Chapter Fifty-Eight: Long Labor
"Lingchunfang Wangfu recruits young long-term workers, cultivates them from an early age, as long as they are qualified, sign the deed on the spot, and give two taels of silver to settle in." After seeing that everyone was attracted over, several men shouted in unison, especially the last sentence, two taels of silver settlement fee, and the bite was particularly heavy.
The words were repeated again and again, which suddenly made the crowd a little commotion. These farmers, who rarely saw silver, were a little moved.
To be honest, if this method is put in modern times, it is a clumsy small factory to recruit people, and basically no one will even look at it. But in ancient times, it was different, and the people here received little information, and this novel way immediately impressed them and made them unforgettable.
Curious, almost all the farmers in the neighborhood who were temporarily resting came over.
Moreover, the place chosen by Liu Bin is very particular, this is the junction of various farms, many nobles of Beijing have their own Zhuangzi here, these farmers will return to their Zhuangzi after working here during the day, so that the information can be spread out and let more people know.
Under the temptation of two taels of silver, almost no one can resist it. Soon a dark-skinned man came up and asked what was going on.
For this set of rhetoric, almost all those who followed Liu Bin were familiar with it, and when they spoke fluently, they immediately smashed the man who asked in a circle, and kept asking, is this true, is this true.
"Nature is true." At this time, the clerk came out, and his voice was a little weird. He is none other than Wei Zhongxian, who went out of the palace on an errand.
"The person next to me is the Ye Shuban of the Shuntian Mansion, as long as he passes our inspection on the spot, he will immediately sign and draw the mortgage and issue the settlement fee." Wei Zhongxian's chubby round face was full of kind smiles, which suddenly made these farmers who were afraid of being fooled feel relieved and some believed.
"Dare to ask this lord, who is this Lingchunfang Palace, and how many melon babies do you want?" An elderly man with gray temples asked cautiously.
"Ahem! The heel of my master, you don't understand, as long as you go to Lingchunfang, after the door, the first street corner turns right, and the most magnificent one in front is. Wei Zhongxian's chubby round face seemed to have a strength, which made those villagers immediately believe his words.
Even so, no one came forward, and everyone waited quietly with the mentality of letting others try. However, Wei Zhongxian is not in a hurry, anyway, there are still seven or eight days before the time for the master to explain, and it doesn't hurt to wait.
"I seem to have seen this scrivener." After a long silence, there was a hesitant voice among the peasants who had gathered together. Some people look back and find that the one who made the sound seems to be their own Zhuangzi.
"The third child of the Tian family, what you said is true, have you seen that secretary of the office?" Suddenly, someone couldn't wait to start asking. Hearing this voice, Wei Zhongxian also secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
This Ye Shuban is a cadre of the household, and he didn't need to go out for such a small thing as making a contract document, but considering that he often went in and out of the fields and handled the transfer of land and property, he was seen by these farmers the most, so Wei Zhongxian agreed with Liu Bin's opinion and spent a lot of money to invite him out as a credential. Now it seems that it is true.
"Naturally, it's true, the last time the owner bought land and went through the formalities, it was this scrivener, that's right, it's this adult." After taking a closer look, the third elder of the Tian family categorically confirmed. In an instant, after hearing these words, the crowd suddenly exploded, and the buzzing discussion rang out.
Some say that this is true, and there is an endorsement from the government; Some people say that this is fake, and it is a deception together, and some people are tempted, saying whether they want to send their own children of the right age to have a look. All kinds of discussions, and so on.
"This adult, do you think my baby is suitable?" A middle-aged man with a wrinkled face like a knife asked with a smile, looking at the degree of sewing of the clothes on his body, it can be seen that his family is extremely poor.
Looking at his clothes and the dusty dirt on his body, Wei Zhongxian frowned a little, but still maintained a kind face and asked, "How old is this year?" ”
"It's fifteen this year, and my body is great." The old farmer replied with a smile, bent low, extremely respectful.
"Okay, go over there and have someone check it out." Wei Zhongxian pointed to Liu Bin's location and motioned for the other party to go over there, and the old eunuch Dong was also over there.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you." With the permission of the other party, the old farmer was very happy, and took his somewhat restrained baby and ran to Liu Bin's place. After that, there was a series of family background interrogations and the face and bones of the old eunuch Dong, and after about half a pillar of incense, he was declared qualified on the spot, and then the contract document of the yamen was issued, and the settlement fee of two taels of silver was issued.
When the old farmer trembled and turned out to be two taels of silver, he still couldn't believe it, put the silver to his mouth, and shook it vigorously. There was a crunch sound, and then the old farmer spit out half of a bloodshot tooth, although his mouth was full of blood, but the old farmer didn't care about this, raised the silver tael in his hand, and looked at the sun.
The scorching sun made him barely open his eyes, but even so, he could still clearly see the clear imprint on the silver two. Suddenly, the old farmer's tears fell.
He cried, and he muttered: "Great, now the bride price has been settled again, and the boss can marry a daughter-in-law." ”
The old farmer's every move was watched by the people watching from the side, and when they saw that there was really silver hair, the crowd was first quiet, and then scattered violently, and there were voices calling for their own babies everywhere. They are afraid that if they go late, this kind of good thing will be gone.
Seeing this scene, whether it was Liu Bin or Wei Zhongxian, they were secretly happy, and the things that the master explained were basically done.
"Whew!"
Taking a deep breath, Zhu Youxiao stood up from the somewhat cold liquid, this liquid, he has been soaking for five years, and there are two more years to soak, and then change to a new prescription.
Under the clothes of the Hakka family, after he wiped his body clean, he picked up the Miao knife from the desk next to him, and slowly stroked the three words of the man's line. The familiar and passionate poems slowly flowed through his heart, accompanied by impassioned words and sentences, the tragic fate of ancient China.
Every time he thinks about these things, he will touch a point, and his belief will be strengthened a point. Through the tragedy that inspires people to forge ahead, he was able to overcome the slackness and laziness in his heart every day for several years, and get up early to practice martial arts.
"Not trying? Look at Chongzhen twenty-eight years later, he is your end. After secretly waking up, Zhu Youxiao lifted his spirits and mentioned that he walked out of the door.
At this time, it was also the time for those teenagers to get up and go out for morning exercises, wearing thin and breathable clothes, they were brandished by the instructor, and they were constantly urged to run around the school yard quickly. Seeing this, Zhu Youxiao put the knife on his shoulder, ran over quickly, and ran with him.
"Run!" The long knife with the sheath was constantly waved by him, and from time to time it smashed into the last place, and the strength that penetrated through the skin suddenly made the last Xue Xue cry out in pain and run desperately. The speed of the entire team was suddenly sped up by more than a notch.
The Tsing Yi eunuch on duty stopped, stood by and watched, not that he was not doing his duty, but that his body did not allow him to run down.
After the morning exercise, there was breakfast, white flour buns, fresh and thick soy milk, and boiled eggs, which made these teenagers have a great appetite. Looking at these early, the little pimple in Li Yuyu's heart suddenly disappeared. It doesn't matter what he does, he just eats here, even if he is a training soldier. While biting the white-flour bun fiercely, Li Yuyu thought fiercely in his heart.
After breakfast, another full day of training began. This time it was Zhu Youxiao who personally led the team, after revising the plan, the other eunuchs in Tsing Yi watched as supervisors, and twenty pairs of eyes stared at it, these teenagers were suddenly miserable, and they didn't dare to move when they stood in a military posture, and when they were training in line, they must be serious. With so many eyes, as long as they roll over a mistake, even if the mistake is small, they will be found out, and then they will be added with a military stick.
As for the execution of military law, it is he who does it himself, and now his martial arts skills are very high, and his control of strength is also very good, which can make these teenagers very painful, but also will not hurt their bodies, as long as they rub the medicine and wine at night and rest for a night.
The queue project he once experienced, the step-by-step training of each item, this progressive feeling, made him extremely solid, as if he was watching his work slowly take shape.
Time flowed slowly, and soon twenty days passed, and all the eunuchs in Tsing Yi were trained to the side with this experimental team. The constant rotation of instructors made these teenagers a little confused and miserable. If you come to one, you have to start from the beginning and repeat it twenty times, and no one can stand this feeling.
That afternoon, Wei Zhongxian slowly drove in with four wide vans in his hand. There were ten people in each carriage, and he sent forty people to Zhu Youxiao at one time.
After the carriage was stable, the young men in the carriage came down one after another, their simple, patched clothes made them look a little shabby, and because they were in a new place, their expressions were a little more cautious and cringe. However, Zhu Youxiao didn't care about this, and directly asked the eunuchs in Tsing Yi to greet them, change their clothes and take a bath, and then preach the rules here.
By the time it was the next day, there was not a lonely horizontal platoon standing on the colonel's field for training, but a whole five horizontal platoon, where fifty people stood collectively in a military posture, and it looked like that.
"This dress doesn't seem ....... right." Looking at it, Zhu Youxiao's brows furrowed. His training is basically a copy of what he has experienced. In this way, he intended to temper these people and make them develop the habit of obedience, and then began to train in the phalanx of spears and spears.
It's just that, I don't know if it's because of his own feelings, or the incompatibility between modern and ancient, he watched the soldiers in gray long-sleeved costumes practicing modern things, which was very awkward. In particular, the hem of the robe, although it is a tight-fitting outfit, is still very much in the way.
"It seems that it is still necessary to adopt a new military uniform, and this military salute is not right, it is too cumbersome, and it needs to be changed." After looking at it carefully a few times, Zhu Youxiao pondered. He had wanted to keep some of the old features, but now it seemed that there was no need for it. Not only is it unsightly, but it also hinders training, and the fabric is used a lot, which is a bit wasteful.