Chapter 111: The Great Flicker
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"Whoa, break through Lin Jiabao, break through Lin Jiabao!" As soon as Li Zixiao finished speaking, everyone below shouted in unison, and the momentum was huge.
Then, Li Zixiao walked up to the former one-eyed dragon's subordinates next to him, and those tenant men, and said, "The grudge between the one-eyed dragon and our cottage is over.
Now that you have chosen to join us in attacking Linjiabao, I am very happy, and since you have chosen to fight alongside us, you are my brother.
Now I just want to ask you, why do these landlords and old fortunes charge us fifty percent of our rent without doing anything, and ride on our heads all day long?
Why do we work hard all day long, but half of the grain we grow has to be handed over to those landlords, while our wives and children have to suffer poverty and hunger, and those landlords and old riches have to be clothed and fed?
Why do we have to starve to death, but these officials, as well as the landlords, are guarding a large pile of moldy and rotten grain, but they don't care about us? ”
Li Zixiao stood on the mound and continued to ask loudly to the tenants and the one-eyed dragon's subordinates.
This question made everyone confused, and some people couldn't figure it out, because most of these people were born in poor families since they were children, and they had never read or seen much, and few of them even thought about these problems at all.
Many people think that their lives are not good, they are born poor, and they should live to suffer, until the last two years the world really does not allow people to live, and these people are desperate for their lives, so they fall into the grass.
Suddenly, Li Zixiao asked them these questions, and they really didn't know how to answer.
Li Zixiao glanced at the person's bewildered expression, knowing that they would definitely not be able to answer, so he continued to say loudly: "You definitely can't answer."
But I know what I'm telling you now, because of the damned world and the mediocre court of today.
Look at those officials in the court, as well as those rich people, they can not pay food, all the taxes of the court have to be borne by us poor people, more and more harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the land rent is getting heavier and heavier, so we will become poorer and poorer.
This is not wrong to you, there is nothing wrong with you to support yourself with your hard-working hands, but the fault is in this damned court and the mediocrity of the officials.
This is the so-called big man who doesn't care about our life or death at all, so that we really have no way to live to do this business, if there is a little way to live, who wants to be a bandit.
Since this world doesn't let us talk, we can only find a way to survive by ourselves, in order to survive, we can only rob, only by robbing this group of immoral local tyrants and old wealth, we can live. Do you understand?
By whom will this world depend? We still have to rely on our own hands, but this time we have to put down the hoe, pick up the knife and gun, kill and rob, in order to live.
Otherwise, even if you starve down at the door of these landlords, they will only scold you for being a 'mud leg', and then let the family drag you away.
Lest you die at their doorstep, and filthy their door, and get stained with bad luck, no one in this world will pity you, you understand? ”
Li Zixiao stood on the mound of soil, kept waving a hand, almost didn't stop breathing, held his breath and said such a long sentence all of a sudden.
It's not that Li Zixiao is eloquent, and this passage is not made up by him temporarily, the reason why he can speak so smoothly, so passionately, and contagiously is mainly because he has spoken countless times to his subordinates in the cottage.
For these people, they are all peasants in feudal society, they have never had the opportunity to read in their lives, and they don't understand so many big truths, so they can only explain to them in as easy to understand as possible, so that you can understand.
That is to encourage these people to develop hatred for these landlords and old wealth, so that they can understand that the reason why they can't live is because of the oppression of these landlords and the imperial court, and encourage them to rise up and resist.
Li Zixiao's words are easy to understand, since these people have not read books, but after listening to them, they really think about it.
Most of the good fields in the world have been taken up by these officials and local tyrants and gentry by all means, and the common people can only cultivate some thin land, and even most of them have no land, so they can only rent the land of the landlord's family.
What's more, these local tyrants and shoddy gentry still tried their best not to pay taxes, and all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes were basically pressed on the heads of the poor people.
At the end of the year, planting some grain is not enough to pay all kinds of messy taxes to the government, and in some natural disasters, the harvest in the fields is not good, let alone paying taxes, and their whole family will not be able to eat, and they will starve to death.
As for those tenants, not to mention, if they have to rent the land of these local tyrants and inferior gentry, the taxes they bear will be heavier, and the whole family will not be able to eat a few full meals throughout the year.
But they knew that the food hoarded in the homes of those old rich people was enough for them to eat for many years, and there was even food that had been accumulated for several years and was moldy.
In the current disaster year, these old people have tightened their grain one by one, not taking it out at all to help the victims, and deliberately hoarding food to raise the price of food, so that they can earn more money.
The price of food has also been made higher and higher by them, how many people are starving to death like this, they are all people who have suffered from this, Li Zixiao told them bluntly, and they naturally understood.
When these people listened to Li Zixiao's words, they couldn't help but get angrier and angrier the more they thought about it, and they all hated the kind of landlord old wealth even more.
At this time, Li Zixiao's subordinates, although they had heard Li Zixiao tell them this countless times, but at this time, after listening to it again, they were still angry.
One by one, they immediately raised the weapons in their hands and shouted: "Grab his mother, rob his mother!" ”
When these subordinates of the one-eyed dragon heard this, they were also infected, and they all cried out with these people, and nearly five hundred people shouted together, which was really not small, gathered together, and rolled away like rolling thunder.
Li Zixiao saw that he had successfully mobilized the enthusiasm of these one-eyed dragons' subordinates, and nodded with satisfaction, he suddenly had a feeling of being incarnated at this time, but the effect was quite good.
This roar naturally spread to the Lin family fort, which surprised everyone in the Lin family, and their faces turned pale with fright.
Lin Laocai was also shocked, a pair of old old hands were raised, and he hurriedly said to the children and grandchildren around him: "Listen, is there still a royal law here?" ”
A group of old and young masters and young ladies of the Lin family were also frightened one by one, and a young man came out and said to Lin Laocai: "Grandpa, since those bandits outside just want some money and food, let's just give them them, why take such a big risk."
If these bandits are allowed to come in, we Lin family up and down the hundreds of people don't want to live, money is just something outside the body, and we will earn it if we don't have it.
Anyway, there is a lot of old grain in our granary, and if we continue to put it away, it will rot, and that little bit of money and grain is not worth it compared to the lives of the people in our house! ”
This young man is a grandson of Lin Laocai, and as soon as he finished speaking, many people immediately agreed with the young man's words because of the whispers of many people in the Lin family.
"Confused."
However, the young man's words did not get Lin Laocai's approval, but was reprimanded.
"Do you know how big the appetite of those poles is, and the demand for thousands of stones of grain at every turn is simply a lion's mouth.
Besides, these bandits are all white-eyed wolves who can't be fed, if you meet their requirements once, they will come the second time, and the third time, how much food our Lin family can't feed these white-eyed wolves!
Therefore, no one should talk about peace talks with these poles anymore, otherwise the family law will serve, and I will see what these poles can do to break our Zhuangzi, and from yesterday's point of view, these poles are nothing more than that. ”
Of course, Lin Laocai would not agree to his grandson's proposal, in his eyes, those money and food were his lifeblood, and he was reluctant to take out a penny of food at all.
If these bandits had a small appetite and asked for a hundred and eighty stone of grain, he would have gritted his teeth and come out, but yesterday the one-eyed dragon was more than two thousand stone of grain, and he was reluctant to take out so much food after killing Lin Laocai.
It has almost occupied more than half of the Lin family's grain stock, which he has accumulated after a lifetime of hard work, exploiting tenants, stealing and plundering, and using all intrigues and tricks, how can he give it to others easily.
In the end, Lin Laocai turned his gaze to Luo Chao on the side, and said bitterly: "Nephew Luo Xian, I regret not listening to what you said this morning, if the pole attacks Zhuang again today, it will all depend on you."
As long as you help me keep Zhuangzi this time, this will be your home from now on, and I will find a way to find the best Lang Zhong to treat your mother's illness. ”
"I'll do my best." Luo Chao replied expressionlessly.
After hearing Luo Chao say this, Lin Laocai was a little relieved, and then turned around and shouted to the surrounding Lin family villagers: "Today, our Lin family fort is counting on you to defend it."
As long as I can keep our Zhuangzi this time, my surname Lin swears that I will never treat you badly.
And you've all seen that if you let these poles come in, no one will end well, these poles are all wicked people who burn and loot, and do all kinds of evil.
If these poles still dare to attack, you will give me a hard beating, and I will reward me with 500 wen for killing a pole, and I will definitely cash it out after the war.
Also, Tianhe, hurry up and let the kitchen guys kill the pigs, let these brothers eat, and we Zhuangzi will ask you! ”
This time, Lin Laocai was really scared, and he could see that Li Zixiao's pole was really different, and he didn't know what method Li Zixiao used, so that these poles outside were like chicken blood one by one.
Just listening to the loud shouts of the poles outside made him more and more uneasy, and he now had to give some blood and come up with some affordable words to motivate these villagers, hoping that they would work hard to keep the Zhuangzi for him.
Although this money is painful to spend, it is much better than Zhuangzi being broken by a pole and killing their whole family, as long as Zhuangzi is kept, this small price is still worth it.
The small amount of money he gives now is much less than the one he paid to the pole, and it is even more of a drop in the bucket compared to his huge family wealth, and everything is important to keep Zhuangzi!