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Chapter 33 Asking the Lord to Come Out [Please read]

The reception banquet was full of harmony and joy, a scene of joy and harmony.

After the welcome banquet, the atmosphere of harmony and joy changed suddenly.

Especially Zheng Shijun, headed by some clan elders, couldn't wait to stand up.

It seemed that he was afraid that if he said it later, the patriarch would be lost in no time!
In the very outer corner, Yu Youquan, who was lucky enough to see all this, couldn't help but laugh and cry.

It seems that Master, the patriarch, is even more unreliable than he imagined!
Zheng Shijun said solemnly, "Uncle, those southwarders in the north really want nothing to fill. Today they encircle three mountains and tomorrow they seal five lakes. They pay less taxes than us. Many tenants have been abducted by them."

Accompanied by Zheng Shijun's generous speech, Yu Youquan gradually understood.

To put it simply - the conflict between locals and immigrants has intensified!
In particular, there are preferential tax policies, which make the locals in the south like big lemons, and the contradictions are becoming more and more difficult to reconcile.

After the Jiakang Rebellion, a large number of clothes from the north traveled south, resulting in a large number of refugees.

Refugees have always been an unstable factor. For this reason, the imperial court promulgated a policy called "Overseas Chinese buy prefectures and counties".

That is to say, the names of states and counties that were originally in the north were moved to the south unchanged, so as to gather the refugees and issue white citizenship.

Similarly, those aristocratic families also traveled south. Because they were far away from their homeland and lost a large amount of land originally located in the north, an economic crisis inevitably occurred.

Unlike the ordinary people who fled, those aristocratic families from the north moved south, but they "lead their children and merged with more than a thousand families of scholars and concubines".

To put it simply, thousands of families with the same surname relocate together, no matter where they relocate, they will immediately break the balance of the local situation.

Even mainly anti-customer!

Specifically referring to black people telling white people to get out of Paris, when immigrants outnumbered locals in terms of population, various problems followed.

In order to win over the upper-class nobles who moved south, the emperor not only did not break them up and integrate them into the south, but instead allowed them to annex land in the south intact by setting up prefectures and counties.

But this is a hardship for the southern locals!

After all, even if the degree of development in the south is slightly worse than that in the north, it can be regarded as having a vast land and few people, but the carrying capacity of the land is limited after all!
What's more, it takes at least several years of intensive cultivation for a piece of wasteland to go from reclaimed land to cultivated land.

Compared with spending years of hard work on reclaiming wasteland and raising land, how can it be faster and more economical to directly enclose the land?
Therefore, from Jiakang to Yongchang, in just a few years, a large number of southerners were convicted in various ways.

for example.

Arguing about government affairs, disturbing the country, slandering the emperor, illegal stargazing, practicing maliciously, intending to commit rebellion, groundless
Sooner or later, if you go to jail, the wealth and industry accumulated for generations will be wiped out!

Especially those who were imprisoned for "discussing government affairs indiscriminately" almost cried to death.

The family property has been taken over, so why don't they complain?

Yu Youquan also couldn't laugh or cry, and couldn't help but think of a joke in his previous life.

Big Fat Pig was invited to attend a meeting to discuss how to eat pork. The leader asked everyone to speak freely and actively provide opinions, and named Big Fat Pig to speak first and set an example.

The big fat pig was sweating profusely and shivering, and made a suggestion - can we not eat pork?
Then other participants immediately criticized, you, the congressman, went off topic with this opening, your ideological awareness is still not high enough!

An old man with gray hair and beard burst into tears and said, "Please ask the Lord to be the master for us!"

"My lord, please be the master for us!"

"My lord, please be the master for us!"

And this is like dominoes being toppled, they all fell to their knees in a short period of time, and voices begging Patriarch Zheng to be the master kept coming and going.

Yu Youquan frowned slightly.

The elders and tribesmen here are either surnamed Zheng or are in-laws of the Zheng family. Even if they are in the fifth service, their ancestors are basically the same family, and they are inextricably linked to the Zheng family.

Even if the relationship is far away, it is more intimidating than the average gentry, let alone the average poor family.

They were all forced to ask the landlord to be the master, but what about the other small and medium landlords?
In a daze, Yu Youquan seemed to see a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

The reality is far less tender than the history books, or the history books are always particularly stingy about suffering!

Also frowning was Zheng Xuancheng.

Because common affairs like this usually don't involve him directly.

Not to mention that as soon as he settled down, his nephews and other relatives and elders couldn't wait to gather together to force him into the palace!

This kind of thing is either because the relatives are really miserable, or there are...someone connected!

Zheng Xuancheng narrowed his eyes slightly, not angry but pretentious, not to mention some distant relatives, some older elders became nervous.

As for Zheng Shijun, who had a ghost in his heart, he was trembling and sweating profusely!

Zheng Xuancheng smiled and said, "You elders are all my elders, how can you kneel down to me? Get up!"

Everyone kneeling on the ground looked at each other, but they still stood up one after another.

After a few more pleasantries, everyone sat down again.

Zheng Xuancheng suddenly said, "Juli, what do you think about this matter? As a teacher, how should you make decisions for your relatives and elders?"

With just one word, all eyes fell on him.

Everyone was dumbfounded and couldn't believe it.

Are you asking your young apprentice about such a big thing that concerns the fate of the family? !

Although they represent more of the Zheng family in Caishi City, they are not the only ones whose family interests have been infringed upon.

The crowd repeatedly looked at Yu Youquan's short height, and his white and delicate face after bathing in dragon's blood.

Even if you pet your apprentice, you can't reach this level, right?
Yu Youquan was taken aback.

I go!

What kind of thankless thing do you ask him to do?
Yu Youquan stood up, saluted respectfully, and then pretended to be tender, "Master, my disciple is still young, and I don't have any good opinions on such important matters. You should ask someone else to be wise!"

When everyone heard this, they breathed a sigh of relief.

With a hairless mouth and weak ability to do things, what is the difference between asking about politics as a child and asking about blindness?
Fortunately, this Yu Juli is very self-aware!

Zheng Xuancheng said resolutely, "You are so gifted with wisdom, so why should you be too modest? If you don't say it, we won't listen to it!"

Yu Youquan: "."

Everyone: "."

Is this really the Lord they know?

Is he really someone who listens to children's talk?
Especially Zheng Shijun, he felt like he had seen hell at this moment!

No one knows better than him what his uncle's attitude is towards his own son Zheng Shibai!

Shibaina is one of the four heroes of the Zheng family, not only his uncle's son, but also one of the ten thousand geniuses with cultivation qualifications.

He was already a master at a young age, and even had a second job in Zhenyi Division.

but.

Uncle's strictness towards his cousin Zheng Shibai made his nephew feel a little palpitated.

What impressed him the most was that one time Shibai brothers practiced a set of swordsmanship and lost everything, and his uncle directly used the family method
Could this Yu Juli be his uncle's illegitimate son? !

Yu Youquan was speechless, but it was Master's request after all, he thought for a while and said, "It needs to be done, but it must not be to seek justice for Mrs. Zheng!"

With a single word, there was an uproar here.

The way everyone looked at Yu Youquan suddenly changed.

Yu Youquan's expression didn't change, so he didn't want to get involved in these dirty things just now!

Compared with these elders who were dissatisfied with their desires, Zheng Xuancheng's eyes were shining brightly, and he said loudly, "Speak in detail!"

All the eyes at the scene fell on Yu Youquan again.

(End of this chapter)