Chapter 145: Huangzhuang
The twenty-second day of the lunar month, Changping County, Gyeonggi.
A cavalry team of about 100 people rushed from the direction of the capital, and the weather was cold, and the horses and people were spitting white air.
"My lord, why do you have to run to this place where birds don't on this cold day?"
Niu Zhuang rubbed his hands, blew hot air into his mouth and covered his frozen and somewhat stiff face, Xiao Biesheng was not only newly married Liu Hongji, Niu Zhuang sat on the horse and complained.
"You talk a lot!" Liu Hong gradually turned his head and glared at the bull mallet, patted his horse to a high ground, and looked in the direction of Tangshanzhuang.
"The emperor handed over the errand of promoting good varieties to Ben Hou, naturally he should go to Huangzhuang to inspect it, this Tangshan Villa is one of the five hundred Huangzhuang in the emperor's hands, and it is also the closest, don't you go here, do you want to go to Tongxian?
Lao Chen, how far is it from that Tang Villa? ”
The sky and the earth were white, the faint sunlight was swaying on the snow, and the piercing eyes were painful, Liu Hong gradually raised his hand to block the sunlight and looked forward.
"Go back to your lordship, and from here you will go north over a hillside, and you will be there in a quarter of an hour!"
"Let's go!"
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Tangsanzhuang, Changpyeong-gun, Gyeonggi.
Tangshanzhuang in Changping County has 200 hectares of fertile land, a total of 3,000 acres, since the Ming Dynasty Yingzong Tianshun three years, Tangshanzhuang farmland has been classified into Huangzhuang, now it has more than 200 years.
There are more than 100 tenant households in Tangshanzhuang, all of whom live in a village on the edge of Tangshanzhuang, and are under the control of eunuchs and official schools appointed by Ouchi.
It was the middle of winter, when the farmland was fallow, and it was supposed that the tenants who had been busy all year should have a good rest, but the square in the middle of the village was filled with hundreds of villagers, all carrying hoes and other farm tools.
At the innermost point of the square, a eunuch holding a dust whisk and wearing a three-mountain hat was lying on the eunuch chair, and behind him stood several people from the official academy.
"Father-in-law Xi, this cold winter is not the farming season, why do you want me to do this meaningless thing!"
An old man with a hoe on his shoulders put the hoe aside and asked cautiously.
"Humph! This matter, you have to ask your head Xu Baishun, our family has a lack of food and clothing for his Xu family, and specially ordered this person to send his little daughter Xu Yuniang to our house to be a maid, and gave him fifty catties of food, also for his good.
Who knew that this guy not only didn't appreciate it and refused to cooperate, but also hid people, and our family searched for convenience and the Xu family couldn't find anyone, it must be you people who colluded with each other to hide people.
Say! Whose house is Xu Yuniang in! ”
Xu Baishun, in the mouth of this father-in-law, is one of the many tenants in Tangshanzhuang, about thirty-five or sixteen years old, and has won the support of the rest of the tenants for his righteousness.
He has a daughter named Xu Yuniang, who was born with some appearance and was favored by the eunuchs of Tangshanzhuang, and wanted to receive a warm foot from the house, Xu Baishun hid Xu Yuniang when he learned the news.
The eunuchs of the town guard could not search everywhere, not only sent someone to beat Xu Baishun half to death, but also called all the tenants to identify each other yesterday, coerced and lured to no avail, and ordered the tenants to turn over the land in this cold winter wax moon as punishment.
"Father-in-law Xi, the little ones really don't know where Xu Yuniang is, most of the little ones have no surplus food at home, and they can barely survive by eating grass roots and multigrain noodles every day.
I thought that I didn't need to plough the fields in winter, and I could eat less to survive this cold winter, but now everyone is hungry and weak, how can I have the strength to do this farm work? I hope that my father-in-law will be considerate and take back his life! ”
"Yes, father-in-law, how can there be a cold winter to turn over the ground, the small ones have run out of food at home, leave us a way to live!"
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Most of the tenants knelt in the snow and begged the town guard eunuch for mercy.
"Don't put garlic on our house here! Let's leave the words here today, our family can't see that Xu Yuniang for a day, and you protectors have to go to our family to plow the fields.
If you don't turn over the land of this soup villa within seven days, you will want to have good fruit to eat! ”
The town guard eunuch is responsible for supervising the cultivation of Huangzhuang's farmland and the collection of grain, as long as the above grain collection tasks can be completed.
It can be said that in the three-acre land of Huangzhuang, the eunuch guarding the town is the heaven of many tenants and the emperor of Huangzhuang.
"Father-in-law, don't deceive people too much, isn't father-in-law afraid that we will go to the capital to sue the emperor?"
A slightly younger tenant in the crowd finally couldn't stand being oppressed like this, and couldn't help but retort.
"Sue the royal court? Hahahaha! Just you turtles, I'm afraid you haven't even been to the capital, right? It's really against you!
Come! Pull this person out of our house. ”
Although it is impossible for these tenants to see the emperor, if they go to the capital in groups, they will inevitably attract the attention of some officials, and if these officials really stab the emperor, things will not be easy.
The face of the eunuch who guarded the town instantly turned cold, and the official school behind him immediately came out, and the two rushed into the crowd and sent out the tenant who had just spoken.
"Are you going to sue our family?" The eunuch's voice was high-pitched, and his speech was quite yin and yang.
"Hmph, you gelding, a gelding without eggs, someone will clean you up sooner or later!"
This tenant is also stubborn, even if he is escorted by the official school, he refuses to kneel down and beg for mercy.
"What do you say, bastard?"
As a eunuch, what he hates most is that others say that he has no eggs.
The eunuch stood up from the eunuch's chair angrily, and the dust was shaken.
"Say you're a gelding, gelding! Are you deaf? ”
This winter is even more severe than in the past, the family has no food to survive, starvation is death, being beaten to death is death, it is better to die hard, and the tenants seem to be free.
"You... You... It's the other way around! If I don't give you some color, I don't know how many eyes Ma Wang Ye has! Give our family a discount for his dog's legs, and our family wants to see how he goes to sue the royal court! ”
After receiving the order, the two official schools pushed the tenant to the ground, and one of the official schools had a cold face, holding a jujube wood stick in his hand, and smashed it on the tenant's knee.
"Ahh
A stick shattered the knee of one leg, and the official school with the big stick did not receive the order of the eunuch guarding the town, so he picked up the big stick and hit the knee of the other leg.
The tenant's legs were broken, and he fainted in pain, and the blood instantly turned red on the snowy earth
"Want to sue us? You untouchables can go to the palace to try, there are people in our palace! ”
The eunuch stood up, did not look at the fainting tenant in front of him, stepped over his body, and pointed to the tenant who fell to his knees in front of him and said like a cicada.
"Oh? I don't know who the people in this palace you are talking about? ”
The voice came from behind, Niu Dabang and Li Baida carried the AK to push through the crowd, and Liu Hong gradually walked to the square in a unicorn suit with a sword of heaven at his waist.