I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 320, White Haired Girl
After the soldiers of the Jizhou Army returned to their hometown, they were pleasantly surprised to see their 30 mu of land and several large tanks full of grain. They had never seen such a sight before!
It can be said that the world of the Han Dynasty has been in decline since the Yellow Turban Uprising, and Jizhou was the hardest hit area for the uprising. In five years, there have been three turmoil that spread to the entire Jizhou, each time causing a large number of deaths, but even if there are so many In the event of military disasters, Jizhou has to bear more than 3% of the taxes of the Han Dynasty. The hardships of the people in Jizhou can be imagined.

And after Huangfusong came to Jizhou, he had to raise an army of 20. Although Huangfusong transferred the pressure of paying money and food to the nobles, the nobles would still transfer it to the people of Jizhou. Tens of millions of grains a year, This is almost equivalent to half of the taxes of the Han court, and these taxes are all on the people of Jizhou. The pressure can be imagined.

The Zhongshan Kingdom and other counties controlled by Huangfusong are better, because the Yellow Turban Army and the Jizhou Army have repeatedly pulled the four counties near the Taihang Mountains. a little.

However, Jidong was under great pressure when he waited until he had to hand over a large amount of grain as taxes every year, and he also had to serve a large amount of corvee.It can be said that such high taxes and corvee make the people of Jizhou keep busy all year round, but their income is still at a loss. Every year, they have to sell some belongings to support themselves. Those who have no family property can only sell themselves as slaves!

Guo Li, a soldier who was born as a small farmer, sold his fields to local tyrants in the past few years. After Huangfu Song was defeated, the volunteer order began to spread throughout Jizhou. With the construction of fortifications to resist the rattan army, the pressure on the already overwhelmed people in Jizhou was even greater. All the young and strong in Jizhou were recruited by the officials of Jizhou, and the old people and women stayed and joined the city walls and fortifications in various parts of Jizhou. .

The heavy corvee quickly bankrupted the people of Jizhou, and they became serfs of Jizhou aristocrats one after another, so when Xu Wei and the others attacked Jizhou, the entire land of Jizhou was controlled by hundreds of Jizhou aristocrats!

The Jizhou clans exploited the people of Jizhou so cruelly, which is why the Tengjia Army divided [-] acres of land, and the Jizhou army had no morale at all.Because the elites in Jizhou have already exploited the people of Jizhou to nothing.

Guo Li of the Jizhou Army was one of the captives. His family was unlucky and his family was in the eastern Jizhou area.As for the clans of the whole Jizhou, the Jidong clan suffered the least damage, and their power was the strongest. The Guo Li family was originally a self-cultivator in Jizhou, with 40 acres of land in their family, and they could barely survive after a busy year.

However, since the Yellow Turban Uprising, his family's taxes have been getting higher and higher. The heavy corvee made them unable to stop. In order to survive, their family's 40 acres of land were constantly sold. In a few years, their family had nothing. His two younger sisters were sold, and they are nowhere to be found now, but their family could not survive even with all their efforts. His mother starved to death one winter, and the whole family was left with their father and son. As a result, he had no choice but to sell himself as a slave and became a domestic slave of the Cui family.Guo Li was young and strong and became Cui's private soldier, while his father became Cui's serf!

It was precisely because he had nothing that Guo Li didn't want to sacrifice his life for the nobles. When he was in Gaoyang City, he immediately surrendered as soon as he saw the Tengjia Army!And a soldier like him has no bad deeds. The Tengjia Army gave him 100 yuan for traveling expenses and let him go back to his hometown!
But this time when Guo Li returned to the village, his appearance was completely changed. The village was full of busy voices, and the villagers were exchanging laughter and laughter. The whole village was full of vitality. He hadn't seen such a scene for several years.

Guo Li's return surprised his father!Other villagers in the village also looked at Guo Li happily and said, "It's good to be back, it's good to be back!"

Then Guo Li's father took him to see his family's 30 mu of land, and said with a happy smile: "Your father has been unlucky all his life, and this year finally turned around. Not only did he get 30 mu of land for nothing, but it was also irrigated land near the river. The yield of this land is at least 3 shi per mu, and 30 mu of land can harvest hundreds of shi of grain. This land, which was only qualified to be owned by a powerful lord before, is now ours. I can explain it to your grandfather under the nine springs. !"

"With these fields, our family can recover in a few years. The new village head has already said that Shuai Qu is helping us dispatch cattle on the grassland. We can go to the money bank to buy cheap cattle with loans. The village It has been said that intensive farming can increase food production. Farming cattle are indispensable at home. Our Tengjia Army has occupied the entire desert, and we have more than a few million cattle in our hands. It is not difficult to transfer some, and the price is cheap. You can buy a three-year-old strong cow for 4000 yuan, and the new-style quyuan plow and sickle are not expensive. Use it first! Pay back after the autumn harvest!"

Guo Li was surprised and said, "Father, did you borrow usury?"

Usury is the usury of this era. It doesn’t matter if the powerful borrow it, but if ordinary people borrow it, family ruin is the inevitable end, so Guo Li was so surprised!His family has just seen a little good life, isn't this about to ruin the family again!
But Guo's father smiled and said: "It's okay, this is lent to us by Qu Shuai. We only need a profit a year, and we can pay it back. Our family now has 30 acres of land. If there is a good harvest, there will be hundreds of stones of grain. Army A has to pay 3%, but there are no other taxes or corvees. We can also leave 70 shi of grain, which is usually kept for food, and half of the grain is sold to pay off the debt. It can be paid off in a year at most With this loan, with cattle and land, our family will build a new house at that time, and you can marry a wife! Our old Guo family can pass on the family line, and I can be regarded as the right ancestor. You can feel at ease when you come back this time Stay at home, don't go there!"

Guo Li's military service made Guo's father very worried, for fear that the white-haired man would give away the black-haired man!This time Guo Li was able to escape from the dead, which had already surprised Father Guo. He didn't want his son to leave him again.

At this time, a carriage came to the entrance of the village, and a man like a scholar shouted: "Hurry up and move these things to the warehouse!"

At this time, the people in the village immediately ran to the horse to carry the supplies!

Father Guo asked curiously, "What are these things?"

The village head smiled and said: "The cement is used to build the canals. Our village has too little irrigated land. I plan to turn all the land in our village into irrigated land. There are also some wood for making waterwheels. These are rattan It is custom-made by the military wood factory. You can assemble the waterwheel just by looking at the picture. This pile of wood alone costs thousands of dollars. If it is easy to use, I plan to buy 10 such waterwheels. In this way, the land in our village It can all be turned into irrigated land!"

"Thousands of money!" Seeing this pile of wood, the villagers couldn't believe that it was worth thousands of dollars. You must know that it can buy several stones of grain in the cooperative!

Father Guo complained: "Village chief, you are wasting money again. There is so much money in our village!"

But the village said calmly: "Of course it was borrowed from the bank. Now our Tengjia Army is developing the entire Jizhou. As long as it is a construction request, it will generally be approved. Money is so easy to borrow, why not borrow it! You are too cowardly." , Everyone is desperately borrowing money to develop, but you dare not borrow, and you can only watch others get rich in the future!"

"Like this waterwheel, one can irrigate at least 300 mu of land, which can turn 300 mu of land into irrigated land and double the grain production. This is more than 400 shi of grain. The purchase price of grain is also worth more than 4000 yuan, and the water wheel can also help grind the flour. We can also get some small nest cars for spinning yarn, which is also a profit. That is to say, it takes less than a year to build a water wheel. It can pay back, but it can also make us earn several times more money! Why not do such a good thing!"

The village head continued: "If you want to be rich, you must find ways to increase productivity. These things I got are all used to increase the productivity of our village!"

But Father Guo was still worried: "But what if we still don't pay the money? Shuai Qu won't take our land back?"

The village head said with a smile: "Now the Tengjia Army is recruiting civilians to build wooden rails. The daily salary is 30 yuan. If we really don't pay the money, we will build the rails. A few days is enough for us to pay back the money! Our Tengjia Army is here. Now, the money will be easy to earn in the future! You don’t have to worry about paying back the money!”

Then the village chief saw Guo Li in surprise and asked, "This is?"

Father Guo smiled and said, "This is my son, he just came back!"

The village smiled and said, "It's good to come back. The village is short of young people like you. It's the right time for you to come back!"

After speaking, the village chief went to other places to get busy!

Guo Li asked strangely: "The village chief doesn't seem to be from our village?"

Father Guo said: "This is the village head sent by the Tengjia Army. He is a man of great ability. He not only helped us divide the land, but also taught our village children to read and write, and helped our village get a lot of farm tools. and materials, and led us to renovate the house, and even the farm cattle we bought were helped by the village head, otherwise we dared to borrow money, and now our village looks like it is, all brought by the village head!"

Guo Li suddenly realized that he did not expect the village head to do so many things for the village, no wonder his prestige is so high!
The next day!

The head of the village led the villagers who knew carpentry work and began to beat and beat, and the rest of the villagers also dug ditches under the lead of the head of the village. Guo Li, who just came back, was a strong laborer, and he was assigned a shovel to dig the ditch .

Half a day later, a huge waterwheel began to appear in front of the villagers, and it was placed in the river channel. The rushing water drove the waterwheel to rotate, and then the river water entered the canal they had just dug, and then flowed into everyone's farmland through the canal. At this scene, the villagers cheered excitedly. Everyone understands the significance of watering the land, which can double the grain output in the village!

Guo Li, who returned to the village, was very busy every day, either helping to repair the houses in the village, or following his father to Xiaohe to build a pier. This is the new plan of their village chief. They want to build a small pier for the village, and they say it is possible. To increase the flow of people and make the village prosperous, everyone didn't understand the meaning of it, but they did it anyway.

Although these days are tiring, Guo Li is very satisfied when he sees his hometown getting better day by day, and wants to live this life forever!
And besides Guo Li, a young man in the village, other people began to return to the village one after another. Every young man who came back made the villagers very happy!

A few days later, several herdsmen came to the village with hundreds of cattle, which caused a huge commotion, and everyone came to watch these cattle!This is a huge wealth, especially for farmers, cattle are even more important than family members!
The village head went out to talk to these herdsmen, and then everyone said: "This is the farm cattle we ordered, and each household will have one head. You must take care of these farm cattle in the future, and don't let them get sick!"

"Our farm cattle are here!" Even after seeing these farm cattle, the villagers still couldn't believe that such a large animal belonged to them!
The village head laughed and said, "Everyone, come and share!"

At this time, the villagers came to their senses and chose the farm cattle they liked one after another, and then built the cowshed in their own homes, and took these farm cattle as members of their own family!
Guo Li looked at the cattle at the entrance of the village and sighed: "The Tengjia Army is really different from the nobles in Jizhou. King Lei Gong really stands with us poor people!"

Their village used to have only one cow, but later it was sold because of the difficult life. Jizhou’s nobles beat them to the bone and sucked their marrow. Every year, people in their village were starved to death and frozen to death, but now the Tengjia Army helped them get hundreds of cows. Farm cattle and help them use them for farming. In such a comparison, it is not wrong to say that the Tengjia Army is a poor team!

With these farm cattle, the children in the village have tasks. Every day at dawn, they will start herding cattle, and the villagers will cut grass everywhere, and build silage feed ponds under the command of the village!
After the farming cattle came to their village, the village head thought it was a big event to celebrate, so he invited the Art Troupe of the Tengjia Army to come to the village and play for them!
But Guo Li and the others don't know what acting is!

That afternoon, the members of the art troupe came to their village, and then the members of the art troupe performed an opera called "The White-haired Girl" in the open space!

After the performance, the whole village cried. This is the life they lived in the past. They have lived so miserable these years. Each of them can see their own shadows in this opera!
Guo Li was wondering if his two younger sisters were still alive?Is it the same as Xi'er, or even more miserable than Xi'er, and is no longer in this world?

Afterwards, they hated the nobles and powerful families. If the nobles and nobles had not oppressed them, they would not have lost their families. This drama deepened Guo Li's hatred for the powerful and powerful families, and at the same time made them understand that if the nobles and nobles were not wiped out, they would The good old days are still gone!

So on the next morning, the returning Jizhou Army soldiers bid farewell to their parents and relatives. They ran to the camp of the Tengjia Army again and asked to join the army again.Because they know that if they want to protect the good life now, they must drive away the powerful and noble families in Jizhou, so that they can never come back.

(End of this chapter)