Liu Sanjie, who instigated the uprising, was executed at Xiangshan, where the Family Zhang was entrenched.
Lord Zhao personally tried the case.
The Family Zhang hated Liu Sanjie. After she was executed, he spent money to buy the corpse of this female bandit leader. He skinned her whole body, hung her head and badly mutilated body at the entrance of Xiangshan county as a warning to others.
When Lord Zhao saw it, he said, "Family Zhang, how cruel!"
But because it was a renegade's corpse, he could only kill one to warn a hundred. In the end, he had nothing to say.
Originally, he wanted to be lenient, but this Liu Sanjie, not only did she resist those exorbitant taxes, she also resisted the basic method of collecting rent.
According to Liu Sanjie, as long as it was collecting rent, it shouldn't be. Under the heavens, from the imperial family to the ordinary officials, scholars, and scholars, most of their families relied on rent to live.
It's just that some earned more, some earned less.
If she opposed those fabricated exorbitant taxes, that's fine, but she actually dared to say, "The Emperor is the head of all bandits in the world." She said that those who relied on rent to live and didn't work were all bandits.
If she wasn't a renegade, then who was she?
Her death was not to be regretted.
After Liu Sanjie died, Lord Zhao mobilized the troops and horses to suppress the last wave of unruly people in Guilin.
When Liu Sidi heard about this matter, he also didn't dare to go to Xiangshan to collect Sanjie's corpse. The Family Zhang said that whoever dared to collect the corpse would be unlucky.
He could only cry for three days and then continue to live his life.
It's just that he originally wanted to rely on hard work to start from scratch, but he couldn't do it.
He wanted to chop firewood, but the firewood belonged to someone else. He wanted to collect rent.
He wanted to fish, but the lake belonged to the landlord, so he wanted to collect rent.
Reclaim wasteland? Wasteland also belonged to the landlord.
He wanted to buy cattle and his own iron farm tools, so he had to borrow from the landlord at a high interest rate.
He borrowed from the Qi family at a high interest rate.
He worked hard and did all kinds of farm and fishing work. When the next year's harvest came in, the interest from the loan sharks would compound. The little money he saved in the previous year would be gone in the next moment.
In the end, he had no choice but to sell the few acres of land he had saved up to the Qi family because of his debts.
Lin Daiyu and her nephew finally received news about Sanjie. On their way to Xianglin County, they visited Liu Sidi. Unexpectedly, as soon as they arrived at the village, they were told that Liu Sidi had already jumped into the river and died.
Qi Daojun sighed, "Sigh, poor fourth brother. What a pity, Fourth Brother. He's just too lazy. If he did a little more work, how could he not be able to repay his debt? "
Lin Daiyu pursed her lips and said word by word, "You can forgive his debt. You don't have to charge usury. "
Qi Gouzi interjected, "If he forgives everyone's debt, then who will forgive my family's debt? Lord Zhao had said that they should legally collect rent, debts, and taxes. Miss, don't think that it was us who killed Fourth Brother. We didn't want to. My family isn't like the Family Zhang's family, who resorted to vigilante justice. We're only bringing Fourth Brother to the yamen for the masters to judge. " Fourth Brother was so scared that he found an opportunity to jump into the river before reaching the yamen. "
As he spoke, he wiped away his tears and sighed.
The girl's expression immediately turned cold. Her lips trembled and she couldn't speak for a long time. In the end, she left in a huff.
When they were about to reach Xiangshan County by water, Lin Ruoshan stopped her from getting off the boat.
However, Lin Daiyu had already seen something hanging on the city gate from afar.
The girl's face was pale. Her teeth chattered as she asked softly, "… What's that? Uncle … What's that? "
Lin Ruoshan didn't answer.
Silence was the answer.
Her vision turned black and the world spun. She leaned against the side of the boat and vomited.
Seeing that she was about to vomit, Lin Ruoshan didn't comfort her. He only asked, "Do you still want to get off the boat?"
"Yes." This delicate girl, who felt uncomfortable even when she saw her own blood, gritted her teeth and squeezed out a word from her burning throat. Salty tears flowed down her cheeks and into her throat.
The next day, the Family Zhang discovered that Liu Sanjie's body was missing. No one knew who took it from the city wall.
That night, Daiyu had nightmares.
She dreamed of the badly mutilated body that she took down with her own hands. She saw the pair of lifeless eyes.
However, this was another beautiful dream. Because she also dreamed that Sanjie taught her how to pick tea and how to swim.
In the end, everything was burned in the fire. It dissipated into the wind and into the water. Just like how Sanjie once said to her while picking tea, "If I die, I want to become the mountain of Guilin, the water of Guilin, the wind of Guilin, and the lark of Guilin. I want to always sing Guilin's songs."
As she said, Sanjie curled her lips, "I don't want to be buried in the ground. Who knows when the place I'm buried will become the land of the rich. Wouldn't I be aggrieved to death then? "
When she woke up the next day, the blue sky of Guilin was above her head. Below her was a small boat that was slightly swaying on the blue waves of Li River. Her hair was soaked with tears.
The water of Li River by the eaves of the boat was still as clear as a mirror, and the water surface was still covered with mist.
Above the blue waves, water birds flew past, and white mist rose from the smoke waves and drifted in the air.
Just like the day she left.
The mysterious figure in the white mist. Wearing heavily patched farmer's clothes, he disappeared into the thin fog in the distance.
Hidden forever.
When Lin Daiyu left, she deliberately went to the villages of Yongfu and Xiangshan to take a look.
The landlords were the same as ever, and the peasants were the same as ever, impoverished and destitute.
In the fields, one of the Zhang Family's tenant farmers fell down with a big belly disease. His scrawny wife hurried to help him up. And he was already dead.
He lived a year longer than last year.
A friend who was close to Lin Ruoshan told them, "That's right.
Lord Zhao stayed in Guilin for a year to quell the civil unrest. When he left, he was finally at ease. He said to Lord Wang, who succeeded as the magistrate of Yongfu County, "Last year, Knowledge Executor and Family Zhang went too far. The people starved to death and fled. No one plowed the land, and no one could be found alive to pay the taxes. This official checked the accounts of Yongfu County. This is benefiting their private family and damaging the public family. Don't you know that the saints said that the people need to recuperate? Look at this year. If the people survive, they can continue to pay taxes and rent for the next year. Otherwise, if there is a civil uprising, the imperial court will not be able to collect an inch of rice. This official will hold you responsible! "
Lin Daiyu thought, "Look, Sanjie. One was forced to death by Family Zhang, while the other was poor for three years or even ten years. In the end, she died of exhaustion and starvation.
This is the so-called honest and upright official. The honest and upright person that I once had high hopes for. "
She wanted to laugh coldly, but in the end, her eyes were full of tears.
For the rest of the winter, Lin Daiyu did not leave Guangxi with Lin Ruoshan. She coughed in the cold. With Lin Ruoshan's help, she collected and organized the folk songs to strengthen the family. She wrote a song book for the illiterate folk singers.
When she finished writing the song book, on the coldest night, she wrote the opening of the famous 《Song Immortal》 with tears streaming down her face: "Guangxi has a singing immortal, surnamed Liu, named Sanjie."
On the boat, she held a brush. Under the dim yellow light, she looked out. In the night of Li River, there was the faint sound of waves.
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