Chapter 137 Complaints Conference
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"The sky is full of stars and the moon is bright. Liangshan holds a meeting to complain and resign the grievances. The evil corrupt officials and landlords, the blood and tears of poor people..."
More than a thousand civilians, under the escort of the Liangshan Infantry Army of both capitals, just entered the cafeteria, when more than a hundred Liangshan soldiers and civilians sang "I Let's Speak to the Suffer" by Li Yan.
The song seems to have a magical power that makes people unable to help but talk!
After all the men sat down, Zhu Fu, who was wearing simple clothes, walked forward and said straight to the point: "I will preside over the first Liangshanbo complaint conference."
“What is the complaint conference?”
Not only were the civilians brought by the official army confused, but even the vast majority of Liangshan soldiers and civilians looked confused!
After a pause, Zhu Fu continued: "The so-called complaint meeting tells about corrupt officials and landlords. Landlords are those who own a large amount of land, rich households, and the poverty and pain caused to our poor people... I will first throw a brick and a jade for everyone, and talk about the poverty and pain I have suffered. My surname is Zhu and my name is Fu. I have opened a small hotel outside the west gate of the county town. I get up early and go to bed late every day to welcome and see you off. Everyone has to smile when they meet. Over time, laughter has become my instinct. The villagers call me a smile tiger. I finally make a few hard money and have to be exploited by those corrupt officials..."
Zhu Fu was talking about his own personal experience, and there were indeed some things that were difficult, but his experience could not resonate with these farmers, at least it could not resonate with most farmers. Therefore, Zhu Fu's complaints were very average.
Seeing all this in the corner, Li Yan immediately gave Tao Zongwang a wink and signaled Tao Zongwang for a while.
Zhu Fu didn't expect that his careful preparation would be so ordinary!
He sighed inwardly, and Zhu Fu said unwillingly: "Who brother still wants to complain, please come on stage."
Zhu Fu is very smart!
Since the end of the war, Li Yan gave up all other important things and organized this complaint conference himself. He keenly realized that this complaint conference was very important, and then realized that his opportunity had come. Then he came to Li Yan and volunteered to help Li Yan do this complaint conference.
Previously, Zhu Fu ran around for the Liangshan Mountains to earn money for Li Yan Huangfu Duan, Kong Hou and the Qu family (earned not long ago) got the reward they deserved. Li Yan didn't think much about it, so he handed over the complaint meeting to him and told him in detail how to do it.
After listening to Li Yan's story, Zhu Fu quickly realized that if he could complete the complaint conference, he would definitely be able to enter the core of Shuibo Liangshan.
Therefore, despite the tight time, Zhu Fu made careful preparations based on his own situation.
pity!
Zhu Fu's world is too far from the world of these farmers!
After Tao Zongwang came to the stage, he rubbed his hands, then gritted his teeth and said, "My name is Tao Zongwang, a native of Guangzhou. I was a farmer. My family has been farming for six lifetimes. I don't gamble or drink, and I work every day, but I'm so poor that I don't even have a decent piece of clothing. Until I was thirty, I can't even get married to a wife. I don't understand why, why those wealthy families in the family do nothing for the whole year, but I just eat well and wear good clothes. I can't figure it out if I have dozens of concubines and maids living in the eldest son's village...
Four years ago, there was a severe drought. I went from morning to night to pick up water from wells a few miles away every day. But after autumn, I still couldn't get a few stones of food. The Xiang Man Wai, who ate people and didn't spit bones, didn't understand my hardship at all. He took more than a dozen farmers to my house to take away all the few stones of food and didn't leave me a way to survive. That would be fine. He also wanted to pay off the debt with my sister. If I could still tolerate this, I wouldn't be a man. I slapped the Xiang Man Wai to death with one shovel, and then wandered into the world..."
Speaking of the past, tears couldn't help but shed tears in the corner of Tao Zongwang's eyes, but he still didn't know it and still talked about his suffering experiences endlessly.
Unlike Zhu Fu, what Tao Zongwang, who was a farmer with a good roots and a red peasant immediately resonated with those civilians!
As soon as Tao Zongwang finished speaking, someone said:
"I will never forget the severe drought four years ago. Under the pressure of Dahu Wang, I had to sell my daughter to the dentist before I paid the rent!"
"Your family is pretty good. At least there is a daughter selling it. My family doesn't even have people who can sell it. Three people starve to death!"
"Sometimes I can't figure out why I'm as tired as a dog and live like a dog?"
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The people of the people said one by one, and soon after, the people who had truly sad experiences cried!
At this time, a civilian husband couldn't help but raise his hand and said, "Can I go up and say a few words?"
Zhu Fu hurriedly said, "Come up!"
The man came to the stage and cried before he opened his mouth.
After crying for a while, the man cried and said, "My father gave more than 200 sheep to Shen's family in the village. They can breed more than 100 sheep a year, and each one can only sell two guan. However, Shen's family only gave my father five guan a year, and they don't care about food. In addition to herding sheep, my father also had to carry water to do other work every day. His waist was so tired that he fell ill. Shen's family forced his father to go up the mountain to cut trees. When he cut the second tree, his father was exhausted and chopped his legs with an axe." Speaking of this, the man cried even harder. After a while, he continued, "My father fainted."
After that, when the villagers carried him down from the mountain, they were almost dead. My father wanted to drink a bowl of strong porridge, but there was no rice at home." At this point, the man hugged his head and cried for a while before continuing: "My mother went to Shen Dahu's house to borrow a bowl of rice. Shen Dahu said: 'Save food to feed the dogs and can still guard the door. What's the use of giving you food?' When my mother came back, my father died and couldn't eat a hot bite until he died. He didn't even have a coffin to be buried." The man could no longer say anything and started crying...
At this time, the man was crying on the stage, and hundreds of people below the stage followed him with tears!
Seeing that the heat was almost done, Li Yan walked onto the stage, then patted the man on the shoulder, and said, "Do you know why your family lives so miserable and Shen Dahu's family live so comfortable?"
The man sobbed and asked, "Why...?"
Li Yan said: "You go down first, I'll tell you why this is."
After the man went down, Li Yan said: "Everyone comes from the mountains and the north, but they all suffer the same suffering, they are all frozen, hunger, humiliated and beaten. This proves that there are two kinds of people in the world, one is oppressed, and the other is oppressed, and we are the people behind! What is exploitation and what is exploitation? Let me give you an example. I have a brother named Song Wan, who is from Dagang Village, Shanxia. There are 4,244 acres of land in their village, of which 2,729 acres are all from Qian Baozheng's family. Among the more than 200 households in the village, more than 160 households are tenants of Qian Baozheng's family. People of these more than 160 households are like you, who cannot eat enough, wear warm clothes, do more, and sleep less, but Qian Baozheng's family can get it without work. The whole family eats fat and has a few dozen maids at home. Why is that?"
After looking around, Li Yan gave the answer directly: "The reason why they can live so luxuriously but everyone is even hard to survive is because they shamelessly exploited the fruits of labor we created..."
Chapter completed!