Sleepy, the body is like it is not its own, and the whole person is just moving forward mechanically.

Zhou Xiaolong was half asleep and half awake, and the person in front of him dragged him with a rope. Today we have walked for four hours in a row, and we have not seen a living place, so we have nothing to eat, and we are really hungry and can't stand it, and when we see a leaf on the roadside that can be eaten, we stretch out our neck and take a mouthful of leaf, just like an animal.

Suddenly, the person in front of him sped up in a hurry. After a short time, an errand officer came to the back, shouting as he went: "Work hard, and in half an hour you will be in the southern county, so that everyone can rest their feet, and there is hot soup and rice to eat." ”

Hearing the shouting, Zhou Xiaolong raised his eyelids and continued to walk forward with the flow of people. Of course, now he is not called Zhou Xiaolong, but Zhu Dashan, who is a farmer at the foot of Wudang Mountain in Xiangyang Prefecture, and his family has three acres of thin fields, and he rents a few acres of land in Longhuguan, and the family can barely try to be stable with only his parents and himself.

Seeing that the war disaster has also been troubled for 18 years, the lords in the county all said that the Qing Dynasty has sat firmly in the country. Everyone can live a peaceful and stable life again. However, there are unforeseen circumstances, and I don't know how many people have died in the perennial war disasters and famines. I don't know if the water is not clean, or if I ate something bad, my parents have trouble with my stomach. I didn't care about it at first, but the result became more and more serious, and I sold a few acres of thin land and didn't save my parents.

When the old father was dying, he was still talking about the lack of land at home, and his son Zhu Dashan was only nineteen years old, how to live! The doctor who came to see the doctor said casually: "If you don't have any land, you can go to Sichuan, there is a war disaster and people are dead, and the government said that you will go to give food, and the fields that have been cleared are all their own." ”

In this way, Zhu Dashan walked to Sichuan with his father's last wish.

This kid, who had never been out of the county seat, walked to Sichuan while begging. As a result, as soon as he entered Xunyang Mansion, he was almost imprisoned as a fugitive, and at this time, the Daming Loyal Battalion passed by in the mountains, and a few arresters who were scared ran away. Zhu Dashan was thrown on the side of the road. Ming Bing was about to cut off Zhu Dashan's head to receive merit, but Zhu Dashan, who was frightened, shouted: "Master Bing, don't kill me, I have the strength to carry things"

When the soldiers didn't kill him, Zhu Dashan became a master, carrying hundreds of catties of grain and heading west. Zhu Dashan greets the ancestors of the master of Junzhou in his heart every day. From time to time, he also cursed that some Ming soldiers would not die well.

I don't know if it was God's manifestation, Zhu Dashan walked to Wanxian with the team, and a group of defeated soldiers rushed over in front. I wanted to grab food, but when I saw that there were also bright knives in the team here, I had to give up. Some officials inquired, only to know that Chongqing was not defeated, Tan Hong and Tan Yi defected to the Qing Dynasty, the Ming soldiers were defeated, and the team was dispersed. In the evening, another group of defeated soldiers, about seven or eight hundred people, scattered Zhu Dashan's team at once.

This time, Zhu Dashan didn't know where to go, and it was estimated that there would be defeated soldiers. So he turned around and walked north for three days, but there was no one on the way. Zhu Dashan gradually let go of his courage, and just caught a pheasant at noon this day and roasted it to eat. I heard a noise, a group of people came over on the road, Zhu Dashan was about to go out to see what was going on, so he ran over and two messengers held Zhu Dashan down. In this way, Zhu Dashan was pulled into the team again, and the messenger saw Zhu Dashan shouting, and he had the strength again, afraid that he would run away. didn't give Zhu Dashan anything to eat along the way, Zhu Dashan was so hungry that he couldn't stand to rob other people's food, so he was beaten up wildly and put on a pair of shackles of about 20 catties.

Zhu Dashan came from the foot of Wudang Mountain, carried military rations again, was hungry for a few days, was beaten badly, and even rained when he passed Xinning. On this day, when I was staying overnight in an abandoned village, I developed a high fever and began to talk nonsense not long after. The leading errand officer saw that Zhu Dashan was no longer good, and wanted to leave him in this wilderness, but who knew when he set off the next day. Zhu Dashan is alive again, and he doesn't have a fever anymore,

Of course, it is not the original Zhu Dashan who has come to life, but Zhou Xiaolong, who was still moving bricks at the construction site during the day yesterday, and wanted to earn an extra day's wages at night, so he went to add an all-nighter, and never returned to the rental house on an electric donkey. After the overnight shift, he dozed off while riding an electric donkey, but was overwhelmed by a double-bridge muck truck. After waking up, Zhu Dashan dragged his tired body and followed the team for three days. The dilapidation that catches the eye is desolate. There is no sign of any smoke here. The occasional passing village is also only full of bones.

I heard that there was an errand officer who said that he would soon arrive in the southern county, and it would be better to come to the county seat.

When I arrived at the county seat, I found that there were no people in the entire county, and the sparse figures were occasionally walking around, but they were also silent. The messenger asked everyone to find a place to rest first, and he and the county government went to see Qiu Longzu, the county magistrate.

After a while, the county master brought the people to build a porridge shed. When everyone smelled the bran and wild vegetables boiled, everyone suddenly felt like a soul.

The messenger came back and said: "You don't have to go, the county magistrate asked you all to settle in the southern county to open up wasteland, and when you eat this meal, you will listen to the county's arrangements and settle down to live." After speaking, without waiting for everyone to respond, he beckoned the other dozen or so officers to leave.

No one took care of everyone until the evening, Zhu Dashan ate half a bowl of food at noon, he was not a rich man in his previous life, he was good to have a full stomach, and he was not a picky eater.

After resting for a long time, Zhu Dashan finally recovered some of his spirits, and touched the man next to him with his arm: "Big brother, what are we doing here?" There was no smoke on the way, was it exiled? ”

When the man heard this, his eyes widened and he looked at Zhu Dashan, who was less than twenty years old, and said, "You little brother, you can't talk nonsense." We have come to Sichuan to open up wasteland, and I heard that the fields that have been opened here are all our own, and we are still exiled! When have you ever seen such a good exile? ”

A few men next to him also said: "That's it, I wanted a few acres of land a few years ago, but I don't know how much silver it takes to buy it!" ”

Zhu Dashan was taken aback and said, "What? This is Sichuan? Isn't Sichuan known as the land of abundance? How did it become like this?"

The man next to him said lazily: "The country of abundance, hum!" After more than ten years of military disasters, even heaven has to be like this" After speaking, he straightened his body again, and leaned in front of Zhu Dashan and whispered: "Don't say that this Qing soldier loves to slaughter the city, how many people are left here?" ”

This chat. Zhu Dashan gradually became clear that it was the autumn of the fifteenth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, and due to a large number of wars that led to the reduction of the population of Sichuan, the fourteenth year of Shunzhi issued an edict to the government to persuade farming, and taxes were exempted within five years. Gao Minzhan, the governor of Sichuan, also asked the neighboring provinces to investigate the displaced people of Sichuan origin and send them back to their hometowns for resettlement. Originally, after the Qing soldiers entered the customs, more than ten years of war and the Qing soldiers slaughtered the city, now everyone is short of people, but they can't stand the hard cost of Gao Minzhan five taels of silver per person. Therefore, several prefectures near Sichuan are actively sending displaced people over. Since these are local single untouchables who have no relatives and some who are not local refugees, they are not big in scale anyway, and most of them come voluntarily, but it is also smooth. When the Qing court officially issued an edict two years later to fill the river, there was no one willing to come, and the government directly forcibly relocated. That was the beginning of sin, and I don't know how many people would die along the way.

The gossip continued, and the next day, there were county officials to register. Then Zhu Dashan and five other men were assigned to Panlong Town. On the same day, he went to the town with the messengers.

When Zhu Dashan and the other six people arrived in Panlong Town, they found that there were a total of fifteen people from four families in the town. Now there are six more Zhu Dashan. There are houses in the town, but most of them are dilapidated and barren, and the servants let each choose a random household. Then he gathered everyone together and said, "Starting today, you will be naturalized here, and you will live in peace from now on." But there are some things that need to be said first. The court promised you that you could open up wasteland and farm land, and no taxes would be collected for five years. But the old man has to live, so the land you opened, each household has three acres of county master's, two acres of master's, and one acre. ”

To say that this Zhu Dashan itself is a migrant worker who crossed over, and he still hasn't come back to his senses, and in the world of the 21st century, he is also mixed with food and clothing every day. When you have something to do, you can work, if you have nothing to do, you can play cards, and occasionally go to the Internet. It's mostly to look at websites that can't be made public, and it's a pleasure. The wife has not been found yet, and the children have been strangled in the cradle by themselves. There is no hatred between the family and the country, let alone lofty ambitions. The biggest dream is to marry a wife and have children. And then continue to get by and go through this life.

So on the way here, he heard that it was to open up the wasteland, and then get the land by himself, so he didn't think about it in his heart. In the original world, I was a migrant worker, and now I have no harm in returning to my old craft. Although there are no hybrids now, we are farmers, and we can still earn a family business if we suffer a little! But now that the officer is saying, I don't have to plant eight acres of land for someone else, and what land can I have?

Zhu Dashan hurriedly said: "Didn't you say that the land you opened is your own?" Why did I plant it for you first? "Although Zhu Dashan is a peasant, it is not his turn to do anything good in the original world government. But it's okay to ask and talk about it, so I asked casually. The errand just looked at Zhu Dashan with a sneer and didn't speak. Originally, no one in the town spoke, just looked at Zhu Dashan curiously.

Among the people who came over with Zhu Dashan, there was an old one, in his fifties, called Wang Jincai, and everyone called him Lao Wangtou. Seeing that Zhu Dashan was about to get into trouble, he hurriedly said: "Mountain baby, don't talk nonsense, the old man deserves his hard work, and when the time comes, he will come out with more strength" The messenger didn't say anything when he saw it, but just said coldly: "If you want to live well, you have to understand the rules" and then left on his own.

Zhu Dashan was still unconvinced and said to the old king: "The land we worked so hard to open up will be given to them for nothing."

The old king said: "Baby, now that the army is in chaos, it is not easy to live, where is it so clean." It is the situation of the peaceful year, and there are a few families that can farm well. I see that you are also a baby who doesn't understand the world, come with me to see how to open the ground! You have the strength, as long as you are willing to work hard, a few acres of land is nothing. People are cheap when they leave their hometowns, we are in this foreign land, and it is better to live well than anything else"

When Zhu Dashan heard what the old king said, he felt less angry.

Then in the next few days, Zhu Dashan and the five new arrivals found a good land, and went to the county government to receive seeds. This is already October of the fifteenth year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty, and Zhu Dashan's land has not yet been fully developed, and they have to plant winter wheat in a hurry, or this land will be barren for a year. Because there are few people and a lot of land, it is not difficult to occupy an area, as long as you find a few strips or sticks, find where to insert the land, it is your own land. Seeing that the occupied land could not be cultivated, everyone was very anxious, but fortunately, the county sent two mules and horses, although they were lame, but they were faster than people plowing the land.

Half a month later, seeing that the occupied land was planted with wheat, everyone finally had a little smile on their faces. Zhu Dashan also felt that if he went on like this, he could live with peace of mind.

These days, everyone is familiar with it. The five people who were assigned to the town with Zhu Dashan were Chen Dequn, Chen Deyi, Wang Jincai, Li Heiwa, and Gou Xingwang. Chen Dequn and Chen Deyi are brothers of the same clan, they are farmers from Xunyang Province, and they were forcibly relocated by the government. According to his own words, Wang Jincai fled from Shaanxi, and later went to Huguang with King Chuang's team, and was filled by Latin in Xunyang for several years. Li Heiwa and Gou Xingwang are not locals, and they were arrested to fill the number. Where is the specific place of origin, the two of them don't say, just shake their heads. The original four households in the town were also hunters recruited from the mountains in the first half of the year. One family is surnamed Yan, and the other family is surnamed Xie. The other two households are said to have no surname, and the government has conveniently managed to give them a horse surname. Originally, he lived in the mountains across the Jialing River.

The crops were also planted, and looking at the land he had reclaimed, Zhu Dashan felt an indescribable joy in his heart. Zhu Dashan stood on the edge of the ground and sighed: "Farming is our old job!" ”