Chapter 248 Anti-war

"Qinghe, oh, Daoer is not close. Liu's room is really hard. Hurry up and get on the sedan chair." The sedan chair man said and pressed down the sedan chair and helped Liu Lin pick up the curtain of the sedan chair.

"I still have something here. You'd better find someone to help me send it to Guihua Tower. I really can't take this, and it's impossible to put it on the sedan chair and become a burden for your two brothers." Liu Lin pointed to something by the roadside and said. In addition, this thing is very important. You'd better find a proper person to do it at a reasonable price.

The sedan took a look at the things on the roadside and said, "Then you have to wait for me for a while. I'll explain it first. Otherwise, once your thing is taken away by the roadside, it will be delayed. You're not in a hurry to go back to Guihua Tower, are you?"

Liu Lin thought for a while and felt that it seemed useless to return to Guihua Tower in a hurry, so he simply nodded. Don't worry, just help me find a good person first, and then take me to Guihua Building. If you go back later, you will miss the lunch, and you won't be busy as soon as you go back, and you can have a peaceful meal. Liu Lin felt a little hungry and dizzy. He couldn't sit still in the sedan chair and gasped on the edge.

"Then wait a minute." The sedan chair turned around and walked to the other side of the road. At this time, the curtain of the sedan chair was not put down. Although Liu Lin leaned against the inside of the sedan chair, he stared at things on the roadside with good eyes.

After about a bit of incense, the sedan chair man came over with a woman, which made Liu Lin a little surprised. Is it possible that the woman in Yanggu County has also begun to make a living with this contribution?

"Liu Account Room, I've found someone." The sedan chairman spoke first.

"Oh, but why... I can listen to this thing. I'm afraid that this... this sister-in-law can't carry it." Liu Lin repeatedly thought about the wording, and then said something suspicious.

"Alas, Liu Jianfang, you probably don't know much about our current situation in Yanggu. Except for the relatively normal center of Yanggu County, young and middle-aged men in marginal areas are basically no longer at home. They are either already conscripted or afraid of the upcoming conscription. The conscription document of the imperial court has been issued for a while, saying that it must collect enough money before the New Year. Speaking of which, your second master is responsible for this matter, but I don't have to avoid you in the account room. This woman's husband is afraid of conscription to hide, and I'm sure you won't tell the second master. However, you can rest assured that although you are a female, this ordinary woman may not be worse than a man when it comes to working. You have no problem with this thing. The sedan chair said.

I'm afraid I want to tell the second master, but I can't tell him now. Liu Lin medited in his heart, but he didn't say it. The imperial court has been suppressing rebellion for years and conscription for years. There are indeed some people in the local area who are not living. Believe that it is good to give birth to a man, but it is better to give birth to a daughter. If you give birth to a daughter, you have to marry a neighbor, and if you give birth to a man, you have to bury it with Baicao. It seems that what the ancients said is true. No matter how righteous the war is, no matter what kind of heroes will appear in the war, for ordinary people, war is like a bloody mouth that can only devour countless people's current happiness and hope for the future.

Liu Lin thought about it and felt a little unable to take care of himself. Maybe fatigue made his mood a little fragile. He gently rubbed his cheeks and said to the woman, "Try it first to see if you can move things?"

"Master, yes." After listening to Liu Lin's words, the woman went to the roadside and easily carried up her things. It should be noted that Liu Lin, as a man, would grin when doing the same action. It was not until this time that Liu Lin believed what the sedan chair man said.

"Well, all right, just put it down. Yes, it's still there." Liu Lin commanded the woman to put down the things again, and then he thought about it. This sister-in-law, I don't know if your home is far from here?

"It's not far. It's only half the time to walk from here." The woman replied.

"Well, what about me, there is some money." Liu Lin took out a piece of silver from his arms and weighed it for about five taels. He reached out and handed it to the sedan chair man standing aside and motioned him to give the silver to the woman. What about you? Take this thing home first, and then, when it gets dark at night, you go out to have a look. If you see the red star in the east, you can carry it and send it to the Osmanthus Building. You remember, this thing can only be given to me. My surname is Liu.

The woman took the silver and was very excited. Sir, why did you use so much silver? You'd better take some back."

"Sister-in-law, just take it. It's really hard for you if the man is not at home. It's right for me to help. After all, I don't lack this money. Liu Lin is warm-hearted and can't bear the suffering of others. Although five taels of silver is not important money for Liu Lin now, it is not enough to be taken out and given away.

"Liu's account is righteous, just take it." The sedan chair next to him is also persuading.

"Then I'll accept it. Thank you, sir. Your things will definitely be delivered tonight." The woman bowed deeply. It can be seen that this woman has read some books, and there is some difference between her hands and words with those vulgar women.

It seems that this world has changed the lives of many people, and they have to accept this changed collective fate. Whose fault is this? Or, whose tragedy is this? Liu Lin didn't know that after many contacts and conversations with Zhang Shu, Liu Lin was feeling that the world in his eyes was undergoing drastic changes. He began to look at the suffering of others from a compassionate perspective and tried to think about a little bit of reason and regularity from it, but unfortunately, this kind of thinking not only brought him Long-term pain, nothing else has been gained.

Looking at the woman's back disappearing in the corner, Liu Lin's stomach also rose violently. The feeling of hunger tortured him. Speaking of which, Liu Lin had not felt so hungry for many years, so he was a little strange. Although reason told him that it was just a simple hunger, his heart was difficult to suppress. The panic.

"Let's go." Liu Lin said to the sedan chair.

"Oh, look at me, how can I forget this?" The sedan chairman patted his head and quickly came over and raised the sedan chair with his companions.

When Liu Lin's body hung in the air, he began to feel a strange sense of security. He doesn't know where this sense of security comes from. In a word, it makes him feel very comfortable. Maybe it's because it's getting closer and closer to the Osmanthus Building. But suddenly Liu Lin thought of a question, so he asked, "I don't understand. You sedan chairmen are the most powerful men, but you wander on this street every day and do hard business. Why doesn't anyone force you to recruit?"

"You asked a good question." The sedan chairman took a heavy breath and sounded to adjust his breathing. Because we pay taxes. You probably don't know that all the sedan chairmen in Quanyang Valley have to be handed over to the government tax. There are three main things that the county government is pressured by the state government. They are: money, food, and then people. These three are indispensable. In fact, at the beginning, the conscription was not to recruit farmers. Who will cultivate the land? However, the number of conscriptions asked for later increased, and the government had no choice but to start farming labor. It is winter, and you don't feel it when you leave the county. If it is spring, summer and autumn, you will see that 80% or 90% of the people working in the field are old, weak, women and children. Fortunately, except for some times, farming is slow. Men who are not hardcover can also do it. Although it is a little more difficult to collect grain, on the whole, it can still be requisitioned. The sedan chair man exhaled heavily and could hear it. As he spoke, he lifted the sedan chair, which made him a little unbearable.

Liu Lin is trying to stop the sedan chairman. Needless to say, but the sedan chairman continued: "But the issue of 'money' is not good. For example, you can't let a woman carry the sedan chair. Although our work is inconspicuous, the tax paid by the sedan chairman in Quanyang Valley is probably worth the monthly. Five or six osmanthus buildings, such a large amount of income, it is impossible for the government not to want it. If we are arrested to become soldiers, we will not be able to pay the money in the next quarter. Of course, you said that you can only catch part of it, such as grabing a quarter of the sedan chair to fill the number. But don't forget that we sedan chairs are a group and basically the same interests. As long as the government catches a sedan chair to join the army, the other sedan chairman will immediately put down the sedan chair and quit. We have the strength, and there are also people who eat, and we can go to other state capitals to sell this strength. Once Yanggu County loses all the sedan chairs, dignitaries can only rely on their own two legs to go to the street. You know, few families in Yanggu County have their own sedan chairs. So now you understand that the so-called recruitment targets those who can't provide the necessities of the government. However, alas." The captain of the sedan chair sighed, which seemed to be endlessly sad. Now there are fewer and fewer people like this, but it seems that there are more and more wars. I really don't know when it will be peaceful. Maybe one day, I, two hard-hanging people, have no place to work hard. There is no second choice except to go to the battlefield to be cannon fodder.

Liu Lin felt very surprised when she heard the sedan chair man's words. He didn't expect that people under the status of a sedan chair have so many thoughts about the imperial court and the government, and more importantly, these thoughts are all reasonable. Yes, if the war continues, maybe one day, even Liu Lin himself will be forced to go to the battlefield to face the test of life and death.

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