Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 321 Zuti's old department

Chapter 324 Zuti's old department

Looking at Ran Ming's imagination, Peng Changhe became very anxious. He thought that Ran Ming would increase his land rent, especially when he saw that Ran Ming's face was cloudy, sometimes happy and sometimes sad, he felt even more disturbed.

Ran Ming came back to his senses and looked at the dozen or so tenant representatives with mournful expressions on his face.Especially Peng Changhe, who dared to ask: "I don't know where the host is looking? Gao's name?"

After a little thought, Ran Ming understood their worries.

The elites of the gentry do not have to pay taxes, and the tenants of the small gentry still need to serve corvee, but the big gentry do not have this burden at all.Ran Ming said: "You don't have to worry, Gu is the king of Jiaodong, you are lonely people, no one dares to make things difficult for you!"

However, when Peng Changhe heard this, his face changed even more. The property of the royal family is Huangzhuang. Although Huangzhuang does not need to pay taxes to the state and has no corvees, it has always been managed by eunuchs. These eunuchs are physically disabled , and have no descendants, no great ambitions, and can't be sexualized. The only hobbies are the same, and they are especially greedy for money.

The eunuchs managed Huangzhuang, and their exploitation was even more severe than that of ordinary free people. In all dynasties in history, eunuchs in charge of the village relied on their power to cruelly exploit farmers, causing farmers to resist continuously and even staged civil uprisings.This kind of thing was especially serious in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

Peng Changhe told the news to the other people, and everyone became excited, shouting and cursing, and some even shouted the slogan "I would rather be a refugee than a slave to the emperor".

Peng Changhe said to Ran Ming: "His Royal Highness King Jiaodong, the little old man discussed it with all the villagers, and we have decided that from today on, we will no longer rent your Highness's land!"

Ran Ming said: "You don't rent the land to grow Gu. Could it be that the [-] mu of land cannot be planted by Gu himself?"

"My lord, let this matter be handled by the old slave!" Xu Mancang saw that Ran Ming must have never managed the family business, if he was allowed to mess around, this hard-won family business would be ruined!

Xu Mancang didn't have to worry about Ran Ming's family loss, but now he will be Xie's son-in-law. How can he watch Xie Daoyun come through the door in the future, without food and clothing.Xu Mancang was originally the shrewd and capable steward of the Xie family. He appeased the people and collected rents and debts.In desperation, he had no choice but to come forward.

Ran Ming has no experience in dealing with this matter, and in line with professional matters, he had no choice but to authorize Xu Mancang to be the manager of the farm.

Xu Mancang has rich experience, and he calmed down these angry tenants with a few words.

Ran Ming felt bored, so he took Qilin Wei to look around casually.This is the northeast corner of Mufu Mountain, facing the Yangtze River in the north.Ran Ming hasn't had a good look at the scenery here since he came to Jiankang.

At the entrance of this tenant village, Ran Ming said very strangely: "Why is there a temple there, go over and have a look."

This temple can attract Ran Ming's attention, mainly because he is different, there is only one main hall, no side halls and temples with courtyard walls.The splendor of this temple and ordinary Buddhist temples or Taoist temples is unclear, and it looks very shabby.

There is no temple ceremony in this temple, but the road in front of the temple is very smooth, even better than the official road.Ran Ming found that this lonely temple was full of incense.From a distance, Ran Ming could smell sandalwood.

Entering this lonely hall, Ran Ming first saw all kinds of sacrifices placed in this hall, as well as the incense altar filled with thick incense ash.

There is only one god statue inside, it seems to be a general wearing golden armor, with his right hand on the handle of the sword at his waist, and a book in his left hand, but this general seems to be full of grief and indignation.It seems that there is still a helplessness of hating iron but not steel.

"Who are you? Are you also here to worship the general?"

Ran Ming turned his head suddenly, and at some point in the corner of the hall, a little girl of six or seven years old appeared. The clothes on the little girl were also patch upon patch, probably because of the cold weather, the clothes on her body were too few, the little girl His face was flushed with cold!

Ran Ming turned his head, knelt down and asked, "What kind of temple is this, and who is it dedicated to?"

"This is the General Temple, and of course the one enshrined is the General!" The little girl smiled innocently.

Ran Ming sighed, the little girl was too young, so she definitely couldn't ask any questions.Suddenly, Ran Ming's eyes fell on the case of the god statue, and many words were vaguely covered by the deposited incense ash.

Ran Ming lightly brushed off the incense ash, revealing a small poem: "24 years of suffering, I heard that the chickens danced and wanted to restore the country. I shared the joys and sorrows and stayed in Sikou, and the shame of Rong Di's poison. Gou'an Jiangnan asked for a farmhouse. Who said that the country is prosperous? General I don't want to die in mediocrity, and the current hits the oars like a big river..."

"While the chicken is dancing? Hit the boat?" Ran Ming quickly searched these memories in his head, and soon a figure matched up with the god statue in this temple - that is Zu Ti.

In the fifth year of Yongjia, Luoyang was conquered by Liu Cong, Shi Le, Liu Yao and Wang Mi, and Zu Ti led hundreds of relatives and party members to avoid chaos in Huaisi.In the first year of Jianxing (313 A.D.), Zu Ti wrote to Sima Rui, requesting the Northern Expedition.

Sima Rui was in the southeast of Pian'an, and had no intention of going north at all, so he named Zuti General Jianwei.Symbolically, he was given food for 1000 people and [-] bolts of cloth for military expenses, and let him recruit soldiers and make weapons by himself.

After Zu Ti regained Yuzhou, he fought against Hou Zhao alone. However, the Sima family, who was an expert in internal fighting and outside fighting, heard that Zu Ti had won the hearts of the people in Henan and made many military exploits. Send people to seize the power of Zu Ti.A generation of famous generals of the Northern Expedition died in grief and anger.The Northern Expedition finally came to an end, and most of the south of the Yellow River that Zu Ti had guarded for six years was quickly lost!
Although Ran Ming doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, and doesn't have any religious beliefs, he still respects national heroes.Seeing how shabby this general temple is, I feel angry.

Ran Mingdao: "Zu Ti is a hero of China. He sent his army to the north to recover the central land, but he died before he left the army. These people should be worshiped by the world. I admire their courage to be the first in the world. I should write a letter. Son of Heaven, make him a god..."

As soon as this remark came out, there was a lot of crying around, "Thank you Your Highness, Your Highness Gao Yi!"

"What's going on?" Ran Ming asked in confusion.

Xu Mancang said to Ran Ming in a low voice: "Most of these tenants are descendants of Zu Cheqi Buqu!"

Ran Ming nodded and said, "I see!"

In fact, the main force of Zu Ti’s Northern Expedition, except for his more than 100 family members, is all small refugee commanders, which can also be called the begging army.After Zu Ti's death, Zu Yue joined the rebellion with Su Jun again, and ended up ransacking his family and exterminating his family.But these refugees are grateful for Zu Ti's kindness, and they have not forgotten it for many years. Even in Jiankang, they barely died of starvation.

There are more than 1000 people in the whole village, and almost no one's clothes are patch upon patch, but they use expensive gold lacquer and cast copper to make statues for Zuti.There is not a decent house in the whole village, and the best house is Zuti's General Temple.

Ran Ming was very moved by the loyalty of the people. He was not short of money anyway, so he said to the people: "Gu respects righteous people the most. What you do is a model of loyalty. Gu has decided that the land rent will be per mu every year from now on. Only one bucket will be collected, and no rewards will be added!"

"The proprietor Gao Yi!"

The doubts in Ran Ming's heart were also solved, no wonder he felt the aura that only fierce soldiers on the battlefield can have from Peng Changhe.You must know that Zu Ti’s Northern Expedition was different from Yin Hao’s and Xie Shang’s Northern Expedition. At that time, the Xiongnu and Han Kingdom were in a powerful period, and their combat effectiveness was very strong. Shi Le’s troops in particular were three points stronger than the Xianbei people. Driving away from the Central Plains, it is conceivable how powerful Zu Ti's troops are.Even if it's not as good as Ran Min's direct troops, it's probably not much worse.These people have accumulated rich combat experience with Zu Ti in the north. Even if they are old, the skills in their hands may be passed on to their sons.As long as the loyalty of these people is regained, Ran Ming can secretly pull up an army in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Thinking of this, Ran Ming bought people's hearts and said: "Mr. Shizhi is an incomparable hero, and the general is too shabby. Yu Shizhigong's status is not suitable. This temple must be expanded! The warehouse is full!"

Xu Mancang bowed and said, "The old slave is here!"

"I will leave this matter to you. Expand the general to [-] acres, not [-] acres. At least five courtyards, erect steles and stones, and record Shi Zhigong's great achievements. Except Shi Zhigong , this Temple of the General will also enshrine those heroes who followed Shi Zhigong in the Northern Expedition. They died for China, and they should be incensed forever after death!" Ran Ming said seriously: "All the money and food for the expansion of the General Temple will be drawn from the government. One request, the General Temple must be built grandly, if you want money, you will give money, if you want people, you will give money, if you want people, you will be given, this matter must be done well!"

"Many thanks to the proprietor!" At this time, Peng Changhe burst into tears, choking with sobs: "The proprietor's kindness, Changhe can't repay him. In the next life, he will make a ring of grass and do things like a cow or a horse, in order to repay the proprietor's kindness!"

Ran Ming left the general, and slowly climbed up to Zijitou. Looking up, the river and the sky are all the same color, and the scenery is picturesque.My heart is filled with emotion.Shogunate Mountain is because at the beginning of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Dao assisted Sima Rui, the emperor of Jin and Yuan, to establish the shogunate here.

Therefore, this place is also called Shogunate Mountain, and all the fertile fields under the mountain were given to Wang Dao by Sima Rui.Since ancient times, the vicinity of Yanziji on Shogunate Mountain has not only served as a traffic ferry between the north and the south of the river, but also a strategic barrier and military route for the ancient Jinling to defend the north of the river.

But the Jin Dynasty was very strange. Huan Wen destroyed Shu because of his meritorious service.

It is ridiculous to say that Huan Wen wants to contradict the evidence. Once, when Huan Wen passed by Wang Dun's grave, he said: "You are lovely, you are lovely"!
It is also regarded as evidence of usurping intentions.Its logical theory is also ridiculous: because Wang Dun once caused chaos, and Huan Wen praised Wang Dun, then Huan Wen himself must want to imitate Wang Dun.This is nothing more than speculation.In fact, Huan Wen did not look down on Wang Dun in his heart.Huan Wen has his own idol, the famous general Liu Kun.

Since Huan Wen is a Taiwei, he can control the world's soldiers and horses in name. In order to prevent Huan Wen's rebellion, the Jin Dynasty would rather abandon the natural pass here in order to prevent Huan Wen's army from appearing outside Jiankang City.

(End of this chapter)