Chapter 13 Man is not as good as a mouse

Yang Xiong sat on the ox cart and saw it very clearly!

Especially when you hold up the monoculars, you can see more clearly.

A group of ragged robbers are carefully picking up ears of wheat in the field.

Their division of labor is very clear, they have big eyes and quick hands and feet to pick up ears of wheat, and those with great strength go all over the world looking for food hidden by vole holes and mice.

Appearing on horseback is easy to panic these people, and people who are thin and have little strength are prone to sudden death if they run fast.

Especially those bare-chested children, when they pick up the ears of wheat, they rub the wheat grains and stuff them into their mouths, it seems that they are extremely hungry, which makes it even more impossible to drive away.

Ox carts, these robbers are not afraid.

The peasant family was always kind, and there was always a feeling of pity for the hungry people, and at most they were not allowed to dig up the fields and pick up the scattered ears or grains that had fallen in the ground.

Yang Xiong is now the mayor of Xiangyang, and he is already regarded as the feudal official of Lantian, and when he goes out on weekdays, he always has to be accompanied by twelve black-clothed guards.

Today, he drove an ox cart with him and pulled a cart of wheat straw around the fields near the mountains.

The reason for this was entirely because he did not believe that his subordinates reported that some people would rather live a wild life in the mountains than go down to the mountains to farm and settle down.

Yang Xiong didn't believe this kind of thing, and repeatedly asked his subordinates whether they had made the Lantian policy clear to these savages or robbers, and whether they had dispelled their doubts.

The subordinates said that everything was done according to the process, first, there was no deduction of relief that should be given to the people, and second, there was no use of force to force the people to do anything they did not want to do.

As for the matter of snatching and snatching people's wives and daughters, the subordinates swore to the sky that there was such a thing, even if they dared to think about it, they would let themselves be favored by the county and sent to the internal affairs office that was under construction.

This oath is already poisonous.

I don't know where the news came out - the Yushan officials who have committed serious crimes, if they want to live, entering the Internal Affairs Office on an errand is the last choice!

It is also the last way for the county to leave a living path for the criminal officials of the Yushan system, and it can be regarded as the last bit of kindness given by the county honor, all of which are the friendship of Yushan's classmates.

Of course, Yang Xiong knew that this kind of rumor was pure nonsense, if the county zun really did this, first of all, there would be no way to pass the level of the pig.

Moreover, in the Lantian Law, there is no such thing as corruption at all.

This thing is just a joke that the county zun made with him, as well as Xu Wuxiang, Han Lingshan and others on weekdays, and it is also the source of rumors.

The people who the county respects the most are the people who fish and meat, how can there be any possibility that officials are allowed to use their crotch. The next thing to atone for sins is not so expensive.

Given that those subordinates seemed to be afraid of going to the Yushan Internal Affairs Office on an errand, Yang Xiong naturally had no need to expose the scam.

Since his subordinates didn't lie to him, there must be something wrong.

The specific one or two individual incidents naturally do not need Yang Xiong to investigate in person.

However, in Xiangyang, there are still many people who refuse to go down the mountain, which is a very common phenomenon, so Yang Xiong cannot ignore it.

The ox cart swayed to the side of the group of robbers, and the children immediately hid away like panicked rabbits, and did not want to give up the little food left here, standing in the distance vigilantly looking at Yang Xiong and his ox cart.

An old man with a hunched body came over and saluted Yang Xiong: "Please be lenient, you are very hungry, so you came to pick up a little food, you will treat us as a group of sparrows, give us a way out." ”

Yang Xiong looked at the old man with a goatee in front of him and said: "Xiangyang is peaceful now, and the government is also in charge, as long as you go down the mountain, someone from the government will come and assign you a place to live, provide grain, farm tools, cattle and sheep, chickens and ducks, why is it not as good as a sparrow?" ”

The old man with the goatee laughed miserably and said: "Good my kind-hearted man, this is the national policy given by the government to turn the poor people into the rich people now." Those of us who were rich in the past and poor people who are now poor are dead when we see the government. ”

Yang Xiong's brows furrowed when he heard this, he thought for a moment and shook his head, pointed to a hole not far from the ox cart and said, "There is a vole hole here, it seems that it has harmed us a lot of food, dig and dig it." ”

As he spoke, he removed the shovel from the ox cart and began to dig a hole in the vole.

Digging with a shovel is naturally much faster than someone digging with something like a tree branch.

After digging down two feet deep, the vole hole began to become wide, and the children who were hiding in the distance to watch the limelight saw that Yang Xiong didn't seem to have the intention of killing them, so they immediately ran over and watched Yang Xiong and the old man continue to dig the vole hole.

After digging down two feet deeper, the vole's first granary was dug out, and Yang Xiong was amazed to see the neatly stacked ears of wheat.

After the whole vole house was dug up, I heard the old man sigh with emotion: "This vole is also spiritual, you see, the front door, the back door, the corridor, the hall, the latrine, the bedroom, the young mouse residence, there is no shortage of everything."

If you look at the terrain within a radius of one zhang, you will understand that the choice of voles to nest here is definitely decided after a thousand choices.

You see, the terrain is high, and the land is dry, and loose is already a good place.

What's even more rare is that the place where you look at the exit of the rat hole is the dragon's lair.

Before the dragon's lair, there is also the mountain, the case mountain, the left of the soil bag for the green dragon to protect the mountain, the right side of the soil bag for the white tiger to protect the mountain, the back of the soil bag for the main mountain, the main house of the master of the number of orders, the main mountain is followed by the young ancestor mountain, after the young ancestor mountain is the ancestral mountain, can protect the family house owner descendants endlessly.

Look at that ditch again......"

Yang Xiong looked in the direction of the old man's finger, and sure enough, there was a trickle five zhang away, slowly flowing around this dirt bag.

"This is Jinshui Hushan...... The main food and clothing are not lacking...... Alas, man is inferior to a mouse. ”

Yang Xiong looked at the pink young mice in the children's hands, and then looked at the mouse hole that had been completely opened, and couldn't help but say, "Long offspring? Full of wealth? ”

The old man with the goatee sighed and said, "Official, if you come, they will naturally have no way to live, and you are punished by heaven!" Rats can choose the place that is most beneficial to them to build a mansion, and they can choose the place where they have the most food to thrive.

When you come, they will die! ”

Yang Xiong sniffled and said, "Where was your former home?" ”

The old man with a goatee pointed to a village on the horizon and said, "The largest house in Liu Village used to be my family. ”

Yang Xiong smiled: "How is Mingtang's feng shui compared to the rat hole?" ”

The old man with the goatee said: "The ancestors have accumulated for three hundred years to have this scale. ”

Yang Xiong put his hands behind his back and said, "Who took it again?" ”

The goatee old man said: "First Zhang Bingzhong, then the imperial court, then Li Hongji, and finally you." ”

Yang Xiong said with a smile: "Since Zhang Bingzhong came, you have lost everything since you refused to resist desperately, and after the court came, you were unwilling to help with all your might, so you can't get back what you lost."

When Li Hongji came, you thought that you would be able to escape by kowtowing and sacrificing, but as a result, they took away your last fig leaf.

When we came, you did not dare to touch it, and you did not even have the courage to ask for your own things, so we naturally wanted to give these ownerless things to the people.

Your Liu family has been rich in Xiangyang for three hundred years, which is long enough. ”

The old man with the goatee had a bruise on his neck, and he beat his chest hard and shouted, "That's the family business that our ancestors have accumulated for generations. ”

Yang Xiong laughed and said, "You don't even have the courage to start over, why do you want to continue to be a master?" Your ancestors, and your feng shui blessed you for 300 years and are you not satisfied? ”

The old man with the goatee sat on the ground, looked at Yang Xiong and said, "What about Tianli?" ”

Yang Xiong said: "Tianli is recovering, if you still take these people to hide and wait for the opportunity, I think you may not be able to wait, you are a person who has read books, since you have read books, you should know that every five hundred years there will be a king, this is also Tianli."

You're lucky to have survived, but if you want to continue to live a good life, start all over again.

It's like this rat hole, we didn't catch the big rats, and guess what the big rats would do? ”

The old man with the goatee looked at the rat hole in front of him that had been swept away by everyone and said sadly: "Start again." ”

Yang Xiong patted his goatee on the shoulder and said, "Then be fast, to be honest, Lantian's current policy is very beneficial to people like you who have read books, seen big scenes, and seen big money."

When I Lantian forcibly send those children from poor families into the school, and they all start to study and finish reading one by one, your current advantage will no longer be there. ”

The old man with the goatee looked at the children who began to light a fire to roast the vole cubs to eat, stood up, sighed heavily and saluted: "Dare to ask the official name and official position, so that the old man can know - if you go to the government and go to hell after being tortured and killed by the government, you also know who to ask for your life." ”

Yang Xiong said with a smile: "Yang Xiong, the chief of Xiangyang under Lantian's rule, if you are really tortured and killed, when you go to see Lord Yan, you will say that I killed you."

Okay, old man Liu, hurry up and report to the government, your family business has been divided, you can't get it back, if you still have blood debts in the local area, it is estimated that those people will spare you, you can go to other places to settle down, it is best to stay incognito.

If you have always been a good family, it is best for you to stay in the local area. ”

Old man Liu didn't know what he remembered, and couldn't help but shudder.

Yang Xiong snorted coldly and said: "Since you have a blood debt, then go to another place to settle down, the former blood debt Lantian is not investigated, it does not mean that the people here will let you go, the reason why you don't go to the government to report is that you are worried that the people here will find you to settle accounts, right?" ”

Old man Liu hesitated and said, "There is no lawsuit for life, which means that they are treated harshly." ”

Yang Xiong got on the ox cart and patted the scalper's fart. shares, the scalper began to walk slowly to other places, as for the fact that Old Man Liu wanted to get closer to him more, he was too lazy to respond.

Back in Xiangyang, Yang Xiong began to write documents overnight, and at dawn, he thought for a moment and added a good name to the written documents - "A Brief Discussion on the Elimination Method of the Poison of the Old Forces".