I am happy to be a mother in a famine year, I have a system to farm the land

The man in black at the far end winked at the two people behind him, raised his feet and rushed toward the door.

He thought that with his own ability, he could find a way for his brother.

However, before he could get close to the door, the man holding a long knife blocked his way.

In just one round of effort, the man in black was already at a disadvantage.

But the tall and strong man in front of him had murderous intent flashing in his eyes.

The next moment, the man in black screamed.

And one of his legs was cut off.

The opponent's methods were fast and cruel, which shocked the only two men in black.

He also vaguely realized that these people were not ordinary people.

The two of them were originally waiting for their brothers to break out a bloody path for them, but now they know that they cannot leave today.

Both of them knew better than to escape. Seeing this, King Ling's personal guards waved their hands to the people around them, and several men in black were arrested.

Prince Ling's bodyguard turned around and returned to the room.

"Your Highness, the person has been arrested."

Only then did Prince Ling put down the blood book in his hand, stood up and walked out.

When he saw the tied man in black outside the door, there was no expression on his face.

"Who ordered you to come?"

Upon hearing Prince Ling's inquiry, the man in black just snorted but did not speak.

Seeing this, King Ling just waved his hand to the people around him.

The guard immediately said: "Take the person down and torture him!"

The expressions of the men in black changed, and they obviously did not expect that King Ling would torture them so directly.

After the people were taken down, King Ling looked at the dozen or so people hiding inside the door.

"Okay, you don't have to worry anymore. There will be people guarding here in the future, and no one will hurt you."

When more than a dozen people heard this, they kowtowed to King Ling to thank him.

"Thank you, Your Majesty. Thank you, Your Majesty."

Several people were still uneasy when they heard that someone would come to assassinate them at night.

But tonight when they saw those men in black being dealt with by the people around King Ling, they realized that they were being protected.

And the person who protects them is King Ling, the prince of Zhou Dynasty.

It was also at this moment that everyone's worries were completely let go.

But when they saw the corpses in the courtyard and the smell of blood in the air, everyone couldn't help but shiver.

This reminded them of what had happened in their village before.

Thinking of this, everyone couldn't help but feel sad.

They originally thought that as long as they worked hard, their lives would not be too difficult for their wives and children at home.

But they never imagined that while they worked diligently all day long, their wives, children, and parents would have already become the dead souls of others.

Thinking of what happened before, the old village chief couldn't help but sigh.

His voice choked with sobs: "How much better would it be if we didn't borrow that money in the first place?"

The others didn't speak, but the sobbing sounds kept coming.

When the guards standing next to King Ling saw this, they were about to ask something, but were stopped by King Ling on the side.

"We'll go to court tomorrow morning to talk about your case. It's getting late now, so you should rest."

Seeing King Ling leaving with his guards, everyone collapsed to the ground.

Early the next morning, several people were taken to the county government court.

"Tell me, besides going to the mountains to make pottery, what else did you do?"

The eyes of more than a dozen people fell on the old village chief, and his eyes suddenly turned red.

"Your Majesty, before we went up the mountain to make pottery, we were just ordinary farming families. It's just...it's just that our family has no fertile land, so...then we go up the mountain to make pottery..."

When King Ling heard this, he frowned immediately.

"In our Zhou Dynasty, every household should have fertile land, why don't you?"

King Ling always felt that there was something wrong with this.

This fertile land belongs to the people, and it is up to the people themselves to decide whether to keep it or not.

These people said they didn't have two days. Could it be that they sold them?

This thought made King Ling look a little unhappy.

In order to allow the people to have food to eat, these fields were personally approved by the emperor's brother.

How come now, they have sold two days?

Farmers have lost their fertile farmland, what will they eat?

The old village chief sighed, looking sad. ,

"Your Majesty, you don't know. It was during the famine years, and there wasn't even a grain of food in the fields."

"During the lean years, our village collectively borrowed fifty taels of silver from wealthy families in the town, and we agreed to pay back seventy taels of silver by the end of this year."

Hearing the old man's words, King Ling's expression darkened involuntarily.

Borrow fifty taels and pay back seventy taels? What is the difference between this and robbing money?

The guards beside King Ling couldn't help but tighten the sword in their hands, and a flash of anger flashed in their eyes.

Although they had been in the county for some time and knew that the wealthy squires in the county were nothing, they did not expect that they would dare to target the common people.

"But we didn't expect that just after this year's drought, those people would come to the village asking for money, but what they wanted was not seventy taels, but one hundred taels."

As the old village chief finished speaking, the entire court fell silent.

I borrowed fifty taels, but after the New Year, I asked for a hundred taels. Not to mention that the agreed time has not arrived, but asking for double the money is indeed no different from robbing money.

"Why do they want a hundred taels?"

Prince Ling's voice was so calm that no one could hear the emotion or anger.

The old man said: "They said that because of natural disasters, the price of food has increased, and the price of money should also increase."

"But...but the village has just experienced a natural disaster. Where can I get the money to give them..."

The old village chief could no longer hold back the teachers and students and burst into tears.

A young man kneeling next to the old man said angrily: "We gave them the IOU, but they tore it up and said they had to give the money even if they didn't want it."

"The people in the village asked them for justice, but they broke the man's legs. When they sent him back again, only a body was left."

"Everyone also knows that this justice cannot be brought back, so they can only go to the mountains to work, hoping to return the money and settle the matter. But... But when we returned to the village again, the villagers had already..."

King Ling understood the ins and outs and his expression became calmer.

When the guards on the side saw this, an inexplicable chill ran down their backs.

The last time His Highness Prince Ling was so calm was when he and His Majesty raised an army.

The guards knew in their hearts that His Highness Prince Ling was murderous.

It is indeed shocking that a small wealthy family would massacre an entire village for his own selfish interests.

"Do you think the person who attacked you is the rich man?"

The old village chief nodded, "Except for the person who lent us the money, we have never sinned against anyone else."