In feudal society, people were divided into three, six, and nine classes, and the hierarchy was strict, and the identity of people of different levels was very different. At the top of all ranks is naturally the emperor. As the saying goes: When the Son of Heaven is angry, he lays down millions of corpses. In front of the emperor, no one dared to have the slightest intention of resistance.
However, there is another sentence, that is: the Emperor of Heaven is far away. After all, in ancient times, at that time, even if it was just happening, it was possible to spread in a short period of time, as it is now. Therefore, in the places where the emperor could not reach, there were always many earth emperors who used their power to oppress the people. Among them, the most hated by the common people is the landlord class. Some evil landlords, who do not dare to fight with the officials because the common people, often bully the people, increase taxes without authorization, and even rob the women of the people.
1. The bully landlord Huang Shiren in the literary work "The White-Haired Girl"
In ancient times, in fact, the most frightening thing for ordinary people was not the emperor, but the big landlord in a village. Because landlords can generally collect taxes on behalf of the government, they have a certain amount of power. Therefore, most landlords generally have some cooperation with the local government, and when collecting taxes, they increase the amount of taxes and deduct them. Some landlords will even do things that harm the people for their own selfish purposes. Therefore, when ordinary people face landlords, they usually hate and fear both.
Perhaps, when we mention the landlords again, we will feel that they are far away from us, and have long disappeared into the torrent of history. But there are some landlords who are still remembered by many people to this day because they have done too much evil, and they will be indignant when they mention it. One of the more famous landlords is a character described in literary works, that is, the bully landlord Huang Shiren in "The White-Haired Girl", who makes people grit their teeth.
In the book "The White-Haired Girl", Huang Shiren is a bully landlord who has misbehaved and likes to oppress the people. In a piece of land under his jurisdiction, one of the tenants was surnamed Yang, called Yang Bailao. Yang Bailao gave birth to a flower-like girl named Yang Xi'er. Yang Xi'er's beauty is also well-known in the local area, and there are many suitors.
After Huang Shiren heard about Yang Xi'er's beauty, he became interested and wanted to take Yang Xi'er for himself. At this time, Yang Bailao had already told his daughter about another marriage and wanted to reject Huang Shiren. Who knew that Huang Shiren was not soft, so he came hard, and began to arbitrarily raise the taxes of Yang Bailao's family under the pretext that he was a landlord, which eventually caused Yang Bailao to commit suicide, and Xi'er also unfortunately fell into his hands.
After that, Xi'er suffered from him in Huang Shiren's home, and her life was very difficult. By chance, Xi'er finally escaped from Huang Shiren's clutches and hid in the mountains and forests. It was not until the establishment of the new society that it came out of the mountains and forests. And Huang Shiren, the bully landlord, finally got the punishment he deserved.
Second, the bully landlord portrayed in "Chickens in the Middle of the Night" and "The Red Detachment of Women"
When some of the people at the grass-roots level of feudal society in our country depict the hard life of the grass-roots people, there will always be some negative characters, who always do all kinds of bad things and harm others and benefit themselves. In addition to the big bad yellow shiren described in the above-mentioned "White-Haired Girl", there are also two bully landlords in the other two books. Namely: Zhou Pi in "Chicken Song in the Middle of the Night" and Nan Batian in "Red Detachment of Women".
In "Chickens in the Middle of the Night", there is a landlord who is portrayed as very stingy and very good at making small calculations, he is Zhou Pickpocket. The biggest characteristic of this person is that he cares a lot about his own interests. In order to have more money, he often pretended to be a rooster chirping when others were falling into a deep sleep in the middle of the night, and then let people mistakenly think that it was time to work, and began to get up and work for him.
In addition, he often likes to bully others. During the War of Resistance Against Japan, instead of providing assistance to our compatriots and assisting in resisting the enemy, we were in cahoots with the enemy and exhaled from one nostril. In his domain, he tried every means to exploit man, thinking that he would bring greater benefits to himself.
The name of the villain in "Red Detachment of Women" is Nan Batian, who, in addition to using his power to oppress ordinary people like other bully landlords, has also formed his own army system. His army did not serve the people, but became a tool for him to oppress the people.
In his territory, if anyone dared not listen to him, he would be caught and tortured with all kinds of torture. Good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil. His perverse behavior caused many people to rebel. One of his servants found an opportunity to escape from his hands, joined the Red Army, and eventually led the army to bring Nan ba tian to justice.
Third, the real bully landlord: Liu Wencai
The aforementioned Huang Shiren, Zhou Peel and Nan BaTian are just some of the characters described by the author, and they are fictional. However, it is not that there are no landlords in the real real society, on the contrary, the real landlords have many and even done more bad things than the landlords described. This real landlord representative is Liu Wencai.
Liu Wencai was an active figure in Sichuan and Guangxi before liberation. It is said that the Emperor of Tiangao was far away, and at that time, Sichuan and Guangxi were relatively backward, and the news was closed, and some powerful people naturally became local earth emperors. Liu Wencai is the famous and frightening bully landlord.
He wasn't just a simple landowner, he was also involved in business. But he was not one who wanted to use his financial resources or influence to contribute to the liberation of China, on the contrary, he often used his power to give usury loans to some people who needed money to live in the local area, and then charged high interest to earn more money from it. In addition, there are other evil things such as robbing people's women and hurting people's lives.
Although there are also some people in Liu Wencai's family who are kind and have given great support when New China developed with their own money and ability, it is true that the various bad things that Liu Wencai has done cannot be offset so simply. These bad things of his have harmed the lives of many people, and the two cannot be compared at all.
There were many vices in feudal society, and there were also many places of oppression. Bully landlords like Huang Shiren, Zhou Pickpocket, Nan Batian, and Liu Wencai were the most feared and hated people at that time.
Although it is true that only Liu Wencai, the landlord, is true, we often say that art comes from life and is higher than life.
It is precisely because there are many such landlords in real life that people will also portray them in literature and art, so that we can more deeply appreciate the hard life of people at that time.
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