In a world where there are more men than women, I am spoiled

Chapter 959: Tenant Farmers

"Okay, then let's go find Qianqian, shall we? I even agreed to have dinner with him before going to bed! You don't know, during the three days I stayed with Yunsheng, I ate outside his house while he was vomiting inside...vomiting...it really affected my appetite."

"Look, I've lost weight."

Xingchen smiled as he watched Su Yueyao touching his cheek, then reached out to hug her from behind, tightly pinching the flesh on both sides of her waist.

"My wife, have you lost weight? Why do I feel like there's a little more flesh here?"

"Xingchen!" Su Yueyao heard this and slapped his hand angrily, with a resentful look in her eyes.

"It's good for a wife to be a little fat, especially..."

Su Yueyao followed Xingchen's gaze and saw her own breasts. She became even angrier: "Xingchen, you...are a hooligan!" After saying that, she pushed him away and got off the bed.

"My dear wife, I was wrong. You have lost weight, lost weight, lost all the weight."

"Humph!"

As Su Yueyao just took the coat in her hand, Xingchen took it with a smile and started to put it on her.

After the two of them stayed in the room for a while, they walked towards the study together.

Halfway through the walk, I saw Chen Jingshu walking in a hurry.

"My wife, Mr. Xingbian."

"Why is Jing Shu back at this time?" Su Yueyao asked curiously.

"My dear wife..." Chen Jingshu glanced at Xingchen, not knowing whether to say it or not, and was a little hesitant.

"What are you looking at the stars for? If you have anything to say, just tell me."

"My wife's husband was informed by the Ministry of Revenue about the land reform and was sent out to investigate the specific number of tenant farmers. There were deaths in several farms in Fengdu, including tenant farmers from the Gongyang family's farms."

"Human life, a tenant farmer died, right?"

"Well, today some tenant farmers broke into Fengdu City and sued their masters in the government office for beating and killing them."

Su Yueyao paused when she heard this: "The tenant farmer is not a member of the master's family. How did the tenant farmer enter the city if he has not changed his nationality? And how did he get to the government office smoothly? And if he has not changed his nationality, can the master kill the tenant farmer?"

"My wife asked the right question, so there must be someone behind this tenant farmer. However, when my people arrived, the person was killed in front of the government office. Moreover, this tenant farmer was registered as a tenant farmer of the Gongyang family's farm to the west."

"Wife, let's go to the study! Gongyang should investigate this matter. The farm to the west of Gongyang family is too large and there are many tenant farmers. It will take us too long to find out the details." Xingchen said.

Su Yueyao nodded and walked towards the study.

At this time in the study, Yang Qianxun and Gong Yang Ruoyu were also discussing land reform.

When Su Yueyao, Xingchen and Chen Jingshu came over together, they greeted them with some surprise.

"Ayao, why are you here with Jingshu?"

"I just encountered this. Jing Shu, tell me what you just told me again!"

Chen Jingshu nodded and repeated what he had just said.

Gong Yang Ruoyu looked a little strange after hearing this.

"Jing Shu, are you sure that man is a tenant farmer of the Gongyang family?"

"Confirmed, the name and portrait are aligned."

"Let me go with you to the Dali Temple! The tenant farmers of the Gongyang family have lived in the mountains for generations, which are a certain distance away from each farm. The people guarding the farms are servants, not tenants. How can a tenant farmer walk out of the mountains and avoid so many servants?" Gongyang Ruoyu said.

"What? Why don't you let the tenant farmers guard it themselves? Why do you arrange so many servants to look after them?" Chen Jingshu was surprised.

"this..."

"Because the tenant farmers are lazy and don't take good care of the land, the servants we arranged before are responsible for supervising them, right?" Yang Qianxun said.

"That's right. A few days ago, I asked the people in the tribe to send more guards to watch over them and keep them safe. I didn't expect that someone would still come out?" Gongyang Ruoyu nodded and glanced at Su Yueyao.

"Ram, do you think someone would attack the tenant farmers?"

"I guessed a little, but the Gongyang family has too many manors and tenant farmers, so there are not enough guards. Someone still took advantage of the loopholes."

"It's great that you can think of this." Su Yueyao praised.

"By the way, isn't it common to have servants supervise the work?"

"It's not common because the farm is too big and there's a lot of land. Every family receives enough food every year, and the remaining little is the tenant farmers' own. There are usually only a few head of the family on the farm, and this is the case for all the farms of the Chen family." Chen Jingshu replied.

"It was the same with the Yang family before."

"Do you have any food for sale?"

"My wife doesn't have any. The grain production is not high. Apart from what our family uses, there is only a little grain left for the tenant farmers, which is enough for them to live on." Chen Jingshu said.

Yang Qianxun also nodded. It seemed to be the same when the Yang family was not defeated.

"No wonder the Gongyang family can sell so much grain every year. It's different when there's someone supervising them." Su Yueyao said with a smile after listening.

"My dear wife, I thought you would think it is inhumane for us to send someone specifically to supervise the tenant farmers!" Gong Yang Ruoyu said with a sigh of relief.

"No, because I also think that tenant farmers are lazy. They are the lowest class of people, not even slaves. It doesn't matter to them whether they work more or less. They have to hand in food every year and can only live on the little that is left."

"My wife is right."

"I'm actually a little curious. Did Fengluan Country have tenant farmers after its founding? Why are their status so low, even for women?"

"Ayao, I've read an unofficial history book. A few hundred years ago, there were no tenant farmers, only farmers. But because of wars and diseases, as the number of women decreased, the court began to raise the status of women. However, farmers were unwilling to do so, thinking that women were inferior to men and were useless. Why should they raise their status? It would give them an extra bite to eat."

"The farmers hoarded large amounts of grain and fought against the imperial court. A fierce battle ensued, and in the end the farmers were defeated. The empress at the time ordered that all farmers in the country be converted into tenants. Their land was divided up piece by piece by the aristocratic families, leading to the current situation."

Su Yueyao was speechless after hearing what Yang Qianxun said. She did whatever the court asked her to do. Why did she work so hard? Okay! All of them became lower than servants.

"Were all tenant farmers unwilling to raise the status of women in the beginning?"

"I don't know about that. I think some people are willing to do that! Nowadays, although tenant women don't have as high a status as commoner women, they will also be registered with the court. No master can kill them. If they die accidentally, the master will be punished."

"But the men they married were all tenant farmers. They married many and did not have to work on weekdays. They were all served by the tenant farmers."

"Okay! Gong Yang, you and Jing Shu go check first to see if the dead person is a tenant farmer or a servant. I think it is very likely that someone is targeting us and does not want the land reform to proceed."

"Wife, we will find out everything." Chen Jingshu said.

After that, Gongyang Ruoyu and Chen Jingshu left.

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