A small village outside the county where Fuzhou Governor's Office is located.
Xu Yunyan and Li Chengqian rode two donkeys and entered the village under the leadership of several servant-looking people.
Why is this man riding a donkey?
Li Chengqian's face was full of displeasure, but Xu Yunyan scratched his head.
"Your Highness, please be patient. If we don't ride donkeys and war horses, any knowledgeable person will think that we are either rich or noble and will not tell us the true situation. They will have reservations." .
We riding donkeys will just think that we are ordinary wandering students passing by here, and will not deliberately be wary of us. "
But Xu Yunyan said it nicely, and Li Chengqian looked at him and said it with a smile.
"I still look like a handsome young man when I ride a donkey, but Master, you, the general in charge of the army, don't look like a wandering scholar on a donkey. Instead, you look like a general running for his life."
Li Chengqian said this jokingly, and Xu Yunyan spread his hands helplessly, "Who told us to be destined to be like this? Don't you think so, Your Highness?"
Although Xu Yunyan was a little dissatisfied with Li Chengqian saying that he was a defeated general, he also knew that it was an unintentional remark. He was just being polite to Li Chengqian here, and the two of them just talked and laughed. ????????village.
When a man from a village came over, they immediately stopped talking about the generals and their shortcomings. Instead, they talked about some issues that fit their current status.
In order to show that he is a student, Li Chengqian just shook his head here and recited some sage books and their contents. This is what Li Chengqian looked like when he listened to Li Chengqian's content of worrying about the world's worries first and enjoying the world's happiness later. Although Xu Yunyan is tall and tall, his face is a little dark.
This is obviously a saying from the Song Dynasty, but I only borrowed it from you. You are talking about it here as if it were a sage book. However, this unprecedented and unprecedented saying really makes us feel ashamed!
Although Xu Yunyan looked very confused about Li Chengqian's behavior, Li Chengqian was enjoying it. He said such words to attract the attention of the men who came from the village.
"I don't know why this young master came to my Liangjiazhuang?"
After a relatively knowledgeable person said some kind words, Li Chengqian stopped shaking his head and looked at the sage's book and watched him start talking.
"I want you brothers to know that my master and I have traveled across the country to gain more knowledge in preparation for taking the imperial examination again next year. This trip has made you laugh."
But as soon as Li Chengqian finished saying this, the man in front of him looked at them and scratched his head, looking a little unbelievable.
"I think you two look familiar."
"oh?"
Li Chengqian was very confused now.
"Looks familiar, how come we look familiar? You must have recognized the wrong person, right? We are new to Guibao Land."
But just as Li Chengqian said this, the person in front of him who felt that Li Chengqian and Xu Yunyan looked a bit familiar suddenly jumped up.
"I remembered, you are the great benefactors who uphold justice for us!"
When this person said this, Li Chengqian and Xu Yunyan looked at each other. Still shameless enough not to admit it.
"Did you admit the wrong person?"
Li Chengqian was still quibbling here, but the man in front of him was speaking with absolute certainty.
"I won't admit my mistake. I know you, and you are the one who brought justice to us. Now we have your portraits hanging in every house. We burn incense for you every day and pray for your safety and health. No wonder I feel familiar."
"Forehead?"
This moment made Li Chengqian and Xu Yunyan extremely helpless.
"Now that you know our identities, tell us how our lives are going now."
While Li Chengqian was in a daze, Xu Yunyan had no choice but to step forward and pull the man in front of her towards the base of a big tree outside the village. While enjoying the shade under the tree, she asked what the situation was and at the same time asked for the information she needed. .
Li Chengqian followed the two of them to the foot of the tree reluctantly. He sighed and changed his vest. He didn't expect that he would be recognized by others before he took action.
Li Chengqian was wailing there, and Xu Yunyan looked at him.
"Your Highness, don't be too anxious. We have gained the trust of the people by doing this. Isn't it a good thing that the people are praying for us to live forever?"
Li Chengqian comforted Li Chengqian in this way, but Li Chengqian spread his hands helplessly.
"Master is right, what you say is what it says."
Li Chengqian had no choice but to sit next to the woods with a bit of anger, watching Xu Yunyan asking how to get the information they needed in front of them.
Xu Yunyan and the man in front of her didn't ask anything. Instead, they asked how much taxes they paid every year, and silently wondered whether the taxes they paid exceeded?????????? ?????The regulations of the imperial court.
Fortunately, the taxes were already heavy enough in the past, and these officials did not do anything wrong.
Although there were some sneaky tricks on the amount of food and grass, causing them to lose some food and grass, it was not too obvious to them. They just felt that their own affairs were slightly different from those of the new people in the government. There is just a way out.
But right here, Li Chengqian felt a little helpless looking at the person in front of him.
Don't you want to collect information? When He Jing was talking about these trivial things, Xu Yunyan changed his words and pointed to the fields outside the village and asked the man from Liangjia Village.
"You still don't know what to call this brother?"
"Forehead?"
This moment made Li Chengqian stunned again. You were pointing at the fertile land in front of you, so you should have asked about the situation of the fertile land in front of you. Suddenly you asked him what his name was.
This man was even more moved after Xu Yunyan asked him how to address him, and he spoke more tremblingly.
"So that the adults know, little Liang San."
Most people in Liangjia Village have the surname Liang, and he ranks third. In his own opinion, it is appropriate to call him Liang San.
It's just that Xu Yunyan felt speechless when he saw that these people were Wang Er, Ma San and so on. Now he met Liang San again, but even though he was speechless, he still raised his hand to Liang Sanyi.
"Three brothers Liang."
Liang San was even more excited now and almost knelt down to kowtow to Xu Yunyan.
"My lord, you can just call me mistress. There is no need to be so polite to me. I have a life to live with, so how can I be called my brother like this?"
However, Xu Yunyan didn't pay attention to this. Instead, he pulled Liang San to sit down casually, pointed at the fertile fields in front of him, and finally asked what Li Chengqian wanted to know.
"Didn't you know that all these fertile fields are owned by Liangjiacun?"
Liang San shook his head hastily.
"No, we in Liangjia Village don't have any of these lands."
"What, your Liangjia Village has nothing at all, what's going on? Do you all live here in your Liangjia Village? Why don't you have your ration fields here? How do you live?"
Xu Yunyan had just asked his doubts about the fact that there were no ration fields for the villagers of Liangjia Village outside Liangjia Village, but he was indeed like a mirror in his mind.
At this moment, I caught myself. If I really encountered it, the land in Liangjia Village wouldn't be rented to them by noble children or wealthy families, right?
While Xu Yunyan was muttering here, Liang San, who said that he did not have land in Liangjiacun, shook his head.
"This is really not the land of our village, and we don't have the ability to plant much land here. It's all rented."
"They're all rented?"
At this moment, Li Chengqian was surprised, "Who rented it? Who owns such a large piece of land and such fertile land in Fuzhou? I don't remember any distinguished person who would get so much Yongye land."
Just after Li Chengqian said this, Liang San in front of him hurriedly spoke.
"This is not the land of an official, but the land of the Huang family in our county."
"Huang family? Who is the Huang family? Why do they have so many fields?"
Under the questioning of his benefactor, Liang San immediately started talking.
"These lands originally belonged to our Liangjia Village."
What Liang San said made Li Chengqian and Xu Yunyan even more curious.
"Since this field belonged to your Liangjia Village before, what happened now? Why did it become the Huang family's?"
Under Xu Yunyan's questioning, Liang San scratched his head in embarrassment.
"This starts from a few years ago. A few years ago, Fujian Province encountered a rare flood."
"Fuzhou encountered a flood?"
This was something Li Chengqian never expected.
"No, I've never seen a memorial in Fuzhou when it encountered water! What's going on?"
Li Chengqian also scratched his head and wondered what was going on with the flood in Fuzhou? But Xu Yunyan seemed to have thought of something and explained to Li Chengqian.
"It could be a tsunami or heavy rain caused by a typhoon."
After Xu Yunyan said his guess, Liang San nodded hurriedly.
"Yes, yes, God was not kind and brought a lot of rain. We were flooded and had no food to eat. We had no choice but to go to the city to beg.
We met Mr. Huang. He saw that we were pitiful, so he gave us some food and grass to support us.
At first we thought Mr. Huang was a good person. "
As soon as they said this, Xu Yunyan and Li Chengqian also thought that Mr. Huang was not bad, but after Liang San named him and said that they felt that Mr. Huang was a good person at the beginning, they felt that things had changed.
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Sure enough, as they thought, Liang San started talking again.
"After Mr. Huang gave us more food, when we returned home, he brought people to ask for the food he had given us, and he wanted so much more. It was unreasonable for us not to give it.
Didn't this suddenly come up with the idea of letting us mortgage our grain fields and exchange them for some grain to live off our lives?
Didn't it just happen to be flooded? After being flooded, the fields were unable to produce anything, and we had no food rations. "
Liang San can be said to have shed tears and shed blood.
"There was no other way. It ended up being like this. We gave up our fields in exchange for part of the food rations. We originally thought we could harvest grain and grass the next year and then exchange our fields back, but who knew that the food harvest would be about to be good the next year? , another fire burned all the food inexplicably.
There was no choice but to borrow more grain, and the land would be mortgaged, otherwise it would never come back. I couldn't pay back the borrowed grain even if I didn't eat or drink it for two years. In the end, I had to work for Mr. Huang to earn some grain to support the family.
But strangely enough, once we rented Mr. Huang's land, the fields would be disaster-free, which we didn't expect.
There is a lot of output every year, but except for the taxes paid, everything else falls into Mr. Huang's pocket. Now we have a few great benefactors to uphold justice for us and let us have a surplus of food. I would like to thank you both again. grown ups. "
