Please ask me to be the emperor

The Liyang City God's Temple was bustling with people.

A young man in short brown clothes was waving a wooden stick, and he was using the stick to punish an old man in brocade.

After he hit it, everyone shouted "Hello", which sounded very happy.

"Does it hurt?" After the young man finished beating the cane, he couldn't help but ask the old man's head.

"It hurts!" The old man responded miserably with tears streaming down his face.

"Why didn't you know the pain when you hit me?" the young man couldn't help but ask.

"Back then you beat me with a stick, but now you're just paying back one or two!"

After saying this, the young man turned around, put down his stick, and took out an awl.

"No, no, don't!" The old man was frightened to death and struggled to get up.

Unexpectedly, he was held down by the young man, and an awl was stabbed into his thigh, which made him bleed and scream.

"Does it hurt?" The young man sneered, "Now that I know it hurts, why did you stab me with an awl in the first place?"

"Now I'm just following the city god's order to ask you back!"

After everyone had finished taking revenge, they put a rope around his neck and took him out to parade in the streets. While whipping him, he forced him to shout: "Master, you must not be as vicious as me, or else you will Such retribution!”

By the time the parade was over, the old man was already so angry that he couldn't help it.

In this way, most of the slaves took back their bonds of sale and left the master's house.

Everyone ran around to celebrate and cheered.

But those gentry and ladies could only look angry at the house that was almost robbed, and then they went to fetch water, cook and eat by themselves, without anyone to serve them anymore.

"No, there's no one to serve you at dinner?" Zhang Shun couldn't help being shocked when he heard this.

He originally thought that as a noble person in the world, with beautiful wives and concubines, he lived a life like a god.

But if it comes to ordinary eating, drinking, and having to be served, then Zhang Shun is a little uncomfortable.

As a result, he never expected that a gentleman or lady from an ordinary county town would be so "fastidious" and would lament that there was no one to wait on her when eating!

"This" Wang Duo listened to Zhang Shun's remarks and carefully thought about it. On the basis of making him understand that he was a bumpkin, he tried not to hurt his self-esteem.

"The land of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Yangzhou has been prosperous since ancient times. There are countless wealthy families with fields ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of hectares. It is beyond the comparison of our northerners."

"Among them, there are gentry, wealthy merchants, and those who keep slaves and maids in their homes, ranging from hundreds to thousands."

"Some are cooking, some are prostitutes, some are housekeepers, some are gardeners, some are housekeepers, and so on."

To put it bluntly, even these rich people have money, and even the slaves at home need to be sorted into different categories.

Some of them are responsible for cooking in the kitchen, some are responsible for tailoring, some are responsible for singing, dancing and opera, some are responsible for weeding, planting and cutting in the garden, and some are responsible for managing daily affairs on behalf of their masters.

It is almost the same as the system of the imperial family in the capital, except that after Zhang Shun entered the capital, everything was simplified, which is not a big deal.

"In this case, why did these slaves rebel?" In the world, injustice usually results in rebellion. Zhang Shun, who was born as a rebel, certainly would not think that these people rebelled against their master because they had rebel bones in the back of their heads.

"This... Your Highness also knows that the same rice feeds all kinds of people. Some masters are more kind and righteous, and some... some are mean... and mean. As a result, some narrow-minded villains will hold grudges in their hearts... "Wang Duo said with a smile.

"Villain?" Zhang Shun glanced at Wang Duo doubtfully.

"They eat their master's food, drink their master's food, and take advantage of their master's power to show off their power everywhere. Now that they have the opportunity, they dig out the trivial things in the past and backfire on their master. Isn't that an ungrateful villain!" Wang Duo! explained again.

"That's not right!" Zhang Shun also had a good temper. After hearing Wang Duo's words, he was not angry but laughed, "Since they eat from the master's family, drink from the master's family, and rely on the master's family's power, how dare they rebel against the master's family? of?"

"Aren't they afraid that if they lose food, drink, and power, others will take advantage of them?"

"This..." As soon as Zhang Shun said this, Wang Duo was stunned.

"Your Highness, please forgive me for speaking frankly, you are so high above the temple and don't know the sufferings of the people!" Seeing that he was a kind-faced person, the "little bowl" couldn't help but boldly answered.

"To be disrespectful, my previous slave's family was also an ordinary family."

"My old father is a scholar who has never been successful in his life. His family also opened an embroidery shop, which is well-known in Suzhou City."

"Unexpectedly, two years ago, my father fell ill and passed away, leaving only my mother and daughter to depend on each other."

"As a woman, it is inconvenient for me to show my face. All affairs in the house are entrusted to the care of domestic servants."

"Unexpectedly, in just two years, these dog slaves deceived and manipulated me, and the embroidery shop that was making a lot of money every day turned into a... turned into a big hole that owed more than a thousand taels of silver! "

"My mother was so frightened and angry that she couldn't afford to fall ill. I... I had no choice but to end up in Zhangtai..."

Speaking of sadness, "Xiaowan" couldn't help but burst into tears.

It's really pear blossoms with rain, smelling sad and seeing tears.

Zhang Shun's heart softened when he heard this, and he couldn't help but want to hold her in his arms and comfort her.

However, Wang Duo, the "light bulb", was always there, so Zhang Shun had to give up.

"Does the young lady have their deed of prostitution in her hand?" I never thought that when Wang Duo saw Zhang Shun looking at him, he would ask for advice from him, so he couldn't help but take the initiative to stand up and ask.

"Yes!" "Xiaowan" wiped his tears and replied a little embarrassedly.

"That's good!" Wang Duo said indignantly, "If you are a slave for one day, you will be a slave for the rest of your life; if you are a slave for one person, you will be a slave for the rest of your life!"

"Miss, you might as well sell them to mean people, and there will be a mean person to rule them!"

"Wait, wait, what did you say?" Zhang Shun was stunned when he heard this, and suddenly asked.

"A slave for one day, a slave for the rest of his life, a slave for one person, a slave for the rest of his life?"

"That's right!" Wang Duo said matter-of-factly, "Since you sold yourself to your master, you can't leave your country. If the old slave gives birth to a son, he will naturally become a little slave; if the little slave gives birth to a son, he will naturally become a little slave..."

"Is this what you call a 'villain'? Your sages' books are all read into the dog's belly!" Zhang Shun couldn't help but cursed loudly.

"Your Highness?" Wang Duo, "Xiaowan" and "Big and Little Bian" couldn't help but be stunned.

It turns out that although Zhang Shun is a well-known "thief", he has always shown himself to be gentle.

Although these four people didn't know him very well, they had never seen him lose such a temper since they got along, and they were all confused for a while.

"Put aside those things that Confucius said and Yun said. You touch your own conscience and say, if a man is forced to sell himself into slavery, his descendants will also be slaves. What kind of benevolence, righteousness and morality is this? What kind of morality is this? The words of a saint?" Zhang Shun said angrily.

"If a saint says such bastard words, don't let such a saint go!"