The Emperor's uncle loves me! My paranoid wife, don't run away

The truth came out more than ten years late.

But fortunately, it's here.

Compared to most people, Shen Hean is lucky. In real life, most people are trapped in the "it's not that there is no retribution yet" mentality for their entire lives and cannot wait for the truth before they die.

Liuzhou died tragically, and Liu Mianmian was sent to Liushenmen. As for Shen Rumeng, she is now Fengyi, and Shen Hean has no right to sentence her. Her future will be decided by the prince.

Since then, Shen Hean fell seriously ill, and the sky above the entire Shen Mansion was shrouded in haze.

……

Sanchuan County.

The cold and merciless snow has almost melted.

They came from the sky and then merged with the earth.

The wild grass with strong vitality secretly poked its head out of the ground under the cover of night. Spring is coming.

Luo Mian handed the clever Mu Shan to Shen Runing, leaving Yun Shui alone.

This trip to Sanchuan was a secret operation and no one knew about it.

Perhaps because Sanchuan is close to Changle Kingdom, Luo Mian felt the customs and culture of Sanchuan that were different from those of Kyoto as soon as he stepped into Sanchuan.

The shouts in the town were the same as usual, but the atmosphere was a little weird. Large numbers of men, women, old and young gathered in the streets and alleys. The crowded crowd seemed to be pushed forward by the tide, and there were faint shouts.

Among the group of people was an old farmer, whose face was covered with wrinkles left by the ruthless passage of time. Although his shoulders were hunched, his eyes were firm.

There was a woman in plain clothes, holding a child in her arms, sobbing softly. On the cloth banner in her hand was written eight big words "Heaven's grace is not enough, and the people are suffering from the cold", which fluttered in the wind.

Wherever the parade went, the surrounding shops replaced their doors and windows, and the vendors huddled in their rooms in fear.

Only a few elderly vendors at the street corner were hesitating, still holding unsold goods in their hands.

The whole street was filled with noise and tension.

It was the first time that Yunshui saw such a grand scene.

"Master, how dare they?"

"If they weren't so many people, they would have been beheaded long ago!"

Yes, why would they risk being beheaded and their entire clan being exterminated by marching in the streets?

Is it really as the rumors say?

Is it really just a simple yearning and envy of Changle Kingdom? However, for thousands of years, hasn't the people been seeking to live and work in peace and contentment? As long as they can survive, which common people would give up their good life and revolt?

Why would they, who had been influenced by Confucianism throughout their lives, rise up in protest?

Luo Mian spoke slowly: "They must have suffered a great injustice."

From time to time, whispers could be heard from the crowd.

"If this continues, we farmers will have no way to survive..."

"For five years in a row, what kind of bullshit rule is 'abandon fields and plant mulberry trees'? Do we deserve to be harmed like this?"

"If the imperial court continues to suppress the situation, something terrible will happen!"

……

Luo Mian looked at the crowd that was getting closer and closer.

At the front of the team, a middle-aged man held up a cloth banner, his voice hoarse but powerful.

"Heaven's grace is not enough, and the people suffer from the cold!"

"Give me back my home and my fields!"

Every word hit the air like a hammer, filling the streets with echoes. The people behind him responded one after another, bowing their heads in agreement, and the sound waves continued to grow stronger as the team moved forward.

Luo Mian and Yun Shui were standing next to a meat stall. The vendor was a sturdy man in his forties with an ugly scar at the corner of his jaw.

"Is this your first time here?"

Luo Mian looked at Scarface and nodded: "You are right."

Since there was no business at the moment anyway, Scarface couldn't help but start talking.

"Looking at the way you two are dressed, I can tell at a glance that you are from Kyoto, right?"

"I don't know what hobbies you rich people have. What's there to do in this shabby place?"

Luo Mian laughed and said, "What's going on with this parade? Aren't they afraid of being arrested by the government?"

Scarface lit his pipe, took two puffs, and then exhaled a puff of thick smoke.

"Being caught? It's good to be caught! The government will provide food for you!"

"Hey, they are all poor people. They are all honest farmers nearby. A few days ago, the 'Agricultural Regulations' came down again, and the 'abandoning fields to plant mulberry trees' policy is still in place. If you ask me, the officials who issued this regulation are stupid!"

"They don't care about the lives of us lower class people! Food is the most important thing for the people. They are forcing farmers to farm. Isn't this a joke?"

Yunshui scratched his head and asked in confusion.

"What if you have to farm?"

Scarface laughed.

"Then there will be soldiers on horseback who will trample your crops under the pretext of 'chasing thieves'."

"If you step forward to stop them, you will be trampled to death under the horses' hooves."

"This is the sixth year. At the beginning, the farmers believed in the court, but in the autumn, they couldn't sell their mulberry leaves! If they couldn't sell them, they had no money, and if they had no money, they couldn't eat!"

"From the second year on, many people stopped planting mulberry leaves, but without exception, all the crops were trampled to pieces."

Yunshui was a little bit unbelievable, how could this be?

Luo Mian's face looked a little bad.

"So how do parades like this usually end?"

Scarface pointed his pipe at a place not far away.

"That's right! Our County Magistrate Cao is here."

Luo Mian looked in the direction that Scarface pointed, and saw a man in a navy blue county magistrate's uniform running towards the middle-aged man who was leading the group, sweating profusely.

Magistrate Cao looked to be in his forties or fifties, a little hunchbacked, short and thin.

"Ah Man, why are you bringing people out again?"

"Didn't we agree that I will report to the court and you should not make any moves first?"

The middle-aged man leading the parade was named Li Man, and everyone called him Aman.

"Magistrate Cao, you have said this many times in the past few years! But in the end you always put it off until we have no choice but to plant mulberry leaves!"

"We have lived here for generations! If this continues we really won't be able to survive!"

The people behind Aman also echoed him.

"Look at Changle Country? Then look at us? How can there be such a huge difference in the same land?"

"I love my land, I love my Tianyan country, but who loves me?"

"How can we survive like this?"

……

Magistrate Cao waved his hand, signaling people to be quiet.

"Fellow villagers! We must put the overall situation first! Tianyan's agricultural innovation is also a good thing! You grow mulberry leaves and sell them to silkworm merchants, and the merchants use the silk produced by the silkworms to sell to the clothing bureau, so that a closed loop is completed!"

Aman shouted, "Bullshit! What the hell is a closed loop? We can't sell it at all! Where is the loop!"

The crowd was outraged.

Magistrate Cao wiped the sweat from his forehead.

"Listen to me! This is agricultural reform, and everything is difficult at the beginning! We must face the challenge! We must take a stand! We must put the overall situation first!"

Aman's eyes were red.

So many years of life experience have told him.

"Taking a stand" means not intending to be fair.

"Putting the overall situation first" means that even though you know it is unreasonable, you still force it.

It's ridiculous.

postscript:

When Liu Mianmian was a child, just when she could understand what was said.

Liu's mother: "Come on, Mianmian, eat more soy products, so that you can grow well and marry into a good family!"

Liu's mother: "The Liuzhou family in the village is well off, so you should marry him in the future!"

Mother Liu: "Mianmian, you have to learn how to please men, okay?"

Liu's mother: "Although Liuzhou is good, I tell you, sincerity is not important. If you meet a better man, dump Liuzhou, okay?"

Is Liu's mother wrong? From Liu's mother's perspective, she is not wrong. This is her lifelong experience.

The husband is the sky and the wife is the earth. The sky and the earth cannot be reversed, and women must depend on men.

Obey your father before marriage, obey your father after marriage, obey your son after your husband's death. This is Liu's mother's lifelong "belief". From this we can see that for them, marrying a good man is more important than life and death.

The idea that she can do anything to get a good man has been deeply rooted in Liu Mianmian's mind.

Where is Liu's father?

Father Liu stood together with the endless feudal mountains, oppressing and devouring the mother and daughter.