Because of the growth in government taxation, the rise in rent and interest demanded by the landlords and the daily spread of the disasters of war, there are famine and banditry everywhere and the peasant masses and the urban poor can hardly keep alive.

• 因为国家的赋税加重，地主的租息加重和战祸的日广一日，造成了普遍于全国的灾荒和匪祸，使得广大的农民和城市贫民走上求生不得的道路。