Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

All the people gathered together, did not speak, and were still burying their heads in hard work.

"Li Baozheng, if you have anything to say, please tell me quickly. We have to work after eating. If we can't finish the work, the landlord will deduct the grain. The rent is getting higher and higher these days, and we can't survive! "A young man with a face full of dirt bent his body, chewing wild vegetable roots in his mouth, looking a little anxious.

Li Baozheng ignored them, but waited for everyone to arrive.

There were more and more people, and finally Li Baozheng said loudly: "I want to tell you something, this year's autumn tax will be increased!"

As soon as he said this, Free Farmers in the crowd exploded first.

"Why do you want to add more pies! Didn't you add more pies last year!"

"That's right! Why do you want to send more!"

"Whether we let people live or not, we can't even eat enough!"

"..."

Li Baozheng shouted loudly: "Everyone be quiet, listen to me!"

The crowd was still discussing, and the tenants continued to eat as if they had nothing to do with themselves.

Li Baozheng said: "The imperial court wants to fight wars and the Northern Expedition, so we need to send more troops!"

"Why are we going to fight again, who are we going to fight! We're going to fight all day, aren't we going to live?" It was a young man named Liu Xi who spoke.

Liu Xi had read some books before, and also took part in the solution test, but he failed, so he didn't take the test again, and his family really had no money, so he went to work in the fields.

Li Baozheng didn't care about the emotions of these people, and looked at the tenants on one side and said: "Don't eat it, listen carefully, the rent of the Lu family will also increase, and it will rise to [-]%! There are also Wang family, Xie family, The Zhang family..."

As soon as he said this, the tenants also exploded.

The rent is already high, and according to the usual practice, it is seven out of ten.

Usually, the tenants only keep [-]%, and this [-]% wants to support their families, but cannot even make ends meet.

Therefore, the tenants are busy with farming when the farming is busy, begging, doing coolies, or digging weeds when the farming is slack.

Why did the poll tax in the Great Song Dynasty lead to infanticide, but the population grew so rapidly?

For these farmers, one more person means more strength, and the husband will come down and say that he is lucky to be able to grow up alive.

It is normal to sell wives and daughters when the harvest is not good, or the government wants to seize the land, and it is really not withdrawn.

What makes this group of people even more miserable is that they are just mud legs in history, and most of the historical materials do not see their traces.

Literati would not describe them too much, even those who made money by writing novels in ancient times, most of them would not describe such people.

why?

After all, the audience doesn't want to watch it.

The audience is more willing to listen to the poignant love stories of the rich and powerful, and to find the glory of Chinese military power from history to satisfy their emotions.

Among the leaders in China's thousands of years of history, there is only one person who really managed to let these people make their own voices and express their demands: eat enough!

At this moment, both the free farmers and the tenants shouted loudly: "Why add again! We are not enough ourselves!"

"Let no one live, and work hard all year round to plant some land, all of which will be given to the landlord and the government!"

A middle-aged woman shed tears and cried: "Our family still owes Xie's family money. If this continues, we will never be able to pay it back!"

"The children don't have to eat, this is going to drive people to death!"

Liu Xi shouted: "Li Baozheng, the villagers will not be able to live like this!"

Li Baozheng yelled loudly: "Why are you arguing! This is an order from the government, and I can control it! The imperial court wants to fight, it is to protect you people, don't be ignorant!"

"The imperial court wants to fight a war, and ask the landlords and gentlemen to ask for food. Why do you force us little people to search fiercely! Leave a mouthful for my child, just a mouthful!"

"Liu Xi! What do you mean by that! How dare you slander the court! Be careful I'll arrest you!"

"I won't pay! I'm out of food! I've worked so hard for a year! Add me and I'll have nothing!" Liu Xi said angrily.

"Yes! No!"

"Well, you Liu Dalang, you dare to fight against the imperial court! Someone! Arrest him and turn him over to the Dantu county government!" Li Baozheng's tone became indifferent, "No one in Zhenjiang Prefecture dares not pay taxes! Neither can the tenants. Pay less, you all signed the contract!"

As soon as he said this, the crowd immediately fell silent.

People start eating.

Several big men arrested Liu Xi and smashed the bowl in his hand.

Liu Xi said angrily, "Aren't you afraid that the common people will rebel by doing this?"

"Bold! Call me!"

A big man punched Liu Xi in the face, and Liu Xi fell down next to his rice bowl, feeling distressed when he saw the spilled rice.

Li Baozheng stepped on Liu Xi's head, crushed it hard and said, "After studying for a few years, you became a traitor?"

Everyone else continued to eat with their heads down.

At this time, in the silent field, the sound of horseshoes came.

And listening to the sound, it is not one or two horses, but many horses.

Everyone looked for the reputation, but saw a group of people approaching quickly on the country road.

"Yue Shuai, there is someone in front, you can ask about the situation."

Chapter 536 Intercepted by Yue Fei (Second Change)

Yue Fei led the people along the way.

When everyone saw these cavalrymen, they couldn't help but retreated under the tree.

Li Baozheng said with a smile on his face: "This Shangguan, I don't know where he came from, what's your business?"

Looking at Liu Xi who was trampled under his feet, seeing Liu Xi's outfit again, and looking at Li Baozheng again, Yue Fei, who grew up in the countryside, immediately guessed everything.

He asked, "What has this man done that you should be so ashamed of?"

Li Baozheng said: "How dare this person take the lead in resisting taxes! Fight against the imperial court and want to plot rebellion!"

Liu Xi shouted loudly: "You are wronged! We are just farmers!"

"Shut up!" Li Baozheng yelled angrily, "Boldly making trouble!"

Yue Fei said, "You are?"

"The villain is the Baozheng here."

"You said he conspired against him, where are his accomplices?"

"This... Shangguan, he..."

Yue Fei asked: "You don't want to say that he rebelled by himself?"

"This……"

"What about the weapon of rebellion?"

"This……"

"Who can prove that he rebelled? Why did he rebel?"

"Shangguan, this person resists taxes!"

"I do not have……"

"You still dare to talk nonsense, call me!" Li Baozheng said angrily.

"Stop!" Yue Fei angrily reprimanded.

Those people didn't dare to move.

Yue Fei looked at Li Baozheng and asked, "Are you here to collect taxes?"

"Yes... no... I'm here to tell them to pay their taxes on time and in volume."

"Then why did you arrest him?"

Li Baozheng said: "This year Zhenjiang Mansion will send a little more, this person refuses to cooperate..."

Before Li Baozheng could finish speaking, Yue Fei asked, "Additional faction? Who said that we should increase the faction?"

"Yes...of course it was said by the magistrate of Dantu County, we are only following orders."

Yue Fei said: "Where are the official documents sent?"

"what?"

"Where is the official paperwork for Gapai?"

"This... this is not there!"

Yue Fei's face darkened immediately: "You don't even have an official document for the additional dispatch, yet you dare to come to the additional dispatch! This commander sees that you are talking nonsense, and you want to take this opportunity to blackmail people! Come, arrest these people!"

As soon as Yue Fei said this, several Shenwu soldiers came up immediately.

Those big men wanted to resist, but where the Shenwu Army could resist, they were taken down in the blink of an eye.

The villagers under the tree were too frightened to make a sound. Liu Xi got up from the ground and immediately went to pick up the rice that had been spilled on the ground. If he didn't eat enough, he wouldn't be able to work in the afternoon.

Li Baozheng was arrested and screamed: "Shangguan, I am Baozheng, and I am following orders!"

"Nonsense! You don't even have an official document. How can you add more people just by saying a word!" Yue Fei knew too well the tricks of those officials in the folk, "Who do you order? The magistrate of Dantu County, or Zhenjiang The magistrate?"

"This……"

Seeing Li Baozheng's eyes dodge and his words hesitated, Yue Fei felt even more that this guy just wanted to make money for himself.

Originally Yue Fei came here this time to maintain stability and should not care about these things, but now this person is obviously ulterior motives.

"It's the magistrate of Dantu County."

"Oh, let's go, let's meet the magistrate of Dantu County and see if it's his order for you."

Seeing that Yue Fei was going to take him to verify, Li Baozheng immediately knelt down in fright: "Shangguan, forgive me, the villain will never dare again! It's all the idea of ​​that official!"

Li Baozheng is regretful now, and he himself is just a small Baozheng. Although the court is reforming the officials, after all, the reform of the officials has not yet come to Zhenjiang Mansion, and his status as an official is actually not high. .

"The official said that someone wants a large amount of food recently, and they can sell it to them to make some extra money, so the villain is greedy for a while, so..."

Zhang Xian immediately interjected and asked: "There is no war in Zhenjiang Mansion, who wants a large amount of food?"

"The villain doesn't know much about it. He said that a rich businessman came from Jiangning Mansion and urgently needed a large amount of food."

"What is the name of the rich businessman?"

"The little guy doesn't know."

"Where is the official Zhang you mentioned?"

"Here we go to the manor twenty miles to the west."

"Then the rich businessman in Jiangning contacted Zhang Guanren?"

"Yes Yes."

Zhang Xian said: "Yue Shuai, do you want to investigate?"

"go!"

They took Li Baozheng with them and flew towards the Zhang family's manor.

At this moment, the manor is still lively.

Liu Biao was delivering his extremely contagious speech: "I heard that there was an uprising among the people in Hongzhou. The momentum was huge, and several state capitals had already been captured. The man should do something big. Why don't we unite and gather troops in Jiangdong to seek the world! "

Zhang Zhi said: "The imperial court is strong and strong, I'm afraid we must be able to resist."

Liu Biao laughed and said, "The war on the northern front is tense, how dare the imperial court send troops south?"

"Then you said that Zong Ze has arrived in Jiangning, isn't this a soldier?"

"Zongze only brought 2000 troops, and Zhu Changgui already had an army of [-] people. He said that this Zhenjiang Mansion told Li Baozheng yesterday to let him send more troops, so that those mud-legged people would have no way out. On the contrary, wouldn’t it be better for us to enrich our troops?”

"So what do we do now?" asked one of the wealthy businessmen.

Liu Biao said: "To tell you the truth, Zhu Changgui's troops have already arrived at Jurong County, [-] miles away from here. By the time we finish discussing, I'm afraid Jurong has already been taken, and this news will reach Jiangning tomorrow. Tomorrow Zhu Changgui's men can surround Jiang Ning and capture and kill Zong Ze!"

Some people are still a little worried.

"This is treason, you will be beheaded!"

Liu Biao said: "All of you have countless usury loans. Do you think you can survive? Think about the news that came from before, how many people were killed by the dog emperor in Xiangyang Mansion! Are we going to sit and wait for death!"