space farmer girl busy farming

Chapter 1636 Summer Harvest in Luxi Village ([-])
"This method is worthless to put it bluntly. It is to let the tenant farmers know what is at stake, who has caused them such misery, and turn their eyes back to the rightful owner."

"... let the tenant farmers target the landlords with three surnames?"

"I don't think they dare."

"Yes, they definitely don't dare. Whoever stands out will lose the whole family."

"And the village head is also surnamed Jiang."

"Then take advantage of these few days to collect taxes. You should try it first. When chatting with people, ask the tenants. They are all landless farmers. Where did the land tax come from? Landlords charge such a high rent, do they cover taxes? Let's take a look at what is written in black and white on the Tian contract."

"The Tsukuda contract? And this thing?" The men looked puzzled.

"Not even this? How can you pay such a high rent without written evidence? When you mortgaged the land to borrow money, you still have an IOU. How come there is no contract for the land?"

"Hey, I never noticed it!" A man slapped his thigh vigorously. "Okay, it happens that my neighbor is a sharecropper. I'll ask tonight."

"But if you ask, there is nothing, but if you don't have a field, the whole family will starve to death. How can they live? Isn't this a dilemma."

"You are so cute. If there is no contract when you ask, it's all up to the landlord to say what you want. Wouldn't that just let them know that they were tricked by the landlord and let them divert their hatred for you?"

"I think they'll hate us even more."

"Have you ever inquired about the county border? After the refugee riot occurred in the next county, all the good citizens became landless refugees. Tens of thousands of people gathered in our county border, so that the Bai family army had to separate out. Keep the county border, otherwise they will enter Donglin County and sweep past villages like locusts, do you think a small impoverished county like ours can handle it?"

"I can't bear it, I can't bear it, I can't bear it."

"Then have you ever thought about it, when the tenant farmers in this village really have to fight for food, will they go to the landlord's house or your house? Compared with the landlord's house, which one is better to break into?"

"Oh, of course it's our home."

The men finally understood why they had to pick out questions that they had never thought about deeply. When people were so hungry that their eyes glowed green and they lost their minds, it must be their fifteen households that were unlucky first, and then the landlord's family.

"Taxes are being paid these few days. Is it appropriate for us to tell the truth? The yamen servants and landlords have no shame. I don't know how they will deal with us when they look back?" Some people still looked forward and backward.

"I'm just waiting for the landlords to make trouble. If they don't make trouble, we can't intervene. The army is the army, and the people are the people. We must abide by the rules. Otherwise, you would like to spend all the money in your pocket on taxes?"

"No no no! No no no!"

The men waved their hands again and again, realizing that it was Qi Zhuang who was looking for a reason to intervene, and suddenly felt confident.

"The women and children from the tenant farmers' families at the gate came to borrow money empty-handed. We wanted to sympathize with them, but that's not how they borrowed money. I, Qi Zhuang, didn't blame them for falling into this situation. The roots were all on the landlords of the three surnames. What is the reason for blocking my door and insulting us?"

The men only nodded, not daring to intercede.

"They're all from the same village. You don't see them when you look up and you see them when you look down every day. There are also your relatives and friends among them. You must feel uncomfortable watching them go to a dead end every day."

(End of this chapter)