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Chapter 1197 Unable to make ends meet

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    "It's extremely ridiculous!" Feng Baoyue rarely lost his temper. "These belong to the imperial court. The taxes they pay are getting reduced every year. How can they be said to be owned by individuals?"

    What she said is indeed true. Emperor Feng was worried about taxes from time to time, but he never said that he would force the people to take away food even if they starved to death.  She knew that her imperial grandfather was not such a person at all.

    "However, what this old woman said is not false. If it weren't for this, she obviously wouldn't be lying here in this situation.

    And Yu Qingzhi was not only worried because of this, she looked at the old woman seriously and asked seriously: "You haven't eaten anything these days?"

    Um?

    As soon as she said this, everyone looked at her in surprise.

    Yu Qingzhi is very calm, and any problem she can talk about is not trivial.

    The old woman also nodded, becoming more and more sad as she spoke: "Since last year, the local government has issued notices that all grain prices and salt prices have tripled, and taxes have also been tripled. We have resisted, but they  It is said that the official documents issued by the superiors are stamped with official seals in yellow cloth and black stamps. If they are dissatisfied, they will go to the imperial city to cause trouble.

    "How can we ordinary people go to the imperial city to cause trouble? We can only admit defeat."  But after working hard for a long time, no one had the energy to work, and the food they could hand over became less and less. In the end, no one could afford it at all.  Then those people took away our house and land and kicked us out.  "

    "Who kicked you out?" Baili Xingran heard such a sentence as soon as he walked in.

    He originally wanted to tell Yu Qingzhi that there was news from Qinghong Company.  Hearing these words as soon as he opened the door, he couldn't help but feel suspicious.

    The old woman didn¡¯t care who asked the question. Since these people saved her, she had also experienced life and death. Now she had nothing to fear and could just tell her all her grievances.

    "He's from the Cao Gang."

    Caobang?  !

    Hearing this name, Yu Qingzhi understood.  Before she came, she probably knew that Jiangnan had been infiltrated by the Cao Gang to some extent, but she had thought that no matter what happened, people from the government would come to suppress it, so that these villagers would not be reduced to this kind of land.  .

    But it turned out that she was indeed a little naive.

    "They would come down from the mountain to grab things from time to time. Originally, almost all our things were handed over to the officials. Once they came, we really had nothing left, and all the stored things were taken away by them. Originally, we had nothing left.  We ordinary people have worked hard for so long, and the little thing we got in the end is not enough to sustain us. After they came, they didn't give us any way to survive."

    Feng Baoyue looked the most excited. She couldn't see these things, and she had never seen such a barbaric existence.  These words broke all her previous concepts.  She was no longer afraid, and moved closer, sitting on the bedside with Yu Qingzhi.

    "Don't the officials care about it? This is obviously robbery!"

    "What?" The old woman suddenly sneered, her eyes dimmed again, and she gently patted a plate of children who were sleeping very peacefully. It seemed that this was the only way to calm herself down.

    "How many of us went to report to the officials, but they just came here as a routine matter. They just said that there was nothing they could do about the overwhelming number of people in the Cao Gang, and then left." She sighed, and she didn't know if it was true or not.  Thinking of something even more sad, his eyes turned red again, "If there was too much trouble, they would stop coming, and they would even beat up those who went to report to the police. This is how A Ling's husband next door to me was beaten to death.  ¡±

    ""

    For a moment, everyone didn¡¯t know what to say.

    Yu Qingzhi couldn't calm down anymore and hit the edge of the bed with her fist, "That's unreasonable! This is clearly someone from the government protecting them!"

    And Feng Baoyue was even more angry, so much so that he forgot that they were just secretly investigating: "I will go to the local magistrate and governor now to see who dares to tamper with my imperial grandfather's feet!"

    With that said, she really got up and wanted to walk out, but was stopped by Baili Xingran the next second.

    "What are you doing! Could it be that my noble princess and the others dare to harm me!"

    Baili Xingran tightly held his hand and pulled her back, fearing that she would do something in a fit of anger.

    "They don't dare to do anything to you," Baili Xingran frowned at her and said in a slightly aggressive tone, "But if you go there rashly now, even if you use your identity to suppress them, you have no actual evidence to prove it.  They have something to do with the Cao Gang, what can be done to them? Without evidence, even if the emperor comes, he can't arrest people easily."

    "" Although he was angry, what he said was reasonable.??

    Seeing that Feng Baoyue had calmed down, Baili Xingran's hand relaxed a little, but he still did not dare to let her go. He just calmly said to Yu Qingzhi and Feng Yanli: "The people from Qinghong Company are still waiting there.  It¡¯s better to listen to what he says first and then think of countermeasures.¡±

    Everyone nodded in agreement, seeing that the old woman had no idea, so they asked Qingying to stay here to take care of her, and then hurried to the next room to meet with the people from Qinghong Company.

    Lai Dezi was a manager of a local business. When he saw Yu Qingzhi coming in, he stood up and saluted.

    "What's going on here? Why is it related to the Caobang again?" Yu Qingzhi didn't talk nonsense and went straight to the topic after sitting down.

    The manager of the company did not dare to look at her or sit down. He stood there and explained: "Last year, after the old magistrate here resigned, a new magistrate came. As far as I know, it was directly appointed by the governor above."

    Yu Qingzhi understood that the governor did have this right.

    She did not interrupt the steward's words, but nodded and allowed him to continue: "After taking office, the magistrate suddenly said that the superiors would increase the tax and the price of salt and rice, and also produced a sealed imperial edict. The sudden increase in taxes, the surrounding areas  Naturally, the villagers could not make ends meet, and they had been making trouble for a long time to no avail."

    "Wait a minute" Feng Yanli interrupted him anyway.

    The steward glanced at him and saw Feng Yanli and Yu Qingzhi sitting together. He knew that this person had a high status, so he quickly lowered his head and did not dare to look again.

    Feng Yanli said with a cold face, "Are you sure that the edict was issued by someone from above?"

    But the steward shook his head, "No, I didn't see anyone coming down from the Imperial City."

    Falsely preaching the imperial edict?

    Good guy!

    "What does that have to do with the Caobang?" Yu Qingzhi asked.

    "Young people here have seen that both the prefect and the governor have visited Caobang's territory and brought a large number of boxes with them." The steward did not dare to hide anything and continued: "Whenever a villager comes to the prefect's Yamen,  That night, someone from Caobang would come in and out of the magistrate's house, and then the matter would become unresolved."

    "Collusion between officials and thieves." Baili Xingran came to such a conclusion.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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