System, help me be an empress

Chapter 132 Jumping off a cliff
Under Xu Youxi's repeated questioning, the county magistrate couldn't bear the pressure and confessed everything he knew.

It turned out that the fields in the entire Jishan County were owned by a few big landlords, and these farmers who lived nearby all worked for the landlords.

According to the previous tax law, a few large landlords did not have much tax to pay, and the burden of tax basically fell on these farmers.But this year is different. When the tax payment is implemented according to the number of acres of land, the taxes that these big landlords need to pay will increase in an instant.

The landlords felt that they could not suffer, so what to do, they lowered the pressure and put the tax pressure on these farmers who depended on farming for a living.

When the farmers heard about this, they all panicked. There have been frequent disasters in the past two years, and they couldn’t grow much food throughout last year. As a result, they have to pay a large part of it this year to pay taxes for the landlords?

Then they still have to survive!

Even if the food is grown, the final tax credit can only be used in taels of silver.The silver taels in Jishan County are all in the hands of these landlords. In order to exchange for silver taels, don’t they just listen to these landlords calling for the price of grain exchange for silver taels?

Unconvinced, some farmers rushed to the government to uphold justice, and then to the landlord to argue, but no matter how much trouble they made, there was no result.

The more the peasants thought about it, the more they felt something was wrong, so they simply quit, packed up their things and ran up the mountain in the dark, intending to use actions to resist the reform of the imperial court and the rogue behavior of the landlords.

Xu Youxi's expression became worse the more he heard it, and he sarcastically said: "The rich forced the peasants away, so you wrote to the imperial court, saying that there was a rebel army, and asked the imperial court to send troops to suppress the peasants for you? This is a real plan. OK."

"There is something wrong with the humble post, and the humble post will find a way to discuss with the farmers on Mount Ji."

After the county magistrate finished speaking, he hurriedly sent people up the mountain again to look for the traces of those farmers.

Xu Youxi also took advantage of this gap and began to send people to investigate several big local landlords.

In the evening, after dinner, the county magistrate anxiously found Xu Youxi again.

"My lord, those peasants don't know where they got the news. They know that the imperial court has sent a governor to Jishan County. They insist on having a private talk with you!"

"Where are we talking?"

"Those farmers told you to walk alone from the mountain trail to the top of Mount Ji, and their people will wait for you there."

"What time?"

"Most, it's best to go now." The county magistrate's voice became lower and lower, especially humble.

Xu Youxi nodded, and stood up from the chair: "Then set off now, and the rest of the imperial guards will rest in place and wait for arrangements. Xu Ling, come with me."

Xu Youxi took Xu Ling to find a corner, ready to entrust some things.

"Your Majesty, you are taking another risk!"

"It's just for personal protection." Xu Youxi didn't care, "Or can you hide it better than Yingyi?"

"Your Majesty, don't lie to your subordinates. There is no Shadow One at all, right? This subordinate has been with you for such a long time. When did you see the Shadow Guard!"

"The shadow guards will only appear when I am in danger."

Seeing Xu Ling's face full of disbelief, Xu Youxi was also very helpless. Since she renewed the package for the Shadow Guard for 20 years, the system directly gave the Shadow Guard the stealth skill.

Unless Xu Youxi is in danger, she will take the initiative to appear, which also prevents people around her from always questioning why Yingyi doesn't need to eat and sleep.

"Shadow One."

Xu Youxi called out, and in the next second, a man in black appeared behind Xu Ling unexpectedly, staring at Xu Ling abruptly.

Xu Ling looked at the shadow guard in shock, wondering if he was dreaming.

"Okay, Yingyi will protect me, and I will follow the guide up the mountain later, and you are responsible for watching all of us. Remember, you must never obey the orders of the local prefect or any officials, and you must not easily use it on the farmers on the mountain. Gunfire."

"If the situation is special, I may also go deep into the interior of these people to have a look, and may stay for a while."

Although Xu Ling was reluctant, the shadow guard seemed to be quite reliable, so he had no choice but to compromise.

After Xu Youxi arranged everything, she followed the county magistrate who was in charge of guiding her up the mountain.

However, after Xu Youxi struggled to climb to the top of the mountain, what awaited her were a dozen masked strong men hiding in the dark with machetes.

Before Xu Youxi could react, Ying Yi had already stepped forward and fought with a dozen strong men.

It was obvious that these people were intent on killing her.

Looking at these people's proficient use of knife skills, they are not like ordinary farmers at all, but like desperadoes who have been in the rivers and lakes for many years.

After all, Yingyi didn't light up his avatar skills, and it was a bit difficult to deal with a dozen strong men attacking at the same time. Although he temporarily stopped this group of people from approaching Xu Youxi, he drove Xu Youxi more and more to the edge of the cliff.

[Host, Shadow One is dealing with difficulties.It is recommended that the host buy a single Shadow Guard again, and if two Shadow Guards block it at the same time, the probability of success will be doubled. 】

Xu Youxi has no plans to buy another shadow guard. She recently spent all her accumulated prestige points in order to light up the entire first industrial revolution, and now she has to continue to accumulate prestige points to buy an oil extraction machine.

Buying a second shadow guard is also a lot of money. Can this cost be saved or saved? I don't know if there is any other way to solve the current predicament.

Xu Youxi had an idea, and said, "System, if I jump off this cliff, will Ying Yi protect me?"

However, standing at Xu Youxi's position and looking down the cliff, except for a few crooked neck trees here and there, nothing else can be seen.

I don't know whether there will be a thousand-year-old cold pool under the cliff, or a secluded valley, and whether there are any martial arts cheats or elixirs.

Xu Youxi couldn't help but start thinking wildly again.

[The host jumps off the cliff, the shadow protector is turned on, the survival rate of the host is 100%, the host can try. 】

The system's answer brought Xu Youxi back to reality.

Just as Xu Youxi was using the limited time to think about which posture to use to jump off the cliff is more chic, Ying Yi has already quickly repelled several people a few steps, pulling Xu Youxi and jumping off the cliff directly.

On the edge of the cliff, more than a dozen swordsmen looked at each other.

"Can you survive if you fall?"

"You won't know until you try."

"Go back and report the mission, just say that the person has been killed and the body has been thrown off the cliff, don't let it slip."

……

Xu Youxi experienced the ancient version of bungee jumping for the first time in his life.

There was indeed nothing wrong with her body, but her heart was about to explode!

She shouldn't have saved the money! ! !

Xu Youxi calmed down for a while, and finally mustered up the courage to get up from the body of Ying Yi who was 'backed'.

The next second, the sound of the system came.

【Shadow One is seriously damaged and can no longer be used. If the host needs shadow guard protection, please buy it again! 】

"What about the 20-year gift bag I bought earlier!"

As soon as Xu Youxi finished speaking, the tattered shadows on the ground gradually changed into a series of numbers, and finally the numbers were summed up again to form a three-dimensional grave.

Among them, the red paint on the top of the inscription reads:

I was supposed to live another 20 years, but now I died prematurely. I can cheat my body, but I can't work!

(End of this chapter)