When Tang Hongzhi appeared in the county hall again, the players and prisoners of war under the hall had been replaced by a group of dejected gentry from Qingping County who were dejected.

And there was also an additional Chen Mengyao standing next to Tang Hongzhi.

Chen Mengyao's face even had a blush after passion, which looked very beautiful.

"I am currently in the rising period of my career and are in a hurry to lack troops. It is best to recruit all 1 ooo county soldiers for combat.

A county soldier has 20,000 copper coins, and a thousand county soldiers have 20,000 copper coins, which is converted into silver.

This money is a huge sum of money for the big squire."

Tang Hongzhi thought to himself, and looked at the wealthy household in Qingping County below the stage with a smile on his face.

Being called a big family in a county town either owns many commercial stores or owns at least one farm outside the county town.

You should know that a large farmland owns no less than a village, and even more, the entire farmland is produced by a large household, and most of the people used are serfs and tenants.

In addition, the wealthy gentry also works part-time in the usury industry, so the family is quite solid.

After conquering Qingping County, Tang Hongzhi appeared in the world of Destiny Game, with a huge gap between the rich and the poor, and it was also very obvious.

There are almost no so-called middle class here. The one who is better than tenant serfs is the self-cultivating farmers, who can barely survive by guarding a few acres of land.

The one who is a big gentry who started with three digits of fertile land is very serious!

Collusion between officials and gentry has long become the norm, and no one cares about it at all...

To be precise, even the various vassal states are closely related to local gentry. For example, the Zhao family, a top wealthy family in Qingping County, married their youngest daughter to the domestic county governor as a concubine!

This kind of network of relationships formed through marriage is the most common among NPC forces and is nothing at all.

As for the appointment of officials, it is even more nepotist.

Tang Hongzhi now knew that the county magistrate Fan Jin, who fled with his family and his family, was a typical nepotist. The officials in Qingping County who had real power were all the children of the Fan family!

Fan Jin's eldest son, Fan Sizhe, became the second-in-command county magistrate of Qingping County!

The officialdom is so dark, and the poor children don’t even have windows, let alone promotions...

If a poor family wants to make a name for themselves, there is only one way to join the army and practice martial arts.

As long as you can break through to the level of a second-level warrior, the government will take the initiative to deliver an olive branch and immediately transform into a class leap!

The Lin family in Qingping County is a typical example...

Originally, it was just an ordinary self-cultivated farmer. Since the Lin brothers broke through to level 2, they immediately became a big family in Qingping County Zhongneng with the Zhao family!

As for the public's grievances, the government doesn't care at all. The government's military support is a ruthless game soldier. As long as the people are guaranteed not to starve to death in large numbers, and a large number of fleeing people appear, officials can enjoy a life of drunkenness and dreams!

In Tang Hongzhi's eyes, just a small Qingping County, the officialdom is even darker than the ancient society in the real world!

Although the place where Tang Hongzhi was located belonged to the "Tang Dynasty", Tang Hongzhi saw no trace of the imperial examination system...

I have seen a lot of martial arts system, which is the examination system for selecting martial artists from the people.

The appointment of civil servants either comes from relatives of Shangguan, or from wealthy and wealthy gentry and landlords. Ordinary civilians can at most be minor officials, and the entire society is under a high-pressure rule!

If the population is not related to the level of administrative units under the rules of fate, the government's exploitation of civilians would definitely be even more cruel!

Compared to the harmonious life in the real world, the society in the game of fate is comparable to hell.

Of course, it is just a hell for the common people, which is good for the rich squire, unless the city where they are located is destroyed...

Tang Hongzhi looked at the cautious and cautious squire in the audience and couldn't help but sneer in his heart.

If it weren't for the sake of reputation, Tang Hongzhi would have searched these people's houses and exterminated the clan!

Whether in terms of morality or interests, it is reasonable to kill these wealthy gentry.

These wealthy gentry lie on the common people and get fat. Every household has low-level servants to protect them, so there is no need to worry about the tenant serfs rebelling!

However, Tang Hongzhi knew that he could not do that.

Once done, from now on, Tang Hongzhi will be in a position of opposition to the gentry class, which is the mainstay of society.

During the battle to defend the city in Qingping County, if the gentry of the big family contributed their efforts, each family would easily have nearly a thousand more soldiers to defend the city!

In the county town offensive and defensive battle, Tang Hongzhi can use the transformation method to make up for this crisis of class opposition, but what about attacking higher-level county towns?

It is impossible for not even a purple general in the county city. Once a purple general appears, Tang Hongzhi's conversion method will immediately fail.

Moreover, the gentry and wealthy families in the county are undoubtedly stronger. If all the gentry and wealthy families unite to take out all their strength to defend the city, it would be impossible for Tang Hongzhi to face several times!

This is what Zhao Tuo and Li Xiuying repeatedly reminded Tang Hongzhi.

In this world, the battle for hegemony must not push the gentry class to the opposite side, otherwise the whole world will become its own enemy!

The gentry class in the county is called a large family, the people in the county are called a wealthy family, and the people across regions are aristocratic families!

Of course, in today's chaotic situation, the aristocratic families have long transformed into local vassal states. According to rumors, one of the major reasons for the collapse of the Tang Dynasty was that it triggered the fuse because it wanted to collect power from the aristocratic families.

This is why Tang Hongzhi did not use a knife against the rich gentry in Qingping County.

However, not using a knife does not mean that you cannot quarrel. If the local gentry class wants to save their family wealth and life, it is a routine operation to pay military expenses to new forces.

Now the self-proclaimed governor in the domestic city has extorted the gentry class a lot when he first entered the domestic county.

Although the gentry class has a strong power, it is still a mess. As long as it is not forced into a dead end, it will not resist the warlords and vassal states by force.

In fact, many vassal states are now supported by the gentry class. By granting the gentry class privileges, the vessal states let the gentry class plunder the people's wealth, and then the vassal states take a large sum of money from it to support the army.

This is a win-win model...

All the people suffer are the vast majority of civilians.

It is also the fundamental reason for the large gap between the rich and the poor in society.

Once the gap between the rich and the poor in a country is too large, it means that there are problems in the system of the country itself!

The proportion of the middle class is an important basis for determining whether a country's society is healthy.

Of course, Tang Hongzhi is not the Virgin, so he would not care about the dire straits of a group of NPC civilians.

"This seat needs 1000 silver for military expenses to ensure everyone's safety."
Chapter completed!