red man

Chapter 287

Similar to Qiu Shanwei, the mountain god of Liguo Mountain in Wutong County, the local mountain god of "Jiangjiagou" is also quite social. After calling friends, many local Baojiaxians gather together.

There are all kinds of domestic animals, birds and insects are complete, and the small "Jiangjiagou" is quite aura.

Without aura, there is no way to keep elves and monsters alive.

"I also know a thing or two about the smoking. If there are villages next door in my hometown who are unwilling to pay, they will have to pay a sum of money for it. This is why some villages smoke a lot. Is it the same for this 'Jiangjiagou'?"

Wei Hao asked the demon spirits present in the mountain temple. These demon spirits were all animal-headed and human-bodied, and they were dressed the same as humans, except that their sizes were different.

One sparrow's limbs didn't change well, and the hands exposed from the cuffs were still a pair of wings.

It only heard it whisper: "My lord, it's not such a good thing."

"Oh? Forced smoking, I'm afraid there will be trouble."

Wei Hao was a little strange. If he smoked forcibly, his brains would be blown out, triggering a civil uprising, and the county magistrate of Wuwen County would be completely finished.

"Originally there were dozens of hills in the county, and hundreds of Zhuangzi came together. But I don't know what evil wind blew. A nobleman said that 'Jiangjiagou' is in the same line as his ancestors, so he should use his own family. Don't disturb the people of other families. So I followed the orders of the men in 'Jiangjiagou'. Later, it was really short of manpower, so I asked the local big family to contribute. Ding Juren from the county volunteered, invited documents, and went to 'Ding Jia Nao conscripted the men of the Ding family..."

After rambling on, Wei Hao also understood the cause and effect from Jia Que'er.

"'Dong Bohou' seems to have the surname Jiang?"

Wei Hao was actually not sure about this, because at the beginning who was determined to be "Dong Bohou", but there were many candidates, Jiang was just one of them.

Looking at it now, I am afraid that the surname Jiang became the "Dongbohou".

The little "Jiangjiagou" actually came from the same line as the big noble?
If you think about it, it's normal.

As long as there are people alive now, ten generations of poor peasants are rare, not to mention ten generations, five generations of "poor and lowly" are quite rare.

It is the norm for the living to have a rich ancestor.

"Smoking can't delay farming. How does it work?"

Wei Hao wrote down Jia Que'er's confession, and continued to ask.

"Speaking of this, I hate it. Your Majesty doesn't know about it. But the autumn grain has not been confiscated. The county said that there is a subsidy, and the tax can be reduced or exempted. It is the land tax, which is reduced for beans and wheat..."

"That's a good thing."

"fart!"

The bird yelled, "It's a reduction, but no one harvested the autumn grain. There were two heavy rains, and there was no one to harvest it. This calculation is more than three dollars more than the old year. Then when I went to work, it came again. People open their mouths to fool around, saying that they are in charge of food and housing, and they will give 'Nian Hong' during the New Year, and there will always be a dime of silver. The original words, the original words are like this, and I am listening under the eaves."

"If you take care of food and housing, this food should be enough. A dime of silver can make women and children last a month without any problem."

"But in arrears."

"Well, I've heard about this when I came here. Tell me in detail."

"okay!"

Jaque'er suddenly became energetic: "My lord, those who are in charge of the granary, the health department, the county government, and the military depot are all broken. They said that they are in charge of food and housing, but when they reach the end of the land, only half of the people can live. Chase The remaining half of the pavement has to be done by ourselves. Therefore, before digging the mountain and quarrying, the wood is cut..."

After talking about it, Wei Hao really made Wei Hao feel like he was there.

It means that most of the construction site was cleaned up by the men of "Jiangjiagou".

And after tidying up, he is only staying here temporarily, and will leave in the future. This land has nothing to do with them.

There is a "blurring method" in this, that is, the wages for logging and building houses are not included in the calculation.

When I came here, I was working in the quarry, which was counted as forced labor. Of course, it can be called corvee labor or labor labor.

But as long as it is work, the court has a clear division of labor, otherwise the accounts and projects will not match.

With a little operation, based on the wages of one labor, you can also earn a lot of money.

After all, if there is no accident, the original expenses for logging and building houses must be paid by the court, county government or Dongbohou's family or together.

If the money is left over, it will fall into the hands of the person in charge, but in the accounts, it is expenditure, and it must have been used.

At the same time, as long as the cost and period of the ration subsidy for the quarry are increased, the time for logging and building a house will be covered, and nothing can be seen in the accounts.

This operation is done properly, which is equivalent to breaking one penny into two pennies, and it is also a relatively conventional show operation.

The people who handle it do a good job, but those who suffer are always those who work on the front line.

"...During the winter moon, there was a snowfall. It was actually not that big, just a finger thick. As a result, the two mines said that the grain could not be delivered the next day, and they owed it first. After all, the mountain roads are rugged and the Wenshui You can’t go back. So although the two mines were quite resentful, they endured it. The winter moon began, and the food and use of this mine depended on the support from the miners’ families..."

"Good guy."

I couldn't help clapping my hands and applauding. This operation was really blatant.

If it was Weijiawan, they would have already copied the knife and started fighting.

Of course, Wufeng County's previous county magistrates have never been so coquettish.

The Dongyue mountain road is rugged, which is reasonable to explain.

But this is only the explanation of the people who dealt with it, but the food transport teams of the imperial court, county government and even the Hou's mansion have difficulty walking, and the old and weak women and children in "Jiangjiagou" and "Dingjianao" bring stuttering food to their sons, husbands, and brothers. , walk easily?
Without explaining to the next, or putting on a high profile, the old majesty made the old, weak, women and children dare not speak out.

And who doesn't love and miss their husbands, sons, and brothers?

So no matter how unhappy he was, he still had to rush to deliver rations while stepping on the snow.

For Wei Hao, this round trip was just a matter of jumping and jumping, and the straight-line distance back and forth was forty miles.

But for the old and weak, women and children, it is different.

Wangshan runs to death, no matter where the valleys are.

In this way, this is a one-hundred-mile or two-hundred-mile journey, so you have to rest for a day or two.

If you are afraid of risks, you have to entrust someone to take care of them. At this time, the remaining males in "Jiangjiagou" and "Dingjianao" must of course not let go, and they cannot all be mobilized. .

At this time, Wei Hao didn't even need to listen to Jia Que'er's rhetoric to know what would happen.

Asking someone for help requires running errands; if there is no ration, you have to borrow on credit. This is not a favor from the villagers in the village, it must be asked to ask the big family.

"...In the twelfth lunar month, a batch of food came, but not much, and the winter clothes that were agreed were thinner and had a discount. There was a heavy snow in the twelfth lunar month, and it was said that the heavy snow was difficult, and the horses and chariots were all mortal flesh, so they couldn't be delivered. .If you want to send it, you need the help of the demon exorcist in the county. At this time, you have to collect money..."

Jia Queer babbled a lot, although it was not organized, and it was a stick here and a hammer here, but in general, it still told the right and wrong.

Wei Hao repeated Jia Que'er's confession to let him hear if it was the original words. After Jia Que'er was sure, Wei Hao asked him to stamp it.

The bird paw stepped on the inkpad and made a mark.

Then the bird's paw prints burst into indigo light, and the entire confession turned into an "iron certificate".

"Gentleman, this paper has turned into fine iron!"

"normal."

Wei Hao smiled and said, "Now the King of Hades doesn't care about things. I cut off the Yang during the day and the Yin at night. I am one of the few people who can talk about Yin and Yang. Don't forget, I entered the underworld because of the 'Big Xia The commander of the Qianniu Guard inherits the identity of Zuo Qianhu."

"That gentleman doesn't find it strange at all?"

Seeing the dog's incomprehensible look, Wei Hao patted its head, "There is a saying called 'the evidence is as solid as a mountain'."

"The evidence is as solid as a mountain?"

"Yes, this 'iron coupon', for some people, is heavier than a mountain as long as it sees the sun. This kind of statement is also seen by a friend of mine elsewhere."

In the world before time travel, there were many such metaphors.

It's just that here, people's willpower often compares metaphors and compares them to reality.

Praising Wei Daxiang as an upright man was originally a joke, but in the underworld, Wei Hao took advantage of Emperor Fengdu's eyelids to beat the five hell kings to death.

Many things are not surprising.

Wei Hao has sharp eyes, more accurate than a lie detector, and nothing Jaqueer says can escape his judgment.

If officials in the world also have this kind of supernatural power, it shouldn't be too useful to use it to investigate secretly.

"Here in 'Jiangjiagou' and 'Dingjianao', who is the official in charge of enlisting civilian husbands?"

"It's not an official."

A weasel was sitting on a futon beside him with his hands folded, his legs crossed, his grayish-white beard drooping on his sides, he looked quite old.

"Sir, tell me?"

The old weasel looked left and right, and then asked the surrounding Baojiaxians in a questioning tone: "Then let me tell you?"

"Sir, tell me, tell me, you are senior..."

A few little weasels were wearing short coats, and they were not afraid of the cold in the first month. Their hands and feet were covered with brownish-yellow winter velvet. While talking, they nodded and bowed around, obviously apologizing for the old weasel.

"My lord, let me tell you..."

When the old weasel was talking, he pulled out a slender copper pot tobacco rod from the back of his neck, and stuffed shredded tobacco into it while talking. He had just stuffed it and wanted to find a fire by the way, but Wei Hao took a little space, and the tobacco pot It started to smoke.

Quickly took a couple of sips, and the old Huang Weasel finally thanked: "Thank you, Your Majesty, thank you, Your Majesty..."

As if he had been stung for a moment, the old Huang Weasel pondered for a while before he said: "This 'Jiangjiagou' is mainly because two Juren masters have taken over the work, they have not lived in 'Jiangjiagou' for a long time. Counting it down, it has been at least 65 years. That’s when I left home when I was young.”

After reminiscing for a while, I can only sigh with emotion: "Probably the hair has grown, and I have climbed a high branch of a nobleman. As for this nobleman, the two of them are like heavenly beings in 'Jiangjiagou', even taller than them. That would be too high."

Wei Hao didn't interrupt, but he thought maliciously in his heart: Young and old left home, the boss came back, this time, he came back with the idea of ​​getting rid of the family, he is really a filial son and grandson!
"The expropriation of civilian husbands was an official document of the imperial court, and the county government shared it. Later, I heard that the nobleman came from the same line as the 'Jiangjiagou', so he used it tightly for his own family and never treated him badly..."

"..."

Awesome, awesome!
No matter how many times he listens to it, Wei Hao still thinks it's awesome.

"The two Juren, when they came earlier, also gave benefits. There was no shortage of rice, flour, grain and oil, and farm tools were returned. They were all made of good iron. Who would have thought that in a blink of an eye, the pickaxes and shovels were all returned to the quarry. Yes. In the house where I live, the head of the house is [-] to [-] catties, and now there are only [-] to [-] catties left..."

The old weasel also complained and babbled for a long time.

But Wei Hao wasn't in a hurry, didn't rush, just took notes.

"When they were employed later, the two juren made guarantees. They said that they would be paid for their work, food and shelter, and that there would be no shortage of money and food. There would be "Nianhong" during the Chinese New Year, and there would always be one dime and two dime of silver. I thought about it. Master Juren, he couldn't see any tricks, so he never tossed about in secret, and now that I think about it, I was deceived step by step..."

Bao Jiaxian can remind his old club if he dreams or shows himself at a critical moment, or at least breaks a bowl at home.

Who would have thought that such a big ship could be capsized on this master Juren.

Wei Hao also secretly smiled in his heart: This is the consequence of not studying. If you want not to be deceived by scholars, you have to study hard.

Even though Weijiawan warriors came out in large numbers, they didn't frown on the battlefield, but they never slack off in things like reading.

Even if reading is like eating shit, you have to read.

When reasoning with people like this, you know whether your fists and machetes make sense.

Although the old weasel had practiced for a long time, he didn't know that the viciousness of the human heart changes with the changes of the world. In peacetime, the viciousness of the human heart is slightly lighter; in times of chaos, it is all worse.

"The additional forced labor in the future will be arranged by two recruits. But I also said at the time that they also helped to arrange the two seasons of this year's land tax. Now the market is probably not coaxed and cheated. I was a mother. I also thought that 'Jiangjiagou' finally produced a few promising people. It really blinded my old eyes!"

After puffing out a puff of thick smoke, the old weasel still felt remorseful.

But Wei Hao grasped the key point, and after recording it on paper, he asked: "Mr., you said just now that the hard labor in the winter and the twelfth lunar month was covered by two juren?"

"Yes, there are documents. It's in the ancestral house."

"Two seasons of land tax, that is, summer grain and autumn grain, the two of them also said that they paid for it?"

"Yes, there are also documents."

"That's good."

Wei Hao nodded, and read the confession to the old Huang Weasel, "Mr., what I wrote down, are there any mistakes or omissions?"

"Your Majesty is right!"

"That's fine, please give the old gentleman a seal here."

"okay!"

As soon as the weasel stretched out its paws, it left a paw print firmly, and the same indigo light shone, and the paper gradually turned into an "iron coupon".

Putting the two "iron coupons" aside, Wei Hao said with a smile: "With these two confessions, I can kill those two Juren right now. But let's not rush, kill the big fish if you want to, I want to see See, this 'Dong Bohou' has the heart of a bear and the guts of a leopard, and he still has three heads and six arms, so he dares to be so rampant. Good guy, he colluded with Wuwen County to play such tricks, thanks to the fact that the 'National Fortune Incarnation' is no longer here. If it's still there, killing him would be easy."

After all, Wei Hao continued to the many "Jiangjiagou" Baojiaxians: "Everyone, don't have any worries. With me here, don't say anything about juren. You are the county magistrate. If you take it down, you will take it down."

"Your Majesty, the little one has something to say!"

"My lord, my lord, I have something to explain!"

"Great King, little one..."

With the examples of Jaque'er and Old Weasel, the Baojiaxians no longer have to worry, and they are scrambling one after another, for fear that it will be too late to say too little.

The excitement made the mountain god dumbfounded. The huge tiger was lying on the side, feeling very emotional. It had been many years, and he had never seen such agitation.

And it's not that they are acting like little daughters there, but they are all dancing and smiling with excitement.

In this situation, the thick snow of the first month outside seems to be nothing.

(End of this chapter)