"Uh-huh-huh-huh..."

When Chen Bai woke up, he saw that the Chen family fort had been looted and looked desolate after the disaster, so he rolled around, hugged Chen Bai and started crying.

She was crying so hard that she was out of breath, very much like a little daughter-in-law who had been wronged.

Although Chen Bo is over thirty years old, except for a few lines of laughter in the corners of his eyes, his face is delicate and girlish. In addition, his appearance is bookish, his figure is weak, and his behavior is very fragile.

Chen Baiqi's eyebrows were twitching, and she resisted the urge to slap him away. She took hold of his wrapped arms and said seriously: "Father, I'm just going to cross the border with the International Traders. What happened in Wubao to cause this?!

"

During the coma, Bu used water to wipe his blackened face clean. The water-mei's apricot eyes were exactly the same as Chen Baiqi's. He pursed his lips, full of grievance and resentment, and twisted his sleeves like pouring beans.

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"My father is short of expenses again, and he is very tight on weekdays... Wu Niang suggested that my father increase the rent of the tenants this year, and then sell some fertile land so that I can continue to live comfortably..."

Wu Niang is a concubine of Chen Bo Xina. It is said that she is charming and charming, and has a good understanding of bed skills. She is one of Chen Bo's most favored concubines at present.

"Then what?" Chen Bai said coolly with dark eyes gleaming.

Chen Bo wiped away his tears, raised his head and said plausibly: "My father accepted his advice, but those stupid people came to the fort to make trouble. They were very annoyed for my father, so he ordered his servants to send them away. Who knows what happened?

The servants struck too hard and killed several of them by mistake..."

After he muttered the last sentence, he seemed to have thought of something, his head drooped feebly, and he began to pout again: "A few days later, my father sold 500 hectares of land to drive away the redundant tenants in Wubaowei, but he didn't want to do it again.

On that day, they gathered a crowd to rebel..."

After hearing what Chen Bo said, Chen Baiqi's eyesight went dark and he almost got angry at his scumbag father!

Selling land?!

During this period, the well-field system of the Warring States Period had been replaced by the private system of free buying and selling of land. It was said that the rich had thousands of fields, while the poor died and established their own land.

Pingling County from Yuanshui to Fengyang is the Chen family's food land, and this large piece of land can almost seize one-third of the fertile land in Pingling County. If the land is sold, it will mean that a large number of tenants and their relatives will lose their land.

Without land to cultivate, they have lost their source of livelihood and even their place of residence.

In addition, Pingling County has been suffering from severe drought in the past three years, and most of the farmland has been almost harvested. He has not reduced or reduced taxes, but he is still increasing taxes. This is simply forcing people to rebel!

Since ancient times, the social conflict between the feudal landlord class and the peasant class was now being played out before her eyes.

And her father is this extremely exploitative slave owner!

In addition, there was basically no trade during the Warring States Period, and very few warehouses could buy and sell grain. Grain could be exchanged for money, but it was difficult to buy grain with money. Therefore, land was the most important and valuable property of a family. Selling land was not a good idea.

Who would be stupid enough to accept such a bad idea? What will their family eat after selling the land? Do you want to drink the northwest wind?

"Who did you sell it to?" Chen Baiqi asked.

Chen Bo's eyes wandered for a moment, then he said pitifully: "Uh-huh-huh... No, I don't remember. My father has to report it to the official for investigation. I feel uncomfortable for my father..."

"Report to the official? I'm afraid I have already made up my mind to fall into the enemy's trap! Pingling is a remote place with no soldiers and weapons, and there is no one in charge of the government office. What's the use of reporting to the official?" Chen Baiqi sneered.

Seeing that he was hesitant, she began to have doubts in her heart. Who did this scumbag father sell the land to? Who in Pingling County could get a huge amount of food and silk for five hundred hectares of land?

Chen Baiqi was not saying this in vain. She had checked the direction of the escaped tenants on the system map. A series of hundreds of people with their families moved westward. At the end of the destination was a hill marked with the words "Rong Di Bandit Den"

, she knew their plan.

Pingling is the most remote and desolate land of the Chu State. It is located in the south and is mixed with many barbarian states. Although the Chu State implements a county conscription system and everyone is a soldier, due to the sparse population in the area, it is impossible to recruit many soldiers and horses.

Suppress bandits.

She had tried to guess that in this era of clear class status, it was a serious crime for slaves to bully their masters. Apart from taking off their household registration and fleeing, there was no other option but to join a bandit uprising incognito and jointly resist the exploitation and oppression of slave owners and the court.

Other methods.

"Then what should we do? We can't let it go like this. My dear, as a father, we can't let others bully us in vain!" Chen Bo said angrily with red eyes.

Chen Baiqi twitched the corner of his mouth, he was his father and she was her father, and he was acting coquettishly towards her!

She felt very heartbroken to see such a bad-brained father. In the past, Chen Bo was praised by the Master Nanhua in Danyang, Chu State, as "beautiful, capable of helping people in danger, acting humbly, and sharing the same path with others."

, people can move it."

The general meaning is that he is able to make a good family and state, and he is humble. Anyone who shares his mind will be moved by him.

But since he was demoted to Pingling by Danyang, he has become as stupid as ever, and the stupid things he has committed are simply unbearable to watch!

"Father, now that Wubao has been mostly destroyed, rebuilt and penniless, what should you do?" Chen Baiqi changed the topic and talked about another serious matter.

Father Chen shook his head blankly, and asked innocently and foolishly: "Isn't it Chen Jia who always gives the idea for this kind of thing? By the way, did you make any money back from this trip to trade goods with Zhao Guo?"

"..." Chen Bai's face suddenly froze, and his eyes began to drift.

Suddenly, she felt that she was not qualified to accuse her father of being a scumbag, because she would probably cause even greater trouble when she went out.

She cleared her throat and said quickly: "Father, my dear wife bought some valuable Yue slaves from this trip. They are literate and understand farming, and..."

"We all have such a big land now. If we buy war criminal slaves, won't we have to feed more mouths?" Chen's father interrupted her and yelled dissatisfiedly.

Chen Bai choked.

"Hey, there will always be a way to solve it." Once Chen Baiqi considered the reality, he could only think about it.

She couldn't help but laugh at herself in her heart and sighed - I'm like this, even if a lively protagonist suddenly pops up, I'm afraid I won't be able to hook up -!

Click, click, click - Suddenly, a dull sound of horse hoofs sounded from far to near in the pine forest, followed by a series of rapid footsteps rushing to Wubao, but it was the missing Chen Jia with a large number of servants hanging on his head behind him.

The sweat came running.

"Master Chen—Master Chen—what a blessing! What a blessing! Jia ran into Cang Yue, a young master of the state of Chu, on the Yakou Plank Road—a mere riot of servants will surely be wiped out in an instant..."

Chen Baiqi turned around and looked at the Wubao gate, surprised that this guy dared to come back again, but after filtering the words Chen Jia yelled through his mind, a certain active nerve suddenly stagnated.

Cang Yue, the prince of Chu State?

Wait, he's not talking about that... Cang Yue, one of the four great princes of the Warring States Period who once served as Ling Yin of the Chu Kingdom and controlled hundreds of thousands of troops in the Chu Kingdom?!

Dozens of clanking iron cavalry marched in front of the Wubao in order. Their armor light opened towards the golden scales of the sun, like swords and golden light. Their momentum was more majestic and suppressed than that of Zhao Jun before, but there was a cold roar of iron apes similar to Zhao Jun. Come in.

The Cangyue cavalry retreated to both sides, and the shadows of the black heels cast diagonally across a winding corridor. Two tall, handsome and snow-white horses gracefully opened the way. A luxurious carriage drove out from the rear, with its brackets and pointed eaves at the four corners. , there are four strings of jade exquisites hanging jingling in the wind, and there seems to be a faint hum of Sanskrit sounds rippling in the car.

However, when the car stopped, the sound also stopped.

With a thud, everyone in the Wubao swallowed their saliva and stared blankly.

The silver-white rolled silk curtains with rusty python patterns were lifted respectfully from the left and right, and a person stepped under the carriage with a graceful posture. The people around him were already kneeling on the ground.

He is wearing a heavy robe of mysterious clothing, with a long scarlet lapel embroidered with gold, and a straight collar lined with white gauze singlet. There is a strange coordination for a man wearing pure red, with layers of gorgeousness flowing down, and his slender waist is covered with cold and hard iron armor. As a belt, a long hair splashed with ink pours down, and the ends of the hair are tied with copper rings, and the rings are interlocked.

The face is made of jade, with a line of red between the eyebrows, and the eyebrows fly into the temples, bringing with it an unusual cold evil spirit. The eyelashes are extremely long, the eye lines are slender and slightly protruding, and there is no trace of enchantment in the movement of the eyes. A thin layer of light penetrates the morning sun, and the sharp edges are revealed, but it is more of a noble and majestic force that makes people feel terrified.

With just one glance, Chen Baiqi didn't even have time to think about it, before she was distracted by the stinging pain coming from her blind eye. She felt that the pupil of her eye was as painful and hot as if it was about to bleed. She groaned in pain and quickly squeezed it tightly with a cold sweat on her head. it.

What's going on? Why is this blind eye so painful?

What she didn't know was that in the burning pain, her black eye suddenly turned into a cold and arrogant golden vertical pupil.

－－－－－－Digression－－－－－

The land of food entitlement - comes from the food entitlement system. Simply put, it is the land given by the court to meritorious ministers, high officials, relatives and the like. It can also be regarded as money. In those days, food could be used to offset the money. , having a full meal and not going hungry is more important than anything else! Therefore, land and soil are very important! For farmers, their heads can be cut off and their blood can bleed, but their fields cannot be sold!

In addition, let me explain, the official Ling Yin is the highest official title among the princes of Chu State. He is the highest official who controls political affairs and issues orders. He is in charge of the power of a country. Generally speaking, he has overall military and political power. So Young Master Cang Yue was once very powerful in Chu State! Yes, once!

Also, let me mention that in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, not everyone could be called "gongzi". It was an honorific title. In the pre-Qin Dynasty, only sons of vassal states were called "gongzi", and daughters were also called "gongzi". However, "gongzi" was not a specific title for young people, as long as they did not become the heir apparent. The young masters who are not called kings will be called young masters for the rest of their lives.
Chapter completed!