After Wanhua left, Zhao Xiangen couldn't help but say: "Uncle, you seem to be a little too much just now, this country stick is not bad, and he also knows etiquette, which is much better than other family members." Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Ai Zhao couldn't help but smile, then sat on the main seat and took a sip of tea, and said: "Even if it is an ordinary military attaché, I don't care about my uncle, let alone a rural villager, besides, what can I say to a dying person!" ”

These words can't help but make Zhao Xiangen stunned, where does this start? He Wanhua is now thriving, the old ghost gang is also in his hands, and the gangs in the county are also respectful to him, how can he be a dying person!

Zhao Xiangen couldn't help asking, "What does my uncle mean by this?" ”

Ai Zhao couldn't help but smile proudly, took another sip of tea, and said, "Have you heard of the Fire Dragon King?" ”

"Of course I've heard that Liu Wang was wiped out, it was this Fire Dragon King who did it, and two of them were about to die, this incident really made us lose face in the house, and I was severely reprimanded by the county honor, but this group of people is too powerful, and I don't dare to provoke my nephew!" Zhao Xiangen replied.

When Ai Zhao heard this, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "You are the head catcher of the county government, you don't dare to provoke!" Can he afford to provoke Wanhua? ”

Zhao Xiangen couldn't help but think about it, and after a while, he said: "Uncle means that he Wanhua has been targeted by the Fire Dragon King after buying grain in a row?" ”

"Of course, will the Fire Dragon King let him go? Mi Zhi is a palm-sized place, can this Wanhua's actions reach the ears of the Fire Dragon King? Ai Zhao said.

At this time, Zhao Xiangen also suddenly realized, it is true, once he is targeted by the Fire Dragon King, he Wanhua is also in a catastrophe, and it is difficult not to be targeted by Wanhua's previous actions!

At this time, Zhao Xiangen couldn't help but admire Ai Zhaolai, and said flatteringly: "Uncle is really an unpredictable prophet, and Zhuge Kongming is just like that!" ”

Ai Zhao is very useful in his heart, which literati doesn't want to compare with Zhuge Kongming! Ai Zhao was proud for a while, and then said: "This is only one of them, and there is another one. ”

When Zhao Xiangen heard this, he couldn't help but arouse his curiosity, "Oh? And what is the second one? ”

Ai Zhao said unhurriedly: "The second is that this Wanhua has offended the gentry of all sizes, how can there be no reason for immortality?" ”

As soon as these words came out, Zhao Xiangen couldn't help but recall Wanhua's past, and found that he had no conflict with the gentry, so he asked, "What does uncle mean by this?" He didn't sin the gentry, did he? ”

Ai Zhao smiled contemptuously and said, "It's not evil yet!" He has completely destroyed the evil body of the gentry, even my uncle and I, who have also been wicked by him! ”

When Zhao Xiangen heard this, he couldn't help but be taken aback, and said, "What does uncle mean?" Is he rude to you? I can't let him go! ”

Ai Zhao saw that Zhao Xiangen was emotional, and couldn't help but feel a little comforted in his heart, although this nephew was notorious, but fortunately, he was very protective of his family, so he waved his hand to signal him not to be angry, and then said slowly: "He has never been rude to me, but he has done one thing, but he is rude to the entire gentry and wealthy family." ”

"What?" Zhao Xiangen asked.

Ai Zhao took two sips of tea and said slowly: "He is in Linkou Village, he grabbed all the land of all the villagers in his hands, and threatened to hand over the imperial grain, wouldn't this matter give all the gentry evil!" ”

When Zhao Xiangen heard it, he understood the reason, so it was.

There was a saying in ancient dynasties that the emperor and the scholar ruled the world together, who is this scholar? It is these gentry and wealthy families, most of the ancient dynasties have imperial power under the county, one because of the limitations of the times, can not be managed at all, and the other because history has this tradition, breaking the privileges of the gentry, is to be the enemy of all the gentry class in the world, which often causes a great chaos in the world, a bad, and the dynasty overturned, so the founding monarchs of all dynasties will acquiesce to this tradition, of course, because of the limitations of history, they do not think that there is anything bad about this tradition!

Take the imperial grain as an example, it is impossible for the imperial court to send people to collect the imperial grain from household to household, which not only makes the cost of collecting grain ridiculously high, but also makes the establishment of the imperial court officials to an unimaginable extent. Even though they only work twice a year!

So, in order to get rid of unnecessary baggage, of course, there are some other reasons, so all dynasties follow a tradition, which is to have the local gentry collect it on their behalf!

The imperial court set a tax standard, and then the gentry arranged people to collect the imperial grain from each household, and the imperial grain received was transferred by the gentry to the county government, and the county government handed it over to the imperial court. Such a tradition gave the gentry the opportunity to get their hands on it, the ancient communications were backward, and the common people had no cultural knowledge, how much imperial grain to pay, wasn't that a mouth of the gentry?

For example, in the third year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youzhen ordered, starting from the fourth year of Chongzhen, the Liao salary was increased to one and two cents, and for a while, the gentry of the whole country were jubilant, and the mountain called the emperor wise, and the Ming Dynasty was hopeful, and then turned his face to the people and said, the emperor decreed, and the Liao salary was added by one and two cents, so the people added one and two cents on the basis of the original nine cents, that is, two cents and one cent!

And what does Chongzhen mean? What is the result of adding from nine cents to one cents and two cents? , collect two cents and one centi from the hands of the people, and hand it over to Chongzhen one cent and two cents, nine of which were eaten by these gentry, don't underestimate these nine cents! How much land in the country does not need to pay taxes, and these taxes are passed on to those lands that need to be taxed, plus the gentry has to eat half of it, you can imagine how hard the ordinary people have to live in the hands of the gentry!

Now that Wanhua is sticking in a bar, the gentry who are in charge of Wanhua have no chance to get up and down, can this not give the gentry evil? The gentry are one, if this set of traditions is torn open by Wanhua, then the interests of the entire gentry will be infringed, so how can Wanhua be better?

Thinking about this, Zhao Xiangen couldn't help but say to Ai Zhao: "Uncle still thinks thoroughly, in this way, even if this Wanhua escapes the catastrophe of the Fire Dragon King, he can't escape the catastrophe of the gentry!" It looks like he doesn't have a few months left to live. ”

At this time, Ai Zhao was also proud, and said: "Therefore, people must be self-aware, he Wanhua is a country stick, and the stick should do the work of the stick, farm the land according to his duty, and pay the grain in An'an, so that he can live a life, like him is so brutal, how can the gentry tolerate him!" ”

Zhao Xiangen nodded and said, "Uncle is right, my nephew is taught today." ”