Chapter 1431
Ling Yu breathed a sigh of relief when she heard what Xiao Lintian said. She remembered the allusion about boiling frogs in warm water and told Xiao Lintian casually.
Xiao Lintian laughed after hearing this: "This allusion is good, I will use this allusion you told me to boil them like frogs!"
Xiao Lintian's eyes were filled with perseverance. Whether it was boiling a frog in warm water or suppressing him with an iron fist, he wanted to be a wise emperor and not be afraid of these challenges and threats.
Ling Yu stopped talking about it and didn't care about it anymore.
Xiao Lintian was talked to Ling Yu heart-to-heart and found that he still lacked a lot of knowledge.
Spring plowing was coming soon after the New Year, and he had to rush to implement the land reform plan before spring plowing. Even if it could not be implemented nationwide, he had to ensure that two-thirds of the country's land could be planted with food during spring plowing.
Xiao Lintian was not in a hurry to mention this matter, he was waiting for an opportunity.
A few days later, Anzhe's first urgent message was sent back to the imperial capital.
Xiao Lintian opened it and read it, his face darkened.
An Zhe first sent several spies to investigate the riot.
Several spies were divided into different groups and went to Zhengzhou, Xingyang and several towns occupied by bandits to inquire about information.
It turned out that these so-called thugs were not bandits at all, but ordinary people and tenant farmers from nearby towns.
The first person to take the lead in making trouble was Cao Qiang, a tenant from a wealthy family in Xingyang County.
Cao Qiang, who is thirty years old, is a strong man. He has been in the army for more than ten years and has reached the rank of captain. Because of his upright character and being ostracized by his superiors, he has never been promoted.
Cao Qiang went to the battlefield a few years ago and was blinded in one eye by the enemy before he retired and returned to his hometown to farm.
It stands to reason that Cao Qiang is strong and strong, so even if he is blind in one eye, he can still earn money to support his family with his own strength.
However, the Cao family had a large population and the land they were allocated was not enough to support their family.
Cao Qiang went out to work to support his family.
The rest of the family's laborers rented fields from taller households to farm.
In previous years, everyone worked hard for a year, and the grain harvested and Cao Qiang's subsidies were barely enough to make ends meet.
However, this year there was a flood and the harvest was not good. The landlords did not sympathize with the hardship of the tenants and even raised the rent.
The government collected grain, manipulated the buckets, and peeled off a layer of skin from the Cao family.
To make matters worse, Cao's mother went up the mountain to pick wild vegetables and was hit by a wild boar, which cost her half her life.
Cao Qiang borrowed all the money he could to pay for his mother's medical treatment and sold some valuable property, but this was not enough to make up for the family's expenses.
It was already difficult, but the wealthy family went even further and took a fancy to Cao Qiang's ten-year-old sister, forcing Cao's father to sell her to him for five taels of silver.
When Cao Qiang came back from work and heard about this, he cursed his father for being confused.
He found Gao Da's family, but Gao Da's family threw out the body of his sister who was tortured to death.
Cao Qiang refused to accept it and went to the government to complain.
The wife of Wang Ming, the magistrate of Xingyang County, was the daughter of the Gao family. Cao Qiang did not sue, but was detained by Wang Ming on trumped-up charges, waiting to be executed by his queen.
While in prison, Cao Qiang went around asking people to help him file a lawsuit. Unexpectedly, Gao Dahu ordered people to carry his sister's body back to Cao's house, and threatened Cao's father to leave his remaining son alone. This was the fate of his family.
When Cao's mother saw her daughter's ravaged body, she was so angry that she died that night.
Seeing that his wife and daughter were dead and his son was about to be beheaded, Cao's father was aroused. He entangled a group of villagers who were oppressed and exploited by wealthy families and went to the county government.
They took advantage of the dead of night to kill the guard and rescued Cao Qiang.
As soon as Cao Qiang killed the yamen servant, knowing that he would not escape death, he simply went up the mountain and became a rogue...
