Hatred is an emotion, and for the elders, it is not a thing.

Hu Sanqi stood at the entrance of the armed forces, and the team was full of young people with longing in their eyes, and he couldn't imagine what he had experienced in the past two years.

Two years ago, Hu Sanqi was a landlord young master in Linyi, Shandong.

The family has a large population, Hu Sanqi is the youngest son, and he is favored, of course, he did not take this name because his family is in the medicinal materials business, but purely because he was born on the seventh day of the third lunar month.

Linyi in the late Ming Dynasty under the impact of death, the year is not good, Hu Sanqi remembers, since childhood, every meal is just millet mixed with millet, every meal to eat a pickled radish can only eat a small piece, occasionally the eldest brother goes to the city to buy things, on the side of the road to pick up the fruit has not been picked, even if it is the New Year.

Of course, compared with other villages, the advantage of Hujiazhuang is that there are mountains and rivers, and it is not on the main road, those Eight Banners soldiers are still chaotic soldiers, and they have little interest in rushing to Hujiazhuang, and then the Hu family began to make a fortune slowly.

Occasionally, there are homeless people passing by, and that's arguably the biggest thing.

The natural disasters and water conservancy projects that fell into disrepair during the Xiaoice River period caused the yield of crops to fall to a tragic point, and the fierce landlords and officials took away all the little grain harvest they had, leaving the peasants with the slightest way to live.

In all fairness, the grain levy of the Ming Dynasty is not high, but it can't stand corruption, many people whose land has been seized by ingenuity, and due to the collusion of landlords, the rent still needs to be paid by tenants, not to mention, all kinds of apportionments are even more crushing, just as the people who earn thousands of yuan a month in later generations have no tax evasion at all, and those female stars can earn tens of billions of assets by "sleeping".

Under the layers of corrupt officials and corrupt officials at all levels, it has swelled to the point that the peasants can no longer bear it, and in the end, the amount of grain to be expropriated is actually more than the entire output in the fields!

In order to see the sun of the new year instead of starving at home, the peasant households, who had empty houses and empty stomachs, could only bid farewell to their homes one after another with tears in their eyes, and embarked on a long road of escape with an unpredictable future in the cold wind.

In the cold and freezing, these hungry people who fled from the famine in a daze, staggered forward in groups on the road without knowing the end, leaving corpses along the way, and they aimlessly headed towards the county seat, the capital city or the city everywhere, even the most ignorant victims vaguely knew that only in the city could there be a glimmer of life. Otherwise, if they are not starved to death, they will be frozen to death, if the local cities cannot accommodate them, they will have to leave their hometowns and flee to those more distant states and counties to try their luck, countless refugees driven by hunger and cold, forced to survive, so slowly wriggling in the Central Plains, every day people die, every day there are people joining, wherever they walk, it is like locusts crossing the border, everything is eaten up, from tree bark, grass roots to animals, and some people even take out a lot of meat to eat, and no one dares to question what kind of meat it is.

Those who used to hold the hoe handle are now tightly holding the whistle stick and wooden gun, vigilantly paying attention to the refugees who pass near the villages and towns, and the hungry and red-eyed victims generally have the consciousness of "eating enough and then dying", and the little food accumulated in the villages and towns is not enough for their own families to eat.

Those landlords and tyrants who did not flee to other places also stood on the wall with their own families and long-term workers, holding bows and arrows and big knives. The body that was originally dressed in silk and satin is now wrapped in cotton armor that was made in a hurry. On the one hand, it is to supervise the township and not to slack off, and on the other hand, to try to show that he is "the first to take the lead", after all, he is the person with the most wealth in this village. Once the stockade is broken, those poor people who have been exploited to the point of having nothing to do may not have a big loss, at most they will follow the displaced people to escape the famine. But when these landlords and tyrants don't have family property, and even their wives and children and lives may not be able to save this kind of life and death, where can they tolerate you to be a soft egg?

Which village or village was eaten by the refugees, whose belongings were robbed, and whose whole family was killed by the refugees, these terrifying news usually made it difficult for these large families to sleep.

Of course, due to the local bias and a small river blocking it, Hu Sanqi's family was not greatly impacted.

Not only is it not big, but there are even greater benefits, as the displaced people sweep all the way, many fertile fields are becoming terra nullius one after another. For some ambitious people, it is a good opportunity to expand the industry, as for the peasants who cultivate the land, they will not die, and when the wind and snow have passed, those who have not starved to death will always return to live for the old man in the spring of the following year.

In this desperate era when honest peasants have become cannibalistic monsters, whether it is a state or a county, or a prefecture, those officials and men who show off their might on weekdays are usually reluctant to go to the actions involving refugees, so as to cause trouble for themselves, that is to say, as long as the refugees do not rebel and do not besiege the county seat, even if they eat a few large households of rural landlords and slaughter a few villages, it is not a big deal. Unless the bitter lord has an extraordinary background, the government will only make them consider themselves unlucky.

Correspondingly, the big landlords took the opportunity to loot the property of the unlucky people, which was naturally justified, and no one dared to care.

When the hungry people swept away the fish, meat, rice, flour, gold and silver in the village, leaving a piece of ruins and left, the surrounding landlords would pounce on them like vultures, happily dividing up the fields under the name of the original owner of the village, so that a household of gentry disappeared forever.

Hu Sanqi was assigned a mahogany desk, and a large wooden box, all of which were good things that were impossible for the hungry people to take away, after the hungry people left, the Hu family naturally sent people to "fight famine" and get some floating wealth, of course, the most important thing is to occupy the fields ruthlessly, so naturally there is no need to say anything.

Since the Presbyterian Church came to the imperial capital, the situation in the Central Plains of China has changed, the displaced people have at least a way to live, order has been restored, production is slowly recovering, and the people who originally fled from Linyi will also come back.

Those big households who occupied the land, the surviving children wanted to come to the door to ask for it, how could it be so cheap, all of them were "killed" one night, but there were also some farmers who were resigned to their fate, and went to some uninhabited wasteland to reclaim the land.

It takes a lot of money to clean up the stones, clean the holes, dig all kinds of plants and trees, dig out the nutrients from the ground, and finally dig out the regular ridges, fill in all kinds of manure to fertilize, and carry water from a long distance.

In many cases, it is difficult to feed the people who farm in the first year, just as many American colonists did not survive the first year, in this era, it is often the output of a few acres of land first, and then slowly reclaimed one acre of land or a few points of land.

Near Hu Sanqi's house, there was a group of original locals, but they refused to be slaves of the Hu family, and they cultivated the land there, and saw that the harvest was up, but the Hu family couldn't sit still.

Such a large piece of watered land refuses to sell it, which is ......

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the order was chaotic, and the landlords exploited the peasants in many ways, such as forcing you to sell the land to me, and then you still had to pay the rent, and then you had to collect the taxes a little.

In this era, there are many ways to seize people's fields, in the end, as long as you have no foundation, just wait for the family to be ruined, since the Hu family has escaped the impact of various homeless and hungry people in previous years, it has gradually become bolder, and the fields have expanded a lot, but they are also coveted for the hundreds of acres of new land.

In the end, the Hu family first gathered relatives to discuss how to divide the spoils, and then sent Hu Sanqi to follow a few uncles to the county seat.

They first found the master, stuffed the master with five taels of silver, and cried that the land reclaimed by their family was occupied by the Diao people, and the title deed was lost for a while, begging for replacement, and begging the county order to help expel those Diao people.

The master collected the money, but he also did something, that is, claiming that the court was difficult and there were no soldiers, but if you could, you could find a way to get rid of it yourself, as for the title deed, you have to find a way to let the household and other teams do it, and he can contact him on his behalf.

It means that it still costs money.

However, the Hu family really made a bloody investment this time, and the silver and property prepared alone exceeded 100 taels, which was almost a big spend, and they also made a big pot of rice at home, killed a pig, and let the clansmen eat and drink enough, ready to go to the blood to wash those men who opened up the wasteland.

Of course, Hu Sanqi was naturally promised that if he was able to do his job, he could choose a girl from among the female dependents of those who reclaimed the land as the object of playing with the warm bed.

Thinking of this, Hu Sanqi couldn't help but feel hot, the chaos of the past few years, the Hu family also took the opportunity to buy many girls as child daughters-in-law, but he couldn't take his turn, this time he finally had a chance, although he was only thirteen or fourteen years old, but basically precocious very, naturally he was also yearning for it in his heart.

The day of the start was the moonless day at the beginning of the month, but Hu Sanqi was in the county town and several uncles crowded on the chase shop in a carriage and horse shop, all of them calculated beautifully, those stubborn donkeys refused to be tenants for the Hu family and refused to sell the land to the Hu family, how embarrassing it was, and this thing was done, everyone could at least share a lot of food for the New Year.

Such an idea was not quite right at noon the next day, and he was still waiting for the county government's criminal name and the two masters of Qian Gu to eat and drink, but suddenly someone outside was crying and saying that he was looking for someone from the Hu family.

And he couldn't stop it, and soon rushed into the restaurant, but it was a clansman of the Hu family who participated in the "expulsion of robbers" action, only to see him see Hu Sanqi and a few people, and immediately cried: "Uncle, something is wrong, those cheap people are all hard stubble, and the people who went to raid the house were not only arrested by them, but also entered our house in turn, they are not homeless, they are bandits, you quickly ask the county to send troops and kill them." ”

But unexpectedly, the two masters listened, and their faces turned pale, but they knew that the Hu family slaughtered the village this time, but they prepared three hundred strong men, and there were many strong women as auxiliaries, not to mention all kinds of knives and farm tools, and even the Ming Dynasty bows and arrows that were lost among the people had such a one, which can be said to be a tyrant in Linyi County, which is the reliance that can be used to slaughter the village directly.

But so many people have actually been eaten, could it be that the strength of the opposite side is at least more than a thousand people, not to mention that the Hu family's house can be said to be impregnable because it relies on the steep slope, and it is not something that can be broken by unprepared homeless people!

"What's going on, tell me quickly, how many people are on the other side, and which mountain is the king."

There are a lot of mountain ranges in Shandong, and there are virtuous Yan Shenggong here to educate the people's hearts, naturally there are bandits and bandits everywhere, and occasionally the villagers act as the king of blocking the road to kill a passing merchant is also commonplace, so there is a question.

"Firearms, a lot of firearms, they must be routed, they don't know why they live in that village, they shoot indiscriminately if they are unstable, and they have to pay attention to people, we all knelt down and asked to surrender, saying that it was a misunderstanding, and called over, there is really no royal law, we are here to give Yansheng bus their own money, not a family that is indiscriminate, they refuse to stretch out their necks to let us kill all, but they beat people with firearms, woo, master, you have to be the master for us."

In Shandong, the larger landlords like to go to Yan Sheng Gong to hand over the post, present their own field brochures, of course, only a part, pay a part of the land rent every year, in fact, in fact, in exchange for the nominal land belongs to the Yan Sheng Gong Mansion, in order to escape the rent, of course, the state tax burden is still counted on those who have nothing.

Therefore, this kind of slaughter village is basically counted as a backer on the head of the Kong family.

The two masters stood up suddenly, glanced at each other, said that they wanted to pay attention to the defense of the county, and left in a hurry.

Hu Sanqi naturally didn't know how to develop next, in fact, the gate of the county town would be closed soon, and he couldn't go out of the city to save his family, and the master and even the old man who had received the benefits a few days ago had no response, and some of them would return the money they had sent before.

After being anxious for a day, there was finally news, a group of people suddenly appeared outside the city, holding a loudspeaker, claiming that they were the imperial capital's armed survey team, and they came to Shandong to survey what roads, which they didn't understand, but they also said that the inferior gentry in the Hu family Zhuangzi gathered people to break the law, and now the slaughter and murder of the village have been verified There are more than 100 lives, or dozens of boys and girls who have been toyed with in the Zhuangzi, as well as countless stolen things, absolute criminals, and the most excessive thing is that they actually attacked the team that stayed in the village!

The martial arts team is naturally not easy to mess with, as a sharp weapon for the imperial capital to deter Shandong, first of all, it has made all the guards in Shandong dare not squeak, only kneel and lick.

(End of chapter)