Chapter 31: A Small Bag of Grain
Chen Yan shouted.
"It's all quiet!"
Many farmers and villagers who were emotionally out of control gradually calmed down.
"Everyone said, this Wang Dinghe, should he be killed!"
Chen Yan looked at the villagers and said.
"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! ”
There were bursts of shouts from under the high platform.
"Then kill!"
"I make a statement, in the name of the governor of the army, I will pronounce the verdict of Wang Ding and behead, and execute it immediately!"
Chen Yan said loudly.
"Kill it!"
"Kill it!"
"Kill it!"
The people under the high stage roared desperately, even their voices were hoarse, and they were still roaring desperately.
Wang Dinghe's face was covered with cold sweat, and his eyes were full of fear and panic that could not be concealed.
"Nope! You can't kill me, my cousin is the supervisor of Qinzhou City, if you kill me, Qinzhou City will definitely send troops to suppress you thieves. ”
"You can't kill me! Can't kill me! ”
It's just that the executioner, who is also a sergeant, completely ignored Wang Dinghe's shouts.
Holding the tiger-headed broadsword, with one slash, Wang Dinghe's great head was detached from his neck, and blood gushed out like a fountain.
Wang Dinghe's fat body fell in a pool of blood, and his body was still twitching unconsciously!
"Hang up Wang Dinghe's head and hang it at the entrance of the village to show the public!"
Chen Yan said.
"Yes!"
The executioner took the order and left with Wang Dinghe's head.
"Woooooooooo......oo Daughter, your revenge! It's reported! ”
"Hahaha...... Wang Dinghe is dead, he is finally dead! ”
"Well killed, well killed!"
“……”
There was a burst of cheers from the high stage.
Chen Yan looked at the villagers and villagers of Wangjiazhuang under the high platform, and said loudly.
"Fellow fathers and fellow villagers, as long as we have a captive army in the future, no one will dare to bully you."
"If someone bullies you, the Swingers are your backstage!"
Chen Yan patted his chest and said.
"In order to make up for the damage caused to your fathers and villagers by our army's attack on Wangjiazhuang today, I have decided to compensate you fathers and villagers, each of whom will be ten copper coins."
Chen Yan said, then turned around and got off the high platform.
He sent money to the farmers of Wangjiazhuang, not because he had money and nowhere to spend, but for the census of the population!
That's right, it's the census population!
In this era, the phenomenon of hidden households and runaways is very common, and this part of the population is no less than the registered population.
Some of them were the people who fled into the mountains and forests in order to escape the high poll tax levied by the imperial court, and the Zhuangzi of large families, these people became hidden households and fugitives.
But a larger part of them was hidden in the Zhuangzi by the landlord Haoqiang and used as slaves.
The existence of hidden households and evasions not only lowered the state's taxes, but also led to the landlord class becoming a practice of privately acquiring slaves and servants, and the power of local clans expanded.
These people are armed, but they are an army!
It is impossible for Chen Yan to tolerate the existence of hidden households on his own territory, and the census is what he must do!
Chen Yan returned to the Wang family's house, and the men of the Wang family were cut off as one, and the house naturally belonged to him Chen Yan.
……
Anping County!
The current Anping county is completely no longer prosperous, there is no one on the street, the cold wind blows, and the temperature is a few points lower.
The county office, the entire county government is filled with an atmosphere of panic!
Zhou Tong went into the mountains to suppress the bandits, but when the news of the annihilation of the whole army came back, Song Zhiwen, the county magistrate, was furious, and he fainted directly.
It wasn't until the next day that Song Zhiwen woke up faintly, but he had just woken up when the news of the Dang Captive Army's attack on Anping County came.
Song Zhiwen fainted again!
This excitement, Song Zhiwen and Song Dazhi County are almost gone!
Until now, when the news of the Dang Capture Army breaking through Wangjiazhuang came, Song Zhiwen had not woken up, and the county wanted to send someone to Qinzhou City to report quickly.
It's just that the fast horse has just left the city, and it was intercepted and killed by the sweeping army!
Song Zhiwen was in a coma, no one in Anping City presided over the overall situation, and everyone fell into a panic!
The outside of Anping City was ravaged by thieves, and even the news could not be transmitted, and I didn't know when the thieves would attack Anping City, and everyone felt extremely frightened.
……
Chen Yan was recruiting soldiers, recruiting soldiers throughout Anping County, targeting those landless peasants and tenant families.
The conditions he gave were very generous, with 10 yuan of money per person, a month's military salary, and a full amount of white rice every day.
Even as long as you join the army, you will be given land for free!
For many peasants living in poverty, the conditions given by Chen Yan are very attractive.
However, there are still very few applicants, because they are just a thief, or a thief who may be exterminated at any time.
Even if the conditions given by Chen Yan are very generous, the risk is too great!
……
Hu Wusi, a native of Wangjiazhuang, Anping County, is the eldest son in the family, and there are old fathers and mothers, three younger brothers and two younger sisters.
Originally, their family had a few acres of thin fields, although they could not let their whole family have enough to eat, but they rented a part of the land of Master Wang's family.
He and his father and younger brothers went to the mountains to pick wood, and his mother and sister did some sewing and mending work at home, and the family's livelihood was barely sustainable.
However, Master Wang took a fancy to their family's few acres of land, and after trying to sell it by force, he actually ordered someone to beat his old father to death.
The family's land was taken away, and he had no livelihood from then on, so he had to rent more land from Master Wang's family, but the ridiculous thing is that the land rented more was originally theirs.
He got up early every day and worked greedily at night, and while serving the land, he had to take his younger brothers into the mountains to pick, and his old mother and sisters did more and more work.
Without the labor force of the old father, the life of their family has become poorer and poorer!
At the end of the year, not only did he not have a surplus, but he also owed Mr. Wang a lot of money.
Seeing that the family couldn't survive this winter and was about to starve to death, the Swing Army came.
The soldiers dressed in unity broke through Wangjiazhuang, and the public trial killed Master Wang, not only that, but also gave money and food to the villagers.
Although it is not much, it still makes Hu Wusi's family happy!
Now the Dang Capture Army is going to recruit troops, although Hu Wusi knows that the Dang Capture Army is just a thief, and he may be wiped out at some point.
But he still can't help but want to join the Swinging Army!
It wasn't because of anything else, but because of a small bag of grain that the captives had sent over when their family was dying of starvation.
Hu Wusi's life is too gloomy, even if it is just a small little light, it will make Hu Wusi unforgettable!
"Mother, I want to go to the Dang Army!"
Hu Wusi's eyes were extremely firm, and he said to his old lady.