Chapter 303: Into the Set

Together with Luthor and the others, there were forty-nine people, which was not a small number, and nearly fifty people walked in one place, which could occupy half a street. Although Luthor was so depressed that he wanted to grab food with these illiterate rough people, he still felt a little guilty in his heart after all, and was silent on the way to walk, but Tang Shili, because he was grateful that he had written his name for himself, so he followed him innocently, and said a few words to him from time to time. On the one hand, Luthor was impatient, but on the other hand, he was impressed by his sincerity, and occasionally spoke to him.

In these years, there are fewer people like this, who is not full of their own calculations and only thinks about themselves? It is the government, the court, and the Son of Heaven, who cares about the life of a dead person like himself?

Thinking of this, Luther's eyes couldn't help but glance at Xia Xiaosan in the crowd, this kid was only thirteen years old, skinny and skinny, no different from a monkey, and he was actually pulled in, just to have something to eat in the factory - if the Son of Heaven is above, then such a kid should be happy under his parents' knees, why is this!

"The southerners are the most unfaithful." Luthor cursed hatefully in his heart.

Although Zhao and Ju repeatedly ordered local officials, especially those in the newly recovered Central Plains, to pay attention to the people's livelihood and suffering, for the Great Song Dynasty, the territory area has expanded by nearly half, and where can so many officials be drawn. In addition, it is also necessary to take into account the geographical balance, so some of the original officials of the Jin State have to stay in office, and these people, the biggest ability is to exploit the people, and now they are afraid of the majesty of the new lord, and they dare not start to exploit them, which has already made them restless, and if they want them to really cherish the people, it will be difficult to go to the sky.

If the appointed chief official is powerful, like Zhen Dexiu, then the situation will be better, but when encountering a weak chief official, Luoyang is a ready-made example.

When the Great Song army swept through the Central Plains, many people in the army promised to let everyone have a livelihood, let every child have a book to read, and let the old be strong and useful. But in the past two years, although many factories have been opened in Luoyang City, for Luthor and others, they are still abandoned people that no one cares about. Although their number is not much in Luoyang City, but there are also a lot, the prefect of Luoyang is interested in how many factories have been newly opened to give themselves an evaluation of how much they can earn in the evaluation of the officials, and the number of ordinary people who have no livelihood, he doesn't care at all, anyway, there is soup soup every day, although the porridge is not full, but it does not starve to death, and the people will not rebel if they do not die, and the people do not have to worry about the anger of the Son of Heaven if they do not rebel, so it is just.

As for the number of people in hunger and cold, whether it was one hundred and fifty-eight or one hundred and eighty-four, it was the same to him, and it was just a string of numbers without emotion and meaning.

But for these people who are hungry and cold, they rely on the government's porridge to survive, their lives are hopeless.

With a deep sigh, Luthor looked around again, and the people around him looked elated, as if they would have a good life if they followed the sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked Niu Er.

At least this sharp-beaked monkey-cheeked Niu Er gives these people hope......

Following Niu Er out of Luoyang City, they saw more than 20 carts lined up, this is the kind of real cart that pulls goods for the factory, the horses that pull the cart are the war horses captured during the war between the Great Song Dynasty and Menghu, which are not suitable for military use, and more than 100,000 horses were seized that year, and all of them were disposed of at a low price to the people.

The cars are now not loaded with goods, but crowded with people, and there are less than six people sitting on each car, and there are nearly ten people at most, and they all look like they are recruited. Luther's heart moved slightly, and he actually prepared a big car for them, thinking that it would be good to come to the factory to treat people.

Although he was full of poetry and books, he was not as knowledgeable as Lang Yonghe, and he could not see the reality of things through these appearances. Like the big men on the side of the cart, who were clinging to all kinds of blades and staring at them with contempt, he didn't pay attention to it.

"There aren't many people, Niu Er, you have to step up." A one-eyed man sitting in the cart snorted and said to Niu Er.

"Zheng Ye, it is difficult to recruit people in Luoyang City, after all, it is close to Bianliang, who would want to go except for these?" Niu Er smiled shyly: "It's better to go to the countryside, the countryside is a trick, and the men of the whole village are ......."

"Less nonsense, take your people to the car, although there is still a shortage, but it is also done, let's go, we have to hurry, arrive a day earlier, we will provide one less day of food, his grandmother's, don't look at all the thin people, but they are all pot-bellied men."

After being caught in the car, Luthor breathed a sigh of relief, there is still food and drink on the road, which is not bad, he originally hid dozens of dollars, he originally wanted to buy some food on the road for emergencies, so it seems that these dozens of dollars can be saved.

However, when it was night, he realized his mistake, and these men were hurrying forward, deliberately avoiding the city and the market, and they could not avoid it, and they also passed around the outside of the city. For it had been sunny for some days, the road had been bumpy, but it had been able to go smoothly, and the horses were plentiful, and by night they were far from the place that Xiao Se was familiar with.

It's a deserted wilderness, and these people have lit a fire, and rice is boiling in a pot, and some people have taken out canned food, and the smell of fish comes to their nostrils when it is heated. While they were munching on their mouths, Xiao Se and the others were left unattended.

"Hungry, hungry, don't you mean full, I'm hungry!" Lu Thor already felt that something was wrong, but Tang Shili was a fool and asked in a loud voice.

"Niu Er, where did you find such a foodie?" That Zheng Ye glanced over here: "Didn't tell them the rules?" ”

"Ah, in a hurry, forget, forget." Niu Er nodded again and again, got up and was about to come over, but the Zheng Ye stopped him: "You are used to cheating, why don't you go to be an official, you will have a future if you become an official." ”

Niu Er showed a hint of sneer on his face: "How can you, how can you ......?"

Before he could finish speaking, Zheng Ye gave him a slap in the face, Niu Er was knocked to the ground, but he didn't dare to make a sound when he got up. Zheng Ye turned his face, walked to Tang Shili's side, and asked with a cruel smile, "Are you hungry?" ”

"Hungry, your people said, if you are full, there is braised pork!"

Although Luthor pulled Tang Shili a few times, but Tang Shili was so dangerous, he saw Zheng Ye coming over, so he said very indignantly: "You don't have to talk and don't count!" ”

Seeing this group of people grabbing their blades and coming, everyone with a little eye knew that things were not good, but he was still a little noisy, Luthor secretly complained in his heart, but moved to the side, and smiled at Zheng Ye, indicating that he was not in the same group as this simple man.

Although he was impressed by Tang Shili's sincerity, for the sake of such a person who didn't have much friendship, he went to face the murderer who was holding a sword like a wolf and a tiger, and Luthor didn't have this kind of awareness.

"This guy is strong, thin and thin, but he can get a good price." One person said behind Zheng Ye.

Zheng Ye turned his head and nodded, no matter how stupid Tang Shili was, he realized that something was wrong, but when he saw Zheng Ye turn around, he didn't care, and at this moment, Zheng Ye suddenly flew his legs, kicked him in the chest, and kicked his big body away.

"Call me." Before Tang Shili got up, two men held him down, Zheng Ye gave an order, and immediately someone came up to kick and beat, Tang Shili was the thickest and shouted "Why hit me", and then it was about because of the punches and kicks in the mouth, and the voice that shouted out was not clear.

"Listen, you piglets, you have signed a contract to obey the factory placement. Even if you go to the government to fight a lawsuit, you poor people have nothing to talk about! ”

"The yamen is open to the south, there is no reason to come in, you know each other, you will naturally suffer less, work for ten years and eight years, and you can return to your hometown to live a good life after saving enough money, but if you shout like this, you will be beaten at the light and ...... I won't talk about it, you know what will happen! ”

Zheng Ye licked his lips when he threatened everyone, making his face even more hideous in the firelight.

"Naturally, I will give you a meal every morning, like you dogs, you don't need to eat too much, you will panic if you eat too much, and you will be cranky! Now we have a carriage, you just have to sleep in the carriage! Zheng Ye sneered again: "If any of you think you are a hero and can't stand this grievance, you can't help but try Mrs. Zheng's skills, or according to the contract, pay Mrs. Zheng 500 yuan and leave!" ”

There is indeed a clause in the contract that if the contract cannot be executed due to the reasons of one party, the responsibility is convenient to compensate the other party with 500 yuan. At first, Luthor felt that this could restrain the factory, but now that he thinks about it, it is a contract trap, these people who signed the contract are all suffering who can't make up two yuan of money haha, where to get these five hundred yuan to compensate?

He secretly complained in his heart, knowing that he was on the thief ship, so he wanted to try to escape and escape, but Zheng Ye said: "You are a litter of piglets from Luoyang to be careful with the master, keep an eye on each other, if one of you escapes, Zheng Ye will find all your troubles, not only will you have to suffer some hardships in the flesh and skin, but also the wages in the factory in the future, don't blame Mrs. Zheng for deducting it for you first, who let you work without working hard, according to the contract, the master has the right to deduct your wages!" ”

When he said this, Luther's desire to find an opportunity to escape was completely gone, and there was indeed a clause in the contract that if the work arranged by the factory could not be completed by the employee, then the employee's salary would be deducted, and the employee would be punished accordingly. When he signed this contract, he never thought that the first job that the "factory" handed over to them was to spy on each other and prevent them from escaping.

He himself just doesn't want to do this kind of thing, but people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, and he knows if the rest of them will be like this?

Seeing that everyone was suppressed, Zheng Ye snorted again and ordered: "Don't beat him to death, don't beat him to death, don't beat him to death, don't beat that kid to say anything, it's worth fifty times, it's easy to break it, who will pay the master?" ”

Those big men all laughed and stopped, and threw Tang Shili, who was beaten with blood all over his face, back to the car and threw it beside Luther.

Tang Shili was beaten badly, humming and chattering for a long time, and after those big men went back to eat and drink, Luthor carefully helped him to sleep and fed him two more mouthfuls of water. The rest of the people avoided them, but the young man named Xia Xiaosan was squeezed over to lean against them.

"I heard that in Xuzhou, people like me can enter the school, and there is a big duck egg with a red heart at every meal, and when I go to the school, I don't think the factory will go to the school to arrest people." Xia Xiaosan whispered to Luther: "Mr. Lu, you can also go to the school to teach when the time comes, isn't it better than selling coolies in the factory?" ”

Lu Thor smiled bitterly, although this Xia Xiaosan is precocious, he is still a child after all, with the methods of these people, will they really bring everyone to Bianliang or Xuzhou?

For the first time, he felt sorry for his incompetence, he couldn't earn money to support his grandmother in the past, and he still maintained the pride of a scholar, only feeling that this was his own talent. But now, following this gang of murderers in the countryside, I can't even figure out the direction.

On the third day, he realized that the destination he and the others were not Xuzhou or Bianliang at all, but Hedong Province in the north.

They went on like this for more than ten days, and every morning they had a meal of porridge, and every three days in the evening, and the men who escorted them were very accurate, ensuring that they would not starve to death, but not allowing them to have strength. They don't have the energy to do anything else except nap in the cart every day.

On the eighth day of the third month of the seventh year of Yanhuang, they finally arrived at their destination, Juetong County, Hedong Province.

This is a mountainous area, and the cart has made many turns on the mountain road, pulling them in front of a large village. Look at the concrete road in front of the courtyard, it looks neater than in Luoyang City, but the black coal dust on the side of the road makes it look dirty. Looking at the past, the left and right sides of the village courtyard were covered with a layer of black dust, which was the smell, and it also choked people's chests.

"Bah, every time I get here, I feel out of breath." Niu Er was slapped by Zheng Ye that day, and he was very honest these days, but when he arrived in front of this Zhuangzi, he began to shout again: "If you stay here for a long time, even the spit is black, and I expect that the hearts of people here are also blackened by the coal." ”

"Shut up, do you want to get along with that colorful gold dollar coupon?" Zheng Ye let out a low snort.

"It's not that ...... Didn't we say that we were going to the factory in Bianliang? Luthor had fully understood by this time that there would be no chance to argue if he didn't argue at this time, and he craned his neck and said.

"This place is conveniently called Bianliang Laifu Factory, also called Xuzhou Youfu Factory, Xiucai, don't you know how to read, look at the sign on the side of the door."

Luthor looked up, only to see a row of signs hanging on the side of the gate of this village, as if a group of big men were standing on the wall, those signs had "Xuzhou Youfu Factory" written on them, and there were also "Bianliang Laifu Factory", and there were also names such as "Xuzhou Tianfu Factory" and "Bianliang Zidong Factory", all the names on the contract they signed, there were everything on the wall.

"This ...... This ......"

"Who told you that Xuzhou has a blessed factory, it must be in Xuzhou?" That Niu Er smiled.

"Stop talking nonsense, go call the door." Zheng Ye shouted.

Niu Er ran over and knocked the locked door knocker of the courtyard door, and after a while, the door was opened a crack, sticking out a head, looking left and right, and immediately laughed when he saw Zheng Ye: "It turned out to be Zheng Ye, how many piglets did you pull this time?" ”

"One hundred and sixty-nine heads." Zheng Yepi said with a smile: "They are all strong men." ”

"Wait, I'll call Steward Meng." The man spoke, and then retracted, shutting the door tightly.

Luthor felt even more uncomfortable in his heart, and there were many people who thought the same thing as him, and they were about to get up and make a fuss, but they had been half starved for more than ten days, and then they were kicked to the ground by the men who were watching them, and although they were crying and pleading, none of them could stand up.

Note 1: The province of Hedong in China is not the same place as Hebei in reality, but includes part of Hebei and most of Shanxi, that is, the so-called Hebei West Road and Hedong Road.