Chapter 50: Roving Bandits
"Where did the roving bandits come from?" Chu Xun asked.
Li Shoutian sighed and said, "Aren't they forced out by those great lords."
The Kingdom of Jing has been established for so many years, and there are many rewarded Dukes and Marquises.
Decades of peaceful days have made these important figures increasingly arrogant and willful. I heard that the evil servants of a certain Marquis's family have forcibly occupied thousands of acres of fertile land in their hometown, and even the County Magistrate doesn't dare to manage this matter.
Many people encountered unjust matters in their hometowns. Either their farmlands were forcibly annexed, or they were forced by exorbitant taxes and levies to the point of not having enough to eat, and some even had their wives and daughters snatched away.
Their families were ruined and perished, and they had no choice but to leave their hometowns and flee for their lives.
With many people gathered and nowhere to eat, when they got desperate from hunger, they started stealing and robbing.
"The suffering of the common people, could it be that His Majesty the Emperor can't see it at all?" Li Shoutian had a look of incomprehension.
Doesn't everyone say that deceiving the monarch is a great crime punishable by the execution of nine familial exterminations? Could there still be people who dare to conceal it?