Jeju.

It has a large population, important transportation location, mountains and lakes, and an economically developed state.

This is also the hometown of the two saints Qu Meng, and the most prosperous state!

Even the people of this state are very humble and polite, respect talents and learners, and attach great importance to those who read.

Therefore, every three years, the scholars who went to the Zhongzhou imperial capital to participate in the imperial examination were the most scholars and the number of scholars passed by the emperor. Even a powerful "Ji Party" was formed in the court.

but……

Even so, the bandits and rivers in Jeju, and the strong men and road bandits are the largest among the ten states in the world.

Since Zhou Ming and others entered Jeju, they had only been hiking for more than 600 miles along the way, and they had encountered five or six groups of scissor thieves. There were seven or eight people, and there were dozens of people who wanted to extort money and do business without money.

However, these thieves did not get any advantage, but were beaten by Li Dazui and the eight soldiers of the clan, making them cry and call them.

Zhou Ming asked these thieves curiously, why did they put the good people in the mountains and fields and act as thieves and beheading business, and aren’t they afraid of government pursuit?

These thieves who knelt down and begged for mercy explained the reason for him. In fact, they didn’t want to be the thief, but they couldn’t survive without doing these business!

The royal grain tax that needs to be paid here is too heavy, because most of the land is in the hands of the gentry and landlords with deep roots and lush forces. In order to complete the tax collection task, the officials at all levels exploited the self-cultivated farmers who honestly farmed the land. They originally had two dou of imperial grain, and they sent two stones, as well as the captain tax and various miscellaneous taxes, as well as the various corvee labor force transferred by the gentry and landlords. The burden of the self-cultivated farmers was extremely miserable.

So, will the tenants who farm the gentry landlords be more relaxed?

After all, Jeju is the place where the two sages of Qu Meng were born, and it is a place where benevolence, righteousness and morality are discussed, sacrifice their lives for righteousness, and know etiquette when the granaries are full. The land rent collected by the gentry and landlords who advocate Qu Meng's way should not be too high, right?

Sorry, generally 80% and at least 70%! It is almost unheard of below 60%. If there is really a landlord who only charges 60% of the land rent, he will definitely be able to create a big news here.

Zhou Ming sneered: "This is the so-called Confucian song Meng method, hypocrisy, cruel inside and out, full of benevolence, righteousness and morality in his mouth, and his stomach was full of men and thieves and prostitutes!"

After releasing these thieves, Zhou Ming also asked Li Dazui to give some copper coins and asked these thieves to go to Haiping County, Qingzhou to find job opportunities. A steel factory has just been built there. There is a lot of demand for coal miners and miners. It is a bit tired, but the salary is very generous. After working for five years, it is no problem to build a brick house and marry a wife...

The thieves left gratefully. As for whether they would go to Haiping County, thousands of miles away, Zhou Ming was not sure. The choice was in their hands, and that was all he could do.

Set off and continue to set off!

One must pass through the mountain, three more bandits stopped everyone.

"Hao!"

"I open this mountain." The tall and thin bandit on the left said with Park Knife.

"I planted this tree!" The short and mighty bandit on the right shouted with a knife.

"I want to live from now on." The bandit in the middle had a scar on his forehead, and the leader dressed in a posture.

"Leave it and buy wealth!" Two bandits on both sides shouted at the same time.

"Big Mouth, throw away the copper coins of Yizheng to them. It's too late. I'll climb over this mountain early and find an inn to rest." Zhou Ming, who didn't want to waste time, said.

Li Dazui took out a few strings of copper coins from his pocket and put them in front of him for a while. After thinking about it, he strung the rope with the least copper coins and threw it at the feet of three bandits and said, "Hey, I'll reward you for your usual money, and let the road go, grandpas still have to rush."

The bandit leader looked at the copper coins on the ground, looked at Li Dazui, who was like a black tower, swallowed and said, "Give us all the money in your pocket, and we will let you go."

"Shameless!"

Li Damu was furious, and his python's thick arms raised the bandit leader like lightning, staring at him fiercely, "You dare to hit grandpa's idea of ​​having money for dinner?" He shook his arm, and the bandit leader fell to the ground first.

The bandit leader coughed twice, his eyes were red, and he hurriedly got up and shouted to his two subordinates: "Tiancongxing, Tianqiaoxing, Bu Sancai Star Formation! Let this guy taste the power of our three-star formation!"

"yes!"

Three bandits surrounded Li Dazui together, raised the Pu sword in his hand, and formed a mysterious formation. The momentum also changed a lot, and it seemed to have become much more powerful.

However, five seconds later, three bandits who were photographed flying were lying on the ground and vomiting blood. The bandit leader even spat out a mouthful of bloody teeth and collapsed and shouted: "Military advisor, save me quickly! We have met a demon who is even more powerful than Lu Bu among the people. The Sancai Star Formation was broken by this demon!"

puff!

Zhou Ming, who was standing aside and seeing this scene, almost couldn't help laughing. These bandits are so funny. They are also the Three Talents Star Array, among them, Lu Bu... Isn't this his setting in "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms 108 Stars"? In the comics, it's okay for everyone to have fun, but in reality, there are people who play cossplay?

After asking the clan soldiers to catch the three bandits and interrogate them in detail, Zhou Ming almost felt ache in his stomach. It turned out that the leader of the bandit in this "Tiangang Village" was named Shishiyu Song Yi, the military advisor, and was named Zhiduoxing Chen Yong. There were 108 men and women in the village, known as 108 stars. Moreover, the 108-star Tiangang formation set up was sounding within a radius of hundreds of miles, and even the officers and soldiers surrounded and suppressed by the government did not dare to underestimate them.

But I didn't expect that the current situation of this mountain pass, which was only three stars in the past, could allow passers-by to pay the toll obediently, was broken by a group of demons.

"Take me to meet your leader and military advisor, take me to see the so-called Tiangang formation." Zhou Ming wanted to play with these funny bandits.

The bandit leader lit up his eyes and said bravely: "Boy, don't seek death by yourself. The 108-star Tiangang array, without our three stars, will indeed reduce its power, but it is not something that you can resist with the physical mortals like you. Be obedient and hand over all the money you have. If the uncle is happy, he may let you wait."

"What's the point of being useless? Lead me in the way!"

Li Dazui slapped him with a palm and stuttered and coughed. He could only stare at Li Dazui with annoyance, thinking that he would definitely teach him a lesson later!

In front of the village gate.

"The Tiangang Formation, swords and weapons are everywhere, and water and fire are invincible. The world is invincible! The stars of Tiangang Village, kill me!"

A thin military advisor with long beards and gray-white Taoist robe, swaying bells, commanding more than 100 bandits holding weapons such as plain knives, wooden sticks, hoes, etc., surrounded Zhou Ming and others with great momentum. Then, in less than three minutes, these bandits were all carried by Li Dazui, who was three meters long and had a tree trunk as thick as a bowl, swept backwards, and the ground was filled with sorrow.

The bell in the bandit military advisor's hand fell to the ground. After a moment of stunned silence, he shouted in surprise: "The demon is a demon, a demon, and the demon who cannot even deal with the Tiangang formation! We will stop!"

"Arrang a few good rooms and ask someone to prepare some good wine and food. We plan to spend one night in this village and leave tomorrow." After patting the shoulder of the slightly injured village leader Song Yi, Zhou Ming took a few people into this simplified and dilapidated village, and chose a few houses with better conditions, so he could only stay for one night.

At the dinner party, after a while of discussion, I learned that the leader who captured their parody today was Tian Zihua, the author of "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms 108 Stars", the leader Song Yi was extremely embarrassed. Military advisor Chen Yong was stunned for a moment and suddenly sighed to the sky: "I said why did the Tiangang 108 Star Array be defeated so miserably? It turned out that I had met all the gods, gods, the masters of the stars, and the Tiangang Array. How can I be defeated in front of the gods? How can I be defeated? "

The bandits suddenly realized that no wonder, no wonder they were defeated, this is the reason!

There were also several bandits in the hall who were originally unwilling to be convinced. After suddenly learning that they had offended Lord God, they trembled one by one, knelt on the ground, begging Lord God to forgive him.

Zhou Ming had a black line. These bandits were brainwashed by the story of "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms 108 Stars", and the military advisor was the same. They were all immersed in such a deep way. Could it be that they really regarded themselves as stars in the sky?

The next day, after Zhou Ming and his group left Tiangang Village, the leader of the village Song Yi not only sent a team of people to escort him, but also sent a large number of messengers to inform the surrounding villages and asked them not to cause trouble for the "Sheng of Zihua". Therefore, Zhou Ming and others did not encounter a group of bandits on the next thousand-mile itinerary.
Chapter completed!