On the shore of Luoshui, a huge palace that has not yet been completed, countless slaves, farmers, and craftsmen are busy like ants. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

They are old and young, but their common characteristics are that they are unclothed and skinny.

In order to drive away the tiredness, they tried to shout the trumpet, but after all, they were too tired to rest, but after a while, they flew and whipped and screamed.

"Doctor, we haven't eaten for almost a day, shall we eat something and then do something?" An old man who seemed to have entered the age of the sixtieth year said to the doctor.

The doctor couldn't get angry when he heard it: "You didn't eat, so I ate?" In order to finish the project ahead of schedule, the above said, if we can't finish it on time, we all have to be killed, damn, why is Lao Tzu so wronged, I just married my wife and encountered this thing......"

The old man sighed and went on with his labor.

Seeing that the old man was leaving, the doctor took out a handful of boiled wheat particles from his arms and secretly stuffed them into his mouth and gnawed them.

The sun was blazing on his head, and he was a little dizzy, and he began his overseer again with a few curses.

On the fertile land of Guluochuan, Lu Di looked at the desolate scenery around him on a horse, and couldn't help but feel strange, why is such a fertile land still uninhabited for thousands of miles?

He summoned Cheng Lian, who was talking to Gong Mingyi in the back, and asked him why.

Cheng Lian beat the horse and came over to explain to Lu Di that it was caused by the endless labor of the Son of Heaven.

Zhou Tianzi Ji Kuo has been using people's power for nearly ten years in order to build his so-called big house facing the river and the spring flowers.

In his brutal labor, ten rooms and nine empty rooms were emptied, the land of Zhou was desolate, and the people were miserable.

"There's a village in front of Childe, where we can rest at night?" Zhang Mengtan pointed to the village road where the loess was piled up in the sunset.

Lu Di nodded, and everyone beat their horses and marched towards the village.

As soon as I entered the village, I heard the barking of dogs, and then the sound of the door being closed.

Seeing this, Lu Di and Zhang Mengtan looked at each other, and Cheng Lian seemed to be used to it: "Son, the villagers think that we are people who grasp labor, so they are all afraid to cover the door. ”

Lu Di let out a long sigh when he heard this, the pain of labor for the lower class people was even more terrible than the robbery of bandits.

When he was in Tai'an, the people who only knew the weight of taxation were breathless, but now it seems that what is the difference between taxation and forced labor (here mainly refers to hard labor)?

Light taxation, light taxation, later dynasties have always followed this national policy during the prosperous period.

The more Lu Di thought about it, the heavier it became, because he didn't know how to solve a major contradiction after he ascended the throne in the future: a country that was in ruins, a demand to unify China, if there was no heavy forced labor and taxes, how could he support himself to achieve the unification of the country?

This question Lu Di himself can't answer, the heavy conscription and taxation Qin Shihuang and Yang Guang are the teachers of the previous life, without conscription and taxation, the country has no ability to create greatness!

It's too hard, it's too hard!

Zhang Mengtan is one of the people who knows Lu Di best, he saw Lu Di's sadness, he was busy comforting, and Lu Di laughed in return.

In this era, so far, the people Lu Di has met, he knows that only Kong Qiu can understand him, of course, Zhang Mengtan can only be regarded as half, even if it is half, Lu Di feels that he is not alone.

The avenue does not exist, and the saint is lonely.

Huang also joined the ranks of persuading Lu Di, and several people began to talk and discuss how to solve the contradiction between lightly paying taxes and concentrating people's resources to do great things.

Yan Ke came to a relatively wealthy mansion while everyone was talking, and he knocked on the door: "Master, we are past guests, and it is late today, and we want to ask for a glass of water at your place." ”

The door was quiet for a long time, Yan Ke originally gave up and wanted to go to another house to see, but the moment he turned around, he saw a rough middle-aged woman in the crack of the door who was secretly looking outside, and he hurriedly saluted the woman through the door: "Madam, we are really past guests, please don't be suspicious." ”

The woman still didn't believe and said, "Is it a passing guest?" ”

Yan Ke was about to nod, when Lu Di came over to give a salute: "Madam, we are travelers from the Qi Kingdom, and we want to go to the capital of the Son of Heaven to visit Doctor Taishi Danqi. ”

The reason why Lu Di reported the name of Shan Qi was because during the Battle of Chu that year, Lu Di had a deep relationship with Shan Qi, and knew that he was a "fool" who protected cultural classics, and he was very worthy of his respect, and a respectable person would not have a bad reputation, so the resistance to reporting his name and doing things was relatively small.

The middle-aged woman saw that Lu Diyin was a gentle and heroic person, and she didn't expect that she was not a bad person, so she opened the courtyard door and wanted everyone to enter.

When the courtyard door opened, the middle-aged woman was indeed frightened by the battle of Lu Di and his party, it was the first time she had seen so many people who were so noble, and of course, horses.

The middle-aged woman suddenly thought that the group of people in front of her were going to the capital to visit Taishi, and the people knew that they were coming, and they must not be easy, so they were busy inviting everyone into the house.

When everyone entered the hall, the middle-aged woman had already taken out the wine and poured it into the clay bowls.

"Guest, the humble house is ugly, if there is any inconsiderate hospitality, I hope to forgive me," the middle-aged woman said.

Lu Di said that he didn't dare, and it was a great luck to have a glass of water and wine to enter.

Lu Di saw that the middle-aged woman's family was also rich and prosperous, but she didn't see a man, so she wondered why she didn't see her wife and heirs in front of her filial piety.

The middle-aged woman sighed when she heard this, and suddenly the heart-rending cry of an old man came from the room behind the living room.

Hearing that everyone was shocked, the middle-aged woman hurried back to the room behind the living room, and Lu Di led the group to put down the pottery bowl and hurriedly followed.

I saw a white-haired and blind old woman clapping her legs and crying, and Lu Di, who was infected by the painful cry, wanted to cry.

The middle-aged woman comforted the old woman while crying.

"Old lady, ma'am, what happened?" Lu Di was a little anxious, he couldn't see others shed tears in his life, especially the old, weak, lonely and women.

The middle-aged woman wiped away her tears before explaining the reason to Lu Di and her party.

It turned out that the old woman was the mother-in-law of the middle-aged woman, and the reason why her mother-in-law was crying was because she remembered the sad thing again.

Lu Di, Zhang Meng, Huang Yanke, Gong Mingyi, Cheng Lian and others all knelt and listened to the cry of the middle-aged woman.

This wealthy and well-to-do family of six was originally very happy, but in the battle of Chuchu that year, the middle-aged woman's husband, the old woman's only son, was killed in the battle, leaving only two elderly in-laws and her two sons.

Although the days are miserable, there is hope for two sons, and their family is still in the past, but misfortune happens day by day.

First, the eldest son went to serve in the military and died unexpectedly, and then the Son of Heaven ordered to recruit labor to build a palace, and the second son did not hide from the construction of the palace when he was hit by a beam and died on the spot.

The hope of the family is gone, but the hateful Son of Heaven does not intend to let them go, they even let the elderly father-in-law go to labor, think about how can an old man serve in labor?

On the way, he fell ill and died after heavy rain.

Now the originally happy family of six is left with only himself and her mother-in-law, the two women, who live a miserable life.

My mother-in-law was also blinded by crying......