Chapter 728: The hemp rope is broken at a thin point
Qin Liang looked back at the nearby barren mountains and took another look at the position of the white sun among the dark clouds in the eastern sky. He was about to leave. He planned to walk slowly back to the road. When the sun moved to the west in the afternoon, he would be heading to the river.
Patrolling the river.
At this moment, he saw a thin figure in shabby clothes standing in the distance, looking at the group of people here and the bouquet wrapped in paper in front of the grave. Qin Liang looked at it for a while and saw that it seemed to be a woman.
Qin Liang has been in power for several years. Although he was busy with conquests most of the time, he probably did some real good governance. He has never been arrogant and lewd, and the women he finds do not need to spend money. How can this horse-riding man in Gyeonggi Province
Are there any villages in this region that are so poor?
Seeing a group of people going down the hillside, the village woman immediately turned around to hide. But Qin Liang shouted: "Stop!"
The village woman ignored her and continued to run towards the village with difficulty, but she seemed unable to run even after taking two steps. After standing for a moment, she knelt down on the dirt road.
Qin Liang and others walked over quickly. He asked the village woman to get up and glanced at her. Qin Liang immediately discovered that there was a vague scar on the left side of the village woman's neck and the lower end of her cheek, as if she had been burned.
Moreover, this village woman should not be old, she is probably in her teens, but she is very thin and has a pretty face. She is wearing a tattered linen dress, and her hair is tied up with a rag like straw, but she also knows how to tie her hair
When you are in bed, let your hair hang down on both sides to slightly cover the scars on your face and neck. People are still humans after all, and even if they are illiterate and have no food to eat, they are still much smarter than birds and beasts.
"Is there any village elder here?" Qin Liang asked.
The village woman buried her head and said nothing, except occasionally
He looked up at Qin Liang curiously.
Zhong Hui, Jia Chong and the two generals who accompanied him did not interfere. They neither cared about this trivial matter nor interfered with Qin Liang. Qin Liang would do whatever he wanted to do now.
Ling Jun beside him said kindly: "Don't be afraid, we are not bad people. If I ask you anything, just answer it."
The village woman glanced at the iris on the grave, nodded, and whispered: "I will take the noble man there."
After saying that, she turned around and left. This village woman was alive. If she was just hungry, she wouldn't walk like this. After all, she was only a teenager.
After a while, more villagers gathered over. The linen cloths they wore were of varying degrees of wear and tear, but they looked like they had not even had enough to eat. Suddenly an old man knelt down on the ground and kowtowed: "My benefactor."
! I remember my benefactor!" He grabbed the little village woman again and kowtowed together.
But Qin Liang couldn't remember who this person was, so he helped the old man and asked him to get up and talk. Then the old man told everyone that Qin Liang was the benefactor who sacrificed the head to avenge his daughter-in-law.
After a while, the village elder also came and hurriedly came forward to pay homage and inquire. Qi Da told the village elder: "This is His Highness the King of Wei and Jin!"
The village elder was still confused, but he should have understood that Qin Liang was the king of the imperial court, and maybe he thought his surname was Cao.
At this time, Qin Liang also figured out that many people in this village had the surname Wei. The ancestors of those with the surname were also nobles, and they had the same name as the Wei Dynasty. Looking at the dilapidated appearance, it seemed that there was something hidden.
It's like Yin Yu.
Hearing that the king was the benefactor of the old man of the Wei family, the village elder led the crowd and took Qin Liang and others to the rammed earth and grass-roofed yard of the Wei family. The village woman just now was named Chen, and she was just a guest of the old man of the Wei family. The family was anxious
He hurriedly moved out the straw mat and asked Qin Liang and others to sit on it.
Qin Liang didn't mind it, so he knelt down on the straw mat first. Civil and military officials stood on the left and right, and the villagers gathered around, as if another grass-head patch had been set up in the village. Qin Liang asked the village elder: "What has happened in the past few years?" Disaster?"
The village elder said slowly and respectfully: "Back to your Majesty, there has been no major disaster, but life has gotten worse year by year."
When Jia Chong heard this, he blurted out: "Bold! Your Majesty's civil and martial arts, the world is prosperous, you must have something hidden."
The village elder was startled and said cautiously: "The harvest has not been good in the past two years because of bad rains. After paying the field tax, there will not be much food in the spring. I have to stick to the bark and leaves of the trees to see if I can get it." Ripe millet..."
Qin Liang looked back at the earthen yard and found no Quyuanli. He suddenly said: "You are not a village, but farmers. Do you own the land?"
The village elder's eyes flickered: "The servants paid the land tax in full every year and went out to do corvee work."
Jia Chong frowned and looked at the village elder. Qin Liang said: "After you take advantage of the local people to flee and occupy this field, no one will come back to ask for it again?"
The village elder immediately knelt down and said, "Please forgive me, Your Majesty! No one has come back for more than ten years."
Qin Liang thought for a moment and realized that the original person would probably never come back, so he waved his hand and said, "That's all, I want to solve the problem, not check the fields."
A voice among the villagers said: "The noble man is benevolent and righteous. When he saw that his servants were hungry, he wanted to help them."
Qin Liang took a look at the sound and said: "It won't be in vain. There are also people in the same poverty in the world, how are you different from them?"
When Zhong Hui heard this, he suddenly looked thoughtful and cast an admiring look at Qin Liang. Qin Liang took over the land of ten counties
With the land tax, it is easy to help these dozens of people, but it makes no sense unless all the same people are given free relief.
Qin Liang continued: "Mortgage these barren mountains to the government, and Henan Yin will lend you a batch of grain and cloth to tide over the famine. You will temporarily turn it into a civilian village, and the military officer will allocate a flatter and more fertile official land. , provide seeds, oxen, and plows, and I will also send someone to teach composting." He turned his head and glanced at Qi Da, "You will arrange this matter."
Qi Da clasped his fists and said, "The final general has received his order!"
The village elder hurriedly kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty, have mercy on me. This piece of Susukita is the only family property left by the common people!"
The village elder is old and seems a bit slow. Of course, he may not trust the government and thinks that the officials want to embezzle their land in disguise.
In the past, the villages were heavily taxed and the land was official land. Being a villager was indeed inferior to a farmer.
However, now that the government has provided production materials such as bent-wheel plows, output and efficiency have been increased, and one labor force can cultivate more acres of land. In addition, the land tax is a fixed amount that has not been changed, resulting in a decrease in the actual collection ratio. Productivity is not in vain.
So first make these people into villages, and the improvement of living conditions will be immediate! The price is that they will lose their livelihood, but after the farmers are reorganized into households, they cannot leave their homes at will, and they have nothing to support themselves. These people are going to starve. If you die, let’s have a full meal first and then talk about it.
Qin Liang planned to free up his hands after a while and consider changing the system and laws of the civilian villages, such as allowing villagers and tenants to have the same rights, mainly so that they could give up cultivating official land (owner farmers sold their land, and tenants changed their land to another landlord). Way. But this matter needs to be considered in the long term.
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He reminded the village elder: "It will be a three-year period. If you don't want to become a civilian village, you can save grain and cloth, and then redeem the land. There will be no interest on borrowing grain. You can also abandon the official land and change your registration in the future."
At this time, the man who had just spoken couldn't help but persuaded: "If the village elder doesn't look at who is in charge, how can the king whom the village elder calls think so highly of our humble position? If the king hadn't helped us, how would he want to
Fair enough, are you going to bother here?"
Qin Liang suddenly felt that this man had some brains, so he asked: "What is your surname?"
The man bent down and said, "Return to your Majesty's words, my surname is Wei."
Yes, he is still a famous surname among this group of people. Qin Liang said to Qi Dadao: "I will call you the captain of the army and appoint this person as the commander of the army."
Qin Liang decided on the arrangement and stood up from the straw mat. He didn't know whether the villagers were satisfied, but Ling Jun, who was wearing a curtain hat next to him, admired him. When she saw Qin Liang handling specific affairs,
At least it's neat.
He noticed Zhong Hui's gaze again, turned his head and looked at each other, and said casually: "We have to call Ma Shaofu to try to increase the production of iron, so that the local government can have Quyuan plows and lease them to farmers.
Otherwise, the harvests of the official land households and wealthy manors will be better, and over time, the number of remaining homesteaders will continue to decrease."
Zhong Huidao: "Your Majesty's words make sense."
As soon as Qin Liang took a step forward, he glanced at the village woman he met just now and asked, "Are you sick?"
Sure enough, the village woman buried her head and said: "Yes, Your Majesty."
Qin Liang had an impromptu idea and reached out to feel the village woman's pulse. Ever since he learned how to detect it, he always wanted to try it. So he didn't feel the pulse, just pretended to, but actually got closer.
Take a look at the village woman’s meridians.
Not only did the village woman have scars, her body was covered with dirt that was not easy to clean off, her skin and hair were dull, and she was also thin. Naturally, she did not like people like Qin Liang, who were particular about men and women and not being intimate, so she just let Qin do it.
Check your pulse.
But someone was anxious. A young man with a pale face wanted to come over here, but he fell to the ground with a "plop" and was struggling to get up.
Because Qin Liang wanted to notice that he was indeed a little closer to the village woman, he asked the old man Wei next to him: "Is this your son?"
Old Man Wei nodded and said, "Yes, my youngest son, alas!" He continued, "Chen Sanniang (a small village woman) is my daughter-in-law's sister..."
After he finished speaking, he glanced in the direction of the tomb, and Qin Liang immediately understood that it was the sister of the murdered person.
Old Man Wei had a sad look on his face and whispered: "I have blood and am about to die. Sanniang (a small village woman) really wants to marry him. If she wants to marry him, she will be a widow in a short time. Besides, Sanniang also has a baby, so why not
There is no work, and I heard that she won’t live long. My family has no money to buy her medicine, and I am afraid that something will happen again. Back then, the eldest daughter of the Chen family died in our family just after she got married. We can’t help it.
It’s the Chen family!”
The bloodemia should be leukemia. It is true that the more miserable a person is, the more unlucky he will be. After hearing this, Qin Liang went over to help the son of the Wei family up and felt his pulse first. Upon noticing, this man's spirit body was all abnormal and black.
Qin Liang was obviously angry. In fact, Qin Liang did not know how to treat illnesses, but he clearly found that this person was indeed hopeless.
It seemed that he didn't need to notice it. Everyone knew that his time was running out as soon as they saw his complexion, appearance, and difficulty in walking.
Qin Liang didn't want to say anything, so he turned around and continued to investigate.
I visited Chen Sanniang and found that the meridians in her stomach, abdomen, and waist were abnormal. She may have gastrointestinal and kidney problems. She was full of illnesses, but they were not serious.
This matter requires Lu Ning to be more experienced. Qin Liang knows what is wrong, but does not understand medical science.
He thought for a moment and immediately asked the village woman: "I asked the Chen family to sell you to me. Are you willing?"
As soon as these words came out, Qin Liang's entourage and the villagers all looked surprised and confused, and then looked at the thin, dirty, sick village woman with scars on her face and neck.