Chapter Twenty-Four: The Wooden Dragon Breaks and the World Is in Chaos (I)
87_87379 asked a few squires about the specific situation of Gaozhai, and asked in vain, and sent away the squires and rich families in Gaozhai, Li Dacheng felt much better, and his most serious injury was the one that Ma Wenxuan drew on his chest, if it wasn't for the knife trick taught by the old man Sun at that time, the power of this knife would be several times greater, and the huge knife edge across the chest, can it stop the bleeding or two words!
Even if he leaned on it, he was still injured a lot, a wound of more than ten centimeters, if it was not properly handled, it was enough to be fatal, it seemed that he had to learn some emergency prescriptions from Wang Tingxiang, and the conditions could only be like this.
"Senior brother, the disciples have been integrated, and more than seventy have been sent away, and the rest are from Shandong."
"There is no Naoli?"
Li Dahan's words made Li Dacheng frown, if you look at it this way, the people and horses of Zhili have all gone to Tianjin Wei, and the people and horses of Shandong have been forced by Yuan Devil to add to the shortage!
"There are a few, I asked, there are no churches and railways in Gaozhai, so the Yihe Fist here in Zhili is generally gathered near the left side of Cangzhou Mansion, there are railways and churches over there, and the trouble is very fierce, I heard that a few Ermaozi Zhuangzi, everyone has been killed!"
After hearing this, Li Dacheng's brows furrowed even tighter, the so-called Ermaozi is the sectarian, the matter of slaughtering the village, it's over!
In order to expand their careers, many missionaries set their sights on some idle scoundrels, and with these scoundrels as examples, missionaries can lure many people into the Church with a little means.
Different beliefs, different habits, the weakness of the court, the numbness of the people, coupled with these ruffians, although it is not the root cause of the Boxer Rebellion, but it is also a very important push, the people bully the people, the people vendetta against the people, the people revenge on the people, the missionaries rely on the country behind them to oppress the court, the court has no choice but to favor the people in law, some people are legitimate demands, but because of the favoritism of the court and become illegal, the people then retaliate and kill, such a cycle, who is right and who is wrong, Trivial things can lead to murder cases.
If you say it wrong, you can only attribute the mistake to the country and the imperial court, the country is too weak, the imperial court is too soft, it is the root cause of this qiē, the retribution for injustice is endless, and the massacre of the people of the church, not only he Li Dacheng, I am afraid that many Boxers also know that it is wrong, but under the general trend, they have to do it, if you don't kill you, you are not a Boxer, if you kill you, you are a Boxer, and if you go on like this, it is your own family that suffers! It's meat inside and out, and it hurts to hit anywhere, so you want to change it? There is no door, no way!
"Find someone to find out the news, I'll go and meet the people of the Cao Gang!"
After listening to Li Dahan's news, Cangzhou Mansion, whether to go or not has become a matter of two words, and the conflict between the local Boxers in Zhili and Zhili is quite unwise, let's explore the bottom of the Cao Gang first!
"Big Brother ......"
"It doesn't matter, if they are the opposite, you are busy with you without us now."
drove away Li Dahan, Li Dacheng walked slowly in front of the Cao Gang, but he just hugged his fist and didn't speak.
"Senior brother, we are from Wuding Mansion, and we are here just to ask for a bite to eat!"
As soon as an older Cao Gang old man spoke, Li Dacheng was happy, this matter is troublesome, his own family doesn't recognize his own family!
"Well said! I am also a native of Wuding Mansion, and you are the Cao Gang people in Shandong, right? ”
"Huh...... Cao Gang? Those who have a way are the Cao Gang, and those who don't have a way are just boatmen, and we are boatmen! ”
The old man on the other side smiled bitterly, Cao's luck is broken, what else is the Cao Gang? If it was their father's generation, no matter where they went, no one would dare to mess with them, what about now? It's just a desert escape!
"Are you so many?"
"Is it much? There are tens of thousands! There will be more in the future, last year, the dry fields in Shandong Province were scorched, and the family property was sold out and could only rely on the year after the year, Shandong Governor Yuan Shikai cleared the puppet group, and those of us who fled the famine were regarded as puppet groups, and if we didn't leave, there would be no way to live in our hometown Shandong. ”
"Hey! We have a lot of water there, and there is nothing, so we pour it on both sides! ”
The boundaries of Wuding Mansion are too big, there is water where there is waterlogging, there is no water where there is drought, the number of refugees in Shandong last year is very large, whenever there is such a famine, the imperial court is to provide disaster relief, but disaster relief is just a show, a pot of porridge and a bowl of rice will be sent for a few days, as a!
Yuan Guizi is shrewd, he has become the head of Shandong, and he drove the refugees to the Beijing-Tianjin area of Zhili, and it is a good strategy to kill two birds with one stone! But in doing so, isn't it forcing the refugees to make trouble with the Boxers?
"It's all fallen people at the end of the world, I don't know if the senior brother can enjoy food!"
The old boatman of the Cao Gang who took the lead, there was something in his stomach, and it was the Cao Gang boatman who he took the lead in pressing just now, otherwise he would not be so easy to talk if he really did it.
"There is rice, but in the future, it will be really hard to play, it's not worth it! I'll give you people a few pieces of Longyang and a little grain, and go back to Shandong! ”
Looking at the other side is a person who understands, Li Dacheng also made a condition, he has this idea of the people who collect the Cao Gang, these people are better than the refugees who farm the land, and he needs such boatmen very much, but this group of boatmen is a whole, it is easy to get into trouble and send them away, they will have less trouble themselves, and they can also have more ways to live.
"Senior brother, you don't know the price of grain today, let alone sorghum rice, we have twenty-five bean cakes a catty, six bean cakes are more than one or two pieces of silver, Helongyang is almost two pieces, the price of this grain will be higher, which one can afford to eat, don't say a few pieces of Longyang, more than ten or twenty yuan have been given, and it won't last long if there is no land, just pointing to buy grain to eat, you can't live!"
The old boatman is telling the truth, how outrageous are the price of grain in a year of famine? Anyway, only I can't think of it, I can't do it, now three pieces of Longyang can buy a stone of coarse grain, and the next day may only be able to buy dozens of catties, and in a few days, the more food is scarce, the more expensive the grain price is, plus some unscrupulous merchants take advantage of the chaos to make money, and there may not be a way to live if you have money! Without land as a backer, the common people can't afford to eat and live.
"Brothers, I'm afraid there is still a family in Shandong, right?"
"Alas...... Which one doesn't! There are too many people, they get together and die together, so they can only be separated. ”
"I'm going to Tianjin Wei, and I'm going to have a fight with foreign devils, and I may not be able to come back alive!"
"Senior brother, now if you have a stutter, it doesn't matter if you are dead or alive!"
"You want to follow me, but there is one thing, desperately ahead! I'll keep you fed!
Come out among you over forty years old. ”
As soon as Li Dacheng said this, many people's faces changed, and there were more than a dozen of them in their forties and fifties, and coming out meant that they didn't want to! Don't want it here, where can you go to mix rice? In Gaozhai for more than ten days, they didn't eat much, and if they didn't eat for three or two days, they were dead.
"Senior brother, let's enjoy a way to live!"
The old boatman who started the head was also forty years old, and people didn't want to have no way to live, and this man knelt on the ground as soon as his legs bent, and with him taking the lead, forty or fifty people knelt on the ground.
"It's not like there's no way to live, do you think I can trust you?"
"Trust! So be it! Shall I chop a hand? With this hand left, he can also work hard for his brother! ”
"Okay! Just at your hand, I believe you, give you a thousand Long Yang to take these old people back to settle down, take care of their families, and sell the rest of their lives to me? ”
One thousand dragon oceans, not a decimal number, Li Dacheng promised to come out, and all the boatmen were stunned for a moment, thinking about eating together, but they didn't expect to get a thousand dragon oceans, this price is enough to buy a life.
"Senior brother, do you think this will be done? Among these people, more than a dozen of us are against the door of our homes, let them go back, how about we stay and work hard?
Swinging, killing, we are all capable! ”
Looking at these people in front of him, some things in Li Dacheng's heart were touched, it is not an uncommon thing to chop his hands to win letters, on the way to escape from the famine, sometimes in order to let some big and rich families give some food, eat porcelain, stones, and shoot green bricks on their heads, these things have been done by people in Li Zhuang, big and small, in order to make people smile and exchange some food for satiety.
How similar is this old shipwright to the uncle in Zhuangzi? Hearing the words of this old boatman, Li Dacheng also had a plan in his heart, and they should send some people back from Li Zhuang.
He, Li Dahan, Li Dahe, Li Dafu, and Li Dagou just stayed, although they are the only son in the family, but there are few people in the family, and the adults carry more things, and they can't run fast if they carry more things, and they will be swept away by the flood if they can't run fast, although the five of them still think that their families are not dead, but the reality is cruel, thinking that it is impossible not to die, such a big flood, so many things on the body, were swept away and there is little life!
The rest of them, except for Li Cheng, there is no one in the family, and the rest have grandparents and brothers and sisters, and now the timing is right, Ma Wenxuan also left a batch of treasures, so that those brothers of Li Zhuang and the big and small can take them back to find relatives, and they also happen to be concerned.
"Senior brother, look at it!"
"No! Elect the people! What's your name? ”
"Cao Baochu!"
"Good! In the future, these brothers will listen to you Cao Baochu, I can trust you, don't let my kindness feed the dog! ”
"Senior brother, don't worry, senior brother called to the east and there is one to the west, I can't spare him! The senior brother called the dogs, we will never catch chickens, and we will also do the errand of killing, and the senior brother will let me kill anyone, nothing to say! ”
"It had better be!
Second, kill more pigs and sheep, the Cao Gang brothers here are enough to build! ”
"Gotcha! The senior brother has something to say, the Cao Gang brothers belong to the Yellow River Fist, and the wine and meat are enough! ”
I don't know where Li Dahan learned the oily tone, he scolded with a smile, Li Dacheng was in a good mood, and the appearance of the Shandong Canal boatman made him firm in his confidence to go to Cangzhou Mansion, this opportunity is good!
Pack up donkeys, mules, pigs and sheep, steam on multigrain dry rice, dozens of cauldrons of cooking smoke together, the whole Gaozhai is a lot lively, because yesterday, today's rush, more than a dozen thinner donkeys and mules are tired of problems, the Yellow River boxing and no veterinarian, Li Dacheng looked at it and simply waved his hand, these donkeys and mules were put into the pot, there were many people with less meat, Li Dacheng sold a good one, and beckoned the villagers of Gaozhai to come out to eat meat and drink soup.
More than a dozen people died, the Boxer Rebellion was fired, and Gaozhai, which should have been a depression, was made a bonfire party by Li Dacheng, and the old wine and local wine stored in Gaozhai were also bought by Li Dacheng.
The disciples of the Yellow River Boxing and some villagers in Gaozhai were eating and drinking happily like the New Year, and Li Dacheng squatted in front of a cooking fire, listening to the gossip that Li Chengyou and Li Dahan kept coming, and his face was full of bright smiles.
"Shandong boy, the old man sees that you are still a benevolent and righteous person, and I advise you, this world is chaotic and the Boxers have no future!
Zhenzimen has harmed a lot of landlords around Gaozhai, and there are a lot of looted things, buying thousands of acres of fertile land, and taking these people from good! ”
In the Yellow River Boxing, he showed his ability to hurt everyone, and after drinking a few sips of old wine, Wang Tingxiang, an old man, has a lot of tone.
As an old man, as an old man with a bone injury, Wang Tingxiang also has his unique views on the way of the world, the Boxers can't do anything, if they can do it, isn't the world in chaos? Look at the things that the Boxers did, those words they said, they are crooked!
"Hey...... Mr. Wang, it's not that I don't want to live a stable life, but where can I live a stable life in this world?
Lao Cao, you come and tell Mr. Wang, I promised you a few pieces of Longyang and some grain, why don't you go back to Shandong? ”
After listening to Wang Tingxiang's persuasion, Li Dacheng gritted his teeth, pointed to Cao Baochu, who was also sitting by the cooking fire and eating donkey meat, and gave the problem to the old shipwright from Shandong.
"Hi...... Mr. Wang, the shipwrights of the ancestors have a saying, the wooden dragon is broken, and the world is chaotic!
The boatman on the canal is the helmsman who operates the wooden dragon, the boatman has no livelihood, the wooden dragon has been broken, the world will be chaotic, the world is chaotic, where is there a stable territory? ”。