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"Your name is Xiaoying, don't cry, go with your brother, my brother promised your grandmother to take care of you." Li Zixiao walked up to the little girl, held her cold little hand, pulled it up, and said with a smile.

"Big boss, you don't really want to adopt this little girl, but we are in danger in the county at this time, and it is too inconvenient to move with a little girl."

Liu Chong walked up to Li Zixiao and said worriedly.

"Don't worry, I have a solution. Liu Chong, you go to find a few people to spend some money and bury the old woman. ”

"Okay."

"Big boss, what to do with this little brute?" At this time, Quartz came to Li Zixiao with the chubby young master of the Liu family in one hand and asked for instructions.

"You mud legs, you really ate the guts of ambitious leopards, I am Liu Tianba, the eleventh young master of the Liu family, you treat me like this, wait until I go back and tell my grandfather, let my grandfather kill your whole family."

The little fat young master of the Liu family was dragged by the back collar of Quartz, and his eyes showed a timid gaze, but he still said threateningly to Li Zixiao.

The people of the Liu family have been powerful and blessed in Yongcheng County for a long time, and they can be described as covering the sky with one hand, arrogant and domineering, and they are invincible, even a thirteen or fourteen-year-old child is so arrogant.

"It's so vicious at a young age, and when you grow up, you still have it, since your Liu family doesn't know how to educate the younger generations, then today I will teach you a good lesson for your parents."

Li Zixiao listened to the little fat man say such vicious words, and he was still so arrogant at this time, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he said fiercely.

"It's a waste to pick up this little fat man's mink clothes for me, put them on my Xiaoying, and wear them on this kind of guy who has no tutor, and let him taste the biting taste of the cold wind."

Li Zixiao saw that the Xiaoying he was leading was shivering under the cold wind in winter, but the little fat man was in a hurry at this time, and the mink dress had an excellent warming effect, and he was sweating profusely, so he pointed to the little fat man and said to Quartz.

"Yes."

Quartz listened, grinned, and directly stripped the little fat man of his mink coat and handed it to Li Zixiao, so that Li Zixiao could put it on Xiaoying casually.

Click......

The little fat man Liu Tianba was stripped naked by quartz and thrown to the ground, and the cold temperature of the winter made the little fat man's upper and lower teeth fight, curled up, and looked at Li Zixiao with a look of fear.

This little fat young master of the Liu family, Liu Tianba, is a child after all, Li Zixiao didn't plan to be a killer, just give him a profound lesson.

Soon, Liu Chong, who had left, came back, brought two people, and said to Li Zixiao: "Big boss, I found two fellow villagers and gave them some silver, and they promised to be responsible for burying this mother-in-law. ”

"Use the money I gave you to bury this mother-in-law, if you let me know that you took the money and didn't do anything, then I will be blamed for settling accounts with you at that time."

Li Zixiao stared at the two people Liu Chong found, his eyes were cold, and he said in a cold voice.

"Don't worry, this son, we will definitely get things done when we get the money." The two old farmers saw that Li Zixiao even dared to move the young master of the Liu family, and dared to move these bad thoughts, so they hurriedly said respectfully.

"Big boss, we should go, or the officials of the county government will come over in a while, and they will cause us trouble."

Liu Chong walked to Li Zixiao's side and said in a deep voice.

"Yes, let's go."

Li Zixiao nodded, watched the two old farmers take the old woman's body away, and then took Xiaoying's hand and prepared to leave.

"Huh?"

At this time, Li Zixiao found out that Xiaoying was still walking barefoot in such a cold winter, and her little feet were frozen red, I am afraid that she had already been frozen unconscious.

Seeing this, Li Zixiao bent down and picked up the little girl directly, and returned to the courtyard with Quartz and Liu Chong.

"Dada, no matter what...... You guys...... Whoever it is, give it all...... Master Ben...... Wait, dare to treat it like this...... Young Master Ben, Young Master Ben will let you ...... Never want to live...... Leave the county seat. ”

When the little fat young master of the Liu family saw Li Zixiao and the others leaving, the look of fear on his face disappeared, and a thick look of resentment appeared in his eyes, which froze so much that the upper and lower rows of teeth in his mouth fought, and he muttered intermittently.

"You ...... Dog thing, what are you waiting for, don't hurry up yet...... Take off your clothes, do you plan to freeze to death...... Master Ben! ”

The eleventh young master of the Liu family curled up, his lips were purple from the cold, and he hurriedly kicked at a family member next to him, and cursed in a trembling voice.

"Yes, yes. Eleventh Young Master. The Liu family member quickly got up, took off the padded jacket on his body, put it on Liu Tianba, and escorted him to leave quickly.

Li Zixiao hugged the little girl Xiaoying, Liu Chong and Quartz followed, and left here quickly all the way, they were also worried about being entangled by the official messengers.

Halfway through, Li Zixiao spent a few copper plates to buy a few cages of meat buns for Xiaoying, and the little girl was really hungry, holding a bun and gnawing on her mouth full of oil.

Through conversations with Xiaoying along the way, Li Zixiao learned that Xiaoying's full name is Zhang Ying, and his father was still a thousand households in the imperial court, but unfortunately he died in the battle to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng last year.

Zhang Ying's hometown is in Huaiqing Mansion in the west of Henan, and their family originally had 100 acres of fertile land, which was purchased by his father with a little military exploits, but was targeted by a local landlord.

Originally, because Zhang Ying's father was a thousand households, the landlord didn't dare to act rashly, but when Zhang Ying's father died in battle, the hateful landlord knew that his opportunity had come.

The landlord tried to take over the more than 100 acres of fertile land from Zhang Ying's house, but Zhang Ying's grandparents just couldn't be annoyed and refused to sell such good fertile land at a low price.

Since it was not possible to buy at a low price, the landlord began to make a bad idea, thought of bad ideas, bought the county magistrate, and put Zhang Jia'an on the charge of colluding with thieves and trying to rebel, and then raided Zhang's house.

At the last moment, Mrs. Zhang escaped with her nine-year-old granddaughter, and since then she has been begging for a living, wandering all the way to Yongcheng County.

But in these years, in addition to the officials, landlords and old wealthy, ordinary people are also sad, and they can't eat, so they will go to help them beggars.

Xiaoying has not eaten a drop of water for two consecutive days, and Mrs. Zhang is worried that her granddaughter will starve to death sooner or later, so she has to go to the young master of the Liu family on the street and ask for a little food.

For a big landlord family like the Liu family, that meal on weekdays is not a delicacies of the mountains and seas, abalone and shark fin! Even their dog has to eat meat every day.

Mrs. Zhang didn't expect to be able to ask for these delicacies, as long as she could throw her and her granddaughter a rough noodles nest, so that her little granddaughter could fill her stomach and live.

However, Liu Tianba didn't even look at the coarse noodles that he fed the dogs at Liu's house and didn't eat the dogs, and he didn't want to throw one to the poor grandparents and grandchildren.

Even just for the sake of Mrs. Zhang's slight staining of his clothes, so many family members punched and kicked an old man in the cold winter, it was simply a loss of conscience!

Xiaoying's grandmother, an elderly man in her seventies, was severely beaten by the Liu family, coupled with a long period of hunger, and the erosion of her body by the cold climate in winter, she could no longer hold it and died.

Along the way, Li Zixiao listened to Xiaoying's story about his family's tragic experience, and his eyes turned red unconsciously.

The quartz behind Li Zixiao and Liu Chong, who were so brave and brave, and the lord who had never cried without suffering from knife and arrow wounds on weekdays, also shed tears at this time.

"Xiaoying, your grandmother entrusted you to me before she died, and you will follow your eldest brother in the future to ensure that you will not starve and freeze again in the future."

Li Zixiao looked at Xiaoying and said softly.

"Thank you, big brother." Xiao Ying opened a pair of bright and clear, clean and flawless eyes, like a clear spring, looked at Li Zixiao, and said softly.

"Hey, in this world, I really don't know what's going on. Not to mention the natural disasters for many years, the rogue is rampant, the government only knows about the rampant expropriation, and the landlords and rich businessmen are even more unkind to the rich, and only know how to make money.

The current emperor can be regarded as a diligent monarch, but why can't he change the society that is declining in the world.

I don't know how many people who have suffered so miserably like Xiaoying, but can we manage it? ”

Liu Chong sighed deeply, expressing deep sympathy for the plight of Xiaoying's family, which also made him even more disappointed in the rotten Ming court, and asked Li Zixiao.

"Chongzhen is a good emperor, but he is definitely the last Ming monarch, and the current Ming Dynasty has become like this, not just because of the decay of the government.

Back then, Zhu Yuanzhang set the bullshit rule of 'the official gentry do not pay for food', which was simply a big pit dug for his descendants in later generations, think about those landlords and rich businessmen, who earn a huge amount of wealth every year, but they don't want to bear any responsibility. 、

On the contrary, the imperial court not only oppressed those poor peasants, but also how much money those peasants could have, after a year of hard work, paying the court taxes, and paying the landlord's rent, the food left in their hands was not enough to feed their families. ”

Wang Zirui remembered that he had seen relevant historical materials in later generations, and the annual tax revenue in the last years of the Ming Dynasty was only four million taels, and he needed to rely on Chongzhen to continue to use internal funds to allocate food and salary for the officers and soldiers below.

Emperor Chongzhen encouraged those big officials and wealthy merchants to donate money to resist the invasion of the Qing army, but they only got 10,000 taels of silver, and Li Zicheng broke through the city of Beijing and copied the homes of those big officials and rich merchants, and he actually got more than 70 million taels of silver.

Later, Li Zixiao saw a post saying that Li Zicheng broke through the city of Beijing and copied more than 30 million taels of silver from Chongzhen's inner treasury, and Daming deserved to perish, and Chongzhen was a miser.

For this Li Zixiao, he can only hehe, people who know the history of the Ming Dynasty with a little brain will not say such ignorant words.

This is also one of the main reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty.

Those high-ranking officials, landlords, and wealthy businessmen of the Ming Dynasty earned a huge amount of wealth every year, but they did not bear any national responsibilities at all, and they did not even pay a little tax burden, and they actually put all these burdens on the peasants who were already hungry.

Every time he sees this, Li Zixiao wants to scold his mother, Zhu Yuanzhang is also a master of future generations, and he always likes to formulate some ancestral systems that cannot be changed.

And they are all the ancestral systems of the descendants of the pit, like this 'official gentry do not pay food', "fourteen countries that will never be conquered" and so on.

And the emperors behind the Ming Dynasty were also a group of masters who ate and drank and waited for death, and there was no emperor who could be as bold as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty.

To be able to reform these pit ancestral systems, it can be said that the demise of the Ming Dynasty has been buried from the time of its establishment.

"Since God let me travel once, and it is back to the critical node of the end of the Ming Dynasty, this is the end of the glorious history of the Chinese Dynasty, and it is also the beginning of the humiliating history of China in later generations.

Give me a little more time, sooner or later I will tear down the big tree of Da Ming that even the roots are rotten, and I will not let the barbaric and backward wild boar skins outside the gate dominate the fate of Huaxia.

I want to make tragedies like Xiaoying no longer happen in the land of China, how can the millions of kilometers of land in China not be able to feed hundreds of millions of people? ”

"I have to eat the food in one bite, and if I want to achieve these goals, let's start now."

Thinking of this, Wang Zirui felt that what he was going to do in the future was too sacred, and he was full of strength, and took Quartz and Liu Hui back to the small courtyard.