MTL - The Reborn Lady is Farming-Chapter 20 freedom of speech

Fangzhu Zhang came forward to take Mu Shi and the others away and alerted the nearby merchants. Everyone secretly paid attention to it. Seeing that Fangzhu Zhang was connecting Mu Shi and Jiang Rongguo from Wenzhou, his face was a little ugly, but they also saw that he was following Mu Shifu. Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin beside the woman, although they don't know their identities, but they are dressed in fancy clothes and can invite the owner of the workshop, so it can be seen that they are not ordinary people.

  The merchants are definitely not satisfied, and they have to suppress their temper, just pretend they don't see it.

Those who are open-minded just frown and put it down, but there are also those who are narrow-minded and secretly hold grudges. If you know that Mu Shi's leather goods are good, they will wait for Mu Shi to take the initiative to accept the low price. The second time, they can buy Mushi's furs at a low price in the future.

  Qi Haoran was sensitive to good and evil, and felt malicious, so he glared back viciously, and those traders who showed dissatisfaction could only bow their heads.

   Qi Haoran snorted coldly and said to Mu Yangling, "Do you want to buy anything else? I'll accompany you."

   Mu Yangling glanced at his father and said, "We want to go to the grain shop."

  Qi Haoran estimated that it was still early, and said, "I'll go with you."

  Fan Zijin frowned, not knowing why Qi Haoran was with them, they had already repaid Mu Yangling's favor yesterday, shouldn't they go back to brother Xiuyuan at this time?

  Qi Haoran is full of heart to approach Mu Yangling, be good friends with her, and then ask her about kung fu.

  Although Mu Yangling felt that Fan Zijin had too much heart, but the other party was only a twelve or thirteen-year-old boy, so she didn't care much about him.

   Mu Shi was very grateful to the two teenagers and said, "Let's go, let's go to the restaurant. Uncle invites you to dinner."

   Only then did Mu Yangling realize that he was hungry, and nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, thanks to your help today, I asked my father to invite you to dinner."

Qi Haoran knew that their family was not good, so he waved his hand and said, "How can I ask you to invite me? Thanks to the cakes and pheasants and hares you gave us yesterday, we were able to support the county town. It was only a sentence just now, so let me invite you. you guys."

   did not wait for them to refuse, dragged Fan Zijin to choose a restaurant and went in, Mu Yangling and Mu Shi had no choice but to keep up.

   The four chose a window seat on the second floor. Qi Haoran asked curiously, "Aren't you farming? Why do you still go to the grain store?"

   "My family is a hunter and I don't farm, but I went to the grain shop not to buy grain, but to inquire about the price of grain," Mu Yangling said: "Now for the autumn harvest, we can only buy grain in the village."

  Fan Zijin smiled and said: "Unfortunately, we just came out of the grain shop this morning. Now the middle rice is one tael or three coins and one stone, and the low-grade rice is one tael of silver. I didn't pay attention to the others. Let's see what kind of people you want to inquire about."

   Fan Zijin saw that the Mu family's father and daughter were frowning, and asked curiously, "What? Are the food prices different from those in your village?"

Mu Yangling said with a stern face: "It's not the same, it's just too different. Before we came, my uncle complained to us that the price of food this year was too low, and several owners who went to the countryside to collect food only paid four cents and twenty dollars. Bawen, although it is not shelled, but the price is also very different, and the price of the grain shop in our town is also the same."

  Mu Shi said: "Grain is cheap and rice is expensive. This is the first time I have seen such a thing when I grew up. I went to the grain store to buy rice before, and I thought it was a border war."

  Mu Shi shook his head and stopped talking, but his heart was even more melancholy. The county town is the same as the town, and the uncle and their food will not be able to sell for a price.

   Mu Yangling was also a little worried. If the villagers had a difficult time, they would definitely not have a good time. They were all from the villages, and they would come to the door for help at that time. Would they help or not?

   Not to mention, Mu Yangling felt aggrieved when she thought about it. She took all the hardships of the farmers in her heart. She managed to get a good harvest but encountering such a thing, she was forcing everyone to a dead end.

Mu Yangling couldn't help complaining: "If it's just like this, it's fine, it's a big deal that everyone will not sell food, but this year's foot money has gone up in price, and it is stipulated that only silver money can be paid, not food, do you not? The food has to be sold too.”

   Qi Haoran asked curiously, "What is foot money?"

  Fan Zijin was also curious.

Mu Yangling rolled his eyes and said, "I don't know about the money. Every year to pay taxes, I need to transport the tax and grain to the capital. That is the money. If you don't pay the money, you have to take it to the capital to pay it. From here to There are two thousand miles to the capital, and it takes half a year to go back and forth, not to mention the expenses on the road, so..." Mu Yangling shrugged and said, "Understood? Fees must be paid, otherwise the government will not charge you. If you don’t pay the tax and silver, the government will seize your wealth and exile your entire family.”

   Qi Haoran and Fan Zijin opened their mouths wide, and Qi Haoran exclaimed, "How can this be so? Didn't the sage say that it is necessary to give lightly and cheaply?"

Mu Yangling sneered, "You really believe it, if the sage really wanted to pay less and less money, he wouldn't include the township market and the village's grass market into the taxpayer ranks. In the past few years, the city fee was also collected, but the Taizu did not have these fees when he established the dynasty."

   "A Ling." Mu Shi called his daughter in disapproval, "Going out is at the door, be careful."

  If this was the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, Mu Yangling would not dare to say such a thing, but this is the Great Zhou Dynasty.

   even engraved this point on the tablet, and now the tablet is erected in front of the palace gate of the capital's Lin'an House.

Speaking of this, Mu Yangling felt very funny. When the royal family and the court fled south, there were still people who took the inscription in a panic. After the palace of Lin'an Mansion was completed, the inscription was erected in front of the palace again, just like A big mountain was on the emperor's head.

Therefore, three years ago, the Yuan family army recovered the lost territory and was transferred to the south by the emperor's suspicions. As a result, Jingzhao Mansion, Fengxiang Mansion, and Lintao Mansion were all lost. The front line was pushed south to Xingyuan Mansion. Shui, and even more scholars wrote and disseminated articles scolding the emperor and the traitorous officials in the court. The emperor huddled in the palace and did not dare to say a word.

   Mu Yangling, who was only six years old at the time, had just come into contact with books in this world. It was the first time he heard people yelling at the emperor in a teahouse. The yamen sitting next to him even agreed, which scared Mu Yangling's little heart half to death.

   What about the legendary Mo talk about state affairs?

  Mu Yangling found that the freedom of speech of the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty was even greater than that of modern times.

But it is strange that in the great week of freedom of speech, no one has ever said that the emperor should be brought down. Even if everyone scolded him for not doing well and listened to what the traitor said, no one had ever proposed to change the emperor. Dangdang.

   Mu Yangling could not help but sigh about the good luck of the Great Zhou Emperor.

   So Mu Yangling was never afraid to say these words outside, and at this moment she pouted: "What I said is the truth, and everyone said it."

   Mu Shi lowered his head to eat vegetables and tea, leaving his daughter alone.