The feudal lord is on Taobao every day

Just a few days after the new year, the weather is indeed getting warmer day by day. Only half a month before the new year, the snow began to gradually melt. Xie Jingan waited for another two days, and seeing that the weather did not change, he decided not to Without delay, he selected a few people from the old guards and patrolling guards, and selected some good-performing recruits from Lin Yan's training, and let them carry newspapers and gallop to various states and counties.

Zhangjia Village is located in the southernmost part of Dingzhou. Over a few mountains is the border of Mozhou. Because the village is located far away from the state city, even the town is quite far away, so people in Zhangjia Village can easily Can't go out, just go around the field every day, know little about the affairs outside the village, after dinner, it's either Zhang Er Gouzi was beaten by his wife again, or someone's chicken was stolen, someone gave birth again Almost all the people in the village are illiterate, only one can read, and now he works as a shopkeeper in a shop in the town. He is the most respectable person in the village and the envy of every young man.

Because it was winter, and before spring could go to the fields, most of the people in Zhangjia Village stayed at home while keeping warm and talking, and it was the same on this day, carrying a stool with a handful of melon seeds and talking all morning. At lunch time, they were going back to their respective homes, and when they reached the door, they saw a group of youngsters running in the village and yelling: "The shopkeeper Zhang is going back to the village, and the shopkeeper Zhang is taking his wife back to the village."

A group of youngsters were only five or six years old, the most playful age, ran wildly with a rumbling meal, and ran away in a blink of an eye.

Shopkeeper Zhang is the eldest son of the head of the village. Because he is the only scholar in the village and works as a shopkeeper in the town, the villagers call him Shopkeeper Zhang. After calling him for a long time, the children below follow suit, so they call him too. Shopkeeper Zhang.

The group of people who came to the door were planning to go home to cook. After hearing this, they stopped and looked at each other. One of the women said: "The shopkeeper Zhang went home? Didn't he stay for a few days before the Chinese New Year? Did you just go back a few days ago, why did you come back so soon? Maybe there was something wrong with the errand, and the owner should be kicked back."

Another woman was about the same age as her, and said hesitantly: "No way, I have been working in other people's shops for many years, and if something goes wrong, it would have happened early, so why would I ask them to come back at this moment? Could it be that the shop sold it? Not good, let's close it."

"Closed?" The woman who spoke first exclaimed, with an ugly expression on her face: "Whether the shop is going to be closed, or someone has turned it back, it's not a good thing after all. He taught my Erniu how to read and write, even if he can't be a shopkeeper like him, he can be a buddy."

The other woman almost laughed out loud when she heard her words, she was slandering in her heart, and she can read and write, just like your Er Niu's stupid appearance, cutting even a pitcher plant is not easy, how can she look like a person who can read? But his Goudan seems to be clever, maybe he can do it.

The woman thought so in her heart, but she didn't dare to say it out of her mouth. She just raised her neck and looked at the village chief's house at the head of the village, and asked, "Then let's go and have a look? Could it be a wrong guess? If there's nothing wrong, can you By the way, ask, see if it's okay to teach Er Niu to read."

The first woman who spoke was a little moved, and seeing that all the people in the village had gone to the village, she slapped her thigh and said, "The shopkeeper Zhang won't go back to the village easily, and there must be something important when he comes back. Let's have lunch early." I won’t be hungry after eating later, let’s go and see first.”

As they spoke, the two followed the crowd to the village chief's house.

Whether the people in the village were just watching the fun or really worried about the village head's house, the yard of the village head's house was already packed, which was even more lively than visiting the village head's house to pay New Year's greetings during the Chinese New Year.

The two women squeezed again and again before they squeezed in. They put their feet on their feet and looked ahead, and casually asked the people beside them: "I heard that shopkeeper Zhang has returned to the village. Didn't he just come back a few days ago? What's the matter?" Such inappropriate days are back again, but if something happened in the shop, the master would not let it happen."

The person next to him also looked into it, and said, "I listened to it, and it seems that it is not for the shop. I heard that I brought some newspapers to read to everyone. There are many words on it."

"Newspaper?" The woman was confused, "What is that? Is it the paper used by scholars? It's just that there are words on it. Isn't it a book if there are words on the paper?"

The people next to him didn't understand, so they shook their heads and said, "I'm not a scholar, I don't know, even if there is any newspaper in front of my eyes, I can't understand it, just wait for Zhang Zhang to read it to you."

As the two talked, more and more people squeezed into the yard, and finally they couldn't stand up anymore, so they straddled the wall, even the crooked peach tree in the village chief's yard got hung up on people.

After waiting for another half an hour, everyone became more and more impatient and asked questions one after another. The old but healthy village head came out of the house, stepped on the stool, pressed his hands down, and shouted loudly. : "Quiet, everyone, be quiet, Youliang returned to the village not because of an accident at the shop, but because a newspaper from the government above was distributed to Youliang, and he wanted to read it to everyone, so he came back. Don't talk, everyone, first listen to the newspaper with conscience."

The village head said it twice in a row, and the crowd gradually fell silent, and turned their eyes to the shopkeeper Zhang standing beside the village head.

Shopkeeper Zhang has been stared at by such eyes every time he went back to the village since he became a shopkeeper. Now he is very used to it. He coughed twice, carefully took out a brand new newspaper from his arms, and read it aloud with his head held high.

Shopkeeper Zhang read the words with a round accent, and the people in the village listened quietly at first, but after reading for a while, the crowd gradually couldn't help whispering.

The previous woman was the first one who couldn't hold back her words. She tugged at the sleeve of another woman beside her, and without squinting her eyes, she whispered: "What is Zhang Zhang talking about? Why are you listening?" I heard it, why am I so confused? It seems that I understand it, but it seems that I don’t understand anything.”

The other also moved his mouth and eyes, and said: "You can't understand things that can only be understood by scholars. Please don't make a sound. Let's ask after the shopkeeper Zhang finishes reading. It may be that the superiors are kind enough to spare us. What about taxes? Didn’t shopkeeper Zhang say last time that there’s a feudal lord who has a good temper and is more considerate of the people than the magistrate.”

"Really?" The woman refused to believe it, but she still calmed down with anticipation, and waited for shopkeeper Zhang to finish reading, and then asked bluffingly: "Shopkeeper Zhang, what are you saying? I don’t understand, why don’t you tell me, is the superior going to exempt us from taxes?”

It was the first time shopkeeper Zhang used such a loud voice to read to someone, and his throat was a little itchy. He drank a lot of water to feel better, and then cleared his throat again: "The newspaper is not saying that everyone's tax is exempted, but It records a few major events that happened in the fief. One of them is that it snowed heavily this year, and several prefectures became disasters. The snow crushed the houses of many people. People were rescued, our vassal king, His Royal Highness King Shun spent money to buy several houses to accommodate the people whose houses were crushed by snow, gave them porridge and clothes, and gave them work in exchange for money, and then exchanged the money for King Shun His Highness built a house for them, and that house..."

Shopkeeper Zhang just finished speaking here, and was about to talk about the second major event published in the newspaper, when someone suddenly interrupted him and said loudly: "It's true or not, don't the high officials and generals always oppress the people, and try their best to get rid of them?" We are greedy for money, so there is no one who distributes money for the people. Isn’t this coaxing us? Besides, what do you do for them in exchange for money, and then use the money to ask His Highness to build a house for them? No, it's still in His Highness's pocket."

Shopkeeper Zhang has been so excited that he has not slept all night since he received the newspaper yesterday. If it hadn’t been too late at that time and it was difficult to hurry, he might have come back at that time. Tell everyone about the information on the Internet, now seeing my words being interrupted and misinterpreted like this, I suddenly became unhappy, and said with a calm face: "What do you mean by this? Could it be that in your opinion, His Highness built a house for them? Is it justified?"

The person who said this was a lazy man in the village, he just couldn't see the shopkeeper Zhang being so prominent, so he said a few words indiscriminately, now when asked to ask him like this, his face immediately turned pale, and he insisted: "I can... ...I didn't say that, don't try to blame me."

Lai Han wanted to say a few more words, but seeing shopkeeper Zhang's eyes became more and more severe, and the people in the village also saw his unkind expression, so they panicked, waved their hands and said, "I'm talking nonsense, nonsense, I'm talking nonsense. It's not that I can't read, I can't understand, so I just asked casually."

Lai Han was not liked by others, but now after this incident, people in the village despised him even more, and the woman who spoke earlier even spat at him and scolded: "Well, you shameless Zhang Lai, you are in the village. It's not enough to eat, drink, steal, and gossip, and you even put your mind on His Highness. What is His Highness's identity, he looks at you and flatters you. Why should you build a house for nothing? Whether you have no hands or no feet, Sheng Mien Dou Michou, I think you are talking about people like you, in my opinion, we should drive you out of the village as soon as possible, so as to save you from causing trouble to the village and implicating the whole village."

As soon as the woman said this, many people responded immediately, and the scene immediately became chaotic. The village chief had to shout a few times to calm the crowd again. After Zhang Youliang finished reading the newspaper, everyone should be quiet first, if someone can't control their mouth and talk nonsense, then don't blame me for disregarding the feelings and opening the ancestral hall to ask the ancestors to teach."

When the village chief said that the ancestral hall was going to be opened, Lai Han's face turned as pale as paper. He was afraid that he would be beaten with a board or kicked out of the village, so he quickly shut his mouth tightly and dared not speak any more.

The village chief saw that he had indeed stopped, so he glanced at shopkeeper Zhang and motioned him to continue.

Shopkeeper Zhang still had an ugly expression on his face. He glared at Lai Han angrily, calmed down, and said in a loud voice: "The second big thing is that in Liu's Fish and Meat Township, [-]% of the rent is collected, and tenants are forced to sell their children and daughters. He even set up gambling houses and brothels privately, forcing many people to ruin their families, and even robbed the sons and daughters of good people in other states and counties to sell them for money..."

As soon as shopkeeper Zhang said this, before he finished speaking, the crowd was in an uproar, and they couldn't help talking loudly.