"The county lieutenant said that in the fall, the taxes paid will be less than half of last year. Do you believe it?"
"I didn't think about it."
"I do not believe."
The farmer who spoke was named Guan Amai. He recently sold the land leased to him to the Song family, and now he is temporarily living in the farmhouse of his friend Liu Cai from the same village.
The reason why he didn't believe Xue Bai was because his grandfather had been a fugitive before. Later, Yu Wenrong took over the household. The imperial court had promised to "start education in six years", that is, newly registered farmers would be exempted from paying taxes for six years. However, In the third year, the land was not harvested yet, so the court imposed heavy taxes.
Guan Amai remembered the deep wrinkles on his grandpa's face and the sad brows, but he couldn't tell what happened.
"If you have land, just plant it." Liu Cai gnawed on his finger, feeling that it tasted salty, and sucked it. Maybe it was because the salt made him more energetic, and he muttered again, "I believe in the county captain."
His grandfather originally wanted to name him Liu Cai, which means "leaving money", but the county official was too lazy to write more, so he was given this name.
Guan Amai asked: "When the farming season is off, will you go to the county to sell vegetables?"
In fact, Guan Amai did not spend the ten copper coins the Song family gave them when they bought the land. Instead, he hid most of them and buried them under the dung pile in Liu Cai's backyard.
Suddenly, someone pushed the door open and came in.
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Guan Amai quickly stood up and called: "Guo Sanwulang."
"Liu Cai, do you know that you have occupied the Guo family's land?!"
"I didn't...the county captain divided my..."
"Eating dog intestines, you are still here with me as a 'county lieutenant', your mother, please immediately hand over the lease deed given to you by the county office and get out!"
"The ground was plowed and the seeds were sown..."
Liu Cai was still talking when he was slapped and knocked to the ground.
Guo Sanwu said: "If you pee on the Guo family's ground, do you also want to say that the ground belongs to you?!"
On the contrary, the steward of the Guo family who followed was a nice person. He stepped forward to help Liu Cai up with a pleasant look and said with a smile:
"My young man is straightforward and understands your difficulties. If you run out of food, go to the Guo family and help farm the land to keep your family alive."
These situations were completely beyond what a farmer who had never seen the world could handle. Liu Cai was still in a daze when a deed of identity was handed to him.
"Let's make a pledge. From now on, if you stay in this place, the Guo family will support you."
"I can't read.
"Do you want to know how to read?!" Guo Sanwu said impatiently, "Hurry up."
Guan Amai was more experienced. He raised his head and saw that the Guo family had brought many tribesmen, and they had a large number of people. He then nodded and bowed and slipped out, saying: "The villain has no land, no land."
After leaving the house, he rushed outside first, ran across the field in a hurry, and grabbed a fellow villager who was also running in a panic.
"Acai's mother-in-law and daughter are in the weaving workshop? Tell them not to come back yet!"
"The weaving shop is also fighting!"
"What's wrong?"
"The big family captured the escaped slaves and started a fight. Everyone died!"
Because his mother-in-law and children were also in the weaving workshop, Guan Amai suddenly became confused and asked: "Who died?"
"Xue Shuaitou didn't let the big family catch people, so he killed them..."
Guan Amai felt relieved. His mother-in-law was ugly, so she should be fine.
He felt that this situation was more and more like the time when my grandfather was suddenly taxed and the government changed again.
Fortunately, he was smart and sold the fields at a good price while Lieutenant Xue County was still there.
In the manure field, pick up the hoe and start digging.
When Guo Sanwulang led people to drag Liu Cai to the next house, he went back to the backyard of Liu Cai's house. This hoe was forged by Xue County Lieutenant. It was very smooth and dug out a deep hole in a short time. , with a "ding" sound, Guan Amai was afraid of damaging the hoe and the copper coins, but he didn't mind getting dirty, so he dug directly with his hands and pulled out a large sack.
He didn't care about anything else and ran away with the heavy money in his arms.
"Ouch!"
Suddenly two sticks stretched out and tripped him down. They were several members of the Guo family who stared at him for a long time.
Coins were scattered all over the floor.
"Thirty-five Lang, there is a thief!"
"I'm not a thief...this is my thing...
"Can the things dug out from my master's land be yours?"
"It's really mine. I sold the field and Manager Song gave it to me. If you don't believe me, ask him..."
"What you are selling is also the land of my master's family. Also, the steward of the Song family is talking to Thirty-five Lang. Your lie will be exposed soon."
The Guo family members packed up their money and left.
Guan Amai rushed over and hugged the bag, shouting: "It's really my money! Manager Song is right there, ask him!"
Song Tianshou was discussing with Guo Sanwulang how to divide the land boundaries, including how to allocate the newly reclaimed wasteland by Xue Bai. Now there are seedlings sprouting in the fields. If the talks are good or bad, the difference can be tens of thousands of shi of food a year.
Suddenly hearing the quarrel, they all turned their heads and glanced.
Song Tianshou recognized that it was the farmer who had bought and rented the land from him a while ago, and secretly thought that it was bad luck. Although he was testing Xue Bai at that time, he paid a high price because of Xue Bai's face. In addition, Xue Bai did give the farmers confidence. Don’t sell it if you don’t have that much money.
At this time it became a joke.
At this time, Song Tianshou might be able to get the money back as long as he opened his mouth, but he did not want to delay discussing the land allocation with the Guo family.
"Let's continue talking. The Guo family has lured the wolf into the house, and now they want to return to the original fields. Then don't get involved in the new fields.
"The Guo family has suffered the greatest loss."
Guo Sanwulang's face became more serious, and he raised his hand to ask Buqu to drive Guan Amai away so as not to disturb his important affairs.
"My money! Mine!"
Don't make any noise, just drag it on.
Guan Amai hugged the package tightly and refused to let go, shouting: "Manager Song, the money you gave me..."
But the more he shouted, the harder Guo Jiabuqu dragged him down and hit him on the head with a stick.
"Manager Song!"
Guan Amai could no longer care about the pain. Without the money, his family would really have no way to survive, so he hugged the coins tightly and called for Song Tianshou.
The sticks fell on him one after another. He really didn't understand why Manager Song refused to say a word for him even though he was so close.
"Manager Song..."
"puff."
There was a muffled sound when the stick hit the flesh. In the end, Guan Amai even forgot about the money and only stared at Manager Song, wanting to see if he could turn around.
No.
He really didn't deserve to be looked at by the other party.
"died?"
"尻! Don't let go."
"Bury him, he is a fugitive, who knows where he has gone.
Over there, Song Tianshou's face also became serious.
"The canal was built by Xue Bai with money from the Song family. The new fields must belong to the Song family!"
"That land belonged to the Guo family fifty years ago." Guo Sanwulang shouted: "My family's ancestral graves are still on it!"
Guan Amai was buried that day, not far from the field.
In the field, a wheat seedling also broke through the ground. Together with the soil that gave birth to it, it entered a wealthy family.
“The wheat seedlings are already out, why should we occupy our fields?!”
"This land is not yours!"
To the west of Huiguo Town, the resistance encountered by the wealthy families was extremely strong. The farmers of Jimin Society who had been taken in by Xue Bai for the whole winter gathered together and were very united.
"This land was originally wasteland. Because the county promised to open up wasteland for the Song family, the Song family paid for the digging of this canal. Xue County Lieutenant did not explain it clearly to you, so he let you occupy the land. You eat the food provided by the Song family, and you occupy the land. It’s the Song family’s field, is that reasonable? Apart from other things, the canal has not been completed yet, and now it has stopped. Do you have water to irrigate the fields in the summer?!”
"It's useless to say anything. The big dogs want to steal our fields, but they can't!"
"The county office has spoken, do you want to fight against the court? Rebellion?!
"We want Lieutenant Xue County to come back!"
It was Song Mian and Guo Huan who brought people to occupy the land, but they did not come forward to speak and only watched from the carriage.
Song Mian was anxious to make meritorious deeds to show his stance to the family, and kept urging his tribe to intimidate the farmers.
Guo Huan was a little absent-minded. He looked up at the ancestral graves in the distance and felt that he was too lazy to take care of the land occupation for his family.
It's not that his moral character has improved after being with Xue Bai for a few days, but the hurt in his heart has not healed yet.
He has been thinking recently, what is the use of working hard to make money for these people?
The so-called profit-sharing interests, interests are most likely to change at a moment's notice, and the interest relationship is most unreliable... This is something I know only after personal experience.
In the past, he always thought that after his death, the house and money would be left to his wife and children. No, they were swallowed up completely in the blink of an eye. The first ones to be swallowed up were the relatives in the family who had received the most help from him.
Suddenly, a loud shout pulled Guo Huan out of his thoughts.
"Come on, fight!"
"Do you know this is a rebellion?!"
"Kill me!"
Among the Jimin Society, the loudest shouter was a farmer named Zhao Yuliang. He was still a farmer at this time, but he was standing next to Xue Xin and stretched his head towards the tribes.
"If you can, come to me for a moment!"
Pen'er was guarding Zhao Yuliang with a sickle in his hand, and shouted: "Who dares to touch it?!"
Their momentum was not weak, but it actually made the other side hesitate.
"How about giving these unruly people a lesson?"
Song Mian saw that there were more than a hundred big men on the opposite side, and they were not as submissive as the farmers beside him, so he asked Guo Huan, "What do you think Guo Lu said?"
"There's no rush." Guo Huan said, "If we cut off their water and surround them for a few days, they will naturally become discouraged."
The two of them then left Buqu behind and returned to the county town temporarily to discuss with everyone.
Large families nearby, such as the Cui family and the Zheng family, also contributed money to replenish the Guo family's fields. Now that they have to return it to the Guo family, they naturally have to make up for the losses, so they have been very busy in the past two days. Today, the Cui family has occupied several hectares of land on the south side of Yishui River. It has been wanted for a long time, but was delayed due to Xue Bai's plan to acquire the land.
If Xue Baizhen can really ask the Prime Minister's Office to come forward, they will have to settle the matter of the fields as soon as possible. By then, the law will not punish everyone, and they will have to recognize those lands as theirs.
What I didn't expect was that we would encounter united resistance from the Jimin Society.
"This matter cannot be delayed any longer, otherwise unscrupulous people will follow suit."
"Simple, each family gathers their troops and suppresses them all at night."
"Is it necessary?" Guo Huan asked, "According to the usual method, just spend more time..."
"Xue Xin killed people in the weaving workshop today, I'm afraid it will increase his reputation."
"What should we do with the water workers? The water workers are all facing Xue Bai."
"The canal is busy, and half of them are gone. There are still many who have been assigned to cultivate wasteland. Today, those who are unscrupulous often have worked as water workers. The remaining county magistrates will personally appease them, just because they are willing to spend money."
"Fortunately, Xue Bai's time is still short."
"Let's fight quickly. There are more than a hundred villains, and each family sends more than a hundred troops to defeat them."
"The ground has sprouted, don't trample on it..."
At night, Zhao Yuliang turned over and couldn't fall asleep, so he simply sat up.
This movement alarmed Pen'er.
Brother Yuliang? What's wrong?
"I heard that the county magistrate burned the field records. Can the field be still defended?"
"Just wait until the county captain comes back." Pen'er rubbed his eyes and muttered nonchalantly.
Zhao Yuliang whispered: "Can the county captain really come back? Let me tell you, many people are not sure."
"I'm sure, Bantou Xue, Shuai Qu, and Brother Ayi are all still in the weaving workshop."
Perhaps because Pen'er was still a child, it was easier to trust people, so he said in a matter-of-fact tone: "When the county captain comes back, we will punish these corrupt officials and evil gentry."
Zhao Yuliang actually believed it. His mother-in-law was still in the weaving workshop. If her mother-in-law was fine, he could spare no effort.
"Okay, go to sleep."
They lay down to sleep, but suddenly they heard a noise outside.
"Which one?!"
Hold them all down!
The next moment, a group of black figures holding wooden sticks rushed in and beat everyone in the room with sticks.
"Calling you arrogant!"
The tribesmen are good at teaching unruly people in this way. They know how to hit the people most painfully without killing them. They use the stick very hard.
Suddenly, there was a loud cry of pain.
The first thing Zhao Yuliang did was to hug Pen'er, block him under him, and put his back against the sticks.
"Jiri!" Pen'er roared angrily: "Hit you again and I will kill you!"
He had been hanging out on the docks and was more bloody than these farmers.
"stop fighting!"
Zhao Yuliang cried loudly: "We were wrong... stop fighting, let's hand over the fields... hand over the fields..."
He had a hoe at hand, but the troops were so outnumbered that he didn't dare to pick it up and wield it.
The farmers had no choice but to agree to hand over the land deeds, and the sticks stopped.
"Jiaotian! Get out!"
Zhao Yuliang stood up with difficulty, and a figure rushed out, but it was Pen'er.
“Who dares to take our fields?!”
Pen'er yelled angrily, and the dagger in his hand had already been stabbed into Yibu's thigh. This was the method he and Ren Mulan learned to kill people and establish their authority.
But he couldn't see anyone clearly at night, so Bu Qu was not intimidated by the child. Instead, in pain, he swung his stick and knocked him to the ground.
"Baner!"
Zhao Yuliang was frightened and angry, so he picked up the hoe and smashed it.
Something warm splashed on his face, and the situation finally got out of control.
At this moment, Zhao Yuliang killed someone in anger. He was no longer just a farmer. He himself was so scared that he stood there.
Pen'er stood up wiping tears, not knowing that someone had died, and shouted: "Our fields are not allowed!"
"Killed!"
"Those unruly people are causing trouble!"
Some people hurriedly ran to the county seat and stepped on the newly sprouted wheat field in a hurry.
Soon, more troops were sent over.
This kind of chaos has not happened before. The officials and gentry have also seen the whole village making trouble together. It is just to scare these unruly people.
"Eating dog intestines and making trouble under my ancestral grave."
Sanwulang Guo was also awakened. The Guo family had sent more than two hundred troops from the field there, but they thought they were dealing with some lowly peasants. Without the master in charge, the troops couldn't let go. Therefore, he is needed to calm the situation and tell the subordinates that they can fight to death.
"Uncle Huan used to do this kind of thing, but now Ah Weng takes care of it. It's really..."
Sir, please work harder. I think you will be the county clerk in the future. "
"I'm afraid that Song Mian will fight with me, but I don't think he can do anything in the county office..."
I took some of the servants from the house and went back to Guo Town. Soon I was in Xintian, and there was a shouting over there.
Guo Sanwulang couldn't help but became furious after hearing the noise, and shouted: "The stick is soft, isn't it? If we don't restrain them tonight, they will be even more lawless. Go tell them, beat these unruly people hard, and you won't be afraid of death!"
"yes!"
The terrain of this new field is higher, and Luoshui can be seen to the east. The water canal is drawn from Luoshui.
At this time, several servants turned around and saw a fire on the Luoshui River, and someone holding a torch was walking along the canal.
"Where is what?"
"Moor the boat at night?"
"It shouldn't be. This is not a dock. There is nothing but new fields."
Guo Sanwulang was curious and took a few steps forward. He saw that there were probably less than ten people coming from the other side.
He then asked loudly: "Which family are you from? Are you also here to help suppress the unruly people?"
"What troublemaker?"
"The unruly people who occupied my new land before will tell you first that this land belongs to my family, and my ancestral graves are on the mountain to the north.
While shouting, the people on the other side were getting closer and could already see the kerosene dripping from time to time on their torches.
One of the leaders asked: "How do you plan to occupy the land?"
"Anyone who doesn't listen will be killed!"
Guo Sanwulang put his hands on his hips and felt majestic, as if he were the head of a county.
Then, he realized that the voice just now sounded familiar.
"After asking for so long, which family do you mean you belong to? Could it be that the Song family wants to occupy the land again? No, you can't be..."
He suddenly remembered something and subconsciously stretched his head, trying to see clearly who was coming in the night.
Sure enough, under the light of the torch, a handsome and disgusting face gradually appeared.
It's Xue Bai.
The strange thing is that Xue Bai pretended to be ill and left for so long, but he didn't bring any senior officials from the court. There were no Jinwu Guards as they mentioned. There were only those few guards. Why did they come from the east?
"Lieutenant Xue County, you still dare to come back..."
"killed."
"puff."
Before Guo Sanwulang finished speaking, a cold light flashed in the night, the wind blew, and his neck was roughly split open.
Blood spurted out and sprinkled on the ground beneath his feet.
Some dry soil silently and quickly sucked up the blood, and remains silent, allowing people to fight for it endlessly. The land remains silent, taking tens of millions of years to resolve everything.
Tolerant yet disdainful.
Xue Bai wanted to solve the land problem, but he couldn't be so tolerant.
He gained some prestige by getting rid of Gao Chong, but it was not enough. The officials and gentry in Yanshi County obviously did not respect him enough. They even blocked his policy of liquidating land and household registration, and he had not yet started to suppress mergers and reforms. The tax system only intends to make Hidden pay taxes.
Either because these officials and gentry are determined not to change, or because they are not afraid of him enough... Then we have to use whatever method is effective, regardless of the consequences.
Without bloodshed, there is no change.
Zhao Yuliang waved his hoe and gradually forgot about his fear.
He didn't care that there were more people on the other side than here, he just thought that it would be good if he could hold the field, otherwise his family would definitely not be able to survive this winter.
But there is still a sense of despair in his heart that the farmland is about to be lost, because this is not the first time that he has lost the farmland.
The last time was because he owed money. When Tianbao failed to harvest for three years, he borrowed five guan from others and used the land as collateral. Unexpectedly, he paid back for three years, and the more he paid back, the more he paid. After three years of harvests were filled in, his The field was lost.
The name "Bai Blind" means that he will actually have no food left in his life. His mother-in-law scolded him as "He is born to be unable to keep money!"
Last winter, if the Xue County Weishe Jimin Society had not taken in their family, they would have had no choice but to sell their youngest daughter. It was not that he did not feel sorry for her, but that the whole family was starving to death, and only the youngest daughter could be sold at a high price. …..
Recalling the feelings of thinking about these things at this time, Zhao Yuliang felt like a knife was twisting in his heart.
"Damn! My field!"
"Kill him! Kill the leader, and the unruly people will become honest!"
As someone in the song shouted like this, all the sticks came towards Zhao Yuliang and beat him to death.
Suddenly, someone outside shouted: "I am the leader, come and beat me to death!"
Everyone turned around and saw more than ten people holding torches coming over.
The tribesmen were still in a daze, but the farmers already knew who it was.
"The county captain is here!"
"The county captain is here!"
Walking in front were Lao Liang and Jiang Hai. They dared to kill people even with their knives, which scared the tribesmen to get out of the way.
"A bunch of trash!"
When Lao Liang opened his mouth, he cursed the farmers.
"The county captain provided you with food and drink all winter to keep you fat. He made you iron farm tools, but you didn't have handles? Did you let people beat you with sticks like this? Trash!"
The farmers looked up and saw Xue Bai coming over, but with a cold face, no longer as gentle as usual.
"County captain." They shouted aggrievedly.
"Is there any use in shouting?! The county captain has assigned the fields to you, do you still have to keep an eye on me all the time?"
Jiang Hai also cursed, stepped forward, snatched the hoe from Zhao Yuliang's hand, and walked towards the tribesmen who were still retreating in fear from him.
Without any explanation, he swung out the hoe and hit the leader directly on the head.
"Bang!"
Killing is difficult, but in Jiang Hai's hands it's that easy.
Everyone around was frightened.
Pen'er clenched his fists, feeling scared and excited. Just now he stabbed someone with a dagger. This was what he wanted.
"Rob?!"
Lao Liang stepped forward and shouted: "The county captain asked you to retreat. Those who do not retreat will be regarded as attacking the official and will not be killed!"
"What are you doing in a daze? Kill him without mercy!"
Zhao Yuliang was feeling ashamed. Hearing this, he picked up a shovel, shouted and rushed forward to beat him randomly.
The shovel broke the body of the person who bullied him, and the blood flowed into his field. He suddenly felt at ease. As long as he could hold on to this land, he would no longer have to sell his little daughter.
"Robbing the fields? Come on!"
Xue Bai finally saw the light of the waving iron weapon.
This is different from the last time when the Cao Gong was won over. In order for the Cao Gong to get a promise, it had to be seen that he was on the same side as the officials and gentry. In other words, that little money is not enough to make people work hard to resist the entire Yanshi gentry, or masters.
Gotta give land.
Buying a refugee with a few biscuits to go to Lishan Mountain to assassinate him is like sending someone to death. Land has to be given to people so that they can settle down and make a living, and they know what they are guarding. Those who have a permanent property and have perseverance are the most steadfast support for them in the future.
Xue Bai went crazy.
Late at night, Lu Linghao hurried to the county office and put forward many of his opinions on these matters on the way.
"Isn't it just a few dozen hectares of land? It's not necessary. He must give it to those farmers? How many hectares are there?"
Just listen to this kind of words. In fact, Lu Linghao knows best. This is related to the power of the county office and who will compromise first between Xue Bai and the big families.
"He doesn't have a brain, and he doesn't do things lightly or seriously. Just like a madman is very strong, in the same way, this kind of person is very ruthless, so he has to avoid... Oh, where are the noble people?"
"Going to Luoyang."
"Quick, send a horse overnight to tell him the news."
"Here."
Lu Linghao hurried to the government office and saw that all the big families had gathered in front of the office.
After taking everyone to sit down in the lobby, he waved his hands and calmed everyone's emotions.
"You guys are too anxious. If you are anxious, won't you be led away? Since Xue Bai is back, don't grab the land for the time being, just continue the original method of cutting flesh with a soft knife. Guo Lu and I have been doing this for many years , when did it trigger a civil uprising?"
"Don't use force anymore. Please invite Xue Bai back to the county office to discuss matters. He's polite on the face. If you don't listen to him, just cut off the water source and spend some money to win over the unruly people. Wouldn't it stop causing trouble?"
"Mr. Guo, don't cry for now. It's true that Guo Sanwulang is dead, but can you still avenge your private revenge? If we really fight, if something happens to your old man, he will have the final say. Slowly reason, you He is so virtuous and respected by everyone, are you still afraid of him?"
"He is hot-tempered and impulsive, and he has a noble person behind him. It would be unwise to confront him head-on."
Lu Linghao didn't need to explain this anymore. Gao Chong was easily angered by Xue Bai. In addition, he was involved in a major treason case. The fierce conflict only lost the advantage of being a local leader. As a county magistrate, Lu Linghao acted upright and sat upright, so he could deal with the nobles calmly.
When Xue Bai is here, they will unite to squeeze out; when Xue Bai flees, they will take advantage; when Xue Bai comes back, they will just continue to squeeze out. How can we lose our sense of proportion just because the other party comes and goes?
After some reassurance, all the gentry calmed down and agreed to go home as if nothing had happened.
Nothing happened, it was just some villagers fighting for land and making a fuss. Xue County Lieutenant went over to deal with it. No one died, and there was no fire in the county town, except for Guo Sanwulang's death, which was a good opportunity to take advantage of Xue Bai.
Finally, Lu Linghao said: "Don't worry, we are the rules in Yanshi County. The rules in the world will be broken occasionally, but they will not be defeated. No one can beat the rules."
The person sent out to see Xue Bai was Lu Linghao's aide Yuan Yiheng.
He passed through the queue of farmers holding iron tools, feeling a little nervous involuntarily. It feels like we are not facing farmers, but rebels.
After finally seeing Xue Bai still wearing the blue official uniform, Yuan Yiheng breathed a sigh of relief.
In his eyes, official uniforms represent rules. As long as Xue Bai abides by the rules, everything will be easy.
"I've seen the county captain. The villagers were causing trouble tonight. Thanks to the county captain's timely arrival, the commotion was stopped."
"So, I still have gong?" Xue Bai looked calm and had a smile on his face.
Yuan Yiheng smiled apologetically and said, "Of course I have merit. The county magistrate wants to repay his merits to the county captain, but he also has some misunderstandings about apologizing to the county captain. Why don't we go back to the county office and talk about it?"
"weak."
"What?"
"A common problem among those who have vested interests and enjoyed wealth for a long time is that you are too soft and are not as tough as the Gao brothers."
Yuan Yiheng was very embarrassed and secretly thought that Xue Bai's face-to-face criticism was too much. However, he was well-rounded and could still pick up the conversation, and said with a smile: "Brothers from the Gao family are just ambitious. In terms of deep background, they must be county magistrates.
If you replace "faith" with "face", it is actually very accurate.
Xue Bai knew what Lu Linghao's methods were and said, "Okay, let's go back to the county office to talk. I need to bring these farmers with me to talk about their fields."
"I'm afraid the county office won't be able to accommodate this."
"It doesn't matter, they're not squeamish, they just need to stand."
Yuan Yiheng had no choice but to send someone to ask Lu Linghao for instructions. He led more than a hundred farmers into the city at night. He still had to be prepared to avoid aggravating the conflict.
Just as Xue Bai was getting ready to leave, a small figure hurried over, it was Ren Mulan.
"County Captain!"
Ren Mulan came from the weaving workshop, still panting, and said impatiently: "The county captain is back, kill them quickly..."
After hearing this, Yuan Yiheng couldn't help but change his expression. He was actually a little frightened by this little girl's fierceness.
Xue Bai looked relaxed and took Ren Mulan to the side to talk.
"County Lieutenant, as soon as you were away, the big dog owners sent their evil servants to rob people. They said that some of the slaves in the weaving workshop were their escaped slaves, and they took out their deeds. Fortunately, Bantou Xue brought a few slaves with him. Stop them, or they will snatch them away, and the county captain will have to give them a severe lesson...
Just as he was talking, someone from the county office over there came to report, and the county magistrate agreed to let Xue Bai take the farmers to the county office for negotiation.
"talk?"
Ren Mulan fully expected that tonight would be like the last time, and even more brutal, but she didn't expect that the battle was about to start, the weapons were raised, and they still wanted to talk?
She couldn't help but feel anxious and said: "County Lieutenant, you can't be deceived. They promised well, but when you are gone, they will steal land and people again. No matter how much you say, they will never repent." …”
Even a little girl knows this.
Xue Bai seemed unaware and said, "Don't worry, wait until I get to the county office first."
"How can we not be anxious? County Lieutenant, you didn't see what they wanted to do when they came to the weaving workshop." Ren Mulan almost cried. She unconsciously waved the knife in her hand as she spoke, and said anxiously: "When we are fighting for territory, let's vent our anger in one breath." If you do, you will lose."
There was blood on the knife.
Xue Bai still didn't bother to explain to her and said casually: "I'll go to the county office first."
After saying that, he walked into the night, and Mulan turned around to look, fearing that the Xue County Lieutenant would also be swallowed up.
The influence of local clans is like water. It flows silently, but it often drowns people.
The Luo River flowed slowly, and at the same time, a large ship docked.
First, an ordinary young man walked out of the darkness, followed by a series of figures.
"Hu Laishui, lead the way...
