The Book of Heaven

Chapter 153

Generally speaking, the life in the Liu family compound gave Ma Zheng and Zhao Shuying the impression of only two words - peaceful!
When he first knew that the Liu family was the big landlord in Qianwei County, and after several generations of hard work, he actually "occupied" [-]% of the arable land in Qianwei County, Ma Zheng scratched the equating sign between the Liu family and the vicious capitalists in his heart. .

However, when he and Zhao Shuying lived in Liu's compound with Liu De, he realized that his original thinking was too biased.

Landlord Lao Cai is also a human being. Even though there have been such and other evil representatives of landlords in history, they are still only a small part of them.As the local ruling class, although the landlords occupy most of the cultivated land, they are still very good to their tenants most of the time, because only through these tenants, the landlords can dig out gold and silver from the hard-earned cultivated land.

After living in the Liu family compound for two full days, Ma Zheng and Zhao Shuying did not see the current head of the Liu family, that is, Liu De's father, Liu Yucai.

But thinking about it, it seemed normal. Ma Zheng was just a nursing home that Liu De lived in on a whim. Why should Liu Yucai, the head of the family, pay attention to it, let alone let Liu Yucai come to see Ma Zheng in person. Looking forward to this is putting the cart before the horse.

Fortunately, Ma Zheng and the two sneaked into the Liu's compound in order to be clean, and it would be better if no one came to disturb them.

However, this morning, Ma Zheng, who had been idle in the house for two days, and Zhao Shuying, who was also restless, went out for a walk and came back. Both of them looked very unhappy.

"It's not scientific!"

The catchphrase that has not come out of Ma Zheng's mouth for a long time reappeared, and his frowning brows and puzzled eyes also showed the seriousness of the problem.

Zhao Shuying, who has been with Ma Zheng for a long time, has already understood the word "science" as "reason", so she nodded slowly at this time.

The place where the two were puzzled was the tenant farmers in the Liu family's yard.

When they came in for the first time, Ma Zheng and Zhao Shuying's attention was attracted by the area and unique layout of Liu's yard, and they didn't pay attention to those tenant farmers who could be seen everywhere.

But after the two of them went out for a stroll today, they suddenly realized that these tenant farmers in the Liu family were probably not simple.

Although Bashu is a land of abundance, and Yizhou is known as a land of fish and rice, in fact, in this era of relying on the sky, there will always be natural disasters and man-made disasters that lead to food harvest failures.Food is the most important thing for the people. For ordinary people, as long as they can eat enough and wear warm clothes, they can bear the hardships of life.

However, if there is a disaster year and a certain proportion of people are hungry, they will form refugees.

The refugees are actually the great enemy of the feudal rule. These hungry refugees swarming along the official roads like locusts will eat up any edible thing they pass by. In order to fill their stomachs, they even die. Don't be afraid!
Unless they are satisfied in a place where food is particularly rich, the refugees will grow like a snowball, and finally form a force that the court cannot resist.

In the history that Ma Zheng knew, many dynasties changed, in fact, they were all directly or indirectly related to natural disasters forming refugees.

The superiority of the natural environment in Qianwei County is actually not as good as that of the surrounding areas of Chengdu Prefecture. Every few years or ten years, there will be food harvest failures.

Fortunately, the population of Qianwei County is not large, so it is difficult to form overwhelming refugees and cause damage to the surrounding state capitals, but these people who cannot fill their stomachs will definitely cause considerable damage in the local area.

Therefore, as long as they are big landlords with granaries in their homes, they will often support some strong servants. If there is banditry in another disaster year, these servants will be the reliance of the landlords to save their lives.

In the Liu family compound, Ma Zheng and Zhao Shuying did not find that kind of servant, or in other words, the tenant farmers in the entire Liu family compound, in the eyes of Ma Zheng and Zhao Shuying, were all servants!

When Ma Zheng saw those tenants for the first time two days ago, he secretly sighed that these tenants were treated well. It must be that the mother can eat enough to grow so strong.

But after careful observation today, Ma Zheng discovered that these tenant farmers were not simply full of food. Their body shape, details of movements during work, and even the way they looked at Ma Zheng made Ma Zheng feel— —These people are by no means mere peasants!
Maybe these people can make good tenant farmers, but Ma Zheng also believes that when these people take up weapons, they will make elite soldiers—yes, among the thousands of people in Liujiazhuang, there are at least five One hundred elite soldiers!

what is this concept?

If it is in the frontier army, Ma Zheng, the wing guard general, can probably command about 200 people, and in the full Yulin army, a wing guard general can command 600 people.

There are only 2 garrisons in Jiannan Road, and less than 2000 in Yizhou, and only 200 in Chengdu Prefecture. In other words, the maximum number of garrisons in Qianwei County is [-].

But Ma Zheng and Zhao Shuying are also very clear that Jiannan Road is the rear area, and the garrison is actually seriously dissatisfied with the number of garrisons. It is estimated that the real number of garrisons in Qianwei County is at most 150 people.

In other words, if these tenant farmers in Liu's yard were equipped with equipment, the number would be more than three times that of Qianwei County's garrison!
Interesting, this is really interesting!

This discovery made it difficult for Ma Zheng and Zhao Shuying to regard the Liu family as a simple landlord. Although the five hundred elite soldiers could not cause too much disturbance, it also showed from another angle that the Liu family was not simple.

"Do you think it's necessary for us to meet that Liu Yucai?"

Ma Zheng didn't doubt that Liu De lived in this person. He believed that he hadn't misunderstood. The heir of the Liu family didn't seem to know that his family's military strength was enough to rule two or three Qianwei counties, but Ma Zheng believed that, The head of the Liu family, Liu Yucai, must have known about it.

Even though Ma Zheng is now a criminal of the imperial court, Zhao Shuying is a real princess of the empire. Since she was born, she has enjoyed the benefits given to her by the empire. If people like Zhao Shuying have any bottom line in their hearts, it is The existence of the empire - even if it is only for the treatment that his descendants can continue to enjoy, the interests of the empire must not be allowed to be violated.

It just so happened that the Liu family's courtyard seemed to be a great threat. At least after Zhao Shuying saw through the tenant farmers, the first thing that came to his mind was—could the Liu family be a group of bandits?
"Go directly to Liu Yucai, will it cause the other party to rebound? If the Liu family is a den of thieves, aren't we already in a tiger's den?"

Ma Zheng was not as impulsive as Zhao Shuying, he wanted to think twice before acting.

As the so-called butt determines the head, Zhao Shuying's greatest capital is to have the innate realm. Even if she can't run wild in the world, she doesn't think that a person in Qianwei County can have a second innate realm.

That's why she is fearless and will do whatever comes to her mind.

"Wait for another two days. Maybe these tenants are really tenants, and the Liu family raised them to avoid being attacked by bandits?"

Ma Zheng found a reason to persuade Zhao Shuying, and at the same time he seemed to be convincing himself.

It's just that this reason is far-fetched. Considering the permanent population of Qianwei County, five hundred elites are too many.

Perhaps the real answer can only be learned from Liu Yucai, but this person has never shown up.

"When Liu Dezhu comes to see me next time, if he still doesn't plan to take us to meet Liu Yucai, then I'll take the initiative to ask to see the master!"

(End of this chapter)