In the feudal society, people are divided into three, six, nine and so on, with a strong hierarchy, and the difference in the status of different levels of people is very big. One of them at the top of all the ranks was naturally the emperor. As the saying goes, when the emperor is angry, there are millions of corpses. In front of the emperor, no one dares to show any resistance.

But there is another saying, that is: the sky is high and the emperor is far away. After all, it was in ancient times, that time could not be like now even if something just happened, it is possible to spread in a short time. Therefore, where the emperor could not reach, there were always quite a number of local emperors who used their power to oppress the people. The most hated among them by the common people was the landlord class. Some evil landlords, relying on the fact that the common people did not dare to fight with the officials, often oppressed the people, increased taxes without authorization, and even did things like robbing the people's women by force.

I. Huang Shiren, the evil landlord in the literary work "The White-haired Girl"

In ancient times, in fact, the one who scared the common people most was not the emperor, but the big landlord inside a village. This is because landlords can usually collect taxes on behalf of the government and have a certain amount of power. Therefore, most of the landlords would cooperate with the local government in some way, and when collecting taxes, they would increase the amount of taxes and then deduct from it. Some landlords would even do things to hurt the people for their own selfish purposes. Therefore, when ordinary people face landlords, they usually hate and fear them at the same time.

Perhaps, when we mention the landlords again now, we will feel that they are very far away from us and have long disappeared in the stream of history. But there are some landlords who have done so much evil that they are still remembered by many people today, and they are mentioned with righteous indignation. One of the more famous landlords is the character depicted in literary works, namely, Huang Shiren, the evil landlord who is hated with gnashing teeth in "The White Haired Girl".

In the book "The White-haired Girl", Huang Shiren is a bully landlord who has bad behavior and likes to oppress the people. On a piece of land under his jurisdiction, one of the tenants was surnamed Yang, called Yang Bailao. Yang Bailao gave birth to a beautiful girl named Yang Xier. Yang's beauty was well known in the area, and she had many suitors.

When Huang Shiren heard about Yang Xier's beauty, he became lustful and wanted Yang Xier for himself. At this time, Yang Bailao had already agreed to another marriage for his daughter, so he wanted to reject Huang Shiren. Huang Shiren, a landlord, began to raise the taxes on Yang Bailao's family, which eventually led to Yang Bailao's suicide and his daughter's death.

After that, Xier suffered from Huang Shiren's torture in his house and lived a very hard life. By chance, she escaped Huang Shiren's clutches and went to live in the mountains and forests. It was only after the establishment of the new society that she came out from the forest. And Huang Shiren, the evil landlord, finally got his due punishment.

Second, "Midnight Rooster" and "Red Detachment of Women" portrayed the evil landlord

In some of our country's depictions of the hard life of the grassroots of the feudal society, there are always some negative characters, who are always doing bad things to the detriment of others and benefit themselves. In addition to the big bad guy Huang Shiren described in the above mentioned "The White-haired Girl", there are also two evil landlords in two other works. Namely: Zhou Paipi in "Midnight Cockcrow" and Nan Batian in "The Red Detachment of Women".

In "The Cock of Midnight", there is a landlord who is portrayed as very stingy and very good at making small calculations, he is Zhou Paipi. This person's biggest characteristic is that he cares very much about his own interests. In order to have more money for himself, he often pretends that the rooster is crowing in the middle of the night when other people are falling into a deep sleep, and then makes people mistakenly think that it is already time to work and start getting up to work for him.

In addition, he often liked to bully people. During the war against Japan, instead of providing aid to his compatriots and assisting in the fight against the enemy, he was in league with the enemy, one nostril at a time. Inside his territory, he tried to exploit people in every way he could to bring more benefits to himself.

The name of the baddie in "The Red Detachment of Women" is Nan Batian, who, in addition to using his power to oppress the common people like any other bully landlord, has developed his own set of military system. Instead of serving the people, his army became a tool for him to oppress them.

Inside his territory, if someone dared to disobey him, he would be caught and tortured with all kinds of tortures. Good is rewarded with good and evil with evil. This perverse behavior of his caused many people to rebel. One of his family's servants found a chance to escape from him and joined the Red Army, and eventually led the army to bring Nanbatian to justice.

Three, the real bully landlord: Liu Wencai

The aforementioned Huang Shiren, Zhou Pawpi and Nan Batian are just some of the characters depicted in the author's pen, which are fictional. However, it is not true that there are no landlords in the real society, on the contrary, many of the real landlords even do more bad things than the depicted landlords to do more bad things, more detestable. This real landlord representative is Liu Wencai.

Liu Wencai was active in Sichuan and Guangxi before the liberation. It is said that the emperor is far away, at that time in Sichuan, Guangxi, this area is relatively backward, the news is closed, some powerful people naturally become the local emperor. Liu Wencai is a well-known and feared bully landlord in this area.

He was not just a simple landlord, he was also involved in business. But he was not a man who thought of using his wealth or power to contribute to the liberation of China, instead, he often used his power to issue usurious loans in the area to people who needed money to live, and subsequently charged very high interest rates to earn more money from them. In addition there were some other evil things such as robbing people's women by force and hurting people's lives.

Although there were some people within Liu Wencai's family who were kind and used their money and abilities to give great support to the development of new China, the various bad things that Liu Wencai did could not be offset in such a simple way. These bad things he did harmed the lives of many people, and the two simply cannot be compared.

There are many vices and oppressions within the feudal society. Bullies and landlords like Huang Shiren, Zhou Pawpi, Nan Batian and Liu Wencai were the most feared and hated people at that time.

While it is true that only Liu Wencai, the landlord, was real, it is also often said that art comes from life and is higher than life.

It is because there are a lot of such landlords in real life that people also portray them a lot in literature and art, so that we can more y appreciate the hard life of people at that time.