Chapter 46: What's wrong

"How is it possible?!" Zhang Qian frowned and protested instinctively. "How could the tenants be as bad as you said? Everyone is adults, and it is impossible that they are all so unconscienced?"

"Zhang Shaolangjun, Zhang Shaolangjun, please listen to me! In a good harvest, people can eat enough, and there is surplus food in the barn. Of course, everyone has a conscience!" After being amused by Zhang Qian's simplicity, Ren Quan bowed helplessly, "But in the past two years, it has either been late spring cold or heavy rain has not finished. Every barn has seen the bottom. The whole meal has not been eaten yet, who can still care about the conscience?! But Mr. Cui today, if he doesn't kill the chicken to warn the monkey, his subordinates can guarantee that the rest of the families who owed Zhuangzi and didn't pay the rent, and the whole family can't collect it! If you don't believe me, ask Zijuan!"

"It's really like this?" Zhang Qian quickly turned his gaze to Zijuan, and the beads of sweat that had just oozed out of his forehead were clearly visible by the light.

"People always have to starve to death before they think about anything else!" Zijuan walked forward with heartache, tilting his head and wiping his sweat with a handkerchief, while carefully explaining, "Shaolangjun's farm is close to Fenghe River, and there are several small hills next to it. The terrain is already low. In the past two years, the rain is too frequent in summer, and the fields are flooded very hard. Except for sorghum, the harvest of other crops cannot be too good. The tenant is not like the family.

The servants belong to the master's family. The tenant also has land at home, but they don't have enough planting, so they rented out the Shaolangjun's field to plant. Therefore, they have to pay the rent and transfer to the government on time. After paying the rent and transfer to the tenant, they pay the rent and transfer to their own family. They dare not rely on the rent and transfer to the government's house. However, if there is not much food left in their hands, they will definitely be able to delay it if they do!"

"Rent Yongtu, isn't Rental Yongtu very high?" Zijuan's movements were extremely gentle, but Zhang Qian seemed to be hurt by a handkerchief, and subconsciously dodged.

"If the government can divide Yongye fields and the trunks into real numbers, it is indeed not high." Realizing that Zhang Qian had just come out of the mountain and knew almost nothing about the situation among the people in the Tang Dynasty, Ren Quan changed his tone and explained to him patiently, "Everyone only pays a rent of two stones of corn every year, a dish of two feet and five feet plus three kilograms of hemp and three kilograms of hemp. In addition, he has to pay a 60-foot silk instead of serving. But it is unbearable. The population near Chang'an is dense, and the government has never divided Yongye fields and the trunks into the trunks into sufficient numbers. However, renting Yongye fields and the trunks are never discounted." (Note 1: Yongye fields and the trunks are a good rule in the early Tang Dynasty. Before Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, due to population expansion and land annexation, it could not be maintained.)

Sighing, he shook his head and added, "It's okay to have a good harvest. The farmhouse households are hardworking and after a year of busy work, they can still have some food left. But recently, floods have become disasters every year, so how can we still have so much left? If there is not enough food, we have to find a way to rent the land on the farm to grow. If the rented land is not well managed, someone will have a bad idea!"

"You mean, you mean, the Wang family deliberately did not pay the rent to leave enough food for their family?!" Zhang Qian finally found a foothold for his kindness and anger, gently pushed Zijuan's handkerchief and hand, and asked Ren Quan tentatively.

If that were the case, the behavior of the Wang family was understandable. Zhang Qian did not miss these few troughs of rent, but the Wang family needed food to survive. Compared with the two sides, Zhang Qian suffered a little loss and regarded it as accumulating virtue and doing good deeds! Maybe one day the good deeds moved God and would open a time and space tunnel to bring him back to China in the 21st century.

"It's not just to leave food, but after the Wang family was an official, the family always wanted his son to get a fame and revive his family. So in the spring, he begged Laido to redeem twenty acres of land. In the summer, his man was overworked and could not afford to get sick. So he borrowed grain and copper coins from the farm to help the emergency." Ren Quan obviously put some effort into answering the situation of the Wang family before following Zijuan over, as he knew it. "After the autumn harvest, the interest was added, and it was completely impossible to pay it back! Butler Cui sent someone to urge him for a long time, but it didn't work. So he got angry this afternoon..."

"If you get angry, you shouldn't pull someone's cow, let alone his daughter!" Zhang Qian stomped his feet and interrupted loudly, but his voice sounded very false.

Killing people to pay for their lives and owing debts to pay their money is natural in China. If Ren Quan described it, Manager Cui’s behavior would not be much unreasonable. However, if you admit that Manager Cui’s work is reasonable, Zhang Qian will soon become “Huang Shiren’s second” and there will be no place to run.

In the opera "White-Haired Girl", the housekeeper, Cui, asked Yang Bailao to force his debts and also stood on the old man who was owed debts and paid back the money. Huang Shiren lent a loan shark to Yang Bailao, and the debts released by the previous owner were not interest-free! Yang Bailao could not pay back the debts, so Cui wanted to take away his daughter. The Wang family owed him Zhang Qian's debts. The first thing that happened to him was to take away the Wang family's plowing ox, and then he turned into the Wang family's daughter!

According to Ren Quan, although the behavior of Butler Cui was rough, it was understandable. According to the same logic, isn’t it wrong for the butler of White-haired Girls to be “dead Cui”? As for whether Yang Bailao committed suicide because he couldn’t pay off his debt or jumped into the well, that was Yang Bailao’s own choice, and it was not a mistake for Huang Shiren at all!

The drunkenness began to surge up to his head again, and more beads of sweat emerged from Zhang Qian's head, and his ears were also buzzing due to the excitement of emotions.

Ren Quan's words and logic are indeed impeccable. However, they are incompatible with the modern moral concepts that have been rooted in his mind for more than 20 years!

As a creditor, Zhang Qian should naturally accept Ren Quan's judgment and should not punish Butler Cui, because the latter is entirely to protect his interests. However, as a normal person from the 21st century, his heart and soul cannot accept the logic behind Ren Quan's words, even if the other party's logic sounds flawless!

"Young man, don't be angry, don't be angry first!" He keenly noticed that Zhang Qian's expression and reaction were not right. Zijuan quickly gave Ren Quan a look, then raised his hand, and wiped the sweat from Zhang Qian's face with a handkerchief again, "The housekeeper shouldn't pull someone's cow, nor should he pull someone's daughter. The housekeeper did this too much, ruining your reputation! Just fine him his salary, there is no need to get angry about it!"

"It's not just that he did it too much. He almost made me lose my bad reputation for a thousand years!" Zhang Qian slapped his handkerchief and continued to roar in a low voice, "I happened to see this. If I didn't see it today, wouldn't he really want to pull someone else's daughter back to the village?! What do you ask the neighbors around you to see me, the owner of the manor? What do you ask Senior He, Senior Zhang and others to view me? What if the two of them write this matter into an article, how can I gain a foothold in the Tang Dynasty in the future?!"

Seeing that he was angry, Zijuan did not dare to retaliate, so she stepped aside and raised her hand to wipe her tears. Ren Quan was dissatisfied, but he was not qualified to force him. He lowered his head and kept silent.

When Zhang Qian saw the reaction of the two, he felt even more and more depressed. He grabbed the tea soup for sobering up, poured it down, then put the cup on the table, and continued to roar in a low voice: "Why are you crying? Don't you think the second girl of the Wang family is pitiful? How many days have you paid back for the contract? You just..."

Suddenly, he thought that the return of Zijuan's contract was just his own idea. Before he could implement it, the roar suddenly lost his confidence and paced back and forth a few steps irritably. He tried to soften his voice, "Can't you just stare at the old man who owes debts and pays money, don't you think Wang Erya is pitiful at all?"

"Er Ya is pitiful! In her mother's eyes, she is not even as good as a cow!" Zijuan raised her tears and looked at him, then nodded vigorously.

"Not to mention how cruel her mother is, she is forced to be forced by Butler Cui!" Both sides' ideas were not on the same channel at all. Zhang Qian was not angry and did not want to extricate the innocent Zijuan's head anymore. He rubbed his hands in a hurry.

"She has a brother. If his brother is willing to go to the ground to help, his family will definitely not be so far!" The answer was grievance, but it was still not on the same channel as his thoughts.

"I don't talk about his brother. If you were her, what would it feel like? Wouldn't you want to die with me?" Zhang Qian took a deep breath and tried hard to make himself look less ferocious.

If even Zijuan can't convince him, it proves that he is really wrong. Then he should help the housekeeper up, comfort him and reward him heavily. Then let him continue to work hard so that he can achieve his reputation as Huang Shiren of the Tang Dynasty as soon as possible! Then one day the people rise up, or the government needs to calm the public anger and come to borrow his own head!

"Hate my mother, hate my brother, hate Butler Cui and everyone!" Zijuan finally realized a little of his thoughts and expressed his opinion with tears in his eyes. However, the following words made Zhang Qian laugh and cry again, "But Zijuan is now the young man. Of course, you can't just think that Wang Erya and his family are pitiful! This farm is the young man's capital for his life. Zijuan is stupid. Even if he is scolded by the young man, he has to watch it for you. He can't let outsiders take advantage of it casually!"

"You..." Zhang Qian was disappointed and wanted to slap the little girl to wake up. However, seeing the other party's timid appearance, he forced himself to lower his arms to his side, and his palms opened and closed uncontrollably.

"Young man, my subordinates are stupid and don't know how to deal with this matter. You might as well let go first and wait for my young man to come back!" After all, Ren Quan was so sophisticated that the more he said today, the less Zhang Qian might be unable to calm down. He simply decided to drag on and then talk.

Anyway, it's time for Ren Cong to come back. In the past, he helped Zhang Qian take care of the matters in the village. Butler Cui was hired by the Ren family first and then transferred to the Zhang family. If Zhang Qian waited for him to come back, he was still angry and was still swept the house to go out or sent to the Ren family to settle the house. In fact, it was all Ren Cong's words. Whether it was right or wrong, it would not fall on Zhang Qian. The managers, slaves and tenants in the village would not be underestimated by Zhang Qian, the new owner of Zhang Qian, and cause other new troubles!

"Young man calm down. When my maid saw Zhang's father-in-law, she admired him very much. His farm is next to our farm. If you can't make up your mind, you might as well go and ask him." Zijuan was unwilling to do so. He continued to anger Zhang Qian because of the same topic. Wiped his tears and tentatively led the disaster to the east.

With her little head, she naturally thought that Zhang Qian refused to listen to her and Ren Quan's suggestions because she and Ren Quan were both slight. And the same suggestion, which was definitely different when he said it from Zhang Ruoxu. Moreover, his young man was confused by the authorities, while Zhang's father-in-law was a bystander.

"Yes, why do I have to deal with this matter so urgently?" After the words came, Zhang Qian's eyes lit up immediately, and then the irritability in his heart disappeared for half.

I lack experience and my way of thinking is difficult to match with the people around me. Zhang Ruoxu has no such problems. Moreover, I feel like I hit it off at first sight. I don’t want to ask for advice on such a good teacher, so why are you building a behind closed doors here?

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Zijuan’s suggestion was reasonable and practical. If he hadn’t been concerned about Zhang Ruoxu’s just leaving his home, he would have wanted to order someone to pick up a lantern and come to the other party for advice.

However, when he thought that the other party had just left his home, some of the scenes and words at the previous banquet were uncontrollably reappeared in front of his eyes and ears.

Today, the host and the host talked very well and found that he was indeed a little unfamiliar with the government affairs of the Tang Dynasty and the secular world. The three old seniors tacitly gave him many advice, and even gave him some reminders in vain, including how to face the current situation.

However, whether it was Sun Anzu, He Zhizhang and Zhang Ruoxu, they avoided the topic of "People's Day" in the afternoon when Mr. Cui came to the door to force the debt and forced the tenant to plow the ox and his daughter, as if the matter was insignificant.

"Are you some seniors who still want to test me? See how I, a Mo family, deal with this matter?" A ridiculous idea quickly appeared in Zhang Qian's mind.

"Impossible!" Then, he smiled and shook his head to deny it. "Several seniors simply don't want to interfere in my family affairs."

However, if the negation is negation, the thoughts about how the Mo family should deal with this matter are like a seed, which quickly takes root, sprouts, and grows in his heart, and then becomes uncontrollable even if he himself cannot control it!

It took only a few seconds for the outside world, but his mind was already changing.

The seeds eventually grow into big trees, bloom and bear fruit.

The fruit fell to the ground, exploded, and turned into a bolt of lightning.

"Crack!" It seemed like a flash of lightning was sliding by in front of me, and the whole world became bright. In the last two chapters, I want to write about the integration of the protagonist, which will be longer. I hope everyone will read happily. Thank you for your support. Qingzhou Liu is engaged in it, and he is a drunkard.
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