Chapter 117: Taking Sides (2)
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When Tan Shan talked about the officers and soldiers, everyone closed their mouths tightly and did not dare to speak. Confronting the officials is already the limit of the villagers, and confronting the officers and soldiers is beyond the limit of their psychological endurance.
Su Thick Legs was unwilling to go back to the original dark days, and asked with a glimmer of hope: "Is there any way for the owner?" You can't just sit and wait to die, can you? ”
Tan Shan looked at the expressions of the other villagers, and Su's thick words seemed to represent their hearts.
He replied: "My lord doesn't want to go against the imperial court, but he won't be so tied up, let the villain calculate, and arbitrarily install charges." No matter what means those people use, the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, even if the officers and soldiers come to attack, my lord will resist to the death and survive this hurdle, and the government will always return my lord's innocence afterwards. ”
When he said this, the expression on his face was in place, these words were all designed in advance, and he said them one by one, and he almost believed that they were true.
Su Thick Legs was very relieved to hear this, happy to enmity and revenge, the eldest husband should be like this, he raised his fist and shouted: "It should be like this!" If the owner is short of people, count me as one of Su's thick legs! ”
Su Laoqi also followed after him, and suddenly heard him shouting like this, he was startled, grabbed his arm, and scolded: "You are crazy, you are going to go when the officers and soldiers are coming?" Even if you can come back alive, you can't run away from a crime of rebellion, it's still a dead end! ”
Su Laoqi's idea of being a man with his tail between his heart and the people not fighting with the officials is deep-rooted, and his son's attitude is death in his opinion, no matter how his boss fights the government, it is not something that a mud leg like himself can blindly participate in.
Su shook off his Lao Tzu's hand, jumped on a table, and shouted with a fist: "Folks, in the hands of Gou Dafu, we have worked hard to farm but we can't eat enough, we can't wear warm clothes, and we will be beaten if we can't pay the rent." When I was a child, I went to the blacksmith shop as an apprentice because I had no food to eat, and I had to use a sledgehammer at the age of fourteen, and I was almost crushed to death by a hammer in the first year; I have three younger brothers, two of whom are less than a year old because they have nothing to eat; My sister was about to be sixteen years old and had not yet married, because the family had little labor, and she was called as a man; My Abba and Aunt are not yet fifty years old, and they work day and night, and they look like they are seventy or eighty years old......"
His words resonated with the villagers, and many people's eyes were red, in the hands of Gou Dafu, who is not bitter?
Su Laoqi put down his hand, did not try to grab his son's arm again, and wiped away his tears. He remembered the two sons who died young, both of whom starved to death because they had no food to eat and their wives had no milk, and he could only hold his son's shriveled corpse and watch his son's life slowly fade away, but there was nothing he could do. He choked up and whispered, "My poor son......"
Su Laoqi's emotions infected the surrounding villagers, everyone knew about the death of his two sons, and the memories of the villagers were also hooked, everyone thought of their own sad things, and their eyelids were already crying, Lin Cripple cried: "My second child was beaten because of the matter of paying rent, and he had a fever at the time, and he had no money to get medicine, so he went after three days......
Su Thick Legs continued: "The new owner has given us a way to live, and everyone has a head start. If these lands are not official land, everyone thinks it can be better, maybe the government is more ruthless than Gou Dafu, rather than this, it is better to fight with the owner and break out of a way to live! ”
When Tan Shan was drying salt in Ma Yuan Village, the miserable situation in the village was worse than that of Hefeng Village, and it was not until the summer that Nan turned out to be born completely changed their lives. He empathized with the grief of the villagers of Hefeng Village, and his belief in his heart was even stronger, and he wanted to pull them into the camp of the lord so that they could live a good life.
He then said with Su's thick legs: "This little brother's words are very reasonable, whether it is the landlord or the government, it is not a fuel-efficient lamp, if the villagers can trust my master, they will follow my master, he will not let everyone suffer." ”
Some villagers hesitated and asked: "Isn't it a rebellion to fight with the officers and soldiers, not to mention whether the fight can be fought or not?" I want to connect the nine clans! This is exactly the concern of Su Laoqi, and it is also the concern in the hearts of most villagers.
"My lord didn't want to rebel, he just had to do it. As long as you resist the three-board axe of the government, after the matter slows down, there will naturally be a way to resolve it. My lord not only has land, but also has a big business, and he is not afraid of spending money, money can make ghosts grind, and the villagers don't have to worry about settling accounts after the autumn. ”
When Tan Shan said this, many people were shaken. Su Thick Leg patted his chest and shouted: "It's still the same sentence, if the owner is short of people, count me Su Thick Leg as one." ”
Tan Shan saw that the fire was almost over, and threw out the final killer move: "This little brother is really righteous." My lord said that there may be a fight with the officers and soldiers, and anyone who has a male in the family this time will be given one tael of silver a month, and next year the tenant land will be exempted from 30 percent of the rent......" When the villagers heard this condition, they were in an uproar.
Tan Shan continued to increase: "...... Next year, all the land will be redistributed, and if there are men in the family who participate in the war, priority will be given to the selection of land for tenant planting, and the number of acres is not limited. ”
The villagers were completely stimulated, to the left were sweet dates, to the right were big sticks, and the fools knew how to stand in line. If the proprietor succeeds in keeping these lands from the government, then the tenants who choose first will take advantage of it, and the latter will not only not be able to choose good land with fertile land, but the upper limit will only be five acres, and the difference between the two is simply a world of difference.
The young villagers shouted after Su's thick legs: "Count me in, count me in!" ”
Su Laoqi hesitated, and did not continue to stop the eldest son, after all, compared with the government, whether he can farm good land and whether he can eat enough food seems to be the more important thing to pay attention to at the moment.
After a flicker, which was both true and false, Xia Nan successfully tied the tenants of Lingao County to his chariot, and in just half a month, six or seven hundred people wanted to join the escort team. After screening, 200 people were left, all of whom were honest and healthy, and those who were older and weaker were eliminated. Although the number of people is a little smaller, the seeds of the common people's resistance to the government have been planted in Lingao County, and they will be used well in the future, and the spark can also set the prairie on fire.
In order to cope with the possible battle, everything made way for the convoy. The Bairentan Iron and Steel Plant and the Arsenal went all out to produce weapons and equipment, Tan Er led the newly released construction team to step up the expansion of the Mayuan Barracks, and Huang Han kept watch at the training ground on the night of his birthday to train new soldiers.