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Chapter 187

A yamen runner watched a yaki bump flying towards him with blue smoke. He was caught off guard by the yaki bumps and immediately smashed a bag on his forehead, but it was fine.

"The thief was exhausted and actually threw iron blocks? Can this thing kill people?" The yamen runner was stunned.

Another quick-witted yamen runner picked up an iron lump from the ground, took it away and looked at it for a long time. Before he could come to his senses, a flash of fire flashed, and then he knew nothing.

"Boom boom boom" a series of explosions sounded, and the yamen runners rushed into the yard and died and suffered heavy casualties.

People outside had never seen such a situation before. They only saw a fire flashing in the courtyard, and then they heard a deafening explosion. All the yamen runners who rushed in had fallen in pools of blood. The yamen runners and tenants who had never seen the world were stunned for a moment, and no one dared to rush in for a moment.

"Go quickly! Rescue Yan Shenggong, and reward ten taels of silver by one person!" Wearing a Tartar official uniform, but without braids on the back of our heads, because there were still hair on our heads, for some reasons, the Tartar official hat was pushed high above and looked inconsistent, and Kong Zhenkan, the magistrate of Qufu County, waved his sword and roared. Seeing that a group of tenants still did not dare to move, he anxiously increased his bid, "You mud legs are coming! Kill the thief and behead a ten tael of silver! Rescue Yan Shenggong twenty taels of silver!"

But the tenants hesitated and did not move, beheading ten taels of silver at level one? The bandits inside were so fierce. Who would kill who would kill his head when they rushed in? They were just ordinary tenants, not Qing soldiers in the green camp. Although ten taels of silver were a lot, they had to have their own life. If they were beheaded by the thief, wouldn’t Yan Shenggong give his family some pensions?

As for saving Yan Shenggong twenty taels of silver, that would be even more unreasonable. Yan Shenggong only has one, who can get this first skill? The person who rushed to the front must not get it. It is obvious that he is dying, so let others rush to the front.

Seeing that the tenants were paused, Kong Zhen was anxious and ordered the yamen runners to drive away the tenants with knives and sticks. The chaotic tenants looked at each other, and then turned back reluctantly. After all, the county magistrate was still powerful, so the tenants holding hoes and forks once again launched a chaotic charge.

At this moment, a loud voice suddenly came from inside: "Friends, you have been oppressed and exploited by Yan Shenggong for generations and cannot even eat enough. Today, the monkey who fled the sky was doing the way for the sky and opened warehouses and released grain for the villagers!"

"Open the warehouse and release grain?" The tenants were stunned.

Opening warehouses and grain is undoubtedly the most tempting for the tenants. Although they rented the land of Yansheng Gong’s family, although it was a good place, the seasons were not very good every year. After paying the land rent, the remaining grain was not enough. Most of the young tenants here were born in the late Tianqi period and the early Chongzhen period. They had almost never had a full meal since they could remember.

How tempting is rice and white flour for tenants? Tenants usually eat rice bran and wheat bran, and they are not full. Only during festivals can they eat sorghum rice and so on.

Since the early years of Chongzhen, there has been no good year. Disasters have been constant. The tenants have not had a full meal for many years. So when the bandits said they opened the warehouse and released grain, they were immediately moved.

Zhao Peng inside continued to bewitch, "Dear fellow villagers, the monkey who fled the sky has an order. Our righteous masters follow the example of King Chuang, and open warehouses and release grain everywhere they go. All the people of Qufu, each family, each stone of grain, a piece of cloth, a chicken, and a pound of meat, are waiting outside the Yangsheng Gate to collect it. The people do not need to worry about collecting it, let alone worry about the Kong family's revenge. The Kong family has already defected to Jiannu and shaved the Jiannu's hair style! I guess Confucius will not recognize such unworthy descendants! After the Kong family was unworthy, they shave their hair and change their clothes, and they have become barbarians, and everyone can kill them! I am the monkey who fled to heaven and will do his best to eradicate the Yansheng Gong family!"

What Zhao Peng said was so tempting. Not only did it contain food, but also cloth, chicken and meat, chicken and meat. What a temptation for these tenants who have not had meat in their stomachs for many years.

Guzi

These tenants didn't know from which era they had been renting land from the Yansheng Gong family for generations. The land was good, but the land rent was outrageously high, as high as 70%! In other words, two-thirds of the income from hard-working farming was taken away by the Yansheng Gong family. The year was good and the weather was good, and they could barely make a living. If the family was in a disaster, they would go hungry.

If the tenants from other places have some hope after experiencing the troubled times, they still have some hope in their lives. The old landlord was killed and their land was distributed to the tenants, and the tenants became self-cultivated farmers. As long as they were diligent enough and accumulated over several generations, they might be able to turn from a farmer to a landlord. With money, the family might even offer a scholar, and then they would turn over completely.

However, the tenants of the Yansheng Gong family had no hope at all. No matter how the dynasty changed, they had no share of their land. Whether it was the Jin people who came, the Mongols, Yansheng Gong or Yansheng Gong, the tenants or the tenants. When the Red Turban Army fought in the north and attacked the local tyrants and divided the land, there was no movement of Yansheng Gong. The tenants or tenants of the Yansheng Gong family had not changed at all.

The Yanshenggong family is a mountain that has been pressing on the tenants for generations to crack bones and marrow exploitation. It has been hundreds of years, and this mountain has never fallen. Even Li Zicheng has never touched Yanshenggong. It is probably because he is afraid of the reputation of the saints. But now, Yanshenggong has voted for Jiannu and has shaved the hairstyle of Jiannu. I guess Confucius would not recognize such descendants.

The tenants stopped and no one rushed into the courtyard to save our Qing Dynasty Yan Shenggong. Seeing that the situation was not good, Kong Zhen shouted loudly and ordered the yamen runners to step forward to suppress the tenants.

But at this moment, dozens of crossbow arrows roared, and the county magistrate Kong Zhenkan and more than ten yamen runners were all shot into hedgehogs in the blink of an eye.

Without people suppressing them, the tenants naturally would not die again, and they all stood at the door and waited honestly.

The voice inside again came out: "Dear fellow villagers, please go outside Yangsheng Gate to wait for collection. In order to avoid the chaos caused by scrambling, I decided to open the warehouse and release the grain immediately after dawn tomorrow morning! Everyone has a share!"

The tenants lined up honestly and rushed outside Yangsheng Gate to wait for dawn.

After Zhao Peng comforted the tenant, he returned to Dacheng Hall and looked at Kong Yinzhi with a smile.

Kong Yinzhi naturally heard everything Zhao Peng said just now. He stared at Zhao Peng, feeling that his heart was bleeding. However, he still did not completely collapse. The Tibetan silver cellar that his son knew was just the silver accumulated in the past few decades. Since the Yanshenggong family was awarded the title of the Northern Song Dynasty, they have never paid taxes to the court for more than 600 years, nor have they been divided into mud legs. The silver accumulated from generation to generation has been buried deep underground.

Therefore, during the Zhengde period, the robber Liu Liu and Liu Qi looted the Yanshenggong Mansion and robbed a lot of silver, but did not hurt the Yanshenggong's foundation. More silver was buried deep underground and preserved.

This time, the robbers came to loot the Yansheng Gong Mansion and said they wanted to open a warehouse and release grain. They would not only lose some food and pigs and sheep? As long as the land deed is in hand, they are worried that they will not be able to pay back twice the amount in the future? As for the robbed food, they should be treated as kind-hearted and give the mud-legged people a full meal. Write down this account first and increase the rent for them next year.

Zhao Peng seemed to know Kong Yinzhi's psychology, and looked at him with a smile, which made Kong Yinzhi's scalp numb. He only heard Zhao Peng say something that scared him the most: "Yan Shenggong still wants to settle the score in the autumn, right? Don't worry, since you have joined Jiannu, you have no right to enjoy the land granted by the court, and the land deeds will naturally be burned!"

This thief has such a sharp vision, as if he could see what he was thinking. Kong Yinzhi stared at Zhao Peng, his eyes full of resentment.
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