After attacking Yingshanzhai, Qin Yiming asked for more than 100 bandits on the mountains who surrendered from Sun Shirui's hands, Sun Shirui originally wanted to bring them to justice, but he still opened the net and gave these people to Qin Yiming, the thief leader has been publicly executed by him, these people are just some poor people who are forced to go up the mountain, why not give them one more chance, and Qin Yiming can see these people, he has to give this face.

Qin Yiming escorted these people to Pingli Fort, and did not directly put them into the household registration, but guarded them as criminals, and let them participate in the reclamation work of Pingli Fort, these people have been bandits for more than ten years, and they are vicious and difficult to change, and they are directly incorporated into the household registration and let them join Pingli Fort, Qin Yiming feels that it is not a good thing.

The reclamation work of Pingli Fort has been going on, after the end of the farming, Qin Yiming asked the surplus labor force in the fort to reclaim barren mountains and wastelands around the thousand households, repair canals and other work, and the most important thing is the repair and dredging of water conservancy.

Marx once exclaimed: "Artificial irrigation facilities by means of canals and hydraulic works became the basis of agriculture in the East." If the central government ignores irrigation or drainage, the consequences will be very serious, and agriculture will be hit hard, and in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty was worried about internal and external troubles, blindly only knowing how to extract the people, and was unable to take care of the maintenance of water conservancy, even if there was a little bit of river engineering costs, it may not be able to be implemented.

In fact, the Ming Dynasty is extremely kind of agricultural development, in the Zhu Yuanzhang period has established a "three years a small pick, five years a big pick" dredging system, but after the Wanli Dynasty, these systems because there is no financial support, there are no economic conditions for implementation, which is also an important reason for the disasters of the Apocalypse Dynasty and the Chongzhen Dynasty for many years.

Qin Yiming once read an article describing the famine at the end of the Ming Dynasty.

Since ancient times, the year of hunger, I have heard that the Tao has looked at each other and eaten with Yizi, and dissected the remains and sparked ears. Today, slaughter and cut off the living for the day and night, father and son do not ask, husband and wife do not ask, brothers do not ask. Cutting the abdomen and cutting out the heart, ** to do the belly, and the taste of the human heart is beautiful, and the children's taste is especially beautiful. There are even human flesh in the market, and the price per catty is six liters; There are those who marinate human flesh at home in case of emergency; There are those who cut off people's heads and burn them with fire and suck their brains; There are those who are hungry and all the knives are cut off; There are also those who cut the flesh and stare at people. Occasionally, it is forbidden by others, and he should say: 'I will not eat people, but people will eat me.' 'It is not strange for the foolish people to do nothing, and there is justice for nothing. The owl is on the way, and the sky and the earth are obscure......

It can only be said that human life is like grass mustard, which also makes Qin Yiming know why agriculture is the foundation, and food is the foundation of the foundation, and food is a strategic substance!

"My lord, no, those bandits are making trouble!" A soldier ran in and reported.

Qin Yiming felt strange, this prisoner still dared to make trouble, did he not want his head? Qin Yiming rushed to the scene, and sure enough, he saw Ma Qianhu with his family and surrounded a group of people.

"What's going on?" Qin Yiming shouted.

When Ma Qianhu saw Qin Yiming coming, he immediately stepped forward and said: "Qin Qianhu, I am here to take care of these bandits under your orders Lord Qianhu, my family saw that these people were lazy and didn't work, so they whipped two whips, but I didn't expect these people to dare to resist, they really didn't dare to be thieves, they were bold, these people should be cut off and hung on the city wall, why did you bring them to Qianhu and waste food." Ma Qianhu complained.

Qin Yiming really saw that there was a strong man in the middle with a few blood marks on his body, so he went over and asked, "What Ma Qianhu said is the truth?" ”

Qin Yiming stood in the middle of a group of people, those people from the mountains knew how powerful Qin Yiming was, and they didn't dare to say anything, but the strong man who was beaten nodded.

"In that case, this person will be dealt with according to military law!" Qin Yiming said, Ma Qianhu was immediately happy next to him, and said with a smile: "Lord Qin is wise, come here, drag this unrepentant thief down and cut me down!" ”

"Spare your life!"

"My lord, Brother Ai is not lazy!"

"My lord, Brother Ai didn't mean to be lazy, my lord is gracious!"

The strong man was very stiff and didn't speak, but the people around him pleaded for what they called Brother Ai, and it could be seen that this person was usually okay, otherwise there wouldn't be so many people who opened their mouths for him.

"Stop, one person is enough! You say. Qin Yiming shouted, and then ordered a person to speak.

The man said: "My lord, we people are open to adults, grateful to Dade, and we are really willing to belong to adults, so we work here very hard, but we only have two meals of gruel a day, a little exhausted, Brother Ai He also has an old mother, he gave his rations to his old mother, so he hasn't eaten for a few days, he is not lazy, but he really can't do these jobs!" ”

As soon as the man finished speaking, the others followed suit.

"Yes, my lord, Brother Ai is a well-known filial son, we all know this."

"Yes, sir!"

Qin Yiming shouted again: "Shut up, let me ask you first, you only have two meals of gruel a day?" Qin Yiming asked as he turned his head to look at Ma Qianhu, who flinched at this time and didn't dare to look at Qin Yiming's gaze.

"Yes, my lord, not only that, only those of us who can work can have porridge to drink, like Brother Ai's mother, who is old and can't do anything, doesn't even have a mouthful of porridge!"

"How can this be true, Ma Qianhu, what's going on?" Qin Yiming was furious on the spot.

"My lord, I—I just deducted a little bit from their rations, really only a little!" Ma Qianhu whispered.

Qin Yiming's face was ugly, and he looked very angry, so frightened that Ma Qianhu didn't dare to say anything.

"You used to be evil bandits, a big scourge in this Anlu County, originally, you should all be dealt with by the prefect according to the law of the Ming Dynasty, but the official knows that you are also forced to be helpless, who has food and is not willing to go to the day of licking blood from the knife edge, so the official will take you to Pingli Fort and give you the opportunity to be a new person, since I give you a chance, I will not pursue anything in the past, from today onwards, among you, whoever behaves well can become a member of our Xiping Fort, and each household will be divided into fifty acres of land!" Qin Yiming said loudly.

"Wow, fifty acres of land, then I won't have to worry about the days after that!"

"yes, yes."

"That's great, you have to behave well!"

"What's your name?" Qin Yiming suddenly asked the big man who was whipped.

"My lord, the grass people Ai Wannian."

"Today I announce that Ai Wannian will be included in the household registration of our Xipingbao Army, and tomorrow I will divide his land with fifty acres!" Qin Yiming said publicly on the spot, and the people below were all blown up, even Ma Qianhu felt that Qin Yiming was very arbitrary.

"Thank you, thank you, your lord!" Ai Wannian knelt on the ground and kowtowed vigorously, crying bitterly.

"Also, in the future, those in your family who are not able to work only need to register, and they will also be distributed, and tonight, I will let people prepare meals, so that you and your family will be fed, and they will all be full in the future!" Qin Yiming said to the people below.

Everyone was happy.

"Tonight's hospitality, Ma Qianhu, you out!" Qin Yiming suddenly said to Ma Qianhu with a cold face.

Ma Qianhu shook up, and said with a smile: "It's an adult, I'm out, I'm out." ”

Not far away, Big Niu, Little Monkey and Yang Baihu rushed over with people, but when they saw that the situation had calmed down, they didn't continue to approach.

"I told the young master a long time ago, this Ma Qianhu is in charge of these people, something must happen, you see!" The little monkey looked at the group of people and said.

"Hindsight!" Da Niu sarcastically.

Yang Baihu said: "The young master is becoming more and more shrewd, he did it on purpose, let Ma Qianhu abuse them, and then he came out to clean up the mess and buy people's hearts!" ”

"Oh, I see, but it's only been a few days, and that's what kind of Ai Wannian has been incorporated into our household register?" The little monkey started complaining again.

"You know what, how bad can a person be so filial? And her mother is in the Thousand Households, he will be loyal to the Thousand Households, at this time, the young master will set Ai Wannian as a benchmark and give other people a hope, this is smart! Yang Baihu guessed.

Da Niu nodded, as if he understood.