Daming: I, the emperor who trains the carpenter

Chapter 0813 no money to pay rent to the prince?You can sell your sons and daughters!
"Want to rebel?"

"Do you want to distribute the land without paying the rent?"

"Don't forget, you are all tenants of the Shu Palace, your ancestors have been there for generations! This is all signed and pledged!"

Butler Wang sneered at the panic-stricken, frightened and angry mud-legged people under the stage, and sneered: "The nonsense of a few students has made you obsessed? You still want to leave the palace, and you still think Dividing the land of the palace? It's a joke! You won't be able to take advantage of this matter anywhere!"

A man couldn't help standing up and said: "The masters of Datong Academy have said that the imperial court will give us land!",

Steward Wang sneered, and looked meaningfully at the students of Datong Academy who looked resentful. He looked at the farmer who stood up, and sneered: "Dividing the land? The imperial court wants to allocate land for you? What about the imperial court's government order? Why don't you know?"

"The land of the palace belongs to the clan, and the clan has the final say on how to deal with it! What's more, even if the imperial court wants to divide the land, why is there no news from the Chengdu government, and no signed and sealed documents?"

"What do you say with empty teeth that you want to divide the land, you want to divide the land, whose land is to be divided? To the prince?"

"Give you dog guts!"

Butler Wang yelled angrily, and his expression became ferocious: "The prince's land, is it that you muddy legs can divide it?!"

"Signatures and pledges must be recognized wherever you go. You are the prince's tenants and servants, and the land you planted is given to you by the prince!"

"My lord is benevolent, I will plant the land for you, and I will give you food to eat. Now that you are being incited by these students, you still want to rebel?"

"Don't think that the rent you pay is high! The rent you pay now is to make up for the previous reduction and exemption of the palace. How much rent have the princes exempted you mud legs? In times of disaster, they will use the food from the palace to help you , You don’t have to pay back these?! These are owed by your ancestors, and it’s only natural to pay them back!”

"Now the prince just asks you to repay the money and food that you owe, and you haven't asked you for interest. You don't think of the prince's benevolence, but you want to resist the rent and rebel?! Threatening the clan prince, you mud legs will be beheaded!"

Sun Baihu waved his hands in unison, and the guards all raised their swords and spears and made threatening sounds, forcing the tenants and people to retreat. Under this naked threat, the people were afraid and retreated.

That's right, if you fight against the prince, isn't that the same as fighting against the court?
Can the emperor really deal with the princes of the clan for the sake of their mud legs?
The students of Datong Academy couldn't bear it anymore, and struggled to break free from the guards of the Shu Palace, but these guards were not weak at all, and several of them caught one, so the students were locked in place and unable to struggle.

But even if they couldn't struggle, these students couldn't tolerate the housekeeper's disregard for the court's decree.

"Nonsense! The imperial decree has already been issued! Do you treat His Majesty's imperial decree and the cabinet's official documents as invisible?!"

"If you persecute the people like this and oppress the good, aren't you afraid of the king's law?!"

Butler Wang couldn't help laughing: "Wang Fa? What is Wang Fa?"

"The law of the king is the law of the Wang family! In this Sichuan, in this land of Shu, our prince's law is the law of the king!"

"Drive these students out!"

After all, he was still afraid of Datong Academy, and he didn't dare to kill the students easily in front of so many people, otherwise the prince would die if he had nothing to do, so Wang Steward finally chose to expel him.

And Zhu Zhishu actually meant the same thing, seeing is not seeing, I don't care if you come to Sichuan, but don't come to Chengdu Mansion, don't come to my territory of Shu Palace, as long as I can't see, then I don't know anything.

Sun Baihu waved his hand, and the guards of the palace immediately expelled the students away. The students shouted that the palace had no right to expel them, but they couldn't explain why the scholar met the soldiers, not to mention that the guards of the palace were unreasonable. They drove the students away with sticks, although they would not kill them, but the students were hard to resist after being beaten with sticks, and they were beaten to death and expelled from Datian Town.

Nearly [-] tenant tenants watched helplessly as they lived with them during this period, taught them how to run the farm, how to use the latest farming techniques, taught their children to read and write, and told them about the imperial policy. The guards beat him away with sticks.

This feeling of helplessness, this feeling that nothing can be done, makes the people despair.

That's right, they are tenants of the Shu Palace, their ancestors have been there for generations, and they all signed the deed of sale, and they can't escape, and they can't escape. They have been locked up by the Shu Palace all their lives, and even their children and grandchildren have been locked up up.

Helpless, but also helpless, since the death of Zhu Fengquan, the last king of Shu in the seventh year of Tianqi, the life of the people has become worse day by day.

And in the eighth year of Tianqi, when Zhu Zhishu became the queen of Xinshu, he was blatantly oppressing the people, driving the people to serve corvee and work hard for the palace, really working hard and not giving money.

If it hadn't been for the peace in Shu and the people living in comfort and able to make ends meet, there would have been waves in Shu.

But even if the people wanted to resist, they would be powerless. Didn't you see all the gentlemen of Datong Academy were expelled by Steward Wang?

What else can they do?
Visible to the naked eye, the anger in the hearts of the people has been vented, and the desire to resist has also faded.

Butler Wang nodded in satisfaction. He drove away the students of Datong Academy in public. This was what he wanted, to tell these mud-legged people not to think about messy things, and to work honestly for the prince to live. In this land of Shu, the prince is the sky!
"Now those goblins are going to get out of here. You muddy legs, listen up. The benevolent prince didn't ask you to make up the rent money and food owed by your ancestors at once, but let you make up part of it every year. It's for your sake at the first year of the year."

"You haven't paid the rent for the first half of this year. If you don't pay it quickly, the rent for the second half of the year will double."

"If you can't pay in full in the second half of the year, hehe, you all know the consequences!"

Hearing Steward Wang's undisguised threat, the faces of the people changed one after another.

An old man came out tremblingly, and looked at Butler Wang with pleading face: "Master Wang, please do me a favor, please tell him for us, it's not that we don't want to pay the rent, it's because we have no food or money right now." Already."

"There was a disaster in the first half of this year, and the house is empty."

The common people prayed one after another: "Yes, Lord Wang, the house is empty."

"It's not that we don't want to pay the rent. We have nothing in our hands, so we can't pay the rent."

"Master Wang, please show kindness."

"We really can't do anything right now!"

Steward Wang frowned and listened to the begging of these mud-legged people, and he really took the trouble. He only felt that the noise made his ears hurt. Don't these tenants think that they can control themselves if they have a large number of people?
Show kindness to yourself?

Put it lightly!

Master, I will help you with kindness, who will help me with kindness?

If you can't pay the rent, the prince will kill me? !
Butler Wang thought of this, and his eyes became cold: "Stop arguing! Shut up, Master! Whoever quarrels will be sent to prison!"

When Butler Wang yelled these words, the people were immediately frightened, and they all looked at Steward Wang on the stage with awe-inspiring silence. This is the butler of the Wang Mansion, and the county magistrate is not as noble as the butler of the Wang Mansion, saying If you want to take them to prison, they really can't escape from prison.

Now in the prison, with a heavy blow, no matter how strong a man is, he will lose half his life, not to mention that in the prison, the head and jailer are all terrible Hades. If the filial piety is not in place, then in the prison It's that life is worse than death.

What's more, if something goes wrong, the jailer will use the prisoners in the prison to vent his anger. When the time comes, he will be whipped, who will not be half disabled?

He is a farmer who is suffering haha, but when he enters the prison, he is not allowed to be manipulated by the prison bosses and jailers. All the money and food on hand are given to the King of Shu, so how can he have money to honor the prison boss?
So when they heard that someone was going to be taken to prison, the common people didn't dare to shout. Although the men resented Wang Steward, who was so arrogant, but none of them had a family anymore?

The weakness is being pinched, and the men dare not mess around.

Seeing that the goal has been achieved, Steward Wang smiled even more proudly: "That's right, please calm down, master, and let you muddy legs talk?"

"The rules set by the prince are the rules. I don't care how you complete them, but you must pay all the rent."

"Say [-]% is [-]%. Since the eighth year of Tianqi, [-]% rent has been implemented. It has been five years now. In the past five years, I haven't seen you saying that you can't survive. Now that you encounter some disasters, you want to not pay the rent. , how can there be such a good thing!"

The people were even more resentful when they heard this, and the old men were even more distressed.

It's easy to say, the former king of Shu was benevolent and left a lot of rations for the people, plus the land of Shu was originally comfortable, there were few bandits and bandits, and there were no military disasters. Let the people have a good time.

But since the rules were changed in the eighth year of Apocalypse, in which year can the common people leave enough rations?

All the food accumulated at home was handed over to the Shu Palace. How many men who were planning to get married have not yet been able to marry a wife and start a family. Isn't it because the Shu Palace has taken away all the money and food?
Moreover, since the 12th year of the Apocalypse, there have been no major disasters in Sichuan, and minor disasters have continued. Either this land is flooded or there are locusts in that area, and this year has encountered a major disaster. The whole Sichuan has disasters, and people's lives are very difficult. .

The common people don't know what's going on in the yamen in other places, but the yamen in Chengdu has never opened a warehouse for disaster relief. They say that Shu is rich, the people have a lot of money over the years, and their families have surplus food, so there is no need for yamen to provide disaster relief.

Who doesn't know that since the eighth year of the apocalypse, the food in the hands of the people has been almost wiped out by the Shu Palace?
Which one still has surplus food at the moment?

In order to pay the rent for the Shu Palace, and to meet the taxes and corvees of the Shu Palace, who among the wealthy and comfortable people in Shu still has land?
They all sold the land to gentry landlords or to the Shu Palace, but it won't last long.

Now the people are forced to sell their sons and daughters one by one, and the house is leaking everywhere, and this year's catastrophe happened again. When the people's lives are difficult, the rent of the Shu Palace will not be lowered.

Finally, the gentleman from Datong Academy came and brought the imperial court's policy, but the Shu Palace didn't recognize it at all, so what can the people do?
Seeing these mud-legged people lower their eyebrows and say nothing, Butler Wang nodded in satisfaction: "Just recognize the reality."

"And ah, who said you don't have anything?"

"Don't you still have the seeds of this kind of grain at home? If you pay the seeds as rent, you can last until the second half of the year."

"If you don't have enough seeds, you still have your tables, chairs and benches. Sell what needs to be sold, and you can always make up the rent."

"There is also digging and logging for the prince. As long as the amount specified by the prince is met, the extra mines and wood can be used by the prince to pay the rent. This is also a way."

"As for the second half of the year, you can come to the palace to borrow grain seeds. Will the benevolent prince lend you the seeds? At that time, plant the grain seeds, and after the grain is grown, all the grain will be repaid to the prince?"

"If you have sons and daughters, you can pledge them as a mortgage, or send them to the palace. How can the prince treat you badly?"

Listening to Butler Wang's call, the people were all speechless.

The palace is also forcing the people to sell their sons and daughters, forcing every household to be clean so that they can be completely slaves to the palace.

What's more, the grain seeds have been handed over. Even if the grain seeds are borrowed from the palace in the second half of the year, how many grains of grain will be left?Aren't the common people left with a grain of grain?
As for mining and logging?
The corvee of the palace did not treat the people as human beings at all, and forced the people to mine and log for the palace without giving them a penny. If they could not meet the daily needs of the palace, they would be whipped, and not one or two were beaten to death. up.

And even if you fulfill the requirements of the palace today, what about tomorrow? What about the day after tomorrow?

How difficult is it to meet the requirements of the palace every day?

What's more, it is necessary to overfulfill the quantity and use the extra rent to pay for the rent. This is easy to say, how many people can do it?

But Steward Wang didn't care about the thoughts of the people. He thought that he had given an idea, and that was the end of benevolence. He looked at the silent people with satisfaction, and thought that the people had accepted their fate, so he stepped off the stage: " Sun Baihu, let's go."

Before leaving, Steward Wang said, "Remember to pay the rent. If you don't make up the rent in the past few days, you will know the consequences."

When Steward Wang and Sun Baihu took the guards of the palace and swaggered away, leaving behind the silent people.

After a long time, someone cried out in distress: "Hey, how do you live like this!"

"Hey, in just a few days, how did you pay the rent?!"

"This old thief Wang is forcing us to sell our sons and daughters, and our wives and children are separated!"

"If the palace didn't ask for so much, Erlang would have married Xiaocui long ago. Why did the old man Tian sell Xiaocui for rent!"

"This God doesn't give us a way to survive, how can we survive!"

"Are you really going to mine for the palace?"

"Do you really think that mining is the way out? Mining is fatal. If you can't meet the daily quantity of the palace, no one can escape the whip, and the quantity of the palace is not fixed every day. Today it is [-] catties and tomorrow it is [-] catties." Yes, the amount is not up to them? If they don’t want us to pay the rent, we won’t be able to make up the rent no matter how much we mine!”

"Then what should we do? In a few days, old thief Wang will come again to ask us to pay the rent!"

"What else can we do? Every family has to find a way to make up the rent. Those who need to rent out borrow, and those who need to find someone to find someone. We must make up the rent. Otherwise, we will all have to go to the mine to be slaves in shackles."

The common people lamented and were angry, but no one dared to think of something they shouldn't have, they dared not resist, that was the prince, the king of Shu, the clan of the Ming Dynasty, how powerful and powerful the Ming Dynasty is now, People who dare to resist.

When Butler Wang returned to the palace, he went to meet Zhu Zhishu and explained the results of what he had done.

Zhu Zhishu nodded with satisfaction: "That's right. These muddy legs are like a piece of rotten mud. You can see that it is about to shatter. If you squeeze it hard, you can squeeze out some muddy water." Come."

Butler Wang nodded and bowed with a smile on his face: "The prince is the prince, and this is the first time I have heard this kind of saying. Following the prince is gaining insight."

Zhu Zhishu smiled disdainfully and said, "Do you need to flatter me like this?"

Butler Wang was still a little worried: "My lord, although this old slave beat those students away with sticks, it is inevitable that they will come back, and if those muddy legs can't survive, die too many or rebel, what should we do? ?”

After hearing this, Zhu Zhishu couldn't help pointing at Steward Wang and said with a smile: "Butler Wang, Steward Wang, you old slave, you've lived for a long time and you're timid, why don't you have a bright mind?"

"Mud legs, mud legs, what are mud legs? There are many, cheap, and easy to reproduce. These mud legs are as cheap as grass, and life is easy to live, not so easy to die."

"Don't look at them looking like they can't live anymore, that's all put out to deceive you, they can live better than grass, if you give them some food and water, they will be a pile of mud legs in a few years. "

As he said that, Zhu Zhishu said with emotion: "There are too many mud-legged people. How many more mud-legged people are there every year? My king's land of Sichuan, the land of abundance, is like a paradise compared to the outside world. There is no disaster of swords and soldiers. Mud-legged people Living a comfortable life, this kind of rent will not kill them. What's more, I heard that grass, bark and leaves can also be eaten, so they can still eat leaves and bark when they have no food."

"I don't want their money for the leaves and bark all over the mountains and plains, so it's okay to let them eat it? After eating the leaves and bark for a year or two, they will save food again, and they will be able to eat food again." Is it?"

"There have been disasters in the past two years, and they have suffered a lot, won't they be fine in two years?"

Butler Wang nodded again and again: "What the lord said is true, what the lord said is true. If these muddy legs are left alone, they will continue to be alive and kicking in a few years."

Zhu Zhishu nodded with satisfaction: "That's it. Send someone to watch those mud legs and don't let them run away. These mud legs look honest, but they are actually extremely treacherous. If they run away from the king's rent The son is gone."

Steward Wang quickly said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, those people who have old slaves hidden in their muddy legs are watching them specially. If they make any rash moves, this old slave will know very clearly."

Zhu Zhishu smiled: "That's right. Recently, there is a shortage of people in the mine. If any of these mud legs can't pay the rent, don't beat them to death, and send them directly to the mine."

"If you don't make up the money, grain and rent owed to this king, you will die!"