Chapter 14: Sheltering the Displaced People
"Listen, from now on, you can live here, farm here, live here.
I promise that from now on, no one will be able to come here and bully you.
However, I am not a philanthropist, and I still have to pay the field endowment, which will be exempted from the field endowment within three years, and the land will be divided into acres and the land will be integrated after three years.
There are two springs in our village, and there is no problem in farming here, and when there is a good harvest next year, you will be able to live. ”
Wang Zezhi said sincerely to the homeless people.
The outcasts didn't care about his rhetoric at first, for they had seen a lot of such hypocrisy.
This kind of person is either to deceive the officials and make a show on the spot, or to rob the population as a slave.
The looted population, the men will be sent to dig coal, and the women will be sold to the Qinglou, so even if these homeless people come temporarily for food, their hearts are still very vigilant.
When they heard that they would be exempted from Tian Fu in three years, they pricked up their ears one by one, waiting for his words.
These people are not fools who have survived until now, they know that pie will not fall from the sky, and if Wang Zezhi doesn't want anything, this group of homeless people will run away that night.
When they heard that they would still have to hand over the field in three years, they were relieved, didn't they just want them to farm to hand over the field payment, and they could accept it, and many people's eyes flashed and they had the intention of staying.
"My lord! Your Excellency is merciful~"
A woman among the homeless people suddenly knelt at Wang Zezhi's feet and cried, and Wang Zezhi realized that there was a baby in her arms, but the baby was too thin, but it was the size of a palm.
Since there was nothing to eat, she cut her wrists and fed the baby her own blood, so her lips looked pale and bloodless.
The woman was already desperate, and one day neither her children nor her would starve to death.
And what Wang Zezhi said just gave her hope.
She is like a drowning person grasping a life-saving straw, and at this moment she no longer cares whether Wang Zezhi is good or bad, as long as she can let her child live, she is willing to do whatever she wants.
This is the great mother's love!
Wang Zezhi couldn't help but tremble in his heart when he saw this scene.
"Get up, get up, don't call me sir, just call us righteous men."
"Yes, yes, thank you."
The woman didn't want to get up, so Wang Zezhi had no choice but to let her go.
"Didn't I give you food? What about grain? Hurry up and cook some porridge and give the child something to eat. ”
"The grain was collected by the officers and soldiers who killed it this day, and it was locked in that house." The kneeling woman pointed to a locked room and said.
"Someone, open the door."
"Yes."
The brothers in the stockade followed Wang Zezhi to fight a beautiful victory, and at this moment they scrambled one by one, and smashed the door lock open with three strokes and five divisions.
Seeing this, the displaced people spontaneously took food and began to cook on the fire.
Wang Zezhi asked those officers and soldiers to gather together and collect their weapons.
"Keep your dog's eyes open and see that these people are ordinary people.
They are flesh and blood like you, and they are all parents of children, children of parents.
Every day, from sunrise to sunset, they worked diligently and diligently, seeking only one day's food and clothing.
Such good people were forced to a dead end by these corrupt officials, gentry and landlords, and had to leave their hometowns and live in exile with their families, did they do something wrong? Are they at fault?
What did you do?
As officers and soldiers, you don't know how to keep one side safe, but instead act as a tiger, help and abuse, and join forces with those corrupt officials, gentry and landlords.
You persecuted them, humiliated them, and killed them with recklessness.
The human heart is made of flesh, ask yourselves, are you not the children of your parents, the fathers of your children?
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ”
"Woo~"
"Your Excellency is merciful."
When the homeless people heard Wang Zezhi's words, their eyes were full of tears, and several of them remembered the sadness of leaving their hometown, and couldn't help but cry bitterly.
The officers and soldiers looked at the weeping homeless people, and their eyes began to dodge, and one of them even crawled forward to say on his knees.
"My lord, we know that we are wrong, we know that we are wrong, we are not human, we are not as good as animals, please give us a chance to atone for our sins."
"Yes, as long as they agree, I have no problem."
Wang Zezhi pointed to the homeless people behind him who were busy cooking on the fire, and the officers and soldiers looked at these homeless people, not knowing what to say with their mouths open.
"I ask you, are you willing to let them go?"
Wang Zezhi asked the homeless people who were cooking.
The homeless people suddenly paused, and they all showed frightened expressions, and they stood dumbfounded, not daring to answer.
For the homeless, no matter how bad these people are, they are also officers and soldiers.
In this era, the class is strict, the feudal system is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the people's refusal to fight with the officials is even more deep-rooted, and these ordinary people have never thought of taking revenge on this group of officers and soldiers.
Just when Wang Zezhi and the others were impatient, Ah Niu rushed into a room and took a knife from the beam of the room.
The knife that catches quickly, the knife of Ah Niu and his father.
This is what he hid when he was repairing the house.
He walked towards the officer who was covered in arrows, the officer who had just tried to bully his sister, but he was already dead.
Ah Niu wanted to stop it, stretched out his hand, and retracted it again.
"This person wants to bully my sister, I'm going to castrate him." Ah Niu pointed to the corpse of an officer and soldier who had several arrows in his body and said angrily.
Wang Zezhi gave in, stretched out his hand, and signaled that he could.
Ah Niu walked over, the knife flashed, the blood flashed, and then a big mouse came out of the house, grabbed the man's thing and ran into the wilderness and disappeared.
After Ah Niu did this, he calmly went to wash the knife.
Wang Zezhi looked at Ah Niu who was washing the knife, his eyes flashed, and he had the meaning of cherishing his talents, good knife skills.
Then one of the dozen young men came out to take the lead, took a stick, came to the side of an officer and soldier, and beat him vigorously on his wounded arm.
The officer and soldier were in pain and rolled on the ground with a beating.
When he had enough, the young man groped around the officers and soldiers, and took out the silver from his pocket.
"He robbed us of our money and slashed my brother's arm."
As soon as he finished speaking, a young man in the group of young people cried with his bleeding arm, he didn't expect that he would be able to find officers and soldiers for revenge in this life.
After a while, no one stepped forward, and Wang Zezhi spoke.
"It's so simple for the common people, look at it, what have you done? Is that what people do?
You robbed them of their horse meat and their rice wine, and now they don't come to care about you at all.
Did you know that if they don't have a bite to eat, they'll starve to death? ”
After Wang Zezhi finished speaking, the person among the officers and soldiers who had previously confessed and cried began to cry again, as if he was immersed in endless remorse and could not extricate himself.
Wang Zezhi did not believe this.
These people are all soldiers, and they are all very treacherous.
Wang Zezhi would rather believe that the sow will go to the tree than this group of officers and soldiers.
Wang Zezhi got up, walked to a no-man's corner, and started his old trick again-rubbing mud pills, rubbing more is a little handy, this time the mud pills are big and round.
After a while, he returned again, and without saying a word, he stuffed one by one.
When he saw that someone wanted to vomit, he drank directly.
"Spit it out is a dead end."
The man was frightened and hurriedly swallowed it.
Wang Zezhi checked it and said, "This is my secret poison, and I need to come here every thirty days to get the antidote." Now I'm going to tell you something..."
Wang Zezhi was halfway through his speech and looked up at them.
"You say, you say, we do whatever you say." The officer and soldier who was talking about it immediately nodded and agreed.
"I'm going to take the head of the King of Heaven at the head of the city, do you have any questions?"
"No problem, no problem, we are guarding the city, and at three o'clock tonight, I will send you out of the city."
"Okay, then help me with one more thing."
"You say, you say."
"Tell the one-eyed dragon to wash his neck and wait, I will take his head with my own hands."
"Yes, yes, I will tell you the truth."
"Let's go?"
"Huh? ~”
The officers and men looked at each other in disbelief for a moment.
"Don't want to go?"
"No, no..."
When the officers and soldiers heard this, they immediately got up and began to move.
One of the officers and soldiers ran to the side to lead the horse, and Wang Zezhi said indifferently: "Leave the horse, take these pickled things away." ”
Wang Zezhi stretched out his finger and pointed at the corpse on the ground, and those officers and soldiers immediately began to walk out with the corpse on their backs.
When they were far away, Wang Zezhi walked around the deserted village, and he found that this village was really a good place.
It is located on both sides of the official road, and there are two springs in the village, east to Shouyang, west to Yuci, a good place.
The village, which should have prospered in such a favorable location, has been abandoned for an unknown amount of time.
"It's a goddamn last year." Wang Zezhi sighed silently.
"Brothers, help the fellows repair their houses."
"Yes!"
Wang Zezhi commanded, stood on the abandoned stone mill at the entrance of the village, and looked into the distance.
It was nearly late in the evening when he finally saw a nimble figure.
Monkey, he's back.
"Strategist, Xiao Liuzi is back."
"Good!"
Wang Zezhi got down from the millstone, turned around and looked at several houses that were almost repaired, and shouted at the brothers: "Brothers, Xiao Liuzi is back, let's pick him up." ”
"Yes!"
"Here we go."
"Okay."
As they left, the homeless people in the deserted village prepared food and either brought them water to drink, or gave them the finished bread.
These former deserters, former bandits, felt something different at this moment, something they had never felt before.
They smiled and waved goodbye to the homeless people in the village, and followed Wang Zezhi to pick up the little six sons.
At this moment, these displaced people are also a little excited, because they are no longer displaced people, they have shelter, they have food, and they have someone to protect them.