Chapter 231 Five steps and one plan are like a sleeping dragon

The territory of the Great Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom is now bounded by the Dasanguan in the west and the Qinling Mountains in the middle, and only in the eastern section, because of the complexity of the situation, the boundary is not very distinct. Generally speaking, the two sides were bounded by the Yellow River and the canal, but the Great Song Dynasty seized Xuzhou and protruded a piece to the hinterland of the Jin State.

Zhi Xuyang held his breath, lay on his stomach in the grass, and stared at the Jin soldiers in front of him.

Since the great victory in Taizhuang, the prestige of the Great Song Dynasty has spread far and wide, and the people of various ethnic groups such as Han and Jurchen in the Jin Kingdom have also heard of it, and with this prestige, there are also the governance strategies implemented in Huaibei, Xuzhou, and Jingdong of the Great Song Dynasty: thousands of large farms have been built, and most of the farmers are returning immigrants from Liuqiu, who have sought loans from banks on their own, and are subject to the supervision and management of Liuqiu Bank, and treat tenants and long-term workers who work on the farms with strict discipline and generous treatment. Large-scale operations, the promotion of cash crops, the application of new equipment and animal power, and specialized agronomic technical support have made the farm much more efficient than before, and the work that used to be done by ten strong laborers can now be completed by only six people.

However, Xuzhou's thirst for labor is almost insatiable. Cement factories, coking plants, iron works, printing and dyeing factories, textile factories, oil rolling mills, wood factories, and even glass factories, among countless other factories in Xuzhou and the surrounding counties, are in urgent need of skilled, obedient and uncomplaining labor. For the war-torn Huaibei and Jingdong, no matter whether the Son of Heaven on their heads is surnamed Zhao or Wanyan, they can have a stable meal, and their babies can see hope, and they can bring two catties of fat to the family during the New Year's Festival, then they will be obedient and have no complaints. In addition to not being skilled workers, they fully meet the conditions of the best workers in this era in this world. Therefore, although Zhao and Ju used various channels to restrict the exploitation of farmers and factory owners, the working hours of the Xuzhou factory were inevitably ten hours a day, with only one day off per month.

Last year's military plagues, locust plagues, and hailstorms caused certain losses to the emerging large farms, but the relatively high productivity still played a role, and this year's medium output was 158,000 bales of cotton (50 catties per bag), peanuts and wheat were interplanted, 250,000 stone of summer peanuts, 2.2 million stone of wheat, plus rice, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and corn, the actual grain output of Jingdong and Huaibei was enough for self-sufficiency, and even Peng Yibin, who was fighting against Yan Shi on Hebei Road, could provide 700,000 stone of grain. The tenant farmers and long-term laborers on the big farms have in fact become agricultural workers, and the income from the little land they cultivate is only a small part of their total income.

Still, these agricultural workers envy the treatment of workers in the factories in the cities, and generally speaking, the income of a factory worker is about one to one and a half times that of an agricultural worker.

At first, it was just that the people of the neighboring Jin country fled to the Song realm at night, and then registered in the place where the Song realm was in charge of household registration, and received the household registration and labor certificate, with this, he could go to the shed set up by the Huaibei Quanye Bureau to report, and then the Quanye Bureau assigned him to the required position as an apprentice according to his personal strengths. There is not much income for the first three months, and at the end of the three-month apprenticeship, you will become a temporary worker, at which point you will start to have half the income of a regular worker, and then you will be converted to a regular worker for another six months, and you will enjoy all the formal benefits. Although everyone had to be separated from their families and live a militarized collective life during the past nine months, as long as they survived, they could live a good life in peace and stability for the people of Jinguo who had absconded.

It is only that these nine months are enough time for them to initially accept discipline, organization, and order, and to be content with this kind of collectivism.

In the beginning, the local officials of Jin State turned a blind eye to this kind of absconding - the locust plague in Jin was far worse than that of Huai Beijing, and they could not feed so many people, and some people were willing to clean up the mess, so why not. But in the second year of Yan and Huang, they realized that the momentum was not right, and if they let the people flee like this, it would not be long before there would be no one left under their rule.

For this reason, the local officials of the Jin State also specially reported to Bianliang, Wanyan Shouxu sent an envoy to negotiate the matter with the Great Song Dynasty, and the two sides reached an agreement that the Great Song Dynasty ships could enter Bianliang, but they had to be inspected when they left the country, and the number of people on the way was checked, and the Jin people were not allowed to be carried on the ship, and on the border between the two countries, the Jin State also strengthened the inspection of the checkpoints, and those who were close to the border were all arrested and imprisoned and punished as hard labor.

What Zhi Xuyang is looking at now is a team of patrol soldiers who are stopping those who intend to escape.

He sighed, he had been lying on this side for three hours, but he hadn't found a chance yet. The Jin Kingdom built an earthen wall on the border, and although the wall was not high, it could be equipped with a watchtower every mile, and the Jin soldiers who paraded back and forth between the watchtowers were enough to stop anyone who tried to climb over the wall.

He slowly crawled backwards, away from the side wall, found a hiding place, pulled the dough out of his bag and began to chew. This was made for him by the sailors of the Song boat, and it was five catties, all of which he carried in his bag, and when he was hungry, he took out a piece and gnawed it.

As soon as he took a few bites, he felt that something was wrong, and he was very alert, and immediately turned over, and a wooden stick slammed down, almost hitting his head. He was shocked and angry, and saw that the man holding the stick was a dirty, thin boy.

The young man's eyes stared at the dough in his hand in a daze, and with a "bang", he swung his stick and smashed it again. Zhi Xuyang scolded, and was about to run, but found that the young man's stick was soft and weak, and the stick had not yet fallen, so he fell straight and backwards first.

"Trick to deceive, can such a trick deceive the little master?" Zhixu Yang was far away, and just wanted to pick up a stone and throw it over, when he saw a few small figures on the ground over there, protecting the young man, and a kid who had just reached his shoulder, picked up the wooden stick, and made a look like he was going to beat him.

Zhi Xuyang was taken aback and scolded in a low voice.

In a matter of moments, nine children, large and small, appeared in front of him, all of them were six or seven years old, and the dirty and skinny boy at the first seemed to be older.

"Thief bird, are voles so big in this pimple?" Zhixu Yang roared from afar: "What are you doing? ”

Those boys stared at him hatefully, but none of them answered, Zhi Xuyang saw that they all looked strange, and he was a little jealous in his heart, and took a few steps back: "Are they all dumb?" ”

"The eldest sister is dead, she was killed by this guy!"

A kid pushed and pulled the fainted, but there was no reaction, and immediately got up and pointed at Zhi Xuyang and cried and scolded: "Kill this guy and avenge the eldest sister!" ”

"Hey, master, I didn't touch that ugly monster, it's clear that he came to plot against this grandfather, eldest sister? That's a girl? ”

Although Zhi Xuyang is despicable, he is not a stupid person, looking at these thin boys, he glanced at the ground again, and rolled his eyes: "Ha, I know, you little rats, all want to escape to the Great Song Dynasty, every kid over there has a red heart and double yellow duck egg every day!" ”

Before the word duck egg came out, he could hear the sound of swallowing saliva in unison, and the eyes of the boys were green when they looked at him.

"Master, I'm not a duck egg!" Zhi Xuyang was also a little scared in his heart, he had heard it when he was in Bianliang, because of the locust plague last year, there was almost no harvest in the area near Jingdong Huaibei, and some places even changed to eat, he turned around and ran, but after running a few steps, he felt unbearable in his heart.

He was not a good boy, but he was not a very vicious man, and the appearance of these boys was that he had not eaten for a few days, and the girl who was called the eldest sister came to beat him with a stick, apparently for the bread in his hand. There are still more than four catties of bread on his back, so what if he divides one or two pieces into these boys.

He stopped, looked at these children, hesitated for a while, then turned his back and took out three pieces of bread from his bag, found a clean stone and put it on it, and then slowly retreated: "Look at you starving ghosts, this is the master's reward for you, take it and eat it!" ”

Those boys still stared at him with hostile eyes, but at this time they were a little more suspicious, Zhi Xuyang remembered the experience he had had, and said: "Don't eat too much at once if you've been hungry for a long time, get some water...... That girl on the ground, you also get some water to pour on her, I think she is hungry and faint. ”

These children immediately rushed up, grabbed the bread, and then fetched water, and divided the cake, but to Zhi Xuyang's surprise, none of them ate first, if it was Zhi Xuyang himself, he would have grabbed the largest piece and chewed it.

He was about to leave, but on second thought, these little rats had been here for a long time, and it looked like they had come out of a hole in the ground, could it be that they were trying to dig a hole through the earthen wall? Even if that's not the case, staying with them for a while can be a good idea to get some news. So he found another place to sit down, crossed his knees and looked at it with a smile.

When he was bored, he stopped one of the youngest-looking children and asked him, "How long have you been here?" ”

And the boy ate his bread, and found that he was not like a wicked man, and he did not shy away from telling the origin of this group of children. As he suspected, these boys had escaped from the famine, or had no family in the first place, or had been separated from their families in the middle of the journey, or some had been abandoned by their parents. If it weren't for the girl who was called "Big Sister", they would have died countless times on the way, and Rao would have died one or two almost every day. They wanted to flee to Xuzhou in the Song Kingdom to get the legendary duck eggs a day, but they couldn't move forward anymore, and they couldn't mix the side wall with all their methods, and after seeing with their own eyes that the person who was close to the side wall was arrested and left, they had no choice but to dig a pit and want to drill through the ground, but on this day, there was no food left, and Zhi Xuyang sent it to the door, and the girl wanted to beat him and snatch his bread.

"A bunch of idiots." Hearing Zhixu's sour nose, he scolded: "If you can pass such a pit, it would have been full of pits a long time ago, how could you be stupid before you, and digging a pit is not a difficult job, do you think only you will?" ”

"One by one, you know how to dig pits, dig pits and don't fill them, the book says that there is a bull party and Li party in the Tang Dynasty, okay, you have all become a pit party, you are such a stinky boy, don't say duck eggs, eat a rotten egg!"

These children were scolded so much that they craned their necks, and just ate his bread, and for a time no one dared to come forward. After a while, the eldest sister timidly asked, "If not, what should I do?" ”

After this toss, she had already woken up, because Zhi Xuyang could listen attentively, so she didn't notice it.

Zhi Xuyang was a little discouraged, but said that these boys had a way, he patted the ashes on his buttocks, ignored them anymore, walked by himself, and boasted: "The little master has a way, have you heard the script, the little master has heard a lot when he was in Bianliang, Zhuge Wolong knows no, the surname Zhuge is Wolong, it is a three-step plan, the little master is worse than him, and there is a plan in five steps......"

"Zhuge Wolong is not surnamed Zhuge Wolong, his name is Liang, the word Kong Ming, and the number Wolong." The girl stretched out a head behind her and raised her head to Zhixu: "If you don't study, you don't learn!" ”

"What if you read the book, it's not that you want to eat the grandfather's bread?" Zhi Xuyang cursed, but he didn't feel ashamed, he walked a little way, felt that it was wrong, and turned around, but found that the group of boys were all following behind him.

"What? What are you doing with the little master, I don't have so many breads to feed you! Zhi Xuyang glared and said, "If you follow again, Lao Tzu will beat someone." ”

"Take us over the earthen wall, and I'll marry you!" The girl who was called the eldest sister plucked up her courage and said.

"What?"

Zhi Xuyang was startled, and looked the girl up and down, but the girl was not afraid at all, biting her lip and glaring back. Zhi Xuyang pursed his lips: "Stinky little lady, there is no meat on her body, she looks black, ugly and dirty, the master will marry the top red sister of Bianliang Ginkgo Building in the future, you dirty and smelly little lady, how far and how far you go!" ”

"Take us over the earthen wall!" The girl didn't back down in the slightest, she still stared at him, although the girl's face was dirty and not beautiful, but her eyes were not small. Zhi Xuyang forced her gaze a little timid, and was about to retreat, thinking that it was wrong, a wave of anger came to her heart.

"Thief bird, you can't be a good person these days, but you have caused trouble for yourself." Zhi Xuyang scolded angrily, but after all, he was alone, although he was fourteen years old, and it was not a problem to clean up this gang of boys, but if he really wanted to do it, he couldn't do it.

"Take us there!" The girl said again, this time with a plea in her voice: "If you can't get through, sooner or later you will starve to death here!" ”

These words made Zhi Xuyang's heart soften, he scratched his head, and thought for a while: "Isn't it twenty-eight today, there is no moon at night, just go over." ”

"We can't see at night." The girl hung her head: "You can see it at night?" ”

At this time, because of nutrition, there were many people who were blind at night, and the people of Jinguo had lived a hard life for more than ten years in a row, even more so. Zhixuyang's face turned red, he himself was blind at night, and he wanted to mix over the earthen wall at night, he thought about it, and asked again: "What do you use to dig holes?" ”

The boys used to dig holes included half-rotten shovels, broken tiles, and sharpened bamboo. The girl was clever enough to wet the mud with water before digging it, so she dug a deep hole. Zhi Xuyang nodded, although these tools are a little worse, they are better than nothing. He pointed to a nearby tree: "Who climbed up and looked over the side of the wall?" ”

"Me!" A skinny monkey said, "I've climbed up." ”

"Is there grass on the ground over there?"

"It's so much grass, what's wrong?"

"I've got a way!" Zhi Xuyang smiled: "After saying that, I am only a little worse than that Zhuge Wolong, and there is a way in a blink of an eye!" ”