"Daddy, Daddy, we can go home!"

Dagui ran all the way, shouted all the way, and ran to the depths of the mountain.

Cen Dalang, who was tidying up the bamboo basket, heard the voice, stood up and watched Dagui run all the way. When he arrived, Cen Dalang took the salt from Dagui's hand and touched his head: "Silly boy, what stupid things did you say." It's better to wait for a few years, when you grow up, and no one knows you before you go out of the mountain. ”

"No, Daddy, we can really go home! I went to buy salt and saw a new white wall on the grass market, on which was posted the list of the government. I heard people who knew how to read and say, what Taiping County has newly established, our Jiangzhou will also be under the control of Taiping County, and in the future, all punishments that will be beaten will be cut by the county. Daddy, although you didn't save Xiao Yanei, you didn't violate the law of the country, and the county won't kill us if you decide the case! ”

Cen Dalang shook his head: "Who did you listen to these nonsense, we barbarians have been in charge of the head for thousands of years, and the head man said that he wanted you to die, how could you still live?" ”

Dagui said: "But that's the official government's example, is it possible that the official government will still deceive people?" ”

"Who in this world doesn't lie? What's more, in the eyes of those people, we are just cattle and horses, where can we be considered human. It was not good, so we had better go back quickly, and it would be too late to harvest the corn when it rained. ”

Cen Dalang said as he took Dagui's hand and walked towards the depths of the mountain.

Cen Dalang turned out to be a family member in Wei Zhizhou, Jiangzhou, he was smart and clever since he was a child, and he learned the ability to treat trauma from You Fanglang, and he was willing to study, and slowly became famous. With this skill, Cen Dalang was quite reused by Jiang Zhizhou, and his life was smooth. When he was old, Jiangzhou even made the decision to marry him to a Hun family, who was also a slave of the Wei family, and gave birth to a son Dagui after marriage.

Two years ago, Wei Zhizhou's son Xiao Yanei was accidentally bitten by a poisonous snake while playing outside, and broke his leg, Wei Zhizhou asked Cen Dalang to heal. At that time, it happened that there was a shortage of medicine, so Cen Dalang went out to collect medicine, and asked Xiao Yanei to endure it first.

When he came back, he found that his Hun family was being hung up and beaten, and when he asked, he realized that Xiao Yanei couldn't help the pain and yelled. Wei Zhizhou felt sorry for his son, so he blamed Cen Dalang for going out to collect medicine too slowly, and beat his Hun family to make his son angry.

As a family member, his life is the master's family, although Cen Dalang was dissatisfied, he had to hold back the resentment in his heart and treat Xiao Yanei. I didn't think that Xiao Yanei's injuries were being treated here, and Wei Zhizhou over there didn't let the people who beat Cen Dalanghun's family stop, and the injuries here were not healed, so they beat the people to death first.

Is the life of a slave not life? Cen Dalanghun's life is gone, where can Xiao Yanei's injuries be cured? Cen Dalang found an excuse to change the medicine the next day, and fled into the mountains with his son overnight. Within a few days, Xiao Yanei was killed, Wei Zhizhou blamed Cen Dalang, informed the surrounding officials, and paid 50 rewards to arrest Cen Dalang, vowing to peel him off and cramp and avenge his son.

In the past two years, Cen Dalang has been living in the mountains and dare not see people, and even buying salt and other daily necessities has asked his son to exchange them for prey in the mountains.

Today, his son came back and said that he could go home, Wei Zhizhou didn't dare to beat his father and son to death, isn't it a joke? For thousands of years, the rules in the mountains, the master's family spoke, when did they change? If you die, you have to die, all the local officials are connected, and you have nowhere to run.

In the past, it was not that no one ran to the mountains, but most of them did not last much time, and after all, it was a dead end. The two years were different, and the corn and sweet potatoes brought by Xu Ping gradually spread among the barbarians, and these two crops were specially prepared for the people in the mountains.

Corn can grow regardless of the terrain, even if it is only planted with one or two trees, and it can be used as a staple food crop after harvesting and storage. Sweet potatoes also have no requirements for terrain, although they are not resistant to storage, but the growth period is short, and they can be used as famine-relief crops, so as not to encounter natural disasters and not eat for a year.

With the spread of these two crops in the Yongzhou area, there have been more and more fugitives under the rule of various local officials in the past two years, and the local officials have long been slandering Xu Ping.

The trouble is that the mountains have to be burned to open up the wasteland, and the fertility cannot be retained, and the land cannot be planted in three or five years, so it must be changed. However, the time is still short, and the natives can't sink it.

Although he can survive in the mountains, he doesn't care, but what will happen to his son in the future? It's just that after a few years, no one knows each other, no house and no land, is it difficult to enter a big family to be a housekeeper again? Generation after generation as a slave, generation after generation as a slave, there is no future, Cen Dalang really doesn't want to go on his old path again.

What is that bracket that my son was talking about all the way? Could it be that the innocence in the mountains is about to change? Although Cen Dalang couldn't believe it, a longing rose in his heart.

Wei Zhizhou had long forgotten about Cen Dalang, and now he had more trouble.

Although Taiping County did not say when the "Bracket Law" would be implemented, it had already been widely spread in the local area, and as long as there were barbarians gathering to chat, nine times out of ten they were talking about this matter. I saw that when I harvested the autumn grain, I couldn't harvest it this year. In previous years, those Tituo people who saw Tian Zijia who entered the village were like mice and cats, and they all learned to straighten their waists, saying that they were the court members and refused to pay. If they beat people and arrest people, some of them will also learn to go to the county to sue the officials.

The most hateful thing is Duan Fang, who clearly said that the time for the implementation of the "Bracketing Law" was to be determined, but he began to meddle in the lawsuits under the rule of the local officials below.

If you don't let people be beaten and robbed, how can money and food be collected? Wei Zhizhou didn't believe that the Han people in the mainland would not be punished when they requisitioned grain, which farmer would not be forced to hand over the grain?

can't collect money and food, what does he Wei Zhizhou's family eat? In the small place of Jiangzhou, there are only more than 100 households in the Wei family, even if these more than 100 households drink wind every day, the money and food squeezed out are not enough for the Wei family to eat and drink spicy food.

This is already the case before the new law is implemented, and if it is implemented, will it still be possible to live this life?

In the official hall of Jiangzhou Village, Wei Zhizhou had a gloomy face, looked at the official leader under his rule, and asked hatefully: "You say, you can't collect money and food, let the people in my family drink the wind?" Without the plantain of the hundreds of people I have here, you are all the meat in the mouths of the surrounding states! If you don't pay money and food, my soldiers and horses here won't be able to move, and without the protection of my soldiers and horses, the money and food you saved will not be robbed by others! ”

The so-called official canons are official positions appointed by the local officials themselves, assigned to various places to govern the localities, and the most important thing is to help the Wei family collect grain and pay taxes, and arrest people for service. As a result, when it was time to harvest the autumn grain, these people went to the state village empty-handed one by one to complain, and such a day was simply impossible to live.

The leaders pushed an older one out and said to Wei Zhizhou: "Zhoujia, it's not that we don't go down to collect it for you, we really can't collect it!" Now everyone knows that everyone in Taiping County can call the shots, saying that the official family doesn't have so much money and food, and what can we do if we don't pay it over whether we live or die? ”

"Whoever dares to fight without handing it over! You're not going to hit people, are you? ”

"Beat people in the county to ask."

"Okay, don't hit people, take things if you don't hit people! lead their cattle, pick up their houses, rob their young women, or catch the strong men. Now sell it to Jiaozhi, a strong man for twenty yuan, a young woman for ten yuan, these still want me to teach you? ”

"The state family, there is a notice in the county, the plunderer is beheaded as a slave, who dares to arrest someone and sell it!"

Wei Zhizhou was so angry when he heard this that he wanted to burst his belly, and pointed to the old man in front of him and said, "That's just a piece of paper, you should be Tianxian!" If you listen to the words of Taiping County, you will dare not listen to my words! I have more than 100 Tian Zijia here, believe it or not, slaughter a chicken and dog in your village! ”

The old man sighed: "What's the use of the state family scaring us people? Tian Zijia in the state can kill people, but the imperial army in Taiping County can't kill people? A few days ago, I just came from Fujian to command, and I heard that there will be a command in a few days, not to mention more than 100 Tian Zijia of the state family, even if the soldiers and horses of the surrounding states are all combined, they can't beat the soldiers and horses of the imperial court. It's just that if you can't fight it, you can fight, and rebellion is the disaster of extermination! ”

Wei Zhizhou looked at the old man, didn't speak for a long time, and finally sneered: "I can also see that you people are not with me at all!" It's a shame that you have all relied on my Wei family for generations, but no one helped me when the matter came, so I don't feel sorry! Hmph, let me tell you, don't think that there are any good things for you after Kuding, the benefits are all in those poor ghosts! Do you know what Han is like? The servants there are all spread out on the upper accounts, yes, it is you people, and you will know that you will be bankrupt when the time comes! ”

The old man turned around and glanced at everyone, and said to Wei Zhizhou: "We have also heard of these, so we don't need Han land, the two counties of Changhua and Wuyuan under Yongzhou are not far away, and they are all Han people's laws." But although we don't want to, our arms can't twist our thighs, how dare we go against the court? ”

"If you don't dare to go against the court, you dare to go against me, don't you?" Wei Zhizhou sneered again and again, "I think you don't have a knife on your neck and don't repent!" Don't you know the power of the imperial law? I'll let you taste it first! From tomorrow, I will give you half a month to collect the money and food for me! If you don't pay it overdue, it will fall on him, and the family will pay everything that should be paid under his rule! This is the method of the imperial court, otherwise no one in the mainland would dare to be a lizheng! Follow me, you always have some soup to eat, and follow the court, but you all have to cramp and peel the skin! One by one, the knives are on the neck, and I don't know the word dead! ”

The old man complained bitterly in his heart, this method is the hottest, and you can't help but make efforts to urge food. Either they offend the people under their control to death, or they ruin their own wealth, how can the villagers still gain a foothold in the local area if they do this?

But the only way to do this is to see if the charter in Taiping County will let Wei Zhizhou do this.

(Rest tomorrow and strive for three watches.) The recent foreplay seems to have dragged on a bit again, so it should pass as soon as possible, get to the point, and end tomorrow. ）