Lu Shu was shocked. No, but there are exceptions. He thought for a while and said: "It is true that the ordinary people of Beiming Kingdom are. Now the people of Nalan Kingdom are not living in hardship. When the master rules the world, the common people's lives will be different." The good days are coming!”
They have a thousand kilograms of grain per acre and a family of several people. Even if they can plant just one acre of land, they don’t have to go hungry!
Wen Nuan smiled: "Indeed, we have a good emperor in Nalan Kingdom."
After saying this, Nuan Nuan turned to look at Nalan Jinnian: "When will our army arrive?"
"Five days later."
"When will Beiming's army arrive?"
Most of Beiming's soldiers who were originally stationed in Anfeng County were transferred to attack Nalan. Now that the 300,000-strong army has been wiped out, it is natural that some more soldiers must be transferred from other places.
It also takes time to mobilize troops from various places.
Nalan Jinnian: "If nothing unexpected happens, it will be in four days."
Lu Shu: "So, if the enemy arrives first, we can rest for a day and recuperate before fighting again."
Nuan Nuan and Nalan Jinnian didn't speak. They wouldn't have arrived first. They should have gone to rob food and grass.
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The whole Anfeng City has been very lively these two days!
Nalan Jinnian did not allow Wen Nuan to step out of the door. For this reason, he stayed in the house with her all day long.
If there is anything to be dealt with, leave it to the people below or Amber to deal with it.
Because the Beiming court imposed taxes again, every household had to pay grain, which caused complaints and public sentiments among the people. Many poor people could not help but go to the Yamen to protest.
It’s no wonder that the people protested, because the average family has five or six people, which means each family has to hand over about ten kilograms of grain. Ten kilograms of grain is not much in modern times, and it is not much among the people of Nalan Kingdom today. It's not much. If you put it in a wealthy person's home, they would waste more than this amount every day.
But for the poor people, more than ten kilograms of grain is enough to feed them for half a month!
After all, in this dynasty with backward productivity and production levels, the poor people did not have enough to eat every day, and some even only ate the lunch meal a day.
However, the gap between the rich and the poor in Anfeng County, Beiming State, is huge, and there are especially many poor people. The yamen are urging people to pay debts vigorously, and they even drive people out of the city!
This led to many people coming to the government office in the past two days to protest and cry.
The policemen from the yamen drove away one group after another, but to no avail. More and more people even came to protest together.
At this moment, countless people are crying here:
"Sir, there is really no food left at home! Please don't increase taxes! Otherwise, there will be no way to survive!"
"Since this year's autumn harvest, we have paid taxes twice, totaling hundreds of kilograms of grain! We are not the people of Nalan Country, and we can grow a thousand kilograms of grain per acre! This acre of land can yield four hundred kilograms of grain. One kilogram of grain is already considered a bumper harvest! Now everyone has to pay two kilograms of protection tax, why not just grab it!
"More than a dozen people in our family live on one acre of land. Last year, we harvested more than 300 kilograms of grain. We have already handed over hundreds of kilograms of grain. If each person pays two kilograms more, this means that all the harvested grain will be handed over. We’ve gone up there and we have nothing to eat! They’re trying to starve us to death! No need for protection tax! We’re already starving to death, so why do we need protection!”
"Oh my God, the grain harvested in a year is not enough to pay taxes. This is not allowing people to live! It is not allowing people to live!..."
"Why don't other counties collect so much tax, but our county has to collect it! County Magistrate, please come out and explain! Otherwise we won't pay it!"
"Please come out, the county magistrate! Give us an explanation! Otherwise we won't even hand it over!"
... ... .
Countless people gathered here and shouted.
At the end of the shouting, they all clamored to see the county magistrate!
Seeing more and more people gathering at the Yamen, there was even a tendency for people to rush into the Yamen and ask the county magistrate for questioning, which frightened the policemen and quickly ran to find the county magistrate.
The county magistrate has a big head. If so many people gather together and let him go out, then he won't be swallowed up by the people!
He said to the arrester: "Go and tell the people, why do you have to pay protection tax? If you want to blame, just blame the soldiers of Nalan Kingdom! It's not that they want to attack our Anfeng County, they don't need to pay protection tax!"
The catcher said anxiously: "What if the people don't want to listen and insist on seeing you? Those people are coming in a menacing way and they want to rush in! You'd better go see me and appease the people!"
The head catcher couldn't help but murmur in his heart: The Nalan Kingdom wanted to attack their Anfeng County. It was clearly their Beiming Kingdom who had conquered two other counties first, and now they are just fighting back!
The magistrate of Anfeng County was so angry that the veins on his forehead were exposed.
The people were coming fiercely, and he even asked him to go out and appease the people!
What if those unscrupulous people hurt me
He roared angrily: "Whoever dares to break in will be thrown directly into jail! Why break into the Yamen? If you have the ability, go beat those untouchables in Nalan! Tell them that if anyone is restless and doesn't pay taxes properly, he will wait until Nalan When the Nalan army comes, let them be the vanguard and let them be the first to fall under the knife of the Nalan army!!"
After the Anfeng County magistrate finished shouting, he glared at the arrester and said angrily: "Get out yet! Drive away those unruly people! The enemy army is about to attack, and they are still causing trouble here! How busy!"
The head catcher was so frightened that he ran out in a hurry.
He ran out and thought about it, and arranged for a few people to rush into the crowd of people, say something and set the pace, so that the people would transfer their resentment to the soldiers of Nalan Kingdom, so that they would leave.
After the arrester finished explaining, he hurriedly walked out and said to the crowded and angry people: "Fellow fellow villagers, why do you have to pay protection tax? If you want to blame it, blame the soldiers of Nalan Kingdom! They are not trying to attack us. Feng County, we don’t need to pay protection tax! When the army arrives, drives away the dog thieves from Nalan Country, and obtains Nalan Country’s grain seed breeding methods that can produce thousands of kilograms per mu, everyone’s life will be easier! Let’s just bear with it for the time being. ! The imperial court will not let everyone starve to death! The imperial court will only let everyone live a good life!"
As soon as these words were said, some people couldn't help but loudly said:
"It's all the fault of the Nalan Kingdom! When will the army arrive? Hurry up and drive away those thieves from the Nalan Kingdom! If you want to fight, go to their Nalan Kingdom to fight. Don't fight in our Beiming Kingdom!"
"That's right! Let's capture the Nalan Kingdom quickly! Our Beiming Kingdom is obviously the most powerful country in the mainland, why are we being bullied by the Nalan Kingdom?"
"Those untouchables in Nalan are just beasts, causing us to pay so much tax..."
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At this time, a man couldn't help but yelled: "Fuck you! Why didn't the Nalan court collect even one penny more tax from the people of Nalan when we from Beiming attacked Nalan? The imperial court also evacuated the people early and escorted them away to seek refuge in other counties! They even helped escort food and property! When we arrived in Beiming Country, it was fine to leave without escorting us, and they also had to collect protection tax. What's the point of this?! We We need to see the magistrate! We need an explanation!"