Gu Jingyun accepted the seafood from the children, and the adults in the village felt relieved, and they gathered at Qin's house that night.

Gu Jingyun didn't go to bed early for the first time, and took Li Baolu to teach them how to scientifically set up fire belts.

Except for Zhang Dachui who was sweating profusely and couldn't understand, the others understood after learning it three or four times.

"Uncle Zhang, go back, call Zhang Liulang, and I will teach him again."

Zhang Dachui couldn't get what he wanted, so he got up and left.

At this time, the rice was not harvested, and it was the slack time for farming. After mastering the knack of using fire to open up wasteland, the villagers immediately devoted themselves to the activities of reclamation.

The wasteland near a village was quickly divided by everyone, and everyone almost fought for the wasteland.

When Li Baolu and Gu Jingyun went down to the field with a small hoe, they saw that the nearby wasteland had been cut out with firebreaks, and they could set fire to the wasteland only when Uncle Qin calculated the moment when the wind was the smallest.

Li Baolu said decisively: "We should stay at home and not go out when they burn the wasteland."

"Why?"

"poor air quality."

Gu Jingyun understood after thinking about it, "Ah, the dust is lifted into the air and the gas becomes turbid, it will indeed be uncomfortable."

Gu Jingyun tilted his head and thought for a while, "It's okay, I'll take you to the county seat when the time comes, we won't stay at home."

Li Baolu's eyes lit up, "Uncle is going to take us to the county seat?"

She has never been to the county seat of Qiongzhou Prefecture since she grew up.

Gu Jingyun shook his head, "It's not uncle, it's me," Gu Jingyun emphasized, "I'm the one who will take you there!"

"...Don't make trouble, uncle will go crazy."

Gu Jingyun glanced at her, and said: "I'm serious, when the time comes, we'll take the seafood that we dried at home to sell, get medicine for my mother, and buy some fabric for you and your aunt to make clothes."

Gu Jingyun had already remembered these things in his heart. The pills Li Bo gave his mother were limited, so he had to grab some urgent medicines for later use. After Baolu came home, she didn’t have a single new dress, and she wore old clothes brought from Li’s house. Aunt Maybe it's been a while since I made clothes...

Gu Jingyun, who felt that he was already a little man, naturally had to worry about his family.

Li Baolu always remembered their ages, and said rather speechlessly: "We are too young, we will kidnap them."

Gu Jingyun comforted her and said: "Don't worry, we are criminals, no one dares to attack us, not to mention that all the children in the village will go, we just follow them."

Li Baolu didn't expect that being a criminal would have such advantages, so she was speechless for a while.

Seeing that Gu Jingyun had made up her mind, she knew it would be useless to talk too much, anyway, Uncle Qin would never agree to such a thing, would he?

Who knows that Qin Xinfang agreed without thinking about it, and took out a money bag to Gu Jingyun, "This is silver, you can buy whatever you want, but you have small arms and legs, you have to plan what you buy. Bring it back yourself."

Gu Jingyun took the money bag, nodded steadily and said, "Uncle, don't worry, I won't waste money."

Qin Xinfang nodded in relief.

Li Baolu scratched her head in doubt and asked, "Isn't it your first time to go to the county?" She clearly remembered him saying that he had never left a village.

Gu Jingyun put away the money bag, and said indifferently: "It's the first time, what's wrong?"

"...It's nothing, I just think uncle has a big heart." Who dares to let a five-year-old child go to the county seat alone?

It's the first time!

Gu Jingyun didn't think there was anything wrong, so he found some time to talk to Zhang Liulang, "We're going to the county seat recently, are you going?"

At the end, he added, "If you go, I can help you bring half of the seafood into the city, on the condition that you help us get things."

The word "not going" swirled around on the tip of his tongue and swallowed, Zhang Liulang's eyes lit up and said: "I'll go back and ask my elder brother!"

Zhang Liulang rushed home like a gust of wind, "Brother, the sick man asked us to go to the city and asked us to help him carry his things. He is willing to help us bring half of the seafood into the city! Shall we agree?"

Zhang Dalang's eyes lit up, he patted him on the head and said, "You're so stupid, why didn't you agree to such a good thing? Hurry up and make an appointment with him."

Zhang Liulang turned around and ran away.

Gu Jingyun was calculating with his uncle the best time to set the fire, so as to determine the time for them to enter the city.

"The wind will be quite light tomorrow afternoon, and it will also be light at night, so it's a good time." Uncle Qin said, pointing to the results calculated on the paper.

"Then let's set off early tomorrow morning." Gu Jingyun turned to Li Baolu and said, "If you have anything to bring, pack it up tonight."

Uncle Qin asked with a smile, "Have you made an appointment with the friends who are going to the city?"

Gu Jingyun raised his chin and said: "The news has been released. I am willing to bring half of the goods into the city for them. As long as they are not stupid, they will follow me into the city."

What Gu Jingyun expected was right. Zhang Liulang shouted so loudly that many people heard it. Within a quarter of an hour, the remaining seventeen households in the village knew that Gu Jingyun wanted to go to the city. Then help someone bring half of the seafood into the city.

You must know that Gu Jingyun is a good citizen, and the taxes paid by good and criminal people are different when they bring goods into the city. Good people only need to pay 2% of the value of the goods, while criminal people have to pay 10%.

When the whole village heard the news, Zhang Liulang rushed from his own house to Qin's house and happily told Gu Jingyun that he and his second and third brothers were going to the county town, and children from other families also rushed to Qin's house, talking to Gu Jingyun, "I also If you are willing to help you get things, count them as part of my family..."

"And me, and me." A half-grown boy blushed and said, "I can still carry you and your little daughter-in-law, you are so young, you must not be able to walk for a long time, you have to be carried on your back. "

The other children glared at him one after another, thinking that he was flattering him, so they turned around and promised Gu Jingyun: "We can also carry you on the back, and we will help you carry the water bottle, drink water when you are thirsty, and eat dry food when you are hungry..."

Gu Jingyun was not at all happy to be courted so much by others, he said with a sullen face: "Okay, I promise you that each family will be half of the seafood, no one can have more, go back and prepare, tomorrow!" We'll set off early in the morning."

The teenagers cheered and ran home happily. This time they could pay a lot less tax and the family had another income.

Qin Xinfang, who witnessed the whole process, pursed her lips slightly and sighed: "The tyranny is fiercer than a tiger. The capital, Shandong and Shanxi have never heard that civilian goods need to pay taxes when they enter the city, but when they leave Shandong, the government affairs become more chaotic the further south they go. , and the survival of the people has become more and more difficult.”

"Qiongzhou is far away from mountains and rivers, and it is separated from the mainland by a strait. The exploitation is even worse. Even vegetable farmers have to pay taxes when they enter the city." Qin Xinfang shook his head and sighed, "I don't know how long it can go on like this."

Gu Jingyun kept a sullen face and didn't speak. Although everyone was flattering him just now, and there was a posture of all the stars holding the moon, he didn't feel uncomfortable at all. He didn't understand why he was uncomfortable, but after hearing Uncle Qin's words, he gradually felt uncomfortable. Come to understand, although these stupid people are annoying, they have been working hard to live, and no one has the right to trample on their will like this.

Those imported goods don't have to pay taxes when they enter the city, but because of the tyrannical government and corrupt officials, they have to take their dignity and put it on the ground for him to trample on things they shouldn't have paid for.

Although Gu Jingyun looked down on their IQ, he respected them. Dignity is the most inviolable thing in this world!

Like his uncle, like his aunt, or like his mother!

He pretended to sleep since he was a child and heard a lot of secrets. He knew that his uncle was exiled because of political failure, but he was not helpless. As long as he was willing to let go of his dignity, his ideals and persistence, most of the power would accept him.

But my uncle would rather be exiled to Qiongzhou than betray his beliefs and let go of his dignity.

It's not that my aunt has no way to escape, among other things, as long as a letter of reconciliation is needed, she can survive alone, but my aunt insists on following her uncle to Qiongzhou, a place where no shit is a thing.

The mother is a married daughter, and the Gu family is shameless, but if the mother is as shameless as the Gu family, it is still very easy to stay in the Gu family, even in the capital.

It's easy for villains to live, but they all chose to be gentlemen.

Because of dignity, people must have dignity when they live, and they must have ideals and persistence!

Don't the teenagers in a village have no dignity?

No, they have, even if their parents ask him for something, they still don't have much affection for him, and the biggest concession is to meet a reluctant face on the road to say hello, and to pick out one or two sea fish and give it to him when they go out to sea. To please, but the kind who can't even say a soft word.

But now, just because he said that he was willing to help them bring half of the seafood into the city, they all rushed to his house to please him.

The child who entered the second stage of middle school early was not happy at all. He asked confusedly: "Uncle, the world is so unfair, why don't they resist? Maybe it would be better to change to another emperor? The emperors of all dynasties have always practiced benevolent government. The people are resting and recuperating."

Qin Xinfang looked at her nephew helplessly and said, "However, wars are unavoidable even if the dynasty is changed. The people who suffer from the war must be much more than the people who benefited from the opening of the dynasty."

"Then is there a way to change the emperor without a war?" Gu Jingyun said: "It is best to change the emperor with another surname after the emperor is finished, so that everyone can live in it, so that the appearance of a stupid emperor can be avoided to a greater extent. Don’t be afraid of a foolish emperor, as long as the courtiers have the right to dismiss the emperor.”

Qin Xinfang couldn't stop laughing, rubbed his head and said: "Okay, just tell us about such whimsical things, and don't talk nonsense when you go out."

Li Baolu on the side blushed and held back her words, but her eyes couldn't help but look at Gu Jingyun brightly, feeling a burst of excitement in her heart.

Child, do you know that you are so advanced in thinking?

There is one emperor in one dynasty, one emperor with one surname, and those who are capable live there, and courtiers can remove the emperor. If this is replaced by a presidential system with a proper president.

It's a pity that my family Jingyun doesn't know what a president is, but it's just a title, and the emperor is not bad.

Li Baolu felt that he should be looked after in the future, lest he reveal such advanced ideas prematurely, and it must be known that pioneers generally do not live long.

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