The corn that was still green dried up after an east wind, and when the wind blew, the corn fields were brushed and rattled, and the heavy ears of grain kept nodding.
The corn is not fully ripe at this time, but limited to the harvesting ability, the farmer will not wait for the corn to turn golden before harvesting, and at that time the harvested corn will have to lose many grains of rice, and the huo grain will be struck by lightning.
The peasants, men and women, and the whole family, went into battle, bent over, and cut all the way unhurriedly, and the stubble behind them was the same height, as if it had been measured with a ruler.
The half-grown children followed, the cut corn neatly bundled, and then picked up and carried to the cart in the field, where they had to handle it with care, lest the millet be dropped.
From time to time, the father and mother would look back, and if they saw the children throwing the bundles of corn into the car at will, they would have to scold them in distress.
The rich family had ox carts, ox carts with big wooden wheels, pulling a cart full of corn stacks, creaking on the rutted loess road, and the man who drove the car followed the cart with a big whip, holding his chest and belly high, singing sour songs in a high-pitched voice as he walked: "I heard my brother singing, and warmed up and threw myself on the cold windowsill" Poor people have to rely on rickshaws to pull the cart, a sturdy man pulls the cart and walks in front, with a sheep's belly handkerchief on his head, as if a pair of white horns have grown on his forehead, and his strength is as great as a cow, and the child follows behind, jumping and playing when going downhill, and pouting his ass to help his father and brother push the cart when going uphill.
There are patches of open fields in the village, which have been rolled by large stone rollers for many years, and have long been smooth and smooth like a mirror.
The harvested crops were placed on the field, some people were threshing with flails, the corn and bean pods were burned to the brittles, and seven or eight people each held the flails and stood in a row, the flails rose and fell in unison, crackling as if singing.
There are also people who drive a few cows, trampling on the crops all over the ground, and the millet grains and beans fall off one after another in the continuous trampling, and when these trampled corn straw and bean seedlings are picked up, the smooth ground is full of grain, swept together, and then dustpan is used to remove dust.
This is a village in Linzhen County, Yanzhou.
Under the shade of the trees on the side of the courtyard, there were more than a dozen people in different costumes, talking and laughing as the peasants played and raised the field.
Judging from the clothing, these people are not from the town, it is said that they are from Luoyang City, where the emperor lives, and they want to go west to buy furs from Fanren.
Many people in the town have never left the village within a radius of ten miles in their lives, and they don't even know the name of Luoyang as a city, but the well-informed Master Li Zheng told them to understand what it was.
Master Li Zheng has to go to the county seat every year, and he is a person who has seen the big market.
Although the people in the village have little knowledge, they are simple and kind, and they are hospitable.
Hearing that these people lived in the same city as the emperor, the peasants were in awe of these well-dressed guests, and even the most rugged men were restrained in front of the guests, for fear that something would make people laugh at them.
But as soon as they were far away from these distant guests, they immediately regained their composure.
No, the man who was slapping the back of the ox with a small whip and driving a few oxen to trample on the crops all over the ground was singing happily: "Moo, come, Who would have imagined that his embarrassed face turned red when he was just stopped for questioning by the guest who was more handsome than a big girl and whose skin was smoother than the butt of a newly landed doll.
Li Zheng's surname is Chen, his name is Chen Dashan, and he smiled at Zhang Changzong with a mouthful of yellow teeth: "The nobles ignore them, they are all uninformed countrymen. ” Shang Jia didn't have much status in Luoyang, but in his eyes, he was a great nobleman, not to mention that these nobles were very generous, and they just rested in the village, so they gave them a lot of things, although in the eyes of these nobles, they were just needles and threads.
Next to the young man, who was more handsome than the eldest girl, was also a very handsome man, he sat on a wooden pier, and said to Chen Dashan with a smile: "Chen Lizheng, your village has a good harvest this year." ” Chen Dashan said with a smile: "No, it wasn't like this here when I was a child, these years, the land grandfather blessed, the wind and rain are smooth, the harvest is getting better and better year by year, and the more it goes, the more flavorful."
Zhang Changzong said lightly: "The taxes paid will not be handed over until this batch of grain is down."
Chen Dashan blinked blankly: "Ah, what did the noble man say?"
This noble man didn't look as easy to talk to as that nobleman, and as soon as he talked to him, Chen Lizheng was a little cramped, feeling that although this noble man was sitting on a small horse, he was more majestic than the eldest lord in the county.
He had seen the county lord, and once he went to the city to hand over grain, and when the county lord opened a court to ask about the case, he squeezed into the crowd and glanced at it from a distance.
Yang Fan smiled: "It's rent." ” Chen Lizheng suddenly realized: "Oh, the noble man said that the rent, yes, this batch of grain was paid out, our village has already harvested a crop of wheat, but the government does not collect wheat, only millet and millet, we eat the wheat ourselves, this millet millet is beaten down to pay rent, and if there is a surplus, exchange it for some oil and salt." ” At this time, the main crops in the north are millet and millet millet, and rice is also grown in some areas with abundant water.
Although wheat is also a dryland crop as an alien species, it requires higher irrigation conditions than millet and millet.
In addition, the flour processing industry was backward at that time, and people usually cooked wheat and rice and millet before eating, and the taste was not good, so the poor people only ate wheat rice.
At that time, the ruler would be considered incorruptible if he ate wheat rice; It is a pious mourning for children to eat wheat rice during the period of filial piety; If someone keeps the rice for themselves to eat wheat rice for the elders, they will be scolded as unfilial.
The status of wheat in China's food system was only established in the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, at this time, the government still collected taxes mainly from millet and millet, and wheat could only be eaten by the farmers themselves.
Yang Fan and Zhang Changzong glanced at each other, and asked again with a slight smile: "Oh, how many acres of land do you have in this village, and how much rent does you have to pay in a year?"
After learning about the local villagers' harvest and rent payments over the years, Yang Fan and Zhang Changzong led their men to leave, and this was the fourth village they had visited.
After Yang Fan and Zhang Changzong received the emperor's secret order, they made careful arrangements.
Although the Sanyang Palace is full of powerful people at the top, there may not be the eyes and ears of the Hidden Sect among them, but just in case, they still laid layers of smoke screens.
Yang Fan disappeared because he went back to Luoyang to investigate the water situation, in case the water potential fell and reported to the Son of Heaven.
This news is only known to the upper echelons, and those who want to inquire can find out.
At this time, Luoyang City is like a water city, there are people from the government everywhere dealing with the aftermath, and there is no rule in the mess, even if someone gets the news and wants to go back to stare at Yang Fan's tip, he has to find Yang Fan in advance.
As for Zhang Changzong's disappearance, it was much simpler, he was already in the inner court, and few foreign ministers could see him.
Except for the palace eunuch beside the emperor, who knows that he is not in the palace After Yang Fan and Zhang Changzong secretly left Sanyang Palace, they immediately divided their troops into multiple routes, except for their way, the rest of the roads were all suspicious soldiers, respectively to Suizhou, Yanzhou, Danzhou, Tongzhou direction, but the final meeting point was in Yanzhou, according to the time, they should also concentrate here at this time.
Before Yang Fan set off, he also sent someone to send a letter to Gu Zhuting, asking her four brothers and sisters to rush to Yanzhou from Yanzhou, which was his right-hand man, and she naturally had to stay by her side at this critical moment.
As for the Yanzhou side, there is nothing to investigate, and let those corrupt officials be proud for a while.
When Yang Fan originally Chadan Prefecture and Dunzhou, he used half-light and half-dark, half-official and half-official, but when he noticed that Yanzhou Mansion had an even more shocking shady scene, he didn't need to be so cautious.
In the face of absolute power, there is no room for all intrigues and tricks, and he can achieve his goal by the simplest and most brutal methods at this time.
As long as he can confirm the existence of the Yanzhou case, arrest the local corrupt officials, and investigate the situation, the corrupt officials and corrupt officials in Yanzhou will have nothing to hide.
The northern and northwest regions were originally the focus of the Yin Sect's operation, and they must be inextricably linked with the local government, and this earth-shattering case will definitely deal a heavy blow to them.
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In this way, it not only cracked down on corrupt officials and corrupt officials, but also hit the forces of the Hidden Sect, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
In the car, Zhang Changzong said excitedly: "General Yang, these places have bumper harvests year after year, and the people pay taxes every year, but the imperial court has not received a grain of rice in taxes, but every year I have received a disaster report from Xie Tingshi to ask for relief, and I have to allocate funds for disaster relief, this is obviously a feint for disaster relief, we can start arresting people."
Yang Fan smiled and said, "What Feng Chencheng said is that it's time for us to do it."
Zhang Changzong came here to trek all the way, although there were people to serve, but the food and clothing, driving and driving are really hard, he thought how fun it was to go out of Beijing, but now it is really not interesting.
The only thought that he can sustain so far is that he can pretend to be a clean official and arrest people, this game is interesting and tight.
Now that Yang Fan finally agreed to use soldiers, Zhang Changzong couldn't help but be ecstatic, and immediately pulled it on the wall of the compartment, and with a "click", a hidden mezzanine popped up, and Zhang Changzong took out a heavy iron box from the mezzanine and put it on the case.
As soon as the box is opened, the yellow silk inside is at the bottom, and there are 12 reading power grids, six squares in front and six rectangles in the back, corresponding to two by two.
In the square, there are golden turtles lying quietly, a total of six turtles.
In the corresponding long grid, there is a roll of snow-white paper, tied with yellow silk.
The turtle is the turtle symbol, and the paper is the fate.
With these two things, you can mobilize troops and send generals to create a bloody storm : Sincerely ask for monthly passes and recommended tickets To be continued
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