Longevity begins with Jinyiwei

"grown ups!"

At this time, a voice suddenly sounded outside the mansion.

"My lord, the Martial Academy has sent someone again!"

After saying this, Xu Feng, who was still frowning and thinking, immediately stood up.

"Quick, just say that the governor is not here, and went to inspect the Xuanfu!"

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Chapter 338 A problem that has not been solved for thousands of years!

In the countryside, a group of iron cavalry walked slowly.

Li Xiu straddled his horse, surrounded by all the horsemen, and looked around the fields and countryside.

The purpose of entering is no longer the hustle and bustle of the cities, but the intoxicating tranquility.

Green mountains and green waters, cooking smoke and birds, everything seems to be picturesque.

It's just that in this painting, there are poorly clothed people and thatched huts that can hardly shelter from the wind and rain.

A skinny man with a bare upper body, working in the field amidst the north wind, and the field is the kind of farmer who knows at a glance that he is destined to not have much harvest!

And even if they are in the field, what they can keep for their own use is only an insignificant part of it, and it is even difficult to even barely eat.

Naked and muddy children lit a fire in the field, warmed themselves around the fire, played and played, their eyes full of innocence. They seem to have no idea that their future will also be confined in this barren soil Among them, struggling to survive, living a hard life!

Seeing this scene, Li Xiu's indifferent expression also changed slightly. He never denied that he was a selfish person who disregarded human life.

But, in his place, seek his job.

With all the power in his hands, how could he not feel the struggle of these low-level people.

Looking back on the past, it seems that everything he has done, such as great victories, rectifications, and reforms, at least for now, and even for a long time in the future, will not change much the lives of these low-level people.

Even, wars, backlash from reforms, and bureaucratic resistance will only make the lives of these low-level people more miserable.

Therefore, his existence, at least for now, has not changed much for the people at the bottom of this nation.

But in fact, in Northern Xinjiang, apart from the army being his greatest foundation, Duke Qin, most of the people at the bottom are also his most solid supporters.

The reason is also very simple.

It's just because his existence, to a large extent, avoided the endless border troubles and suppressed most of the bandit chaos that swept across several places.

Let these people, when they are struggling to survive, avoid the inevitable disaster.

After all, border troubles are family ruin and death, and bandit chaos is also family ruin.

Even if the family is broken and the family is still alive, it is difficult to avoid the end of being carried.

Thoughts were flying, snowflakes suddenly fell in the sky, Li Xiu raised his hand and touched it lightly, the snowflakes fell on his fingertips, and soon, it melted into a touch of snow water.

"Snowing!"

Some guards couldn't help but make a sound.

"Yeah, it's snowing."

Li Xiu also responded, looking at the sudden snowfall, he muttered to himself:

"The first year of Jingwu is about to pass!"

Jingwu!

What a vision!

Feeling melancholy in my heart, and looking around this unknown small village, Li Xiu couldn't help but let out a sigh.

There is a long way to go.

His road is still very long!

The direction that was once determined and firm, now seems to be less certain.

"General, the wind and snow are too heavy, let's find someone to rest for a while!"

A general stepped forward immediately and bowed to Li Xiu.

Li Xiu glanced at the dilapidated thatched cottage in the village, and was about to refuse, then, as if thinking of something, he nodded, and then pointed to the thatched cottage at the head of the village: "Let's go there."

"As ordered!"

After receiving the order, the general immediately led several soldiers and rode towards the family.

Li Xiu looked around, and also rode his horse.

In a small thatched hut, there were six people crammed inside.

A hunchbacked old lady with white hair, a skinny middle-aged man with a bare chest, and a grass skirt were holding three and a half children tightly.

At this moment, everyone was full of panic and despair. Although the general was still explaining, the family had already knelt down on the ground, begging for mercy.

"General!"

The general was obviously a little embarrassed, and came here under orders, but he didn't even handle this matter well.

Gazing at this scene, Li Xiu couldn't help feeling a little dazed at the moment.

Back then, when he suddenly fell into this era of cannibalism, he was so trembling and cautious, and he was struggling so hard to survive.

He was luckier, though, and made it through.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for Duke Qin, who is now so powerful in the world, to exist, but a dead bone in the wilderness.

And they...

It is undoubtedly unfortunate, or in this era, all the people in the world are unfortunate.

"Master, spare your life!"

"Master, please spare me!"

"Master Jun, your lord has a lot, please spare us!"

"Shut up, the wind and snow are coming, we are just here to avoid the wind and snow, there is no other meaning!"

The general couldn't bear it any longer, and directly scolded, at this moment, the family finally calmed down.

The room is not big, on one side is the earthen kang floor made of straw, without even a decent sheet, on the other side, there is also a stove, some pots, pans and pans are placed in a mess like waste, and in the corner, there are still piles of them. With a pile of firewood.

The family of six, crowded in the corner of the stove, did not dare to breathe.

Li Xiu wasn't surprised by this scene. This is the most authentic look of this era. The ancient courtyards in the ancient TV dramas in my memory basically don't exist, at least, they don't exist in this kind of wild mountain village. .

Looking around, Li Xiu casually sat on the kang, and immediately waved to the middle-aged man who was obviously the head of the family.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man hurriedly bent over and walked over, then fell to his knees with a thud.

Li Xiu waved his hand, stood guard, and immediately brought a small bench from the corner of the room, and placed it in front of the middle-aged man.

"sit."

Li Xiu cherishes his writing like gold.

The middle-aged man kowtowed violently, and then sat tremblingly on the small bench.

"How many acres of land do you have?"

Li Xiu made a sound slowly.

After the words fell, the man quickly knelt down on the ground again: "Returning to the adults, the small family has four acres of fields."

Li Xiu frowned and asked again:

"The tenant or the family?"

"The young one is a tenant of rich man Wu's family in the town!"

Li Xiu asked again: "How much is the rent?"

The man's face turned bitter, and he didn't dare to hide it: "Eight out of ten!"

After saying this, Li Xiuzhi's expression suddenly turned frosty!

Of course he is not some idiot who doesn't eat minced meat!

One mu of land, the yield is about three stones, and this is still a good harvest. Most of the time, it is difficult to have three stones, let alone the poor land!

To have two stones is astonishing!

And one stone is equivalent to about seventy or eighty kilograms in modern times.

In other words, one mu of land only has a mere three hundred catties of rice.

Eight out of ten tenancies!

It means that the man in front of him has worked hard for a year, but in the end, he only got a few dozen catties of rice for an acre of land!

Even if it is five acres of land, it is only a mere one hundred catties!Not even a stone!

The food standard in the army is three liters of rice per person per day!In January, it is ninety liters, that is, nine buckets, which is 0.9 stones!

An ordinary soldier in the army, just a month's ration!

It is the survival ration for the family of six in front of me for one year!

Obviously, this is by no means a special case!

It's the status quo of countless people in the world tomorrow!

But sadly, Daming's field tax rate is not high.

Only a mere thirty tax one!

However, the Ming Dynasty has been established for more than two hundred years, and it has continued to this day. In fact, 90.00% of the common people do not enjoy this meager tax rate due to land annexation.

Because tenants do not have land, so they do not have to pay land tax!

However, there is no need to pay taxes, but there are still servitude. Since the implementation of the whipping law, the servitude has also been allocated to the fields. Although tenants without land do not actually need to serve, the landlord usually transfers the servitude to the tenant farmers.

What this means is undoubtedly very clear.

live.It is already extremely difficult!

You also need to take on various errands!

However, in the entire Great Tomorrow, after hundreds of years of land annexation and collusion between government and businessmen, there are probably no real self-cultivators in ten!

That is to say, nine percent of the common people in Daming live a similar life to this man, the only difference may be whether the landlord is benevolent or not.

Is it ten out of nine, or eight out, seven out, or six out...

In this way, the reason why those so-called thieves gathered hundreds of thousands of people and caused countless corruptions is undoubtedly obvious.

In this way, it is also obvious why good policies are difficult to implement.

Daming, it is not the countless people of Ming that rule, but the landlord class of Ming!The foundation of the Ming Dynasty is already the landlord class of the Ming Dynasty.

If the person in power does not work for the welfare of his own basic owner class, but for the welfare of the so-called Ming people...

Can you do it?

Obviously impossible to do.

Will someone betray class?

There will definitely be, but after all, there are only a few.

Can the few subdue the many?

Can the individual bring the class to its knees?

Obviously impossible.

Following this association, Li Xiu suddenly discovered that thousands of years of history and dozens of dynasties seemed to have never completely solved this problem.

The so-called replacement of dynasties means that the world will be divided for a long time, and it is nothing more than the spread and expansion of the landlord class, which slowly grows to the peak, making countless low-level ants in the world unable to survive, and then, it will be the end of the dynasty, and the world will be in chaos!

But the world is in chaos, in order to conquer the world, ambitious people have to cooperate with the landlord class until they win the world, and the landlord class that has survived the catastrophe begins the process of growing, spreading and expanding, and starts a cycle of reincarnation!

Why is it said that the world must be divided for a long time, and it must be divided for a long time? This is the general trend, and manpower cannot go against it at all?

This is the most fundamental reason!

It has never been a historical law, it is just the reincarnation of an interest class driven by human nature!