Reborn Tianlong: I practice martial arts for immortality

Not only did he not receive effective treatment, but when he returned, he was beaten up by the town's thugs.

Jiang Weichen knew with his ass that those gangsters were being ordered around by someone.

How many officials can there be in a town? They all know each other and are greedy together. Who would bother to interfere and make it difficult for themselves to get along in the group?

At the beginning of this year, Mr. Liu came to the Jiang family again last year, and the price was raised again, to six taels of silver per acre of land.

He also said that although they had sold the land, they could become tenants in his house and still have enough food and clothing without any loss, which made Grandpa Jiang Dagui almost agree.

Jiang Weichen, who was standing nearby, quickly interrupted, "I don't know if they're full, but some of them are practically skin and bones."

The housekeeper didn't expect Jiang Weichen to be able to think about these things at the age of six, and immediately retorted: "That's because they are lazy and don't work, so where do they get food?"

Jiang Weichen glanced at the housekeeper with disdain. They were all from the same village.

You can see them everywhere you look. If you ask around, you will know what tricks they use.

Although there is still wasteland outside the village, it has been reclaimed. However, the yield in the first few years was too low, and taxes had to be paid according to the normal per-mu yield.

As long as the land can support the family, no one will naturally be willing to do that kind of thankless work.

But Mr. Liu is different. He has connections and deceives his superiors and subordinates, so his family does not have to pay taxes on the newly reclaimed land.

Therefore, they never stopped reclaiming wasteland, which resulted in too much work for the tenants, much more than families like the Jiang family who could barely make ends meet and still have a little surplus food each year.

There is already enough work to do, but Mr. Liu doesn't treat me as a human being and is trying to compete.

Those who worked the most did indeed eat their fill, and were even given some tips as an example.

But as for the rest, I won’t let you starve to death, but I won’t be able to feed you enough either.

If you don’t have enough to eat and don’t have enough physical strength, you can’t beat others. If you can’t beat others, you won’t have enough to eat, and this will lead to a vicious circle.

Even so, Mr. Liu was still not satisfied. While he was reclaiming wasteland, he was also coveting the fertile land in the hands of the villagers. He was simply not a human being.

Chapter 4: The world is difficult

Seeing his grandfather's hesitation, Jiang Weichen said, "Grandpa, we can't sell it. We can still make a living now, but if we sell the land, we can only work for others. If we want to have enough to eat, we have to obey our master like a dog."

Jiang Dagui hesitated for only a moment and was not prepared to agree.

Many people sold their land, and in the past few years they were able to rely on the dozens of taels of silver to feed their families and keep them warm.

But when the money is all gone, you will have to live a life worse than that of cattle and horses.

There are quite a few of them in the village. At the beginning, they were very proud of themselves and took the initiative to lobby for Mr. Liu.

But within two years, when the money was all spent, the more glorious it was at the beginning, the more miserable it would be later.

He wasn't that short-sighted, he was just a little shocked when he heard his grandson's words.

He never expected that this obedient grandson who had never cried or made a fuss since childhood would have such knowledge.

It’s just a pity that no one in Xinghua Village can read except Mr. Liu’s family.

Even the village chief knows a few of them, but not all of them, only a half-baked one.

Someone once asked the village chief to teach his child how to read, but he wrote a few words incorrectly and was ridiculed by the Liu family.

The village chief was so ashamed that he never taught his children to read again.

And he didn't have the conditions to send Jiang Weichen to study at the primary school in Lianhua Town.

Over the past six years, Jiang Weichen has understood the world. Although he also knows that studying is a shortcut to changing his destiny,

But he didn't tell his parents and grandfather about it because it would make things difficult for them.

The characters of this era are still traditional Chinese characters, which have many strokes and are written with brushes and various types of calligraphy, making them even more difficult to recognize.

Although Jiang Weichen had studied for more than ten years in his previous life, he did not study literary history. Without anyone to teach him, he really could not recognize it all.

But Jiang Weichen was not in a hurry. For people of this era, studying was the only way to change their destiny.

But for Jiang Weichen, who has gained more than twenty years of experience in the future, studying and becoming an official is not the only way.

But he is too young now and his understanding of the world is very limited.

Although I studied history in my previous life, I only knew the general idea, and history mainly focused on famous people.

And now he is at the bottom of society, which cannot be summarized by a few simple words in history books.

So for the past six years, he has been hiding his incompetence. Apart from some particularly childish behaviors, he behaves just like other children and does not show any signs of being different from others.

A child prodigy from a wealthy family is truly a child prodigy. For ordinary people like the Jiang family, the reputation of a child prodigy will only attract the jealousy of others.

However, the Jiang family could not provide shelter, so Jiang Weichen never showed too much.

If he hadn't seen his grandfather hesitate this time, he wouldn't have said anything to advise him.

Being a tenant of a landlord means not only more work, but also restricted freedom.

At least leaving Xinghua Village requires the consent of the host family, which Jiang Weichen cannot accept.

When he gets older, he will definitely go out. How can he be confined to Xinghua Village? However, in this era there are bandits and human traffickers. He still needs to be strong and have some ability to protect himself before leaving the village.

"Butler Liu, I'm sorry you've made this trip in vain. My Jiang family's few acres of land are not ready to be sold yet." Jiang Dagui said to Butler Liu who was sitting opposite him.

Butler Liu's face looked a little grim, and he said, "Mr. Jiang, you should think about it carefully. You can come to me anytime when you figure it out."

After saying that, Butler Liu turned around and left the Jiang family.

"Alas, greed is the key. The Liu family already has so much land, yet they are still not satisfied."

After Butler Liu left, Jiang Dagui sighed and said.

Not hearing his grandson's response, he could only sigh helplessly and said, "We have refused for three consecutive years. I am afraid we will have to hand over more grain during this autumn harvest.

If this continues, we won’t even have enough food to eat, let alone save any. "

Jiang Weichen also sighed in his heart. In his previous life, he learned from a book that the Song Dynasty was the richest dynasty of all.

Now I can see for myself that he is indeed rich.

We can see from Mr. Liu's family that they are just landlords in a small village, but they are very rich.

He lived a life of luxury, lived a life of plenty, lived in a large estate, and even traveled in carriages and sedan chairs.

The dogs in his family were all well-fed and didn't even bother to pay attention to the shit they saw. This shows how bad his behavior was.

As for the ordinary people like them? Those who have land can make ends meet in this Jiangnan water town for now.

But many of those who have no land have been oppressed and exploited to the point that they are as thin as bamboo poles.

This is in the Jiangnan water town, a land of fish and rice. You can imagine what it is like in other places.

And this is not the end of the dynasty. The Song Dynasty was only established for 112 years.

It is no wonder that the Song Dynasty had the most uprisings and rebellions among all dynasties. On average, there was at least one uprising almost every year, regardless of its size.

What a fucked up world! At this moment, Jiang Weichen truly understood the cruelty of the saying, "There is no idle land in the world, yet farmers still starve to death."

Just a few words tell the whole story of the miserable life of poor peasants in ancient feudal society.

If I choose to study and become an official in the future, I might try to make a change if I have the ability.

But all of this will have to wait until you grow up.

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Chapter 5 Jiang Dagui passes away

The gaps between fingers are narrow, but time is even thinner. It slips away inadvertently, and the autumn harvest is over in the blink of an eye.

Grandpa guessed correctly. After the autumn harvest, the clerks who came to collect grain taxes increased the amount again, and it was more than ever before.

Grandpa was very angry and started scolding the clerk. However, how could the Jiang family be any match for the clerk and the Liu family who supported them?

Moreover, when the people fight against the officials, they are naturally at a disadvantage.

Jiang Weichen looked at the neighbors who were watching the excitement nearby and felt a little sad for the people of this era.

These people were also charged more grain taxes and were also oppressed and exploited.

They should have stood on the same front with the Jiang family, but they stood by and watched the fun instead.

Just because the Jiang family paid more taxes this year than they did, they suddenly felt much more balanced.

It was as if all the anger and frustration from paying extra taxes had been released.

My grandfather’s voice of resistance against injustice was drowned out by the other party’s unreasonable demands.

My grandfather was so angry that he fainted, and my father carried him back home.

After waking up, grandpa was in a depressed state, no longer smiling, and fell seriously ill.

The only doctor in the village who knows Chinese medicine is in the Liu family.

Father Jiang Dashan went to the Liu family and begged for mercy, but Mr. Liu refused to allow the doctor to come and see the patient.

He would only agree if the Jiang family sold the land to him.

My father returned home to discuss selling the land with my grandfather, but this time Jiang Weichen did not try to persuade him.

But in the end, my grandfather refused, saying that even if he was cured, he would not live for many years.

There is no need to sell the land for him and let the family lose the source of livelihood.

The next day, my father and my second uncle took six taels of silver and four hundred and eighty-seven copper coins that the family had saved over the years, and went to Lianhua Town without my grandfather's knowledge to seek medical treatment.

The mother sat at home holding her younger sister Xiaohe, who was not even one year old, with a confused look in her eyes.

The voice of Second Aunt came from the next room.

Jiang Weichen listened and found that most of the people were complaining that the old man could no longer do heavy work and was eating free meals at home, so why was he wasting money now?

The second trial was a bit petty and greedy, and Jiang Weichen had known about it in recent years.

Jiang Weichen didn't think there was anything wrong with his complaint.

After living in this world for nearly seven years, Jiang Weichen has long understood that it is not advisable to use the concepts of future generations to measure current values.

After all, in the future, it is easy to support a person who has no labor unless he suffers from a serious illness.

Now, supporting one more person who is unable to work may completely bring down a family.