Longevity Begins with Jinyiwei Chapter 338

In the countryside, a team of iron cavalry walked slowly.

Li Xiu sat on the back of a horse, surrounded by horses, and looked around the countryside.

The goal is not the hustle and bustle of the cities, but the intoxicating tranquility.

The green mountains and green waters, the smoke curling from the cooking, everything seems to be picturesque.

It's just that in this painting, the people are naked, and it is a thatched hut that is difficult to shelter from the wind and rain.

A scrawny man, shirtless, in the north wind, working in the fields, and the fields are the kind of fields that you can see at a glance, and are destined to not have much harvest!

And even if it is down the field, what they can keep for their own use is only a trivial part of it, and it is even difficult to even barely make ends meet.

Naked, muddy children, lit a fire in the field, surrounded by the fire to cool off, playing and playing, with their innocent eyes, it seems that they don't know at all, their future will also be delineated in this barren soil. In the middle, struggling to survive, living hard for a lifetime!

When this scene came into view, Li Xiu's indifferent expression also changed slightly. He never denied that he was a selfish person who ignored human life.

But, in his place, seek his job.

With all the power in his hands, how could he have no feelings for the struggles at the bottom.

Recalling the past, it seems that everything he has done, such as great victories, rectifications, and reforms, at least for now, and even for a long time in the future, will not change the lives of these people at the bottom.

Even the war, the backlash of reform, and the resistance of the bureaucracy will only make the lives of these people at the bottom more tormented.

Therefore, his existence, at least for now, has not changed much for the people at the bottom of this nation.

But in fact, in the northern Xinjiang, in addition to the army being the biggest foundation of Duke Qin, most of these people at the bottom are also his most solid supporters.

The reason is equally simple.

Just because his existence, to a large extent, avoided the endless frontier troubles, and suppressed and suppressed most of the thieves that swept across the land.

Let these people, when struggling to survive, not suffer the inevitable disaster again.

After all, in frontier troubles, the family is destroyed, and the thieves are in chaos, and the family is also destroyed.

Even if the family is still alive, it is difficult to avoid the end of being carried.

Thoughts were flying, and in the sky, it was also unknown when snowflakes suddenly fell. Li Xiu raised his hand and touched it lightly, and the snowflakes landed on his fingertips.

"Snowing!"

Some of the guards couldn't help but speak up.

"Yeah, it's snowing."

Li Xiu also responded, looking at the sudden snowfall, and muttered to himself:

"The first year of Jingwu is almost over!"

Jingwu!

What a beautiful vision this is!

With a sense of melancholy in his heart, Li Xiu couldn't help but sigh as he glanced around this little-known village.

There is a long way to go.

He still has a long way to go!

The direction that was once certain and firm seems to be less certain now.

"General, the snow is too heavy, let's find someone to rest for a while!"

A general steered forward and bowed to Li Xiu.

Li Xiu glanced at the dilapidated thatched hut in the village. When he was about to refuse, he seemed to remember something, nodded, and then pointed to the thatched hut at the head of the village: "Just go to that one."

"As ordered!"

The commander gave the order, and the general immediately led several soldiers to the house.

Li Xiu glanced around, and also moved his horse.

A small thatched hut, but there were six people crowded inside.

An old lady with white hair and a hunchback, a shirtless, scrawny middle-aged man, and a grass skirt, pulling three and a half children tightly.

At this moment, all of them were full of panic and despair. Although the general was still explaining, the family had all fallen to their knees, begging for mercy.

"General!"

The pro-general was obviously a little embarrassed.

Looking at this scene, Li Xiu couldn't help but feel a little dazed at the moment.

Back then, when he suddenly fell into the age of cannibalism, why wasn't he so trembling and cautious, and why wasn't he struggling to survive so hard?

However, he was more fortunate and made it through.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to have Qin Guogong, who is now terrifying the world, and some are just a dead bone in the wilderness.

And they...

Undoubtedly unfortunate, or in other words, in this era, all the common people in the world are unfortunate.

"Master, spare your life!"

"Master Jun, you have a lot of adults, please forgive us!"

"Shut up, there's a lot of wind and snow, I'm just here to take shelter from the wind and snow, there's no other meaning!"

The general couldn't bear it any longer, and scolded him directly. At this time, the family finally calmed down.

The room is not big. On one side is a kang floor made of straw. There is not even a decent bed sheet. On the other side, there is also a stove. Some waste-like pots and pans are scattered in disorder. With a pile of firewood.

This family of six, crowded in the corner of the stove, did not dare to let out the atmosphere.

Li Xiu was not at all surprised by this scene. This is the most real look of this era. The ancient courtyards in the ancient TV dramas in my memory basically do not exist, at least, they do not exist in such wild mountain villages. .

Looking around, Li Xiu sat on the kang at will, and immediately waved to the middle-aged man who was obviously the head of the family.

Seeing this, the middle-aged man hurriedly bent over and walked over, and immediately fell to his knees.

Li Xiu waved his hand and guarded himself. He immediately brought a small bench from the corner of the room and placed it in front of the middle-aged man.

"sit."

Li Xiuxi's words are like gold.

The middle-aged man kowtowed violently, and immediately sat tremblingly on the small bench.

"How many acres of land do you have at home?"

Li Xiu spoke slowly.

The voice fell, and the man hurriedly knelt to the ground again: "Back to the adults, there are four acres of farmland in the small family."

Li Xiu frowned and asked again:

"The tenant or their own?"

"The youngest is the tenant of the wealthy Wu family in the town!"

Li Xiu asked again, "How much is the tenant rent?"

The man's face was bitter, and he didn't dare to hide: "Eight out of ten!"

After saying this, Li Xiuzhi's expression suddenly became frosty!

Of course he's not some idiot who doesn't eat minced meat!

The yield of one mu of land is about three stones, and this is still a good harvest situation. Most of the time, it is difficult to have three stones, let alone the barren land!

If you can have two stones, they are all in the sky!

And one stone is equivalent to about 70 to 80 kilograms in modern times.

That is to say, one mu of land has only a mere 300 catties of rice.

Tenant rent is 10 to 8!

It means that the man in front of him has worked hard for a year, and in the end, he has only a few dozen kilograms of rice for one mu of land!

Even if it is five acres of land, it is only a mere 100 pounds! Not even a stone!

The standard of military meals is three liters of rice a day for one person! In January, it is ninety liters, that is, nine buckets, which is 0.9 stone!

An ordinary soldier in the army, a mere month's ration!

It is the family of six in front of me, one year's survival ration!

Obviously, this is by no means an exception!

It is the status quo of countless people in the future!

But sadly, Daming's tax rate on farmland is not high.

Only a mere thirty-one tax!

However, the Ming Dynasty was founded more than 200 years ago, and it has continued to this day. In fact, 90% of the people did not enjoy this meager tax rate due to land acquisition.

Because tenants have no land, they do not have to pay land tax!

However, there is no need to pay taxes, but there is still labor. Since the implementation of the one-whip law, the labor has also been spread into the fields. Although the tenant farmers who do not have land do not actually need to serve, the landlord usually transfers the labor to the tenant farmers.

What this means is undoubtedly very clear.

alive. It has been extremely difficult!

Also need to undertake various errands!

However, in the entire future, after hundreds of years of land mergers and collusion between officials and businessmen, the true self-cultivation farmers may have disappeared!

In other words, in Daming, nine percent of the people lived a similar life to this man, and the only difference might be the kindness of the landlord.

Nine out of ten, eight, seven, or six...

In this way, the reason why those so-called thieves army gathered hundreds of thousands of people at every turn, causing them to be corrupted, is undoubtedly obvious.

In this way, it is also obvious why good policies are difficult to implement.

Daming, it is not the countless Daming people who rule, but the landlord class of Daming! The foundation of Daming was also the landlord class of Daming.

If he is in power, he does not seek welfare for his own family's root base, but for the welfare of the so-called Ming people...

Can it be done?

Obviously impossible.

Will someone betray the class?

Surely there will be, but, after all, only a few.

Can the minority bring the majority to its knees?

Can an individual bring a class to its knees?

Obviously not possible.

Following this association, Li Xiu suddenly discovered that thousands of years of youth history and dozens of dynasties have never completely solved this problem.

The so-called dynasties change, the world must be divided for a long time and it must be divided for a long time. It is nothing more than the spread and expansion of the landlord class, slowly growing to the peak, making the countless bottom-level ants in the world unable to survive, and then, it is the end of the dynasty, and the world is in chaos!

But the world is in chaos, in order to conquer the world, the ambitious must cooperate with the landlord class, until the landlord class that has conquered the world and survived a catastrophe will begin the process of growth, spread and expansion, and then start a cycle of reincarnation!

Why is it said that if the world is divided for a long time, it will be united and divided?

This is the most fundamental reason!

It has never been a historical law, it is just the reincarnation of an interest class driven by human nature!

Individuals, a few people, cannot resist a landlord class that completely covers the entire world!

With his thoughts at this point, Li Xiu couldn't help thinking deeply about how to solve this problem that has plagued this nation for thousands of years.

No, the deep thought was only for a moment, and Li Xiu pressed his thoughts to the bottom of his heart.

This problem that has plagued this nation for thousands of years has been solved by someone in the history of his cognition.

Hundreds of years in the future, there will be a red sun in the east, with unprecedented courage, destroy everything, tear down and rebuild! Completely solve this problem that has plagued this nation for thousands of years!

"Ah…"

At this point, Li Xiu suddenly smiled.

All the problems, it seems, have returned to the origin again.

Does he have the courage to wash the world with blood?

Is he capable of doing all this?

Li Xiu has no doubt that even if it doesn't exist now, it will be there sooner or later.

But, with courage and capital, can he do it?

What is his name?

Duke Qin?

Who will he use to implement it?

Those civil servants representing the landlord class in Daming?

Can…

In this major event of changing the world, he can still maintain the mess, and at the same time compete with the people in the mess, and endure the hindrance of most people in the mess, and even stab knives, and then complete this A world-changing event?

Idiot talking about a dream, delusional!

Or, he, Li Xiu, wants to let go of this hidden danger and continue.

Like the founders of all dynasties, waiting for a predictable slow death?

No, he is not dying yet, he, or Daming, is already on the verge of death.

Even if he completes the military reform and the fiscal and taxation reform, if he does not solve this problem, at most, it will only be the glory before the end.

In other words, he used his own power to go against the general trend, suppress the world, and use the lives of countless people slaughtered by the blade in exchange for the decades of national fortunes that the Ming Dynasty continued.

In the end, people perish and the country perishes, leaving behind the so-called eternal name!

"Let's go!"

Li Xiu stood up slowly, and waved his hand weakly, his expression was also unprecedentedly low.

The guards on the side were also a little overwhelmed. In their impressions, their generals always seemed to be strategizing, and everything seemed to be under his control.

So low and lonely, it seems, has never been!

"These are for you!"

A relative took out a bag of broken silver and threw it to the middle-aged man who was at a loss on his knees, and immediately followed.

Li Xiu walked out of this dilapidated thatched hut, outside the house,

The north wind whistled and rolled up the snowflakes.

Li Xiu slowly stopped and stopped in place. His armor was instantly stained with wind and snow, and a blood-colored cloak swayed recklessly, just like the mess in Li Xiu's heart at the moment.

Some generals stepped forward cautiously, put a fox fur on Li Xiu, and then consciously stepped aside, standing silently in the midst of the wind and snow, like statues.

"Your family used to live like this, right?"

Li Xiu turned around and looked at the dozens of guards standing behind him, as if he was telling a fact, he spoke slowly.

"Reporting to the general, the last general was also a tenant of the landlord's family. However, the landlord at that time was not so inhumane. The tenancy rent was ten or sixteen, and the life was hard, but it was barely able to survive."

"It's alright now, just the salary of the last commander is enough for the last commander's family to be fed and clothed..."

"Reporting to the general, the last general's family are all tenants of the landlord's family. The landlord is more vicious than this, renting out nine out of ten, and dragging the last general's eldest brother to do corvée~www.mtlnovel.com~ The last general's brother is dead. In the midst of corvée, that landlord simply wouldn't give people a way to live…”

"Report to General..."

One by one, the guards replied one after another. There were only a few of the dozens of guards he had carefully cultivated. They belonged to homesteaders or wealthy families. The rest, without exception, were all born from tenants. The only exception was Landlords exploit more, with less!

After listening to what the last guard said, Li Xiu was silent for a long time before asking in an uncertain tone:

"Do you think Ben Governor can solve this problem?"

"Definitely!"

"The general will definitely be able to solve it!"

Almost unanimously, those frantic eyes without the slightest doubt also clearly showed the true inner thoughts of all the guards present.

Looking around at these fanatical eyes, Li Xiu was suddenly speechless. After a while, a smile slowly appeared on the corner of his mouth. This smile became more and more intense, and his eyes were never seen before. Clear and firm.

"Go, go back to Beijing!"

Li Xiu turned on his horse, pulled his whip, raised his hoofs, and the wind and snow fluttered, surrounded by the cavalry, and headed for the Great Ming capital!

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