These four-wheeled carriages traveling between Linzi City and various counties and counties not only brought tools, farm implements and technology out, but also brought various news from counties, counties and military government back to Linzi.
In this month's comings and goings, the biggest impact is that the mentality of the Tianke slaves under the rule of powerful people in various places has changed. When they see four-wheeled carts carrying bent-shaft plows and brand-new farm tools, After it was distributed to farmers in the military government and households of refugees, all these farm servants became jealous.
With these tools for reclaiming wasteland, it is possible to reclaim nearly twice as much wasteland, which means twice as much food.
What makes these powerful landowners even more jealous is that, not to mention the field army soldiers, the newly arrived refugees are also all assigned with plows and farm tools. Although not everyone has them, those who cultivate The speed is still much higher than that of powerful land guest serfs like them. More importantly, the various taxes and taxes of these refugees will only be only 30% by autumn, which makes these semi-serf land guests even more jealous.
Soon, some of the landowners who had taken shelter from the powerful fled one after another to neighboring counties and became registered refugees as refugees.
Because most of the Tianke serfs of Haoqiang are not officially registered with the government, and they far exceed the quota of Yinhu, so for these escaped Tianke serfs, Haoqiang cannot report them to the official, and even the supervisors and guardians of various suzerains do not dare to run away. They went to neighboring counties to hunt down escaped slaves, so they had to tighten supervision over their respective land guest slaves.
As a result, there were soon more than a dozen cases of gangsters beating escaped slaves to death.
Liu Yu saw several more cases of powerful men chasing escaped slaves to death. In fact, these land servants who did not have slave status could be held accountable for the crime of causing death. However, now that spring plowing has officially begun, Liu Yu I did not expect to launch an attack on these powerful people during this period, nor did I want to take this opportunity to suppress them.
He could only put it aside for the time being, but Liu Yu still muttered softly with some helplessness.
"I took a long breath to cover my tears, mourning the hardships of the people's lives."
Qu Yuan's words were in line with Liu Yu's mood at this time.
As soon as Liu Yu finished speaking, a sound like a silver bell came through the door.
"Hee hee, husband, why are you so interested in reading Li Sao by Qu Zi?"
As he said this, the little Lolita Wang Ze, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes and had her hair combed on her temples, said, oh, forget it now. After more than a year of growing up, she has completely transformed into a young woman.
Surrounded by several maids with their clothes and hands hanging down, Wang Ze entered Liu Yu's study.
"It's not interesting at all. I just lament the hardship of ordinary people's lives."
After more than a year of getting along, Liu Yu fell in love with his young wife Wang Ze.
Although I am not an old cow, no matter whether I am a calf, a medium cow or an old cow, I always like young grass.
Wang Zecai walked up to Liu Yu and wanted to sit down next to him. Liu Yu stretched out his hand and Wang Ze's petite body fell into Liu Yu's arms.
Wang Ze's face turned red, but he was very happy in his heart.
Although there were several maids nearby, she did not regard these maids as an eyesore at all, so she stayed in Liu Yu's arms with peace of mind.
"Where have you been?" Liu Yu hugged her and asked.
"I'm going to see Li Ping'er first. She's pregnant. As the mistress, I should naturally be concerned about her," Wang Ze said.
Li Ping'er, a powerful Li family in Juancheng, gave a daughter to Liu Yu as a concubine in order to curry favor with Liu Yu. She was just over a month pregnant.
Liu Yu immediately smelled a smell of vinegar from the girl's body fragrance. No matter how old a woman is, it is better not to let them smell jealous.
"Then Li Ping'er has her own slaves from Juancheng's family to serve her. You don't have to worry about her. How can a concubine bother a lady to visit her personally?"
Liu Yu knew that Wang Ze was young and actually didn't have much jealousy, so he just let it go.
After a casual coaxing, Wang Ze stopped talking about the matter, and she continued.
"Actually, I just dropped by to see Li Ping'er. Yunzhu was about to give birth. I went to see her. But when I went, Yunzhu fell asleep, so no one called her. When I came back, I stopped by to see her. Look at Li Ping'er."
The "Yunzhu" in Wang Ze's mouth was her dowry maid, a plump woman. Liu Yu "accidentally fell into the passenger car" and was about to give birth.
At the beginning, Liu Yu was a little strange. Wang Ze didn't seem to be jealous at all about Yunzhu, the maid who was accompanying him, and he was not jealous at all that Yunzhu was going to have a baby.
Now, Liu Yu has understood that this is entirely because a maid like Yunzhu is basically a substitute in the eyes of a high-ranking lady like Wang Ze. Everything about them is in Wang Ze's hands, even if After giving birth to a child, it is also Wang Ze's child, and they can only be the child's slaves. Although there is another special relationship, no one in the house will mention the child unless the head of the family and his wife mention it.
Liu Yu then asked a few questions casually. He was already very familiar with the interpersonal relationships under these etiquette relationships, and some later generations' views were not adapted to this era.
What's more, the beneficiary of this etiquette is Liu Yu himself.
Doesn’t it feel good when the stars are shining over the moon?
Cool.
Therefore, Liu Yu was too lazy to do anything thankless.
After chatting with Liu Yuqing for a while, Wang Ze blinked lightly, a hazy mist filled his eyes, and said in a delicate tone.
"Husband, I am sixteen years old this year, and my birthday is February, so I am very old."
Liu Yu had heard Wang Ze's words several times before, and he had always excused them by saying he was young or something like that.
"You are still young..." Liu Yu was blocked by two fingers as soon as he opened his mouth.
Wang Ze raised his hand arrogantly and said.
"Humph, it's not like I haven't seen it before. I'm already sixteen, so I'm still young there."
Liu Yu glanced at her with both eyes, and it was true that he could no longer be said to be young.
Fortunately, the charcoal fire used to cook wine in the room was very hot, which made Liu Yu feel a little hot.
Wang Ze's thoughts had been understood for a long time, and Liu Yu was quickly defeated by her coquettish request and decided to sacrifice his life for justice.
Unfortunately, as soon as I made up my mind, two loud voices like bull roars came from outside.
"My lord, my lord, Wang Li has sent urgent news from Lelang County. He has something important to report!"
It was the voice of the eldest nephew Liu Xun, otherwise no one in this courtyard would dare to shout so loudly.
Liu Yu, who had just stretched out his hand halfway, quickly gave up. Wang Ze was also ashamed and annoyed, so he led several maids out and left.
When Liu Xun saw Wang Ze going out, he respectfully called "aunt", but he only got a big roll of his eyes from Wang Ze.
Liu Xun, who was confused, entered the room, and Liu Yu asked.
"Wang Li, what's the message from Lelang?"
Liu Xun quickly handed a letter with a hidden mark into Liu Yu's hands. Liu Yu looked at the outer envelope and found that there was no problem, then he opened the envelope, took out the letter and read it.
There were not many words in the letter, so Liu Yu quickly read it without saying anything.
Liu Xun asked curiously, "Sir, what did Wang Lixin say?"
"Wang Li said that the weapons and armor delivered to Lelang and Daifang counties in advance may not be recouped." Liu Yu said calmly.
When Liu Xun heard this, he immediately became furious, "What! Is it possible that the scholars in these two counties will default on their debts?"
"Repudiation?" Liu Yu continued calmly, "That's not true. We have the ability to use force to collect debts, but they don't dare."
"It's not a repudiation, what is that?" Liu Xun asked.
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