Chapter 195 The Chaotic Clan

Twenty days later, when the two thousand reinforcements and the one hundred village chiefs with experience in working and studying in villages and towns, as well as the ten clerks familiar with Jinping County drawn from the Qin and Han business system in Lingnan by Lu Zaiyi, arrived at Hong Kong Island, it had completely freed itself from the depressed atmosphere of April and started a new journey towards May!

Looking from the Carp Wharf to Hong Kong Island, the slightly flatter land on the island has become a training ground for the refugee troops.

But now they have a military number, the First Battalion of Hong Kong Island.

They wore fat coats temporarily transferred from the warehouse, waving standard spears and green swords in their hands, and under the leadership of the armor leaders, they trained hard one by one, and shouts came one after another.

"Morale is like a rainbow!"

"Indeed, such military spirit can be used."

Two students who had just graduated from the Political Affairs Hall stood at the bow and commented.

These college students, who still exuded the youthful atmosphere, along with the village heads who had experience in rural work, and the shop assistants who were familiar with Jinping County, were organized into small teams of dozens of people together with the soldiers and officers selected from the troops on the island.

Like tiny steel needles, they penetrated into Jinping County, a seemingly impenetrable fortress, and performed extraordinary work.

Watching the small boats rowing silently across the sea in the afterglow of the slowly setting sun, Weizhou, who was seeing them off at the dock, couldn't help but sneer. That day, he led his troops to attack Jintianwei, but unexpectedly encountered a big trouble.

Not long after arriving at the border, they were constantly harassed by villagers from villages and villages. The leaders of those villages had fought before and knew that the Keelung army was powerful in field battles, and they were absolutely no match for them.

So they relied on their respective village defenses, lined up the crowd within three arrows of the village, and contained the Keelung army passing by. When they encountered soldiers who were alone or lagging behind, they pounced on them like hungry wolves, biting them fiercely, bullying the weak and fearing the strong to the extreme.

Of the losses caused by the attack on Jintianwei, nearly three-fifths of the casualties were caused by these people.

In the plot described in Weizhou's apology document, this was a headache. If it weren't for the lord's assistance this time. Weizhou had already made plans to take out the villages one by one, bloodbath, and countless casualties.

"But now, I will play a struggle for the hearts of the people with you!" Weizhou looked at the direction of Jintianwei and muttered to himself.

May of the fifth year of Chongzhen.

The once prosperous Jintianwei was silent, and everyone lost their laughter.

The people of the five major families gathered in Deng Wentian's house again.

The atmosphere this time was much duller than the last time when Old Master Deng invited everyone to eat a hot pot.

"Though those foreign pirates have retreated from the island, there are still some scattered bandits roaming around the countryside. I don't know what those lawless people have done these days, and even the unfilial children of our clan have mixed with them. They fanned the flames and said some treasonous words that violated the ancestors!" The main reason why Grandpa Deng called everyone here was for this.

For more than a month, the Keelung rural work teams equipped with armed guards, led by the Qin and Han business guys who were familiar with the situation, were like swimming fish, shuttling between villages.

Their mission was to win the hearts of the villagers outside the village, at least, to make them not help each other in the future.

After hundreds of people worked hard day and night, a wave of public opinion called "evil wind" and "treasonous words" by the patriarchs of the five major families came out from various villages, and the situation seemed to be getting worse.

"Everyone has a field to farm, and each person gets ten mu, and all ten mu are excellent paddy fields!"

"Farmers have three knives on their heads, the rent is heavy, the interest is high, and the incense in the ancestral hall is indispensable!"

All kinds of discussions and complaints were heard by the elders of each family.

If these elders can't hold back, there will be more powerful and lethal things to come, which will be the key point of the conflict.

"Should the accounts of the incense money in the ancestral hall be made public for everyone to check? There is nothing wrong with honoring ancestors, it is what we should do, and no one is vague, but there should be a clear account between brothers, right?!"

"Back then, those who fought with others for water, fields, houses, and graves had medicine money when they came back. This time, we went to fight the pirates, but why didn't we see a penny from the dead clansmen? Isn't this bullying?"

These rumors were spread to the village through various channels without exception, making the people in the village feel that they made some sense.

The discussions on the streets were naturally reported to the clan leaders by their spies, and the clan leaders of the five clans were all panicked.

In the past, there were rumors, but they would pass after a while, and no one would really pursue them. But now at this critical moment, such a thing happened, and you can figure out who did it with your toes.

Not only the clan members, but also the small landlords who have some fields at home, hired a few long-term workers, or rented part of the land to the clan members to cultivate, the self-cultivating farmers who grow their own food, and the tenants who rented other people's land, all kept their eyes on the actions of the clan leaders.

They neither benefited nor suffered losses, but the benefits of publicizing the accounts outweighed the disadvantages for them, and many people wanted to take advantage of this juncture to set such a rule.

"The money for incense in the ancestral hall should really be published in the accounts. Every year we collect so much money for incense, but we don't see any good things being offered to the ancestors in the ancestral hall! How much can we spend on apples and bananas, even curtains? It was all changed when Emperor Wanli first came to the throne! How many years has it been?" This is what everyone said.

"The rent and interest should be lowered! Now the rent in the provincial capital is 25%, and the interest is 1.5%, and it can't be done! We have more than half the extra!" This is what the tenants want statement.

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"Brothers of the same clan are not allowed to charge interest on house sales. The official family doesn't charge it, but our clan does. It's not that poor. Everyone pays a lot every year!" These are the small landowners and farmers. words from the heart.

"What's more, some of them actually said that if they were not given a clear explanation, they would go to the ancestral hall to cry and worship their ancestors, and then go south to the sea to make a living. Tell me, isn't this an insult to our ancestors?" Bai family The clan leader was a little helpless and complained to the other four clan leaders about his difficulties.

"Your family is pretty good. Look at my Kong family. I'm not afraid of the jokes of you guys. Someone has already invited those Keelung pirates to my home and treated them like honored guests! They didn't even listen to me, the leader of the clan!" Kong Yiji, the head of the Kong family, angrily complained that iron cannot become steel.

"What a shame those pirates still pretend to be good people. They help the unscrupulous people work in the fields every day and tell them how to harvest more food and harvest more fish and shrimps. If they were in Keelung, What's happening to their land, what a treasonous thing to say!"

"There is such a rebellious son in your clan. Why don't you open an ancestral hall to deal with him? Give them all the pig soaking cages and sinking ponds to deal with these unscrupulous descendants. I wonder who else dares to go with those pirates?" Close!" suggested the head of the Shen family.

After hearing this, the fat on the Peng family patriarch's fat face trembled twice, and he rolled his round eyes and looked at everyone, "Our five families can still hold on, but those other small Jinping families can't hold on. I I heard that the Ling family has disclosed its accounts and reduced the interest rate."

After hearing the latest situation brought by Chief Peng, the chiefs of the five tribes were all frightened.

Should rents and interest be reduced or not? This is a dilemma.

Once it falls, it will definitely offend the wealthy members of the clan and affect its own interests.

If you don't surrender, you are standing on the opposite side of the vast majority of people of your own race.

In today's troubled times, it is not fun to offend the whole family, young and old.

As for the disclosure of accounts, it will really cost you your life. There are countless tricks in it.