Chapter 86

Zhaojun said coldly: "Could it be that you would rather rely on catching shrimps in exchange for this little food than farming yourself?"

"Of course not, I said, why do you, a foreigner, like to meddle in other people's business so much?" The man gave him a blank look, and walked away carelessly.

"How dare you be so unreasonable!" Wei Ying looked at Wo Huo from the side, and was about to step forward to beat him up, but was stopped by Yu Wenzhi, "Don't spoil the king's affairs."

Zhaojun stopped another commoner who looked kinder.

"Excuse me, why do you want to hand over your land?"

"Hey, don't mention it." The commoner sighed heavily, "A few years ago, the county government transformed the lake into a fish pond, and put a lot of shrimp fry in it. Later, the shrimp fry have grown up, everyone see I'm greedy, but I can't fish it, because it belongs to the county government, and if I want to fish it, I have to exchange my own land."

"Take the land?"

"Turn in an acre of land, and you can fish for an hour a day. By analogy, at first few people exchanged it. Later, some people came to the village to collect fresh shrimps at a high price. Those who exchanged made a lot of money fishing shrimps. A lot of people came to change, but who knows, less and less prawns are caught, and even less and less prawns are collected, so I can only take the prawns and sell them in neighboring counties, and I can’t make much money.”

Zhaojun's face sank again. "So, your land was cheated?"

That one sighed and said, "The same is true for the barley field. It was originally a mud field that no one wanted. In the first year, we distributed seeds for free to encourage everyone to grow barley. A piece of land earns more money than growing grain. In the second year, if you want to If you continue to plant there, you have to exchange your own land, so many people lost their land.”

"Now, most of the land in the county is owned by the county government. People who have lost their fields and have no livelihood will either continue to catch shrimp and exchange dried shrimp for food, or they will go to the county magistrate's land to do long-term labor in exchange for some food. Come and make a living."

Zhaojun's face became more and more serious, and he was very angry when he heard these words.Some people have complained that the taxes in Wu State are too high, because one mu of land that can harvest ten loads of grain must be handed over to the treasury as a tax, regardless of whether the mu of land has a load of rice or not. This is to encourage farming In order to avoid land shortage, the hard-working people can get nine tans after harvesting ten tans, while the people in Qingyuan County plow the same land and harvest ten tans, but they can only get one tan for subsistence.

Zhaojun gave him the bag of dried shrimps in his hand, "This bag of dried shrimps is useless to me, go and exchange some food."

The commoner immediately smiled and thanked him quickly, but Zhaojun's face remained calm: "Don't worry, Daddy, I will help you get back soon!"

The commoner looked at him in astonishment, as if he was looking at a psychopath.

Zhaojun had his hands behind his back, his gaze was like a torch, and he fell into deep thought, but he didn't notice the cold arrow that was stabbing her behind him.

Wei Ying's eyes were sharp and her hands were quick, she quickly flew forward, caught him just as she was about to pierce his body, turned her head and stared suddenly, and saw Master Jin holding a bow and arrow, looking at her with a cold expression, seeing, the second arrow About to shoot again, she blocked him abruptly.

The gate of the yamen opened, and a group of archers came out. Zhaojun turned his head suddenly, and seeing Wei Ying behind him was stunned, Master Jin shouted: "Shoot!" Immediately, countless iron arrows struck at them.

"Come here!" Zhaojun pulled her behind with a sullen face, and Yu Wenzhi flew over with a sword, waving the knife to knock down the arrows that kept shooting, and shouted: "Go!" Zhaojun pulled her up Fly away.

He landed on a roof, his face livid.Rescuing him didn't make a good face, Wei Ying pulled her arm out angrily.

Zhaojun glared at her angrily: "Why are you always like this, do you think you are very capable? At this time, you just need to hide behind this king!"

Wei Ying took a step back, and said angrily, "If it wasn't for me, would you still be standing here and talking?" She looked at him with disbelief, "Why do you always look down on me like this? A woman who hides behind a man!"

"This king is not the kind of man who hides behind women!"

"Okay, you can do whatever you want, I won't care about you anymore!" Wei Ying turned and left after speaking, but she forgot that she was on the roof, she stepped on the asbestos tiles, slipped her foot, Falling directly backwards, Zhaojun took a step forward, put his arms around her waist, and pulled her back.

Wei Ying stabilized her body, and found that he still didn't intend to let go, but instead hugged her tightly, so close to him.

Wei Ying raised her head, and his kiss fell, kissing her lips forcefully, with brutality and domineering.Her body moved, and a few pieces of asbestos tiles fell from the roof and cracked on the ground, but it didn't affect him at all. He hooked one hand behind her head, and half forcedly completed the kiss, before parting after a while.

He was dressed in commoner clothes and had an ordinary appearance, but at the moment he looked calm and majestic, making people have to surrender to him.That is, the air of a king exuding from him.

Wei Ying stared deeply at that man, feeling that her heart was slowly being bewitched by him, although, at this moment, he just looked at her without saying anything.

She felt that she was unworthy, even to the point of being spineless. She was so angry just now, why could his kiss soften her heart?
This is definitely not love, and she will never fall in love with this old man.Wei Ying stared at him, saying in her heart over and over again.So, she turned her back abruptly, and returned to the inn with her lightness kung fu.

Seeing her leave in front of him, Zhaojun was slightly taken aback, and finally jumped off the roof and walked back by himself.

The two went back one after the other, and didn't say a word after returning.

In the afternoon, Zhaojun ordered to leave. Yuwenzhi took his token and dispatched soldiers from the nearest state capital, directly ransacked the yamen of Qingyuan County, captured Master Jin and Liu Chang, and searched for them in the county yamen. account book.

Several people had already boarded the carriage and were about to go to the palace in the next town, where the southern tour team was waiting, and then Zhaojun would resume his status as king.

The carriage swayed forward, Wei Ying looked at the story book without saying a word, and Zhaojun was looking at the ledger found in the county government office, which recorded every amount of money sent out, most of which were given to the household department Shangshu, after a rough calculation, the total amount was as much as 10 taels.

"A small county magistrate, but he has been in office for five years, and he was able to seize 10 taels of silver from the people! This is a good minister who has been praised in the court!" Zhaojun punched the carriage angrily, and snorted coldly. With a sound, the entire carriage shook.

Wei Ying glanced at him indifferently, and silently turned a page of the story book, and when she noticed that she glanced at him, he also glanced at her.

(End of this chapter)

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