Chapter 356 The Real Murderer Is Me?

Just when Hashirama was confused.

In the distance, a middle-aged woman with tattered clothes rushed here frantically.

She hugged the reckless little girl, then apologized and begged for mercy with cold hands and feet and trembling body:

"I'm very sorry, very sorry!"

"I didn't discipline the child well, and let her offend several ninja adults!"

"Please forgive me, adults! I'll leave now, take my daughter away..."

The woman hugged her daughter, kowtowed and admitted her mistake, while trying to escape quickly.

"Wait a moment!"

Hashirama called the mother and daughter.

The latter trembled all over, knelt down immediately, and begged for mercy again.

"Sir, spare me! My daughter really didn't mean to offend! I, I..."

The daughter didn't know, but the mother knew it too well.

The ninja in front of him was a superman who could kill even the monsters that were tens of meters high before.

If you annoy such a big man, there is no way to live!

"Don't get excited, I don't want your lives, and I won't hurt you and your daughter."

"I just want to know, what's the matter with what this child just said, that I killed his father?"

Hashirama asked gently, so as not to scare the woman again.

"No, that's not true!"

The little girl's mother was obviously afraid of ninjas and didn't dare to respond.

But the girl herself didn't have much fear, or she was still young and ignorant.

She stared at Hashirama and accused him loudly.

"It's him!"

"Mom, you said that it was because of these ninjas that Dad was killed?"

"Shhh——!"

The woman was terrified and immediately covered her daughter's mouth, and hurriedly explained:

"No, no! The child heard it wrong! I definitely didn't say that..."

Tobirama frowned and immediately scolded:

"Just say whatever your brother asks you, we won't hurt you!"

"Tobirama, shut up!"

Hashirama snorted at Tobirama.

Isn't it scary enough to be so fierce? Scarier than Uchiha!

"My brother is a bit radical. Don't worry, we really won't hurt you. Please tell me what happened. If it's really related to me, I'm willing to do my best to compensate!"

"Really not! I just ask the adults to let us go! Please!"

The woman was still unwilling to tell the truth. It was unknown whether she was afraid of Hashirama and the others, or had some other concerns.

"This..."

Hashirama sighed, and it was not easy to force her.

It looked like it would be difficult to get any useful information.

So Hashirama looked at Madara beside him, hoping that Madara could help.

With just one glance, Madara understood what Hashirama meant. Although he was a little reluctant, he would not refuse Hashirama's request.

So, Madara opened his Sharingan, only opened the basic three magatama, and glared at the woman casually.

The latter instantly fell into illusion and her emotions stabilized.

And began to narrate the truth of the incident.

It turned out that:

The mother and daughter were just an ordinary farmer outside the daimyo's mansion. When the tailed beast attacked some time ago, they fled to avoid the disaster.

Most of the farmers outside the city were forced to move into the city.

I thought this was a good thing done by the daimyo to protect the people.

But three days ago, after the tailed beast was successfully expelled.

A large number of farmers excitedly left the city to return home, but suddenly found that their homes had been looted and all valuables were gone.

Not only that.

The town magistrates, together with the farmhouses and group leaders, directly occupied the land of these ordinary tribesmen!

They claimed that they voluntarily abandoned the land, so they directly confiscated it to the lords of the designated areas.

And this is not over yet!

Just yesterday, the samurai of those noble lords found them and asked them to pay a large amount of taxes!

They said it was called [suppression tax]!

The daimyo couldn't bear the suffering of the people, so he specially commissioned the Konoha ninja to expel the monsters, and thus needed to pay a large commission fee.

The daimyo will not pocket any of this suppression tax, and all will be paid to the mighty Konoha Hokage!

To thank the ninjas for driving away the monsters and protecting the entire daimyo's mansion!

The key is: this suppression salary is very expensive, requiring a full 2 ​​stones!

That is about 300 kilograms of food, equivalent to two people's annual rations.

It accounts for almost 30% of their family's total annual income!

This is almost equivalent to death!

You know, although the Warring States period has ended, all countries, including the Land of Fire, basically continue to use the harsh tax laws of the Warring States period.

For ordinary farmers, they need to pay various taxes every year.

Including: annual tribute, section money, building money, service, rice, banquets... and so on.

There are more than ten items in total, and there are various repeated tax items.

In summary.

In a serious case, it can directly confiscate about 70% of a family's total annual harvest!

It is equivalent to earning 1,000 taels and only having 300 taels left.

Even so, they could only barely feed themselves and their families when the harvest was good; if there was a little unrest, they would almost certainly starve to death!

And now.

This suddenly came up with a tax collection, and they were actually going to forcibly take away their last 30% of food.

This was almost equivalent to murder!

The woman's husband naturally disagreed and had an argument with the samurai who came to collect taxes.

The other party didn't even bother to talk nonsense, and directly hacked the farmer to death with a knife, killed the little girl's father, and then took away the food.

Such a scene not only happened to their family, but also to the entire daimyo prefecture and surrounding areas.

During these three days, all the subordinate samurai of the nobles were forcibly collecting taxes, and even the [yokankan], [fushoshidai], and [fujoshidai] who were responsible for the security of the daimyo prefecture joined in.

As a result, the little girl whose father was killed and whose rations were robbed.

So she ran to the city gate hungry to pick up some garbage to fill her stomach.

When she saw the culprit who caused all this, the ninja from Konoha Village.

The little girl was subconsciously dominated by anger and chose to attack the enemy with stones.

She didn't understand the root cause, but she heard her mother crying that it was the samurai of the noble lord and these Konoha ninjas who killed her father!

…

Hearing this, the truth was clear.

And Hashirama also understood everything in an instant, and his mind exploded!

It turned out that he really killed the other party's father!

It was the harsh [suppression of taxes] that killed the other party's father!

And, during these three days.

The nobles in this daimyo's mansion were not raising their own money to pay the commission.

Instead, they were frantically exploiting the common people during this period, squeezing out a lot of people's fat!

They even used the name of Hokage!

The 2 billion silver taels in the convoy behind me and Tobirama were actually the deadly money that was plundered from the people of this city!

No wonder all the people were full of resentment when they left the city today, and they wanted to bite me and others to death!

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