How can I see the poverty of the people in border states?
If he had not been pushed to the extreme, how could Ma Shouguan deliberately try to retain the team by pretending to be fat? Ye An saw it. Every time so many people in the team took a bite of food, his face twitched unconsciously. The people in the team were
During the meal, the whole village was watching, but they did not dare to make a sound.
The green light in the eyes made the soldiers of the Hou Mansion unable to eat... Qin Mumu and Xuan'er held back the tears in their eyes and ate coarse grains and rice, and the people in the convoy naturally followed suit.
However, after eating, under the leadership of Qin Mumu, the dry food of the team was distributed to the people in An Village.
Fine grains such as fried noodles and cooking cakes make the villagers' eyes shine, and they even dare to take a bite with admiration for food. As for dried meat, dried meat is already considered a luxury item for them, and they only dare to lick it.
, if any child dares to take a bite eagerly, he will be beaten severely by the adults...
Xuan'er felt that these people were in the same desperate situation as herself back then, but Qin Mumu couldn't bear it at all, so she wanted to take care of this matter after looking for Ye An.
Ye An calmly shook his head: "You can take care of it, but why don't we just leave? The situation in Hehuang and Huangzhou has become such that we can protect one An village, but how many other villages can we protect?"
"No way?" Qin Mumu looked at Ye An for the first time and said, "When did you become so cold-blooded? Don't you plan to save the villagers here? Didn't you say that even a fish can't be saved?"
It makes sense to them to save us!"
"I'm not trying to save one fish, I'm trying to save all the fish!"
Qin Mumu stared at Ye An with wide eyes: "You are talking big words. How many bandits are there in Hehuang two states, how can you save them?! As for the government office of Hehuang two states, although you are
The majesty of the Yunzhong prefecture is only under the jurisdiction of Qin Fenglu's soldiers and horses. He is a military official rather than a civil official. He only promotes Ganliang affairs and is not Qin Fenglu's pacifier!"
Ye An picked up the thick bowl and looked at Qin Mumu with a smile: "You do know something about the official system of the Song Dynasty, but I can impeach the magistrates of Hehuang and Huangzhou, and mobilize the Jishi Army nearby! Don't forget
I have the power to garrison and defend the Qin Feng Road Imperial Army."
"Jishi Army? You can't move it. They can send people back home with just one word. Jishi Army is stationed in Linsongbao. Next to it is Xige City in Qingtang Tubo. If Jishi Army leaves,
What do you think will happen?" Chen Lin put Ye An's plan on hold with just one sentence.
Ye An pretended to be disappointed and looked at the starry sky outside the door and said: "Then we can only call on the Xi Lie Army and the Huaiyuan Army. Sir Chen, please think about going through the Qinfeng Road from beginning to end, plowing the courtyard and sweeping the holes.
How profitable is your business?”
"Making money?" Chen Lin looked at Ye An in disbelief. How did this kid associate suppressing bandits with making money?
Knowing that he didn't understand, Ye An smiled and said: "How much wealth do you think the bandits in the Hehuang land have? I'm afraid they are richer than the Qinfeng Road transfer envoy Si Yamen, right? This is the northwest important road, how many merchants are here
Everywhere has been robbed, how much wealth has been robbed here over the years?”
"You kid are planning to..."
Before Chen Lin could finish speaking, Ye An laughed and said: "We have such great wealth and can train troops, why not?" I plan to distribute half of the captured items in the army to the soldiers, and usually keep them as military expenses for the commander-in-chief.
Being able to exchange military merits with the imperial court for military pay is like eating three things with one fish!"
The corner of Chen Lin's mouth twitched, and she glared at Ye An and said: "You are too much of a philistine. You know that you have captured so many things, but you still want to use military merit to ask for money and food from the court..."
"Eh? You can't say that. Military merit for suppressing bandits is also military merit! Besides, the court has its own laws. Military merit is used to exchange for money, food and military pay. Otherwise, what is the use of military merit? Do you know how much it costs to build a strong army? Money and food?!”
Qin Mumu sighed and said: "No matter what, as long as the people here can live in peace, it is better than anything else, isn't it? As for the memorial to impeach the governors of Hehuang and Huangzhou, Ye Lang doesn't need to write it in person, right? Uncle Chen He is the supervisor of the Imperial City Department, and he has the right to spy and supervise. I believe that Uncle Chen's memorial will be more useful than Ye Lang's memorial! Of course, if the uncle does not want to save the people from the fire, then he should have the power. The little girl didn’t say anything but..."
Ahem... Chen Lin coughed violently. Qin Mumu's provocation put him in a dilemma for a moment. He could only smile bitterly and said: "You girl has talked so much, what else can a certain family do? Hey, you two husband and wife ah……"
"Uncle Chen has served the country and the people, and the little girl admires him very much!"
That was true, but Chen Lin always felt that this was a trap planned by Ye An and Qin Mumu, and she was tricked by the couple again.